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THE Y.M.C.A. MOCK PARLIAMENT.

SESSION TO BE OPENED TO-NIGHT.

-PARTY

PROSPECTS.

NOTED AMERICAN COMING.

MR. H.-L. PRATT ARRIVING HERE TO-MORROW.

HEAD OF SOCONY.

Mr. H. L. Pratt, head of the Everything is in readiness for to- day's ceremony at the European Standard Oil Company of New Y.M.C.A., when the Mock Parlia York, is arriving in Hongkong to ment will be opened with due dign-morrow aboard the s.s. President ity and solemnity. Although there Lincoln: has been an absence of mass meet ings in the "Y" during the week, there is not the slightest doubt that everyone is keyed up to con- cert pitch. for this evening, and an assembly

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930.

MONEY THEFT AT BARRACKS.

NEWSPAPER SELLER SENT TO PRISON.

NEATLY TRAPPED.

months hard Sentence of two labour was imposed by Mr. Lind- sell, at the Central Magistracy this morning, on a young Chinese who was convicted of a charge of larceny of $3.34. the property of Lance Corporal Williams, of Mount Austin Barracks,

Mr. Pratt, who is numbered amongst the most wealthy men in the United States, is a keen sports- man owning large shooting The defendant pleaded not guilty. Sub Inspector Logan said the de- reserve in the South, and on many of nearly fifty mem-scensions bas

shooting fendant was a newspaper delivery taken boxes in Scotland, bers, together with visitors, is an

He is on a coolie and delivered papers at the visit to the Far East, primarily barracks daily. Recently money sured.

for recreation, and from here he had been missed from various bar- is continuing to Singapore and rack rooms and suspicion fell on dava for a short tour of the Dutch the defendant. Yesterday morning East Indies and Straits Settle-a trap was laid and $3.34 was placed in a cupboard belonging to L/C Williams, while men went into con- cealment to keep watch.

From the point of view of party strength and the chances of the Conservatives being defeated on the King's Speech, the position is of more than passing interest.

ments.

Mr. H. 1. Pratt's father was a The Government, unless receiv- ing a certain amount of last close associate of Mr. John D. minute support from non-resident Rockefeller, Sr., in the formation members, will be in a definite of the Standard Oil Co., and he minority, and in view of the King's himself has been actively associat- Speech featuring proposals to Imed in the management of the pose tariffs and imperial Prefer-Standard Oil Co. of New York for President years-being ence, it would appear that they are many certain of having the combined vote since 1923 and Chairman of the During this of the Labour and Liberals against Company since 1928.

time he has been the leading them.

spirit in greatly enlarging the operations of Socony.

The defendant was seen to enter several rooms and just after the men had gone to their breakfast he went into the room occupied by L/C Williams. He was followed by one. of the watchers and seen to go to the cupboard. He was caught and searched, and the money was found in his pocket.

In evidence, L/C Williams said The abstention of the Liberals

the money included one copper cent from voting, however, is not an

In 1925, the control of the on which initials had been scratch- unlikely factor, as it is possible)

Co.

ed. was that they will prefer to vote against Magnolia Petroleum the Government on actual legislaabtained and that large producing tion. The Labour vote too, may be concern merged with the New Yark Company. In 1926 the split on this particular issue.

The Government, although con- General Petroleum Corporation of scious of their rather unstable posi- California was taken over and tion, are looking forward with con- recently the White Eagle Oil Co. fidence to the defeat of the La-wus bour motion for the rejection of the King's Speech, and are prepared to debate the issue.

The ceremony of electing Speaker is to take exactly the same lines as that adopted in the House of Commons, and at the close of the debate, voting will be made by "aye" and "no", after which a divi- sion may be demanded by either side.

The "House" will assemble in the lounge at 9p.m. prompt, and will adjourn not later than 11 pm Arrangements have been made for a Visitors Gallery.

CINEMA NOTES.

"THE ROGUE SONG" OPERATIC TALKIE.

absorbed. -making. the Standard Oil Co. of New York, as at present constituted, one of the largest producing and marketing units in the world, A merger with the Vacuum Oil Co. is an early possibility.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris Geneva Berlin..

Oslo..... Helsingfors

Previous Day. Yesterday,

123.525

123.825 25.025 20.405 18.16 193

376 38.11/16 1/74 4.85.15/16

12.06%

Athens, Buenos Aires.

Shanghai. New York.. Amsterdam..

Vienna.

25,025

20.39

18.16 113%

.375

38

1/7

.12.065

4.863/32

18.105

Stockholm.

34.455 .40.11

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Madrid. Bucharest. Lawren Tibbett, known as the Montevideo. grentest living baritone, and the lint Hongkong. American to reach the topmust post-Brussels

tion in operatie circles, is now blazing W·· a new trail, for he is the first maior Copenhagen. opera star to be featured in a talking Prague. picture.

of the

Rio.

"The Rogue Song," Metro-Goldwyn Lisbon. Mayer's all-talking drama

Bombay Caucasus, filmed entirely in Techni, Yokohama. colour, with Tiblett as the star, will Silver (spot & open at the Queen's Theatre on Sun- day. Tibbelt sings songs ranging from those of operatic.caliber, with a Rymphony orchestra accompaniment, to simple love ballads.

He rides at breakneck pace through brilliant varied adventures, while ballets, magnificent mountain scenery, and other interesting details are re- puted to make this picture one of the moet elaborate prodverons of the

year.

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Tibbett is himself a romance. The son of William Edward Tibbett, form

sheriff of Kern County, California, who died capturing the bandit Me- Kinney, Tibbett was born and reared attending in the West, and after school in Los Angeles became an ne- tor. He was a success at this when

be

forward.

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GREAT RIDDLE OF U.S.A. PROHIBITION

THE SKY.

PROBLEM.

THE RED SPOTS ON JUPITER.

NEWSPAPER POLL TO BE KEPT SECRET.

A NEW WORLD?

DECISION CHANGED.

Paris, Sept. 25.

Washington, Oct. 18. Is life about to make its ap- The federal prohibition enforce-

ment bureau of the United States + pearance on the planet Jupiter?

Are the famous red spots ob- department of justice to-day re- served by astronomers upon versed its previous stand and de- Jupiter's gaseous surface in pro-cided not to make public the re- cess of solidification or merely a sults of a pall on prohibition manifestation of internal volcanic among American newspaper edi- activity, like the spots on the tors. aun?

The bureau, through Federal Amos Prohibition Commissioner Woodcock, refuses to advance any reasons for its changed attitude.

Last week the bureau sent ques- 3,000 American

In an article dealing with this question, which has puzzled scien. tists for generations, the Abbe 31oreau, the famous French as- tronomer and weather expert, de- tionnaires to clares that recent observation has newspaper editors asking them to proved beyond doubt that the express opinions as to whether the planet is mainly composed of prohibition laws should be enforc

ed or repealed. The results were superheated gas.

to be made public and they were Nevertheless, he says, the two red spots-one of which was seen to be turned over to the Wicker- first in 1665 and which has been sham law enforcement investigat- found since to measure roughlying commission under the original 30,000 miles in length and 6,800 plan across seem, by their consistent movements, and high speed, to be solid, or partially solid.

Life Beginning. "We can almost say as a fact that Jupiter is a planet in the process of formation."

Commissioner Woodcock made il known, however, that his bureau had planned to embody the results of the newspaper ques- tionaire in a forthcoming pam- phlet. But now newspaper editors will be asked to disregard the questionnaire. Commissioner Woodcock expressed fear that the purpose of the questionnaire would be misconstrued.

In one year-from 1913 to 1914 Private Reeks, who was one, ofthe larger "spot" travelled

From other quarters it was the watchers, said the defendant 33,195 miles in a longitudinal hud walked up and down the ear-

direction or more than five times learned that plans for the ques- tionnaire were vetoed following ridor several times hawking papers, the diameter of our world.

It appears that the second conferences between officials of After everybody had gone to break.

"spot"-discovered in 1901-tra- the prohibition enforcement fast he went into L/C. Williams' room. Witness, when he searched

vels even faster and overtakes and bureau and the department of vanishes into the first one every justice. the defendant, found the marked copper among a sum of $3.34 in one 23 months, only to re-appear again of his pockets.

and to continue its movements at even higher speeds.

The defendant intimated that be- cause he had refused to allow some

of the men to have a free paper they took the money from his pocket and accused him of theft:

His Worship convicted and

bour.

Amos Woodcock, director of prohibition, said to-day upon his return from Chicago and nearby When these two "spots" meet is points that he found the prohibi another mystery. This, the Abbetion forces there pitifully in- Moreaux points out. may be the adequate to cope with conditions. beginning of solidity destined Ile stated that he would ask con- pass-perhaps to be the first abode of gress to increase the enforcement ed sentence of two months' hard la- life upon the largest of the force by 500 men.

placéts.

Woodcock appealed to the police The Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, Rec-of Chicago and of Wisconsin to tor of Hendley, Surrey, who is co-operate with the prohibition He denied that Chicago the highest authority on Jupiter agents. in England, said to a reporter.

was a bad place, saying that it was "One idea is that the spot is a "just as good as any other city." gaseous vortex. But an objection to this is that it sometimes ap pears sharply pointed in outline, which is not the shape you would expect a vortex to assume, It is very puzzling.

POVERTY TO LUXURY OVERNIGHT.

BALTIMORE GIRL'S LEAP

INTO SOCIETY. ·

Cella Rogers. pretty and 18, 18.105 daughter of estranged parents, 34.45 lived with her mother, a seams-

43.35 40.00 tress, who worked to

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them.

"I do not think it can be said to be a continent so many miles support long by so many wide. For one 39

thing, it is very doubtful if Jupiter Celia faced the 1/39%

necessity of is solid at all. It used to be thought 54.855 Anding a job after her graduation that it was very hot-a kind of 92.895 from high school.

semi-gun-but now the theory 18.16 Then her father, a wealthy at- most commonly accepted is that 163% torney whom she had never seen, it is a cold body, differing in tem- Nom. claimed Celia and suddenly she perature from the centre to the 108.25 found herself in the midst of outside." 1/5.25/32 luxury, wearing beautiful clothes, 2/0.17/32 riding in expensive cars, attend- ing gay house parties and living a life of ease.

Two lovers played important parts in Celia's life.

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One was Barney Shields, rising Moore's biggest starring picture, young newspaper cameraman which will have its initial showing23, whom she some day planned to to-day at the "Majestic Theatre, Kow Toon.

And then she met Tod Jordan, Cooper's first important part in the pictures was, in "Beau Sabreur. Hea handsome, well-groomed young lived in the Mojave Desert for six man who travelled in society, but wocks during its filming. Then came whose means of livelihood

was

MORE SAFETY IN THE AIR.

BETTER RECORD OF THE R.A.F.

How successful has been the use

of the parachute by the Royal Air Force is shown in a report issued on the health of the Force for 1929. Throughout the year there were

injuries no

during practice descents. The report, parachute

his role in "The Legion of the Concloaked in mystery. demned" which meant a like period in About these characters Laura Tex. And next came his fortunate Luu

Brookman has woven chance for the role in "Lilac Time," fascinating new serial story, call-also shows that, although there was a large part of which was filmed inled "Heart Hungry," which begins more flying, the percentage of By-

to-day on Page Nine.

It is swift-moving

with human

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to date, is a screen version of the and it is true to life. stage play by Jane Cowl and Jane

Murfin. It is charming love story of a little French girl and a dashing young British officer, and was direct ed by George Fitzmaurice.

The support cast in addition to Miss Moore, includes Burr Mcintosh,

California.

"Lilac Time" acclaimed everywhere bis voice was discovered by Josel Das Miss Moore's greatest production puty, and he was launched in opera. Today he is one the greatest of the Metropolitan stare.

When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed him for the new, picture, special pre parations were made, for it was to the first approach to an operatic film. The story was written by Frances Marion, with dialogue by John Colton, of "Shanghai Gesture" and "Rain" fame. Herbert Stothart was chosen to compose the music. Tibbett plays adventurous bandit, leader of a who mam the Caucasus Gyspy group Mountains robbing the rich and giving to the poor much in the manner of When he the English Robin Hood. meets a Russian princess, played by Catherine Dale Owen, the romance begins.

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The picture is said to contain a number of daring cavalry scenes for which Russian Cossacks were engag ed. Several hundred horsemen, making singing chorus, were handied in a series of unique scenes by Charles Dorian, Barrymore's assistant, who followed them with microphones as they rode over clita at breakneck speed. This was done by a special set of machinery which gave a novel effect in sound perspective.

The songs of the production, which range

numbers to simple love ballads, are accompanied hy a symphony orchestra, They in- de, Once in the Georgian Hills," Narrative," "The Share Cry," "To Live, To Love," "When I'm Look- ing at You," "Little White Dove," "The Rogue Song" and "The Bandit Chorus."

from

operatic

George Cooper, Cleve Moore, Kathryn

McGuire, Eugenie Besserer, Emile Chautard, Jack Stone, and a number

of others.

Tanned Legs."

No two youngsters in moving pic- tures could be paired more effective ly than June Clyde and Arthur Lake. who have the leading roles in "Tanned Legs," Radio Pictures' tuneful show which opened last night at the Central Theatre.

They epitomize all the infectious gayety, the ebullience of youth in their portrayals of Peggy Reynolds and her man, Bill, leaders of the "Dynamite Division," the jally young crowd at a bench club.

This is June Clyde's first important role before the camera, although she has gained considerable prominence on the west coast as a singer. and dancer of ability. According to R.K. 0. executives, who recently signed her to a long-term contract, aho is one of the most scintillating person="| alities to reach the screen in many months.

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story, interest,

FOOTBALL.

THE CLUB'S. FIRST ELEVEN

ing casualties resulting in death was 28, compared with 41 in the previous year.

Another report issued, that of the Aeronautical Research Com- mittee, mentioned the likelihood of a new type of engine being adopted. Progress in the development of the compression ignition engines, in which the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder is ignited by the act of compression, had been marked, and the committee anticipated that the technical problem of making such engines light enough to compete with the petrol engine would be Rodger; Strange and Bishop; Sega overcome. These engines use a len, Stewart and McBride; G. Dun-cheap fuel which is not easily enn, Bell, Goldman, A. Duncan and ignited. Wallington

FOR SATURDAY.

The following have been chosen to represent the Hongkong Football Club 1st. eleven on Saturday:

re-

2nd XI v. St. Joseph's. The Club 2nd. XI will be presented by

the following for their league match against St. Joseph's on the Club ground at 3 p.m. on Satur- day-Fogwill; Stoker and Hynes; Puncheon and Krilovsky: Sloan, Peers, Gray, Strange. Jackson, and Fowler. Reserves: Smith, King and

Tavlin.

AUSTRALIAN FLIER IN SYDNEY.

GREETED BY FINANCE AND AGED PARENTS.

The spinning of aeroplanes is re- garded by the committee as "one of the most practical problems yet to be solved.”

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GARRISON CRICKET.

GAME AGAINST HONGKONG C.C. ON SATURDAY. The following have been selected to represent the Hongkong Garrison in a cricket match against Hongkong C. C. to be played on the club's ground on Saturday at 2 p.m.-Lieut. A. H. Anstruther, Lient. Christian, Corporal W. T. Davies, Lieut. R. Dowar-Durie

Capt. E. C. Ethering ton, Lieut MacFarlane, Capt. R. Sydney, Oct. 22

Moir, Licat. A. Massen, Capt. R. Wing Commander Kingsford

Capt. N. Thorp, (Capt.) Reynolds, in the front rank of youthful Smith has arrived, escorted by List J. G. Wolfe-Barry.

aeroplanes. He WBS

L. R. C. Civil Service. The two head a cast of outstanding eighteen

The following will represent the He left a Montana ranch because quality which includes those Broad-greeted by his fiancee, Miss Mary

parents,Indian Recreation Club in a friendly he wanted to live a hustling, bustling way favorites, Ann Pentington and Powell, and his aged

Allen Kearns. city life in Hollywood. He joined the

Others are Sully with whom he was driven around match versus the Civil Service, on ranks of the movie players and spends Blane, Dorothy Revier, Albert Gran, the aerodrome amid the cheers of the latter's enclosure. on Saturday, most of his time on remota "Tocations" Edmund Burns, Nella Walker and 6,000 spectators.

commencing at 2 p.m.-H. Madar (Captain).

Ane el Arcalli, A. A. where solitude is the rule and not the Lincoln Stedman.

He was thereafter formally wel- Eumjahn, AR. Minu, A.K. Minu, exception. That is the fate of Gary A chorus of 40 sun-tanned Holly- Cooper, who plays the chief support wood beauties adds greatly to thecomed by representatives of the F.D. Pereira, 9.A. Ismail, B. Irance, ing role in First National's special entertainment value, Marshall Neilan Government and the civic authori- MR. Abbas, JM.A. Rumjahn and

ties-Reuter.

Sirdar Khan, production, "Lilac Time," Colleen directed.

"Lilac Time" at Majestic, `

Arthur Lake has carved an enviable niche for himself in filmdom by his juvenile characterizations and is al

ready

players..

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $1540 sa, Chartered Bank, £17 n. Mercantile A. &B., £261⁄2 n. East Asia $111 b.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $1,080 .b. Union Ins., $450 sa.. North China Ins., Tls. 160 b.. Yangtsze Ins., $50 п.

China Underwriters, $2.80 b. China Fires, $400 b.

H. K. Fire Ins., $1,080 n.

Shipping. Douglases, $271⁄2 a.

b.

H. K. Steamboats, $29 Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $30 n. Union Waterboats $31% b.

Mining.

Benguets, $8.70 - Kailans, 37/6 n.

Langkats, Tls. 8.

S'hai Explorations, Tls. 1.30 b. Ruubs, $24 8..

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $160 b. Whampoa Docks, $32 n. China Providenta $5.25 b. (Old) Hongkews, Tis. 285 b. New Engineerings. Tis. 7.30 1. Shanghai Docks. Tls. 122 b.

Cottons.

Ewo Cottons, Tls. 12.15 b. S'hai Cottons, Tls. 82 (old) n. Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotel, $11.60 b.. H. K. Lands, $763⁄4 b. (Old) do. $75 b. (New) S'hai Lands Tls. 305 b. Humphreys, $16 n. Realties, $8.40 b. Chinese Estates $87 n.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $17.70 s. Peak Trams, (old) $18.60 m. Star Ferries, $812 8. China Lights, (Old) $25.30 b. H. K: Electrics, $78.60 b. Macao Electrics, $28 n. Telephones $36% n. China Buses, Tls. 181⁄2 n. Singapore Tractions. 7/9.b.

Industrials.

China Sugars, 80 cts. s... Malabons, $27 n.

Cald: Macg. Ord: Tis. 10.40 n. Canton Ices, $3′ 6. Cements (Comb.) $17.75 b." Ropes $10. b. United Asbestos $5 n.

Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $26.40 b. Watsons, $11.80 b.

Der A. Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords. $3.85 b. Mackintoshs, $19 n. Sinceres, $11.60 n..

Miscellaneous. Amusements, $23, n. Constructions, $2.40;n. 20 B'que Ind. G. Bonda, 64% b. H.K.G. Loan 72% Prem.

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