FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934.
SHIP'S WIRELESS
Appointment Breaks Precedent
TELEPHONY
Progress Described At
Marconi's Meeting.
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DEPTH OF VESSEL CAN
BE ASCERTAINED
London, To-day.
At the annual meeting of Mar- coni's International Murine-Com-1 pany yesterday, the Chairman re- ferred to the rapid progress made in equipping ships with wireless telephony.
He said that the Company con- || tinued
en-rate with the
General Post Office in developing a Wireless-Lelephone communleations network.
For some time past it has been possible with small-powered wire Tess-telephone installations on craft; at sea some distance from land to communicate direct with telephone subscribers on shore, while it was common knowledge that from large ocean-guing vessels perfect conver-y sations could place over
thou- sands of miles between passengers and subscribers on shore.
The Chairman also referred to the Mar- increasing popularity of the
enni soending device, whereby, merely by pressing a button, any- one could ascertain instantaneously, toul without loss of time or speed the depth of water under the ves. set -British Wireless Service.
LORRIES' RACE IN WHITFIELD.
جية
Driver Previously
Summoned.
OTHER FINED $15
Prosecuting two Chinese lorry
drivers, Chan Kam and Wong Hung.
JUDGE FLORENCE
E. ADLEN
The Appointment of Judge Florence E. Allen, of Ohio State Supreme Court to a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals fudgeship by President Roosevelt adds another "first" to the brilliant achievements of the noted woman Jurist. For Miss Allen is the Brat woman in the history of the United States to be honored by inclusion in the distinguished legal body that is second only to the Supreme Court of the United States Miss Allen was also the first woman to serve as aseistant prosecutor of Cayu- hoga County, O., and the frat of her sex to sit on the bench in the Court of Common Pleas of that State. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of a college professor, she worked her own way to the top, serving as teacher, lecturer, music critic and legal investigator. She was educated in Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York and Berlin and was
foremost figure in the fight for woman's suffrage.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
One case of small-pox, diphtheria
before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the and meningitis is contated in the Central Police Court this morning return showing the cases of notifi-{
ILLICIT OPIUM DISTRIBUTION.
Wanchai Centres Discovered.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story,
THE BATTLE
OF BERKELEY SQUARE
By Michael Arlen.
NE morning not long ago away and has nothing to do with gentleman was engaged in George Tarlyon's pain, which was killing worms in the gardens of growing more offensive with every Berkeley-square when it was moment. forced on his attention that he
Thinking, however, that it could)
had a pain. The pain, which be no more than an attack of lum- was offensive, was on his left bago, and therefore dismissing it side,, but, thinking at first that from his mind as a pain unworthy! it was no more than a temporary of the notice of an officer and a stitch brought about by the un gentleman, he went on killing wonted exercise, he dismissed it worms, because he wanted to stand from his mind as a pain unwell with a pretty girl he had met worthy of the notice of an officer the night before at a party who and a gentleman, and went on had said she was a Socialist and killing worms according to the thatt, here were too many worme directions on the tin.
in Mayfair.
Major Cypress now enters the]
This was a large tin, and, held at an angle in the gentleman's story, and the fact that this is a right hand, a white powder issued true story makes it so much the therefrom and covered the blades more regrettable that therein the of grass, whilst with his left hand Major is presented in a tedious, The manoeuvred a syringe in such not to say a repellent, light. Poor a way that a brownish liquid was Hugo. About a year before these had entered upon happenings he sprayed upon the ground.
An entirely new and nasty matrimony with Tarlyon's little smell was thus brought into
sister Shirley, and he loved her world; nor did there appear to be true, even as she loved him. We any such good reason for its as is will now talk a while of Hugo and generally brought forward on be- Shirley.
the
half of a novel smelt, such as in- |dustry, agriculture, and culinary necessities of certain foods, ог the general progress of civilisa- tion.
tin.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Undertow,' by Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Shirley was a darling, and Hugo
and
Mean, however, though our gen- tleman's physical position was, for The needs must bend low to the end that not a blade of gradn might escape his eagle eye, men tally he took his stand on a lofty ideal: and, dismissing the stares had no money above that which he of passers-by as unworthy of the earned, which was nothing. notice of an officer and a gentle that is why they lived in a garage man. continued to misbehave ac.in the Mews behind Berkeley- cording to the directions on the square. had breakfast late, went out for dinner, and on to supper.. The chemist who had sold him lightful. The garage was charm- Not that the garage wasn't de- the tin and the syringe had sworning. Shirley herself had super- Prosecuting a Chinese, Mok Yaaa pharmaceutical oath to the efvised the architects, builders, de- field, outside Ab King's Slipway, Panes Nanik, an Indian girl of ki, and his wife, Tan Yun, at the fect-that-on-his-sprinkling the orators, and plumbers, and by the which was a controlled area." The No. 1 Landale Street, first floor, Central Police Court this morning grass with the powder and spray time rooms had been added, kit first defendant was leading while the was admitted to the hospital suf- for possession of opium at twoing it with the lotion, not a worm chens hollowed out, bath-rooms second was trying to overtake him, foring from the effrets of lysol addresses m Wanchai. Sub-Inspec-in Mayfair but would Instantly punched in-by the time, in fact. he said.
poisoning, said to have been del:-bor Noliath toid Mr. E. W. Hamil-arise from the bowels of the earth the garage had been converted in- The first defendant, who was re- administered.
ton, the Magistrate, that the de- and die.
to a house, it had cost Hugo more presented by a friend was stated to
Nor was the chemist's prophecy money at rates of interest current fendants residences were known have been summoned early last
While unloading stones ut Chato the police as distributing in: for the powdering and in Jermyn-street than the lease of month for the sume offence.
syraying had not been going a fine modern residence in Berke
for reckless driving. Traffic Insper for Nical said that the two defen tants were "racing through Whit-
for his license be cancelled.
alle diseases reported in the Colony
or the 21 hours ended April 11.
WIFE SHIELDS HUSBAND AND IS FINED
Kee Hing. Shaukiwan, Li Kau, centres for illicit opium.
The second defendant was fined Mortuary. $13.
The Magistrate adjourned his case aged 23, received fatal injuries, The husband pleaded not guilty for long, when behold! a multitude ley-square. Poor Hugo. sine die, making a recommendation from which he died afterward. His while the wife accepted the res-worms arose and passed away Every morning at about this
record peacefully. So great, indeed, we hour he would body was removed in the Public onsibility. Her police
emerge from the the massacre that a Turkish gen. showed # previous conviction under the Opium Ordinance. tleman who was passing by stood garage into the Mews, pat his tie straight in the gleaming flanks of She was fined $2,000, in default at attention during a five minutes the automobiles that were being fabour, and the silence. but that is quite by the washed to the accompaniment of song and rushing water, pass the time of day with a chauffeur or two, and walk into Berkeley-square
DR. G. C. E. CANAVAL FINED.
Failing To Report Car Collision.
Dr. G. C. E. Canaval, of 180 the Peak, was fined $5 by Mr. E. W Hamilton at the Central Polen Court this morning for failing to report # traffic accident which or- curred in Chater Roud.
sustained
car washers to report the accident
Wong Ah-ng, a married woman
of 26 Haiphong Road, was taken to 12 months' hard the Kwong Wah Hospital yester-Finan was discharged. day in a serious condition, suffer-
ing from stomach poisoning.' 11 EUROPEAN GASSED
was stated that she had taken a
meal of onion tops.
1.au KL. #
AT PEAK.
26-year-old earth Mr. Gidley Discharged colle, was admitted to the Gov-1
From Hospital. ernment Civil Hospital yesterday, duy, suffering
crushed from right hand after being hit by a piece of rock while working on the hillside near Pokfulam Road.
to the owner of the car, He did not Two men armed with revolvere
.
HYPNOTIST THIEF
IN RUMANIA.
Traded On His Likeness To Rasputin
AMERICA'S MUSICAL
FUTURE
"Crooners Should Be Boiled In Oil"
Mr. S. Gidley, of the staff of Messrs. Leigh and Orange, living at FAMOUS CONDUCTOR'S OPINION No. 130 Gloucester Road, third floor, was taken to the Government Civil
Personal Pars.
New York.
where. In the pursuit of his pro-
fession, he would lofter grily by the railings of the gardens until the clocks struck twelve.
The word "profession" in con- nection with Major Cypress doubt- loss needs some explanation. Hu cient in the world bar none, that en's profession was the most an-
of an inheritor: he was waiting for his father to die. This wha
A true music-loving mother, as it must be to everyone
Damrosch, who like Hugo.
AT
SUNDAY THE KING'S
SHE SAID "HERE IS MY HEART"
And Two Men took it! Then she couldn't remember which one
to forget
A screen play about three people
who loved each other very much!
Noel Coward
DESIGN FOR LIVING
FREDRIC MARCH GARY COOPER MIRIAM HOPKINS EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
PICTURE
an Ernst Lubitsch
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LOCAL ESTATE.
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MAJOR LEAVES $29,200
Manager: K. N. WAN Tel. 28755
NEW FILM FIRM'S OLD TITLE
"Last Days of Pompeii" First Production
TEST CRICKET SELECTORS
(Continued from Page 1).
It, was stated that the defendant collided with a car owned by Mr.
Chan Wong, a lorry driver, was Hospital yesterday, suffering from Holding up the Welsh as anthe cause of great distress to his Griggs, of the Public Works Depart fined $5 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at a poisoning received while work-example of ment, as he was leaving the
the Central Police Court this morn-ng on a gas machine at the Peak. race, Mr. Walter rank. Mr. Griggs's cur
Mr. Gidley's condition was not
Los Angeles, California. ing for failing to report an accident.
America's famous symphony con- But, as Mistress Moll Flanders damage to the off side mudgaard it was stated that he backed into crious, and he was discharged from ductor, expressed his
A petition for probate to the will views on Baya, I am giving an account of and codicil of the late Mr. Edward Hollywood's youngest motion. and wheel.
Dr. Canaval suld that he told the Street, Wanchai.
and knocked down a stall in Gilman the Hospital this morning.
this country's future as a musical what was, not of what ought or Stone, of the Canadian Pacific picture company. Pioneer. Pie- Ination.
ought not to be.
Steamships Company Limited. has tures, financed by John Hay The 72-year-old maestro snid All doctors are agreed that wait-been granted to Mrs. E. Stone. by Whitney, the New York sports- that in his opinion wireless may ing has a lowering effect on the the Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. A. know it was necessary to make a gained admission to a flat at No.
Mr. G. Wilson, F.R.I.B.A., make America musical but there is mind, but this morning Major Cy-D. A. McGregor,
man, announces that its first report to the police,
1 Mallory Street, first floor, oc-F.S.I. (Shanghai) of the staff of a long road to travel.
press looked, as has been stated. Mr. Stone died on March 23, and film will be "The Last Days of cupied by a Chinese woman. The Mesore. Palmer and Turner, accom- He said: "America will never be-even more depressed than usual. left estate valued at $6,000. Pompeii." robbers threatened to be silent,panied, by Mrs. Wilson, was a pas-come a truly musical country un-And long he leant, against the
A petition by Mr. William The story is being adapted but she cried out for help and ran senger by the Empress of Asia]til the so-called common people railings watching his brother An-Alfred Weight for letters" of ad- into the street. The robbers bewhich arrived in Hong Kong this take it into their hearts to regard law's extraordinary behaviour beministration to the $20.200 estate from Bulwer-Lytton's book and without taking anything away. came frightened and left the fat mursing.
it as their proper heritage." He fore opening his lips; when, of the late Major Charles Arthur will be filmed in colour.-Reuter. explained that in America a small, noise of a friendly nature being Sebastian Smith, who died at No. Among the passengers to arrive cultured upper class has support- created, he waited patiently for 36, Philbeach Gardena on Novem- Tajar Singh, an Indian guard on in Hong Kong by the Empress of ed the higher forms of music. an answer, which he did not get ber 18, 1938, has been granted by Vienna. the steamer Fatshan, was serious-Asia this morning was Mr. J. K. "Take the Welsh people" he He then tried to attract Tarlyon's the Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. A, Police at Constanza, Rumenia. ly wounded while the vessel was Bousfield, assistant general-mana-said, "They have singing socle attention by making a noise like D. A. McGregor. have arrested an alleged shop Hong Kong bound from Canton ger of the Asiatic Petroleum Com-ties in every small town and their money, but in vain.
Farther Probates granted by the thief with an extraordinary re- last evening, when he was shot in pany, Ltd., who was accompanied by own musical organizations. There "George," he shouted at last. Chief Justice are to Mrs. Rosina} Hemblance to Rasputin, the "Mad the chest, allegedly by another In-Mrs. Bousfield.
{is hardly an inhabitant in Wales "May I ask why you are behaving Marshall McArthur James, to the Monk" of Czarist Russia,
who is not musical." He said that in that peculiar way?” “You may,” $4,000 estate of the late Charles Evening Standard a fortnight ago, He is said o have traded on was taken into custody by the Lieut. Col. G. T. Raiken, D.S.O..in Europe, and particularly in snapped Tarlyon, and, approach-Patrick Fitzgerald James of No. 5. stated that he had neither the desire" this likeness and also on his ship's officers, and handed over to who has been commanding the South Germany and Italy, music is for the ing him with a look of absent-Minden Villas, Kowloon, who died nor the inclination to play against powers as a hypnotist jo force the Police on arrival of the vessel Wales Borderers in Hong Kong masaES.
minded savagery, cast a little of in San Francisco on January 18; the Australians in the Tests, shop-keepers to hand over their in Hong Kong,
Faince 1981, is returning to England Mr. Damrosch spoke his mind on the powder over his breeches, and to Chan Sam-u, Chan Chung- This statement follows the wide-' on April 21 on the P. and O. liner Jazz and the crontier. He describ-squirted him with the syringe, and pat and Chan Chick-son to the spread leg theory controversy ̧ ^for For weeks he has been carry- Some alarm was caused last night Carthage, to take up a post as Chiefed the former as music of the ner- continued with his labours. Poor $13,400 estate of the late Dr. Chan which Jardine was primarily respon- ing on a reign of terror in the by the disembarkation of all third Instructor at the Senior Omeeraves rather than of the hear and Hugo.
Kwo-ching, who died at No. 29, cible in Australia during the 1982-3. shopping quartéry of the town, class passengers from the Lloyd School at Sheerness.
head and said that it has its place. "George," said Major Cypress Morrison Hill Road, on December tour. Barracked by crowds in India. His arrest followed. recogni- Triestino liner Conte Rosso just..
As for the latter, Mr. Damroscu disregarding the man's rudeness, 6, 1983.
during the recent, tour, Jardine has tion by one of his, victims in the prior to her sailing for Singapore, it One of China's foremost medical would boil him in oll. He de "I am depressed this morning.
decided to cease being the butt for street. He admits that he is a being rumoured that a pirate gang experts, Dr. Wa Lien-teh, Director scribed the crooner as "a man who GuCAN why?" Russian; but refuses to give his had boon discovered aboard. The of the National Quarantine Service thinks he sings. You can discern "Hugo," said Tarison bitterly, 150,000 "SURPLUS WOMEN criticism. name.-Reuter,
The Australian team, who have Local Agents, however, explained in Shanghai, passed through Hong a succession of tones in mezzovoce "I would be depressed every were you. Now that, owing to a last minute cable Kong yesterday in the s... Conte with a high content of portamiento, morning if I
drawn twice with Aasmania' and Leung Vick, driver of private car from their Singapore agents which Rosso for Venice en route to Geneva, or slurring. The words are naual-please go away at once. These There are 150,000 "surplus once with Colombe en route to Eng. No. 1682, was fined $10 by Mr, E. stated that Hong Kong had been do where he will attend the next meet-ly banal and volgar street talk on worms aren't rising half so well women" among Vienna's population land, will open their tour at Worces W. Hamilton at the Central Police clared an "infected port," it was not ing of the Health Committee of the a threadbare theme. In short, the since you came. And I have Court this morning for failing to possible for passengers in the lower League of Nations, beginning on crooner sounds like a lovesick cat pain in my left side." reduce speed and sound his horn class, to land in Singapore,
on back fence."--Router.
·while driving in Wanchai---
money.
dian guard, Surban Singh, who
May 10,
1
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Vienna
Jardine, in a statement to the
of about 1,800,000, according to ter on Wednesday, May 2. They figuros published. In a newspaper will play 84 matches, Including Ave hare-Reuter,