1932-12-30 — Page 7

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932.

PHILIPPINES

INDEPENDENCE

BILL PASSES

Only Awaits Signature Of President.

10-YEAR PROVISIONS.

Washington, To-day. The House of Representa- tives has passed a Bill granting Independence to the Philippine · Islands at the rend of a 10-year period.

NAVAL REVIEW AT

HAPPY VALLEY.

Commander-in-Chief

Takes Salute.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

FRADIO THE

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

THREEPENNY

The following programme will PIECE

A naval review held by the Com: be broadcast to-day from the Hong mander-in-Chief of the Ching Kong Broadcasting Stafion_Z.B.W. Station, Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, on a wavelength of 355 metres K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O. took place at (840 K.Cs): the Race Course, Happy Valley, this morning at 10.30 a.m., and was very; largely attended by Naval and Army Officers, their families and friends.

programme.

7-10.30 p.m. European pro- gramme.

By James Stephens.

THEN Brien O'Brien died tion, alipped a silver three-penny- W

people sald that it did not daughter, Shella, aged four years, piece into the hand of Brien's little 4.30-7 p.m.-Chinese recorded matter very much, because he and later on she did not like to ask

would have died young in any for it back again.

Little Sheila had been well train-i case. He would have been hanged by her father. She knew exact The roview, in which participated 7 p.m.--Closing Loenl Stocked, or his head would have been by what should be done with money, one battalion of three seaman comQuotations, Selected Lendon and panies, ont Royal Marine rifle com- New York Stack Cuotations, etc. As both Houses have now pany, and one naval howitzer bat- 7.15-8.15 p.m.-Request Items agreed, the Semite having passed tery, was drawn up facing the 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather the Independence Bill with some grandstand.

was Kepurl. slight changes only just before situated on the right of the batta-Song- Christmas, there remains only lion, and Royal Marine Bands from Aly Sin, more stage before the legislation H.M.S. Kent, Cornwall, Hermes and is fully completed. The Bill Suffolk under Bandmaster W. Hum- must go before the President for phreys of the Kent in massed for-Oetet- his signature. There is no reu-!

was placed behind the suppose that President) son to Hoover will utilize his power of veto.

The battery

!

mation battalion.

The Battalion WRA commanded by Capt. T. B. Drew, O.B.E, H.M.S. Kent and his second in command This, then, is the last stage of was Commander G. B. Middleton, a long-drawn. piece of political H.M.S. Cornwall. fabric which has had various

Lt.-Commander R. J. Shaw com- vicissitudes. For 25 years it was manded the Battery, while Lt. before the Washington Govern- Commander I. M. R. Campbell was ment, alternately soaring to officer Instructor. popularity as a measure and be

The Commander-in-Chief arrived

Junior....Franklyn Baur (Tenor)

Victor 22050.•

Liebestraum (Love's Dream) (Liszt, arr. Willoughby), Nocturne in E Flat

arr. Willoughby),

DX302.

(Chopin, Squire Celeste Octet

Accordion Solo-

Wedding of the Winds (Hall), Estudiantina (Waldteufel),

Sweetheart,

Humorous Song--

Mario Perry, Victor 20175 National Economy, I'm Waiting Now for Any Kind of Norman Long DB678 Orlet-

Memories of Johann Strauss

(arr. Willoughby),

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet DX203,

'ing dashed to despondency again. at 10.30 and was greeted with a There were Filipino people who general salute. He then inspected virtually gave their lives to the the Battalion and Battery which effort for independence, and were facing the grand stand. there were others, afraid of los- The men showed all round smart-1 Orchestral- ing American markets, who ness and were

the very good in

What's Next? spent fortunes

to prevent the march past, receiving a great measure's passage.

ovation from the spectators.

America, according to the fre quently reiterated plans of public men, has been merely preparing the Philippines for self-govern- ment. In ten years, the Govern ment feels, the Filipinos will have been sufficiently educated. -Reuter.

News in Brief.

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JAPANESE CHILD'S TRAGIC DEATH.

Fell Into Bath of Hot Water.

on

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Hiroko Ikeda. aged 3 years and ten months, was the victim of |tragic accident which occurred at 20 McDonnell Rond Wednesday afternoon, as a result of which she One case of smallpox was notifi-died in the Victoria Hospital yes- ed to the Health Officer on Wednesterday morning. day.

The little girl accidentally fell into a hot water bath that had been severe scalds from which she sue- prepared for her. cumbed in hospitul

On Saturday, December 31, the time signal lights will be repeated at midnight to mark the termina tion of the year 1932 in Hong Kông

Mr. George The wedding of Henry Bissinger, of the University | Club, Manila, and Miss Winifred' Allen Scott, 4109, N. Stevens Street, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.A., is to take place shortly.

DX204.

Song--

When I Sing My Yodel Song, I'm Always Happy,

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split in two halves with a hatchet, and so, when nobody was looking, or he would have tumbled down she tip-toed to the coin and slipped the cliff when he was drunk and hand. That hand had never

the three-penny-picce into Brien's

been smashed into jelly. Some-fused money when it was alive; it thing like that was due to him, did not reject it either when it was

dead. and everybody likes to see à man

They burled him the next day. get what he deserves to get, He was called up for judgment But, as ethical write cease the day after, and made his ap- pearance with a miscellaneous run when a man is dead, the neigh- bours did not stay away from his crowd of wretches, and there he again received what was due to him. wake. They came, and they said, He was removed, protesting and [many mitigating things across the struggling, to the place decreed."

said Rhadamanthus, body with the bandaged jaws and' "Down," the sly grin, and they reminded Pointing with his great hand, and each other of this and that queer In the struggle he dropped the thing which he had done, for his threepenny-piece, but he was 80 memory was crusted over with bustled and heated that he did not observe his loss. He went down, stories of wild, laughable things far down, out of sight, out of re- and other things which were wild membrance, to a howling black gulf but not laughable.

with others of his unseen kind,

A young seraph, named Cuchu- lain, chancing to pass that way

Meanwhile, he was dead, and one

down he want.

Herman Finck & His Orch WR8 at liberty to be trifle sorry shortly afterwards, saw the three- for him. Further, he belonged to penny-piece peeping brightly from the O'Brien nation, a stock to whom the rocks, and he picked it up.. reverence was due. A stock not

He looked at it in astonishment. The historic easily forgotten. memory could reconstruct forgot- ten glories of station and battle, of terrible villainy and terrible saint-j 0006.liness, the pitiful, valorous, slow

Fried! Lusser (Yodler) DB 8.15-8.33 p.m.--Concert Waltzes. Nights of Fragrance (Ziehrer), Vienna Muidens (Ziehrer),

New Concert Orchestra Freuet Euch des Lebens (Strauss), Thousand and One Nights (Strauss,,

Johann Strauss & Symphony Orchestra 9223. 8.33-9.10 p.m.-Variety. Song---

.

The Hand That Never Refused

Money.

TO-MORROW'S STORY;

To-morrow's short story will be "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe.

turned it over and over, this

y and that way. Examined it at stretch of his arm, and peered

n. autely at it from two inches dia tance-

descent to the degradation which was not yet wholly victorious. A great stock! The O'Neills remem-- bered it. The O'Tools and the Mac-1 Sweeneys. had stories by the What are You Thinkin' About Baby? hundred of love and hate That's What I Like About You, The Burkes and the Geraldines

Phyllis Robins (Comedienne) and

the new strangers had! Двоба. Orchestral

memories also. With a Song in My Heart,

Court Symphony Orchestra

"I have never in my life seen any-1 .DX 63..

His family was left in the poorest thing so beautifully wrought," said She sustained Vorn! Quartette-

way, but they were, used to that, he, und, having stowed it in his Here We Are Song Medley,

The Big Four DX170. for he had kept them, as poor as pouch along with some other trin- Organ Solo-

he left them, or found then, for kets, he strolled homewarde again Ballad Memories,

that matter. They had shaken through the massy gates. Quentin M. Maclean DX135. hands with Charity so often that Vocal Gems--~

Hold my Hand,

they no longer disliked the sallow-

It was not long until Brien dis- faced lady, und, so, certain small covered his loss, and, suddenly, Bow Bella,

gifts made by the neighbours were through the black region, his voice accepted, not very thankfully, went mounting and brawling. but very readily. These gifts "I have been robbed," he yelled. were almost always in kind. A "I have been robbed in heaven!" few eggs. A bag of potatoes. Having begun to yell, he did not Bruno Wolter & Symphony A handful of meal. A couple of stop. Sometimes he was simply in-

twists of tea-such like.

[gry and made a noise. Sometimes One of the visitors, however, he became sarcastic and would send La Traviata-The One of Whom 1moved by an extraordinary dejec- his aery swirling upwards-

Dreamed (Verdi), Rigoletto-On Every Festal Morning

(Verdi),

"MY PAL THE KING."

Central's Attraction For Sunday.

Columbia Light Opera Co. 9.10-10.30 p.m.-Orchestral Con

cert.

(Wagner)」

DX332.

A Special General Meeting of The| If you ever had doubts as to Die Meistersinger---Overture Royal Hong Kong Golf Club will be whether Tom Mix really could held at 5.30 p.m. to-day at the Board shoot a rifle, you will have them room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson dispersed with

Sung-

Orchestra DX80.

Universal's new & Co. The business is to confirm film "My Pal The Ring" that stars resolutions passed at the Extra-him. Mix does an amazing shoot- ordinary General Meeting.

ing act during the course of the picture and it is the same demon- The return of notifiable diseases stration that has thrilled thousands for the week ended December 24 of circus-goers throughout the Concerto in E Minor for 'Cello and gives the following:-smallpox 3land.

cases;

diphtheria 13

The photoplay opens at the ca8c8, 7: deaths; scarlet fever I case; en- Central Theatre on Sunday next, teric fover 3 cases, 1 death, (2 im-with Mickey Rooney, Paul Hurst, ported); meningitis 4 cases, 3 Stuart Holmes, Noe! Francis, Finis deaths; pulmonary tuberculosis 33, Berton and Jim Thorpe also in the .deaths.

Mark Ark, alias. J. C. Wu, 25, who is wanted in Vancouver for the alleged attempted murder of Wong Toi, &

contractor, made another appearance before Mr. Schofield in the Central Police Court this morning when he was formal- lydischarged from the Court and handed over to Detective-'İ Inspector J. Ellice, his escort to Vancouver. The accused leaves aboard the liner Empress of Asis to-day.

erst.

́ON TOP OF WORLD,

(Continued from Page 6.)

I would rather face the League

A. M. Guglielmotti, Soprano D1609.

Orchestra (Elgaz, Op. 85),

Personal Pars.

Mrs. J. Fulkner, who has been W. H. Squire ("Cellist) and

the Halle Orchestra visiting friends in Japan, returned conducted by Sir Hamilton to the Colony to-day on the s.

Harty DX117-120. President Madison. 1st Movt--(a) Adagio () Moderato. 2nd Movt-Allegro molto 3rd Movt.-Adagio.

4th Movt(a) Allegro (b) Moderato

Song-

The Robbery Is Discovered.

"Who stole the threepenny-bit?". he roared. He addressed the aur- rounding black space-

"Who stole the last threepenny- hit of a poor man?”

Again and again his voice pealed upwards. The pains of bis habita- tion lost all their sting for him. His mind had nourishment, and the heat within him vanquished the fumes Miss Jennie Hughes, Miss Evelyn without. He had a grievance, n Chu and Dr. Mary Stone, arrived righteous cause, he was buoyed

(c) Allegro ma non troppo, here this morning o. the President and strengthened, nothing could

Judas Maccabacus-Recit, and Aria

(Handel),

The Meistersingers---Prize Song

(Wagner),

Madison. They are taking up mis- silence him. They tried ingenious,

devices, all kinds of complicated } sionary duties here.

things, but he paid no heed, and the

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sur, entz Francis, Russell (Tenor) route to Manila to visit her son, tormentors were in despair,

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who is Governor-General of the "I hate these sinners from the

of Nations on one of its extraspe- Symphony No. 4 (Italian) in A Philippines, arrived in Hong Kong kingdom of Kerry," said the Chief cial peace days than the unemployMajor (Mendelssohn). ed bootlegger.

But Mr. Roosevelt will have to face him.

Sir Hamilton Harty con- ducting the Hail Orchestra DX342-4.

Ist Movt-Allegro Vivace... 2nd Movt-Andante con moto,. Brd Movt-Con moto moderato 4th MovtSalterello,

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