1949-10-04 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

SOME NERVE-Startled when a photographer snapped him while in the process of snoozing in the animal nursery at the Bronx Zoo, in New York, Sumaili just glared in annoyance, The new arrival from the Belgian Congo is 15 months old, and weighs 20 pounds.

MONEY BAG-Margaret Wallace's eyes pop out taking a glimpse at the world's most expensive handbag in New York. Worth $2,000, the palladium pocket- book is made of 14,000-pearls, a 20-carat diamond, and a 20-carat ruby,

EARLY HARVEST-Marking one of the earliest harvests on record in England, farm workers stack wheat high in readiness for threshing on the Abbleby Farm, in Bedford. With good crops, life in England may be less austers.

PRIZE WINNER-This work won first prize from among 5121 paintings by French artists entered in the Hallmark Art Award competition in Paris. - The Nativity sceno won U.S.$2,000 for Edoyard Georg," 56-year-old Australian-born Parisian artist.

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Five freight cars were derailed in Cincinnati,. Ohio, when one car split a switch and meandered off down a slding. No one was injured but to straighten out the maze of electric power lines is expected to cost several thousand dollars.

A BIT HELPS-Bonnie Green helps brother Russell cool off in Levit town, New York. Not much of a spray, but it's refreshing after a bicycle ride.

NARROW ESCAPE Just before this huge boulder was loosened by an uncontrolled car, in Indianapolis, Ind., these boys had been playing where the rock Landed. J. K. Wooden, five, and his friend Jon William Sutherland, four, right, look through the door the boulder smashed, missing the boys by a few seconds.

BOILING COLD-Dr Aaron Wexler drops solid chunks of

air, with a temperature of 340 degrees below zero, into a flash of liquid hellum In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Because the frozen air is "halter” than the liquld hellum, it causes the latter to "boll" and overflow the mouth of the flask in billows of foam.

JUST AN OL' HEN AT HEART-Nippy has adopted Although sho's a quartet of yellow-plumed chicks. never lald an egg in her life, she's just an ol' hen at heart as she dresses up in her favourite bonnet: She belongs to Rochelle Yamin, 11, of Denver, who received the unmothered chicks from a text-door neighbour.

SPRAY DAY Cover girl Louise Hyde's Man- hattan roof garden has attracted Japanese beetles, and who wouldn't be attracted to such a plensing display of feminine charm. Ono vacuum cleaner, spray gun, Insecticide Louise spell exit to the menace.

MAGNESIUM, IT WAS!-Ernie, left, and James Litz picked up a tube of strange. powder on a fishing trip. Two weeks later they tasted it, felt It and finally touched a match to it. It was highly inflammable, magnesium as they found out in Mt Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio,