... POPE PIUS CELEBRATES MASS IN THE BASILICA OF ST. PETER'S-- THE CEREMONY ENDING THE YEAR OF JUBILEE WHICH MARKED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PONTIFFS ORDINATION Left The Pope kneeling in prayer before the shrine of the Madonna, which was carried for the occasion into St. Peter's from the Church rof St. Mary Major. It was before this very same shrine that the Pope said his first Mass half-a ...

... HOW THE RESCUE KNIFE UN PLAY ITS PART IN FREEING TRAPPED PASSENGERS FROM AN AEROPLANE WRECK This equipment, which is being -tried out by the Melbourne Department of Works arid Housing, consists of an 8-ft.-hieh razor-edged steel SDearhead mounted on an armoured car chassis with a four- wheel drive. It is designed for use on airfields when an accident has occurred and aircraft wreckage has to ...

... NORWAY'S CHRISTMAS GIFT TO LONDON ARRIVES AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE The 57-ft.-high Norwegian spruce was brought from the freighter Brisk at Deptford by a lorry decorated with the flags of Norway and Great Britain. With it were several small parcels sent by the children of a school in Oslo. The tree had previously been inspected by an officer of the Forestry Commission, as the importation of certain ...

... THE VILLAGE OF FINGERS IN THE SPANISH MOUNTAINS Here at Cervera de Buitrago the inhabitants are known to have up to eighteen fingers each Almost everyone has at least six fingers per hand A HUSBAND AND WIFE WITH TWENTY-EIGHT FINGERS BETWEEN THEM The fingers on the man's left hand differ from those of the woman,, which appear to be joined together in several places THE MAYOR OF THE VILUGE ...

... HITLER TAKES THE SALUTE FROM THE BALCONY AS THE NAZI COHORTS MARCH PAST WITH TORCHLIGHTS Hitler (Georg Thomalla) in a scene from the musical comedy, I Was Hitler's Moustache, which has been drawing crowds to Berlin's Kabarett der Komiker. The skit deals with a postman, Christian Nothnagel, who has been chosen to play the part of Hitler in a film of the Fiihrer's life. He plays it so well that ...

... J t would be hard to say who proved the bigger attraction at the opening of the polar equip ment exhibition aboard Discovery Lieut.- Commander Peter Scott, son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, of Antarctic fame, or Mr. John Mills, the film actor, who played the title-role in the film Scott of the Antarctic. The Discovery which was presented to the Boy Scouts Association for training sea scouts, ...

... CAROLS FOR THE KING-- THE choristers of the royal parish CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, sandringham, who will sing before the royal family at the CHRISTMAS-DAY SERVICES The Rev. H. E. Anderson, Domestic Chaplain to the King, is leaving the vestry behind his choir. In the background gleams the Silver Altar The choristers of the Royal Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, on the King's Sandringham ...

... BRINGING IN THE BOAR'S HEAD WITH ANCIENT CEREMONY AT THE CUTLERS' HALL The Master of the Cutlers' Company, Mr. Leslie Gordon Welch, receives the Mustard Pot, which heads the procession, from the Page. The ceremony was the first of its kind to be held since 1938 at the Cutlers' Hall in Warwick Lane, E.C.4, and was attended by the Lord Mayor of London. The colourful ceremony culminated in the ...

... MOST of the presents from abroad sent to Premier Josef V. Stalin on his seventieth birthday were either symbolical or designed-- by order-- to be passed on to members of the Sovietised proletariat. An avalanche of pipes had otherwise been feared. But one foreign gift was particularly intended for Stalin's own keeping. In the Middle Ages there would be spontaneous tributes by distinguished ...

... lllllBillJrAi m 1 1 WiTi r^l B ji^OAf#Al B K%B HThe process of refining sorghum, grains and corn into starch, sugar and high-protein cattle feed has always involved the dangers of explosive grain dust and of sulphuric acid fumes. This had to be combated by systems of air purification, and in the new plant at Corpus Christi, in Texas, of the Corn Pro ducts Refining Company a new system has been ...

... THE ROYAL PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, SANDRINGHAM, WHERE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL ATTEND DIVINE SERVICE ON CHRISTMAS DAY The church contains numerous Royal memorials. The Duke of Clarence, eldest son of King Edward VII, died at Sandringham in 1892 Prince John, a son of King George V and Queen Mary, is commemorated in the churchyard. The church adjoins the grounds of the Hall ...

... J n the Law Society's recent annual report, a proposal was made for a review of certain northern Assize towns. It was suggested that civic business, now dealt with at Appleby, should be trans ferred to Kendal. Appleby, a tiny town, depends greatly on outside trade. The local authorities say that the Assize Court brings business there in many different forms that it would be a serious loss to ...