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Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 12

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Alton, Illinois
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12
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PAGE TWELVE ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH I frEBRUAfcY 2, 1945 VOLLEYBALL CHURC H-nombod by (he Japs in 1942, ruins of this rhurrh on Funafuti!" tlic Ellice Islands ttre now, as a Rymnaslum by NATSjiersonnol. NATIVE ON GU ARD member of the Sudan Equa. lorlal Defense Force, composed entirely of native Africans, keeps watch at his Isolated post. The force patrols the length of the Abyssinian border country. AT BENEFIT- Actress Martha Scott wears an Adrian gown In white, with red and blue applique In a rope effect, at a benefit fashion show for the March of Dimes held at the hotel In New York City.

SHIPYARD GIANTS mammoth cranes, working as a team, lift into place a huge section of a ship at U. S. Steel's Federal shipyard at Kearny. N. J.

MARINES ON U. S. Marines bound for war fronts with full battle packs, ins from Camp Lejeune, N. nass women Marines marchine into the camp. CARRIERS A I I U.

S. destroyer pulls alongside one unit of a light carrier task force moving toward a battle mission somewhere In Uie.Paclfir- I T' A OS And it's a tossup whether Nadine Connor, Metropolitan Opera soprano, or Sue Lynn, her 10-montlis-oitl daughter, is getting a bigger kick out of this bit of byplay. LEARNING LAUNDRY TRAD men get training in the Navy's laundry school at Anacostla, D. CM preparatory to running at sea. SPHINX Leading woman Marjorie Browne of Sunderland, County Durham, one of many WAAFs serving in the Middle East, noses for amourist' snapshot injront.of the famous Sphinx.

4 SCRAPING AN AIRSTRI of a V. S. Navy coiislructiun battalion (Seabccs) work on an airstrip on Cniwctok, in the xruup of the central BEAUTY Janet Blair of the movies uses yhtte to tecr face for FIRST AI ROM YANK- Efner Davis, if, of N. serving In the i bandages the foot of smiling native somewhere U) the.

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