Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 15
19,
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NOTICE
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
EVACUATION EXPENSES
COMMITTEE
The Evacuation Expenses Com- WANTED-Ladies to assist in Hong-mittee is still holding meetings to
Inbels. Please apply
to the
kong'a "V" Campaign by selling "V | deal with applications for Finan- Organizer, Box 601. "Hongkong cial Assistance, from husbands in Telegraph or telephone 20502. All Hongkong whose familles have proceeds to swell the Bomber Fund.
been evacuated to Australia, FOREIGN STAMI'S. Any kind needed by Fellowship of the Bellows who will make up. benefit of War Fund. Send any you have or can collect or can spare from your duplicates to F.D.B, c/o Hongkong Bank, Kowloon.
and
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soll
for
THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, Vol. X nos 3 and 4. Price.
sale at (postage extra). Now on Bouth China Morning Post Ltd.
NOTICE
be
DEFENCE REGULATIONS. 1910 The following rates will charged for malling single coples of the following newspapers abroad:- South China Morning Post Ching and Macao
10 cents per copy British Empire and Foreign 25 cents per copy Tho, Hongkong Telegraph.
China and Macao 10 cents per copy British and Foreign 20 cents per copy 25 cents Saturdays.
Parachute Into
Bridal Gown
BUFFALO, N. Y. (UP). -- When Richard K, West made a forced land- never ing several years
#go, te dreamed that the parachute he used would one day become the gown of his bride. But it was.
Miss Betty Lingle, Evanston, Ill., wore a bridal gown made from the parachute when she was married to West.
After the marriage, the couple left
for a flying honeymoon.
The
Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1941. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.
For the best and second-best entries.
Three Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO. First Prizes in each of the
$250
three Sections.
CASH PRIZES
SECTION ONE
$250
Interior scenes. Table Top and Still Life Studies.
(Ezluding portraiture, plants and
and flowers),
1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY
To enable this Committee to deal with all applications expedi tiously, fuil information must be given of the monthly salary and allowances which the applicant receives in Ilongkong and any other particulars upon which the claim is based.
All applications will be treated confidentially' and should be for- warded to the SECRETARY, EVACUATION EXPENSES COM- MITTEE, TREASURY, WINDSOR HOUSE, 3rd FLOOR..
G.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 22nd day of September, 1911, at 3 p.m., at the Oflices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Kau Pul Shek, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of
75 years,
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the enle, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
Boundary
UFS
REARWARD-The German blitz usually moves so rapidly that the invaded country hasn't any time or capability for taking prisoners. But apparently the Nazis have found a dif- forant situation in Russia. This radio picture from Moscow shows captured Gormans, Note that many of them are more boys.
Banker Spends
Vacation
Clowning Under Big Top
MT. PLEASANT, Pa. (UP).—For two weeks each summer, G. Wylie Overly, Mt. Pleasant banker, takes down what hair he has left, smears paint on his face, dons a red putty nose, big, flappy pants and over-sized shoes, and cavorts about a sawdust
circus ring.
CLUB CONCERT PROCEEDS FOR BOMBERS
Yesterday's Bomber Fund
The stoutish, round-faced, 40-year-old bank cashier, who recently was elected president of the Westmoreland County Bankers' Association, literally "clowns around" during his vaca- tions. Since 1937, he has spent his two-weeks off each year to satisfy a boyhood longing to be a circus clown.
Dish Washer BANKS
To Crack R.A.F. Pilot
Fought In Britain And France, Syria, Libya.
› A Canadian boy, who ar- rived in London with just. £2 in his pocket and joined the R.A.F. "when he became sick
· THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CUINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1833. Paid-up Capijal misijāstai............. £3,000,000 Reserva' Fung 7 ming............ £2,000,000 | Nestrvo Lialty of Probzisiors #1,000,000
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Bub-Agancies in Landon... 117-122, Leadenhalt giroet, E.0.3.
West End Branchi 14-16, Cookryse Streat, 8.W.1,- Manchester Branchi
32, Mosley St, Manchester, 7.
of washing dishes in a Strand ́AGENCIES AND BRANCHRI)
Bangkok
restaurant, is now at 21 one of Alor Star the ace reconnaissance pilots Amritsar of the Western desert, says Dalavia Godfrey Anderson, "Asso-Bombay ciated Press" war correspon- Calcutta dent with the R.A.F., writing from the Western Desort.
Agencies:
Hongkong .Rantoon
Hollo
Ipok ..
Karachi
Klang
Kolo
Kuala Cliva Street Lumpur Fairilo Pince 'Kuching Canton.
This Pilot-Offeer, who closely re- Cawnpore sembles a youthful Jack Dempsey, Cebu has had several narrow escapes." Ile Colombo hus fought in Britain, France, Greece, Delhi Syria, and Libya. His latest exploit Haiphong was when, on American Indepen- dence Day, he shot down n big Sayola bomber near Rhodes while flying a Glenn Martin,
"I hope it was crammed with generals," he told the mess on his return.
Narrow Excoper
Salgon
Bemarang
Seremban
Shanghai
Singaporo
Billawen
Saurabaya
Talping
Medras
Tientsin
Manila
Tongkali
Medan
(Bhuket)
New York.
Taingiao
Pelping
Tokohama
(Peking) flankow
Penang FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
and
CURRENT 'ACCOUNTS opened FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other. Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest While bombing Vichy troops near allowed at rater obtainable on application. The Bank's Head Ofer in London Beirut he got a bullet wound in the undertakes Executer and Trustes buri- head, and several shrapnel splintersness, and claims recovery of British around his eyes. He is one of the Income Tax overpaid, on terms which
ascertained at
Any
W... EVANS THOMAS,
few pilots to have successfully baled maybe
Agencler and Branches, out with a parachute at only 300 fect.
After Dunkirk, his Blenheim fell victim to German anti-aircraft fire. He waited till every member of the crew and baled out, then jumped himself. He hit the ground with ruch force that he lost consciousness,
of its
Manager.
POST OFFICE
The following changes in postage
and recovered to find himself lying rates will be effective us from 16th
25 yards from the burnt-out machine. September 1941,
He returned to Britain in a "bor-
rowed" French bomber.
One of his most during feats in Macao and China Libya was to shoot, up Bonitna New Zealand by air Aerodrome, near Benghazi, flying
via Kangoon
Letters Postcards
each
$0.04
$1.85
$0.00
per 4 oz
$1.80
his Glenn Martin so low that the Europe all countries $3.50 bottom of the fuselage almost skim- air mail surcharges per 11⁄2 oz med the ground. Several planes by air to U.S.A. and burst into flames, and German sol-onwards by sea diers
scattered and were mown down.
· Porcel Post Service to Japan is temporarily suspended, He had, a chance to return to Canada after his recent wounds in The public are reminded that it is Travels With Wife Syria, but refused. ' "You can't leave a breach of postal regulations to hobby," a daugther, Louise, 13, ac-
When he first started his clowning," he said, Hazing over the desert, enclose in a postal cover communi- but perhaps he was thinking of a cations intended for persons other companied him on his trips, but now girl in Cairo he hopes to marry in than the addressee. "she's too sophisticated," Overly said. September. As a result,
his wife
now travels with him on the "vacations,"
A modest, dapper, typical banker
citizen, Overly sometimes cupl talises on his experiences by giving lectures, and in many cases making
This season, Overly divided his time between two big-time collections tent shows. His first date-was the Russell Brothers' PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. included an anonymous donation of $1,000: with
Alan $503.10. being the monthly contribu- circus, beginning July 7, in Ver- lion for August from the Hongkong Police Force (All Cantiagents and Clerical Staff).mont, and continuing for a week. and $463 from the Craigengower Cricket During the week of Aug. 4, he
Туре representing gratifying proceeds joined the battery of clowns the "Cosmopolitans" on Wednesday night. With Ringling Brothers, Barnum The Fund-ins now seached a total of & Bailey cireus in Chicago.
It all began, Overly says, when as a boy, he carried water for the ele phants in tiny circus. That start- ed me," he mused,
No. of Sale
Registry No.
Kowloon
Locality
Kau Pul Stick,
Between Kowloon 3003 & 4141.
¡Measurements
R. F. W.
as per sale
plan.
Upset Price
[Contents in
2.200
Ann. Rental
$1,650
The purchaser of the lot will oe required to pay to the anctioneer
in cash the sum of $165.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im-
Club,
from the concert given at the Club by
82,525,703.02. The following in the latent fist:
•
To the Downfall of Swine Iller" # Ono Kiten given away. by his
Champagne
10
1
Anonymous
1,000
П
htra B. C. Tavadin (in apprecia-
tion for watch
fowed by Palice Reserve,
we Purcline of Bird's Fertilizer
Dr N, P. Karanjia ........ Mr King W. Chan (prize from
Fastern Athletic Association) Mary Ediraanston (fourteenth
donaGordon, Lid.. (monthly
Messe
donation)
langkong Poller Force (All Con
ingents and
Clerical Staff) August DANKRAN Craigengower Cricket Club (pro- ceeds of Concert by the "Connic politans" on 17.941)
2nd-$40. 3rd $30-4th $10-mediately after_the_fall_of_the Sale of Shanghai I.A.F. Associa
SECTION TWO
Portraiture.
1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10
SECTION THREE Plants and Flowers. 1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $50.
3rd $30. 4th $10
RULES
The following Rutes will govern the Competition!
-The Competition' is open to all
photographers,
2.-The entries awarded the
ford
Trophies for the best and second- best pictures in the Competition, will not be entitled to any other prizes.
1. The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Each graplas in each Section, entry must be accompanied by form which will be published during the period of the Com petition, and which mat be posted on back of entry.
-The right to publish any or all of the entries a reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.
murt entered All photograptis have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered th other Competitions are ineligible. 6-No responsibility will be accepted
for non-delivery of, lusa of, or damage to entries 7-All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured photo graphs are ineligible. #--Plotures submitted in sepia tones
should be accompanied by a. smaller print in black and white. 9.--No picture to entered in more
than ang Bection, 10-Mounis to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following stres:-10x12, -18×20.
11.-No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Members of the Staffs of the
Hongkong Tiograph
South China Morning Post.are nut
permitted to compete.
13-The decision of the Judges shall
to Anali
14. At the conclusion of the Com.
petition, entries will be returned
to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven dayu. 1. The thre at alisson is strictly
forbidden,
NAME
ENTRY FORM
SECTION
ADDRXER
Please
hammer, the balance of the premium being paid in accordance with the Gonditions of Sale,
G.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 22nd day of September, 1911, at 3 p.m., at the Olees of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land, at To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further form of 76-years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) 'will be required to deposit with at authorised ellicer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred |dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Attor
Na. of Sale.
Jalad Lot
Registrý No.
Inland Lots Nos
Ha Heung Road.
To Kwa Wan.
** No. 4120.........
Between Kowloon
Boundary |Measurements
N. B. E. r.
>e reelset teet
as per sale
pin.
The purchaser of the lot will be required to pay to the auctioneer. in cash the sum of $834.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im mediately after the «fall of the hammer, the balance of the, block letters and parte premium being paid in accordance theso forms on back
with the Conditions of Balo.m
Entru.
Goa
GO
10
And from that day on, the bank cashier explained, "I never gave up the idea that some day I would be- come a professional clown."
Builds Own "Props"
a
4.00 Although he obtained a job in the
Mt. Pleasant bank, and became state banking examiner before be- coming cashier, he found time to see
every circus that played for miles 363.40 around, read every book on the sub- ject he could find, and bullt his own
charity appearances. The bank direr- tors, he reported, "never say a word" about his clowning.
This year was his drst with the Ringling Brothers show, his previous appearances being with the smaller Russell Brothers' unit, where he has many friends,
is
A lifelong friend of Overly also has been bit by the tent show "bug." He Clark Queer, editor of the Mt. who Pleasant "Weekly Journal," yearly takes a frenk show on tour with a carnival.
UNITED U.S.A.
"props" for the time he would get MEANS “NO WAR”
430
the
Hun "V" Badges (One for 13 and 7 at $3).........
10
8T VINCENT DE PAUL
chance to use them.
The Committee to Defend America
Finally; in 1937, after much leller- writing, Overly got his chance with by Alding the Allies held a rally in the Russell Brothers' circus, which the, Brooklyn Academy of Music ro- was playing Mt. Pleasant at the time, cently. The Society of St Vincent de Paul
Edgar following te has not missed a summer since acknowledge receipt of the donation in memory of the late Mr A. C. then.
Botelho; -
Mein, $2.
EMERGENCY RETJIGEE COUNCIL
The S. C. M. Post has received the following donation to the Emergency Refugee Council Food Klichenst
Boys of the DBS. Cinas 4A. 1040;
"BLIND GIRLS' PICNIC
The S. C. M. Post has received
33
the following donation to the Wind Girls I'ienic:
Mrs D. C, Tavadla, $10.
AWAITING COLLECTION
Ansell Mowrer, Chicago
"Cally News" writer, listed na ren- This year Overly could have play-sons why Amerien should go to wat ed a two-weeks stand with either the at once the need to create a sense Ringling or the Russell shows, but of dire urgency and provoke a salu- chose the split turn to avoid making lary war psychosis."
He said it would result In the a long jump with one circus.
Overly fashioned his own make-up, abolition of strikes and that by con- as well as the "props." He musses his voying, or sonte menns we would be graying
and receding hair, applies sure our material got lo Britain. false
Senator Claude E. Pepper foll, bushy eyebrows, points large whites, adds a red pully nose. however, that His customary costume is a dress suit out of war only if President Roosevelt with a
shoe-string tie.
circus crowds as well as those of the
Anierica could stay
His net seems to go over witli the nation "the support of the united:
A third point of view at the rally,
made by
Donations for the following Organisa-full-time funsters, Judging from the attended by, 1,000, was
ho has Herbert Agar, editor of the Louis- tions await collection at the office of the applause he receives. And S. C. M. Post: Emergency Refugee Coup trouped with the biggest names it ville "Courier-Journal," who said cil: Food Kitchens Fund: St Dunston's;} S.P.C.A.: BF.R.DC.: St John Ambulance clowndom," who, he said, always Nazism, was "revolution against civi-
bend over backwards" to be nice. lization" Brigade; Blind Girls' Plente,
Under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Mark Young, K.C.M.G.
THE TIN HAT BALL
at the
PENINSULA HOTEL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Dancing to the Band of
The 2nd BATTN. The ROYAL SCOTS
(By kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. McDougall, M.C. and Officers)
and
ART CARNEIRO AND HIS BAND
CABARET by CAROL BATEMAN.
Tickets $5 including supper, now on sale at The Hongkong and Peninsula Hotels, Moutrie's, Anderson's, Tsang Fook Plano Co., S.C.M. Post,
TABLES SHOULD BE RESERVED WITHOUT DELAY.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official: Summary, issued yesterday, is:
Buyers
Union Ins. $440 11.K. Steambonts $10.00 * Docks $19.60 Providents $7.45 Hotels
$4.25
Humphreys $t Realties $4.15 Chinese Estates $100.25 Yaumati Ferries $24 Lights "N" $2.50
"O" $25
"N" $9.40 Cements $17 Watsons $13.25
Lane Crawfords $0.20 Win Powell $1.65 Constructions -"0"_$1.75.
Sellers
Docks $19.75 Prov:dents $7.65
Hotels $4.30
Lands $38.50
Trama $18.40
Lights" "O" $7.00 Electrics "N" $13.75 Cements $17.15 Watsons $13.75
Vibro Piling, $7
Sales
Bank of East Asia $70 Union Ins $442/40 H.K. Steamboats $11 Cocks $19.75/70 Providents $7.50/.53 Hotels $4.20/30/25 Lights
Lights "N" $2.55
Electrics "O" X.Ris $24.25
Electrics "N" $13.75
Coments $17.25/15-
Ilopes $10.00/00 Dairy Farms $10.75 Watsons $13.45/50 Lane Crawfords $0.10
The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is tem- porarily suspended:-Yunnan, Sze- chuen, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fukien (except Amoy and Kulangau). Kwangsl, North and East of Kwangtung.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Servico"-San Francisco dale, 19th September .....Sept. 20. Air Mail by “Pan American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco dale, 30th September......Oct. 1›,
OUTWARD AIR MAILS Friday, Sept. 10 Ale Mall by Air to Rangoon to con- nect with the "Brilish Overseas Airways,"
G.P.O.. and K.P.O.
Rek.
Ord:
..Sept. 18, 4 p.m.
Sept. 10, 4.30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 22
Air Mall by Air to Rangoon to con- nect with the "Britishi Overseas Airways."
G.P.O. and K.P.0.
Ref.
Ord.
Sept. 22. 4 p.m. .Sept. 22. 4.30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20
Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu,"
U.S.A. and Europé vía “Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Services."
.Sept. 20, 5 p.m. ...Sept. 26, 5.30 p.m.
K.P.O.
Reg. ord.
Reg.
G.P,0.
Sept. 26, 5 p.m.
Ord. .......Sept. 20; 7 pm.
Tuesday, October. 7
Air Mail for Manlia, Guam, Honolulu,
U.S.A. and
Kurovo vla
American Airways and
Atlantic Services."
**I'an
Trans-
.Oct. 7, 5.00 p.m.
.Oct. 7, 5.30 p.m.
K. P. O.
Reg.
Ord.
G. P. O.
Rek.
Ord.
.1Oct. 7, 5.60 p.m.
.Oct. 7, 7.80 p.m.
VICTORY BADGES
Brooches and Button-hole Type
A NEW CONSIGNMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED THROUGH THE SHANGHAI ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION.ES
Replicas of the International Code Flag Signal
Minimum charge.-
two dollars.
On sale at Morning Post Building.. ENTIRE PROCEEDS TO BOMBER FUND
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