THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1948.
WORLD NEWS
NEWS IN PICTURES
MISTER IKE Looking very much like a college- president-to-be, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles happily for the photographer as he appears in Washington in civilian clothes for the first time since the war.
He has left the army to become President
of Columbia University,
REPARATIONS-Lieut. Scott Profit (right) checks a load of melted-down precious metals for storage in the vaults of the mint at Osaka, Japan. Occupation' forces use most of the mint to prepare metals for réparations, leaving a small part for making Japanese coinage.
CHAMPION-Mrs' Reginald Woods and her international 'grand chùmplon Alsatian police@dog, Major,"arrive, in New York aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth from London. Mrs Woods was en route to Vancouver, B.C.
BLUNT WARNING-U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, speaking at charter day ceremonies at the University of California, Berkeley. He warned that Communist encroachment upon free peoples
would no longer go unchecked.
OPERATION TOENAIL-A canary gets its claws trimmed in the Chicago' bird clinic of Mrs Marie Widder, where a chart and case history is kept
on encli“ patiënt.—i
HIT BY TORNADO-A tornado toppled the standing figure, of Abraham Lincoln from Its base and broke off the head as it swept through Bunker Hill, Illinois, but a passer-by jäid what he could he picked up the head and set it upright at the base (centre). Fourteen were killed by the tornado.
YEARS BETWEEN--Grandina went to the beach in 1900 dressed like Bobbie McIntyre (right). Pat Cónlin (left) wears 'a 1948 version.
TRAGEDY INTRE ALPS- others injured which this ski
ung #pklers were killed nhd100
at 10 miles an hour, jumped, its tracks on an incline and ploughed Into a three-storey home near Zurich, Switzerland. It was the worst, wreck in Swiss railway history.
WAY OF ATTACK-The yawning mouth of an LST operis on the palin-studded beach at Vieques Island during US Nav amphibious exercises in the Caribbean. After combat troops landed, the Navy began unloading supplies and heavy equipment.
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