1933-09-25 — Page 7

THE UNITED THEATRES

Appointment of Receiver Ordered

COURT ACTION..

A motion for equitable relief, in- cluding the appointment of a re- ceiver with full power and authority to conduct business of the United

Theatres, Inc., was granted by Judge Milton D. Purdy Inat week in the U. S Court for Chinn, in the action of Ko Leong Hoe, Lo Kou, and twelve other Chinese stockholders, and China Brothers Co., against the United Theatres, Inc., which operates the Grand Theatre, Cathay Theatre, and several other cinemas and con- cerns doing motion picture busi-

ness.

Dr. G. Sellett, for the plaintiffs, stated that defendants embarked on a Tls. 3,000,000 business with only Tls, 1,917,000 paid in. As a result, they experienced difficulties despite the fact that the Grand Theatre, was making $20,000 to 25,000 and Cathay Theatre, 5,000 a month. Sinco

August 29, numerous liens amounting to Tis. 535,- 000 were filed against the defen- dants, while other suits not filed -asked for payments amounting to Tls. 500,000. The assets of the defendants as a going conco,n_ex- ceeded the total of all their obliga- tlona by approximately Tls. 1.200,-- 000. Should all actions against the defendants be permitted to go to

judgment, the assets of the firm would be entirely consumed, and the creditors would not be paid in full. The motion for the appointment of a receiver was to save the business and the protection of interests of both creditors and stockholders.

NOMINATIONS MADE.

WHEN IS A

MAN DRUNK?

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

TESTS THAT MAY

· MISLEAD

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1939.

The diMcult question of what is a reliable test of drunkenness is

...

BRAINS

OVER-ESTIMATED COMMODITY

SAYS A YOUNG MINER GRADUATE

London.

again raised by the statement of a doctor at Croydon that he took-it-as- "Brains are really `n most over- a sign of a motorist being underestimated commodity. We don't the influence of drink, that he could want human beings capable of men- net touch his own nose when his tal gymnastics, we want human

beings who con live." eyes were shut.

As things stand at present no antisfactory scientific test of drunkenness exista.

This is the opinion of Mr. G. V. Keeling, the 32 year-old miner, who has just taken an honour degree in economies at London University,

Tests at present used may be

Mr. Keeling gained a wonderful divided into two groups: Various things which the accused is called series of scholarships to enable upon to do, and various examina-him to take his degree and he told tlons made by the doctor.

Reuter that this first change came from winning the miners' national

included such things ag

In the former group may be scholarship valued at £1,000 when

he was unemployed.

Walking along a straight line, Touching the noso with fingor with the eyes shut.

Standing on one leg with the eyes shut and the hands held above the head,

NAZIS FLOG JEW

OWNER OF BIG BERLIN STORE

TWO DAYS IN BARRACKS

Berlin, Aug. 17., Although outrages by the Brown Shirts against Jews and others, are frowned at by the authorities and by the Nazi lenders, they have by

no

means censed entirely as is shown by a case a few days ago, the accuracy of which can bo vouched for.

The owner of a big Berlin store, a Jew, who does not want his naroo mentioned, was in his office when two leaders of the firm's "em- ployees' Cell" accompanied by four uniformed Brown Shirts entered all armed with revolvers.

The employees accused their chief of having Republican pamph- leta in a box in à cellar, and without listening to his explanation the Brown Shirts took him and his nephew to their barracks.

mea

"Down there in the mine," he said, "the scale of values is dif- ferent from that of the world above. It is on a purely physical Two days later, the two plane. I was in that mine drawing were released on the intervention 98 10d. n day stripped to the waist, of high officials, but not before Writing down a sentence, and streaming with sweat, risking in-they had been shockingly beaten. Pronouncing certain test sen-jury and knowing that at any Their backs were torn Into ribbons tences supposed to present cer- moment death- may come. Yet us by floggings Inflicted by the Brown tain difficulties for the tongue. miners work they sing it is rather Shirts, who tied them up whilst It may be said at once that many absurb when they have so little to they administered the beating. normal persons, attempting thead sing about,, but they do!". texts in the quietude of their Mr. Keeling has homes, would fail to gain anything mine for good-Reuter, like a 100 per cent, success. the accused is called upon to carry out auch tests in a police station, after a road accident or after the distasteful publicity attendant upon arrest, it is scarcely surprising that falluré is not uncommon even if the soberness of the examinoe is beyond question..

When

The second group of tests pre-

On the question as to who should be appointed the receiver, Dr. Sellett nominated Mr. R. W. Peters, while Mr. W. B. Harrington, for certain creditors, nominated Mr. H,sents much the same difficulties. F. Payne. After some argument. Dr. Sellett stated that the reason he objected to the appointment of Mr. Payne was that he had con- nections with a certain party ob- ligated to the defendant firm to the amount of more than one million taels. In this connection, Dr. Sellett mentioned Mr. Grant Mark and said both Mr. Mark and Mr.

Payne were officials of a certain concern which undertook to write approximately Tls. 3,000,000 shares to be paid in by December 31 this year. If all this money had been paid in, the defendant concern would not be in the dificulties it

was now.

The doctor may examine the pupils of the eyes, cousit the pulse, test the nerve reflexes, and ask certain questions to test the memory, of the accused, and at the end of it all be left wondering how much im portance to attach to positive results,

A BLOOD TEST.

to

Over 150 persons were confined in the barracks, and many of them. now left the had been there for weeks.

FLYING OVER VESUVIUS

IN GLIDER FOR 20 MINUTES

GREAT FEAT BY AUSTMAN

Berlin.

Itobert Kronfeld, the famous Austrian glider pilot, has achieved another success by being the first person to fly for twenty minutes in a glidor over the active crater of

The smell of alcohol in the breath is notoriously unrealiable, but great hope has, been expressed in recent years that some method of estimat- Vesuvius, ing the amount of alcohol in the blood would provide concrete evid-

In the periodical "Luftreise" once of drunkenness. So far the (Air Travel) Kronfeld describes test proposed has not been adopted, his experiences over the huge cauld- and, in any case, there would be ron. Judge Pardy reserved his de-the great difficulty of determining cision as to who should be, ap-

the personal idiosyncrasies "My flight lasted four and a half hours. The atmospherical condi- pointed the receiver.

alcohol.

tions were very good and enabled Finally, there arises the problem me to glide comparatively low over that other conditions may closely the crater. stimulate drunkenness. Other drugs- may sometimes produce similar effects, while there was not long ago a tragic case of a doctor found guilty of being drunk who was actually a diabetic subject who had had an overdose of insulin a, short time previously..

Besides Dr, Sellett, other lawyers appearing included Mr. H. D. Rodger and Mr. M. Weiner for the defendant firm, Mr. F, J. Schuhl, Mr.-N. E. Lurton, Dr. F. Wilhelm, Mr. P. Faison, Mr. C. P. Holcomb, Mr. W. B. Harrington, and Mr. N. F. Allman for the creditors.

DETAILS OF COMPLAINT. Following are extracts from the complaint:

ន 1

AMERICAN SURGEON

ASSAULTED

FAILURE TO GIVE FASCIST SALUTE

ort

RADIO BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S BROADCAST.

RELAY FROM KƠ SHING THEATRE

6-8 p.m. European programme, 6-6.18.p.m. Mon Lac (G. M. Witkowski)..

Robert Casadesus (Piano) and Orchestra Symphonique of Paris conducted by the Composer. 9026/6 Piano Solo Ballade No. 3 in A Flat

6.18-6.50 p.m. A Concert.

(Chopin, Op. 47).

Ignaz Friedman. DX466 Chorus-Chauvo-Souris The Knife Grinder's Daughter (Traditional). Chorus Chauve-Sourls-Duet

Piquo Dame (Tschaikowsky).

N. Ballet's Chauve-Souris

Company DX440- Accorteon Duct-Cavalleria Rusticana

-Intermezzo (Moscagini), Accordeon Duct Blue Danube-Waltz

(Strauss),

from

The Destifano Brothers. DB718

Thomas).

Song-Ellcon Alannah (Marbre and SongMachusla (Rowe and Mac-

Murrough).

Heddle Nash (Tenor). DB603 Violin Solo Serenade Millions D'Arlequin (Drigo, err. Woodhouse) Violin Solo-Serenade (Schubert).

DB563. Albert Sandler. 6.55-7.20 Band Aud Orchestra! Music,

7 p.m. (Closing Lorni Stock Quo- tations, etc.) Chanson Triste (Tschaikowsky, arr. Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra. DB906 Intermezzo

Stewart),

Cavalleria Rusticana

(Mascagini),

-

Milan Symphony Orchestra, 9604 Stealing Thro' the Classics No. 5 (arr.

Somers).

Debroy Somers Band. DX360 Hungarian Rhapsody. No. 2 (Liszt

Wood).

Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the Now Queen's Hall Orchestra, DX9 7.20-8 p.m. Variety.

"

Berlin, Aug. 17. An American surgeon, Doctor Mulvihill, of Long Island Medical]. College, who is studying in Berlin under the great German surgeon, Doctor Saurerbruch, received a Orchestral-Stormy Weather. severe blow on the hid from a Orchestral-Spanish Sweetheart.

Unter-den-inden Į Nazi in

Scott Wood and His Orchestra MR942 Tuesday night.

Vocal Duct-When the Wild Roses The torchlight procession into

Bloom, Berlin of January 30 was being Vocal Duet My Wishing Song, staged once more at the Branden- burger Tor for the Horst Wessel film, and Dr. Mulvihill pressed through the crowd to the kerb to see what was happening.

He did not raise his hand in the Fascist salute as the Horst Weasel song was sung, and 4 Nazi there. fore struck him on the head. He has complained to the American Consulate.

This incident draws attention to

Reilly and Comfort.. MR881 Orchestral-Say It Im't So. Orchestral-Let's Put Out the Light. Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees. CB524 Song-Try Gettin' a Good Nights'

Sleep. Song-Ev'ry Little While.

Frances Maddux (Soprano), DB1089 Instrumental-Many Happy Returns

of the Day. the fact that failure to join in the Instrumental-Blaze Away, Fascist salute when the German Orchestral-Tell me To-night.

Eddle Peabody. DB6G1 national anthem or the Horal Orchestra-Hero's "Hoping. Wessel song are played is now con- sidored a disturbance of the pence.

Y

The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra. CB523 Orchestra-Ooh! That Kiss -

Savoy Hotel Orpheans. CB480 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.

8.3-11.30 p.m. A relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.

11.30 p.m. To-day's Opening 10 n.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations

Swan, Culbertson and Fritz. 11.30 p.m... Close Down.

"A hellish furnace, continu-

"NO LACK OF. BRUTALITY." ously varying in colour, screened from view at intervals by heavy The Burgomaster of Nuremberg smoke clouds, spat out simmer stated yesterday in the Municipal ing lava, a few hundred feet Council that it was no concern of below me. Suddenly flashes of the municipality if oficials dis- lightning accompanied by thun-missed on account, of Jewish descent. der would shatter the rumbling or as being politically unreliable as received from New York by Messrs. Lack of control or "inco-ordina- noises of Vesuvius and the lava hanged or shot themselves. They tion" is common

would burst into flame, to many condi-

would only have committed suicide tions, and it is this which most

because they had been swine for 10 All records in the above European "It was wonderful and Im-

years.

programmes are kindly supplied by It required a considerable mea-Messrs. Anderson Music Co. sure of brutality to carry out the law. and there was no lack of it. One hundred and eight officials and 68 workers had already been dis- missed, 32 of them because of Jewish descent; 70 more officials and 12 workers were still to go, and the purge of the teaching staff had scarcely began.

The defendants were organised on or about January 22, 1912, and have an authorised capital stock of the tests for drunkenness reveal.pressive adventure which many of one million shares of the par value of Tla. 5 per share, making While the medical profession as times surpasses the thrill of esta- a total authorised capital of Tis. a whole attempts this somewhat un-blishing a new record.”—Router, 5,000,000. To the date of filing savoury part of its duties with the this complaint approximately knowledge that injustice is rare in 383,400 shares have been issued. Į drunkenness cuses, there is a de- Of the Tle, 1,917,000 päid in fornite feeling of dissatisfaction

the issued sharca, the fourteen with the present position,

complainants held Tls, 504,500.

At the time, the firm

was

organiseul, the directors and off-

FRANCO-AMERICAN BARTER PLAN

New York, Sept. 20.

U.S. WARNING.

The American Consul-General

NO BODY-LINE

FOR INDIA.

M. C. C. Instructions To D. R. Jardine.

cers of defendants made plans for their business, and only a small COTTON FOR FRENCH GOODS carrying on business which would percentage of the real worth and require a paid-in capital of Tis. value of said properties would be 3,000,000 and in carrying out realised, with the result that only The American banker Neideker, has been instructed to protest RULE IN AUSTRALIA. these plans incurred obligations fully secured creditors would be who returned recently from a trip against the assault upon Dr. Daniel

London, Sept. 23. and expenses which could be our fully paid and the unsecured to Paris, is to go, according to the Mulvihill at a meeting of Storm rently met only if approximately creditors would remain unpaid, Journal of Commerce, to Wash- troops in Berlin."

ington with the object of negotiat America has made it clear that The M.C.C.'s instruction to Douglas Tis. 3,000,000 of shares of the and the shares and stock held and ing there the purchase of three she expects the German Govern- Jardine, according to the Daily capita tock were issued and paid owned by the stockholders would million bales of American cotton ment to take steps to prevent Telegraph, is that he la not to use up. In consequence, the debe without value and the invest in exchange for French mer further attacks upon American body-line bowling during the tour of

chandise. fendants experienced difficulties. ment a total loss.

It is added by the citizens. Unless that is done, it is India. journal that the two governments mado manifest that a warning will would accord credits to the be issued to Americans against

visiting Germany. merchants concerned. $750,000. The contractors and court and the granting

All knowledge of this trans- material-men who built and quitable relief prayed for, includ action is denied by well informed furnished the Grand Theatre have ing the appointment of it receiver French circles, and American also filed suits against defendants the business can be profitably con cotton dealers also declare that and a bill in equity has been filed ducted so, that inn reasonable they are not aware of it. It in praying for the sale of the theatre period of time the just claims and remarked in some circles that the to satisfy one of said liens. Other demanda of all creditors can bo figure of three million is either secured and unsecured creditors fully met and the value of the erroneous or fantastic, as, France of the defendants. having claims stock of the corporation preserved does not consume more than from amounting to approximately $500,- and protected for the benefit of seven or eight hundred thousand

its stockholders.

bales of cotton-Havas.-

Several suits have been filed by croditors demanding payment of sums aggregating approximately

000 are pressing for payment of their claims. There is also rent duo and unpaid covering a period of about one and two-thirds

months in the sum of approximate

RELIEF IN EQUITY. Upon the intervention

of the of the

OUR WISDOM IS NO LESS AT FOR-

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

ly $30,018.28, payable to the owner

One enso of typhoid was reported of the land upon which the Grand TUNE'S MERCY THAN OUR WEALTH, to the local Health authorities on Theatre is situated, and a civil suit has been filed in the Court

---Rochefoucauld.

f

Friday.

AMAZING FEAT.

Player Holes Two Tee Shots In One Day.

UNPARALLELED FEAT.

Newcastle, County Down, Sept. 23.

Fiddlan the ex-English Amateur golf champion, accomplish ed an unparalleled font in the final

Erle

Jardine is taking sixteen players to India on the P. & O. Mooltan which left Tilbury on Friday...

The Daily Telegraph report thus confirms the Evening News' atatement cabled earlier-Reuter.

Body-Line in Australia. -

Sydney, Sopt, 23. The Inter-State Cricket Conference has adopted the body-line bowling rule which the Board of Control suggested lo the MC.0, on April 28 Inet. It is understood that the New South Wales Delegates voted against the proposal.

is re-

The rule states: Any ball de livored, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's end, has been bowled at the batsman with intent of the Irish Open Amatour Champion to intimidate or injure him, shall be considered unfair and a no ball shall ship by becoming the first man to be called, and the bowler notified of hole two too ahots on ons, day.

At the seventh hole, a distance of the reason. If the offence 128 yards, Fiddlan's mashle niblick reated by the same bowler in the shot from the toe bounced a foot same innings he will be instructed by from the hole and trickled into the the umpire to conso bowling, and the cup-In the second-round-Fiddlan Aver shall be regarded as completed. used a No. 2 iron at the fourteenth In this caso the bowler will not again hole and dank his shot from a dis-be permitted to bowl during the in- would-be Hut of 205 yards.

nings:

Knockod down by a motor cycle at The fifth Annual, Gehoral Mċpting against defendants by the land the junction of Argyle Street, and of members of St. Andrew's Club Jord for ropongession of the land Nathan Road on Saturday afternoon, will be held in St. Andrew's and Grand Theatre for an alleged Lam Sap (06), a Chilifero mnie w Church Hall, Kowloon, to-day at breach of the covenant of the admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, pan. leano.

His condition is not serious.

Yung Kau, a cook employed by the aged 42, was admitted to the Govern Despite Fiddlan'a remarkable per- Chinese mess at the No. 2 (Wanchal) ment Civil Hospital during the week-formance, Jack McClean, the Scottish The meeting of the Board of Con- sult in judgments, seizures, and Police Station, was removed to end after being rescued from the champion, won by three up and two trol has been adjourned unti forced sales of all the property of Hospital yesterday, auffering from harbour into which she had thrown to play after leading by two holes February 2, 1934 when the Austra defendants, the defendants would scalds received through a pot of boll herself from the seawall at Konnady At the end of the first round-Roulan team for the English tour will be compelled to conso conducting ing water being accidentally upset,

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Should all the above-mentioned aults be allowed to proceed and re-

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