1934-07-25 — Page 19

CHICAGO STRIKE TRAGEDY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

YOUNG STUDENT

CHARGED.

ALLEGED WRONGFUL

CONVERSION

The case against Henry Wong,

WEDNESDAY, · JULY

HUNDREDS PERCH ON ROOF-TOPS

A student, who pleaded "Not VISTULA OVERFLOWS AT

UNTENDED CATTLE DIE Guilty to a charge of convertingt

IN SCORES

PICKETS GUARDING

180A

ENTRANCES

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

to his own use, or to the use of another, two watches and a clock of which he was the ballee, the property of Mesars. Alex Ross

FRESH POINT

and Company, was commenced be: WARSAW OUT OF

fore Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy this morning, and after evidenco was adjourned until Friday at noon,

Inspector J. Murphy stated that on June 22, defendant went to

DANGER

Warsaw, July 24.

The Vistula has broken ita

Messrs. Alex Ross and Company banks to the south of War and said his father was a wealthy man and wna going to start business.

He negotiated for the Hale of an

Austin Seven. He spoke to Mr. Webb, and produced

saw and has flooded" an enormous area.

25,

RADIO

BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S BROADCAST.

TALK ON MEDICAL SERVICES OF THE BRITISH ARMY

From ZBW on a wavelength of 355 metres.

4-7 pm. Chinese Progtanime. 6.0.15 p.m. Children's Concert. 7-10.30 p.m. European Programmo. 7 p.m. London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations,

7.05-7.30 - Pianoforte Recital Ballade in A Flat Major.

(Chopin, Op. 47). Ballado in Sinor

by Alfred Cortet.

(Chopin, Op. 52). Rigoletto-Parabrazo do Concert

(Verdi-List).

7.30-8 p.m. From the Studio. Hawaiian Soloctions by the "Kaill (Queenie, David and

feared to be inevitable throughout Troubadours."

A terribly heavy death-roll fa

newly-stricken region

of Pent). Sandomierz, ua the waters swept) over a great stretch of country in courae, raging rush.

3.

Programme.

Across the Sea. Ukulele Moon,

3. My Dusky Maid,

Hawallan March.

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, to which bore the name of

Received July 25, 0.20 am.).

a firm which did not exist. Mr.the NEW YORK, JULY 24.

Webb agreed to sell the car on THE TALE OF TRIBULATION IN THE UNITED condition he would put down $500

deposit. Defendant, of STATES SEEMS ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED, had no money, and as he was on- WITH A HEAT WAVE EMBRACING THE able to put down the money, the

Fifteen hundred square miles of GREATER PART OF THE COUNTRY, BURNING car was not handed over to him, country have been flooded to an UP CROPS, SETTING GREAT WHEATFIELDS they had a consignment of wat-habitants few got clear.

average depth of twenty feet! Mr. Webb also told defendant. Of the eleven thousand in- AND FORESTS ON FIRE-ADDED TO STRIKES chos and clocks. Defendant

Thousands are sitting on the AND OTHER TROUBLES.

ngreed to buy, and a number of roof-tops of houses in imminent watches were placed before him. aurer of collapse, He was given two watches and a threatened by starvation, though and further clock on approval. He went away every resource is being mobilised Report,

and was never seen again.

Mr. W. F. Webb, manager

of

to evacuate them.-Router.

A strike and the heat wave have combined to produce terrible conditions in Chicago stockyards. Four hundred pickets are guarding the entrances to en- force the strike, which has been called on the plea- that the employers are not living up to the settle-Mesars. Alex Ross and Company.

the Engineering Department of. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS ment reached in November following a strike of gave evidence, and Mr. A. Ë. 8,000 workers.

Tavares, accountant. corroborat-

Meanwhile, over 75,000 cattle are jamming the pens and dying rapidly owing to the absence of water and fodder and the intense heat. Executives and office workers quit their desks and helped to feed and water the moaning animals, but they were unable to get round to but a small percentage.-United

Press.

CHICAGO CATTLE

HORROR

Scores Dying For Lack Of Food

New York, July 24. The merciless, exhausting heat wave shows no sign of ending.

In the Middle West conditions are terrible. Hundreds of denthe are occurring.

Fatalities in different parts of the country all due to the terrifie heat are being reported at the rate of fifteen an hour.

The total number of dead now exceeds seven hundred.

FOREST FIRES,

To add to the perils, devastating forest res have broken oui, hundreds of men Bghting in the! blazing sun in vain to curb them. Huge wheatfields, which seemed likely to escape the drought, have been went from end to end by fire.

Thousands of cattle are threaten- ed with death in the torral heat.

STOCKYARD STRIKE.

TWO HUNDRED DEAD IN KANSAS

Fourteenth Day Of Drought

23, .10 .m.)

(Special to "Talograpli") (By Talegraph, Copyright, Trisgraphia Sten Ordinance, LAPS. Received July

Kansas City, July 21, Two hundred are estimated to have died in Kansas City and the surrounding district in the last fourteen days as a direct result of the heat wave.

ed.

APPALLING LIAR. Defendant enid he got two watches, but did not get the clock.

man, surnamed Wong, gave him the card. He returned the two watches to the Kowloon branch of Messrs. Alex Ross. He gave

them to the driver of the car, who said it would be allright. The driver was employed by Messrs. Alex Ross,

Mr. Hamilton remarked that de- fendant was an appalling liar ne] far as he could see.

The CABO was remanded until Friday for defendant to produce the driver of the car.

It will be recalled that de fondant was originally charged with two traffic offences, and three theft charges. He was convicted, And Mr. Hamilton gave him chance to see whether he could be placed in the St. Louis In- dustrial Home. Since then three more charges of fraud have been preferred against him.

This is the fourteenth day of NEW POST FOR the drought in the Middle West and the temperaturés are ranging from 100 to 115" over the entire | areu-United Press.

A DIPLOMATIC RESHUFFLE

SEVERAL BRITISH

CHANGES

London, July 24. H. M. the King has approved The Chicago stockyards where) Afteen hundred men are on strike the following diplomatie appoint-

meats: to-day present a terrible sight.

:

OFFICER

OF RAIN

Great Lake Formed

(Spacial to "Tafograph”)

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Me

Ordinance,

Retkiced Jẩy 25. 1. a.)

Warsaw, July 24. Renewed rains for forty-eight hours have caused the Vistula to break its banks between Warsaw and Cracow.

It is reported that a great lake

bach formed. over seven kilometres wide has

Fifteen hundred houses have been submerged and over five thousand fresh victims are home- less

Hundreds are perched on house- tops and tree-tops awaiting rescue. at four million ztoty.

The crop damage, is extimated

CARPATHIAN DISASTER.

The rivers in the Carpathians have been freally swollen by Bevere cloudbursts and U.S.villages are under water and seven

CHIEF OF STAFF IN CHICAGO

(Special to "Telegraph"),

(Dy Telegraph, Copyright Telepraphic Eter sigen Ordinance 1401. Hectived July 25, 0.10 a.m.)

Washington; July 24,

have been evacuated.

In the vicinity of Warsaw it. self, the waters appear to be re- ceding and the danger to the Capital is considered pust. United Press.

WARSAW SAVED

Waters Beginning To Recede

6. Alekoki.

7

R.

0.

(Steel-Guitar Selection).

Two Birds in a Nest.

Kaiwi Waltz.

(Steel Guitar Selection). Aloha Lel. Breeze.

8 pm. Local Time and Weather

8.03-8.35 p.m. Variety. Song An Old Violin Song-Looking for you.

Olive Groves (Soprano) with Albert Sandler (Violin).

Fox Trot-Little Dutch Hill. Fox Trot-Because it's Love.

The B.B.C. Danco Orchestra. Song Josephine ("Little Women"). Song-Slumberland.

Les Allen (Baritone). Instrumental-Kitten on the Keys. Instrumental-Canadian. Capers.

The Six Keyboard Kings. Fox Tron A Steamer

Coming Over.

Fax Trot-Did you ever see a

Dream Walking?

·

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. Lo Prince Igor-March (Borodine).

8.35.9 p.m. Orchestral Programme. Symphony Antar-Third Movement

(Rimsky-Korsakov).

Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the (a) Serenade (Volkmann, Op. 63), (b) Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov). Valse. Triste (Sibelius).

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Chienge Symphony Orchestra directed by Frederick Stock Love for Threo, Oranges (Prokofiel),

London Symphony Orchestra directed by Albert Contes 1. Waltz Scherzo,

2. March and Scherzo. 9-9.40 p.m. From the Studio,

A Talk on "The Medical Services of the British Army" by Major R Alex. Anderson, A., M.D., FRF.P.S.

0.10 p.m.

Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 pm, Stock and Commodity Quotations 9.45-10.15 p.m. From the Studio. Selections by the "Musle Makers." 10.13-10.30 p.m. Band Music. The Mill on the Rock-Overturo

(Reissiger).

The B.9.0 Wireless Military Band Sons of the Brave-March (Bidgood), Entry of the Gladiatorn-March.

(Fucik).

The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards

10.30 p.m.

Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid day Press News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quotations followed by New York Opening Quo

tations

10.40 p.m. Close Down:

GREEK FAILS TO REGISTER

The Navy Department hay

Later Cordered Captain Edwin Wolleson, The cessation of the torrential at present on duty with the U.S.rains to the south of Warsaw has return to the saved Sandomierz and the Dulawny Asiatic Fleet, to United States,

districts from further disaster. Captain Wolleson is to become The water is now draining back The yards contain 75.000 hend Sir Reginald Hoare, Minister st | Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vistula with the result that of cattle, many of which were al-Teheran. to be Minister at Commandant of the Ninth Naval ten thousand inhabitants have ready semi-starved before reaching Bucharest.

District at Chicago, succeeding been able to clamber from the Chicago from the drought areas.

Captain Halsey Powell, who has roofs, of their houses where they been appointed Chief of Staff in had been marooned the Battle Fleet.-United Press. twenty-four hours.

The violence of the storms is shown by reports that five men Dionisios Poniris, a Greek sub- were killed by lightning at duelo ject, and manager and several more died from the anho cause, near Luck-Reuter.

FRANTIC BELLOWING.

Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen, Minister at Riga, Tallinn and Kovno, to be Minister at Teheran. Mr. Edmund Monson, Minister

They are bellowing frantically for food and scores are droppingat Mexico City, to be Minister at dead overcome by the heat, the thermometer being at 101.8° F., Riga, Tallinn and Kovno, the hottest day in the city's history. Mr. Clark Kerr, Minister at Yard offelala, office workers, are Stockholm, Lo be Minister at doing their best to feed the beasts, Mexico City. but the strikers are adamant and Mr.

Minister refuse to return to the yards-Bucharest, to be Minister ilt

Stockholm-British Wireleak.

Reuter.

Palairet,

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

HEAVEN IS ABOVE ALL YET; THERE

SITO A JUDGE,

THAT NO KING CAN CORRUPT.- Shakespeare.

KING GEORGE'S ACCESSION

ft

25TH

The P. and O. liner Ranchi is due here from Shanghai at

7 am Fridny.

on

Minor injuries were received by

a

'yesterday suffering from serious Laichhok Road.

scalda received when he upset a bowl

of soup.

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

(Special to. "Telegrapli")

(By Telegraph, Copyright; Zelegraphia Mus

Ordinance. Jazzen

21946. - Beceived 25, TAP Con

London, July 24. In the House of Commons, in the course of a written reply to

*

for over

SPECIAL MANILA

EXCURSION

BY THE "PRESIDENT

HOOVER"

in

CABARET MANAGER

FINED

of the. Lido Dancing Cabaret, was fined $26 by Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy this morning, on chargo of having failed to register himself. He was bound over in a personal bond of $25 for six months on a second charge of having failed to notify the police when leaving the Colony.

An all-inclusive rate of £12/0/0 was therefore aware that ho hnd

GOLP

WHAT HAVE YOU?

in OLD, BROKEN, UNFASHIONABLE or USE. LESS GOLD ARTICLES such as chains, rings, broaches, bracelets, watches, medals, dental, plates, trinkots; necklots, etc., etc. I buy them at the highest price.

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stops pains

immediately

EXCHANGE RATES

Defendant pleaded that when he first came to the Colony. In July last he had registered at the ho The Dollar Steamship Lines passport department. When announce a special excursion to started business, he had also pro- Manila by their palatial luxury duced photographs of himself to A three-year-old boy, Wong Kuon, yesterday when he collided with

Chart Teng, of 63 Nan Chung Street,

liner President Hoover, sailing the police. He did not know ho was taken to the Kwong Wah liospital motor bus whilst riding a bicycle in the hope that it might be possible day, August 2nd to arrive

a question, Mr. Baldwin expressed from Hongkong at 9 pm, on Thurs had to re-register himself.

Manila, at Ga.m. on August 4th, i Sub-Inspector Nollothi agreed to make an announcement before fling from Manila at 3 pm. on that defendant had reported to the Messrs. Anderson & Co., Ltd., have the arrangements for the celebra- August

the House rians with regard to

to arrive back in Passport. Omco. Defendant ro received cable from the Trinity The driver of motor car No. 1306 College of Music, London, intimating tion of His Majesty the King's Hongkong at 8 am on Friday, cently got all the Filipino om- ployees under him to reglater, and has reported to the police that whilst that Miss Maria Margarida d'Alacoque Acession to the Throne, next August 10th. driving in Des Voeux Road Central, Gomos had been awarded a Fellowship year-Router.. near the Singoro Company store (F.T.C.L.) following her recent exami yesterday, he knocked down a man nation in Hongkong by Dr. Mistowski.

Paris excuse. named Leung Wing-kong, who was Misa Gomes his thus won the distinc-

Berlin On the second charge, defendant taken to the Government Civil Hon. Lion of being the first lady in the pital, sulfering from Injuries to his Colony to gain this signal honour.

The particular advantage of said the police were aware he was Helsingfors leg.

making this excursion on the proceeding to Macao, because he The summons against Misa Dora

had taken out a warrant for the. A fight between two unemployed Eilis, of No. 2 Fly Dragon Terrace,

President Hoover, in addition to the luxury and comforts of the arrest of a man who got away with mon led to the appearance of_Heung] for having allowed her dog to go

steamer itself, is the fact that five some money, and he had to go to Tong, aged 29, before Dip. Wynne-nbout without a muzzle. was with. Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this drawn - by Mr. Macfadyen, at the

days will be available for sight- Macao in conjunction with it. gorning on a charge of assaulting Central Magistracy this morning. It

seoing in the Philippine Islands, Sub-Inspector Nelloth said de Tam Mok. The alleged sanault took was stated that the dog would be Joas, although the Treasury

The silver markets wore feature- and during this entire time, no fendant went to Macao with no place on July 3 when, it was stated, destroyed. Bhagwan Das, an Indian,

is hotel exponacs will be involved, reference to the police here at all. defendant hit the complainant with a reading at No. 87 Wyndham Street, apparently taking all offerings of as the passengers will be per knife, necessitatlog his removal to ground floor, was fined $10 in respect near allvor in New York without mitted to live on board and also Mr. Hamilton remarked that the hospital, Sentence of one month was of an unmuzzled dog. He stated the forging the market --Suan, Gul- take all their meals on board the

had let the dog out for ten minutes.bertson and Frits

steamer

pasiod.

SILVER MARKET

U. S. TREASURY NOT FORCING MATTERS

New York, July 24,

is being quoted for this excurto register himself at the Regis sion of eight days. During the tration office, so he had perled, the steamer will be the passengers' hotel.

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