1950-01-09 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONTE

RECEIVES POSTHUMOUS AWARD—Mrs BI Odom. wife of the late flier, receives the Golden Teapot Award With her presented posthumously to her husband. two children, she poses before a picture of the global Aller taken in the cockpit of the famous “Waikiki Beech."

ARMY-STYLE UMIAK-The Umiak, adapted for modern needs from an Eskimo bout, is tested in the harbour at Marblehead, Massachusetts, by the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, Four wooden frume sections were assembled and covered

with a nylon skin to produce this 26-foot craft,

FILL HER UP-The dragline is casting clay around the double, multiple plate culvert at Rock Creek, near Keswick Dam, California. The pipes, 12 feet, two inches in diameter and 366 feet long, will rest at the bottom of a 60-foot hill and carry the track of a new railway line. The pipes are shored up inside, giving them an egg shape, but the settling earth will restore them to their original

shape.

EIRST OF ITS KIND-This American football game was played in Tokyo between the West Japan all-stars team and men of the US. 24th Infantry Division, What the the first of its kind in the Far East. lightweight Japanese lacked in height, they made up for by taking to the air with jump passes similar to

the sure above.

HONOURS LEGENDARY FIGURE-Sculptress Gra Ruch works on a model in Haarlem, Holland, of the legendary boy who saved his country by inserting his finger in a hole in the dyke, thus preventing floods. The finished statue, modelled after the sketch, will be set up on the Eye Polder, where the incident was supposed to have taken place,

MAKING A FUSS-AB actress June Havoc was saying goodbye to a kitten in Hollywood, the animal June 'was seemed reluctant to leavgits lovely owner. getting her pet ready to enter, in a cat show and she sent along plenty of provisions so the kitten wouldn't lack any material comforts.

COMING TO NEW HOME-Arriving in New York aboard the liner Batory are Mrs Alma Beshears and her three children. The wife of a saltor, Mrs Beshcara will join her husband in Dallas, Texas, after having lived in Australia where she met him during the war, They look happy at the prospect of seeing "daddy"

Tantalus

ON THEIR WAY-En route to Anchorage, Alaska, via the Panama Canal, the 46-foot schooner Tantalus stops In St Louis for supplies after an 11-day trip from St Paul The owner of the craft, Warren Christianson, 20, spent 6,000 man hours building it. The crew members, left to right, are: Dick Richards, Christianson, his wife, and William Keller.

VISITING Lovely Ava Gardner, visiting New York in connection with the opening of her Jatest picture, has had a Radio busy schedule. "broadcasts and personal appearances are important part of

vacation.

PARAPUP When Spot, the bulldog mascot of the U.S. 505th Second Battalion Combat Team, hears the command "Down!” he has a long way to go. Equipped with everything but paratrooper boots, he's getting ready to jump from a Fairchild C-82 with the rest of his buddles.