The King at the formal open- ing of a new library at Man-
chester.
MOTOR PROBLEM SOLVED
When Driver Is "In
Charge" of Car
Sir Rollo Graham-Compbell the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, ruled at Bow Street Police Court, London, that a motorist can be legally held to be in charge of a car, even though it is temporarily Incapable of being mechanically propelled.
John Rankin (37), chauffeur, of Queensberry Mews, South Ken sington, was charged on remand with being in charge. of a motor car while under the influence of drink to such an extent as to be Incapable of having proper control
of it.
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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934.
PLAYING FROM
MEMORY
Pianist Who Could Not Stop
Nobody is over too old to play the piano from memory, said Miss Lilias MacKinnon, the educationist, at the Oxford course in masle teaching recently.
The Telegraph is anxious to ascertain the views of its readers concerning the continuation or otherwise of aerial storica which have been a feature of this
"Memory will last if it is exer Journal for some years past.
Our last serial, "Stay Out of cised regularly, but it will deterior- ate if it is unused," she added. My Life,"
concluded on Thursday The mechanical memory of youth Inst, and enquiries have since leaves with the growth of self-con- reached us as to whether we insetousness, but the stronger mem- Lend resuming this feature. Ifory of the mature mind develops in there is a demand for serials, we itu stend. If you can learn any shall be only too happy to comply thing at all you enn memories therowith, but for our guidanco wo would appreciate expressions of opinion on the matter from our readers.
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music."
Very few people knew how to relax their minds. With practice ond could learn to stop thinking altogether. The way to do it was to relax the muscles of the face, including the muscles of the eyes and gradually all thought would drift away. One would have a feeling of delightful drowsiness, and with practice one would be able to full asleep at will and at any time. This was a certain cure for Insomnia.
"Mind wandering may be a habit. It is a common fault of people who are given to worrying. people who are always thinking about things which are past or things which may or may not hap- pen in the future, Instend of think
SUICIDE IN CELLng of what is actually happening."
Coroner on "Alarming
Discrepancy"
The inquest on Edward Paleston Cawsey (27), otherwise Ian Gowan, elvilian air pilot, of. Thornton Heath, was resumed at Croydon recently.
Cawsey was found dead in the lavatory of a police cell at Croydon Town Hall, on July 31, after having been remanded on charge of fraadulently converting £1,809.,
The evidence of Dr. T A. Dakes, police
surgeon, was that he found part of the chain deeply embedded in the mun'a neck as he lay dead, on the
Miss MacKinnon told a story to illustrate the danger In practising music for memory by playing the same piece over and over again without stopping.
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Tourists now will have something bisider the marvels of ANCIENT Rome to describe.. For now, Rome offers this striking example of modern architecture—a multi-terraced apartment house
just erected in the stallan 'capital.
PAYMENT
Changes in the Law Suggested
PRESS
"People Want to See News in Print"
Mr. R. D. Blumenfeld, the well- London recently, said that in his known journalist, speaking in
place the newspaper as a purveyor opinion wireless would never re-
of news.
NEW REGIMENT OF FOOT principle that no one should "you want to ace it is print.
GAURDS?
of
"A well-known plantat," she said, PRISON IN DEFAULT OF WIRELESS AND THE "told me that on the morning of a concert he played one technical pessage over and over again. to get it perfect. At the concert, when he came to that passage, his mind reproduced it as he bad practised it in the morning, and he found himself playing it again and again without stopping. He simply could With a view to amending the not stop playing, and the pereptra- whole law with regard to fm- The Inquest had been adjourned the sheer horror of what his fingers or fines and other mums of money tlon streamed down his face with prisonment in default of payment because of contradictory evidence were doing. He told me it was one the departmental committee set up on how Cawsey hanged himself-of the most painful experiences of by the Home Office in June, 1983,
"It many tell you. the news, it whether from the cistern by the his life." chain, or by detaching the chain
presided over by Sir John Fischer may give you the news correctly and placing it over an adjacen
Villiams, stresses the desirability and adequately, but it will nover beam.
of the acceptance of the general convince you, because you do not believe what you hear" he said. to prison for non-payment
Whether television would make. money under an adjudication court of summary jurisdiction an alteration was another thing. unless and until the mind of the Television was like an omelette Next year being the silver court has been specifically directed it was spread all over the pince Majesty the King, advantage might jubilee of the accession of His to the question of imprisonment. and they would never be able to "Perhaps, the greatest defect of concentrate on it like they could Police Constable Bush, who disa regiment of foot guarde to be mittee, "Is that in many cases com-
be taken to suggest the creation of the existing system," says the com-the news in a newspaper. Wireless and the daily covered the body, said
that known as "The Colonial Guards,"mitment automatically follows on papers must go hand in hand. the chain was then fastened over in commemoration of the magni-default, and the court has the beam. The hook, making a cent response given by
noThere was nothing so comforting noose, had given way. The chain Dominions and Colonies in 1914. attention to the question whether paper if it was properly produced. our opportunity of giving specific to sit down and read a nows- was not touched by anyone until Each of the dominions of Canada, the cat
case after the doctor had gone.
Australia, New Zealand and South for whether further consideration is one for imprisonment, Two police witnesses said the Africa.could provide a double ought to be granted to the do-to the court, and that consequently chain was over, the beum,
company and officers to The jury intimated that they battalion. I am Aure
each faulter. The defect is most evid-numerous commitment warrants had practically made up their mind writer of a letter in a
(saya the lent in the enforcement of fines are issued without specific on the point, but the Coroner de paper) the idea of such a corps is a contributory cause of un- the circumstances of a particular London and in rato cases, though it also sideration of the question whether procated premature expression of would be exceedingly popular, satisfactory results in mainten-defaulter justify immediate im- opinion and sent for Dr. Dukes.
both at home and abroad, and ance and affiliation enges. would show the world that our
prisonment, is the main problem company of nations standa shoul- facts
"The difficulty created by the with which we have to deal, and
that
many people fall to which the main recommenda- der to shoulder.
adequately to represent their case tions in the reports are directed."
ting in the driver's seat of the opinion that the man hanged him: Rankin was arrested while sit-out and to doctor was of the car waiting for his employer, out-self from the cistern,. side the Holhorn Restaurant. The starting, switch was locked, and, as he and no ignition key, he could not have started the engine.
It was contended by his solicitor, Mr. C. B. V. Hond, that to secure a_conviction for thin offence the car must be capable of being mechanically propelled t the Lime.
The enne had been adjourned for further legal argument.
Dr. Dukes, adhering to his pre: vious evidence, said he handled the chain several times.
Mr. Ifead now said that the sec- tion of the Act applied to "all mechanically propelled, vehicles, Intended or adapted for use on the road." So, far from being adapted for use. Rankin's employ-experiments in Court with the er had ensured that it could not be used by taking the engine key away with him.
A SIMILAR CONVICTION.
Sir Rollo said that there was no High Court decision on the point, but there was a conviction at Bournemouth some time ago in somewhat similar circumstances.
After two hours argument and
chain, the doctor accepted the police theory that the man hanged himself from the beam,'
Referring to the discrepancy be- tween the evidence of the doctor Coraner said it was rather alarm- and the police aa to facts, the ing and very unfortunate, and he did not think they could discuss it any further.
The jury returning a verdict of
Mr. W. L. Sanders, for the "Suicide whilst of unsound mind," Police, urged that the intention of the Legislature was that no motor aid they were of the same view driver who was the worse for as the police as to the manner in drink should go near his car. The which Cawsey hanged himself.
Act did not of necessity imply
that the car could be driven at
the moment of arrest.
Mr. Head instanced the case of
a car which had broken down, and
DISPOSSESSED VICAR
the engine removed for repairs, COURT UPHOLDS BISHOP'S
No one, he said, could suggest in
such a case that the driver could be convicted of being drank while
In charge of the vehicle.
ACTION.
(New Zealand) Magistrates, re- The decision of the Wallington
served since July 12, in the casc
Sir Rollo held that the offence brought by the Bishop of Waikato had been proved, but, in view of against the Rev. George Bell, the the mitigating circumstances and dispossessed vicar of St. Andrew's, of Rankin's excellent driving record, ho dismissed the charge Cambridge, Waikato, was made under the Probation of Offenders Public recently.
Act, on payment of £5, 58. costs. The decision upholds tho This decision, he said, would bishop's action in depriving the save him from being automatically Vicar of the living of St. Andrew's disqualified from driving.
Parish, and orders the roturn of the keys of the church and certain chattels, including the accounts of the church.
"HIS MOSLEM BROTHERS"
- MARSHAL LYAUTEY'S
EPITAPH.
tho
The "war" between the vicar and the blahop started several months ago, when the bishop doclared the llying vacant, after the vicar had refused to accept disciplinary action. The Rev.. Bell, however, refused to leave, and continued to claim to be vicar. The parish loners met on May 10 and unanim-
sly approved the blahop's action
vicar, however, remained in possession of the koys of the
The burial place chosen by Marshal Lyautoy is on skirts of Rabat, next to the twelfth-contury Tower of Inasan, among the ruins of a former church, the sacred vossols and village. His opitaph, chosen by books, so that the bishop's officers the Marshal himself, is to read: had even to break open the doors,
To the memory of Marshal
of the church. Finally, the bishop Lyautey, who was born a Christ-and churchwarden instituted pro- fan and lived a Christian, but coodings to recover these articles, wiehed to lie in Arab ground, be which Mr Boll refused to aurrea- side him Moslem heathers."
Taking no chances that their prisoners might sscape and carry bask information to the enemy, Paraguay troops blindfold their captured Bolivian formen on the trip bahlad the lines. This was after
ja bitter battle'in' the Chaco war. ;
With a tramendous loss of UP-
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nows-
con-
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