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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 111, 1930.

PROHIBITION FIGHT|ROUND THE COURTS.

IN CONGRESS.

REGULAR BLAZE OF HORRORS.

PROHIBITIVE INSTINCT

DANGERS.

Washington, March 4. The "Wets" directed final blow against Prohibition to-day when they concluded seven days evidence before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives on the proposal that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed,

The Wete" gave a shocking picture of offcial corruption, in- creased drunkards and overcrowded Courts. There were more speak- ensics now, than there were saloons in the old days' Over 1,000 per- sons, they revealed, had been killed as the result of the activities of prohibition enforcement officers.

The "Drys" will begin seven days' evidence in favour of pro- bibition to-morrow,

THE LAW IN THE COUNTRY!

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

I don't know the laws of the Colony, a defendant told Mr. Lindselt at Central Magistracy | 11 to 11.30 alm.-Commercial News. yesterday, when charged with steal-

12.30 to 1.30 p.m.-Demonstration ing clothing from a woman. De- fendant saw the articles in question

programme. fall from a trunk and took them intend of returning them to the

owner.

His Worship: Would it be lawful. for you to pick up somebody's else gold watch in the country and keep it

be.

Defendant replied that it would

His Worship sentenced defendant to three weeks' imprisonment.

FILIPINO STOWAWAYS.

Three Filipinos were charged with attempting to stowaway onboard the s... Golden Dragon, prior to her departure last Saturday, and were fined $30, or one months' hard Labour.

Detective Sergeant Humphreys told the Magistrate that one of the The Paychiatrics of It All

defendants was found in the ship's [UNITED PARSE.]

hospital and the other two were Washington, March 4.--Complete dragged out of the chain locker. repent of the Eighteenth (Prohibi- The defendants said that they had tion) Amendment to the Constitue aboard to look for job tion was demanded by Representa-promised them by one of the ship's tive J. Charles Linthicum of Mary-company who, unhappily, could not land.

be found!

A BOY AND A WALKING STICK.

He suggested an amendment to the Sabath Resolution providing for a series of State Conventions, delegates to which would be chosen ty election, to consider this singla Failing to give a satisfactory ex- cuestion. Such a course, in Mr.planation of his possession of a Linthicum'e view. would be pre- walking stick, a Chinese boy was ferable to leaving the matter of pro- kept in the cells for two days prior hibition in the hands of the state to coming before the Magistrate. legislatures which are not always The boy told the Magistrate that a. responsive to the will of the people European had given it to him; but he could not say why. The police on individual issues.

pointed out that the stick might have been stolen, or given to him by

Representative John J. Cochrane of Missouri told the committee that he preferred the resolution intre-a thief. During his two days in duced by Mary T. Norton of New the cell the boy cried the whole Jersey, providing for a national time, and had probably learnt a referendum on prohibition.

Mr. Stewart Patton, psychia- trist, testified before the committee that the "prohibitiva instinct” was in his opinion a serious menace to civilization because it promoted insanity and intemperance.

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Mr. Patton characterized thusiastic "dry" as "fanatics" and inferred that they must have in- teresting secret convictions of their own mediocrity.

Unless the national" prohibition law was changed, he declared, | American democracy would end in a triumph of mediocrity.

Insson.

The Magistrate agreed and dis- charged the youth with a caution.

STONES STOLEN FROM

TIMBER MERCHANT!

Arrested in the act of removing stones from the wall around a tim- bet merchants yard in Shum Shui Po, a Chinese was fined 810, or 14, days' hard labour. It was stated that the defendant was using a bamboo pole to get the stones from the wall. .:

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CYCLING AN EXPENSIVE

PASTIME..

While testifying that he had not psychoanalyzed any member of the leaders of the "dry" forces and that he was not attempting to show Martin Gutterez, described as a their vices, Mr. Patton asserted cabin boy had his bail of 99 estreat- that there were "mor persons" ined when he failed to appear befort The insane asylume than the col leges."

The anti-prohibition group con- cluded its testimony before the committee to-day.

Mr. Whyte-Smith on a summons. for riding a bicycle without a light.

A Chinese youth had to pay 810 for carrying a passenger on the back-step of his eyele. Defendant Walter Liggett Vindicated...

said that he had done the same thing Topeka, Kansas, March 4-Mem-stopping him and he did not know in Hong Kong without anybody hers of the Kansas House of Re-it was not allowed in Kowloon, presentatives to-day voted 81 to 93 zainst resolution reading, "Walter Liggett is a Liar."...

Mr. Liggett, writer and lecturer, testified, scathingly concerning Kansas before the Senate prohibi- tioin committee recently. He de clared that the prohibition law is

joke in Kansas, accused state offi cials of collaborating in breaking the law, and expressed willingness to go before any grand jury and give concrete substantiation, of his statements.

Benresentative C. E. McCaughan said in the course of a speech which preceded the vote to-day:

"I believe that Kansas is as dry as any place in our country. But we all know that liquor can be bought. Liggett will prove it if he comes here. I think it would be bad advertizing to bring him,"

riding on the wrong side of the road A third cyclist had to pay 87 for at the Star Ferry. He wens direct. from the Railway Station to Salis- bury Road instead of passing the Ferry whari.

**free-

Summoned for riding hand a young Chipcse cyclist said fun!" he was only doing it "for a bit of It cost $7. Yet another boy left the Court minus $5. He was riding with his hands off the handle-bars, and in answer to the Magistrate said that he tock them off to adjust his hat!

KIDNAPPER HEAVILY

SENTENCED.

A boy of five years old was kid- napped and sold in Canton for $80. The mother of the child discovered the kidnapper, (a woman) and na Edison on the Greatest Experiment.a result of negotiations with the.

Washington, March 3-With the Canton authorities the boy was re- "wets" finished with their testi-stored and the offender extradited mony before the Senate Prohibition The defendans was before Mr. A. Committee late yesterday, the W. G. Grantham at the Central "dry' side of the case stepped up Magistracy yesterday, and pleaded to bat this mning.

för lenienes. -explaining that she. Mr. Samuel Crowther, a writer had been instrumental in the return on economics, was the first pro-

of the child. His Worship sen- ponent of prohibition to be heard, tenend her to one year's imprison-

Mr. Crowther read a telegram ment. from the motor magnate Henry Ford, voicing, the hope that the prohibition amendment would not be repealed nor the Volstead Act seriously modified.

Launching into his own personal views, Mr. Crowther attributed the country's prosperity and comfort to prohibition. He likewise attribut ed to the "dry law" "the national increase in wealth and the expan- sion of American industry.

The witness declared that the workers of the United States were not drinking expensive liquor, The country was spending only 20 per cent. of the former amounts for liquor, and the total would not exceed 8500,000,000 he declared."

expressed the belief there was 60 per cent, enforcement of Prchibi- tion, despite false propaganda to the contrary.

Mr. Edward Keating, a labour editor from Colorado, giving only his personal views, attacked the "wet" as "rebellious zealota"...

Rhode Island Referendum, Providence, R. T., March 5.-By a vita voce vote the Thode Island House of Representatives.. to-day passed an Act providing for aub- mission to the people of the ́state of a referendum hallot on the ques tion of retaining the Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment as a part A large group of clergymen, of the United States Constitution. writers and other advocates of. Pro- The measure was passed in the hibition was on hand ready to tako midst of intense excitement and the witness stand during the next great uproar, constituting probab-; few days in an effort to refutely the most tumultuous scene ever testimony previously given by the enneted in these Chambers. - "wet" advocates.

Another telegram was produced by Mr. Crowther from Thomas Edison, the inventor, who said that

While the referendum can have no immediate result. it will 'on- questionably be watched with in- tense interest throughout the coun-

NAVIES OF THE WORLD be still believed prohibition to be try, because of the large and grow

the greatest experiment ever ät- tempted to benefit man. Mr. Edison

(Vontinued on next Oolumn.) --

ing tension over the matter of federal Prohibition and its enforce- ment.

1.49 p.m.-Weather report sto 3.30 p.m.-European pro-

gramme of Columbia records supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Company. Gossamer Wings" (Gerard) and *Land Of Dreams" (Gerard).

J. H. Squire, Celeste Octet, "I Kiss Your Hand, Madanie-Fox Tro:" (Ross and Erwin) and The Five Step" (De Sylva, Brown and Henderson), Yan Phillips and His Band.

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Good Night,' said The Cuckoo" (P. B. Harding) and "Bird Songs At Eventide" (R. Bar- rie and Eric Coates), Master - Trevor Schofield:

Spirit Of America (A Patriotic Patrol)" (Zamecnik) and Bella Across The Meadows " (A. W. Ketelbey), Grand Church Organ Solo by Gatty. Sellari.

The Fourth Form At St. Michaels" (Will Hay), Comedy Sketch by Will Hay and His Scholars.

3.30 to 6 p.m.-Aunty Letts, Aunty Hadge, and Uncle Jack will entertain the Children.

0 to 7, p.m.--European programme of Columbia records supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co. "The New Moon-The Girl · Og

The Prow" (Hammerstein and Remberg) and The New Moon Waating You" "(Hammer- stein and Romberg). Evelyn Laye and Howett Worster with Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra,

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"The Michaelmas Mystery (Mel-Third Prelude and Fugue In O

ville and Butcher) and " Archie Of The Royal Air Force " (Longstaffe), Raymond Newell. The Flowing Ribbon (Le Bavolet Flottant)" (Couperin) and "Golliver's Cake Walk" (De- bussy), Pianoforte Solo by Gil Marchex.

Sharp Minor" (Bach) aüd "Allegro From Toccata. G Major (Bach), Myra Hess. When The World Is At Rest " (Davis and Fain) and "Wake /Go! Chifum Wake Up" (Trent and Robison), Layton and Johnstone. The Two Imps" (K. J. Alford) and Dancer. Of Seville" (C. Grunow), Sir Dan Godfrey.

Round About A Wood " (Thos. Morley) nad "Sleep, Gentle Indy (Planche and Bishop),, The Salisbury Singers. "When The Real Thing. Comes ¦

Your Way" (Spier) and "Re-|-7.30 volutionary Rhythm" (Davis. Coots and Spier), Theme Song & from Motion Picture "lusion” ! by Fred Rich and His Orch.

7 to 7.30 p.m.-Third Lesson in Cantonese by Rev. H. R. Wells. to 6 p.m.-Experimental pro- gramme. "p.in.-Chinese programme relay- ed from Ko Shing Theatre until end of play.

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Concerto Grosso (Ernest Bloch) Arioso (Bach)

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The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert-Sullivan)

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Christian Science Hymns Album

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RED SEAL RECORDS

Clavelitos (Camations) (Valverde)

2. Estrellita (Little Star) (Ponce) Russian Nightingale Song (Alabieff)

·AMELITA GALLI-GURCE No. 1440, 10-inch Econ Soir (Evening Fair)

(Bourget Debussy) Clair de Lune: (The Wistful Moon)

(Verlaine Szulc, Op. 83, No. 1) ·

MART GARDEN No. 1459, 10-inch

Phedre Overture Parts 1 and 2.

(Massenet) ALFRED HERTZ AND

SAN FRANCISCO STMYDONT ÜRCHESTRA

No. 7154; 12-inch

Sonata-Largo (Eccles-Koussevitzky) Chanson Triste (Koussevitzky, Op. 2)

SEAGE KOUSSEVIEZŁY

No. 7159, 12-inch

Sonata in G Major (Beethoven,

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FRITZ KREISLER-SERGEI RACHMANINCET

· Non. 8153 and 8164, 12-inch

Faust-Le veau d'or (Calf of Gold)

(Good) N Norma Ah! del Tebro (Haughty

Roman) EZIO PINZA OPERA CHORES

No. 3053, 12-inch

Pesca d'ammore (Love's Angling)

(Bracco-Barthélemy) Ce steva na vóta (Raccuntime)

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TITO SCHIPA

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Fête-Dieu à Séville Parts 1 and 2

(Holiday in Seville). (Albenis) LEO OLD STOLOVSKI ÅND THE

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