1949-10-17 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

ON A VISIT This picture, taken in Albany, New York, shows the British War Sloop, Snipe, as it prepares to dock. The Snipe became the first British warship

to navigate the Hudson River past West Point. ·

LIKE THE OLD DAYS Dancers perform in Ueberlingen, Germany, before The dance, visitors from Austria, Switzerland and southern Germany. performed every 10 years, commemorates the city's herole defence against

Swedish troops back in 1634.

IT HELPS-W. D. Davis, in Chicago, Illinois, uses the plaster head of a patient in a cancer experiment. A 25 million volt betatron, more elective than X-ray machines, is used in treatments and the head can indicate where the internal effect will help most.

NEW ARRIVALS Little Ivana Obst, Aye, is not much impressed by Ivan Purman's scout uniform, but she does like his guitar. The tot and the 17-year-old boy arrived in New York from Czechoslovakia, but have gone to live in separate cities.

LUCKY GIRL-After a good look at Ellye Mar- shall, Ken Murray signed her right up for his Broadway show. Murray reversed the general order because he took her away from Holly- wood,

JET ENGINE DISPLAYED-By means of this jet engine, internal operation of the J-47-turbojet which powers the American Air Force's largest and fastest jet planes is demonstrated publicly in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first time. The engine is cut away to show the movements of its internal parts, but its perform ance never has been disclosed except in general terms,

BIG WHEELS-Dwarfing men'and automobile, the huge tires (above), will be used to carry oll derricks from finished wells to new drilling locations in the oil fields of Arabia. Each of the tires, largest ever built commercially, is 9% feet in diameter, weighs 3,646 pounds and can carry a load of 55,200 pounds,

MEMORIAL QUILT—Although she had begun this quilt when her son was lost in the sinking of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Lexington, Mrs Nathan Jaques, of Norwalk, California, made up her mind then to finish It In tribute. It contains 75,385 squares of material.

TWO DIED-Two boys were burned to death in this house in Wausau, Wisconsin, while their parents and several firemen watched helplessly, unable to enter the faming building. The victims were Joseph Kortbelo, Jr., three, and his brother, Clinton, 14 months, both of whom were asleep when the fire started. Their mother had gone next door to visit her mother-in-law,

THEY'LL BE THERE - Now that autumn is here, Cindy Holler, In Trenton, New Jersey, poses with one of the exhibits in her State's fair. He is Billy, a blue ribbon goat, and his owner hopes he'll garner a prize or two when the fair opens.