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Show SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1951 THE JOURNAL Page 3 fwmmm BLACK MARKET WORKERS . . . Pickets tour Berlin streets carrying signs proclaiming against black workers, people who draw unemployment benefits from the government and then take work on the side from firms without payment of taxes and insurance rates. The workers are preferred by many firms to regular employees because they will work for lower wages. According to officials, about 30 per cent of all hairdressers, tailors, plumbers and construction workers' jobs are taken over by the black workers. The city loses large amounts because of the tax evasion involved. PROTEST HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL . . . Funnyman Bob Hope cavorts with Marilyn Maxwell in a performance of what he hopes is the Lambeth Walk at a party in his honor at Ciro's Club, London, after he opened at Prince of Wales theater. STARVATION . . . Victims of India's grain famine are this The infants father and child. limbs are terribly swollen from undernourishment. The father is half blind from same cause. Millions of Indians face starvation this summer. FADE AWAY . , TERROR IN TIIE NIGIIT . . . This photograph, taken by Milwaukee Sentinel photographer Frank Riemer, Jr., won second prize in the First Fire Foto of the Year contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers Assn, and the National Fire Protection Assn. Not only did Riemer take this prize photograph, but he directed firemen to the rescue of five persons trapped in second floor of this smoke-fille- d apartment building. Prize money was $75. ... A combat medic serving with American MERCY IN THE FIELD forces somewhere in Korea administers a merciful sedative to a badly wounded infantryman shortly after he was hit by an enemy sniper concealed somewhere on the battlefield. Note the bullet wound in the American soldiers back. This incident took place during the enemys big offensive on Seoul before General Van Fleet decided that the allies would make a stand before the city. MINELAYERS BOMBED . . . Corsair fighter from U.S.S. Bataan has just swept in low over this harbor in Korea and released a napalm bomb which has exploded and engulfed two Chinese Communist minelayers in a fountain of flame. This scene gives graphic evidence of the low level that the fighters operate on in their bombing and strafThese fighters are always prowling low through North ing runs. Korean skies looking for possible targets for destruction. NEW COMMANDER INSPECTS MPS . . . Earl D. Johnson (civilian dress), assistant secretary of the army, and Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway (wearing fatigues) inspect the MP platoon of the G.II.Q. reserve corps following their arrival at Matsushima, Japan, air force base to begin their tour of inspection of the corps. General Ridgway is wearing the usual fatigues, but his dress is lacking the usual hand grenade. Little people from the Emerald Isle has come to amuse Pamela Howard. The maglo is done by George Andre Martin, French puppeteer, whose novel act with the dancing puppets is one of the features of the Embassy Club, London. He makes the leprechaun dance by clever manipulation of the fingers. After seeing his act, one shouldnt be hard to convince that the little people actually exist. LADY AND LEPRECHAUN . . . One of the Front row big brass leads applause as Gen. MacArthur leaves following speech to joint congress. Son, Arthur, is at right. |