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CHINESE SHIPS UP FOR SALE
the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: · · TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1950.
Chinese Nationalist THE Hai-Ya and the Hai-Ou, two ships belonging to fiovernment, now anchored near Hampton Roads, Virginin, are subjects of n sult filed by the U.S. Government. The suit secks legal permission to sell the ships to satisfy lens against both the vessels-a move seen as part of a plan to recover as many as possible of the 12 ships sold to Nationalist China in 1942. Many of the ships are reported to have fallen in to Communist hands. (Acme).
HUMAN EYES BETTER THAN
RADAR FOR AIR DEFENCE
Making A Million -Seven Ways
Would you like to be a millionaire? Perhaps you think the Seven opportunities are no longer there, as they used to be. people would disagree with you. They think-on the basis of their own lives-that it can still be done.
Millionaire No. 1, Conrad does it. "You need 21 life-"Everything comes to him who
Hilton (the man who bought growing" is the way he puts it ever noticed
work that keeps you forever waits." The only thing he has
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coming to such
men, Je says, 15 bills and small dreams and old nge.
he
the Waldorf and whose son | married Elizabeth Taylor, Kaiser started in the film actress), says the photographic shop. Then
sold hardware. He branched "Be aggressive!" in the Tun- trick is Originality of
out into sand and gravel, from nes secret. " I had not used Thought, seeing a chance that into bridge-buikling, fun-nil the force And drive that and seizing It.
11is story: "I was a banker's FOD. One day I went down to Cisco, Texas, To buy a small bank. I had my life savings. $5,000, in my pocket. When I got there, the owner asked a lot more.
nel-building road-building. He was in me, I should have finish- has bullt dams, sunk mines, ed up as a fireman or a police- produerd Anished steel, and en-man." After his fighting days tered the competitive U.S. car Tunney went ng to become a industry. Today he sits on 17 prosperous businessman Today boards of directors.
he is a member of a big New York rubber Arm.
of Owner substantial land and housing, and a director of half a dozen enterprises.
'SOMETHING DIFFERENT'
Milonaire No. 4, Al Jolsan. "That night I sat in the local says nobody should be put of hotel and told the owner Just because romeone else tried what had happened. It was a fihe same thing before. ramshackle place. The owner. who was also his own manager, asked me if I would give him from home to join a minstrel the time.
McGrath found his opper- my $5,000 for his hotel. Ishow." he says, "that there had
humireds of bought it on the spot. That been
minstrel tunities In Ins, You have was the start of the Hilton shows before, But Hctel chain. And the bank to do something better than the
came before chaps who
you. it went broke!"
Touch it up, improve it, and
omething different to offer. the deld of show business, that just adds up to R original style.
Millionaire No. 7, J. Howard McGrath, says the trick is to recognise opportunity. It does nat just knock once, he says
"I knew when I ran awasit is hammering n the door
Millionaire No. 2, Harris, rays the secret thiese days is not just having a good product. It lies in advertising what you have.
Monaire No. 5, Howard Johnson, owner of a roadside
chain, Mys you restaurant should not be too conservative. He started out with nothing but a recipe for making lee
Mr Harris devised a scheme for home permanent wave sets, "I advertised my first kit by mail, and all I gol was Mx replies. I tramped from shop cream. to shop and gave them per- ropr
airs
auk. That did no
*
"I knew I had to tell it over 25 many counters as possible and from the opening of the very first ice-cream place I just feed my elt to keep on grow Ing. Bellove me. I skated on Harris "retired” at 33. He pretty thin ice for five or six
years, But I came through.
good either. It had to be news paper advertising. on a big seale. The moment we started that we succeeded. "
Britain's Royal Observer Corps contends that in civil defence, sold human eyes and not radar are still the surest weapon for spotting enemy bonthers.
vilian
against
ita
The Corps is in a position to attacking German planes. Later Twenty-six years old and, given almost as much ere-how. It is probably the only the Corps helped to plot flying the bombs and the smoke puts of organisation dit as the famous Spithrej world with actual wartime ex- supersonic V-Two's streaking and Hurricane squadrons for¦perience
supersonic from the Continent to the Pri-
tish Isles. winning the Battle of Bri-cons and guide misiles. toin. the organisation re- Curprmen were the ordinary
stood rards sure-fire mechanical Englishmen whe
eslling bazing buildings
1tention of figh er squadrons of the changing positions
nircraft spotting as still in the realm of theory,
STAR ON PILGRIMAGE
atop COMPOSED OF CIVILIANS
the
Dunne
HOLLYWOOD motion picture star. Irene kneels at the Holy Door of St Paul's Basilica with ber husband, Dr Francis D. Griffin, during their Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome. Miss Dunne was named the "out- standing American Catholic woman of 1919" by Notre Dame University. (Acme).
K.. O. CÁNNON
HOW LISTEN, NADIA, CANHON IS SOME SORT OF SUBUTH, HI BIGGING AROUND ON ZUCCI's DEATH... LOOKS UKE HE'S
WORKING FON CARESSE.. CARESSE LACRODE
YOU KNOW..
6.HELLINE KNEW THAT I KNOW YOU..SAW THE PHOTOGRAPH.. NO.. HE SAID NOTHING - BUT I'M PRETTY SURE HE SUSPECTS 17 WAS NOT SUICIDE?
Although the Corps
DI duty. uniforms civilian organisation.
wears
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is Д
Leading and experienced members summed up what the organisations be leamed in the past 25 years and during World War II In honour of the group's silver anniversary. They polu-
ed out that the U.S. can learn
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NOT FOR WAITING
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PANTS FOR
CHURCH ONLY
A naked Negro stopped outside a Christian church, unwrapped a parcel, put on a pair of khaki shorts and entered to pray.
A while later he emerged, took off the shorts, and took his oven-foot frame, elnd only in skin and muscle, towards the thick nearby forest.
out to the Gillette cum- pany for $20,000,000, Now, at 35, he is a Gillette director- still in charge of promotion.
Millionaire No. 3, Henry J. Baker, thinks it is vision that Tunney, laughs at the old saw, Southern
Millionaire No. G.
IT'S COME A LONG WAY
THE 1903 swim-suited miss on the right is enjoying tha
1950 streamstyle. The modern suit was shown at an exhibition in London. In striped wool suede, with lettering interwoven with the stripes, it was one of the highlights of the fashion show. (Acme).
CREECH JONES DISAGREES
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
London, May 24,
The former Colonial Secretary, Mr Creech jones, quoting "first-hand experience," disagrees with those who say that the reorganisation of the Colonial Office is over- duc. He puts forward this view in the current issue of The man was one of a tribe Genet clants, the Dinkas, inhabiting the Crown Colonist in answer to that magazino's sugges- Sudan. With the tion that a Special Commission should bo set up to examine Shilluks and Nuweras, thage this question,
about 2,000,000 Negroce living in blissful ignorance in Southern Sudan.
Elected But Unable To Sit In Commons
A solect committee of MPs have been unable to decide whether the Rev. J. G. MacManaway is qualified to But Mr MacManaway is satisfied sit in the Commons. with their report.
are
terri-
Mr
of
露肉
that more
Mr Creech Jones Egrees satisfaction with things as they that the duties and respon Creech Jones then deals sibilities of a Secretary of with the argument Franciscan missionary.
Imm recently returned
that State In the Colonial Office discretion should be given to the aren, described the missionary are extremely heavy, and Colonies and that there should be
and both efforte,
Catholic
are becoming increasingly less central direction. He points that jungle, Protestant,
out that there is a continuing animal-infested southern part complex. But he rejects as transfer of responsibility to the of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, unrcal and unpractical the territories and an Increasing
should be policy devolution. Missionary work has con. idea that there
"The conception," he says, "of Colonial verted thousands to Christianity, more than one Secretary of
Office acting as a he said, although there were State for dependent
burraucratic institution impos- will dense jungles where no tories.
ing its will and Issuing direc- preacher has yet been able to
10 Th's point of view, he feels,ves local governments has obscure the pince and
the extra- func-been outdated by
growth in the Colonies of incluido pome remarkable day, and the need for.
the ordinated picture of the Colonies ness and the encouraged prac I11 London MaManaway physical specimens, with
scit-decision whole relation tice of
to
and re- atuya the Cavalry Club in binkas averaging a hright of as it doesn't mean that, it Picekdilly.
of common sponsibility. If it had not been (Subscription, £10 seven feet. Meg of these tribal numerous matters
the Colonial Empire would means nothing."
Interest, 165, a year) He joined in the Negroes wander throughout
With regard to the internal have been in disruption." last war when he was a chap-their area naked.
organisation the
Colonial
In conclusion, the ex-Colonjal lain to a ravaly regiment.
The missionary
added that Office, he points out that a com-Secretary says that the Colonial Office Is "henkbily introspec- live and anxious to most sound It only criticton from outside.
sks that criticism should be based on accurate assessments, should be specifie, and should be divorced from loose generalisa- tions which confuse the real' ture of the Colonial problem,"
"As I understand it," he pleasantly. He is married; has penetrate. lot from their cone-usions, tell me. "it means there will children. now thar continental
America
is within theoretical bombing, be immédiate legislation to clarify my right to sit. 18 range of Rus in.
Main int made by Che Corps were:
Hadar is for hem perfect.
Civilian spotters are the link to ill tr fails.
where rurla
WILA
MacManaway
elected Unlonist Etember for Belfast
At because he was a clergy- his vote at Westminster. nan the committee examined
The Southern Sudan tribes tions of the Colanisf'Office to- or consciousness,-Face-aware-
0
In
a co-
Wes; at the General Election. The Tories will be glad of who attend church walk mitte met only a year ago and
up to
the place of worship recenmended changes towards aked, carrying their shortsle eney which have since been he comments: under their arm. They slip adopted. And
permanent "But don't dare call me a them on, and once the service "This Tory." Hays MacManuway.ass ended, they take them off. officials and Minister to have
Uisterman the word The women attend with little the best possible
*rack-rents and all but a few leaves dangling from the work to be done
suggest ther their waists.
It all obrervation points were whether this disqualifled him radar-equipped the. enemy. 05 from taking his scat,
was done during the last war. could jam the radar and leave the defence forces blind.
a
BACK PAY
Until he takes his seat he draw his £20 n week
Leading authorities of the or- ganisation said that the perfect nechanical spotting device for enemy planes is still far in the pay. future.
CAN WORK TOGETHER
vers
The Corps said humun obser- with can be married" established
rudar "listening posts," however, to form
comprehensive warning wet.
When he does become full MP, however, he will: collect his back pay.
The legislation," he says, declare my election "will valid--so I shall draw my pay from that time."
MacMunaway is also mruber of the Northern Irish
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Furthermore, fast Jow-level Parliament. That brings him intruder bombers, as has been £500 * year, "But it 19 proved in American, British swallowed up in expenses,” he
422ch combined European says,
manucuvres since the war,
often zoom from behind hills that "mask" radar screens and blast targets unexpectedly.
Ji is all the income MacManaway has. He has no Barish,
"I will not be sorry I take my seat," he
He is paying his
Visual observation is uften when the only way to spot such bom-snys drily. bers, military aviation experts own travel and accommodation painted out.
expenses.
Disbanded after the war, the Royal Observer
was Corps called back in 1947, again to work on week-ends preparing
Fress.
AT CAVALRY CLUB
He is 52, shartist, for Dritain's "defence-United haired, He smoker a plpt, lalks and drink, enjoys a
grey
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
WHERE TO NOW, WHISPER ? MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE BORROWED HIS OTHER GUN, IF HE HAS AN UNEASY CONSCIENCE- WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR
„AN UNEASY TRIGGER-FINGSnt,
"Fo an Bupients that."
by desire
moching for docs not
complacency or
THEY'RE NEATER
IN FINLAND
EVEN though the locomotives in the background are idle because of a strike of railway, mginsépa men, these Helsinki railway workers are determined to keep the track clean. When they finished with the
brooms, the men polished all the rails until they were gleaming, (Acme),