1949-09-14 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949.

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BARGAINS FOR EVERYONE-Housewives in Berlin, Germany, crowded into department stores by the thousands for the first end-of-summer sale since the beginning of the war. It was a gala event and the counters were quickly emptied.

TO THE RESCUE-A helicopter from Floyd Bennett Field rushes to the rescue of a crowman suffering from a fracture on his trawler 32 miles off the New Jersey coast. The plane dropped a rubber boat, left, and the injured man was lowered to the sea, picked up and flown to Marine. Hospital,

THIS IS DIFFERENT!-These girls, in a beauty contest at Palisades Park, New Jersey, competed the hard way. They poked their heads through holes in a screen and the jury chose the one with the prettiest hair. The 'girls' other

- attractions remained concealed.

EMERGENCY IN HAMBURG-A man and boy test equipment of new klosks in Hamburg, Germany, which contain stretchers, first aid kits, fire alarms, phones, clocks, mirrors,

A COMPLETE CHANGE What would have taken a single farmer and a horse five years to do took the United States Agriculture Department's Soll Conservation Service just seven hours, The Hadala farm, transformed near Adams, Massachusetts, was chosen as "typical," and 257 acres of rocky farmland were

County farmers. into a model of soil conservation. The feat was demonstrated to some 6,000 Berkshire

HEAT WAVE –– Though it's hard to believe by observing Barry O'Neill who is surveying property Ines at Keno Hill, Yukon Territory, the Alaskan mining country is suffering from 'n heat wave of 90 degrees. The snowballs are all right for play, but the gun is protection against half-ton bears.

BRIDE AND GROOM Captain Richard F. Borner, 84, is swinging his 66-year-old bride to Jukebox musie in his son's cafe in Memphis, Tennessee. The couple eloped to Hernando, Mississippi, but, they're kicking up their heels in true live fashion to celebrate.

FOR DENMARK This is a general view of a shipyard in Tamaño, Japan, where three deadweight cargo ships, each weigh struction for a Danish shipp

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AT LAST It took a long time, but beautiful Marie Wilson, in Holly. wood, has finally become flm star She also does right" on radio

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