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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS.
Groom your
STAR SHINE!
legs,
Posed by Sonja Henle for Lois Leeds,
even though skirts are longer!
it
Son Henle wears her hair in a formal upswept style because
Try out flatters her round face. alytes which flatter your own par- ticular type of face shape and never copy, unless it's your style.
The longer Skirt in Leg Shots! surely here and it does interfere with the Ler Show but your legs must be even more attractive be- cause everyone is talking about the longer skirts and looking at them-- and it your legsi
A Colour Prediction! You will be polishing up your Star Shine in the Fall by wearing these colours- Green, all shades. Primative, sach Berry as Totem Red, Aztec Gold.
And you'll Red, Woulsman Green. have to change your makeup, too!
Stars!
rs! At dinner at the With the Beverly Hills Club the other night, Irene Dunne wore shor!
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dinner dress of Gray linen, with deep in gets of Gray cotton lace. The bodice, eut very low, was made entirely of lace, with narrow rolled shoulder straps of linen. A Gray tinen bolero Jacket was thrown over her shoul- ders.
at home Dorothy For evenings Lamour chooses a simple two-piece
Minule Makeup
GABRIELLE
Spray your powder puff with your favorit, perfume. Shaky the pul dry before dipping it in the powder. For a too-fluffy puff, smooth a little cold cream inte the palm of your hand and press the pull on it. This will make the powder eling.
SIDE GLANCES
dinner dress styled with a White linen blouse with cap sleeves nad self buttons reaching from the high, round neckline to the waist. The Navy Blue pilk shantung skirt falls from a wide waistband, with soft pleats over the hips. Miss Lamour accents, his colour combination with a Fuchsia chiffon scarf knottent
a cross, set with dlu her throat; monds and turquoise.
Influence Of
Royal Wedding
On Fashions
Elizabeth Wray, London fashion writer, here tells how the recent wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh has had its influence Britain.
on current fashions in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947.
To Turn Barren Iraq DUMBBELLS Into Fertile Garden
BY ROBERT A. KNOWLTON,
The Government of Iraq, with the active sup- port of the United States, is planning a reclamation' project in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys which it is claimed will dwarf any similar project in exis- tence.
The barren country, which now mengrely supports 4,500,- 000 people on 5,000,000 acres of irrigated land, hopes, with the nid of the International Bank, to return to the glories of 6,000 B.C., when Nebuchadnezzar ruled A wealthy nation of 20,000,000.
of the country from northwest to southeast, is the key to the plan. Info this depression' would pour the waters. of the. Tigris to the north and the Euphrates. to the south, gulded by a series of
dams and checks beginning Just below their sources in the Turkish mountains,
As currently envisaged, the Wndt would become a vast artificial inke -the largest in the
world. -Un- counted billions of tons of would be stored in its shallow con- lines, to be diverted by an intricate. system of canals and streams to the farthest reaches of the kingdom.
water
ARENT YOU WARM WITH ALL THOSE CLOTHES
YES, BUT.
THE DIRECTIONS,
ON THE PAINT CAN
SAY TO PUT ON THREE COATS
• MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Strategic Defence Beats Little Slam
First step in this project, which U.S. State Department experts call "entirely feasible," will be a $120,000,000 program- me for irrigation and flood con- trol in the heart of the country. Tentative approaches have been made to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the funds necessary to carry out the immediate plans. So for the Irngis have secured the entusiatic bucking of the United States, and
cause havoy sweep Baghdad By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY have so interested the British Gov- ernment that agricultural engineers have been sent from Torila to study Arab to Basra on the Persian Gulf. San Diego, Calif.; for the
the outines of the project.
Government, however, The only a beginning. Kays this is
materi- fore the development plan alises, it hopes to have promises of at least a quarter of a billion dollars
for subsidiary developments which will transform the entire econoniy of the country.
Key To Plan
Soll throughout the country, It needs agronomists say, is fertile.
it froni only water to transform
it semi-desert to the garden land was in ancient times.
Jake The would supply this, and
and would
also the disastrous spring floods prevent which
and
throughout the river valleys down through the Shott ci
Another dam on the Euphrates at Habbaniyah, just west of Baghdad, would increase the storage capacity of Lake Habbanlyah, and help to fertilise a large area there.
which
Granary of East American officials are particular ly enthusiastic about this phase of they say the programme, run-would transform arid Iraq into the
gra "granary of the Middle East." With proper management, they have told
officials,
The barren Wadl Thertar, ning diagonally through the centre
NOVEL FOOD
war
SCHEME
Thousands, of orders for pre- quality Christmas pud- dings, fruit enke and tea, to be made in London and "exported to homes throughout Britain have been cabled from America and Canada under the dollar earning food gifts scheme of J. Lyons and Company."
International
Bank
hitherto backward country colle
one be transformed into
of the richest spots on the globe, feeding not only itself but exporting food to some of its neighbours such Turkey, Syria and Transjordan.
as
In addition, they point out, one of the lowest standards of living in the world could be raised so far as to make Iran one of the most pro- Kressive nations in Asin,
Iraq
players who will fly out to
casters delegation of bridge annunl All-Western championships at the Hotel del Coronado, will meet some of the finest card players in the country. Norman Perlatein
of Lou
chairman of the executive
miteon of the western division of the American Contract Bridge Lengue, comes to New York quite often. We are all familiar with his excellent play, of which today's hand is an example.
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"This is not a wild dream," one omelal said. "This 15 2 concrele But plan with logic and substance, It must be controlled and carefully wild and planned, or it will run All food is made from Ingredients destroy Iraq's traditional economy." of fraq. these The Government specially allocated to the manufac- turers by the Ministry of Food for officials say, is looking beyond even
The scheme has these grandiose beginnings. export purposes.
officially been
recognised as
stalesmen have indicated to the In- effective way of carning dollars for ternational Bank that they plan in food which never leaves the coun- the foreseeable future n tremendous
spade tricken? be try.
to unify
reasoned otherwise. He the Perlstein Americans and Canadians supply programme of public works and and try to take two
about remembered that North jumped to the names and addresses of persons entire
fire country
Tied four spades over three hearts, ant to whom they wish their gifts to be
in with this will be public health at no time was South enthusiastic Within two hours of the scheme
indus who took the contract to the slam education, and eventually clerks at one of the stores co-trialisation in the form of light in-in spades. operating were taking telephone or dustries.
fabrics-brocades, 'slipper satins and thTotas-were favoured by those guests adopting the mid- ralf or ballet length skirts, and !! was here that the true fashion in- terest of the occasion could seen, as the same outfits will soon
be seen in restaurants, cocktail parties and similar gatherings.
"There was no doubt about
the
sent.
rural develop promically
its central agricultural core.
acceptance of the new skirt length being announced in New York, six services, increased basle and higher about his space bid. It was North
and similarly it was clear even to the average observer that the new fashion line with the
waist, small long tight sleeves, moulded bodice anri pudded, rounded hipline has licen will received by the who can afford model clothes.
women
ders.
'Bundles
for litto
Population Factor
the
Therefore, Peristein was positive that North held the king of spades. and that meant that his queen was And that An officint says: "The iden has
unless he could make a caught the imagination of Amerl- It is at this point, experts, say trapped
factor comes strategte play that would throw the runs and Canadians as nothing bas that the population
to declarer off balance. That was why wartime
Properly picture. scheme. One T11 who utilise the projected development, he made the opening of the ace of dummy 1273 order sald: The population far greater than Iraq's spades, "Velvet made-a-big.comeback for air cake and eat it The scheme Despite one of the highest birthratesrensoner it would, Peristein lost o have present 4,500,000 would be needed. showed the king of spades, as he in the world, Iraq cannot count on time in playing the deuce of spades
Now what would you have done natural increment for the growth
Would short if you were the declarer? relatively envisaged D period.
Velvet's Comeback
the occasion. and several
since Britain placed folks at
the
skirted, black velvet redingotes clothes.
home
cin Now
full-
it is thought, could be extended to household goods and other commodities on the priority export
could be counted, as well as a num- ber of simple velvet dresses, some day length and others to the ground. Many of the older women had chosen
Jewel coloured velvet
list.
dresses similar in design to a dinner Farmers Top On x
frock.
"Hats tended to take the form of small bonnets or even halu bandeaux
in
und when
the
it, occur to you that West held the nco and queen of trumps? Well, it For that reason, they say, Iraqi did not occur to this declarer. He have begun consideration went up with dummy's king, fully to encourage expecting to drop the queen from programme
from the the East hand. Thus, strategic de- widespread Immigration
Some om-
fence defeated the contract. other Arab countries. cials
to programme comes up tions, the very richness of the coun- American farmers, always try and the economic, opportunitie regarded as the models of good it would offer would attract settlers skie. behaviour, are the worst booze- without the necessity
hounds in the country.
trimmed with osurey or Ostrich,
usually made in the same muterlal ps the
the accompanying dress. All the hats appeared to be worn well oft The Ince
to one or tilled Bereta were second favourites, but
with flowers.
Drinkers' List
I believe that if the develccta-/
nient intervention.
for
govern-
dressy berets draped and feather trimmed. The heavier types of huts were the toque shapes, draped with silk or velvet and further trimmed na a group are most likely to drink expert said. "and surveys on n'far themselves into chronic alcoholism, more intensive senle must be un- Of 12,012 patients treated by the dertaken. But the overall iden is Institute in the last 10 years, 1,300 sound. Considered only as a were farmers.
tramme for human well-being and Salesmen, who are mure exposed development, It is eminently worth lo temptation than any others, ran while."-United Press. the farmers n close second with 1,250,
"Much remains to be done in the A report by the Keeley Institute
Middle East for Alcoholics showed that farmers way of planning." a
By Galbraith
- COPE, 1947 BT NEA BERVICE, HOT. A BEGUN FAT, OFF,
дов
"If you teachers are going to strike for higher pay, I hope
you do it while the weather is still nice!"
Third place went to merchants, clerks fourth to mechanics, while and lawyers were neck and neck for fifth and sixth places. Doctors were tenth.
The report found that journalists were extremely sober, with editors and reporters way back in 45th place.
Industry in America lost 2,000,000
mon hours a month because of drunken employees, coid James Horghton. Director of the Keeley Institute.
CHESS PROBLEM
By Z. ZILAI
Black, 5 pieces.
White, 7 pieces. White to play and mate in two,
Solution to yesterday's problem
11. 16-K34, any; 2, 4, B, or IKE
mates.
pro-
Check Your Knowledge
name
1. Name the capital of Peru.
of the 2. What was the amasory in "Lost Horizon"?
3. What is the zenith?
4. What country is known as the Island of the Royal Palm?
5. What is a heptagon? 6. What is the Italian name for Naples?
(Answers on Page 41
Rupert and the Three Guides-56
Back in the wood Rupert hands his treasure to the King Squirrel, who pins it to his crown, and squeaks with delight. "fy, what a whopper 1 cries the little creature, "bigger than the other jewel... And what a lovely colour1" Rupert emiles happily. 'Yes, it's a jolly. good jewel,” he says. "I got it out of a cracker lut Christmas.” The tiny king leaps away to show it To his subjects while Rupert and his three friends wandes off to Hortor all about it.
THE END.
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Another exciting adventure begins
Lomorro.
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Dollecting Bogor." (81)
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17. Army formations, 15.
18. She's found in a danco all'
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20. Touch that sounds
man river. (4)
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