1949-10-13 — Page 3

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949.

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DOWN TO EARTH-At Camp Campbell, Kentucky, C-82 Flying Box Cars leave a trail of paratroopers during a demonstration by the U.S. 11th Airborne Division. About 1,000 troopers jumped in an exhibi- tlon for the reserve 100th Airborne Division.

START OF TROPHY-The start of the Harwood's Trophy Race around Manhattan Island is shown as 33

boats sped down the Hudson River. Leading the 20 finishers was George E. Sarant of Freeport, La who never raced the course before. Piloting his Gold Cup craft, Etin, at a record 64.4 m.p.h., Sarant circled Manhattan in 27 minutes and 14 seconds, breaking the old record. Guy Lombardo, who taught Sarant how to drive high speed hydroplanes, finished second,

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TOGETHER AGAIN --- Asta Tamm, an Estonian refuges who has been in the U.S. since 1948, hugs “Pip” which arrived in New York by plane from Ger- many. During the war the dog was with some rela- tives of the girl's in a slave labour camp, but they're sil reunited now.

VISITORS—Arriving in New York en route to the Protestant Episcopal Convention in San Francisco are, left to right, the Rt. Rev. Robert McNeil Boyd, Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe; the Rt. Rev. J. C. William Wand, Lord Bishop of London, and the Most Rev. John C. H. How, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway and Primus of Scotland.

RUSSIA'S "PEACE DAY" RALLY-Members of the Communist Youth Organisation wave their banners as they proceed to a rally in the Soviet sector of Berlin. More than 50,000 workers massed on the huge Babel Platz in a demonstration of "Peace Day.”

BEGINNER-Lovely Laura Elliott is just get- ting a good, start in pic- tures in Hollywood, but "she seems to have every- thing needed to become a great film favourite.

A HIT OFF THE FIELD-Joe DiMacoin of the New York Yankees makes a bit with Uttle Ann Ruther during a visit to the Medical Centre in Jersey City, New Jersey. He also sold tickets for a football game to benefit the Sister Kenny Institute.

NO COMPETITION--Modern deep freeze units mean nothing to Pedro Gomez who sells these live sca crabs in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ho delivers them from door to door, and it takes Pedro only two or three hours to sell the crabs It fakes him all day to catch,

FIGHT FOUR-ALARM FIRE Fire en battle the blaźd which races through a six-storey-building in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Flames were shooting almost 100 feet into the air and showered a wide area with embers.

SEE FOR THEMSELVES American cub scouts in Dhahran, Saudi Arabla, learn first hand about desert lite from tribesmen whoso ancestors roamed these sands, for thousands.

The boys are sons of oll company employees Ilving

over there.

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