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Show TIIE JO URN A I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931 RED ROAD TAX SNARLS TRAFFIC . . . Heavy freight trucks are stalled at the Helmstedt Marienborn crossing point in Berlin, tied up as a result of a road tax slapped on west German vehicles by the Communist-controlled east Berlin government. City transport officials estimated that the trucks are being held 30 25 to hours because of the latest Soviet zone harassment tactics. Recommendations for dealing up from with the Soviet tax have been forwarded to the allied high commission by Berlin's three western allied acting commandants. WINNER AT 16 . . . Maureen Connolly, 16, youngest tennis star to win national womens championship, clasps her hands in typical triumphant gesture at Forest Hills, N.Y. She left immediately for her home in San Diego, Calif. OBJECTION OVERRULED . . . Andy Seminick, Philadelphia Phils' catcher, goes into a huddle with Umpire Pinelli over Seminick's catch of a pop ball in a recent Giants-Phil- s match in New York. Pinelli ruled that the ball hit the foul screen and was not an out although it was caught. Seminick disagreed, causing this minor rhubarb, which looks like a slice of a peace conference or an armistice talk. KING AND QUEEN . . . John Clunies Ross, king of the Cocos islands, tropical paradise in London Indian ocean, church with his bride, former Miss Daphne Parkinson, after His family has their wedding. 1827. since Cocos ruled A portion of a wing and the tail is all PLANE CRASH LANDS that can be seen above water of this Pan American convair plane after it crash landed and sank in Kingston Harbor, Jamaica. All 33 persons aboard were rescued. Small rescue boats can be seen near the sinking plane. The plane, from Miami via Camaguey, Cuba, crashed less than a quarter of a mile from the airport at Kingston. The 33 persons were 29 passengers on the flight and the plane's crew of four. leaves PICKETS WERE PRESENT Hungarian ... Page S GREEKS HONOR VAN FLEET . . . With the unveiling of this statue Greece, General James A. Van Fleet becomes one to be immortalized in marble. This is a scene of men of the few living the unveiling ceremony. Standing at left is the mayor of Kastoria. At right is Lt. James A. Van Fleet, Jr., son of the general. The statue was erected in gratitude to Van Fleet for his faith in the Greek soldier and contribution in crushing the Communist revolt in Greece. at Kastoria, northern DAUGHTERS AT FILM PREMIERE . . . Miss Sarah Churchill (left), daughter of the former British prime minister, Winston Churchill, and Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of the President of the United States, pose for the camera in the lobby of a New York theater where they went to see the first showing of the moving picture, The Medium. FAMOUS THREE ALARM FIRE SWEEPS PIER . . . This is the general scene of confusion and din as fire fighters from Edgewater, N.J., go about blaze on a pier extending into the trying to extinguish a three-alarHudson river. The pier is next to the giant Ford Motor Companys assembly plant in Edgewater. Scene of the fire is pier A. The pier is owned by the Susquehanna railroad. At the time this picture was made, officials had reported no casualties from the conflagration. m pickets who have demonstrated against Russian officials since arrival, followed delegation to station, as it took train to Frisco. |