NANCY
BOY!-- HAVE I GOT SPRING FEVER!
SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY
IN TOWN HAS IT!
·EVERYTHING IS SO DULL--
NOTHIN' EXCITING HAPPENS!
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TINA DUHET vichicinerad
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HEY, WAKE 'UP!-- HERE
COMES A THRILLING
CHASE ---
June 17, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
APRIL 20
READY TO FIGHT--President Roosevelt dedicating Woodrow Wilson's birthplace at Staunton, Va., as shrine. Seated at left aro Cordo!! Hull, Lady and Lord Halifax, Mrs. Hull and Mrs.Wilson. President said U. 5, was "over roady to fight again" for democracy.
The Origin
Of O.K.
NEW YORK, June 15 (UP),
-The nequiescent expression
Simple Skin Test For Pregnancy Discovered
Development of a simple one-hour test for pregnancy, prob- "OK.", uttered a billion times bly the most remarkable discovery of its kind ever made, was daily, is an etymological orphan, announced recently by the University of Illinois College of No one has ever satisfactorily Medicine. explained what the two letters stand for or how the expression aroze, according to Woodford Heflin, associate editor of the
The new method is n skin test, very much like those used for allergy such as hay fover. Besides indicating pregnancy in 30
minutes to an hour, it is easy to give, and inexpensive.
The University's doctors have; blem since 3014; Dr V. C. Freda of Dictionary of American English. quietly made several hundred that department and Dr H. H. Cohen "This supposition," he said, "has trials of the new test during the of the Physiological Chemistry De- no evidence to support it other than past year, They reported it is head of the Physiological Chemistry partment. Dr William H. Welker, the similarity of sounds."
98 percent reliable, and dotects Department, was consultant.
early as two
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Some philologists have traced the Pregnancy expression as far back us 1700, when weeks. slave sales were entered in court records with the notation “O.K.”—! The method in general use for the believed to be a corruption of the past decade, the Aschheim-Zondek abbreviation "O.R.," for "Order Re-test in which white mlee or rabbits corded."
ore used, has the same percentage of reliability but requires more time, seldom deteris carlier than four weeks, and costs considerably more.
Colostrum Injection
The test consists of injecting into the forearm, with a fine hypodermic needle, a minute amount of colos trum, it watery liquid secreted in the breasts during pregnancy.
No reaction occurs if the woman is pregnant, but if she is not the point of Injection begins to look as if she had a mosquito bite. A red-
Heflin believes the first genulus historical example of the expression is date 1815, an entry in "A travel diary of William Richardson," read- The new test was developed by dish area one to two inches In log Arrived at Princeton, a hand-Dr Frederick 11 Falls, head of the diameter appears. This bump raises some little village, O.K., and at Department of Gynecology and within an hour and disappears in. Trenton where we dined at 1 p.m." Obstetrics, who has studied the pro-four or five hours.
On Monday,
June 17, 1940
THE BOMBER FUND
was started.
On behalf of the people at Home and the British Government, the South China Morning Post and The Hongkong Telegraph tender grateful thanks to the many firms and individuals who have given so
generously.
To the members of His Majesty's Forces; The Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force, the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, the Hongkong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and to all contingents of the Hongkong Police Force and Police Reserve, The Auxiliary Nursing Service, the Nursing Detachment of the H.K.V.D.C., and to the Hongkong War Effort Committee, Clubs and Associations all of whom have made regular contributions, warm thanks are extended..
Contributions
to Date:
$2,213,361.50
Total remitted to London £130,939.19.6d
TO-DAY
THE BOMBER FUND Commences Its Second Year!
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EAST END ANGEL
WOULD NOT QUIT
"
Mary Hughes was brought up in Mayfair. Now the East End is mourning her.
"The Angel of the East End," as they called Mary Hughes, has died in a Whitechapel hospital at the age of 81.
Thousands in Whitechapel and| Stepney knew her as their friend,
When the Blitz came people told her: "You ought to get out of this."; She would not listen.
Dewdrop Inn
Frail-looking but lion-hearted, she, carried on with her work of be- friending the poor.
Eighteen years ago, Mary. Hughes
MERCURY
MONOPOLY ENDED
she objected to any prefix to her WASHINGTON, June 15 name-bought a public house in (UP). -Increased output of Vallance-road, E., and converted it quicksilver in Mexico, Peru and into a
a club. She called it the Dewdrop Imu.
the United States has been in- Its door never had a key.
strumental in breaking the Thousands came to her for legal! Italo-Spanish mercury mono advies, comfort, or a free meal, and she found time to see them all, sit-poly, according to Commerce ting at her desk all day and ne-Department officials. tines half through the night.
Quoting authoritative British Now she is dead, three trustees, sources, experts said they be- two men and a woman whom sho lieved the world quicksilver cartel, formerly controlled by Mary Huglies was a daughter of Italian and Spanish interests, Thomas Hughes, who wrote. "Tom had been "definitely ended" by Brown's Schooldays."-
rupid increases in non-European production.
herself appointed, will carry on her work.
Slept On Boards
The Mexican mercury Industry, it During the last war she came to was pointed out, has been revitalised the East End from her rural home by Great Britain's wartime needs, in Berkshire and went to live with Evidently fearing the possible loss of" her sister, Mrs Barker, wife of the Spanish supplies, the British Govern- vlear of St Jude's, Whitechapel. ment has made sure of the availabi- Her sister and brother-in-law were lity of the entire Mexican supply, lost in the Titanic.
which, runs into thousands of flasks
Mary Hughes threw herself into happy. the work of making East-Enders
Blept
un
She never wore hat or gloves, she on boards and lived frugally bread and cheese and teu. She fell ill recently and was taken to St Peter's Hospital, where died.
she
Up till then she had been busy working among the poor people she was proud to call her friends.
FIRE DESTROYS
FAMOUS CLUB
Officer Trapped
each year.
Production In Peru and British Colombia has also been stepped up. for the same renson.
The United States, for the first time on record, ranked as an exporter of quicksilver last year when 50,000 flasks were produced, approximately 20,000 more than could be consumed by domestic industries. The surplus was sent mainly to Great Britain.
Abnormal Consumption Full effect of the sharp incrensés In quicksilver production, officials sald, will not be felt until_the_ces- sation of hostilities. It is belleved that the blow will fall sharply on the which AC- counted for four-fifths of the world output during the period immedinte- outbreak of the
Italo-Spanish interests,
by preceding the
present war. Directors of Bath Club, Dover- Ometals pointed out that European street, W., arrived there recently for war machines are now consuming an
amount of their monthly board meeting-to find abnormal
mercury. amoun! the premises a blackened shell. Changes in the sources and
The club where the King and his of the world supply will undoubtedly brothers had swimming lessons, and take place when demand returns to where Princess Elizabeth and Prin alignment with normal Industrial cess Margaret won swimining prizes needs; but most officials belleve that In 1039 was wrecked by fire in the the old world monopoly has finally carly hours of the morning.
been smashed.
Pilot Of. (Acig. Flg. Oft.) W. G. Airey, one of the guests, lost his life, and three firemen, Injured fighting the blaze, were taken to hospital.
Pilot Of, Airey was sleeping in his room on the third floor and could not be roused by the staff, who were, cut off from him by the flames.
Other club members, including
Bleveren. Sir Andrew McCulloch, in their night clothes or hastily donned attire, while one
member of the staff scrambled down
driver.
.
Servicemen's Position After War
LONDON, June 16 (UP).— nd-in-pipe from a first-floor reai There will be no demobilisation
Into the arms a taxi
after the war for men in the Malds and women members of the services until they have found a kitchen staff, on the top floor, were job. This is one of the recom awakened by the cracking of flames.mendations of a special com. They grabbed their clothes and rush-mittee appointed by the Govern ed to safety down the staircases.
ment to work out a policy of Guy Mainwaring Morton, reconstruction. "Peter Traill," the author and play- Plans for the demobilisation wright, was rescued from a fourth- of sailors, soldiers, airmen and floor bedroom by a fireman, who A.R.P. workers have been made brought him down an escape to the
• Mr
street
Author's Escape
by the committee.
Magnificent Adom ceilings, part of Priority will be given to those who the original building when the club can return to key posis, and those was founded in 1884, were destroyed.who will be useful in the task of Valuable books, pictures and furnish-rebuilding property and assisting in Ings
Including a collection of Pelle- the general reconstruction
of the grini cartoons in the curdroom were country. also lost.
The remainder will be urged to At a meeting of directors at which stay in the forces Ull a full trade Lord Desborough, the president of recovery has taken place and their the club presided, it was decided to posts are available.
accept an offer by the Lansdowne Men will also be retained in the Club to provide temporary accom army ax working squads for clearing modation to members of the Bath up debris and constructing tempor- Club. Meanwhile, the staff, number-[ary homes for returning evacuees. ing about 100, are temporarily with
Trade Plans out employment.
The Government, which aims at preventing wholesale unemployment, has plans for the development of Two of the M.C.O'% accused of trade, and experts believe that Bri- assaulting non-combatant conscien-tah industry may have to be deve-
objectors were
to the increased industrialisation
of the pool. They were: Company. Serit Dominions resulting from their war Major William Cooper and Bergt T. effort. Alter speech for the defence, which first steps after the war will be the Alexander, both of the Ploneer Corps.
To meet this problem, one of the
hares al courts martial at Laver-loped on different lines owing
contained a strong attack on the conclusión" of tresh trade pacts with- Penco Pledge Unlon, the court con- in the Empire, which will be follow- sidered for an hour before bringing "d-by, trade-agreements-with-the in verdict of Not Gulitý.” LABed countries, 35-
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