SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.
A "Big Five" From The U.S.A.
Famous Figures At
Conference
The
Mr. Cordell Hull
(USA)
THE CHINA MAIL
LOCAL ARCHITECT
ACQUITTED
-P.W.D. Charges Fail Against Mr. Gibson.
NOT TECHNICALLY GUILTY"
To-Day's Short Story.
BREAKFAST. FOR NONE
By Basil D. Nicholson.
At the resumed hearing at the W THEN Laleham turned he! They called him, at one time,
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, ́of
handled the controls with "Kindness to Airplanes," but that
leads the American delega- \Senate who have been nicknamed from plans submitted to the P.W.D., two hundred and eighty yards, the divided allegiance of airmen Į
tion, was President Roosevelt's The Silver Senators." choice for the all-important post Mr. James Cox.
the charges against Mr. J. S. Gibson, mindless accuracy. He rose on name dropped out when he reached As an alternative to the ace-class. He was one of those a local architect, of alleged misrethe turn
Itare airmen who talk of landsmen Although he has dug for gold, presentation of the true conditions slowing down before it. Senator Pittman is a confirmed bi-of two buildings under construction, saved nim, perhaps, a second and as a class apart, just as sailors do. a theory that TR. CORDELL HULL, who metallist, and is to-day leader of and causing material divergence a half, which, to Laleham, was And he always had
the little group in the American
were dismissed.
From below, his turn seemed like with the land was a calamity.
"Pilots multiply speed as much as) Mr. Butters, the Magistrate said, a sculptor's gesture, a lightning
immortal curve, manufacturers," he might be heard "No divergencies had been sketch of an Although he was in Congress for Mr. James Cox, ex-Governor of nearly 25 years, Mr. Hull has none Oblo and Democratic candidate noticed by Mr. Gibson, and I am pre-la vindication of Laleham's mastery to say, "Ten years ago blacking of the characteristics of the Ameri- against Senator Harding in the pared to believe him. But the fact over the droning whine that stretch-out meant death-To-day, it is just can politician. He is a tall, intel- Presidential election of 1920, is yet that he was an authorised architected from his machine like a taut one of the factors we calculate in lectual-looking, clean-shaven, grey- another example of the poor boy
cord across the sky. To Laleham it turning. That haired, with a slow and pleasant who has made good in the United ought to have warned him.
"I cannot say that I approve of was a moment when he must act by example.. But our reactions are Southern draw).
rote. To him the droning whine quicker all round. Our technique He is known to States.
a small farm in Ohio, mastered his thorised architect in this case, but/was silence, and its absence would is altogether more subtle.
He was born and brought up on Mr. Gibson's conducts
is technically have seemed an ominous, piercing
solicitor sound.
of Secretary of State,
War.
as an au-
wer
is
extreme
his friends as "the Silent One of the Tennessee Mountains."
A lawyer by profession, he has three "Rs". at the local board I do not think he
"We could fly faster 'planes than had only one diversion in his life school, and set out at the age of guilty. Any competent
could drive a carriage and pair As he neared the mark he pre-the manufacturers can make. But He 16 to earn his daily bread. For a from polities and the law.
there will be no pared himself for a temporary
more progress 28, fought in the Spanish-American time he sold newspapers in the through the case."
that the blood long as we are earthbound. The The charges were in respect of death. He knew street, worked as a printer's devil,
and 281 would be drained away from his high-speed courses the landsmen He is now in the early "sixties," and even returned to his old school two buildings, Nos. 279
Reclamation Street, which
head and forced towards his feet give us to fly are scarcely bigger something of a recluse, more of a in the capacity of a teacher.
and finger-tips, leaving them un than circus-tenta. You go flat out) thinker than a public speaker. His
Journalism claimed him, and at under construction.
minute--two minutes- stronghold is his study.
the age of 19 he secured a perman-
Mr. L. R. Andrewes, Assistant skilful and that at the crucial for one He is a master of detail, knows ent job as reporter on the "Cincin Crown Solletior, prosecuted, and moment of his bank it would with-three minutes. Then you wrench more about International tariffs nati Enquirer" through obtaining Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the de- draw even from behind his eyes and her round a landeman's curve too leave him sightless in a black and sharp to take on anything but a with fendant. and the League of Nations than a "scoop" in connection
bicycle, and do the same again. Mr. Lo in his submission said that thumping world. any of his compatriots, and is the railway accident near his kome
the prosecution was ill-advised and i He knew just when this death strongest advocate of the Demo-town. - cratic policy of low tariffs.
able to buy the the summons should not have been would overtake him, and at just Personally, he is is bound to make "Dayton Daily News," a purchase take out at all. He maintained what part of the bank the strain friends over here. He is a modest, which paved the way for his con- that fraudulent misrepresentation would lessen, the blood flow back, even-tempered man with whom it trol of a whole group
of Ohio that fraudulent misrepresentation and his sight and skill return. It
had nothing to do with negligence had happened so often before.
He backed his judgment with his a horror of self-advertisement and He entered politics, was a Con- or culpability. He added that be on
really astounded that the life
every bank. If the has the distinction of occupying gressman from 1909 to 1913, and was
were ever to come the smallest space of any public was elected three times Governor Assistant Crown Solicitor should moment
when be needed his appear in Court to support the
sight, figure in the United States in the of his native State.
and the world were still black divergencies aummons. American "Who's Who."
At 28 he was
is impossible to quarrel. He has newspapers.
a
MONDAY'S STORY.-
Monday's story will be "Nor The Jury," by Selwyn Jepson.
"We are like children's conkers
Mr. Samuel McReynolds Summing up, Mr. Butters said and pounding, he would plonge like whirling on the end of a string in
In Washington he lives in a Mr. Samuel Davis McReynolds that in the first instance he agreed & silver dagger between the chequer tethered curves. Speed? As long quiet hotel and goes to and from lails, like Mr. Cordell Rull, from with Mr. Lo regarding the res-ed seamarks and leave nothing belas we revolve round an amphitheatre his office in a tramear. His home Tennessee. The two men are old ponsibility of
hind him but a column of spray and for landsmen to gape at here will be authorised an town is Carthage, Tennessee. friends. Both are just over sixty architect to the public in general. a spatter of printer's ink.
no more speed. We want a straight Like the ex-Kaiser, he takes his Both follow the profession of the Dealing with the case in question, To Laleham these turns did not course and aerial buoys." exercise by felling trees.
law.
he found that the plans were seem at all classic. They were sa He was not altogether popular. Senator Couzens. In appearance Mr. McReynolds, executed by a man named Chow. unnatural wrenching. It was He took no trouble to be gracious. Mr. James Couzens, the only who is of Scottish descent some All Mr. Gibson, knew of Chow was typical of him that he resented them As the best pilot of them all he Republican member of the Ameri-generations back, is a commanding, that he had been approved of by because of the unfair strain they could have afforded to congratulate can delegation, has been a Senator heavy-set figure. He stands six an assistant.
put on his machine. He had no Aird on breaking the record. It foot one in his stocking soles. The second summons was that feelings on his own account, but was his own record, of course, and He is a sturdily-built man, wears He has no outdoor hobbies, but is Mr. Gibson had only condoned there was something almost un- that would have made mot "men pince-nez, is clean-shaven, has a great reader.
certain divergencies. Mr. Gibson's balanced in his bitterness, for the very careful not to appear bað white hair and a firm mouth. He He was on the bench as judge of knowledge of the building before plane's sake, at the strains of sharp losers. As a matter of fact, every- is a Presbyterian, and was born in the Criminal Court of the 6th cir-be signed the plans consisted only turns taken at high speeds. Canada.
since 1922,
jcuit of Tennessee for twenty years. of a cursory glance from the As a Republican he holds very
He resigned in 1923 in order to street. independent views and has the re-enter Congress, and has been 4 putation of being the most tena-member of that body ever since. cious, not to say pugnacious, of all the Senators.
Mr. McReynolds takes an active interest in Freemasonry. Jie be- Mr. Couzens is in his sixty-first longs to the pleasantest type of year. He has had
romantic
career. He began life with noth-
Southerner.
ing, had a board school education, RUM-RUNNING IN
and at 25 was a book-keeper in a
coal-yard in Detroit. Among other customers whose accounts he in-
TO BALTIC.
exed was a young engineer called Six Vessels Flying The Hank" or Henry Ford.
The two young men became friends, and Couzens borrowed
British Flag.
money from his sister in order to COMPLAINT LODGED IN LONDON
lend it to Ford for his experi- *ments.
the
SIX CRUSOES ON PACIFIC ISLE.
Earthquakes Three Times A Week.
Sydney.
Six white men are living alone)
one knew that Aird had had first trial with the new grooved blades and that his record would stand just until Laleham cared to climb
Įbalf-dozen miles an hour on to it. But Laleham had that queer kink of hls about kindness to airplanes and "Bone Conduction" Of cared nothing for appearances. Aird took his corners pretty close, and Sound.
{Laleham didn't like it.
DEAF CHILDREN HEAR into his cockpit and clap another
CONCERT.
NEW YORK EXPERIMENT,
New York.
"The young fool will have the wings off her," he growled, watch- ing him. "He can't take his corners Uke a gentleman.”
Of course Aird heard of it. He
:
A new electro-mechanical instru- with a handful of natives on a ment, which transmits sound vibra- was a nice enough kid, but just at little tropical island called Vani-tions through the bones of the head, the moment it riled him. koro, south-east of the Solomons, has made it possible for a group of "Laleham can't take his corners Helsingfors.
This fact has been revealed deaf children in a class-rpom of the at all" he said, peeling off his Following the report that
here by Mr. C. L. Dawn, mana-New York School for the Deaf to gloves, he hasn't the guts.** This was the beginning of the Finnish Minister in London had ger of a timber company, who hear clearly their first radio pro- That, of course, was that. It famous partnership which was to been instructed to ask permission
has arrived here from the island.
went the rounds at build up the great Ford motor-from the British Government for
The six men, he said, live in Some of the children are nearly that you were either pro-Aird or 'business.
houses above the water. the capture of a vessel described as The partnership lasted sixteen ja British rum-runner, it is
totally deaf, because of defective ear pro-Laleham, and what you said jonly communication they have drums. The instrument side-track-about the other wasn't even intend- years. When Couzens sold out in latated officially here that air rum with the outside world is through ed the defective drums and carried ad to be reasonable. 1919 he received more than runners flying the British flag are their wireless station. They the vibrations direct to sound-sen- Laleham gave plenty of openings
now
of these vessels” ́are
The
gramme.
once. After
£6,000,000 for his share, Before at present operating in the Baltic
have three maïls a year.
sitive. parts of the brain, it was ex-for attack. He talked too much. the slump he was officially listed It is also stated, however, that The islands is infested with plained. The system operates on The atmosphere fust then wasn't ex- as one of the five Americans with the crews
crocodiles, which prevent the the principle of "bone conduction" actly charitable, and a good deal incomes of over $1,000,000 a year. practically entirely non-British and keeping of dogs and act as a great of sound.
of what he said got twisted. ⠀ When- Senator Couzens has spent some that most of them, including the check to the multiplication of When the instrument was turned ever he heard the new ́versions of $85,000,000 on philanthropic work. captains, are Esthenians.
the wild pigs, which also flourish on, lip reading and sign language his remarks about people Laleham Has liberal ideas not general- The steamer regarding which the there. The water teema with were forgotten. Bright, eager anti-lost his temper. He took the whole ly associated with the Republican complaint was sent to London is fish and the six white men spend cipation on the faces changed in thing too seriously. So, for that Farty and has more than once stated to have been using a secret their spare time hooking many stantly to expressions of surprise matter, did Aird, but he had the denounced the banks and big in-radio code between Esthoala and large varieties.
and wonder. It was explained that sense to take up a careless attitude dustry, mainly on the ground of Sweden,
But there is a volcano not far many were experiencing for the that made Laleham look ridiculous. wage-cuts.
Reuter was informed in Finnish away, and earthquake tremors first time something sdn to the sens. The atmosphere pretty soon gets Senator Pittman. circles in London that the question are felt on the island about three sations of hearing that the normal poisoned with intrigue and pettiness Senator Kay Pittman, who suc- of reported.. rum-running off the times a week -Beuter.
person takes for granted. The in a mess-especially with men children heard clearly, even though whose nerves are being tested highly (many "spoken words escaped their already.
ceeded Senator Borah as chairman Finnish coast had been the subject of the Foreign Relations Commit of discussions between Great Bri-
tee in March of this year, is a tall, tain and Finland. Reuter. lantern-jawed man.
He is a native of Missouri. BICYCLE FACTORY After graduating at the
George
FOR SOVIET.
Technical Assistance
CHICAGO'S HUGE BEER BILL.
£2,000,000 Spent In 24 Days.
understanding. They responded In the end, when · Laleham and easily to the music. Smiles lighted Aird came into the smoking-room to- their faces and crude vocal expres- gether the rest of us watched them slous escaped their Ups as they furtively over our papers,-half ex-|- evidently recognized words taught pecting a stand-up fight, Aird, of them in the classes through other course, made the mist of his ad- vantage in good sense. He would call Chicago. Over each child's head was a small out," "Hallo, Laleham1" as if there It took some £2,000,000 to metal band that clamped at were nothing the matter, and Lale- At Dawson City his knowledge
Moscow. slake Chicago's thirst in the first electria vibrator, no larger than a ham would grunt contemptuously and of the law proved valuable. He. The bicycle factory which was 24 days after 82 boer became pocket knife, against the mastold or turn away. And Aird would make acted as counsel for a group of opened here last September with legal according to an unofficial the cheek bone. Wires linked the himself the centre of a noisy group Australian miners who attacked the technical assistance of the survey,
ve vibrators to an amplifer and then to and laugh and chatter a little too
Werkington University he began a legal practice at Seattle. He inter- rupted it to join "The Trail of '98" to Klondyke, where he worked for two years as & miner.
From B.S.A.C.
means,-
the corruption of the American Birmingham Small Arms Co, now: Brewers reported that the city the microphone into which the per- loudly to show that he didn't, as he Government officials in Alaska, has an annual output of 60,000 had consumed about 2,400,000 formers, sang and spoke. ^e janid, "make a whole-time job of poor.
In 1900 he married Miss: Mimosa bicycles according to statistics cases and 48,000 barrels of the Each child, by means of a small Talebam. Gates of Eureka, California, and just issued, passenger brew in that period. At 71⁄2d. a button on the Individual vibrator, -- You know the bare lines of what migrated to Tonopan, Nevada, A number of the Soviet work- pint? the average retail price regulated the intensity of the vibra, happened; in the end. You pro- where his home now is
ers were sent to England for here," that would be more than tions to suit his needs. Sometimes Bably read the pusled report of the He has been a Hanstor since special training. It is hoped £2,000,000 worth (at par); the device worked best when placed Commission of Inquiry on the T84 1912, has been prominent at Demo that, in the future, the plant will Nearly all of the breweries are £gainst the forehead. The children and the T 86 after they had bean cratic Party Conventions and was be expanded to produce 120,000 running 24 hour shifts seven days made. their own adjustments to get brought up with grappling hooks. Zor several years secretary of the machines a year -Reuter. a week--Hente
the maximum sound effect--Reuter. Benate Democratic cancus.
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