HAPPY VALLEY
GOLF.
FULL RESULTS OF SUMMER MEETING.
SOME GOOD SCORES.
The full results of the Happy Valley summer golf meeting are as follows:
Happy Valley Championship
76+79-164.
W. M Thomson
Other scores were
J. D. Thomson 7 80154
(second prize) 794-78-183
R. Young A F. J. de Reme 79-83 182
WM. Thomson won the tie owing to having the better score over the second 18 holes. Thirty six players took out cards;
J. D. Thomson was successful in the August qualifying round for the Captain's Cup, his score being 741064.
Other scores were:
E. M. Hanion
W, A. Stewart
W. M. Thomson
R. Young
J. MacKnight
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85-15-70
83-13-70
75- 372
79673
85-12-73
There were 83 entries.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST
REVELATIONS.
COACH.
1930.
TAILOR'S GIFT TO LABOUR EXCHANGE SHOT AT MOTOR FORCE OF MOTOR
UNIVERSITY.
POLICE.
MAKES OFFER TO ENDOW A A COMEDY OF PART-TIME MAN"FIRES-REVOLVER FROM NEW BODY FOR CONTROL OF
PROFESSORSHIP.
THE ROADS.
RISE TO FORTUNE.-
The Council of the Senate of Cambridge University will abortly report to the University on an offer the of Mr. Montague Burton, famous merchant tailor, to endow a professorship in the University to be called the Montague Burton Professorship of Industrial Re- lations.
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Mr. Burton having expressed his willingness that the detailed defini- tion of the professor's duties should be left to them, the Faculty Board, propose that in a memorandum, these duties should be defined as follows:-
Study and instruction on condi- tion of employment and relations between employers and employed, with special reference to causes of industrial disputes.
Methods of promoting industrial
peace.
OFFICIALS.
CAR.
STRONG CRITICISM. SCREEN SPLINTERED. MOTORISTS TO PAY. The staffing of some of the Em-A royal Blue saloon motor-coach, A mobile police force to patrol ployment Exchanges was strongly carrying 28 passengers, was shot the roads in cars or on motor criticised by the Ministry of Labour in broad daylight on the Reading cycles to check dangerous driving Staff Association, who gave evid-road by a man in a car, who stood by motorists when the speed limit ence before the Royal Commission up as he passed and fired" with a for private cars is abolished was. on the Civil Service.
revolver through the sun roof. foreshadowed by Mr. Morrison The bullet splintered, the wind- (Minister of Transport) in the screen of the coach above the dri-House of Commons when the Road ver's head and flattened itself out Trafile Bill, now approaching its on a stanchion just behind.
final stage, was discussed.
A branch manager, they said, was required to provide his own premises, and in most areas was em played only part-time.
As a result, the work of attend. ing to the unemployed was perform ed by private assistants who follow ed all manner of occupations and professions, among them boing: Tobacconist, Hairdressers,
Solicitors, Printers,
Grocers, Fruiterers, Dealers in
antiques, Farmers, Qatilters, Football referee.
There were also wireless dealers, and one was a clerk to a burial
board.
The Rival Loud Speaker.
Police of the Reading flying "We are going to urge the police squad were given a description of authorities," he said, "to provide the car, but although they secured the force. In view of the cost I the district for several miles shall aak Parliament for powers around, they found no trace of it to contribute out of the Road
Driver's Theory.
Fund."
The driver of the motor-coach holds the theory that the man in the car, which was coming in the opposite direction, drew his "re volver because he thought the ap proaching coach was taking up-too much room on the road!
But he made it clear that he ex- pected less from legislation and: police activities than from the good sense and good manners of both motorists and pedestrians.
"We have got to make the mo- torist feel," he declared, "that if "It was on an awkward part of he behaves inconsiderately on the the road, four miles from Reading," road he is not an English gentle. Bald the driver "and, owing to a man.
The service to the public obvious-lorry being drawn up at the side, "More will be done by education
Mr. Burton is willing to transfer In the open medal round (under to the University 18,858 41 seven handicap) J. D. Thomson camel per cent. cumulative preference first with a score of 74-10-64, shares in Montague Burton, Ltd., and J. MacKnight second with guaranteeing on behalf of himselfly suffered where men and women 81-12 69. McKnight did the and his personal representatives were kept waiting during the sale last 18 holes in 37, giving a net that, if in any year during the score of 31,
tenure of the first professor the Othor scores were:
Income from the shares should be R. Young
less than £1,320, the deficiency will be made up.
75-6-69
The last mine holes were done in 39, giving a net score for the round of 36. There were 54 entries.
The Junior Section medal round failed to attract sumcient entries and was cancelled.
AMY JOHNSON AT ·
CROYDON.
(Continued from Page 1.)
A Romantic Figure. Mr. Burton is one of the most romantic figures in Industry.
He began business 30 years ago with a capital of £100, and to-day he is one of the largest merchant tailors in the world, with, it is said, the greatest number of tailor ing workshops, retail shops, and employees in the trade.
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of goods or where unemployed were registered by the branch manager while his assistant, by means of a loud speaker, was providing a cus- tomer with a demonstration of the power of a wireless set.
In one small branch the applica tions. signed the register on the kitchen copper.
Both were worried about home
had to swing out into the centre than legislation. The Highway it probably looked as if I was try Code which we are going to pub- ing to baulk this chap, and I sup-lish will apply not only to the pose no one could blame him for motorists, but also to the poder- getting a bit annoyed if he didn't trian.
"It is just as necessary to understand what was in the way.
"It is very unpleasant to think educate the pedestrian in reason- on, though, if every motorist who lable conduct on the road."
A final attempt to save the got annoyed with motor-coaches
speed limit was made by D₫ Sal- shot at them as he went by!
ter, the Labour member for Ber- mondsey, who moved an amend- ment that it should be increased to 35 miles an hour.
Girl Faints:
coach who heard the report and saw Women passengers in the motor the driver duck splintered, screamed with fright as the glass and one girl fainted.
"Abetting Murder."
"If this Bill goes through un- Several people sitting in the front amended," he said emphatically, seats saw the car approaching and "the public will hold this House
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Many of the branch managers were not able to assimilate the de- partment's instructions properly Some made no attempt to do so, and in one case the department's confidential instructional circulars, instead of being filed, were used Within 10 years of his beginning feetionery to children.
as wrapping paper for selling con-in statements to the police said that responsible for alding and abet business. Mr. Burton had opened a
it was a brown fabric saloon with ting murder." Reference was also made to the sun roof folded back. chain of shops extending, from
In replying Mr. Morrison är- of always been my favourite name in Manchester to Leicester. Work-posting of officers hundreds
Three men and a girl were in-gued that if Parliament laid down mythological history.".
shops were established in Leeds, miles from their homes, and it was side, but it was the man at the 35 miles an hour as the maximum and one shop a month was opened. mentioned that a Newcastle woman wheel who stood up and fired. the motorist would get the idea Australian Receptions. "Have you recovered from your
The firm claims to pay the was employed in the London Post
A piece of glass, about the size that it was the normal speed to be enthusiastic reception in Aus-highest rate of wages in the trade, Office while a London woman was of a farthing, was broken out of the aimed at. Five miles an hour and Mr. Burton has always shown in a post as an employment clerk wind-screen of the charbane and when going round a corner on the .tralia?" she was asked,
"I have not," Amy replied a deep interest in his employees. In the Employment Exchange at this fell on the driver's hand and wrong side amounted to danger-
cut a gash in his thumb.
ous and reckless driving (Cheers). emphatically. "But they were One of his welfare schemes is a Newcastle. really awfully good to me. The private savings bank to which he worst part of the functions out adds 10 per cent. interest annually there was the shaking hands. on all sums Invested inder £1,000. One would be brought into a room The Chair of Industrial Relations with 300 people to welcome one of Leeds University owes its and have to shake hands with foundation to Mr. Burton, who gave every one!
it an endowment of £20,000, which Then there would be a flash-permits the engagement of a pro- In reply to the Duchess of Atholl, light photograph and lots of fessor at a salary of £800 a year. Mr. D. R. Crook (general secretary speeches. At the end I would Last May Mr. Burton offered of the Ministry of Labour Staff have to get up and say a few Oxford University £1,320 for seven Association) said they did not be hard out for Reading. I was not MOTHER, DAUGHTERS AND words of thanka."
years for the maintenance of alieve that persons from the univer-risking a second shot, although pas-
DEAD MAN. "Johnnnie" anid she had no Professor of International Rela-sities were the best to deal over sengers at the back tell me that the plans for the future and the rea- tions.
the counter with the unemployed: saloon car drove on at a tremendousA woman's rescue from the son why she had undertaken the
speed, and evidently was not bother-Thames, and her declaration that Alght was because in England a
ing about shooting again."
she had killed a man, were recal- girl could not get a job in aviation.
led in evidence at the Old Bailey Triumphal Drive,
when Martha Ruth Jacoby (48) was charged with the murder of William Lidstone. She pleaded not gulity.
the
BOIS DE BOULOGNE OF LONDON.
(Continued from Page 8)
London, later. At the conclusion of 'speeches, "Johnnie" drove in a procession of motor cars around the aerodrome and then started a triumphal drive to Grosvenor such a paradise as this, and who, House Hotel, Park Lane, where a then, rather than offend a cruel reception was held in hor honour, and capricious employer, had sur- The route to Park Lane was rendered it at a word? "Master thronged with dense crowds who | Kingston," he said, when all hope
circumstances, were sending home money to widowed mothers who had young families to "care for, and both were correspondingly short of money and were poorly fed and cared for.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Salary Comparisons,
[To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.]
In Reading police were informed of the incident and full details given.
, '',
Did Not Dare Stop.
He announced that the amend- ment would be left to a free vote of the House and advised the re- jection of it.
It was defeated by 180 to 99.
The driver of the coach said he did not dare to stop after the shot RIVER RESCUE DRAMA, was fired.
"I put my head down and my foot, down," he said, "and went
PASSENGER BOAT BLOWN UP.
THREE MEN SEEN RUNNING AWAY.
Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecuting, stated that Jacoby was living apart from her husband. On May 20 Lidstone went to live with her In her rooms at Boyson-road, Cam- berwell. Just before midnight on An explosion which wrecked a May 24 Police-Constable Butler
Sir-In certain sections of the waited for hours to welcome her of Royal forgiveness and replace. Press I have observed comparisons pleasure ship known. to thousands was called by a motorist to the and who set up a tremendous roar ment had vanished, "I see the made as between the different of cheering as ber car approached. matter against me as it is framed; rates of salary paid in different Special police were called in to but if I had served my God as British Colonies, as if it were not cope with the crowd, consisting diligently as I have done the King, schoolboy knowledge that different largely ,of women, which He would not have given me over countries have different stand- assembled otside the hotel.in my grey hairs" sad speechards of remuneration. Does not Reuter.
to think about at Hampton Court a New York bricklayer earn G$16 on a spring evening after showers, per day? when the air is filled with the
SPANISH GIRL AND DEAD WAITER.
STORY OF AN OFFER SHE REFUSED..
scent of blossom and the song of
birds,
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Much more to the point is the question of disparity of standards within the same community.
of Londoners roused Southend and Embankment near Vauxhall, where was heard four miles away.
he saw a woman in the water. People who dashed on to the sea The constable, said Mr. Clarke, front saw that the fore part of took off his helmet and tunic and the ship Brittania had been blown plunged in to her rescue. out.
Lying about on the beach were large sections of the vessel's hull and saloons. Some of the sections were nearly 20 feet long and as thick as railway sleepers..
Daughter's Evidence. I
She struggled to get away, say ing, "Let me go, he is dead. I murdered him."
The policeman got her out, and Jacoby then added: "I hit him with a hammer." A man who, with his family, There are customs that die hard Among business employees for slept out on the beach told
P.C. Butler informed his station in this town or village or Hamp- tunate enough to have retained police he saw three men running where they found Lidstone dead the and officers went to Jacoby's rooms, ton, which, once the gates of the their jobs, it is doubtful if salary away from the Brittania soon after in the kitchen. Palace are closed, becomes an increases, reckoned in Hongkong the explosion. A beautiful young Spanish girl, abode of almist rural peace. On dollars, during the past ten years, Later it was learned that a man Rientera de Sala, told a dramatic | my bill at the hostelry, renowned average more than 100; whereas with his face badly burned and story at a Watford inquest on all the world over for its mystic according to your correspondent blackened by gunpowder had been Mrs. Jacoby, said that Lidtone had Violet Jacoby, a daughter of Frank Gray, a walter, who was union of the duck with the green "Why", in Monday's issue, other rushed away to London in a taxi- made advances to her, and this found hanging from a tree in the pea, I found a charge of sixpence members of the community have cab. An arrest is expected, grounds of the hotel Chateau de for attendance. It was like meet-had, within the same period, their
had upset her mother, Madrid, near Watford, where being the dodo faca to face. One is salaries, reckoned in Hongkong found which, it is assumed, was
A length of charred rope was Mr. Clarke: Was she jealous? had been employed only a week. accustomed to the ten-per-cent. dollars, increased 245; ante- used as a fuse to a high explosive. are her daughters, and we are good Miss Jacoby: My sister and T in Continental -Miss de Sala, who gave an address augmentation
dated in addition, apart al. The Brittania was shipped at girls. I dare say she thought of in Chesson-road, West Kensington, hotels and restaurants; but six-
from the extras low tide, and the owner, Mr. C. it in another way than that of speaking in broken English, told Pence on a bill of many shillings together the coroner that she had known the had not seen such a thing for attached, for the sake of which Myall, of Hartington-road Bou jealousy
dead man for about ten weeks.
They had both been employed at
an explosion." "All we kept there appalling circumstances. In ad-
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many, many years. I pointed it alone, many an outside employee thend, said there could have been Mr. Maude, for the defence, said ALL ABOARD fór HOLIDAYLAND out to the venerable English would willingly forego his salary nothing in the bulkhead to cause that Jacoby had been living in the Haut Boy Hotel, Dekham, habit infrequent in his type. He
waiter, who was of an ascetic altogether. Surrey. He sent her a telegram sighed wearily. "Other people the terms of reference," I very ventilation."
So long as this matter is outside was rope, and there was plenty of dition to the daughter who had to meet him in London, and she did have commented on this?" I aug much fear that in producing a
Home Ah given evidence Lidstone had made A slight fire occurred after the overtures to the other daughter. gested."Lots," he said. "The contented public (which, if history explosion, but Southend fire bri-Not acting out of jealousy, but in She handed the coroner a latter sixpence is not, all you expect for be true; is at least as important as gade controlled it in a few minutes. regard for her daughters, Jacoby from Gray, from which the coroner your services?" I naked. "No," the
""contented producing of read the following:
The Brittannia, a vessel special struck Lidstone with the hammer he said, with a heavy waiterish staffe"), the Retrenchment Comly built for Southend pleasure while he was struggling with her. I find it impossible to pass the algh; "but there's many amittee is simply tilting at trips, has taken thousands of She then throw herself into the dreary journey through the long foreigner thinks so and acts windmills-beating the air. Londoners along the Esser and river in her distress at finding
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love you and make you happy, so
I am taking what is known as the
cowards way out.
John Mulhearne, waiter at the
hotel, said that Gray had threaten
ed to take his life if he did not
A fine of $10 was imposed by
Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police
Yours, etc.,
How.
Kent consta
what she had done. He urged that the jury should reduce the charge to one of manslaughter.
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"Outside a limited amount of oil she had no intention of causing
Jacoby, in the witziese box, said Write Tsingtao P. O. Box 225 Court this morning on a young Park, just opposite the Diocesan improvement of which depends on was done simply in the scuffe,
For removing sand from King's and a limited period for cotton, the dstone grievous bodily harm. It Chinese, named Lee Chung Fo, Girls School, two young Chinese the extent to which we like to en Jacoby was found not guilty of get a satisfactory explanation who was summoned for not having were each fined $5 by Mr. Whyte courage and develop it, there la murder, but guilty of manslaugh from the girl.
full control of his motor-cycle Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy nothing that is not possible within ter. The jury strongly recom- The coroner, in returning a combination. A traffic officer this morning. Mr. A. C. Burford the British Empire, declared Mr. verdict of "Suicide whilst of un-stated that he saw the machine at informed his Worship that little J. H. Thomas at Colchester. The mended her to mercy, and com- sound mind," assured Miss de Sala Morrison Gap Road, on July 23rd. damage had been done, but if peo forthcoming Imperial Conference,
mended the gallant effort at her that there was absolutely no fault in the afternoon: There, were five ple were allowed to carry on in he said, would give a unique oppor- rescue of PC. Butler on her part. If you did not care people clustered on it and on the this way a considerable amount of tunity for a free and unfettered
Mr. Justice Macnaghten passed for his attentions I think you were side-car. The machine wis damage would be caused to the discussion of all aspects of unem sentence of three years penal quite right."
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