THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
BOVINE QUADRUPLETS—Lady, a Guernsey cow on 1 farm near Jacksonville, Illinois, displays her quadruplets which made her famous. Veterinarians claim such an event occurs only once in every 550,000 births.
BIG AND LITTLE GAMES——Two youngsters continue their playing with their backs to communications trucks which are taking part in the parade staged by 30,000 troops of the U.S., Britain, France, Belgium and Norway, near Sennelager, Germany. The five Allantic Pact nations are participating in war games in that area.
COUNTING HEADS This firefighter counts heads after a two-alarm fire in a millinery supply store in New York. The ground floor and the basement of the establishment, were considerably messed up, but those dummy heads appear to be all right.
WAR BRIDE RETURNS-Mrs L. H. Clontz, of Concorde, California, and her 19-month-old twins, Louise, left, and Linda, prepare to leave London, England, to fly back to the U.S. Mrs Clontz is one of the British war brides married to Americans who returned to England with their children for a visit.
RECLAIMING THE LAND-In preparation for the forthcoming Festival of Britain in 1951, a wall is under construction in London that will reclaim a few acres of land from the Thames River. The space will be laid out as a public garden and extends between the wall under construction and the shore.
PROPER WAY-Rose- mary Williamson, in New York, reveals that there Is a method to wine- making and she demon- strates the oldest way in which.
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EUROPE Girls costumes listen to the carlllon of 40 bells in Holligerlee, The Netherlands. The chimes were made in the local bell foundry there, but are destined for St Martin's Church In New York;
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NEWCOMER--But finitely a comer is lovely. Gerri Ganzer, noted cover girl, now in Hollywood. She'll soon be seen in her first picture,
BOYZ LANDS MAN-SIZED PIKE-Nine-year-old
Ronald Ettestad of Northhome, Minnesota, showed up
veteran anglers when he caught this huge northern
pike in Half-Moon Lake......... The fish measured 17 Inches.
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in length and welghed 26 pounds.
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TRICK FOR TRICK—Cindy Heller, chosen Bazooka” in New York, visited backstage members of a rodeo team. Part of her time was taken? up in a gum-chowing contest with cowboy Larry Sennel in which each demonstrated considerable ability.
PROTEST HIGH COST OF RICE - A crowd of approximately 500 Japanese housewives, many accompanied by husbands, holds a mass demonstration In downtown Tokyo, Japan, to protest n2 proposed increase in the price of rice. The women claimed the increase would overburden budgets alrendy too high.