THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934.
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL
ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS
DISAPPOINTMENT EXPRESSED ON ALL HANDS
NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLAN
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MORE INDECENT PICTURES
SEQUEL TO POLICE
RAID
REVOLUTION
THREE-DECKER TARIFF
SIR W. ALEXANDER'S
A sélzure of Indecent photo- ! graphs in cardboard boxes at shop in Staveley Street, resulted Wh in the appearance of Lau King-kee before Mr. Balfour in the Contral Police Court thla morning, charged with exposing them for sale.
PLAN
A "three-decker" tariff systemi
advocated by Brigadier General Sir William Alexander; MP., President of the National Union of Manufacturers, at the annual dinner of the Union at the May Fair Hotel.
RADIO BROADCAST
TO-DAY'S BROADCAST.
CHINESE STUDIO CONCERT THIS EVENING
From ZBW on a wavelength of Det-Insp. Carey said the raid
Sir William suggested that the
355 metres: was made yesterday afternoon.
5-8 pm. European programme. The defendant was not present at first stop wan to revise the most-
5.0 p.m. A relay of the Hongkong voured-nation clause, and then Hotel Dance Orchestra from the the time, but brought to Central to make full use of their bargain-longkong Hotel Roof Gardon. Police Station this morning and ing power.
6.6.30 p.m. From the Studio. charged. In
T Girdboard box "It implies, a tariff of what is A Children's Programme arranged there were various samples of nude known as the three-decker type; by Mra, O. C. Womack. photographs, priced at four cents the lowest tier for Empire coun- search revealed more tries, the middle tier for those pictures.
countries which give us something. The Defendant contended they were and the highest tier for those old pletures. If he had them with a view to selling, he would have foreign countries which give
Washington, Jan. 3. "The finest repeal of the Constitution I have ever heard," was the pithy comment of Mr. McNary, the Republican leader, at, the conclu-ench. sion of President Roosevelt's first personal address to Congress, when he dealt generally with the Recovery programme and objectives.
General opinion in the House and out of it seems to be that the. President said extremely little in a very long speech, but there is reason to believe that, apart from prior discussions with political leaders helping to clear the way, Mr. Roosevelt is assured of an harmonious session.
His speech was greeted with applause from! all parts of the House particularly when he made allusions to gold stabilisation and when he asserted that prosperity depends upon the farmers' well-being.
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had new ones,
nothing."
"The
Programme. Music from the children's pantomimo.
of Hearts"
Mrs. Woninck and Chorus (in the following order) Mr. West, Miss Alabaster, John Wynne-Jones, Marygold Sor- by, Mr.
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Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., «nid Insp. Carey mentioned that with trade agreements would never be regard to photographs of an in-profitable so long as they were decent nature, the police have ruled by the most-favoured-nation had strict Instructions to
bring clause. them all in.
Defendant gave evidence, and in
Carey, Anid he!
reply to Insp
Mr. Enger, Mina Pat Master, Mr. Grenham, Mr. Nigel, Mme, de Precourt. 1. Nursery Rhyme,
Sorby and John
une-Jones,
2. The Cooks Song.
bought the pictures for his own! "PRIVILEGE" PLEADED 3. The Pied Piper Duet. interest.
Defendant was convicted and fined $10. The pictures were ordered to be confiscated,
SMUGGLED WINE & TOBACCO
CONFISCATION OF BOAT
AGAIN
MR. JUSTICE AVORY'S ANSWER
A detective-sergeant who WIN called as a witness before Mr. Justice. Avory, in the King's Bench Division, was asked to produce his diary and notca.
PROTECTION AGAINST EXPLOITATION, Twe Chinese boutmen, arrested directions," he declared.
in Aberdeen harbour, appeared be- fore Mr. Balfour in the Central Police Court this morning on re-
"We are definitely on the road balances by one nation at the mand charges of the possession of to recovery," claimed the Presi-expense of the other."
dent.
up
TRADE BARRIERS. "A line has been rightly drawn
Fears of aggression and the between those to whom recovery
vast Aunts on means a return to old methods expenditure of
continued, with the the number of which is small-and armaments
of trade barriers, these for whom recovery means building Feform of many of the old methods, to prevent any great progress in readjustments of ways of thinking peace or trade agreements. and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements. "Our tank is to improve, to alter when necessary, and in all cases to go forward.
END OF LAISSEZ FAIRE, "We have asked many citizens Lo surrender their licences to do as they please in business, but the State has given in exchange pro- tection against exploitation by fellow men and combinations,
President Roosevelt asserted that the Government's credit had been fortified by drastic redue tions in expenditures economies.
and
An overwhelming majority of the banks which were re-opened Inst Spring are in a sound con- dition.
The United States, he added, cannot participate in the political Arrangements of Europe, but is ready to co-operate at any time in practical measure on a world basis for the Immediate reduction of armaments and the lowering trade barriers.
WAR DEBTS,
Regarding war debta to
of
the
"I cannot produce them without
“And 1 ́ give them," said Mr. Justice Avery.
The documenta were promptly produced.
224 gallons (39 jars) of Chinese An official from the Ministry of documents wine and a quantity of Chinese Labour produced some prepared tobacco and five pounds which Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., desired of cigars, on which duty had been to have left in the Court. "I can- evaded. The contraband was not order you to leave them," he smuggled on their bout, of 86 pleuls said to the witness. capacity, from Macuo.
"But I can and I do." said the Judge.
Mr. Horuce Lo pleaded guilty on behalf of the first defendant and not guilty on behalf of the second mas.
For the prosecution, R. O. Grimmitt accepted the plen and the second defendant was discharged.
LARGER TYPE OF SPORTING FISH
SALMON-TROUT BREEDING
EXPERIMENT
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Mr. Eager and Mr. Grenham.
Mrs. Womrek and Mrs. Eager.
4. Marry. Me.
Mr. Grenham and Miss Pat Master.
6. Goodbye.
Mr. Eager and Chocus.
6. Cabaret Dance Music.
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7. Masquerade
Miss Pat Master and Mr. Grenlam
8. Moon Song,
Mrs. Womack and Chorus.
9. Star Dance,
10.
(Gramophone record). Nursery Rhyme and Sunshine Finale.
By Everybody.
At the pinnara, Keith Valentine, 6.30-7 p.m. A relay of the Hong- kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.
7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Queta- tions, etc.
7.3-8 pm. Recorded Music. 8 p.m.
Local Time and Weather Report.
8.3-10.30 p.m. Chinese Studio Con- cert.
10.30 m. Rugby Mid-day Press News.
10,35 p.m. Close Down
Should reception prové satisfactory the programino between 6 and C pm. will be replaced by a relay from Daventry.
FIGHT IN A TEAHOUSE
R. D. Grimmitt sald the pro- secution asked for the maximum penalty to be imposed on the first; THAT. The jars found on the boat were sited with rubber caps, for and what kind of fish will result? Can salmon and trout he crossed, flonting purposes. Genr for "drop-
An experiment is to be tried at United States, President Roosevelt ping" and "picking up" purposes hatcheries nt Littlecote, near Hun- said he expects to report on this at Aplichau.
was also discovered on the buat gerford, Wiltshire, in an attempt to malter separately later.
The first defendant was fined produce a game fish larger than Several nations, acknowledging $2,000 or six months' hard labour, trout, but less devoted to the
than salmon. their dehte, had made token pay- and the contraband, together with
A fight between a Cantonese and Mr. H. J. Skinner, fishery keeper two Shanghai men was precipitated ments. Others had defaulted. the boat, was ordered to be con-
to Sir Ernest Wills, has been ex-at the Tin Sam tea house, No. 370, fiscated. Fintand alone had paid in fully.
perimenting there for four years Queen's Road West, on
Tuesday
TRICKS OF THE RICH,
Returning to the domestic pro-COUNTY RUGBY blems of the country, the President foreshadowéd atringent measures
CHAMPIONSHIP arainst persons and groups who
Six hundred million dollars in frozen deposits are being restored | have been living off their neigh- to depositors in banks which are not being permitted to re-open.
N.R.A. ACHIEVEMENTS.
The President went on to review the achievements of the National Recovery Administration in secur- ing the re-employment of several millions of men and the
organisation of industry, together with an assurance of reasonable profits together.
:
Industry will pay proper condi- tions to labour.
N.R.A.
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hours by unethical and criminal methods. He enstigated tax dodgers and the high officials of banks and corporations who had grown rich at the expense of stock- holders and the public.
The President also said that the
strong arm of the law was required against crimes of organised bandi try. lynchings and kidnappings.
PROHIBITION REPEAL.
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GLOUCESTER BEAT CORNWALL
Ben
SHANGHAI MEN AND CANTONESE
on crossing brown trout with rain- night, through the refusal of one bow trout, in order to breed of the Shanghai men to pay $5 to larger type of fish. A chance for the Cantonese who demanded the
more ambitious attempt has now money.
offered itself.
ner
About Christmas time Mr. Skin- All three men, Wong Yee, (tha will be netting spawning Cantonese), Lau Hung-kan and salmon on a private estate in Hamp- Suen Ilui-chong, appeared before Central shire for Southampton University Mr. Hamilton, at the College, who are carrying out Im-Magistracy this morning, on two London, Jan. 3.
portant experiments on the River charges of fighting and damaging Two postponed county champion-Avon. He will take breeding main furniture and crockery to the ship rugby matches were played off front with him from Littlecote to value of $62.75 at the ten house. to-day.
the Avon, and cross them with After evidence, they At Ilford, Eastern Counties de- netted female salmon. He hopes victeil on both charges, and fined feated Hampshire by 9 points to aix also to take home with him a mule $25 or one month each on the first charge and cautioned on the At Bristol, Gloucester defeated salmon for further hybridining. Cornwall by fourteen points to
second. elght.
Hampshire, and Gloucester are He thought that the repeal of the winners of their groups, the Prohibition should materially aid tables being as follows:
South-Eastern Group. eliminating crimes arising from the legal trafic in
liquor. Hampshire-. 54
1 0
80 31
8
7
The abolition of child labourin was a distinct achievement of the The Government would continue E. Counties 5 8 11 12-30
to supplement the work of. State Middlesex.. 4 2 1 1 and other agencies for the relief Kent of unemployment, including large Surrey schemes of public works.
NATIONAL PLAN. "We have created as a permanent feature of our modernised indus- trial structure a system by which it will continue under the supervi sion of the government, bul not under its arbitrary dictation."
He looked forward to the not very distant future when annual appropriations of
government- would wholly he covered by cur- rent. revenue, enabling work to proceed with the National Plan.
Such National Plan, in a generation or two, would re. turn many times the money spent upon it by conserving natural resources and enabl- ing millions of people to take hefter advantage of their op- portunities.
FOREIGN FIELD. ·
GOLD POLICY.
פניני
44 18 5 1 1 2 31 77.3 5 1 0 50 108 2 Sussex 3 0 2 32 47 1
01 South-Western Group. Gloucester 1 2 0 47 21 Somerset 3. 1 0 2 28 312
Deven
3
1 0 2 27 31 1
23 49 2
LARGE ESTATE
BRITISH EXCHEQUER WILL BENEFIT
1
were con-
Inspector Hourihan said the first defendant was supposed to have asked for $5. from the third de- fendant. who refused. The first defendant then struck him, and the second defendant joined in the fight. When the police arrived, The Chancellor of the Exchequer all three men were struggling. A will benefit substantially by the lot of furniture and crockery was Death Duties on the estate of broken.
London, Jan,' 3.
Thomas Duncanson; of Tunbridge Cheung Choi, a Chinese can- Wells, whose Will has been proved stable, said he saw at £583,727 gross-British Wire.
css,
The President explained his gold Cornwall policy as having two objectives, the strengthening of the whole financial structure and the development of a medium of ex-
'DAY BY DAY NEWS - IN BRIEF
much in its purchasing and debt- chango which would not vary MAN IS NEVER WATCHFUL ENOUGHI The total rainfall recorded at the 'AGAINST DANGERS THAT THREATEN Botanic Gardens last month was 1.63 paying power,
HIM EVERY HOUR-Horace.
inch, the greatest fall being 0.72 inch, on. Deceniber 28.
He expressed intortion of enter-
at
ing upon stabilisation discussions There will be a dinner dance based on permanent worldwide Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday night, objectives, but said that careful January 6th, and a tea dance investigations had proved that Sunday, January 7th. many of America's sister nations were not ready,
WAL STREET DISAPPOINTED.
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"
The Police Branch of the M.C.L. has arranged a dance to be held at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant
On
the Afst de fondant throw brase kettle, while the third defendant was holding aleft a chair, though he | did not strike with it. All deferld- ants were fighting when he arrived. He arrested the first defendant,
Two other constables and walter gave evidence to the effect that all defendants were fighting.
The first defendant said, he had bell at the Peninsula Hotel, there and did not fight. He saw the Owing to the St. George's Bull. to gone to the teahouse to drink ten
will be no dinner dance in the Chinese second and third defendants fight- Restaurant of the Hongkong Hoteling with two Cantonese men, who to-morrow.
got away before the police arrived, and he was mistakenly arrested. The Diocessun Old Girls' Associa-¡He did not throw the kettle,
the
February 2 from. 9.pt. to midnight. tion ure holding their carnival fancy Second defendant denied, having Later. Admission is gents $2, ladies $1. in dress dance at the Diocesan Girls struck the first defendant; and also Wall Street is disappointed by eluding light refreshments. Mr. School hall on Saturday, commencing denied fighting. He said Turning to international affairs, the omission from rather than by True'a Cheero Band will be in attend and lix Pals" will be in attendance. first and third defendants were
at 9 p.m. Admission is $1.00. "Fred President Roosevelt said: "I can the contents of President Roo-ance.
fighting. not present n pleture of complete | sevelt's speech to Congress. It
Fancy dress is optional, optimism. We Book, with our induced a brief selling flurry on neighbours, avoidance of terri- | the Stock Exchange. torial expansion and Interferenco
Third defendant suid the first The Now Territories Agricultural Show is to be opened on Saturday at One case of diphtheria with ono defendant, who was a member of: 2.30 p.m. The venue in Shek Wu foath, four cases of typhold with a triad society, came to him and The newspapers appear to be Hul, which is quite close to the one death (one imported,) two cases naked for $5. He asked him whe by one nation in the affairs of equally dissatisfied. The Evening Shengshui railway station. A visit of meningitis with one death, one ther he would be guaranteed in
of puerperal fever with one Sun, whose comment is typical, to the show will provide an excellent caso "We are all seeking the restora-asserts that the speech did not opportunity of spending an enjoyable death, and 47 deaths from tuberculosis munity, and also asked for a re- tion of international commerce in contain a single concrete evidence train leaving Kowloon at 12.12 p.m., afternoon. There In a conveniont
reported to the locni health ceipt. The first defendant said On Tuesday he would not give him a receipt authorities Inst week. ways which preclude the building of the progress or otherwise of the arriving at Sheungshui in ample time one case of meningitis was also re-and then struck him. He did not
of large favourable trade 'recovery programme-Router.
ported. for the opening ceremony.
fstrike first defendant;
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