prfafe Uuptxl Dan? f3cto3 Manday, August 1, 1949 EWIMTS y ys u y ULatsL: : ; ' , " f ' -.i ;.' - ' 7 ..- f v. Ci . J i m lu ' 4, - fi j '-- . 1 HUGS GET $75,000 IN OEMS IN DARING ROBBERY Wearing shoulder-length :ian-type hoods, two armed men robbed wholesale diamond and jewelry firms In an estimated $75,000 In gems. Wor king for six hours, the thugs drilled through u; blew ftM"her to pieces W. Relrn man, lft, bookkeeper for one of the jewelry 0ss to his firm alone was near $r,o,0 00. The thugs, after binding the night watch-I the safes Into the office, shown rl ht, where they sorted out the gems before mak- CREEK ROyAL COLTLE GODPARENTS It's a big day fur U.o infant granddaughter of General Van Fleet, head of trunU.S. army group in Greece. At her christening in the Athens Anglican Church, King Paul and Queen Frederica serve as her god-,-parents. Around the christening font during the ceremony are, left to right, the baby's mother and father, Lt.-Col. Edward K. McConnell, of Gtstonia, North Carolina; King Paul and Queen Frederica. BETTER HE SHOULD WIN QUIZ PROGRAM Not even enough to buy a "bone for his dog. That's what Jack Parkes of Ottawa says about the compulsory savings cheque he holds. Government returned him 11 cents. It cost 27 cents to get 'it. Never mind Jacfc, maybe with the tax reductions of Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, you'll be able to buy two bones for your dog' next year ; , ' ' ,4.4 t , '.,,. , i ' knHmamJtM . ' '' "" "aL- PARIS- Everything seems to be sweetness and light the "Bit; Four'" chit-chat gaily at a reception given ipn ministers at the Elysee palace in Paris by the Went. Left to right are Trench Foreign Mini.sU-rs iman; French President Vincent Auriol; Russian imiKsar Anilrie Vyshlnsky and the United Slates, i Suite Dean Acheson. I; l l iwit,;r i jr 'f - f ? -, , i '4., OPPOSING ITALIAN COLONY PLAN Hector McNeil, British minister of state, greets Dr. Verde De Sala, a member of the special delegation from the Council on African Affairs which made formal protest at Lake Success, N.Y., against proposed plan to partition Italy's former African colonies between Italian and British trusteeship. The delegation demanded limited trusteeship under the U.S. Trusteeship Council and then guaranteed Independence for the countries involved. i 1 WINS CANADIAN MILK PRODUCTION TITLE Almost smiling at you here is "Commander's Rose of Sharon," or just plain "Rosie,"' owned by Harry Stweart of St. Catherines, Ont She has something to smile about for she is champion cow in Canada. Winner of the Canadian Guernsey milk production title, Rosie's production was 21,004 lbs. - ' 1 1 mi i i jtiujjini mit ! hi li nn mi in ii i i j; i s'.-'Wi- : mnui mill i . "Wt ; r v ; -,5--:y?iV a - v.: , ?,.vr v , : - i ' . V- -4- J ' 'VI ' y if ' : A, , t - ; i M v l .ICS,, - ...Hi GANDER AT A SHEEPISH GOOSE There's a wild goose chase every day at the Livingstone, NJ farm of Bob Baer, who, for lack of a sheep dog, employs a wild gander named Flatfoot to lead his flock of Hampshire sheep in for feeding. Flatfoot, who flew in out of nowhere on the Baers three years ago, stays with the sheep constantly and as might be gathered from the ; picture has them behaving like lambs. At feeding time he leads the galloping sheep tqwairt . j the narrow gate into the barnyard, jumping aside just as they reach it. And when he s cooped. -up in a shed with his charges during bad weather, Flatfoot finds amusement by riding them; j around the enclosure. Baer and his wife have been assured that he's a wild gander, but the j AT ISRAEL'S "FRONT LINE" Touring the Holy UN WELCOME TO ISRAEL In significant United Nations moment, the new nation of Israel was voted into the International assemblage of nations at the General Assembly meeting in Flushing Meadows, New York. The vote was 37-12 with nine abstentions. f J the recent Arab-Jewish struggle. Franklin D. r .. sun of th elate U.S. president Is shown chatting id sentry at a frontline position In Jerusalem. only trace or wiianess leu in riauuub ia ma ic uai -- 3 . . ...l l (Ml-L:., I L. f 11 f f it .L&mtWiidJ.A knighted by King George ;V.- v t--Photo right, shows the Viek- - -ers Vimy biplane after Alcock , , toric flight through a fatal air crash in France; Navigator Brown last year, 1948. It took them nearly 16 hours to reach Europe today trans-Atlantic planes fly from Gan-dar to Shannon in seven-and-a-quarter hours. Photo, left, shows Capt. Sir John Alcock (left) and Lieut. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, two months after their historic trans-Atlantic flight. They wree both The British fliers had taken' off with an overload of 1,000 pounds', and shortly afterwards a technical defect put their radio out of action. At that time little was known of weather conditions In mid-Atlantic and they were sometimes forced to fly only 300 feet above the ocean. Both men have since died : Pilot Alcock on Dec. 18, 1919 only seven months after his his Thirty years ago this summer,- Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown climbed out of an airplane In which they had flown 1,880 miles non-stop from Newfoundland to Ireland. Flying through frozen sleet and "dense fog without modern de-icing and radar equipment, they had completed the first direct trans-Atlantic flight in a frail Vickers Vimy biplane. ! DROUGHT THRKAT RFPAMR RKAT.TTY With one- and Brown had landed in an Irish bog near Clifden in GaK . way. "We landed in the softest part of Ireland," said Al-cock. "The machine sank into It up to the axle and fell- over on her-nose." The historic airplane is now presery- , ed in London's South Kensington Science Museum. 1rmal fainfall recorded in Ontario the province recent- u "e to its worst droughts on ecod. Crops withered for ''sture. Industries In southern Ontario laid off staffs, '"on was partlallv or entirely storied. The dairy l,n here was possibly hardest hit as drought thinned