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THE CHINA MAIE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1958.
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Bankers Change Their Ways
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WANTED KNOWN
DANISH
GLASSWARE—Altramive,
the
moncy makes bloodstream flow, ban- kers today find that they will have to revise their attitude to customers.
The banks have been bold a survey of enough to make what the public thinks about
them,
With Amazing Results
To win
of a Mill Lane, boss
bighly... unconventional bank in Atläntü, Georgia.
the goodhwB1 of the local farmers he sometimes lis the tanks lubby with sheep. To attract the attention of sports fans he appears at work dressed as a baseball player or in foot- bull clothes.
Now the bank are worried about public opinion of thead They find they are a lost refuge He often
wears
fic
favourite
uses on the
From
JOHN THOMPSON
In the US of the-customer-i-embroidered with his not-always-right attitude.
The survey shows that bank saying, "it's a wonderful world. the atmosphere, plus heat near
a greeting he depository think of the men telephone. must
ask Mr Lane it he behind the counter as "stuffed arts cul, aloof, lacking allows that abstutely unheard- friendliness.
But already in their usual swift American way of reacting to what the customer wants: The US bankers are changing their
ways.
Most dramatle of 45-your-old bank
-
them is a president.
inexpensive, practical, an:ple cholos NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Tlow avaliable at Duval Lid.. frone beceroy and gift shop. 33 Garden Road.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED
Consigneer per
CIE DER MESKAGERIES
MATUTIMES
E.. "MOONIE"
Schunk orgues that In this missile and rocket age the US must have "weapons of sublicty, discrimination, and persuasion."
He and his
Supporters FRX there is too much emphasis on mazive destruction as the best way of making war.
They consider more thought should be given to methods of creating chaos among the enemy on a limited front.
the bottle. And he applied the to The "bubble principle chamber."
ATEST child wonder here is nine-year-old mind-reader Michele Boston,
television, Now booked for her talent was discovered by ler One evening a dentist father.
into his mind-utland, Wasong came
at that minute Michele started to sing it.
of thing in American banks-- an uverdraft.
Phila. two Police raided delphia cinemas last week and conflecated
Franch coples of "Sex Kitten" Brigitte Bardol's "And Woman
film Crested."
Gas Bills
TAN who never pays coal or
MAN
Now Michele wil sing any song (of recent hits since she comes Into became nine) that another pernon's mind.
sho briswers Blindfolded
gas bills that is 57-year-questions about what anyone in old Roscoe Evans,
audience is doing at
He ha a private coal mine
her time.
and a natural gas well in the
are hereby notified that their earen back garden of his home i
will be charged into the long Kunk & Kowloon Whart & Godown C. Lid's godown where it will
gnees risk and mibject to the wharf terms and conditiutis I storage and where delivery may be putatised.
Datonged picksges are to be left in the godown for examinata by consignees and the goppany's sui- VTH. Mowers Croddard & Douglas at 10 am on Tuesday, 23th Febru-
WY, TUSH.
Sarah, Kentucky.
Hoscoo has turned down develop his scores of offers to mine.
MERICAN men-who always A boast that American women good can be relied on to have legs-have nothing but praise fashion. shorter skirts for the "Gee, that's great," they say.
The stocking manufacturers are boosting coloured stockings to go with the shorter skirts,
One firm has advertised that Another has
No claims will be admitted after the Roods Dave left the and sil goods remaining undeliver
11er the 25th February, 1938, witashion loves nylons tant echo be subject in rent.
Notice To Shareholders NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders of the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be held at the Registered Office of the Company
Fluor, (Second Telephone House, Des Voeux Hongkong), Road, Central,
Saturday, 15th March, 1958, at a... for the receiving the
Bf. Bourd Report the Directors together with the
Accounts for Hong Kong. 24th February, 1950, Statement of the year ended 31st Decem-
re-elect to and
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11
purpose
tsf of
ber, 1957.
Director Auditors.
Lo
All claims against the versi murt be presented to the imdenimed on or before the 17th March, 1958, or they may not be recognbed,
No Pre Innce will be effected.
CIE DES MEGRAGEWIES
MARITIMES Agents.
NOTICE TO
appoint
The Transfer Books of the
Company will be closed from the 1st March to 15th March, 1958, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, A. SOMMERFELT, Secretary.
CONSIGNEES:
"ATREUS"
Tamaged cargo ex iis vessel will
surveyed by Mesors, Goddard de tugas at Holt's Wharf from 19 February 27 and 25, 1538. requested to cor. Agnees are
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their representatives prezent during the survey.
DUTTERFIKLD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 22nd Feb., 1958. tum Kong. February 22, 1930.
CHANGE OF
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
JARDINE'S AIRWAYS DEPT.
announce that with effect from
Monday, February 24th certain of their office telephone numbers have been changed.
Callers wishing to contact our
your costume." been plugging for a "unt of a Unf" în stockings.
For a long while New York stocking men fell the business But now a standstill. was at prospects are brighter.
And this spring New Yorkers wit be looking at those famous American legs through rose- coloured stockings.
exam an
TV station here ran a 0,30 a.m. literature course. Viewern dat
end. at the
that Results but today show 10
cent should have The others In bad. stayed
with paraed
flying colours. the next But all agreed that
inter-at course should start 7 a.m.
Death Lure
LOLLIPOP and the offer of
the
A day off on your birthday? That is what the ftmen of for York have New
won themselves.
aro
in a city with so many high
buildings as this, the liftmen figures-especially Key with the boast of every New Yorker that this is a cl/ that never sleeps.”
Jonah
DESTAURANT owner
in
A soldier subject to giggle gas is hardly going to put up strong. resistance. A serious-minded Russian or a Chinese with itch- ng powder in his uniform will be of
a missile- Hittle use on launching platform.
Nolse generators would be used to give ou: irritating high- pitched shricks across no-man's- and chemical powders
soldiers would give enemy atom-age has foot.
When military expert Schenk is not busy with his new idea making war, he turns to his hobby-breeding butterflies.
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD! THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS
Stockholm, Feb. 24.
The Swedish Chiefs-of-Staff, after more than 50 years, have released the official story of the "War That Never Was" -how Sweden planned to invade "Norway in 1905.
019
to his death in September, The official history was pub- at an Army training field near Hshed in Stockholm at the be- Karlsbad. He bought some food last year,
The book also tells how the ginning of the month. It proved and started asking questions.
Ile rushed to be a real "apy thriller."
to the telegraph | Swedish High Command bought
of suff Lo spy office and sent a cable to the large quantities There was a Swedish
awits of the Chief of the Nor-keep up the men's morale, The disguised himself who hunter selling game and brought weglun General Staff. It said: officers found out that without defence The house is not sold yet,sauff the troops became restless news of Norway's plans. There was a Norwegian meaning that Sweden had not and moody.
The book says that Sweden giris, Army officer who walked bold-fully mobilised.
The lieutenant was arrested used as sples beautiful ly into a Swedish Army mess
secure to
information
on the same day There was no tourists, country peddlers, rald- Sweden's mobilisation.
firing squad for him, however. waymen, customs officials and He was expelled to Norway. Hivestock traders.
King
Unknown Prince
Hankou.
unit
Very Good
wns
to The Swedes were planning The spies were ordered to inke Kongsvinger, pushing post their messages
and only through the so-called Glommen use cables in cases of urgency. It began on June 7, 1905, Line. The Swedish Navy Was
her announced after Norway
a "commando to help intention of ending the union take the Norwegian base of
very Intelligence work with Swe:len and putting un Melsomvik, on the Oslo Fjord.
the good that bool sys
on both sids, since it unknown Danish prince on the Chrono of Norway--the
Inte Norwegian plans were entirely was well known in each coun- defensive in nature and did nostry what the other did through-
actions un The Swedish High Command call for any
the cut the crisis, Norway began reacled at once, Out of a Swedish side of the border, laying mines round Molsumvik as soon as Sweden began her dusty pigeonhole came a plan, drawn up in 1895, for the in-
plans for attacking the base. of Norway, Senior
The Swedish High Command vasion Swedish officers worked around
But the crisis ended in agreed that the war had to bo A man jumped 300 fect the clock for 19 days to bring negotiations between the Gov-finished quickly before the big from
window
Full dale. Fifth tho
1o plan up
powers had a chunce to inter- ernments which started in a
the Swedish Avenue and Ilved.
Df A huge mobilisation
the Swedish
Besides, on August venc. tense atmosphere
not equipped for nowdrift cushioned his fall, armed forces were called three 31, A day lator, Sweden called Army was winter war. weeks Inter, on July 17.
up 50,000 more men, and 13
Sweden has days later Norway mobilizest.
0
on
Segregation
BACK page of last week New York Herald Tribune is a the bigger talking-point than front page news.
explain to
New
The late King Gunday, then
Crown Prince of Sweden, was Pleked to tend #130,000-ma
force against expeditionary Norway. The Army and Navy Chiefs-of-Staff were to be his chief nides.
Cloak-and-dagger played ite in- organised part. Sweden
In London ofces telligence
The whole page had been taken as an advertisement by the State
"10 vi Louisiana the people of York City
the position of the und Copenhagen. Agents were Swedes sent to Norway and South on race relations."
The £1,000
advertisement already living there were pald was
cleverly timed
with the to be spies. threat of compulsory Integration in Louisiana coinciding with New York's teenage disorders.
Norway's Spies
Louisiana argues that Negroes
The first news of the Nor- and whites must be educated in
mobilisation - 76,000 wegian schools-many whale and separate
of the Norwegians were deployed-w varmint troubles in New York schools brought to the Defence Ministry
have been with Negro pupils.
forward.
The advertisement, regarded by Li Carl Sandles, who visited
friends coloured
Tather Americans American Negroes."
16
than
up:
03
21
workman,
15
Atlanta, Georgia, advertised that to any man named Jonah he would feed whale steaks tree. Is notice said: "On account of we have always hankered to see Jonah swaller a gl even with the big ....signed, Ole Tex." Jonah. Smith come
Fort disguised "soft seli" fur the the Fredriksen
as a hunter selling game, Now he is eating so many whale here
Ehot
restaurant Southern viewpoint, sums The stenks owner is beginning to regret he ever made the offer.
More than 75,000,000 people St 325,000,000 apent Valentine's carda In America 300 million this year. And cards were sent. Which means, lovea four true
to overy customer.
6withchboard girt contacted
at father
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, when she little boy ary on the phone: “1 Father pot want my Daddy." home in time to va his family of five who word un. conscious Inges-filled room.
on
heard a
10 cents lured pretty seven.MAN with a tape measure will year-old Kathleen Tegman to stand at the entrance of a death in New York.
New York amusement park decide who gots in en a child's
Coming home from school she met a pudgy-faced schoolboy in the entrance lobby of the 13- storey apartment block where her family lives in the Bronx.
The boy told her "I want a big strong girl to help me move a box on the roof." Entlood by the lollipop and the 10 cents. Kathleen trudged with the boy up to the roof. The block has no elevator.
When she reached the 100K Kathleen tek out of breath and Kot down to recover. The boy, 15-year-old Francis Medaille, grabbed Kathleen by the throat und choked her,
"Thon." he told police later.
under-12 ticket.
to
Now, after consulting doctors, it has been laid down that you gel in half-price only if you are shorter than 411. 8in.
turn-ups
to
fer
Detachabla different coloure
match your shoes or contrast with your suit is the latest idea in New York for man's trouers.
New Songs
the
PACE travel has given
Tin Pan Alley boys a new iden for a song.
Since the
US satellite
"I knocked her down, carried | Explorer, the spate of space and ter across to the roof parapet-noon dilties has spurted. Now and pushed her off."
Said Francis: why I did i"
over 300 such lyrics have been
3
I don't know copyrighted.
Samples: "Space Ship Boogle," British niesgirls are to be "Rockin' in the Orbit," "Take brought to the United States Me to the Moon, Mr Calhoun," to work in a Manhattan shop and "Let's Rock Tonight in which will soll British clothes Satellite." BOTTLE of beer inspired the A favourite
fast theme is development of a "bubble travel and fast girls, which chamber device which is help brings the lyric "But I got a ing scientists to learn
more rocket baby faster than the Asiatic lu, I got a rocket baby Dr
Alvarez, Luis W.
A red-hot style that's new, she can University of California physi- make more speed than Sputnik cist, sald
scientists had No. 2." observed thni
you take the cap off a bottle of beer, the beer boils,"
Bookings & Reservations Office about the alcm,
Alexandra House, Des Voeux Road
should now telephone
30371/4
and those wishing to speak to
The Manager, Airways Dept.
23233
that
One scientist, Dr Donald Gineser, found the bolling was caused by the beer being struck by a particle of matter from
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Arrested on a charge of falooly drawing rellot for 11 youra, 80-year-old New York Negro Joe Robinson has pink and blue Cadillac, job with a brawery, a seven-room
= £180 TV apartment,
sot.
and recently ressivia £1,000 car insurance.
JAZ
Negotiations
in- not been on valved in a war for 150 years, King Haakon remained his throne, reigning from 1905-Unlled Press.
Book Reviews
ELIXIR, GERMANY AND A NOVEL
schemes
the magazine reveals it as a superb
production, its colour the which hold the eye, the sciting of the copy, are lessons in the art of what Ane printing should
then
ELIXIR" is of journal
University "We In the South think of our At the gate of another fort, Hongkong
Lt Karl Stalhane Medical Society. Here, be Negro Akershus,
stood disguised as
The opening pages show some between sandwiched
fine advertising display, Norwegians counting the
some pages of advertise- follows a letter in both English Seminole Indian chlef Bllly they reported for service.
needs Osceola says his tribe
Norway's spies were at work.
Federal Minister of Foreign Icorn education "so they can
too. On June 27, a Norweglun ments, advertising medi. and German from the Geman civilan clothes cines which sound like Adates in which he speaks of to live and progross with the lieutenant in white man."
appeared in the soldier's mess the names of prehistoric the co-operation between Ger-
reptiles, is the literary wish to develop alongside Ger
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S. & PRINCESS: "And God Created Woman." Brigitte Bardot in a French picture of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bed-mate.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Legend Of The Lost." John Wayne, Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi search for treasure in the Sahara.
LEE & ASTOR: "Campbell's Kingdom." Dirk Bogarde in an outdoor drama set in the Canadian Rockies.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Gift Or Love." Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack in a sentimental journey which introduces » new child star, Evelyn Rudie.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Don't Go Near The Water," Glenn Ford and Gia Scala in a hilarious comedy. QUEEN'S: "The Blue Continent." "Sadler Trio." ORIENTAL & MAJESTIC: "The Enemy Below." Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens in a duel to the death at sea.
CAPITOL: "Eagle Squadron.”
RITZ: 20 Million Miles to Earth." Some more
science-fiction.
Audio A
Entert
id. Visual
inment
Donegan's Skiffle Group; 0.45, Story ||
many and the countries
man ecchomy.
Articles from the
which
of
fancy
only of not
pens industrialists medical the
depart-leading German
and economists are introduced from ment, but also
and the authoritive information certain 'guest' contribu- on such subjects as foreign in
ance, the problems of innncing tors.
Ger- exported products, and many's place in world economy
Unable to read graphs, we Dro, nevertheless, fascinated by is remarkable. the diagrung which illustrate The specialist will read of Hong- the training of specialists the rising birthrate
is
of
in
kong. Fascinating also the scientifle research by Professor with Interest, wholesale reference to deliveries Werner Richter and mortailties, reminiscent of as he will also view the port-
and the ano's student days,
rait of Sewa Singh Moun of
tho hearty gory effrontery
the construction engineer of medics."
Indian Iron and Steel Co. work- ing with the DAMAG in Duis-
the
History has crept into pages with an article about an burit. article called Louis Philippe, The magazine holds all Ger- but the fun really creeps inman industry In fee: It containa informative comprehensive with a bit of heavy guying by a "Observer." There Is Hittle at-report In concise detail. Anyone tempt to disguise the fact that who wants an up-to-date plc- the Inspiration of this beries ture of Germany's
established owed its origin to the recent pince In the world's economy is brush between n, local drama | recommended to this publica- critle and a locul players' com- tlon.-J.L. pany.
It makes amusing reading, but the satire is not offered on the point of a blade, it is knocked in with a size ten cudgel. How- ever, it is guaranteed to de- finte swelled heads,
Interspersed among the pages
of reading matter are some ex-
Garmany-published by the Federal Republic of Germany. Prico: U.S. $1.
You might have read
Donald MacKenzie's
cellent photographs of local "Fugitives” and “Gentle- scenes. These are reproduced by
courtesy of Mr Keith David. men at Crime" in which As a magazine, it is interest he told the story of his
I should imagine, to the
Ing.
specialist; Informative to the life in the underworld.
profession, and in parts amusing
to the layman. Personally, I
MacKenzie has now branch-
but after
a
think it trifle wimaginative, ed out into fiction, and that the department could reading "The Juryman" I do a lot better if they got down began to wonder how much was to the job-JL
fiction. Certainly there was
of truth-truth Elixir-published, by the smattering
derived from knowledge Hongkong University quired during his deprecations Medical Society. Price: among criminals in his former
Ilfc. $3.
The Juryman" is different from other books on crime. It deals with the chances of getting a man off by approaching London Juror who is vulnerable to blackinall.
JAZZ drummets can save their A Philadelphia energy.
RADIO HONGKONG enthusiast tus invented an auto-
5.30, "Not for Gquares: 0. Time of Jane Armitage: 7 Time Signal
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best known slow single beats or ot faster Gracie Fiside
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favour of the defendant as the corrupt juror Is entangled in
keeps hands and feet other Instrumenta in
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REDIFFUSION which la being considered by US Air Force chiefs.
Musical Matteo: Huy in the F, Cmany's workshops.
4 Down. 7.30, dycatures in Cook- Man belled the scheme is
Vocally in Conducted by ANLADI: 1.40y
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3.40, Calling Card (Chinese): 9, "able recovery from the war, that District Attorney; 9.50, Report From left her production centres
giance through the pages of this
America: 10, Avening To Nigos / heap of rubble. Everi a hasty
No page of this book can be missed by scanning, and the climax in the Old Balloy is un- usual and it's a fair assumptlook that the reader will be way out on his guessesOM.
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