THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY," "APRIL" 20, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
MODEL-Frances Garman of New York, chosen by a group of American art dealers as the best artists' model of 1948, holda a sculptured brass cat that will be exhibited.
BIG MOVING JOI-The 15,000-ton building, which formerly was a movie theatre at the Pecas, Texas, air base, Is moved three miles into the city of Pecos for a municipal auditorium, Equipment used included 21 nose wheels
from B-29 planes.
CHICKEN CONNOISSEUR-President Vincent Auriol (left) of France admires a chicken held by Andre Weider, president of the Poultry Breeders' Society of France, at the 84th annual poultry show at the Pare Des Expositions, Paris.
́ALASKANS SEE THE SIGHTS-Mllo Clouse (left), Juneau police chief, and Buck Harris, Alaskan gulde, look over the light clothing (left to right) of Miss Sports (Marian Kuhlmann), Miss Boating (Martha Edwards) and Miss Travel (Celeste Ravel) at the International Sports, Travel and Boat show in Chicago. The men journeyed by jeep from Alaska for the event.
PRECARIOUS WORK-Mathew Zimmerman, 5 foot, 71⁄2 inch AP photographer, stands on a chair to make a close-up of 8 foot, 8 inch Olaf Fetursson in a New York hotel. The giant arrived from. Iceland to make a circus appearance.
NEW BRITISH ENVOY TÓ U.S.-Sir Oliver Franks, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford University, takes a last look at his books before concentrating on his new job British Ambassador to the United States. He is considered an expert on the Marshall Plan.
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REYNOLDS PLANE DAMAGED - After his plane, "The Explorer," sank into soft earth, causing a wheel lock to snap on take-off at Pelping (above), millionaire Milton Reynolds of ball-point pen fame, called off his mountain charting expedition, This eventually led to difficulties with Chinese officials, and Reynolds left China.
RELEASED BY COMMUNISTS-Four of the five U.S. Marines captured on Christmas Day by Chinese Com- munists while on a hunting trip north of Tsingtao enjoy a cigarette, the first after their release, near the village of Halyang. Capt. Thomas C. Dutton (left) assisted in
The Marines (left to right). negotiating their release.
are Cpl. William Pollard, Pfe Carrol W. Dickerson, Pte..
The fifth Robert Hart, and Pfc Thomas Kapodistria.
marine was killed by-Chinese gunfire."
· EISLERS IN VIENNA-Hollywood composer Hanns Eisler (left) and his wife, Loulse Anna, have their papers checked on arrival at Vienna's Tullin airport from Prague. Lisler left the United States after the government began deportation proceedings against him. He is a brother of Gerhard Eisler, who has been described as America's No. 1. Communist.
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