Monday
BAD HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 30, 1941,
NANCY
PSST--- ARE YOU KIDS FROM THE ANTI-NOISE
LEAGUE!
WILL YOU GIVE ONE OF THOSE NOISE COMPLAINT CIRCULARS
TO MY -WIFE ?
By Ernie Bushmiller
I WAS EXPECTING I TOLD YOU PEOPLE SOMETHING
WOULD COMPLAIN: ABOUT YOU CRACKING. THOSE WALNUTS!
LIKE THIS!
NOISE
FATE OF FAMED PICTURE
While attending the sale of pictures at Sotheby's recently, a London reporter met two famous men in the art world who told him about the great composition by Hubert van Eyck, known the world over as "The Three Marys a. the Sepulchre."
The latest report about the fate of this masterpiece was that it was "safe in Amerles," after leaving the Cook collection at. Richmond last May.
"My first friend startled mo by stating that the picture had then been bought for Field-Marshal Goering, who, in his spare time, had been Harnering a mighty art collection. the reporter writes.
But my second Informant, quoting chapter and verse for his testimony, as he had been on the English side of the deal, avowed that two days before the entry of Holland into the wor "The Three Marys" plcture was sold to Dutch syndicate at its in- sured price of £300,000.
Fear Destroyed
"This syndicate had been acting for the richly-endowed Boymanns Muscum at Rotterdam, which already acquired the Rembrandt
hind
ANTI
NOISE
LEAGUE
SURE!
NOISE COMPLAINT
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IN REVIEW-Biggest review of U.S. Army men and equipment since World War days took place recently at Fort Lewis, Wash., with 45,000 men and 5,000 units in line. Hore's part
of 75 mm, artillery passing. Third Division, 41st Division and 9th Army Corps took part.
Japanese Save String And Nails
In Paying For 'China Affair'
portrait of his son, Titus, for £30,000 TOKYO-From breakfast till bedtime, the Japa-j
from the late Earl of Crawford.
"The fear was that, despite
the nese face a baffling array of rules and regulations. For
hopeful story that the Three Marys" the most part they accept these mounting barriers to their EMPIRE MEDAL
had escaped from the clutches of the
invading Nazis and had been trans-old ways philosophically, knowing as they do of their ported miraculously to America, the nation's war-time needs and problems.
most solemn picture in the annals Flemish art had been destroyed."
ot
Big Chance For Fur Trade
Moleskins Wanted
A drive to collect millions of moleskins to make into coats for sale in North and South America is being planned by the fur trade export group, supported by the Board of Trade.
"The skins will replace suppiles to go to London from that used Italy, France, Belgium and Holland, It is said that an average of 25,000,- 000 moleskins went to London every year from those countries and that
re-exported. most of them were
When they do grumble a bl-m over such things as foreign rice and oals being mixed in with the native product-it is much in the fashion of a man complaining about bad weather. It is futile, he knows, but even so, un escape valve.
A Japanese house is likely to be frosty these mornings. Regulations. permit the use of only so much gas and electricity, around U.S.$1.87 a month for each, and if formal wam- a man may come us are ignored, a around and cut off the supply.
Charcoal is rationed because of scarcity, and each family per- mitted to have only about half as Charcoal is used much as formerly. for cooking, as well as heating.
Once up and about, after a sparing use of soap for washing, a Japanese has-a-breakfast-much-the-same as was, with the exception of the rice, which with the new year also went on the card system.
Soy Beans In Demand There is no difficulty about ten, but for those who prefer coffee, a As English moleskins make the mixture must suffice. The Govern- finest and most durable fur coats, ment has ordered the price set so there is a big opportunity of deve-low that pure Brazilian coffee could luping an export trade for these gar-be sold only at a loss, Therefore ments independent of forem sup-soy beans, roasted brown, are mixed plics.
Double Aim
in.
in touch with the nearest trappers sharkskin type. and collectors."
'Famine' In
Children's
Clothes
FIRST AWARDS
Tell All Army News To Press
A call to Army post commanders to co-operate to the full with the Press in giving out news of Uncle Sam's armed forces was sounded by Major Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr., director of the Bureau of Public Relations, U.S. Anny.
Addressing a conference of ranking Meers and representatives of service organizations at the 2nd Corps Arca headquarters on Governors Island, Gen. Richardson declared there witi bo no censorship of the Press nor at- tempts to suppress, or tono down, news so far as the Army is concern-
cd,
"Do not try to conceal information om the newspapers," Gen. Richard- on told the gathering. "They will only get it anyway—from unofficial sourcea."
"Tell It, Regardless" "Sometimes we are inclined to el that a certain lippening would make adverse publicity. Do not try
suppress it. We feel it is far better to have it aired in full than o let it become surrounded by a haze of mystery, gossip and rumour, "Adverse publicity gots around ast. The newspapers are clamour- ing for news of the Army-and
ightly so. The American public hos right to know what its sons in amp are doing. Post commanders the hould co-operate to see that newspapers get the news. There is no use trying to cover up.
"The Army is dedicated to a firm
that in mind.”
Woman Recipient policy of no censorship. Let's keep Woman Recipient
A woman telephone operator is in the first list of awards of the new British Empire Medal.
The telephonist, Miss Rosalie Gassman, watch-room attendant in the Hornsey Women's AFS,' was on July when the building was dam- aged by a bomb. "In spite of the falling debris," it is stated, "she re- Children will have to go without mained calmly at her post transmit- new clothes because of the Governing and receiving messages. ment's clothing_quoia restrictions, Other winners of the medal in- Boys grey flannel trousers and clude 20 AR.P. wardens, rescue hard-wearing socks, and girls kilts workers and 14 police officers. Most have already vonished-and there is of them have been decorated for title hope of their replacement in large numbers.
British Generals In Italy
Axis Captives Live
In Big Villa
from col- saving trapped persons lapsed or tottering buildings at great The British generals captured by This was alleged at a conference risk to themselves."
the Axis forces in Libya are now the National Children's Wear of
In the
case of Edward Horner, Hving in the comfortable viila Orsini. Association in London recently.
Mr E. J. Morgans, president of the Thomas George Pippin and Bertram Sulmona, 75 miles east of Rome, it
Edwin Tyler, of the Deptford rescue is stated there, says the B.U.P. Association, said:
service, the dangers were elaborate- Air-Marshal O. T. Boyd, taken by
y complicated. A bomb smashed a the Italians when his plane made bridge over a railway line. A lorry forced landing in Sicily in November, was damaged and the driver thrown is also detained at the villa
it."
"I found them all in good health, said Mr Fiske, the United States Military Attacho visit to in Rome, when he paid a them. They are determined 10 keep up their spirits, and have asked for cards, a book of rules on bridge, and darte.
"A famine in children's wear lies before us next autumn unless the Government takes steps to prevent
ip_to the miles below. Same Quota
On the underside of the bridge though depressed," Material for children's clothes, he broken gas main caught fire and was the belching dame from each severed complained, was released in
end, melting electric cable insulation same quota as that for adults.
But although adults clothes lasted and causing hot pitch to fall from
the Fetts of the bridge. long time, children's wore out or
Despite the extreme danger Hor- and becaine too small very quickly.
More, the Government is clothing ner, accompanied by Pippin 4,000,000 adults in the Forces, leay-Tyler, unhesitatingly descended with a higher proportion available for stretcher and slings to rescue the in- civilians.
jured man. who was lying in the Mr Morgan said that clothing for full force of the heat and under the hikiren under four had been freed falling pitch.
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Horse Teams Help In Salmon Harvesting
SALEM, Ore. Many folk coming into the Columbia River on shipboard have behold with astonishment men and horses that seem to be walking on the surface of the rivor. · The stream at its mouth is wide-eight to ten miles-and to a per- son standing on the deck of a ship it all appears as deep as the channel in which his ship is moving.
Actually, the men and horses are working on wide, flat sand- bars which become islands at low tide. They are handling great salmon seincs 300 fathoms, or 800 feet long and from 12 to 48 feet in depth, de- pending on the nature of the channel and tides._ _On_a_haul, they bring in from 200 pounds to more than a ton of red- meated salmon.
The horse seizing operations in the world. They are carried out each Columbia are among the few in the
iS SICKNESS CAUSING DELAY?
that's
summer starting about mid June. QUESTION The nature of the river's bottom and the habits of the salmon make them practicable and highly efficient.
Method Of Working From barges handled by launches, the nets are laid out for a drift down or up the channel, depending upon the direction the tide is running. Teams, generally in sets of fours, to hook on to the scines in relays f wing the working or bauling end lie net into the sand bar where it is rolled in and piled on to a barge, fathom by fathom, for another drift. | One end is simply held stationary on the sand bar.
Sugar is rationed at the rate of "By trapping moles, landowners, one-half pound a person each month. You need a shirt, or a pair of shoes, farmers and others will not only get rid of a pest and so increase food or a suit of clothes? Well, maximum production, but will help to build up prices hold good for all these neces-
sities. a valuable trade and raise foreign
Shors are made of sharkskin, for exchunge to pay for war supplies the most part, instead of leather, from abroad," on offlelul of the Ex-and cost a maximum of U.S.$5.85 R
The Villa Orsini, once the home of bort Group sald.
pair. Until the Government stepped
Italian noblemen, has been modern- "Our main effort will begin in the in, having other and more vital use from control.
ised, so that the prisoners will re- lasts until for other leather, tumn, and the season
their better types of
"Current from the live rall was celve the treatment due "But the Ministry of Supply re- during which time the fur is shots cost US$12 to $15. Before fused any increase in wool supplies running through the wet debris to rank at its best, and we are rapidly build- the China affair they would have
the metal stretcher, but despite the The captured generals are Li-Gen. ing up on organisation to put peopic brought only the price of the present to meet the change."
Board's Reply
shock he received on contact, Horner, Sir Richard O'Connor, Lt-Gen. P. The Board of Trade, which is held with the help of Pippin and Tyler, Neame, V.C., and Maj-Gen. M. D. Gambler-Perry. Lt-Col Combe is The price-fixed suit, costing U.S.$23 Skins from moles trapped out of at the most, isn't all wool er entlon. responsible for the shortage, had a wad prie to let the stretcher clear also reported to be in the same place.
of debris to position where it could per uick counter. as much as For domestic consumption, JD
It announced that children evacuat- be hauled up." those trapped in the winter,
cent of what is called staple fibre is
Two
wo women and a police-constable ed to reception areas are to get a trade bigger share of available supplies. are among those awarded the George Medal for bravery. When a wing of An official of the Board sald: "The ruw
the Sir Robert Geffery's Homes, material position pre- us altering the quota, but Nottingham, was set on fire, the ma-
The horse seines account for a The greatest care, however, is usual during the morning, with, any, wholesalers have been given a list fron, Mrs Marian Edith Boulton, en- needed in the use of this polson ton luncheon engagement coming up all of the movements of the child popu- tered the burning building and res-
considerable percentage of the sal- lation, and had been naked to alloc-cued two elderly women.
taken mon
inside
Columbia the P. C. Charles Toni Mann, "L"
Plans for further speed-up Tivision, Metropolitan Police. Perhaps a steak would be to your ate their supplies in proportion to
River. The industry is one of Ore- fancy. That would be all right, for population."
red a inan who was trapped.
production of 'planes, ships, tanks, kon's major revenue producers; the good beel can be bought at 70 cents
the danger of the house ins and munitions are actively in Columbia fish taken running, Into a nllapsing at any moment, P. hand. The coming months will see $10,000,000 Item some years. At As- KING'S GUARD Munn mounted a fe had to Batten any country has known.
ladder and on the largest expansion of production toria alone, a considerable percen- toge of the city's population makes reaching the top.
its livelihood from various phases of the industry,
senson, are not worth
can
Let
A person wishing to destroy moles added. This releases cotton for autherlly from the county export, and exports provide wae agricultural executive committee balances and gold.
Restaurant. Prices Set Business at the office goes
to purchase a small quantity of stry-
cumine to put down the burrows.
prevent danger to farm stock.
ACTRESS IS TO
FERRY PLANES
FOR THE R.A.F.
and
FAITH BENNETT, netress writer, has flown to England to ferry planes for the Royal Air Force.
Miss Bennett was born in London
·Tast
noon.
оп
B
vents
a pound, but coats of restaurant meals have been Axed at not more than 65 cents for lunch and $1.05
menu.
rung
res-
Standing Army Of Builders
Plans For Drive
In
for dinner. So steak is not on the A Westminster battalion of the himself against the wall as he was The building industry will be call- At home that night, the soy sauce Home Guard attached to the Queen's Hill unable to reach the windowed on to erect factories in large num
dumago and supply runs short, and you stroll Westminster Regt. of the K.RR.C.de. He managed to stretch him-bers, make good war over to the grocery store. A bottle are receiving instruction in the ritual self a little higher by placing his provide accommodation for hundreds of soy sauce? Where is your empty of mounting the King's Guard at right foot on the damaged frame of thousands of workers. To carry
Palace.
work of the ground floor window. out the vast programme a standing bottle, please? You can't get another chels progress in ceremonial drill The trapped man climbed out back army of builders will be maintained
Their progress until you return the old one.
Maybe you need a nail to repauwll decide whether they shall have wards while P. C. Mann took most under centralised direction. 30 years ago. Flying is her hobby something about the house. Nails the honour, for one week in the sum-of his weight on his right hand, Under the scheme now being dis- cussed between the Government and She holds both American and Brittals are obtained by permit from the mer, of representing the Home Guar lowered him on to his shoulders and pilot licences.
of your for this duty, which is normally then climbed down to safely. the Industry, all builders, merchants police. Oft In one corner
and plant hirers will be registered. "One of my brothers died in the dwelling, though, there will be a box done by the Foot Guards.
Only those on the register will re- wor,
another is in the Royal for odds and ends.
Ask For Release ceive materials or Government work. Navy, my sister is in censor at Ber- Bottle tops, string, rusty nails a cake. Other uses had been found
Licences Needed muda-they are all doing their bit rags, scrap paper, pieces of glass, and for the olls and fats. and I want to do mine," she said in all else that might be of value
Of Artist A neighbourhood movie may be ta New York before her departure. depoalted there for collection once your king after dinner. You will Ara plot in the Auxiliary Trans-a month. Such saving may not seem be there two hours and a half. The
MEXICO, DF-Sixty Mexican Miss Bennett will fly to amount too much when considered Government has said that is as long writers and artists, including Diego
to. RAF. In terms of one family, but it counts as a show may last,
Rivera, sent an appeal "In the name for more with millions doing their
of civilization to the Vichy Clover This is a nation which has Kone th Bennet!
Is the wife of Charles biESTE
through almost four years of conflet ment to-day asking for the release Bennett, Hollywood film writer
Botter Soaps Gone.
in the China affair, a "now ortier of Pablo Picasso, noted Spanish artist. She was on the London stage be Soap was just something else to is in the making, and like other Senor Picasso was interned after fore her screen career began in Bri- | buy, until recently. Then one day countries the Empire faces increasing deeing Spain during the civil war. tain. Her Hollywood films include the householder found the better trouble with its imports and exports. The messare to Vichy expressed fear Love in the ALP and Atlantic soaps off the market with the best This is the way the Japanese are Senor Picasso would be turned over Crossing
he could buy.costing bbout two cents trying to must those problems to the France Government.
planes
•port front, inctories
basca.
Faith
only
Private building costing more than £100 can now be undertaken undor licence. Further curtailment and a temporary cessalloss of paint- ing, decorating and unessential main- tenance work are expected to release 50,000 hands for more vital tasks.
One aim is to make the industry practically independent of Importe Experts have been standardising sizes of doors, windows and other com- ponents to economise in time, and materials.
Ultimately, the entire mass of fish in the net, except for a faw that may be tangled in the web and retrieved as the seine is piled in, is concen- trated in a loop or pocket formed as he last of the long net is dragged from the channel. The fish are, then tossed one by one into the cornery
tender.
up
to
You!
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ANSWER
Provide a fresti, unused cup for every drink. By so dolnir you¬ stop the spread of infectious
germs.
KEEP FIT EVERY DAY Drink plenty of water this Sanitary way,
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