THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONTE
HITTING THE SPOT—A reporter points to the south- east corner of the White House, in Washington, D. C., to show the spot that a mine delector picked out. The cornerstone, laid there in 1792, obviously included a
brass plate.
DOUBLE TROUBLE-When the steamer Andalucia ran aground near Neah Bay, Washington, she en- countered more trouble. A fire broke out, and the ship spilt in half. Here a salvage tug rides between the broken sections of the 7,000-ton vessel in an effort to remove lumber from the decks of the stricken ship.
CELEBRATION—To commemorate the murder of a Czech student in Prague by the Nazis in 1939, these students in London stage a parade, Almost 2,000 students, who originally protested against the murder, were sent to a concentration camp.
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FESTES FLETA BALT
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MUSIC LOVERS–Lining up outside the Metropolitan Opera House in New York for standing room at the opening performance of the season, this group has already waited all night. And they're prepared for another day of it until the box office opens and their patience is rewarded.
NEW GODFATHER-Author James Hilton had to rush home from a broadcast in Los Angeles to take
up his new role of godfather to six playful airedale pupples. Mother Molly Chips proudly feeds her brood as the godfather gets ncquainted with one of the new arrivals.
ALL SET-No matter what anyone says, they can never convince New Yorker Lee Gould, at Miami Beach, Florida, that winter is anything but cold, wherever it may be. She is prepared for # plunge in the Atlantic.
GIFT FOR PRINCE Sally Williams, aged eight, leads her five-month-old pony for a walk. In: Chipping Sodbury, England. Sally has offered the pony to Princess Elizabeth as a gift to young Prince Charles, who recently celebrated his first birthday.
GOING HOME-Peter Kien, four-year-old son of a Dutch executive at the United Nations, points to the address of an orphanage in Holland to which this crate of candy is being sent from New York. The lad and his sister Marja, aged alx, are dressed in native costume. Elsa Gross, Bronx member of the Open House Y-Toen Club of the YWCA, holds other packages to be wrapped,"
SANTA CAME EARLY-Tommy Pace, right, two- year-old leukaemia victim in Xenia, Ohio, had his Christmas party In November. Townsfolk joined to give the lad, who was not expected to live, until the end of the year, the sort of festivity that comes to more fortunate children.
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BIG DAY On the same day that the Baseball Writ Jackie Robinson of the Brookyn Dodgers as the most valua National League for 1949, his son Jackle, Jr., celebr his third
New York. It was a festive occasion in all res
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