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OIL PRODUCTION

RESTRICTION IN U.S.

TO BE INVESTIGATED

SUPREME COURT HEARING

DOLLAR DEVALUATION VALIDITY

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

New York, To-day.

The United States Supreme Court, which went into session yesterday, has decided to hear the altacks testing the constitu- tionality of the regulations re stricting oil production, drawn up by the Minister of Interior, Me Harold L. Ickes. The court also promised to determine the valid ity of dollar devaluation.

The appeal in which Mr. Fred- erick Campbell, a New York lawyer, attacked the validity the gold hoarding regulations, was rejected by the Court.

The Court announced its intent to scrutinize the validity of de valuation when it agreed to re view the attack on the law as ap plied to the bonds of the Balti

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934

Vagabonding as medieval rogues, Beri Wheeler and Robert Woolsey dily dally with Thelma Todd, so a Duke'a niece, in "Cockeyed Cava- liers", their rollicking new R.K.O.-Itudio feature comedy coming to morrow to the King's Theatre.

CITY OF CAMBRIDGE EMPLOYMENT

CREW SAFE

Slender Hope Of Salvage

more-Ohio Railroad, in which Mr. SUFFOLK LEAVING TO-NIGHT

Norman C. Norman, a New York

shareholder, challenged the fall ure of

The whole of the officers and Cam- the Railroad to pay crew of the 8.8. City of U.S.$22.50 interest in gold or the

bridge, which is lying hard and present equivalent of the dollars gold content prior to devaluation. fast on a reef on Pratas Island,

It is learned that the H.M.S. Suffolk is expected to leave the scene this evening, bound for Hong Kong.

INFORMATION

REGULATIONS

Money Voted For Nanking Bureau

L STAFF APPOINTMENT

NULLAH MURDER TM dav's Short Story.

APPEAL

Misdirection Of Jury

Alleged By Mr. Lim

"WRONGFUL REFUSAL BY

TRIAL JUDGE"

Arguments on points of fact

Gentlemen's Game

ELEN Blazes" McGrogan, side, and his

By H. C. Meade

"H the skipper of the Earthly shume of cards from the interior.

*

YOUNG CHINESE

IS CHARGED ON

FIVE COUNTS

Alleged Trick On Jewellers

ears picked up the EMBEZZLEMENT OF $300 AND

THEFT OF CHEQUE BOOK

The Greek returned the skipper'a

gave hia

and law in support of the appeal Paradise, went. ashore at Chapo- against the death sentence pass-poulos with £25 in his pockets.

The man,, who was alleged to ed on Ng Loi-yuen on September He sprang from a dinghy pitch gaze. He did not know McGrogan, have gone Into Messrs. Sennet, 9 at the Criminal Sessions for ing in a short, sea on to a n-but he knew sailors, and the smile Freres to obtain a valuable dia- the murder of Michael Pine, crete quay, and the encounter of on his face would have floated onmond ring by a trick last week, was aged 8, by throwing him into his feet with, the flooring repro-water.

charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac His eyes lighted, and he with fadyen at the Central Magistracy the nullah at the Lower Peak duced the sound of the words

Pulling up drew the sinuous tobacco confection this morning, on five counts. Tramway Station on June 22, "sprat-mackerel.". were put forward by Mr. R. C. H. short and panting, the skipper from ander his rat-tall moustache. Fung Kit-sang; a 27-year-old Lim, counsel for the appellant, in stood by a stancion and sniffed His body bent itself into a rough unemployed, who, it was reported,

representation of the letter "."

name as K. C. Chan at the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Greek coast like a dog.

His boat crew of two watched He spread out his arms in invita-Sennet, Freres, was comprising Mr. Justice P. Jacks

charged with and Mrs. J. J. Hayden, at Su. him with malice as they oscillated tion before the unsteady doorway. (a) the embezzlement, of the sum The skipper accepted, and ducked of $800 from Messrs. Goddard and preme Court, this morning, when at the foot of the pier.

Some mountains lay in front of 】inside. the hearing was resumed.

Douglas and Company on December Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant McGrogan and someone had flung a The interior was dark, and fur-12, 1999, (b) the theft of a cheque for the handful of buildings, held down by nished with a long table. They were book, the property of Major East- Attorney-General, Crown, astiated by Mr. W. J. Lock a tall chimney, at their feet. The playing cards at this table now, and wick Field, of Lyemun Barracks,

junmistakable banners of fish and hat Smith.

Mr. Lim referred to authorities, garlic. flaunted in the nose of the quoted at yesterday's hearing in new arrival.

He squared -his blue Berge support of his submission that the defence should have been put fairly shoulders, shot his cuffs, and push- to the jury and that misdirection on led his bowler hat over the left ear. the points of the two bruises, and (Then he turned to his boatmen and the identification parade at which cursed them with fervour and with

reason. He began apparent were so out Mary Pine attended, material that the appeal must now from his stomach and worked up to a stream of invective which turned allowed.

him red around the eye-brows,

"Be back for me at 1.45," was

WAR

There was no evidence on which the jury could convict. said Mr. Lim, and in arriving at their deliberation they must have been influenced by misdirection," he stated.

The two seamen

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Dwarf," by Marcel Ayme.

the skipper could ace four pairs

of

(c) receiving the stolen cheque book, (d) the attempted larceny, by. a trick, of a diamond ring, the property of Messrs. Sennet, Freres on October 4, and (e) having ob- tained an electric fan, the property of Messra. Batten and Company, by false pretenses, on September 18.

Accused pleaded guilty to (a) and (b), but denied (d) and (e) charges. Charge (c) was automa- tically dropped.

Nanking. Aside from the decision reach-be The New York State Court ap-have been successfully taken off ed at its meeting held on Septem-

The charge of attempted larceny the gist of the skipper's remarks. eyes watching him unwinkingly. peals were sustained in law.

by boats from H.M.S. Suffolk, des-ber 26 to appropriate $2,000

by a trick of the diamond ring, was monthly for the maintenance of The case is the first to reachpite the heavy seas which were the Vocational Employment In-

At the end he took himself noat- The doorway Greek plucked at

withdrawn, Mr. Macfadyen saying ly. between two creosote barrels, McGrogan's elbow. "You Supreme Court involving Admin-

want that the intention dd not wholly running this morning when the formation Bureau, the National! istration currency policies. →

and rolled away over the contoured play?" he insinuated. Economic Council has approved a

lie with defendant, and that in this "I'll play, Johnny," said the United Press, per S. E. Levy and rescue was effectel.

Mr. Fraser pointed out that holatreets toward the main thorough-

case the defendant did not actually Company.

skipper. set of regulations drafted by the

"What did you think I

have the ring in his possession. Ministry of Education concern did suggest either in his opening fare of Chapopoulos.

watched the came in for? To buy a pan?"..

On (e) charge, Inspector J. ing the organisation of the afore or summing up that the brulas

The gamblers ra-sorted them- said bureau.

marks on Mary Pine's neck may squat and diminishing figure until

Murphy said that accused went to The Vocational Employment have been caused by the appellant it was blotted out by a motor-lorry. selves at the table to give him room. Messrs. Batten and Company, and "Goin' gamblin'," muttered the McGrogan seated himself just obtained the fan saying that his Although the personnel have Information Bureau, according to in his action in throwing her lata elder of the oaramen to his mate. under a clay water bottle, and ex-master had instructed him to secure Sew York, To-day-The Indus-left the ill-fated ship, and the the draft regulations, will be the nullah, but that it was a sug- The latter spat into the pale blue amined the features of his ac-

it. After getting the fan, accused for the quarter ending September Pratas, owing to the heavy seas, Economic Council and the Minis-had not stated that there were any replied vindictively, and hanged his tino faced him, and on the right of that it was his own. trial Rayon Company's net proît salvage tug is unable to reach jointly organised by the National

water. "Hope they trim im." he quaintances. A black-bearded Levan- then sold it to his master, saying 30 totalled $129,182, as against there is still hope that the ship try of Education. $107,035 for the previous quarter will be salvaged. She is, how- and $571.792 for the corresponding ever, badly holed owing to being quarter of last year.-United Press. pounded on the reef since she ran per S. E. Levy and Company.. aground on Saturday morning.

INDUSTRIAL RAYON CO.'S' BIG LOSS

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new

gestion open to him to make. He

witnesses who could give evidence on the point, because there were no

It

witnesses. was part of the

Crown's case, said Mr. Fraser.

The point of Law, which the de- the

odds-on,

The hearing of the case fixed for next Saturday.

Was

The functions of the

this worthy sat a Turk. They had Joar in the oarlock,

McGrogan did not know Chapo-faces ilke the nether millstone. The bureau as stipulated in the draft

poulos, but he knew Greeks, and remaining two players the skipper regulations include: (1) investi

the probabilities of finding a gam-presumed to be Greeks. gating the needs of all public or

ing house he considered ganisations for specialised work-

The two Greeks fitted into each that he entered the game with such Gambling ers; (2) investigating the condi- fence appealed against, was

was the skipper's life other like adjacent pieces of a jig-confidence as his fellow players tions of college graduates who wrongful refusal of the trial judge

to withdraw the case from the jury made ten shillings by betting that poker parlance, one of them could

ever since, years before, he had saw puzzle. In English, beyond were capable of inspiring. are in need of jobs; (3) recom-;

When McGrogan picked up his on the Crown's failure to produce mending well trained men

grandmother died before say very good"; the other could cards he found three kings to go public service.

Mary Pine and that the verdict was Christmas. And MoGrogan could any very bad." The Turk could on with, and opened the pot to the against the weight of evidence.

One by one players fell by

for

The regulations further vide that the employment bureau

The hearing is proceeding.

his

called:

"Three kings," said the skipper. "Three aces" replied the Turk,

pro- Mr. Lim referred in detail to the spot a gaming house or a gambling count up to 17. The Levantine limit. should consist of a chairman and evidence produced by the Crown, man with the same certitude that seemed ignorant of all languages, the wayside infll only the Turk was a fiea. The and it was tacitly decided to take left. The latter and the skipper a vice-chairman and a secretary claiming that there was no direct monkey pick out

houses might be disguised as Sun-his money and ignore him. Often raised each other back and forth a to be jointly appointed by the evidence in the case. He also National Economic Council and quoted authorities in support of his day schools or gimlet factories, but in the course of the game his face few times, and the Turk finally

the skipper would know them. showed great emotion. the Ministry of Education. To argument. assist in the routine secretarial work, a number of executive secretaries may be appointed.

In case of necessity, it is fur: ther stipulated, the Vocational Employment Information Bureau, may, with permission of the au- thorities concerned, engage ad- visors and dispatch special com- missioners or establish branches abroad in order to make connec- tions with the International La-

10 DOG TAILS AND SOME FUR

Professional Dog Dealer Gaoled On 3 Counts

"It seems as though he is a

discard.

Secure in the bellef in his own The Turk, whose turn it was to capabilities, he made his way be deal, declined in favour of the new tween hovels and goat vehicles until member, and he handed the skipper and he raked in the money, flipping he came to a shop with pots and the cards with a magnificent his cards face downward into the pans in its window. A lean Greek flourish. lounged against the fintel post, "Helen Blazes" ruffed them cun- McGrogan was on his feet like a smoking a cigar that was ilke aningly and rapidly. But, before he cat "Where are they?" he shout- anake in the springtime,

dealt, he touched with his elbow the fed. "Let's see 'em!" The skipper looked at the shop comforting bulge in his hip pocket The Turk looked pained, and the Greek with his head on one which was his automatic. After (Continued on Page 11.),

bour Office and other foreign or professional dog dealer. In his HIRED LORRY TAKEN | ganisations.

The draft regulations, it is room were two live dogs, 10 dog tails, a quantity of dog's far,

learned, will be formally promal-seven dog muzzles and six-col-

TO PIECES

gated by the Ministry of Educa- lars," said Detective-Sergeant Driver Gaoled For Theft tion and the National Economic Franklin when prosecuting Laong Council on October 1. (Central Ying, a 43-year-old unemployed News Agency).

THREE · LOCAL WEDDINGS

on

Sentence of two months' hard before Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at

imposed the Kowloon Magistracy this labour WES

Fung morning for stealing a dog's col Cheung, a 40-year-old licensed lorry lar, with the license badge at-driver, who was charged before Mr. tached, having possession of one E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon black chow bitch, knowing that Magistracy this morning for steal- it had been stolen, and keeping ing parts of a lorry which he had one yellow chow dog without a hired.

license at No. 118, Yee Kuk The defendant was arrested at Street

Bay View on October 7 by a Chin-| For keeping the dog without a

ese detective on Information re- The following forthcoming wed- license the defendant was fined ceived. The property, which is ding are announced at the Regis-55, in default seven days, for valued at $127, has not been re- having possession of the, dog he

Two Missionaries And Soldier To Wed

try. Supreme Court.

Mr. William Albert Todgood, was sentenced to four months' hard labour, and for stealing the

concurrently.

to R.A.S.C., Wellington Barracks, collar a sentence of one month's Misa Edith May Margenson, hard labour, was imposed, to run of No. 7 Robinson Road, Shanghai; Mr. Hermann Glasto, missionary, of Taipo Road, to Miss Mathile Ritter, of Taipo Road; and Mr. Jacob Kock, missionary of Talpo Road to Miss Dora Haetter, of Taipo Road.

TRANSPORT BLOWN UP

· PEAK DOG-OWNER

FINED

WRONG DESCRIPTION CAUSES ANOTHER CASE TO BE DISMISSED.

covered.

WELL CONCEALED OPIUM FOUND

$6,000 Fines

For having 650 taels of, raw oplum and 15 tsels of prepared oplum in his possession at No. 21 Fuk Tain Street, second floor, Taing To, a 39-year-old unemploy ed, was fined $5,000, in default Summoned for allowing his 12 months imprisonment, and $1, dog to be at large without 000, in default six months' im- (Continued from Puge 1.): muzzle Mr. R. Robertson, af No. Prisonment, respectively, terms to 251, The Peak, was fined $10, by run concurrently, by Mr. B. I Thank

stas; the indeftizenship 177" AA Macfadyet at the Wynne Jones at the Kowloon: Ma- of the people of Madrid and the Central Magistracy this morning gistracythia morning. bravery of the garrison at Ovie The summons against Miss A Revenue Officer

umphre

xnxxtwo

do, the Socialist plan to secure Owen Hughes, of No. 402 Severn stated that the oplum was excep control of Madrid and Asturias Road, for allowing her dog to be tionally well cond was not achieved," he states. at large without a muzzle was different places in

The best ly a few isolated groups of dismissed, owing to the wrong

outside Oviedo continue to description of the colour of the ment that I have

dog mentioned in the charge

cause trouble Router

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