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WOMEN'S PAGE
SOCIAL
MORE WOMEN TO WORK THREE WEDDINGS DUTCH COMMUNITY
IN GERMANY
The number of manual and office workers employ- ed in Old Reich, Sudetenland and the Protectorate in- creased in June 1939 by 1,620,000 by a comparison with May, 1939, and by 1,300,000 by a comparison with June last year, this number showing the extent to which the increase of production in Germany cón- tinues.
At the end of June 1939, į million Marks to 18.880 there were altogether 21,840,- Marks as against
16.888
million million
AT REGISTRY
The following weddings took
CELEBRATE BIRTH
place at the Registry, Supreme OF PRINCESS IRÈNE
1 WOMAN HAS R.A. HONOUR
A slim woman, with glasses. and fair, greytag, hate drawn. back into a bun, has painted" the picture of the year-the. Nativity in the setting of an infirmary waril.
Court, yesterday. Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, Members of Hongkong's Nether
lands community last night joined thirty-five, of Tynemouth, Nor- The artist, Misa Louisa Hodgson, officiated.
Mr. Chen Yung-ling, professor or in celebrating the birth of HRH thumberland, provided the sur-
000 persons gainfully emplov-Marks at the same date in 1938. Miss To Fung-ling, teacher, residtlemen, comprising the local Dutch suit. stands holding a
"ed in Old Reich. 14,800,000 Likewise the state
being men, 7,000,000 women.
pre-
that
It's characteristic of the valling shortage of workers the number of women employed in June increased by 88.000 where- as that of the men rose by only 74.000.
Official Report
In the official report announc- ing these facts it is pointed that in June a further
of the
labour market led to an In- crease of consumption. Figures for published on Friday show example that German con- sumption of sugar had in- creased extraordinarily parti- 'cularly in the Old Relch but also in Austria and the Sude- tenland.
ing at No. 312, Hennessy Road;
Engineer. residing at St. John's rincess Irene, second daughter of prise of this year's Royal Academy. Hall, and Miss Kal T1-hua, B. Alands. At a inner party, followed central event of Christianity in the Crown Princess of the Nether-
She has daringly dressed the of National Tsing Hua University of Peiping;
by a dance, last night in the Roof Mr. Chan Cheong-shing. clerk Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, Child reat in an iron-framed bed: every-day form. Mother and. of the Luan Foog Hung, Ltd., and some afty or sixty ladies and gen Joseph, a workman, in his best community, had an exceptionally heavy-booted labourers kneel in shawl: Mr. Wong Chan-pong, residing enjoyable evening.
adoration: and an old shepherd, at No. 14. Johnston Road, and Congratulatory speeches were fresh from the fields, leans prayer- Miss Lau Foong-heung. of No. 7.given by Dr. Van Woerten, the fully upon a stan. Beneath the Sharp Street East,
Dutch Consul-General, and Mr. bed are a bowler hat, Van der Laan, manager of the carrier, and 4. toy lamb in a local branch of the Netherlands cardboard box, Trading Co.
Last year Miss Hodgson ex- biblted at the Academy a picture of a classical subject in an every- day setting. For "The Birth of
1938/39. October to June, in the Greater Reich rose to 15 million double, hundred weights while consumption 1913 the consumption in the Old
Reich
in-Relch
12.8 million 2 million hundred
weights and In -1933 com 13
million double
a paper
the crew of a Yarmouth drifter
double HONGKONG SCHOOL Venus" she then chose to show hundred CERTIFICATE EXAM. Anding in their catch a plump
sen-
In June 1939, the out of sugar in the Old Increuse creased by 31.8 to of the number of persons employ-double hundred weights by "ed could only be effected by re:parison with the consumption of weights while this year, cruiting persons who had
pre-1.5 million tons in June 1938 - present rate continues, the
If the
Venus listening through a The name of Chan Kal-fun, "of shell to the sea. viously worked of their own aceclusive. of the 29.25% increase insumption will reach
con- St. Joseph's College (Pass) count, persons drawing pensions Austria to 2.12 million tons
The execution of "Nativity" is and double hundred weights.
millioh omitted from the list of successful so good that it has been hung in or living on investments and by of the increase i the Sudeten-
candidates in the Hongkong School the centre of Gallery Three, where engaging large numbers of women land to 2.19 million tons.
Despite this phenomenal con-Certificate Examination forwarded the president's hitherto not gainfully employed
sumption in the increase, experts of the Hongkong Education Dept. hangs..
picture usually anywhere,
declare that the German sugar
No relaxation of the tension on the labour market is regis- tered, the shortage of laboux having rather increased than diminished. Particularly acute is the shortage in agriculture. building trades and
working industries.
metal
Garnering nt, May harvest could -only be Anished in time by db- taining the old t men of the Labour Service,
Sugar Consumption
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The sugar consumption of 'the production covers more than the mrst nine months DI the year demand.
NEWSETTES
Mr. and Mrs. E. E Parsons, of
soldiers of the Mr. P. D. Crawley, Superinten- conscript army. volunteers, mem-dent. Stamp Omce, will receive Shanghai, were among the arrivals bers of National Socialist
on the in the Empress of Russia yester- and by granting leave to
day. trial workers,
Savings Banks
Party congratulations to-day indus-occasion of his birthday,
Mr. D. G. E. Middelburg, Vice-
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New, bank-notes, somewhat dif- This unprecedented situation on; Consul for the Netherlands, referent in colour from the old ones, the labour market has led to turned to Hongkong yesterday in of the 10-cent and 20-cent denom further increase in the savings the Empress or Russia.
inations have been issued by the Farmers Bank of China, and are |now in circulation,
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tanks deposits. The balance sheet of the savings banks of the old Mr. D. A. Berino of the US. Reich dated 30th June. 1939, Steel Products Co. and his wife published on Friday.
The shows an arrived here yesterday in the Em-| increase of the deposits since press of Russia,
the end of March., 1939. by 295
Dr. T. G. Ling and Dr. 8. F. Ling were among the passengers arriving here yesterday in the
Russia:
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new Glen Line vessel. Glenochy, sistership of the 8.5. Breconshire, which recently pro- ceeded on her maiden voyage, will be launched from the Taikoo Dock- yards at 10 am on Thursday.
August 17.
News has been received of the Council of St. Andrew's Church "The Andrian" reports that the birth of a daughter to Mrs. has appointed McGregor, wife of Mr. Ian McGre to make recommendations
sub-committee for gor, of Messrs. Caldbeck McGregor beautifying
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Wei Tsu-chi, a native of Tunglü village, in Langhsien, West A fine of $5 was imposed on Kwangsl, recently escorted his son, Leung Shun, 50, married woman, a deserter from the Chinese Army, by Mr, T. J. Houston at the Cen- to the District Government, asking tra! Court yesterday, on a charge that he be sent back to the front of failing to report possession of a to Aght the Japanese.
ward. Insp. Fraser, of the S.C.A.. prosecuted
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FASHION'S CREATEST PROBLEM SOLVED
Hedy Lamarr has solved one of fashion's greatest problems. Is it smarter to wear a hat tipped over the eyes? Or over the nose? Or on the back of the head? Questions which have baffled women from time im- memorial..
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But now Miss Lamarr solves all three questions by the simple process of eliminating the hat. Miss Lamarr does not go
The turbans designed for the bareheaded. That would be star in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's too obviously avoiding the "Lady Of The Tropics" have won issue. Instead, she. carries her heart to such an extent that her hat in strips of material she has ordered duplicates made and winds them around her up for her own wardrobe. head in whatever manner she wishes at the moment.
FRIDAY'S
MENU
BREAKFAST
Sliced Oranges Cereal Kipper Herring
Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON
Carrot Soup Stuffed Tomato Salad
Chilled Crabs Lemon Sauce 'Artichokes Potato Souffle
Kwan Kin, 58, was remanded for 48 hours, when he appeared be-
A 17-year-old European girl, |fore Mr. R. Edwards, at the Central Miss Edna Mary Cashin, daughter
Court yesterday, charzed
of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cashin, who wounding with intent to main and are at present in England, suc- disable, and wounding Kwan Hiu. Cumbed on July 28 at the Gen- Ginger Cake and Chocolate Sauce A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. on August 8. at No. 2. Connaught eral Hospital, Singapore to WHOLESALE DEPT. TEL 3125Road West, third floor.
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St. Andrew's Club wili bathing picnics on Saturdays, August 12 and 19. at 3 pm.. and on Saturday, August 26, et 8.15 p.m. A moonlight excursion, con- fined ta, members only, will be held on Monday, August 28, at 8.30
Nearly two hundred members of the Chinese Coffee-Shop Employees Association in
Penang, Straits" Bettlements, were present on July. 29 at the special general meeting! of the club to adopt a resolution in the matter of shorter working hours for coffee-shop assistants.
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DINNER
Tomato Juice Cocktail Red Cabbage Balad
Fish Steaks Tartar Sauce Hashed Potatoes Lima Beans Stewed. Corn Banana Fritters Coffee
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Yards of silk wound tightly CREME NAIL POLISH around the head and caught with a jewelled clip over the forehead solves the hat problem. It is be! coming to all types. The thin fact is made broader by a turbari wound low over the forehead and wide at the sides. The too-round face gains beauty by the silk tightly bound at the ears and piled high on, the, forehead.
Miss Lamarr Arst drapes the ends of some in a modified wimple before pinning them at the crown. Others are, replicas of the turbans worn by the Indo-China native girls:
Particularly beautiful is the star's black velvet, close fitting with coronet of antique silver balls. Another is of purple velvet. the inaterial criss- crossed in emerald Jewels and falling to the shoulders in a wimple before being caught at the peak with a hammered bras ornament.
Men Approve Not only do men approve of the turban, but they are, a boon to women. The men like them for dancing dates -no, squirming and dodging sharp hat corners and the women are thankful that at last a hat fashion has come which allows them to keep hats on during a theatre performance.
What woman doesn't resent taking her hat off and ruining a perfectly good permanent wave?
Miss Lamarr not only wears the exotic, formal type, but has grown so fond of the turban that she converts two yards of course net into a tennis turban.
Beveral students Intending to
Eight Hata Tried pursue higher studies in Britain
For one sequence alone, the were among the passengers' who left, Penang by the P. & O. liner Her final choice in the scene is the actress tries on at least eight-hatz "Malaya has nothing to
"Chitral" on July 29. They include fear: Her defences now are
same hat she wore when she walks Miss Lim Phalk Lin, second into the store. And it is the hat enormous- ly stronger than was
daughter of Mr. and Lim Cheng she chooses for her own wardrobe. the cise four years ago. I have
Ean, who is studying, medicine, It is of heavy white crepe, twisted seen Penang's fortifcations
Miss Mercy Badak, niece of Mrk. A.into two bands and wound around and am impressed by them," said Major-
Grand, of Penang, and two Colony the head, Turkish fashion. An General W.G.8. Dobble. General Queen's Scholars, Messrs. Lim Kok immense cabochon of emeralds Officer Commanding the Troops, Aun and Lee Lian Chye. Malaya, in a farewell press - terview before leaving Malaya on July 29.
Joins the bands high over the right temple.
Originality la displayed in the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek embroidery and Jewelled. clips has given special powers to Gen. worn with these turbans. Pearls Mr. O. B. Raven, formerly of Wang Taan-hau, Gen. Liu Wen and gold thread enhance a St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, hut and Mr. Wu Ting-chang, white velvet turban: gold coins was recently elected People's Governors of Szechwan, Bixong tinkle on a. magenta crepe Warden for the parish of Shriven- and Kwelchow. respectively. In another is looped through twin ham, Berks. His daughter, Joyce oplum suppression in their pro-bracelets of hammered silver. Mary, has become engaged to vinces. The three Governors were Here at last is a hat fashion Dr. Edward Nicholson, son of Mr empowered to command the troops which draws neither the sneers of 3.8. Nicholson, CB CBE and stationed in their provinces to ar the men, the sighs of the women, Mrs. Nicholson, of Caterham. Test opium hoarders and traffickers nor the disinterest of the fashion Surrey. Miss Raven was former and to pimishi magistrates for in- designer. ly a pupil at the Central British emciency in oplum School.
work,
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Wow!
It
To me too!
sounds good
to me!
Let's run
for it.
SEE PAGE FOR PARTICULARS.
suppression
But it does draw the approval
of Hedy Lamarr