1931-09-21 — Page 7

PRESIDENT

HOOVER

ARRIVES.

NEW LUXURY LINER IN PORT.

LADY COMMENDED IN COURT.

CAPTURES THIEF WHEN

BOARDING FERRY,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931.

LEGAL RIGHT TO

DOCUMENTS. -

APPLICATION BY ME,

TODD.

KOWLOON INCIDENT. PERMITTED TO COPY

How a European lady's, pluck

CORRESPONDENCE.

The World Crisla

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

great extent, by the daily

Sir,-Own views on things in general are moulded, to a very paper we rend. The writer of leading FLOATING CASTLE. led to the arrest of a thief was in the course of proceedings under in-the-street bows to his ideas as An Intercating legal point arose articles is a specialist and the man- related to Mr. Fraser at the the Oplum Ordinance before Mr. readily as he does to the decrees Majestically pushing her im Kowloon Magistracy this morning Schofield at the Central Felice of his medical man. It would mense tonnage up the harbour when a man named Wong Hing Court this morning, when Mr. appear, therefore, that I am

laying waters this morning came the was charged with stealing a pars Todd, of the Imports and Exports myself open to the charge of pre-

containing $1.17 at the Jade Tree Office, appiled for the retention of sumption in much-heralded Dollar liner Pre-Shop, Peninsula Hotel, on Satur- certain documenta although he had pounded by the paper that has been

questioning views

pro- sident Hoover, the laat word in day afternoon. United States shipbuilding, with Inspector Elston, who proaccut-dropped a charge of dealing in my educational medium for nearly

opium against a Chin

A Chinese, named four

four years. However, a fool may tall raking masts and funnels ed, said at about 2.30

p.m. on Lai

Lai Wing, explaining that he had now and then be right, by chance,' Saturday, and symmetrical lines embody-

Mrs. Sutherland, the,

suffera Fagle ing force together with beauty shop, was in the shop when the de- under Section 31 (f) in seizing, will let me attempt to justify my

manageress of the Jade Tree not sufficient evidence to proceed. and as "even the

Mr. Todd found his justification | little birds to sing,” perhaps you Once aboard the Hoover, the fendant went in and examined removing and detaining documenta criticism. feeling 18 one of unrestricted some articles. He chose

a ring, or books which had appeared to To my mind we do not require space with a total absence of that tendering a $10 note. She had no him likely to be, or to contain, bimetalliem to restore two-fifths of cramped stully atmosphere

at the time and was going evidence of such dealing in opium. the world's population their pur that change always went with the passenger to send her "boy" out when the de-

For the discharged accused, Mr. chasing power. The slump of liners of a decade or no ago. Win-fendant stopped her. He had M. K. Lo rulsed a strenuous oppo allver merely deprived China of flows instead of porta and bedst in and whett site told him she had no had no legal right to documents hoardings and of the paper ac placing dispel the notion

actually that the stale-rooms are shipboard cabins: heavy furniture, artistic prints and thick, carpets make it hard to believe that the public rooms are not lounges and saloons of some huge paintial shore hotel. Over 600 Feet Long.

change, he intimated that he did which they might regard as sus not want the ring he had chosen.picious and they should return He then walked out of the shop. them now that they had with After defendant had gone, Mrs.drawn the charge. Such conduct Sutherland discovered that her he characterised as "blowing hot purse had disappeared. She im- and cold by turns". mediately suspected the defend- The man in the case might be ant and thinking he would be dealer of opium in Canton, but in plain technleal language, the going to the Star Ferry, she rush-if the prosecution could prove ed to the wharf and was just in that he was a denter in Hongkong time to see him going on to the naturally they would not have ferry. She caught hold of him, and dropped the proceedings. The da Inter handed him over to the cuments were seized with the view to the charge being brought when polier.

they would be produced as evi- dence.

That charge having now inspector Eiston, in conclusion, been dropped, he could not under. said Mrs. Sutherland had full constand the object of detaining the trol of the situation all the time.

His Worship:--I am sure diti.

Present Hoover is a twin-serew steamer, with an over all of 663 feet, beam of 81 feet, depth of 79 feet feet, maximum draft of 34 and a displacement of 33,500 tons, To the traveller and tourist It Is floating castle in which, in addi- tion to the awimining pool And other luxuries that present-day Hinera boast, there are shops, talk. ing pictures, radio, garage for 160: motor carn, elevators and a veran- dah cafe.

n

In Full Control.

alte

papers.

His Worship was asked to make Ja judicial order for the return of

the

seized documents. Mr. Todd offered a compromise allowed In an alternative application to be to copy the documents. to return them

Defchlant denied the charge of stealing and also the alternate one of receiving stolen property

In the witness-box, Mrs. Suther-He promised ean

It is in the interior decorations that the President Hoover baso its claim for exquisite benuty. intald Beautifully carved and woods, from the far corners of the world, find their place in the lob bles, in the lounges in the smoking rooms and in the library.

A Thing of Beauty.

The mahogany in the writing room and library once grew in the forests of darkest Afrien; the prima vera, found in the exquisite. panels of the lobbies come from

Central Americu; the Satinwood from India; the White Philippine mahogany from the Philippines Islands; the Bubinga from Africa;) the teak from India and Java; thi Padouk from Africa or India, and the Harewood, a benutiful fox- tured word, dyed by n vertain pro- cess in Germany, ali nid in niking the President Hoover a thing ot beauty. In all cases the enlogr harmony is beautiful yet dignified and inviting.

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With an aeroplane soaring overhead, our photo shows the President Hoover at Sạn Francisco on her maiden voyage, She

rived in Hongkong this morning.

Every advantage that modern sen travel offers can be found on the President Hoover, with every, thing produced on n-magnificant plan. The children's room in pur- | - ticular is a real magic cave for the Younk folk, where merry-ka- | rounds, slider, sand pills and other menns of childish amusement are available.

Safety, speed and comfort can bo claimed by the President Hoo ver, which has entered the Orient service as another manament United States shipbuilders.

to

Jame! described what happened "eventually" and that no "harm from the time defendant entered should come to then wille in his the shop to the time she caught care. hold of him at the Ferry wharf hir. Lo doubted the legality of and handed him over to the police. Mr. Tould being permitted to copy

An Indian Constable on duty at the documents.

the

her

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THIS EVENING.

Radio programme to be broadcast- by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 855

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6.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00-10.80 p.m. European Pro- gramme of Victor and H. M. V. Ho- Moutrie and Co. cords kindly supplied by Mossra. §.

7.00 pm. Stock Quotations, Mail Notice, etc.

7.63-7.25 p.m. Orchestral.

Monastery Bells (Lefebure Wely), The Mill in the Forest (Ellenberg).

Victor Concert Band. 22090, Gielita Lindo (Beautiful Heaven). Mexican Dances (Briseno).

Moxican Tipica Orchestra. 20384. Berceuse (Jarnofait). Praeludium (Jarnaleit),

Victor Concert Orchestra. 20874. 7.26-8.00 pm. The Entire Musical Numbers of

Trial by Jury" (Gillbert and Sullivan).

Recorded under the direction of

Ruport D'Orly Carte. C-4. 8.00 p.m. Local Time and Weather

in Report.

in circulation at that time. The purchasing power of China foreign markets la ber surplus commodity production, the intrinsic value of which in unaffected by any drop In her International exchange rate. Given time for readjust- ment, hor exports are bound to sterling prices command the same that they did before, and wages, purchasing power of the labour- ing clases,

will ultimately pick an to their former intrinsic worth.

rom the Looking at it from viewpoint of China's development, the silver slump should, by reason of tem- porarily cheap labour, give an im- This patus to her export trade. will in turn help her trade balance, enable her io absorb more sliver and assist in the recovery of metal she has hoarded. To put it briefly, the workers, for a time, will have to submit to low wages to enable the employers to cuperate, and as trade brightens up the purchasing power of the workura will rise.

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Before offering a solution to the world's Industrial depression would like to put two questions on bimetallism:

(1) Assuming that an inter- national agreement could be arrived at whereby silver reserves were maintained by the banka and utilised for the stabilising of Inter- national money rates, what would there he to prevent two countries, bent

On

industrial domination,

secretly combining with the object of ridding themselves of their silver, accumulating gold and then declaring a silver exclusion policy? The of the white metal would

price immediately slump and the gold holders would have achieved finan- cial and industrial supremacy.

(2) With the Increased demand for silver under bimetallium, would the enhanced price not encourage heavier production and how could stability be maintained with а metal that has lost the essential merit of being rare in coming up from the earth as a bye-product?

It is possible that bimetallism

could be introduced to the world's

be

advantage at the moment, but the complexity of Our ex- change Bystem would tremendously increased thereby and too much would depend on inter- national goodwill and confidence to ensure any permanent improve- industrial affairs. ment in our

mean

However that the Star Ferry wharf testified to might be, he was prepared to al- Mrs. Sutherland calling to him low a reasonable time for such There is another way out of the and handing over to him the de- work, but would not agree to he difficulty which combines simplicity fendant whom she accused hay paper being detained, to be re-with safety. ing stolen her purse.

|turned “eventually."-perhaps in In referring to the indian con- a year from now. For all he knew

de Mr. Todd might have already CHILD'S BED IN A DARK stable as an "indian_devil,"

fendant was rebuked by the copied the papers. CELLAR.

Magistrate who advised him not Replying to his Worship, Mr. owing to to talk of police officer like that.Todd stated that he would be able Defendant said he had just to have the documents copied come down from Canton and hail one day. no employment in Hongkong. He

THREE PEOPLE SENT TO GAOL.

in

His Worship accordingly made was going to Peking and was only an order for the return of the Ill-treatment of an eight-year-old passing through here. He denied documents by to-marrow. child led to sentence of two months' that the purse was found, in his Imprisonment being passed at West | pocket when arrested, alleging London Willian Andrew Boyle, that Mrs. Sutherland had it in her window-clearner, Rectory-rond, Ful- hands at the time. ham. his wife Elsie, and Mrs. His Worship convicted defend- Winifred Adams, of the same ad-ant in the charge of stealing, dresa.

The boy ill-treated was Joseph Goff, the child of Mrs. Boyle before her marriage.

Another Charge.

SHIPMATES.

NAVAL MIGHT OF UNITED STATES.

con-

of

anything that can be applied to

By real, hard wealth, I the production of the necessities but owing to the demand for car rency purposes it has a fictitiously high value and even with this in its

it represents a favour, small proportion of a total wealth lying in factories, mines, agricultural areas, shipping, etc. France, to-day, has . big accumulation of gold while

are

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8.03.8.30 p.m. Operatie. Lucia-Sextetto (Donizett!). Trovatore-Miserere (Verdi).

Creatore's Band, 35860. Selections from Mefistofelo (Bolto arr. Creatoro). Mefistotalo-Prologue (Bolto arr.

Creatore).

Creatore's Band. 35971, Lohengrin-Prelude (Wagner).

Philadelphin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski: 0791. 8.30-0.05 p.m. Pianoforte Solus. The Twenty-Four Preludes (Chopin Op. 28).

Alfred Cortat. M-20. 9.05-9.10 p.m. Hawaiian Music. Steel Gultar Bola-Old Black Joe,

Sam-Ku-Weat. 21647. Instrumental Trio-Kaain-Modley, Instrumental Trio-Waonahole-

Medley,

Royal Hawaiian Trio, 20281. 9.15-9.55 p.m. A Concert. Violoncello Solo-Menuet (Debussy). Violoncollo Solo-Gavotte Tendro

Pablo Casals, 1191. Sorg-tobin Adair (Keppel). Song-The Last Rose of Summer

(Moore).

(Hillemacher).

Frances Aida (Soprano), 1168. Piano Solo-In the Night (Schumann). Piano Solo-Etude in D Flat (Liszt).

Harold Bauer. 0828. Song-Little Log Cabin of Dream

(Hanley-Dowling).

Song Where My Caravan Has Rested

(Teschemacher-Lahr).

Lambert Murphy (Tenor), 4038. Violin Solo-Hebrew Melody (Achron). Violin Solo-Zapateado (Barasate)

Jascha Heifetz. 6695. 9.55.10.27 p.ro. Variety. Orchestral- Lift Up My Finger and

I Say "Tweet! Tweet!" Orchestral-Laughing Marionette. Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. 22007. Humorous Song-Fonso (My Hot

Spanish Knight). Humorous Song-1 Just Can't Figure

It Out at all.

Gracie Fields. 23505. Organ Solo-Why Can't You?

Organ Solo-Little Pal.

Josse Crawford, 21981. Song The One I Love Just Can't bo

Bothered With Mo Song-Lazy Lou'siana Moon.

Johnny Marvin (Comedian). Orchestral-Lonely Melody. Orchestral-Ramona.

22948.

Paul Whiteman and His Orch. 21214. 10.27 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press Nous

10.30 p.m. Close Down,

vide the Government with pur- land was obliged to inflate to pro- chasing power and the value of the for unit fell far below gold parity, while Sweden, by the adoption of a gold exclusion policy, managed to push her paper currency, above. that parity. These cases serve as free paper currency in relation to examples of how the value of gold and commoditics in general can be controlled by restricting or We increasing the output.

very nation's

en

unit

of the fer

TC-

The

Wish

destitute practically

of The first step in introducing a it, but

total our

nation free paper currency would be of a wealth runs inte

thousands of mil-

domestic nature the stabilising of lions aterling and we are probably the value of the unit-in relation. the richer pation of the two. to commodities in general, Although Robert Montgomery, The simple barter idea is not a banks would be furnished with

proposition to-day, but Before his Worship passed sen- Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, practical

statistics from which the current barter ne mattor IB tenec, Inspector Elston brought and Cliff Edwards are potential trade remains

tained and the issue of currency Mr. Pierron, for the N.S.P.C.C., against accused another charge of na stars in their own sphere, they how involved we make it appear general price level would be ob- returning from banishment before appear to have been swallowed up with our weird and wonderful ex- would be regulated to maintain st said that apparently Joseph was an

theme change systems, and the nearer wo level: Statistics of trade, general the expiration of 10 years. His in the immensity of the unwanted child. He was not allow record showed that he had been presented in "Shipmates," when can approach the simplicity of ed to sleep with the Boyles' children banished twice from Malayn and the naval might of the United will the wheels of the commercial the banking world accurately to original procedure the more easily economic conditions and production would also be available to enable and vanally slept in the scullery.

was banished from Hongkong on States is demonstrated in a series

machine revolve. Modern con- of "high spotlights" that are an The Boyles were tenants of Mrs. January this year.

demand a

medium for anticipate the volume of currency ditions unusual travesty to the

that the future would require for His Worship sentenced defend- Adame, who was paid 10s. a week

of com and at the moment that

atability. ant to three months' hard labour time activities of any Navy. How effecting the exchange of by them to look after Goff. It was

and

commodities in Prices of alleged that she and Mra. Boyle, on the charge of stealing and an- over, through, the technical

is paper, the

to relation

cach other would -with-the-knowledge-and-connivance other nine months for returning unconventional

fixed ceived, the

to mean able an presenting the value of a

continue to fluctuate but by total

amount His Worship-congratulated Mrs, der along, and give us a story amount of gold. The

paper and credit released maintaining a stable relationship between the value of the currenty Butherland on her plucky action whch although somewhat thin, is throughout the world exceeds

unit and commodition in general in arreating the defendant, say- amusing. This picture together thousands of millions-sterling the

we should be as near a perfect ex- ing it was very courageous thing with an excellent newsreel and a world's total gold accumulation,

short drama feature, entitled so that the real security for modern change system as it is possible to "Confession," presenta an attrac- currencies is not the yellow metal get. Later on, we could embark tive programme at the Queen's, but productive Wealth. Gold tune upon the stabilisation of commodi which is being repeated to-day lens, to-day only as a stabilising values in relation to each other

factor on international exchange by control of production. and to-morrow...

The question of foreign exchange rates and it is now doing stability would depend on whether harm than good-in fact, It

the preponderating cause our neighbours could be persuaded The Royal Observatory reports of the industrial stagnation. for just caught hold of him and anid

to adopt the sh

scheme. The banks Adama said she was sorry

was would be subject During the War, gold

to Govern- what had happened, but the bay "You come back," In such a way that the typhoon is about 100 mlios was dirty and a little thief. What that he had no idea what the E.N.E. of Manila, moving North abandoned and free papar cur ment control with the nation's total aho did by way of punishment was whole. thing was about, Hoor. N.N.W. The anticyclone has rencies became the order of the wealth as the guarantee, and just to try to bring him up as a decent thought at the time that defen-weakened and is now central over day, the value of the unit depends low far one country would be pre- altizen.

Korus. dant had not paid his fare!

Ing on the quantity issued, Engage (Continued on Page 9.)

of Boyle, made the child sleep every

night for two months in Au under ground cellar, where there was no light of any kind, and on a bed which was scantily furnished.

Wild, Hunted 'Look. Inspector Lavelle, of the N.S.F. C.C., said that the boy's school- master told him that often the child would come to school with a wild, hunted look.

from banishment..

to do.

:

"No Fuss-nt All.”

Inspector Clark, who was on the Star Ferry launch when Mrs, Sutherland arrested the defend- ant, said it was done very quietly without any fuss at all. She

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