THE HONGKONGU TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
BURNS AFTER CRASH-Spectators in Clermont, Now York, get close to the flaming wreckage of this trailer-truck which collided with a similar vehicle. Both drivers were injured and a third car narrowly escaped being involved in the accident. All traffic on the busy New York-Albany highway was halted until the wreckage was removed.
Hollywood
RELAXING actress Jane Russell isn't posing for any parli- cular purpose. She's just taking it easy, and she
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SWELLING THE COLLECTION-Fritz Reiner autographs the baton he d when he conducted the opening performance of the new season at New York's Misa Metropolitan Opera House for soprano Eleanor Steber, who sang,
from Toscanini, Ormandy, includes batons Steber's famous collection Koussevitsky, Walter and other top conductors with whom she has performed.
DOUBLE TROUBLE Soon to make their public debut at a zoo in San Francisco are a pair of leopard kittens. At 10 weeks, the still untamed leopards are as big as full-grown house cats, but not nearly as friendly,
DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT-Arthur Riggs, 11, steps off a plane in New York with Capt. R. J. Dick The lad entered a plane without a ticket and headed for California. He got as far as St Louis before the over- sight was discovered, and he was returned home.
́SWISS CHEESECAKE-Lovely Helga Brandı. Swiss -ice-skating star, refuses to part with the skales that made her famous. In Miami, Florida, she found ico more scarce than in her native land, but did the best she could with blocks from an ice plant.
EVEN RUBBLE HELPS-In wartorn Warsaw, rubble provides bricks needed for the reconstruction of the city. Special mills are grinding and sorting bricks for the concrete-making machines. These borses trans- port the rubble to the mill::
ROLLED TO NEW SITE-S1 Jerome's Catholic Church in Cleveland, Dalo, 18 ahown. being placed on a new site after the 500-ton frame structure was inched. 150 feet to make room for a larger builling., During the long period of removal, regular services were conductol with the aid of portable steps.
THEY ALL HELP Carefully
paired and checked, thess Instruments a wrapped with pliofilm at a factory In Woodside, New York, before shipment. Bundreds of specialists produce spare parts and repair aircraft Instruments which help to keep planes in the air. This one group, near La Guardia Field; geta 200 calls for new parts and instrument inspection every day,
"PURSUIT—Almost on, the table lỡ this chased by (from left) Les Austin, Erna Beverly Day In Ellenville, New York. Be about to catch the old bird, and she isn'
on his tail-vete,