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BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Bette Carlin for Lois Lecùs. Healthy feet are pretty feet!

PRETTY FEET! Pretty feet are healthy feet, too. so that Limber up your feet now they'll do you proud this summer.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1947.

Atom Aid To Industry Not Before Late 1948

Though America's first power station for the manu facture of electricity by the use of atomic power is near Ing completion at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the conversion of atomic energy to peace-time, uses is still far too distant to affect Europe's present-day fuel crisis.

LONDON LETTER

By Capt. John Shipton

In the opinion.of the man in charge of the Tennessee pro- gramme, Dr James Lum, of the Monsanto Chemical Company, it will not be accomplished at the best before late 1948.

"Our problem is a very dimcult engineering one," he said. There are no precedents to guide us. We are learning as we go.

"It Is not just a matter of getting London's traffic problem has power out of the nuclear furnaces. baffled more people than Trans-It is there, but getting it to do useful port Minister Barnes, and yet it work is another thing.

"At Hanford, Washington, for In- is true that the capital gets its stance, where plutonium is being millions of workers away quicker made, the powder is wasted-dlasi- than any other city in the world.pated in the form of heat. It warms A move to speed the dispersal the Columbia River slightly and that still further starts at the end of is oll. It does no useful work." this month when the staggered traffle plan goes into action.

More than 120,000 people will be affected by the changed travelling Limen, comprising 40,000 office work- ers, 40.000 civil servants, and 40,000 shop workers,

of the During the early stages staggered hours campaign public meeting were held in 14 zones, hun- dreds of firms were circularized, and now definite arriving and leaving times have been fixed.. Co-opera flexible leather soles for foot free-tion from Government offices and the dom and ventilation, and stockings

large departmental sto

stores. I am 100 percetice Inch told, has been nearly inc In the correct size, one-half

The staggered hours pla

plan that longer than the longest toe. Foot

foot werkers who normally finish between the exercises to limber up

5 and 5.30 will now leave their offices For pretty feel to show to advant-muscles, good posture and walking between 4.30 and 4.45, theatre ma- age this

Summer, your foot care correctly, are also among the musis,

Here Dette Carlin, pretty Conover must start now. With the rage for Bandals predicted as being greater junior model, demonstrates a useful

for strengthening exercise

the pencil than ever before for the Spring and

metatarsal arch, gripping a the coming Summer months-from with her toes. Try it, it firms the

of your legs as well the semi-open varieties to the pugan muscles

giving new flexibility to your tense nothing but a types, which are

toes. leather sole and a thong between you and the public, it is very important for you to have good looking feet,

Smooth, flexible feel, free of corns and callous spots, are also generally healthy feet, Dr. Joseph T. Lelyveld, Fool Chairman

National of the Itealth Council, recently told young Conover models as he demonstrated for them the Ten Basle Rules for foot health. Among the doctor's foot health rules are-bathing the feet frequently, changing the shoes often, wearing the right size in shoes, with

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nees will start and finish earlier, and restaurants with a closing hour of 5.30 will stay open until the rush hour traffic is finished.

One-Way Traffic

Another move that should help to case London's traffic chaos is the opening of more one-way streets. They are in the heart of the West End, and experts are soon to give heet".

report on the Notting Hill "bottle- One-way traffic experiments have recently been carried out in the area between Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus, taking in Bealt Street, with traffic moving west to east, Lisle Street, one way from east to west, and Gerrard Street, one way

ow in the opposite direction.

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Top Secrecy

The Monsanto Chemical Company are one of the two big industrial organisations engaged on nuclear re- search in Amerlen. Monsanto operate at Oak Ridge, and the GEC Company are engaged on a similar at Shenectady, New ԴԵՍՊԱՆԸ

Security rules still cloak the work in a high degree of secrecy. Progress can be reported only in the barest outline.

The Oak Ridge development can bo described as 'n power pile,” and nothing more. No defall of its size, its output, potential or the number of people employed are permilled.

EXTENSION OF FARM EDUCATION

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VWE HAVE NO SOME POACHED

EG4S BUT I CAN GIVE YOU SOME POACHED

RABBIT!

MAY STOP RADIATION BLEEDING

Doctors J. Garrott Allen ahd L. O. Jacobson, of the 'Univer- sity of Chiengo, writing in the April issue of the magazine Science, report experiments per- formed on a dog that may lead to methods to stop excessive bleeding by atomic bomb vic- time.

Their work was done as a part of the Manhattan project, the Ameri- can agency which developed the atomic bomb.

Scientists have learned that any- one exposed to too grent radiation His may develop a haemorrhage. blood vessels may break down, and death, his blood may not clot. At this person may show extensive haemorrhages in all body organs.

Drs Allen and Jacobson, in their experiments, found that in dogs which had been exposed to radiation n substance indistinguishable from from heparin-which keeps blood

clotting properly was found.

Facilities for agricultural and horticultural education in Eng- To cffset this substance," they in land and Wales to enable farm-troduced into the dogs' blood a dyc ing to keep abreast of the times called toluidine blue. At one point will be considerably increased and improved during the next few years.

A Government advisory committee The courtesy campaign of the headed by Dr Thomas Lovedny, a London Passenger Transport Board, former Vice-Chancellor of Bristol which has now been in force for Just University, whose report has just over 12 months, has been most suc-been published, recommends that the

Press,

publle, and the 18 farm institutes now in existence transport workers themselves are all should be increased to 41 or 42, so

that almost agreed now that a smile and a "thank

every county will be you can pay big dividends and help able to provide a sound elementary to alleviate the main cause of bad knowledge of basic principles and manners--six years of war strain. sound methods of craftmanship.

The natural good manners of the London public needed just that little filip and a pat on the back to make them reassert themselves and it is a fact that I have noticed far less grumbling and more good humour and tolerance then was the case months ago..

Children's Amenities

are

to have i London's children added amenities in their parks and open spaces this summer. In Fins bury, for example, there are to be three new playgrounds, and two others which have been out of use Rinco-1989- arcahortly to be reln

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There viti also be separate horticultural institutes for training in frult and vegetable growing, and flower and tree culture, as well as specialised courses in poultry, animal and crop husbandry. All these addition to the provision made for higher education at universities and colleges.

Availablo To 2,000

the dogs' blood did not coagulate for over 48 hours..

Reduced to Normal When toluidine blue was injected, the clotting time was reduced to normal within 20 minutes.

The doctors sald'their studies were only preliminary, but Captain George Lyon, a United States Navy doctor who was at the Bikini bomb-versus- ship testa last summer, told a repor-

ter:

"If this can be proved true, it may be the first step in working out an approach to this problem. So far we have been grasping at straws.-- Associated Press.

FOOD

GAUGING STATE BY DOGS

Their proposals will at least ensure that 2,000 would-be formers, or

A diplomat who has been in nino some 19 per cent of the total annual

European capitals during the past intake into the industry will be able

year has found a way of estimating to receive technical instruction. At present there are facilities for only

the local food situation without ask- 800 apart from the ex-servicemen ing too many questions or rending.

who

for at

over three

are specially catered Holborn is to spend £2,000 on laying out and equipping playgrounds seven training centres. Courses will extend in Camden Square, Rochester Ter- mce Gardens, and Cumberland Mar- terms of 11 to 12 weeks each from A merry-go-round and an occan October to July, leaving the student Wave will be among the new al-free to return to the industry at the

busiest season of the year. tractions.

Marylebone lets agreed to rent, level, pave and fence a number of bomb

sites; Finchley is spending £1,500 for providing a playground in Lyttleton Playing Fields, with swings and rocking horses, and Wood Green

to have two see-saws.

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For those who need further in- struction, supplementary one-year courses in animal and crop husbandry will be provided. These will nor

a period

of mally be taken after further practical experience follow

but are also new non-bumpering the first course,

available to students coming to the institutes fairly late in life. Finally, shorter courses may also be arranged during holiday periods as refresher courses or for those unable to spare

full year.

Saturday Derby

After, an announcement that the Derby, Britain's chief racing classic would be decided as usual on Wed- nesday, June 4, comes the news from the Jockey Club that the race will

Galbraith be held on Saturday, June 7.

"The nerve of her asking me how I ever manage to keep- so young looking—I'm going to think up a good dig for her next time we mpot!"

The Jockey Club statement anys: "As a result of resumed discussion with the Government the Stewards of the Jockey Club announce that the Derby will be run on Saturday, June

7. The Oaks оп Thursday, June 3, and the Coronation Cup, on Friday June 6." So it will be

a "Jam" Derby after all.

Racing men were reconciled to a

mid-

Saturday date following tho week sport ban and the fact that date WAS Vau Grand National changed,

but some people complain that it is hardly In'r to allow speed- way, we hockey, and boxing in mid- week and ban big racing events in view of the thousands of shop workers who take their half holiday on Wednesday,

The Derby s

never been run

on a Saturday at Epsom since it was Insituted In 1780, although there were Saturday Derbles d New- markd) during

war. Police difficulties are not now anticipated, despite the huge crowds.

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Rupert & the New Pal-47

While the driver gera on with, bị work Rupert and George make their way slowly to the nearby quay.' There they sit and gaze our of the harbour to the distantskylines Boats

One little Are moving steamer is starting tof sea and another waiting; to come in.)

To George it is all very wonderful, "D'you mean to say that's all weathe" he exclaim "To think- that there's all this outride my garden and i never knew id? "You've certainly seen more than expected you to...” laughs Rupeň. ALL RIGHTS HASAMUAL

Olympic Artangements Other sporting news is that last minute transformation will be made at Wembley pool and Stadium near Dyson, who has been offered, an Landon .for the 1048 Olympic eppointment os, athiciles coach by Games. A seven-Jane running track

English Amateur Athletics da to take the place of the speed-Association. way and greyhound tracks in the

One big sporting hobby over here stadium and the pool will have a ot the moment is team choosing for new floor placed

for

the the Best of Europe v. Grem Betaln boxing events.

Hampden Park, Glasgow, :match: ck-

May 19 After the England vi running tracks will be inld at an Scotland match at Wembley then Awan int Delaney of anied Thái special tracks laid over the runnin

racing will continue on

over the running United will repisca Tom

loader, course.

only couch for the English Olymple certain's sons to be the Creat team is expected to be Major G.H.C.Batain goalkeeper, Frank Swift.

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statistics.

He counts the dogs on the streets of the cities he visits.

Paris, he said, seems to be faring well. Here and there are plenty of dogs, and most of them look frisky and fot. There are some places, said the diplomat, where dog on the street is a postwar curiosity.

A Paris dog dealer who never there heard of this diplomat said might be something to be learned from this: before the war, Paris had estimated 60,000 dogs; now the canine population has been reduced 45,000about about 25 percent to one dog to every 65 Parisians,-- Associated Press.

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The British-born actress, Iďa Lupino, was given an “A” for effort and ability

-who breezed when through her American. history examination for United States elle zenship,

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Miss Lupino, former wife of actor Louis Hayward, look a preliminary oath of citizenship and will receive. her final papers"about", the 'end',pof May-Associated Press. 134

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