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MAGISTRATE U.S. watches HK's scrap sales

NEEDED CONVINCING

Magistrate K. A. S. Phillip

admitting he wouldn' know a cricket if he saw one, today freed six men who confined fighting crickets in pots on charges of being cruel to animals: He said it was clearly keep- Ing a wild creature locked up

"but if that's cruel, so is keeping every bird in a cage.

"The Crown would have lo give me expert evidence that it is cruel to keep a cricket in a Jur,"

Inspector Marley Gingles, the prosecutor, said he had called

such an expert, Inspector T. T. Kec of the Society for the Pre-.. vention of Cruelty to Animals. But he failed to appear.

Inspector Kee, arriving too late to testify, said he had come i with instructions that the Society s not interested in | insects."

At one point in the case, de fence counsel Mr John Swaine | pointed out that the society itself, having taken custody of the 15 pots of crickets, kept them imprisoned for a further two days.

TWO DIED

"Two died," he said. "Maybe if they had been fed and looked after properly by their hand-- lere, they would have lived."

The whole issue of cricket suffering sprang out of a June 18 raid on an apartment rented by Lai Chun-wah at 25 Wong

Nei Chung rond, first floor.

Police found a large number

of pole in the sling room, the pots of crickets, the lub

used

Questions on broken-up

escort carriers

America is keeping a close watch over the sale of scrap metal from former U.S. escort carriers broken up in Hongkong, it was stated today.

The

State Department in Washington said it wants to make sure that this scrap metal was not used "against the U.S. national interest."

FIRM HAS

ITS OWN

TRAVEL SERVICE

A UPI cable today said that

an American congressman had Jectived this assurance from a State

official, Department Assistant Secretary, Mr William B. Macomber jr.

The cable said the "scrop mal was ultimately intended to be sold to Japan,

The US, Congressman, Mr T

J. Lane, had inquired about the

Mr Hugo Bjoerkefall, head of sale after the Boston Daily the Travel Service of L. M. Record recently published a

Owns cafe in Chile.

Customers screened in Joan's salons

TWENTY-nine year-

old Joan Morse is a tall slim creature who looks as if she has just come out of finishing school. In fact, she is a sizzling tycoon of New York's fashion world on the verge of making her first million.

Joan owns three "fabulously exclusive" boutiques in the centre of New York. One is on. the ground floor of the old Bloomingdale Mansion which she recently bought for US$250,000.

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Mrs Ruth Tai (above), formerly of Hongkong and now

restaurant

In Owner

She is in Hongkong on tour of the East, which began

Ericsson (Telephone) Company story that the vessels were sold Santiago, Chile, left here to by Sylvia da

of Stockholm, left today after 10 calors in Hongkong, "the studying the hotel accommoda-galeway to Red China."

tion situation In Hongkong. and other factors influencing tourist visitors.

day by Swissair for Bangkok and Europe after a ten-day

holiday. The article mid six vessels bad been sent Boross the Pacific and a seventh would leave Boston.

Check first

Mr Macomber's letter, made public by Mr Lane, Bald the can ships were sold under State De-

partment licences lo Boh Chomg!

Mr Moerkefall, who left by Swissair for Bangkok

and Europe has been on a fact-find- his company's with as art area, brushes to ing tour lease them into fighting frenzy travel service. This service is and other paraphenalia.

amique in that only members of Lai Chun-wah was charged the Ericsson Company with using the premises for the make use of it. purpose of bailing crickets.

Magistrate Phillips, ammended the charge to "permitting use of his premises," found him guilty, and Aned him $200.

French official on holiday

It was formed" he said, "Hong, Ltd., and Hongkong Roll- help members of our staff. It is ing Mills, Lid. time-saving,

and enables

our ;

Mr Macomber said n check of people to make their arrange-i ments through us for their holi- the purchasers was made before day trips by land, sea or air. We the licences were issued, even take care of their visas."

He said the purchasers stated Points such as the heat, humidity and lack of hotel ac- that they sell most of their scrap commodation in the Colony, and in Japan and have been advised to check with the American the dry heat of India and Pakis-

Consulate General before mak- tan, are among the data amass-

Mr Raymond Grimaud, Frenched by Mr Bjoerkefall during his

Trade

Commissioner in Hong Far East tour. kong, left today by Swissair for

"This will be of considerable

Bangktk to begin a four-month value to me in giving further

ing any local sales of scrap from

the United States vessels-UPI.

holiday, during which he expects guidance to our staff, through Stone house to

to havel nearly all the

round the world,

Wythe Ericsson Travel Service," he

added.

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be handed over

Tomorrow afternoon

Diocesan Girls Junior

the and

Senior Schools will hand over

a duplex stone house which they

Mrs Tai emigrated from, Hongkong to South America with her husband ten years

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Soon after arrival in Chile they opened up a Chinese restaurant in Santiago, which she said, is very popular with the South Americans.

Her two children are now In school in South America. This was her first visit here emigrating, — Intplar since Photo.

GAMING HOUSE KEEPER JAILED 35-year-old keeper

of

a

gaming house was fined $1,500 and three months' gual, with the alternative of six months' Jall, by Mr E. S. Haydon at Kowloon Court this morning.

have paid for from money Tse So, of 196 Chun Yuen Vil-j collected by the students them-lage, Wong Tai Sin Resettle- selves.

ment Area, pleaded guilty to

Two members of the staff and keeping

gaming house in

25 girls, representing every form Mongkok Hotel at 232 Portland in the schools will go to Sai Street.

Kung and first hand over the Tse was arrested on July 6 cheque to Miss C. Madge together with

19 others who World

were fined from $10 to $25 each for gambling.

Newcombe for the Refugee Year local funds.

The key will then be handed the families who are to occupy these concrete houses.

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Sub-Inspector A. Liu

secuted.

Costa Roque

when she left America in May. the "I just popped over to

little son Riviera to leave my with my mother before comlase out here," she said this morning.

Joan has deliberately made her shops exclusive. "I have all my customers screened, and I just don't sell if I don't like them," she said,

"I love my things too much to sell them to anybody.

High

"My customers are members of the really high society, and they have to be, because my things are tremendously ex- pensive, Lots at celebrities come to my shops, and Bobo Rockefeller is a regular tamer."

Two of Joan's shops are fashion salons, and though she

Obstructed

policeman:

fined $150

cus

A man, was fined $150 by Mr E. S. Haydon at Kowloon magistracy today for wilfully obstructing a traffic policeman the execution of his duty, He was Tse Wal Chon, 30 of

exclusive

Joan poses for our cameraman Peninsula Hotel this morning..

has no knowledge of sewing or cutting, she designs every out- fit herself.

The third shop is called The Gilded Lilly and, according to Joon-"It sells silly antiques

and monstrosities Victorian era,”

the

From the Files

25

years AGO

July, 1935

Wendy Barris, the Hong- kong-born film actress now working in Hollywood had a narrow escape" from drowning off the Californian coast.

The well-known daughter of Mr F.G. Jenkin, the Hong- kong barrister, was thrown into the sea when her boat

was upturned by the wake of

a passing launch.

A seaman dived into the afa to save her.

VAST floods are threaten-

ing fifty million people along the banks of the two mightiest rivers in Asia, the Yangtse and the Yellow River.

Among the cities threatened are Chungking, Ichang, Hankow and Shasi. Tremendous loss of life and property has occurred else. where in Hunan and Hupeh,

Alfred Dreyfus, the in- nocent victim of the biggest French political scandal of the last century, is dead,

His death has occurred exactly 20 years after he was released from Devil's Island where he was condemned | by court martial to spend the rest of his life for alleged treason,

RE. F. Selk, the

M popular sports secré

tary of the European YMCA

on the stairway of saved two Chinese, a man

home in Antibes on the Riviers, "and I am just long- ing to buy a house in England." During her travels, Joan is also writing a series of articles for the New

and a boy, who were in danger of drowning at Shek O on Sunday.

Vasily G. Esposito, 34, un- Tribune on travelling around by the police to have walked York. Herald employed Russian cook, stated

the world alone,

from Shanghai to Canton and from there to Hongkong, was fined $15 or 14 days by Mr. Macfadyen in the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of arriving in Hong- kong without a valid paaa- port,

"When members of higher The only reason I'm doing It is because I want to see my

fassed.

soclely clean out their.attles,

I'm on the sidelines catching by-line in the Tribune," she con- all the treasures-old bath luka, things tasselled, fringed and beaded and anything that is frightful but tremendous fua,"

Married

Overboard

Joan has gone overboard about Hongkong "I just love it, but though this Hotel is magnificent,

I'd love to be able to stay in Dazed by dog

Woosung St, 1st floor, Kowloon. Joan is married to document- small exclusive one, but Hong- pro-

Insp, A. Luż told the court that ary flm producer Willam kong doesn't seem to have any at 5.30 p.m. on July 6, the de- Resnick, and has a seven year of those." fendant's motor-cycle suddenly old son called Henry Winston cut in front of the Jordan Road Morse. Resnick is her second Ferry Street post where a police husband.

BID TO RETRACE

Henderson, Tenn. Freed E. Eli's thinks his dog

"Do you know that I have!"Snowban" is psychic. The 62- put on 10 lbs since I arrived year-old Ellis, a widower, ex- In Hongkong? IVs because plained it thus: I've been eating too many Chinese goody-goodies."

"When he's lying here on the floor and I get up to go out, he will continue to lie if I am just

constable was directing traffic, The couple have an apartment Tse was stopped and warned on New York's 84th Street, and for disobeying the traffic signal, four scrvants including Fr

When told to produce his driv- chauffeur. Their winter house "When am. I leaving this going into the yard and am com- ing licence, he replied that he is on a hill in Tobago, and their place? 1 really don't know. ing right back. But if I am going

PARENTS ODYSSEY had none and in abusive langu- summer house is in Tuxedo The trouble is, Tve been to leave the place in the truck,

ENDS IN FAILURE

age threatened the constable Park.

travelling so long I just can't or am going to walk over to with violence if he dared arrest They also spend much of get the energy to pack my little farm, he will get up and him.

the year at Joan's mother's suitcase."

leave the room with me."-UPL

With the aid of another police- man the defendant was arrested and, taken to Mongkok Police

vious convictions.

The defendant had four pre-

At 4 o'clock this afternoon, an-American press officer Station

sails on the Orcades, regretful that he is unable to complete the story that his parents began 44 years ago.

He is Mr Bure Jerger, a one-

mon dynamo photo-journalist.

In 1916, Joseph A. Jerger and his wife, Grace, both medical sungacins, . gut. Oizt from Vancouver to see the Orient

They recorded their trip in a typewritten 105, illustrated

with hundreds of photo-slides.

And today, But, their son, is attempting to retrace that Every trip,

"My parents travelled through Japan, Korea, Hongkong and China,

So far, I have retraced their `steps through Japari and Hong- icong

"But I am unable to obtain permission to enter China." The American Consulate (couldn't help me but I intend to go on trying...

I have already approached the Guggenheim Foundation Fundy a German organisation. which-sponsórs such trige –

I believe the material I could amass would make an interes?

Printed and published by Tzarxer GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE ing comparison against my for and on behalf of 'South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 parents records of 44 year ago,” Wyndham Street, City of Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong, sald, Mr. Jerger.

ME BURE JERGER

Two years for drug possession

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Ram Piare, 50-year-old Indian, of 371: Queen's Road East, was sentenced to twą years' jail by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Court this morning when

he pleaded guilty to possession

of one gramme of heroin and five grammes of barbitone,

He had two previous convic tions.

Wrong initials

In Tuesday's China Mail it was slated that Mr J. B Macmillan of Sino-British (Hongkong) Lid was injured, kan je car accident in Pedder Street on Tuesday morn-

"dry informed that the "Jured: person?” “wait -nink

Macrnillar, the managing but his son, Mr 17B. who is a director of the

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