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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
HOLLYWOOD CIRCUS→More than 2,300 film and radio stars contributed their talents to a regular circus show in Los Angeles for charity. The performance nelted $250,000 for a hospital Here Buster (Man Friday) Keaton, left, keeps an umbrella over Gary (Robinson Crusoe) Cooper.
BY COMPARISON-It takes all kinds of planes to make the aviation field what it is today, the large and the small. Paul Penrose, of North Hollywood, stands in his 500-pound 85-horsepower plane and exchanges greetings with Capt. George Benedict of Great Falls. Benedict is skipper of the B-36, the U.S. Air Force's largest bomber. The plane weighs 278,000 pounds and is powered by six 3,000-horsepower engines, The
two planes landed for fuel in Cleveland.
WINTER WORRIES-Using a makeshift crane, thesa Berliners tear out a tree stump from the ground in the Grunewald Forest. Gatting out the slump is an entire day's work in the quest for fuel as winter approaches. Bince coal is so searce, the Germans seek desperately for any item usable as a source of fuel.
STILL LIFE-Middleweight champion of the world, Marcel Cerdan, seems unconcerned at the presence of beautiful French singer, Edith Piaf. And why not? The two are side by side, but in wax, at a Paris
museum.
ARMS FOR TURKEY—AŊ M-24 tank is lowered into the hold of the Turkish freighter, Yozqut, in Brooklyn, NY. The equipment was bought with American dollars lent to Turkey for military aid. In the background are other tanks and trucks waiting to be londed.
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TERRIFIC WALLOP--Despite the fact that the brakes fonctioned properly, this Chiengo elevated car falled to stop and crashed into the car in. front. impact resulted in injury to 32 people, two seriously. Grease on the rafls was belleved to be the cause of the accident. Traffic was held up for some time.
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FRATERNAL REUNION-Olaf Johnson, left, 78, takes a good look at his brothers, Nels, 79, and Gus, right, 81, after arriving in Omaha" from Sweden... Nels and Gus, painters and contractors, had not seen their brother, Olaf, since they emigrated to the U.S. 56 years ago.
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