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PRIMROSE
MARJORIE RAMBEAU
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THE SPICY ROMANCE of a 'DEAD-END" GIRL and LIVE-WIRE BOYINLADIO MANA
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COMING EVENTS
AUGUST.
26-Tides: High 144 am and 231 pm. · Low 9.21 am, and 1.07 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.04 mm; Sunset: 6,46 p.m.) Government. Trade School, Entrance Examination.
Ladies' Working Party (B.W.0.P.), Govt House, 9am-13 noon,
Auxiliary Nursing Bervice, Home Nursing Lecture, Queen Mary Hospi- tal...
Andrew's St. opening. 8.30 p.m.
Corps Rifle Club, Annual Meeting. H.K.V.D.O. Lecture Room, 5.30 p.m.
GENERAL
Radio Programmes
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Variety Programmes
Crown Land Sale, P.W.D., 3 p.m. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.P.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon....
Kowloon Union Church Club Meet- ing: 8,30 p.
Eyes Derek Oldham.
Pomp--Henry Lytton
| Lewis: On
With Ducal
and
the Day When
Wedded-Bertha Lewis: To
unhappy Commoners-Henry
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1940. —PAGE 3
Bertha
TO-DAY ONLY
was
Help Lytton
and Bertha Lewis, I am & Courtier Grave and Serious; Hero 15 A case; Now let the Loyal Lieges gather round-Full Company,
10.19 Dance Music,
Quickstep-Joseph, Joseph; Tango- So Blue the Skies Maxwell Stewart's Orch. Waltzes-Night in the Desert: Flowery Path-Gino Bordin and his Hawalians. Foxtrots-My Heaven in the Pines: Have you Ever been
Swing
12.15 pm. Start Service of Inter- Heaven Mantovani and Orch
Cheero Club, Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m. Chun-Shing Institute of Commerce, cession. Distribution of Prizes. H.K. Hotel 12.30 By Cotton's Band. Roof Garden, 4.30 p.m.
Orl
Maris
-Way down yonder in New Ain't Misbehavin'-Mar Abram Hils Rhythm. Pasodoble "Trinia: Ma It. Comedy į 332 dalena-Slow Foxtrot Manolo Flying Bel and his Muchachos Tangos-A Can't Dance, Bre
Farewell Letter; Α Love Letter-Heinz
Foxtrots-We must all Stick To
That Started Man
Waltz-The
по
the
27-Tides: High 2.38 am and 4.57 gether: p.m. Low 11.11 am, and 7.28 pm.
Sunrise: 6.04 a.m.; Sunset: 6.45 pmTrapéze. Foxtrot-I Black-Out Exercise from 8.43 p.m. Foxtrots-I'm singing a song for the Huppertz and his Orch. Foxtrots H.K. Land Investment and Agency Old Folks: Hear all. Ses all, Say Co., Ltd.. Interim Dividend payable.
Nowt. Waitz-Bary Street: Quickstep H.K. Rotary Club Titan Meeting, Fall in and Fly. Foxtrot Thanks i1 p.m.
for the Memory.
Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Hotel. 5.30 p.m.
Soldiers' Guild of St George: Scandal Folnt Hall, 7.30 p.m.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
-1.88 Musical Comedy Selections.
0.3. Cochran "Medley-introducing
HK Union Church Hall-Week- aumbers from:-As you Were, Afgary Night Meeting, 7.30 pm.
League of Nations, Blackbirds, This
and
The Six Swingers. I've got a Pocket- ful of Dreams: Goodnight, Little Skip- per-Brian Lawrence and his Orches
11.00 Close down.
Night Time in Cairo: Georgianna --
G.B.G
SHORT WAVE
St. Andrew's Church: War-Time Year of Grace etc-Elizabeth Welch, Calls Intercession Service,
Edward Cooper with Ray Noble
Careless Rapture! G.S.R
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8. & S. Home: Prayer and Fellow-hls Orchestra. ship Meeting 8.30 p.m.
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Wavelength
17.185.6. (19.86%)
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9147nia.
(81271)
12.13m.c. (19,79%)
NEWS IN ENGLISH.
Transmission I-News Sum-
Selection. I'll see you again' (from
(from G.5.0. 28-Tides: High 3.46 a.m, ånd-6.85 Bitter Sweet); Wanting You
New Moon) Anné Ziegler and Webs p.m. Low 12.14 am, and 8.47 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.04 a.m.; Sunset: 6.14 pmter Booth. The Gold Diggers of 1933 Ladies' Working Party · (B.W.O.F.). Govt House, 9 am-12 noon.
1.30 Renter and Rugby Press, Wea- YM.CA. Hockey Club Annual Meetther Forecast and Announcements, ing. 5 p.m.
--Selection.
145 Haydn Symphony No. 86 in
Auxiliary Nursing Service. Home D. Major. Nursing Lecture, Queen Mary Hospl tali
Cheero Club Dance. 8.30 p.m. 29-Tides: High 4.57 a.m. and 7,36
p.m.
Low 1.02 a.m. and 11.27 ̈p.m. Sunrise: 6.04 am; Sunset: 6.43 pm, Claims against estate .cf Thomas Bradford (Fisher) due.
Auxiliary Nursing Service, First Aid Lecture. Kowloon Hospital (for initials A to L),
Exhibition of Films of Australia, YMCA. 9 p.m.
Cheero Club, Bridge and Mahjong. 30-Tides: High 6.02 am, and 8.01 p.m. Low 1.42 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.05 a.m.; Sunset: 642 p.m.
Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OF.),
vt. House, 9 am-12 noon. Diocesan Boys' School-Test for new “biyə,"9" E.MLS
London Symphony Orchestra........con- ducted by Bruno Walter.
2.15 Close down.
6.00 Beethoven-Symphony No. [In A Major.
7
Toscanini with the Philharmante Symphony Orch. of New York.
__636__Closing_local_Stock Quotations. 6.38 Soors by Elizabeth Schumann. Coventry Carol (Traditional), Where the Bee Sucks (Arme). The Early Morning (Poel). A Song in the She Gallant (Eccles),
6.48 LLzt-Hungarian Fantasia for Plane and Orchestra,
Symphonique de Paris.
Jacques Dupont and the
Pull Bulletin
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At 2.30, 510, 7:15 & 9.30 p.m.
ON YOUR TOES
EDDIE ALDERT
ALAN HALE › Hanae Muntane
AL JAMES GLIALON
ADDED-JOE LOUIS T. K. O'd A. Godoy in 8th Round
TO-MORROW
"LUCKY 01800 KID "
with CESAR ROMERO
mary
4.00 p.m
Full Bulletin Trana I & II--News Sum-
mary
5.00 p.m.
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
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Transmission V---News Sum-
mary Full Bulletin
HUGGING &
KISSING-
$8 FINE
Hugging and kissing in a public place during the week-end 'cost a Orchestreuung Chinese couple. the total sum of $8, when they were found guilty of "disorderly conduct" by a police magistrate at Alor Star.
7.03 Compositions of Erie Contes. The Three Men Suite:-1,The Man Hrom the Country 4 The Met about
The couple were caught by two-
Auxillary Nursing Service, First Aid Town; 3. The Man from the Sea policemen "laughing gally."" and
Kowloon Hospital for London Symphony Orchestra, Music
Lecture,
initials M to Z),
Kowloon Football Club, Annual Meeting, 8 pm/
RA.O.C. Monthly Dinner, Glouces ter Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Cheero Club, Darts and Table Ten-1 nis.
of the Night; A Song Remembered later "hugging and kissing each John McCormack -(Tenor). The other in noisy style," at Jalan Jester at the Wedding Symphony Regent a little past midnight. Orchestra.
130 London Relay The News. -8.00 Local Time Signal and Wea ther. Report.
8.03. This week's Programmes, 8.07A Variely. Programme featur:
31-Tides: High 7.03 a.m. and 8.37 pm_low_12.43 am' and 221 pm..
Sunrise: 6.05.2.m; Sunset: 641_p.m.ng Grzcie Fields. Final Date for Payment of Property TAX...
The Girl in the Alice Blue Gown (Parker); In Me 'Oroscope (Haines) Kowloon Golf Club Annual Meeting-Gracie Fields. The Story of Lady and Prize Distribution, 6. pin.; Four-|
Godiva John Henry and "Blossom Ball Match, President's Tearn Cap- The Negro Preacher (Gideon); The
tain's Team.
On seeing the approach of the constables the young couple took to their heels, but were eventually arrested,
The man was fined $5 and the "woman" $3. The festare paid.
7.39-4.30
ORIENTAL
TWO MORE DAYS-TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW JOE TÚRNS COPPER IN A BIG LAUGH HIT! It's fun on the force with a cop who's the toast of the mobsters, a happy day for the gang.
IT'S FILLED WITH SPOOKS, CROOKS AND LAUGHTER |
DEBROWN
WED.
BEWARE SPOOKS!
MARY CARLISLE
THU: "ESPIONAGE AGENT" JOEL MCCREA
BRENDA MARSHALL
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NAVAL BASE Eurasian Collapses
CONSTABLE ACQUITTED
Being Sentenced
Parson of Puddle (Newman)-Stanley Holloway... Humorous. Sketch-Run- an Office-Harry Tate and Co. ning A Servant Girl; Our District Visitor- -Wish-Wynne. Rhythm of the Rain, intro: Valentine: I WIS Lucky
A. Darbyshire, who was charged (Piano). An Old Violin on two counts or having neglected *The Dicky Bird Hop his auty by being absent from his (Gourly)-Gracie Fields. Rex Caval cade of 1937, introducing "Famous post at the Main Dockyard, Naval Artists compered by Gracle Fields Base, while being a European the Staff Officers Mess, Naval police constable, and also with
Solution No. 690
ACROSS: 3, Grand; B, Silly; 9, Fenara Order: 10, Canoe, 11, Succeed; 13, (sher); Kauri; 14, Heat; 16. Cleared: 19, Wage; 21. Drum; 22, Offside; 24 Once; 26, Brief: 28, 8lacken; 29, Cares: 30, Masts; 31. Quest: 32, Stamp.
and Sandy Pavell
On
On his being sentenced to two months rigorous imprison- ment on two charges of misappropriation, Paul Carson, aged 18, a Eurasian clerk employed in the Naval Base, collapsed and fell in the dock of the Third Polles Court. Carson, who was employed by
9.00 London Relay-The News and misconduct by refusing to obey Mr J. G. Rappoport, that he mis- Base, admitted to the Magistrate,
Toplent Talks.
an order of a superior officer, was appropriated $30 worth of spirits 9.45 Selections from "The Gondo-acquitted on the three charges by
and cigarettes from December Mr. 3. G. Rappoport, the Third 1939 to August 1849. Magistrate, Singapore.
DOWN': 1, Pique; 2, Elect: "9, Read; 5, Nook; 6. Dreaded; 7,lers." Heart; 10, Cellist; 11, Shown; 12, Cargo; 15, Sandals; 17; Drink; 18, Emden; 20, Effects, 23. Trial; 24 Occur; 25. Cease: 21. Fast: 28. Seem.
CONSTABLE'S DRINKING DEBAUCH
Of Happiness the Very Pith-Derek
He also admitted having còn- Oldham and George Baker; Rising
According to the prosecution, verted to his own use, $45 out of Early in the Morning-George Baker
After a two-day drinking and Chorus, Take a Pair of Sparkling conducted by Chief Inspector HB- $150 which had been entrusted to bauch, Stanley G. Pearse (27), a
gings, it was stated that Darby him..
European police constable attach- shire, a European constable at-
Court Inspector D. R. Cowie ed to the Naval Base, woke up to tached to the Naval Base Police, stated that on Aug, 8, Flying find himself in a police station in.. who was supposed to be on duty Officer S. Terrell had occasion to the heart of Singapore town. A from 6 am. until 2 p.m. on Aug. 2.question Carson regarding the ac group of Malay constables, nearby, had absented himself from 11 am. counts, in consequence of a com- were having a dispute about where until 11.58 a.Ú.
he lived..
CROSSWORD
NO. 691
ACROSS
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vision
5
Jokes
8. Loathing
2. Valiant
10 Tides do 12 Endea
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15 Fre-
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spot
16 Sea
nymph
17 Irish.
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19. Fastener
20 Prelate
22 Wing 23 Provok
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28 Assign
29 Window
30 Famous 31 Material
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3. French goldier
Letter
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6 Harbour
7 Fragrant
11. Cheerful
13. "Flufd
SOLETION TOMORKOW
14. Fur
17 Army:
rank 18 Curl 10 Enemy
Agent
20 Ran
away
21 Speaker
24 Lunatic
25 Avarice. 27- Bhine
On the next day, he should have been on duty at 2 p.m. but was absent and when ordered by Crown Bergeant Stafford to go on duty, refused to do so,
THE JUDGMENT
',
plaint made to him.
It was then discovered that out of $150, which had been entrusted to Carson, $45 had been converted by him to his own use.
One of the Malay constables accompanied him back to the Naval Base in a taxi and Pearse went straight to bed. A sergeant came up to him and woke him up,
As a result of this, a check was telling him to go on duty as It,
In delivering judgment; Mr. Rap-made- on the stock, and it was was his shift, but Pearse turned poport said that. Darbyshire's de-frimther discovered that $80 worth over and refused to go on duty fence was that he was not a proof stock had been misappro
The next morning, Pearse found perly constituted Naval Base police-priated.
himself under open, arrest on
man and that the documents re- Mr. Cowie informed the magis three charges, two of absenting lating to the oaths of allegfence trate that Carson was earning himself from duty and one of in- and of office and his seven years' $55 a month, and, in addition, he agreement with the Naval Base was getting $15 travelling allow- Establishment were put in after ance.
He was married, but had no
he had made his defence.
Mr. Rappoport, therefore, held children. that it would be against all prin- cipals of justice to accept those documents as evidence of proof that Darbyshire was & Naval Base policeman.
The magistrate said that the prosecution should have proved, that Darbyshire was a Naval Base policeman before he had elected to make a statement.
Carson had no criminal record "The magistrate sentenced Carson to a month's rigorous. imprisonment on each charge. the sentences to run consecu tively, and warned him that
subordination.
PLEADED GUILTY - After a hearing, Pearse who pleaded guilty to the charges of being absent from duty, was found guilty on the charge of insubordi- nation."
As Pearse, who, was getting. 5200- a month, had been suspended from.... work for six days and would Loose his pay for those days, the magistrate cautioned and dis charged him on the two charges It was at this stage that Car- of absenting himself from duty, sub cullapsed. Two constables but nined him $25 or in default four weeks rigorous imprisonment helped him out of Court
If he came up again he would
be more severely dealt with.
›
During the absence from the Colony of Mr. H. A. Keller, Hon-Miss Rose Hobbs, and Miss Mar- orary Consul for Bwitzerland at garet Jean Rainey have been an- Hongkong. Mr. Ernest Hausam pointed Nursing
on the charge of insubordination.
The magistrate also remarked that although the charge of in- Sisters, on subordination was a serious one.
mann will be in charge of the probation. with effect from Aug. departmental action could have Swiss Consulate.
been taken in connection with it.