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BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Pored by Theresa Wright for Lois Leeds.
Play up your own Charm and Personality! STAR SHINE! Theresa Wright plays up hier soft, femininity-and that's appealing clevert Always put the Accent on' your own personality.
in the form of an exclamation point which was pinned to her Bluck faille purse, which matched her broad- brimmed picture hat.
Joe Stafford chose for wear it out- door parties a Red and White strip- ed cotton dress which features The White cotton "boxy" jacket with
wide fare in the back. The Jacket has turned-back cuffs of the striped fabric, stened by frogs of Red and White stripes. Joe wears her long, wavy hair caught up in a Ited snood.
Anila Gordon was seen lunching at the Brown Derby in Hollywood, in a boxy jacket and skirt. Jucket was of pink and heather tweed. It was belled halfway in the back, with a double closing in the front. A "Robin Hood" hat of Pink felt faunted a Purple feuther.
Gracie Allen was seen at Mocambo, which net skirt wearing a Black featured a peplum Jacket of Pink paillettes. Miss Allen wore, planed
her
ta
which
left pocket, PRISON CAMPS
sparkled against the paillettes. Natalie Draper was seen lunch- ing at the Town House wearing o print silk dress which emphasised the new short dolman-draped jacket. The dress had Black background with White exclamation Points printed on it, while the jacket was the reverse of this colour scheme. Miss Draper wore a diamond clip
Minale Makeyo 4 GABRIELLE
Climbing exercises are excellent, If you go into a gym you should usa the exercise bar for developing legs. If your legs are heavy, wear hose with pointed heel lines und be sure to select the deeper shades of Belge. And wear plain shoes and simple pumps. Thin legs look best In the lighter champagne Beiga tones, with square-hcel outine. Shoes with straps and a little orun- mentation are the most becoming.
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PROPOSED
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1947.
272 CHINESE SENTENCED TO DEATH
China's postwar trial of traitors and collabora- tors is gradually drawing to a close, but war crimes trials are expected to last well into winter, Reuter reports from Nanking,
Of 9,400 persons brought to trial on treason charges since VJ Day, 272 have been sentenced to death, 732 riven life imprisonment, 3,880 acquitted, and the remain- der jailed for varying terms. These figures were given by Dr Hsich Kwan-sheng, Minister of Justice, in his report to the People's Political Council on activities of jullicial organisations in China.
Collaboration CASCE have Kajang) dwindled following the Chinese Government's decree fixing the end of last year as the deadline
YOUR DOG
On The Scent for bringing charges against
FOST dog
like to
My clever their pets
bre, but the time given to tricks could be more profitably spent in teaching a dog useful things
carrying such bringing the master's, alippers, and retrieving lost objects.
traiter suspects, and it is ex- pected that all cases still pend- ing will be settled soon.
Dr Hsich's report disclosed that there are still some 2,000 cases of treason under. Investigation and an equal number pending sentence.
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Many Film Stars Said
To Be Reds
The House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee expects its Communism investigation of basket.
in, Hollywood to expose a "Red Network" running from top to bottom in the film industry, reports United Press.
This accomplishment develops from lessons in retrieving and in scent discrimination, where the dog learns to distinguish an objeet wom or handled by his
articles master from other
of
can
the same kind. All dogs distinguish,
Beents, have the developed than others.
but FOMC keenly sense Iore
Jater.
it
Lessons started in puppyhood, where the dog is encouraged to bring
beck master's glove and
he does rewarded when
will
dividends correctly,
Day
have seen a dog on a country walk with his master sent back over a mile to fetch some object spot: left behind at a plenic and a retriever I knew would of houses all go down a row exactly alike, find the one which his master ind just visited, go inside and pick up a spectacles case left behind in the drawing rocin,
LEO C. WILSON
•
Gaols in the Malayan Union WILD DOG OF
are becoming so overcrowded, that serious consideration 4 being given to the introduction of prison camps, particularly along the east coast of Malaya.
Prisoners in the 15 gaols in the Union Increased by 200 in the last two months, and the prison popula- tion today is approaching 3,550. The total capacity of all gaols is 4,000.
prison
for the
the war
Tulping, which before was the central long term convict Federated Malay States and is capable of housing 940, now has 800 Jong term "con- victs.
Kuala Lumpur prison, with ac- commodation for 600. Is ovċt- crowded.
In Alor Star, where the prewar normal prison population was 120, there are 500 prisoners today.
.....
Serious On East Coast.
In order to ease the strain, large numbers of convicts have been trunsferred from Taiping and Kuala Lumpur, to the large gaol at Johore Bahru.
BIKINI
The U.S.Navy has discovered that. Pluto, the wild dog Bikini, is a she and not a he.
Now Court'
He stated that in order to facilitate proceedings against alleged Chinese collaborators, the Chinese Govern- ment hnd authorised the creation of a now High Court in Nanking in April last year,
The Ministry of Justice, pursu- Ing a policy of "fair play", had issu- ed the following instructions to courts handling treason cases:
1. Severe punishment for those guilty of false accusations;
2. Rejection of accusations made by anonymous persons without con- crete evidence;
3. Investigallon of traitor suspects In case of wrong identliy;
4. Confiscation of traitors pro- perby itt in established.
Dr Isich revealed that the Chinese War Crimes Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Shih Mel-yu, President of the Kiangsu High Court, bed investigaled no less than 165,- 643 cases of war crimes involving 5,371 Japanese.
1,200 More
Waiting for trial at present are still some 1,200 war criminals whose cases are expected to be concluded by winter.
Special milltary courts have been oft up in Nanking, Shanghai, Feiping Hankow, Canton, Tsinan, Mukden and Taipei (Formosa) for trying
The Navy issued n communique stating that the Seabees on Bikini had found a wild dog and hoped to tame him before they return to the States".
The Navy went on to report that although the antecedents of Pluto were unknown, the dog Was of interest because it had lived on the Island since the atomic bomb ex- was plosion lust
summer. Pluto described as having the build of a terrier and the height of a springer spanici.
Seabees John Donoro captured Pluto with a hambone.
such cases.
Representative Richard M. Nixon, mid the public hearings to start on September 23 "will be sensational". actors, ^
of top-notch parade writers and producers will testify.
Nixon, a member of the Com- mittee, sald it will identify by name those persons in Hollywood who are tled up with Communist activities. It now has a group of special in- vestigators at work on the West for the evätence Coast collecting hearings,
The
Committee's best weapon against Communism in the movies, ho said, is exposuro. He said some producers are already "jittery" for disclose fear the Committee will some of their highly pald stars as
and, thus "fellow travellers" their box-office appeal.
Nixon
Parlour Pinks
said the Investigations would disclose that some of the "top people" In Iailywosd are engaged in Communist activities, although they are not necessarily nationally known.
In-
**Some of the bigger stars volved are more parlour pinks than active Communists", he said. "We people want 1o get at the real behind this".
members Nixon said Committee have becomo increasingly concerned lines and pro-Communist Offences gathered in the past 18 with months included 'murder, mass sequences "slipped into" some mo- slaughter and organised intimidation, tion pictures. rape, torture, malicious bombing, the "In case of another depression destruction of religious relics, rob- ilke 1932", Nixon said, "we don't beries, confiscation of private proper- I want
ies, and forced detention.
ta Hlic up the people Culprits in these offences included position ordinary citizens. Japanese servicemen, gendarmes and through this important medium for
Influencing public opinion."
ties,
panese war criminals are now on trial
the Communists to be in a
Dr Hsieh added that 20 top Ja- The Committee will tee off its by investigation with testimony at the International Military movie song writer Hans Elsler. The Tribunal in Tokyo with Chinese pro-composer in a brother of Gerhart secutors participating in the
pro-Eisler who allegedly was once a top and who ceedings. Reuter,
agent of the Comintern 1s held for trial in Washington on passport fraud charges.
communique. It established INSECT LANDS ON
HIS HIGH NOTE
Then the Navy issued another
has positively that Pluto is a she, not a he, as the Seabees previously sur- the com- mised. Triumphantly munique announced: "She will ride back to the United States aboard The overcrowding situation is to the USS Chilton to share honours the Memphis Open Air Theatre's serious along the East Coast that with Pig-311 and Goat B. O. Plenty a suggestion has been made that as the famed survivors of the short term prisoners should live in Bikini atomic blast"-United Press, prison camps and work in quarries, bridges or on roads under guard, following the system in East Africa, That suggestion might even be considered to relleve the ncule con- gestion, in west coast gaols-if the prison population continues to rise,
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Romolo De Spirito, tenor star of
"Marthn," was singing like an angel, SWING
and boogie-woogie
welcome The singer was reaching for a.ik
will thusiasts high note in or of his principal orginality with which Dizzle Gillespie arias and his voice soared out into introduces "Bebop," the latest style the night. Attracted perhaps by in jazz which he created. the melody, came an unsought ad- mirer.
De
He and his orchestra play "Our Suddenty Splito gurgled, Delight" and "Good Dues Blues," Ainer intro- choked, and the beautiful high note and there could be no went into a power diye. A little duction to Bebop thin Alice Roberts green aphid. perhaps wishing to singing "Good Ducs, Blues" to a Walter Grimakli, Tottenham's
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There are some neal Badly. The audience, in tribule do of duck's egg blue which will not his gallant effort, broke into a loud strings and clarinet by Artie Shaw clash with any bride's dress, His round of applause.--United Press, and his Orchestra in "I've got you under my skin" and "Anniversary Song." (Parlophone I. 3042.)
By Galbraith planning a new register offee. There
first office in 1012 ns in a convert-
cd stable.
Some propic are practically re- gistered with him for marriage. Some he has married two or three times, and one woman to her fourth hus band. One bride's father said he would not be bothering him again, is the girl was the last of hig-17 children to get married there.
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somebody play "Gotta get me love" from the film "Duel in the Sun.". (His Master's Voice' BD 1100,) | The singer is Stuart Foster, there is something of Jack Teagarden's
1. Where is the native home of quality in the way he sings. He the Hottentol?
2. What country. control Zanzi-
iso has a Crosby-like case in style. About 1940 Benny Carter and his A Orchestra recorded "Scandal, In Flat." Now it has been released over here. There is some pleasant 4. What two continents are some-plano playing from Eddle Heywood
bar?
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Whose servant. -
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times referred to as Eurasin?
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"Savoy Stampede." (Columbia DE About how many persons were 2312.) beheaded by the guillotine during the Reign of Terror?
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