NANCY
WOW!...
You
SURE
LOOK
PEACHY DAPHNE?
THE DRESS IS FROM GRANDEE FRÉRES, 5TH AVENUE---AND THE HAT IS AN EXCLUSIVE MODEL FROM PARIS--- MY SHOES FROM LA NIFTÉ--- MY SOCKS
FROM FLORETTE---
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 9, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
***AND; MY DRESS IS FROM THE NOTION B STORE AN' MY SHOES WERE JUST HALF- SOLED BY MR. MARTUCCIO --- AND THE RIBBON
IS FROM JOE'S PUSH-CART ---
--- AND THE SOCKS ARE FROM NANCY!,
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RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.č.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles). Studio Saxophone Recital By Palapo
Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. und on short wave from 1-2.16 p.m. und 4-11 p.m. on 9.52 me's. per second,
H. K. T.
12.15 p.m.
cession,
Short Service of Inter-
12.30 Bullivan-Iolanilho Overture. -The D. B. C. Theatre Orchestra directed by Stanford Robinson,
12.40 Len Bermon (Vocal) and The Organ, The Danco Band and Me.:
1.00 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Dance Music.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce ments.
1.45 Light Piano Solos and Vocal items.
2.15 Close Down, 0.00 Thic Tomb Scene from Gounod's "Nomso and Jullet.” Georgea Thili (Tenor) and Mlle. Feraldy (Soprano), with Orchestra.
0.10 Saint-Saens-Septet, Op. 65, 0:32 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
U.34
0.34 Margare! Sharidan (Soprano) and Light Orchestral Busic.
6.55 Ignaz Friedmen (Piano) play-
Ing Chopin's Mazurkos, Op. 41, No. 1
and Op. 50, No. 2, -7
7.03 Selections from "The Maid of the Mountains", "Wake Up athl Dreams", "Mister Cinders", and "Chu China Chow
7.30 London Relay The Newn, 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Studio Saxophone Recital by Palapo with Plano accompani- ment by Nura Kant1, Capriccio (Gurewich); 2. Romanza from Con- certo No. 1
wellyn' (Wiedun); 3. Waltz Ilc-
4. Ilona (Hun- garian Czardas) (Curewich).
8.23 Robinson Cleaver at the Organ. 8.25 Variety-A Doy and A Girl Were Dancing,
A Letter To My Mo-
ther, Derickson and Brown; I Just
ahy. What Elso
Kino Can Got A Letter
Do?,
Ethel Wal
with Orchestra; Then Man I Love, H, C. G. Strut, The Quintet of the Hot Club Of France with Django Reinhardt (Guitar) and Grappelly (Violin); New
Temer,
Raymond Nowell and
with Oreliestra Rising Tide Selection, Orchestra.
0.00 Lendon Relay-The News and Topical Talks,
9.45 Variety.
10.15-Dance Music.
11,00
Close Down.
LEAGUE OF HEALTH Despite the departure from the Colony of many of the members of the Women's League of Health under the evacuation scheme, the League is still carrying on.
be
Morning classes have ceased; but, for the time being, classes will held at the Helena May Institute on Monday and Thursday evenings.
Members are reminded that there are centres all over Australia which
they will be able to attend evacuated to that country.
FOR ONE GLORIOUS MOMENT... SHE RULED A MIGHTY EMPIREI
The wwide mei stirring love sher), 6 kilig's war tragie quient
THE MAD EMPRESS"
Bearing MEDEA NOVARA w LIONEL ATWILL » CONRAD NAGEL Bereen Play and Dialogue By Jeso Burt, Jerry Chodirov and Miguel C. Torma · A VITAGRAPHÍ MELZÁSK Produced and Directed by MIGUEL OʻTORAAS
NEXT CHANGE
AT THE ·
KING'S
£5,000,000 More For Old Folks' Pensions
THE new supplementary pensions, regulations for which are now announced, may cost another £5,000,000
a year.
تم نے
At present there are 275,000 old-age pensioners receiving extra. assistance, which amounts to about £5,500,000 in all.
If the number of pensioners ask- ing for supplementary allowances rose to 400.000 the cost of these, it is computed, might rise to £10,500,- 000.
As a result of what is now being done no pensioner will find himself in a worse anuncial position. al- though in some treas different people may receive slightly different rates-some in accordance with the old payment, and others with the
now.
Extra In Winter
For the single penslener the re gulations provida for a standard income of 19s. Od. a week, the As- sistance Board being empowered to Increase the supplementary pension of Ds. 6d. during the winter-... for fuel.
For the pensioner couple the re- gulations provide for a standard Income, of 328. a week, subject to adjustment if the rent půld is above or below standard, There will be
The Queen Visits B.E. F. Wounded
The Queen, on a visit to wounded B.E.F. men at a hospital in the South of England, talking to Sergeant William Wren, of Worthing, Sussex: Sergeant Wron was wounded in the loft arm by machine-gun bullets
Boiling Tar Causes
Death Of Military Driver
Po Leung Kuk Work
Chairmen Present
Reports
Past and present committees of the Po Leung Kult were received by the Omeer. Administering the Govern- ment at Government House yester- day. The reports of Chairmen were received and His Excellency congra- tulated them on the results attained.
The Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Hon. Sir Robert Kole- wall, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie, (Secretary for Chinese Affairs), Hon. Mr, M. K. Lo, Hon. Dr. Ll Shu-ian, Hon. Mr. W N. Thomas Tam and Mrs. Ho Leung were present.
Mr. Chan Kam-po, Chairman in 1038, said the outbreak of hostilities in China had vastly increased the calls on the Po
Leung Kuk and Government had given an additional Krant of $10,000. Most of the cases dealt with were of kidnapped child- ren, multsal adopted daughters and refugee women and children. There were demestit disputes over marriage. and girls who had run away. Prosti- tution, the repatriation of stranded families and the tracing of others subjects to which the Com- mittee had also paid attention.
Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Chairman
were
ot
•1939, said theon of mul-
Isai and adopted
were
W03 Dr- dered in that year and the Kuk inmates increased to 1,157, compared with 839 in 1998. About 154 franates were found employment, 421 sent away,
34 were taken in by families and 19 died. Three butches, totalling 248, had to be accommodated in the King's Park refugee camp and others were taken in by the. Army Home and Taipo Considerable Improvements
were
AN inquiry was held recently by Lolands, a mandere employed by made to the Kuk buildings, thanks the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Walter the P.WD. in Johore, said that he to generous donutions, and the in- MacQuarrie, into the death of Pri- was in charge of a number of inbour-dustrial tuition section vate William Robertshaw, of the ers repairing the road to Mersing, more Important.
Was made Royal Army Medical Corps. Private 374 miles from Johore Bahru. Robertshaw died
Mr. F. T. Lo, Chairman of 1840, in the Singapore Half of the right-hand side of the said the number of inmates was con- General Hospital on Feb. 18., after read, which was 16 feet wide, was stantly increasing and the expenses an accident on the Mersing Road, taken where a car he was driving hit a other half was open to traffic, sald elpated a large
up by the repairers and the were so much heavier that he anti- boiler containing hot tar.
deficit this funds to ensure proper care of the There was an urgent need for more unfortunate women and girls.
Lalandi
"I heard a loud noise and, turning
year.
Dr. Tan Kim Cheng sald that Robertshaw was admitted into the round, saw that a motor-car had General Hospital at 4 p.m. on Feb. 17 knocked over a boiler containing hot
His Excellency replied, in a speech and died the next day. Death was far, which was lying on its side.
interpreted by Mr. Lo, that his own due to shock from burns caused by Most of the tar was on the experience in the S.C.A some 20 bolling tar.
ground, but some of it had splash-care ago had shown him the value Before he died, said the doctor. ed over the car.
of the tasks performed by the Po Robertshaw told him that he was Lalandi said that the occupants of Leung Kuk. He particularly congra driving his car at about 11 o'clock on the car were a man and woman, and taled Mr. Ngan and Mrs. Ho for the morning of Feb. 17, when a tyre they had tar stains on their limbs. their happy team work. burst. The car skidded into a tub of boiling tar
Edith Margaret Kishander, a staff nurse attached to the Indian Military: Hospital, said that she was in the car being driven by Robertshaw travel- ling
from Singapore through Johore.
There was no one else in the car] and she sat beside Robertshaw.
They had crossed the causeway into Johore and had been travelling for about an hour, she said. when the car hit something.
on
He stopped a car coming from the direction of Mersing, and the man and woman were taken to hospital.
Questioned by the Coroner, Laland) said that the iar in
the
POLICE RESERVE
boller had been bolled early that To be Called Up for Extra.
morning, and was hot at the time) of the accident.
In his anding, Mr. said that there
Duty To-morrow
MacQuarrie
As a result of the existing state of any person had been criminally con-is to be called up for extra duty as was no evidence that tension, the Hongkong Police Reserve cerned in Robertshaw's death, which from Wednesday. had been caused by shock due to Diferent companies of the Re- burns received from heated far.
continued the witness, and when she died of wounds received outside my duty.
She fell to the floor of the cur, "I therefore find that Robertshaw servists will then be posted for day managed to open the door, she found jurisdiction, and I think that a more many people had. «rrived the satisfactory conclusion to such an in- servists who
11 is understood that those Re- scene and she was transferred into quiry might have been reached if #vants will be the first called out but are Government ser- another car, and was taken to hos-had been held in Johore," said the the Police Reserve authorities still pital.
Coroner.
have the matter under discussion.
Union
Won
Him
£2,750 Award
THE largest High Court award ever secured for one of its members by the Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' Associa-
"tion has been announced.
It is one of £2,750 and costs, on the judgment of Mr. Justice Hallett,
to a driler,"Mr."H. W. Claydon, of Clifton-road, Canning Town, E.
of
He was at work on a picce staging alung over the side of
a ship while at anchor in the Thames when a large, owned by V. Darling Bros., collided with the ship.
'Locked In,
Took Painting
EXHAUSTED BY FEVER ?
Then read this:----
You are not out of danger when fever has subsided -The weaknew # leaves behind exposes you to rolapse or fresh lofection. You must rebuild
your worn-out body immediately and
quickly.
ARTEN The way to do this is to and a food that soothes the enfeebled, stomach and provides all the nutrition valmi of big, solid meal. The food very many doctors choose for their fover patients, a Horlicks. It is nouris input in the most easily digested form, It repair the damage to nerves nad tissues, builds up strength," "erentes THE thier who stole
new vitality and help to keep cous- rough painting from the Pump plications out of convalescetice. Room at Bath recently is still free tients who turn against other foods
Police are convinced he is an ex- "This case," Mr. J. W. Wilcocks, pert; for the picture was cut neatly acting secretary of the union, told from its frame and the glace lay to-day from your store.
are able to enjoy Horlicks Get i the "Dolly Herald," "Is evidence in intact any
no adjustment either up or down for n couple paying Us, rent a weekt.
Following is a list of weekly in- come which, whatever its ownership, will be disregarded: Friendly Society sick pay, the first Bs.; National Health Insuranes benent, the first 79, Od, and the first £2 of maternity benefit; disability pen- sions, the Arst 1; workmen's com- pensation, one-half; super-annuation, The first 76. 6d.; sickness payments under the Old Age and Widows' Pensions Act, the first 78.. Od.
The Board will take no account of carnings by the penslorer or by Jis wife up to 58. a week each (as compared with 35.).
Claydon attempted to avoid being involved in the crash, but in jump- Ing from the staging on to the barge, his leg was. crushed,
It was necessary to amputate. the tog below the knee.
itself of the value and benefits to be obtained from Trade Unionism."
ROTARY ADDRESS
nearby.
and
A
Gains-
The thelt was -discovered cleaners.
It is thought that the thief must have hidden in the building before it closed on a recent Monday night, he ma
Mr. Henry Peterson will address The picture-n self-portrait-had Hongkong Rotarians at thele tifin to hung in the Pump: Room only a few day. His subject will be "The oldest month military treatise in the world, Pari
It was left to the city. by Mr. Shirley Fox, the artist.
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