1949-08-16 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949.

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NEWSFRONTE

WORLD'S LARGEST Because of its proximity, this incandescent bulb is hundreds of times more dazzling than the moon. It will be used in New York to publicise the opening of a new film. Its size can be Judged from the youngster beside it.

COOLEST JOB IN TOWN-While the rest of the U.S. town' ateams up in the summer heat, John F. Krich, in Cleveland, Ohio, wraps up and goes to work. He wears long underwear, two shirts, wool pants, overshoes, fleece-lined Jacket and two pairs of gloves when he fashions fancy Ogures out of ice. Seen here he works on a difficult swan designed to decorate a banquet table.

TO SOUND OCEAN DEPTHS-Dr Maurico Nelles helps Dr Otis Barton, New York scientist, out of the Benthoscope` after tests at Long Beach, California. De Barton will exploro Pacific Ocean depths in the Benthoscope which has wheels ¡

that enable it to be dragged along the ocean floor.

ONLY A DEMONSTRATION-Firemen in London, England, show how they handle tall fires. The demonstration was held when gift clothing presented to the widows of London firemen who lost their lives in fires during the war.

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CRASH LANDING-When this C-82 Flying Boxcar Cargo ship came in for an emergency landing at Wright Field, in Dayton, Ohio, it overshot the field and turned turtle in a parking ground, killing one man and injuring five. With one engine on fire and the brakes gone, the huge ship rolled off the runway and through a fence, dividing the field from the parking ground.

FIRST IN 20 YEARS-Baby Lindy wants to see what mother Leons is so. Interested in at a zoo in Atlantaj Georgin. Accompanied by father Bill, they came from Australia and are the first kangaroos at the zoo fa

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SEE DAD GRADUATE-Francis H. Tolan, an ex-fler from Centerville Pennsylvania, has two admirers to see him graduate from. Pennsylvania State College. They are his one-year-old twin daughters, Jünet and Jayne, and they're proud of their dad.

"OH, BROTHER!—When Tequila, a seven-month-old Saint Bernard, arrived in Dallas, Texas, en route to Mexico City from Ottawa, Canada, by plane, the temperature was breaking a hundred. Air line workers helped cool Tequila off

with 50 pounds of Ice, and he made good use of it.

ON CABLE CAR-Suo Howell, watch'e widely- travelled” 1949 - Maid - of Cotton, visits one pf: Ban Francisco's famous cable car awhile touringi "California/

GERMAN FOLK DANCINGTM Hundreds of Berliners crowd around an improvised stage to watch natives of Bavaria perform one of their many "volk" dances. The Kueuzberg Sport Field, in the American sector of Berlin, was the scene of the festivities,