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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 6

PAYING LAS I ]’ TRIBUTE TO HENRY FORD.—Long lines of mourners stand in Greenfield Village, the monument that Heiiry Ford built to “the People’s America.” They are waiting to pay a last tribute to the man who made Detroit the industrial heart of the United States. The body of the founder of automobile mass production lay in state while thousands awaited outside to take .their turn to file past the bier for a last glimpse of the man who did so much in gearing America to the pitch.where it became such a mighty arsenal for the Allies. The building in the middle of the, picture is the Ford-built replica of Independence Hall, Philadelphia. ;

INDIANS PRAY FOR PEACE IN THEIR LAND.—Amid oriental splendour and pageantry, Hindu priests and pandits gathered at Bombay oil March 31 to observe the ancient sacrificial rites of Laksha-Chandi Yagna. Led by the Brahmin hierarchy, the ceremony was of special significance on the eve of the second meeting of the Constituent Assembly at New Delhi. The religious feeling of the assembly was directed towards the goal of divide inspiration in settling the differences between Hindu and Moslem tearing the newly-independ'ent nation.