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COTTON BROKERS
IN THE DOCK.
FURNITURE MADE OF COTTON.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO REMARKABLE CLAIMS FOR
DEFRAUD BANKS.
When Harold Neilson Brinson 37), a Liverpool cotton broker, gain appeared at Liverpool Police Court last month, charged with ob- nining large sums of money from bonke by fraud, he was accompani. ed in the dock by two other part- cers in the firm of H. N. Brinson
Co., cotton brokers and mer hants. They were Walter Wall, of Verneth Hall Road, Oldham, and
NEW INVENTION.
A remarkable discovery by which furniture and all kinds of house fixtures can be manufactured from cotton is claimed to have been made by a Clerkenwell resident.
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"I experimented for four years before discovering the secret, which is wonderfully simple," said the inventor to a Press representative. "The synthetic wood I have pro-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 47, 1930.
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Remarkable facts in regard to cancer distribution and the preval ence of the disease in animals are contained in the preliminary 're- port of the Westmorland Field Commission for Cancer Research, published in the British Medical | #95 Journal,
The investigation"was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Louis Sambon, and the disease was ap- pronched as if totally unknown, the aim being to collect "enly sheer facts."
The results obtained," it is Villiam Galloway Dixon, of Ear-duced is a compressed and harden-stated, "are so striking and im- moss Road, Bundellsands, and they et cotton material containing 0
duty to portant that we deem it a were charged, together with Brin- per cent. of cotton." on, with having conspired to cheat
make some of them known long- before the final and elaborate re- port can be published.
He was seated on a chair made nd defrand the Westminster Bank of the new material. His elbow ad Midland Bank of certain honeys between October, 1925, andsted in a table on which were & Aower bowl and a loud speaker all Batoler, 1999, ...
made of cotton.
Against Brinson were also charges leging that he obtained from the Vestminster Bank, Lloyds Bank, ind the Midland Bank various sums maunting to £70,500 with intent o defraud. Wall was charged with btaining two sums from the Mic and Bank of £2,500 and £3,400.
Ball Totalling £7,000.
A remand of seven days was rdered Lail bring allowed, £5001 ach for Wall and Dixon and 26,000 in the ease of Brinson.
or
Synthetic wood can be made of any thickness and moulded into
can be sawn any shape. It
a lathe like wood. turned on Screws and nails can be driven into it," he continued.
"It is much lighter than wood, but stronger; and the weight and strength can be varied as desired.
Mass Production. Furniture can be "made either by SALWARK and chiselling the material like timber, or by making the sections with stampings, and
The then Exing them together. latter method would facilitate mass production.
Mr. Maxwell Fyfe who appeared n behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the charges all of a gainst Brinson were imilar, character and referred to he obtaining of loans from one or Synthetic wood can be polished ther of the three banks by alleged a smooth as glass, or may be given alse statements as to the weight matt finish. It can be varnished, nd price of the cotton available enamelled or painted, and can he for the accurity of those loans. On made absolutely indistinguishable be conspiracy charge the case for from mahogany, onk, walnut, or he prosecution was fundamentally any other wood.
The cotton material can i hat not merely was there evidence Jom which it could be inferred used for any purpose for which hat there was agreement between wood is used, such as ceilings, he defendants, but that their confloors, panelling, doors, motor-car uet was only explicable ou that ladies, furniture, loud speakers, asis. In addition to evidence of and a hundred and one other
nversations between the defen- purpoers.
"It may be decorated by carving ants, the prosecution could in ach case point to documents signed er inlaying, and does not warp un- yone or other of the defendants.der the influence of undue heat or He asked for a remand for seven
ays.
Giving evidence, Detective Tuspec, or More said that that morning e had preferred sixteen additional harges against Brineon, in reply
damp,
It will hold water and bowls, makes delightful flower which can be lacquered or finished in any desired style.
"One may even have a mahogany flower bowl-a thing I have nere
"The parasitic, unobtrusively in fective nature of the disease is at- tested by its peculiar distribution both in time and place.
The cluster distribution of can- cer cases, already perceived by Sambon in his previous researches abroad, has been amply confirmed in Westmorland.
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"We have here hamlets and villa- zes which have remained totally free during the whole period of re- gistration, while others, of equal age, size, and population, have been, at one time or other, heavily punished.
"Our spotted large-scale ordnance maps show villages with one, two, or more separate clusters, while others are more or less uniformly affected; others, again, show heavy infestation in one portion of the village, while the ether has remain. ed almost entirely immune.
Lessons of Survey. "What we have said of villages applies equally well to terraces and eingle houses. We have found sing. family le houses with numerous
cases, others with several cases oc- curring in non-related successive occupiers.
clearly An important fact, elicited by our village survey. is the frequent occurrence of the disease in husband and wife- "conjugal house infection.
each of which he said, Not seen in wood.
The cost of synthetic wood is uilty." When he served the mum-
onses on Dixon and Wall, Wall far below that of timber, and its plied wish to see any solici-life is at least as long.
"and"Dixon made no reply. would materially reduce the price,cer in all kinds of wild and Leonard Hidgway, of Harringay of houses as well as of furniture."
Avenue, Liverpool, office manager or Messrs. Brinson & Co. from 1920
ntil August last, said that in
56,000 PROHIBITION
October, 1028, it came to his know- dge that certain entton had been ledged at the Westminster Bank taver-weights and over-value. He
PROSECUTIONS.
It
d discussed the pledging of that OVERCROWDED U.S. PRISONS. ctton with the three defendants. Other similar transactions had aken place, and in each of four ransactions with regard to the Testminster Bank Brinson had igned at least one of the important
Jocuments.
CANTON RAW 'SILK MARKET.
A moderate business was done aring the past week in high grades 01 Lyons, and an advance in rices of 2 per cent, was paid for he Lyons market.
Almost every phase of the work of enforcing Prohibition increased in the United States in the year ended June 30 last, according to the annual report of the Attorney General, quoted in a Reuter Wash ington dispatch. The aggregate of fines, forfeitures, and penalties ini- posed under the prohibition Jaw to- talled 476,300 dollars (£1,495,200), while a total of 4,200,052 dollars (£40,000) was collected.
The seizures of foreign liquor- running vessels in the year were fewer in number. than those occur..
On the whole, the market remain-ring during the preceding year and
d quiet, however, at the moment f writing, reports are to hand rom Japan indicating a rise in rices of 2 per cent. There is also ome enquiry on the local market rom New York, and although busi ess done amounts to very little, a lightly better feeling prevails on he market.
Prices in general are steady. Quotations:-
8030 for 14/16 N.S. Crack Chops. 8860 for 2/92 N.5. Ex. Ex. A. 8040 for 13/15 0.8. Best I. Stock: The Stock in Canton is stimated at 18,000 bales.
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Ruoay, Jan. 15.
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"Perhaps the most striking, the
the .$70 most interesting discovery our in- vestigations have elicited is great prevalence of all types of malignant and other neoplasms in animals. We have met with can- domestic animals, in pet animals, and in animals used as food.
remarkable This unexpected, prevalence of the disease in all kinds of animals opens up a wide field of possibilities which we are already exploiting..
Dr. Sambon has repeatedly. stressed the importance of a full knowledge of the zoological dis tribution of disease. Without a knowledge of the animal sources of infection it is not possible to understand, far lesa. to control. outbreaks of disease in man.
A memorable example is that of Russian artillery sent to de- stroy all the inhabitants of plague-stricken border village in order to stay the epidemic. The unfortunate people were sacri ficed, but no one troubled about Tats, and the disease soon spread like wildfire,
Is it not known now that many cases of tuberculosis are not of human source, but, on examina- tion, prove to be of either bovine or avian type!"
about halfs many as those occur-'} ring in the year 1925. St. Pierre- Miquelon, the French possession in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, is still, and has been for the last three years, the main base of supplies for those engaged in the MALTESE SEAMEN FINED. Alaerican liquor-smuggling busi-
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Included in the report is a statement by the Superintendent of Prisons, who says the problem of coping with "the "tremendous
Eight Maltese seamen were re- increase in the number of persons.
were firemen on the steamer Arch. committed by the Federal crimin-cently fined £5 each at Blyth. They al courts' has reached a climax. Emphasising the crowded condition mel, bound from Leningrad to of Federal penitentiaries, he says Buenos Aires, and which called at the Atlanta Prison, "even with the Blyth. "Within an hour of sail- questionable practice of placing ing from Blyth the men combined Canton two or more men in a cell, might together and refused to go to sen house comfortably 1,712 persons, said Mr. R. W. Flintoff, prosecut- "In The ing on behalf of the owners. but that it now has 3,777. Leavenworth Prison, with a nor- cther words," he added, "they
mutinied." mal capacity of 1,560, has 3,723.!?
Sir Thomas Beecham, addressing Liverpool members of the Imperial League of Opera last month, said
of The vessel carried & cargo timber above and below decks, and
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FROX G.P.O.
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the men complained that when a Kongmoos (except Saturdays) 6.00 p.zo. few days out from Leningrad stow Kantong (except Saturday)...
ge made the accommodation in the
Tai Po
Shumchun
forecastle dangerous. The vesal, Fatahan (By Train)"... the League was well advanced in however, bad passed through heavy Tai O London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Liverpool, and be weather, which the prosecution ginning in September would present claimed to be a test showing that an ambitious repertory of new pro- the cargo was properly stowed, ductions unfamiliar in the country. During the next five years 72 new works would be presented which had not been hitherto heard in England. Preliminary productions would be gin in May in London. As to the future of opera Sir Thomas was optimistic. Perhaps, he said, one day anybody wishing to buy a seat for grand opert in England would have to book five years in advance. It was not an impossibility.
Captain Enos declared that the men individually refused to sail with the ship. There was a slight Choungchow Icakage on the firemen's side of the forecastle.
The defence was that the
men Aberdeon to sen. One, Stanley were afraid to go
Autan, Pingaban, Santin, Shatin, Shatadkok. And Paulo Gabriel, said
Bheungahul three days out from Leningrad the
Kamtau, Shekki & Talping)
(Fumda)...
that whén
of water. That frightened 123," he said,
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