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Show i I). Lll W II.H... I.. ..L,.IM... .M - ' ' JjU)-Jlf!!-i r,'fi (i I 1 FRIGID TRAINING FLIGHT ... As part of the army air forces training program, Boeing B-29 superfortresses superfort-resses of the 28th bombardment group are pictured in a practice formation flight over the rugged Alaskan terrain background. Training flights have taken off with the mercury from 25 to 50 below zero as men and machines are put to the toughest tests ever encountered. j j r -:C-cxs .-':r' DOG RECEIVES TRANSFUSION . . . Chicago's dog blood bank chalked up another donor when Tess, a large dog with plenty of life-giving fluid to spare, willingly gave np a quart of blood to save the life of small unnamed cocker spaniel. Canine blood is not typed, enabling any dog to donate blood to another. .... j in n 1 1 j ii 111 1 Jm -i-i.i i i - fttriV m : 7 'itf 1 f0 v ' tf i "' f I , J iiMSZ ; iifiiiililBi iH i i m 1- - - 1 mniili Miiiii.iri.nnn- SHE KNOWS HER POTATOES . . . Miss Yvette Cagne, 18, Van Buren, Me., bas challenged Idaho and other potato producing states to exhibit ex-hibit lM'Uor Irish spuds than she is shown with at Pittsburgh. Perched atop a piic of potatoes at the Pittsburgh auction, Maine's potato blossom blos-som quoon acted as auctioneer. Proceeds were given to the Red Cross. Maine potato producers claim that they not only have the nation's best potatoes but the prettiest potato queen. J Y; 4,V-- Iff " J Ai r; bjJ U'w JSri g;VJBS. --Hi mm ( ,....,., HOW TO FEED FOUR AT A TIME . . . Mrs. Charles Henn, mother tt Baltimore's lusty young quadruplets, shown above taking her first lesson at the hospital nursery. Mrs. Henn said "it's fun," but she found she needed help to keep aU four going successfully without any wailing. The babies are growing splendidly, hospital officials said, ana are just about ready to go home , '''' !" 4 SALLY COMES HOME . . . Although Sally, 3-year-old doe, was given her freedom by Mrs. William H. Russell when she was two months old, the grateful deer returns regularly and makes herself her-self at home. Sally was found on the army's reservation at Pica-tinny Pica-tinny arsenal. Lake Denmark, N. J when she was two days old. Mrs. Russell, former Instructor for the seeing eye and director of the arsenal's K-9 patrol, raised the deer. Since then Sally bas mothered two fawns and expects another. She never brings her fawns into the bouse, leaving them in the yard. FRANCE'S YOUNGEST nERO . . . Classmates gather around Jean Thomas, 16, France's youngest underground resistance worker, after he had been awarded the War Cross. In 1943, Jean, onI 13, escaped from the German after being tortured. 1 far VrM MORALE BOOSTER . . . When a farmer in the Bavarian Alps loaned his horse and sled to Eileen O'Brien, Red Cross worker stationed at Bad Toll, Germany, she promptly invited a group of G.I.s to take a ride. They are shown taking off from the Red Cross ski lodge at Bad Tolz. Three thousand Red Cross workers remain overseas to aid with morale and welfare problems of occupation troops. ANNUAL APPEAL Red Cross Campaign Seeks Funds Ta Continue Wide Scope of Work WNU Features. With activities keyed to the times, the American Red Cross March 1 will begin a month's appeal for funds with which to operate in 1947-48. A has been set after careful calculations of Ked Cross needs. By proclamation of President Truman, March will be ob served as Red Cross month. T The 3,000 men and women still serving overseas with the Red Cross are helping with morale and welfare problems of members of the American armed forces in occupation occupa-tion zones. Four thousand more are serving the army and navy in this country, providing recreation, counsel coun-sel and assistance in service hospitals hos-pitals and other installations. In addition, thousands of men and women are giving Red Cross service as chapter executives, home service serv-ice directors and Red Cross staff workers In veterans' hospitals and regional offices. Another million and a half American women give volunteer vol-unteer services as canteen workers, motor corps drivers, nurse's aides, hospital and recreation workers, staff assistants, home service workers and production workers. Assist Veterans. All of the March goal and more will be used in the coming year for maintenance of present Red Cross services to the army and navy veterans, vet-erans, and the community, Basil O'Connor, national chairman, says. Through the war, through the emergency period and now in the first full peacetime year, the Red Cross has served the American people on an expanded scale, he continues. Now, although activities are being realigned according to needs of the armed forces and of veterans' and civilian services, serv-ices, the Red Cross is maintaining main-taining a full-scale program for 1947-48. Home service, the program of family service through which the Red Cross carries out In local communities com-munities a fivefold charter commission, commis-sion, will be needed on a greater scale than ever before, trends indicate. in-dicate. After World War I, this work continued to Increase for almost al-most three years. Then 4,749,000 were served. World War II armed forces totaled some 13 million men and women, and demands on Red Cross chapters are expected to be correspondingly higher. Services in army and navy hospitals, where the Red Cross lends a hand to troubled patients, will be continued, O'Connor says, as will services to veterans' hospitals through field directors, volunteer special services and community service to camps and hospitals. Aid Disaster Victims. During 1946, the Red Cross assisted as-sisted in 205 disasters in the United States and insular possessions, and is prepared to do an equal or larger job In 1947, Red Cross activities in the health and education fields also will be heavily emphasized during the year, the chairman adds. Home nursing, nutrition, first aid, water safety and accident prevention classes conducted conduct-ed by Red Cross chapters throughout through-out the nation will take their place in the return of each community to progressive peacetime living. Through the Junior Red Cross, America s elementary and hlgn school boys and girls will give service serv-ice to the community. "During the war and through the emergency period, the American people expressed and re-expressed their faith in the Red Cross through volunteer assistance and generous annual contributions," says Chairman Chair-man O'Connor. "I am confident that Americans everywhere again will show their confidence In the Red Cross during the March campaign." Grateful Pedestrian Rewards Bus Driver OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. - Be-cause Be-cause a pedestrian was grateful for a smile and wave of the hand, Lee N. Burke, Oklahoma City bus driver, has been enri$hed by $20. Burke stopped his biu and waved on the bewildered pedestrian, caught in traffic when the light changed. The man took the license number of the bus, then sent the money to the driver. fund goal of 60 million dollars Of AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Wintry blasts failed to ground ail enthusiasts in the northern tier of states. . . . When heavy snows blocked highways, Postman Ernest E. Larew resorted to a plane to drop mail : to six farm families on an Iowa City, Iowa, rural route. The small ski-equipped plane, piloted by R. W. Cochran, made the 30-mile trip in about 15 minutes. ... In far-away Massachusetts, East Coast Aviation corporation inaugurated weekend hops to the snow country. The "ski plane" leaves Hanover, Mass., and stops at Bedford before taking off for the MacArthur airport air-port at Manchester, Vt . . . A novel aviation get-together was the "frigid fun flight" held at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. A dinner drew 329 air enthusiasts enthu-siasts while 132 planes checked in at Cherryland airport for the event. Sturgeon Bay residents were amazed to find one small plane parked directly In front of a downtown hotel, tagged by the police po-lice department for overnight parking. park-ing. Although the whole affair was a gag, the community buzzed with the story that the flier couldn't find the airport late at night and landed on the main street. HOME FROM THE SKIES The home that Lt. Joseph C. Williams Wil-liams of Austin, Tex., had been hunting hunt-ing came to him from the skies like manna but with a lot more noise and excitement. It looked just like an army air forces' C-47 Skytrain transport plane until it landed flat on its belly at Bergstrom field, Austin. Then for a while It looked very much like a pile of junk. Now, thanks to Williams' pretty blonde wife, Glynn, it looks Just like a trailer home, complete with "Little "Lit-tle Joe," six months old. Mrs. Williams bought the fuselage after AAF had stripped it of all salvageable sal-vageable parts. Williams, with the occasional help of friends, cut away useless parts and modified the interior. in-terior. Mrs. Williams made Venetian blinds of aluminum, designed the rear porch and two folding love seats for it, helped line the interior with fiber board and contributed generally to converting some pilot's mistake into a home. NEW JET BOMBER . . . First official of-ficial view of the XB-46, experimental experiment-al four-jet bomber being built for army air forces by Consolidated Vultee. Powered by four turbojet engines located In two low-slung nacelles, the XB-46 has a length of 105 feet 9 Inches and a wlngspar of 113 feet. EXCHANGE CERTIFICATES All pilot certificates issued prior to July 1, 1945, will expire on July 1, T. P. Wright, administrator of civil aeronautics, announces. The certificates may be exchanged for new type certificates at any time prior to their expiration date. No red tape or written application is involved in-volved In the exchange. The pilot merely presents his old type certifl-t cate to a CAA inspector, who Issues; a new type certificate. The exchange can be made at a CAA office or during a CAA insDection trip. LOCOMOTIVES FOR CKINA . . . One of the 80 locomotives and tenders enroute to China under UNRRA auspices comes aboard the S3 Bcljcanne, specially built to carry completely erected locomotives. Present voyage of the Beljeanne will carry 47 of the tenders and locomotives. W ""is--- jf ' . ? . - 4 afcfa i ' " FROZEN CARS . . . After negotiating arctio weather during her voyage through the Baltic sea, ft steamer and her cargo of automobiles automo-biles and tractors were wrapped In Ice whon they arrived at Stockholm. Stock-holm. Some of the Ice-glazed cart are shown here on deck of the ship, Albano. juLiifl jwy i I mi 1 " in "r II ill inn I V ''iVWAA 't V"- I s--" 1 'i u -At J h r I ' -?h 'm X vr v - K -4 al i -j j y it ii i 1 ii mMXim i i ii 1 1 ii i ft ffiiflrrTirjMJJ'J OPEN THE DRAWER. FRANCES . . . For more than four years, Mrs. Frances Krynkki, Wyandotte, Mich., has been breaking Into other people's desks and getting paid for it. Except for "hairpin" experiences, locks and keys were a mystery to her in 1942 when she answered the call for war workers at the Willow Run bomber plant. Now an expert, she does all the lock picking for Kaiscr-Frazer in the world's largest automobile plant under one roof. She picks 30 locks each day, ;. BOX SCOUTS SNOWBOUND IN OHIO . . . These boys were snowbound snow-bound near Chardon, Ohio, the pleasant way. They were with 48 other Boy Scouts when caught on a midwinter camping trip by a sudden heavy snowstorm. An army snowplow chewed Its way through drifted highways to rescue the boys, who bad been made warm and snug by farmers near the scout reservation. PROTEST CONSCRIPTION ... Protesting proposed peacetime conscription, group of men picketed the White House and burned draft cards. Many were conscientious bjeeiori whe served prison sentences. '.'!JU..JJ,.M.W.J. "J Ljy.ll , h Ml,,.., CATCHES SHUTTLE THIEF . . . Yvonne Solo, 10, daughter of Maj. Gerald C. Solo, Jacksonville, Fla., with her German shepherd dog which aided her In the captor of a German shuttle thief. , 4 S mm v ACROSS AMERICA IN ONE. HOUR . . . Dr. Donald H. Andrews, Johns Hopkins nnlversity, Baltimore, Balti-more, who claims that within SO years it will be possible to cross America In one hour by way of airtight underground tunnel, with atomic power. HEAVTWEIGHT CHAMPION . . . Baby Toney Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Christine, Oakland, Calif., who weighs 43 pounds at the age of HH months and boasts that she may be , America's biggest baby for that ripe old age. TRIPPI rVVADINQ BASKETBALL BASKET-BALL . . . Charley Trippi, Georgia ail-American football star, whe recently signed to play with Chicago Chi-cago Cardinals, has invaded the professional basketball field. mm .inwwii nji,DuwmnMJi))'i"i.iiiinwiuiiw ' r """ 1 r ' t i J " ' A - |
