TO-DAY ONLY AT THE
KING'S
HONG KONG
ALHAMBRA
KOWLOON
'At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
-
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
as you've always wanted to see her...more
adorable than ever in sou’wester and slicker ...gáining new glory in this unforgettable story of a lighthouse by the sea!
CAPTAIN JANUARY
A FOX Picture with
GUY KIBBEE
SLIM SUMMERVILLE
JUNE LANG SARA HADEN -
JANE DARWELL BUDDY EBSEN
Associate Producer 6. G. DeSylva Directed by DAVID BUTLER Based on the story by Lowa E. Richards DARRYL F. ZANUCK
In Charge of Production
—TO-MORROW AT THE KING'S----|----TO-MORUOW. AT THE-ALUAMDRA—-
CEDRIC HARDWICKE-MARIE GLORY
in "THE KING OF PARIS"
United Artista Released.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
8.30-8.18
"EXCLUSIVE STORY"
with PRANCHOT TONE-MADGE EVANB
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pklare.
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VA LEY DJS
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD WANDHE
TEL. 19472
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936.
UNWILLING
TO INVEST
IN CHINA
U.S. INTERESTS "NOT ENTHUSIASTIC
a5
BUYING SILVER "ON LOAN”
Washington, May 17. It is being said among financial circles here that the Chinese delega- tion, hended by Mr. K. P. Chen, has informally investigated the ponsibility ot American investments in China in public services or industries, and that at present they are unable to find any satisfactory prospects.
HOMERS
FEATURE MATCHES
ST. LOUIS WINS ANOTHER
MANY CLOSE SCORES
New York, May 17. the National Lengua to-day, where Home-runs featured the games of the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals won their engage- ments. The Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves did not meet, on account of rainy weather.
It is understood that the United Pittsburgh Pirates, with eleven States Export and Import Bank lehits, one of them a homer by Vaug interested in short-term financing
han woro nosel out by New York, specifle trade prospects, but no power-eight to six. The Giants also had ful groups of bankers or other inves-eleven,
of
SAVAGES
HUNTING BRITISH WOMEN
MISSIONARIES IN DEADLY PERIL
DESPERATE APPEAL
Addis Ababa, May 17. Anxiety is increasing for tho safety of the two New Zealand Miss Daisy missionaries, McMillan and Miss Freda Honn. A letter has arrived hero by runner to-day, saying the two women had fled from their
tors are at present ready to parti- run. En Bartell getting a home mission to the bush,' but that
cipate.
.
feared immediate... dis-
Two other runners had tried to get
team had two errors. The
Cincinnati Reds
Won another they The projects in which China hoped close decision, and were luckier then covery and death.
they deserved.
won tho to arouse interest include
Handley broad game, knocking the bail out of the Sino-American investment corporation Bark and turning four hits into three to develop various types of enter prises, or alternatively an exclusive runs, while the Brooklyn Dodgers American combine interested in sup-could only squeeze two runs out of porting a single type of Chinese enter twelve safe blows. The Rode com prise such as a railway car and loco-mitted one error. motive factory.
The Chinese are said to be disposed to participate through a joint invent ment, or management, in the event of either project materialising,
The United States Export-Import Bank has admitted the discussions on Chinese trade projects, but adds that no conclusions had been reached.
It is also rumoured that as a re- sult of the negotiations between, the Bank of China's Mr. Chen and the United States Secretary of the Tren- sury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, United States purchases of Chinese silver are contemplated, and that the manner in which the purchases would be enrried out would have the semblance in China of a United States loan.
the
The rumour suggests that United States Treasury will buy sil ver under the terms of the Silver Pur- chase Act but permit the silver to re- main in the custody of American banks in China, nubject to return to
Chineso
Government upon China's repayment of the proceeds of the anie.
the
Spokesmen of Mr. Chon'a delegation and the United States Treasury both disclaimed any knowledge of such a plan.
*
However, economists here ar
are of the opinion that such an arrangement is plausible since it would avoid the appearance of draining China's silver, while technically it is placing the sit- ver under the control of the Slates--United Press.
United
PLANS FOR
LEADER'S FUNERAL
HU
HAN-MIN TO LIE IN NANKING
Canton, May 18. Mr. Hu Han-min's funeral. the date for which has not yet been fixed, will be very elaborate; probably the most impressive site Dr. Sun Yat- sen's.
The South-west Executive Com mmittee has decided to appropriate the sum of $100,000, and a larger amount Is expected be granted by the Cen- | tral Government, for the event.
Lo
ten runs on
through with letters, but hail failed. The third runner oluded the bush bandits.
The letter he bore told of the plight of the missionaries. Their station is seventy miles south of Addis Ababa amassed St. Louis
and had been besieged by bandits, so fourteen safeties, and J. Martin and. that the inmates had decided to flee to Medwick holped along with homers, the bush. They feared their dis- The Philadelphia Phillies scored threo covery was imminent, however, and on six hits, including Camilli's four-that death was certain. The bandits bang drive.
ST. LOUIS WINS
In the, American League the St. Louis Browns won their accend game in seventeen alarts. The Philadel phin Athieties were their victims, at
FORMER GREEK PREMIER PASSES
M. Tsoldaris, former Premjer of France, whose death was reported yesterday.
the end of a score of eight to five. The Browns hit eleven with Solters homer, against the opposition's ten and played a faultless game in the field.
The New York Yankees defeated The funeral in all probability will the Cleveland Indians eight to four, begin in Canton and continue to Nan-scoring on eleven hita. The Indians king
where Mr. Hu's remains will be hit mine. Each team had two error buried with full State rites.
The Detroit Tigers won against the The coffin in which the late Kuo- Washington Senators, eight to seven. mintang leader's body is lying, cost Both sides had eleven hits and no $2,800, being made of sandalwood errors, and Kress hit a homer for the
craftsmen famous throughout the country-Reuter-
2MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW from Tingchow and is the work of Senators and Simmons for the Tigern.
YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BETTER ENTERTAINMENT !
A MILLION dollars worth of headliners of stage, screen and
radio give you all the fun you can take.
great show of laughter, music and song.
IT'S THE WÖRLD'S GREATEST SHOW I
See..YOUR RADIO FAVORITES
at their peppiest...
at their merriest...
In this musical
Jubilee of joy
in
THANKS A MILLION
Starring DICK
POWELL
ANN DVORAK FRED ALLEN PATSY KELLY- PAUL WHITEMAN and BAND with RAMONA RUBINOFF
RAYMOND WALEVER YACHT CLUB BOYS
■DARRYLF. ZAHUCK
201 CENTERY PRODUCTION Pennaner KPU JE, ŠPORTNE -
[★ MATINEES; 20c.-30¢ • EVENINGS: 20e,-30c.-50c,»70e?
Silver Price Declines
RATES IN LONDON AND MONTREAL
New York, May 17.
London spot silver prices doclined
one farthing to 20 pence per ounce
It was anybody's game.
Boston Red Sox got a narrow de- cision over the Chicago White Sox, eight to seven. Just to be in style, the Bostonians also hit eloven times, like most of the other teams of the Lengue, Werber gave them a kome run. Chicago scored its eight kits-Reuter.
seven an
COMMITTED TWO ROBBERIES
while the forward quotation dechnod LONG SENTENCE FOR
by 3/16 pence to 20 11/10 pence per ounce yesterday.
London gold was quoted at 140s. Id. per ounce.
On the London foreign exchange inarket the French frane was quoted
ARMED MAN
Pleading guilty to two charges of robbery by two or more, Li Ying, 36, was sentenced to four and a half
a 75 23/64 against the pound ster-years hard labour by Mr. Justice J.
ling.
were shooting wildly around them.
The women belong to the Sudan Interior Mission--Reuter Special
FIGHT TO ESCAPE GALLOWS
TWO BRITISHERS FACE DEATH
San Francisco, May 17. Attorneys have fled with the State Supreme Court a petition for the re- hearing of the applications for clemency on behalf of two British subjects, sentences to death by the California
courts. The men Robert
Mackay, allegedly Implicated in a kidnapping, and calls himself only
The
men were
saved
aro
nion who
execution within a
a few hours of the time not their hanging, op
intervention
for
the
of the Foreign Office. Mr. Cordil Hull, the Secretary of State, took it
himself to
to stay the exccution in order that all that was possible could be done for the men under the law. Mackay bitterly reproached the au- thorities for last-minute postponement of his death when, as he said, he had strelet bitself to face the ordeui man- fully-United Preak.
Rome's Heroes Welcomed
Rome, May 17.
A crowd of 5,000 witnessed on affectionate family re-union when Minister, accompanied by his wife Signor Benito Mussolini, the Prime and and daughter, the Countess Ciano, welcomed back to the capital the two soldier sons of the Dictator, Vittorio and Brune
Count Clano, and the! Duce's nephew, Vito Mussolini.
The young men, all of them fllers, were received at the Littorio airport, having flown back from service in Ethiopia.
Il Duce kissed his two sons and his nephew,-lieuter,
TENSION IN JERUSALEM
BRITISH TROOPS CALLED OUT
Jerusalem, May 17. The Cameron Highlanders were ordered to march through the main streets of the city to-day, owing to the Increasingly tense situation
here following the murder of three Jews, shot down by an Arab as they left a cinema.
The Jewish population is ter rified by the recent happeninga. The Government's measures to ensure order include the pro- clamation of a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., while all roads are guarded by British .soldiers and pollee.
Bro
All pedestrians J. Hayden at the Criminal Bessions
this morning.
QULLA'S
TO-DAY ONLY
JAN KIEPURA
Adolph Zukor presents
At 2.30, 5.05, 7.20 & 9.30.
A glorious musical romance under a Mediter
ranean moon!
GLADYS SWARTHOUT
live Us This Night.
Live
with PHILIP MERIVALE • BENNY BAKER. Lyrics and Muste by Oscar Hammerstein II and Erich Korngold. Directed by Alexander Hail A Paramount Picture.
TO-MORROW
WE'RE GIVING · YOU
WARNING
OF THE SCREEN SURPRISE OF YOUR LIFE!
'It's the show insiders have been whispering about! The fastest, funniest aleutli story since "The Thin Man' and the swellest of all PERRY MASON'S amazing cases!
THE CASE OF THE
LUCKY LEGS"
STARE
A Flet National Picture with
WARREN WILLIAM PATRICIA ELLIS
4 SHOWS DAILY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW SYLVIA SIDNEY IN HER GREATEST DRAMATIC TRIUMPH SINCE "MADAM BUTTERFLY" !, ! ! A 'GRIPPING SWIFT-MOVING DRAMA CRAMMED WITH ACTION, THRILLS AND ROMANCE ! ! !
Within Two Seconds
Her Whole Life Changed!
Adofph Zukor proventa.
SYLVIA SIDNEY
'MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE'
A Paramount Picture with
MELVYN DOUGLAS ALAN BAXTER
Directed by William K Howard • A Waller Wanger Production
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY CARL BRISSON in "SHIP CAFE" Paramount's Comedy-Hit with Songs !
TO-DAY
ONLY
MAJESTIC
THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA!
At-2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
AH WILDERNESS!
Beery
WALLACE
with LIONEL
Cover Barrymore
Tuesday 19th
IKTUS
THE "CRUSADES":
Streamlined Car
bela May Challenge
World's Mark
searched for weapons,
Berious damage has been caused
by incendiarlen in Haifa.—Roster.
MORE RAINT
Muroc Dry Lake, California,
with
Loretta Young Henry Wilcoxon
one time Indianapolis speedway win- ner. Powered by Millar Racing⋅ Motor, it is equipped with a 12-foot stabilizing fin, which tends to balance the machine at maximum speed.
Hontreal silver bid prices were: May 40.43, July 46.55, September The first charge against the no-
Fougler, who mot several "saucer 40.70, December 47.00-United Press. cused was that he, together with
track records in 1023 and 1924, said: ne made no attempt to set any record three others, all armed with knives, went to 17 Wo Hop Street on Decem
May 2. in the local run and could only esti- Two unemployed min, Cheung Lamber 14 last, and robbed three women,
A special stream-lined racing mate the speed at 160 miles per hour. heung and Cheung Mou, who had a Chan Lin, 47, Wong Yuk-lin, 33, and
A weak anticyclono situated in car which hurtled across the dry the present motor with a 12 cylinder Moore and Fonglar plan to replace fight in Queen's Road near Graham Lo Slu, 29, of $150 in money and the Pacifle to the east of Japan. A bed of Muroc Dry Lake at ap-676-horze power engine within the Street, were bount over to keep the quantity of clothing and jewellery. shallow depression covers China. peace by Mr. Balfour at the Central
hour next three months and attack, the 24 The second count was in respect of Local forecast:-South winds,, ma proximately 150 miles an
derato; cloudy generally, probably has been hailed by its designers George Eyaton, English driver, set on heur endurance record of Captain Magistracy this morning. Insp. A. a robbery at 88 Eastern Street, second W. Smith prosecuted.
floor, on January 22 last when the some rain.
as a potential challenger to the the Utah Salt Fints last year. The accused was alleged to have robbed,
world's endurance run récord. with four others, two sisters, Cheng
record is 140 miles per hour for the Po-kun and Cheng Fo-feng, of three Cheung Lam, 30, attired in Eur- With James Stewart, young movie 24-hour run. Fengler suid his gold finger rings, a gold bracelet, a opean style clothing with opon actor, beside him, co-designar Harlan would be made over the same course.
two platinum wrist neck shirt, pleaded guilty before Mr. Fangler whipped the four-wheeled United Press.
straight-away Balfour at the Central Biagistracythunderbolt down a E. aged GG
1. Williams, Assistant this morning to the theft of a silver course while a movie camera crow ro corded the dash. The run was the
Captain J. E. Lock commander of was charged before Bir. ful possession
prosecution, said the crimes were Schofield, the
Road Hollywood at Central Magistracy this of a serious nature because in both Pilldagton sald defendant was seen The car, 20 feet, tave inches long, Club on "The Growth of Imperial Almed here by a Hollywood company, to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary morning. Defendant stated he had cases the victims were women.
told Defendant the Magistrate that he was formerly was built by Fengler and Lou Moore, Airways" GAR
a clerk employed at the Hongkong
The police ara endeavouring to trace the owner of a blue chrome leather
with nickel
of British make, found in possession Watches and a silver hair clip.
Pun
of Cheung Tai, unemp with unlaw-/Attorney-General, who appeared for shield from the Kwong Wah Collie climatic sequence to a picture being the 1.M.A. Dorado, will speak at
W.
picked up the bag on the hillside near The accused was sentenced to two the Wanchal works. Defendant and a half years' hard labour on the was arrested in Tai Yuen Street on first charge and two years on the Saturday. Mr. Schofield romanded do- | second, the sentences to run con- fendant for 48 hours.
secutively,
to
A classroom.
Dot-Sergt.
Club but was dismissed two months
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY ago. The defendant was romanded. FRANKLIN, nt 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, until to-morrow for further enquiries.
Hongkong,