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Beach Rompers

TERRY cloth rompers that slip neatly over a wet bathing suit keep Doreen Evans warm after a swim at Miami Beach, Particularly useful after swimming in couler climes, the blach rompers zip all the way down the front with a self belt. (Acme).

London Diary:

Bevin Will Miss

Parliament

Mr Ernest Devin sails for New York on September 7. So he He will be away until the first week of October. will miss the meeting of Parliament, recalled for September 12. That is, unless Mr Attlee accedes to the request of Mr Churchill and Mr Clement Davics, to summon MPI earlier.

Mr Devin goes for talks! with Mr Dean Acheson, U.S.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950.

You Can Build A Racing Car For £100

The most interesting exhibit at the "Model Engine" Silver Jubilee Exhibition, which has been filling London's new Horticultural Hall with its usual throngs of young and old fanatles, was not a model at all. It was a genuine racing car, capable of more than 110 miles per hour, which the average "home" engineer can, with reasonable workshop facilities, build for himself for about £100.

Several have already been sumption

gallon. raced in public by the new

of 250 miles per

"500 Chib." This mumber In the model loan section, has nothing to do with mem-outstanding exhibits were a re bership, but refers to the plica, with a 9 ft. wing span, of the 140-ton. 10-engined

fying bost zubic capacity of the engine. "Princess"

now

TL is in fact a five stud being built nt East Cowes to J.A.P. "dirt track" racing carry over 100 passengers non- 1stop from Britnin to New York; motorcycle engine.

eight-foot tong melio-con- trolled twin-engined Dakota; The high cost of motor racing and a one-tenth scale moctet of forced a number of cathusiasts an EI.A. racing cat. to evolve a light chassis powered The Intter, considered by ex- by the engine, which gives asperts na the finest of its kind in

the world and approved by: nuch pleasure to the driver as

Proses famous racing drivers. the lan and more expensive Raymond Mays, Peter Bertheron banded them-and Humphrey Cook, has been nakes, and the elves tether to foster and built so exactly like the real ear he stripped dawn, encomage amateur consquction that it east

Imut by nut, to the bare ebasis. Land to organise competitions.

which is of correct chionnei It contains hont 000 section.

is finished in the pirers and orignal E.R.A. racing colours of frate green, with pale blue up-

holstery and black wheels.

*prings."

Bydraule

20 YEARS TO BUILD-

before.

To Sing At Salzburg Festival ·

Coal Cellar Chapel

•

Is Dedicated

A tiny chapel, 8ft. by 7ft., has just been dedicated by the Bishop of Kensington, the Right Rev. Cyril Eastaugh.

THE Trapp Family Singers, | Austrian vocal group, kneel; in prayer on the deck of the Queen Mary before sailing from New York. They wil sing at the annual music fes- tival at Salzburg, Austrin, on their first visit to Europe since 1939. (Acme).

Queen's Hall Rebuilding Delay

What is holding up plans

Until recently, it was the coat cellar of a tall Victorian house BBC SEARCH for

in Courtfield Gardens, Earl's Court, London,

Now, its walls treated scint wrongs and how they right them. And they only way to

There has since

FOR NEW

"UNCLE" MAC

rebuilding London's Queen's Hall? Government pronouncements on the sub- ject now prove to have been wildly over-optimistic.

Ilona agh job, and not at all der sort of wages in which tir frem for a Lone takes the

spin, but it serves ita real pur- pow The body is beaten from heet aluminium. Suspension is by independent wishbones Of all four wheels in conjunction

In the competition section, in Adjustable with

rubber brakes which there were entries from are fitted with two leadly: thomore this 300 amateur crafts with a waterproofing pre-could

agreed types on the front, actuated men, with ages ranging from 14

to 77. there was the usual assort paration and then distem that the o thingh twin master cylinders,

ships of every kind, pered old gold, it has a

In March 1949, Mr Herbert The ekande is of

duralumnent of

Soulsh Palleons i diminutive altar with cur- One of the

Morrison declared Queen's Hall ched on, with wild from geeft tubular members forming brid- to barges of all ages, and more tains and canopy of malorum had to quit owing to illness.

The BBC searching for would be rebuilt in time for the than ever blue broende, and a switch it the other two, Michnel the successor to Derek Me

1851 Festival. Two Imonths wes fure and aft to carry the way Jeromotives

Inter, Mr Glenvll Hail, then Estas pension.

at the door' in the area Brings, son of a Bolton railway Culloch ("Unele Mac") as Financial Secretary to the One, a "Mnou" type Bioda

hidden uores-official, and Hugh Barran, from uncle to the millions of chil-Treasury. sabi n Ilcence for te rubridy on flour by more

MODEL LOANS

formative, which is I fert long operates a

Loughboreaugh, are and weigh 11 cut, took E-Cocent light.

forging dren-and grown-up-who dong find been granted and talks were going on about wit: the Buriety of listen to Children's Hour. Secretary of State, and to

athenc Cort #third.

1. Billinton of Haywards Heath with leser anubi-marly 20 years to build.

For there is, of course, HO Fey there

the converts to be provided. Domitie, which the three form- attend a meeting of the the spayer will be about Ave

window.

Applications for the job of tions and smaller bank fulances. the

quarter millions a year.

Army weapons and transport

jed on St Dominic's Day 1917. head at the department are now Foreign Ministers of

But there is no hall and no the Exhibition tho showed how

their conspicuote by

The story behhid this little

being Invited. The post is lehance at all that there will be North Atlantic Treaty na

a bicycle rate be trafovani

Michael ("I intend-worth £1,000 a year goes back to VJ Day, Brother in the back ence. But alrerall types were chapei -. d. from the State for each into a motor-bike

at the jene in tline for the Festival. tions.

well represented, starting with five years rgo, To a few hoped to be erdained, but instead start, rising by £60 algos to a Jack of flour.

instearts, anden for only £34, ne 1316 French Nicunt Scouts and by Trafalgar Squate whee of completion my studies at maximum of £1,300.

FIVE YEARS MORE 10d. And the mercate is displayed a sirude cylinder, four in18 biplanes and leading up to three young men of around 20. Ies Universaly I began this "Uncle Mac" has been with

47 back later to April 25.

engine of kresy twn-strake

Spitfires and Airspeed Ambas-Langers to any another, ap-work") told how the Society the BBC since 1920 and arisela- The Commissioners of Crown But the bakers are still die. e, vore 14 ing, stroke 116 ins

pened to sit at the same table.of St. Dorninle decided to tackle ted with Children's Hour for Lands, as ground landlords, has been specially will-atisfied. They say the increase which

what

20 years, general have been negotiating for years they deemed a great lu- nearly designed to at imo my bicycle kingt ensurh

Justice the FOUNDED SOCIETY

way eclused terms, "desirable qualifications" | willi Chappell's, the frame, and can be bullt at home.

students are housed in London.for his succesor include "some publishers, who won the lease Some bakers are saying the Fitted with this unit, a bleyele

knowledge the felds of rnd ras the old Queen's Hall. Manis og mat give then more will take a len stone rider up i

entertainment and an under- the 1d. Ioaf in 14. has a cruising spevel of 20

standing of children and their The Commissioners say the subsidy, or

to 25 mph, and a petrol con. may have to go up to Ge

interests."

matter is certainly not sleep- Most of those on the staff of log" it is "being seriously con- Children's Hour, both In Lonsidered" don and in the provinces, are of course,

Win it be 10 years before women. They are.

the fall is bull? Not so lont entitled to apply for the job,

Mir McCulloch's resigntion as that: 11 may be more like

the five years. does not take effect until

FOOTBALL SMASHED

etx was

THE ean that Mary had THE

hatch out a penguin chick of the Zou.

removed from The klug penguin Mory after her death.

skren to It was

her consort

Nelson to incubate. Nelson did not want it, gave it to Tubby. But he, too, was re- furtant. For a week right king penguins have been playing | football with the egg

Then, one day it was found guashed.

FOUR TIMES A DFC

Engagement of Wing Com- mander Norman Ryder, four winner of the DFC, is times anmuure-1. He is to mury Miss Jeanne Macintyre, daughter of Mr and Mrs James M. Macin- tyre, of Dolphin Square, S.W.

An

was

In 1940, after shooling down

aircraft, he enemy forget to land ha own a090- plane on the sea. It sink and He was trapped 30 feet under the water. But he freed him- self from the cockpit, swarn to the satrface, was later picked up by a trawler.

Wing Commander Ryder was later taken prisoner in Germany,

HER BULLFIGHTER

Thirty American soldiers, wartine friends, ure waiting in New York to give actress Hermione Gingold a party,

Her friends will be surprised when they nee her hat. Mlas Gigold describes it as "a sub- tropical arrangement of shull cap with coloured pornpons dangling all over it,"

red

She calls 14: My ballighter.

BIGGER BREAD SUBSIDY

The Ministry of Food have: gone some why towards meeting complaints that bakers are losing huoney try baking bread, These complaints were made to Mr Maurice Webb by

deputation on August 3.

K. O.

Ta baker will 110W

et

For Korean War

WHEN restaurateur Ruby Foo offered the space for a donor's unit in New York, show people flocked to aid the Korean war effort. Here, singer Richard Hayes gives blood to the Red Cross as nurse Florence Wolfe officiates, June Parker, left, one of Manhattan's latest models, actress Edith Fellows and Mary Chin await their turn. Edith's offer was refused; she's too tiny to be giving blood away. (Acme)

CANNON-

SAPRISTI'THAT SOUNDED

LIKE A SPLASH!&WING

THE LIGHT OVER TO

THE RIGHT, HIRE!

wer

endors.

There was even the first mode!

retoicing

of a helicopter, rubber-driven, while 15 year-old Jeremy Coles,

No light-hearted f Harpenden, Hari forhire, wetitripped them all with his for these three. They talked of town version of a Flying Saucer. powered by a Diesel engine.

Another ind of the same age BIGGEST

Ken Thempson, of Leyton, E-

nex, produced minute models of

1910 Albatross, a Spitire nad

a Melcor Jel-all three of which

can be accommodated on the

POOLED SAVINGS

EVER them to get

"It is

almost impossible for decent lodgings." mannered rouler

BIF IN 1951

slim, shyly Michost said.

The three young men pooled

of

Plan for the "bligert-ever" all their savings to buy a house surface of a penny without over-ritish Industries Fair Im Harrow or £3,500. Ther end of September. crowding. They have movable London and Birmingham next they housed cight coloured propellers, too,

spring are going ahead, despite students. Government decisions to switch

TWO SHIPS

exhibition, Captain I. V. Gards of the world.

jover many faclorica to arms Said Broller Michnel: "It Kot The ingenuity of these modern production.

10.crowded that Brother Hugh amateur craftsmen is almost Alerady there

been and I had no room and sept in bas incredible. Take the fascinate tremendour demand from ex- cupboards." miniature chip-in-n-bottle, for libitors for space to display instance. Nowadays they con- their wares to buyers from all mder it just too easy. At this

Now,

London, was displaying a 100-1

musle

There are stories of hitches Interminable negotiations

ARCHBISHOP DEAD and

But one thing seems evident:

New York, Aug. 31. Government enthusiasm for the Archbishop Christopher Con- 'new Queen's Hall diminishes as his Festival Legeorge, aged 56, Primate of My Morrison scen

the South thé Alexandine Greek Orthodox fint quin up Church in the United States, Bank.

hero died in a hospital

Jast

011

oľ Brockley, Southeant A special effort is being made founder of the Innotis child-the Patriarchal of Alexandrip. TURKEY'S

financed by Sir Robert [night. Mayer, trener of the Inter- His full te was Metropoll- untional Student Service and tan of Pentapolls and Exarch of

who was The Archbishop, the fren's cuceris, the society, turn- buyers from States

became limited, non-profit- bor in Smyma, Canada, ed into a and

bly that

house in at 24, tall Victorian

A sister survives Courtfeld Gardens for £7,500, Archbishop in Greece-leuter,

altract

wall electric light bulb in which Unlled

а

were a full-ritzed shlp with ali Board of Trade officials are in making company, have bought deacon at 18 and was ordained j POLITICAL

sails set, and an old-time salleen, America now organising n both resting on a foaming sea.

Mr R. F. C. Barley, of West- bury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire went even better with his three exhibit In one bottle was a bearded Old Ning Cele with;

| his Addlers threk, holding violins and bows coniclete in every deinit. In the second was an old slaste conch and four horses, with six human figures, a clon. and some baggage on the ron! of the coach. The horse Jens were

of less than a third

the thickness of a match.

In the last was a reproduction of that part of okį Bristel known as Christ Steps: a row of with pic- two-storeyed houses furesque shops at ground level, two tiny human figures standing in front of the Fitopis and a hanson cab passing by in the foreground.

But for really precise crafte manship, there was really nothing to approach the pendu- lum electric clock submitted by Stanley Wise, of Windsor, and

member

the British Horological Institute. His clock measures from base to top only

ths. inches.

of

ampaign,

Helicopter

Saves Time

the

SWITCH

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London, Aug. 31. Dr Malcolm Burr, of Istanbul, wrote today In the magazine, Fortnightly, published here, that the Turkh Itepublican Farty would disintegrate if it faited

to change Its mentality and to form a genuine oppost- tlon,

That would mean a return to # single party Government with all its dangers," De Durr wrote.

He was commenting on the results of the Turkish reperat etection, in which the Republi- enns were heavily defeated ulter

years of power. Now the Republicans, he said, could expect no mercy from their opponents. "The Govern- nent are not hesilating in von- tilating old scandals though there are those who regret this washing of dirty linen in publle and come of the linen is dirty Indeed.".

The Democrats, who have come to power, "are full of con- Adence and have, begun well, and they have the support of all the well-meaning- men in the country," Dr Burr reported.- Reuter.

Move Termed An Insult

Melbourne, Aug. 31.

· Mr M... Ashkanasy, KC.. President o! the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. said tody that a plan to admit Germans to Australia wore to many Jews. an Insult to the memory of their dear ones who perished at the hands of the Yazi murderers,"

PHILIP D. Amour, 3r, walks away from his helicopter atop an office, building In Chicago, after flying from his home in Lake Forest. Amour leased a 2,000-foot roof area for landing. The helicopter trop takes in 22 minutes, while the time by carat Immigration, ie Harold Holl

takes more than an hour. (Acmo)*";

The remission of Germans was approved by the Minister **in Tobrusky-Reuter,

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

A TEAR TRICKLES DOWN WHISPERS CHEEK AS CANNON VANISHES UNDER

THE DARK WATERS.

OH... PROBABLY THROWING AWAY. RUBBISH. WAIT! LOOK!

·JT'S A BODY!