1939-01-06 — Page 7

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHE

January 6, 1939.

INCREASE IN COURT HAIRDRESSING

BRITAIN'S

TRADE

£2,700,000 Rise In Exports

BRITISH export trade for Octo-

| Iran and steel

meta Machinery

ber disclosed In Board of Trade returns while still showing Non-ferrous a heavy decrease as against a year ago, was better than in September, and registered the highest total for any month this year.

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This result suggests

halt in trade recession, though the in- creases shown in various of the lead ing articles, while welcome, are still too small to suggest a general strong revival.

Cotton goods Woollen goods Misc. textiles Chemicals Motors & Parte

Increase (4)

or

Month's

Total Decreto (~) £3,430,162 £1.043,303

£1,209,200 - 500,105 £4,038 978 +€ 189,063 46213,300 £1,463.145 £7,200.302 -£447,030 1,203,434 440.340 €3,345,321 + 249,071 1.245,230 208,CAZ iron

Compared with September and steel exports last month were up £440,520 and machinery showed n rise of £387,132. Colton goods ad- vanced £331.640 and chemicals were higher by £310,047.

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Vehicles, however, registered Shipments of Britial goods and pro- drop of £2,001,354, the September duce last month were up £2,751,030, gure having been swollen by

the As against September, while Thürrled delivery of new ships be exports rose £1,408,831, making total cause of the international crisis. exports 4,169,070 higher.

While exports were up imports also increased, compared with the previous month, by £4,033,895. The visible adverse balance, therefore, showed little change, being £31,028,877 Inst month, ngast £31,134,051 in Septem- ber,

In October last year the adverse balance was the large me of £43,- 281,070. For the ten months to date the balance of trade againat this country is £328,086,601, with £340,438,713.

compared

BALANCE STILL HIGH

While contraction is shown the your caused by the heavy drop in Imports, due largely to lower prices.. the balance is still high. The de- sirability of increasing exports

Improve the position is particularly apparent now because of the recent weakness of sterling.

Results for October compared with those of October last year, üret

Month's Decrease

Total

↓

Importa

Ro-export

Exports (Brit.)

Talai export

Coal exports last month, while £208,778 lower than a year ago, wert £422,434 better than in September.

DECLINE IN COTTON

Of the large decrease in imports compared with Octuber last year, £8,907,237 occurred in raw materials, £4,010,631 in the food, drink

ant and 4,156,003 in tobacco section manufactures.

In raw material imports the prin- cipul declines were:

Iron ore and rerap Wond and traber Raw cotten Raw whot of needs

Rubber

Manth's Decrease '

Total

£

421,202 070,008 4,660,883 7.200,403 2,203.650 2,000,577 3.231.52 1,370,002 2,411,861 718.203 500,655 632,600

Among foodstuffs, grain and flour showed a drop of £3,163,728 at

£5,350,326. Much of this fall is due, to the decline In prices. This is shown in wheat where, while the was down only quantity received 551,808 cwt. the value was lower by

£2,071,096

munufactured Imports, Iron and steel and manufactures thereof de- 20,004,839 17,103,700 clined £1,539,584. Chemicals were 43,659.00 4,056,052 up £525,580.

5,445.99 252.548 For the 10 months to the end of 48,005,910 1.900.000

October British exports have totalled

In British exports, manufactured C389,165,106, decrease, cuniparei goods showed a decline as against a with the results for the correspond- year ago of £4,400,310, and rawing period of 1937, of £43,003,125. materials were down £498,520. The

food, drink, and tobacco section corded an increase of £291,645.

CHEMICAL EXPORTS UP

re-

Changes shown in the principalį industries were:

MERLE V.

MARLENE

Hollywood.

Britain's exolic fim star Merle Oberon had an uncomfortable hour on the witness stand in Los Angeles Court recently when counsel intro- dured a letter drawing comparisons between Marlene Dietrich and her- self.

Lyle Rucker, an attorney, is suing Miss Oberon for £1,100 legal fees allegedly due to him, and opposing counsel in the Casc introduced a letter written by David Selznick re- garding the picture "The Garden of Allah," produced two years ago, The letter said:

"Dear, Merle, I think it caly right to advise you that we are negotiating with Marlene Diet- rich to play the lead in "The Garden of Allah,

"It is not simply a case of my preferring one artist to another- the picture will cost £240,000, and this will require a gross of at least £400,000 to repay us

"Therefore I have these alter- natives: Proceed with the pic- fure with you in it and probably lose up to £100,000; wait until you have progressed further on your meteoric rise and will really be a top star; or take ad- vantage of Miss Dietrich's desire to do this pleture."

Spelling Bee

How many of these words are cor- reet and what is wrong with the others?

rowen-trer

senalina rufus

anachronismo

anexation

friecusee

English Oxford Dictionary spell-

ings of these words will be found on page 9.

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MISS FREDA JAMES

MISS MARY HARDWICK

MISS NINA BROWN

MISS GEM HOAHING

What's the best hairdressing for a lawn tennis star? Which style is least nuisance as she dashes over the court? It's a tople they discussed in the tournament at Torquay. The camera shows opinions differ,

WOMAN LEAPS 120 FEET TO HER DEATH

Carnera Is City Crowds Shocked By

In Love Again

Tragedy

Sydney.

Wed In Secret:

Divorce Plea

THE Hon, Mrs. Cilve Martyn-be-

fore her marriage the Phyllis Bethell, daughter of

Hon. Lord

Bethell recently began divorce pro-;

ceedings against her husband, Cap-

Horrified city crowds saw a 40-year-old New Zea-tain Clive H. Martyn, M.C. land masseuse named Miss Muriel Hare jump 120 feet

Miss

Captain Martyn is defending the

to her death from the roof of the Hotel Australia here. wife is twenty-nine.

action. He is aged forty-two; his Primo Camera, the former heavy- welght boxer who is not Italy's

The tragedy occurred ot the The only molive which detectives) In 1928 Captain Martyn married newest screen star, has become en- busiest hour of the day, a little after, can advance for the suicide is that the Hon. Vera Pearl Jessel, second angert to Signorina Josepping 5 p.m.

Miss Ilare had been in ill-health. daughter of Lord Jessel. She died of Santa Lucia Isonzo, Cavazzo, Cavazzo is a clerk in mutilated, fell on the trumline in from hospital,

Inre's body, shockingly She had recently been discharged in 1928.

Captain Martyn secretly married Castlereagh street outside the door

his present wife in March 1933. of the hotel.

and Crowds in the street vicinity

Women aghast were sercemed and fainted, and many staggered into nearby shops and theatre foyers to recover,

the Pust Ofice.

"I am madly in love," he said. "She simply must marry me.”

In 1933 Miss Emilia Tesini, a Soho wattress, was awarded £4,200 dan ages for breach of promise against Prima Carnera.

"Kissed" Maid

Miss Oberon declared that her | 661 feelings were hurt by this, but not to the point where she refused to make another Selznick picture.

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Miss Hare, who had been in Aus- trala for a holiday, had booked a passage in the liner Awaten, which was due to call for New Zealand at with bp.m.

Town Clerk Disputes Wife's £43,000 Will

At 4.45 p.m. she engaged a taxi MR. John Whitehead, Town Clerk of Tunbridge Wells, brought outside a big city store where she an action in the Probate Court recently to upset a will made had been doing some last-minute by his wife on May 8, 1936, loving most of the income from her chopping. She drove to the Hotel, £43,641 estate to charity. Australia, where she had been stay-|

ing. went to the lift and asked to He propounded another will of August 12, 1927, with a codiell be taken to the top floor.

of October, 1935, in favour of himself, claiming that when Mrs. Whitehead made the second she was not of sound mind, memory or understanding, and that it was executed on a sudden impulso.

PIERCING SCREAM

Misa Moric Finegan, the Bath housemaid who recently prosecuted her employer, a local doctor, for assault by rising her and putting his arm around her, has been married.

Shortly afterwards a piercing The bridegroom is Mr. Henry

scream from a bystander in Castle- James Calney, 21-years-old, a car-

Defendants were the RS.P.C.A...] way to be paid to the three defendant; penter,

of a Nath policemen reagh Street heralded the tragedy. son

A moment later the woman's body, the N.S.P.C.C., the All-India Society societies. has been living with Finegan

for the Prevention of Cruelly to Mr. Eddy submitted that Mrs. the

her husband at hit the street with a loud crash. Seymour-road, Bath. She was marri Within ten minulek thousands of Animals, Albert Edward Telley and Whitehead made her second will be- ed at Bath Register Office. The wit- people packed the street, and re- Gladys May Telley (brother and cause she took the view that her

police

sister of Mrs. control.

Whitehead) and husband was well provided for and her quired nesses of the marringe were

The Central Ambulance arrived Nichelas Tetley, an Infant (the son did not need her money. The mar- sweetheart's parents.

and removed the woman's body of Mr. A. E. Tetley).

ried life must have been unhappy. while Fire Brigale workers had the Mr. J. P. Eddy, KC, for the There was no doubt that in the me task of cleaning the street | N.S.P.C.C. and the All-India summer before the 1930 will Mrs. gruesome with hasca and buckets of sand. S.P.C.A., stated that the two societies Whitehead was concerned about her Police believe that, the woman he represented were the only defend health, but it was clear that she was must have run and jumped, for she ants who sought to set up the 1936 highly intelligent and capable of tell Bo for fato the street that she will..

managing her own affairs. His appent, heard at Duth Quarter missed the verandah of the hotel, Under It Mrs. Whitehead directed Har view. was: "Why should I Sessions, failed, but the costs were which extends across the footpath, the trusted to pay Mr. Whitehead out leave the bulk of my income to him. reduced by 38, because the magis- If she had stood on the side of the of the income of the residuary estate so that he can lavish it upon a trates were not empowered to imporo | root and leapt, she would almost £300 a year for life, or until he re- second wife?" | ¤ ̈âne înd costa exceeding E0:- certainly have lilt the verandah,· married. The balance of the incomel The hearing was adjourned:

At Bath Polleo Court, on August 20, Dr. C. Bernard Kolly, of Gay-atreel, Bath, was fined 22 and ordered to pay three gulness costs for the assoli upon Miss Fincgan

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