HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1945-08-02, Page 3TO WASHNOTON7
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, above,
British ambassador to Moscow,
is considered a likely choice as
ambassador to Washington, should
the present envoy, the Earl
of Halifax, relinquish the post to
return to politics, as has been
reported.
VENUS IS HOME
An Allied soldier, one of the first
visitors to the Louvre after the
Paris museum reopened its door to
the public, gazes up at the statue of
Venus de Milo, back on its pedestal
after six years of exile. After long
interment in an excelsior -padded
trate, hidden in a vault. of 'a Valen-
cay chateau, only wartime "dam-
age" Venus suffered was a smudge
on her classic nose.
A TINY RADIO
Pretty Lola Dean here tunes her
new pocket radio which isn't much
larger than a cigarette case. It
weighs 12 ounces, is complete with
batteries and four tubes and has an
ear piece speaker of the hearing aid
type.
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A muskrat trapper spreads his day's rat muskrat "house” where he sets his traps
catch on the „ice before he takes it back and catches as many as five at a time,
to camp for skinning. Behind him is the then resets the traps for further catch.
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Rats are skinned the same day they are caught, pelts
are put on stretchers and hung up to dry, like young
'Maude Dionne and veteran Ben Nolt demonstrate here.
Dave Perry, veteran muskrat trapper, emerges from
his tent to chat with Game Guardian Norman McKenzie
who is on one of his regular tours of inspection.
FORCES SULKING NAZIS TO SALUTE
Members of the crew of the Qerman cruiser Leipzig didn't salute
when the barge of British Rdrairal Baillie-Grohman passed in
Kiel Harbor. So next day, Admiral Baillie-Grehman, sent to escort
the captured warship to England, ordered the German captain to
assemble the crew on deck, sailed his barge past and was paid
the proper honors as picturrd above. It was a disciplinary meas-
ure„ designed to bring home to the sulking crew a realization
of their defeat.
THESE MEN WILL RULE BERLIN
These fourenerals—Berlin's "kommandantur"- took over government of the bomb shattered capita.
of Germany. Left to right they are: Mal. -Gen. Floyd 10, Parka of t a U. 3, Col -Gen, Alexander 'V
Qxbadov of Russia, Malox.-Gest. 4 y of 141 t� S j, n, sofre Defleauchesne of
it«ica« The four *al route a� boat o tdii V'�!1P, gtiV to. 1 $ Omit i that opacity.
Commissioned by the Department of Mines the trapping grounds. Each unitconsists
and_. Resources, _ tractor_ _trains like this of a tractor and three .sleds. Usually it
carry leen mid GCjAlli211'G" "fi ii rife'rarro ; "zercv3r4 tha frill ;la ...i bi- rar +.cin .%p2ti7:4_
PRAYER BY CANDLELIGHT
In a tent chapel, somewhere in the Western Pacific;, Seabees bend their heads in prayer during a
holy communion service, All carry lighted candles, whose soft glow make the dramatic photograph
above.
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WORLD'S LARGEST FLYING BOAT
Big enough to transport eight jeeps at a time the huge "Hawaiian Mars," world's largest flying boat,
soars over Genn L. Martin seaplane base at Baltimore. The shiphas a wing span of 200 feet, weighs
Oval' i<'7, ton, and has x cruising range of 7.000 Mulles. It wt tts aervlce as a Navy transport.