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Show 7 -------SENTINEL'S WEEKLY FEATURE PAGE OF LATEST WORLD EVENT NEWS PICTURES -- - -- --- r·· Fighting Disease, Japs in Jungles of Burma ,......__..- - II /·. Allied Conferees Americans Advancing Across the v olturno ""' Burmese, Chinese, British, and native Naga coolies are battling side by side against disease Americans, and the .Japanese in the jungl~s of Burma. Left: Big Hawk, an expert in microscopic work, instructs Na Shaw, another Burmese purse, at the Seagrave hospital unit of the U. S. army. Right: Along a rugged north Burman trail, American-trained Chinese soldiers pull a field gun into position. Upper Inset: Corp. Rolf Top: United States Sec-retary of . Krog of St. .Joseph, 1\fo., and a Chinese soldier take time out to rest beside a jungle trail. This picture State Cordell Bull as he arrived in was taken in the Naga hills where the Chinese and American troops fought together against the .Japanese. Moscow to confer with Russia's forI eign commissar, Vyacheslav Molo0 0 I :ar:!i,s:n I pertaining to the war: I I I 1 ~~:·re~::; ~th::~ Rehabilitating Shocked, Orphaned war waifs !t :t~~;~ strong German defensive action, Allied forces pushed across the Volturno river in their steady' northward march over Italy. Top: American infantry troops tow themselves across the strategic river on a rubber pontoon. Bottom: A group of American soldiers pitch a steel pontoon bridge across the Volturno while a sentinel guards against snipers. Despite~ Hundreds Die Daily in India Famine ! I Mayor Edward .J. Kelly of Chi-1 cago cuts a ribbon in the central station of his city's new five-mile subway. A few minutes later trains were roaring through the $40,000,000 tubes which are being operated by Hundreds of English children whose parents have been killed and whose homes have been destroyed dur- the elevated lines. ing the war are being nourished back to health and guided in the ways of normal childhood at the Hanover Lodge Nursery in London. Some were so shocked by the noise and destruction of war that they may never recover. ·Left: One of England's "homeless generation" bravely salutes in her crib. Center: In the garden the children pose for the cameraman. Top right: This modest young man covers his face as he is photographed while being given a bath. The nursery was f~rmerly the home of a wealthy American girl. I 1 1• U B ta Ian Pin p oy Outdoor Doctor's Office in Alaska A dying Indian family is pictured on the streets of Calcutta where 250 persons perished daily in the worst famine to strike India for decades. This scene was typical of the condition in India as appeals were made for Allied assistance in the form of "mercy ships" bearing food. The famine was reported to have killed 25,000 in Bengal within four months. Fight 50 Jap Planes T£1£FACT (AVERAGE SIZE OF FARMl WHY U. S. WHEAT ACREAGE IS BEING INCREASED YEAR ENDING JUN£ 30 1933-40 (.O.VERAGEI Surrounded by primitive totem poles, Lieutenant (jg) R. W. Carr of the U. S. Public Health Service, assigned to the coast guard, conducts an ear examination in a village near Ketchikan, Alaska. Because the coast guard has no medical corps of its own, Public Health Service men assigned to it, can be found at its many battle posts. During a bombing miSSion over Hankow, China, these three gunners and their mates fought off' 50 Zeros. Left to right: Ser gt. Robert Kirk; Sergt. Arthur J. Benko, who downed four Jap planes; and Sergt. William .J. Novak, who downed eight. Family Adopts Orphaned Fawn 1944 Candidate? When a train killed a doe near Harriman Heights, N. 1:., recently, 1"Bambi," a tiny fawn, was orphaned, The family of young Elwood 1Lewis adopted her, fed her with a medicine dropper, but did not confine her. "Bambi," pictured above, lives in the woods near Elwood's home. She comes out each morning for :breakfast and again after school to romp with Elwood. __ . _ _ . _, L.....J....._.__1....._. 1 l .~- ~ ~ -- ---· ----- -~ ----- - . -~· -- ---- .. An Italian war prisoner hangs out his laundry "somewhere in America." Prisoners get clothing, good food and are paid for work. Officers are paid according to rank. In American camps prisoners get $3 a month whether they work or not. Jap Split-Toe Shoes This split-toe type of shoe, pictured on a dead Jap soldier in the Wendell Willkie, GOP presidential Solomons, is worn by those who, as nominee in the last election and a civilians, were accustomed to open current prospect for 1944, is pictured sandals fastened by a strap between speaking in St. Louis where he sugthe toes. gested stabilized world currency, l 1943 1944 IEST.I 1tmf'Q[J_~ Itfil I CONSUMPTION ·cARRYOVER rii·i i~ iii'iiiii ~iiiii· i~ Each symbol represenls 200 million bushels Submarines Named Shark and Bream • The twin submarines Shark and Bream were christened at the Electric Boat company, Groton, Conn., in the first double launching in the history of the company. They were sponsored by Mrs. Albert Thomas, wife of Congressman Thomas of Texas, and Mrs. W. G. Chapple~ wife of Commander Chapple, - ...... navy submarine officer, ______ |