THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949,
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
LAST TRIP FOR FAMOUS CUTTER-The sailing vessel Francis is pounded by: waven after it failed to make a tack and ran aground on a sand bar near Brants Beach, New Jersey. A former British cutter, the ship was built in 1888 and is owned by Charles Conway of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MEMORIAL IN BELGIUM-Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the European Command, Lt General Clarence R. Huebner, attends the Inauguration of the Bullange Memorial and the Henri Chapelle Memorial in Bullange, Belgium. Belgian children pald honour to the men of the First American Army in World War II who died in the Belgian, Ardennes.
A MASSED DONATION-After putting money into this huge collection box in Tokyo, Japan, some of the 2,000,000 Nichiren Buddhists say a prayer. They are helping to pay for a newly completed temple to replace the one destroyed during the war, and celebrating the anniversary of the-founder of Buddhism.'
HE'S THE GRAND CHAMP—Future farmer Bob McKinley, 19, holds onto "Herschel's Pride" for a stern-end view of the 1,190-pound Hereford steer which was crowned grand champlon of the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City, Missouri.
GETS KEY-Vivacious Yvonne Adair, in New York, was chosen "The Actress City College Like Men Would Most to Meet," and awarded a scroll and a key.
NEW SPRAY EQUIPMENT—A representative of the Air Force Aero-Medical Laboratory, in Beltsville, Maryland points to the new 25-gallon DDT tank developed for caster installation on planes. Shaped like a small aerial bomb, it can be mounted in five minutes, permitting the immediate use of the plane for other purposes. The DDT is dispersed through tiny holes on the tank's propeller
blades.
MAKING FRIENDE New York's Bellevue Hospital was transformed into a paradise when a rodeo troupe played an entire show there for the benefit of sick and crippled children. Delik Kirscher, eight, daughter of a performer, gets nequainted with bashful Allen Fox by letting him wear her hat and kissing him.
ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE HER... Portsmouth, England, is faced with distraction now no funds to Keep her In
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GLAD TO BE BACK Sorrowful,' a young Patas monkey who broke both legs and an arm in a high dive from his cage, is back with his mother in the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago, Illinois. The acrobatic monkey is reported to be almost completely recovered.
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