1950-02-02 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1950.

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OFF TO ITALY—This 210-horsepower, 11-lon snowplough is being loaded aboard the freighter Exirin in New York Harbour for the village of Capracolla, in Italy's Apennine Mountains. Reddents of Jersey City contributed US$20,000 for its purchase when the mayor of the Italian village wrote to the mayor of Jersey City and informed him of the community's critical need for such equipment.

SPRING IS COMING-Because the New York winter has been fairly mild, Helen Traubel, famous Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opern, is going over her collection of hats. If her anxiety is

barometer, 1950's Easter should be a warm one.

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RESULT OF CHRISTMAS-Because Santa Claus left a toy electric razor for Donnie Jo, aged 22 months, and a real one for his grandfather, Joseph F. Robertson, of Chicago, it has caused a daily struggle. Each now tries to see

the morning. who can get into the bathroom first in

HAPPY TO SEE THEM AGAIN-Romeo the elephant is trampeting a happy welcome to a crowd of visitors on the first day of the reopening of the Rome Zoo. When

broke out mysterious disease quadrupeds, killing some of them, the Zoo had to be closed for six months unth new arrivals filled the cages.

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NEW CITIZEN-Federal Judge Walter LaBuy, left, swears in Leif Wilhelm Henie as a U.S. citizen in Chicago, while movie and skating star Sonja Henie holds her brother's hand. Leif is also Sonja's manager. The Henies hail from Norway.

THE OLD IS NEW- Lovely starlet Joan Evans models this new evening gown in Holly- wood. But anyone who can remember the styles of the Roaring Twenties will recognise this as an adaptation of a style of those days.

BOUND FOR HIGH SCHOOL FORUM-Arriving from London at New York's Idlewild Airport are three delegates to a forum for high schools. Sabam Siagian, left, and Soesilo Sardadi, right, are from Indonesia, and Syed Adam Edward Hogan-Shaidall is from Malaya.

KIDS' PARADISE Gathering around this candy vendor on the Piazza Navona, in Rome, are Italian children who flocked to the square before Epiphany. Toys were also displayed to make the square

children's paradise for a few weeks.

SOME GAL When actress Ruth Romin went down to the beach at Santa Monica, California, for a swim, a photographer saw her,

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PRIZE POINTER Mr and Mrs Gerry, Achenbach of proud of their pointer, Napinka's Lil Sis The silv Achenbach was won as first prize in the annual trials of the Field Club Amateur Derby for pointers at Pinehurst, North Carolina,