1941-05-07 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS ·

PLYWOOD SYNTHETIC RIVAL OF STEEL

BY KATE ARCHIHALD

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

Boston-Steel, for a number of uses, has a synthetic rival, the BUDGET DEBATE

perfected plywood; a sandwich of wood and glue that is cold-and- heat-and water-resistant. Plywood can be bent or molded into sculp- tured forms, yet is. found to be."pound for pound, stronger than steel," according to Charles E. Devlin, speaking for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association In, Tacoma, Washington.

Flywood, described .as "an | cisco-Oakland Bridge exemplifies achievement in wood." is. Ike the application of plywood to con- plastics, a laboratory product. It crete for smooth, beautiful effects. Is the synthetic resinous glue The Chicago Post Office is an which binds the plies together that other,

IN CANADA

Government Warned By Opposition Leader

OTTAWA, May 6 Reuter)-EX- makes a new and different pro- In the fabrication of boats, ply-pressing confidence in the people duct out of wood. This binder, wood provides large, single, water- to face the sacrifices imposed by under heat and pressure, impreg- tight panels, soine of them being the new taxes, the Opposition nates the wood layers and glues 17 feet long. These panels can be Leader of the Canadian House of them into panels with after they molded to streamline proportions. Commons, Mr. R. B. Hanson, open- are tempered, become steel-like in The utility of plywood has given ed the Budget Debate and warned strength.

Impetus to boat building, from the Government that there was A present large use for the ma-dories to yachts and from purse widespread dissatisfaction over the terial is in the building of milt-seine boats for Bering Sea to a mannèg in which the money was tary barracks. The insulation fea-Coast Guard cutter.

being spent,

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tures of plywood, its lightness The different uses and grades of Peacetime expenditure must be plus strength, and quickness and plywood are conveniently classi-cut to the bone, he said. He was vility in fabrication, made it idealed by the Douglas Fir Association, equally confident that the Cats- to which belong most of the ply-dians demand was for the same for such a purpose.

The base camp at Little America wood manufacturers

in

H.K. Stock Exchange

Tuesday, May 8, 1941,

BUTERS

Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $80. Providents, $4.50. Realties, $2.50. Macao Electrics, 317...

SELLERA

Providents, $5. Trams, 31* Lane Crawfords, $7.28.

Docks, $15

SALES

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS:

ASSOCIATION

Volume Of Business Transaeted · on Tuesday, May 6, 1941, SALES

Oregon high and inspiring leadership was fashioned partly of this new and Washington. Plywood for which Mr. Churchill was giving purposes, for Eritata and which President Roose- in the insulation against 70-below-ornamental architecture, and for velt was giving the United States, China Lights (0) 100

are named not zero weather, and Admiral Byrd's cor.crete forms,

lighting the way and guiding the The total value is $585.00.

exterior type of plywood to help strong

structural

snow cruiser was bullt partly of only for convenience but as people along the path to ultimate

the same material. Boats used in guarantee of quality. the Nevills' expedition down the Research is now seeking means Colorado River and In another of utilising "bark, sawdust, and all

victory.

**MIGHTY WALLOP"

..LOSHAN

-SICHANG HIGHWAY

A new line will be added to the south-west highway system, This is the Loshan-Sichang highway link- ing Szechwan with Bikong CON- struction work on which is expected (to be completed toward the end of

this month.

measures

This new highway (about 170 | miles, passing though Omel, Fulh. Mienning and: Luku, From its west terminus Stehang it will be extended to "Siangyun în Yunnan to line up with the Burma Road, thus forming an internation- al route.

"

·Construction "was begun two years ago. But owing to various dif.

culties, it had been going on at

a sluggish pace until last year when the Central authorities order- ed its early completion in view of its importance in southwest com- $5.85 munication.

The total outlay is more than |N.C. $70,000,000. Over 100,000 work- ers, including 10,000 1 tribesmen,

cially in the Bikong sector, large

from various districts in Szechwan MORE DIFFICULT

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1941. -PAGE 9

Now's the time to call

for "BLACK & WHITE"

When you feel that anything might happen, when Ife's tug-of-war is taxing your strength and energy, try ą "BLACK & WHITE", the Scuch that restores and stirnuizzes. Ask for it by name

"BLACK&WHITE"

CLO

"It's the Scotch!"

BURCH. WHIDE" "BLACK A MAGNE";

RACE ELS ROOPAN MORE.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Building.

Tel. 20636.

AMERICAN FLOUR FEDERAL RESERVE.

FOR FRANCE.

VICHY, May 6 (Reuter)-Two French freighters, Ile de Re and Leopold, laden with 14,000 tons af.

RETURNS

New York, May 5 (Reuter), Apr. 22 Apr. 29 (000's Omifted)

TORONTO, May 6 (Reuter) the past week-steps by the United are engaged. Owing to the sparse venturesome trip down the John the rest of the waste involved in the fight for freedom will be won States for increased ald to Britain population along the route, espe Day River in Oregon were built the lumbering operations involved "becatie Canada as well as Bri---had given the enemy a "mighty numbers of the workers are hired of plywood.

In the plywood industry. In co- Much of the American supply cperation with the industry these tab and all those associated with wallop."

Reviewing the growth of Caua- her will stop at nothing that can' "of plywood is made from Douglas research studies are now. being

far from trees 200 to 400 years old. made at the United States Forest effectively be done to ensure the da's armed forces, Col. Raiston

As the highway traverses moun-American four, have arrived at Total Loans $ 9,831,000 $ 9,870,000 of them eight feet In Products Laboratory at Madison, overthrow of Nazism" declared said that the Navy had now 180

terrain. .construction is Marseilles from the United States Investments 17,715,000 ∙17,680,000 diameter, the average being six. Wis., and at the forest research the Minister of Defence, Colonet ships compared with 15 before the tainous Most of these logs come from the laboratories at Purdue University, Ralston in a speech here yester war, while the Canadian Royal Air even more difficult than that of says the Vichy news agency.

Force had grown in strength, to the Burma Road, though not com-. The gift will enable free rations ancient forests on the Olympic at the University of California,day.

He believed that the events of 50,000 men.

parable in magnitudë.

to be distributed on three ́ Sundays Peninsula, Washington.

many

In the mills these choice logs are literally peeled, which gives them their name, in a process re- mindful "of the unwinding 01 newsprint. Sheets of this wood are glued together in three or more plies with the grain running cross- wise in alternate layers. The ply- wood for exterior use 's glued under a hot press,

and at Leland Stanford University.

SWORDFISH

BREED®

NEAR CUBA

NEW YORK-Ernest Heming- way, author and playwright, re- PORTABLE USE

cently presented the American Plywood is used extensively for Museum of Natural History with a built-ins, for portables, and mag-specimen of one of the smallest big azinę racks. but it has graduated game fish on record-a swordfish into the construction of buildings, weighing eight pounds and measur- from the noble Colonnade of ing less than four feet long, caught States at the San Francisco Far near Havana.

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to stock houses on the prairies. The new acquisition, confirms a Its convenient panels. without bellef that the breeding grounds useless bulk or dead weight, make of the Atlantic swordfish is off the it ideal for building. It is claimed coast of Cuba that a carpenter can place 32 This unusual specimen was square feet of plywood in the time caught by commercial fishermen that it would take him to place near Havana at a depth of 360 10 square feet of regular lumber. feet, and was discovered tangled Relatively few nails are necessary in the line. Thus, not having been A prediction was made before hooked, it was in a perfect state recent housing conference at Yale University that the house of the swordfish is a mystery to science," "The breeding grounds of the future would be put together said Miss Francesca LaMonte. of

without nails and would be fasten ed with glue Binders.

the Museum, "and it is very heart-

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Building of plywood do not have ening to have the capture of this to wait for plaster to dry, as the young fish off Cava courm paper hanger or painter can Im-some extent that that may be the !breeding grounds of the Atlantic the carpenter. mediately follow

run." There is no seasoning of the wood

"The specimen presented to us after construction, no shrinkage, no frame movement, and no crack-by Mr. Hemingway, although not Ing.

the smallest on record, is at an' Interior surfaces can either be interesting stage of growth, resem- finished to show the grain of the bling neither the baby swordfish panels or they can be painted or Eor the full grown adult" papered. In a model house "spon-

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sored by a Los Angeles depart- HUANG YEN-PEI

ment store each room was finished

in plywood and each was indivi-¡

dual in character.

stations and modern residences.

STURDY VALUE

IN HONGKONG

Some architects see in plywood

Subscriptions to the N.O. $1,200,- an influence in new design. Be-000,000 Military Supply Bonds re- cause it can be curved or molded, cently floated by the Chinese Gov- and by reason of its clean, flowernment in Chungking have now ing lines and decorative graining, reached over $100,000,000,, about it is adapted to modern building four times the original goal of $30,- they say from Hollywood stage 000,000, according to Mr. Huang sets and artist studios, to gas Yen-pet, secretary general of the Wartime Bonds Committée, who ar- rived in Hongkong from Chungking Its esthetic values are balanced by plane last Saturday night to by its structural sturdiness. It is push the sale of the bonds here. used for subflooring and sheath- Mr. Ruang said that farmers and ing, for gusset plates and trusses other people in the countryside of and frames, for outdoor sign-the wartime capital are particular- boards, for buses and freight cars, ly enthusiastic in subscribing to for farm buildings. milk sheds, the wartime bonds. The Committee root houses; and wherever wea- has organised two units for a therproofing and fush construc- subscription campaign in the

tion are of vital necessity.. Success countryside and they have achieved has been attained and tests con- good resulta tinue to be made of he use of ply Mr. Huang wil discuss measures wood in horizontally laminated for boosting the sale of the bonds arches to replace solid beams in here with Hon, Bir Shouson Chow. such structures as gymnasiums, Mr. Huang, over 80-year old, churches, and garages,

native of Pootung, Klanga, is, a Where humidity, high moisture well-known Chinese scholar, and hazards, and insulation are neces-educator. He was arrested by the sities, plywood has many uses. It Manchu Government as a revolu- goes into tempering chambers, tionary and sentenced to death but dry Kilns, incubators, dry ice re- was later rescued, He is the foun- frigerators, and seed beds. It is der of the Chinese Vocational Edu- said to be repellant to wood borers cation Society, through which voca...” and mold amate

Įtional education was popularised Concrete forms of plywood are in China. increasingly tised. {{The «* large, Since the outbreak of the Bino- seamless panels produce smooth, Japanese hostilities, he has been finless surfaces that give to con- devoting untiring efforts for the crate a sculptured appearance com-unity of the nation. He is a member parable to marble. The San Fran of the People's Political Council.

At Tenwokou on the Szechwan- with the active help of the general Contradictory Jap.

Sikong border where the highway delegate from the Red Cross in Lies across a high cliff add a deep Europe, Mr. Allen, the agency addi

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS valley some forty workers have

STOCK EXCHANGE,

Buyer Sellers

Balo Nomical

$70

$1315

£78

SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION

TUESDAY

6 MAY.

Banks

H.K. Bank.......................... Do. (Col. Beg.)..... 571 Do. Lon. Reg.)

Chartered Banks ...... £22 Mercantile Bis. "Ā”. Mercantile Bk. “C”.

883

£11

144

Bank of East Asia...........

Bayer

Ballora So

970

N. C. & S. Bank...... 15 et

Insurances

#2231 Canton Insurances.....

8420 Union Insurances....$410

$1

Underwriter...

$187 H.K. Fires...

Shipping

$425

!!

slipped from the cliff and have been killed, during the past year. (Thousands of workers were employ- ed in building the road at this place alone.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LONDON, May 8 (Beuter)--The The shortage of rice and other Stock Exchange yesterday articles of daily necessity also pre- quietly firm £704 sent a difficult problem. Suppiles

$1316 £78

was

Gilt-edged, home rails and a

Statements

CHUNGKING, May 6 (Reuter) — When the Japanese landed troops on the Cheklang coast on Apr. 18 they occupied Wenchow, Haimen and other ports and the Japanese announced their determination "to cut off the important supply routes to Chungking, says the Takungyao. "Now they announce that they

£8 11/16 for more than 100,000 workers have few leading industrials maintain are withdrawing after the com-

£22

£11

1992

180 cte

to be transported from Szechwan led early small advances but bus-pletion of operations there leaving and elsewhere,

LONDON GOLD

$187

London, May 5 (Reuter). Bar Gold Fine per cs, 168/-

X.D.

$123 Douglas

$125

$81

Steamboats... $

$80

Indo-Chinne (Pref.)...

$80

#80

Indo-Chinas (Def.) ........

$80

40/0

Shells

40/0

26.55 Waterbomta

S01

别

$4.50

#:4

$2.80

$2.80

:

$18

35.70 35.90

$15

Docks, Wharves,

Godowns, etc.

1854 H.K. & Wharves...

Providents ...............

H.K. Docks (Old).....

H.K. Dock (New)...........

825+Shanghai Docks....

12/3 Kailans

Baube

Mining

cte Hong Kong Miss..... Lands, Hotels and Buildings

831 H.K. Lazds..........

28

198$

$4.80

$14.00

T

R.K. & B. Hedelanden

$2.60

$97

12

Do. 4% Debentures.... Shanghal Lands.

$2.50 1.K. Baltics.

16.70 Humphreya

$99

$38

Chinese Ealaíon..

Cotton MIK

Ewo (8.)...

$200 S'hai Cottom (8.).....

32/6

18

ness failed to develop apart from these supply routes once

some

professional

home rails,

support

for

open to the Chinese..

Oils were dull, Kaffirs were irre gular and foreign bonds were in clined to be easy.

Wall Street was quietly steady.

more

"These Japanese statements are so contradictory that one often wonder just what are the objec

Japanese tives of these tions."

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS MISCELLANEOUS WANTE.

BÉ LET.

opera-

PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.

The following classes of advertisementé ave charged at the price given : below :---- SITUATIONS VACANT. HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.

Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid

Rate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS.

If Coarges collected, $2.00.

*33. $8.70 Rent.

House.

#37 $200

Zpong Bings (8.).......

Wing On Textiles (8.)

$125

Public Utilities

|H.K. Tramways... | 315,60| #13,80)

Pask Trame (old).....

171

Peak Trams (new)....

$37

51

#61 Star Ferrina.......

3131 F'msti Ferries...........

#1

China Lights (9)

China Lights (New).....]

***

X.Rt $24. K. Electrica (Old)... X.B.

$23 H. K. Flectrica(New)...

Macao Electrics

1a

H.K. Electric (Rto)

$17

$12

123

**!*!

Uscio Electrics

Sandakan Lights. Telephones fold).

Telephones (new) ....

Industrials

Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8.)

Cald., Macg. (Prof.)8.

Canton Ice

Cementa

$30

$25

1

$15

$0.60

+

$87

14% Loun

H.K. Ropes

H.K. Govt Lans

$94 81%

$94 31%

(1984)

(1940) Miscellaneous

#171 Dairy Farma.....

18

$131

#

231

WANTED TO BUY

WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for any

amount

Tel.

TO LET-Unfurnished from 1st 831 June, 300 The Peak Six roomed $97 house 122 Bluf Path Fifteer

minutes from Tram. Reasonable Hastings & Co. Marina

WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles. Jade diamonds, jewels, watches, fountain pens. Apply Far East Diamond and Gold Refining Co. Room 621, China Building, 6th #24.40 floor. (Store will open on Sun- $23.65

days and Holidays).

35:80 $1:40

General Agent: Chan Che Kee No. 4, Lyndhurst Terrace. Tel 26402.

of gold articles, diamonds, silver, "jewels, etc. No holidays. Apply China Building, 7th floor. 30727.

EURASIA GOLD REFINING CO.

FOR, JADED APPETTEES!

HOTELS

REAL RUSSIAN FOOD

Tifin $1.20F% Dinner $1.50 METROPOLE HOTEL

BUTTERICK EXPERT TAILORS FOR LADIES GAEMENTS.

WE PAY HIGH PRICES » for all gold and silver articles,

75 ata, gold bars, diamonds and Jewels."

$14- Apply China Gold Refining Co. 16,

Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 6.

WANTED KNOWN

Experienced, Book-keeper Wants Students to form a class. Guaran- tee students to keep a whole set of books after completion of a course

or & months. For Term and Par ticulara. Please Apply to:

NA 403 A/D HKD.P

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FOR SALE. Wyndham Street.

ENGRAVERS

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18, Cochrane Street. Telephone No. 22224.

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$1.65

Lane Crawfords.... Nanyang TobaccE)......

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38 95

$2.20

Entertainmentu

$1.80 Constractions (old)...

#01

$71

#91

28

Constructions" (nair),

$2.16 Sinceres pärmepa

Watson-issed Ch. G.4% 1925G⭑Bdà. $39.K. Wing On ********

S'hal Wing Un

17.20 Vibro Piling

6/2 Marman Iny (Lon.) 2/14 Maremans Iny. (HK)

Win Powel

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+Sale to Bhanghai

28/

$15

$1

Tel. 23613