1934-08-13 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934.

KONGMOON VILLAGERS FIGURE

CHILDREN'S SPORTS AT CHEUNG CHAU

Bright Scenes On Island Beach.

TWENTY MISSIONARIES VISIT HELENA MAY

[From Our Own Correspondent

Cheung-Chau, Sunday,

On Thursday Just about 20 mis- alonary visitors to the Island avail- ed themselves of the kind invitation of the Committee of the Helena May Institute to meet other missionaries, local ministers, and other friends at the social hall of the Institute.

A special launch started at 3 p.m. from Cheung Chan, landing the party at Blake Pier, where they were met by cars."

A thoroughly enjoyable tea and social intercourse followed, accom panied by various musical Items. The thanks of the visitors from Cheung Chau were voiced by 'Mrs. Dewstoc.. who recalled a conversa- tion with Lady May, who had ex- pressed a desire to have a meeting place for women, such as the pre- sent institute.

Saturday was Children's Sports Day, and the bosch presented a gay spectacle. being decorated with streamers. Various land and aqua- tie races were keenly contested, Mr. D. O. do Silva, assisted by Dr. Lind and Mr. French, being or ganiser and master of ceremonies.

The following were the results: Flat race (boys under 11)

1. Dan Ray: 2, Willard Grant.

Flat race (girls under 11).

1. Elsie Lane; 2, E. Rousseau,

Boys' flat race.

Married in a surprise ceremony, Richard Dlx, handsome movie star, and his bride, the former Virginia Webster, 24-year-old Los, Angeles girl who had been his secretary for several months, are shown following their wedding in Jersey City, NJ.

FAKIR FAILS TO FOOL POLICE.

Riviera Swindler Arrested.

Nice.

BIG VICTORY FOR

ROOSEVELT

"New Deal" Popular In America.

IN

SENSATIONAL

AMERICA'S TOURIST day's Short Story.

TIDE TURNS

Result Of Low Rate

Of Dollar.

BIG PARTY IN NEW YORK

New York.

MURDER IN THE GARDEN

GOLD RUSH

By Allan Ross MacDougall.

PARTICULARLY revolting "I'm very pleased to meet you, murder, the papers said. Sir," he said gravely. "Bette has The law dollar abroad has re- And I, for one, was greatly often talked about you."I looked versed the tide of tourist traffic and shocked when I read about it. I at him wonderingly, "You were has brought to America 125 Euro-knew the victim.

press agent for her last show, were peans on the first "excursion" of They had found her, according to you not? She has shown me many the many planned for the coming the Press accounts, in her newly of the bright articles you wrote built root-cellar. She was bound about her and the play, I must

season.

90 PER CENT. OBTAINED

RICH DEPOSIT

DISCOVERED

AT HOI PING

SILVER MINE ALSO FOUND.

SOLD AT 80 CENTS A CATTY

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day. Kwangtung is rich in gold and

The passengers paid about $125 with raffia, her mouth stuffed with say that I admire the gay inventive- for their return passenges on board crumpled pages from a seed cata-ness you seem to have. It is a deep the German steamer "Ilsenstein," logue, and the blade of a large pair misfortune, I think and I hope you and the fare, included all meals on of garden-shears stuck savagely in won't mind my saying so it is a board the ship and accommodation her heart.

deep misfortune that it cannot be at a New York hotel.

Suspicion rested on her eccentric put to better uses. A allly empty. silver, according to reports of de- Twenty-three nationalities were Scottish gardener, who had disap-headed collection of people, these posits found in different, parts of represented in the party and after peared. The husband was also ab- theatre folk have always seemed to the province. The latest report `is changing their francs, marks, lira sent; but he, apparently had a good me. Writing for them, or about that another gold mine has been and guilders for dollars they were albi. His mother had telegraphed them, seems a very foolish occupa-located at a place known as Kam taken on a tour of New York's down from Northumberland to say tion for a man of talent,"

Kai Shui (Gold Chicken Water) in sights. The sight-seeing tour lasted that he had been there for a week the best part of a week and includ- with a nervous breakdown. But as might, that he really could not judge Hoi County, 65 miles west of ed visits to the Empire State Build-I read further on in the case, I reall theatrical people by his wife, when Kongmoon.

she herself tripped into the room. ing, the tallest building in the membered.

The gold mine has been in ex. She had on a rustling silk smock istence. for many years, but it" world, the Rockefeller Centre, the

remembered that not more than and a great, flapping leghorn hat yielded, at first, very little gold Statue of Liberty, the Aquarium month ago I had run into the vic There was no sign of a sun on that owing to inefficient exploitation. Jand the Stock Exchange.

I was about to retort, come what

up, outside the door.

"Aren't you coming with us,

Following the discovery, a mad rush for gold was made by the villagers. By burning the gold sand, it is said that 90 per cent gold can be cb- tained..

tim, Bette Day. It was a first The visitors were a. little dis-night of something or other, aubrey day, but I supposed that her That was an integral part of her gar- appointed at seeing no gangsters titled, "a gatiric comedy." What [dening costume, as was, no, "donbt, or bomb outrages, though M. Emile its title was I cannot remember. the pretty basket of miscellaneous Merwart, former Governor of But that doesn't matter it has since tronmongery which she deftly picked | French Guadeloupe, startled the ignominiously closed. They don't party by exclaiming, when he heard last long these daya. Bette Day A man posing as an Indian fakir

a car backfire in Times Square:was hysterically glad to see me-honeykina?" she called into the Tai Tu Po mountain, in the Yan has been doing a brisk trade in

“Ah, bombs, gangsters.”.

that's her way-although we had "futures" on the Riviera. His claim

house. Other cheap tours are to follow never been great friends, at least as said: to tell fortunes has been irresistible

The results of a popular test vote this one and the shipping lines far as am concerned, among the women and altogether he has been carrying a most "promis-on the New Deal Indicate that predict that 80,000 Europeans will President Roosevelt has won addi-visit, America by August-Reuter. Ing" business.

tional support from the electorate:

INCREASED SUPPORT

New York.

Then a strange man came to him. since his sweeping victory at the After the usual mystic prelimin-polls in 1932.

1, R. Gallimore; 2, C. Morrison.aries, the stranger asked the fakir,

Boys' flat race (under 1 years).

1, C. Miller; 2, Z. Minckner.

Boys' and Girls' (under 7).

1. M. Ferrier; 2, H. Snuggs and

B. Ady (tie).

Boy's High Jump.

*

1, C. Morrison; 2, R. Gallimore:

and D. Ray (tie).

Girls' Swimming Flag Race.

1, E. Lane; 2, E. Rousseau; 3,

C. Ady and S. Rousseau (tie). Thread-needle race.

1. C. Morrison and E. Lane; 2

P. French and B. Ady; 3, R. Galli

more and Grant.

Boys' long jump.

1, C, Morrison: 2, M. Rousseau.

Potato race (girls),

1, R. Gallimore; 2, C. Morrison;

3. M. Housseau.

Potato race (girls).

Boys' Swimming flag race.

1. E. Rousseau; 2, K. Grant and

S. Rousseau (tie).

1, C. Morrison; 2, R. Gallimore. Boy's egg-and-spoon race.

1. C. Morrison; 2, J. Rousseau;

3. Dan Ray.

At the conclusion of the -sports the prizes were presented by Mr. da Silva,

The church service to-day Was conducted by, the Rev, A. Galli-

more.

BOHEMIA PEARL CULTIVATION.

Asked by The Literary Digest'-----

"Who am I? Where will you be "On the whole, do you approve or jto-night?"

disapprove of the acts and policies

of the Roosevelt administration?"

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

With regard to the gold mine la He shook his head, then Ping district, which is west of

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Key On A Ring," by F. W. Brooke.

She was eager to tell me all about herself since her last play; most keen to tell me of her marriage to the young Northern poet, Aldous Gnash. She tripped over her words old- describing her house in an world village up the Thames. She had just come in to town for the day There was a long pause.

The R.M.S. Empress of Canada to buy seeds and plants for her gar "Well, I am a police inspector," 45,000 votes in the States of New left Yokohama on Saturday, and is den. continued the stranger. "And you York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania due here at 6 am. on Friday. She "Fm just a rank beginner anYou'll have three more to-morrow. will spend to-night in prison." answered 'Aye by a two-to-one will sail for Manila at 6 p.m. on the amateur," she laughingly said. Her I already know your garden, my

Fortune-telling Is forbidden by majority. The President received

[same day.

husband, she went on to explain, dear your several gardens." law in France. Reuter.

166.19 per cent. of the votes, whereas

The R.M.S. Empress of Canada deng.

was crazy about flowers and "gar- "A garden la a lovesome left Kobe last evening, and is due thing, God wot," she tossed off

4

GERMANS IN THE

FAR EAST.

1,000 Now Living In British India.

Berlin. the present

in 1932 he got 57.52 per cent, of the total vote of the country, against Mr. Hoover's 89.59 per cent

at Shanghai to-morrow afternoon airily. With my basta being what

"This is your third visitor to-day.

She looked as though she would burat Into tears.” Same old actress, I thought, remembering how sho

*

Of those who voted for Mr. She will leave for Hong Kong on it was she was sure that I, too, would used to wheedle things out of her Roosevelt in 1932, 80.78 per cent. Wednesday morning,"

go mad about her garden. And crusty and crafty manager. expressed themselves as still sup- porting him, while of the voters

'New Deal.'

would surely love her. new garden.

"But, lambklus, dear, they are

your

Hoi Ping, the Provincial Depart ment of Reconstruction claima that the mine belongs to the state and has granted a franchise to a Chinese mining company to exploit the ores. The mine is now guard- ed by gendarmes and further ex- ploitation by the peasants is for bidden.

Meanwhile, a silver mine is re- ported to have been found at Hing

trict. The country folks are dig- Long, county in the eastern dis-

ging the silver-bearing mineral and selling it at 80 cents a catty.

GRETA GARBO STAMPS.

Portrait Of Actress On Swedish Issues.

Chan King, a 23-year-old unem-house and root cellar which a your gardens as much as mine. who supported Mr. Hoever in 1832, ployed, was sentenced to six weeks famous refugee German modern only started them because you were 41.23 per cent. are now behind the hard labour Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones architect had specially designed for always telling me about

at the Kowloon Magistracy this her. I would be wild, too, about the mother's." Her lower lip quivered, Owing to the accuracy of pre-morning, for receiving one pair of way she, her own little self, had with great art I thought,

The likeness of Greta Garbo Figures showing

And so we all three, finally, walk-may shortly join the immortals on vious Literary Digest polls, the brown leather shoes which he knew planned her herb-garden; I'd go into numbers of Germans living in Bri-figures received considerable pub to be stolen property.

ecstasies over her rock-garden; in-ed. down the garden path. She had of all places!-a postage stamp. tish India and elsewhere in Asia are licity in the American press. While

sane about the swimming pool; become bright and garrulous again. Samples of the proposed stamp, published by the official Deutscres Democratic papers obviously view

For stealing two brass-tape from daffy about the orchard and the Did he over, that glowering poet, to be issued by the Swedish gov- Auslands Institut (German Foreign with satisfaction, Republican Jour-Whitfield Barracks, Chan Choi, a espaliered fruit-trees.

ever tire of her falsely girlish brook ernment, have arrived in Cali- Institute) of Stuttgart.

nats lay emphasis on the possibility, 32-year-old. unemployed, was

of chatter? That stream of bright fornia. With a value of one kona, To total number of Germans in stressed also by the sponsors of the tenced to six weeks' hard labour by in the rush of her hectle twittering her carmined lips, didn't he ever ception of Miss Garbo's features. Before I know it I was swept along nothingness falling ceaselessly from the stamp bears an artist's con- Asta, the figures show, is now above poll, that a fuller count might alter Mr. B. I. Wynne Jones at the Row-I left her with a scribbed address want to dam it up at the source, emphasizing her mysteriously

15,000. This includes.

the picture.-Reuter.

British Indian

1,000

Ceylon

50

British Malaya

China

140 3,500

Persia

300

Iraq Paletine Arabia

50

200.

10

-Reuter.

Industry Revived After BYRD RESCUED IN ANTARCTIC

300 Years.

(Continued from Page ij

SUPPLY PARTY

Prague.

After 300 years, pearl cultivation

THREE BOATS IN COLLISION IN SHANGHHI

(Continued from Page 1)

loon Magistracy, this morning.

Ben-

The 8.5. Santhia will leave Amoy for Hong Kong on Wednesday after [noon, and is due here on Thursday. She will sail on or about Saturday afternoon at 8 p.m. for Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta.

and a vague regret in my mind that wondered7-

lidded eyes. Her name is printed I had been foolish 'enough' to pro mise on my word of honour that I

“Are you as crazy as I am about just above her portrait. would visit her on

odorous plants?" she was coyly ask

Issuance of the stamp is said to the following ing me from under the brim of her be seriously considered by the aggravating hat. I nodded absent Swedish government as a result of Aldous Gnash, whose poems about ly, still thinking about the poet, a flood of suggestions made to the wild and woodsy things you surely wondering how, he had ever come to postal department of that coun-

week-end.

all know, was there to greet me as marry her. "I'm wild about them] try.

- After colliding with the Kian, A fine of $8, in default four days' I jumped from the dog-cart, at the Simply wild! And I'm going to have Miss Garbo recently returned to the Tungshun was swung on the Imprisonment, was imposed on Lifront door. A shade too peasanty great masses of them over there, oh, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio current with idle engines and her Ping-kwong, unemployed, by Mr. Qtweedy, too glum, I thought. But everywhere, in fact. Lavandula after a visit to Sweden, her home. how crashed into the port side of A. A. Macfadyen at the Central they tell me that Northumbrians are Vera, Dianthus Barbatus, Reseda land. Her first picture since her a Japanese ship, Fengyan Maru, Magistracy, this morning, for treas often Bke that.

Odorata......

return is the recently completed anchored off the Mitsui Kisen passing at Murray Barracks last I don't know much about these she means Sweet Lavender, Queen Christina. The picture la Kaisha wharf, in front of the evening.!

country folksies. I'm Cockney my Sweet William, and Mignonette," enjoying a sensational run at the self; town bred and proud of it Japanese Consulate General, and

muttered the husband at my side.

new Empire, Leicester Square, was wedged by the current.

London (Continued on Page 11).

The RM.S. Empress of Asia left| Dr. Poulter, accompanied by three. The Chinese ship was towed Shanghai last night and is due at has been revived in Czechoslovakia fellow explorers, left the base at out by two tugs and proceeded Nagasaki to-morrow morning. She In the river Otava, South Bohemia,

Vancouver on Saturday afternoon.

BROADWAY.”

Billy La Hiff Dies

Aged 49,*****

a large oyster bed has yielded Little America on Aug. 5 on a special down the river, having sustained will leave Nagasaki at 8p.m. the "FAVOURITE SON OF

The same day for Kobe and Yokohama. 58,000 oysters, from which 20 first tractor to rejoin Rear-Admiral Byrd. only very slight damage. class pearls have been obtained.

Heavy snow and ice had prevented Japanese ship escaped undamaged. She is due to leave Yokohama fot These pearls are as large as those the Admiral's men from reaching-Reuter. from sea oysters, but are tinged him, and the only news as to, his welfare came out by way of Admiral with pink or blue.

The next examination of the Byrd's wireless. oysters will take place. In four or

Carrying two sledges of supplies Highway Robbers Throw Pepper

New York

In Face Of Taxi-Driver Victimr, and who was known to hun-

Taong Ka-tin, licensed taxi-ja-blunt weapon

GIFTS.

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Billy La Hiff, forty-nine year-old uncle of Nancy Carroll, the film

dreds of Broadway habitues.es "Broadway's favourite son, died after a long dght for life.

five years time. Damage is occa- and food, as well as 1,786 litres of sionally done to the oyster beds by gasoline, Dr. Poulter upon his de- the floods to which the river is parture stated that the party would

be able to rejoin the Admiral within]: subject.-Reuter.

two or three days.

He added, however, that it might driver of cab No. 720, was the They rifled his pockets, removed Doctors gave up hope for him take longer if the current storms victim of a highway robbery last his trousers, boots, Jacket etc., and weeks before he died, but numerous persisted. Danger of falling into night when two men, who had decamped in the direction of Kow-blood transfusions helped him to the deep glacial crevices had been engaged his car threw pepper in loon City,

Slinger on, lessened, he said, due to frozen snow his face and robbed him of his The men, as described by Tsang, He owned: "The Tavern, the with which they had been filled..

clothes and $21.50.ockpl were wearing black Chinese cloth-favourite haunt of actors, sports

Teang reported to the police that ing, black cloth shoes, "The first writers, musicians and authors,

SEA DRAMA IN SQUALL

(Continued from Page 1).

finally the junk was manoeuvred

permit

Two of the junk's crew were lowered overboard in a small dinghy and st con

rable

risk of being BW

cessfully effected

later landing the

Chương Thi Thi

on the following day, when it' found that in capsizing, the had been thrown out, autom |ly securing the boat |articles belonging to the occup

were also found, but gramapk and records, came

basket, watches, and clothing,

The derelict sampan was, Balved lost,

at about 11 pm. last night, bai was

ry, and ordered drive City/s," When in Sal

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As he turned, one ma pepper in his face while the

struck him in the face with]

the Furtivdiatect with a Hak A year 4xo nesti sent, and had his hair cut in friends, including Us

The hair of the and Maurice Chevalier,

was cut him with a gold cigarette case. vere about

was inscribed From Broad

bleeding LE

The was later: ad- thro the Kowloon Tomital

enlarge all kinds

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