1949-07-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1949.

NEWS OF THE DAY IN PICTURES

HEADING FOR INDIA-This 137-lon Goliath is one of the 200 built by a Canadian company for shipment to Calcutta. The new design, heavy passenger locomotive, built for the Indian Government Railways, is lowered into the hold

of the SS Belocean, at Montreal.

GETTING NORMAL--With both legs broken before birth, tiny. Linda Jone Träpp is doing nicely at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. Born to midget parents who had been advised it would be almost impossible for them to have a child, Linda was 18 Inches long.

FORD INSTITU

SECOND TIME FOR QUADS-Harry Lund, superintendent on a farm ́at Arlington Heights, lilinols, has four now problems on his hands after “Grandma”. bore quadruplet deer. Last year she also had quads, and the year before she

had triplets. Now Lund has something to keep him- busy,

TIRP

NEW TURBO-PROP—This aircraft propeller for gas turbine engines has been developed at East Hartford, Connecticut, under U.S. Navy auspices. It recently. passed a 110-hour Army-Navy typo lest and flight tests are scheduled for this autumn.

FOR MEASURING GLACIER-Dr Thomas' C. Poulter, left, checks equipment at Stanford, California, for use by an Alaskan expedition. With him are Charles F. Allen and Stephen W. Miller, right, who will assist in attempting to measure

the thickness of Taku Glacier, near Juneau.

PRETTY CERTAIN Marie (The Body) MacDonald is expecting an heir in November. Mrs Harry Karl. In pri- vate life, Marie is so certain. it will be a boy she's already registered him at a military academy.

`SKIING IN JULY-Skiers entered in a ski jump at Lake Placid, New York, tamp down ice in 90-degree heat along the lower part of the run. Ninety tons of ice were chipped by machines to cover the 40-metro Intervale Hill. Arthur Tokle of Brooklyn made two leaps of 36-metres each_to capture the Class A competition.

BRITISH PLANE BURNS The crew of four escaped uninjured when this four-motored British Lancastran crashed and burned at Gatow, Airfield in Berlin. Airlift operation continued as Bre guards poured foamite onto the burning wreckage which contained 2,876 gallons of gas. The accident occurred on the first

anniversary of the Berlin blockade.

SUMMER CASUAL-An

all-wool vest is a hand- some addition to the young man's wardrobe. It is lightweight and practical for cool casual summer wear with, ita deep V neckline and

ribbing at the

inicipal

GETTING HIS REWARD-Eugene W. Dukes, of St Albans, New York, Yets.n. big kiss from his four children. They had accompanied him to the Building in New York to witness his promotion to captain by Fire Commissioner

n Quayle. The kids are very proud of their dad.