1950-03-02 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.

BRITAIN OPENS ANOTHER FRONT IN ANTI-TB WAR

POCKET CARTOON -from Amorica

by OSBERT LANCASTER

Aristocratic, VALONÍCKEÞar und erte I may be, Senutar but privileged. -NOTHE

You Can

Bank In Your Car

Britain has opened another front in its battle against tuberculosis --and the shock troops being used in the campaign are TB germs them- selves. Forty cubic centimetres of them go to London each week by air from Denmark.

PIN-UPS SPEED EXPORTS

Within 24 hours the in crowded urban districts, all germs are on their way to of whom have probably picked up some TB germs and de- hospitals all over Britain, to

veloped some resistance ngafnot he injected under the skin of them. 100 volunteers buman "guinea pigs" who are risk- to tent a ing infection theory.

GREATEST RISK

BCG, For experiments with the volunteers to have vaccine Injected Into them must be com- tuberculosis. The object of the whole cam-pletely free from patan, which is still in the ex-bn should also be people who "Pin-ups" are importantperimental stare, is not to firun the greatest risk of infec- students, in Britain's export drive, cure for tubercluoals, but totion-purses, medical

thore with T in the family. berause glamour sells goods find a preventive to it.

It is not easy to find people and brings goodwill.

with these qualifications.

The first lead came nearly 30 years ago when two scientists at But, it is admitted, the local the Pasteur Institute in Paris, product falls down in competi-Professor Albert Calmette and tion with the luscious and eye Doctor Camille Guerin, found a entrhing: American and French new type of TB germ in cattle

which lost its potency if arti clamar photographs,

Cameranien my the problemcially grown outside the ani- in in the models. A model must mal's body-ant which helped feel desirable at the well-bred the body to resist tuberculosis if

leea condi-it was injected. English girl has

from birth to conceal

HA

for feelings and charin

British model

thinks

feeling

he

and laundries - and even lure." drive-in banks.

12.

Treatment of the skin with a substaner known as tuberculin determines whether the volun- teer is free of TB germa.

British doctors have shown of BCG, especially as its effects some repletam about the value seem not entirely predictable.

Sometimes it has even remed

to stimulate TB germs latent in

HIGH HOPES

a resistant.

BCG VACCINE

Small-reale experiments the body. one Hollywood Scandinavian countries confirm- Drive-in cinema shows photographer is quoted in donned and advanced these selen-

Gitutt. As a result the has nounts' flndings.

But Scanlinavian experi- have become so popular in guter appeal. Th Amert-

knows These experiments dmon-meme reem to have indicated the United States that they can anjel, however.

to look provocative and strated that the new vaccine that the anger cultures are de are being followed up with how

She

BCG, knows which was game

wasveloped the further removed drive-in groceries, churches respectable,

must exaggerate her al versatile-- rave at least some lench "generalion" of germs Is against meningitis, from its original stock-the less protection

on the harmful become the gesins, and enlarged glands, fluid Beiler US, Pay

the fault of the chest, and TB skin complaints. the more powerfully they set as

Afthough I had not the~99-

Hugh hopes are held for the iria get about 30 shilings un percent effectiveness of small-

that British mass experimentat har for the job and httle perox count publicity, Nor does the dime, experiments showed it least as far as will work in It is estimated that there are British photographer toes hun- often cut down the rid of in-fritida. at least 2,000 drive-in cinema dreds of rejecte into the whalfection, and that when the In- shown in the Unittel States, paper bucket for every photos feetion dia oreur, it was gener- with another two to three hun-joph that clicks.

Masa severe. Anerian modely are dred under construction

four tubies as much and the The problem of trying Drive-in clurches are partie client invariably applies hair-BCG on a large reale in Britain cularly popular in California. elors, manicure, and arces are is more difficult, because of the froin a well-vast number of people who live Engen arteney the fan to 47822-

wathrobe expertly

Millions of people are m dalng a lot of their business, or going to entertainments, with

out leaving their cars,

The National Institute of Cleaning reports that drive-th laundries are springing up in Bts of cities,

FLYING PATRONS

Ten percent of its national į business is BROW done in them. establishments,

As-

The American Bankers" sociation reports that 50 banks! in the country now provide drive-in wrvice.

Open-air restaurants, Hirka mufly-cites for tural to eår parsenitera, total mor, Ban 4,000

p

Eli med herself.

If he [234

and deangned with age to photogenic quality, Even un- die made to measure,

Bees Better Behaved

Scientists have produced a brer bre by tutieial in- semination of queen bees,

Custornera en drive up to clerk's window and the posit

The American Arneticist, of each cheques withen! money

[G. 11. Gale, says, that leaving carn

where the ben babies grew to be

Brazel urfag healthier, gentler, more

tw, industrins bees.

They move faster from flower At Farminglug, New Jersey, flower and thus produce more

honey the local drive-in movie owner

They still have tint," he ronted an adjacent flying field to that more then 35 planet can my laays, "but they are not so quick in and park to allow the new for the draw with them. They

e lets better behaved.” cupants to watch the show.

Parisian Foretold

All These Things

Parisions are dipping into "Twentieth Century," a plump uninhibited volume surveying the 1950's, which has just been republished.

Telephone television, and breakfast news broadlea: ts.

All-electric burglar alarms.

edist Skycrapers, literary

(pre-

It was first published in 1883. The author WAR Albert Robidas, an artist on the staff of the "naughty" and cardboard hating review-"La

sienne."

Vie

Puri-fab21.

Leaflet plane.

proved

substantially correct, especially on selence,

but he

Many of his predictions have Tube trains,

went o blt wrong on politica

and fashions,

malest vaccine

Japan's

out

But until the experiment is nished no claims can be made

for BCG.

In

11 may be the biggest step forward clenes has taken preventing TD-It may not.

Rubber

Industry Reported To Be Reviving

arc

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

crude rubber in 1949 Japanese imports of estimated to have been 29.000 metric tons--the highest for 11 years and nearly a half of the amount imported in 1937 when the Japanese export trade in cheap rubber manufactured goods was at its peak. This is stated in an article The Times Review of Industry.

tort.

iw

used for

munition: anti tons for CX-

In 1937 Japan imported: were 60,000 metric tons of crudely a thousand

percent rubber. Ten

of that amount was used for! the manufacture of goods for export which brought in more than a half of the hit |99,000,000 yen spent on im-

porting the crude rubber.

1 Fore the

Wir

Sie. the war Japan's run-

diniustry

recovered of the round it lost dur- the war, but its progress en retarded by econousle Th fixe of selange rate at 360 yen to the United States dollar caur ed

hup setback in the export jeorgambar, particularly as its bitent market i in the star- Bing arva.

the

was tutev but the closing of aponere robber Wern marke fored her to

Scarcity of 1aw materials, to t develop the auchstry

Fenal and electric tower is a y en domatic demand and has of lur Pastorn neghboth hindrance to progress. With only 25 percent of its After the war her exports of

capacity uber products were tretjavailable productive

(for no other than tyren) in and for 10 years the indus

operation, production costs are was idle.

high.

ex

from

advertising

CUSTOMS:

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FURTHER DIFFICULTY

In 1991 Japan abandon the old standart, and the cotic-

A further difficulty is that the quently low vuha of her

is de- frency opened a huge overseas supply of crude rubber market for her espora of vub-pendent on the volume of ex- prospects Nevertheless. This ve her ports. Here was Robidas's world of easier for husbands to choose ber products,

much

over an advantage

for the Japanese rubber indus

Its 1950, seen from 18113.

| wives).

try are said to be bright. Irina A

dancing foreign competitors that Japan- of HISTORY:

ubber-soldnarnest to the producing areas "Republic of Australia anating from Australia (Roe would be a great new world or illustration depicts jitter canvas shoes were as much as shoukt keep transport costs low, the total shoe and though its rubber products butting with complete DC- 10 percent of

Fifty are not of the highest quality sports of the world, Teuvary)

for the Far Transatlantic balloons, heli-million pairs were rag abroad, they are suitable

But the pre- tyres and Camde

inner tubes, Easteru market.

methods of employing and rubber-soled | war Udder-water bit-game hum-jubber ings

cheap labour in kerp export cotton rocks,

price at lower level than parties

those of its for in competitora is no longer possible.

ideas.

America would be occupied by: Chion in the West and Ger-

in the East, with thecracy marty Morinons in the centre keeping i

a buffer State.

ins

or-

Easier divores

better Imreased and Aned crime, Municipal catering -- food

Jaatsen along

China would be rent by evil want. Britain, trying to keep the balance of power, would go Mormon, too, and would even

"more shocking"

than inpiped to

Lyr 1813.

The Jewa woull be reunited In Jerusalein under King: Sulo- mon H, born n Rothschild.

THINGS:

Transatlantic balloons, hell and heavier-than-alr

copters, airernft.

with

1937 DECLINE

After

The Times Review of Indus- 1937 th amount of

in Tokyo for the try correspondent rubber ud sumally water, and gas.

exports began concludes: "If the rubber in- manufacture of

amountdustry is to be developed on a DRESS:

to decline, while the

for munitions iterea.d. large scule, the textile and

itschenient industries reached

must also This movement WOMEN. Short skirts with

climax in 1944 thy which time be developed, but other Asiatic bustles and bloomers.

Japan controlled 90 percent of countries are now better able

Japan to MEN. Knickerbockers and the ende rubber resurces of tham

tons Roods." when 27,000 the world,) swallow-tnil conto,

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NEWS IN PICTURES

UNEXPECTED FLOOR SHOW-When three gunmen held up a New York restaurant, they made unusual plans for a safe escape among homegoing theatre crowds. Six men and two women employees who didn't peeir were herded into a back room as the thieves emptied the till. These four waiters were forced to drop their trousers so the gunmen could get away.

SPECIAL SERVICE

CIVILIAK EXTERTAINMENT BULL

HE'LL SING AT GERMAN FESTIVAL Robert L. Charlebois, right, of Minneapolis, has been selected to sing leading roles in the 1951 Wagner Festival at Bayreuth, Germany. Here he chats with Fritz Wolff, a professor of music, who claims the former U. S. Army sergeant is a perfect Wagnerian tenor.

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SHORT STORY double-breasted shorty is made of fleece, in a soft shell shade. The little coat, half-belted at the back and finished with deep pouch pockēts at the front, is just right for Spring days.

DIVING GIRL-Margie Fletcher, 20, has been selected дн "Florida's Diving Girl" by the Lifeguard Association at its winter meeting at Daytona Beach. Margie looks like the kind of a girl who knows how to handle herself in the water.

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FISHERMEN ARE BLESSED-A flag-covered harbour is the scene of the annual blessing of the local Ashermen at Fecamp, France. The fishermen aro bound for waters off Newfoundland. Villagers line the waterfront to watch the colourful ceremony which is a tradition in this small French Ashing town, as priests say the blessings for the men of the sca.