1934-10-02 — Page 9

THE CHINA" MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934

ROOSEVELT SPEECH FAILS TO REASSURE AMERICAN BUSINESS

GRAPHIC TALE

OF PIRACY ABOARD

TRADING SAMPAN

Boatmen Overpowered While At Meal

THRILLING CHOPPER BATTLE

IN OPEN SEA

A startling report' was made to the police yesterday when Lo Yat,

To-day's Short Story.

FOR THE GOOSE

"GOOD

By Colin Howard

OOD evening, sare" Henri, 'ave you think that I boasted, but

the head-waiter at Durio's restaurant, in Soho, greeted me.

"A fine night, Henri," I told him, affably.

I chanced to mention, very early, the position that I 'old at Durio's. Women think much of position,

""Bon jour, mademoiselle,' I say "It may be a fine night for or-Ah, 'ow the ladies love a little a 22-year-old boatman, staggered dinary people," said Henri, sigh- French from a 'andsome young into the Castle Peak Police Station ing so gustily that a vase of arti-man 'I trust that I may "ave the and reported that he had beer theficial flowers was moved to rustle pleasure of seeing you again?'

"To Henri Legarde, victim of an armed piracy which |

it means nothing." had taken place about 300 yardı "And why?" off Nim Wan. He also stated that "Because his heart is the master of the sampan, Ah explained Henri. Kwai, was missing.

Our

an

Our

In sympathy.

dignity.

with

happend?"

"I'm sorry," said I.

Henri glanced round

turned again to me.

"Good-bye, Mr. Legarde," she say, so shy and timid. 'And thank you again for picking up my 'and-

broke," kerchief."

simple "Pooh, that was nothing, noth- ing! say, very dashing. For "What's you, I pick up forty thousand

'andkerchiefs I' the res

"And I lift my 'at-courteous

"But a coincidence most

of it.

-DI

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

COUNTER-PROPOSAL

FROM CAPITAL

response

IMPORTANT POINTS IGNORED

BUDGET AND DOLLAR SPEECH LACKS

NOT MENTIONED

PRESIDENT'S OPPOSITION TO

LIBERTY DEFINITION

MASSES SERVING THE FEW

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

CONVICTION AND

CONCRETE PLANS

But Labour President Is Pleased

CLOSER UNION SEEN BETWEEN LABOUR AND CAPITAL

New York, To-day.

While it is generally conceded that President Roosevelt has lost none of his lucidity and charming radio manner,

critics in many

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894,

Received October 2, 226 am)

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. “WE HAVE AVOIDED THE THEORY THAT BUSINESS MUST quarters complain that the Presi BE TAKEN OVER INTO AN ALL-EMBRACING GOVERNMENT lent, in his broadcast speech on AND THE EQUALLY UNTENABLE THEORY THAT IT IS INTER-

FERENCE WITH LIBERTY TO OFFER REASONABLE HELP WHEN Sunday night, confined himself to PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NEEDS HELP," DECLARED PRESIDENT generalities and did not disclose ROOSEVELT IN HIS BROADCAST ADDRESS TO THE NATION, concrete plans for dealings with ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

the many pressing problems.

Labour's Non-Committal Response To Truce "We were aboard the sampan No. 4419 (he thought) sailing to-

CHALLENGE TO LABOUR wards Chung Shun Kuk smug taurant. Trade was slack, and he and gallant, sol-and depart. gling 30 piculs of sugar and

New York, To-day. twelve boxes of matches into the

While President Roosevelt's re- "I tell you, sare," he promised.markable is

He said that the restoration of normal business involved Gov- Chinese Territories at about 5" tell you, and then you see for leaving the restaurant the next and labour has received a favour the railroads' industry, which he experts and believes will be re can Federation of Labour, ex- to come. As I am quest for a truce between capital ernment loans to banks, farmers, homes, insurance concerns and H. Green, President of the Ameri- On the other hand, Mr. William p.m." he saidi.

yourself why, when love is talked day after lunch, 'oo should I meet able but non-committal They, then anchored to have food, about these days, I say nothing, again, I demand of you, but this

pald. another sampan being close by. but give a bitter laugh."-

The second step was the "clear-up of the thoroughly un- Roosevelt's appeal for an armis

pressed approval of President "When we were in the middle of;

girl?

from labour, a counter-proposal wholesome conditions in the field of investment," in which the tice between capital and labour He gave meul

a bitter laugh, 11 when Pei Kwong sounded so very bitter that was says, quite astounded at the fate

**Why, it is Mr. Legarde!' she has come from capital.

public lost billions. employed seaman aboard sure he had been practising

The American Manufacturers"

"THE COUNTRY NOW ENJOYS THE SAFETY OF BANK SAVINGS, (pressive

as timely, appropriate, and im- sampan suddenly caught,

Association urges the President THE CAREFUL CHECKING OF NEW SECURITIES UNDER THE "My life has been blighted," Q8 both round

"Well, sare, it seems that she is to institute a truce by proclama- SPECULATION UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT, HE DE- nounced his decision to preserve

SECURITIES ACT, AND THE CURTAILMENT OF BANK AND STOCK throat continued Henri. "Blighted! And in no hurry.

President Roosevelt clearly-an- and held UN CA the deck. Three woman la the blighter. It all together. We look in shop-win- the armistice period, the present

and we promenade tion, with a proviso that during CLARED. other men then came aboard, each started a few

collective bargaining, which was armed with a chopper, and attacked then, I was

weeks ago. Until dows. We listen to a barrel-or-employment conditions will re-

the fundamental thing for la- us. After a short fight they at-man.

an 'appy, carefree gan. We sneer together at the main unchanged. The Associa tempted to bind us both, but we

menu outside that much-ated res-tion challenged labour to join in managed to jump overboard and

taurant, the Little Grey Goose, as such an action. swam for the shore. When I got,

I always do after lunch; and it Mr. William H. Green, Presi- ashore noticed that the pirates)

Amuse for.

sident of the Labour Federation. had followed Ah Kwai and were

"She lets me give 'er tea, pre-who is attending a labour con- again fighting with him, using their

sently, and, when we say farewell, vention at San Francisco choppers. They then returned to

we are firm friends. She 'as told promptly denounced the challenge the sampans and sailed away to-

me 'er nume-It is Ruth Dupontas a subterfuge and said: "Let phis Messages Ordinanes, 1894, Be Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra. wards the Chinese Territory. I

and I ave 'or permission to see them first publicly announce that fceived October 2, 8.30 am.) then staggered along to the police

'er again. Can you wonder, sare, stituted by the authorities, as the they will obey the decisions con- that I trip 'ome on leaden wings? President suggested on Septem-regards station, Lo Yet concluded.

"And so, one night, I tell er ber 30-Reuter.

Ah Kwai.

the

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Pal" by George W. Holmes.

SPEECH DECLARED PURE POLITICS

Press Comment Reveals

Disappointment

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL

(By

New York, To-day. Wall Street almost unanimously President Roosevelt's speech a bearish, many charac-| terising it as pure politics. The

CABARET GIRLS greatest fault in the eyes of the

IN COURT Alleged Attack After Midnight

Street was the failure to mention the dollar and the Budget.

"Then," said Henri, "I met Lo was sent to the Kowloon Hos Ruth. Sare, she was beautiful-I that I love 'er. Only I do not put pital where he was detained. It is love 'er at once. We met the reit like that. I put it most beauti- reported that he is in a critical mance of it!-on A state.

bus,ful with little pieces of poetry, dropped 'er dear little 'andker and it is so lovely that I weep, and The police are still searching for chief, and to me fell the felicity Ruth weeps, too. For she puts

of picking it up. Ah, sare, could er 'andkerchief to you but

'ave seen the way sheer shoulders 'eave till all 'er dear 'er eyes, and droop 'er eyes as she thank me, little golden curls waggle. you, too, would 'ave felt your 'eart go bank-thump-crash, as I

"'Ah, Henri,' she say, in a did mine.

voice so soft as a feather-bed. "I "We talked, sare. I would not should not 'ave done."

fear 1 'ave encouraged you, and INAVAL STOKER GRAPHICALLY

DESCRIBES INCIDENT

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The NRA he said, had in-bour. Mr. Green hoped that the creased profits and pay-rolls, and National Association of Manufac gave billons of dollars of capital turers, would respond to the sug- greater security for present and gestion to use the facilities of future earnings. He admitted the board created by the Govern- that many industries had still not ment. Reuter. recovered. The gains so far, however, were substantial and

NO BUDGET REVELATIONS UNTIL CONGRESS assuring.

Washington, To-day. It la thought that the United States Government's plans for taxation and Budget balancing will not be revealed until the President's mes- sage to Congress, in January.- United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company:

"We are definitely re-build- ing the political and econo- mic system on the lines of the "New Deal" in complete accord with the underlying principles of an orderly and popular Government,” he said.

Discussing the reorganisation of the N.R.A., he said that there

SEPTEMBER

Excess Of Sunshine Breaks Spell

One broker declared: "Bust-were three functions to the WARM WEATHER IN neas and Wall Street was hoping policy. He said that the new ma for re-assurances to ald recovery.chinery of Administration would Instead, the President made the be modified where advisable and same attacks on Wall Street and then recommendations would be on bankers which have been com-made to Congress in order to ing from Washington regularly maintain permanently the worth- "And why not?' I demand.

lately.".

while features. "Because what you ask is im- possible,' she say.

The Central Magistracy this Bankers resent the implication Justifying the cost of publie

do not "To Henri Legarde nothing is about it when

morning had a Spanish touch that they

assist the works, the President sald: "The a spécial young

Government the same impossible, I tell 'er. I do not Spanish girl interpreter was call bankers aid Britain. Others, how unemployment is the greatest ex as British demoralisation caused by vast brag,

sare, ed to interpret a case where two ever, regard as favourable the travagance. I do not want to pinin to me the impossibility, and were involved in an assault case. ours profits for private capital.

American to remain permanent. sit down and watch Henri

The complainant in the, case The press reacted in variously on relief." ""You see, Henri,' she says. I was Miss Roza Gonsalez, who always. The New York World tele-

80 romantic. Romance! Ileged that Miss Felipe Lopes at gram states: live for it. I could never marry a tacked her on the morning of

He made it plain that the Ad- man who was not at heart

* September 19 in Queen's Road, ministration does not contem- knight."

near Wellington Barracks, while

(Continued on Page 7). "And am I not at 'eart alshe was on her way home after knight?' I demand; a little indign- the cabaret... ant, sare, that she 'ave not noticed

you

understand,

RAINFALL SLIGHTLY HIGHER DESPITE THREE TYPHOONS

September was slightly warmer than the average, the mean tem- perature being 82 degrees, as The maximum temperature re corded was 92.5 degrees on the 6th, and the minimum 721 de- grees on the 21st.

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(Continued on Page 7) Speech Analysed

The mean humidity for the month was 81 per cent, which is 2 per cent., greater than the nor-

Support For Industrial velt's speech, made by Mr. Walzer, Sunshine amounted to 221.9

Armistice

WASHINGTON OBSERVERS'

PREDICTION

San Francisco, To-day

New York, To-day. An analysis of President Roose-mat. First-class stoker, R. A. P.

financial editor of the United Press, hours, the normal being 198.8 Frambton gave a graphic account You are not the knight of my of the incident.

indicated that a favourable factor hours. September was the first He said that dreams, she explain. The knight when he left the Sailors' Club

is the effort towards industrial month since March in which an of my dreama he would do any-after midnight, he saw a dark

peace, while it is unfavourable that excess of sunshine was recorded. thing, brave anything, go

no mention was made of, the any form dart out from behind. tha!

The total rainfall was 10.72 where, risk everythig, just to pillars, and the next minute he

balancing of the Budget or currency loches, as against a normal of 10- serve his lady."

and the hinted further tightening 11 inches. Up to midnight on saw a woman lying on the ground.

Mr. William H. Green, In, a of stock exchanges and banks, "You see, sare, she 'as already There were wounds on complain-speech to the American Federation forgotten 'ow I pick up 'er 'andant's elbow, which he bound up. of Labour, last night, said that a string trader should be eliminated, against a normal of 77.78 inches. September 30, the total rainfall Brokers agree that the shoe for the year was 94.24 inches, sa kerchief for 'er.

After he had escorted the girl to 30-hour week was the only practi- but fear that the indicated further "But, Ruth, adored one, there is her home in Kowloon, he went to cal remedy for ending unemploy pressure on stock exchanges would nothing Henri would not do for the Mongkok Police Station, where ment. you,' I protest.

result in reduced stock liquidity. he reported the case,

Washington observers believe "No. no she whisper, with a D'endant denied the charge that businessmen will support Pre-

(Continued on Page 7) sad little smile. The age of saying that complainant annoyed sident Roosevelt's Industris) armis- chivalry is dead. I am a fool, a her by following her everywhere, tice, hoping to forestall the 80-hour

TIDE OF DEPRESSION ailly, romantic fool, to hope that and that she (complainant) had week legislation.`⠀

HAS TURNED it might live on in the breast of pushed her to the ground first, Henri Legarde.

Labour has interpreted Presiden- and bad insulted her,

tial support for collective bargain- New York, To-day. The Ameri "It does, it does, I vow to you!" Evidence was also given by the ing.

can Bankers Association monthly 1 shout. I am everywhere noted Misses Lilly Loo and Carman No- The National Manufacturers' review states that although the for it. I ave 'ad people come up to varro, me and remark upon it. Mr. Macfadyen, after hearing President Roosevelt will guarantee business is delayed, some definite

Association has demanded that anticipated Autumn upturn "I am ready to fling myself at the case, said that there was 1-to maintain the status quo of em- Improvement seems in sight. ar feet for or give me some task sufficient legal proof to convict ployment relations during the truce, to do to prove my love. "Any defendant, who was bound over forcing unionists to abandon strikes tide has turned, the journal de- "The Important point is that the thing, anything! I insist. But to keep the peace for a period of as a means to organising-United clares-United Press, per S. L set me a task, and then you will six months, In the sum of $25. Presa, per S. E. Levy and Company. Levy and Company.

Bee why Henri Legarde as risen

to be an. 'ead-waiter. At last, she say, slowly

"The only thing I can think of is too absurd..

(Continued on rage 11)

BUIULI

EVIVAL FOR

TWO WOMEN SHOT. IN

ARMED ROBBERY

stinued from Paga

ghter

Hear

STOCK EXCHANGE REGISTERED

As National Securities

3.

was affected by three typhoone, During the month Hong Kong all of which passed to the south of the Colony on westerly tracks. The first produced a maximum guet of 49 mph. at midnight. on September 27-28th, and the third a gust of 65 mp.h. at 11 p.m. on September 80th.

THREE WEDDINGS

ANNOUNCED

Police Officer To Wed

Local Girl:

The forthcoming local weddings are announced.

Joveph Perkins,

tain Federal Reserve regulations, that new accounts be opened on all of the transactions made yes

thereafter, lost

lose the benefit by bein

as old acepunts in calculations

and at the Polic should Mongkok

Pending hearings, the Com

slon's regis

the tradin ties inclu

Manhattan

Paterson,

Road Ko

residing

Drai