SECRET DEALS IN BAGGED RICE ·
Well-Known Chinese Firm Sued
EMPLOYEE'S CONFESSION IN
WITNESS-BOX
A well-known local Chinese trad-- ing firm, the Wah...... Yick“ Fung Cheung Koe, brought in action be 'fore the Puisne „Judge, Mr. «R.” E.
Lindsell, In the Supreme Court this morning for the recovery of $1,000 from another firm, the Yua Loong Yee Kee Lan, claimed as due for goods sold and delivered
to the defendant company.
The defendants denied all know ledge of the transaction..
Mr. E. S. C: Brecks, of Hastings and Co., appeared for the plaintiffs, while Mr. G. S. Ford, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, represented the defendants.
Tae Yuk Wan, an employee of the defendant firm. stated in evidende, that he had carried on transactions on his own account- and without
the knowledge of his employers. He further confessed that he, had!
acknowledged receipt of the goods
by using a chop similar to that of the defendant company, and which he bad manufactured, bimself, In this way the defendants had been held responsible for the value at the goods.
It was disclosed in the course of the evidence that the proprietor of the defendant firm was also the compradore of the National City) Bank of New York.
Betty Runkle of Winter Haven, Fla., la wearing orange blossom, But not because who is a bride. She was chosen queen of the annual Florida Orange Festival.
CANAVANS ON THE
RAILWAY
H.M.S. To Provide. 100
This Summer
SUCCESS OF LAST YEAR'S EXPERIMENT
The caravan that halts by the Mr. Ford in making his submis. 'railway-side has come to stay. The sions for the defence said that an L.MS. ia bringing the number of its Tae Yuk Wan was merely an caravan coaches from 52 up to 100) countant of the defendant firm and for next summer.
AC-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1935
LINDBERGH BABY To-day's Short Story.
AVENGED
Betty Gow Pleased
With Result
SCOTS NURSE INTERVIEWED
New York:
GOSSIP WIND
By Michael Home
TRS. BET BULLEN died soon end of his days. His mind was set
Miss Betty Gow, the pretty Scote Mafter harvest in the last on a small farm, and especially, that
nurse, who was an Important pro year but one of the old Queen's handy little one known as the Moat;
secution witness in the Hauptmann reign, and the grandniece, to and Borrow--the squiro's agent IF YOUR THROAT IS SORE-USE RESPIROIDS trial, may return home soon. whom everything was left, had had given him a half-promise. But
"I have been asked by Mrs. Lindthe contents of the cottage put in the matter of auctions, when bergh to take my position with her up to auction. Bet was a spin- some people wondered jealously why again," she is reported as saying in ster whose life had been spent in Josh could afford the time to attend An interview with the "New York service, the last part of it as so many, they spoke with a sad lack
housekeeper at a big hall near of knowledge.
Journal.”
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i.
"I am indecided whether to go Shireford. For ten years she At auctions Josh was a noted home first, to see my mother, and had lived in revirement at character, and every auctioneer come back to work in the spring. Heathley and the village respect- knew him. He maximum bid rare- "I think I shall go home for aed her highly, for she carried ty exceeded a shilling, and in his her years with dignity and ia time he had picked up some auda while, though."
spite of past glories; gave herself ctous bargains. "Oddments were his no airs.
bundles of books, a lumped half- speciality: boxes of nails and tools,
"I Am Glad." Miss Gow gave her opinion about! Now, between harvest and Mir the result of the trial, which ended chuelmas, when farmers make in sentence of death on Haupt- changes or give up their farms al mann."
together, auctions are common as "I hated Reilly (Hauptmann's blackberries; but when Bet's came ¡leading defence counsel),” she de-on, all Heathley was there. Few had clared, "and I feel vindicated be put their noses inside the old lady's cause the jury believed me instead door, and none had inspected her of that dreadfu! Reilly person." two bedrooms, so with a curiosity "I am glad the baby's death has that was at last to be satisfied, been avenged.”
TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT OVER BODY
Crippled Boy Who Won A Swimming Race
TO MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be. "Second Generation," by D. Wilson MacArthur,
Heathley assembled to view the dozen of pictures, a tray of assort- dead woman's possessions. Hollis, ed crockery or a heap of old fron. the Hareborough auctioneer, had an He was a simple, kindly soul who Important sale that day, so sent his knew his limitations, bore no ma- young pupil to handle the comparalice, and would de a hand's turn for
tively insignificant affair.
all, If he were outbid he would Josh Till, who missed no auction taugh and say to the auctioneer, within the range of his pony-cart "Let him have it. I never go fud- had a choice of three auctions that der than a same day, but chose naturally to be who knew him rarely outbid him,] shillin. But those at Bet's, and the chance of cutting for Josh was a popular character, A figure in the eyes of his native and a man must live.
SPECIALISED IN ARM STROKE village,
not a buyer, and also as the goods The increase is justified by the
Josh was village fishman. who tage, Joah had an amazing accum- So in the lean-to shed of his cot- Behind the victory of Roy Wright hawked dried fish and shall fish mulation of objects of most of which bought, were bags of rice and not success of last year's experiment, the commodity in which the firm when the caravan coaches, hired by in the Goldsmith Cup is a story of round
the neighbouring hamlets, he would slowly dispose. deult, namely, bulk rice, then the enterprising holiday-makers, were the triumph of the spirit over the and according to the season, added
On his rounds he would notice a defendants were in no way respon- dotted over the countryside. of Ense body. It was a big swimming race, samphire, cucumbers, oranges and gap on a woman's mantelpiece, and sible. Tse Yuk Wan was not au land and Wales.
but the win was greater than that. nuts to his load. But Josh had no offer to supply a vase; or it might thorised to effect any such transac-j
Scheme to be Extended
Trailing his crippled right leg, intention of hawking fish to the be a gap on the wall for which he tion
This year the scheme is, to be ex Roy, aged 17, climbed the ladder at tended to 23 beauty spots in Scot, Rushcutters Bay Baths, Sydney, land and eight in Ireland. Sites in brushed the hair back from his CONCENTRATED FOOD
The case is proceeding.
GIRL'S DEATH LEAP
Chooses Empire State Building
NEW YORK TRAGEDY
Shropshire and Gloucestershire are eyes, put on his glasses and said,
to be added to last year's choices in "Gosh-that's not bad at all."
famous holiday districts, such as
Roy Wright, who is as unmoved
IN JAPAN
had a suitable picture. When a
a
couple married, Josh could set
the Lake District. North and Cen- by success as he has been undaunt Package Weighs Only through his assorted ironwork, and
tral Wales, the Yorkshire Moora od by failure, contracted infantile and the Derbyshire Dales.
31⁄2 Ounces
ONE INGREDIENT KEPT A SECRET
you
them up, for a few shillings, with pictures and ornaments too. Black- smith and carpenter often hunted
Parson Pardon would always be drawing along. with, "Have paralysis when he was four years of Another innovation is that the age.
bought any more books lately. Till? season will start with the first book- "Better try swimming, son,” saidį
It was at the very end of Bet's inga. "Last year we began his father when five years ago he
auction that Josh was expecting his June," said the official. This year caught Roy nursing his useless
usual bargains. Already he had the caravans can be hired as soon right leg.
A concentrated food of super-made a.bid or two and most had ex- New York as holidaymakera wish.
calorific content has been invented cited. laughter, in which he himself Most of
Arma Do More A twenty-year-old girl jumped off the observation landing of the Empled as carly as Easter. Bookings back disheartened, tried again and School of the Army, according to and saucers, a Staffordshire Agure
the caravans will probably be occa.
by Intendant Major Shiro Kawa- had joined. Then came a battered So Roy went for a swim, came shima,, a teacher in the Intendant tray, on which were some odd cups pire State Building, the tallest can continue until late autumn." building in the world, last month.
returned, as if Melancholy had reports in the Japanese press. "Vans Fully Equipped She had had a lovers' quarrel.
marked him for her own.
without a head, two egg-cups, a The LMS. takes caravanners to After falling some distance, the their coach, and when
And then he reflected: "If one leg package of cigarettes and weighina dirty metal, tes-pot.
One portion; no larger than a wooden spoon and an incredibly they get won't work in the water, my arms only about 32 ounces, it is claim-auctioneer breezily solicited a bið.
The young girl's body struck a ledge. It there they find it equipped glanced off and crashed into a glass everything that can be nended for
with will have to do more,"
jed, will make the consumer. feel and metal marqueo entrance nearly the coach's three two-berth com bought books on swimming, joined speedy recovery from fatigue,..
So he concentrated on his arms, warmer Immediately and effect "A shilling. I'm bid," said the
"Shillin'" hollered Josh, a quarter of a mile below,
partments. So great was the impact the
the East Sydney Swimming Club,
auctioneer. “Any more for tray of Spacious living rooms, ample bag- and, to use his own words, "kept on from either wheat or millet, and to
Ila base is & jelly-like extract useful oddmenta?'' :: sheet-iron covering of the canopy
There was a silence, and in and well-equipped was shattered, and the frosted glass kitchens are other features of the swimming until I won the Cup. this is added pulverized puffed rice, anxiety to practise his patter, he his and light bulbs broken to frag-caravans. In England, Scotland lad, and will go back to Sydney ecconut oil.
He is a quiet, studiously-inclined powdered egg, dehydrated milk and began an uneconomical laudation. and Wales the coaches are to be on High School well content with a ingredient, but this the inventor is There is one other .102 Storeys
"Come on, ladles and gentlemen! The Empire
hire at a week, except during State Building July, August, and September, when success that could triumph
A shilling's ridiculous bid. The so keeping a secret although he re-tea-pot's worth much standing 1048 feet above Fifth-the charge will be £3 10s.
more than grandly over physical handicap.portedly revealed that it came from Avenue, has 102 storeys. On the Ireland, where the coaches hold
"I suppose I'll end up na a clerk, a "very common vegetable found in that. It may be silver for all I 86th floor there is a soda-fountain, four caravanners instead of six, the or something," he said, surveying the kitchen of almost every horne." know. Now, then; any advance on the highest refreshment bar in the charge, will be £2 10s for the whole his leg at the baths. "I can't live The army authorities are said to a shilling!"
in the water, like blooming be planning to sell the concoction The tea-pot ain't wuth nothin,' vorpoise."
ments.
gage · space,
world. There are more than 10 of the season.
000,000 bricks in the building, 57,000 tons of steel, 6400 windows,
and 58 lifts which journeys through
seven miles of shafts,
It was opened in May, 1931. The first suicide from it was 16 months later, when a man jumped from the
toj.
NEW MANCHUKUO STAMPS
COAST DEFENCE PRACTICE
FROM MOUNT DAVIS
In
LOTTERY TICKET HAUL.
A fine of $50, in default six weeka Gun practice with live ammuni-hard labour was this morning im-1 tion will be carried out from the posed on La Wat, 62 years, by Mr. battery at Mount Davis, in the E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Central
direction of the West Lamma Chan- Magistracy, for being in possession nel, next Friday, between the hours of 160 po piu lottery tickets in of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Queen's Road Central yesterday.
Elaborate Designs In Hong Kong's Glorious Week-end
Classic Style
to the public, chiefly for the bene fit of policemen, night watchmen, campers and skiers,
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CAKES EATEN IN
15 MINUTES
the mucky old thing," said Nell Baker in everyone's hearing. "And it leak, I know, 'cause I've tried
The auctioneer' flushed." "It may be worth money,,over if it does leak, I don't say it's silver, because I wasn't given a description, so I only
Pastry Shop Proprietor sell it as it stands. Any more bids
Wins Wager
for the very useful oddments-tray included ?"
There was a fitter at that, and Sofia with a new exasperation he let his The proprietor of a pastry shop hammer fall. Then village gossip made a bet with an Armenian nam took a hand, and the gossip of vil- [ed⋅ Saik Achiloff that he would not
eat 50 cakes in 15 minutes. lages remote as Heathley is as un- The cakes chosen for the concontrollable and erratic as the shifty
Of Summer Sunshine Pleases Alltest were "baklava Turkish winds on a woody heath: As Josh
Manchukuo postal authorities have marked the resumption of mail The public was not alow in taking Castle Feak seemed to be a verit sugar, and butter, and very popular had not liked to outbid Josh. Sotue connections with China by placing advantage, of the glorious summer able rendezvous for. perspiring
said it would be a rare joke if the tex-pot were silver after all.
speciality made of flour, nuts, took his purchase, some said they
ought to have Uld themselves, but|| in Bulgaria.
Before the 16 minutes had elaps Here they ed, Achiloff had eaten 62. could be could, deposit their children in com very early parative safety and watch them with hour, strapping well-laden hampers little effort to themselves.
ones who
a new series of stamps on sale. An weather conditions over the week-mothers and fathers. olaborate design, combing the five end. The fortunate petalled orchid crest of the new possessed motor-cars empire with kaoling appears on the asen, from a two and eight fen Issues,
HOPEI ABOLISHES ILLEGAL TAXES
Revenue
As people dispersed it was said that Josh was a smart one and could never have been to all the suctions he had without picking up a notion or two de
In the Bull and Raven, and when neighbour à met neighbour, people hinted that Josh had known all along that the tea-pet was silver. A few
The four and twelve fon stamps on to the rear grid and speeding Repulse Bay reminded one of last carry a picture of rugged country towards the beach. Castle Peak, on August The flow of cars WAS UID- done in the classic Chinese style of the mainland, and Repulse Bay, on easing. Large cars, small cars,Will Mean Big Cut In painting under a small orchid the taland, were the most favoured new, cars and old cars, they all had emblem The only inscriptions ap- places. A one thing in common, and this was pearing on the whole issued are the Launch picnics were not numerous, the mission of their occupante, The second stage for the abolition hours later, it was known that not characters Yu-Taang" or Fostal as they have to be anticipated for which was to get to the beach as of the Illegal taxes in Hopel has only was the tea pot solid silver, but Administrations,
some considerable time, but a few quickly and as effortlessly as posst been approved by the provincial hundreds of years old and worth a The elimination of the portrait of were in evidence making good head blaf Sun-bathers were conspicuous authorities who met in Tientsin on fortune. Bet must have had it as a Emperor Kang Teh was explained way towards Lyeemun Pass. on all
Tuesday. More than twenty differ
by a high Post Office official anThe ladies were quick to don having been done to prevent any their summer attire, but their 1 disrespectful acta againstay. His counterparts/7seeme Majesty's likeness."
Eve
male toct chy
obvious re- cáno
drivers sent their car
rieties of illeʻalitaxes.
resulting
the government
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