1933-03-31 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933,

MR. ROOSEVELT'S STORY TOLD BY

LITTLE CHANGE IN WALL STREET

Silver Market Shows

Lower Tendency.

BUSINESS SLACK BUT FIRMER UNDERTONE

The cotton market ruled firm

HIS MOTHER

Son Not Raised To Be President.

"FRANKLIN D'S" HOBBIES.

THE CHINA MAIL,

INDECENT ASSAULT To-Day's Short Story.

CONVICTION

Chinese Sentenced To 6 Months' Gaol.

LIVED WITH 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Wong Wab, 28. living in an un-f Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt is one numbered hut at Ping On village, mother who never raised her son to Wai Chau, who claimed that he was be President.

employed at the Taikos Dockyard, Years ago, when Franklin visited appeared before Mr. Schofield,

AUGUST

HEAT

Pennistore Road, Clapham,

August 20, 190

HAVE had what I believe to

my pocket,

By W. F. Harvey.

Then, with the rare

sense of happiness which the know. ledge of a good thing well done

I be the most remarkable day gives, I left the house.

I believe that I set out with thei

in my life, and while the events nt are still fresh in my mind I wish idea of calling upon Trenton, for I

the White House with his parents the Central Magistracy, this mor- to put them down on paper as remember walking along Lytton- and President Cleveland gravely told ing on two charges:-ta) That he clearly as possible.

the lad that he sincerely hoped he did carnally know an unmarried Let me say at the outset that my Gilchrist-road at the bottom of the

on broader demand. The sit-

chief concern happiness.

Avernges

that

WGA

street and turning to the right alông|

Withen-hill, where the men were at work on

the now train lines.

From there onwards I have only

James Clarence name is croft.

I am forty years old, in perfect |

wants.

went

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TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be "Hop-Frog," by Edgar Allan

Poc.

New York, To-day. In spite of a slight down- ward tendency on the New York Stock Market, a firmer undertone was noticeable yes- terday. Business was again Black, only 620,000 shares changing hands.

never would be President of the girl named Hon Ngoi Tsau, 13 In their report on the day's United States, Mr. and Mrs. Roose years, at 267, Lai Chi Kok Itond, on market, Messrs. E. A. Pierce and velt had a good laugh over it. March 28th, (b) That he did com-| Company, through their local cor-

"That was quite the last thing!mit an Indecent assault on Hon health, never having known a day's the vaguest recollection of where I respondents, state:---

Franklin's father or I should have Ngoi Taau at the above address.

illness.

The one thing of which I then," Mrs. Roosevelt "There is no fundamental change thought of

Defendant was acquitted on the

By profession I am an artist, not was fully conscious was the awful in the market.

"Right at Increasing selec- told me.

time first charge on the production of

a very successful one, but I earn heat that came up from the dusty stocks Franklin's chief ambition was to go medical evidence.

an almost tivity is noticeable, some

Admiral On the second charge he

enough money by my black-and-jasphalt pavement Was

I longed for the ruling strong, while other are to sea when he grew up. weak. The weakness of one issue Nelson was his hero. Instead of sentenced to six months hard la-white work to satisfy my necessary palpable wave,

thunder, promised by the great was not communicated through the the usual little boy's desire to be a bour.

My only near relative, a sister, banks of copper-coloured cloud that whole list. It seems the undertone street car conductor, our son wanted Inspector H. W. Fraser, prosecu- died five years ago, so that I am in-hung low over the western sky. is gradually growing firmer. Seat-to be captain of a big ship and sail ting on behalf of the S. C. A., stat-

I must have walked five or six dependent. ed that about a week before the tered selling of wheat on the an-'the seven seas."

I breakfasted this morning at miles when a small boy roused me Mrs. Roosevelt, who is one of the occurrence of the indecent assault nouncement that the Farm Board

It was twenty minutes to seven, would order Co-operative Societies fow women in American history who Hon Ngol Tsau and another girl nine, and after glancing through the from my reverie by asking the time.

seen their to liquidate loans, attracted atten-will have

Bons in the Chung Ching, 14, who was married morning paper 1 Highted my pipe White House, still believes that according to

the Hakka custom, and proceeded to let my mind wan- tion.

Ider in the hope that I might chance children and the home are women's were gathering firewood an the

and their greatest hillside at Shaukiwan in company upon some subject for my pencil.

The room, though door and win- There with the defendant. ver market ruled quieter and

dows were open, was oppressively- Had Quiet Childhood,

talk of securing a wife for him. the tendency is lower." Industrial, rail, utility and bondi It was a lonely boyhood, in a way, Later Chung Ching asked Hon hot, and I had just made up my mind most comfor- weakness, als, that she described as having been Ngoi Tsau if she would like a hus-that the coolest and showed

table place in the neighbourhood though the decline was less than that of the new president's. Only band. Hon Ngoi Tsau asked if that of the two previous days. child of wealthy parents, born in a there would be much work to do would be the deep end of the public Industrials and rails fell 32 and huge, sprawling stone mansion, with and on being reassured on this swimming bath when the idea came. I began to draw. So intent was acres of woods, paint declared that she was willing 40 to 56.49 and 26.74 respectively, its 52 rooms and

on my work that I left my lunch while utilities and bonds declined hills and cultivated fields, the boy to be married,

On the 28., the two girls met the untouched, only stopping work when 01 and 18 to 20,40 and 74 75 res- 'Franklin played most of the time

with his setter dog, "Marksman." defendant at the Shuukiwan tram the clock of St. Jude's struck four. pectively. Reuter.

The final result. for a hurried land his pony, "Debby," named for terminus and went with him to

his favourite aunt.

No. 267, Lai Chi Kok Road where sketch, was, I felt sure, the best "He was a happy, contended, out- defendant secured a cubicle for thing I had done.

It showed a criminal in the dock of-doors boy," Mrs. Roosevelt de- the sum of $4. On being ques-i

CHS, ATKINSON İscribed his early years. "He was tioned by the keeper of the house immediately after the judge had

MONUMENTAL MASON up because, though at Lai Chi Kok, regarding the two pronounced sentence. The man was Chan Chut, 50, a widows ad- Jessy to bring

fat-enormously fat. The flesh WORKER IN ENGLISH AND they mitted to the Government Clos. strong-willed, he was not obstinate girls, defendant claimed that

in roils about his

ITALIAN MARBLES. chin: it pital, yesterday, suffering from the and was too intelligent ever to be were his sisters and that they had hung

creased his huge,

From the yard itself came effects of immersion after her at very troublesome. We never really just arrived in the Colony.

neck. He WIS clean cheery whistle, the noise of hammer It was alleged by Hon Ngoi lumpy tempted suicide by jumping into the had to punish him

shaven (perhaps I should say a few blows, and the cold sound of steel Passionately fond of the water, Tsau that she slept with the

days before he must have been clean meeting stone. Franklin rowed on the Hudson with fendant at Lai Chi Kok.

He stood A sudden impulse made me enter. his father and swam, fished and took In defence the prisoner claimed shaven) and almost bald, General

A man was sitting with his back. nouncer that a new issue of stamps trips on the water every chance he that he was married to the girl. He in the dock, his short, clumsy fingers

jelasping the rail, looking straight in towards me, busy at work on a slab here or abroad with said that he had no other wife.

The feeling that his of curiously veined marble. He of 12 cents denomination--the Bri- got. whether

His Worship stated that in or front of him. tish Empire rate--will be on sale his parents.

not. so turned round as he heard my steps, Pursued Hobbles,

der to marry, defendant would have expression conveyed was at the Post Offices on and

3.9 of utter and I stopped shart. "At eight Franklin started collect to go through some ceremony and much one of horrat April 3. 1933.

absolute collapse. ling stampes," his mother reminisced. this had not been done.

There seemed nothing in the man On the 28th. March, at 5 p.m., "In his thorough fashion he read: books and studied the subject and the girl's mother found that her strong enough to sustain that moun- sorted and mounted his stamps with daughter was missing and feared Lain of flesh. Buch care that his collection is very that she had been kidnapped. Next! Valuable to-day.

harbour

News In Brief.

The Postmaster

-

after,

Chan Nai, 16, spinster, of 23, Po Tak Street, was fined $50 by Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy, this morning. for being in posses sion of 52 Yu Piu lottery tickets at Eastern Street,

de

I rolled up the sketch, and with day she obtained information as to out quite knowing why placed it in "At 12 he changed hobbies when the whereabouts of the girl and re- his father gave him a gon for his ported the matter to the Police.

Accompanied by a detective the Dr. E. 1. Alien will address the Christmas. He studied birds and

When he left me I began to takej stock of my bearings. I found my self standing before a gate that led into a yard bordered by a strip of thirsty earth, where there were flowers, purple stock and scarlet geranium. Above the entrance was

board with the inscription-

a

It was the man I had been draw- ing, whose portrait lay in my pocket, He sat there, huge and elephan- tine, the swent pouring from his scalp, which he wiped with

a redi But though the silk handkerchief. face was the same expression was absolutely different.

He greeted me smiling, as if wel

Hong Kong Practical Psychology their haunts and habits and he shot mother went to the adress at Lai TO CROSS ATLANTIC were old friends, and shook my

Club this evening, at Messrs. Lane and mounted a very inclusive collect- Chi Kok and found her daughter The mother declared that Crawford's restaurant. The ad- tion of birds native to this part of there. dress, which commences at 6 p.m. the country. We still keep it intact, she did not wish her daughter to

in his old room.

marry the defendant. is open to the public.

"I guess in many ways we never Chul Pus a Chinese male, was knew the difficulties modern parents

Mrs. Roosevelt admitted PRISONER'S BID FOR admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, know," yesterday, suffering from burns on frankly. "There was no question, keeping Franklin the left leg, which he received when for instance, of

frum going to bad movies in watching electricians repairing 2

[Poughkeepsie, for there weren't any cable at Kowloon City.

movies, good or bad."

a mal

stonebreaker.

Lee Kin. living in a matshed at Tai Han

Mother Has Busy Life. This frankness seems part and

was admitted to the Government Parcel of Mrs. Roosevelt's character.

after an explosion at a quarry,

LIBERTY.

Revolver Shot Ends Escape Attempt.

C#-

IN A "BARREL”

"Giroboat” Propelled By Rolling.

ITALIAN INVENTION

Palermo.

hand.

I apologised for my Intrusion. "Everything is hot and glary out- side," I said. "This seems an onsie

in the wilderness."

"I don't know about the onais," he replied, "but it certainly la hot, na hot as hell. Take a seat, sir!"

He pointed to the end of the gravestone. on which he was at work, and I sat down. An attempt is to be made to *"That's a beautiful piece of stone, cross the Atlantic from Genoa to you've got hold of,” I said. New York by two Italians in o

He shook his head. "In a way it! barrel-like vehicle propelled solely is," he answered, "the surface here is as fine as anything you could The vessel, which is called a wish, but there's a big flaw at the

by rolling..

While having his fingerprints Civil Hospital, yesterday, auffering Just as she boasts of her 77 years, taken, Chan Siu, attempted to from injuries to the right hand though she looks much younger.cape from the charge-room of the which he rerelved while digging Just as she admits that she takes Wanchal Police Station, after his "girebout," is a kind of buoy, in back, though I don't expect you'd Įthe shape of 'a barrel, with a re-jever notice It. I could never møke no active part in the running of arrest by Sub-Inspector McEwen.

of the valving cable which gives it its really a good job of a bit of marble her huge house but makes it her The prisoner ran out

When in the water It like that. It would be all right in Cheng Pak-tai, 59, who had been first duty and pleasure to be sure Station on to a vacant plot of land speed.

Sergt. Hill moves by rolling. It is complete-a summer like this; it wouldn't mind living on board a boat at, Shauki-that everything is always ready for at Lockhart Road.

But wait till the followed him and fired his revolver, y closed in and can hold several the blasted heat, wan, died at the Government Civil Franklin or his family's return,

winter comes. There's nothing Forty friends and relatives, In-but the shot did not take effect. People, Hospital, at 5.30 s.m. to-day, as the

The inventors are Captain quite like frost to find out the weak In the However, to the cluding the governor, were

the prisoner result of severe injuries

Caminiti and his mechanic Signor points in stone," head which he received when he fell house on a week-end during the fall. frightened and gave himself up...

Rametta, During the week, when she is into a nullah at Thai Ma Ti.

alone, Mrs. Roosevelt spends some

Leung Kwan, 24, was fined $100, time in her garden, some working

for charities, the rest writing in month's hard labour, by Mr. long hand to her friends and her

son's well-wishers.

ur le default was sentenced to one;

Schofield, at the Central Magistracy, this morning, for being in possey-

Tall, ereet in bearing, broad-

sion of a quantity of prepared opium shouldered and well-built in face at the Yuen On Wharf, at Car and form, she and her son are much

naught Rond, West, at 1.a.m. 1o-day.j

Personal Parg.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Renton arrived in the Colony this morning, on the a.s. Empress of Russia,

Captain and Mrs. T. D. Wakefield of London, were passengers arriving here on the .. President. Pierce. They are on a tour of the world.''

Mr. L. Kadoorie and Mr. H. "Kadoorle were among the passeng-

8.8. Empress of Russia."

became

ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS.

Local Institute.

MR. J. TULLY ELECTED PRESIDENT.

They have just completed their first trial by erassing the straita

"Then what's it for?" I asked. The man burst out laughing. "You'd hardly believe me if I was of Messina in less than an hour: to tell you it's for an exhibition, but They did not, use any engine but it's the truth. Artists have exhibi- made their "ship" roll simply by tlons; so do grocers and butchers: their own movements inside the we have them, too. All the latest barrel. In this, they followed the little things in headstones, you example of Attilius Regulus, the now." famous Roman hero, who lived over 2,000 years ago.

The inventors: Intend to propel rain, and which were easiest to Mr. F, P. R. James presided over their vessel down the coast to work; then of his garden and a new a vitality that gives the Impres- the Annual General Meeting. of the Catania and there to stay while sort of carnation he had bought. sion of tremendous personal power institution of Engineers and Ship- they perfect it: When it is com- At the end of every other minute ho "I had some doubt that my son bullders which was held yesterday, pleted they claim that they will be would drop his tools, wipe his shin- would be nominated," she admitted. Mr. J. Tully was elected President able to cross the Atlantic in it "ating head, and curse the heat. "But after he was running, I felt for the forthcoming year on the stupendous speed.”—Leuter,

like. Her brown eyes under her snowy hair are steady, critical, re- flective. She has all the dignity and statelines of another age, plus

confident that he would be elected And I am proud.”

DISCOVERY OF OLD GOLD

Madrid.

motion of Mr. 1. T. Farrell second-

ed by Mr. L. J. Blackburn."

The following now officers were Telected.

OPIUM DEALER FINED.

He went on to talk of marbles, which sort best withstood wind and

I said little, for I felt uneasy. There was something unnatural, en- canny, In meeting this man.AN ⠀ I tried ut first to persuade myself that I had seen him before, that his face, unknown to me, had founda

Messrs. E. Cock and S.. T. Wil- Hamson were elected vice-presidents. Fung Cheong, 20, unemployed, place in some out-of-the-way corner ers arriving in the Colony this caused by the discovery of treasurer, Mr. A. J. J. Martin; Central Magistracy, this morning, was practising little more than?

A miniature gold rush has been Secretary, Mr. A. Landsbert: appeared before Mr. Schofield, at the of my memory, but I knew that I morning from the Shanghai' on the quanisty of gold coins belonging to Librarian, Mr. H. R. Latham; on charges of, possessing a quantity Plausible piece of self-deception

the Phoenician, Arab and Colum- managing committee, Mesars, P. T. of prepared opium, and keeping an Mr. Atkinson finished his work Maria in the bed of the River Guss. Howard, L. Blackburn, G. Flat floor. There what do you think bus periods at Puerto de Santa Farrell, C. Bond, K. W Blackmore, opium: divan at 52, Stanley Street, pat on the ground, and got up with

HAWAN CULgh of relief maps daiete, which is being dredged. Taylor, G. Buchanan, M. Jack, A Accused was fined $80, or one

Crowds of peasants from the Landevert G. Mitford, P. P, R month imprisonment, on the rat that?" he said, with wife arrived here this morning on surrounding district are Bedding same auditors, Messrs Lawe, charge, and $100 or one month evident pride the s. President Pierce, They are to search in the mud at the river Bingham and Matthews

Mr. Charles A. Deland, amem

ber of the art department of the

Boston Post, accompanied by his

making world tour.

alde-Reuter.

imprisonment, on the second charge.

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