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Nu. 16340

二拜歳 號八廿月五英港香

TUESDAY, MAY 28. 1935.

·日六廿月四

U.S. CODES RULED INVALID

COURT UPSETS N.R.A. PROGRAMME

ADMINISTRATION GIVEN RUDE SHOCK

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, May 28, 8.30 a.m.)

I

Washington, May 27. The entire Code structure, under which the major part of American business has been conducted for the past two years, is invalidated by the Supreme Court decision, handled down to-day, ruling unconstitutional Section Three of the National Recovery Act, under which Congress delegated to President Roosevelt full authority to make and enforce Codes.

The Court unanimously held that this authority was insufficiently limited and defined. It also ruled that the Codes were illegal where they affect transae- tions which have a merely indirect effect on inter-state business.

The Supreme Court's decision is considered a complete defeat for the Government..

Obviously downcast, Mr. Donald j Richberg, Secretary of the Executive Council of the United States, who argued the casp be fore the Supreme Court on behalf of the Administration, refused to comment when the judgment was handed down.

He only remarked: "The deri- stot is rather sweeping."

President Roosevelt ia expected. with his Futtarn

to confer immediately

aldes in respect to the

course of the Government.

It is presumed the Supreme:

Court's ruling will

portant bearing on

have an im

the formula- '

tion of the N.R.A, extension Bill, 7 unw pending.

Meanwhile, the sponsors of the containing amendments

to

BRITAIN'S

CABINET SHUFFLE

NEW TIMBER FOR

GOVERNMENT

EDEN TO BE ELEVATED?

London, May 27. SR.A., quickly decided to The zero hour for the British amend the measure insofar as it Cabinet reconstruction is expected sought to impose licences on inter- to be rung on June 7, when the state business.-Renter Special.. | House of Commons rises for the

Bill

the

COURT'S RULING

Washington. May 27.

Whitsun recess.

Members of the Hongkong trade delegation which visited Canton, on the invitation of the Chairman of the Kwangtung Government, plistegraphed with Canton officina.

Pictorial Correspondents).

Crowds Rush

To Purchase

French Gold

NO RESTRICTION OF BANK SALES

STERLING BOOM MAY CRUMPLE

Paris, May 27.

SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO EDEN

(Photo: Far Eastern

Fleet Hunts

Vanished Heir To Tin Wealth

CONGRATULATED BY YOUNG MILLIONAIRE LABOUR LEADER SAFE ON LAUNCH

ACHIEVEMENT AT GENEVA

London, May 27.

DRIFTED IN STORM

Miami, May 27, Remarkable scenes were enacted:

After President Roosevelt had In the House of Commons, Mr. ordered the Coastguard to com at the Bank of France to-day.! where, for the third time as George Lansbury, Labour leader meate a search for Mr. William B. many years, there were cautilu-) paid a rare compliment to Mr. Leeds, Junior, heir to the fabulous fous queues of gold buyers, neces- Anthony Eden for his conduct of

sitating the allotment of an extra the Italo-Abyssinian negotiations his family controls and who ind tin-plate industry fortune which stall 14 the gold wash sales de- Fat Geneva, partment.

been missing since Ga.m. yester- People drawn from every walk Eden described the

Replying to a question, Mr. day, the missing young millionaire of life, some of them carrying reached.

agreement arrived safely at Fort Lauderdale remarking that to carry off the gold Council of the League would re-

the to-night. ingots, formed a long line in the nuin in close contact with the Bank's central courtyard which! resembled a railway bunking office

suitenses

<cen

According to a,bank offrial, the gold was sold freely and without.

question, to anyone who asked for

it.

situation and would meet again to deal with the matter, should cir- stances render this necessary. Without suggesting that the Council's resolutions had finally disposed of the tension between

He had set out in a fishing launch, with a small crew, on a fifty mile journey to Bimini Baland where his yacht was achored. They completed their journey last night but found the sea was too rough to allow them to enter the port where the yacht was moored.

In the midst of the speculative excitement, a few observers are predicting that a collapse of the the present Sterling boom may come friendly solution of the dispute ed them to Fort Lauderdale. It is then expected that Prime Minister, Mr. Ranısay Muc-fat any time,

Italy and Abyssinia, Mr. Eden said drifted a long way from Bintini, so By daybreak the launch had he was confident thes represented the crew decided to return to the an important advance towards Florida coast.

Fishermen direct- Both parties had accepted the co-

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FRANCO-BRITISH FRIENDSHIP

UNITY ESSENTIAL, BALDWIN SAYS

LOCARNO TREATY MUST EMBRACE AIR PACT

(By Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Messagen Ordinance, 1894. Received, May 28, & q..}

London, May 27.

The extension of the Locarno Pact to cover the question of air armament, was suggested by Mr. Stan- ley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, when addressing the Women's Conservative Congress in London

to-night.

"Sometime," he said, "we may feel that the French are difficult; but they have seen their country invaded twice in a life-time.

“Also, you cannot fail to understand the German desire for armament equality. Germany, however, is arming in another direction besides the air, and we have learned that the manufacture of submarines has got beyond the stage of academic discussion.

"There is an increasing appre- hension, because the people re-

last few generations in which Germany was engaged. That is why we want to know the facts.

NAVAL AND member the various wars of the

AIR TALKS PLANNED

BRITAIN SEEKING

UNDERSTANDING

Mensagen

GERMAN SEA POWER

(Special to. "Talegraph") Telegraph. Cosyright. Telegraphic

1194. Received. Ma

Ordinaner,

London, May 27. Asked whether the Government

The United States Supreme Donald, will resigned that Mr.; Others predict a teuse situation operation of the League in seeking searched the Atlantic between to

Aircraft and son-going craft intended to convene a conference

Court to-day declared invalid the Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative on the Exchange Market, Laxour-a settlement. By so doing, the Miami and Bimini island through- delegation to President Roosevelt leader, will assume the Premier's ing a vote for giving full power Governments concerned had made out this morning-Reuter. of authority to make the N.R.A. office. Mr. Baldwin, it is stated on to the Prime Minister to defend a contribution, and it was earnest- Codes.

with any M the best of authority, will be the franc

measure hely hoped that this would lead to The N.R.A. provisions giving summoned to Buckingham Palace deems fit. The vote will be taken an early restoration of satisfactory the President the right to prosuim the moment Mr. MacDonald's to-morrow in the Chamber of De relations, But for the spirit of Code rule over private industry is resignation is received, and will puties and AL victory for the conciliation displayed by the held unconstitutional by the be in a pusition, doubtless, to Government would cause an im- Italian Government and the in- Supreme Court.

announce his Cabinet forthwith. mediate change in the situation, valuabic co-operation of M. Laval, The ruling made is conveyed inj The present complexion of the it is believed in these quarters.---| the progress recorded could not the opinion of Chief Justice Ministry, its Nationalist structure, į Kenter, Hughes in the Schechter Poultry will be scrupulously maintained. Case, selected by the Government The most dependable forecast

to test its power to regulate wages of the Cabinet re-shuffle al present and working hours by more than [available is as follows: 500 N.R.A. Codes.-Renter,

Mr. Baldwin will be Prime Minister;

Mr. MacDonald will become a Minister without portfolia;

Sir John Simon, present Foreign Minister, will succeed Mr. Bald-

by

of the

CONTACT WITH KIDNAPPERS

POLICE ASKED NOT TO INTERFERE

have been realised.

Hitler's proposals for air arma

discuss Chancellor Adolf ment limitation, Sir John Simon, Foreign Minister, told the House of Commons to-day that the Govern- ment throughout had urged the im-

"In an age of hir feets and big guns, the French and ourselves across the narrow strait know we have got to be friends.

"We must firstly pursue the idea of embodying a special air pact in the Locarno Treaty," he declared. "to impose limitations even at high figures to end the race in build- ing fighting air arms,"

LOST OPPORTUNITY

Mr. Baldwin anid he regretted that the United States was un- able to participate in the collective security plan, because the greatest bulwark to the pence of the world would be co-operation between the British Empire and the United States.

Baldwin, could not think of de- The British Empire, said Mr. pending upon France

or Russia

for protection at the cost of an- other five hundred thousand aeroplanes.

or even

13

"We have perhaps the best

down to the root of the matter," he believed.

MOVE TO CONTROL Portance of promoting an agree- opportunity for many years to get

FOREIGN BANKS

ment on this subject.

They had, for some time, he said, been in communication with other : Governments respecting the possi bilities of negotiations between the that any nation wanted war, at

concerned.---Renter least for the Special,

Special.

live

Powers

NAVAL TALKS

KUNG CONFERS WITH Mr. Lansbury, speaking in the

FINANCE LEADERS name of the whole House, con- gratulated the League Council and the British representative, Mr.

Shanghai, May 28. Eden, on the result of the conter, held a conference here to-day Dr. H. H. Kang, Finance Minis- ference. He added that everyone with a number of financial leaders hoped this was the first and most and bankers, including Mr T. V; available with regard to the actual important step towards มก equitable and permanent solution of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. - Reuter.

Berlin, May 27. While nothing official is yet

He added that he did not believe

present.-Reuter

Strike War In Ohio

ARMOURED CAR IN ENGAGEMENT

Fourteen

CREATED CONFUSION

Washington, May 27. Some Congressional leaders are of the opinion that the Supreme

Soong, concerning Court's decisión has taken inter-win;

the financial situation.

scope of the Anglo-German naval discussions, it Beems almost State commerce definitely from Mr. Anthony Eden will succeed

Tacoma, Wash., May 27. Federal regulation, but that the Sir John Simon;

The financial crisis created by certain that they will decide how the closure of the Minghua Bank, Codes for Inter-State business Lard Sankey, Lord Chancellor.her king, has announced that he Mr. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, the lum-

BRITISH DENIAL

the total tonnage of the German the American-Oriental Banking fleet, corresponding to one-third might be saved by proper legis will retire, to be succeeded Jation.

Corporation, and its affiliated that of the British Navy, shall be Lord Hailsham.

has made contact with the kid-

London, May 27. firms, was also discussed. Confusion is apparent in various Then, in order

Sir John Simon gave an emphatic

allocated

different It was felt by the financial classes of ships.

among the to redress the papers of his nine-year-old boy,

Canton, Ohio, May 27. Government agencies which are party balance in the Cabinet Mr. George, and has asked the Federal denial in the House of Commons authorities that it was necearby dependent on N.R.A. for their Maleoba MacDonald, son

to-day agents working on the case to

to a series of mis-state to take steps to make foreign bank to build a fleet equal to one-third bullet wounds and fractures and

Germany is claiming the right

are in hospital with nutliority.

ments recently published in Roeing institutions subject to the of-Britain's tonnage. present Prime Minister, will enter

cease their interference, Inveterate N.R.A. critics are the Cabinet and Mr. Oliver Stunter

concussions from blows, after s The kidnappers are asking for ment had concentrated troops on supervision system, which pro- Zeitung, Britain may also be asked the strike

alleging that the British Govern Chinese Government's bankingAccording to the National miniature battle arising out of most jubilant Senator Willar will succeed Lord Halifax at the $200,000 ransom.—Router. E. Borah #leefully commented:head of the Board

both the White and Blue Niles and vided that a Government official to define how her own allocation Berger Manufacturing Company.

at the works of the "The Constitution has been re-and Mr. Ernest Brown, Secretary of Education,

at Sobat and near Lake Rudolph, be stationed at any note-lasulug of tonnage will be made. had enrolled African natives, had bank for the purpose of periodic- established," while Senator King of the Mines Department, will

armoured car full of un- declared: "Thank God for the succeed Mr. Stanley

built stategie raivuys towards the ally examining the assets and num- that a general naval conference volvers and sawed-off

This paper thinks it possible Identified men, armed with re- as Minister Supreme Court."

shotguns, of Labour.Reuter.

Abyssinian frantier, had construct-ber of banknotes issued by thent between Germany, France, Italy suddenly appeared from ed camouflaged landing grounds Central News, under the guise of playing fields,

und Britain may be held in the the works. They swept the by. Bird had concentrated aeroplanes at

standers with a hail of bullets and a hand-to-hand fight ensued, various frontier centres, and especially at Khartoum,

The These statements, declared Sir John Simon, were destitute of any foundation whatever. - British

Wireless.

On the other hand, Senator Harrison remarked: "I think it will be possible to repair the damage this session, N.R.A. is limping, but I don't think the decision will prevent the passage of a law which will come within the Constitution."

OFFICIALS WORRIED

ANOTHER SET-BACK

Washington, May 27, The United States' Supreme Court to-day ruled that the Frazier-Lemke Act WAR un- constitutional,

CHINESE BITTER

COMPLAINT

SIAM PLACES TAX ON CHILD IMMIGRANTS

Shanghal, May 2B.

LOCAL

DOLLAR

UNCHANGED

autumn.Reuter.

SIMON'S ANSWER

An

armoured car's ultimately escaped.-Reuter.

insido

crow

London, May 27: In response to a Parliamentary In submitting their complaint to The Act provides for a five-year the Government in regard to the

question as to whether it was in some time past been in communi- moratorium for the paying off of alleged l-treatment of Chinese

tended immediately to convene cation with other Governmenta On practically all sides, be-furm mortgages if attempts falled residents in Siam by the Siamese

MARKET VERY a conference to negotiate on the concerned respecting the pos- wilderment is evident. Some of-to scale down a farmer's debta to authorities, the Overseas Chinese

basis of the QUIET

· SUPPRESSING GAMING

passage in Herr sibility of negotiations, between ficials priyately expressed their a figure he could pay. The pro- Federation states that the latest

Hitler's recent speech referring the five powers mentioned in the worry as they conjectured on the perty could not be foreclosed dur-measure taken by the Siamese

Despite a rise in silver prices in

to limitation of air armaments, London Communique, of air pact unsettled prospects seen for busting the five years if the owner Government in this direction was

Amoy, May 28. London, the Hongkong dollar open-

and alternatively whether any and air limitations agreement, he paid "a reasonable rental,"

In securing the co-operation of est unchanged this morning, the and if so what, steps were being said. Whether the anti-trust lawa,

the imposition of a special toll on the local Japanese authorities, the official rate being 28.44d. The taken by the British Government As for the second part of the under which some business prac-farmer to obtain full title to his object of which was apparently to taking awcoping action to

In addition, the Act enabled the each Chinese child emigrant, the Amoy Municipal Government is market locally was very quiet, the to mitigate the tension that pre- question, the Government was de- tices allowed by N.R.A. are property by the payment of the prevent Siam-born Chinese children press gambling activities in the sellers and 28. 5.5/160. buyers, with Simon spoke to-day.

rate being 28. 6d. vails internationally, Sir John voting its most earnest endeavours banned, would have to be pro-appraised value, regardless of the from returning to their fatherland city. Not only Chinese-owned, very little doing.

to the promotion of a general socuted more vigorously until a amount of the mortgage at the end and to assimilate them by a new but also Japanese-owned, gambl

As regards the first part of the settlement acceptable to all parties new law is enacted, was one of of the five-year ported.

Silver prices rose 3/10ths in question, the British Government, concerned of the various ques- educational policy, which calls for ing houses are ordered to the many questions asked.-Rou- The Court's decision was un- strict control of Chinese-owned closed at the end of this month.while China operated both ways on

be London yesterday. India bought, which had throughout urged the tions now outstanding in the in- fer,

| animous.-Router.

importance of promoting schools.-Central Notes.

an ternational sphore-British Wire- Central New.

aatcady market.

agreement on this subject, had for less.

ness.

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