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BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Posed for Lols Leeds. .

Skin Care is rewarded by a clean, clear skin and a Prettier YOU!

BASIC SKIN CARE

*The first important step toward o lovely skin is cleansing and toning. Cleaning is the basic thing if you Thus the "good companions" for are trying to clear your skin, to your beauty are cleansing cream and soften it to give it the clear, freal skin toning lotion. They are such look which is so dear to your heart. gund companions that they should Cleansing cream does give your skin never be separated from you and a clarified look, a smoother texture.

your skin. Our modern Beauties to For the day, sensitive skin which la "bed as well groomed for their is lined and wrinkled, I unhesttal- slumber hours as for their peilvities ingly any

use cleaning cream, either during walding hours. And why not or the soft, emul- look lovely when you sleep? It ly the liquefying type nr sified, whipped-cream type.

no longer necessary to use heavy oils The liquefying cleansing creams and are poured into Jars in a liquid state creams on your stein at night.

Cosmetician have created lotion This liquid solidifles, then melta gal and creams sn smooth and easy to your skin. Thiny apply and easily absorbed by the from the warmth type of cream really penetrates

and siln

They even make you took direolves

dirt

accumulated Pretty while they do their work.

You

apply

and

secretions in the pores.

it

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947.

NEW AMERICANDEVICE DUMBBELLS WILL X-RAY DIAMONDS

Research scientists in New York are rushing

to complete an X-ray type device that will “finger- print" diamonds and other precious gems, and make jewel robbery a profitless crime.

THE ONE THAT

GOT AWAY.

Shanghai, May 15, Mayor K. C. Wu, who li busily Arying to corral demonstrating sindents,anlssed a man calling at his office, who left a card bearing this file:

"World leader

and

concur.

rently Commander-in-Chief of

the world's naval, land and air forces: cod;

flags of all na- Hious, flag of all armed forces In the world, national flag, party flar and school flar of the Whampoa Milltary Academy; In-

ventor of rall Communications and electric lights in prelife; graduate of the Infantry course of the 16th commencement ot the Central Military Academy."

Also printed on the card was: "Introduced by Dr Sun Yat-sen. Madame Sun Yat-sen. President Roosevelt, President Lin Sen and Generalissimo Cilang Kal. shek."

The man's name was Wang Ching-kang, or Custodian of the Yellow Gold United Press.

U.S. fighter

-British

jet engine

Jack Worst, millionaire dia- mond wholesaler, of Dayton, Ohio, plans to introduce the X-ray system into the jewellery. Busiñoss as soon as it is ready for commercial use.

He belleves the device will so dis- courage jewel thieves that they will drop their plans for all future rob. beries and turn their criminal talents to other lines.

Werst, owner of the £20,000 Vari- derbilt diamond, алуб research scientists have been experimenting with the jewel "fingerprinting" In- vention for a year and a half.

The device X-rays the grains of gems in one-millionth of an inch de- tail," he says.

"When all jewels are X-rayed and catalogued, no jewel thief wilt dare templ to dispose of stolen gems, unless he peddles to a private indivi dunl-ond that would be extremely dangerous.

They can be checked with the catalogue or register, and the right- ful owner can be determined by the grain markings shown in the X-ray," Millions Stolen Yearly

j

BY GA

I COULD SWEAR THAT. THESE STAIRS

ARE MOVING!

ESCALATOR

Deserters

Menacing Europe

of

Весливе no declaration British Government policy to- wards them has been made, the hard core of the 4,500 British deserters in Europe is turning The device will sell for from £600 | steadily to crime for a living to £750.

and presenting a growing Werst estimates that more than

menace to French, Belgian, £25,000,000 worth of jewels are stolen

yearly in the United States. Dutch and Italian society, Miami Beach, wintertime Mecca of millionaires and tourists, has many

wei robberies each season. jewei

More than 1,000 of these deserters are hiding in the Paris area alone, and although only a handful of them The first gem to be X-rayed under-men with pure gangster tempera- the system will be Werst's fine-cut ment-are operating in a big way, Vanderbilt diamond. which he the numbers involved

in petty

bought a year ago from Mrs. Gloria rackets and commercialised vice Is Vanderbilt Snr.

giving growing concern to the au- thorities.

The detector will be equally effec- tive in photographing rubles, sap- phires and other precious stones.

Lower Insurance Promiums Werst says the man who develop- ed the device is Dr. George Firth, of

Research the Manhattan

Labora-

to the skin on

a pad of cotton

If soap and water are your choice which has been dipped in cold

A new jet fighter being built for une the best complexion soap you the United States navy is to have a ter, then

oill. Apply

can half-teaspoonful of cream to your rune is be, a heavily scented soup

One with very little per- British engine.

The airplane, designed by the little cotton pad. Cleanse with up-sometimes irritates sensitive skins. ward strokes, starting on the neck. Use lukewarm water.

Grumman Aircraft Corporation, will Have your If you prefer the fluffy, soft "whip rinsing water clear and cold. Blot turbojet motor-as the result of suc- be fitted with a Rells-Royce Nene ped-cream" type, apply it to your the skin dry. I mean just that~cessful tests carried out by both U.S. will be able to offer lower premiums

lot! Do not use harsh towels to air forces. dry your skin.

skin with the fingertips. Leave a a few minutes for penetration, then remove will cosmetic issues.

Here is a very important point to remember. Whichever type of

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cleansing cream you use you must also have a skin toning lotion freshen your skin, tighten and stim- ulate circulation. These toning 1- tions also gently

You

the

skin.

in wil And the ch

inter Green, Violet er but all are created for the same purpose. They are also cool- ing and aid in clearing the skin, he sides being mildly astringent. I sug- test that you purchase your clems- ing cream and toning lotion from the same cosmetic line as they are created to work together.

Minute Makeup

GABRIELLE

White dresses, White hats, White accessories, are creating excite. ment in the fashion world. And While calls for brilliant lips, but deeper powder shades than you have worn in a long time!

SIDE GLANCES

'EVIL EYE'

STONE FOUND

IN BRITAIN

So for the new aircraft is for ex- perimental purposes only, But the ULS. Navy Department's decision even to experiment with a British- engined airplane is an acknowledg- ment of the lead Britain hus America in Jet propulsion develop-

ment.

forces

over

It may lead to American fighter being equipped with Jet- engines of British design.

Big dollar payments

If any large-scale production of

will be made in Britain.

tories, New York, a company that produces scientifle testing equipment. He believes insurance companies

on precious gems when the device is placed in general use.

HUNTING CROCODILES

FOR PROFIT

|

The War Office has not mado clear whether the amnesty offered to de- serters in hiding in England applies to those on the Continent, and it is the uncertainty of what will happen to them if they give themselves up that keeps these men at large in

Europe.

Amassed Funds

Some of these men have been roaming Europe since the early days of the rhting in Italy. They have amessed considerable funds and are key figures in big black market, vice, and robber gangs.

Others who, during their service abroad, fell in love with French, Italian,

Dulch and Belgian women are now lying with these women and becoming absorbed in Con- tinental society.

In Paris especially, where there has always been a big cosmopolitan element, these men find little dif ficulty in concealing themselves.

Two members of the French board appointed to dispose of the surplus to needy civilians have re- signed, and the rest threaten to do so unless the depredations of crooks

American airplanes powered by Berkeley Cook, ex-RAAF A stone spindle whorl, like Rolls-Royce jet engines does result officer, is preparing an expedi

of the ancient Greek from the recent tests and the bulletion to hunt crocodiles commer- some

which amulela

protected then of the Grumman experimental from the Evil Eye," fighter, it is unlikely that the engines cially. He has found that they Wearer

are returning large numbers has been found at a prehistoric Rolls-Royce have already sold the to their old haunts in Austra- can be controlled. settlement on Dartmoor, at rights of the Nene in America lo Welstor, near Ashburton,

the Taylor Turbine Corporation, and the engines would undoubtedly be mide in in American engine plant But Britain would get ble sums in

The whorl was marked with a series of small pips around the rim. Other spindle whorls, used In spinning wool, old sling stones and fint kuplements were Among the 2,500-year-old discoveries, on this site, which is new to archaeologists. "It is interesting that apparently there was also an Evil Eye' even In those duys," said Professor H. Dewey.

dated! the whorls from Age, sny 500 BC.

dollars in royalties.

LIVER POOL

DOCKS TO

in early HAVE RADAR

One, a greenish-blue stone with

a five-rayed star, incised on both

Liverpool is to be the first

sides, was worthy of a place in the port in the world to use radar. British Muscum, be said."

Earthworks

And its "installation will be the world's biggest. When it is in

will

"I have found indication of earth-operation, in a year or so from works at Welstor," Mr. E. Amery now, the harbour-master

lia's northern Queensland and in! New Guinea, after having been driven off by Australian and American troops during the

war.

and will use his 56-foot pearl lugger, the Phantom, as a base of operations.

The mangrove swamps surround- ing Darwin and the inlets of the nearby coast are again harbouring resident of huge crocodiles. Cook, 40-year-old

One surfaced at Neutral Bay, Sydney, reported he Fanny Bay near a small salibout had been offered an average of occupied by William McNab, 14. crocodile US $6.50 a skin by a Sydney leather The boy reported the Arm,

charged his small boat, rocked it During wartime little cro- colle hunting was done, and prices with its tail and seemed to be trying _of_sking skyrocketed_

Lo capsize it. Young McNab drove Cook plans to do a bit of trading it off after striking It repeatedly: in the New Guinen coastal islands, with an oar-United Press.

Lancashire Newsletter:

THEY ARE BELIEVED TO

Adams, of the Newton Abbot branch be able to see at a glance the HOLD LONGEVITY RECORD

of the Devonshire Association, said. exact position of all ships in

"As far as I can find out there is Liverpool Bay within a dis-

no recurd of this encampment.

"There has not yet been tune to explore the site properly, but the number of things so far found sug gests there was a large population."

By Galbraith

"I'm just taking # faw Ideas from Shakespeare for, my glish ouapy—it's like Robin Hood. stealing from the to help the poorl

innce of 20 miles, even in fog or darkness.

By A. C. STOREY

Lancashire spinners and twiners hold what is believed to be a world record for longevity. Nineleen members of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spin- ners and Twiners, who are drawing 5s a week from the Union's pension fund, average 88 years of age and have been retired an average of 22 years each.

und here

as

the

Alderman Charles McVey, Chale- man of Liverpool's Dacks and Quays Committee, has just announced that the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board have signed a contract for the the radar installation with

Nine are more than 90 years, Princes Theatre, will be interested Sperry Gyroscope Co., of Brentford, Middleses. Initial cost it is under-old, the "father" being 95-years- to know that it is now partially oc-

old Levi Wolstencroft, of Hollin-cupled by an Airways Terminus

a feeder for Ringway airport. Here stood, is £30,000.

"Liverpool has every reason to wood, who stopped work in the are accommodated the staffs of the European Airways, Alr It is something Lime Spinning Co., Oldham, in British shout about this. nobody else not even the Ainer!-

France, and KL.M. Even Levi was junior bulk of travel formalities are con- 1922. cans has tackled yet." n radar ex-

compared with William Brown, ducted before passengers leave by pert said.

of Bolton, who, had he survived special coaches for the airport.. 80ft. Towar

Requisitioned during the war, and Mounted on top of an 80-foot the severity of the winter,

of Supply, steel tower, the rotating scanner. would have been 104 this year. later by the. Ministry

the Crescent playing fields, Salford, weighing two tons, will bring into He worked at the Gilnow Mill,

released in January last, hope to be the control room pictures from Bolton, and retired in 1919. themselves again under grass by the which the harbour authorities will Lancashire men are of tough stock autumn. It is hoped that the con- be able to plot accurately the oro- and all these men started as half crete roads built across them will gress of all vessels.

timers, some of them at the age of be ripped out and seed sown before the end of summer, though it is unlikely that cricket pitches will be marked out this reason.

The installation should allow the part to keep open under weather conditions which today would cause a complete stoppage," continued.

nino years.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt, famous aro, radar pioneer, Was Among technical advisers to the Mersey ce Docks and Harbour Board.

With the radar pictures in front of him the harbour-master wil be able to pass on

to ships In the Mersey the exact state of the river channels.

On the same organ in St. Luke's the expert Church, Cheetham, Manchester, on

When Southport Corporation takes which Mendelssohn played 100 years

over the local fire brigade probably | recital of his works has just

ong of the been given in celebration of the next April it will acquire

The centenary.

organ, built in the Anest Bre-fighting units in the London, was used for the first time north. This is the opinion of Mr in the church In 1840 and was re- H. Blackledge, Fire Force Comman garded as the finest in the city, so, der. of Aren 20 which includes to Southport North-West Lancashire when the great composer came Manchester to conduct his "Elijah" and the Lake District. lat the Free Trade Hall, ho wan He hopes firewomen will be

taken to see it. It was then that tained in the postwar brigades for

for are and a half hours.control-room he played

work. -

They The centenary recital of Mendels- superior to men for this kind of sohn's work was given by Mr Harold duty for they never seem to get Dawber organist to Manchester nuatered", he said. "In prewar days. University, and a former organist I was one of those who opposed, the suggestion. that they should bo Now it's pre-fabricated churches and choirmaster of St. Luke's.

There has been a record entry of allowed to join the brigades, now I An all-aluminium pre-fabricated church, belleved to be the first of juveniles In northwest area coal believe they are indispensable In the

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Training at Eaton Hall, in common

Its kind, la being built by the Apos-raising, of the school ledving age tolic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and commenting on this a Coal contributions to the educational and home of the Duke of Westminster,

Elder Claude Griffin, paator of the Board official said: "Youngsters artistic life of Nelson, Mr Joseph R. is being leased to the Wat Once for with that at other infantry OCTUL, Negro church, said the church was realise that no other industry offers Sheo, Principal of the Art School, une as an Officer Cadet Training will bust 17 weeks and in addition

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were used during the war to train and leadership. of the setting up themselves." the Cenotaph, where stood the old Art