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May 24, 1939.
By Walt Disney
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A
The BRITISH EMPIRE Offenders Look Through
(Continued from Page G.) when it sailed at lost for the English coast, would have been invincible
indeed,
Hawkins Starts
The Slave Trade
FOR
O some time the sea-rovers kept pretty close to the Trish Sea and the English Chunnel, but presently some of them ventured further and, sailing "Westward-Ho!" to the Spanish colonies of the New World, were bold enough to attack the galleons of Philip II in hose Western waters which he considered the
private and sacred highways of his Empire.
The Spaniards were in great need of slaves to work on the plantations
The Arst to carry the English flag and in the mines of their New World to the Spanish ports of the West Indies colonies, and already a traffic in and South America was that sturdy negroes, which afterwards developed man of Devon, John Hawkins. He into the horrors of the African slave went out at first on a peaceful trad- trade, had become a profitable bust- Ing expedition, and he was one of the ness. few English seamen who had been careful to keep on friendly terms with the Spaniards.
more
The Idea came to him. how- ever, that Instead of trading in and Spanish English woollens
pices, he could make money by carrying living car- 1/10 slaves to EDCs of negro gold-laden
Branlali possessions in the West Intlles.
MURDER INQUEST VERDICT
It is not without regret that we inust remember John Hawkins as the Arst Englishman to have a hand in is buying and selling of human beings.
Caught
Watch Boing Kept For Nightsoil Dumpers
officers
the
The statement that all possible steps were taken by Sanitary De- partment
to prevent legal disposal of nightsoil was made by Mr. R. R. Todd, Chairman at the Urban Council yesterday. Mr. Todd disclosed that 39 successful prosecu- during tlons had been undertaken the last twelve months for this type
It was a dark and horrid stain upon "Elizabethan England and shows! that the gradual weakening of of offence. medieval ideals was not wholly for the good.
Mr. Todd's remarks were made in reply to questions by Mr. D. Wong
open
The Telegraph.
WALT DISNEY
50 YEARS AGO
May 24, 1889. The Princess of Wales has suddenly! the handsomest fallen off in her looks to an appalling extent. From bolag
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
with Orchestra
Relay of the Derby From Pons (Soprano)
(Sung in French).
Epsom Racecourse
TWO STUDIO SKETCHES and inost youthful Woman of her years Radio Programme Broadcast by in at the kingdom, she is now sald to Z B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. her younger selt. be only a much-made-up caricature of and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.
have
on 0.52 m.c's, per
0.47 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions,
0.50 Variety with Arthur Askey. The
HU Billles, idegardo and Gerry Moore,
Old Fashioned Love Quickstep; If We Never Meet Again-Slow Fox- Moore (Piano); Trot......Gerry Granny's Old Arm Chair (arr. Hill HILL .The Billes); Carry Me Back To Old Vir ginny (arr. Hill Dillies)....
with Their Billies (Vocal)
and 8-11 p.m. second.
H. K, T. 12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service from St. John's Intercession 12.30 Marta Eggerth (Soprano and Magyart Imei and Itis Orchestra. Novelty Accomp.; Oua, Qua: Tomi, I Was Roving About; The Barrack Tomi....Kanul and Lula with Vocal Effects; The Bee Song (Kenneth
companies The life insurance made of the question of lungevity al-
determined eclence, with an of angle neray of figures and rules. Ac- Cathedral curding to these the average man whoi has reached the age of sixty has still a little less, and the average woman who has reached the age of sixty a littlof
advance of Imri and His Hungarian Gypsy Or- tively, diminish with the in somewhat less, ani
the woman's film); Look And Love (flin 'Love's somewhat more, than five years and a Melody)... Marta Eggerth (Soprano) half. According to the Engils stan with Orchestra (Sung in German); dards, the persons whin live longest are Passing The Church: Lilne. Flowers members of the elergy, while in other] pursuits longevity ranks in the follow. Mourn For Me (Simko Zoltanian Ing order: Farmers, merchante, sol-Magyart Imre and His dlers, clerks, tenchors and physicians.
(Piano); I'm
Own
Awhile-
1038')......Hildegarde
and
unknown Chinese. aged about 05, when about to draw up at a stop, stead of being disposed of by nu- and who was killed when he was knock-be said. From sounds he heard, and thorised means,
channels and the motorman, he dumped into bd down by a tram in Johnston Road, the action of
whe- on formed the opinion that the motor-washed down the drains, and near Hennessy Road, Wanchal, May 0 A fading of death from man had promptly applied the emer-ther the Chairman would take steps before the man was to discover whether this was being misadventure was returned.
Rency brakes
done and to prevent repetition. said Sgt. Campbell
he searched kicked down.
Gypsy Orchestra; Before 1 Found Tam Yee-kong, clerk. passenger the body of the man, but was un-
Mr. Todd said:
You (alm Love's Melody'); Way it able to find anything which might on the tramcar, said he noticed thei
The existence of this practice of
25 YEARS AGO
Your Smile (Alexander Stollberg). identify him. The man died on the blind man walking across the road,
Into open clan-
Marta Eggerth (Soprano) will He next heard the car's hell clung dumping nightsoll
May 24, 1014,
Orchestra
(Sung in German and The discovery of the body of an
way to hospital.
Mrs. Pankhurai was arrested opposite aged woman, apparently strangled,
Mr. J. K. Leghorn, workshops ing loudly and the tram jolted and nels, drains, scavenging-lines, etc., Instead of conveying it to the con- among the stacks of railway sleep- superintendent, Hongkong Tramways came to a sudden stop.
is well known to the the Palace. The suffragists forced ane Hungarian); Bihari Waltzes (Behari); Dog. The motorman, Lo Kuen, said he servancy bonts, of the ers at King's Road, North Point, on said he tested the brakes
ticuffs ensued, and some Injuries were Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. 1.00 Time and Weather. March 20, was the subject of an ine tramear on May 7, and found them had fourteen years driving experi-Sanitary Department. All possible of the gates at Hyde Park Corner. Fin- Serenade... Magyari Imre and His
He noticed
the blind man steps are taken to prevent this prac ustained. There are already 47 quiry by Mr. T. J. Houston at the to be in good working order.
the tracks, Lice. All officers of the Sanitary
1.03 Haydn Symphony No. 93 Innouncements. rests, including three men, Mr. J. H. Simmons, trame Inspec- feeling his way
down Central Magistrney yesterday.
There were further arrests for win D Major. trom inspectors Department, said he and sounded his bell to husten his
total number àr the dow-smashing. The
Sir Thomas Beecham conducting The official Police report, issued ut tor. Hongkong Tramways.
scavenging coolles, have the time, stated that the womun,
was standing on the north side of progress, but lastead of continuing to
power, which they are instructed to rested is now 07, including Mr. Drum- left her home Johnston Road when he heard the the man stepped backwards,
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Fang Kit-yuen, 71.
applied the emergency brakes in West Point on March 27 wear- clanging of a tramcar's bell, sound-
The police raided a fat in Malda Vale Weather and Announcements. see in the act of dumping nightso step of Mr. McKenna's house.
1.30 Variety and Dauce Music. Dance Orchestra-Cuckoo In The reached the mun by then and knock and to charge him at a Police Station and arrested five women, also seizing Police Offers, of course, have simi- halt a hundredweight of pebbles in bags, lar powers.
hammer, choppers and important docu- ments. It is helleved that a huge win-Clock-Fox-Trot; Shut-Eye Fox-
Trot. Kay Kyser and His Orches thus campaign dow.smashing
Vocal and Piano Garden In tra; nverted.
Granada (Baer and Vasilescu); Any Broken licarts To Mend (Long).**
Orchestra Turner Layton; Dance
Tape, who asked whether the Chair more, than fourteen years to livo. But Roof Is Being Shingied; Once On Myiola).... Arthur Askey (Comedian) man was aware that nightsoll, in- the expectation of life does not, rela- Grave: Song Of The Elder...M5831-Piano; Keep A Twinkle in Your the Eye-Quickstep Dream Moore
......Gerry sometimes years, for at eighty the man's chance chestra; Love's Melody (from Sinw Fox-Tro Like A Million Brondway Melody of 1038');
of Melody Yours And Mine, (Dlm 'Broadway (Vocal) with Orchestra: Organ Piano-Nola (Arndt); The Wedding. Of The Painted Doll (Brown)....H. Robinson Cleaver and Patricia Ross- borough.
7.30 London Relay-At tho Black- Mr. Wilites at home in his own bar- parlour.
and. An- Time, Weather 0.00 8.03 Musleal Comedy Selections. "Home and Beauty" Sing Some- thing The Morning.....Bobe Orchestra: Daniels (Vocal) with "Follow Through-Vocal Gems (De Sylve, Brown, Henderson); "Rio Rita" and --Vocal Gems (McCarthy Tierney)....Light Opera Company with Orchestra: "Music In The Air
Selection
(Hammerstein 2nd and Kem) Wicabond
..New May
Mayfair Orchestra;
ence.
across
ar-
ing a pair of fade bangles, gold caring continuously. about 7.50 p.m. at once," said Lo, "but the trum had use, to arrest any person whom they mond, who, was arrested on the door- the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
on
rings and ring, and with $10. All May 6. He saw the tramear round-
this was missing from the body. ing the curve on the west-bound ed him down."
Returning his finding. Mr. Forrest
Dr. R. E. Alvares, who performed the post mortem on martition and was due to strangulation and asphyxin. Death in his opinion, had between 48 to 72 hours occurred previously.
Tam Yul, hawker, said he wan- dered among the stacks of railway sleepers when he stumbled the body.
BLIND MAN KILLED
tram track by the Kwong Sang
FL
long perfumery factory and noticed remarked that there was no right man, apparently blind, as he was of gross negligence, but he thought had made an feeling his way neross the rond with that the motorman the aid of a stick, crossing the tracks error in judgment. from the north side of the road to the south.
The tram was about 15 to 20 feet
against from the man, when the bell was
Fast Drivers Lose Time
Detection Difficult
W
10 YEARS AGO
May 24, 1029.
The
In
Vocal Gems
art.
(Friml): "Lady Local Gems Sir-Is it not high time that effec- Lonely-Fox-Trot; I Miss You In The Hedley, Strachey, Rodgers)...Light
....Billy Thor-Opera Company with Orchestra. Morning-Fox-Trot
8.30 Bladlo Two Short Sketches tive steps were taken to such the seas burn and His Music; Vocal-Never berance of officers occupying the Mess
In
9.00 The Comedy Harmonists. A Million Years (Alm Wake Up by Alexander Headon. in Kowloon 7
In Silent Night (Brahms, For a long time past, nuenerous com- and Live'); It's Swell Of You (Alm
Little Sandman Frommermann); The police have been interviewed, and with Cy Feuer Orchestra; Dance Or- plaints have been made on this matter. Wake Up and Live')....Alice Faye I understand that the Mesa President
Ellington); (Brahms, arr. Frommermann); In A. (de Long, Mills Congo Lullaby (alm Sanders of the Persian Market (Ketelbey); Solitude
River')...with Plane accompaniment. 9.15 London Ticlay-The News. 9.30 London Relay-Sports News A and Market Notes.
has promised that the nuisance should chestra-Ten Little Miles From Town leon Residents Association were to have Fox-Trot.The Orgun, The Dance stor, 1 also understand that the Kow-Fox-Trot; Home At Sundown addressed a letter to the General Oficor, Band and Me. Commanding on the subject. Whether
The offence is generally committed at night, which makes detection more difficult. When a complaint has or when for other rea- been received sons it is suspected that dumping is being practised, night watches are rung, and the blind man was almost
kept by inspectors or foremen at the A finding of murder by a person across the westbound track. At the
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Police en-place concerned. When offenders are sound of the bell, the man stepped or persons unknown was returned.
cases though no one is Tom $1 back two paces, and the tram had gaged in a campaign to reduce traffic caught they are invariably charged; The Coroner awarded
now put "the wait" on drivers who caught the night watch has the effect from the Poor Box es compensation by then reached him, and knocked necidents by slowing down all traffic, in other for loss in business caused by his him down. attendance in Court.
Replying to the Coroner, Mr. Sim- explain they were speeding because of causing the dumping to cease.
When esimated the car's they were late for work.
During the last twelve months 00 mons sald he
2.15 Close Down. about five miles per such an excuse is given the car keys by Mr. R. speed to be
they have done so, I do not know.
0.00 Mozart Quintet In C Major, An Inquiry was held
taken in respect of this offence and
But I do know that last night, which K.515. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magis-hour, Trams usually cut off their are taken and the driver is forced to successful prosecutions were under-
when Founding curves and wall-30-or-40-minutes.
the offenders were fined-or-sert was apparently Guest Night, the racket
Pro Arte Quartet (Onnou-Halloux- tracy yesterday Into the death of and power
prison in default of payment of the was as bad as ever. It continued until Prevent-Maus) and 2nd Viola Alfred fine Imposed. The chief classes of two o'clock this morning. offenders are the nightsoil coolies, I now appeal to the powers-that-be. Hobday.
6.37 Mozart Sengu. who remove nightsoil from private through apparently the only medium
Madamina (from 'Don Ciovanni') houses, and Ignorant persons from left to us, namely, the Press, to nak the
gentlemen to exercise a little more....F. Ollendorff (Bass) with Plano the country.
forethought and common senso, so as to Sung in Italian): Ah! Je Le Sals low hard-working people to be able (from La Fulte Enchanter)....Lily hot nighteYours, etc., Indignant.
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"Since this report was made," said Mr. Todd, "four more offenders have been caught. Mr. Wong Tape men- tioned a specifice complaint, in Caine Rond, when he brought the matter up, and I may say a watch was kept
to rest in peace and quietude on theso
5 YEARS AGO
May 24, 1934. Hongkong's best tennis talent has pro-
OBITUARY
in that locality, and a person arrested to turn out as the panese Shameen Pioneer Dies ed. That person was convicted and Olympic plagers at the Kowloon Cricket fined $10 to-day."
Club on Thursday afternoon. Taul Wal-pui, loenl champion, who will play!
In England
A resolution authorisng the erec-ingles. B. D. and H. D. Rumjan, The death took place on April tion of a flush latrine in Lower Las-doubles champions, who will figure in 22, at The Brambles," Bembridge, car Row was carried. Mr. Todd said a doubles, probably
against yotaro
and
9.40 The Derby (Descriptive) with The Singing Fearis Kings.
0.50 London Relay The Derby. The 160th renewal of the Derby Stakes. commentary on the race by Thomas Woodrooffe assisted by a Epsom Racecourse. ruce reader from the Grand Stand,
chestra;
Me
10.10 A Danca Programme. Fox-Trois-Sixty Seconds Got To- gether; Goodbye To Summer.... Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans; Waltzes-Missouri Waltz; That Naughty Waltz....Vietor, Young and His Orchestra; Fox-Trot-Penny Serenade....Mantovani and His Or
Started Fox-Tret-You Something. Billy Terment's Rhythm; Tangos-Hours And Days: On Wings
Fox-Trots-Let Orchestra; an inspection of the site for the pro- Batch and Amagishi. L. Goldman and Isle of Wight, of Mr. George Dixwell Of Dreams,...Eugen Wolf and His
cm-E. C. Fincher, who will glao play in a Fearon, at the age of 87, posed latrine was made by the mem-
doubles,
The late Mr. Fearon came to CanWhisper: I Used To Be Colour Blind ton about 1871 to join the firm of (from 'Carefree)....Roy Smeck and bers following an objection by the
Messrs. Augustine Heard & Co., and His Hawaiian Serenaders; Waltzes owners of the Central Theatre, and that the
a few years afterwards joined the I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles; Mam- they were of the opinion
Green Bro- old established legal firm of Messrs.my's Lullaby....The objections were not valid.
Deacon & Co.
thers Marimba Band; Fox-Trot-My long residence it Own (lm That Certain Afew During his Canton and unill his retirement Henry King and His Orchestra; from China in 1981, he took an Fox-Trot They Say tive part in all public work bons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans; Canton. He was one of the early Rumba-Cuban Pebe; Tango-1a-
and WDS pioneers of Shameen
vana Heaven....Mantovan! and His esteemed by all who knew him.
Estimate's Committee
The following Committee was ap pointed to consider the proposed changes in the Sanitary Department's estimates for 1940-Mcasra. R. R. Todd. Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, W. N. T. Tam, A. el Argulli, and Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto.
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
Jan. Mor. Muy
|- Applications for eating house July Ileences for 18, Spring Garden Lane. Oct. ground floor, 5, d'Aguilar Street, Dec. ground floor, 420, Mala Street, Stan- ley, ground and first floors and 167, Connaught Road Central, ground floor, food factory licence' for 238, Queen's Road Central, first floor, and food preserving licence for 44, Tai Yuen Street, ground floor, were May July refused by the Counc!!.
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The Inte Mr. Fearon is survived by Tipica Orchestra, his wife and a daughter.
11.00 Close Down,
Carroll Gib
An application for a food preser Des ving lleence to manufacture Gourmet Mar. Powder in the premises on Lot. No
Sept
Spot
753, S.D.1, Sheung Sha Po, Kowloon Total Sales for the day:-130 tons City, was adjourned for further con- sideration.
List of 'Licences
May granted by the July Council between May 9 and May 22 Sept. are Food factories (2), bakehouses Dec. (1), milk shops (1), swine (1), and
Monday's restaurants (3).
Besides Mr. Todd, those present were: Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, May Hon. Mr. V J. Carrie, Ilon, Mr. C. July G. Perdue, Mr. F. C. Hall, Dr. R. A Sept. de Castro Basto, Mr. A el Arculli, Dec. Dr. S. N. Chou, Hon. Mr. W. N. T Tam, Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. Tang May Shiu-kia, Mr. C. Champkin, and Mr. July C. J. Hoc (Secretary).
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