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Women

This Space Every Day

BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

Posed for Lois Lerds.

You can follow a Beauty Calendor even though you are busy.

BEAUTY CALENDAR!

Your post war Beauty needs Benuty Calendar: So let's make one It is easy to follow a routine when your plans are all mapped out. Re- member the efficiency of your work sheet durlug, Wartime? Well, let's have a Work Sheet in the form of Beauty Calendurt Make a calendar da a "pinup" of your dolly plans on one of these wallboards. This calendar in for the Homeworker.

Monday,”..... Five minutes to relax before starting your day. Talte down hair and brush like mail." Set hale and cover with a pretty,

or

elourful net. Do", wear-

ing gloves. Check

needed

re

make a Lunch. And while you eat. inber-eat foods for energy. Do odd Jobs. Exercise while you work. Good posture, deep breathing, frum your hips. from Sunday, keep work at a mini- Dress before your Man gets horne. Wear something colourful, Stick # flower or a ribbon bow in

mum.

Dianer,

Phome manicure. Keep all your tools in a neat little box. Quick-drying alds make a quick job of polish dry- ing. Do your mending, sewing or knitting. Smooth hands make for smooth workf

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 194

2,000,000 Workers In Aircraft Production

At the peak of its activities in 1944, the aircraft production industry of Britnin employed something not far short of 2,000,000 people, of whom about 40 percent 1935, Tho corresponding figures for when air rearmament began, was 35,000-practically all men-and for 1939 about 355,000, including 15 per

were women.

cent womon.

directly or indirectly, duction of aircraft.

in the pro-

Here are some other Interesting facts and reflections from this handy but comprehensive survey of aircraft production

This information is contained In the story of British- aircraft production 1935-1945 prepared for the Ministry of Aircraft pro- duction (now incorporated in the

In 1945 we were producing three Ministry of Supply) by the Cen- tral Office of Information and basic types of four-engined bombers, seven of fighters, four of medrum and published by . M. Stationery light bombers, three of general re- Office under the title. "The Air-connalasance altcraft, seven of naval

nircraft, and eight. of trainers- craft Builders".

total of 33 basle types.

The figure of 2,000,000 people is something litte one-tenth of the total labour force of the country in peace time, and it made aircraft production hy for the biggest industry in the country, employing

people than coalmining and agriculture put together.

more

It meant that on the average one in every two or three familles had some member of the family engaged,

CUT DOWN SMOKING- AND WON

£64,450

William Melville, 60-year-old Aberdeen stonemason, was al- ways a careful smoker. Before the Budget he worked on a plan ; for each section of the day.

Tuesday, Breakfast. Let dishes salt. Go over your house. Bring on the Efletency that took you through the war days. Lunch, Relax. Beanly Eath-yes, right in the middle of the afternoon! Time out! Fill your uh, throw in some sweet bath salts, When you get out you'll be twice ant to finish the day and go shop- plug for yourself or for the house and family. Your dinner can be cooking while you are beauty bath-

four compromised, While in your bath fot

your

At the height of the Battle of tortes on Saturday were Britain, Hurricanes leaving the fac- often In on the following action

Tuesday,

DUMB PELLS

DON'T

IAM EXTREMELY (CH,BUTI SORRY TO LEARN THAT YOU ARE. TIN THỦ HASHT OP VISITING |A GOLF CLUB ON

THE SABBATH!/ DRINKS

· PLAY) 1 ONLY DROP IN FOR A FEW

Probing

·AND A GAME

OF CARDS

back for repair 24 hours later, and Antarctic

Treasure

in service again by the week-end.

Up to October 1945, the Air Trans- Auxilary had delivered from port factory to acrodrame 302,203 alteraft from Moths to the latest. Lypes of secret machines. When it came into existence, soon after the war bekan, It had a nucleus of 38 pilots. In

The Antarctic is a treasure 1945 It had over 600, and over 1.000 house of selence. It is engineers employed in servicing the laboratory of incalculable possi- machines. The job was not one of safe and simple "taxi-work" of the bilities and contains the answer original 39 pilots, 19 were killed in to many of the world's scientific

puzzles.

the course of their duties.

Five million trees had to be cut every year to 'supply plywood used In airerat construction.

No less than 43 different versions of the Merlin engine were Introduced into nervice use from the beginning

L

of the war.

Home Life

Of Frau Goering

|

This is what the two members of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition said when they arrived in Sydney.

They are Dr Paul A. Siple and Robert N. Davis, the first two re- turing members of the expedition to reach Australia. -

Dr Siple, senior US. War Depart- ment representative with Admiral Byrd, has been with four Byrd ex- peditions to the Antarctic. He has in the Antarctic I spent more time

than any other man.

also from the Mr Davis, who is US. War Department, was a scien- tific assistant to Byrd.

They were both attached to the Central Group or Command Group. "No. Exploration".

Morning, he smoked five Wood- bines; afternoon, another dive; and at heme in the evening with his wife, trene, another six-16 in all. Annie, and 23-year-old daughter. After the Budget, Mr Melville found, like thousands of

that others, he couldn't afford to smoke. Ho and, Scots fashion, วงาม.

Herman Goering's widow, worked

to plan-three again skin delight in a mask or a layer Woodbines, in the morning, three in Emmy, soon to face a denazifi- "You must keep in mind that this of rich beauty cream. Dinner. Serve

the art

afternoon, and four in the even-cation trial, told a reporter in was no exploration, no secking for something simple or what

was10 day. cooking while you were beauts- But

a fortnight ngo, winner of the Neuhaus, Bavaria: "I was only tand to annex or minerals to dis- dying. Put on your prettiest house-

my husband's wife." ho ncals prize of £01,450, use greatest wat and Improve your mind reading a

by sat in one of London's luxury hotels good book or entertain smoking a more expensive brand of your husband and children. NOTE cigarstic. -Children and husbands stay at I don't think I shall worry about

your hair. Evening. While laten-home when home, is made interest-cutting down any more," he said,

ing by YOU!

ing to the radio give yourself

Ofitimate Vilakup

GABRIELLE

No commatic closes the porca”. Certain astringent creams, often called "poro" creams, cuuse the pores to becomie nore active through- increased circulation Other astringents also perform this service. They ald in riding the skin of excess oil, Cosmetics, prop- erly selected, do much to clear up an olly condition but you must fol low carefully the directions for their use.

SIDE GLANCES

2

HE'LL RETIRE

For 31 years Mr Melville has laboriously chipped the

tombstones

Wednesday, "Do as you please" dny-but wash and brush your hair. Thursday. Get up 20 minutes

of local residents into shape from It is hard Hood Aberdeen granite. earlier. Take a beauty bath before

work, and unhealthy. breakfast.

Give your

house "beauty treatment." Clean

Although he has always worked In a a mast, he has lung trouble from polish. Lunch, Stop just long the fine stone dust made by his chisel, Always he longed for the stroke of fuck that would fro him from his

a

and

nough for a simple snack. A short "beauty nup" and a beauty makeup.

This is your evening out! Dinner a restaurant or have friends in offer dinner at home. Before "lights out" remove every trace of makeup and mat on Ettle cream. And never forget your hand cream.

a cream

Friday. Dress before breakfast, for shopping. Leave dishes in the sink. Yes, you heard me! Go lo town for shopping Carry an efficient list with you. Clean and press clothes when you return. Weur mask or layer of eveam while doing cleaning and pressing. Before retiring massage scalp and brush. well to cleanse hair and scalp.

Saturday. Not a holiday for yout mid-morning makeup.

Put un Have your "Sunday dinner" tonight. I needn' tell you that Saturday alght is fun night-and beauty bath night!

Sunday. YOUR day! Make your- self ns Pretty as

Relax. Benutify by skin c

Make

supper.

pretty,

Job

Then one day a Littlewood's agent called him outside the stonemason's yard to tell him he had won a big prize.

With him to London went Irene and grey-haired Mrs Melville. On

way

Mr Melvilke thought the

prize might reach £17,000.

An hour before the presentation of the cheque, when he learned that the faintly would

be richer by ever £4,000, Bill's only exclamation was, "Gud nicht.”

cover," they said.

German authorities sald she

"It was purely a U.S. naval task would be charged as a "profiteer force working out new naval tech- of Nazism." for which the maxi-niques of operating in what we call mum penalty can be 10 years' gnol. cold water. We were training men "All I own is the remembrance of to overcome ice and not to be over- 18 years of happy married life," she told the Associated Press in an interview.

She denied that she had profited politics in any way. from Nazism or had participated in

Enimy Goering

appeared

far younger than her 53 years, as she spoke in the two-room forester's house she shares with her sister, her daughter, Edda (8), and a do-

nestle scrvani..

Her hair is still blond, without

touches

She wore a colourful Bavarian ens tume with a blouse of blossum de- sign.

Poison Capsule

-She discussed a wide range of toples her finances, her life during the war, and how she also had, but never used, it polson capsule such as that with which her husband toul his life at Nuremberg prison.

But always she swung the conver- sation back to her husband.

"I cannot belleve he is really dead.” she said,-tears-welling-into-her-eyes.. Those who saw him at Nurem berg did not know what kind of a man he really wises

The presentation party was com

-Ez-year-old. plete-when-

Guardaman Gordon Melville--four years in the Scots Guards and training to be a Juined the family.

when he is demobilised teacher

"Whatever stories may be spread But Irene, sipping a lemonade about him and me, nobody is able while her mother

and father posed to cast any reflection on our married for pictures, whispered to a reporter life. Marriages be happy as ours

wish it had never happened. We occur but seldom. were very happy, an hope this doesn't make any difference."

Mr Melville's win brings Aber-forever."

Cheques have already

shared £13,028.

"He was my husband and I sided with him and will side with him

Hermann 'Fueled Up'

of

ne

by

For

crash

it. "We have made discoveries. instance, we have found that, cur

ice-breakers can great new through continuous, Ice-that is, an unbroken area of ice like a frozen

Pro plateau-10ft and ft. thick. viously, continuous Ice about 3ft. thick would hold up our former ice- breaiters.

Scientific Problems

"We have also proven that a base can be established by plane and can then be maintained all the year round by plane."

They said, "There are great scien- tific problems to be solved, and great scientifle truths to be establish- ed in the Antarctic.

"We are hoping that Australia, New Zealand and the South Ameri can republics, the lands lying closest to this Aladdin's cave of knowledge, will co-operate in seeking its len- life treasures.

Bligh's Tomb

Outery

Suggestions that Captain Bligh's tomb should be trans- ferred from Lambeth Church- yard to Sydney brought strong opposition from the Rector of Lambeth (Rev Henry Hedley).

up and don your best dress. A light deen's total winnings in a month to "pickup"

£152,172, "Look

Frau Geering sald her husband pluse" for company this evening. Kone to: A bus driver, £81,456; a never discussed politics with her,

There you have it! You'll have to

butcher, £13.238; and two men who and that he did not know I was not a member the Nazi Party tailor your Beauty Calendar to your own special needs.

until 1935, when the Fuehrer in- formed me that I had been made a member without applying.

"Hermann was always glad," she The controversy started after the said, "that I did not occupy myself New South Wales Agent General (fr with political matters. In our house J. M. Tully) suggested to the then about household Premier of New South Wales (Mr we talked on and about the McKell) that "something should be

COPATHY BY KEA SERVICE, ING. 7, M. RIO U B, PAT. OFT,

.

· By Galbraith

George is going to be busy on his income tax tonight, but I told him only the Joneses were coming over and you'd excuse him!”.

This Secret LampRevealed

The Enemy

News of another

offairs, our theatre and art. My friends used to say when they visited me during the war that they did not feel that a war was being waged.

|

. "When Hermann left the house, British

"There'll be an outery If the tomb is touclied," he said,

done about the tomb.

Mr Tully denied that he had been working behind the backs of the Lambeth" authorities.”

"I only sought an official direction

he used to say, 'Now I have really from Sydney whether I should ap-

wartime scientific triumph has fueled up again, meaning that he preach the Lambeth authorities," he

just been released-a device had rested." which enabled British escort fighters with our bomber streams at night to differentiate between British and enemy nir. planes.

At the end of the war bombers and fighters carried an infra-red lamp which could be seen and identified in the dark without detection by the Germans.

It became essential when bombers were ted with radar-controlled guns which could open up automa- tilly at any aircraft within a eer-

distance.

..

said.

3,000 MEN GET QUEEN

MARY READY FOR JULY

More than 3,000 workmen are bustling to get the Queen Mary, the world's second largest ship, ready for her first passenger service trip to New York since the outbreak of war, Cunard-white Slar expect she will be ready to- wards the end of June.

Men are working day and to England and parked in the tw Detalls of German infra-rep night to refit her after her war-RAF hangars. devices, which included a rife-sight time service:as A troopship Several hundred men are clean. for use at night, were released about both in the King George V. grav Ing and repolishing 3,000 chairs and a year ago, and American,cling dock, where the ship's hull 1,000. tables; renovating 3,000, mat- ment has received much publicity.

Ahead Of Others

and interior are being repainted tresses and 4,000 pillows.

In dock, her bow, damaged in the It now appears that British Infra- sind redecorated, and at two collision with the cruiser Curacoa in red devices were probably ahead of RAF hangars outside Southamp- Optober, 1942, is being replaced, her either German or American products. ton where her furniture, "eva- four propellers and shaft renewed,

In 1941 infra-red driving equip= ment was introduced in the army to cuated" during the war, is be- and her hull and keel repainted..

The miles of teak rails оп the enable transport and tanks to deploying cleaned and repolished.

varlaus decks, now covered with the before dawn-under cover of dark-

Almost every stick of furniture in carved names of the lens of thou- ness-ready for a daylight attack. the peacetime Queen Mary-tables, sands of British, American and Aus- Infra-red signalling lamps were chairs and beds of 3,500 stateroomstralian servicemen who sailed in the widely used by the British Forces, and even the gymnasium and Tur ship during the war, being especially the Commandos.

kish bath equipment—was taken out planed and repolished. At the end of the war, a complote of the ship and stored in dg- Infra-red signal receiver weighing pots in New York and Sydney in "Putting the Mary back to peace-

1041.

Atime shape," sald a Cunard official, "In colossal, job. But she will be Now, in hundreds of packing cases, the furniture has been brought back ready before the end of Junn.”

only 1lb. was in use. This com- pared with the German best of 10lb. -without fis power unit.

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Hotels Cannot

Get Furniture

Hundreds of hotels in all parts" of Britain, requisitioned by the Government during the war, are lying idle and empty because their managements find it impossible to get furniture,

They are unable to provide any Accommodallon on the eve of ă tourist season when the country is expected to be invaded by 150,000 vlellors from, ubroad:~-

Hoteliers can obtain neither the replacements which were promised them when requisitioning took place in 1030, nor, the original fu which was commandeered and has since been supposed to be stored in Government depots.

A Typical Case

VEGETABLE

CULTIVATION

in

HONGKONG

by Dr. G. A. C. Herklott

86 DRAWINGS

2003 PAGES

Hotel proprietors, loaded with dockets and coupent which, oficially, ought to bring them the goods, they require so urgently, are searching high and low for bedroom suites, tables, chalta, beds, mattresses, sheets, blankets, towels, carpets, curtain fabric and crockery,

of them can find nothing. Typical of the plight of hotel is that of Mr. J. J. managements Hewlett, managing director of the

250 rooms, but the position is hope Palace Hotel at Boxion, Derbyshire.

Mr. Hewlett said: "I am faced less, I cannot find anyone who can with the problem of refurnishing give me supplies,

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