1934-05-30 — Page 9

TEDDY FINCHER WEDS

Miss Kacker Makes Charming Bride.

LARGE CROWD ATTEND CEREMONY

Cricket Bats and Tennis Rackets form Archway.

One of the most popular local this sportsmen was married afternoon at the St. Andrew's when Miss Church, Kowloon.

Marie Kacker, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kacker, became the bride of Mr. Edward Charles Fincher, the eldest son of Mr. W. F. Fincher and the late Mrs. Fincher.

The new Vicar to St. Andrew's Church, the Rev. J. R. Higgs, off- ciated, the ceremony being attended by a large number of friends of both the bride and bridegroom.

The bride, who was given away by Mr. Ezra Abraham, locked very charting in a beautiful dress of two-ways lace satin and angel skin, carrying a long train encircled with large satin ruches.

was of gladioli.

Hier bouquet

The Misses Kathleen and

Mar-

garet Grose, the bridesmaids, wore

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNES DAY, MAY 30, 1934.

Teddy Fincher, who was to-day married to Miss Marie Kacker, photographed with Mrs. Helen Wilis-Moody on the occasion of her exhibition match on the K.C.C. courts in 1931.

dresses of pompadour point d'esprit GIRL SECURITY

tulle similar to

the bride's,

and Their trimmed with large ruches. bouquels were posies of carnations in pastel shades.

Mr. Albert Howe performed the duties of best man, and, following! the service. a very well attended re- the Kowloon ception was held at Cricket Club at which Mr. M. K. Lo, also a prominent loend sportsmun, toasted the happy couple.

FOR LOAN

Well Treated And No Wish To Leave.

BUT CHINESE GUARDIAN IS FINED $200

How a little girl, Lee Chul, was

To-day's Short Story.

GABRIEL- ERNEST

By Saki.

Where on

"HERE is a wild beast in your eyes, so light that there was an al- "Foods," said the artist Cun- most tigerish gleams in them, were ningham, as he was being driven turned towards Van Checle with a to the station. It was the only certain lazy watchfulness. remark he had made during the It was an unexpected apparition, drive, but as Van Checle had and Van Checle found himself en- talked incessantly his compan-gaged in the novel process of think- ion's silence had not been notice-ing before he spoke.

earth coud this wild-looking boy hail able.

"A stray fox or two and some from? The miller's wife had lost a resident weasels. Nothing more child some two mouths ago, supposed formidable," said Van Checle. to have been swept away by the mill- The artist said nothing.

face, but that had been a mtre baby,) "What did you mean about a wild not a half-grown lad. beast?" said Van Cherle later, when they were on the platform.

"Nothing. My imagination. Here

is the train," said Cunningham.

That afternoon Van Cheele went

for one of his frequent rambles through his woodland property. He

"What are you doing there?" he demanded.

"Obviously, sunning myself," re-. plied the boy,

"Where do you live?" "Here, in these woods."

"You can't live in the woods,"

had a stuffed bittern in his study.said Van Cheele.

and knew the names of quite a num-i "They rae very nice woods," said ber of wild flowers, so his aunt had the boy, with a touch of patronage possibly some justification in des-in his voice.

cribing him as a great naturalist.

At any rate. he was a great walker. It was his custom to take mental

13-YEAR-OLD BOY note of everything he saw during

KIDNAPPED

Recovered After Fortnight.

MAN'S TALE OF THRASHING LEADS CHILD TO MACAO

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Detective Inspector A. J. W. Dor-

jhis walks, not so much for the pur-

of рове

assisting contemporary science as to provide toples for con- When the versation afterwards. bluebells began to show themselves in flower he made a point of inform- ing everyone of the fact; the sex- son of the year might have warned his hearers of the likelihood of such an occurrence, but at least they felt that he was being absolutely frank with them.

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"But where do you sleep at night?" "I don't sleep at night; that's my busiest times."

was

Van Cheele began to have an irritated feeling that he was grap- pling with a problem that eluding him.

"What do you feed on?" he asked. "Flesh," said the boy, and he pro-

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Pleading guilty to a charge When the happy pair left the handed to another family 28 a kidnapping Chan Wing Ching, a 13-

What Van Cheele saw this Church they passed under crossed security for a loan, was disclosed be-year-old boy, on May 15, a Chinese, particular afternoon was, however, cricket bats and tennis rackets,fore Mr. E. 1. Wynne Jones at the Tsang Chun, was sentenced by Mr. held by members of the Kowloon Kowloon Magistracy this morning E. 1. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon something far removed from his or- Cricket Club.

when So Wan, a Chinese woman of Magistracy this morning to 12dinary range of experience. Lady Ho Tung was one of the 145 Nan Cheong Street, was sum- months' hard labour and 12 strokes shelf of smooth stone overhanging as though he were tasting it.

a deep pool in the hollow of an oak! many who attended the wedding.

moned for keeping an unregistered of the birch.

"Since it interests you, rubbita, Triple The bride's going-away dress warmui-txai.

His wife, Ip Kal, who also plead-coppice a boy of about sixteen lay of crepe nymph clartreun with a coat Sub-Inspector Fraser, of the Seed guilty to a charge of alding and sprawl, drying his wet brown limbs wild-fowl, hares, poultry, lambs in Visibility

His wet their season, children when I can get sentenced to six luxuriously in the sun. of cellular net to match. The honey-cretariat for Chinese Affairs, who abetting, was

hair, parted by a recent dive, lay any; they're usually to well locked moon is being spent at Fanling.

prosecuted, said that the child was months' hard labour.

close to his head, and his light-brown in at night, when I do most of my Sports Career.

The defendants, whe handed to the defendant by her

hunting. It's quite two months since New 32 years of age Teddy father three year ago when at the married only two months ago, stated

I tasted child-desh." Fincher is perhaps best known for age of 8, as accurity for a loan of that they kidnapped the child to

of Ignoring the chaffing nature his splendid lawn tennis abilities. $50. The father died a year later raise money to pay for their wed-

the last remark Van Cheele tried to though it would be safe to say that without redeeming his child, dur-ding feast. The child was taken to

draw the boy on the subject of 2 On the tape he is undoubtedly olle of the ing which time the mother borrow Macao. -

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Accumulat- Colony's beat all-round sportsmen.jed another $15."

(By Telepraph, Copyright, Telegra~ "You're talking rather through ad totals on being an Interport cricketer, a very Recently the mother attempted ling, who prosecuted, said that the phic Messages Ordinance, 1804, Re-

your hat when you speak of feeding useful hockey player for the Club to get her child back, but was told defendant lived in the same house ceived May 30, 8.40a.m.)

Jon hares. (Considering the nature He met

Washington, To-day.

WAS and St. Andrew's, and a lawn bow-that she would have to make good with the child's parents.

The House of Representatives In-of the boy's toilet the simila ler of merit, having been a mem the loans, in addition to $2 for the boy in the new market, Kowloon

"Our hillsidel ber of the K.C.C. 1931 Champion each month that the child had re- City, and told him that his mother ter-State Commerce Committee yes- hardly an apt one,

hares aren't easily caught." mained in their possession. The would give him a thrashing if he[terday voted to report favourably on

"At night I hunt on four feet," Be won his first tennis title at mother refused and reported the went home and induced him to go the Rayburn Communication Bill.-) the age of 17, when he captured matter to the police where it was away with him. He took him to United Press, per S.C. Gold Bar Co. was the somewhat cryptic response.

"I suppose you mean

that you the Civil Service Singles. He won found, after investigation, that the an address in Shamshuipo where]

hunt with a dog?" hazarded Van! the same title in 1921, 1922, 1924, child was an unregistered mui-tsai, they were joined by two men and the

Cheele. The child had been 1925 to establish a Club record.

well cared defendant's wife. Later the child

The boy rolled slowly over on to Ho reached the Final of the for, sald the Inspector, and she did was taken to Macao where they at-

his back, and laughed a weird low in not wish to return to her mother. tempted to sell the child. Open Singles Championship

never She was not made to work and was The mother of the child, nocom- 1930, 1931, 1932, but has

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra-Inugh, that was pleasantly like won the title. He was also Finalist considered as one of the children panied by a friend, went to Macao phic Messages Ordinance, 1894, Re-chuckle and disagreeably like'a snar).

(crived May 20, 8.40 am.)

"I don't fancy any dog would be in the Open Doubles with L. Gold-in the family.

on May 26, and there located the

Washington, To-day. very anxious for my company, ex- man in 1932, 1933 and 1334.

A fine of $200, in default two defendant and his wife, and subse. The Speaker of the House of pecially at night." He played Interport tennis months' hard labour, was imposed, quently discovered their child on the Representatives. Mr. Henry T. Van Cheele began to feel that against Shanghai

Macao wharf. The boy said that he Rainey, has predicted that Con-that was something positively un 1932.

but all efforts to trace these men had and June 16.-United Press, per strange-tongued youngster, was taken there by two other men,gress will adjours between June canny about the strange-eyed,

side.

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The boy was handed over to the Hong Kong Police by courtesy of the Macno officialą,

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LORD MARLEY'S GESTURE

in 1928,

Fincher has won the K.C.C. singles championship In 1924, 1927, 1929,

"I can't have you staying in these 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933, a re-

woods," he declared authoritatively. cord without parallel.

I fancy you'd rather have me Civil He was a member of the

here than in your house?" said the LONDON JOURNAL'S' COMMENT Service team to win the "B" Divi-

Captain E. A. Gerrard Maieson, boy. sion in 1920, and of the winning)

London. The prospect of this wild, nude explorer, author, photographer, and

London, Today. Mixed Doubles K.C.C. team in 1930. MORE LETTERS WRITTEN.

scientist, arrived yesterday, on the animal in Van Cheele's primly or

A Soviet organization in Lon-

Lord Marley, who was "Lord- He played Mrs. Helen Wills-

President Wilson bound for Manila dered house was certainly an alarm don is purchasing Australian and in-Waiting to the King in the Moody in an exhibition match in

London, To-day.

to look over a vessel which he maying one, 1931, and won 11-9.

Next August, Great Britain will

"If you don't go I shall have to Argentine wheat for shipment to last Labour Government, coupled The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay use in an attempt to navigate the

Vladivostock. Fincher has represented Hong have a

a toast to the King with a toast, issue of postage

make you," said Van Cheela.

Two cargoes of Australian Kong against Shanghai in the In-stamps, the remaining denomina. MacDonald said yesterday that he North-west Passage next year.

understood that

The boy turned like a flash, plung wheat and one of Argentine to the head of the U.S.S.R. at a terport Cricket on six occasions, tions being made available AL

lachemes, bearing on the question The wedding is announced to take ed into the pool, and in a moment wheat, totalling 22,600 tons, have luncheon in London. while he has been selected four intervals of a few weeks.

of the internationalisation of civil place shortly of Mr. William Her. had flung his wet and glistening already been bought, declares the Presiding at the Wayfarers times against Malaya. He has

This announcement was made Interport average of 22.10.

by the Postmaster General, Sir aviation, had been received, and bert Alton, of the Methodist Mission body half way up the bank where Financial Times and it re

CX Travel Luncheon Lord Marley In an pected that further shipments Kingaley Wood, at Cambridge yes-propriate

were being considered by the ap-of Shuichou, Kwangtung, and Miss Yan Cheele was standing..

department. British Ethel Muriel Stilman, nurse, also of otter the movement would not have are being arranged.

Įsaid, after giving the loyal toast, terday, He said that the new Wireless Service.

the Methodist Mission at Hankow. been remarkable; in a boy Van

"While" we are standing I give. stamps would have minor changes

Checle found it sufficiently startling. It is believed that the shipments you the toast of the President of His loot slipped as he made' an in- voluntary backward movement, and are due to widespread crop failure the Executive of the U.S.S.R" The found himself almost prostrate in Russia, also probably to the con-

In his "presidential speech, ho on the slippery wood-grown bank, sumption of wheat in the Vladi declared that the best trains in

AMERICA ON ARMS

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An

new

In design and that the colours!

Mr. Davis skid that no nation would be richer,

could wish to take the

respon-

They were being printed by

sibility for the failure of the Dis-photogravure process by Mensra. armament Conference, or to face Harrison of London.

the consequences of such failure, England was the first country to

future convention.

two unofficial

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RUSSIAN CROP FAILS

other

Chao_Kung, Deported from

England, Returning to China

Montreal. was ordered to be detained in gaol very far from his own. Almost increased owing to the presence of best trains in the United States: They had He thought it best to go back to issue adhesive, stampa, and post. Trabitach Lincoln, the war-time until the Duchess of York returnstinctively he half raised his hand troops maintained, in the region or Great Britain. ·

The boy laughed since the period of Russo-Japanese radio in every carriage: there the decision of July 8, 1933, when offices throughout Great Britain

were cinema shows and there was the British draft convention had now, soll about 20,000,000 daily.py and former member of the Bried to Liverpool From Antwerp, to his throat.

suggestion, la sup- dancing every night with an or, been accepted by all nations, in- During last year British Post tlah House of Commons, accom-when he was placed on board, de-again, a laugh in which the snarl tension arose.

and then, with another of his as ported by the fact that Russia has chestra Reuter, cluding Germany, as a basis of Offices received, sorted and de- Panied by his disciples, six monks ported to Canada and the Far had nearly driven out the chuckle, The latter

movements, been shipping huge quantities of livered, 100,000,000 more letters and four nuns, have left by train East,

Chao Kung's party of six monks tonishing lightning If Germany desired a Disarma than in the previous years, Bri-for Vancouver from where they

will return to China. --

and four nuns were not molested plunged out of view into a yielding cereals, cement and

materials from the Black Be to ment convention, which surely tish Wireless Service.

Lincoln, or Chao Kung, the name by the authorities, but chose to tangle of weed and fern. must be the case, he could not

"What an extraordinary wild ani-Vladivostock in the last 18 months. The chose in his role of Buddhist remain with their leader," being casily believe that she would not BANISHEE VISITS THE 'SICK

monk, was forbidden to land by the hotbed, Ani bosading bouse, near mall" said Van Cheele as he picked Router. authorities when the a.. Dachers the; gaol until the return of the himself up. And then he recalled Pleading that he came to Hons of York, arrived in Liverpool dur-Duchess of York from Antwerp, Cunningham's remark, There is a Kong to see his sister who was sick, ing the early part of this month. The war-time spy had intended wild beast in your woods." M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian Chol Man, an unemployed Chinese The authorities stated Ride to Losed a Buddhist colony in the Walking slowly homeward. Van delegate, proposed the transforms was sentenced to six months, hard portation order was still in effect south of France, and on his arri Choale began to turn over in his tion of the Conference Into a labour by Mr. J. H. B. Lee and Lincoln was given the alterna-val in Liverpool, he told the au mind various local occurrences which Congo to the Atlantic Ocean will agreement between Britain and "Conference of Peace to work out the Kowloon Magistracy this modes of proceeding to Antwerp in thorities that he desired to preach might be traceable to the existence completed by the end of this month, Holland would be opened soma and perfect security monaurus. ing for returning from banishment, the Canadian Pacific liner or being muddhism in England for a period of this astonishing young savage.according to an official telegram time next month-British Wira

The Conference adjourned until! He was banished in 1920 for Hie," lodged in guoli· He refazed” and of four months to-day-British Wireless Servies,

be willing to resume negotiations

on the basis to which she had pre- viously greed.

A

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·FRENCH · RAILWAY SCHEME

ANGLO-DUTCH TRADE PACT.

London, To-day- The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, said yesterday that it was hoped that

The French railway from Inner the negotiations for trading

elved in Paris,

lers Service,