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Chinese Metals Help To Build Up U.S. Stockpiles

Chinese tin, antimony and tungsten are going into strategic reserves of these metals being built up by the Through the United States, says Associated Press. Bureau of Federal Supply in the Treasury Department, the Army and Navy Munitions Board is drawing these materials from worldwide sources.

Size of the stockpiles and] just what nations are contribu- ting to them were not disclosed. China, however, was stated to be among the countries shipments.

making such

There three strategic materials are proving to be the means where-

"The details of these Sino-Russian reports agreements have never been mada publle, but doubtless the that fussians are getting the major portion of Chinese-produced metals

from these

agree-

sp"

barter

by Chinn is liquidating some of her Potatoes Used To financial obligations StatCA

to the United

loans to Export-Import Bank China, totalling: US$70,000,000 were made against future Chinese metal shipments to the United States and are known as "metal ionns."

Feed Livestock

authorities food control Swist have released potatoes, apples and pears for use as livestock feed. The measure was adopted to save hay for In soma winter feeding of cuttle. drought-stricken areas, green feed- and farmers became scarce,

Made in 1940, the loan mature next year and have been "serviced" to date, the Export-Import Bank in-stuff

dicated. Reports that all Chinese began feeding new-mown hay! lungsten is going to Russia as a re-Associated Press. sult of higher Russian cash bids for the metal were refuted in Washing- con.

None Received

The Metals Reserve

Corporation

of the Reconstruction Finance Cor-

poration, which acquires metals for current commercial United States, sald: tungsten has been year, but we have sought none,"

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and

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was

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forward the upper in

Jaw grows "No Chinese covers up the premaxilla bone,

this

appears "This striking fact received

have been completely overlooked They said there is no shortage of assigning the rank of man-apes" tungsten in the trades using that to the African fossils," he said.

ไปร thought Prof. Clark metal, so "therstore we have, can-

in making a mountain out of a mole fined our

acquisitions mo'als Chian to tin and antimony."

kill. He pointed to the What amounts of Chinese tung-able "morphological similarities in sten being acquired by the skull, dentition and limbs" to human

for stockpiling pur forms. government

"Dr Jones assumes that the ab- poses as distinct from commercial

of the premaxilla must be n rence uses the various agencies declined

said ancient development," very to say.

Prof. Clark in an interview. There' Is one shred of evidence

not

such a view.

there is no pre- maxilla in modern man, there is no has nson to suppose there never

Other quarters expressed thai "appreclable quantities" tungsten are going to. Russia.

Barter Agreement

beller

of

supp because

to

"During 1930 and 1930 the Chin- ex Government entered into barterbeen one in all his long period of

will the Russians." "evolution, agreements former Kovernment official, tioned China during

in

sold.

ammunition

from the

MEN WHO CHANGED OUR LIVES

it.

scientists,

ne-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947.

AN ACTOR FOUNDED

THIS SCHOOL

DULWICH College's founder

John Pudney

"My Eyes Have a Cold Nose," by Hector Chevigny (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.)

D

O not be bamboozled by the title into supposing that this is just an affair for dog lovers,

It is a detailed and really moving account of an intelli- gent man in the prime of life who suddenly went blind.

picks a winner... weighs up the man who ran away... dislikes

a jazz book he recommends

GUEST BOOK CRITIC

dom which

he has chosen.

His

JESTS AND

EERS

Prejudice was sobered by a sense A girl who has a good head on

of duty when I saw a shop window her shoulders can't be too careful

in God-fearing Birmingham entire-whose it is.

ly tricked out with coples of this book, a sight which persuaded that the volume to in great supply and likely to be in great demand.

I picked it up rather gingerly, nevertheless, wondering, not for the frot time, why it is that British publishers so hard pressed for paper

Wot, no comfort missions from Canton for our strikers?

A modest girl never pursues

and surrounded by something like man, says a magazine writer. Nor

does a mousetrap pursue a mouse.

a renaissance in literary talent, stili Insist upon using their resources to print so much American material when there liitto sign of reciprocal

among

Kenerosity America.

Hector Chevigny, radio writer and journalist, lost his sight while making a business trip to New York City in November 1943. By May 1944 he had returned to work, and the title of his story derives from the acquisition of a highly trained Seeing Eye dog to lead him, and

First Cannibal: Who was that of his own training to work

publishers in lady I saw you with last night? with the dog. Though this in-

Second Cannibal: That was 110- of dilemma timate narrative

serves tip with

gluttonous Indy. That was my dinner, is of special in-

enthusiasm all that you would ever and triumph

want to know about jazz. Samples terest to the blind. it is also of"

from the menu are: "Jazz Greats. universal appeal.

Hot," "Jam in the 'Nine- "Collecting

When one woman is talking, it's a Calmly

"Blues and deliberately it record is simply that of one voice ties

are the Negroes' monologue. When two women are shakes you out of the rut of of the Opposition: it is anybody's Lament," "An Analysis of the Art talking, it's a dialogue. When three.

of Jazz,"

Years of New Women are talking. It's a catalogue. pity and sentimentalism to guess how representative it is.

There might be more books to Orleans Jazz," "Thirty Years of wards those who are sightless. this

there

articulate hic

Chicago Jazz." It is an adventure into the

Opposition In Russin; and then it

It finishes triumphantly with 52 ethics of blindness rather than might be easier to review the nu-

of precious pages

British paper thenticity of this narrative..

devoted to the biographies of 90 It is haunted by fear, by whisper- American citizens (one was born at a story of a mere misfortune. 20 The amazing dog, Wizard.' entera

accorded ed asides, by gossip in undertones, sen; one in Parin; three birthplaces halfway through and is one of the best portraits of any Being the tale of a renegade. It is not sinted) gifted in the art of jazz

hly inflammable material of

The post offer clerk weighed animal that I have ever read. This highly

Macintosh's letter and onid: "It's the political-minded of all perhaps one should simply call

them, "Jazz Greats." is not a slab of paihos. but

pro- which

recommend it, with its photo- too heavy. You'll have to put an- Its rent merit, however, general reader, lies in its cloquence, its street maps telling you in which

"What!" groaned Macintosh, "And. by a practised hand.

os a straight human adventure story parts of American cities Jazzling make it even heavier!" of how one Individual made one flourished, to those blameless citi- decision which dramatised the course

zens who are enchanted with the an otherwise humdrum life. stuff, who throb, writhe, drool, roll Kravchenko bus run away from & their eyes and find peace among system but not from his loyalties. Jazz Grents. To citizens who just In his spirited postscript he dedly want un encyclopedia of Jazz, here cates this book to the people of it is, ail glossy and opulent. Russia, and he is ardently loyal to

of

was Edward Alleyn who, as Ned Allen, became one the most popular actors England.

in

He was born in Bishopsgate in 1666 and at the age of had made a name for himself on the London stage,

tho For the next ten years critics hailed him. Ben Jonson wrote poems about him and he In 1600 he became a rich man. built his own theatre, the For- tune in Golden-lane, Cripple- Fate.

пл Was

Use,

Advertisement in the Manchester Evening News

"Ex-servicelhun wants tattoo re- moved from arm. Urgent."

•

vocative and generous book written perauinslong wit nuke much the graphs of luridly ecstatic faces and other stamp on it."

"I Chose Freedom.

Victor Kravchenko, (Robert Hale, 159.)

by

In 1604 Alleyn was appoint- ed Rear Master to James I. and

NE Saturday night in 1944 Victor Imited bears or lions for the Kravchenko, a responsible omeka King's amusement at the in the Soviet Purchasing Commission Tower,

in Washington, renounced his citi- zenship by hailing a taxi and driving across the invisible frontier dividing the two most contrasting civilisa

Himself totions in the world to place

under the protection of American public oplaion.

of

his country, even though he is an odd man out. Esquire's Jazz Book. Edited by Paul Edward Miller and .(for England) Ralph Venables. (Peter Davies, 168.)

The

Autobiography of William Cobbett, edited by William

Reitzel.

(Faber and Faher, 8s. 6d.)

THAT

ROOSEVELT

PAPERS

COTROVERSY

The White House has asked the Justice Department to de-

Bought Manor sia-

"1. as well as other

Alleyn then turned the war, have taken this feature into

count. I have found traces of the property and became the owner "The Chinese received arms and premaxilla in modern skuils and no of large tracts of land in west The 481 closely printed pages of

HAT place America always was termine how far the U.S. Gov- to TS it possible Ruralans have numerous other investigators,

EL recommend

opulers, it neems: and travel-rnment should go in releasing

dwell which the latter allegedly bad taken including Gregory and other Amerland Suth London, among them this book explain why he did it.

the manor of Dulwich.

book you don't like? Shudder- ler's tales Inevitably

upon the papers of the late President The explanation goes on to tell out of Poland. The Chinese under-

of his youth and up- Ing at the monirker of Mr Ben- food.

Roosevelt. In 1613 he ordered the building the story

"Wo wrote

had amoaked took to supply Russia with metals cans who have published papers on

fish, chops, Dr Ashley Montague

The Department, in the light of a at Dulwich of "a chappell, a schoole bringing in Soviet Russin, his service ny Goodman upon the lush black in return for these materials.

ond Red Army, his ilfe us on cover, I fear I must recommend butter

ង៥៥៩) for quite a paper on the subject.

breakfast, recent court ruling that the papers. with "The point came up at Nairobi, house, and twelve alms-houses." In in the official.

this masterpiece of esoteric repor

bread, crackers, sweet are the property of 1010 the first members bf the founda-

the Federal and the concensus seemed to be the

It is all very interesting, I find, tage to the hip-quivering fanatics cakes; and when I say that we had Government, is examining the law of the ton were admitted. presence

others such und such things I do not mean is suffelently of all ages and to a few objection that the

to find out who should have access In 1619 James I. gave the school because Kravchenko premaxilla precluded acceptance of

that we had them for show...but to the papers, which

may contain valuable

a churter, and it was formally open-young to be wholly a product of the besides. Ands as what very

York, of New these

Prejudice tells me that most books in leads," wrote, new regime, and the men of the

many untold secrets. they are, was generally rejected.

The full name of the college is now regime are, nias,

A controversy over examination of almost an about musle are unreadable; and William Cobbett (1706-1835), that

could not therefore conceive any-

sturdy,

cantankerous,

the terrifie "Since so many of us came to the

sneg of documents col- (Continued from Page 6).

mame conclusion after detailed study "The College of God's gift in Dul-engina to most of us,

wich," and old scholars are known The book does not suy what thing less readable than book opinionated radical, publicist, writer lected by Mr Roosevelt in 12 years

and politician.

as President his bubbled up every Steam, should be condensed, de-of the skull itself, there must be

es Old Alleynians.

Kravchenko is doing with the free- about jazz.

few Months since he died. elded Walt, not in the piston cylin-something to it," Prof. Clark said.

President Truman took office der itself, but in a separate vessel."You can't fool all the scientists all There were mags, the want of means the time, you know.

in April 1945, the war was still on. hampered the young scientist, who

in order to protect Important in- formation, and

the White to give had to turn to other jobs, such as

House star casy

to tho surveying.

Roosevelt papers, Mr Truman re- quested that the more important war papers be kept for the time being in Washington in the national archives.

"It seems that there can be no doubt that these creatures were very closely related to the ancestors of man."

"I'm sticking to my point," mut- tered Dr Jones over the telephone. "It seems such a silly little point,"

Walt worked on. His ideas were vindicated, his steam engine became a success that revolutionised mechani- cal industry. And Watt, sickly, ever- trying, went on to new inventions. said Prof. Clark.

In one direction his pertinacity was lacking. That was in his atti- tude to money. Vaguely and with

distasic he faced financial dealings. He disliked bargaining.

The Valentino Flutters

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions from Page 9

1. B and C E and F. 2 Thomas Gray (Ode on n Distant Prospect 3. The mark which of Eton College), God put upon Cain for killing his WHEN film star Rudolph Valen- brother Abe!. 4. (a) Worn when tino died in New York after an sitting on the Bench. (b) Full dress occasion. 6. Short- operation on August 23, 1826, the for ceremonial

Diamond crowd that gathered outside the un-winded. 6. Kimberley dertaker's premises pressed against Mine. 7. Douglas, Chapman, Wyatt, the window, breaking it.

Hammond. 6. Beethoven. Paint-

A woman of 70 was among the Ing. It is used to steady an artist's injured, and a girl whose hands hand. were cut refused to move until she was taken inside to see the body. Embalmed, dressed in dinner sult. the body of Rudolph Valentino lay in a silver and bronze casket with unbreakable glass top.

120

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Solution of yesterday's puzzle-

liems.

Across: 1, Dairy-maid: 7, Occasion; 9. Wrestling: 10, Hoist; 13, Ademption; People filed by at 73 a rninuic. 15, Nero; 18, Pam; 10, Granite; 20, which rate was later speeded up to See 1 Down; 21, Low; 22, Spree; 23,

minute. .སྙ Fifty thousand people saw the Down; 1 and 20 Across, Down and the exhibition was out: 2, Acrid: 3, Iceberg: 4, Rash; 5, body before ended.

There were faintings and Milliant; 6, Dago; 8, Stoppage; 11, loud weepings; shoes and broken Simile; 12, Tom-tom; 14, Morne; 17, umbrellas were left behind, the po- Mews; 18, Cup. lee of New York were desperately harassed.

And this was the unquiet mourn- ing for an

Italian immigrant-his Guglielmi-who

real surname was

had entered America as a landscape gardener and had come to be wor- shipped by millions of women who in him

found romance,

was

The tango dancer in. "The Four the matador in "Blood Horsemen," the mud and Sand," the powdered gallant in

Beaucaire"this "Monsieur

brought a flutter to Valentino, the hearts not only of the bobby

of that day, but of respectable, gexers of matrons and elderly women.

who

Twelve years after his death_onc of Valentino's films was revived in London, The Lalkle-fed young people of 1938. laughed at the gestures, the sidelong

I glances, from dark eyes. the sudden smile-flash.

All so crude....But older women went secretly to the management to give thanks for they had seen that face again..

CHESS PROBLEM

By J. FACIT ·· Black,

pieces.

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White, 5 pieces....

White to plau and mate in three.

Solution to yesterilay's problem:

1K-D8, any; 2, B, or Kisch, or dhi chi, mates.

Rupert and the Jumping Fish-12

After hurrying through the wood Rupert goes up the slope towards the. shack, and soon he i telling Sailor Sam what has happened and how anxious he is to get down to Rocky Bay. The railot stares.

Well, young Rupert," he says, "you do get some of the craziest ideas I ever heard of, but you're in luck this time. This is my old skipper. Cap'n Binnacle, who has cailed to see me. He lives at Rocky Hay and if you ask him nicely he, niay take you there"

• Att RtaNT&_RSZEGYED.

ed.

--MR

Van Druten has gold

in his kitchen

LONDON.

MR VAN DRUTEN'S play, "The Voice of the Turtle," came to the Piccadilly Theatre with an aura of mystery and a fanfare of trumpets. New Yorkers have been going to it for four years, thereby earning a million dollars in royalties for the author. Holly- wood paid nearly half as much for the film rights, and now London is to be allowed to contribute some soft cur-

rency.

No wonder we had to fight mammam 2014

H

A

T

FR

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P

self-

In his lifetime, Cobbett's wrliing | covered most of the ground of his progress from ploughboy to a seat in Parliament, but he died without ever collecting the amazing ups and downs of his success story into anc narrative..

Mr William Reltzel has done so

yet he is not altogether fair. in this neat, clearly printed book,

Every 10

the which is earnestly recommended for minutes, when duolegue becomes too tedious, either (and will fit) the itinerant holiday- Miss Sullavan or Mr Wendell Coneymaker's pocket.

"This calls Says:

for u drink," thus bringing action to the play.

What a tiresome, worthy, provoca-

access

Hundreds Of Cases Hundreds of packing cases, bulging: with

correspondence, memoranda and official documents saved during the "New Deal," presented a monu-

Ant it is the audience that needs tive documentary it is of human mental job of sorting. cases were

the drink. Nothing but successive worth and English history! Cobbett

successalle began by scaring roles from Use Many of the packing cases wet peas and never ceased to be a prac-Library at Hyde Park. The Library in the first two acts endurable.

oftical farmer.

is federal property under the juris- Mind

a Louch you, there's

Even when he was in Newgate dietion of the Interior Department. culture now and then, for the New Yorkers are in favour of that kind Jall his family sent him hampers and the Department of National of thing. Without any warning the containing samples of everything Archives.

Then the question arose among GI from Pittsburgh would spout that was being grown upon his farm few lines from Shakespeare and in order that he should tell them the executors of the Roosevelt estate Miss Sullavan would complete the how to carry on. He enjoyed life, as to whether the Roosevelt family. quotation,

They must have taken and love. He loved his family and really wanted the papers. The great collection of documents, if retained be loved England, though he spared Co the name correspondence course. our way into the theatre and by. BEVERLEY BAXTER,

Miss Sullavan had to play the nobody's feelings when he wrote of by the family would have been taken into court for evaluation in out of it through crowds which

young

innocent of nymphomaniac his country in the 1820s:-

surrogate or probate proceedings. to see England, land of 10 Sendencies whereas Miss Audrey wanted to gaze upon those for- 6) (135523287568027324:52ÏQqNAL

stores,

The value probably would have been tunate enough to attend such a

There were three people, three Christle gave us promiscuity without plenty and never-ending

without an old wheat rick, and with placed so high that the resultant in- premiere. When the American nets and three rooms in the flat. Ietween them steered the amoral not more than a stock of two-thirds hentance taxes would have eaters he Ambassador and his party, in hesitate, however, before calling for 38-year-old Fittsburgher who kept the former cattle upon the farms; most of the liquid assets of the cluding Mr Gilbert Miller, ar- three cheers.

his women tabulated in a notebook to see the troops of half-starved rived, the setting was complete.

Consequently, the executors made for week-end visits, I am sorry to creatures flocking from the fields,

no move to retain the papers for and say that I did not care who slept and, in their smock-frocks

the family. But the executorn de- On such a night it is good to be

with whom.

nailed shoes, begging their way upelded that no one should have access a Londoner.

chance Incidentally, the British Sunday to the elties, in order to get a

to the papers, for the time being, at It is not a legend but a fact that is bad enough but when the Pitts- snap at the crumbs and the orts least, without the special

request NOW for the play. The curtain rose

and consent of the White House.. on a cleverly constructed scene a playgoer. rushing madly to ace a burgher went out to get the news-rejected by idleness and luxury..." Believe it or not, the Yeomen

Wartime Deals- consisting of a kitchenette, a living- Broadway show which had a real papers for their "funnies" prepara→ room and a bedroom with connecting fire engine in it was knocked down tory to doing some serious drinking, of England survived to fight a war

and killed by a fire engine on the I decided that fe in Britain isn't or two a century and a half Inter. street. Put a real drug store or a real kitchenette in a play and you are halfway to a New York success.

was

pretty with cute and Was told by a cynic over there I MUST record that Miss Sullevan that might Intonations New York childish

doors.

J

We were able to gazo upon " refrigerator, an electrle toaster, cocktail shaker, a coffee percolator, an egg shaker, a bottle of whisky and an ash tray-in fact the entire

To understand the fabulous suc- cess of this play it is necessary to know something about New York theatre audiences,

last winter

that

so bad,

estate.

tec.

When the Senate War Investigat- Ing Committee began to delve into "Switzerland Revisited," by

wartime Arablan oll deals, it asked Mr Truman to permit access to Mr Charles Graves

Roosevelt's papers dealing with this The President wrole the (Geoffrey Bles, 158.)

subject. executors of the Roosevelt estate for FTER Its bon-viveur opening.

papers dealing with the oil negotia- in which Charles Graves tons, and received three different paraphernalia of a modern Ameri- onto 30 well ensnare a man over a week A

batches evokes a brigodler on first-

of documents in return. can kitchenette. Miss Margaret cent sophisticates and 90 percent end but would certainly drive him Sullavan knew where everything suckers. The sophisticates weep at to the divorce court within a year.

the sentimental parts. and the Mr Corey was manly and agreeable name ferms, this, almost the first was and was absolutely at home.

postwar guide books, settles down Coples were given to the Commit- suckers think they get the hidden and Miss Audrey Christie was so

The most recent development was the wisecracks. good as

as the woman about town that most entertainingly to an account of The rest of the play consisted of meaning behind

the ruling by the surrogate court in to take these- I kept longing for her to come back, all the things the hungry and thirsty reason

Dutchess County, New York, that the a visit by Margaret's tough actress There is

me record that all tourist wants to know about Swit as being strictly ne percentages

Tapers are the property of the girl friend who had get out of

business

which Federal Government, The Senate werk-end engagement With: a. GI curate, but five percent either way around me, there were, people, nice zerland.

jnunty- people in evening dress, who re-

makes the mouth to water and the committee followed with a sub from Pittsburgh. Miss Sullavan won't alter the general idea..

celved play obligingly took on the white women's Mr Van prudence and came 10 them, it was witty, brilliant. spirit to hunger. If you should pornn, on the executora, demand

and after a night of the

They may happen to be going that way. It ising delivery of papers dealing

with wartime contracts given acduction, real love came into its to something of the same conclu- unusual and adorable. own and Margaret accepted the sion. Never did any author so akil-. Le right, but the week-end spent by a severely practical guide. To me, GI's suggestion that they should get fully mix his. hocus pocus ingrethe G.I. in Misa Sullavan's flat was olas,. It is expertly done ple in the

**** dients. married...

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