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BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Suzi Crandall for Lois Leeds,

Short Hair and how to care for it. Short Cut look. Be sure before you cut your hair.

Lois Leeds gives you ideas about

SHORT HAIRI

There's a great deal of interest in Short Hair now. That doesn't mean hair cut in the old time "boyish bob," but hair in the new length, whlels can be brushed up or down. It can be worn in so many different | ways.

Young Suzi Crandall, who appears in the Warner Bros, flin, "That Way With Women," wears her hair short. Sual's hair is parted the left side and then planed in soft “pin curls" all around her head. When the hole ly dry and "set," it is brushed into deep, raft waves. A charming and natural style, becoming and beloved. by every girl.

The short cul-demands special hals to go with fi. It also demands con- ! stant care to keep it looking trim and tidy.

Your hair is your chief atd in changing your appearance. You Inny suit your own whimsies as well As those of fashion. Before you change your hair style. your hair brush Instead

reach for of your

scissors. Give your senlp the glory of a a good brushing to stir up cireu- lation. Condition your hair by fre quent shampoos,

And, too, before you reach for the scissors, look at your profile, look over your hats, plan carefully. You 'can roll your long bob into shining mund coils over each ear for the

Vilimali Jólakeszin

4 GABRIELLE

Two shades of face powder will Glamorize your skin! A soft belgo tuno is perfect under any skin- shade. Don't mix the two shades in the box. Apply one over the, other for that Double Beauty divi-' dend!

SIDE GLANCES

Every now and then it is good to change your style. If you have been wearing your hair down, put it UP. Change your makeup colours and your method of applying them. You will feel fresher, younger, "dit- ferent!" And that's a grand way to [3],

1 think you should Accent your But changing Personality-always your style is interesting and proves your ability to change, not Just always remain the same.

Jinir

arrangements are easy to o if your oir is alive, healthy and full of vitality. The length of three and one-half to Ave Inches makes it porstule to arrange the hair easily. Don't hesitate to wear your hair Up one day and Down the next.

GUEST OF HONOUR

Britain has become the post- war fashion centre in'splic of the many diffleullies which have to he faced. This spring model by a London designer is a red, whlie, and black print sult with hat, to match called "Guest of Honour."

„BOOK. THY BY MEA SERVICE, DO, IT, M, RED, A, B, FAT, OFF

By Galbraith

¦"But I'd like to buy several frat pins, Mom-there's at

least thron girls I go out with that I'm trying to make up. my mind about!"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 1} 1947.

Parachute Jump Leads To Graves Discovery

The adventure began one undramatié, clear day in the cockpit of an airplane.

Winging its way across the granite spires of the Hump the plane, solidly loaded with high octane gasoline, was '. droning smoothly on courss to a wartime airbase near Kun- ming.

The pilot, boyish Lt Robert Sizemore, of Gary, Ind.. was in a whistling, peppy, mood. "Hey, he yelled to the co-pilot, today's my birthday! Today I am a Man-21 years old."

The co-pilot grinned, slapped him on the back. Sizemore re- sumed his whistling, gazing down on the Hump in dnsouciant unawareness that within a few seconda he was to be plummet ted from the 20th century in the air to primeval dark ages on the ground....

The engines of the Army trans- port Jarred and spluttered, conked out. A mid scramble shook the planc now weering giddily in the

with all that gasoline around. Sizemore related the other day when the story was reluctantly pried out the para- enter at and tried to manoeuvre of him, we really manned un far away -us possible from where the plane would crash. We were lucky. Nobody was hurt when

loose

WO

Several days after that, travelling from village to village we thought we heard gun shots but it must have been our jittery, imagination..

new

Wo

Baw any bloodthirsty despera- Often times village authorities would Insist on guards accompany- fox the lone Americans. Mules were offered too but the men found walking easier going.

Food Problam

HELD IN GERMAN PRISON

A Briton who had, apent five weeks and four days" in n German prison declared in Her- ford that he would challenge the British Control Commission courts' jurisdiction over British. subjects.

He Is Charles William Craighead, an Aberdeenshire farmer, sentenced by a Control Commission Court to threa months' imprisonment on a charge of gfraudulent conversion of £140.

The sentence was quashed by the British Zono Supreme Court on the grounds that the case was presented Irregularly in the lower court,

Rofused Doctor

After the sentenco had been quaslı, ed Mr Craighend told nowspaper correspondents at Ilerford he had been sent to a German civil prison at Weel, Westphalla, containing about a thousand prisoners.

Food become a problem. Fearing dysentery from cating strangely concocted dishes, the men at first ate nuthing but fresh eggs, hard-boiled.

Claiming that British prisonera Monotony and hunger Bnally broke down their resistance. They ale

were sent to the Zuchthaus (convict everything offered. Some of it was block), where the worst criminal recs

and were held, Craighead sald: delectable-fresh pineapple

Juley fruit. Piece de other sweet, resistance, however, was fried bees, was refused. described

by Sizemore as "regular

"I asked for a British doctor but

"I was just bundled back into my

German doctor

-And left there.

hit the mountain side. Trees brake onesgathering bees fried in deep cell-after seeing a the impact of our fall."

from grease, seasoned and served red hot. I who lid vol sperk a word of English Trying themselves

carefully Really delicious. Tastes like a cross their chutes, which they rolled up and saved for makeshift between ment and nuts."

"I was told that while I stayed in their In one village, closer to

the sleeping bags, the crew spent the

prison 1 would be deprived of my the Americans came the destination,

across a Chinese schoolteacher who privileges as a British subject and He would be classed as a displaced per- could speaks a little English, was so thrilled to have the Amerl-son." cans as his guests he drove into his meagre household farder and with great triumph presented a package of Lucky Strike cigarettes he had been saving for some special ocen-

next three days climbing to lvage

scene of the wreckage to what was teft.

Important Discoveries Then began the rigorous expedi- tion to their base-n walk of about 350 miles. Almugh taking a chic toll of ther health, the trip led to impurtant discoveries,

strange.

slent,

and

MURDERER MADE SIGN

OF CROSS

A condemned murderer made the sign of the Cross as the the

As the Americans, hungry. be-

The men finally, reached an Army Grimed and exhausted struggled into airbase at Yunnanyi near Kunming,

primitive mountain

villages

rescue plane was dispatched where excited Chinese peasants had to fly them to a hospital station. never acen white men before, local The trip cost Sizemore's companions ceremoniously serious consequence, one suffering a officials came forth to greet them,

After armen

food complete nervous breakdown.

de- and shelter which the

The young narrator, who bas clined, preferring to sleep in the made about 100 flights over

In their chutes, the Hump, is now with 332d Troop Car-judge spoke the last words of

Restures

rler In Peiping. He holds three the death sentence at the Old and sign language that "many ar-Chinese decorations as well as vests ago great roaring iron bird fall cheatful of American service rib- from blue sky. Bodies of great bons. brave white men riding in iron bird buried

The nearby."

bowing officials then led the way to honour- ed burial grounds.

open wrapped reveal by l

mingistrate

After inspecting remains of fellow fiers whe had perished on the hazardous shuttle route across the Hump, Sizemore told how he and his crew began drawing maps to later guide army grave recovery teams to the spot.

Unique Mission

So frequently were American graves pointed out en route that the men began to feel their crash bad destined them to a unique and -humane mission indeed. They drew their maps with painstaking detail

notes and made other

about the Jacale. This data was to prove on Invaluable guide to fleid terms from American Graves Registration Ser- vice now strenuously engaged in re- covering lost airmen's remains in the Hump.

As far as Sizemore is concerned, the Hump experience was nothing out compared to one he's sweating

the Shanghai Broadway now, ut Mansions Army Hospital where he Is soon to become a father.

And April 1 is B(birth)-dny!

Pantelleria

Now Looks

Different

Bailey.

Just before, the convicted nun, Frederick William. Reynolds, 39- year-old Highbury, N., bookmaker,

had said:

"Now that I know it was

my band that look her life I am ready -to die."

He had told the court that the

hc woman

shot, Mrs Beatrice Greenberg, had been his mistress for about 10 years.

Whistle Signal

"I loved the wemon," he de- clared, his voice breaking. "Never at any time in my life had I in- tended to harm her."

He told how, when he went to see Mra Greenberg, he used to whistle one of Bing Crosby's num- bers and the would come to the window.

But he had to admit that on the day-of the niurder he went to see her with a loaded 'revolver in his pocket.

Mussolini'a dream of empire Throughout their arduous trek converted

Pantelleria tiny, niour the rugged foothills, the Americans werb warned about ban-impoverished Mediterranean isle dis. The really tough variety who into a Fascist bastion and a shot first and didn't even ask quca thorn in the flesh of the Allies what happened.

tions- afterward.————--

know those bandit

stories

during World War II,

Reynolds' defence Was that he was so drunk that he did not know

Amazes Me

weren't exaggerated elther," Size- To-day, battered Pantellerin, with When the prosecution asked him more said. "In one village we wit-

"Does strike you as curious that nessed the execution of four bandits its harbour strewn with wreckage. its rusting cannons and battered

you didn't even wound yourself who had been taken cuptive. The barracks, appears anything but village gendarmerie chopped aft

when you put the gun to your own mennge. military their heads, impaled the skulls and Allied authorities

Nevertheless. head un heart?" he could only

taking nru exhibited them in the village square, chances that sine future aggressor

Say "You it amazes ine.“

Mr Justice Atkinson tuld the might not seize the island. rehabl-

Jury

"Drunkenness Is

Is no excust litate Us fortifications and use it more to blockude the Mediterranean sea routes.

SPRING HAT

STYLES

of

once

10

In accordance with the Italian Armistice terms, they have ordered its complete demilitarisution, in- cluding the removal of all artillery, demolition of the subterranean forti- feations and destruction of the air- field.

Italians Doing It

The work is being done by the

themselves Italians

under the supervision of an Altled Commis-

sion.

and does not minimise crimp it only justifies 3 modified verdict if one is so drunk he does not under- stand what he is doing.”

The jury found Reynolds guilty after 35 minutes absence,

PLENTY OF BEER

IN BEAUMONT ·

SHOWING

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

What makes them so Glorious! -is what makes this to Great)

THE DOLLY SISTERS

Baring in TECHNICOLOR

and

BETTY GRABLE JOHN PAYNE JUNE HAVER

NEXT CHANGE LONDON FILMS PRESENT

Charles LAUGHTON

in The Private Life of

HENRY VII

with Robert DONAT

Merlo OBERON

ALHAMBRA CENTRAL

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CENTRAL:

BALE WAYS BUTARD HAPLES

PRODUCTION

JOHN GARFIELD DIO YOUNG HARRY CAREY GEORGE TOBIAS ARTHURKENNEDYS JAS, BROWN

12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

"AIR FORCE

is one of the most thrilling pictures ever made

A WARNER BROS

OPENING TO-MORROW

Pagan love and primitive hate in a forbidden paradiso ruled by a mystery queon....a white savagel

MARIA MONTEZ in ›

“ SOUTH OF TALITI”

with Brian DONLEVY

CATHAY

TWANCHAL HAD WANCHAN

Andy DEVINE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

A GRIPPING EXPOSE OF A MOST SINISTER SPY RING!-

"UNDER SECRET ORDERS”

Starring

LAUREL

John

LODER

Erich STROHEIM

NEXT CHANCE

Clairo

LUCE

HARDY & DANTE THE MAGICIAN

“A - HAUNTING WE WILL GO”

TO-DAY Before it is finished, it will have

By Barbara Wace

London,After seven

years barchended fashions, huts are being put on again in London.

Spring hat styles are guyer, crazier and more complicated than ever. Milliners, forecasting shorter hair this year, have made their models to fit a small, neat head. There will be less

but more hat. bair

Hats are

and they

blocked creations,

The future of the 10,000 Italians

Pantelleria, and who inhabit

the Milliners have a little more mate- 3,000 on Lampedusa promises to be

WHO rial to work with this year, and they less stimulating, but more secure are making good use of it. Of course than their immediate

past. Their they have to do as well as they can life wag nover abundant.—ã30× with any decorations they can obtain, einted Press.

ornately tro

cost thousands of man-hours of Jabour and hundreds of tons of bigh and explosive.

urc

Gold Bullion ornaments -- which

rajabs give each other us gifts will

be seen in cifferent guise on a number

of the smartest hats this spring.

Vells Much Used

Black passementerio sewn on to plain, off-the-face hats is very ef- fective. Velling, often coming from the back and

under the chin,

illed

is much used. Since until this year

It has been reserved exclusively for

export, it is likely to

bo very popular,

Salt Helps To

Give Warmth

Common table salt has been

Straw and felt are often mixed helping American soft coal

with good effect, A.

very

felt boater, -white-

Edwardian worn just as our users to keep warmer.

grandmothers did, looked well with

Experiments Indicating this have

reported by the US.

Bureau

the new naughty-ninetleg style after- noon dresses, and was a feature of V

In

Tho

nother modiste showed a candrad daily on the coal.

1 or two cupfuls of salt are pink ribbon hat, with a definite Dutch efect is to lower the temperature at bonnet influence. High-crowned high soos will burn by 100 degrees wayman hala with ostrich feather Penheit. This results the down the back were featured by puming of a lot of soot, and in exten other house.

hot from the soot fire, oman caused a sensation Ond woman

Also, it Ja sald, the furnace keeps maet Savoy Grill recently it! riganer, and in Fome types of fur- hat made from a Paisley sences there is lers trouble from soot Fatt given tones, She also has ten blocking passage ways to heatero. seen wanting a small cap like, 'Industrial furnaces also were re- schoolboy's fashioned from a phil.¦ ported able to use the salt technique Mrs. Winston Churchill changes hier: to hdvantage, and the Bureau's re- hats to point up her classic suits, urid; port anfil soot in some oil burners is ties them with a bow in, fenish, an also reduced advantageously by salt Associated Press.

treatment Associated Press..

the

#

Of all the cats in Beaumont, Texas, the one belonging to Police Chief Art Pollock had to dlegrace himself (and the chief) by going to a local hotel and getting drunk.

The police station cat, which seems be content without name, learned that his three meals a day were coming from a nearby hotel. He decided to take a lot, but some rascal gave him a bottle of beer.

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The chief refused to believe it, but next day the cat turned up at the station, somewhat the worse for wear.

-United Press.

Rupert & the New Pal-18

Now that the car has decided to talk to them the two pals hurriedly aak jou of questions. "Why have you been so superior.Lately? Have you secret 2**eries * Rupen. Well, yes, grins the cat. "The fact I've found a new pal, and I wanted to keep him to myself tor fear you people would be rough with him. But if you'll promise to be very genile, I'll take you to see him. Meet mes at the hole in the ". hedge at St, Wilfrid's at ten o'clock tomorrow morning." And without another word he runs away,

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ONLY

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At 2.30; 5.20,

7,20 & 9.20 p.m.

M-G-M'S GREAT-MUSICAL SENSATION! Red SKELTON Eleanor POWELL inSHIP AHOY”9 with Bert LAHR · Virginia O'BRIEN

To-morrow:"THEIRS IS THE GLORY”

DUKE WHO

SOUGHT

FORTUNE

NOTICE

Easter Holidays

There will be no lestio of "The.

Hongkong Telegraph" on Good The Duke of Manchester, who Friday, 4th. April, and no issue of once confessed that his title the "South China Morning Post".-- handicapped him, died recently on Saturday, 5th. April,

nt Seaford, Sussex, aged 69.

All his life he had sought-a for-

tune, which always seemed just be- Cincinnati, whom he divorced in 1931.; yond his reach. He never lost hope Later he married Miss Kathleen of grasping -as prospector, wan- Dawes, a fomer London 2ctress, who

survives him, MA derer, film manager.

Was

sentenced to aino" Although he owned three casties,

The Duke declared that he could not afford months' imprisonment in 1935 tor to live in them.

he

His mother loft between £300.pawning heirlooms that, did not be- to him, but the conviction was .000 and £400,000, and a trust fund quashed and he was released after was created for the benefit of the serving nearly a month.

Duke's two tone and daughter by Last April he was sued in the High his first marrage, which was a runs Court for two oll paintings, but tha away one to Heleria Zimmerman, of case was dismissed.