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This Space Every Day,
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Leeds.
Make your hair shine and sparkle,
HEADY STUFF-!
Dry Shampoo. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stift froth
Apply
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this to the scalp with a tooth brigh Let it dry. Brush out with a stUT- trialled brush. This will leave the hair glossy and fluffy. An excellent shampoo for sick-a-bed Indies.
Henna inae. To give a Reddish
Henna Klint to dark hair, use a
'nse. Sterp two tablespoonfuls henna leaves in a pint of boiling water. Pour it over hair as a final rinse.
Bleached ha'r often gets dry and digleult. Here is an idea for you. Hot water should not be used. Use 'Tar and Het Oli Shampoo,
A only
cool water verging onto cold. really
Your shampoo mixturs should go cleansing
very shampoo,
the hair. beneficml for neglected hair. Mix toured gently through equal parts of hot olive oil and far Get someone to do this for you, if soup liquid. Massage on the scalp, possible. Work the shampoo into a use warm water to rinse but all lather and massage gently, ints A vinegar rinse is an the scalp. oil, gradually adding cool water.
Sodn Shampoo. To fluff up "at", excellent way to finish. oily hair, add one-half teaspoonful
to of soda
liquid soap cup of shampoo. Use this type of shampoo unly
occasionally as the soda o quite drying.
then
Ruse. After the hair is thorough-
ly clean and perfectly shampooed
you might like a rinse.
Art Inspires Fashions
and ok
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1947.
Chinese Resales Of U.S. Surplus Stores
By WALTER LOGAN
(United Press 8ta If Correspondeni),
The Chinese Government, which obtained vast supplies of U.S. Army surplus property at a fraction of the cost, is reselling much of this equipment to American firms at extremely high profits, authorita- tive American sources have revealed.
SOLOMONS
These sources said that much heavy equipment, such as rond building machinery, was bought for as low as U.S. 85 cents a
HAS LABOUR ton and that in at least one case
TROUBLES
Trade unionism has broken
an
a 20-ton crane was sold to American firm for U.S. $18,000 -half of its purchase price
new.
One of the biggest selling items
out among coconut. pickers in is tractors, almost unobtainable in the Solomon islands, and 7,000 the United States without a waiting period of up to two years, and n natives have gone on a sit-down shipment of 122 of them was sold strike for a 1,200 percent wage to an American firm for U.S.$700,- increase and a European diet. 000. This was part of the equip- Accounts reaching Suva sald thement purchased at 85 cents a ton. strikers have formed a sort of jungle trade union called the "Marching Fluit"
on the island of Malalta, nothing illegal about action of the Chinese Government in, reselling miles cast of Guadalcanal, and are getting ready
present their surplus property to American Arms, damands to the British Administra-but expressed indignation that "the
deal whole surplus property tion based on Guadaleṇns).
handied in such a haphazard man-
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According to AR -airmen
who ner." Ianded
Malalts recently, the natives
been drilling with spears and blowpipes and rotting thelr war candes as part of the preparations to negotiate their demands.
there was
Equipment Sold
is de- Some of the equipment
South America anti. is stined for said to include highway construc- tion machinery which China needs rebuild its war-torn highways
which is being sold "because China needs dollars more." China is retaining some of this equipment for her own use.
John F. Nicoll, acting British Cem-to missioner in the Western Pacific, but denied reports that the natives had declared war on the British and were preparing to invade Guadalcanal, but he admitted there are serious signs of open disturbance.
The government has offered the natives a 100 percent wage increase, firm in their but the natives are demands for a 1.200 percent rise,
which would bring their/wages upi to £12 pounds e month,
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equipment classified as "heavy." Ono companies was said to have. pur- chased 18 shiploads of material on Manus Government. These
Island from the Chinese
stores also sold to China at a fraction of the play of n hand? Many mistakes were you rview the bidding in your own mind several times during.
ther
the
cost and included **almost
than everything from more
1,000 can be avoided by going over tors of toilet paper to 250 tons of bidding, and lack of bidding as woll. fountain pens. Sumo of this Bidding on today's hand was rather
The natives learned about unionsmaterial Is being sent directly and
sit-down strikes from troops South America. who occupied Guadalcanal during the Pacific war. They also learned to like the strangers' diet and now demanding that they be· fed are tinned meat, biscuits, sugar, tea and similar things. The lenders Rule"
were
simple, but nevertheless important In
to
the
The opening lead
e play of the cards,
was
won
In tummy with the dummy
queen of clubs and small diamond was led. South played low and West, won with the
dunmy with the jack and another queen. A small heart was won in diamond played. South won this with the ace and North showed out.
South returned a club. declaror played low and North won with the king. At this point North ted the deuce of spades.
Appalled By Methods American representatives visiting Okinawa, site of the largest stores of surplus equipment, palled at the method by which it of the "Marching has been handled. In many cases, surplus SC113 of Malaita they said, purchasers of headhunters, ance the must savage equipment indicated which pile they wanted and U.S. Army personnel shoved i together into a compact hands, It is not ding at all four The sit-down striice has been mass with bulldozers; [* uf
declarer should go up with dummy'a going on for almost a year and the
Leman rinses do seem to "apericle Britain's leading dress designers up" Blunde hair. Add the juice, of have been visiting art galleries and two lemons
10 a pint of warm tuming up their books of old masters. and water.
the French impressionist เฟ
schuols Camomile Rinse, Strep 2 ounces post-impressionist of Camomile flowers in a pint of her own Edwardian portrait painters boiling water. This makes a strong to seck Influence from the world of tea. Use It on Blonde hair to keep furt. Jt, light.
Minule Makeryp 4 GABRIELLE
Fool your "public" by looking New and all dressed up! It's done with mirrors, you know. Look your self over carefully. Do your hair a now way, Wear some new bit of costume jewelry or a new.collar and cuffs set, they are "new" - ngulu. Complement this with a lovely new makoun!
SIDE
GLANCES
This season, indied, couturiers an indulging in a prewar spate #inflotnces" all derived from great paintings.
The work of Renoir has inspired styles with nanew shoulders, fitting Bodies and tiny waists, while a notable couturier introduced excruz dresses as portrayed by the famous portrait painter, Surgent.
Howeve Dignificant the style change, undoubtedly
take it will
down - the to break many seasons Englishwoman's allegiance to square shoulders and shum, smooth hips.
interpreted in its
accent,
of ways. in
fresh in- Kiven variety terea in the export collections ples couturier
stated recently by the members of the Incorporated-Soc
of London's Fashion Designers,
afternoon dresses,
Although
ifferd for 10-im lines are stil
there are mure daytime trocks with full skirts gathered below a small Waist and fitted diaphragm.
1177-
One couturier continues to devciop his padded-hip scheme, while other introduces inverted pleats and pipings at side seams to give a flat
ened-out back and front silhouette.
His suit skirts are built up above
are
in the world.
the
to see that
cepra production, the only industry bulldozers shoved 10 trucks
In one case, it was said, army king of spades. But without know-
side-
ing the location of the cards, could
When I saw
the hand played, declarer went into a huddle and a small spade from
of the islands, Is virtually at a standstill. Billions of coconuts are ways into a "compact pile," utterly you, gure out the right play? rotting on the ground and the destroying the 10 trucks. plantations are thick with brush. Only a few hundred natives are still working, compared to 5,000 before
the wor
dummy. South won with the queen. and this was the play that defeated the hand,
The surplus property on Olciniwafinally played owned by China is stored in a large fenced off aren four miles long and three miles wide, where an almost Men who have been in the islands olid mass of every type of ma- for years say the big day of wealthyed into solid formation
chinery imaginable has been press- enechut plantations is gone. While
bulldozers, assistance sopra prices are high, the natives
with
will work their own small plnia equipe-ranging from Jeeps tions and refuse to work for wages, -United Press..
Peas Traced
Back To
Tutankhamen
Seventh - generation purple-
of
the waist while pipings, sometimes pod peas from the temb 'n contrasting colour, appear suits, coats and dresses, He uses Egyptian King Tutankhamen
and small who died 3.300 years ago-are pattern: recds for suits. Hrowing vigorously in the gar- models feature iomaine, rayon jorary den of Mrs Florence Thompson and crepe for evening wear.
of Seattle.
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Semurg Felinay
"Hello, Mr. Jones! I guess you don't know me, but just ask Mrs. Jones about the butcher who saved those julby. steaks for her during the war!"
"I may sound fonastic, but have records of ownership which trace the seed right back to the lomb." Mrs. Thompson said.
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B.C.
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West
est should have played the king from dummy without moment's hesfiation. the
North had shown out of round, so Must | diamonds on the second
declarer knew that South had five lo
diamonds to the net-king-ten. If South niso held the ace of spades, would he not have opened the bid- ding? Had declarer reviewed the bidging in his own mind, he would have known that it was Impossible for South to have the ace of spades.
ruined now just junk, but much of it is almost brand new equipment which has suffered only from the weather,
Government officials who have seen this equipment loaded on ships for transportation to China or else- where reported that U.S. army per- sonnel were "indifferent, slow and inefficient" and recommended that In future other stevedores be em- ployed.
NEW RECORDS.
Olivier says his piece
QIDNEY TORCH and his Orchestra bring now vitality into the age- as tunes of "The Merry Widow" on Parlophone E, 11455.
Another old dvourite,
!
"Try a
It all started, she said, when she little tenderness," is sung and played saw several newspaper accounts of with real artistry by Turner Leyton the growing of a few withered peas (Columbia FB 3818). The tune was near King Tut for the lean written some years ago by Reg
was buried in 1350
Jimmie Campbell years when he
jand Connelly, Harry Woods, who came over here to write music for Jessie Matthews' Taken to England, the pens were flms. It now being given a now planted. In 1936, some of them lease of life, The reverse side 1s were sent to Maj. Walter Dyer in devoted to "How lucky you are," America. His bloomed just like which is poor material for such a their predcressors, Some of his good performer as Turner Layton. crop was .given Col. Horkar
Holden
from of Orlando, Florida
whom Mrs. Thompson obtained speaking,
seedlings.
Interesting excerpts of music und parts from the film "Henry V are presented by His Tho Mrs. Thompson sent the seeds, Master's Voice (C3583-0). plus
Philharmonia Orchestra la conducted ownership records, Egyptain Oriental Muscum in San by the emporer of the score, WIL
recording Jose, Califorma, last February. Five taken from the sound-track of the
Ham Walton. The healthy pods were sent to her
Bim-but has been made in
10
the
#5
not.
the
Sir
Mre. Thompson proudly shows recording atudies, and the engineers her two seven-foot vines covered should be proud of the results.
orchid and deep rose blos-Laurence Olivier spanis a considera. soms. "I treat them with n great ble part of th; text. dest of -respect," she added.
with
Fantasy Hair Styling
Australian stylo nptes, observed i the "ientuny" hule-styling compell- tion or a hairdressers' convention Tir Sydney:..
One shoulder, arin, and one side. of the face of one model · were pakiled bronze. Her hair was tinted gold, and ong nito-the bronzail side was dressed in Gredinn style, while the othar aldo was dressed in
a Louis XVI style,
Robert Tredinnick
Check Your Knowledge
1. Locute the Hebrides, or Western Islands.
2. Who are Pitcairn Island?
.the inhabitants
of
3. From what regim are both Christianity
and Mohammedanism descended?
4. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was the favourite courtier of what queen?
5. What is the source of Insulin? 6. Arc there any glaciers in Airica?
(Answers on Page 4)
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Rupert and the Jumping Fish—29
The sea serpent smiles indulgently. ́at „Rupier's” question. “I mal fie yout because the little person who ́ill says he knows you and Be thinks you are beches the liti clever." "But who ever can it hear.: ** I'll take you and aboar lainn to you," says the other, "My mos telli me, you canie, hisce in a thef, boat, but, we needa't am thre Dending his long muck, he takes hold. of Repers metly, but firmly by the bark of his jagway and, balding hiy -high in the mic, prinsa away? “ALE RIDETY, REFERVÉD
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THEY MET IN
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Starring
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