THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938.
Seamen Drunk At The
Helm "FLIRTING IN LIFTS" "THE safety factor in
.our ships to-day is
far less than in the days before the Morro Castle disaster."
distin-
This statement, by gulshed American shipmaster," Bummarises the indictment of the "discipline" In Americho ships" "con- tained in a report published by the Senate Commerce and Labour Committees after hearings In Washington.
was
The Morro Castle; a United States luxury crusing linev,
burned with the loss of 134 lives of Nev Jersey in September 1931.
YOUNG GIRLS TRAPPED
Communism among the maritime unions is described as one of the chief causes of 1-discipline in the United States Merchant Service, lo- gether with the fact that officers join the
some union us
men,
the
a
practice, in the words of one wit-1 ness, that "destroys all moral.
That noble figure, the sailor-mori,
is almost gone," Juments un (231- named captain who told the com-
niitees:
"I have seen look-outs aloft so drunk that we were afraid le re- move them from the crow's nest for fear they would full_lown;
"Men at the wheel so drunk that they turned the wheel the wrong way;
"RED SALUTES"
"Lift boys who trap young girly in the lifts between decks and make advances to them;
"Waiters who preach Com- munism to their passengers ai
"Sallors who smoke aloft throw their cigarettes into the wind, with our hatches full of cotton; and "Engine-roont
men
who raise their clenched ista in the Com- munistic salute during bont drill."
He also stated that he knew of bar-keepers who, under the in- fluence of drink, knocked at night on the stateroom doors of women and asked to be admitted.
DUCE DEFENDS
GOOSE STEP
"NOT FOR FAT OR HALF-BAKED MEN”
SYMBOL OF FORCE OF
YOUNG ITALY
Rome.
UFS
THREE CEREMONIES—When Prince Paul, heir-presumptive to the Greek throne, and Princess Prederika Luise of Brunswick, were made man and wife in Athens, recently, three ceremonies were performed. First was by the Greek church Archbishop of Athens, robed in cloth of gold: second by a Gerinan Evangelical chaplain, and third by civil authorities. Greece made a hollday of the occasion. The Princo and his bride are shem above.
King Zog's Bride
A "Cinderella
""
Tirana.
TOO LATE NOW, SAYS K.C.
(Continued from Page 3)
was
starled? - It ecedings were written for the reasons stated in the letter.
120,000 SUPER TAX
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Empress of Britain's
Dance Orchestra
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This concluded the cross-examina-0.52 m.c's. per second. tion, which had lasted three-and-a- half-hours.
Mr. Stuart Cole, an accuntant, pro- | duced schedules showing movements of money in and out of the Joint account, which was started on July 4, 1027.
Sir Stafford Cripps: As a result of the totality of those schedules, you arrived at the conclusion that the actual amount, drawn out by the plaintiff during the whole of the period from the join! account was
£202,113 175.7-Yes,
The amount paid into or on behalf of the joint account from the plain- tiff's private account during the same perlod was £155,491 6s. 6d., leaving a difference of £126,022 10s. 64.7- Yes,
|
II.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relny of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.
12.30 Band of H. M Coldstream Guards and Peler Dawson (Bass- Barlione).
"H.MS, Pinnfare"-Selection (Sul- livan), The Band cond.-by Lieut. R. G. Evans; There'll Be No South (From The Music goes 'round")...
The Dawson; Parade Of
Puppels (Kuhn) The Changing Of The Guard (Flotsam und Jetsam)....The Band cond, by. Licut. J. C. Windram; A Sea Call (Ramon); Life And Death Dawson; (Coleridge-Taylor)"
Weo Mucgregor Patrol (Amers); Policeman's Holiday One-Step (Ewing)..The Band cond. by Lieut. R. G. Evans.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-
Sir Patrick Hastings: Since the dute of the separation, Captainther. Report. Cunningham-Reid has pald £20,000
in super lax, and that reduces the £126,622 10s. Od. by that amount?--- Yes,
Scala's
Primo 3.03 Band
Accordeon
In A Gypsy Caravan (Butler- Damerell-Myera); Riding The Range
This concluded the evidence for In the Sky (Carlton) ...Vocalists: Captain Cunningham-Reld.
Fred Douglas and Jack Hodges; Maracay (Gilbert-Nicholls); My Little Buckaroo (From
Strange
K.C. "SUMS UP"
Mr. F. R. Evershed, K.C., summing-Laws')....With Vocal Chorus; Six up the case for Captain Cunningham-Hits Of The Day......With Vocal Reid, said there was no plea that Chorus. the transactions were the result of fraud or undue influenec.
1.19 Patricia Rossborough (Piano). Crest Of The Wave Selection; Crazy Days Selection: College Holl During the cross-examination. counsel asked many questions direct-day-Selection; Swing High-Swing
Low--Selection. ed to show, apart from the fact that Captain Cunningham-Reid was no gentleman, that he exercised some unfair advantage over his wife and that she was infatuated with him.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast
Announce- meals.
and
1.40 Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpts.
Opera Orchestra; "Iolanthe" determined on the effect of the Iolanthe From Thy Dark Exile mundate, and no question of the Bertha Lewis, Nellie Briercliffe and conduct, good or bad, of anyone in Chorus of Girls; Good Morrow, Good the case could have anything to do
Lesile Rands and Chorus with that aspect of it.
The issue on the claini fell to be fr. The Mikado"Overture....The
He submitted that the arangement entered into between the husband and wife was intended to be a provision which would last at least during their "INSPIRED "
KING Zog of Albania's betrothal to the "Modern Joint lives.
Cinderella," the impoverished 22-years-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi, will be officially announced at a special session of Parliament summoned for 10 a.m. on Monday. He has formally asked Count Apponyi, her uncle, for her hand.
A special envoy from
King arrived in Budapest tv-day, and in- vited the countess's family to Tirana, where they are expected on Thurs-
day. On Friday there will be
bunguet,
King Zog wishes the marriage to take place as soon as possible.
Society is calling the counters a modern Cinderella, for her romance will end three years of poverty.
Since her father died, leaving prae- tically no fortune, she hus Hved with
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SOUTH AFRICA
With reference to the revocability of the deeds, Mr. Evershed sakl he could not help suggesting that Cunningham-Reld had been inspired to put forward this defence by the
use of the word "mandate."
It was a word applied to documents between a principal and his agent, which could be withdrawn or revok ed. The use of the word in this case was with a view to producing In less expensive result in regard to
stamping.
Counsel submitted that the deeds in question were not a mandate in the sense of an Instruction to an agent, and that they were not revocable.
TOO LATE
Mother ...
of Girls; When All Night Long Sydney Granville.
1.50 Light Orchestral.
1,20
Sweet
Immortal Strauss (A Medley of Strauss Waltzes).Vie
Viennese Waltz Orchestra; Piccadilly-Concert Ar- (From Soft Lights and ronMusic); Falling Leaves-Con- cert Arrangement (Kennedy, Carr) Vocal Chorus: What's Next? (A Pot- Ambrose and His Orchestra with pourri of popular tunes of the last half Century)....Hermun Finck and
His Orchestra.
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0.00-7.00 Chinese Programme. 1,00 Organ and Chotal Programme Introduction And Fugue (From Fantasia on 'Ad Nos Salutem. Franz Liszt)....Fernando Germani played on New York Wanamaker Auditorium
(Words, Organ; Crown Of Life Turner; Music, Arr. M. Furrar).... The B.B.C.
Wireless Chorus, The Question (Wolstenholme); Answer (Wolstenholme) Grand Organ played by Reginald Goss-- Custard, F.R.C.O. at Kingsway Hall, London: Morgenblatter (Vocni Waltz Johann Strauss, Op. 270)....The B. B. C. Wireless Chorus.
7.20
Closing Local Stock Quota- Hons.
7.30 London Relay Food For Thought'
Three short talks on matters of toplent 'interest.
Dealing with the counter-claim, Signor Mussolini congratu-relatives, earning a Iving from her
Mr. Evershed said it was now for too late. whether the motives were lated 10,000 Blackshirts this knowledge of foreign languages.
Capetown, noble or ignoble, for Mrs. Cunning- At one time she sold picture post- morning on the way in which
cords in the Budapest National The Cape Federation of Labour ham-Reid to say: "I want all the they did the new Roman parade Muscum.
Unions has applied to the Depart-
money back." ments of Labour and atop the "goose-step," as it is A porter there said: "She was a
Immigration. Counsel maintained that there had Inquiring if action can be taken to been a specifle approval by the wife known in England-after little nice, sweet little countess, 1
prevent the Settlers' Association from affuming the arrangement alleged by practice.
sorry she won't be working here any
British good bringing more
artisans to her husband.
1.50 Studio—A Talk On Soelety more. But she will make The march-past was in celebration Queen.""
South Africa.
"Captain Cunningham-Reid has Protection of Children by D. Spreck-
for. been subjected to a severe cross- examination, which was contemptu-
.00 Local Time Signal, Weather ous and cynical," said Mr. Evershed. Report and
8.03 "It was suggested that he was 'no
of Bri. tain's Dance Orchestra, body that the arrangement had been
0.00 Richard Crooks (Tenor).
My Mother Taught Mo Motiter O' Mine (Kipling-Tours); If I Should Send A Rose (Shinyon-Shilkret).
9.10 Chopin
of the 15th anniversary of the founda-
Countess Geraldine, whose mother tion of the Blackshirt militia. It took is an American, is an accomplished place near the remains of the Roman girl, popular in Budapest society, and forums.
The parade step symbolises the clever at tennis, fencing, and riding. Unemployed, and imported artisans gentleman' for not having told some.
Last year she won 蹑 beau- ty competition "for aristocrats Daly,"
force, will-power and energy of the young generation of the Littorio," said Signor Mussolini. “They
She is a Catholic, and King Zog is thusiastic about it. It is hard and a Mosiem. But it is thought that
arc
сп-
demands preparation and training. some arrangement will be reached on
For this reason we want it,
"It is a slep which sedentary big-bellied men, deficient persons, men, and so-called half-baked men could never do. For this reason it; pleases us.
"Our adversaries are proclaiming that
the parade step is the mosį genuine and authentic expression of militarism. We are glad to hear it and for this reason we have adopted it. Before long, we shall do it per- fectly well, because the Italians can do anything when they want to.
this matter,
Universal Chief In
Hongkong
since
our
"It is now two years company re-organised" said Mr. L. R. Brauer, managing' director for Universal Pictures Corp. of Ching, during on Interview on his arrival yesterday.
the outlook in the building trade is The Federation states that, while cheerful, South African artisans are are readily employed. Many of the newcomers, however, are not able to retain their jobs, and the Federation suggests that the Association is bring- ing men in without finding out whe- ther they are competent.
Postal
made,"
"A MUG"
Creatorren Dvorak):
Polonaise-Fantaisie No. 7 In A Flat Major Op. 01; Andante Spianato Op. 22. Arthur Rubinstein (Plano); Waltz In D Flat-Op. 64, No. 1; Etude in C Major Op. 10, No. 7....Wil- helm
Backhaus (Piano).
Mr. Evershed said the fact that Captain Cunningham Rejd pald £155,491 Into the joint account and, Durban business men have pro-after separation, paid another £20,- mised to guarantee the necessary 000 in respect of super-tax, plainly sums to enable 100 British artisans showed that he was not engaged, as to come to South Africa under the Sir Patrick Hastings had alleged, in auspices of the Association.
"feathering his nest and getting for Revenue-Mc. Clarkson, himself every penny he could,
8.30 London Relay-The Newa Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. Justice Crossman: To use a 8.50 Band of H, M. Grenadier speaking at Ladybrand, Orange State, said that the post office revenue not to have kept the lot?
vulgar expression, he was a "mug Guards. this year would exceed £5,000,000. Notwithstanding n reduction of over £1,000,000 in postal charges, revenue had increased by £600,000.' India
CHANGES LIKELY IN BENGAL MINISTRY
Calcuttu,
Mr. Evershed proceeded to deal with the evidence of Captain Cun- ningham-Reld, and the hearing was adjourned,
MEDICAL EDITOR
LAMENTS WEIRD
HEALTH BELIEFS
Seattle.
ex-
The Beggar's Opera--Selection
(Gay-Austin)....Cond. by Capt. George Miller; The Grenadiers Waltz (Waldteufel arr. Winterbottom) cond. by Capt. George Miller; Oid MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY
Folks At Home And In Foreign Lands ....Cond. by Capt.
George
Miller. "Fascist Italy is strong. She has
10.10 Variety Programme. many armaments and very many men
Orchestra-The Acsela Blossoms to use them. She la under one com-
Twice; More Stars Than There Are mand, and her morale is tempered "Since then," said Mr. Brauer,
In The Sky: Once Had A Dear by four wars.
"many changes have been taken place An early reconstruction of the
Mother; The Sun Is In Love With "Fascist Italy respects everybody's in various departments of our organi-Bengal ministry la foreshadowed, and
The Moon....Magyari Imre and His Interests but is ready to defend hersation. Mr. Nat Blumberg has been it is believed that three Bindu menz-
Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra;; Vocal self in future against all comers. Do appointed our president, Mr. Charles bers of the Congress party will be
Nur Dir Will Ich Gehoren (Wile- R. Rogers is still in charge of produc- Included. you undersidnd?"
In Deineti tions in Hollywood, but our foreig
De. W. W. Bauer, director of the zynski-Van Aaken); The militia shouted: "Yes, Yes.”
Owing to the refusal of Congress bureau of health and education of the berger-Heller)...Joseph Schmidt Augen Les Ich Ein Marchen (Nieder- to co-operate, when the Ministry was American Medical Association, During the ceremony Siguer Musso-department has now Mr. J. H. Seidel- man as vice-president and manager lini distributed medals for gallantry in charge of all foreign distributions.
March, the five Hindus out ploded health superstitions believed (Tenor); Piano-You're Here, You're of its 11 members were men of little by some people.
There, You're Everywhere (Kahal men who had fought in Libya, "I may be of interest to your pollenl experience.
and Loeb); Foolin' Myself (Lawrence Abyssinia and Spain. In the after-readers to know that
As part of his work with the and Tinturin) It is understood that Mr. Gandhi American Medical Association, Dr. and His Boy Friends; Vocal-It's The
....Carrol very soon we noon he attended a military display will release "Mad
About Music"
has consented to the changes. In the Borghese Park,
starring Hongkong's most popular
Bauer is an Mauled Leopard. Two of the gata, the health magazine. Mis-
associate editor by
of The Natural Thing To
Doi
The Moon Deanna Durbin. Another film
film Indians mauled by a leopard near taken beliefs concerning food come
Got In My Eyes (from 'Double or that should be soon ready for releuse Bangalore after the animal had been to his attention in editing the mall
with Or is "Rage Of Parla" in which we pre-fired at have died in hospital.
Dalsy sent for the first time the continental
for the publication. Air Crash Recalled.--The loss-of
And The And The
Huntin' .Elsio star Danielle Darleux, recently sign the Imperial Airways liner City of
and Doria Waters; Dance Orchestra Regime Cowboy Joe; Sailing On
Robert Lee
Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins; Vocal Cilmbing Up The Golden Stairs; In the Moon- light's Glow'. ....The Hill Bulles with their own Novelty Accomp.; Organ Palace Theatre Medley. Reginald FoortOrgani of the Paramount Theatre, London.
11.00
London Rel
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to
NORTH
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Moscow.
tor,
Some of these beliefs are:
1. Freckles can be removed
ed up with Universal after her great Khartoum on Jan. 1, 1936, was re-applying certain cosmetics. success in the European plcture enlled to-day when Sir Harry Halg, 2. Certain kinds of face "Mayerling"" In which she played
Governor of the United Provinces, with Charles Boyer,
the Horsman memorial hos- grow hair, "Good-Bye Broadway" will have [pital at
It lins beer built at Cawnpore.
by
No
Gibbons
cream will 3. Aluminium utensils cause can- radio is to begin next Tuesday. 1 in the cast and "Day Of Promise"
An Arelle chess tournament by Alice Brady and Charles Winninger in memory of Mrs. K. U. Horsman, er or some other disease.
the well-known airwoman living 94.
4. Fish is brain food. will last last until May 1.
"There The whole of the Soviet Arctie has will star Irene Dunne and Edgar In India, who was a victim
are literally thousands of of the been organised in six groupe
Bergen with Charlle McCarthy, crash. The machine plunged into the mistaken beliefs that should be re
Mr. Brauer, who is staying for a sta” one “and a 'hhlf mies" outside || futed,”...anid Dr. Bauer, “One of Each group will select its cham-week in Hongkong, is here on his Alexandria Karbour, 12 lives being them is that a woman must lose a Speaks Bland by matches before next Tuck- annual visit, having just retumed on lost. The hospital has been erected tooth for every baby the bohrs *****
A series of talks broadcast from thezradio battle beginsimilar trip to Tloitain and by Mrs. Hormman's husband and HIF "--"Such-bellefa that "baar thể stamp" the U.S.A. to the Billah. Empire. * Pines Radio Station,
brother.
per kerns of famorance, cause no end of hard 11:30 Close Down,
Polping
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