THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1949.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
UNTOUCHED BY ERP-This section of Rome is known as "Little Shanghai," and misery still exists for its inhabitants. The European Recovery Pro- gramme has not yet helped them for most of the $601,000,000 received by Italy, in cash or credit, has gone to purchase grain, coal and petroleum.
FIRE IN WASHINGTON-One person was burned and 10 others were led down extension ladders to safety as fire and smoke filled the upper floors of a shop in Washington. The rush of fire equipment, and several thousands of spectators, kept 60 policemen busy sorting out a traffic jam for an hour at the busiest time
of the day in the American capital
LUCKY MASCOT-Maureen Goodall and her lucky sailor mascot are cheering their favourite football team-Portsmouth. Their good wishes must have had the desired effect because the "Pompel" team beat Newport County by 3 to 2, and Maureen kept that happy smile.
TYPICAL?—Louise Fernandez Traubo poses in New York for artist Paul Meltsner. The portrait was requested by the Mexican government and it will be hung in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts. Meltsner found Miss Traube after a three-year search for the "Typical American Girl."
LAYING A CORNERSTONE-The Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman, lays the cornerstone for the library of Villa Nova University, in Havana, Cuba. Founded by Augustine Fathers from Villanova College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the school is known as the Havana branch of the
college.
FOUR WINNERS-Mrs Clayton Pardy of Stamford, Connecticut, displays her four prize-winning dogs in the pointer class at the annual Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden, New York. Each dog was awarded a first prize-but in separate contests. Their owner appears as happy about it
as the dogs.
FROM ITALY'S BOYS' TOWN-Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, founder and director of Italy's Boys' Town, left, presents a plaque to Mayor William O'Dwyer of Now York, right. The plaque was made by the Itallan boys in the Boys' Republic of Santa Marinella. Judge Juvenal Marchisio, centre, President
of American Relief for Italy, looks on approvingly."
CORONATION-Film star Richard Widmark crowns Mrs Chine Blackmore “Queen of the Gam” in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the premiere of a new film about whaling days. In the days when New Bedford sent its men to sea for whales in wooden ́ships," a "għm” was a sengoing celebration.'
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