THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949.
NEWS OF THE
DAY IN PICTURES
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE-With a photograph of him beside her, Margaret Krueger, in Berlin, chats Little, with Samuel Little, her American dance, 30-year-old ex-GI, left his Portland, Oregon, Home and stowed away on a 2,600-milo sea voyage to Gormany. At Bremerhaven, he was barred by the U.S. officials, and could only get close to Margaret by phone,
READY FOR INSPECTION—This British sailor is doing his bit with 'n' little emery cloth and a lot of elbow grease. Ho's stationed aboard one of the two Royal Navy motor torpedo boats moored in the Seine River in Paris, France. It is the boats' first informal visit to the French capital since the war.
MOVING TO MUSEUM-Towed on a barge, this old-building was moved from Glen Cave, New York, to Mystic, Connecticut, where It was placed fit the National Marine Museum. Bullt in 1844, the house was once used by the late J. P. Morgan when It was part of the New York Yacht Club, The two old French mortars, left centre, on the barge, once decorated the club lawn and were
sent with the house.
TO MAKE A SKY SURVEY-Dr Edwin P. Hubble, well-known astronomer in Palomar, California, puis the unique 48-inch Schmidt photographic telescope through the final rehearsals for a sky survey. This four-year selentille project will provide the world with its first definitive photo atlas of the heavens,
IT'S ALMOST FINISHED NOW This is the U.S. freighter Wilfred Sykes, the largest vessel ever built on the Great Lakes, and now nearing completion in a Lorain, Ohio, shipyard. When launched, it will slide aldeways into the drydock. The new ship will be the fastest on the Lakes in the carrier class, and can carry
20,000 tons of ore at intermediate draft. -
GOT WHAT THEY NEEDED After a month of Intensive training at the International Guiding Eyes School in Los Angeles, California, these girls leave for home with their Gulde dogs. They are Nan Farqdar, left, of Winnipeg, Canada, and Norma-Sharrett of Omaha, Nebraska. The dogs were gifts from the school.
HOW'S THAT FOR SIZE? —Following the graduation exercises of the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pennsylvania, little Martha Anne Davis, of Monessen, and Dayld Shaffer, of Windber, collected a few hats that had been discarded by the cadets. Boll -youngsters have uncles who were first classmen in the..
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