1949-04-20 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1949.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

SPRING IS HERE-And with it these young fisher- men in northern Idaho have bass for dinner. More than half of the state's population bought fishing permits last year.

MISERY-In already overcrowded Shanghai, starving Chinese refugees build temporary homes wherever they can find sufficient space. These helpless victims of the frequent fires that rapidly, destroy their flimsy bamboo-straw huts, pitch in and wearily start rebuilding with the same inflammable materials--which are all they can obtain.

FLYING HOME-With all four hoofs in mid-air, Ramadan, left, jockey W. Zakoor up, comes on to win over Rare Jewel at Tropical Park in Miami. The odds-on favourite was beaten by a nose, despite being. ridden by Logan Batcheller, the current leading winner. at the Florida meetings.

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WASH DAY-A laundry would not find much business in Volendam, Holland, where all the washing is done ut home. Hanging out the weekly wash is a social occasion, and these housewives have no use for clothes pegs, preferring to twine the clothes around the line.

OLD-TIMER-Thirteen-month-old David Doty absorbs the lore of the old rall- way days from great-grandfather Gilford S. Woods in Oak Park, Illinois. Woods, now 97, who surveyed routings for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad during the '70s, is almost as old as the 100-year-old line itself. Still agile, he operates a prosperous rail supply business. The car little David is fondling is a far cry from those used on the line during the old days.

NOMINATED-Because

no college in New York felt it had a co-ed beauti- ful enough to enter a flim contest for "most beauti ful and talented fresh- man,"

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an independent nt Columbia nominated Karen Lewis.

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WATER' THRILLS-Nancy Stilley is getting an exciting ride in Winter Haven, Florida, on Trammell Pickett's sea-going surf-board. While taking a fast turn, Nancy hangs on and grimly hopes for the best. Win or lose, she'll be soaking wet.

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LIZ GREETS A FRESHMAN The British liner Queen Elizabeth passes Britain's newest liner, Caronia, while steaming, out of Southampton. The Caronin, largest ship built since the end of the wor, is the newest Cunard White Star liner..

WINDFALL~When Art Teels and Ward Vickers decided to take a two-year world cruise, they invited the public down to the pier in Wilmington, California. About 1,500 people turned up with tins, sacks and boxes of food. They brought enough to slack the schooner California with supplies to last the entire crow of six for 400 days.

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