1948-04-07 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

RESCUE-U.S. Coast Guard vessels hover around a small tanker grounded off Morehead City, North.... Carolina. Heavy seas and a high wind impeded rescue but the 21 men aboard the tanker were finally taken off in a breeches buoy.

AFTER PAPAL AUDIENCE-Ex-Queen Helen (left) of Rumania, mother of former King Michael, and Princess Renee De Bourbon-Parma, mother of Michael's fiancee, Princess Anne of Denmark, pass Swiss guards after an audiênce with Pope Pius XII in Vatican City. The mothers sought the Catholic Church's dispensation for the forth- coming royal marriage. Anne is sald to be a Catholic

while Michael is not.

LONG STEP-Ivan Taylor, 54, Chicago lift operator, returned from lunch and stepped into his lift. Some one had moved it. Taylor dropped 25 feet to the bottom of the shaft but escaped with minor injuries. Here firemen help him out...

RANTIN

STYMIED-The Nelson children of Waukesha, Wis- consin, are looking forward to when they can begin contributing to the support of a fivo year-old English girl. These four plus a sister, Bonnie, aged seven, who has scarlet fever, adopted the youngster. But they are stymied until the quarantine is lifted, and they can start sending the US$15 monthly support

they promised.

SWIMMER

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Sally Ann Howes, film actress, wears un attractive two-piece. bathing suit of flowered

nylon.

NEW VACCINE-Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal of the Univer sity of Illinois research hospital in Chicago, demon- strates how easy it is to administer a new vaccine, called BCG. The drug, it is reported, has shown promise in prevention of tuberculosis.

MAY DESTROY TRAFALGAR VETERAN The Implacable, one of England's famed "wooden walls" that fought in the Battle of Trafalgar, may be destroyed.

The Admiralty is considering breaking up this and other such old ships because of the heavy cost of maintenance and restoration. Restoration of the Implacable's, hull alone would cost £125,000. The vessel, a 74-gun ship, is anchored in Portsmouth Harbour.

GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES Mrs. Adolph Erickson, who already had 14 children, gave birth to these triplets at Duluth, Minnesota. The youngsters, (left to right) are Arnita Lee, three and a half pounds, Ardiss Lou, four pounds and Arlene Lynn, five and a half.

10,000TH TRUCK-Henry Ford II, right, congratu lates Erhard Vleiger, manager of the Ford organisa tion in Germany, as the 10,000th postwar truck leaves 'the company's factory in Cologne,

NOT SO SUNNY FLORIDA--Heavy seas and spray, driven by high, winds, batter at a highway along the ocean near Miami. The storm, gave winter visitors and Florida natives a laste of the weather that had plagued the northern U.S. this year. But it was only temporary; sunny sklog and calm seas prevailed a few days later.