THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL
1938.
GIANT 66
"" SOUTH SEAS" CLIPPER TO CARRY 72 PERSONS
Pan-American Airways Will Fly It Across Pacific Soon
SPECIAL CAR LICENCES
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TWO AND A HALF MILLION cars are expected to visit the World Ex- hibition in San Francisco next year. California is issuing special licence plates, one of which is shown above, to the tourists.
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Seattle, Wash. GIANT 72-passenger "South Seas Clipper," the first of six four-engined Boeing model 314 long-range transoceanic flyingboats being built for Pan American Airways, has been previewed before newspapermen.
The clipper has a hull of aluminium alloy that mea- sures 109 feet from bow to tail. It has an outside surface jarea of 4,000 square feet-equal to one-tenth of an acre -and an inside area equal to that of an average five- room house.
The ship will have a high speed of approximately 200 m.ph,, with 40 passengers aboard. The hull is 19 feet high and The horizontal tail the overall height of the place 28 feet.
surface measures 49 feet. Wing span would cover nearly half a city block.
The clipper will be powered by 1,500-h.p. two-row Wright Cyclone motors, largest of their type ever built. The plane will! ly on any two of its four the motors. Cargo holds on
ships will carry five tons of mail
and express. The plane is ex-
EMPIRE NEWS
pected to be ready for test CANADIAN PREMIER flights in May.
Flier Has Snake Mascot
Sydney.
ANSWERS ATTACKS
Ottawa.
A Parliamentary session different An 8-foot carpet snake is the from the two preceding it is presaged regular mascot and flying companion by the opening discussions. Conser-
plan to continue to be so. of Goya Henry, a one-legged airline vatives are much more militant and pilo: here.
Miracle Gives
Surgical Miracle
New Heart To Girl
HER life at
one time despaired of, nine-years-old Kathleen Munger, of Ashbourne-grove, Chiswick, lies in an oxygen tent in West London Hospital recovering from one of the most intricate operations known to surgery-that of scraping the heart.
In the debate on the Address yes- terday Mr. Bennett, Leader of the Opposition, displayed much of his old Lime energy of langunge und gesture. There was no vital departure from orthodox Conservative lines.
S.P.C. CABARET AT PENINSULA'
MISS ESME HASKELL who took part in the Society for the pro- tection of Children's Cabaret at the Annual Ball at the Peninsuln Hotel last night.
Former Lady Heath: "My
Friends In Prison"
Mr. Bennett alleged that corruption THE former Lady (Mary) Heath, ex-airwoman, charged at Bow. at elections existed throughout the country. He attacked the personnel
of the Rowell Commission on Domin- are
25 being lon-Provincial relations politically partisan.
street with being drunk and disorderly, was asked, "What you?"
"According to you, u gnol-bird," she answered.
Mr. Harold McKenna, the magistrate: Is that what you call pending yourself? That is what you have made me.
He aiso atlacked the Canadian-American trade agreement. Charged in her maiden namej after a two-months term, und Evans
stand by of Sophie Evans, she was re-remarked: "My
a murderess, a woman who ran a The girl's parents, realising that her chances of ever enjoying Canada in condemnation of Japanesemanded in custody, Mr. McKen-disorderly house, a receiver, and a
own
good health again were extremely romote, sacrificed their blood to help her survive the operation, technically known as trans-sternal pericardectomy.
I talked to Mr. Munger, who has never met the surgeon res-
He demanded a definite aggression in the Far East.
friends there were
na ordering a mental report. woman who mudo £30 a night by which He moved an amendment
Her age was given as 42.
picking pockets." constituted a straight vote of no con- ndence
the Government. Mr.CARRIED TO CELL" Mackenzie King, replying, denied Mr.
Colonel S. H. White, Evans's Bennett's accusation of election cor-
she "The Leader of solicitor, mentioned that the Opposition well knows that I will came out of prison on February 14 heartily co-operate with him at any time to make laws that will keep elections clean and honest.”
Pantaloons For ponsible for giving his daughter ruption and added:
of gaining
Party Girls
By BARBARA ARMSTRONG "A
WHITE satin garden party
an opportunity
healthy girlhood, writes a cor- respondent.
"Kathleen has been in and out of hospital for some years, but we really think that once she gets over this she will never have to go in again.
dress, eminently suited to young lady, with black lace pantaloons to the ankle, a tight. OXYGEN TENT waisted jacket also of white
Vic-ment. early
to
"Her doctor advised me satin, and a black lace poke consult a well-known surgeon. I wrote telling him that I could bonnet."
Wrong! This announcement was not possibly afford such treat- nol copled from an torian fashion plate. It is a des-
of the ensembles "He at once replied by sending his cription shown yesterday in Worth's Springene for Kathleen, who was taken to and Summer Collection, and which his surgery, and thence to the West will be seen at fashionable garden London Hospital. He assured
that I need not worry about the ex- parties during the summer.
believe this operation The picture frock of 1938 will be pense. much more complicated than for normally costs hundreds of pounds."
white satin nearly 100 years. The
of one
skirt in the example displayed yester-
Ins
Mr. Munger then told how he and
and told day contained 12 yards of material, his wife were summoned to the hos
ex-pital one night recently and two hoops were required
to stand by. In case blood transfu- ploit the fulness.
The puke bonnet, tled under the sion should be needed, while the de- chin with a black velvet bow, wan of liente operation was in progress, stiffened net and chiffon. Il
An oxygen tent was also kept in black, to match the dainty pantaloous reactiness. Barely hnd the operation
been completed than Just showing beneath the full skirt,
the girl's
was
For the more sophisticated, and for older women, fox furs are still parents were asked to contribute a fashionable, but with a difference, quantity of blood.
On two day saits in the collection the for had been dyed to a vivid shade of orange.,
Debutantes' Court dresses will this season be fairy-like creations of snow white tulle with delicate silver em- broidery over the upper part of the dress, with trains of softly material.
frilled
U.S. PRAISES BRITISH FILM
Fashion
Three
King's Rules
In a Mayfair luxury that a man who lias created a quarter-mit- Ilon dresses is busily bringing up his total to the half million mark.
houses of
-Dapper Ladislaus Czettel, famous enthu dress designer, has been commis- New York has given an siastic reception to "A Yank sloned by the fashion Oxford, the first film to be produced vientia to design for them spring
Metro-Goldwyn and summer fashions of 1938. buy
n length While he swathed
velvet round willowy blonde model, he told a reporter his leas of right and wrong styles for different types of women.
in England Mayor.
Critics who saw it at its world pre- mlere declare it to be of rich British crimson flavour, yet with a powerful bid for American popularity. It is holled as one of the best comedies ever to come out of England, and everyone predicts for it a great success.
Robert Taylor, whose good looks usually draw cynical re- marks from the male crilles, now finds himself mentioned na “p comedian of the first rank,” who shows his mantine. as the athletio
"Yank"
is a vigorous falion, "Bewliching Vivien Leigh," anya)
a
of
Here they are!... 1. Short
silver fox women-No capes or heavy furs which "drown" the wearer.
wear
women. Always 2. Tali tailored clothes. If you have silm long legs (like most English women) have short skirts. Be well-stock- inged and well-shod.
3. Attend lo detalls. If you paint one admirer, is the sort of thing to your finger nails, paint your make anyone want to go to Oxford, natis; too.
toc-
wille Edmund Gwenn, C. V. France well-kept nails are a woman's own and Edward Rigby also receive
responsibility, special tributes.
Mr. King also stated that he hoped Jean Harlow Is
the Provinces would see the reason- ableness of the Government proposal to amend the Constitution to make a national unemployment insurance scheme possible. South Africa
NEW AIR SERVICE
Cape Town. Rand business men welcomed the new Rand-Rhode air service, which started to-day.
Still Alive
-MOTHER
Hollywood.
Jean Harlow still lives Jeun, the tragic blonde whose beauty dazzled the whole world, died last year at the age of 26. But to Mrs. Bello, Jean's mother, she is not 'dead.
She is still with her, as she had
always.
South African Airways are opern- Ing passenger and mail service to Bulawayo from Johannesburg every promised to be Sunday, Tuesday
Thursday, and
Although Mrs. Bello has lost three reaching Bulawayo in two and a half stones in weight since Jean died she
southward hours. There will be
is overcome her grief. She sees no Fights from Bulawayo on Mondays, reason for grief. Wednesdays und Fridays. Rhodesian And Nyasaland Airways are operat- ing a link service to Salisbury.
Lord Trenchard's Tour-Marshal
of the Air Force Viscount Trenchard
Her home to-day is a shrine to the memory-or rather the presence of Jean.
The house is dominated by a life-
left to-day by air for the Rand. size portrait of Jean, painted after After visiting the Transvaal he will go her death.
to Rhodesia and the Congo. He has been staying here as the guest of the Government since Friday,
IN WHITE GOWN
The painting shows her in a white Elephants on Move.-Because of chiffon gown against a background the unrestricted shooting of elephants of blue. Her arm is flung upwards in 121 Portuguese East Africa large a characteristic gesture of farewell numbers are crossing the border into "She always flung up her arm in Kruger National Park. There are that gallant gesture of salute when- now 450 elephants the park.
ever she left me for a little while," South Africa
said Mrs. Bello.
+
NAVIGATION LIGHTS AT CAPE TOWN
And Jean her own Bunny, as she calls her, has only left her mother for a little while
Cape Town.
Beneath the portrait are ferits, Judgment in favour of the defond-
palms, the green living things
vase of ants, with costs, was given to-day In
that Jean loved. A the Supeme Court in an action aris-
gardenias, Jean's favourite [lo- ing out of the wreck of the British
wers, is on the bookshelf. motor-vessel Winton, 4,388 tons in
The rest of the room is filled with Table Bay on July 20, 1934. Plain-portraits of Jean. and of William tiffs were the Avenue Shipping Com- pany, owners of the ship, Bunge and Powell, the man she loved. Co., London,
of the cargo of owners
purchasers of the cargo.
whent, and Joseph Rank, London, HIS £40,000 LUGGAGE
The defendants were the South TOUR strong porters struggled to African Railways and Harbours and lift a massive trunk on to a tari the Overseas Communications, South
outside a London hotel. It contained Africn. The owners claimed £40, C10,000 worth of stamps from all 000 for the ship and the cargo owners
parts of the world. claimed £42,000 for the cargo.
The plaintiffs' case was that after
Upstairs in his room at the Savoy had Administration Railway
grey-haired Mr. Dela Sekula, greatest erected, at the end of a breakwater buyer of stamps in the world, had nt Table Bay Docks, a red dashing | three other trunks equally heavy and. light as a navigation Bight, Overseas valuable. Communications erected a red flashing
the
bencon light an a wireiss mast as A He is known as the "King of stamp warning to aircraft at Milnerton, on dealers," and his business is so vost the shores of Table Bay, The Win-his turnover is £300,000 a year- ton,, it is alleged, confused the two that he buys them by the to. lights and strandod.
Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Cent-
"I buy stamps from Governments.
At another stage in the proceed- ings she said: "When you sent me to Holloway last time I fainted there. had to be carried to my cell. I 10 would rather be fined than go Holloway."
Mr. McKenna: I expect you would. There is one thing at Holloway-you are not likely to get alcohol there.
A police officer said he saw Evans
in Vine-street, and she was unsteady on her feet. When he asked her to go away she began shouting.
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Doctors and
dernunds
nurses now that
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In these difficult times of anxiety and worry, the task of carrying on and doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy.
Horlicks builds up strength, vitality and prevents that listlessness and tiredness caused by constant nervous strain. H. M. Hodges, Kayamally Building, Queen's Road, Hongkong.
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