1937-07-31 — Page 13

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1937.

FOOD COST 10 PER CENT. UP IN A YEAR

Manufacturers Blame

Rearmament.

OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW

BIG INCREASES

THE

HE cost of living has, according to the Ministry of Labour, risen by 8 per cent. during the year, while the cost of food alone has risen by 10 per cent. in the same time.

Food and clothing, rent and healing, household furnishings, and even holidays, are not only costing more than they did a year ago, but more than a few weeks ago. Housewives all over the country are feeling the pinch, and in some CRPCR seaside landladies are writing to notify their clients of a 5 per cent, increase in their charges as a result of the in- crever cost of food.

Ministry of Labour figures for food prices now compared with f

1986 me:

1936

1937

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1

Mution

12

14% H

Baron

12

Flour (ill.)..

1 47

Bread (16)

#1

D

Potatoes (716.)

All Te frode saba which doctors and Malatyy of 1lenith ndyke should be eaten as an antidote to matri- tion show..with the one exception of milka ronsiderable price hurrease.

BUTTER, CHEESE FRUIT Fresh butter fofficially) is up "pl, an Pound, although in many shops it is, up id. and 2t, as compared with last year. Cheese is up 11⁄2d. ant mar- Korine . Fruit and vegetalde, are ala costing more.

In thousands of households where i the penules have to be counted care- buying fully housewives are now margarine Instead of butter.

Go into any blg store and talk to. the buyers,

You will find their desks stacked, with letters from manufacturing tha announcing further increases of any thing from 5 per cent, to 20 per cent. in cost for all future orders.

One from chair manufacturer explains that the price of tacks bas advanced by 40 per cent. springs by 60 per cent, and fibre and hair by 25 per cent.

PRESSING DEMANDS

The increases are greatest in those articles which contain metal or wool, for the reason that the great Powers cannot get enough metal for

Aren't Women Beasts

NEW sex war has started, THIN tline it's

aratont wASANTI,

WOBILTI

Women

Out of every three w dire take the officlul motor driving test one falls. Ministry of Transport Agures show that was the fate of 577, mut of the East 1,493,who tried.

They mainly blame the wo inen examiners. They are "ton efflelent" the driver women say. Driving school officials state WODICH dread helpe laught or examined by wonen.

FEARED HARM IF. HE TOLD POLICE

their

Frederick

new shells, tanks and aeroplanes. while the wood supplies have been

London, July 5. George Murphy, ex-ship's

run short by the demand for uniforms fifty-three-year-old

HIS BEARD CLIPPED — Political enemies of Professor Aurelio Manrique, candidate from San Luis Potosi for deputy in the Hex- tean Congress, not only attacked and beat hitn, but added ' nity by chipping off his beard, during his enimpaign speech in Mexico City. But here he is rewarded with a warm embrace from lats wife. He was a National Library director.

Duchess

Of Windsor

Is The World's Best-Dressed Woman

DUCHESS OF KENT IS GIVEN THIRD PLACE

By Mary Fentress) Hunter Press Staff Correspondent)

Paris. Duchess of Windsor to- day was named the world's best dressed woman for 1937.

The

The Ballimore celebrity, who was married last June to England's ab- for the growing armies and air forers fireman, said yesterday that the of 13 internationally known

dicated King Edward, headed a list of the world.

social Here are a few examples:

[reason he did not go to the police | Agares whose infallible taste In The lustbin which cost 45. Od. a when he found a woman's body clothes gave them a lead over hun- little over a year ago costs 6s. 11d. to-day; the garden incinerator which in a cellar was because he had dreds of prominent applicants in a was 75. 6d.

fashion poll held for the United Press is now 10. 9d. The been in frouble with them

by leading Paris stylists. alluminium fish frier which was 7.

before." Bd. is now Us. d-mainly because of the interested valué of the tin fish! basket it contains.

gulvanised bucket which was The d. is now is. Bled, and the garden spade which was 3s, 11d, last your k now 45. 6d.

A glance at the prices of metal explains these in teares, Tin, which was £180 a ton last July is £250 ai ton to-day; spelter £23 105, as com- pared with £15 78,

DEARER HOUSES, - TOO

!

A pair of single bed all wool York-i shire blankels which were sold at Is. 11. to housewives who restock

27s.

ed as recently as last February, cost

d. now.

Colton and linen goods have in ereused over the whole range by per cent, to 15 per cent.

Adminster

There is an average increase in the, cost of carpets of about 30 per cent. For instanco,

Imperial which was 3s. Ed. a yard 12 months is now 11s. fd, and the 12ft. x ont Indian carpet which sold at £5 8%. Odl. costs £7 12s. 6d.

ago

The cost of bullding materials has soared so that the working class

1. Duchess of Windsor.

The 10 best dressed women of all His trial for the murder of Rosita | nationalities were listed as followsi Field, aged furty-nine, at Islington Green un Coronation Day, May 2 will be continged at the Old Bailey turday. Lord Chief Justice Hewart) will sum up

"I had made accusations against the police," said Murphy in the witness-box. They were up against me. They would de me harm at the fest opportunity."

He explained that on one occasion. detective- man told him that a

RADIO BROADCAST

Commentary on Lawn

Tennis from · Studio

DANCE MUSIC Radio Programume Broadcast by Z.B.W..on wavelengths of 355 metre. (845 k.e's.), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.e's). 12.30 London Symphony Orches-

tru

Triumphal March from Caractarus Op. 35: Woodland Interlude; Dream Children; Crown of India.

1.00 Time and Weather,

1.03 Charlie Kunz at the Piano. Medley: When did you Leave Heaven; I Dream of San Marino, When Lady Meels a Gentleman down South.

Medley: Part 1-Actoss the Greal Divide; The Night is Young and You're so Beautiful, Boo-hoo; Part 2-The Coronation Waltz, I'm Sull in Love with You; Delyst.

1.13 New Light Symphony Or- chestra. The

Dubarry-selection; Ist Re- cord: Beauty; To-day; Summer Night; The Dubarry: 2nd Record: If I'm Dreaming: Jeanne; Without your Pantolettes; I give My Heart;

Love:

Romance in E Flat, Op. 44 No. 1 by Rubenstein; Melody in F, Op. 3, No. 1 by Rubenstein; Juzz Nocturne ("My Silent Love").

1.30 Reuter and. Rugby Press: Weather and Announcements,

1.40 Variety and Dance Music. Fox-trut Quicker than you can sy Jack Robinson Say I Wasn't Dreaming (Mario Harp Lorenzi and His Rhythmles); J'ut Deux Amours. sung by Josephine Baker and Adrien

Petite La

Tonkinoise. Lamy sung by Josephine Baker; Quivering Josephine Baker and Adrien Lamy: Quavers, Dance of the Gadfly (Otto Dobrindt

His Plano und

Sym- Hilly phonists): The

Billy Band, Susanna from Alshima (The Hill Billies); Good Evening Pretty Lwly. Back in Those Old Kentucky Days (London Piano-uccordeon Band); Toxtrot Somebody stole my Break. come from Musical Family (Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra).

2.15 Clove Down,

4.00-0.45 p.m. Chinese Programme. 0.45 Big Ben relayed from Lon- don. "Old Time Music Hall."

7.25 Primo

Band

Scalo's Accordeon

Song of the Lift; Six llits of the Day-Medley; Part I: Lovely Lady; The Glory of Love; Saddle Your Blurs to a Wild Mustang; Part 2: I'm Putting all my Eggs in One Basket: Please Believe Me; Don't Save Your Smiles.

7.35 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Market.

large black eyes, she is one of the

7.50 Songs from Gilbert and Suill- few high caste Indian princesses to dress in European clothes. Until two van; From the Pirates of Penzance years ago she wore the Indian Saris, Stop Ladies Please: Oh! is there not one Maiden Breast; 'Tis Mabel: Poor but now discards them when she is Wand'ring One; What ought we to do in European society. She is wmally1 Gentle Sisters Say?; How Beautifully dressed in a vivid shade of blue bat Blue the Sky; Stay We must not lose wears navy, black, cerise and white Our Senses; Hold, Monsters; I am the very Model of a Modern Midor also. Her dressmaker

Muin- General

bocher.

DUCHESS OF KENT

8.00 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.03 Variety Rhythms of the Rain The Duchess of Kent, al the top Piano solo by Renara; I was Lucky of the list in 1935, comes third this Piano solo by Renara; The Voice of year. Dressed by Molyneux, she is Inexperience-Parts 1 and 2. ilu- the undisputed style leader in Eng- mourous monologue by Oliver Wake- land and is acknowledged to be the fleld;, River Reveries--medley Organ must fashionable

of royalty. solo by Quentin M. Maclean Deep colour, but Rivers; Song of the Volga Boulman:

8.20 Relay from London. "Lon-

She favours ne clothes Old Man River.

AUCHEN rather tailored

2. Princess Karam of Kapurthala, i only wears exaggerated clothes

3. Duchess of Kent.

4. Mrs. Harrison Willans.

5. Senora Martinez Hoz.

6. Begum Aga Khan,

7. Baroness Von Krieger.

Mrs. Gilbert Miller.

B.

9. Prinerss Jean Pánlslowski,

10. Baroness Eugene de Rothschild.

Mrs. Harrison Williams, prominent

inspector had accepted a 250 bribe. New York hostess, who headed tast

He made a statement

at Scoflanti-

yard about it, and a Bow councillor year's list as well as these for 1933

land 1934, was fourth this time-and saw Mr. George Lansbury.

several titled women-notably the "I went to The Home OMee about it," said Murphy, "They Durbeys of Leeds, Princess Charles sak, "What business have you to i Murat,

smashed a window.'

the Honourable Daisy

|

8.30 Philadelphia Orchestra and Elizabeth Schumann,

at night. When she finds a costume don Log." A talk by Walter Fitz- that suits her, she wears it over und¦ geral. over and over. One of her spring costumes, a red and white print en semble worn with a red halo-brim straw hat, she has worn to eight

il

offrial funelions.

Carnival of the Animals Philadel- la Orchestra; Stundchen, Op. 17, No. Elizabeth Schumann-soprano Morgen. Op. 27, No. 4; Lied aus Wien Mrs. Williams, blonde blue eyed (A song of Vienna); Wien, du Stadt New Yorker, affects brilliant colours, Meiner Traume (Vienna, City of My wears luxurious furs and expensive Treams); Cuprice Viennois; Gavotte jewelry. She wears black for even-Philadelphia Orchestra; Illue Danube. mg and brightens her gowns with cocktail jackets of multi-coloured Tennis." sequins. She bought live of the 9.30 London News and Announce-

ments. hand-made sequin "jackets Ofst fashion house this spring.

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9.20 Studio; F. V. Read: "Lawn

9.56 Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel.

1. It's Swell of you; 2. Never in

Million Years; 3. There's a Lull

Senora Martinez De Hoz, tall come here! I went outside and Fellowes--were eliminatel entirely. | slinder, dark South American beauty, dresses chiefly in black and white in It was estimated that these 10 wo-

the winter and wears yellow, blue or in My Life; 4. Wake up and Live, of $300,000 to Murphy said that he tried to com- men spent a total

dull rose in summer,

10.-10.15 Interval of recorded mit suicide because he thought the $500,000 in the past year, while each The Begum Aga Kahn, former dance music from Z.B.W. police would not believe his story.

of the 10 spent anywhere from $20,- French Murphy claimed that for nearly | 000 to $100,000. This sum includes

milliner who married the 10.15 5. Floating on a Bubble; 0.

house now costs £30 more to build ne hour during the time when the every article of wearing apparel in- ! agy Indian potentale some years You are my Best Bet; 7. Taln't

which means higher rents and bigger murder was alleged to have been repayment charges.

committed, he was in a public house, cluding furs, underwear, accessories, small jewellery purchases as well as the large expense of beauty treat ments, hairdressing and massage. SELECTION NO SURPRISE

The selection of the Duchess

Schoolgirl Ringleader Raided Home 4 Times

are

one of

the She

is considered France's Ꮧ

best Good; B. Avalon. dressed womim. Her Jewels

10.30-10.40 Interval of recorded among the most famous in the world. dance muste from Z..W.

Blonde and blue-eyed Baroness 10.40 9. Music in May; 10. Tell Von Krieger is considered the most me that you Love Me To-night; 11. beautiful and the best dressed wa- It's a sin to tell a Lie; 12. Medley of man in Holland. Dressed by Moly-Old Fashioned Waltzes. nets, she has no particular colour *10.55-11 Interval of recorded dance taste but indulges her fancy for rich, music from ZD.W. of juxurious furs. Her street clothes are

11.00 13. There's something in the Windsor as the world's best dressed simple and tailored but her evening By; 15. Fancy Meeting You; 10. alr: 14..Where the Lazy River Goes woman who was no surprise, for in gowns are lavish and theatrical.

Mrs.

Melancholy Baby. Gilbert Mille the two months prior to her mar-

Miller, wife the York theatrical producer, has dance music from Z.B.W.

11.15-11.20 New

Interval 0 recorded riage she bought nearly 100 different Dorchester, July 5.

long been considered from four of the leading world's best dressest women. costumes

11.20

17. Serenade in the Night SIX

NIX schoolgirls, aged between nine and twelve-all Paris courturlers and purchased 40 shops for her clothes in Ney (Tango); 18. Vienna in the Spring- time (Tango); 19. Spanish Jake stated to be Sunday-school pupils stood stern-faced hats. Her trousseau of 48 ensembles Paris and London and usually is (Rumba, 20. That's on Ruby on

gowned in black. Typically Ameri-born. before Sherborne juvenile court magistrates to-day while came from Mainbracher.

can in appearance, Mrs. Miller is tall, dark

11.35-11.45 Interval of recorded their parents sobbed and pleaded on their behalf.

and slender.

dance music from 2.B.W. Princess Jean Paniotowsky is the 11.45 21. On a Little Bamboo One girl, aged ten, stated to be with their parents, were bound over

wife of a Itussian nobleman but is Bridge; 22. There's Frost on the the ringleader, admitted four charges for two years.

of Mexican birth. She wears rather Moon; 23. Someone to Care for me; eccentrie

clothes, usually In some 24. Margle. shade of blue.

12.00 Close Down. Tenth OR the 1st Is the American- worn Baroness Eugene De Rothschild On two of her house-breaking and therefore avolds flamboyant or Windsor, after his abdication,

was hostess to the Duke expeditions she had taken her eccentric clothes which would a Castle Enzefield outside Vienna, she seven-year-old sister who was too pear ridiculous on a women of ker

Is the former Kitty Spottswood of young to be charged.

lice Constable Fudge said that small stature, lier blue eyes are

Virginin, is tall, stately and blonde, the house was "left in such order her best feature and she dresses to shades of green. She is famed for

Wears

groys, black, white and ali The other four-two of them aged that it looked as though a profes- make the most of them.

her beautiful Jewelry, Baroness De nine, ono aged ten, the fourth aged (slonal burglar had got in."

Second in the list is the littleRothschild, who divides her time be-: cloven-admitted helping the ring- The ringleader told the court. "All Princess Karam of Kapurthala.tween Paris and Vienna, la dressed leader to steal irawberries, and I can say is I am sorry I happened." Dark-haired, small and slender with by Molyneux and Joan Potou,

of housebreaking and two of stealing It was stated that the ringcader where the key of a bananos, strawberries, and flowers had learned from a trulterer's cart and garden. friend's house was hidden and four She and her later uged twelve times when the family were away who sold all she did was to receive she entered the house.j

15. d., stolen from a house-were seat to an approved school they are fifteen.

until

TOOK SISTER OF 7

Knowing that blue is her most be coming colour, the Duchess of Wind- sor bases her entire wardrobe

various shades of blue.

The greater part of her underwear is blue and her favourite Jewel 15

the sapphire. She has a slight figure

0%

the

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11.12.55 Relay from St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,

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