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NANCY

IT'S NICE. HAVING A GUEST

CARD AT A PRIVATE BEACH BUT NOBODY

GIVES US

A. TUMBLE!

IT'S MEAN!

PRIVATE BEACH CLUB

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 29, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

LET'S SHOW

THEM THAT

THESE FOLKS THINK THEY'RE BETTER

YEAH THEY THINK

THAN

US!

THEY RS VERY EXCLUSIFF!

WERE EVEN

MORE EXCLUSIFF⠀⠀ THAN THEY

ARE/

-ERNIE BUSHMIL

PRIVATE- PRIVATE BEACH

Refreshing!

RUSSIANS TAKE

IT CALMLY

"I have just travelled for three days along the rear of the Russian lines, and have found the whole country working at top pitch with complète calmness and confidence in writes nn Associated Press correspondent.

victory,"

"From the Black Sen to Moscow, through regions rarely seen by foreigners, I watched the Soviet Union go to war. The mobilisation was accomplished without any apparent hitch.

Black-outs were established effectively, and trains were running promptly to time. Agriculture and industry appeared to be working at top speed.

"The countryside disclosed a atriking contrast' with that of France a year ago There was no rush of refugees to tangle trans- port. In fact, I found it difficult for a civilian to move about the ' country without real reason. The people were completely calm, and "war nerves" never reached these remote districts.

"The skies over Central European Russia appeared to be under absolute Soviet control. Passing through Tukraine I saw.no German 'planes, not even scouters, such as penetrated

deep into France during the early

days of the war.

Surprise

Hess Now

A State

Prisoner

Rudolf Hess, who parachuted into Scotland from Germany, is now graded as a "prisoner of State," the highest rank of pri- soner during wartime.

Hess was first regarded as a military prisoner. Some weeks later he was graded as a civilian prisoner.

1.

Now he is under detention some- "News of the war came as a sur-where in Britain. prise to the provinces, The few The decision of the Government people sitting with me on £1 sunlit

mit to treat Hess as a "prisoner of Siate" terrace at Sochi, on the Black Sea solves many dimeuliles. If he had been coast, stiffened suddenly and listened detained as a military prisoner he open-mouthed to the broadcast of would have been pold by this coun-

Molotoff's speech on Sunday. But try, under Hag

Hogue rules, a rate of pay successive items of news over the corresponding to what he would re- radio, brought bursts of cheering and ceive in Nazi Germany. dlapping from the steadily growing crowds.

"My train to Moscow was filled. with troops. As we skirted the Coudasus rugged, bronzed little mountaineers, clutching a rifle in onc hand and a loaf of bread in the other and grinning broadly, climbed aboard the train. At the large stations loud-l

Then, what we disbursed us om- er's salary would be refunded by Germany after the war.

A prisoner of State is entitled to privileges, but whether Hess will get them is not known.

any pay.

It is unlikely that he

receives

speakers blated martial music, while | Stamp Hobby

at the smaller stops

the village musiclang played accordeons. The beaches close to the Rumanian war sector were closely guarded by planes, which patrolled the North Caucasian plain,”

She Gets Her Film Frocks

In

War-Time

Helps The Nerves

LONDON-War has caused small boom in stamp collecting, a

€

UFS

R.A.F. ATTACKS-Smoke begins to rise from a direct hit on a 500-ton ship of a six-vessel German convoy, which was attacked by R.A.F. bombers flying at mast height, in Heligoland Bight

in the North Sea.

Ford Plastic

Builds First

Automobile

DEARBORN, Michigan, Sept. 27 (UP)-Henry Ford displayed recently a plastic automobile, only the frame, motor, and wheels of which are metal. The trim, cream-coloured coach was unveiled at the climax of this community's 15th annual

festival.

Henry Ford was not present to hear the cheers as the low- represented by Robert Allen Boyer, his young research chemist; who for 12 years has been experimenting with the manufacturer's uiden of utilising farm products in industry.

lung machine swung slowly around the lighted field, but he was

Ersatz Found For

Tung Oil

hobby that has been found to pro- Boyer, who is only 32 now, of plastic mounted on a tubular- vide relief from the strains of war, said the plastic car was lighter, welded steel frame, was rushed to the who conducts an auction of rare than any

H. K. Harmer, philatelie expert tougher and more, economical public showing with Its interior still

unlinished. stamps in London every week,

on the road. sald

He doctors are among the most enthu thought its production in large

The panels have a thickness of slastic philatelists, and many recom- guantities is "at least" several only 3/16ths of an inch, but will| mend the hobby to nervous patients months-and possibly years-steel without denting, Ford officialsTwo University of Minnesota for the black-out.

absorb a blow 10 times as great as MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP). away.

Isala. "Once a person is infected with

They would not real the chemists have developed a pro- the collecting germ, the bobby in- "This is purely in an experimental

formula of the plastic used. volves deep concentration,

Production of 1,000,000 cars an-cess that may materially reduce which stage just now," he said. "Naturally means forgetfulness of outside in- we want to get into mass production!nually

with plastle

stle bodies, Boyer this nation's dependence on Burnce," he said,

eventually but that will take time, said, would consume of least 170,000 China for tung oil, an important

First free clothes coupons officially conceded for the show business go to Bebe Daniels, American star of "Hi, Gang!" now being filmed at Islington.

The Board of Trude has not, yet admitted that British films are en-war and some persons are investing plastics industry titled to any clothes concession.

from the ground

of synthetic chemicals. their money in stamps, "which are up. But coupons have already been a better investment than diamonds."

Moreover, it

Dra George 0. Burr and J. would free thousands ds." Although we've been working delivered to more than one studio

of tons of steel and strategle ma-Peter Kass believe that by their for immediate needs, pending an istence is known and the price inter-years,

"The number of rare stamps in ex-with the idea of a plastle car fór 12

terials for defence.

process fats from common native official rationing scheme for theatres nationally is the same," Harmer said the shortage of steel and other ma-under test. Boyer declined to reveal seed, can be made to assume the

the defence emergency and

A completely new engine has, been sources, such as corn designed for the саг and now. is has speeded. our program- Its specifications. It is now powered properties of the imported tung

V-8 engine,

oil,

Prices are higher than before the For one thing, we'd have to build the 50.000 tons

tons of agricultural products and shellac and varnish base.

time, at any continental city.

by a

It has a

GO-wheelbase

of 110 Inches,

(UB)

U.B.

BEER

LIGHT

OR DARK

Sole Agents:

GUBE

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (China) LTD.

LEE THEATRE

REGULAR. PERFORMANCES COMMENCING 3rd OCT.

Lady

ALEXANDER KORDA

Vivien Leigh

Laurence Olivier

Hamilton

·Vivien Leigh as

Hamilton....

Lody

The most condemned –

:: mast loved women of all

and lin-

and the screen.

Thus the owner of a rare stamp can terlals Miss Daniels is having at least get its value in London, New York, me." two smart evening frocks made with Sydney, Cape Town and, in peace- The plastle ear is a hand-made the provisional coupons,

model. Its body is made of 32 strips stands. 63% inches high, five to six to that used in making sonp. It In

The process, Burr says, is similar

inches jess than most automobiles. volves heating of the common olls Although it now weighs 2,300 pounds for long periods and at high tem- Bayer sald the weight eventually peratures. would be reduced less than one ton,

SPECIAL!

ONLY

TWO DAYS

Sept. 29th, 30th.

FITTINGS

AAAAA

33/%

ONLY

OFFERED AT

8 to

DISCOUNT

50%

IN ALL COLOURS

GORDON'S Ltd.

or about 1,300

less than a

steel car of

cemiz.

Readily Oxidised

"The heating when carried out Ford said he was confident plastic the fat structure as to make it more under certain conditions, so changes bodies could be produced practic- readily oxidised," he explained. ally and economically.

`more,"

"Plastic raw materiais may cost a "This faster oxidation, which is Bittle

what makes he said, "but we anti to common oils as a paint base, leads Chinese tung oil superior cipate a considerable saving as the to faster drying and a better surface result

of fewer

and when the treated olla are mixed with finishing operation, fabricating

shellacs and varnishes." Ford chemists have developed plas Kass and Burr have found that the ties from cotton wheat soy-beans treated oil produces

One consists of. 70 per dries into a smooth, tough, non- a varnish, that cent, cellulose fibre and 30 per cent wrinkling finish in approximately binder. The mixture la molded two days-twice as fast as that mixed under 1,500 pounds of pressure per with non-treated olis. Tung oll also square inch. Boyer said it is su- does the job in two days. perior to steel in everything but

and

corn.

tensile strength.

of a

Satisfactory

Ford himself tested the durability The Minnesota men's process pe a plastle panel 18 months ago by sumes particular importance now:be swinging on axe upon it. It re- cause of the increasing difficulty of mained intact. When the same ex-obtaining tung of from a war-strain- periment was made upon a steel cd China. panel the axe-cut, through the metal.

Few Tourists Go

To Bali Now

So far, Kass said, the process is not being used commercially. A number of plants are investigating Its possibilities, however, and initial work with it appears to have been salisfactory.

A patent covering the process pro- vides that the product obtained may be used in place of tung ólf in var- BATAVIA, Java (UP)-Beautiful nisles, paints, drying waxes and Bali, whose bara beaches and Beau- lacquers. teous belles beckoned traveliers from afor, has had its tourists boom blighted by the war.

PARLIAMENT. SQUARE HAY

Statisties show that this glamorous Men with scythes cut the long laland of the Netherlands East Indies grasa in Parliament Square recently. had only 1,382 visitors in 1940, and Mr George Hicks, Parliamentary of these only

660 were foreigners. Secretary to the Ministry of Works This compares with 4,104 tourists, and Buildings, who went to super- many of them Americans, In 1939, intend, at one time took a hand him- Where cruise ships, once called self.There hasn't been anything with time-table regularity at Hall, like it in Parliament Square alco not single maleticexcursion ventet Her BA Eighth a time commented dropped anchor last year, vend

time...Laurence Olivier

as Nelson, who risked

all honor far har lovet

Hongkong Bomber Squadron

BOMBER FUND.

Total to Datet: $2.533,621.59

2156.939.

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