THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1949.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
PITCHING IN-American politicians, left to right, David Van Alstyne, prest. dent of New Jersey Senato; William O'Dwyer, New York mayor; Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, and Howard Cullman, head of the Port of New York Authority, break ground at the site of the Union Bus Terminal in New York. The world's largest, it will serve 60,000 New Jersey commuters a day.
WARNING TO MOTORISTS-When these two cars collided in Chicago, Illinois, three people were injured. One of the drivers lies on the pavement as firemen use crowbars to extricate a woman from one of the damaged cars.
COOPED UP-Six-year-old Joseph Fergui finds out how it feels to be cooped up as he shares this metal hen house with a white leghorn hen. The six-year-old youth was visiting the New York poultry exhibition.
WENATCHEE APPLE QUEEN-Portia Joan Thorn- ton. 18-year-old high school girl, will rule as queen over the Apple Blossom Festival at Wenatchee, Washington in early May.
HOLDS A RECORD-Locking at some cards received
on
her 97th birthday is Mrs Mary Mulcahy, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest American war mother in the US.
PORTRAIT IN PINK Its decolletage hidden beneath a stole of baby
blue velvet, this Parisian gown has a full skirt fashioned of quilted bonbon-pink faille, has
It
a matching muff.
DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs Erwin Bennett, of South Glens Falls, New York, have been married for 75 years. Because of an old injury, Bennett, 95, is bedridden, but his 90-year-old wife finds time to look after him and do her housework, too.
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM-Students in the Egyptian Government's Higher School of Archaeology, being trained as history, teachers, hold a class at the Pyramid of Cheops.
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TTIRED, CHANIOTEER-A competitor in the "Chariot Race of Ancient, Bomo”
halts for a cigarette during the exhibition, part of the first carnival in r
years in Rome.
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