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Film Star Marries

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 10, 1939.

£1,100,000 AIRPORT TO

Wedding of Merle Oberon, Alm stur, and Alexander Korda, noted producer, was recently reported from Antibes, France. They are shown above as they appeared in Hollywood, recently. It's ber frat, his second marriage.

Polyanthus With 206

Blooms Opens Season

WEST HOATHLY (Sussex). VILLAGE folk and farmers here are expecting a record crop of freak and outsize garden produce this season.

For generations West Hoathly people have been accustomed to find strange-looking vegetables in their fields and gardens but never any abnormalities among their flowers.

Recently Mrs. Angel, a cot- tager, discovered a polyanthus which she counted 205

On

blooms, and villagers take this as a sign of even stranger things to come,

By this time nearly every in habitant in the village has counted the blooms to verify Mrs. Angel's the 200 Agure. All have renchiest mark.

The stem is dat instead of round. across, by a quarter of an inch thick,

Ruted, and one and a half inches

A FARMER'S CROP

SERVE

Cost has

THE ANSWER'S

AN ORANGE THOUSANDS of road deaths could be saved if motorists would eat threo orlanges a day, says Dr. C. P. Stewart, of Edin- burgh Royal Infirmary after inonths of researcli.

Oranges, he says, prevent "night-blindness" caused by sudden headlight glare.

The best safeguard against this glare is a substance in the rre knows na "visual purple." Its strength depends on vila- mins A and C., which are obtain- able from the oranges

New Plan To Be. Flown To Moscow

A

NEW formula, designed to overcome difficulties in the Anglo-Soviet negotiations on the Baltic States, was recently flown to Moscow.

This plan was taken to the Russian Government by Mr. Strang in a special neroplane,

THE WORLD been nearly doubled

CONSTRUCTION of the City of London Corpora-

tion's airport at Fairlop, near Ilford, Essex, will, it is estimated, put an extra 11d. in the $ on the rates.

The Corporation recently decided to go ahead with the scheme at an estimated cost of £1,100,000—nearly double the original estimate of £600,000.

EMPIRE NEWS

ARMS FROM CANADA

· FOR BRITAIN

The Air Ministry are making no grant towards the scheme, and the capital cost will be rnised by loan.

Fairlop will be a "super-standard” airport,

Within four years Fairlop and Hes- ton, which the Government are developing as another "super-stall- dard" drome at a cost of £1,000,000, will supersede congested Croydon as the terminus for all heavy air-liner traffic, leaving Croydon as the centre for Internal services and a stand-by. 11 in reported here that the British The "super-standard" colls for War Office has worked out in detailed concrete runways over nearly two- programme for the spending of thirds of the surface. This sate £12,000,000 in Canada for the par- taking-off and landing is assured in

L

OTTAWA.

chose of arms and equipment.

This is an instalment of a long-

every direction.

POOLING REVENUE

FRANCIS & DAY'S

65th SONG & DANCE ALBUM

CONTAINING

You're As Pratty As A Picture.

Sweetcat Song In The World,

A-Tisket A-Tarket.

I Love To Whistle.

I Must See Annie To-Night.

My Own.

If It Rains-Who Cares!

Any Brokon Hearts To Mand?

The 7-15 To Dreamland.

When The Circus Came To Town.

Stop Beatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush. When They Played The Polka.

Thanks For Everything.

Oh ! Ma-Ma. Nico People.

TSANG FOOK PIANO...COMPANY Marina House,“ 19. Queen's Road C. Tel. 24648.

SUMMER VACATION !!

MAMPEI HOTEL KARUIZAWA

degrees.

London, called at the Foreign Omlee material manufacture of wara formula has been agreed on unti

KARUIZAWA has been a well known term plan to spend £50,000,000 in The recommendation adopted by

summer resort for European people Canada in the development of the

corporation recently also in- for over Afty years. 3080 feet above secondary source of arms supply and cludes o sebeme of pooling revenue munitions for British defence forces. from Heston and Fairlop between sea level, it offers ideal sunimer It is suggested that the Dominion the Air Ministry and the City of temperatures, arver exceeding 80. Government will establish a separate London. Munitions Department to co-ordinate

Fairlop will not be developed until

cerning the basis of this "pool," but The Dominion National Defence negotiations will be started at once. Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambusan- Department has already conducted a

The report, with its recommenda- der in Paris was in London recently sun botter production try to bring tons, was carried by a large majority. in connection with the Russian about for Canadion

A Corporation official said "Croy negotiations.

and Imperial defence needs.

Last session the Dominion Parila- don is to be closed in any case in meat passed a bill to establish n De-a few years, for renovation, Heston ZAWA directly,

share its heavy fence Purchasing Board, but this Act and Fairlop will

M. Malsky, Soviet Ambassador in

recently,

Daylight Theft From Louvre of Painting

PARIS.

PAINTING which the official catalogue of the Louvre describes as "priceless." Watteau's "L'Indifferent" (The Unconcerned)--a portrait of a young man playing| diabolo-has been stolen from the Louvre.

It is believed that the theft,[ was committed yesterday after-e

noon when the galleries were "When Doctor

open to the public.

Farmer William Hunt, who at 60 on four Arsts last year at the Hay- wards Heath fat stock show, believesj the drought may

The thief must have taken the produce help oddities. He has found these in his picture (which measures only)

dekk

1. A perfect carrot 174 inches longt

FARACT-

2.1 cluster of mine beans on a single orm, all between 12 and 18 inches long;

3. A 10in. Tong potato in the shape of an alligator from head to tall.

"Perhaps we have the reputation of growing freaks here simply be- cause we inke more count of them," he explained,

Should Tell'-

Is still not procialmed and is not in tradic and will deal with the rapidly

growing size and weight of nireraft.

force,

When proclaimed it will limit pro-}

"Croydon has been unpopular with

its in non-competitive contracts foreign nie. lines for a long time, and

Ave per cent, of the capitat employed in filling orders. British contracts are not affected. NEW ZEALAND

LIGHT PROGRAMME FOR PARLIAMENT

AUCKLAND.

the new "super" airports will doubt- less attract more tráme."

anticipation, the Salisbury Chamber of Mines acting as intermediary.

The Chamber of Mines represents the big mining companies. The small miners, whose organisation is the Rhodesian Mining Federation, and Parliament begins shortly. There the farmers feel that the 5,000 Is nu prospect of a heavy programme. labourers will not represent add- It is unlikely that financial mea- tional immigrant labour. The larger sures will be formulated before the mines will merely recruit at the completion of the mission to Lunden source labour which in any case) of Mr. W. Nash, the Finance Minis- would

come to Southern

have

the

ter. There is a possibility of delay Rhodesia and would have been- dis-

of tributed

evenly throughout In the promised reorganisation taxalon and the impending paid colony. holiday legislation. Employers claim JAMAICA 8in. by 10in.) off the wall in broad daylight, probably under THE problem facing a doctor that the cost would be 12,905,000

who knows that a patient yearly. the eyes of people who thought suffering from epilepsy has a SOUTHERN RHODESIA he was an official.

driving licence is described by NATIVE RECRUITS FOR

When a blank space on the wall Lanect ns "one in which duty to was noticed about 3.30 an alarin was a community overrides duty to raised and all leaving the Louvre the patient:" after that hour were searched, but

nothing was found. The keeper is The doctor, it is said, should give poskier that the picture was in its the patient a choice of relinquising the licence or being reported to the place at 2 p.m.

WORTH £200,000?

police.

It is pointed out that English law Experts say that the painting, it is somewhal tolerant in its attitude Jim Jeury, a farm labourer, thinks could be sold would probably fetch towards the motor driver with a his- au much na £200,000. With its com-tory of epilepsy-"The applicant for nothing of growing potators weigh-panion, "La Finette," a portrait of a a licence has merely to declare that ing two mid a half Íbs. In his buck girl, it is recognised as one of Wal- he does not suffer from epilepsy. garden,

RECOGNISED BY ALL

"Punch"

teau's masterpieces.

"La Finette" had been disturbed, builder's and the thief probably meant to take Vickery, helper, is proudest of a potato grown both palatings. last year in his vegetable patch so Ike the head of Lloyd George that everyone saw the resemblance at

-once,

At the 300-year-old Cat Inn across from the tenth-century parish church

A person who has at one-time been cured, or who is still under treatment

dosca with regular sedatives that have kept him free from is for some time may truthi-

As the stolen picture is painted on fully say this.

of

a wooden panel it could not be cut! from the frame and rolled up; it had j "While the doclor cannot be ex- to be taken complete with frame. pected and should not consent to get jas detective, he may well feel him- TRAVELLERS SEARCHED self obliged to give his patient the driving or of is collection of photographs

When news of the theft was re-choice of giving up of

Nationale being reported to the police." recent vegetable freaks. The heat, celved by the Surete Mr. C. F. Betson, raised over 30s. for (French Scolland Yard) In Paris, urgent messages wore flushed to East Grinstead Hospital last year in

Scotland Yard (London) and to lectors and art dealers to be sold

a penny weight-guessing contest over a morrow which weighed 20lb.

Mrs. Smith, his aunt, who retired recently in his favour after 45 years as hostess, recalls hundreds of extra-} ordinary vegetables including Identi-

America.

British ports, and visitors

As a result, watch was kept on the with luggage were specially scrutinised.

without detection,

The theft is the most serious from the Louvre since Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" was stolen in 1911. On that

MINES

of Mr. Bustamante's Labour meetings

TWO MEN STABBED AT MEETING

KINGSTON, Jumalca. Another fray took place at one

~SALISBURY,Southern Rhodesia recently. Two men, sald to belong to The announcement that the new in rival unlon, were badly beaten and Joint Chamber of Mines has already stabbed. Fears are entertained for been granted a licence to recruit 5,000 the life of one victim. native labourers In Nyasaland is likely to arouse lively opposition.

On the previous night police were The bill incorporaling the new stoned when trying to rescue a man Chamber is still before Parliament, who was being beaten by the crowd nnd the licence has been granted in at a Bustamante Union meeting.

Glucosed

Guards

Troop The Colour

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NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC

COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

CASH

$250 $250

PRIZES

(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph") TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)

SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW CLOSING DATE & TIME:

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizos will be allotted as follows:

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SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pletures.

1s $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO:

FOR the first time for many years, no guardsmen General Pictorial Section: Landscapez,

collapsed from the heat at the Trooping the Colour ceremony: and the probable reason was glucose.

After breakfast each officer and man of the Brigade of Guards was handed a special ration of the preparation. All except the Grenadiers munched at the glucose sticks as received.

occasion the thief cut the picture out The Grenadiers, for some un-j It had the same effect. Not a The Louvre authorities have hopes of its frame and took it away under explained reason, took theirs in The only casualty was a 15-year-old single man fell during the ceremony, cal twin cucumbers of perfect shape that the picture will be recovered. It his coat. and beetroots weighing over 20 I. la too well known to museums, col- ing been found in Florence in 1813. powdered form,

drummer boy.

HILL'S

SINCES 975

It was relumed after hav-

Hills

NAVY CUT

Mild, Medium`

and Full

For PURITY and SUPERIOR QUALITY

2 oz.

BRITISH MADE PIPE TOBACCO-

$-.80

4 oz.

$1.55

DRUM BESIDE HIM

As the band marched for the last time across the parade ground the Jad fell in a heap, his drum beside him, directly in front of the saluting baso.

He had fainted as he marched in the centre of the massed banda

It was not until the bandamen hind all passed that the crowd żaw him on the ground.

Ambulance 'men ran across and carried him away on stretcher. 'Ho quickiy recovered.

A tergeant-major's comment on the glucose treatment will not bear repetition, but the experiment will bo tried again.

City Won't Publish Novel

ALAMEDA, Col. Loreme Beatle, city clerk, received n letter paking if the city of Alameda would undertake to publish a novel, the writer asserting the elty had nuthority. to do so. Dealle took it upon himself to advise · nil authors that Alameda would not print a novel for miyono.. -

Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

1st. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd, $10,

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human

Studies.

Int. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. Ist. 530. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15. Zod. $10. 3rd. $5,

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

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1-The Competition is confined ex-

clusively

Amateur phow- старств 2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade permitted to compala, S--The prices will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- srapha in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must be isaated on back of entry. 4--The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which entered in HAVE

been already other Competitions are ineligible. d. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.

Ali, entries to be either black. sepia, or toned pictures, and must

USE THIS FORM

́AND PASTE IT ·

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are inaligible, 0-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and whits. -No picture to entered in more

Uhan one Section. 10.-Monia to be only white or cream and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of Use following sizes:-10X13, 18X20.

11-No correspondenes will be entered into in connection with the Cars- petition,

12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, are and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent, 13-Members of the Stars of the the Hongkong Tetepṛaph and South China Morning Post are not permitted to rempele. 14-The decisions of the Judges, shall

be final.

15-At tho.conchiaion of the Com-

petition, entries will bg, riumted to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven days.

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DATE

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Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry, if entered le Children's Bection, parent please con tereign here,