I
Women
This Spaco Evory Day
BEAUTY ARTS. 'By LOIS LEEDS.
Posed for Lois Leeds,
Here's a quick "renewal" plan!
RENEW YOURSELF!
Don't say, "I'm too tired, I'll go Just as I am!" That's the easy way but It's all wrong!
your skin,
doing a good job of Jubrication. Slide into your tub crawl in or fall fn-but in you go Soup your body, then-just sit. handful of both salts or a dash of fragrant bath oli makes your soaking mpre luxurious.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1947.
Battle Against Hunger DUMBBELLS May Extend Beyond 1948
BY PAUL HARRISON
(Unlied Press Staff Correspondent)
Millions of people in Europe and Asia will, perhaps, struggle through the next few months in the hope that the new year of harvests, beginning in June, will, bring some improvement in their food supply.
But the fact is inescapable, according to Washington- experts, that the baille against hunger must go on through 1947, into 1948 and even beyond that for some.
The months from now to June are crucial. They are the months when, in the northern hemisphere particularly, many national larders nre almost
HIGHLAND NEWSLETTER empty
(By a Special Correspondent)
About the best any man in a hungry land can ex- pect in the period is that his daily fare will not be cut.
And after that? Well, after that.
to the men who according
study food problems, if there are no crop failures production of major food products may, in a general sense, exceed prewar production.
IS THERE WELL, NOT ANY WRITING EXACTLY,
ENCLOSED
BUT
IN THIS THERES PACKAGE! A CAN OF ALPHABET
SOUP!
PARCEL POST
PENICILLIN
CLOTS BLOOD QUICKLY
A practical scheme for the alleviation of the acute housing shortage in Inverness is being discussed, but its success de-
The blood-clotting action of pends on the co-operation of the
That would mean, they explain, for some patients, has been re- tenants of Council houses. So that about one-half the people in the penicillin, which might be bad far that co-operation has not world will have dntly rattans close ported in the magazíne Science been forthcoming to any great to the bare subsistence level, or no
than 2,250 calories
1950 extent. The situation is that biber
daily, by David I. Macht, of the Mt many three, four and five room Many experts consider thin1 2,000 ca
lories Is the minimum
ain Sinai Hospital, Baltimore. to sustain Council houses are under-occu- life.
the At any rate,
avallable food
Causes He finds that penicillin pied, while many of the smaller would mean a "hunger level for
blood to clot more quickly than houses are overcrowded. Mem-that half the world, it is sald
usual. half.
He cites an Hailan medical Of the other
one-third about bera of families occupying the would have daily railons as high report in which four persous larger houses leave home
calories.
which only slight took penicillin suffered from get married or to lake jobs else- ly where or
nutritional experts to be needed for Macht says also that reasons,
good health. Many of them the leaving, perhaps. only parents in a house intended for have the full amount of 3,750, The remaining two-thirds would cat well, that is about or in excess of live or six occupants.
2,750 calories a day.
for other
tojas weds the 2.550 calories said by bollam, blond clots in the veins.
Twenty minutes spent in freshen hg up will put you in the mood" for fun and relaxation. First of all, you owe it to yourself to look your When you feel cienn. besi, To look your best gives you tips of your toes to the top of your Confidence in yourself! This cond-pinned-up hair, get out of the tub dence results in greater Poise and and rub your body briskly with a more Charm of Manner!
turkish towel. Now you are ready
a grand after- for the cooling off.
cologne. This bath splashing with tingling feeling. cools and gives your skin a pleasant And don't forget to
reasons given by the pat your face with skin
all
The Council are inviting tenants in this position to change houses sa that the tenants of overcrowded houses may have more room and the couples or smaller familles may have a smaller house more suited to their] needs, and at a considerably cheaper rent.
who em- Mr
LEE THEATRE
mans TOWN DOOKING OFFICE:
W, HARING & Co. ALEXANDRA BLDG., GR, FL. BETWEEN 11.00 AM. AND 4.00 PM, DAILY
LAST FOUR SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 &-9.30 P.M.
HOWARD HUGHES
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The Outlaw
Introducing
JANE RUSSELL
•
Jack BUETEL Thomas MITCHELL-
Waltor HUSTON
RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS
TO-MORROW
EVIL GENIUS PLUNDERING FOR PROFIT AND PLEASURE!
THE
leveled by ALAN NEGRASCO
MASK
DIMITRIOS
Jerman Play by Prank Grubu -Prom ( Novel by Erie Dublar
CATHAY
STOREY
A WARNER HITI?
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GREENSTREET - SCOTT - EMERSON PETER LORRE - VICTOR FRANCEM
IRWANCHAL RODO, WANCHANA | would
due to the body's natural defences against em- bolism, such accidents from pesiell-
In are extremely rare.
A new drug that heals ulcers due in tuberculosis was reported by Ethan Allan Brown, of Tufts Medi- cal School, and L. W. Slanets, of the of New Hampshire University
Department, The drug is Blology. known as glycerite of hydrogen
Threshold Of Starvation While it is difficult for many per- sons to realise that half the world could be hungry when food produc- tion is above the prewar level, the experts are freshener.
simple,
If you pour it over ice cubes you'll Every feel as cool and crisp as lee-bax let-
sheluce!
If you are physically tired or Just mentally "low," it always "picks you up" to take a relaxating hot bath, du new hairdo, put on a new makeup. And, most blessed of
10
wenr
Hat! A new woman knows the "lift" that gets when she buys something new, gay and feminine, something which she doesn't really NEED, but WANTS!
When you decide
upons that twenty minutes to eliminate that "ired ferling," follow a plan for speed First, remove your old make up. Now pot on some rich nourish ing cream. The cream will melt on
Mini Makers 4 GABRIELLE
Dry skin calls for a two-point program-softening and stimula- tion. Softening takes a rich, dry- skin cream of the homogenizer type. Apply from the chin to the hairline. Allow the cream to remain on while you exercise the facini muscles. Grimace, pull out your checks, exercising all of the facial. muscles. After five minutes, re- move the cream or, if it is time for bed, leave un a thin film overnight, And use the enme kind of cream on your bands.
SIDE GLANCES
Now is the time to smooth On your foundation cream. Stroke and blend it carefully. A touch of rouge, your face powder, then do your eyes, The last gesture is Accent on your lips. Let down your tir, comb quickly and arrange. A big whoosh of body powder, then to your clothes. Look into your mirror. No, that's not a new woman, just a re- newed one!
HER GIRLS ARE YOUNG
FOR EVER
It is forty years since Angela Brazil wrote "The Fortunes of Phillipa" — forerunner of 49 novels of schoolgirl life.
Remember them? "For the Sake of the School"; "Three Terms at Up lands." "Monitress Merle." "The School on the Loch" and the others.....
Studies
Nations by the United Food and Agriculture Organisation show that before the war half the world's population lived literally on the threshold of starvation. house Great numbers of people in the Philippines, Koren, Java and parts of India,
in and lesser numbers
Alternatively the Council suggest that tenants who have rooms to apare should take in sub-tenants. They feel that it is unfair, for example, single woman should occupy a three or four apartment while families of five and six have to be content with two rooms,
that a
peroxide.
In the Essex County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, at Danvers, Maussachu- setts, Dr Joseph Goldberg used this preparation as a dressing un four patients, says the report.
These abscesses appear in various parts of the body, and one
patient had several in the chest, thighs and
In three
At present there are 402 under- Mexico, Colombia, Central America, lens. None of the four had respond- occupied houses in the town. The Peru, Iran and frag, are said by ex-ed to previous treatment. Council sent out letters to the oc-perts to have had diets averaging cases the abscesses healed complete- cupic of these houses Inviting cuplers
then to make an exchange, or to queen 1,800 and 2,100 calories ly. The fourth patient's abscess Is
then. The most fortunate belter-Associated Press.
will get 95 percent of help the housing situation by taking among them in sub-tenants, but so far they have such amounts this year. only had sixteen replies. Eight ten-
Living close to the health level
ants agreed to the proposal and the with 2,100 to 2,700 calories a day DOV GRUNER
other eight were undecided.
course.
Sunday Golf
were great numbers in Manchurfa, French Morocco, Greece, Italy, Chile, Brazil, Palestine and Turkey, accor
to these experts.
a factor. But there arc others---
BURIED
Jerusalem, Apr. 21.
Jewish extremists, eye-wit-
nesses revealed today.
British troops cordoned off the foothills to Mount Canaan and guarded every one of the 2,000 Jewish houses in-the-city-
It would seem that Inverness Town Eating 2,700 to 3,000 calories were Council are wasting time discussing Rumania, Austria, Germany, Poland, whether or not Sunday gulf should Spain.
Belgium. Uruguay, be allowed on the Culeabeck Club Yugo-ungary, the USSR, Bulgaria,
"This is a private club and Cubn, Finland, Netherlands, Czecho- Northern Palestine looked like The ancient city of Safadin It is for the members to decide Slovakia, and Paraguay. Most of whether play shall be allowed ດ them will have less than 95 percent a battlefront last Wednesday, Rumanin, during the burial services for Sunday or not. But the matter is of that diel this year. causing a good deal of feeling among Austria and Germany-and perhaps Dov Grimer and three
other the members themselves.
some others-will have less than 80 AL
members present
of this club percent. who wish to play on Sunday have to
Price Factor At 11 she had already begun go to Forres, Elgin or Tain, and
There were various reasons for poor writing stories; soon after leay- while those who are car owners can food consumption before the war. ing school she had a play pub-manage this easily enough the others Friec was, perhaps, the biggest fat- lished, and then began the novels must travel by bus, which is not so tor. Prople could not alford to eat.
convenient...
lent. There is also the ques-To a certain extent-price-is-suli that held a generation of school- tion of the additional cost involved. girls spellbound.
Another
point made by those who lack of farm machinery, inck of seed, The bodies were brought to the favour Sunday play is that summer lack of manpower, lack of fertilisers, burial site in a police truck, escorted visitors to the Highland capital will Lack el transportation and bad wish to play golf, and they will ex weather. These hoid down produc-cars.
by Bren gun carriers and armoured A previous check had been pect to be allowed to play on Sun- tion
made of every male resident of days. People from the South and tion.
The lack of money, of transporta-Sufad. The curfew was lifted only from abroad will be accustomed to tion or efficient rationing systems, when several hundred Jews gathered playing on Sundays.
in some arens, hinder efficient dis- She wrote many of them at her
for the funeral, On the other hand there Is a tribullon of what food supplies there cottage. "The Haven," in Pulperro, strong feeling in the Highlands ore.
Gruner, dressed in an undershirt, Comwall-tucked away at the end against Sunday recreation, and this These difleuitles must all be over-was barefoot. The other three were of a tangled, uphill path above the
has influenced a good many of the come to get back to prewar levels dressed in red prisoners pants. All fishing village.
members. But the general verdict of food production.. As the statistics the bodies were covered with while Her other home was with her
is that Sunday golf ought to be per- show, that is not enough. Another sheets splotched with fresh blood brother at 1, The Quadrant, Coven-mitted and that those who do not problem is nn increase in popula- try. It
there that Angela wish to play on that day are under lon since
prewar days-estimated Brazil-creator of the eternal school- no obligation to do so.
now at 7 percen; in spite of the girl-died recently. Her lust school
death toll from war and starvation. tale was completed last October.
For world peace, UNFAO experts berman. Sne was 18.
For some time past there have believe, these badly. underfed half been tentative proposals to establish of the world's people must get their Safod's Jewish colony apparently.
riding school at the Bught Park, Inverness, with a tree-lined track diets up to a minimum of 2,570 feared to attend the ceremony, which was watched closely by British in- this extensive area which calories per person per day.
To do this by 1060, the following telligence agents. Many Jews, how would be a sort of Highland Roiten Row. A definite move in this directimated: cereals production must corpses passed by.
increases in production have been over, looked out of windows as the tion has now been made, and Nairn man has applied to the Town increase by 21 percent over prewar;
The burlats took place in graves Council for permission to start this roots and tubers by 27 percent; su- enterprise. La kely tha
that the ap-gar by 12 percent: fats by 34 per- near the victims of the 1929 riots. plication will be granted.
cent; pulses by 80 percent; fruits Safad Cemetery alse is the burial Bught Park is in great demand and vegetables by 163 percent; ment plot of one of the 10 rabbis killed by these days.
It is to house Bertram by 46 percent; milk by 100 percent. a Roman king-United Press. Mills Circus, which is paying a visit
COPA 1947 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. M. AEG U. §. PAT, OPI
By Galbraith
going to stay for dinner, get out the good silver...
I don't want the whole town talking about our bent forks
and knives with broken handles!!!.
a
Highland Rotten Row
to the town for the first time since
n
1038, and the North of Scotland kilt. But Mr Rollinson is a York-
Amateur Athletle Association pro- pose to hold a sports meeting at this venue this summer.
Other events to be held at the Bught during the summer are the Northern Meeting Games, n carnival and sheep dog trials.
Favours Wearing Of Kilt Major-General Douglas N. Wim- berley, who commanded the 51st
shireman and his wife is a Nor- wegian, so the choice of an appro- printe tartan was a matter of some dimculty. The problem was solved 'when it was learned that Mr. Rol- tinson's mother was Highland. So the kilt is now being made. At the official presentation Mr. Rollinson was presented with a sporran as a token gift.
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At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
THRILLS & ACTION RUSHING YOUR WAY!
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HOT CARGO
Starring: William GARGAN
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Jean ROCERS NEXT CHANGE ERNST LUBItsch produCTION
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Starring:
SHOWING
TO-DAY
IN TECHNICOLOR Cone TIERNEY
Don AMECHE
MAJESTIC
At 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
IT'S THE SCREEN'S WARMEST CHAPTER OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE! Rosalind RUSSELL Alexander KNOX
"SISTER
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KENNY
with DEAN JAGGER RKO-RADIO PICTURE
Frank
SINATRA
NEXT CHANGE
Kathryn
GRAYSON
Cena KELLY
in "ANCHORS AWEIGH"
DROP IN U.S. PUBLIC CASH
HOLDINGS
Money in the hands of the American public has dropped US$1,000,000,000 since Christ-
mas.
•
analysts cite
Some Government the cust of living us a probable cause. They say prices apparently were forcing many persons" to dig into hoarded money to live. Much of the abnormal cash In circulation has been attributed to blackmarketing and tax evading. But officials be- lieve. sizable sums were legitimately The burial took about 15 minutes, accumulated by the people who do with a single eulogy by Rabbi J, Si-not put their money in banks or in-
stains,
Ledo Road. In
Good Shape.
hours.
vestments.
Both these thigs are in additlen to
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S. C. M. POST,
H.K. TELEGRAPH.
the high level of business operations, Sale Of UNNRA
which required businesses to keep greater amounts of cash on hand.
Public cash boldings in America
jumped from US$11,000,000,000 three weeks after Pearl Harbour to s re-
Christmas. cord of over US$29,000,000,000 last
The amount has declined steadily since. At present it is approximately US$28,000,000,000,--Associated Press.
Family Parted
24 Years
Fishing Boats
American fishermen will be. given the chance to purchase units of fishing boats built on Puget Sound as part of UNRRA China relief programme, UNRRA announced recently.
"Bids for 10 combination seiners and draggers were to be received in Washington, D.C., on April 21,
اليه
The reason for offering the craft to American fielethich, Is. UNRRA'S desire to take triplásis of the capital equipment phase of hid to consumer supplies." China and "place more clipliästh bri
The London Times' Rangoon
A Scottish mother and her correspondent reports that, ac cording to travellers just re- two daughters left by plane last turned from Northwest Burma, week for New York to rejoin, Longest Moustache Highland Division during the war, Mr. Murdo Matheson, 74-year-old the famous Ledo Road, despite for the first time in 24 years, favours the wearing of the kill. At yetired gamekeeper who lives in a lack of maintenance, is still in the missing member of the would be used for such
Money from the sale of the boats the annual dinner of the Inverness cottage near Invergarry, has a mous-
the family
Items na Patrick McEvinney, food and collon for China-Asso- Gaelic Society the other night he tache 20 inches long. In 1938 this excellent condition and
to use their in- was the longest moustache in Britain journey from Myitkyina to the husband of the woman and clated Press urged the Society fluence to encourage the wearing of but then it measured 24 inches. Mr. railhead in Assam can be com father of the girls. the klit and the lartan.
Matheson began the serious cultiva- He suspected that some people felt tion of this hirsute phenomenon when pleted by car comfortably in 12
McEvinney left his coat mining job that while the kilt, was all right for he was
In 1923 to find work in America, his lairds it was not so suitable for others
"Herrled 52 years, Watch
in the Black
The pipeline is being ripped up 54-year-old wife said before, board- who were less fortunately endowed, during the 1914-18 war but, know-
one suspects and sold in India, The Burma Road,ing the plane, and through a series except when they were boys in their ing Sergeant-Malors, teens. It is a fact that people who that the moustache was trimmed
from Lashio to Yunnan province, is of circumstances has been unable now being brought up to prewar until now to send for his family. wear the let in some parts of the somewhat during that period. In the Highlands are liable to be mistaken recent cold spell the
Caledonian condition. There is some bus traffic
It will be the fist time he has for tourists from the South. General Canal was frozen over but Mr. With China, and recently some tin
ore sold to America came out by seen the younger daughter Catherine, Wimberley considers that this is all Matheson can remember when it was
23, since, he left Scotland Ave months lorry. wrong. His own grandfather, :who frozen so solidly in 1895 that
Carts
before she was born did not own on acre, wore the kit were driven over it : 365 days in the year in the town of
The polley to be adopted regarding Fort-William Town Council have these strategic roads linking Burma Inverness.
now 'decided to start peat-cutting on with China and India will be among a caretaker in the Empire Stato a moor at Torlunday, a few miles questions requiring decisions by the Building since 1932, had sent -hor from the town, This sounds like Burmese Government after the elec- | £3, each week": "and with every good news for the householdora. The tions, the correspondent adds, All cheque camo a long letter Jelling ter at Inverness. Asked what he would only smag is that this quick-burning are remarkable enginenrinst achieve- || low he missed me and the children? like as a gift Mr. Rollinson chose à fuel is to cost 2s. 6d. por bag.
ments.
--Associated Press, "wel
The General's · advice scoms to have been taken to hoort by. Mr. J. IL Rollinson, retiring Mena Postmas
...
Mrs McEvinney said her husband,
Fraulein Takes No Chances Airline
officials at Frankfurt, Germany, who arrange nights to the United States for Americans and their German brides and flancees, 'said that one start Fraulein was taking no chances of being left bo hind.
Two soldiers have been in con- stant; correspondence with the air- line officials Both expect to take the same, fraulein' home, United Press.
reports