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"Please" With Orders
may
are
United States Army discipline, overscan areas
requirement is designed to provide 弱 and morale reached the lowest hand saluting if they find - it possible pattern for the per- ebb during the post-war de- necessary for discipline.
manent training of American mobilisation, but now is 1203- (2) Increased pay on a slid- youth for alx months to be sup- questionably among the highest ing scale ranging from an adplemented by further training
urmies.į dillonal 60 per cent for privates in the National Guard and or in any of the world's The reasons for this are ab- to a 10 per cent incrense forganised reserves. vious,
generals, providing Π niore A proposal for this is now The American soldier is the secured economie life for those before Congress.
The principles 'learned H.K.'S ECONOMIC highest paid in the world. Even who choose he military career.
the lowly private receives $70 (3) Identical uniforms for en- that the country can have A monthly pay In addition to lving; listed men and officers except | better army by using
Kroater The Far Eastern Economic quarters, food and clothing, Pay for insignia, effective July 1, respect for the humaa righta
and privileges of entilated men. Conference which opens in Shang-ranges up to $247 monthly for 1948.
(4) More clubs for enter- United Press. hai in Monday is not expected to the top collated grade of master
enlisted men and arrive at any exciting conclusions. sergeant with 30 years' service. Intnment of
Adriftionally, rach man draws non-commissioned officers, Most interested govemments will
$50
al. monthly dependency
(5) Training for all officers be represented, but the task imlowance for his wife, $30 for to improve their leadership by mediately assigned is exploratory the first child and $20 for each, tenching tiem psychology and sather than that of producing, a milditional child.
respect for the rights of their plan for economie revival and re- The American soldier receives enlisted men. organisation in this part of the the finest food and since the world. The real decisions will be army has been reduced by de made
A later
are ample international mobilisation there
(7) Elimination of discrimina. gathering when the facts in he quarters available on most mili
bery posts.
tory references between officers gathered in Shanghai can
The last conscript soldier un-j and enlisted men and their xamined against the wider backder the drafs law was discharg families contained in official scroum presented by the generaled from the urmy early this army papers, world picture. Hong Kong's re month and service la once again) presentative in Shanghai will be 100 per cent valunteer. Drafters Mr. W. MI. Thomson, The Ditre who wanted to get out were the ut of Supplies, Trade and In- | cause of most the 'army's dia- dustry, an edvious choice since it
al
(6) Equality of treatment of enlisted men with officers by! military courts minṛtial.
Farley-- Roosevelt
RevelationTM
James A. Farley, whose un. President explained break with Roosevelt caused wide speculn. [tion in 1030, disclosed to-day he Say Please
་་་ never "token into the bosom" of the Etuosevelt family Other recommendations by the and that the rift in their friend. ciplinary troubles. There was a board included revision of Be ship went almost unnoticed until is freely recognised that if there flurry of vivillan resentment military justlee system to allow It was "unbridgeable," is any or persun whs has all the agattis army discipline right enlisted men to serve on courts Farley, National Democratic
the war ended, which mortial,', to provide facts at his finger-tips and is leafter
trained chairman and Postmaster Gen. to eru for. the first eight years of serving of the credit for Hong Secretary of War Robert Pat lawyers for all defendants,
a natural after-elimonte mandatory death or the New Deal administration, Kong's remarkable trade revival terson called
imprisonment penalty for rape said to his fest, series of articles siner the Liberinion, and for the math.
conviction, to forbil evercion of for Collier's Mogazine that the relative economic stability of thic
defendants to force confession break started as early as the Calinay in a shattered Pacific
and to permit the punishment of 1936 presidential campaign. ilu world, it is Mr. Thomson. From Mr.
offers by logs of their commis-safd a time came when He was alons and reduction to the ranks. as much in
democratic Roosevelt's political plans as the An even more
the Republicinn army organisation is being tried chairman out in the universal military Cmittee.
He added: At first this did training test
net disturb me. Whut. few peo.
and
i
i
Discipline
(1) Abolition of salating while off duty am away from army are
the daric
about
unit at Fort Cox. Kentucky. There commissioned and non-commissioned officers instructed to say "please" stallations while in the United when giving misted men an or States, Sollers #31 are required der while even better living com. to salute at all times in occupied fort and education ave providest teen me into the bosom of his
entries. Commanders in other for enlister
men. This experi-
Patterson appointed
al The days of the British Military vivilian board headed by retired Administration, when he landed] Air General James Doolittle to with HJ, MC, D), M. MacDou¦ suggest improvements in army all then Brigadier), as his De discipline. The changes that re par Chief Civil Alfais, Offices, sulled from the Doolittle Doard Mr. Thomson las taken a po recogumendations were: miorat part in all phases of policy making which have set Hon Kong on a strong case in the tralm of trade and industry, and have contributeil su importantly
wont to of indianion. f*x f「ie
le stead - downward curve over all price levels, When it was see that the Department of Sup phos, Trade and ledustry must be l retained as a vital feature of the existing adininistrative machine, his appointment sit Dievton was an instant first choice, and when his prestige gained him the battle in the initial conttuVOLSÁ Lover whether a Government dr
partment could be authorised to operste on a commercial foming. its practical usefulness was estab Fished. The Colony's position is not yet so secure that Mr. Thon son can easily be spared at this time. We are not yet out of the wood to the extent that his inti mate experience of the problems and level-headed approach to them can readily be dispensed with. Hi, however, has been a more than nonually strenuous job and the, furlough he is to take on the conclusion of the Shanghai cons ference has been richly earned.
New Technique In
Medical World
BIRTHDAY HONOURS
Moscow, June 12,
By combining her technique of cerebrospinal injections with the wonder drug, stretomycin, Lina Stern, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has discovered a cure for tuber-| culous-meningitis, once a cer- tain killer, it has been claimed.
100 Years
Ago Today
ngo
of
le realise is that the relation ship between Roosevelt and me was basically politleol, und sel dran social. Strange as it may see the President had ever
was more
fanity even though
everyone agreed 1
responsible than any other single man for his being to the White House
Farley said he was never in. vited to spend a night at the House and the only two cruises made on the Presidential yach! | were "politieni,”
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
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"Heads up now! I've known them deep sloopers to leap right out into the pit!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
DON'T RAISE A MINOR Raising your partner'a litor sult, if you are able to bid some other suit, is generally losing bridge--especially in a rubber game, or a total point duplicate, It makes no difference how well your hand to the minor your partner has bid. If you have some other gult of at least four cards, possessing probable No
Trump atoppers at ita Lop, the naming of that sult may be all your partit requirea to make a sound try for game in No Trumpa. Thus it helps you attempt a nine-trick game contract Inalead of having to reach out for an eleven-trick game in a minor.
пер
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ance Q975 commented "Franklin Tds J107 Misshard to relax with people who
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"This was simply not true ati the time,” he said.
Farley said
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or not
HEVO decided whether South would get a game.
Whore North raised the clube on the first round, and South then went to 3-Clubs, it would have been highly hazardous for North then to bid 3-Diamonds. If that bid did not prove the key for Bouth to allp into 3-No Trumps, It could have the effect of push- ing South beyond his depth in clubs, to the height of four. An developed, Bouth made exactly 3-Clubs, losing three in diamonds
one in spades, The declarer in 3-No Trampo had no trouble making his game against the spade lend: trick there, plue three in hearta and five in clubs, produced it for Him.
Note that North at this Labto did no stretching of ha
and
Опе
hind. His 1-Diamond did not raise the level at all. After South bid 1-No Trump. North had just about enough for a sound raine to two, and South could now try for game without undue opti- mism.
Tomorrow's Problem
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Poss 24
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Though this hand was played in a match-point pair duplicate. the Bidding points in 'It was sound #nough in any game. It would have bean still more important in
(Dealer: South. East-West vitë»- nerable.)
Who ought to open the bidding
ruhtwert bridge, in which I could' of this deal, if anyone? How?
petry and he liften wandered "On Steep Slope To
whether this unensy suspicion coloured my subsequent relations with the White House."
warns, however, that it is far to purge the Democratic Party of too early to make any predic- those who opposed his bill." tions along this line.
Farley added: "I belleve that The method is being applied down Inside he never forgave
Disaster"
London, June 12.
A call to the peoples of the world to forsake their fear of atomic power was made today by Mr. J. J. Lawson, former Secretary of State for War,
"The storm is over, but we are body of níen can give us anything on auccessfully here in treatment me for putting the party wel- still, governed by a fear of the ke an estimate of the real
for tomorrow we die" frome of
Less than a year ago Stern, who did her first research are not his social equals." For.. with R. Gautier in Switzerland tey muid "I took this remark to during the First World War, explain my being out of the began experimenting with in-infeld.” jeeting stretymycin into
the
The First Ripple gerebrospinal fluid through the. Farley said the first "ripple nape of the neck.
across the pond of our friend- In the months since, the lives ship" came in the
1036 com. of 30 children stricken by the paign when he shared in the dreaded meningitis have been tremendous ovation given Roose- saved.
velt an Oct. 14 in Chiengo. He Time is the important factor said the next day the President's in Miss Stern's method. The secretary came to him
"some- disease must be detected and what int case" to tell him treated within its second week-they thought it best" that there. If treated in the first part of after Farley should not appear on the third week life might be the platform with the President In her passage from Sydney, saved but prevention of para-as they belleved Farley was nurs N. S. Wales, the American ship lysis, blindness or deafness is ing Presidential nspirations for "Montank" has sustained her cult. After the 17th day of | 1940. reputation as one of the fastest the disease there is little hope Vessels afloat. She made the of effecting a permanent cure, trip from Sydney to here, mak; according to Miss Stern, Rather mure than its immediateing the passage in 32 days and
Too Early years hours. Some [ predecessors, the King's Birthday 14
She believes that the Honours List reflects, the tradi.M.S. "Vestal" made the run
in 35 days which was then said technique may lead to
He said he supported Roosevelt tional attitude of the Labotir to be the best on record between more important discoveries in in the Supreme Court reorganisa Party ruyards such distinctions the two ports.
the treatment and perhaps curo. tion fight, but "could not and did Jur merit in noteworthy fashion.
also by stretomycin injection,not go along with him at year In an exceptionally long list, only
tuberculosis itself: IRISH GALLANTRY... For
She later on a less disastrous attempt five of the appointments have chivalrous people-and are been made in reward for political they not chivalrous; the Irish services rendered. On the other have strange ideas to the em- hand, more
than one thousand ployment of their women. Tho workers and leaders Irish Felon" descanting
d. industrial war with England, finds this of encephalitis-or-inflammation fare above the personal allegiance storil. Mr. Lawson declared, material conditions of any nation have been
the of the brain, and even in cases he considered, his due."-United adding, that "the eat and drink, today. O.RE. or the M.B.E.. including Congenial employment for
of stomach ulcers and bron- Press. a 78-year-old miner who
still ladies.
mind was the sleep slope to per- "One thing is certain, that "Let them procure à number chin asthma, works in a Kentish colliery. At a of hoops, the larger the better. With her "brain injections":
sonal, national and international even the victors are sorely wound. time in Britain's history when three or four feet in diameter of potassium phosphate during
ed: It will take long years to disaster.
recover from these wounds." hard-work is the pre-requisite of if possible, but even those on the war, Miss Stern, working
New Orleans, June 12. Declaring that neither the Unit- national salvation, it gives rather common herring barrels would at the front, developed a five- Don Luis Laurentz, who re-ed States,
Russia; Britain. nor Mr. Lawson said that it was THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC. Mr. Attlee on the basis that be procured-still we say, get ed immediately out of the state the priest, has been judged in- describably in order to slay the grim years of war, or a nation the impression of an experiment do if the large ones could not-minute treatment for traumatic cently leaped the altar rail in France would go to war today, impossible to mobilize men who shock which brought the wound- Catholic church and stabbed having "suffered together in-had just been demobilized after Inbour may be aweetened by the the large ones if possible-the hors of additional rewards, but hoops should then be covered of serious depression that frasane by a lunacy commission. disturbers of peace and security," that has suffered deeply."
The victim of his attack re- Mr. Lawson said: doubtless the major part of the with hemp or tow loosely twist-quently caused death.
All of these methods have covered.-United Press.
"The pity is that no man or lodded.—Reuter, list is made up of individuals who ed round them, or even old cot-
original ton rags would do. (Linen stemmed from her gave of their best to the country should always be kept for the Swiss experiments with Gautier in the crisis of the war. years. Hospitals for the wounded.) thurt which the deco THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION That signal services during the Let them next procure a basin, that all substances injected in- war continue to exerche primary filled with oil or turpentine or to the blood make their way influence in the making of awasdi tar; but the turpontine is far into the cerebrospinal fluid. is shown by the Hong Kong list preferable: the hoop should
The Barrier Mr. Stanley Dodwell gains the then be placed in the basin and They discovered what thoy liigh honour of CB.E in returned until the tow is fully later named the "homatogneo-|
the turpen-phalic barrier." The problem cognition of his public services to Impregnated with Hong Kong, hut, more especially, tine. When thus prepared, the was to hurdle this barrier to the without surgery, of his strenuous efforts in Aus-hoop would be fit for the last reach. tralia during the war as Chair. operation-namely, netting, are central nervous system.
to it, and throwing,it horizon- Miss Stern came to the So- man of the Far East Welfare tally on the red coats, whose viet Union to continue her re- Conknitter, whose special care bayonets would very convenient-search under state subsidy. was the wires and children of ly serve to catch it, and thus Here she first began to develop Hong Kong internees and pti- allow it to pass over their necks the technique of reaching the soners-of-war. Two Chinese gain where it would do its business. central nervous system by in- the M.B.E, distinction for excep- The great advantage of large jecting medical preparations tional loyalty in service before hoops over small ones is quita directly into the cerebrospinal December, 1941, and after. The apparent, as the former would fluid. Her first practlení ap- two other awards are “promote fraternization between plication of the method was in similar plane. The Colony may encircling them."
two or more of the enemy, by traumatic shock treatment.
Using hor technique, numer possibly reflect that the list could Dr. Kitchener quotes an old ous Soviet research laboratories have been longer, but cannot feel recipe for roasting a other than satisfied that these alive; the "Irish Felon" makes treatment of other diseases with Hoose are now experimenting in the honours have been worthily and a part of female education to a variety of medicines.—Unit- deservedly bestowed.
learn to roast soldiers.
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