Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 22

PICTURES DECATUR HERALD Tuesday, June 24, 1947. 22 Army Jet Bomber Makes First Flight; Syria Crash Survivors Reach U. S. i ff Vol 'J fe- A -f wC- -SS I 'f 'C-1 i- a NEW JET BOMBER AIRBORNE The Martin XB-48 as made by the six jet engines. Visible beneath the fuselage it took off from the Glenn L.

Martin Co. airport at Balti- is the bomber's special bicycle-type landing gear. Wheels more Sunday on its first test flight. The smoke trail is on wings are retractable. SYRIA CRASH SURVIVORS WELCOMED Jane Bray, Sunday from Istanbul.

Other survivors are, left to right, with crutch, stewardess of the Pan American World Air- Capt. Michael Graham, pilot; Charles J. Shohan, U. S. ways clipper Eclipse, which crashed in Syria, is greeted by State department; William Shaw, Bedford, England, and her sister, Anne Bray, as she and four other of the 22 sur- Anthony Volpe, purser.

Captain Graham, R.A.F. war pilot, vivors of the crash arrive at LaGuardia Field in New York crashed 10 times during the war. 1 1 r. -r- -vl 1 ai'ty- 4 i II BESS'S? 2 OFFICERS NAMED Officers of the National Associa- field, 111., president; C. C.

Horton, Montgomery, vice tin of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, named Sunday president; Joe Darwin, Baton Rouge, secretary treas-in Chicago, are, left to right, Homer G. Bradney, Spring- urer, and E. J. Neary, New York, judge advocate. HOME DUMPED IN IRRIGATION DITCH Four beet after their home had been blown into an irrigation ditch field workers swam to safety at Loomis.

Sunday by a tornado. The house came to rest as shown. 1 5- 4 Arm a tiM ffw I ,1 1 0 A rr, 'a FORMER DUCHESS MARRIES Mrs. lima Amelie Os borne, the former Duchess of Leeds, and her new husband. borne, tne tormer jjucness oi ieeas, ana ner new nusunnu.

I--1 ri i. i ii i rr r. on fi a VnA ai-o slmwn nffpr FLOOD WASHES OUT TRACKS The bridge. Sunday washed out the mam U-H I LAK LiAl-EiU rorn on UUIie anu Iiei Lyvm, lcuuio, ncigncu uuw niLuintj. i NTpw York terrific force of the water which hit Cam- line tracks of the Lurlington railroad.

A later they weigh 21 pounds. their marriage Saturday in New York 1946 in Chicago, Patricia Gottrich, left, pounds. year All Pictures on This Page From ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPROTOS i 0.