THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948."
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
TAKING SALT FROM SEA WATER-Through a system of dykes at the edge of San Francisco Bay near Newark, sea water is collected into ponds. Evaporation by sun and wind produces crude salt crystals which are washed and prepared for the market. Over a half million tons of salt are produced çach year at Newark.
BACK TO NORMAL—With flags waving, shouting former Italian partisans start a march to the Piazza Loreto in Milan in defiance of a police order prohibiting outdoor meetings... They were celebrating the third
-anniversary of Northern Italy's liberation.
LADIES, PUHLEASE—Once Babe Ruth refereed a women's wrestling match, and the movie producers making a picture of the King of Swat's life included the episode in the film. Here actor Bill Bendix, playing the part of Babe Ruth, goes through the scene.
COMPLETE TRANS-ANDEAN WAY--Rail connec- tions across the Andes mountains between Argentina and Chile have finally been completed. At ceremonies inaugurating the new service, Argentine Minister of Works Gen. Juan Pistarini embraces the mayor of Antofagasta, Chile, Juan de Dios Carbone, at Salta, Argentina, junétion point of the 559-mile line.
BUILDS A BETTER MOUSETRAP—B. O. Burkitt of. St Louis, who has made a profession of trapping. rodents, has invented what he calls a better mouse- trap. The new gadget looks much like the conven- tional trap, but in place of food, the lure is water. Burkitt says rodents must have water above all else:
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ARMS CACHE-New York police look over part of à huge cache of arms discovered in a five-storey loft in Manhattan. There were many machine-guns in the small arsenal, which, police believed, was destined for Palestine.
JUST LIKE A REAL ONE—At a hobby show in New York, two visitors look over an intricate model of a Norwegian ocean-going tug. Every detail of, the model ship was painstakingly constructed over a period of 22 years by a member of the original ship's crew, H. W. Engelschjun.
'CAME OUT ALL RIGHT-Mimi Fitzgibbons, seven months old, looks with interest at a safety pin held by her mother, Mrs Laverne Fitzgibbons of Chleago, Doctors removed the pln from the child's oesophagus.
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