1949-08-17 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONTE

AFTERMATH OF SABOTAGE—Cars of a seven-coach train lis in the street in Tokyo, Japan, after Jumping tracks and crashing through a ticket booth, a police shed and a house. Seven persons were killed and 12 bystanders injured in what was believed to be a sabotage revenge by two Communist workers discharged the day before.

BYE BYE — As her grandparents leave New York for Paris, 15-month- old Marilin Walker stopped licking that lolly- pop just long enough to wave goodbye to them.

NOW WORKING IN PARIS—Designer Pierre Balmain, in Paris, re-christens a new employee, Jane Lewis, of Portland, Oregon. He had one "Jane" already, so Miss Lewis is now called Pepper. Ethel Staff, left, of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Elinor McAndrews, of New York, while on holiday with Miss Lewis in Paris,

accepted jobs modelling Balmain's new autumn collection.

BE CAREFUL!-The caution has a double meaning as Philip Yon Stein, three, posts' a warning against polson ivy at a children's summer camp near Carmel, New York, Little Patty Crites seems more interested in Philip's handling of that hammer than she is frightened of the danger near her feet,

RECORD RAIN-After two violent rainstorms In succession, streets and basements were flooded in St Louis, Missouri. Water was reported to be six feet deep at some points and Des Peres Drive, above, resembled a waterway more than a street,"Traffic was at a standstill and street and power lines were downed.

JUST INTRODUCED The black, strapless bathing -suil with satin front panel, and the two-plece sun dress made of colourful cotton block print have been introduced by Christian Dior, at an aquatic festiva) In Fontainebleau, near Paris, in France.

AN AIR CLIPPER-The world's nerobatic champion, Betty Skelton, 22, of Tampa, Florida, thrills on air pageant crowd in Gatwick, England. She is cutting a tape with the wings of her plane while flying only 15 feet from the ground.

FULFILLED PROMISE-Frances Savage, 16, of Hempstead, New York, had been promised a horse as a gift. When she found a newly born pony in the stable, she realised her mother's promise had been kept. Hero Frances gives Back, the baby a smack on the muzzle while the mother horse looks on with maternal

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AFTER THE PLAY 18. OVER-Mr andrce of "Mr Roberts," the smash hit play Billingsley's Stork Club after a performd. Mrs Henry Fonda relax at Sheriaan

* on Broadway, in which Mr Fonds stars.

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