1949-10-19 — Page 1

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

A FISHING DERBY-Mrs William McCaughey, in Newport, Rhode Island, takes time away from the kitchen to enter the local Chamber of Commerco's US.$1,500 Oshing derby. The pretty 25-year-old mother gets a lot of moral support from her three children.

KNOWS WHAT SHE'S DOING-A little birdie wasn't used by Suzanne Berger, five, when she wanted to take a picture of her baby. sister. As the youngsters arrive in New York from England with their, mother, Suzanne proves her

photographic know-how with a toy sailor that attracts attention.

IT'S DIFFERENT NOW--Now that ho's a movie producer in Hollywood, Jack Dempsey, behind wheel, shows Ellya Marshall, right, and Mickey Rooney some- thing about car racing. The Manassa Mauler is producing a picture starring Rooney in which the latter is a speed demon.

HE'S JOINING THEM-Pons, a cocker spaniel, was dejected for a short time la Now York when his owners left him with their neighbours and went on a-trip to Bermuda, But when they decided they wanted him, the pooch was put on a plane and was soon frisking happily around the island resort,

A CLOSE SHAVE-Elmer Littlejohn, 43, the driver, and his son-in-law, narrowly escaped death In San Francisco, California, when this freight car toppled onto their car as they drove past. Littlejohn was not hurt but the son-in-law received cuts on his fingers. It is believed a wheel collapsed on the freight car.

PILGRIMAGE-The relles of St Thomas a Becket aro ́¡ carried through Canterbury, England, during a pilgrimage of the Knights of St Columba. Thousands. of Roman Catholics from all over England participated in the procession along Penitential Mile to Canterbury Cathedral where St Thomas was martyred.

A NEW ROLE FOR HIM-Actor Joel McCrea takes time out between scenes of a new flm being made in Kanab, Utah, to be appointed as Deputy Sheriff of Kane County by Sheriff George Swampright. According to Swapp, McCrea is the first personality of the entertainment world to be so deputised.

NEW US. JET BOMBER-Known as the XB-51, the revolutionary new high-speed ground support bomber shown in Baltimore, Maryland, has three turbo-jet engines. Two of them are mounted on pylons on the lower side of the fuselage, and the third is in the rear of the fuselage.

GET NYLONS-Actress June Haver, in Holly. wood, poses in'a pair of allk stockings which were originally mado for Lillian Russell for a mero U.S.$1,700.

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