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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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THE CHINA MAIL.
World News In
News In Pictures
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
CUT
Nation's Tribute
to Taft.
PRICE
SALE.
Seeks New Altitude Record.
Blarado Tendis, test pilot for the Lockheed Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, beting his oxygṣr apparatus prior to his attempt to create a new world's record în altitude fay weighted 'planes, Ileadle will carry a nag barf",of 1,loft pounds under the supervision of Joseph Niko ofisial of the National Aeronnutić Absociation. Hendle hopes to attain a height of 31,000 feet to beat' the mark of 20,200 feet, entällished in Germany,
To Combat Psittacosis.
The flag-dated gasket containing the body of the former President and Chief Justice William floward Taft being birns to the flower-banked grave in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D., where dhomemade paki silent tribute as the casket was lowered to its last resting place. Three calves were fiend used the grave after which a hugler sounded taps.
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French Vineyards Ruined.
The partly submerged village of Languedoc during the recent disastrous food which resulted from the collapse of the great Torn River dam and swept over the Taulouse region, taking a toll of 172 lives anci causing great property damage. The heart of France's richest vineyard district was completely wiped out by the flood waters, which covered thousands of zeres and washed away the foundations of houten..
TAJMAHAL SILK STORE,
5, Wyndham St. Opp. China Minil
THE
BOOKBINDING.
NEWSPAPER
PRISE LTD.,
ENTER-
for Superior Binding
"China Mail" Offices,
SA, Wyndham Street, Tel. C.24.
BOOTS & SHOES.
Pair
Leather Sole Canvas Shoes...$ 4.50 Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes S 5.00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
THE HOT WEATHER IS COMING
SO ORDER NOW
YOUR SUMMER SUITS SILK SHIRTS
AND "PYJAMAS
AND KEEP COOL
AND COMFORTABLE
BROWN
2nd .. Rutton Bldg.,
7. Daddell St.
(opp. Cornel Hall).
Tel. C. 3050 Auto 23058,
Black or Brown Shoes from $0.00 HAIR DRESSERS & BOOKSELLERS Black or Brown Boots, frum ..$ 8.00
Children's Boots or Shoes from. $ 2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock
of all sizes, Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
21; Pottinger St. Phone G. 1474
DENTIST.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road) Central. Tel. C. No. 1265.
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERAA Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.
72, Queen's Road, Central, Tel.-C.9270:
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO, LTD,.
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs.
Call Fisg "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
HON MAN'
57, Des Voeux Rd., C.
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LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
Expert Barbers Moderate Charges
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair
Dressers & Booksellers.
No. 12, D'Aguilar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIAN.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL
CO.
'Phone 2285,
53, Queen's Road Central,
PRINTING.
THE NEWSPAPER
PRISE LTD., General and
ENTER-
Commercial
Printers, "China Mall
Qifices.
9A, Wyndham Streat, Tel. C.22.
Miss Beth Kilpatrick, 22, parrot fever re- search worker, contlaving her studies in the city laboratories. New York, to combat the, deend
disease, in spite of the fact that all the other.
women on the staff have been stricken while
tagaged in this research work.
To Take Record from Zep.
John Henry Mars New York business mun and world famous rlobe girdler, esated in the cockpit of a training plane at Central Airport, Camden N, where he is taking flying instructions. His purpose is, of course, the unswerving determination to get one more hold on the record for the around-the-world trip. In 1920, with Pilat Captain Charles B..Collyer, he used a plane for a major part of the globe-circling exploit in which he established a record of 28 days The record was shortlived, however, for the very next year the Grat Zeppelin made the trip in 21 days.
Great Concrete Bridge.
Work progressing on the Jack's Run bridge, which will be a link in the new Ohio River boulo- vard, running parallel to the Ohio River out of Pittsburgh. The bridge, which will be the largest con crete structure of its kind in the United States, will he 1,000 feet keng and will have a single span GO feet wide. The only larger concrete bridge in existence will be the one already standing in Ger
inany.
To Try Atlantic Hop.
|CANADA
UTE OF COSTES and BELLONTE PARIS
FRANCE
NEW YORK.
ATLANTIC OCEAN
AFRICA
Ineqiros Bullonte and Dieudonne Costes, noted French aviators, whose attemp to fly from Paris to New York failed
plan to make the attempt again the early Summer over the route indicated in the map (below) They hold the distance record, how-
ever, by their light from Paris to Siberia.
KASHMIR SILK STORE
for
EXCLUSIVE STOCKS
of
SILK
And
SILK GOODS
Opposite Queen's Theatre.
JUST RECEIVEDTM AND FOR SALE
Fine Assortment of. LOOSE - LEAF STAMP ALBUMS with spring back and patent stops from 32 to $22 each
GRACA & C
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Garden Seeds,
WYNDHAM STREET
PO. Tor No 120. HONG KONG
THE HONG KONG
$
DIRECTORY
Price $1.00
NOW ON
SALE
AT THE OFFICES OF THE
H.K. $ DIRECTORY CO.
"China Mail" Bldg., 3A, Wyndham Street, AND AT:-
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO. LTD. KOWLOON FERRY WHARF STORE. HONG KONG FERRY WHARF STORE. LOWER PEAK TRAM STATION STORE. EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE, D'Aguilar Street.
LEE YEE, D'Aguilar Street.
HUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. *
REFLEX CAMERAS with: 4.5-3.5 & 2.5 lenses KODAKS LOCAL VIEWS LANTERN SLIDES. ALWAYS IN STOCK.
EXTRA SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DEVELOPING PRINTING, ENLARGING
THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION
PHOTO SUPPLIES
74, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Telephone No. C. (2170)