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WHO KILLED
the most popular star in Hollywood? ̧
Rupert Borka was janlous of his wife's atisation to the star. Did he kill hist
Ted MacDonald, brother of Hiles, had sworn to defend bis slater's good name.
Mrs. Bisacha Hurdall, wife of tha dead actor was furiously Jenloss. Was it abat
D. K. MacDonald, father of Helen. resented the star's attentions to his daughter. Is ha qulity?
Helen MacDonald hated the dead maa. He had promised to marry her.
Vengeance stalked that night on the shadowy stages of Holly. wood's largest all-talking picture studio. The world's most popu- lar actor is found dead! "Bollywood alive with police, investigators, detectives! Who killed Richard Hardel!. screendom's most popular star
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Showing for the FIRST TIME in Hongkong.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.
AMERICAN SEAMAN FORGED CHEQUE
FINED.
JUDGMENT.
LATEST RUBBER
PROPOSAL.
"MOST SERIOUS ASSAULT" ON] · BANK OF CANTON HAVE TO DUTCH PRODUCERS IN FAVOUR
A GIRL.
PAY COMPENSATION.
8e8.
PAY $1,450.
OF RESTRICTION.
Shanghai, July 18.
75 PER CENT. DROP.
Amsterdam, July 17. ::
SHANGHAI ACTION.
John Leal, an American man, was charged before Mr.
In H.M. Supreme Court yester A meeting of Dutch rubber Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning,
with assaulting day. Judge G. W. King, gave judg-producers, by 103 votes to 18. Ngan Kiu, a girl at a public house ment for Fung Chung-pat, a Chin- adopted, a proposal to negotiate at No. 2, Spring Garden Lane.
ese legal practitioner, who claimed with the Dutch Indian Government a sum of $1,450 from the Bank of for the purpose of achieving Canton in respect of a dishonoured restriction by all rubber pro- ducers, including native, to 75 per cheque.
cent, of the 1929 crop.
The girl appeared before the Court with two blackened eyes and awollen Hips, evidence of what the Police described as a "most seri ous assault.'
Asked how he was pleading. Leal Baid he was under the influence of liquor and could not recollect what happened. later admitted the assault,
He
The prosecuting Police Officer said that owing to the condition of the girl the Police were unable to obtain any statement from her last night..
A further claim for Tls. 500 damages, on account of the dis- honour caused to plaintiff through his cheque not being honoured was, however. denied. Our Own Cor respondent,
.
The decision, however, is not yet definite, as the members have six days in which to withdraw their votes.
that the It is understood decision was reached after a dia- cussion which lasted three and a half hours.
It was stated at the first hearing that plaintif had an account. In the Bank of Canton and on April 11 last he received a statement,
The rubber expert, Heer Burger, The girl explained what happen-equivalent to a pass-book, dated ed following a visit by the defen- March 31. In this he saw that a lengthily explained that the co- dant last night. She said Leal cheque for $1,250 was shown on operation of the Dutch Indian assaulted her because she did not the debit side, and as a result he Government was in the interests fall in with a whim of his.
went to the bank and asked to see of the whole of the Dutch East After observing that the assault the cheque. This was shown to Indies, because the Budget de- bution of the rubber-growing com- seemed to have been a serious one, plaintiff, who stated it was a for-pended considerably on the contri- his Worship Aned Leal $25; or 14 gery. The bank then produced a
the rubber days in default, and ordered him letter, bearing plaintiff's name in panies, while the existing situa-
influenced to pay $10 compensation to the Chinese characters, and plaintiff's girl, or do a further 10 days'.'
chop: the letter was also stated to be a forgery. The letter stated that Fung was ill, and he, there- fore, was signing his cheques under physical infirmity.
ALEXANDRIA STILL DISTURBED.
ONE MAN WOUNDED WHEN POLICE, FIRE.
industry the
tion in unfavourably revenue.
Heer Burger said the native their planters would find it in interests to co-operate in restric-
Apparently a man wearing for- tion, and he recommended the eign clothes had on March 12 pre-adoption of the negotiation pro- Rented a cheque for $1.250, and said.posal as a remedy for the situation.
Reuter. that Fung was ill, and the cheque had been signed by his son. Pay- ment was refused, but the next day
amount and
Alexandria. July 17. Following 11 quiet day in the man appeared with another BABY'S BLANC MANGE.
cheque for the same Alexandria, a mob rushed down the letter presented. In spite of the streets this evening cheering this and the bank's suspicions, this Nahas Pasha and shouting "Down with Sidky Pasha." The police was paid. The next day another A few shots cheque for $1,000 was presented, dispersed the mob. were fired and one person was, but payment on this refused.
All is now slightly wounded. quiel but troops are encamping in Mohamedall Square all night long.
-Reuter.
Agitators Arrested.
Cairo, July 17. Four members of the Alexandria committee of the Wafd, including the deputies Abdel Fattah Eltawi and Hasson Sourour, who signed the notice with regard to the closing of shops in Alexandria on July 15, have been arrested.
The foreign Consuls in Alexand- ria have notified the Governor that they view very anxiously any re- duction in the military forces at present in Alexandria.-Reuter.
AMAZING SCENES IN
*COMMONS.
When Mr. Fung.learned of this, he caused investigations to be made, and charged one of his office staff at the District Court, and he re- ceived 14 months' imprisonment. Then He put the affair into the hands of Messrs. Teesdale, Newman & MacDonald, who informed the bank that their client was going to draw to the full amount of this account and warned them that they would be sued if the cheque were not honoured. Mr. Fung then drew a cheque, payable to the Wing On Bank, for $1,450, roughly the full amount of his atcount; this was on dis- May 23. The cheque was honoured, hence the action for the ful amount of the cheque and damages.
SYSTEMATIC WATER METER THEFTS.
BIG LOSS ENTAILED BY THE P.W.D.
re-
WHY. HE THROWS IT ON THE FLOOR.
Baby is naughty. He has fused to eat his pudding-a nice fact, be has blancmange. In emptied it out of the bowl on to the carpet!
Mother is so worried. He must be 1. What shall she do? The doctor..
?
Baby is not ill, says, the doctor. The cause of all the trouble is that his aesthetic little soul revolts at the pale, milk-and-watery appear- ance of mother's blanc-mange. A blanc-mange or jelly, in several layers of different colours-pink, cream, chocolate-will disappear- "like snow upon the desert's dusty face."
be
If the blanc-mange must white, jazz-it-up" with small fruits cherries, raspberries, gra- pes, or fondants and almonds. If the jelly is transparent, serve it on a plate that has a pretty picture on it, then watch baby work through the jelly to get at the picture!
(Continued from Page 1.)
These are some of the psycholo- Secretary of the I.L.P. in 1922 and
gical aspects of a paper on "Food the same year contested thé Lan- enster Division. He has Been
Public Works Department off- for Toddlers" by Dr. Lechmere medical officer of chairman of the "No More Warcials are complaining of a vexatious Anderson, movement and in 1927 was fratern: form of theft, this being the sys- Health for Doncaster, issued by al delegate to the Indian Trade tematic looting of water meters, the Council for Health Education. Union Congress and Indian Na- many of which have been deprived
"If a child is temporarily indis- tional Congress. He edited the of their indexes. May months New Leader from 1923 to last year.ago, it is stated,
loss of $1,500 posed," says Dr. Anderson, "do Ilis recreations are described as was caused to the Department in not press food on him. Nature! week-ending on the platform" and making good, the damage. The will reassert herself when food is
tramping.
trouble lately again occurred afresh needed, and to miss a few this when, within six weeks, it was dis-or to live on milk diet while the covered that over a hundred auch feeling of food distaste lasts will indexes were missing from street not do any harm." meters in the city.
It was not until yesterday that the engineers were able to take action. consequent on the arrest of a small boy in Des Voeux Road West, who was caught red-hand.
ALL-EMPIRE RADIO?
وشيه
Former Civil Servant. Mr. W. J. Brown, the other teller in the division which resulted in the scene, is the Labour Member for West Wolverhampton. He has been secretary of the Civil Ser- vice Clerical Association since 1919. he being a retired civil servant,
From boy clerk in the service (P.O. Savings Bank) he became assistant clerk in the Office of
The Daily Mail understands that Works. He is the author of several "We had hoped for something consideration is now being given publications dealing mainly with bigger than this," said a P.W.D. re-to a proposal to erect a wireless the Civil Service. He unsuccess-presentative, indicating the diminu- broadcasting station in England fully contested West Wolverhamptive defendant in the dock The able to give a continuous 24-hour ton on two previous occasions,
official expressed his belief that
SHAMROCK'S TRIP TO
AMERICA.
(Continued from Page 1.) mately ten nautical miles to a side -and so on, alternating until the match is decided.
The boy was charged before Mr. Lindselt this morning.
B.B.C. AND SUGGESTIONS TO FINANCE IT.
there was a gang behind the thefts. Programme to all parts of the Em-
pire. The boy was ordered to receive ten strokes.
י.
KIDNAPPING CHARGE
FAILS.
NO EVIDENCE AGAINST A MAN AND WOMAN.
"For the past two years 5SW, the shortwave station at Chelmsford, has carried the Empire broadcast of the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion at daily intervals, and from time to time has been brought into. service on special occasiona
This station has fulfilled its ex- perimental purpose without satis fying the demand from all parts of the Empire for unbroken broad- cast contact with the Mother- The Dominions and country..
Colonies are still largely dependent on foreign stations.
The Fifth Challenge,
When two men and a woman The new course, according to an official of the New York Yacht made their re-appearance before Club, was selected because of the Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon likelihood of better wind and less- Magistracy this morning on
The difficulty which stands in the er ocean traffic. Sightseeing craft charge of kidnapping a small boy
from .. Shamshuípo, Detective way of the contemplated develop- always have crowded the waters off
Sergeant Meadows offered no ment is one of finance. The B.B.C. Sandy Hook, and not a few times evidence against them and they takes the position that it cannot have seriously, interfered with rac-
were discharged.
spare the money from ita funds, ing yachts.
The officer mentioned that the which are contributed by listeners in in the British Isles for their own were arrested defendanta Macao by the Portuguese authori-enjoyment. ties and sent back to Hongkong One suggestion is that the Bri- but the local Police had been un-tish Government should allocate a able to connect them with the proportion of its own broadcasting. kidnapping. They were unable to revenue for the support of the Em prove that the defendants had pire station; another is that the even been in Hongkong on the day Dominions should contribute at that the boy was taken away from least a proportion of the cost of
a service designed to meet their i own needs.
Five times has Sir Thomas Lip- the American ton challenged yachtsmen, and four times has he Jost
The sailing master of Shamroch V. is Captain Ernest Heard, who has a crew of 22. She will be ketch rigged for the crossing and re- fitted in America, Sir Thomas will not follow until shortly before the cup series.
his house.
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SEVEN FACES
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