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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1989.

'Worst-Dressed' Woman Made Fashions For Others

BRITISH NEWSPAPERS BANNED

Thirty-three English newspa- pers and periodicals, including the "Manchester Guardian, "News-Chronicle" and "Daily Herald," have been banned by the German authorities, also all Russian and many. French, Bel- gian, Dutch, Swiss and American publications.

LEAGUE COVENANT

But Nothing For Herself

A woman of Fashion who cared naught for Fashion, a woman of importance who did not want to be important, has made a dozen London homes happier.

Mak-

Maude Elizabeth Miller was her name. ing Fashion's paper patterns was her job, writes a reporter.

Her patterns made dresses for millions of other women, made money for her. But they did MAY BE REFORMED not make her interested in dress.

London, May 12.. She was the "worst-dressed” "It was only when money. was

Reform of the League Convenant may be discussed during the im- pending Council session in Geneva, certain diplomatic quarters declared to-day.

Weldon,

and could have been. the wanted for some charitable cause woman, "best-dressed" woman. For thirty-that she came to the front." one years she went to her factory Miss Miller's father, Mr. Samuel in Eden-street, St. Pancras, N.W., Miller, business associate and then wearing dowdy frocks of black. rival of Mr. Edward

She moved shyly among the sixty brought paper patterns to England Soviet Russia or the Balkan States women and men who made 7,000,- from Paris in 1866.

When he died thirty-one years may take the initiative, supported000 paper patterns a year for her,

helped them to slove their problems ago she took over the pattern-mak- by Turkey, they revealed.

-sometimes with advice, sometimesing business. She was also "Ger-

trude Sims," theatrical costumier. with money.

mem-

The project in view provides for two types of League members, The first type would be "active bers," who would be bound to each other by a common mutual assist- ance agreement. The second type would be "ordinary members," who would not subscrible to such ob- ligations.

Last February she died, aged sixty-three, leaving £16,412.

And in her will, just published, she left 50 each to the cutters and forewomen with ten years' service at her Eden-street factory.

10 sixty-three-year-old George Look, of Crawford-uildings, Cro- mer-street. W., who worked for her father. Miss Miller left £2 a week.

Politicians stated that Russia favoured such a project because it would be a compromise between the

Mr. Alfred Duthie, one of the general collective security schemes of the former Foreign commissar, cutters with a £50 legacy, is go- M. Maxim Litvinoff, and presenting to take his wife and two chil- dren from the rooms they live in plans for Anglo-Franco-Soviet agreements allowing for partial at Bermondsey, to a little house of collective security. Havas.

U.S. AIR FORCE BIGGEST IN WORLD

New York, May 14. According to the "New York Times," the first report destined to make the United States own the strongest air force in the world has been submitted. to President Roo- sevelt by the Inter-Departmental Committee, headed by Mr. Oswald Ryan of the Bureau of Civil Aeronautics.

According to the report, 40,000 workers are at present employed

their own:

He said "I'm going out looking for a house Edgeware way-just a little place with a garden."_

For Mr. Herbert Rivett, twenty- years a cutter, £50 will mean £50 towards the home he is buying in Raleigh-road, Hornsey, N., where he lives with his wife and seven- year-old son.

"ALWAYS HAPPY”

Miss Louisa Williams, forewoman, of Ramsden-road, Balham, S. W., began working for Miss Miller thirty-one years ago, and she said: "We have always been happy here because Miss Miller made it her business to see we were,'

Miss Miller left her home at The by the aviation industry. The Grove, Golders Green, N. W., to her figure must be increased to 60,000 niece, Miss Sibyl Marker, and Miss in order to commence the expan-Marker's father, Mr. Victor Marker, sion programme authorized by is also a beneficiary, Congress. The report then outlin-

Mr.

Marker, speaking of Miss

ed measures allowing the efficient Miller, said: "Nobody would have training of the number of workers necessary in the event of a war.

A second report, this one to deal with "continental defence" and the development of civil air lines with the assistance of the United States Government will be submitted to the President shortly- Havas.

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given her twopence-halfpenny for her clothes.

"She was an extremely humble woman. She had the position, the money and the opportunity to be. the best-dressed woman in London. But she always wore black kept well in the background.

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