12
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
#
WALTER
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Great Adventure! Bursting out of to day's headlines... ecstasy...horofam ...love... unforget. table thuis, ... di. rocted by the genius who gave you 'Zola'
and 'Pastour*
BLOCKADE
WANGER
presents
co-starring MADELEINE CARROLL
•
HENRY FONDA with LEO CARRILLO - JOHN HALLIDAY Directed
by William Dietario. Released thru United Artists
ADDED ATTRACTION
A WALT DISNEY SILLY SYMPHONY CARTOON
WOODLAND
NEXT CHANCE
Gaumont British
SHOWB
DAILY
230-5.15
7.13.0.30
IN TECHNICOLOUR
CAFE
"SILENT BARRIERS
"
11
with Richard Arlen - Lelli Palmer - Antoinette Cellier
TAKE ANY TEEN DR KAPUT YAKUST BUS
RIENTAL
MYTHEATRE
FLEMING
ROAD WANCHAY
TEL 28473
CLAST 4 TIMES TODAY
ONE OF THE SEASON'S BIGGEST LAUGH HITS!
+
Martha ghts a ferocious bull to the most hilarious bullfight ever seen, Hern's musle, sanzu, doners galore,
From Romance to Bullfight It's a Fiesta of Fun!
TROPIC HOLIDAY
1. Frambut Puree wide
BOB BURNS - MARTHA RAYE DOROTHY LAMOUR - RAY MILLAND BINNIE BARNES · TITO CUIZAR
3 DAY REVIVAL OF SUPER-PICTURES OF THE PAST ! TO-MORROW, FOR ONE DAY ONLY UNIVERSAL'S SENSATIONAL THRILL PRODUCTION!
What Was the Strange Lure of Dracula?
DRACULA
WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY
SCREEN'S FINEST ENTERTAINMENT PAST OR PRESENT !
Beanna DURBIN
100 MEN and a GIRLY
Leopoli STOKOWSKI
'Adsione Menja » Alice
Brad, Mischa Anel
THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY
THE GREATEST WAR PICTURE OF ALL TIME!
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”
• MATINEES: ́20c.-90c • EVENINGS:' 20c,-30c.-50c,-70c.
Needed Urgently
MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S
Winter Clothing Hongkong Benevolent Society
11 Ice House Street,
MONDAY THURSDAY
10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,
Sunning
Railway Claim
China Socks To Rostrain Hongkong Firm
Canton, Sept. 20.
and The case of McDonnell Gorman, the engineering firm who went bankrupt some montha ago while building an iron bridge near Kung Yick for the Sunning Railway, has again come into prominence with
report that
the
DETECTIVE International
1938.
WHO FAILED Thieves Robbed QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
TO APPEAR Albanian King
COURT ESTREATS
HEAVY BAIL
an
echo in
Big Jewellry Haul
Is Recovered
Formla, Sept. 30.
solved The Police here have
for investigators
15
many
The disappearance of Detective Chon Chun in March last when ho was indleted on a elurge of man- problem which has buffed inter- slaughter, had
the national Criminal Scaluns this morning, when mul the disappearance after # Mr. J. Whyatt.
Crown Couture, plane crash of a voleuble collection applied for the estreatment of his of jewela which were being sent to King Zog of Albanin, und from ball of $250.
Which he intended to select a gift for his bride.
District elective stationed at
24,
the
Mr. Whyat said that Chan was a Shambhulpo the Toishan
Station, and the case was first Magistrate has interposed a heard February
on restraining order preventing following day at 10 am, when hear the Sunning Railway Coming was to be resumed, he did not appear. The Jury was accordingly pany and the Hongkong firm discharged, and the Chief Justice of Messrs. Anderson, Meyer &
Lench Insur
warrant for Co., the mortgagee and pur-arrest. chaser of the assets of the bankrupt firm, from taking over These assets.
between
his
short time afterwards. Chan nade an apptaranev and he aken before the Chief Justice, who hen said he would have to be re- tried at the Morch Sessions.
Oficial communications
Ball was granted as in the previous the Toishan authorities and the Ame- sum of $250. But when the case was rican Consul General at Cantonarelled at the March Sessions Chan sald to be continuing in on effort to again hk #at Op A second
clear up the difculty.
When it became insolvent, the firm of McDonnell and Gorman was build ing the bridge but had not completed it. According to the railroad off- cials $200,000 had already been paid these constructors for work and further U.S.$58,700 for materials. The work was not completed.
When funds became depleted and the firm got into deep water beenuse the Canton Municipal Countil could not continue its instalment payments 011 11 contract for a railway bridge acros: the Pear) liver above Wong- sha, the American owners were forced to abandon the project, em- ployees unpaid. Anderson, Meyer & Co, are believed to have bought the title to all the debtor's property, including the debt still due from the Chinese Government.—Our. Chen Correspondent.
Airwomen Missing On Flight To East
Moscowy, Sept. 28.
bench
warrant Wag Issued. been heard of, despite
bit
since then by the Police.
accordingly
every effort he had not
Mc. Justles R. E. Lindsell grantedi the application.
Morning Fire Guts Wanchai Tenements
Although the
and
when vincenzo
The solution was reached
Milante Was arrested, After a long search, the missing valuable were found in his home.
The total value of the haul is estimated
hundred at several thousand lire and there is said to be
L no dou
doubt that the jewellery found Is the property of the Paris store which sent the selection to Kint Zog on the Tirat-Roma plane which crashed on mountains neur here several months ago.-United Presa.
LEAP THROUGH WINDOW IN NIGHTMARE
24
Police are satisfied that nightmare caused a bridegroom recently to leap through the
closed bedroom window of a he was spending his honeymoon.
Blackpool boarding-house where
KOWLOON
HONG HÙNG
·AT_2·50·515 7·20-950PM AT 2:30.5.20·720 2 9:50 _P
SHOWING TO-DAY
This Littic Gold Digger Went To Paris
.P.M!
And Criad "WHEE! WHEE I" All The Way Home! Vive La Dance! Vive La Romance! Vive La France!
GOLD
TAGGERS
IN
PARIS
RUDY VALLEE
PROSEMARY LANE,· HUGH, HERBERT ALLEN JENKINS |
SHAND
CHNICKEL FRIZZ
CLORIA DICKSON - MELVILE COFFER - MABEL FOOD • FRITZ FELD' - A WARMER MUDS. Picture » Brecké by RAY ENROLIT • Bestral Hembart Crueled word Directed by Busby Bakaley con Hay by Turð Pulloin and Warne But a Trng bé dưng With Miðara Alanmalay, Maurice Jaw as lite by lamp Stormin and Jenni Krymai • Himid and limita Ng fling Touch and Al Dhadka
--- WEDNESDAY —
At The QUEEN'S "TO-MORROW'S CHILDREN"
A Medical Educational Film
About
Sterilization.
Human FOR ADULTS' ONLY!
DAILY
← AT
230
520
720.
was
le is Mr. Squire Parr, a 27-year- fald plasterer, of Queens Park Terrace,
who Middleon, Manchester, married a few day before.
Suffering from cuts he was taken thin! to hospital but was later able to leave Lattialelor home.
: round Hours of Nos. 1, 3 and Street in Wanetai were commletely destroyed by five curly thi, morning, no casualties resulfid,
The fire brigade
wone OK
12FT. FALL People in the boarding house af South Shure were awakened by a theshout, the sound of smashing glass
scene at 4 m. which was shortly and a thud.
fter the outbreak, and the five was extinguished about an hour later.
CHEAPER TIMBER
FOR ENGLAND
on
London, Sept. 25. Major Clipp, rafviser
forest engineering to the Malayan Forest | Three Soviet air-women who took | Service, is visiting the British) off from Møspow on a non-stop flight | dependencies in West Africa to l To the Far East are missing.
plane was maintained until it was a little beyond Lake Baikal.
markets.
Experience has shown that the
Mr. Parr had suddenly leaped out ful bed, plunged through the window and fallen 12ft, on to a paved path, dragging the curtains with kho.
Paid Wife For 27 Years
investigate the possibility of develop-- Since Arthur Victor Walton Wireless communication with the ing sawmilling for supplying English (now sixty-four) and his wife separated in 1911 he has been production of cheap Gmbr Paying on a maintenance order, quantity has considerable influence at first 158. a week for the wife in raising the standarris of living and and their little boys and in recent housing among indigenous
popula-years 5s, a week. | Lions--British Wireless.
It then passed into a bad weather zone and has not been heard from smce.--Reuter.
INDIAN MISSION AT CHANGSHA
SEVERE TYPHOON IN JAPAN
Tukyo. Supt. 26.
When, at Croydon he was accused of being £5 10s, in arrears on the order, Walton Sald:-
"I have had twenty-seven years of this, and 1 now think the whole thing ught to be knocked on the head. Se will go on playing me up until A typhoon struck Jachijoism island the gels the old age pension. The Indian Medical Mission to China, headed by Dr. M. M. Atalar Tokyo on Saturday and 30 has arrived here from Canton,
Changsha, Sept. 26.
It will be assigned to work at the hont by the China Red Cross Suciety. -Contral Newn,
PRESIDENT SUN FO IN CHUNGKING
Chungking, Sept. 26.
Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legis- lative Yuan, accompanied by several members of the Yuan, arrived in Chungking from Kwelyang by motor yesterday afternoon.
"
The arrears were reduced by. £2 persons were injured, ten are missings, and Walton told he would go to und 150 houses have been demolished, gel for a month unless he pays the Three boats were wrecked and the 6s, and' is. a week off the arrears. crup damage is estimated at 200,000
Th
yen.
Tokyo escaped damage HIS the MRS. HALDANE LEAVES typhoon passed to the north-east of the city, which only a month ago suffered severely from a typhoon.-- Reuter Special,
CUMBERLAND LEAVES
FÖR ENGLAND
Flying the Paying-Of pernunt, H.M.S. Cumberland departed from Dr. Sun is scheduled to give a Hongkong tais morning for the United press interview to-day. Central Kingdom. She will undergo refit and recommission upon her arrival Home.
News.
Dress Them Thriftily
FOR SCHOOL
BOYS' TROUSERS
CHILDREN'S JACKETS
BOYS' SUITS & GIRLS' DRESSES
Canton, Sept. 24. Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, wife of Professor Haldane and special_cor- respondent of the London Dally Herald, left here for Hankow yester- day afternoon.
During her brief stay in Canton, Mrs. Haidane inspected various wo- men's national salvation work here and was much impressed by the military training the female sex are undergoing throughout the province. -Central News.
Rolni
have just unpacked a comprehensive range of now season clothing for children.
Inspection Invited
from
60c from $160
$500
from
ALL IN THE LATEST STYLES, BEST MATERIALS AND STRONGLY MADE, We have also in stock blue suits for children which are very
suitable for school uniforms..
FOR CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS we are able to supply BLAZERS in large quantities in the following colours-Green, Blue, Navy Blue and Brown. Enquiries Invited.
Rofu
The White House,
12 Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 21040.
TO-MORROW
At The ALHAMBRA "UNDERSEA KINGDOM"
A Thrilling Adventure Into
An Unknown Realm
20,000 Fathoms Deep!
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
MANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL
57795
HE'S GOING PLACES...with your heart!
The hid COMES BACK WAYNE MORRIS
withs
Directed by B. Eaves Eason • Screen Play by George Bricher • A WARNER BROS. PICTURE
Preston Foster Ann Dvorak John Beat "WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE"
TOTM MORROW
4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30. 6 20 720-930
-
MAJESTICE
THEATRE
TEL 37212
(MATINEES: 20«.-30‹.° EVENINGS: 20e.•30×:50e70c) *****
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY. THE NEW-IDEA MUSICAL FROM HIT-MAKING DARRYL F. ZANUCK !
SIMONE SIMON SINGS
Waltar..
SINGS!
WINCHELL BERNIE SIMON
Ben
Simone
-in
LOVE AND HISSES
Darry! F. Zanuck's great new musicall BERT LAHR JOAN DAVIS
DICK BALDWIN
· RUIN TERRY, DOUGLAS FOWLEY - CHICH CHANDLER Directed by Sidney Lonfield
› PAYMOND SCOIT QUENTER"
Songs
Gordon & Revel's
latest
hits!
TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY
HERE COMES THE NAVY ... AND THEIR GIRL FRIENDS I
ROBERT YOUNG-
JAMES STEWART in
"NAVY BLUE and GOLD”
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictura
LORRY ESCAPES HARBOUR FALL
A molor lorry yesterday afternoon had a narrow escape from disaster when it skidded in Connaught Road and slipped half way over the prayu
wall.
JAPANESE PRINCE PASSES AWAY
Tokyo, Sept. 25. Prince Molonki Mari, one of the few surviving lords of feudal Japan, who witnessed the Melj! Restoration
No one was injured, though the of 1800, passed away at his foudal occupants were badly shinken, mansion at Bofu elty, in Yamaguchi The lorry was dragged back onto Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon. the road without being seriously He succumbed to on attack of In- dantagod.
fluenza-Domel, +
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICE PERCY FRANKLI at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong