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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

A SMAKT COSTUME

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN:

LEG PANIC IN U.S.: JUST NO MORE SILK

FOR STOCKINGS

the

AMERICAN WOMEN, who arr credited with having shapellest legs in the world, are facing the horrifying knowledge that soon they will have to ge silk-stockingless. Raw-silk im- poris from Japan had ended. All available stocks were snatched

up.

THERE WAS JUST NO MORE SILK FOR STOCKINGS.

The order affected other slik!

consumers as well, There would

be no more silk for football pants. MARINE

fringes lamp shades,

and flies. tennis racket

fish Bnes strings,

waterproof tobacco pouches, type-; writer ribbons, dental fuss. gical stitchings. violin neckties. haals, lingerie. palamas, or Mohamedan prayer

rugs

sur strings. sheets,

OFFICER

MARRIED

The marriage took place at the

estry Supreme Court.

In th manufacture ' thosh av beton articles, only a trifling percentage, puty

Registrat

Faster

2.

1 Mr Tang

of US raw-silk luzperts has been ! Ching yun, marine offeer. Chines used, but unless substitutes are Maritime Customs, reading at No

found the pain of doing without them will not be measured by the quantity of silk they contained

STORES STORMEU

Bu

stores

One of the smart costumes word by ROSALIND RUSSELL in the stockings to Columbla Picture "Thi Thing stormed Called Love," which opens at the department-store King's Theatre today.

station guards in ulsles

H.K.'s Good Wishes To Queen Of Netherlands

Hongkonz's engi tul:9375

to

Her Majesty Queen Wilhelm-ra of

the thria:ds, the amiver-

sary

Jast

The

29 Jordan Road, ground fnor, and Miss Mary Chung. of No 36 Ur! Chow Street: top floor

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following forthcoming mar- rages were announced:

GENERAL

FOR PRESIDENT

One side of the medal presented to President Roosevelt by Viscount Halifax. British Ambassador, on behalf of the Duke of Connaught, President of the Royal Society of Arts. The citation reads: "Award- ed to His Excellency, Franklin D Roosevelt President of the United States. in recognition of his pre- eminent services to humanity as the fearless and resolute champion of the ideals of national freedom ad dual berty." The medal shows Prince Alberi, consort of Queen Victoria.

WODEHOUSE IN

THE GROOVE

The following is taken from the j correspondence columns of

·

of Aug. 11, 1941.

Sirs

read

Time.

In the July 14 issue We under Radko Inore about Wodehouse and his broad-

irum Germany

am

i More than 90 per cent. of the silk the US imported was used in hostery atone Skeptical of sub- Mr lp Chuen hau, clerk, of No stitutes, correctly assuming hat76 Elcetrte Road, and Miss Kam there would not be cough nylon Po-khu, of the same address

around, women

Mr Ing Do-shini, cook, at No P Q In Manhattan. 50 Village Road, and Miss Wong casts owners had tu

Sal Klu, of No 15 Lockhart Road: prompted to say that on the even- doorways and

Mr James Nolasco Ng. store. Ing of July 1. while "fishing joodse asalstant, of No 63 Cooke around" in the short-wave band. and and Miss Chan Yuk-ching. I picked up "Beriin Calling- N. 13 Cheung Lok Street.

it was announced that Mr. Wode- house was about to broadcast. Upon listening to the broadcast

One executive, reporting on the mob at the gates, declared: "When you opened the doors at 9.30 they fell flat on their faces."

As stocks began to vacist a 1

Street

Tate that would have cleaned ut KISSED THE

a four-month supply a wrek.i

some stores clamped down, limit: WRONG FOOT?

Customer

en purchases to three pairs per

Before the rationing one store reported a single order for $75 worth of stockings,

What

would US. women do

i der accession to the Throne predicted that Saturday, were conveyed to their English sisters.

Netherland Consul

bare legs stocking-colour.

Acting

Geral in Hongkong in the fof- lowing letter

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong kong. September 5, 1941.

n 60-

Str. I am directed by His Ex- cellency the Governor to convey w you on behalf of this Colony Hls Excellency's felicitations morrow's anniversary of the ac C0581021 to the Throne 01 the Netherlands of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, and to express again their conâdence in the victory of CHEF

cause and in the ultimat restoration of Her Ma-i jesty's Sovereignty over all her dominions.

as it progressed, my wife. two guests and I were startled to hear the speaker repeat himself. not unce, but twice. three four, flye tunes. "and let us have "and "and let us have

On the plea of blonde, admirably let us have.." curved EDITH ROGERS DAHL," "and Generalissimo Francisco

Franc moment

lei us have..." In મ there WAS

telling

a

four years ago reprieved her check- "click" as the dissertation con. without silk stockings? Some bouncing, plot-of-fortune husband, tinued.

Ther might copy Harold ("Whitey"; Dahl, from the

According to the announcer, the death sentence passed on htm for speaker was Wodehouse In person

Was his face red when, in order flying for the Loyalists.

Overcome

to get Wodehouse "out of the her by

tear-jerking

groove." he had to move the needle letter, her eye-filing photo, the

along ut: the recording? I doubt General wrote her promising to

14. spare her husband, signed his letter with the polite Spanish "Q.B.8.P." --who kisses your feet."

ful note in the panicky

way

a repor

1

Н

paint their

A hope

bedlam new stocking mesh,

which WEARS LIKE IRON and LOOKS VERY SHEER

made of cotton

CURRENT COST OF LIVING

!

Perhaps his hosts do not yek consider Με Wodehouse sufft- etently trustworthy to broadcast in person, for fear of being duped Recently staunchly Catholic Cau-by some twist of phrase or inflec- dillo Franco learned to his chagrin tion--PARKER F. SOULE JA

THE WRONG FOOT

that he had kissed an unwed foot.

Dahl, now an Instructor for the Royal Canadian Air Force, had

NEWSETTES

married again, reporting himself England's mobile food convoys unmarried. Miss Rogers, who greet. which speed to a town requiring There

was a parked increase in Dahl with limited affection when aid have eight large vehicles to a the prices of vegetables on the he returned from Spain last year, unit: a 300-gallon water tank; 2 market during the current week. admitted that the Mexican civil trucks with food for 12,000 meals; Colonial Secretary varieties advancing by as much as with her was, for some reason. Bo ment. bollers, and

with many of the more popular ceremony he once went through 2 trucks carrying kitchen equip

20 rents per lb. Price of pork has legal marriage. gn up by six cents per lb.. but. At a Salt Lake City vaudeville

1 am, fic..

(Sd) N. L. SMITH.

The Consul-General for the

Netherlands, Hongkong.

CONSUL'S REPLY

The Arting Netherlands Lansak General, Mr. Middelburg replled us follows:

Consulaat-Generasi der Neder- landen. Voor Zuid Chin, Hong- kong. September 9, 1941.

canteens.

fuel: 9 mobste

beef and mutton prices remained house where she was billed as "The

Punch. the famous British pub teady

Blonde Who Spiked the Guns of

lication, is the oldest humorous There was a slight drop in the General Franco's Firing Squad," Started on July 17, 1841, it has periodical now being published. rices of chicken and capon, but Miss Rogers commented: "1 knew never missed a publication date. duck, geese and pigeon prices the lid was going to blow off this showed an increase. With the ex-thing some day. I'm the best damn-: ¡ception of lines and pumelos,

A shortage of men has caused quotations for fruits

ed woman violinist in show bust- one New York City taxicab com- were lower

ness. and I don't need Dahi to sell pany to advertise for Wolnen a violin solo."

drivers Botne of them are a7-1 'ready on the job. They receive 42 per cent of their fares.

Sir, I have the honour to acthan those of the previous week's. knowledge the receipt of your let ter No. 2.5548, 1938, conveying on

The following are yesterday's behalf of the Colony of Hongkong Prices with last week's given in

the felicitations of His Excellency

brackets:-

Sir Geoffry Northcote on the an- niversary of the accession to the Throne of the Netherlands of Her Beef Majesty Queen Wilhelmina.

Mutton

May I express herewith my sta- Pork

thanks for His Excellency's

cerF

congratulations, which I shall not:

fall to convey to Her Majesty.

MEAT

Per lb.

POULTRY

GOAL OF $1

72)

Jacqueline Cochrane, America's No. 1 woman flier, says, "America

$0.72 (0.72) AIRPLANE FUND will need women plots because

.72

96 90 CAMPAIGN

1.15

I have, etc..

(Sd.) MIDDELBURG, Acting Netherland Consul- General,

The Honourable

Chicken Capon Duck Geese

Pigeon

VEGETABLES

Per lb.

The Colonial Secretary.

Hongkong.

DR. SUN TO SPEAK Cabbage

TOMORROW Carrots

The Association for the Ad- vancement of Chinese Culture and che Chinese Youth League In Hongkong will jointly hold a meet- ing in honour of Dr. Sun Fo. Pre- sident of the Executive Yuan now visiting here, at the Assembly Hall of the Hongkong University at 10; o'clock tomorrow morning.

Dr. Sun, it is learned, will speak) on current internal and

national problems.

CHEERO CLUB

Cucumber Lettuce Melon Catons Potatoes Spinach String-beans Tomatoes Turnips

inter-·

Oranges

Apples, green

FRUITS

Cheoro Club activities for the Apples, red........... coming week are as follows:- Bananas. Tuesday, Whist Drive at 8.30 Grape Fruits p.m. Wednesday, Dance at 0.30*Lémon ....... p. Thursday. Bridge and Mah Limes Jong: Friday, Darts and Table Pumelos Tennis.

*Bach

The guai of the $1 Airpl

you never can have 100 many pilots for an air transport aux- llary."

Per eatty

Fund Campaign which was inun- The death occurred on June 18. $2.00 ($2.30) clied in Hongkong recently under at "Daisy Bank House." Leck- 1.50 (1.60) the auspices of the Headquarters of hampton, Cheltenham, Gloucester- (90) the Chinese Association for the Por-hire, England, of Humphrey St 1.25 (1.15) motion of Aviation has been set John Wilding, Commissioner of 1.00 (85) at HK$1,000,000, according to the Chinese Maritime Customs, retired.

campaign committee.

It is believed that If every Chi-

The death of Sir Emsley Carr, ncse in the Colony donates at least 74, editor of Britain's No. I scandal $0.36 (80.32) $1, the goal will be easily reached. sheet, News of the World, world's A Chinese, shipping magnate, it largest Sunday paper, was an- 1s learned, is willing to contribute nounced recently. In 50 years he for the purchase of bonated its circulation from 40,000- 12) on plane. Enthusiastic support to 4,000,000. Sir Emsley's formula

miscellaneouS

.40 ( .36) { .22)

.40

.36 (40) HK$200,000

{ .08) to the drive has been demonstrat-thorough coverage of soundul, dex 00ed by a number of organisations murder, and sport. His pet boast

crimes, divorces, .10) here.

was that he had never fired a member of his staff.

.16 (

.03

12

{

.12

.55 { ,34)

.30 C .36)

.20 (48)

CABARET TEA DANCE

A message of respect to Mr. The Hongkong Chinese Women's Lin Ben, Chairman of the National Soldiers' Relief Association, assist Government, and Generalissimo! Per dowon

ed by "Hongkong's most beautiful Chiang Kai-shek, has been re- $2.20 (32.40) and popular dance hostesses and colved in. Chungking from the Por Jb. featured by the C: C. Wan'k Swing Chaochow (Kwangtung) Chinese $0.60 (30.05) Orellestra and other most charm- organisations in Malaya over the 48 (85) Ing entertainments," will hold a signature of Mr. Yang Chun-wen, .15 18) Cabaret Tea Dance at the Capitol Chairman of the Federation Di .30€

35) Ballroom from 6 pùm, to 9 part on the Chaochow Gullde in Malaya. 2018 Thursday, Sept. 18, to raise funds The message paya a glowing ..3034) for the $1 Bombers' Fund (Chi-¡tribute to the leadership of Chatr

30 (20) noso) Movement recently inauman Lin "and Generillesimo

gurated

Chlang.

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