1934-05-12 — Page 9

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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934.

JIMMY FOXX HITS

HOME RUN

But Athletics Bow

To Tigers.

BROOKLYN'S RUN FEST IN EIGHTH INNINGS

New York. To-day. Jimmy Foxx. "home run king" of American baseball, and Hig- gins hit circuit clouts for Phila-. delphia Athletics in the Ameri-) can League yesterday, but the Detroit Tigers took the game by a 10-5 tally. Mackey Cochrane and Gehringer hitting four-i baggers for the Tigers,

Brooklyn

Dodgers added no fewer than 7 runs in the eighth

innings to swamp the Chicago Cubs by a 13 to 1 Lally.

Results as cabled by Reuter

were.

Boston

Cincinnati

National League

Hafry hit a homer,

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

R. H. E.

5 11 2

6 11

Gus Suhr hit a hamer, Game

went to 10 innings.

New York

St. Louis

2 9

3 9

Game went to 10 innings.

Brooklyn

13 20

Leslie hit a homer. Chicago

1 9

American League

Detroit

10 14

Visitor from Parts

A charming visitor to Ameri- Can shorce, Madame. Henri Cochet, wife of the French ten- nis star, waves a cheery greet- ing on her arrival at New York to join her husband. who is making an exhibition tour of the country. Cochet was formerly France's No ranking player.

REGISLATION OF PERSONS.

Ordinance To Operate From June 1.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FORMER COLONY To-day's Short Story.

RESIDENT DIES

Stationed At Naval

here.

Yard During War.

MR. HUGH BAILEY

He was a son

THE

DAM

By Leonora Gregory.

the pressure became

The death occurred at Leigh-THEY built it at the head of month ton, Welshpool, on April 6, of

the valley. Sullivan super-greater. Upon the strength of It was to that wall now depended hundreds Mr. Hugh Bailey, of the Brookvised the building.

of lives. House, at the age of 65. Mr. be the making of the town.

A vast concrete wall it was-- Bailey was a well-known figure in

Away down in the valley the Hong Kong until 1918, being em- grey-white and stark among the township was rejoicing. The dura ployed in the Naval Dock Yard timber, which soared with red-ifke was going to bring prosperity. The grace from the. denge undergrowth incredibly-powerful water sluices Mr. Bailey had a slight seizure of the valley to the disant leaf-with which they washed tin from

the hill-sides would never now. about Christmas time, but had since obscured sky. improved in health, and had been Sullivan had supervised the not even in the height of summer of pressure. had prepared the-languish for want able to get about again. His death building. He was quite unexpected, and news of festimates, tendered. secured the All day and all night, year în, year' it was received with much regret. contract, and netted a tidy profit.out the nozzles could go on wash- of the late Mr. How "tidy" a prolit only Sullivaning, cutting great grooves in the open face of the mountain, digging Bailey, for many years head game knew. keeper to the Earl of Powis at It was perfectly safe really. The out boulders like pebbles, tearing! Lymore, Montgomery. He was apdam was strong enough to standout a flood of rubble to keep the conveved it to the prenticed as an engineer to Messrs. any strain it was likely to be put belts which

And the difference it had sluice-boxes continually loaded. J. and M. Morris, Ltd., Welshpool, 10.

There would now be no lack of and afterwards entered government made to his proceeds!, A man who service as a dockyard engineer, in hesitated would simply have been water for the sluice-boxes to wash through the rubble and separate which he had a successful and in- fool

He wouldn't have thought twice rubbish from treasure-lo wash and teresting career.

the heavy black sand: After spending his early years at about it but for the position of the wash till

mile down which in tin was no longer hiding in Portsmouth he had three periods of township. Nestling a service abroad, at Hong Kong, and the valley, clinging to the V-shaped a shelter of earth and pebbles, but sides like a careless handful of lay glinting at the bottom of the weighed and responsible position at Hong Kong impets, the houses which made up boxes, ready to bo

the township were at the mercy of bagged and dispatched abroad. throughout the war.

after the dam. That knowledge worried

Malta before the war and held a

Returning to Portsmouth the war, he was at one time among

| Sullivan. He may have been was no murderer.

{those engaged in fitting out the greedy,, but he battle cruiser, Renown, for one of Witness the care he had put into the specifications. Many men the visits the Prince of Wales paid

would have cleared extra thou sanda; but, decided Sullivan, he would not buy wealth at the pos He retired on pension on attain-sible cost of lives. So he had been

to the Dominfans.

Pensioned AL 60.

A proclamation by His Excellency ing the age of sixty, and after careful. There was no real risk. the Governor. Sir William Peel,

hit homers.

Philadelphijo

5 Jimmy Foxx and Higgins hit

homers,

Cleveland

£ 10

Jon June 1.

Bosion

# 11

Game went to 11 innings.

1 13 0 3 * 3

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Mary Ansell," by Marlin Armstrong.

Half an entire mountain had al-

Mickey Cochrane and Gehringer KC.M.G, K.B.E.. published in the purchased Brook House, Leighton, local member of Parliament had ready been washed through those

ving for three years at Coedway, Thus the dam was falshed. The

Government

Gazette to-day, an two years ago, and had since lived come to declare it open, the news-boxes with the unwilling help of nounces that the Registration

of there. He was always keenly in- papers Persons Ordinance, 1934, (Ordinance 1erested in sport and when in Hong Sullivan had been interviewed and a thousand feet high tumbled to had taken photographa, the river. A pile of rubbish half No. 3 of 1934), will come into force Kong shot extensively in New Congratulated on his achievements the foot of the township. A hole Territory. His genial disposition by the president of the town coun- 300 feet deep gaped in the floor of and many reminiscences of inter-cli. Then he had gotten off to the the valley-the face and side of STANLEY BALDWIN ON BRITAIN esting events at home and abroad, city with his additional thousands the mountain were leprously eaten

made him friends in many circles. and the great grey wall across the into hideous and ruthless holes. Continued from Page 1)

The funeral which was largely valley had been left to bar the pas More powerful than fron drills, attended, took place at Leighton ange of the river.

water shot from the glant nozzles, boring among the boulders as though the hillside were much putty-eating ever further and further into the heart of the mountain in each of the gleaming black sand that-directly or in- directly-brought livelihood to the entire town.

St. Louis Washington

Cronin and Phillips hit homers. in the event of no agreement be- Church on April 9th. The service Week by week and month by jing reached, and particularly of no being taken by the Rev. Jmonth the waters gathered behind 1 agreement in the air. Britain Coulthurst, Vicar of Trelyatau and it. Week by week and month by

would be satisfied with no less a Leighton. In addition to the Emily Chapman hit a homer. The game position in the air than that of mourners there were present Mr.

Chicago New York

went to 14 innings.

6 10 7 11

AMERICA LEADS

Continued 110m Page 1.

McLean and McRuvie, who had established a 2 up advantage over) Dunlop and Ouimet, the American skipper, consolidated their position, by shooting 68 for 16 holes to beat their opponents, who had 72, by

and 2.

MATCH HALVED AT THIRD

equality with the greatest power Wm. Hy. Morris, chairman of within striking distance of her Messrs. J. and M. Morris Ltd., Mias, shores.

M. W. Watkin (London Mission,

He asked his hearers to put the Hong Kong), and Capt. A. Stanley! full force of their public opinion Davies, late Royal Artillery, Hong] behind the Government at o time Kong).

when it was doing all it could for the peace of Burope and of the world, and for the security and honour of their country.

General Outlook. Dealing with the general outlook he said that there was reasonable ground for fresh hope in the steady fall of unemployment among men, women, and juveniles. The Govern-

BREEZE AT DEATH INQUIRY

Solicitor Objects To Alleged Insinuations.

Moreland and Westland, two upment had laid sound foundations WANCHAI at the tum, beat Bentley and Fid-which would require much work and dian 6 and 5. They took 32 strokes statesmanship to bring it to full for the 13 holes to the British pair's fruition.

56.

the Americans their third win four matches-Reuter.

TRAGEDY RECALLED

· Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios, holding a watching brief for Mr.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

the

Such is the mining of tin.

It is notified in the Government

It was hideous, the state of the Gazette that the Aberdeen Kai Fong down the valley from the steep Motorbus and Transport Company, and tremendous beauty of the Limited. has been struck off the hillside. No wonder, as it rushed Register.

higher levels, to the desecration of the tin mine, that the little ver hissed and moaned.

There will be no Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel this even- ing but a Ten Dance will be held to-morrow at 4.30 p.m.

It was a feeble voice-almost a tinkle-the sound of the river in the valley. No wonder the ment laughed, and harnessed it without Miss Helena Yu, who will speak apprehension, forced it through Europe." at next Tuesday's Rotary furiously into the surface that it on "A Chinese Girl's Impression of [hose pipes, and caused it to bite

had caressed for centuries. No wonder the river in its littleness and impotence hissed despairingly and moaned.

timin at the Hong Kong Hotel.

Two cases of small-pex, one case E. R. Mitford. at the first hearing of typhoid fever, imported, and of the Coroner's inquiry at Cen-two cases of carebro-spinul fever tral Magistracy yesterday into the were reported in the Colony dur death of Mrs. Hannah Scott, who ing the 24 houra ending Thursday. was killed in a motor-cycle accl-

They were satisfied that what had been done would en- able the succeeding Govern- ments to build a better coun- iry and a better Empire. Regarding the restoration of the dent at Wanchal on the night of national finance he said

in restoration of unemployment cuts,

Business was quiet, 1,000,000 shares being traded.

Slum Problem Eased.

Whe the dam was built the voice of the river grew softer.

Before it had roared sometimes and sunk at others to a whisper.

Dr. Richard Ponsonby-Fane, the The object of the dam was to keep

The Englishmen halved the match at the third hole in the afternoon round, but lost five out of the next six holes. Marston and Egan commenced the afternoon round all square with

that the April 3 last, objected to a question well-known Shinto scholar, arrivit always murmuring at a mono- Michael Scott and McKinlay, and, sacrifices which every class had put by Mr. H. C. Lee, on taking 69 for the 16 holes to the made had enabled that position to of the deceased's relatives, to Dr. and by the Hakozaki Maru yester-the middle of the dam to regulate behalfed from Japan on his way to Eng-tonous level. There were gates in Britons 73, won by 3 and 2 to give be secured. They had seen the full Valentine.

day. Dr. Ponsonby-Fane, who has the flow of the river. Mr. Remedios aid that the just published

the a book and half of the cuts made in other question was a direct insinuation Kamo-mioya Shrine, Intends to re- was needed a man rode up from When alteration in the pressure directions, as well as an easement that Mr. Mitford, who was driving turn to Japan in November, and the township. Sometimes he camp- of the Income tax. He had every the motor-cycle, was under the in-resume his life-long study of Ja ed all night in the hut a little SILVER DULL IN NEW YORK hope that a complete restoration of fuence of liquor.

all cuts would be made before the

panese art and Institutions.

down the river, where there was The Coroner Mr. E. W. Hamilton (Continued from Page 41. natural term of the Government had upheld the objection, and told Mr. The lecture by Mr. Bacci

a telephone to the mine manager's: come to an end.

on office. Through this he would con- Lee that if there was any altera-"Some Remarks on Fascism" fer on the subject of flow and pres- tion by the family that Mr. Mit-which will take place on May 23, sure. When the gates were cor- On the subject of housing. Mr. ford was under the influence of li-at the Hong Kong Hotel, will be roctly regulated the man rode back Starting yesterday there was - Baldwin declared that before the quor, they should Federal sales tax on commodities next Government had been in office the police or himself.

have informed the last meeting held by the Cir- to the township' and left the great futures of three centa Instead of for two or three years the slum pro-

colo Fascista di Coltura during dam alone. Mr. Lee gave the court his an-this season. five cents per U.S.$100.

blem, as they had known it, would surance that he made no insinus-

Silently, behind the-dam, a lake The Department of Agriculture be practically at an end.

The next lecture will be held had formed in the valley. This tion as to Mr. Mitford's condition during September next, when Mr. was the permanent réservoir to estimated the production of Winter Great Britain, he proceeded, was and said that if there appeared to A. Blanconi, Italian Coneul wheat, on May 1, as 461,471,000 dependent not only upon Empire be any insinuation he was prepar-speak on the subject

will keep the water at even pressure, bushels, as compared with 491,793,-trade but upon the resumption of ed to withdraw It

"The Je-It looked pretty, that lake, spread-| sults in China 000 bushels estimated a month ago, international trade..

and the work offing all silver through the timber, The following jury was empan Matteo Ricci." In their market report, Messrs. E. It looked, he said, as though some elled: Mr. L. J. Stevenson (ore-

The townsfolk used to.come and A. Plerce and Company, through time must elapse before the latter man), Mr. F. Ortlepp and Mr. A. H.K.V.D.C. CLOTHING TENDERS always brought visitors to look and plenie beside it on Sundays. They their local correspondenta, thecould be attained. The growing|M. d'Eca. American Oriental Finance Corpora-spirit of nationalism, chaotic ex-

admire the achievement. They The Coroner sald that the accl changes, and the fluctuation of cur-dent on the corner of Arsenal Secretary's Department for, the

Tenders are invited by the Colonial were very proud of thefr dam.

Proud of it they were, right up tio material rency still made it difficult for goods Street and Johnston Road. The change and there are no evidences to find their way from one country lady was seated in a sidecar com the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence wetter than Tasmania had scen supply and delivery of clothing for to that wet winter. That winter that stability has been reached. to another.-British Wireless Ser- bination, which turned over.

Wheat: Prices should re-act on vice.

Medical evidence would be that Corps up to May 81, 1985, socording before,

Bullivan was down to an announcement in the Govern- death was due to fracture of the

in Hobart, skull and concussion of the brain. May 22.

ment Gazette. Tenders close on busy over estimates for a series of showers. In most States the wea-

rallway bridges. His work on the The driver of the motor-cycle, waaḥ ther is still the controlling factor.

dam at Halonah had brought kim Finley MacLeanan, a crofter on the uninjured. Several witnesses of

fame. He was now the state's "Cotton Prices were influenced heights of Docharty, Dingwall, Boas the accident would be called. committal work to complete, the foremost by the early strength of wheat but and Cromarty, who has died it

contractor. He Lad ter fell off on lack of demand 820 of 86, was the last surviving case, but it was desirable to have eariter date.

It was a pretty straightforward inquiry, could not be fixed at

annover-boen back to Talonah since ther than on too much selling Lonnan, who, as an Artilleryman, wAI

member of the family of John Mac-an inquiry. It happened a month The hearing was adjourned to Two years had passed.

the day of the opening of the dem. pressure,”----Eeuter.

wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. lago, but as the Court had hoary 2.18 p.m. on May 16,

(Continued on page 18.)

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"There has been

due profit-taking on cooler weather

and on any forecast If possible

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