2
SNOW ON THE
CAPITOL
Tuesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BEAGLERS
UFS
Two storms that blanketed the East and Middle West with a heavy covering of snow carried a seven-inch fall to Washington, D. C.,,the nation's capital. Here are workmen striving to dig the United States The two strins, with low tem- capital bulin: trom under the snow, peratures, took a death toll of nearly 100.
ANTI-GAS He's A Multi-
DEVICES
FOR BABIES
ANTI-GAS
devices for habies and special gas- masks for children between the ages of two and four are now going into mass
production, stated Wing-
of
Millionaire
SUED FOR BREACH AGAIN
1.
DROP FOR "OI"
66
January 10,
1939.
YOICKS
Even Hounds Liked Lambeth Walk
PIPEWELL, near Kettering.
THEY have rolled up the carpet in the library of ancient Pipewell Hall, and while the beagles bay in the ken- nels nearby, moustached and monocled men in huntin' vink do the Lambeth Walk with fair partners..
99
A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL
Son Aged 5 Was Given Shandygaff
Decause his Sve-year-old son in- sisted on having something like everybody cise," Hurry Carlisle White Hammond, ilcensee of the Swan, Aah, near Dartford (Kent),
him a shandygaff. Admitting at Dartford police court
that be have recently
the boy toxicating liquor. Hammond was fined £1 on each of two nummonses. Evidence was given that Hammond was seen to give the child beer.
Mr. Harold Tuffee (defending), zaild "Cries of Ol!" instead of "Yoiks!" made the rafters ring. It is the 11th annual ball of the Pipewell Foot Beagles, held Hammond gave his son a small glass in the grand Elizabethan home of Mr. S. J. Lloyd, father off ginger beer with enough mild beer Master of the Hunt, Mr. Noel Lloyd, who stands about Gft, din. in it to colour JL,' and twirls the curls of a long fair moustache as he fixes you through a firmly wedged monocle. LOVELY WOMEN
"You want to know why we do the Lambeth Walk?" he The hare, when pursued by asked. "That's easy to beagles, goes in circles. We dance the Lambeth Walk straight."
answer.
All of the "county" is here; all of; the county, that is, who love the thrill of a chase, whether it be after a fox or a hare. The men are studies in red, pink, and white--pink and white evening dress; faces red above many white mustaches,
The women all hunting women, you know, are lovely in their evening Howns.
MODEL PARENTS
Mr. Tuffce zald a great number of people thought a little light beer was mort for children. Ile described the
A letter from a doctor referred to boy as "the apple of his father's eye." Mr. and Mrs. Haimend an model parents.
MR. REMER CANNOT
SIT TO TELEPHONE
MR. J. R. REMER, well-built
M.. for Macclesfeld, com-
It's real buntin' and beaglin' night | out for the county. Look at the Rev. plained to Sir Philip Sassoon, "Friar Tuck" Robinson, with his slim First shning head and his merry eyes. Isn't he having a grand time.
Friar Tuck all the beagle' people enll him that--collects the cap at the meet. They all love him. He is a novela's iden of the sporting country parson come right to life.
He is the Vienr of East Carlton. the adjoining parish. And, old he's getting, Friar Tuck is out every meet.
Commissioner of Works, in the Ilouse of Com- mons recently that in the new telephone boxes in one of the corridors it was impossible to close the door when a member sat on the seat provided.
He challenged Sir Philip to corac and test it for bimself,
Ure accepted
clial- Str as
Philip at lenge.
FATHER OF 11 Watching the Pipewell Beagles Lambell Walk in the library hung with sporting Falstaflian etchings is Mr. S. J. Lloyd, a fine figure of a man! with his strong face and crisp, white hair,
He is father of the Master, and he'd have you know-cf eight ne sons and three daughter; who have af been brought up in the hunting Innd bezgling traditions,
All are here to-night, except three. There seems to be a Lloyd Wherever
million dollars (L400,000) was of pride in his eyes. Airted in Chicago recently against Mr. the multi- Hold F. McCormick, millionaire head of the International Harvester Company of America, by Mrs. Olive Randolf Colby, of Kansas City, widow of the man who taught
John D. Rockefeller to play golf,"
Mr. McCormick was at one time
"Yes, we like the sport," Master Noel said, "We like it becos it's what you'd call the cosmopeli- tan sport. Anyone can join in and have fun the butcher, the baker, md the candlestick maker, us it were."
BEAGLES BAY
ile sat in the box and found The that Mr. Remer was correct. floor could he closed If he stood up to close it, but not if he irird fo close.it sitting down.
Official action is to be taken. Nolices will be put on the doors of the hoxes saying: "W members please stand up before closing the door and then at dawn.”
AIR MECHANICS FOR THE NAVY
Commander E. J. Hodsoll, A BREACH of promise sait for two you look. You can forgive that look
The requirements of the expanding Director-General
Fleet Air Arm bave led the Admiral- ty to form two further apcctalised Raid Precautions, recently.
sections of the Air Mechanle branch. He told the Institution of
In addition to air muchanles for the on- Professional Civil Servants
maintenance of airframes and
"the
Air Mechanic gines, ratings of at the Royal Society of Arts
branch will be required for employ- with the maintenance that provision for babies!
ment arsoclated The Master of he Pipewell Beagles
and electrical and young children had the son-in-law of the famous "John
equipment of aircraft in the Fleet Air been one of the most heart-" who was said to be the richest is known throughout the beagling of the armament
man in the world.
world for a pole he carries. "Can equi
Arm. They will be formed into two rending problems.
jump a 10ft. wall and never blink an
sections, (0) for ordinance, and (L) for electrical, to
to undertake appro- eyelid," they said.
priate work not requiring the atten
ers. The new brat
branch 19 Bion of artificers.
classes
neses of ratings. Men open to many
transfer
Air to the accepted for Mechanie branch will undergo u
"We started off with all sorts of idens, such as pram covers,' he said, "but at Shoreditch we found that they use a soap box for a prain.
"Finally, we got out a baby's bag. We thought we had the answer to every mother's prayer, but when the thing had got almost to its production stage we found that the baby would net too hot.
"The Idea of a bag had to be scrapped, and we had to go back to
Mr. McCormick was married for the third time last May, and this is
"heartbaim" second
the
netion
brought against him in five years.
On October 21, 1934, Mrs. Rhoda Banner Doubleday, former wife of a New York publisher, lodged a breach of promise action against McCormick, £300,000 because she demanding
and shame": suffered "pain Tract through his failing to marry her.
The case was, however, settled by the payment of £13,000, according to Mrs. Doubleday's lawyer.
Chocolate Biscuits For 300 Child Refugees
Just over five years ago it was re- ported that he was engaged to Pola another device which I think we Negri, the one-time Alm star. But
that was denied, "He is an old and CHOCOLATE biscuits waited have perfected now."
A
332 Years to Pay
N order for 2s. a month, at which
rate it will take 332 yearn to pay
the amount claimed,
Judge Galbraith
was made by
ut Market Har-
borough County Court recently.
John Francis Crowe, formerly head
charming friend." said Miss Negri, "but no more."
Royal Academy's
New President
Royal The
London.
and
Bizarre confession was given to the District Attorney's office in White Plains, N. Y., by Mrs. Marie Burckhaller, above, who asserted she helped her husband, chemical head, to commit sui- cide by monoxide poisoning in his ear. She said he wanted to die because of it health. She was held on a first-degree man- slaughter charge.
Gaol For Air Raid Hoaxer
"You might have created a serious public panic," said Mr. Justice Lewis
when at Leeris Assizes recently he technical training course at an IL.A.Fto William Henry Wood, aged 20, fr sentenced him to six months in the second division for effecting a public mischief.
establishment.
varies Pay
28. 8d. a day for air mechanic batloners to fs. 6d, a day for chief petty officer air mechanics.
the
bel
Wood, a Post Ofee telephonist, admitted sending out an air-raid warning of the approach of enemy aircraft during the crisis.
POLICE STAND BY
Girl Died in Bath
Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, pro- for 300 Jewish children A law-suit which followed
from secuting, said Wood had been given when they arrived at Dover-death of a 14-year-old girl court Bay camp, near Harwich, carbon monoxide fumes while she secret code to be used for the zend- was having a bath was settled in the ing of such a message it it became
necessary. from Germany recently,
King's Bench Division recently.
Her father, Mr. Stanley Lawson, of The children, between. ter
As a result of Wood's action all seventeen years old, were the first of Hunger-lene, Ealing,
Pollard Engineering Co., Ltd., of 100 expected.
Farringdon-street, EC., for damages.
200 Individual telephone calls were Brown bread, butter, Jain, milk-The company, it was stated, had paid reparations were made by the police, and the chocolate biscuits-was their Mr. Lawson a sum against any less sent out, fire brigades throughout a
in bringing the action.
large area in Yorkshire--as well as Plenty of clothing was ready. Mr. Normen Parkes, for the com-police officers everywhere-stood by, first meal in England.
near Market Harborough, was sued famous architects of the world. Hobed, and a hot water battle. Therei dent was still unexplained. Formerly were kept on duty until it was dis- of a small garage ai North Kilworth, Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the most Euch child got a thick jersey, a single, pany, said that the cause of the acci-land the police at 60 different points
mend the installation of their geysera for their camp.
Superintendent Craig sald Wood by Norman Contes, Ltd., for £397 succeeds Sir William Llewellyn, who are all stoves to heat the main rooms the company's policy was to recom- covered that the call, was a hozz
retired on Saturday after 10 years
Later they were sent to volunteer! without any vent or fue, provided
as that there was it sufficient supply of matriculated at an early age and It was alleged that this sum had as president, on reaching the age-
Sir Edwin, who is 09. foster parents, to be been guaranteed by Crowe for rent limit of 75. of property in Leicester previously designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall domestic servants or nurses, after fresh air. It now insisted on a flue showed some promise.ly are, and by vacuum. During the day he and emigrate to the colonies.
cleaned chimneys and at night worked occupied by the firm of which Crowe and the Catholic Cathedral at Liver-which many will rejoin their parents forming part of every new installa-ented a method of cleaning chimneys
nt the Post Office.
Academy recently, of a Leicester business concern and elected its new president a man who now earning 35s, a week as manager has never exhibited his paintings
185.
was director.
pool.
GORDON'S
SHOE SALE NOW ON
trained
Ilon.
Jamaica Bananas Menaced
London.
One of Jamaica's big economic problems is the Panama' disease which is attacking the faland's bananas. Ir Frank Stockdale, Colonial OmMce expert, told the West India Royal Commission In London that there was no cure.
Mr. G. Faymond Hinchcliffe, for Wood, said It might be that he had been affected by the anxiety then prevailing,
"Just as some people pull a com- munication cord for no reason, so this man sent this message," he added. "It was the momentary impulse of un overtired man.”
DRAMA AS SAVAGE AS THE UNTAMED. NORTH!
OF THE
SPAWN NORTH
POPULAR & NEW REX DANCE RECORDS
9301-Palais Gilde.
4
Lambeth Walk.
9342-In Santa Margherita. (Ilow to Danco).
&
MAXWELL STEWART'S BALLROOM ORCH..
My Lost Love.
(The Tango)
0372-A-Tisket A-Tasket.
9421-Cinderella Waliz.
'I Can't Remember Her Name.
Love Makes the World Go Itound.
5422--Change Partners.
Rida Tenderfoot
9357-Love Walked In.
("Carefree"").
There's A New Moon Over the Mill.
BILLY COTTONS BAND.
BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS SEXTETTE.
0417-Now It Can Be Told. (Alexander's Ragtime Band),
On the Sentimental Side......ROY SMECK'S HAWAIIAN ORCN. 0355-Sayn My Heart.
I'm Sorry, 1 Didn't Say I'm Sorry 0414-Earn My Heart,
Now It Can Be Told. (Alexander's Ragtime Band}
DIANA MILLER (PERSONALITY GIRL). 0429-Hex Show Wagon in Lambeth Walk.
Introducing-Gracle Fields. Randy Towel, Dilly Cotton, etc. 6427-How Can I Thank You. (Lilile Miss Broadway).
Be Optomistic. (Little Miss Broadway)
IRENE PRICE (THE ENGLISH "SHINLEY TEMPLE"). ..SANDY POWELL. 9425-Sandy the All-in Wrestler... 0123-8lxty Seconds Got Togelber.
A Little Tor Ballboat.....ÖSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND,
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House. 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. 24648.
Swan Culbertson
Ja
Frits
Investment Bankers and Brokers
Members of New York Cotton Exchango
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Commodity Exchango, Inc., New York
Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montroal
New York Coffee, and Sugar Exchange
Manila Stock Exchango
Hongkong Sharobrokers Association
Shanghai Stock Exchango,
SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE
Cable Address: Swanstock
The fleets in, and Martha's
out... to catch a matel
"Heaven help the sailors...
OH, BOY!
with
MARTHA RAYE and BOB HOPE
...in a riot of shore-leave
romance!
GIVE ME A SAILOR
BETTY GRABLE. JACK WHITING • J. C. NUGENT
Directed by Elliott Nugent. A Paramount Fidvis
Marthe 501 Cupid with a sors knot..to the tune of 1.3.A., and You" "What Goes on Here is My Heart?" and "A Lille Kiss a Twight"
ADDED ATTRACTION "OVERTURE from "TANNHAUSER" Played by the
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF U.S.A. (The largest orchestra over assembled for a picture) ALSO
"OUT OF THE INKWELL" A Betty Boop Cartoon
TO-MORROW QUEEN'S
AT THE
{
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking