1949-09-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONTE

FOUND AT LONG LAST-Mountaineers near ML. Hood, Oregon, examine the tail section of an Air Force B-26 that creshed there on April 21, killing three. Pieces of the plane were scattered over an area of 160 acres.

BEGINNING THE SEARCH-More than 200 farmers armed with shotguns searched the area around New Lenox, Illinois, for a large animal suspected of being a panther or a bear. Reports had come in that an animal was attacking cattle by jumping on their backs and leaving scratches.

A DESERT JEWEL Jean Marie Pettit stands beside a half-ton block of selenito in Las Vegas, Nevada. This museum specimen was inlned near that city and has been on exhibit at a gem and mineral show where it was a leading attraction.

BETTER THAN ROPE TRICK-Motorists do a quick double take when they go by Mrs Lowell Howard's home In Jackson Centre, Ohio. Mrs Howard's husband, a welder, made this trick stand for their post box from logging chain, welding the links together. The. hase is made of stones gathered-in 11-states. The Howards' postman confesses to an uneasy feeling when he leaves their mail.

KEEPING FOLKLORE ALIVE-The entire population of Furth, a Bavarian town two miles from the Czech border, turned into the market place to watch a medieval play featuring a giant dragon. The tale revolves around a girl who wants to sacrifice herself to save the town from the dragon. But the monster geta-killed by her lover who returns from the Crusades. Here the knight prepares to give the 'final stab

to the dragon.

MARINES TO THE RESCUE—Fire fighters and- equipment rendezvous in a clearing near Camp Pendleton, California, preparing to fight forest fires. in the Santa Ana Mountains. August timber kosses from fires in National Forests In Montana, South Dakota and California total 100,000,000 board feet.

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PRESSURE COOKER FAMILY The pressure cooker of Cirs Nick Carter- Boise, Idaho, with a padding of ds, tras chosen by this tabby as the birth-

PLANE GIRL Actress Jeff Donnell,. In Holly wood, has been chosen ***Miss', Alr Coach of 1940," and the pilots who conferred that: honour": showed excellent‹- taste.

OLD STUFF Joseph Stack, left, of New Tork, and Roy Hill faspect an early Roman, 30-duckt piece in San Francisco, Callforels.The cold, resued during the reign of Charles VI and now valued at US$1250, La fust farm worth of colné exhibited

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