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The masts for, the new Z.B.W, station at Hunghom, which is ex- pected to begin transmissions in September,

U.S. PROSPERITY DRIVE

NEW FIGURES ON THE BOARD

LABOUR GAINS

A POINT ·

Washington, July 31.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TAY, AUGUST 1, 1933..

CABARET PROPRIETOR: IT HURTS US FAR MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU.

LONDON TUBE LIGHT FROM SEA

EXTENSION

TWENTY-FIVE MILES ON THE UNDERGROUND

The National Recovery Ad-|· ministration has been strengthen- ed by the appoinment to the In- dustrial Advisory Board of Mr. James Moffett, who resigned his directorship of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey to sup- port the campaign.

NEW SECTION OPENED

WAVES

INVENTION MAY BE TESTED

UNDERGROUND "FINDS"

EXCAVATIONS IN LONDON

AMAZING CLAIM GREAT FIELD FOR

Madrid.

RESEARCH

London.

An apparatus to generate elec- trical power from the movement of the waves of the sen, invented in 1928 by Senor Manuel Lopez London is astonishingly varied Velez, may soon receive further as fleld for research. Sometimes tests.

one wonders why archaeologists Following tests made #cveral bother to loot Egyptian tombs to Cock-years ago on the Cantabrian coast when there is so much to be found

of Spain, attempts.of the inventor nearer home.

London, July 31. The last section of the Tube railway extension from

Other prominent figures in com- mercial and Industrial life who liave joined the Board are Mr. Harry Harriman, the President of South Harrow the United States Chamber of fosters was opened to the to interest the government in the Commerce, and Mr. R. L. Lund, the

President of the Manufacturers public to-day.

Association.

LABOUR WINS.

Washington, July 31.

Organised labour won the first round of the struggle to thresh out

is

apparatus failed. Now tends to seek the co-operation of the Republican government.

he

in-

RADIO BROADCAST

RELAY OF BRITISH FILM

- FROM KING'S

From Z. B. Wi, on wave length of

865 metres (84.6 k/c.).

4.5 p.m. Chinese recorded gramme.

5.6 p..

pro-

A relay of the Band of the 1st Battn. South Wales Borlerere, con- ducted by Bandmaster J. L. Gocks, from the Military Hospital, Bowen

permission Rond, by kind

of the Officer Commanding.

6-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pro

gramme.

7-10.30 p.m. European programme, 7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quo- latfunk, ele.

7.3-7.30 p.m. Orchestral. Carmen Suite Gypsy Dance (Bizot). Carmen Sulto-Intermezzo and Les

Dragons d'Alenia (Bizet).

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Loopeld Stokowaki, Tales from the Vienna Woods

(Strauss).

Blue Danube (Strauss).

Philidelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York directed by Arture Toscanini. 7.30-9 p.m.

A relay of "Love on Wheels" from the King's Theatre by courtesy of the Management.

8 p.m.

Report).

(Local Time and Weather

9-9,27 p.m.

Selections.

Gilbert and Sullivan

Vacal Gems-Patlence, Vocal Gems The Pirates of

Fenmbia Light Opern Company.

Selection-I. M. S. Pinafore.

Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards. 9.27-9.37 p.m. From the Studio. Hawlian Selectiona hy Ho Yuk Lum and Ho Lank Ming.

Programme.

1. Drowsy Waters.

2. My Waikiki Mermaid.

3. Panuau Waltz.

4. Anonn.

9.37-9.53 p.m.

Sonata Appassionata (Beethoven,

Op. 57).

Harold Bauer (Planist). 9.53-10,30 p.m.

(Tschaikovsky, Op. 74) ("The Symphony No. 6 In B Minor

Pathetique").

Played by The Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates. 10.30 p.m. Close Down.

are

from

THE HOUSING PROBLEM

Recently workmen excavating the 12th century crypt of tha City Church of St. Olave in Hart-

All records in the above European The Tube railway which

programme street made a really fascinating evening twenty-five miles long is the

Senor Lopez Velez has visions jaiscovery. A sudden pickthrust Z. B.Wa Library. longest underground in the world and the new addition just com.of electric railways, and large in-unearthed an ancient stone-lined pleted has cost about £6,000,000. dustries, run at small cost with well in a perfect state of preserva- power generated with his invention. It probably dates back be- a National Recovery Code, for the On some sections, the speed now I fion. With th miniature ap-yond 1270, steel industry at this morning's attained is three miles in five paratus, when the last tests were St. Olave's, by the way, is rich hearing before the Administrator, minutes.

He made light was produced by in Samuel Pepys associations, Brigadier-General Hugh Johnson.

utilizing a small dynamo.

lived nearby, worshipped in the The employers, who are tradi-

a vhält tionally opposed to the independ-rural country-spot, bot-housing

Since making-those-tosis the church and is buried in ent organisation of labour by out-estates have rapidly increased in inventor has sought to perfect the near the communion table.

Work has begun to excavate the side bodies such as the United numbers during recent years and machine, and he claims that it States Federation of Labour, sub-it is estimated that the population can now be employed at high tide, prehistoric Verulamium at St. mitted a Code specifically provid- of the neighbourhood will increase or low tide and when waves are Albans. This ing for a "Company Uniona" sys-by 50,000 within the next few inrge or small. Power is gen-settlement is two thousand years tem, under which the workers of years.-British Wireless.

erated by both the upward and old and must not be confused with ench Company will be organised

downward movement of the waves. the Roman city, much of which is.

already unearthed.--Reuter, under Company officials.

-Reuter.

OWN METHODS.

An attack on the "Company Un- ions" system by a spokesman of the Federation of Labour was supe ported by General Johnson and Mr. Thomas Lamont, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, and it was finally agreed to withdraw the clause.

Cockfosters

WAS formerly J

SETTLING AN ARGUMENT

RESULTS IN POLICE COURT CHARGE

PRESERVING THE OPOSSUM

MAN FINED £710 FOR HAVING 1,136 SKINS Sydney, N.S.W.

The settlement of an argument The workers are thus technical-over the loss of a pair of shoes, ly from to choose their own me- led to the appearance of a Chinese thods of labour organisation, printer and a licensed hawker be- though Mr. Lamont added that fore Mr. Wynne-Jones this morn- owners will still endeavour to con- ing on a charge of disorderly enn-was fined £710 (12.6d a skin) for tinue to deal with employees duct. through the "Company Unions."

A Chinese constable who was The owners' Code provides a 10-hour week and a minimum on duty in Hollywood Road said weekly wage of Afteen dollars. he saw them fighting. On produc

ing his truncheon they ceased. Router.

PROSPERITY.

The printer lost his shoes and saw the hawker wearing a pair which bore a resemblance to his. He questioned him and n fight en- President sued.

Lasting prosperity cannot be at tained in a nation that is half booming and half penniless is the attitude adopted by Roosevelt.

Both men were bound over to The President made it plain that It was the Administration's opi-keep the peace for six months.

nion that, if industry co-operated with the Government as fully as

1.I.D. CERTIFICATES

did agriculture in reducing the cotton acreage, unemployment would censo and note would suffer because of economic conditions.

N.S.W.,

A man at Balranald, having had 1,180 oppossum skins in have his possession. He could been fined £5,680!

ancient British

SOME OFFICIAL

STATISTICS.

CONDITIONS STILL BAD

London.

Since the housing question has

THE CORREGGIO been one of the most important

PICTURES

to

social problems of post-war England, grent interest attaches tho figures about London County Council housing schemes MAY BE LENT TO which have just been published.

PARMA

Parma.

The Comptroller, in a memoran- dum, atatos that the total results under the various sections of the housing accounts for 1981-32 A request may be made by the shewed a deficiency of £1,026,200, was met by: Contribu- city of Parma to the London which National Gallery for the loan of tions of Metropolitan Borough the Correggio picture in the Na- Councils £6,880; Exchequer sub- tional Gallery for a Correggio ex- In the eyes of the law, the life hibition to celebrate the fourth sidy £688,287; contributions from rate and other accounts, £382,161 of the quaint little animal is contenary of the Painter's death. rate a credit from surplus balances assessed at £5, but such a value- Parma, Correggio's native city, of $1,118. In the year 1930-31 the measure of protection will celebrate the centenary next deficiency was £902,331. tion is a against ruthless destruction for year. The city's picture gallery

already has a famous collection of The capital expenditure for his commercially valuable skin.

to £3,161,304, Under the Birds and Animals' Correggios and the Parma academy 1931-32 amounted

capital ex- Protection Act a magistrate has of fine arts has expressed to the and the aggregate power to impose a maximum pen-Ministry of Education its desire penditure on housing up to March alty of £6 for any bird or animal, that other plcture galleries-not- 31, 1992, amounted to £39,779,570, or any portion of it, which, of ably those of Florence, Milan, of which £37,414,230 was course, Includes the skin, found in Rome, Paris and Vienna-should be standing.

a person's possesalon. No mini- naked to lend their treasures for an mum penalty is fixed.

по

out-

exhibition of the artists collected UNHEALTHY & OVERCROWDED. The total accommodation pro- Although the Act covers a wide worka.

Parma has already lent some ofvided under assisted schemes was range of birds, and animals, it is Of the Soclete Internationale de mainly in operation to protect its Correggios to London for the 47,704 dwellings, according to other native Italian art exhibition held at the memorandum by the Council's By shortening the hours of la- Placements, Basle (Switzerland) opossums, as bour, over-production will be pre-(Local Agents Messrs. A. Goeke & creatures possess skins of such Burlington House in 1930.-Reuter. Valuer, who states that "there is

The great vented, the President declared, Co.). To-day's official quotation in value to the hunter. and by a reasonable increase In Basic, excluding dividends accrued majority of prosecutions under the wages, which industry can afford, is £3. 3. 6d. the country's buying power will be increased in a short time to a point where economic suffering and un- employment will dense.

who

Act concerns opossums-Renter. FOREIGN · LIQUORS

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

IF HE COULD ONLY BEE HOW SMALL!

The Hongkong Tramway Company A VACANCY 1118 DEATH WOULD LEAVE, have declared an interim dividend of THE PROUD MAN WOULD THINK LESS(Afty cents a share, Ad- or THE PLACE HE OCCUPIER IN 118 Pro-LIFETIME-Legouve.

Ono case of typhold from Kowloon

was reported, to the local health su- The a.. Kidderpore lett Singapore thorities during the week-end.

FOR AMERICA

CLAMOUR FOR FAVOURS

Washington, July 25.

still a large section of the com munity living in unhealthy and whose overcrowded conditions circumstances are such that they cannot realde at a distance from their work places,”

"A largo proportion of the ANSWER TO CRITICS,

tenants especially those on post- war estates," he adds, "have been For the benefit of critics

accustomed to residing in over- recently declared that the

crowded and unsatisfactory con- economic ministration's

With the repeal of the Eigh-tions in contral London and it gramme was breaking down under

teenth Amendment looming as has been a matter of great entis- its own wolght, the President.

more of a certainty. day by day faction to observe how readily point to the things that the Ad-

for this Port yesterday at 4 p.m. and Two Chinese woman keepers of foreign powers are already cla- moat of them accustom themselves ministration has done and any is dus here on the 6th Instant at aly, brothels in Gough Street and mouring to get favourable treat to their, now.environment.". that he is willing that it should be about d. pan..

Man Wa Lane were each fined $76ment for their wines, whiskey, A great demand for accommoda- judged by them.

or six wooks by Mr.

boers, etc. this morning.

OIL PRODUCTION.

Washington, Aug. 1.

Wyant-Jones

'།'' "Most of the dumping in the

Franco and half a dozen other tion continues, and is indicated by central-area. In done by thene children; I think they are taught by Two returned banisheer, Li Kwong countries to-day sounded Ameri- the fact that during the year tho The National Recovery Admini thoir parents ald Sanitary In and Id Fu, who were both went away can officials in London and Wash- number of alicants who called: stration has submitted to the spector Stevens this morning when for ten years in the early part of ington regarding the possibilities at the central office to apply for Jendera of the oil industry a pro- charging a Chinos girl with dumping this year, wards wontenced to miss of tariff agreements on beverages. houses was about 98,200, and more than 104,000 inquiries wero mado posal for the Federal supervision rubbish in Upper Station Sir moatha hard labour each, by Miv

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