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By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Leeds.
Lois Leeds wishes you a Happy New Year and tells you how to have one.
A NEW YEAR!
Well here's Now Year, a year in which to do all of the things that you have promised yourself!
I know of no better plan than one for your Health and Beauty.. Lay and be your plans carefully now sure to keep to your self-imposed
schedule.
It is important to go over your food and diet plans. If you are overweight, record your weight now. Then start a sensible Food Control plan. Of course, if you don't feel well, consult
physician. If your
the are underweight, you
abovo advice ta for you, also.
A set of exercises should be pin- ned to your work sheet.
Study your skin, your hair, your contour, then set to work. Deep eleansing for skin beautification and Improvement, new makeup colours which will "do something" for your own special skin and hair colour. Get a new outlook on life--read books which will give you a new slant and provide food for thought as well as for conversation.
Minale Makerger
GABRIELLE
Very often you just haven't time to change your makeup. But you con refresh your skin and get a fresh glow! Wrap an ice cube in a bit of damp cotton. Sprinklo this with skin freshener or toljet water. Rub over throat and face. Press the perfumed lee cube over the closed eyelids. Press cosmetic tissues over throat and face, then pat on face powder, Brush off excess. A little Accent with your lipstick-and there you are!
SIDE GLANCES
If you start on a hair programme, go through with it if you brush your hair today and not tomorrow, It's you will not gain very much. the carrying through with a dalty will surely bring programme that results.
You now have a new calendar and a whole New Year. Make up your mind that this year you WILL go through with all that you are planning. Work on that iden, never waver and you will soon see what wonderful things you CAN do for YOU!
So, a Happy New Year, a Beau- tiful New Year!
GLITTER. GOWN
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1947.
Distress Brings Gain
To Indian Racketeers
Lush new black market felds were opened by communal rioting and fighting' in Kashmir, writes Associated Press correspondent Milton Kelly.
The eruption of fierce com- Oplum amoking is illegal in munal fighting caused acute both dominions, but there are shortages of food and other many addicts. necessitics. To those com-
Safety and necess to anfely have
plaints were added the voices of become recognised black market opium amokers, who said; their commodities. Statisticlans of, the normal supply sources had been Tata Industrial emplèe in India re- upset,
Black marketeers tookcently made pointed comment, that a advantage of the situation. Governmental crackdown Wos in
BEREAVED FAMILY'S
PEACE MOVE
order.
Black marketeers, bought large. numbers of seroplane tickets, with bookings for in advance, wherever communal troubles erupted. Those tickets are resold at fantastic prices. Sometimes they brought more than 100 times the face value of the ticket. Wealthy refugees in terror of their lives were glad to pay.
Some private pilots reaped rich
re' 'goes nud their posses-
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• MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE
harvests for it is precious wolt In Rubber Bridge, Hold sio to areas of safety.
Automobile owners Seeing from,
Your Doubles
Because Capt. John Putnam, Jr., was shot down on his 62nd mission over Europe during the war, his sorrowing family has trouble centres had to drive their started a peace movement. It is cars to airports, and leave them be- gathering public support in hind. Bargain huntera haunted the By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America.
The peace movement, known as World Security Workers, has gained support of many leading citizens in Dr. different parts of the country. Albert Einsteln in one of the sup- porters, Its promoters claim.
ulrflelds. They bought these cars at distress prices. The vehicles are now reappearing at the usual black market prices.
Artificial Shortages
Matches, cigarettes and other com- modities perlotieally disappear from The idea of world security work-normal markets without any up- ere, a crusade to create a mass de-parent explanation. They are avail- mand for the establishment of warid able in small quantities in the black The press has of John
ages were artificially created,
government, was born in the family market, for a price.
B. Putnam, a Cleveland charged that some of these short-
attorney.
After the death of John, Jr., the family fell it must do something to prevent a repetition of warfare. Out of months of dicussion with elvie leaders, World Security Workers
emerged.
World Government
The organisation advocates cen- tralised world government with luw and military arm to enforce its decision upon the nations, but has no blueprint of the form auch a government should take. It is to serve only
Inst through which millions of people, wanting an orderly world, can make themselves heard by their govern-
leaders.
according 10 the
ment founders.
AY AB
The Putnams believe that when the swell of sentiment becomes impelling enough, extending through the U.S. and eventusity that work, national leaders cannot resist the demand for the establishment of a world govern- iment.
Formidable Wall
"If Russin, at first, does not cure to come along," said Mrs. Putnun, who runs the organisation's office
Some black marketeers operate in reverse, however. In Lahore, in Pakistan, Mohammedan looters of Sikh and Hindu shops set up busi- ness on the kerb. Many of them had not the vaguest idea of the true values of the things they had stolen. Scotch whisky sold for three rupees a bottle. One man told of having bought a case of gin for one rupec, because the seller thought it was bottled water. This situation did not last long.
Black
in
marketeers
housing One man seldom make a mistake. reported that he had to pay a bonus equivalent to about US$10,000 to obtain immediate possession of home be had purchased.
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Medicine is an old standby of the black marketeers. Any pill-aspirin or sugar pill-can be sold as a sulfa drug to illiterate buyers.-Associated Press.
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In commenting on this hand. Scheuer sald he thought that North should have bid two diamonds in- stead of one spade. Also, he point- ed out that East's double was very Bad. Remember that at rubber bridge very little is gained by set- ting the contract one
Little Marshall bad
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here, "she'll find herself behind # A "Little Marshall Plan" to Best of people far more impene-aid blind Europeans was urged trable than the iron curtain. "There has always been
a goy-at the 57th annual Ohio Wel- grnment for war. Now we'll have fare Conference,
Scheuer won the opening spade world
government for peace with "Blind people are almost in- lead in dummy with the king, cash- rules
strong that nobody can variably at the bottom of the econo-ed the spade ace and ruffed the upset us again.",
mie scale, and in Europe this places third spade with the five of clubs. Membership in World Security the blind in very serious situa He realized that, in order to make Workers is accomplished by signing tlon," said Dr Robert B. Irvin, of the contract, the heart suit had to a pledge to give active support to New York. executive director of the break. He cashed his four heurt 110 -cause--of-world-government: American Foundation for the Blind.
ind-tricks, discarding four diamonds. There are no dues.
"The American Foundation. for from dummy. Overseas Blind is endeavouring
set? Then he cashed the act of dia- raise US$325,000 with which to
monds and ruffed a small diamond up ♫ 'Little Marshall Plan', for the blind people of Europe," he told the in dummy with the deuce of clubs. Dummy's fourth spade was led, East conference.bl
was forced to ruft with the seven Fred K Hochler, executive direc- lor of
Community Fund, Inc., of of clubs, and Scheuer over-ruffed Chicago,
with the eight. He then led the ten American asserted that "lack of understanding" aggravated of clubs, and all East could do was to cash the ́ace and king. The last mes starvation in Europe.
with the ate trick was won in 'dummy "Muss
complete starvation in a
which has club jack. economic breakdown. faced SO many countries and Four Quonset huts will comprise coinmunities
abroad, 19 being the monastery, built in a 170-foot widened and deepened by pur lack square, with rising 71 feet.
This will be the fifth monastery United States The others are in Kentucky, Iowa, Georgia and Rhode Island.
QUONSET HUT MONASTERY
What may be the first monastery
ever constructed of Quonset huts is to be built in Huntsville, Utah, for the Catholic order of Cistercians, or Trappist fathers.
a bell tower and cross of understanding," Hochter said.
of the order in the
Check Your Knowledge
1. Locate the Channel Islands.
2. Denmark, Switzerland and Wisconsin, U.S.A. specialise in what enttle products?
3. Name the author of "Doctor! Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
4. What are foundling hospitals?
5. The caribou is found mainly in
what region?
0. Where was Rudyard Kipling
born?
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Two Chinese Women Become Sikhs
Two Chinese women were
con-
"Human existence. and especially family life, is so different from our experience in America that it is im- possible to comprehend at this dis-verted to the Sikh religion on the fance," said Hochler, former direc- eve of their wedding day in Serem- tor of UNRRA's Division of Displac-ban, Malaya. Both wore tho. Sikh cd Persons and a former Cincinnati national costume at their weddings. welfare director. Associated Press. The grooms were Sikhs,
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Ha explained that the players Except for 87 members of for 1950 will be elected by a special the cast who are still prisoners commitico of townspeople. Since of war, the famous Passion players must begin to let their hair Play of Oberammergau is al- grow 18 months before the pere formance, the players presumably, most ready for ita 1950 per-will be selected before next fall. formance, the burgermeister of The Garmisch dennzification board,
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