MAJESTIC
At 2.30, 5.20,
THEATRE
'SHOWING TO-DAY
BEERY COOPER
"ONE EXCITING
Coming:--
ADVENTURE"
Commencing
AT
7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
BOY
SPANKY MCFARLAND
with
BINNIE BARNES
• WEDNESDAY THE KING'S.
THREE ATTRACTIONS IN ONE PROGRAMME.
Perhaps Love Is Greater
Primitive passions ...in a Paradise ol., Peril! M-G-M," mightiest adven- ture romance made in the South Seas!
PA
...when men brave
dangers like these for their mates!
OF
THE
GANS
WITH
MALA LOTUS
Beautiful girls'in cast of 5,000!
AND
Beauties in Cast of 5,000!
Directed by Richard Thorpe Produced by Philip Goldstone
Filmed in South Seas 1.. A year.
Cost $1,000,0001 | yer
to make t
ALSO
"AUDIOSCOPIKS"
THE BIGGEST NOVELTY SINCE TALKIES 1 PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE SCREEN. EXPLANATORY REMARKS BY PETE SMITH.
AND
LAUREL and HARDY
in their Latest Comedy
"
'LIVE GHOSTS'
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1936.
U.S.A. PLANNING AIR BASES IN THE PACIFIC
ATLANTIC CONTRACT LET
The U.S.A. navy is tightening the nation's air defences, on two sea coasts.
The construction of a powerful] Marine Corps air base in the Virgin Islands, athwart the projected Southern Commercial transatlantic air route, is, being hastened.
On the West, meanwhile, Rear- admiral William H. King, Chief of Naval Aeronautles, la considering the possibility of establishing, air, bases in the far Pacific islands.
A contract for a hangar, ramps, runways and a sea wall on Lind- bergh Bay at the north eastern tip of St. Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands, has been let.
The point is the farthest United States possession in the North Atlantic.
IN THE PACIFIC
Air buses and fortifications in the Pacific islands have been under consideration since Japan re- nounced the 6-5-3 naval ratio; and walked out of the London Naval Conference.
In the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which Japan denounced, each country agreed to leave un- fortified their respective small Islands in the mid-Pacific region.
The Virgin Islands base will serve a penceful as well 119 a military purpose,
In addition to strengthening the Panama Canal defence against air attack the base will afford an emer- gency landing and refueling field on experimental flights of the Ger- man Lufthansa and Pan-American Airways plan to Inaugurate this
year.
A reciprocal agreement pledgrinsr each nation to afford the other full facilities on tests of the southern transatlantic route has recently been concluded by the State Depart- ment with an official German Air Mission,
"LEGS APPEAL!
WHEN THE MALE "CHORUS GIRLS" STRUCK!
PECAUSE the male "chorus gicks"
BEC
SHANGHAI OFFICERS HONOURED
Decorations conferred upon them by the President of the Re public of Portugal were presented to Major F. A. R. Leilao, Blend- quarters, and Major R. Jacquinet de Desange, Chaplain of the S.V.C., by the Portuguese Minister, Dr. Antonia Alves, J., in a ceremony held at the Shanghol Rifle Rango last week. Upper photo shows the Portuguese Company, S.V.C., at the ceremony. Lower left, Dr. Alves pinning the decoration on Major Besange and, lower right, Major Leitao being decorated.
King Improvises
On Signature As
BABY
Prince of Wales BORN IN THE AIR
London, Apr. 15. King Edward, who has a new signature now that he's the monarch, has swung into writing his new name without any diffi: cully.
It's really just an improving tinn on the old one.
When he was the Prince of Wales ho
documenta signed "Edward P." Now it's "Edward R. L. Before becoming over- eign he always wrote the "p" after his name with a full loop. Now he adds a straight down. ward stroke to form an "R" and aflixes a perpendicular line for the "
He will adheres to his familiar. final flourish from the ending of the "d" of his name, the flourish running the length of the rame.
-United Press,
Melrose Plans His Third Flight To
of Harvard University's Pi Eta Australia
Club refused to shave their lezz for a, revue, the Club has sent ap- peals in Massachusetts.
The deans of Bryn Mawr, Vassor,
Smith and Sarah Lawrence colleges have been asked if they would permit their undergraduates come to Harvard for the annual revue.
dr
WHAT WILL THEY
CALL HER?
Stockholm, Apr. 8. SWEDEN to-day number-
ed among its population | the first Swedish child ever to be born in an airplane.
The infant, a finely developed girl, was born in an ambulance machine, which was conveying. the mother from Overtornen, on the Swedish-Finland border, to hospital at Boden, 120 miles distant.
:
Medical assistance was render- fed in the air by the assistant pilot of the machine, and mother and child were taken to hospital with- out 'mishap.
A legal decision will be neces- Plans for his third flight to Aus-birth can be registered.
sary before the child's place of tralia have been announced by Meanwhile, the newspapers are Mr. C. J. Melrose, twenty-two-year-suggesting names old Australian airman.
for the girl. Ono suggestion is she should be christened Aricla, the feminine of Shakespear's Ariel.
He hopes to start from Heston on April 1. He will use a new type Meanwhile the Club is going on with rehearsals without a "chorus," passenger machins, with which he
IIherio, the feminine parts in intends to begin an "air taxi" ser-na passengers. He declared that the revue have always been played vice in Adelaide,
there is no question of record by men,Reuter.
Three people may accompany him breaking."
PEEPS AT PRIVATE
LIVES
FIGURES THAT MAKE NEWS
The private life of Mr. and Mrs. Great Britain has been re- corded in book form by two men down to the smallest detail..
It tells, for instance, how many familles there are in the country---
FOOT SORES.
Don't let foot aures cripple you. Use Sho-ko, the now antiseptic oint- ment. Also for Eczema, Itch, Ring worm, Pimples, Ulcers, enld Koros, wet and dry sores, Sho-ko is the ideal curntive remedy,
and reveals that Scotsmen have the largest. It recalls that while 20,000 people have an income over £2,000 a year 16,900,000 have less than £160.
We learn also that there are more lodgers in London and the South-East than in any other region, the number treatment of Cuts, Burns, Scalds, of boys, born normally exceeds the Blings, and other injuries to the skin. Bruises, Scratches, Insect Bites and
girls, and women live longer than
mor
The book is called "The Home Market," by Major G. Harrison and F. C. Mitchell ການປ İR published by Allen and Unwin at 10s. 6d. It is described as “a by-product of adver- tixement," but it is, in liseff, an im portant and intensely interesting work.
MORE WOMEN THÂN MEN
ing, She-ko is equally good for the Cooling, soothing and rapidly heal-
SHE-KO
FOR THE SKIN
is obtainable at chemists, or from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451, Klangse Road, Shanghai; 70 cents per packaga; poat free.
In 1994 the total population of lighting and fuel, Income tax, doctor's Great Britain was £92/3 million bill and insurance, and try to save. females and 31% million males-
1,084 women to each 1,000 men. There 90 PER CENT, OF MEN WORK was an exceptional excess of women uged from 30-45 in 1934 because of the losses of the war.
Above 76 years of age, too, women are CO per cent. more numerous than men. Half the population were bo- tween 15 and 45,
Kot
back to incomes. Half the annual gross national income is spent on food, clothes and shelter,
то
HOW THE MONEY GOES Savings averago 36 per family, but a small minority of the familica contribute the bulk of it. The Average yearly expenditure per family is £330 and here is how it is apportioned per week:
# ช d.
Food Clothes Travel
Smoking
Entertainment
Newspapers, books etc.,
I 17 0
10
0
ย 0
4
5
3 4 0
Out of the remaining £3 or so John Gilzen has to pay his rent, rates,
Fow male industrial workers carn Inore than £3 a week, while the earn- inga of the vast majority of girls and women in Industry average 278, per
week,
or
Nearly 70 per cent, of malos work more than 90 per cont. If boys under 14 are excluded. Unoccupied retired number ene and a half mil- lion-300,000 are students, 300,000 are retired or old-age pensioners, and 300,000 are "men of leisure" or un employables.
of women in Great Britain, one- quarter are workers and another quarter girls under 14. The remain- ing half totals 12,000,000, and of these
8
million are inarried and the rest unmarried, widowed or unoccupied.
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