THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER
19, 1936.
OUR HOME L'AND IS OUT OF THE "RED"
Garters Question At
Church Dance "PINK OR BLUE?"
THE question, "Has any lady pink or
blue garters?"—asked through a micro- phone at a dance in a Roman Catholic parish hall-was repeated at the annual meeting of Middlesex County Council) Licensing Committee recently.
The Rev. William Gordon applied for a renewal of the music and dancing ilcence of St. James's Hall, Radnor Rd. Twickenham,
Mr. J. Stephenson, applyingDior restrictions, said that the chief objection of a number of residents near the hall was the noise. During dances the
windows were oponed.
.
THE MAN IN DED
On one occasion a Mr. Bray heard an announce- ment through a microphone which could not bo offensive in the light and movement of a dance hall, but which, when it drifted in the midnight air and through the window of a man trying to get some sleep, might be more likely to disgust than amuse.
Mr. Bray in evidence said that which went on until midnight on 11.30 on Sundays, often kept his; little daughter awake.
FOR CHOCOLATES
the weekdays
dances, and
DOWN-WITH BECK ISM
Four hundred women from all over Western Washington stormed Governor Martin's office nt Olympia, demanding that he put an end to "the racketeering, strike violence and business suppress- ion that exists in the
slate"
Special reference was made to the Newspaper Guild strike resulting in shut- down The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Shortly after the first group was heard, a second contingent appeared and unsured Martin there was no truth in charges made by the original protestors.
of
The chairman (Mr. W. W. Wright) 100,000 CRASHES
| to.
said the committee would like know what the announcement was,
Mr. Bray: The M.C. was usking if any lady had plak garters, or if uny! Indy lund blue garters. He was ask- ing the ladies what type of garters they wore.
The chairmun said ite supposed this question was being asked so thot
WILL TELL THE
REASON WHY
any woman who had the right colour THE Ministry of Transport is engaged on the biggest analysis ever
made into the causes of street accidents.
would get a box of chocolates.
It involves examination of 100,000 street accidents of all types
Father Gordon submitted a peli- tion from other residents in which-fatal and non-fatal. they said that they did not consider the users of the hall rowdy, that the noise made by loud-speakers was not excessive, and that they had 110t heard an improper announcement.
NUISANCE,
So far information has been based entirely on fatal accidents, system which in the opinion of Mr. Hore-Belisha is profoundly unsatisfactory as it is impossible to obtain the most important evidence
that of the victim.
MINISTRY'S HOPE -
Now reports of the police, of eye-witnesses ard insurance com The chairman said that the companies will form the basis of the investigation. mittee felt there was a nuisance The Ministry of Transport hopes that the analysis will provide arising from these premises and that the licence should be renewed for information upon which accident preventive measures, such as the use of traffic rails, pedestrian crossings and street lighting can The committee directed Father he used with greater effect. Gordon's attention to the restriction
three months only.
which says a responsible representa- As soon as the Trunk Roads Bill | tive of the church shall attend every passes into law the Ministry is lo dance, and decided as follows:-o initiate a complete survey of the dancing after_midnight; no loud-14.500 miles of main roads which are speakers; no windows open on the lë se natômixed."
north side; nolve abatement notices in the hall,
Policeman
Arrests Own Son
POLICE CONSTABLE
Baby Carried Off
by Wild Dog. ADOPTED BY WOMAN
RESCUER
New York, Dec. 1.
A baby a few days old snatch-
el from the mouth of a wild dog!
NA at Pearl River, Louisiana, has
GEL, said to his 18-year- tremendously puzzled the mén-
old son Dennis, "I have to arrest hers of that, little rural com-
you."
Dennis, who lives with his parents at York Rd., New Barnet, Herts, ap peared at Highgate Police Court: recently charged on a warrant, with driving a motor-car in a dangerous manner and on summonses with driving without due care and atten tion, with driving without an insur unce policy, and without having a learner's plate on the car.
Mr. Springer, who appeared for
munity. They are unable to trace the origin of the child or the identity of the dog from which it was saved.
Mrs. Loule Crawford, wife of relief worker and another of two children of her own, was standing outside her cabin at dusk yesterday when a dog apparel.
"It was a big black dog, trotting through the brush with something
young Nagel, said he was summoned white in his inouth,” said Mrs. Cenw-
for the offences three months 90 ford. "When he saw me he stopped,
and falled to appear. He dis- and I was so scared I could only stand
appeared.
there I had never seen the dog be-
Nagel now said that he left home fore. Most of those around here are because he was dismissed by his hounds, but this one looked like a feared to tell his big bull terrier. Then while I was
employer. He
people he had lost his work, went to looking the white thing moved, ond I the south coast, joined a boat, and heard a baby's ery.
voyaged to Palestine.
He returned home one Friday "When I realised it was a baby I
night, and on arrival met his was terrified, but run down, shouting father, a police constable, who tald "Put that down; put it down.'
him of the warrant, arrested him clapped hands, and made as if I
Springer sold the boy's
Mr.
were going to hit the dog, and that
and ran for the woods."
absence caused his parents consider scared him. He dropped the baby ablo anxiety, and added: “His father) looks much happier to-day than he did three months ago."
The baby was wrapped in a solled
The magistrales dis
dismissed the square of cheap cotton cloth, but was charge of driving dangerously, and unharmed. The way the wrapping the summons for not having a polley had been moistened from the mouth of insurance, and fined Nagel 20 of the dog seemed to indicate that it shillings for driving without due had been carried some distance. care and attention, and five shillings:
Although they are in the poorest
car.
for not having a letter "L" on the circumstances, and although neigh- bours wish to adopt the child, Mrs. He was also ordered, to pay £2| Crawford sald that they would keep 78.. costs and his licence was en- it and call it Moses, because of the
way it was saved from death.
dorsed.
HIS HURDLE NIGHTMARE
New York, Dec. 1. PHILIP COPE, co-holder of the world's high hurdles record, had a nightmare at his Los Angeles home last night, dream.
ed that barglars were peeping through the window.
He dashed from his bed, cleared the window sill In cham.. pionship style, crashed to the ground, then woke up. His In juries may prevent him from hurdling again, inggi
1936 Was Prosperous
Year For Britain
UNEMPLOYED LOWEST SINCE WAR
London, Dec. 15. Cheap money and government expenditures for rearmament have together given. Great Britain the most comfortable year she has known since 1928. Unemployment has steadily fallen, partly from the increased activity of the heavy industries and partly from the slow redistribution of the unemployed from the more or less hope- lessly depressed arcas to the armament centres. For the first time since the Great War, 'the industrialized Midlands and North have drawn workers from Greater London, reversing the fifteen-year trend.
even
Iron and steel production reached] lion agreement reached with the in September the highest levels in United States and France in Septem- theber was in itself less Interesting to British history, eclipsing
British Industrialists than the pledge tremendous output of the Great War which accompanied it to co-operate period and continued eách
month in removing trade restrictions. thereafter to make fresh high records.
The Stock Exchange for the greater Great stress was thid upon the claim part of the year enjoyed a dignified that this was partly the "building boom led by iron, steel, shipbuilding, booin" and not entirely rearmament armament and cement shares, but
the European situa- activity. However, that part of the worsening of the
of funds with ion led to a steady flow concerned "building boom"
from London
don to New York largely residential private, building showed for investment in American common signs of slowing down during the stocks. British Government stocks year and there was general agree- were strongly supported all
year ment that it would have to be cup-Land in the main were proof against plemented by government and muni-the cipal activity in slum clearance and housing seltemes.
shocks administered by the totalitarian states from time to time. There was a
a widespread revival of Interest in South American securities partly on the grounds that they were WOOL TEXTILE TRADE
far removed from the deteriorating The wool textile trade had a mixed European situation.
which sell
British banks worked closely with yen. Those sections
made manufactured goods abroad continued the Bank of England and
Towards the end 10 flud recovery an uphill struggle money doing so. but there was a lively demand for of the year they began to cut down carpets for the new houses built and their loans to the stock exchange and an extraordinary inom In bunting to speculative investors in an effort. dags and decorations for the Coronite restrain the
boom. In tion. The cotton textile trade con- spite of that, total loans and advances tinued to 'mill around with Its improved noderately.
1šsue; problems of exe
The market for new capital of excess capacity and foreign y was made with a scheme to high grade municipal
though marktets
erratic and "nicky". S
Jonns DIT several million
current
Their
the
Bame
Several were execss failures and had to be carried by spintles through a general levy on their underwriters while cotton apinners. After the middle of fate ottended two Government issuca the year, business picked up, in both which had to be taken up by Govern- the other the spinning and weaving sections, me
ment departments. On though labour disputes promptly and, investors seemed quite willing tlan. Rayon production on the other quite regardless of arose to cast a cloud over the situa- to take up new iron and steel Issues unhappy bond continued to make fresh experiences in the past. records in production and sales,
ALL ROUND INCREASE MAGNET FOLD
London remained
powerful that Britain's exports falled to keep from the gold bloc. Private hourds Chief complaint of the year, was magnet for gold, both from India and pace with her rising unports, exports of gold continued to rise in Tandon, increasing by some three
per though towards the end of the year cent. while imports rose by twelve these were transferred # large per cent, This was blamed mainly scale to New York and sold to the on the level of international trade United States Treasury. in Kenerpl und the worldwide net- Talk of private banking eredits to restrictions but the rise in British time but nothing materialized, On work of quotas and
exchange Germany recurred from time 10 costs reflected in the various com-the
contrary, one of the big joint modity indices, was also admitted to stock banks disposed of its credit be a factor. The exchange equaliza-lines, thus breaking away from the common policy thus far followed by the bly London banks.
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