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Do. (Lon. Eng) ***. £8) Chartered Banka isi 2302 Marcanilla Bka. “AV 21st Marcaalile ks, "0"
Bank of East Asia .....
N. C. & B. Banka
lararaness
1218 Canton Insurances ......
$455 Union Insurance ... $450
$100. Fire -
$1340 £83
£84
£304
£19
$74
BO at
$218
$487
85 ct. Underwriters
70 cta
3370
Bhipping
$120 Douglas
$120
#113
(Prat.)
$100
$120
60/41
$11 Stansbondu
$100 Indo-Chine
$80 Indo-China (Dut.)...
59/40 Shella
$6.00 | Wstarbosis
Docks. Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
THE BATTLE OF
MILLIONS
Money talks· louder than guns in wartime. In the cash argument the British "Com- monwealth of Nations out. shouts Hitler's Reich without the ̈sid of a single Ally.
NET INCOME
FINANCE & GENERAL
AMERICA'S FIRST LADY
HAS A BUSY WEEK
S
FAR-QARTING ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAS IN CALIFORNIA RECENTLY. "I SEE NO BRA SON FOR OUR ENTERING THE WAR—AS " YET.“ SHE SAID IN LOS ANGELES. "HOW UN- NECESSARY," SHE WROTE (IN MY DAY) OF A HEADLINED DEMAND THAT HER HUSBAND GIVE AN IRONCLAD PLEDGE OF PEACE
Interviewed about Tbird Term, she said: “My own personal opinion and not as the wife of a Président-is that except là' extraordinary circumstances, we should stick to our tradition
She lectured. She stayed at: Son Jimmy's Beverly Hills apartment, regretfully record- ed that he WAS away (on
movie business),
6
have never believed that The Grapes of Wrath was exaggerated," sald Eleanor Roosevelt,
In San Francisco, Mrs. Roosevelt confrmed reports that she 15 about to join radio's cliffhangers
and coffers it had
Net. national income of the United Kingdom is put at £5,609,- 000,000 the £8,500,000,000, which poured into Germany's -including, the territories seized and terrorised.
These estimates were issued recently by the Royal pastitute of International Affairs ("Chatham House") which carries out Ita sober but enlightening activities
Accustomed to. big air-liners, she new in a small four-passenger) plane from Los Angeles to centrai California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, there had the biggest day ut a big week.
OKIES AT HOME In company with Cinemactors Helen
and Melvyn Gahagan
soap oper 25. In radio pariance, eliffhangers are dramas. devoted largely to the perils of Pauline, who is frequently hang- ing from a cliff or its theatrical equivalent when a day's install- ment ends.
·Soap operas are milder thrillers,
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940, --PAGE
PABST
BLUE RIBBON BEER
from headquarters in swagger St. Douglas, she saw Okies at home: designed primarily to entertain Around the World, it's Pabst Blue Ribbon.
$8.90 James's Square,
$95
E.K. & K. Wharves
06.
$3
Providen
$3
Providæm... (Dew)_....
820
H.K. Docks C. RTS...
$19
318
H.K. Docks X. Rta.... $17
$17
$4.60
do Rts.
$44/4.60
$33) Shanghal Docks".
8271
Mining
18,61
Kailacı
*19/8
89.85 Rauba
$9.90
11
$4 $34
Venezuela Golà, Fide
6 cts, Hong Kong Minas ...
Lands, Hotels and
Buildings
$4.33 B.E. Botala........... $3 H.K. Landa.......... $10 Do. 4% Debesis.
$11.70 Shangba Lands
$4.90) B.K. Esition
88 Humphreya
$204) Chinee Estate
Cotton Milla
'haf Cottons (15.)
$7.75 $8
Wing On Textile (8.)
$42 Ewo (6) $910
Zoong Jings (8.)
Public Utilities
$16
*ན
Tramways
$16
$8
Punk Treme (old) an
34
Park Trina. (new)
860 Star Farrie
$60
$22.85 F'mati' Ferriss
$6.85
Do. China
38:20
(0)
$43
360
$59
***
China Lights Rta. B.K. Electron
$21.10 Macao Mantrion......
8
Bandakan Lights.....
$26 Talephones()
$10.20
Табербовни
Trackices.****
Industria's
Trackiona (prof.) „n
$14.30 Cald, sog." (Ord.) B
$5 Ropes
8201 Dairy Farm.....
Dairy Farm.
Ch. E'tainmatrie
Constructions
$59
:
war coats of
2
WAR-COSTS "Contributions to King George's daughter-nations Including Egypt and the Colonial Empire are estimated to reach not less than £625,000.000
year. Canada, Australa and New Zealand are arming expeditionary $100 forces very largely from their own resources, and about, 50 percent of $4.20 the equipment of Indian troops, except aeroplanes and motors, comes from its own factories.
$37)
$10
$120
$291
hands.
planned "
$2
housewives Eleanor Roosevelt in overalled migran: "farmers, their of the overseas countries, India wives and children in poor Sunday her seventh paid radio job will has the greatest income, £1.- best,
but she dangle from In squatters' camps by
no cliffs. 480.000.000, Canada comes
next roadsides, private camps on Bigbroadcast for a soap company at with £960.000.000 Australia draws farms. U. S. Government camps an hour when the air is loaded £651,000,000, South Africa £360- and a Federal cooperative farm with troubled heroices. 000.000 and New Zealand · £172,4 | “Mỷ, ain't they nice!" said
RADIO WORK 000,000.
migrant wife at Visalia, admir- Politics excluded (NBC otherwise ing Mrs. Roosevelt's manicured would have to give equal xir- "A ne lady," said Mrs. time to disputants). Broadcaster Roosevelt can 53y.. what she W. N. Pace. "She's nice looking. too-just as homey, as we are."
pleases, may have guest stars li Her
is ..sponsor Squalld, squatty towns appalled she. wishes. Mrs. Roosevelt ("At one place I prospering Manhattan Soap Co., saw a water pipe line next to a whose Sweetheart cakes retail for around 6 cents sell mostly iri privy"),
She judged
Sweetheart groceries. private
Soap camps der Okies to be somewhat presumably will pay Mrs. Roosevelt better, Government camps, with her standard rate: $3.000 per 15- sheet-metal huts and neatly minute broadcast, ordered community laundries, re- Since Eleanor Roosevelt began creation halls and self-governing radiorating for pay in 1932 (after
her husband councils best of all.
Was elected President), she has worked for Simmons (#Beautyrest"). mat- tressey. Johns-Manville building materials, typewriters (for a group of manufacturers), Selby shoes. about $150,000. Until she learned Pond's cold cream. Total proceeds:
better, she gave all of It to charity. pald the taxes
It herself. Now she deducts income taxes, first, hands out the.rest. Her favourite outlet is the American Friends (Quaker) Service Com- mittee, which will receive her net proceeds from Sweetheart Soap.
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
The market remains neglected with the exception of Dock Rights which were dealt in on a fairly large scale @ $41.
BUYERS'
HK. Banks. $1340.
Trams, $18.
Electrics, $59."
HK Govt: 4% Loan, 102.
3282
SALES
$10.20
23/0
H.K, Banks,' $1350.
Docks Rts, $41.
Electrics, $304.
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS
ASSOCIATION
Volume Of Business Transacted
on Wednesday, May 29. 1940. H.K. Banks
17.00
said
BACK UN THE LAND But in none of these stopgaps, she, lay ส solution to. California's problem ("We must ret these people back on land that they own"). A reporter asked whether, having seen the Okles. she thought that Novelist John Steinbeck
"T had " exaggerated,
Бле
A
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An Indignant citizen once ngur- ed that Mrs. Roosevelt got $3,000 for six minutes on the air, said
RE-INSURANCE "BY N. INDIES The Consulate-Geerut Iur Netherlands
Hongkong al- nounces that, according to telegram received from the De. partment of Commerce in Batavia.
Eleanor Roosevelt agreed," added the Netherlands Indles Govern that she got it only because she ment has. In connection with the is the President's wife, partly discontinuation of re-Insurance because she is in her own right a
nobody could be worth $500 a
minute.
by the Home Government, formed first-rate radio attraction, Movie a' Government Institute for re& Radio Guide last week graded Insurance hamed Zeluva,
her for voice quality (good).
This institute will underwrite delivery (excellent). mannerisms new marine insurance policies for (very good), polse (good), logic. 17.00 Netherlands Indies interests, an- (good). Total score: $3, placing
$14
Cald., Macg. (Prof.) 8.
81.
Canton low
$16
Comen
318
$4.00
Miscellaneous
$19
87
$1
$1.85
Constractions
5 1,350.00
181
Lane Crawfords
H.K. Docks XRts.
100
Nanyang Tobaco0
$3.40
500
$2,60 Binowre
H.K. Docks Rights
75.
-4.50
$81
Watsons
$8.30
45. Ch. G.5% 1995G Bda,
K
32
4.50
$102
H.E. Gor, 4% Lowe
102*
81
4.50
$97
H.A. Gort. 34% Lamp
984%
1,500
4.50
$39
H.K. Wing Om jerni
$39
1,500
4,50
་་
'bat Wing On
814
16
4.50
18
$8
Yaumati Ferries
50
22.00
10/0
4/0
H.K. Tramways
50
16.25
#1 Cements.
200
15.35
SHOE CO.LTD.
4,109
X.D. $1
Vibro Piling
Maramans Inv. (Lon.)
Karamane iny. (H.K.) Pm. Powalionasera *Baler 0 Shanghai
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(REUTER'S SERVICE) London, May 28 The following quotations are the middle prices at the close of the market in London. All quotations are"subject to confirmation and no responsibility is assumed for errors Pekin Byndicate In transmission.
War Loan, 34% (Red
alogous to the former arrangement her No. 2 in Movie & Radio Guide's
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Regular Monthly Service
OUTWARD:
for Shanghai-NEXT SAILING: FIRST WEEK IN JUNE,
HOMEWARD: for Genoa, Naples (London
Overland),'' via
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For further particulars apply to:
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MARINERS
The Harbour Office has issued the following notices to mariners: In Malacca Straits, Eastern Shore, at Port Dickson alterations in positions have been made of: The circular White topmark formerly carried on the beacon exhibiting the Axed red light, which has been moved to the lamp standard 100 feet, 180 degrees from this beacon; A steel
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Reg) Chinese Eng. & Mining
(bearer)
83
Chosen Corporation
.18/6
6/6
2
11
S'hai Mec. Constr. Co. ...
15
S'hal Waterworks "A"
15
Union Insurance
28
after 1952)
981
Gula Kalumpong Rubber
17/0
Canton-Kloon Rly. 5% 9
Allied Ironfounders
13/3
Chinese 41% Gold Loan
1898 (Brit, Issue) ................
45
Asso. & Elec. Industries 37/3 Austin Motors, ord.
12/6
Chinese 5% Gold Bonds,
1925-47
45
Cable & Wireless, New
Form, ord.
47
Chin 41% Anglo-French
B.-A. Tob." (bearer)
92/3
Loan, 1908
45
Mercantile Bank
124
Chinese "5% Crisp Loan.
Cammell Laird, ord.
5/8
1912
17
Mexican Eagle
3/9
Chinese 5% Reorg, Loan,
1913 (Lda. Is.)
Courtauldis
-28/4)
graph;
20
Distillers...
80/9
Chinese 8% Ster. Noten,.
Dunlop Rubber
31/6
The beacon shown in position 5.1. cables 058 degrees from the
1925 (Vickers).
Chin. Imperial Ry. 5%.
Loan
58
Honan Rly, 5%
Hukuang Rly. 5%, 1911.... 14
Huktang Rly. 5%, 1911
¿German Issue)
Lung Taing & U. Kal
Rly. 5% 1913 B'hai-N'King Rly, 5% !. Tientsin-Pukow Riy. 5% "(Brit. Stpd.), ......................... Tientsin-Pukow Ry. 5%
(German: Sipd.)........... Tientsin-Pukow Rly, 5%
(Brit. Stpd. Bupl, Loan) 9 Tientsin-Pakow Rly, 5%
(Ger. Stpd, Supl Loan) 9 Jap. 5% Ster. Loan, 1907 38 Jap. 6% Eter. Loan, 1924 43 Ger, 7% Intl. Loan, 1924 6 Chartered Bank...... 84 H.K. & Shal Bank an
Reg.)
Gen. Electric (England). 76/3 Guinness (A) Bon & Co. 70 Hawker Siddeley Aire. . 9/6 Bristol Aeroplane
10/6 Imperial Chemical Ind. 27/71 Imperial Tobacco ..................... (90 Marks & Sp'cer “A” ord! .36/7* Rolls Royce
in
76/105
Leyland Motors
55
15
Tate & Lyle ........
50
Turner & Newall
60
United Steel
19/0
It is stated the above notifca“- tions have been made with the au thorisation of the Naval authorl-
Smethwick Drop Forg. ...
131
ties.
9
Armstrong Stevens, ord.
61
Pressed Steel, com.
12/0
Vickers, ord.
13/9
Woolworths
54
Bub-Nigel
180
Anglo-Dutch.......
18/6
Tanami Gold Mining ...
41d
Rub, Plant. Invest. Trust 25
Anglo-Iranian
47/6,
Burma Corporation
Burgdah ra
60/71
Commonwealth Mining
Sbell Trans. &
Trad
Магадан Investmente
84
Randfontein Estates Western Holdings ......................
10 35/8 976
(bearer)
59/44.
•-Nominal
-ex-dividena
Hongkong waters has been Reply giving full particulars of blocked by obstructions of a non-qualifications and copies of testi- explosive" nature to a depth of 2 monials to Box No. 312 c/o Hong' fert at M.LWS, Shallow draught 'Kong Dally Press. craft may use this channel at
their own risk.
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