1949-02-16 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1949,

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

COMPLICATED CONTROL BOARD-Flight Engineer -Dock R. Lee, Jr., checks the engines on a clipper plane“ in New York. The new engine analyser warns of trouble developing in any of the plane's four engines, The cathode ray scope shows the exact difficulty in any of the 72 cylinders or 144 spark plugs.

NEW CYCLOTRON-Technicians cxamine the University of Rochester's "new 250,000,000-volt cyclotron. The 1,100-ton magnet yoke is enclosed between cylindrical magnetic poles which contain 16 miles of aluminium colla. It took two and a half years of planning, construction and development to complete the cyclotron

GALLANTRY IN ACTION-Nicky Skey Inces on Pat Edward's skates in a London skating arena. The five- year-olds were the youngest to compete in the Open Novice championship contests.

TESTING RESULTS-Dr Sidney Barnes, left, and Dr Joseph Platt check radioactivity of the new 250,000,000- volt cyclotron at Rochester University (see top centre picture). Standing behind a lead screen, the pair check a carbon target which has been made radioactive by bombardment of protons.

IN A FOG-This engine got lost In a fog in Albany, New York. Heavy mist caused the engineer to mistake a spur track for the main line, and the train went off the truck. The fog was so thick that a time exposure was necessary to take this picture.

HONOURED GUEST-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, congratulates' Maj." Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, at a luncheon given to the retiring superintendent of the United States Military Academy by industrialist Thomas J. Watson, left. The other member" of the group is Francia Cardinal Spellman,

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THE CONVENTIONAL BRIBE-Actor Tyrone Power and his bride, Linda Christian, pass a bottle of wins to a traffic policeman in Rome. The Italian custom goes in conjunction with celebration of Feast of the Epiphany, the significance being that they hope they won't have to obey traffic lawa for the rest of the year.

GOOD START Miss Jeanne Crow of St Petersburg, Florida, has

a good start in her ambi- tion to become a model. In a contest with over 300 entrants sho WQB chosen queen of the New York Press Photo graphers' 20th annual ball in New York.

This little. Spanish girl, Stephanie Villalba, romps on a pile of luggage aboard the liner Queen Mary, which took her to the United States to join her parents in

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