THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933.
MOTHERWELL
AGAIN WIN
1
Aberdeen And Queen Of
The South Beaten.
CELTIC FAIL IN GLASGOW
London, To-day.
Queen's Park. the famous
and
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEW WHEAT STILL NO PLAY AT
PRICE
HOPES OF FINAL
AGREEMENT IN
LONDON TO-DAY
amateur club, Motherwell, Encouraging Progress runners-up to the Rangers last At Conference. year, are the only teams in the First Division of the Scottish Foot- ball League with a 100 per cent. record and Cowdenbeath are the] only team who have yet to secure their first point.
AVERAGE PRICE TO BE MAINTAINED
the
FOREST HILLS
Courts Drenched By Heavy Rain.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES IN U.S. LADIES' TENNIS
New York, To-day.
To-Day Short Story.
NOBLESSE OBLIGE
The
By Mark Channing.
NY real gourmet will tell you In a few minutes the evening's that Prince Vladimir Ivano- Great Surprise would appear. A
chef For the third successive day the voff's
X Frenchman rauch-decorated general rose un- feet to propose two remaining Semi-Finals in the named Vonier was easily the steadily to his American National Women's Lawn finest cook in Russia. Ivanovoff Prince Vladimir's health.
"To the best judge of women and Tennis Championships at Forest was as proud of him as he was of
Russiaal he Hills were held up owing to the the eighty-nine Ivanovoff heraldic cockery in all the drenched state of the courts. They quarterings, and treated him as stammered. And great was the will be played to-day, weather per-an equal and a crony. Often breakage of Venetian glass and the mitting.-Reuter. London, To-day.
enough the pair would sit drink-wine-spilling that followed. In the Stigles Dorothy Round. ing priceless old cognac far into The princely head of the Ivano- Yesterday Aberdeen and Queen The London Wheat Conference the British girl who took a set off the night, while they discussed vos, a little less drunk than his friends, adjusted a glittering order of the South dropped their first have agreed that the international Helen Wills-Moody at Wimbledon, women and food.
Ivanovoffs were quasi-sent to him that evening by the points of the season when they lost wheat price is understood to mean will meet Helen Jacobs, the holder. to Kilmarnock away and Queen's a duty-free gold price C. J F. on the whom she beat in the Semi-Final at imperial autocrats who held powers Tsar, which hung blazing on the Park at home, repectively.
Wimbledon and to whom she lost in of life and death over their serfs, breast of his high-necked red satin world market, calculated on The Hibs registered their first
the Wightman Cup contest earlier and didn't hesitate to exercise them blouse. For the hundredth time his win in three games at Cowdenbeath average price of parcels of import-in the month. The winner will Tradition even says that each head brazenly bold eyes-as unwinking their cd wheat sold weekly in Great meet "Poker Face" Helen who is of the family sentenced a man to as those of a hungry bird of prey :and St. Johnstone broke
to the high, carved: seeking the title she last held in be knouted to death within a year-wandered "duck" by a convincing home win Britain.
which divided the greatį of coming into the title. The screen over Falkirk.
The average quotation of 1931.
In the Doubles Final Betty Nu-evidence about it is unpleasantly dining-room from the entrance to Moltherwell maintained their wheat is to be maintained fort
the kitchens. Average of one goal a match to re-four months before the necessary thall and Freda James, the British authentic.
Quite apart from Vonier's marvel- Then, slowly, he rose to his feet, cord their sixth point in three importing countries adjust their pair who beat Helen Jacobs and games, and the Celtic again dis-tariffs. The price will be dis-Saran Palfrey, the holders, will inlous cookery, each of Prince Vladi-a lean, soldierly figure with a bat appointed when they failed by the cussed in terms of gold, francs 4ll probably meet Helen Wills-mir's banqueta made culinary world-chet face badly disfigured by a slash
Moody and Elizabeth Ryan- history, because of the breath-from a duelling sword.
"My friends, you shall now behold odd goal in seven against Partick. and United States centь.
taking surprise ne provided for the amusement of his guests at the the crowning beauty of this feast!” As he spoke, a score of servants Jconclusion of them. On one
sion he gave away solid-silver re-some not too sober themselves— plicas of the famous poison cup placed before each of the 50 expect- made by Benvenuto Cellini for ant guests a goblet of Venetian of which wers Caesar Borgia; on another, oysters glass on the rim were Served in shells made of 22-painted gold wine-leaves and bun- carat gold
the ches of purple grapes, the hollow) engraved with Ivanovoff motto, “Noblesse oblique." pink stem being shaped in the form The way the London, To-day.
The guests were asked to fill their of a naked nymph.
bubbles rose up from the little The Colonial Office announces pockets with them as souvenirs.
lady's toes and coursed through her be that Mr. S. J. Thomas, Paisne, And so on. The Judge in Kenya has been selected]
The subject of this story, how.transparent body, caused consider- two as Chief Justice of the Federited ever. is the surprise he invented for able amusement. com- Malay States in succession to Sir the banquet which he gave to cele 1203mittee, on which the importing Lancelot Elphinstone, retired brate his return from Paris.
The famous Glasgow Club have secured only one point from their Free game.
Results as cabled by Reuter.
Cowdenbeath Kilmarnock Motherwell
Partick
Queen O'South
St. Johnstone
Rangers
2 Hibernians
2 Aberdeen
1 Dunder
4 Celtic
Queen's Park
3 Fakirk
TABLE TO DATE
Queen's Park
Motherwell Kilmarnock Aberdeen Queen o Hearts Ayr Utd.
Partick Falkirk
Dundee
Hiberniana
Third Lanark Hamilton St. Johnstone Celtic
Clyde Airdrie St. Mirren Cowdenbeath
Goals
The new Advisory Com- mittee, which is of a tem- porary character, will watch the working of the Agree ment and take decisions only in cases defined in the Agree- ment,
They will not deal with the supervision of production and the trading of wheat.
The chief exporting countries and Soviet Russia are to separately represented.
Danubian countries have
P. W. L. D. F. As representatives
3 2008 2
3 3 0 0 3 0 0 10 5
and exporting
VALLEY GOLF
Second Round Of Summer Singles.
The following are the complete results in the Second Round of the Second Summer Singles tourne- ment organised by the Happy Valley section of the Royal Kong Kong Golf Club;
A. G. Ursell (13) beat J. P. A. Davis (71) 3 and 1.
A. McKellar (8) beat N. J. Perrin
(15) 3 and 1.
on the
countries
NEW FMS. CHIEF
JUSTICE.
Kenya Puisne Judge- Appointed.
are Eritish Wireless Service.
equally represented.
It is hoped that a final Agree ment will be reached to-day. Reuter.
U.S. Decision Postponed.
ACREAGE REDUCTION
SCHEME.
Washington, To-day
In consequence of the posi tion of the London Wheat Con- ference, the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, has post- poned his decision the wheat acreage reduction per- centage until the end of the week-Reuter.
ON
Fuller. Details Of Meeting.
TEMPORARY COMMITTEE
APPOINTED.
London, To-day.
Previous to his appointment to Kenya Mr. Samuel Joyce Thomas serv d as Chief Justice, St. Vincent, 1819; Acting Administrator, St Vinct, 1920, and 2nd Puisne Judge of Trini- dad and Tobago, 1923 to 1929.
OCCA-
in pro-
The great dinner was gress. The long dining-table was covered with the famous Ivanovoff gold plate, and a dozen rounds of iced vodka, served in tall, sugar- loaf shaped glasses as thin and soap bubbles, had
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Without A Flaw," by. Brandon Fleming.
He was attached to the 45th Siege iridescent as Battery, R.G.A. during the War on tuned the lucky fifty men-guests to the French. Flanders and Iuliana pitch of noisy excitement. At fronts, and was invalided out of the Ivanovof. gastronomic orgies the exclaimed the Prince, in tones that "Will you. not rise, gentlemen ?" pretty ladies came in with the commanded rather than requested. dessert..
Service in 1919.
- POLICE RAID ON
BOOT-BLACKS.
Ten Charged With Obstruction.
As a result of a police raid in the central city district yesterday, ten little boot-blacks were charged be- fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cen-! tral Police Court this morning with causing obstruction.
The Magistrate remanded ail ten until to-morrow morning, on bail of $2 each.
SERIES OF TRAFFIC
ACCIDENTS
SIX Hurt In Island Road Lorry Crash.
MOTOR LORRY OVERTURNS
Five traffic accidents were ported yesterday.
The musicians in the gallery overhead broke into a wild Russian march as from behind the High, carved screen entered four gigantic Cossacks bearing a naked girl seat- ed on a huge platter of solid gold, her perfect young body half-hidden' in a mound of red roses, though it was mid-winter.
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The frenzied applause which| #611 greeted her appearance almost drowned the crash of music which the vodka-inspired musiclans-who re- got an especially good view of the girl from the gallery-thrummed, A Chinese, Mee Kwong, was twanged and blasted from their knocked down by motor car No. 189 various instruments in a veritable in Queen's Road East, and was taken delirium of enthusiasm. Never had to the Government Civil Hospital Prince Vladimir's astonished guests with a fractured right leg. He was beheld anything quite as beautiful stated to have run across the The snows of Russia were not whit- er than her skin, and the skies of Another accident occurred in sunny Italy were not a deeper blue! Shaukivan Road, child being than her eyes, the brightness of knocked down by motor car No. 127, which, eclipsed the splendour of the
Pole star on a frosty night. and receiving head injuries.
exotic A Chinese girl, Chan Mui, aged "By God!" shoulted an 14, was knocked down by lorry young poet-friend of Prince Ivano- No. 1892 in Nam Cheong and was voff's. "Such a perfect body is a taken to the Tun Wah Hospital with veritable prayer to Folly! injuries to her head and legs.
Their exit from the Court was, followed by a mild commotion in the) Court lobby, where various parents! There was a full meeting of the (were waiting to learn the fate of the road in front of the car.
G. T. May (17) beat N. Drummond Wheat Conference (14).5 and 4.
at
Canada youngsters.
House, London yesterday after.)
C. Mycock (15) beat C. W. Jeffries noon, when the reports of the two
(17) 2 up.
W. L. Alexander (17)
appointed beat C. E. sub-committees,
Moure (17) 1 up.
last Monday, were received and con-
+
POLICE RAID ON
HAWKERS.
yet played).
report
J. Harrop v W. J. Waddington (pot sidered.
A. E Clarke (14) beat G. F. Rees On the basis of the
(17) 6 and 4.
of the committee dealing
50 Charged To-day.
A
P. W. Amery (18) beat C. H. Brad- with technical points in the draft) ley (9) 2 and 1.
A motor accident occurred at Kow- A. D. Humphreys J. S. Dykes (not agreement, it was agreed that the
loon when a Chan Lai Yin, aged 6, yet played).
International wheat price men- N Currie (16) beat T. Rtioned in Paragraph Three of the
As a result of an intense police was knocked down by motor car No. Chasels (7) 2 and 1.
raid, fifty hawkers appeared at the 2089 and received injuries to his H. H. Mandy (10) beat A. C. Young draft Agreement should be on (17)
free gold price, C.L.F., on the world Central Police Court this morning arms and legs.%
Berious Lorry: Accident. Woodward (17) best W. A market, the period during which charges of causing obstruction, Weight (15) 3 and 2.
A large motor lorry overturned on {hawiding in unauthorised districts Fooks W. Pittendrigh (not the average quotation for wheat is and hawking without a licente: Island Road, Between Repulse Bay Fines were imposed in case and Stapley, this morning at about
5 and 4.
yet played).
a
to be maintained before it will be
pray!"
Let us
And amid shouts of dranken laughter he was raising his glass to toast the crowning beauty of the feast when the noise of a struggle in the kitchens reached their ears.. Some mad serf was swearing a fear. ful vengeance against the Prince. But the fellow was soon silenced.
Hearing the intruder's voice, the
S. T. Butlin (10) beat F. Lobel (15): nec siary for importing countries where a plea of guilty was made, 7 o'clock and six coolles who were young girl whose adoring locks S. W. Mayhew (18) beat A. to adjust tariffs, being four McBride (17) 4 and 3.
but the majority were remanded in riding m top of a load of fish were had never left Ivanovoff, face-get- L. Goldman (11), beat R. C. Webb months,
police custody or on ball until to-heavily thrown, and morrow morning.
(17) @ and 5
SECOND SUMMER FOURSOMES
Semi-Finals...
The results are given in the order of
the draw.
E. D.
A further effort will be
made to-day to agree on the average price which shall bring this Agreement füto force.
After considering the report of Matthews (8) and J. W. the committee set up to consider Kinnaird (11) beat J. W. Tate (0) and the conditions and functions of W. Woodward (17) at 19th hole.
C. Thwaites (16) and E. M. Hanlon (17) beat A. C. Young (17) and A. E. Charman (11).3 and 2.
LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED. Silver Improves.
the International Advisory · Com-" mittee, it was agreed that the pro- posal committee should be tempor ary in character and should devote
itself to watching over the working and application of the agreements
ed at him imploringly, her glorious All six were taken to the. Govern- eyes wide with a sudden fear, for
devotion to her lover.
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The scarred face of the Prince The lorry overturned on one, of} day during the last six weeks.
the bends, spreading the load of fish flushed. 1over the road.
ANOTHER FERRY SUICIDE.
Unknown Man
Drowned.
"Set her downl" he ordered cold- With the assistance of the police17, the lorry was righted again, but all :: Quickly she ran to him, and kneel efforts to start the engine failed anding, strove to hide her face. But he it was eventually towed to Aberdeen. forced her to rise....
OUR REPORTER
That night Prince Vladimir Iva- novoff fulfilled the tradition of his forbears: he ordered a man to be. Imouted to death. He also shamed the daughter of the knouted perf be- reached, and that its functions A third-class passenger on board "Legeslegmegvesztegethetelenebb" fore his noble friends, by refusing would not extend to the supervision the ferry beat Man Chi, jumped is said to be the longest word in to let her clothe herself. of production and trading overboard during the journey from Hungarian
Budapest
It was agreed that each of the Hong Kong to Mongkok at 10.30 It meina "A man whose opinion four principal exporting countries, last night. The launch stopped, but cannot be bought Reuter. Australia, Canada, the Argentine no trace of the man could be found. and the United States, with the
WEATHER REPORT
"It was voted a highly, successful banquet.
The crash of Tsardon a quarter of The dollar opened to-day
azentary later saw the ruin of the Ivanovoffs. A badly wounded Prince Soviet, should be separately re-number shall be represented. The Spot silver rose 1⁄2 yesterday to presented, and that the Danubian headquarters will be in London. Fair genera with moderate Vladimir exchanged the command 17 15/16, while forward made a similar advance, closing at 18 1/16. countries should have two repre. The full committee will meet south-westerly or variable winds of Russian Guards regiment for owers, is the cell in the Lublanka prison, where again today, when it is hoped to and, The cross rate, Loader on Newsentatives,
Importing countries are them-conclude the Conference British forecast issued by the Royal Ob he endured the tortures of bell for
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