THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948.
Heavy Sentences Nebraska Town Swept By Tornado
And For Heroin Opium Offender
An unemployed man was given heavy sentences by Mr Latimer at Kowloon Court today for offences committed under the Dangerous Drug Ordinance.
SIX MONTHS
FOR FALSE PRETENCES
For attempting to obtain 38 pounds of copper wire and 15 files by false pretences, Lui Nuen, 24, coolle, was sentenced to six months hard labour by Mr d'Almada ot Central this morning.
The defendant, Lo Sing, was fined $100 or two-months for keeping an oplum divan, 12 months without the option for keeping a heroin divan, $20 or seven days for possession of 1.5 mace of opium and another 12 months for possession of 1,885 heroln aro to be pills. The sentences
Defen- served consecutively. The dant was Also recommended for: banishment.
The
divan, conducted at 17, Pakhoi Street, sccont floor, ลด raided on June 20. Seven smokers were each Bned $33, when the case
Inst first came before the Court week. Among the smokers were Det. Sub-Insp. P. Lowe said at several persons described an actors address as Po Ifing about 3 p.m. on Monday, defen- Elving their
were Ho Man, 35, dant went to the Wing Lee Shop al Theatre. They No. 154 Wellington Street, ground Ngan Yec, 40, of Po Hing Thentre, floor, and presented a bill for the and Low Sap. 32. residing at 110, goods purporting to be from the Wusung Street, Arst floor. Chung Manufacturing
Company
OTHER CASES
For keeping an opium
at 295 To Kwn Wan Road, Hunghom.
divan ot The manager of the Wing Keo shop rang the Chung 0 Company 10 confirm the order and discovered it 298, Reclamation Street, first floor, was not genuine. Defendant was then Luk Sut, 34, was fined $150 or six weeks, The smokers were fined $30 detained.
ench.
Enquiries revealed that defendant obtained the bill from Liu Wal- of the chol, a former employee Chung Company, who was dis- missed by the firm on the same day. The goods, valued at $250, were not surrendered to defendant.
Cautioned For Misjudgment
WAS
Sentence of six months without the opilch of a fine was imposed on Chau Chiu-sing, 42, a farmer, who admitted the possession of 18
Chou incls of raw oplum. Arrested at the KCN terminus on Tuesday and the drug was hidden in specially made pockets and tied round his legs.
A married woman, Leung Chan, of 184, Shanghai Street, first floor, had an
a small oplum pipe and quantity of prepared opium confts- cated by Mr Latimer when she ad mitted that the drug was for her own use.
Edmund Temple McMullen, of Holland Goes
WAS
the Canadian Pacific Steamship Limited, Union Building, cautioned by Mr d'Almada at Central this morning for driving without due care and attention near Stanley
in Island Road
Village Road on April 25.
ta
To The
Polls Today
Indonesia.
The latter is the principal Issue
A tornado which swept across southeastern Nebraska and Iowa left this wreckage of what had been a house and other bulldings on the Henry Gadeken farm near Talmage, Nebraska.-AP Picture.
Anti-Red Peru Revolt Why Carole
Rally By Czechs
Youths Carry U.S.
Flags
Prague, July 6-In the first major public protest against the Communist regime in this coun- try, Czech youths today dis- played United States flags and shouted praise of the former President Benes and the late Foreign Minister Masaryk. De- monstrations occurred during a Ave-hour parade in Prague.
to
Collapses
Lima, July 6A Government communique today announced that an uprising of the Army Karrison at Puno in Southern that Peru had collapsed and order had been restored.
The communique added that Monday's right wing revolt had been limited to the garrison at Juliaca and that measures were. being taken to put it down there. No mention was made of the at Huancane, which garrison earlier reports said had joined the revolt,
The communique said that the Pune garrison had told the In- spector General of the Army that most officers had abandoned the movement because they felt they bizd been deceived. United Press.
COAL
!
Landis Took
Her Life
were
Hollywood, July 6. Un- happiness in love and financial instability, according to friends, Carole of the causes Landis' suicide.
Studio sources said today that the four-times married actress who was of found dead from an overdose sleeping pills on Monday night had been negotiating for the sale of her mortgaged home.
an advance
She had asked for from the studio on a flm she was to start work on next week. It was learned she bought lavishly in re- cent years and many of her accounts were long overdue.
She started to retrench expenses Among during the last few weeks.
MINES other things she released,, was her
IN DIRE
STRAITS
publicity agent,
TO QUESTION ACTOR
Members of Carola's family sold they were at a loss to explain her
net.
Her brother, Lawrence, sold he Rex Harrison, would question British actor, about his association with his sister.
Harrison found her body in the bathroom of her home. He told the
He had been driving for the in one of the dullest campaigns in Crowds on the sidewalkk joined the! Inst 15 years and had never beeniving history, and all parties are cheering and took up the slogans. It Some coal mines are working at police he was a "very good, friend"
Sub-Insp. A. Mudd of the Special
The Hague, July 6-Holland Branch said at 5.30 p.m. on April 25, he was driving a cor down Island is having a general election to- Road towards Stanley Village Road. morrow and on Thursday, but if
The police appeared to be power- When turning a right hand bend, hea poll taken by The Netherlands saw public vehicle 4421 coming to Statistical Foundation is any less to halt the demonstrations. But wards him and was overlaken by private car 7425 driven by defen- criterion, only 2,000,000 of the eyewitnesses said that at least three shouted anti-Communist slogans. dant. Defendant's car and the taxi 5,000,000 voters know what it young men were arrested after they included: shouted The slogans they stopped abreast on the road, and file is about.
we like. car was facing defendant's about The actual purpose is two-fold-Long live those whom 20 feet away. If both vehicles had
We wish health been in high speed, it would have to choose a new Lower House and They cannot dictate those whom we
to the must love. amendments approve meent a serious accident.
Defendant said he had no inten-Constitution giving a new status to President Benes. Let him return to
Hradcasy (Presidential Palace)." Warning By Horner thun of overtaking the taxi on the
CROWDS CHEER
Newcastic-on-Tyne, July 6 bend.
Involved in any traffic offences.
Seven of the 12 was the first divided upon it.
organised protest a loss of £7 a ton and scores of of As there was no evidence that defendent was driving in a dan-contesting parties fought the last
un- of the demonstrations defied
dining and swimming with Carole. gerous manner and at the mest 11 general election in 1040. One, known against the present regime. Leaders others at a loss of £2 a ton, Mr Holden sald Harrison
warnings of the Com- Arthur Horner, Secretary Gen. frequent guest at the Landis home, was misjudgment on his part, Mas the Independent National Group, publishcaled police to carreral of the National Union of Harrison said they had been dis- Mineworkers, told an annual cussing a picture they planned to Alay and is now campaigning for the parade. The police were
ake in Britain. support on the future of Indonesia.structed last week to identify parad- Conference of miners here to make In
Harrison's wife, Lily Palmer, flew ing units which shouted for Benes. day. REST OF PARTIES
Observers said that shortly after He said that hundreds of British from New York today to join him. down-pits were in their death throes and There have been reports in Holly-
and Harrison The other important parties are: the parade started through
town Wenceslas Square at 8 am due to die". He attributed this to wood that she
declined to .com- Party Anti Revolutionary (Calvinists); the Christian Historical two other groups followed.
10 years delayed development and estranged. She Catholic One
.of girls from the the working of the most prolific ment to reporters who met her
-plano. Union (Protestant); the
group
Funeral arrangements are being People's Party: the Labour Party; Moravian village of Hana shouted, seams during the war.
Mr Horner said that in September,
for the mado
Thursday-Associated last year, month Bangkok, July 7-Claims for com- the Communist Party; the Politlent "The hearts of girls from Hana be-
typical pensation for damage done by Reform Party (extreme Calvinists); long to our sister from Hana (Mrs
and the People's Party for Freedom Eduard Benes, wife of the former mines worked at a loss of £330,191. Press. Japanese troops to Chinese property and
Warning that full in Stam during the war will soon be and Democracy (a merger of dis- President)", Aled with the Chinesa Central Gov-senting Liberals and dissenting La-
d'Almada registered a caution against him.
WAR DAMAGE
CLAIMS
was formed only at the
the
At
end of
bour members). ernment, according to Chen Yu-fu, the last election, the distribu- First Secretary of the Chinese Em- bassy in Bangkok, in charge
of tion
was: Anti-Revolu- senta tionary-13; Freedom Porty-s Overseas Chinese affairs.
Historical Christian
Union-eight; Negotiations for settlement of the claims will begin in Nanking Catholic People's Party-32; Labour soon as all evidence has been col-Party-29: Communists-10; Political lected by the Chinese Embassy in Reform-2. Bangkok, Nanking will then for- ward the claim to the Supreme Commander of the Ailled Powers in Japan.
Claims for return of properly oc- cupied by Japanese troops during the war and subsequently assigned to the
tions will also be adjusted.
Any change of Indonesian policy may be eased by the fact that Dr J.A. Jonkman, the Minister for Overseas Territories, has intimated his intention of resigning-Reuter.
out
carried pended on coal ployment de-
Some demonstrators American flags as much as four feet long.--United Press.
MORE STOLEN
GOLD FOUND
he said Was the coal target for the year
Carole's Hermaid,
Fannic
had been a
201,000,000 tons of deep-mined and QUESTIONS
12,000,000 tons of open-cast. UNEMPLOYMENT WARNING
If we fail to reach this target ABOUT
by 5,000,000 tons", he went on, "this: country will have at least 2,500,000 unemployed." oyed."
AIR
DISASTER
arc
Mr Harner also warned that when the report of the first year's opera- lion of the National Coal Board was
London, July 6-Aviation Bangkok, July 6-Police announ- issued next week, it would be our- ced today the recovery
of about prising if it did not show a loss of experts were today asking two main questions about Sunday's US$500,000 worth of gold from an more than £20,000,000.
Ho called for concentration and air collision near London be- air shipment stolen hero on May 12.
was more modern machinery and warned tween a Scandinavian airliner The gold, in cases,
Ailles under enemy property regula- GOODWILL TOUR toilet factory in Prachuab that the alternative was to on and a British York aircraft in
Chen would give no estimate of the total value of the Chinese war claims but said that they would be "very small" Other estimates are that they would amount to only about US$50,000nited Press.
Price Control
Campaign
In Southern Slam and returned to Bangkok, July 6-According to Bangkok.
Police sakl the owner of local reports, two Chinese warships
The warships have just left the Suez Canal and will call at Batavia und Singapore before returning to
Shanghai.
Confrmation that the ships will vialt Bangkok in now being sought by Chinese Embassy officials.
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adequate pils, dependent on extra which 39 people were killed, in- the physical labour to get the output", cluding Sir Edward Gent, High Hle and that under present con- Commissioner for the Malayan the Chungking (6,000 tons) and factory was the niece of a Bangkok
"these old pit Federation. 20 ditions, however, at whose ice factory the Lintu (1,200 tons)-may call at woman
gold was
re- have to be worked because we need
The questions were: firstly, were Bangkok on a goodwill tour of the cases of the stolen
the coal until we can establish covered on May 20. world.
the two aircraft flying at the same The gold shipment, totalling 38 other pits to take their place",
height, and, if so, why? Becondly, The Conference carried un- did the Swedish captain announce They cases, was stolen while it was being taken to the airport for shipment animously a resolution calling upon his intention to return to Amster the National Executive to operate a to Hongkong.
Police are planning to claim the decision of the 1946 Conference By dam without obtaining a now course Answered
from the ground control in
the offered by in- submitting a new wages structure, London control proat 10 percent reward
Neither these questions
bo Burance companies, Asociated-Reuter.
solved until Press,
overy
Call possible detall evidence has been scrutinised. Pre- Uminary investigations are now pro- ceeding and on the evidence gather- ed in the next few days,
Lord Aviation, is expected to decide whe Pakenham, the Minister of Civil ther the collision should be the sub- fect of a public court of enquiry.
Danish police investigating cers were due to arrive today to help in the enquiries,
Shanghai, July 7--Five-thousand-United Press, police and garrison agents will swing into action today as the a all-out price control campaign opena
This step is considered by obser- vers to be the most businesslike over and was taken by the authorities decided on at a series of conferences between the Shanghal-Woosung Gar
the City rizon Headquarters and Government under personal Instruc- tions of President Chiang Kai-shek.
The purpose of the action is to uncover hoarding by unscrupulous
merchantz.
Mountbatten Without A Job
London, July 6-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, who retired on June 21 as governor General of India, said tonight that he is out of a job. and has no immediate prospects.
*
S'HAI POLICE
ALERTED Shangfal, July 7-The Shanghai
Police have been alerted against possible movements by local students to show their sympathy with col- leagues kille
killed in a clash on Monday in Pelping, according to Chinese re- ports today.
can
of-
told
The one-time Supreme. Allied Lord Mountbatten said ho "never
A leading aviation export A minor agitation observed among
"Every shred of Commander for Southeast Asia in- heard of" a reported plan to send the various colleges yesterday was Reuter today: plied however, that he will hopes him to strife-tom Malaya as British possibly due to the typhoon and to
evidence will have to be shifted to And an answer to these two vital Meanwhile, the City Goverment for an active command in the Royal High Commissioner, succeeding the the fact that final examinations are
questions." has raised the celling price for rice Navy which lent him to India last late Sir Edward Gent who
was now in progress. as the last British | killed. In plino crash here, on Meanwhile, it is reported int If a court of enquiry is ordered, from CN$10,000,000 to $20,000,000 per year, to serve
students, including 16 co-eds, were it will be the third in British avin- picul! The increase to the ceiling Viceroy, and later as first Governor- Sunday night.
dismissed from the Great Chination history. The first was into the was the result of persistent General of the new Indian Domi- quotation
from rice merchants who went to see them at the Ad- was interviewed
nion.. requests from ›
former Governor-General University on Monday on charges of locs with 47 deaths of the airship calmed they could not do any
na he and Lady instigating "college nationalisation," R-101 at Beauvis, France, in 1030. The second was into the disappear- business with the old celling price miralty but they had no job for Mountbatten feft a reception, given movements,- in force because prices' in rice-pra-me. They told me to report back for them by Indians in London, on Their nativities are said to have, ance of a Tudor-4 altliner, the "Star ducing districts SVETO 20 per cent later in the year,” he said.
their way to dinner, with Primo violated colloge regulations and hin- Tiger" on a flight from the Azores January of this higher than the price limit here. He indicated he expoclá to do so |_Bținistèria, and Mrs. Attlee-dered the academic pursuit of fellow to Bermuda In Associated Press.
year.Reuler, adding: “I am a mallor.”
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