PACE 6-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
SOCIAL
WOMEN'S PAGE
£1000 Monthly HELEN VINSON SAYS
For Young Dodge Widow
Mrs. Annie Laurine Mc- Donald Dodge, who last year
WAS
Canadian telephone
girl earning £200 2 year. will receive at least £1000 a month as the widow of Danny Dodge. the heir to # motor fortune. ander an agreement reached at Pontiac (Michl- ran),
This amount may be increased if probate shows that the Dodge estate is larger than the present estimate of £280,000.
Mrs. Dodge's lawyers, who ask ed for an allowance of £8500 month tor their client, claim that the estate will amount to nearly £2,000,000. Mrs. Dodge is 19.
PERRY WAS "ANGRY”
Fred Perry, star British tennis player whó gave up his amateur status to provide for the future of himself and his pretty bride, film actress Helen Vinson, faced u"divorce sult by Miss Vinson and a demand for half of the money he saved from his salary as a pro- fessional.
Miss., Vinson fled her suit in Los Angeles, charged mental cruelty that began, she alleged. In July 1934. The couple married in 1935.
When Miss Vinson was seriously ill she said, Fred became "vio- ¡lently angry" and refused to allow her to return to New York to
be treated by her family physician.
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Perry was alleged to have used violent, difensive language on one occasion when they were discussing an interview for a radio contract. On another occasion he became enraged without provo- cation, alleged Miss Vinson, and refused to go with her to a din-
ner.
camp garage. Through curiosi- ty he put a match to the fuse in- tending to throw the explosive immediately into the waer. The Her husband fexplosien occurred first. was injured in a dynamite ex- Mr. Dodge, badly injured, was picston at their honeymoon camp placed in a motor launch to be on Mantoulin Island...
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WIFE SENTENCED
The Marchesa Godi d) Godio,
Miss Violet Kay, formerly. English woman, has been ordered doctor, Demented Rome to pay fines equivalent to he sprang from the £3,500 and is recommended for banishment to the penal islands, She was arrested in October on the charge of trying to smuggle lira notes to the value of £10,000 Qut of the country.
taken to
M Dodge found the dynamite by pain. with fuse attached lying in the motor launch and was drowned.
SATURDAY'S MENU
BREAKFAST
Sliced Bananas with Cream Cereal
Beef Hash Waffles and Honey Coffee
LUNCHEON
Onion Soup Crab Salad
Lamb Chops
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Little Peas Stewed Corn Mince Pies
Coffee
DINNER
Noodle Soup Potato Salad Assorted Cold Meats Vegetable Casserole Brown Bread Toast Fruit Cake and Tea
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1938.
SOLVE YOUR
GIFT PROBLEMS
HERE!
Here's a large and complete selection of seasonable gifts to help you to make up your Christmas list, Come in today and make your will be pleased at the large range of gifts
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selections which we have avail,ble.
For "Her":
Perfumes
Manicure Sets Cosmetics
Bath Salts
For "Him
Razors
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Shaving Sets Brush Sets Lighters
THE GRAND DISPENSARY. LTD
Sole Agents:
SCHMIDT & CO., LTD.
CARMENARAN LEGORPORATED IN CHINA
YORK BLDG. • HATER RD.• HONGKONG
NEWSETTES
Che Management
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels
Wish all Patrons and Friends
A
Merry X'mas
BRING YOUR KIDDIES TO PAY LAST
CALL OF THIS YEAR ON.
OLD SANTA
·TO-DAY" AT SINCERE'S
Let them ask the good old man what they want to fill their stockings this Christmas Eve!
Squadron Leader Warburton left
At the meeting of the Manuk
on a round trip, to Shanghai in Lodge, Theosophical Society on the m. v. Boissevain yesterday. Thursday, an extremely interesting talk on Hinduism was delivered
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Mr. and Mrs. R. Beardsworth by Mr. R. M. Deb, left for Shanghai yesterday in the s. s. Carthage..
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The European Y.M.C.A. panto- mime "Cinderella" will be repeated at 9 o'clock to-night.
i Of great interest to the social canine world in the Colony is the approaching blessed event. for Madame Gimlet Wilson. eldest "daughter" of the popular steam- ship executive, Mr. T. B. Wilson. Mr. Horace Kadoorle will leave Madame. who is confined to the Hongkong on Tuesday morning private sanitörlüm at the Hong- for London by Imperial Airways keng Jockey Club, is doing quite plane.
Capt. and Mrs. Walter Bosman returned to the Colony yesterday. They will be staying here for about i three months,
Mrs. A. Prince and Miss Vera Prince of Wm. Hunt & Co. left for a short visit to Shanghai in the Empress of Russia yesterday.
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The Police Dance will be held in the Peninsula Hotel from 9.15 p.m. to 2 a.m on Friday. January 6,
| Spot prizes will be awarded.
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On Thursday next, the Officers
of the H. M. 6. Medway will give
a cocktail party from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel.
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On Tuesday next, the R, E, O.
C. A. will hold a fancy dress party) in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel. Prizes will be awarded, and dancing will be until 2 a...
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Five cases of dysentery, cases each of diphtheria and en- teric fever and one case of mea- sles were reported to the health authorities on Thursday.
The regular air service between Tokyo and Nanking via Fukuoka and Shanghat, which was inaugur ated by the Japan Air Transport Company on October 8, was ex- tended to Hankow from December 15.
There will be a children's fancy dress party at the European YM. CA. from 3 to 6 pm, on Thursday, December 29, in ald of Chinese re- fugee children. There will be prizes for the best dressed children and for the most original costumes. Admission is $1.50. Including tea.
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The Navy, Army and Air Force Section are holding a Carnival Dance in the west lounge, of the European YMCA. at 8.30. o'clock; on the night of Monday, January 2 Admission is $1, which includes
MISS SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS refreshments. Ladles will be ad-
are here to add to their Christmas Cheer
AT SNOWHITELAND (Second Floor)
DO YOUR LAST MINUTE SHOPPING WITH CONVENIENCE
AT
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
Store open Hill II p.m. To-day,
mitted by invitation of the com ¡mittee.
Beginning from next year, the Kwangtung Provincial Department of Finance will lower the tariff of the province, so that the provincial populace may be somewhat com. pensated for their losses from the war. It has also been decided that hereafter the chief revenue will primarily be derived from imported forefën agricultural products.· ́ ́An Therease in the tox on articles of luxuries also under considera- |tfon
well considering the approaching event which is expected to take. place on or about January 9.
Leitz
For
Leica
"Maintaining Also-
SPECIALIST
LEICA SERVICE
FOR DEVELOPING, ENLARGING, ETC.
EUROPEAN EITERT
AT EVERY STAGE
ATTENTION 18, GIVEN.
Christmas
Gifts
THAT PLEASE
Handkerchiefs
are
best!
Our store will be opened till 9 p.m.
Shangbai Kerchief Store
MANUFACTURERS OF HAND MADE.
10B, Gloucester Bldg,
HANDKEF CHIEFS.
Telephone 20859.