PRACTICAL
AND
pictorial, too! Actress Yvonne de Carlo models this two-piece muki-draped suede beach sult in Hollywood, and it's bound to be widely discuss ed. Fashion authorities have predicted lots of new beach outfits for summer. (Acme)
Police To Exchange Visits
Exchange visits to study traffic problems are likely to be arranged soon between the City of London police and polled in New York and European capitals.
Members (the City Council think that overseas police could learn much from watching the intricate traffle problems of the City.
Sunilarly they від за the City police might get new ideas to allevinte congestion aggravated 13° the Abolition of petrol rationing.
Among those urging
change scheme
Alfred Instone, Aldgate.
the ex-
jv Captain
a member, for
'MAGNIFIED NOW'
"We have international con- ferencon to discuss matters of polley," he said today, "Why not international exchanges of policemen to solve the world- wide problems of traffic jams?
"Whatever Wo may have suffered in the past, will be mamlfrd now petrol is freed. It is important to. And some solution which can be applied when the Festival of Britain opens in 1051."
AUTHORITIES DEFIED
Cape Town, June 20. Native feadors deled the South African Government to- day and proclaimed a strike next Monday of all native workers to protest against pollee, action against May Day de- monstrators when 18 natives were killed.
strike
The leaders said the also would be in protest against recent South African legislation segregate coloured from white inhabitants, and the anti- Communist bill which
to
charge gives
they the Government power to act "without recourse
to law."-United Press.
K.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1980.
WORLD BOOM SPREADS
WAVE OF
PROSPERITY
SWEEPS FREE COUNTRIES
The free world is moving steadily towards its first great postwar boom. Evidence that the wave of prosperity sweeping through America, the Em- pire and Britain is now spreading to the nations, whose economies were shattered by the war, writes the City Editor of the Sunday Express (London),
From Washington
the i Cannon: Her steel plants are Economic Co-operation Ad-producing to over-capacity. Iler newmrint output is reaching an ministration announced:—
all-time high record.
Industrini production 1n Other cviience of the Western Europe soared to un- upthrust in Canadian business precedented heights this spring, jis given by the demand for nthestor, timber, und cement— all at peak levels.
Total industrial proxluction in the first quarter of 1050 was 24 percent greater than before the WAT andi eight above last year.
percent
Malaya: The boom in rubber prices has resulted in a Jump of nearly £1,000,000 in the note circulation in 10 days ond Key Industrial commodilie-the banks are running, short of steel, coal, and electric power cash. But the Financial Secre- all showed advances in nutput intary of the Singapore Govern the Arzi quarter.
ment emphasized that this was a sign of prosperity, not of in-
And other good news from flation. Washington was:-
Early season crop prospecta in i Western Europe indlede the best agricultural year since the end of the war.
MORE OUTPUT
Europe will produce this year as much food us in 1938, but because of larger popula. tions supplies will be about 10 percent less per person than before the war,
NEW FACTORIES
America: Production has moved forward so swiftly that tott outpu can hardly rise further unt! new plant comes into operation. Existing plant in many Industries is being taxed to the limit.
mills and all are
The US, steel motor-car factories operating at record levels. The building industry is working flat out.
Mr John Snyder, Szerelary of the U.S. Treasury Баул that American economy has moved forward slnico the war with a tremendous surge of productiva expansion.
Efforts pe the European Governments are now directed Construction of new factories towards increasing the buying) is nearly double the pre-war power
D lower-paid average. More money than ever workers. The aim is to ob'aints passing over the shop coun- greater output per worker to tera reduce cosia and permit of wage increases, while, at the same time, lowering prices.
This is the way the move towards the hoom is going-
The Empire: Doosted by the hugo American demand and now by the recovery in war- torn Europe, Empire raw levels and bring producers materials are coaring to record exceptional prosperity."
STEEL AND TIMBER
BIG RECOVERY
MEMORIAL TO EIGHTH ARMY
Progrosa on the Eighth Army's memorial window for All Saints Cathedral, Cairo, was Juspected on June 14 by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery when he vialled the Whitefriars Studios of James Powell and Sons at Wealdstone.
With Lord Montgomery were Generals Sir Ollver Leese pril Sir fuchard McCreery, who commanded the Eighth Army, and Sir James Steele, former Adjutant-General. They were shown the window by Sir Graham Cunningham, chaleman of the com- pany, and talked to is designer, Mr Carl Edwards.
Nearly all the 12,000 pleces of gloss have been cut, and the top half of the window has been finished. It ilustrates the figure of the Virglu Mury and of Christ as a boy holding in his hand a ship as symbol of the church. In the lower part of the window, which is 13 ft. high and 3 ft. wide, will be depicted the sign of the Eighth Army.
will look like when completett. Left: What the window Above: The works manager explains to the Field Marsuj how the window is fitted together. On Viscount Montgomery's left is the designer, Mr Cart Edwards.
WOMEN BOLDER THAN MEN
IN A LITTLE FLUTTER
By Frederick Cook
New York. And women have
Wall Street has been learning about women. been learning about Wall Street. There have been some surprising dis- coveries on both sides. Some months ago, realising that women held by far the greater part of all American investments, but as customers were largely neglected, one of New York's biggest brokerage firms organised a series of investment courses for women only.
WAR
in
tions.
Singing Captain's Successor
A
Promotion For Fine Newsman
THE change in the editor
(London) brings promotion to a fine journalist.
Tahip of the Daily Mail
Tall, quiet, grey-haired Guy Scholleld steps up to his now Job with a record of seven) years' succeza in charge of the London Evening News.
Schofield is a Yorkshireman; aged 47. Like most Fleet Streek editors he was trained in the provinces, starting at the age of 10.
He was chief sub-editor of the Evening Standard for five years up to 1938. then he edited the Yorkshire Evening Nows unill
he joined the London Evening NewE.
At the Evening Standard be inct his wife, who was in the pleture department of
newspaper.
-DEPARTURE
this
Frank Owen relinquishes the Daily Mail elforship after three lively years, throughout which he ran a fiery onslaught on the Socialists,
Hereford born and Cambridge trained, Owen was an MP at 24; he lo now 45. He is a big man In every way, broad in shoulder. and vigorous in argument. small ripple in the He has three Elfis: (1) A South China Sen went un-Originally of thought; and (3)
vivit style in writing; (2). noticed in the world Press. Brilliant oratory. Omar Ali Saisutin WALS proclaimed the Sultan of WRITING A HISTORY Brunei on June 7. Few ap-
The Evening Standard had seems, that he tha stimulating personality as precinte, it
succeeds to colourful editor for three yorro up to throne, with
a romantic 041, background,
The Sultanate tsf Brunei, with its
population of 40,000) an area of 2,220 square
and
miles.
Where wil the crusader go next? There is great speculation
Fleet Street,
He is at work on the official
is best known to the history of the war in Southeast outside world for its oilnelds at Asia. Serta, the largest in the British Empire. Less well known are its fisheries, baskets and silver The new Sultan has a famous ancestor, Sultan Bulklah
and brass works.
Ragam, warrior and rover, who ruled in the 16th century. Ho Was known the Singing Captain. With a sack of pep- per seeds and a band of Gand- picked articans, lic once Fet "We are fast recovering from The idea spread. from people who needed advancód |our question-and-answer periods out from
Brunel with a vow the effects of the world conflict, const to const. The plan university training.
or the women would lave not to return until he had found and have been able to share some of our well-being with less
to educate women
stayed on for hours asking thean island large enough to caw Almost every lecturer engaged guest lecturers additional quer every eded in the sack, fortunate nations," he added. stockmarket. terms and to give a "women only" course
wandered over Malaya and the Philippines. Mr Snyder
They were not wasting their
At his court he simple operations of buy-has been bowled over by the also said that Estimates
Knowledge his students revealed, time, either. additional since the war American producing, selling, going short or and even more so by their keeni-single of the
a These students, maintained splendour that
of a mogul come to be earned by the tion facilities, now equal to long, hedging and commo-eas to nequire more.
and spoke
In minla- Empire countries this year as those of the rest of the world cities.
widows, need help and they ture.
Slaves were bought and sold result of the boom in base combined,
Inow " had been expanded
Lecture courses have been
in Brancj down to the middle metals, wool, jule, rubber, to such an extent that 1030 What the teachers soon found given so far in 65 clues by the
of the 19th century, cocoa, sisal, and other materials and 1940 already seemed to be-
whila was that they were providing firm originating the scheme.
piracy was rife on its coastal range as high as £300 million. long to a remote past.
elementary school course for
waters. In 1888, it became a British protectarále. A British residency was established there in 1006.
CANNON
BEGINNERS TRYING
a
THEIR
LUCK
SCHOOLBOYS in Canterbury, England, lined up to try their duck at snapping Princess Margaret during a visit she paid to the school. The Princess was met by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, as well as by this formid-
able photographic group. (Acmo)
LISTEN-FOOTSTEPS COMING UP THE FIME-ESCAPE OUTSIDE..IT 13 THE VISITOR WE ARE EXPECTING, I SHOULD HAVE HAD THE PLACE SURROUNDED.
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
SLANGA:15. THIS THE GIMENES YOU JAF
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Thirty-eight thousand women have attended. One advertise- ment for a forthcoming lecture In a New Jersey town brought an attendance of more than 500.
On the basis of their expert-
wives women,
Reds Losing
Their Hold
Frankfurt, June 20.-
RICH OILFIELDS
Today. the An American-conducted public Brunci is heterogeneous. the firm have not yet plucked up opinion poll showed today that digenous courage to try the experiment
ence in towns of moderate "size,
of In-
population
racez-Malays, Ked-
In New York, or any major city. Communism had lost ground in ayans, Tutongs, Muruts and
to
"It looks na If we would have Western Germany and "almost
the Allied take Madison Square Garden no one" In
zobes at least if we advertised such a
lakes Russia's side in the cold lecture course in New York," war. said a spokesman.
Nearly 2,000 persons
were
Dayaka-rub shoulders with Arabs, Chinese and Tamils.
The Inte Sultan Ahmed Tajuddin Khairi Wadin died in Singapore on June 4, while on Kingdom. is way to the United
All IN hils younger Omar brother and is 35 years old.
At prevent the oilfields of Brunel are owned by the British Borneo Petroleum
Syndicate and operated by the British The Malaya Petroleum Company, a percent preferred Shell concern.
The lecturers have made some! asked in the poll whether they Interesting discoveries about favoured Communism or De the female mind at work on the tional struggle.
mocracy in the present Interna- stock market. Women, they dis covered, are bolder than men the West, and only four percent Fifty-four percent favoured They will take a chance where
sided with Russia.
ness.
a man will hesitate. They are teener for a proft. Men wis maining 42 buy shares cautiously, for in-neutrality, arguing war weari-
War devastated these fields. come, Women will shrug of
The
has industry
been re- caution if the chance of a fust The survey, conducted by the habilitated quickly and proft is there.
pro- Omce of Public Affairs, noted duces four times as much ofl Professor G. D. Plunkelt, who that "the frend of opinion also as
before
the war-3,500,000 tan a course for women at New | favours the West on the ques- metric lons-yielding £404,504 York University on management|tion of the relative strength of or 64,3 percent of the total re- ef personal funds, reports: "The the Western and
Easternvenues of the Sultanate by way self-assured male thinks he is powers."-United Press. the bold one. He likes to think
of the tile woman as timid, meek, seeking safety above all He had better look in at one of my sessions!
"And most women show as good judgment in investing as They the average man does are on an equal footing with men when it comes to invest- Ing. They realise the value of sound factual information, and are looking for it."
At the same time, American women are demonstrating keen Interest in the mutual fundo the fart expanding mulu- billion-dollar investment com panies which accept the savingu of the small investor and spread them around the market in a diversified "portfolio."
Mr George Shaskan, who Rave a series of 12 lectures.on this type of investment, says. "We gave what amounted to
the
wo
a college course in the econo- mica.of investing. And wnmen sold: 'Wouldn't please give them something o little more advanced!"
"The questions they
asked fascinated me. They are highly technical and intelligent. The women showed an extraordinary understanding of the role of mutual funds in solving their Investment problems. We are going to expand the course to meet their needs and to give It both during the day and in the evening.
Dorens Campbell, who con- dueled a course at New York's' New School of Social Research, saya:.."'Wa. bad fo fight to sloss
of royalties.
THEY
WON
BRITISH
SPINACH
BUDDY Baer, six feet. four and 250 pounds, ad- vocates spinach eating for actress Jane Powell, who
is four feet 11 and'a mere 100 pounds. (Acme)
OSCARS
JEAN Simmons and Richard Todd smile happlly after receiving their Silver Stars
at. the presentation of the British National Film Awards in London. The guesia included leading flim stars and other notable celebrities............ (Acme)-
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