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Show s ; . i ' I) H. - . w tt : : - , - - L: s-, ' ' -i 1. r? '' i, h S ' V ;. i - '. JYTs'3 . Ay plBlill UTIUN . n ilium. mho 6 f., tin1 cimiuIiC engineer "Plalo hip 11 hi Vvto and l.i utid bio action otort-r-f for new giuM'imi'l blTTING FOR PORI R AITS . . . One of the moat popular activities of the I'SO hospital program la sketching of patients portraits. I' SO ramp ahow artists are touring army, navy and vclrrana' hospitals both in this country and abroad. Here Norma Humphries of Louisville, Ky., sketches patients at Lawson ('.corral huspital. YET NO DISCHARGE BREAKS AIR SPEED RECORD . . . Lt. Km. J. Reilly, San Franc ioco. winner of feature race at the National air race held at Cleveland. He piloted Ills 0 Jc craft to an average apred of 571.36 mile an hour. Reilly la ahown receiving the trophy from Albert J. Weather-hea- d Jr. Many other rccorda fell during the postwar air ahow and racea. Cleveland plana to make thfa aig annual event. Ilundrcde of thousand visited Cleveland to watch the big racea. RIG FOUR AT PARIS CONFERENCE . . , During the Paris peace cenference, representatives ef the Big Four hold special sessions to determine policies. French Premier Gesrgrs Bldanlt serves an heat te representatives ef the United Slates, Banda and Great Britain. Sea. Tsm CennaUy, Bee. ef Stale James F. Byrnes and Sea. Arthur 1L Vaadenberg are shown at extrema right. 'Don't Let Them Down USO Pleads in Fund Drive WNU Features. Behind the rally NEW YORK. Dont Let cry of Keep It Up TTicm Down, USO is launching a nationwide campaign this fail for funds to carry through its services until the end of 1947. Intent on ful-- ; to the its rcsiwnsibilitics Oiling young Americans who won the war and lhoe wim arc winning the peace. USO has set a goal of 19 BOOST AIRPORT REVENUES million dollars in the current drive. Soaring air tralllc figures at s have ger-jammed Although the terminals throughthousands of American out the United Slates are cleared, spurring servicemen still will be overseas municipal elTorls to pull airports out throughout 1947. In addition to occu- uf debt by development of and naval forces, military pation concessions as well as inin creased will be stationed personnel to uirlines, accordrhurges such places as the Philiping to a roHirt of the American pines, Panama, Alaska, Hawaii, Munlf.i.a association. Newfoundland and the Antilles. Exon pin of current action aimed Thousands In Hospitals. On the home front. Uncle Sams at making airports centers instead of mere military and naval uniforms still dot community tile American scene while thousands air ili'i ots is the agreciiient made still belwieii the city of Chicago and operators of a new municipal air terminal restaurant now under connerd struction. Tiie restaurant concesarmy sionaire will pay Chicago 5 per cent and navy requested the organof gr..ss sales plus 4U per cent uf ization to continue Ita program net receipts us well as regular cafe for 1947. Prrsidrnt Truman has permits and license fees. given his unqualified endorseSuch concessions ment to the drive, urging that are the subject of increased inter"should the appeal have est to municipal airjmrt authorities prompt, generous and universal who expect postwar air trallic support." Major undertakings during the growth to boost uirpuil ujierating forthcoming year will be mainte- expenses to 5200, fVMl, Oik) annually nance of USO rluhs near camps and within the next decade. Increased .hospitals in the United Stabs, stu-- , rwrpiies from concessions and intion lounges and travelers aid serv- - creased landing fee revenues arc ices. USO clubs overseas and USO suggested as the principal means available to balance ait port budcamp shows in hospitals. Veterans to Assist. gets. that the American Reporting people have indicated Iluir rapport EXIT HIE Ill.OT An automatic of USO in its final campaign by t'.ight controller button" system ossified by in the fund- a "j volunteering to is raising work, the headquarters srrciiKlnry control devices Douglas Skymasters to campaign committee added that in and landings. many communities men who have make blind tukr-ull- s taken the campaign leadership are The new dcvelfjmirnt differs from veterans of tin war "who know the robot plane since the full auto. USO. are grateful and are determalic (light Is performed in a plane mined that it shall finish its job. without a mother rhip." It is posAlthough I'SO activities and sible with the automatic flight conobjectives havr changed with troller for a plane to take olf by the altering nerds of the armed irtishbutton" and reach a destina- forces, the basic ideal retion without further manipulation of mains the same that of proany controls. viding insofar as possible the The device regulates the plane's valui-of home la men railed altitude, sends the plane into glider upon to renounce home for the range and operates the Inmlmg sake of country. gear. When the (.lane touches the of war the During curly stages the throttle automatically when vast numbers wire in train- runway, cuts back and the brakes are d USO clubs flourished throughing automatically. out the country. As troops went Tiie nation's first air milk dc oversells, USO i xt ended its work liwry service will he inaugthrough camp shows which loured urated soun by the llawthnrn-Mrllud- y the Atlantic and Pacific war areas. dairy farm of Chicago. Lean to The dairy hopes to use refrigFurther fh xibditv was required rf erated planes to carry milk USO after the war with drafting from Wisconsin farms to its and enlistment of Emdairy at l.ihrrlyvflle, III., phasis in the USO program shifted whrre it is constructing a "milk from more mature activities to landing field. s those popular with When veterans hospitals began filling up with war casualties. USO altered its program to include recreational and other fervid g for those confined to l.n pi!ul wards. With the changing scene, many USO clubs have eliminated in O cities which no longer have servicemen stationed ni arby. Native Isons of tliine ciLis, however, still are in Uf .if .rrn and they are an.i-nthose whom I'SO is serving in remote locales. NEW AIRMAIL bTAMP . . . Theres still a big morale job to This Is the new llvr-oeairmail for the one ai.d a half million stamp struck to meet thr n who in be will ir.e in airmail postage rates throughout 1947, USO directors i n s , uud from right to five rents an num e. the org:inir:,t."ii to f,i!; It lieeonirs eflrelive Orpibrr 1. ro, its r.biigotinr.s 'jim: the end t.f 1j47, f i i.lral drsign of the stamp is a when it too will seek its "i.unor-abiminlern transport dischiiige." plane in flight. - , passen- battle-cloud- . . . Milton I.. MODEL WINNER Gadet, Cbfrago, who won the pial champion trophy at the model airplane meet held it Mchila, Kans. na-tb- far-ol- i" fa- - v'fcK rviV:y i & 'ft V v ... fuV ft- Kt 1 t : fiSs v ,.j- The nations twins at their TWINS ELECT TWIN'S PREXIES Grand Rapids. Mich., convention elected the Hick twins, Emory, left, of the association. and Ernest i Birmingham, Ala., Rrcciving the gavel from Chicago! twin policemen, Warren and Chester Donnan, right, who held the gavel as of the International Twins association for the past five years, the Birmingham twins dedicated their toward more and better twini In 1947. J - ww.wu'yw nor RELIEF! World War I M cur, Herbert Innr, as he railed for an stoppage of relief sup-6Is Yugoslavia. He termed Mi aatioai shooting down of le lacriran planes, d patitudr. "a poor token V ''4. .i i - s-j'-- y.- - j i u.-- iisi-ir- t iM ... No need for these students to wish that the school honso would THIS STRIKE MET WITH FAVOR burn down. The teacher ot Norwalk, Conn., went on strike. No teachers, no school. Vacation dsys can begin again. Here Rudy Baxa, custodian Norwalk Center Junior high school, tells the students to go home. Hone of contention for tha teachers Is that 590,112 he added to llie 513,000 school budget for pay raises for the 236 teachers. This is one slrike where those who are concerned are willing that It bo continued for some time. 4 ; s ap-jjii- Teen-Ager- U- - TO HONOR HERO ... A JsftBed little girl Is reading the wlytion on the bell whose toll-- I ill be a ringing memorial to hie Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the U. S. Marmy. it was presented to St. Eoismpal church, Beverly Mass, J1 F", ADVENTUROUS? GO CLIMB AN ALP! . . . But you wont have to go to Switzerland to do a spot of Alplneerlng. Mountaineers from all parts of the United States and Uanada do it in the Canadian Rockies, and they say the thrills are worth all the efforts. The Bugaboo glarler In the Purcell range of British Columbia It tougher than many Swiss Alps and unmatched In grandeur. Here Is MaJ. Rex Gibson, one of Canada's arc Alpinists, chopping footholds. s. teen-ager- bi-c- ; X PROPOSED FLAN'S FOR JEWISH ZONE . . . Some 1, 800 square miles in Palestine would be granted the Jews under a reported Amrri-ra- n compromise which Prrsidrnt Truman is believed to favsr and which has been favored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Thr new plan also would demand Jewish and Arab autonomy ia their rrspcctlv areas. Above at left Is the Palestinian division originally proposed cabinet committee and bached by Britain. At by Uie right is the approslmale divislnn under thr plan favored by tho Jewish Anglo-Americ- agency. MISS SHANGHAI . . . Not to be outdone by the selection of "Miss America 1916," Miss Wong Yung-Ma- i, poses in the approved manner after she was chosen "Miss at the contest Shanghai of 1916, staged in the Chinese city for relief funds. r gmggimj ri.uvtiHJi nt 1 I C7, t it ,VL y. f ftf" & Lwm-4- I . four-motor- e Wild Life at Capitol? NEW WASHINGTON. 2.ritKi.W0 ... JT r ' W'.'JjS DAVIS AND BLANCHARD AGAIN . . . The Army's tourhdown twins. Glen Davis, left, and "Doc Blanchard, demonstrate how they plan to shake the opposition during the coming football season. They were snapped during prartfre at the United States military academy, West Point. j the lu oihee Itri if urd the c'n- ncui g loi.r.cls, an expert from the d lift service determined in a ccr,v.i of wild animals on Capitol HdL The census taker was John Jones, rodent control technician. He immediately caned a council of war. buiid-capit- ZM Dl VICE V ns a m w safely device, det.-ri- r r" h;,s been f widm jo: d Instailcri on j n cou.n.oc.al a.rhrirrs. Ex-- I jS hau: lively liVrd. the new invcntii.n the "fault to are kr.rborrd Mid home JAP TRINCE Mrs. Gray Vlnlng, Ihilsdrt-(tche- r and author, who was tutor for Crown Kotaiahl Akihilo of Japan, elected by the U. 8. cpartmenL H.s Sl El raldrd Only In R.it Population & f in quickly iidicuti-imperfections in toe engine even before ordinary show tiny Traction. The small steel pin dcv:re consists of in a metal cylinder attached plac-- d to the battery of the plane and con-- 1 nretod with a warning bulb on the Instrument panel. s . . . Fleod of 10,006 veterans at Loa TERMINAL LEAVE SIGN-U- P Angeles office to obtain Uie first trrminal leave forms available In Koulhrrn California Is shown in abova photograph. Tills rush was typi-cof that to be found iu nearly every city in the United Stales. Thr forms were printed lorslly through special arrangement with the war department, and are Identical with those issued by the government. Bonds will be Issued tor amount of pay due. al ... Dr. WilATOM FOR TEACE liam L. Doyle, University of Chicago, measures out a tiny amount of radioactive carbon. First shipment from U. 8. atomio laboratory. Oak Ridge, Trnn..' b d Igerd for diseases experiments. |