THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
OWL THAT HOWLED—It took shotguns, tear gas, bows and arrows to evict a dozen owls from a century. old poplar tree 'in the Memphis, Tennessee, backyard of Mrs. R. C. Armstrong. The howling and clacking made her determined to evict the birds. A police Inspector and Mrs Armstrong display one of them.
SCARED AWAY-Coney Island, famed New York beach, usually jammed with hundreds of thousands of persons on Sunday afternoons, is almost deserted on a Sunday during a very hot spell. The reason for the absence of bathers is the pollo scare. The city, suffering from a mild pollo epidemic, advised against public
⚫ bathing and the warning kept beach and pool attendance down.
QUEENLY TEARS-Poor "Mrs America." Sho doesn't like her job, evidently, and it's taking a lot of “Mr America's" patience to comfort her. The two, Pauline -Martarano and Bella Makula, both three, reigned over the "Anything on Wheels" Derby in New York, run by the Children's Aid Society,
DUCHESS IN DIAMONDS-The Duchess of Kent wears diamond tiara, earrings and brooch at a Paris ball for the British Hospital. Right is Ambassador Sir.. Oliver Harvey.
FISHING CAT-That's what this animal is called, a Oshing cat. It's like a small leopard. This one roars its welcome to New York, It was in a consignment of animals brought to New York from Slam on an 11,000-mile sen voyage.
WOMEN MPs TAKE OVER-Capt. James Stevenson instructs WAC MPs in traffic duly at the Military Police School, Camp Gordon. Girls (1. to r.) are: Florence England, Johnston, Rhode Island; Marjorie Shepherd, Seattle, Washington; Virginla Papallo, Meriden, Connecticut; Paula Rublo, Austin, Texas.
BIKE FASHIONS — Paris, both bicycle and fashion happy, combines the two in a bicycle fashion show. Patricia Patrick wears this one- plece costume of pale yellow lightweight wool with
cap sleeves and flowing collar.
LUCKY ORPHAN—A few months ago, Arthur Lleu, 12, was an orphaned shoeshine boy in Tsingtao, China. Then Afarine Staff Sgt: Jack McCartney legally adopted the boy. Now Arthur and his foster-father are on holiday at Sun Valley, Idaho, McCartney hopes to get full citizenship for young Arthur,
DEATH SQUEEZE-The driver of this sedan, of Lindenhurst, N. Y., was killed when the car he was driving made an abrupt turn. It was rammed into by the druck at left, a heavy transit concrete, truck. The driver of the truck escaped
without injury.
NO PRUNE, SHE—The only thing in this pleture that Isn't a prune is Carold Selbelt. She's sitting in a box of 120,100 prunes (count 'em) at the California State
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