Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 22, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
THEM KIDS 15 SO MEAN-- I PLAY 'EM A NICE HARMONICA SOLO AND THEY DON'T EVEN APPLAUD!
AH-- THERE'S.
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AN' POLITE!
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TO USE YOUR
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Tractor Kills Scenario Writer
SIDNEY HOWARD, author,
dramatist and scenario writer (of "Bulldog Drum-
mond" fame), is dend.
He was killed recently at Tyringham, Mass, U.S.A., when
a tractor he was cranking start-
ed forward, crushing him under the wheels.
WED
HEIR
NURSE WILL
BARONET'S
Hospital Romance
Mr. Howard's "Alien Corn" is now WHEN Miss Mary Mac-
belny played in London.
His other well-known
plays in-
His scenarios, in addition to "Bull
donald arrived in Lon-
clude "They Kiew What They don from Scotland a year Wanted," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1024.
ago to be a staff nurse at Guy's Hospital, she met Dr. William Elliot Young, re- sident medical officer and heir to a baronetcy.
dog Drummond," Include "Raffles," "Condemned," "The Grocks had Word for It," "Christopher Bean," and "Arrowranith."
Mr. Howard was born at Oakland, California. He married Clare Eames, the actress.
They fell in love, and now After studying playwriting their engagement has been an-
Homard, he joined the United Suites
Amerlen Army,, when
sans,
entered the nounced.
Miss
Macdonaki,
var, serving in France and the Bal-twenty-three-year-old daughter of the late Rev. J. Macdonald, of Tongue. Sutherlandshire. said: "We want to keep our en |gagement as quiet as possible."
Britain Has All Lenses She Needs
Dr. Young, twenty-eight years old, is the son of Sir Alban Young, Bt. a former British
DRITAIN is making all the D
lenses and special glass re. quired by the armed forces, Minister in Belgrade.
A leading sclentine Instrument
moker sald: "The Germans can no
At her Oxford home Dr. "It is a
onger produce lenses more rapidly Young's mother said:
han our own factories, and we can hospital romance. They met at laim hot our products are not in-
The date of the wedding work.
erior to those of the Germans has not yet been fixed."
Some of our work is much better."
He Made The B.B.C. Military Band
MR. B. WALTON O'DONNELL, the man who made the B.B.C. Military Band the finest in the world and became B.B.C. Music Director for Northern Ireland, has died at Belfast. Pneumonia developed after a severe cold and he was ill only ten days.
derers.
Baby Prince Alexander, son of King Zog, monarch of Albania before its seizure by Italy, is pictured in his nurse's arms at Ver sailles, France, exile home of his royal parents. The baby prines was born while Albania was being taken.
CABARET MANAGER Hearing of Malicious
Dámages Case
Evidence that he had seen-defen- doni and his friends damaging the eur was given by Tse You,. former Holt caddy, when the case in which Francisco Xavier dos Remedios, 41, is charged with doing malicious damage to i motor CUF, Was CURI=" tinued before Mr. Forrest of the Central Magistracy yesterday,
Damage to the car to the extent of $410 was nileged to have been caused by Remedios and three other men while. It was parked outside 49 Shing Wo Road, iluppy Valley, on July 30,
Hon. Mr. Leo d'Alianda, Jnr.. instructed by Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, appeared for Howard Allen Torr, owner of the car. Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for Remedios. Sub-Insp. Darkin was present for
the Police.
Tsu said he was siceping under the staircase on the ground floor "of 60 Shing Wo Road, when he was Jawakened by the noise of several upstairs. Later he persons going flashed his torch on to the upper floors and saw four men hammering int the door, As they left the door they went to the ear. One of the men went inside and began unscrew- ing the Instruments, while two of the others went to the rear and pushed it. Another went to the front and snapped off the radio aerial.
Tse said he recognized two of the men, One was Remedios and the other Pong Wal-pong,
Tse also admitted he was pow Tore servant, and had been engaged by him to sleep under the stairs., He | denied that Torr also supplied him
with a forch and a poller whistle.
Yim Kam-poh, residing on the first floor of No. 69 Shing Wo Rond, sald he heard a commotion after mid- night of July 30-31, and going to his verandah, hourd voices of persons demanding admittance cnsuling from an upper floor. He later saw three or four men Jenve the house and walk away. He did not see them doing damige to the car parked out-
house.
No Pension for Widow:he houring was adjourned to 2.30
Son Will Not Serve
CARDIFF.
Walton O'Donnell-“Bandy" to the Royal Marines-had mili- cary band music in the blood. When he was born at Madras 52 CON
ONTENDING that the State had played a “dirty years-ugo-his-father-was-bandmaster-of-the-South-Wales--Bor- -trick-on-his-war-widowed-mother, who-was--not
One of his brothers succeeded him as conductor of the given a pension, John Jones, a motor mechanic, of Tre B.B.C. Military Band, and the other is Musical Director of the forest, told the South Wales tribunal here recently that he refused to serve in the Militia, or do any national service.
R.A.F. Central Band.
Musical instruments were O'Don-jone of his tours abroad. The Prinec ell's first playthings. At six he was was learning to play the Ukulele, laying the plano, and
at nine aand O'Donnell gave him many hirễ.
"My father lost his life in the war to end war" de- uarter-size 'cello. Years later he It was in 1927 that he joined the Clared Jones. "Why should I start where he left off and as to become Professor of Com- BBC. to form the military band. set the war machine going again?"
osition and Military Music at the
Royal Academy in London, and nai Mr. O'Donnell once expressed this cknowledged expert on every milli-view bout brondensting: "I do not ury bond instrument.
think it will ever get the upper hand On the day the Great War broke of personal performance; but it does ut he received his first appointment show that clarity and fidelity is 9 a bordmaster-to the 7th Hussars. necessary. The microphone shows Later be followed both his brothers up every little fault."
s Director of Music in the Royal ile should have
The Chairman: Are.you willing to do civilian work?—No. The State was not willing to help me and my mother when we wanted help, and so I will not, Frank Davies presided, decided that help the State now.
The should be registered without con- dition in the list of conscientious
"CHILD OF GOD"
October 2.
|MURDER CHARGE, ““RIDICULOUS”
A month after his 20-year-old wife had been found dead at their home
in Shalden,Deal, Sidney Jackson (28), colllery clerk, with chargcent
der
| Canterbury recently with her mur-
Detective Superintendent Stuchfield described the arrest at Jackson out- side Snowdown Colliery recently.
He was taken to Sandwich police station and there, after being cau-
toned, Jackson said, according to the superintendent:
think the charge is ridiculous. 1 realise that the police have had may dificulties and I have kept away from them for that reason.
"I am not satisfied with what the police have done to catch the man or woman who committed the murder."
for
p.m
He added that he had no objectors.. religious objections.
Y.M.C.A. FIXTURES His brother. Eric Jones, said A 20-year-old colliery labourer.
European Y.M.C.A. xtures who described himself as a "child of for he that his father was wounded on God," was exempted from any form known,
next week are: farles.
once listened for six hours to the April 22, 1918, and died in con-of national service.
Sunday, Discussion Group. Speaker Dr. K. L. Retetelt, "The Christian With his band of Marines he a game music played by 20 mililory sequence,
He was Denver Jones, of Tonyre-Atitude to Other Faiths, ompanied the Prince of Wales on bands.
which Judge fall, who stated that he was a mem Monday-andaging and bandage mak-
ber of the Pentecostal Full Gospel, 19.30 a.m. Fing what. 0.30 p.m. Mission.
The tribunal, over
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"If I am to be made subject to, the State," he sald, "I cannot remain subject to the will of God."
A member of the tribinal: If you had a colliery accident you would accept sickness benent, I suppose?
Denver Jones: Yes, but I pay for that,
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