THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
FRANCE'S WORST-The sky is black and flames roar above the forest of Facture, a few miles from Bordeaux, as the worst fire in the history of France --still burns two days after it was reported under control. Thousands of acres of wood and farmland were
destroyed, and 82 persons were killed..
AFTER THE STORM→→The Sun Beam, owned by Arthur Pearson of Greenwich, Connecticut, and a house boat are piled up on the rocks in Long Island Sound, near Greenwich, by the tail of a hurricane which ürst ripped through Florida. The storm shifted north and blasted parts of Long Island and New York City with windy gusts that blow that close to 70 miles an hour.
HE FIGHTS 'EM OFF-While a delegate to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Golden Jubilee convention in Miami, Florida, Elwood J. Stokes, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had to protect himself with a billy Shirley Modell of Miami wanted to take a reading of Stokes' waistline, but he seems a little sensitive about ii.
FUN ÎN GERMANY-The niso-rans,beside her were not much competition to Helga Sonja Schroder, centre, winner of a beauty contest in Berlin. But her more up-to-date bathing suit may have had a lot to do with the judges' choice.
WAITING FOR THE BIG EVENT-Tally, a 30-year-old, 6,000-pound mama elephant, recently arrived in Thousand Oaks, California, from Bangkok, Siam, with her two-year-old daughter Mabel. Taffy's keepers guard her tenderly these days for she's expecting a new 275-pound child soon.
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USO BOY Checking Service
GOOD CHOICE Although starlet Dorothy Hart, in Hollywood, has been chosen "Miss National Home Week," It doesn't mean she can ́really build 'n' house, And her costume isn't exactly for that kind of work, either.
HAS HANDS FULL Romeo Pompeo arrives in New York from Italy with youngsters, Maria, ten, Conchetta, three, and eight-month-old Yola. His wife preceded him to Middle Village, New York, and Romeo had full charge of the children during the trip.
KITTEN RED TAPE Mrs Arnold Blair, wife of a U.S. Army major now, in
Kokohama: is bound up with red tape in New York, Elon trying to get her cát: sent over but she must certify that “Kittypló” is free from rabies, is in good
health and will have a home when it reaches JapanS
G. 1. SERVICE—The baby checking corter of a UBO service centre in Fayetteville, North Carolina, docs good business these days. Little Roger Westerling and Lone-month-old Kenneth Stiner" children of service parents, have themselves a time while their, mamas and papas do the family shopping or see a movie.
TOPSY" RVY-The driver of this truck walked away from
Memphis Arkansas, only slightly shaken up, but he was surprised to find him
self hend downward in the ditch.
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