1937-01-16 — Page 3

GREAT WINTER

SALE

NOW ON

COATS to CLEAR

45 New Coats Usual $32.00 to $35.00

120

SALE at $19.50

NEW MODEL

COATS

Big Fur Collars

Just Unpacked 1937 Styles

from London.

NOW SPECIAL AT BOTTOM PRICES

L

THESE -MODELS

ARE

NEW

AND

VERY

SMART

in

Medium and

small sizes.

HATS AND BAGS

NEW HATS

FROM NEW YORK

$3.25

·HUNDREDS OF NEW BAGS FOR DAY AND EVENING USE.

ALSO

KID GLOVES ALL AT LOWEST PRICES.

ELITE

SHELL HOUSE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1937.

LITTLE PRINCESSES WILL DRAW THE WORLD

ELIZABETH

AIRMAN'S

30 HOURS IN TREE-TOPS

Melbourne, Jan. 1.

RESCUERS to-day reached a

young Tasmanlan airman who for 30 hour, had been trapped in the cockpit of his shattered plane, suspended in the tree-tops of a dense forest.

He is expected to recover, though his nose and jaw and both legs were broken in the crash.

Hack-saws were used to cut him from the wreckage of the plane.

The airman, Pilot-Officer Eric Read, took off yesterday in thick fog and kenvy rain to obtain data for Melbourne's daily weather report.

LOST BEARINGS

He ascended to 10,000 feet, lost his bearings and later found himself over a thickly-wooded mountainside.

On his second attempt to land he hit a tree top, succeeded in getting clear, but was finally forced down as his engine cut out.

When he discovered that his legs

Million Visitors

In London For Coronation

PLANS for the Coronation are proceeding at full speed in London. Fears that the, abdication might rob the Coronation of much of its public glamour have proved unfounded.

If anything, interest in the ceremony has been actually stimulated by the change in the Crown.

This is the expert view of hotel managers, tourist agencies, and saleamen of Coronation seats.

As an hotel authority said: "Not a single booking for the Coronation was cancelled last week, during the crisis, and this week applications for rooms and suites | are pouring in.

ATTRACTING WOMEN "The prospect of a Coronation with a Queen and the little Princesses is making an appeal to women in all parts of the world which the crown- Ing of a bachelor: monarchi could

never have.

"With the possible exception of Shirley Temple there is no doubt that Princess Elizabeth is the most popular child in the world.”

A

census being taken by the Coronation Committee of the Hotels and Restaurants Association reveals that there is accommodation in Central London for 500,000 guests in hotels and boarding houser.

When full returns are made it is anticipated that room for at least an other 500,000 visitors will be found within easy reach of London.

CLEARING HOUSE

SURGEON

BLAMELESS

How a surgical swab was found In the body of a girl aged 25 about ten months after an operation was told at an inquest at Tottenham recently. She was Audrey Eve Mac- donald, a shorthand typist, of Weston Park, Crouch End. Hornsey.

Mr. Hamilton Ballet when he a Harley

Street specialist, Bald operated he found a unique condi- lion. and he and the nurses had to work nt desperately high pressure. Somehow a miscount of the awabs had occurred.

The verdict was accidental death. The Jury considered that the swab caused death; that there had been a miscount of the swabs used; and it was the nurses' duty to count the No blume atinched to Mr.

Many hotels are booked to capacity, swabs. and manngers are passing further Bailey, applications to the Hotels and Restau- rants Association, which is acting as a clearing house.

on

Plans for spending £25,000 street decorations, floodlighting,

Drastic

REDUCTIONS

HOUSEHOLD

LINENS

500

BUY

NOW

and

BUY

WISELY

TABLE DAMASK $175 yds. 68" WIDE WORTH $3.95 YD.. yd.

60 doz

350 yds.

18 doz

TABLE NAPKINS $195 BLEACHED 22′′ x 22′′

Linen

18"

$425

doz

yd.

Toweling

Huckaback $125 PILLOW SLIPS $100

PLAIN, BUTTON, 20′′ × 30′′

ANOTHER QUEEN 60 only COLOURED TURKISH 50′′ × 52′′

stands, and the entertainment of VICTORIA FILM

schoolchildren during the Corona.

tion are to be considered by the GAUMONT - BRITISH

Westminster City Council to-day- Mr. Grey Wornum's scheme for were broken, he improvised n tin decorating Whitehall, Parliament

dipper to catch the falling rain.

Street, Bridge Street, Parliament All through the night be forced Square, Northumberland Avenue, the himself to remain conscleus by south side of Trafalgar Square, Cock- writing messages on the fuselage, spur Street, Pall Mall, St. James's To-day his plane was located from park Corner and the Strand will cost Street, Piccadilly, Regent Street, Hyde the air. A search party set out to cut their way through the bush,

nearly £13,500, The airman was carried four miles to a waiting ambulance and taken to hospital.

Two Murdered

Missionaries REMÁINS-FOUND- AFTER SIX YEARS

BRIGHTER STRAND

The Forestry Commission's tender of £455 for 650 home-grown masts, which have been examined by Kow Gardens experts, is recommended for acceptance. After the Coronation the poles will be stored for future

usc.

PLANS

NOVA PILBEAM. IN

TITLE-ROLE

Queen Victorin is to be produced, Another Allm based on the life of

following the announcement that the ban on such plays will be raised next June. Mr. Herbert Wilcox has al- ready announced a picture about Queen Victoria.

Now Mr. Michael Balcon, director at the Gaumont- of productions British studies, tells me that his cor- poration has an option on the Con- tinental play, "Girlhood of a Queen," Although the Strand is not actu-by the oddly-named Sil-Vara, says

London a

The representative. action ally on the procession route, it will

Covers

the Arst three years of be decorated to link the City and the Queen's reign West End schemes. Gas flambeaus and floodlights for illuminating cer- tain points will cost £400. Instead of the usual Coronation Remains of two English women missionaries who were murdered by mugs schoolchildren will be presented Chinese bandits in October, 1930, venirs, with the inscription, "Present-

sou with silver-plated spoona es have just been found.

women were Miss Edithed by the City of Westminster." Nettleton, formerly a carpet .m{}

CLOSED SIX MONTHS

The

months

It is possible that the play will be produced in London next year. Ift

ea.

BATH TOWELS

75

els.

48

Huckaback. Towels

only

90

ets.

-VERY HEAVY QUALITY 36" x 18"

FURTHER NEWS ON PAGE 5

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

WEAR OUR

SHOES

the film is adapted from it No FOR QUALITY and COMFORT

Pilbeam will probably be the Queen.

Queen

Victoria succeeded to the has already played Throne at 18. Miss Pilbeam, whe one English Queen, Lady Jane Grey, in the bril- Hant "Tudor Rose," is 17.

Mr. Balcon also has under consi- deration another story covering the Queen's whole reign. Whichever is chosen, the picture will be one of the

'a zaharoff picture That somebody would make a picture suggested by the life of Sir

worker in Halifax, and Miss Eleanor Westminster Abbey will be closed Harrison, of Cookiey, near Kidder- for services for six months, Four minster. The discovery of their

before the Coronation the bodies was reported in a cable re- Crown, to whom the Abbey belongs, principal British productions of ceived by the Church Missionary will take over the keys so that ex-1937. Society from the Rt. Rev. John Hind,

galleries may be erected to Bishop in Fuklen.

tensive Both women had been missionaries accommodate Lords and Commons,

the Diplomatic in South China for many years.

Corps, Omcers in State, and June, 1930, they were advised by the

the multitude who, by British Consul to leave their lonely custom or right, claim to attend." station at Chungan for the coast, be- After the ceremony another two enuse of the danger of bandits, and months will be required for clearing they were on their way to Foochow up.

when they were captured.

A large ransom was demanded.

of

and unremitting efforts were made Peasants Kill Farmer

to

secure their relcuse. Another

Church Missionary Society mission-

ary and the British Consul went up

river to try to negotiate with the bandits when it became known that

the women had been shot

And His Family

Budapest, Jan. 1. Superstition led to the deaths of

Recently they were, burled, four persons in the district of Temes- probably at Foochow,

where two var, Hungary. other missionaries, the Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Stewart, and their two When the sow of a wealthy farmer children, murdered in 1895, are also had a litter of 12, one of the pigs had burled,

ABSENCE MAKES

four eyes and eight legs and this led the villagers to believe that the farmer was possessed of the devil.

A child of a neighbour died, and the peasants attacked the home of the Woman, at Willesden Police Court pig owner and set it on Bro. The recently: I will consent to a recon-farmer, his wife and two sons were cillation, but I will not live wilir my burnt to death as no one would raise husband

a hand to rescue them.-Exchange.

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Ball Zaharoff was inevitabic. Two Hollywood companies are reported be competing for the services of wrote a booit about the armaments Robert Neumann, the German who

"king" a year or so ago,

Mr. Neumann and his manager, Mr. David Bader, will probably leave for Hollywood shortly.

$10.90

Calf-leather gent's oxford'

shoes in brown or black, Reliable and comfortable.

$8.90

Durable walking shoes for ladies. The smartest

de-

sign,

KOLWEB BLACK

$4.50

KIW BOOT POLISH

TAN

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W. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd.!

$2.90

Strong leather shoes for school-boys in brown black.

7225-08

Camelhair house slippers for ladies and men. Giyes perfect warmth In severe winter.

For Children.

$1.90

$2.50

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