Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 29, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
THESE FOLKS
LET'S SHOW.
THINK
YEAH--- THEY THINK
THEM THAT
WERE EVEN
THEY'RE
BETTER
IT'S MEAN!
THAN
THEY'RE
VERY EXCLUSIFF!
MORE
EXCLUSIFF
US!
THAN THEY
ARE!
PRIVATE BLACH
PRIVATE PRIVATE BEACH
16
Refreshing!
NANCY
IT'S NICE HAVIN'. A GUEST. CARD·AT · A PRIVATE
BEACH --- BUT NOBODY
GIVES US
'A TUMBLE!
PRIVATE BEACH CLUB
ZERNIE
RUSSIANS TAKE IT CALMLY
"I have just travelled for three days along the rear of the Russian lines, and have found the whole country working at top pitch with complete calmness and confidence in victory," writes an Associated Press correspondent,
"From the Black Sea to Moscow, through regions rarely seen by foreigners, I watched the Soviet Union go to war. The mobilisation was accomplished without nny apparent hitch. Black-outs were established effectively, and trains wore running. promptly to time. Agriculture and industry appeared to be working at top speed.
"The countryside disclosed a striking contrast with that of]
· France a year ago Thero was no rush of refugees to tangle trans-; port. In fact, I found it difficult for a civilian to move about the country without real reason. The people were completely calm, and "war nerves" never renched these remote districta.
"The skies over Central European
Hess Now
A State
Prisoner
Rudolf Hess, who parachuted
into Scotland from Germany, is Russia appeared to be under absolute now graded as a "prisoner of Soviet control. Passing through Slate," the highest rank of pri- Tukraine I saw no German 'planes, soner during wartime.
not even scouters, such as poneitated Hess was first regarded as a deep into France during the early
days of the war.
Surprise
military prisoner. Some weeks later he was graded as a civilian prisoner.
Now le under detention some- "News" of the war came as a sur- where in Britain. prise to the provinces. The few The decision of the Government people sitting with me on 1 sunilt to treat Hess as a "prisoner of State" terrace at Bocht, on the Black Sen solves many dimculties, If he had been' coast, stiffened suddenly and listened detained as military prisoner he open-mouthed to the broadcast of would have been paid by this coun- But try, under Hague rules, a rate of pay corresponding to what he would re- eclve In Nazi Gennany.
Moleton's
Apeech on Sunday.
successive items of news over the radio' brought bursts of cheering and dapping from the steadily growing crowds.
Then, what we disbursed as off- cer's salary would be refunded by, Germany after the war..
It is unlikely that he receives
"My train.to Moscow was niled
A prisoner of State is entitled to with troops. As we akiried the privileges, but whether Hess will get Caudasus rugged, bronzed little them is not known. mountaineers, clutching a rifle in one hand and a loaf of bread in the other any pay, and grinning broadly, climbed aboard the train. At the large stations loud- speakers blared martial muste, while nt the smaller stops the village musicians played accordeons, Thic beaches close to the Rumanian wor
sector were closely guarded by 'plurics which patrolled the North Caucasian plains."
She Gets Her Film Frocks
Stamp Hobby In War-Time
UFS
R.A.F. ATTACKS Smoke begins to rise from a direct hit on a 500-ton ship' of a six-vossol German convoy, which was attacked by R.A.F. bombers flying at mast height, in Hellgoland Bight
in the North Sea.
Ford Plastic
►
Builds First
Automobile
DEARBORN, Michigan, Sept. 27 (UP).-Henry Ford displayed recently a plastic automobile, only the frame, motor and wheels of which are metal. The trim, cream-coloured coach was unveiled at the climax of this community's 15th annual
festival. slung ranchine swung slowly around the lighted field, but he was
Henry Ford was not present to hear the cheers as the low-
represented by Robert Allen Boyer, his young research chemist who for 12 years has been experimenting with the manufacturer's niden of utilising farm products in Industry.
Helps The Nerves LONDON-War has caused Amall boom fa stamp collecting, aj hobby_that__has been found_to_pre=
"Once
away.
on a tubular-
Ersatz
Found For Tung Oil
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP);
Boyer, who is only 32 now, of plastic mounted vide relief from the strains of war. said the plastic car was lighter, welded steet Traine, was rushed to the H. R. Harner, philatelie expert tougher and more economical public showing with its interior still. who conducts on auction of race than any
Unfinished, on the road. He stamps in London every, week, sald
The panels have a thickness of doctors are among the most enthu-thought its production in large mend the hobby to nervous patients, months-and possibly years steel without denting, Ford omelais-Two University of Minnesota siastic philatelists, and many recom- guantities is "at least", severally 3/16ths of an inch, but will absorb a blow 10 times us great as First free clothes coupons officially conceded for the show for the black-out.
not reveal the chemists have developed a pro- sald. They would is infected with
□ person
formula of the plastic used, business go to Bebe Daniels, the collecting germ, the hobby in- This is purely in an experimental
Production of 1,000,000 cars an- cess that may materially reduce deep concentration, which stage just now," he said. "Naturally nually with plastic l'odies, Boyer this nation's dependence on American star of "Hi, Gang!"volves now being filmed at, Islington. menns forgetfulness of outside in- we want to get into mass production said. would consume at least. 170,000 China for tung oil, an important
The Board of Trade has not yet)
fluence," he said.
'eventually but that will take time. tons of agricultural products and shellac and varnish base.. Prices are higher than before the For one thing, we'd have to build the 50.000 tons admitted that British films are en-war and some persons are investing plastics Industry from the groundMoreover, it would free thousands titled to any clothes concession.
Drs George O. Burr and J. their But coupons have already been a better investment that diamonds."
money in stamps, "which are up.
"Although we've been working terisis for defence.
and strategic ma- Peter Kass believe that by their delivered to more than one studio
process fats from common native The number of rare stamps in ex-with the idea of a plastic car for 12 for immediate needs, pending an istence is known and the price inter-years.
A completely new engine has been sources, such as corn and fin-| official rationing scheme for theatres nationally is the same," Harmer said, the shortage of steel and other ma-igned for the
the defence emergency afıd
car and now is seed, can be made to assume the and the screen.
under test. "Thus the owner of a rare stamp can terials
Boyer declined to reveal has speeded our progrant- Its specifications. Miss Daniels is having at least get its value in London, New York, me."
It is now powered properties of the imported tung two smart evening frocks made with Sydney, Cape Town' and, in peace-
80-horsepower V-8 engine. oil, The plastic car is a hand-made It has a wheelbase of 110 inches, the provisional coupons.
The process, Burr says, is, similar tline, at any continental city. model. Its body is made of 32 strips stands 634 inches high, Ove to six to that used in muking soap. It in- Inches less than most automobiles. volves heating of the common oils Although it now weighs 2,300 pounds for long periods and at high tem- Boyer aald the weight eventually peratures."
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Sept. 29th, 30th.
FITTINGS
AAA-
A A
ONLY
OFFERED AT
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DISCOUNT
IN ALL COLOURS
GORDON'S Ltd.
of synthetic chemicals.
of ions of steel
by:
|
would
be reduced less than one ton,
steel
er about 1,300 pounds less than a
car of comparable size.
Readily Oxidised
"The heating when carried out Ford said he was confident plastic the fat structure as to make it more under certain conditions, so changes
bodies rould be produced practic- readily oxidised," he explained.
J
This fuster
oxidation, which is
ally and economically:
"Plastic raw materials may cost a what makes Chinese lung oil superior little more." he said, "but we anti-
to common oils as a paint base, leads cipate
a considerable
saving as the to faster drying and A better result of fewer fabricating
surface
finishing operations."
and
Ford chemists have developed plas-
| ties from cotton,
when the treated oils are mixed with shellacs
and
Varnishes."
Anish In approximately
Kass and Burr have found that the wheat soy-beans treated ail produces a varnish that and corn. One consists of 70 per dries into a smooth, tough, non- cent, cellulose abre and 30 per cent. wrinkling resin binder, The mixture is molded tivo days-twice as fast as that mixed under 1,500 pounds of pressure per with non-treated olla. Tung oil niso, square inch. Boyer said I is su does the job in two days, perior to steel in everything but; tensile strength.
ני
Satisfactory
Ford himself tested the durability The Minnesota men's process as of a plastic panel 18 months ago by sumes particular importance now be Awinging an axe upon it. It re-use of the increasing difcuity of mained intact. When the same ex-
obtaining tung oil from a war-strain- periment was made upon a sleet Cd China. panel the axe cut through the metal.
Few Tourists Go
To Bali Now
process
Is A
So far, Kase said, "th
number of plants are investigating its possibilitick, however, and initial work
it appears to have bech
not being used commercially.
Esatferntory
A patent covering the process pro- vides that the product obtained may be, used in place of tung oil in var-
BATAVIA, Java (UP)--Beautiful nishes, paints, drying waxes and Ball, whose bare beaches und beat-lacquers. “ teous belles beckoned travellers from atar, has had. Its tourists boom blighted by the
the war.
́PARLIAMENT. SQUARE HAY
Statistics show that this glamorou Man with - scythes cut the long land of the Netherlands East Indies, grass in Parliament Square reconily. |bad only 1,382 Vialtors. In 1940, and Mr George › Hicks, Parliamentary of thicae only: 1060 were foreigners. Secretary to the Ministry of Works This compares with 4,104 tourists, and Buildings who went to super- |many of them Americans, in 1939, intend, at one time toole a hand him- Where cruise ship once called selfa, Thore hasn't been anything with-timestable regularity: At: Bali, like it in Parlament Square: ihes not hy lágios such excursions, verici Heyathu brhus Kungs commento dropped nachocolat
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