1948-07-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

TWINS, BUT DIFFERENT BIRTHDA YS-Born 49 hours apart to Mrs Paul Melvin, Krieger of Chicago, these twins can still cry in two-part harmony. right, was born at 7.45 p.m. on a Saturday, while Dennis, left, didn't arrive until 8.50 p.m. on Monday. Doctors to rm such widely separated births as being "very unusual,”

BEACH BRIGADE - "Fun-in-the-sun" Is the byword of these half-dozen attractive lassies as they get ready to play ball on the beach at St Petersburg, near the Gulf of Mexico, in Florida. Looks as though the winsome group is Inviting the photographer to join them.

DUCKY STRAW Actress Phillis Coates showed up at Los Angeles' Ducks Unlimited Show with this bonnet adorned with a decoy (for promotional purposes, of course). Here, one of the mallards in the show carries on a one-sided conversation with the wooden duck while Phillis turns on a smile.

NOTHING TO IT—This glant plece of machinery, which cont US$250,000, picks up a rallway wagon load of wheat and dumps about 2,000 bushels into the mill at Fort Worth, Texas. This method of unloading cars is a time saver, for the machine does in seven minutes what formerly took three men an hour.

AFTER THE WELL RAN DRY-Smouldering ruins of a full city block in Rising Star, Texas, are visible in this airview following a fire which threatened the whole community when the town's reservoir ran dry. Tank 2. trucks were used to haul water from a creck until pumping equipment arrived from nearby towns.

COOL! When the weather at Santa Monica, Call- fornia, rose to over 90 degrees Merrill Downard, left, and Roy Garett Garrett, right, helped (7) Edna Mae Shargo to gain relief by holding her under a shower,

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PERSISTENT: POOCH Finnly reunited with his master in Rock Island, Illinois, Skip, a 10-year-old springer spaniel, rests after three years of searching, during which he covered 1,000 miles. When the Donald Bassets moved from Misis. sippi, they left Skip behind Now lean and tired from his travels, he takes a well-carned rest with Baddy Basset and his sister for company.

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