1949-09-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

ENGLISH AIR RACE—A Miles Gemini, piloted by J. Oliver, stands on a wing tip as it rounds a pylon during the first running of the King's Cup air race since 1939 at Elmdon Airport, Birmingham, England. The race was won by another Miles Gemini, which averaged 164.25 miles an hour for the 100 miles,

NO WASTE-A new city is slowly arising out of bomb-scarred Berlin, with the rubble of the old buildings going into new construction. Here, in the Schoneberg district of the American sector, neat piles of salvaged bricks are stacked ready for use. Already 9,000,000 cubic yards of rubble have been cleared away, but it will take another 10 years to elcar the total 45,000,000 cubic yards of ruin.

RAFTING DOWN THE RIVER Tourists wave as their, raft glides through a lock on the Isar River, Germany which transports timber in senson and travellers on holiday.

UPS-A-DAISY-With a quiet air of confidence, four- moath-old Pat Campbell balances himself on his father's hand.. The Bossier City, Louisiana, infant shows unusual balance, a pediatrician told the proud parents, Mr and Mrs John F. Campbell.

TENTING ON CAR TOP --- Homer Carley, Jr., (on ladder) and Robert O. Bickel, of Cedar Rapids, Idaho, designed this car top sleeper containing 2 mattresses

. and electric lights.

MAKING SAIL-Spinnakers billow to pick up a light breeze in a race off the California coast near San Francisco. Across the bow of the Eulalie are the Flying Scotchman and the Mickey, making a pretty picture for a summer's day.

HARBOUR QUEEN Pretty Janet Jackson, 19, is San Francisco's Harbour Queen. Her duties are to officiate at the Golden Gate city's five-day festival of events along the waterfront, topped off with boat

races.

DOLLS OF AGES-MI Jewell Baker holds Cleo- patra and Nefertele dolls At National Muscum show, Washington.

'TO TALK OF GOETHE --Dr Albert Schweitzer, 74, arrives in New York en route to Goethe Bicen- tennial at Aspen, Col.

JOYS FOR BOYS-Summer brings watermeloris, and watermelon-enting contests, like this one staged by students of Bergen Junior College, Teaneck, New Jersey, for roaldents of Newark. Bernard Shepard and Garry Quien dig in to see who

will be fastest with the most.

BOMBS UP Controlled by only three levers for actuating its hydraulic system, the 22,900-pound mobile bomb Ht koists an 11-ton bomb at Wichita, Kansas. The lift performs all operations for position- ing big miselles in an aeroplane bomb-bay."

·BURFHANTANT--Komna 18 an unapprecative elephant, if there ever was one. The one-year-old star attraction at the Zoo in Rome, Italy, was given a 26-pound layer cake on her, birthday, she proceeded to step on it, which didn't do the cake much good.