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Fashion-wise, Anne Shirley, screen actress, uses quilting for evening wear. The hem of her - royal blue crepe evening dress is composed of quilted button in a quaint flower design of yellow, blue, black and red,

THE CHINA MAIL,

REDUCTION IN U.S. N

APPROPRIATED MORE

THAN IT WAS

POSSIBLE TO SPEND!

Washington, To-day.

An appropriation of $526,000,000 for the Navy Department in the next fiscal year, which is nearly $56,000,000 less than the original Budget estimates, the House of Representatives yesterday. was approved by the appropriations committee of

GUESTS FOR THE CORONATION

Special Suites Are Booked

The chief reduction is in res- pect of new naval construction, which has ben reduced from $157,000,000 to $130,000,000.

This is owing to the fact that certain appropriations for the cur- rent year will not have been ex- pended when the year ends on June 130.

New construction authorised in- Many suites of rooms in leading London hotels have been reserved by cludes 897 aeroplanes, of which 251 the Government hosts-officially, the lare for replacement, two non-rigid Hospitality Fund--for destinguished airships, eight destroyers and four guests during Coronation Week.

submarines.

Work will also continue on two Accommodation was booked pro-battleships, three aircraft-carriers, visionally for these guests several eleven cruisers. 48 destroyers and months ago. Now the Government sixteen submarines. Reuter. Hospitality Fund has notified most

of the hotels concerned of the exact be chief Government host. The Hos- number of suites required.

pitality Fund was started nearly 30 Although most of the suites pro-years ago to avoid uncertainty about visionally reserved by the Govern-whose responsibility it was to ensure ment hosts have been claimed, the the comfort of official guests. identities of the guests have not yet! All the famous London hotels been disclosed Guests will include have been heavily booked for Cor- prominent visitors from the Dom-onation Week for months. This inions, India and the Colonies, and does not mean that London is full representatives of foreign countries. for the Coronation.

The responsibility for entertain- There is still accommodation in ing distinguished visitors will fall smaller hotels, boarding houses an on the Hospitality Fund, and parti-service flats. Many hotels have cularly on Earl Stanhope, who, as made arrangements to overfew" if First Commissioner of Works, will necessary.

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Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsman pilo alighting from plane which flashed him across t Burbank, Cal, to Newark, NJ., airport, 2,490-m minutes, and 25 seconds.

In genial mood, Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler is pic pleasant greeting with William E. Dodd (betwes U. S. Ambassador to Germany, during the re for foreign diplomats.

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