1948-11-29 — Page 3

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1948,

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

HIS HOBBY-Frank Palmer of Santa Ana, California, stands at the control panel which operates trains on his miniature rallway system. He built more than half the system from inexpensive materials, working from blueprints sup. plled by railways for duplicating their equipment. Many scalo miles of track were used to make a complex pattern around model cities, through tunnels, over bridges and Into a railway roundhouse yard complete with turntable. Palmer can control five or six trains running simultaneously,

ACTRESS--Ginger Gray, 18-year-old actress, won, court approval of ker motion picture contract in Los Angeles. Ginger,

whose screen name is Nita Talbot, is a native

of New York.

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U.S. TANKS AND GUNS IN TURKEY—Tanks and guns from the United States are lined up on, flat cars along a wharf nt Istanbul's Golden Horn, ready for movement into Turkey's interior.

was sent to bolster the nation's defences.

TOWER in BERLIN-This tower in the British sector of Berlin was used for television during the war. Now visitors climb to the top to view the ruins of war

through telescopes. /

ITALIAN LUNCH COUNTER-Pigeons in Venice gather in St Mark's Square as a city hall employee empties, a sack of corn for them. They wait for him each day at 2 p.m.

GERMANS GATHER FUEL-With the coming of winter, residents of the blockaded Western Sector of Berlin gather firewood from toppings of felled trees in the Grunewald Forest,

HERO IN MOVIES-Audie Murphy (centre), who won more decorations than any other U.S. ground soldier in World War II, lunches with actors Lloyd Nolan (left) and Jimmy Gleason on a Hollywood set where Audiè is playing his first movio role.

CROSSING THE RHINE-Members of the U.S. 1st Engineer Combat Battalion, stationed at Darmstadt, Germany, work on a pontoon bridge across the Rhine 'between Rheinhausen and Speyer. The men assembled a 780-foot bridge in six hours and 16 minutes,

PRESIDENTIAL GESTURE-President Vincent Auriol of France gestures that he has had enough food at a Paris mosque during the Arab. feast of Id Al. Adah, Scated left is Sid Kadour 'Ben the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

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SENATORIAL COLLECTION Senator Tom Connally of Texas poses in his office in Washington with historic documents and pictures which he will donate to the Texas Memorial Museum at Austin. He holds a copy of the World War -II declaration of war against Germany, signed by the late. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at 8:05 pm, eastern standard time, on December 11, 1941. The pictare visible abore the Senator's arm shows Roosevelt signing, the declaration, with Connally looking over his shoulder, and holding a watch to note the time.

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