1949-03-01 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1949.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

NOT TWINS-This is just Sandy, an orang-utang in the New York Zoological Park, admiring herself in mirror. Sandy is particularly fond of dressing up in a towel or any piece of material she can get, and her manners are at all times those of a perfect lady.

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK-This mountainside near Bristol, Tennessee, received a considerable jolt when engineers set off 1.3 million pounds of explosives. The blast-called the largest in construction history→→ loosened the almost solid rock mountain. So powerful were the explosives that the detonation was felt 25 miles away.

GUARD OF HONOUR—At Sun Valley, Idaho, Fact, a thoroughbred stallion, is given a skier's guard of honour. The horse was presented by Premier Josef Stalin to W. Averell Harriman when the latter was wartime Ambassador to Russia. Harriman has how had Fact retired.

INTERNATIONAL—A lot of countries are mixed up in this photograph. Gypsy Markoff, famous accor- dionist, took the French doll to New York from the West Indies with her on the Dutch liner, Nieuw

Amsterdam.

SAFETY DEVICE—At Arcata, California, these new slopeline approach lights are being tested. They were devised to bring nircraft in safely in poor visibility, and are being tried out at the Landing Aids Experimental Station.

DIFFERENT This

ankle-length evening gown is made with a slit top, shaped over the bosom, and has a wide midriff.

READY TO GO-This Washington State fire-fighter displays the equipment these men have when they jump. The U.S. Forest Service trains these men to drop by parachute into inaccessible areas when forest .fires break out.

RECORD BREAKERS-Major Russell E. Schlech, left, and Major Joseph_W. Howell, right, pilot and co-pilot of the United States Air Forco alx-jet B-47 bomber, are congratulated by Brig. Gen. Yantiss H. Taylor in Washington. Schlech and Howell broke the previous transcontinental speed record when they crossed the country in three hours, 46 minutes.

CELEBRATION-Sister Miriam Joseph had just been elected president of the Catholic First Grade Organisation in Chicago, Ilinola. She celebrated by

scoring a strike in a bowling game.

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