SILVER JUBILEE CHARITY FUND
$7,085 Collected Up To June 7
SUGGESTED ALLOCATION
A meeting of the Executive Sub- Committee was held on June 1995, in the Council Chamber The following were present:--
LOCAL DOLLAR DECLINES
Silver Prices Drop
The local dollar has declined: a farthing, opening on demand this morning at 2/3
Silver prices dropped 3/16, spot being quoted at $21 and forward at $2
The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at - US$4.937 as compared with US$45. The Honourable Sir W. while the New York on London
2:5 quoted at Shenton, Kt. Representing Chair man. The Commodore-in-Charge US$4.94. as compared with The Honourable Brigadier HL GUS$1 Seth-Smith, D.SO. The Honour
able The Secretary for
Chinese
Affairs. The Honourable Dr. R H
cross-rate
Kotewall, C.M.G. Squadron Leader LABOUR MEASURES C. R. Keary. RAF. The Director
of Education, His Majesty's Trade
Commissioner
and Commercial
Secretary for South Mr. A. Morris.
The Chairman stated
China, and
IN AMERICA.
Principal Bills To
Go To Courts
that up.
till that morning the total sum to the credit of the Silver Jubilee
Charitable Collection Fund a $7.085.73 and that 105 collection tins were still to be recovered. 103 of which had been distributed br the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Dr. Kotewall The Honourable said that efforts were being made
Washington. To-day.
LEAGUES WAR
ON DRUGS
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1935
Effective Work At Geneva
INTERNATIONAL GANGS HARASSED
To-day's Short Story.
GOING TO MARKET
By Albert Halper
THE little nag stands between grunt, the stocky little grocer Tthe old worn state and stunts up on the seat and his bows her small meek head. She older son esses up after him. At stands there with her shaggy the curb the small kid begins (BY RONALD WOOLFREY)
and he "You said you'd While public attention has been fetlocks quiet, her hooves firm gulping concentrated on
the Council and against the pavement of the
The older brother, on the seat! the Assembly of the League of street, while her uncut tail starts to bawl Nations which have both been swings smartly at the pesty
flies One-two. She whacks now, grins. The father, picking holding important meetings, an
up the reins, thinking about thei
on the paper other League body has been car them hard.
At the carb, all hot and botherstock marked down rying on its work inheeded. Per
Theed, stands the grocer's little son, bag, matters: "All right, get on haps not entirely unheeded. international gangs of drug trat his eyes drilling holes into the behind, hurry up”.
Dave climbs nimbly on to the fickers display the liveliest inter lines of the small grey horse.
"I'm going to market," he says rear, and his shoes make a clatter! jest in all the doings of the Optum
aloud, “I'm going along to-day," against the dry splintered boards Committee at Genera known to send their spies, in the and he sparkles as he speaks of the floor of the little wagon hope of discovering what new Eight years old, well-knit and His father looks behind, sees the plans are being evolved for desling sturdy, he almost dances in his bor is all right, then jerks at the reins. The small wagon swings tracks with the dope evil on an interna-
Behind him. Inside the small to the right, the wheels head for tional scale.
For fifteen years this battle of grocery, his father and older the steel car tracks, wed them- brother scan the shelves to see selves silently to the rails, and the And, soi
Court tests of all the principal wits has been going on.
They are
New Deal labour measures have far, most of the rounds have been what stock is running low. The nag jogs on
罩 points.alder brother, sixteen, soft down
een prepared by the steel, au-won by the League
mobile, and coal interests, who More than once the traffickers have on his cheeks, given over to occa
to the ropes. are planning to take the Wagner been
dustrial Disputes Bill courts as soon as it is enacted. ther have
Tests of the proposed Guffy rock-out blow. to recover the missing tima as Coal Bill and the Social Security quickly as possible, but that he are likewise anticipated feared that many of them could not be recovered.
The Committee the proceeded to decide which causes or charities
to
His should be recommended Majesty to receive the money col- lected
The claims of the following were considered:
·(1) Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. (2) Children's Playgrounds. (3) Society for the Protection of Children.
Reuter.
NAVAL TALKS IN LONDON
Expected To Finish To-day
London, To-day-
forced back against the sional dreaming calls off the Shaken though they are, items while his father writes them so far resisted the down on the back of a paper bag. wingling a two-inch stub of pencil "How long will you be gone?" Striking Achievement When one considers how little asks the wife, who has to mind the |was known about the drug tratic store
Her husband
He grunts hitches up his pants, scowls at his
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "For Love Of A Horse." by Konrad Bercovici.
The cart goes eastward on Lake immediately after the Great War,
street, passing underneath the the League's achievement appears still more striking. One of its pencils. and from under heavy gloomy Elevated structure. From first jobs was to find out the real brows, says: "One hour, two hours above, the morning sunshine pours
extent of the licit traffic and to contrast this with the world's me dical and scientific requirements.
well, let's be going."
Father and son stalk out
Hi. Dave, making eyes.
Then, under the 1925 Opium Con-Bubba again says the older
brother, teasing him. Ivention, plans were evolved for controlling imports and exports.
Nearly all the nations were per suaded to work together through the League.
It is anticipated that today's (4) St. John Ambulance Brig meeting between members of the British and German naval dele Sailors' gations will bring the conversa- and
tions to a close.
ade.
(5) Soldiers' Home.
(6) Little Sisters of the Poor. (7) Society of St. Vincent.de
Pani (8)
vice.
Church, Andrew's (11) St Kowloon, Benevolent Fund.
The next step was still more *This was bold in conception.
A
The small boy stares -humbly, imploringly at his father. With a
TAX-FREE BOND TAXATION
This Session
itself through, the spaced ties in blocks of barsh light. The rails narrow far ahead. The grocer,
thinking about competition from
chair-stores. hoping that none of them will find a vacancy and move into the block where his own store is, slaps the reins against the nag's rump, and for a few yards she perks up, then jogs along at{ the same old pace again. Milt, the older brother, swinging a long leg on his cheek and wonders if he shouldi start shaving pretty soon.
idly caresses the 'down
Since an agreement was reach-nothing less than the economic
on planning of the whole drug indus- Roosevelt Wants Action ed by the exchange of notes Tuesday, various technical mat-try. By the 1931 Convention,
At Morgan-street the grocer Chinese Sisters of the Preters in connection with the con- scheme for rationing the output struction programmes have been for drug factories in each country
Washington, To-day. gives a sharp tug at one rein," and cious Blood.
under discussion between the was put into operation.
Word came from the White the nag swings to the right, head- (9) Nethersole Hospital
Looking For Loopholes Wireless Ser (10) Caixa Escolar da Liga experts.-Eritish
As was anticipated, the traffick-House yesterday that President ing for the big Kandolph-street up along the Portuguesa.
ers have tried to find loopholes in Roosevelt wants action this seamarket. Backed
side streets are: For exam- sion on the postponed constitu-curbings of the these arrangements. ple, the establishment of clande- fional amendment to permit tax-trucks and wagons, and the side- stine factories is a matter which ation on tax-free bonds. The si-walks are piled high with all kinds! is now engaging the attention of tuation in connection with other of crated merchandise, also fraits! unchanged, and vegetables. Dave, his little the Opium Committee.
proposed taxes was Ultimately, too, it will be ne-for no one could say definitely legs going hard, his eyes alive, cessary to do something about the whether the President wanted takes in everything, sniffing at the smoked meats of the wholesalers, On the motion of the Honourable disappointment.
Spada, wearing civil clothes actual cultivation of the opium them enacted this session.
The majority of the Democrs-wrinkling up his nose at the strong Sir William Shenton, seconded by
There are hollows the Honourable Dr. Kotewall it and a new pair of shoes, which POPPY...One of the chief diñeul- 1983 unanimously decided that, were granted him as his last ties preventing such a step at the tic leaders favour action next smell of fish.
Officer wish. faced death with complete present time is the unsettled con-session, but await a positive state in the street, and the wagon rocks President Boosevelt and sways like a seizing smack. with His Excellency the
~Reuter. Government's composure. marching with firm ditions in the outlying provinces ment from Administering the
Dave grips the back of the seat more firmly and holds on consent. His Majesty should be re- steps from his cell to the prison of Chiza. quested to order the allotment of court.
(12) A grant to found free scholarships in the schools for Bri zish born children of the poorest classes.
(13) Salvation Army.
the money as follows:---
COLOURFUL BANDIT EXECUTED
(Continued from Page 1)
moes bandit were doomed
to
He was sentenced to death
1
Towards making playgrounds for some months ago after being Government Appointments
found guilty of having
Children $2,000 (and half of any monies collected subsequent to the meeting)..
To the Society for the Protection of Children $2,000 (and half of any
meeting)
To the Little Sisters of the Poor $1,000.
To the Nethersole Hospital $1,000.
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June 20.
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On Bandolph-street, near Halsted. the grocer spies an empty place, shouts at the nag suddenly and.. backs ir, jerking hard at the reins. a Terrified, the little mare rears her
(Continued from Rage 1)
A earlier message said that,
REPORT
(Continued from Page 8)
There has been a moderate en- The following appointments are Inotified in the Government Police Magistrate, with effect from fore hooves, prances like a race drastically modifying the Ad- | Gazette:—
horse, then goes quiet. Her mouth ministration's proposals for the quiry for fancies from Bombay bleeds slightly near
the bit abolition of unnecessary holding and certain of the up-country One case of smallpox was re- Mr. Thomas Ernest Pearce, no- monies collected subsequent to the ported in Hong Kong, together minated as a member of the Court The appointment of Mr. Michael Pretty soon the cart is fitted in companies, the House Inter-State markets, but little has been heard Commerce sub-committee reported of shirtings and other heavier The older son and the grocer to the full Committee of the Houseclothes. To the St. John Ambulance with 3 cases in Shanghai and 1 in of the University of Hong Kong James Breen to be temporarily an snugly
Haiphong during the week ended for a further period of three years, Official Member of the Legislative
Poplins For Hong Kong Brigade. $1,000.
Council during the absence from swing down from the wagon and, a bill providing for the regula June 15. Bombay reported 51 with effect from Jane 12.
"holding companies.”
Rangoon has enquired for fine Mr. Eric William Hamilton, to the Colony of Mr. Thomas Henry with "Yon mind the wagon till we tion of cases; and Calcutta reported 146 cases of plague during the same be a Cadet Officer Class I with King, has also been confirmed by come back," the eight-year-old boy These are companies formed to
His Majesty King
is left alone. Watching his father buy and hold interests in other cloths and Colombo for fazicies, effect from January 25.
while small lots of poplins have period.
and brother pick their way through companies,
been placed for Shanghai and the jammed sidewalk, around Almost simultaneously, Presi-Hong Kong. Egypt has remained crates of plums, grapes, melons, dent Roosevelt at his usual news-niet but there has been a small asparagus and peaches, straight paper conference, reiterated that trade for the Near East in light from the heart of Michigan, he was heartily in favour of the bleaching clothe, and for Morocco, stränge fright at being left alone eventual elimination of holding in fancies. in all this noise and confusion companies, as provided by the pounds at his little beart, and he recently passed Senate Bill feels like screaming at them to Under the amended Bill, as re and fancies has been maintained take him along, when he suddenly ported by the House sub-com-from West Africa and one or two remembers that this is his first mitter, the Security Exchange fair lines have been mentioned. trip, and if he pesters them they Commission generally could re Modest quantities of dress goods will not take him again. His face quire each holding company ays and other styles have been men- grows calm, but his heart con-tem to confine its operation to one tioned for South Africa" and " tinnes, to hammer a bit.
integraded utility system, and if Canada, but offers in some cases
On the motion of Honourable Brigadier Seth-Smith, seconded byi the Commodore, a vote of thanks for their services in organising the collection was extered towds Mr. A. Morris, the Honourable Dr.: Kotewall, and the Chief Cashier, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
US. INDUSTRY
Activity Lower In May Than April
BUILDING ADVANCE
New York, To-day. While industrial activity in May was lower than in April, a slight improvement. in volume was regis- tered in the first half of June, according to the monthly survey af
the National Industrial Conference Board Activity in the fields of distribution in May sharply, with manufactured dropping contra-seasonally, but the
retail drop was less than
The brightest spot was
building industry,
Last year and
A moderate demand for prints
As far as the eyes can see is the the Security Exchange Commis have been ridiculously low. bustling market. The street is sion found such limitation un Both prints and dyes have gone wide here, about a hundred and necessary in the public interest; fairly well for South America, fifty feet from kerb to kerb In it was to require a limitation of while in the Home Trade Section the centre, where no trafic flows, operations to such a number of trade has shown signs of broader- Istand the big trucks and wagons integraded utility systems as it ing
of the prairie
For fifteen mi on the
rowing
looked
in and drove off
unloading
found might be included in the tes, Dave, silent holding company system consis-
up and down, tently with the public interest.
cos backed!
loading and
sprang up
COMPANY TAXES. Another variation proposed ning prices the House sub-commi
Sin and
vision that holding companies,
of which m with the Security mission should
ember 12, 193
ridends "receive
bill would be
House by the where efforts: doubtedly, to
death senten
would
tion of
Sea