1934-11-13 — Page 2

A Christy. Battersby

or Walker Hat would

never have led to

this.

This is the profound

Story of a Man who

to

had purchased a 'Hat

contrary

first

principles.. (His Wife's

Wishes.)

BERNARDS' OF HARWICH

Tailors &

Outfitters.

Tel. 28365.

Des Voeux Road,

(Cloucester Bldg.

Hongkong.

STOP

THAT

COUGH

COUGH

"HE sure means of

TH

relief from coughing

MEVANS' Pastilles. In the process of dissolving they send panstrating antiseptic vapours Indo every crevice, relieving congestion and soothing inflammation. Carry them with you against colds and sore throats, in the neal little flat pocket tin provided in sach boilla of

EVANS

ANTISEPTIC THROAT

Pastilles

thede la Rosland to a berwoude of the Liverpool Throat Hooka

COAL FIRES

Burn brightest and longest

with

HONGAY EGG COAL

EVANS

THROAT PASTILLES

Chiniotis

að all Chemists.

HONGAY MINES OFFICE (Charbonnages du Tonkin)

· 14, Queen's Road, C.

Phone 21024

They change so fast, there should be

a new picture at least once a year. for photographs of the children never grow up.

Make an appointment to-day. THE MING YUEN STUDIO 17, Queen's Road Central (First Floor), (Between the H.K. Hotel and Dairy Farm Store, Queen's Road C.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

U.S. URGED EVENING GOWN TO GUARD OIL SUPPLY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

A Model in Soft and Supple Ring Velvet

BIG PRODUCERS IN MAGENTA SHADE MAY CO-OPERATE

EXHAUSTION OF RESERVES NEAR?,

Washington, Nov. 1. Crisis in. the off Industry may lead to joint action by California, Texas and Oklahoma to impose coordinated state control in place of proposed strict fedora) regula- tion.

The tri-state project han figured In informal discussions between interested Oklahomans and Cali fornians. Whether Texas has been brought into the preliminary converantlona la not known here.

The Secretary of Interior Mr. Harold Ickes has told a con- gressional committee that state laws are failing to safeguard the Batlon's oil reserves and that a fedural conservation policy must be imposed.

Mr. Amon 1. Beaty, chairman of the Oll Code Planning and Co- ordination Committee, disputed Mr. Teken' statement. He said the industry urgently required stabili Antion. But Mr. Beaty felt con- servation was of secondary impor tance, explaining that there was no imminent danger of petroleum reserves being exhausted,

Mr. Ickex warned that the nation's oll reserves were limited.

"Evening Gowns" "A model in very soft and supple 'ring" velvet in the new magenta shude has the low-cut corsag" held up by a parrote draped scarf,"

VINEGAR will

LEGISLATION INVALID?

19, 1994.

U.S. COURTS TEST N. 1. R. A. STRENGTH

BIG, BUSINESS 'FACES LOSS

Washington, Nov. 6. New Deal policies are meeting ok den arguments before the Supreme Court in a way that miny make the session the most moment ous in the history of the court.

Severni casca of utmost import- ance have already been carried to the court. New appeala vital. to' present day governmental trends are expected to rise before the term ends next Spring.

Outstanding of New Deul policies to come to the court are those in- volving the all control provision of the National Industrial Recovery Aet and gold legislation,

The court last spring decided to hear 'argument in an appènt Invol- ving the validity, of the oil produc- tion control regulations of the Interior Secretary, Mr. Harold L Ickes, and the sections of the N.I.R.A. under which they were Issued. The appeal was taken by the government from the ruling of a Texas federal district judge that they were invalid. The govern- ment obtained a delay in the de- cisive Issue, a move that was Inter-

preted by some as indieating a fear of facing the issue.

Since then the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in two other cases has held the regulations valid and the producing companies which ought the test have appealed. The tribunal was expected to consider them at the same time it hears the governnient's appen!.

PROTECTING DOLLAR.

SOME OF THE USES OF VINEGAR cleanse a Alimy sponge, or, if used in the bath, Other witnesses sald reserves it nishes aches and pains, would be exhausted in 15 years at Coloured garments do not run in prrent production levels.

the wash if first steeped in water "The fact cannot be contradict- ed," he said, "that the United to which vinegar has been added States la using its oil reserves at Hard water may be softened by a rate which is three times an Vinegne for rinsing the halé. Fried

The government's attitude to- rapid as that of the rest of the food is never solen [f a little ward these questions in perhaps world. The result will he that vlucgar is added to the fat before best indicated by the fact that Mr. we'll have an oil shortage before

2% It bubbles. White vinegar added to lekes sought revision of the oil one exists in any other country."

Persons who agree with Mr. the water in which eggs are punch control law at the fast session of Ickes believe oll dould become, al, or thin-shelled eggs are boiled, Congress, and failed. most effective medium of foreign keeps them firm and unbroken. pressure in dealing with

Fewer eggs are needed in eake United States if this country's re- serves were depleted. The United making it a teaspoonful of vinegar, States 18 more nearly motorised a mixed with the other ingredients, than any other nation. Individual In housework, also, vinegue is most dependence проп automutive useful. Windows remain clean if transportation would make the a few drops are added to the wash

fles avoid them. to meet its interest payments on a people generally keenly aware ofing water, and any foreign combination's efforts Hut vinegar removes paint marks. $1,000 bond in currency at the old to increase the price of petroleum and inoleum will not crack If rate of value of gold. It raises resolved will and its products. The motoring cleaned with oil and yinegar in issues which, when public remembers the most recent qual parts. Moisten stove polish affeet billions of dollars of in- Instance of that kind of operation with vinegar, instead of water, and debtedness carrying the promise of when Great Britain's Stephonsona gentle rubbing will produce a payment in gold of the weight and Plan for restriction of rubber pro- bright polish, while a few drops of fineness per dollar that prevailed at duction sent tyre prices aky high. vinegar, burnt on a hot shovel, re-the time the debt was contracted.

PERMANENT POLICY.

move all traces of the smell of state In the Baltimore and Ohio Hafl- smoke from a room.

the

"There is need of a permanent "It policy," Mr. Ickes contended must be and that will be effective not only during periods of scarcity but also during periods when oll Imports must be encouraged.

"Acting by itself and within Its own limits of authority no state can protect itself from the in- fluence of uncontrolled drilling and production in another state."

BLOOD FEUD

ENDED

A BALKAN STATE OF PEACE

The suggested California-Okla- homa-Toxos combination recogni ses the weight of his argument that no state can be effective alone. But it is argued that if these three landing producere join in uniform An enthusiastic account of how regulations which were strictly en-in ten years Albanin has been res- forced the desirable ends of regula-cued from a state of barbarism in Lion could be achieved and control which a quarter of the annual would remain vested in the state deaths were due to blood-feuds, was for whatever profit or advantage

could be obtained.

PARLOPHONE RECORDS

We are now agents for these records and our first shipment from the monthly releases will arrive shortly.

Parlophones best known artists include:

RICHARD TAUBER, JAN KIEPURA, CONCHITA SUPERVIA, LOTTE LEHMANN, LILY PONS, RIA GINSTER, EMANUAL

·LIST, RONALD FRANKAU, LESLIE HUTCHISON (HUTCH) SOPHIE TUCKER, PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH, BINNE BARNES, HAROLD RAMSAY, HARRY ROY and His Orch., LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Orch.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO

9, Ice House Street. Hong Kong.

USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC HEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP

38

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

3 Bought by a Scot; prid about ⚫n pound.

8 tend this! It ends with a trick, far-awny

KA

but it starts in Of even greater importance to

land, the administration's policies is an

A lot go in for this, and that's attack on the law and regulations

what it is that decides it... devaluing the dollar in terms of gold. This case involves the right of the Baltimore and Ohio Raftrund

road bond test the company will be obliged to pay more than $38 in currency to meet a $22.50 interest payment if devaluation were held constitutional.

Of importance paralleling the devaluation case is an appeal at- tacking the law and regulation for- bidding gold hoarding and making the offence punishable by heavy civil and criminal penalties.

NO APPROVAL...

Both cases come to the court with the support of Lower tribun- als for the law. The New York Court of Appenis, one of the admittedly great judicial bodies of the country, approved devaluation.

The New York Federal courts given recently by a noted traveller sanctioned, anti-hoarding regula on his return to London from a visition. to Albania.

Credit for bringing genre and (order to Albanih he gives to Ķing Zog.

These cases are considered by those familiar with the court to presage a flood of cases involving administration policies and so-call- ed liberal or progressive legisla- tion which has been enacted either with or without the administra- tion's approval.

Bureau of Mines figures for 1932 show that those three states pro- duced 613,850,000 barrels of oil. Other principal producers were: New York, 3,508,000; Pennsylva- nia, 12.412,000; Ohio 4,664,000; He set up a British Commandant- West Virginia 3,876,000; Kontucky, General of the gendarmerie six 6,287,000; Illinois 4,673,000; Kan- years ago, with close on 3,000 gen- Ban 34,848,000; Wyoming 13,418,- durmes, all picked men. The leader 000: Louisiana 21,897,000, and was 31ajor-General Sir Jocelyn Major legislation thus likely to Arkansas 12,061,000.

Percy, formerly of the British face Supreme Court tests include In preliminary discussion of the Army.

the Norris-LaGuardia Act restrict California-Texas-Oklahoma

ing the issuance of injunctions'in bination it has been contended Under the direction of, General | labour disputes, the Frazier-Lemke that joint, action by those statesPercy, and linked by a modern tele-Farm Mortgage Moratorium. Act, would be a controlling factor in the phone system, the gendarmes have recently declared invalid by a oil industry. No formal action penetrated; every corner of the Judge in Baltimore, and laws ap-, could be taken before midwinter.country and have put a stop to feud plying to settlement of labour.- United Prens,

killings.

United Presa..

com-

.

10 If you don't think this about a thing, you do it without hexlin- tion.

11 Is this the way to preserve a

mischievous child?

12 This pig is not worth as much as

it sounds.

13 Flowers.

16 Marry.

10 There's a suggestion o", hkiden

Broms in the coins.

22 Hero worshipper.

23 Stick with a fishy tail.

24 Keeps silence and may turn out

all right.

25 I see Dan (anagram), 26 Something extra added

holds the reins.

20. A famous violinist.

that

32 The shape has apparently al- tered--has in the middle, any. how.

35 The careful-gardener-invests in

them.

36 Like 22 Across,' he crossed into

Europe, but with an army. 37 A tug of war signal.

del Sarto.

38

39 Fled followed by sleuths, and it

might apply to butter.

40 Snatch-all that's left, seem-

ingly.

Down

1 Gracious! A small boy might

what it sounds like.

throwing the stuff away,

6 When after the post, competition

in eliminated.

7 Though ald.

15 Seems to have

14 Book of the O. T.

10 A sore point.

17 A great eple.

18 British composer.

no real finish.

19 Unpolished, and equally so when

beheaded.

20 Another book of the O, T.

21 Rinse (anagram).

27 Purpeso absorbed.

28 Demand repetition,

feline

30 An artist diaturbed in

surroundings is found in your threat.

31 A certain Indy soems to, clalin

to be Lamb.

32 Expressen poetically.

contempt

onomisto-

A proverb in our age and any -

other.

34 Bring to bear.

Yesterday's Solution.. BALAMANDER RU TJ: [D_W" K FUER IRANIAN UMBRAGE SRN MY LE CODE APISH JIB S OERANTKATIE A UPRIGHT IRONY.Nİ NEROBCU TSCENE KINEMA 8

NEAR BOATALA'R AGN LIBEL U] NAUTILI RHUBAR B TRS

ELL NIGHTSHADE

2 The kind of shop to avoid. 3 Your name possibly - 4--but it lon't really your name.

sufficient

for & Quite

grounds

HONG KONG SOCIETY, FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: WOMEN'S AUXILIARY.

The children cannot fight star- vation and disease. We can, but only with your help.

Will you help us? Na donation is too small: All will be gratefully acknowledged.

Hon. Treasurers: Mrs. L. W. Amps, 517 The Peak: Mrs. Y.-K. Chow, 22 Shouson Hill.

Teething troubles

Because' SCOTT'S Emulsion

- contains 44% of pure cod liver

· oil and limo salts

for bone formation,

It prevents teething

troubles, rickets and. soft bones. Ask for Tenuine

SCOTT'S EMULSION

pol»neft s

SALESMAN SAM

A Fair Exchange!

By Small

WELL; WHAT'S TH'. MATTER. WITH YA? YER ALL WINDED I

BEEN RUNNIN' FER BLOCKS AND BLOCKS, CHASIN A THIEF WHO STOLE SOME BONDS-AN' I GOT· THRASIAL, TOO, CHIEF!

ATTA STUFF, SAM! BY GOLLY, YOU, MAY MAKE A DETECTIVE NETIGOT HIM LOCKED UP,

HOH2

“COURSE NOT! LUET HM onl

FER CRACKY SURE SAKES, WHAT BUT THEY FER? YA SAID

WERE He SWIPED SOME LIBERTY BONDS, DIDN'TCHA?

BONDS.

HE GAVE ME TH BONDS, SO I GAVE HIM

HIS LIBERTY Į.

- DE DEKOL SA A. PAT, OFT