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HOLDING COMPANY ACT FIGHT

COURT: HOLDS IT

"ILLEGAL

REACH OF U.S. CONSTITUTION-

MINISTERS

IN STIFF BATTLES

LABOUR PRESSING

GOVERNMENT

CASUALTIES EXPECTED

THE HONGKONG

POLICE OFFICER

SUED

WRONGFUL ARREST

ALLEGED.

An action for $1,000 damages

TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

EXTENDING IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS

for wrongful arrest against a police FAST FLYING BOAT

officer was mentioned in the list of cases to be fixed for hearing at the Summary Court this morning.

The plaintiff is Chan Shy-ting, alias Tsui Kâu, aliaż Chan Siu-fun, whose extradition by the Canton authorities in connection with an alleged robbery at the Ko Sha village, Chung Shan district, was The outstanding feature of the unsuccessfully sought before Mr. W.

- London, Nov. 7.

election campaign so far in the

(Special to "Telegraph"}

smallness of the audiences at meet-last Friday, (By Telegraph. Copyright. Trieprophic Mas- ages Ordinanes, 1114. Haesived, November inge, which is ascribed more to radio broadcasts of speeches than Baltimoro, Nov. 7.

to apathy. In a ruling on a petition by the

For example, Sir Samuel Hoare, American States Public Service Foreign Minister, when speaking Company, the Federal District at Chelsea, had an audience of only Court held that the Utility, Hold-twenty-six people, of whom all but ing Company Act was unconstitu- tional, and ordered the trustees

two were women.

SERVICES

CONNECTION WITH AFRICA:

8, 1935.

= RADIO BROADCAST

R. Abbit's Talk on Interport Cricket

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 350 metres (845 kilocycles): ———4×7 – pott. -- Chinese Programme.

7-11 p.m. Edropean Irogramme. 7-7.30

1.m. Orchestral Music. Overture The Merry Wives of

Windsor (Nicolai).

La Prophete Coronation, March Perpetuum Mobile (J. Strauss).

(Meyerbeer). Cossack Dance (from "Mazeppa") The "Sleeping Beauty" Waltz

(Tachaikovsky).

(Tachaikovsky).

7.30-7.46 p.m. Four Songs by Alfred Piccaver (Tenor)..

1.

London, Nov. 7. Schofield at the Central Magistracy of the Empire air Transport pro-Vase Triste (Sibelius).

The first stage in the revision Immediately upon his discharge,gramme, with a view to an Im- he was rearrested for another schedules, increased frequency of provement in the present time alleged robbery at Shung Cha Heung village, Chung Shan Dis-services and conveyance so far as practicable of all first-class mail trict, and it is in connection with by air is completed by an agree- this, it is learned, that he brings nient reached between the Gov- the action, on the ground that he ernments concerned as to the gen- was arrested without a warrant.

eral lines upon which the air ser- The police officer who effected the vice to South Africa will be operatis of the Company, which is under predict that the Government ma-arrest was Detective-Sergeant N.Ped after the expiry of the exlating a receivorship and in process of jority will be reduced to 150, and Fraser, who is named as the de-arrangements In 1937. reorganisation, to treat the Act as they forecast possible casualties fendant in the action, invand and, ineffective..

The main through. service in Mr. G. S. Ford, of Messrs. Wil- amongst prominent politicians. kinson The case represents the first

arid Grist, is appear-each direction will be operated by Mr. Famsay MacDonald, Lord Assault on the validity of the President of the Council, is fighting for the plantiff, and Mr.T. M. dying boats via Egypt and Sudan loging Company Act. The peti-Ing tooth and nail at Seaham Har-Hazlerigg, Crown Solleitor, is for to Kisumu and thence via Mom-

bour, where hooliganism has forced the defendant.

basa, Dar 08 Salaam, Mozam- him to abandon several meetings. The hearing of the case has been | bloque Bera nd Lorenco Marques to Durban. It is hoped that the His son, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, fixed for December D at 2.30 p.m.

diine between 'London and Durban Secretary of State for the Colonies,

will be reduced to four days.

tioning Company contended that

Shrewd travelling

observers

the Act was invalid, that regis- tration required under the Act would entail heavy expense and prevent completion of reorganisa-is being hard pressed by the Lon; so may each of Januar Labourites at Bassetlaw. diaries was operating in a single State and

therefore not wha engaged in Inter-State, commerce. The American States Public Service Company is one of the smaller holding companies con- trolling a water power company in

even States.

Following the Court's decision, which can alter the closing of the New York Stock Exchange, utilities stocks on the San Fran- claco Stock Exchange rallied strongly. Trading

very heavy

bonding telephones, which rose three points over the New York closing prices.

on

WAS

------FOUR GROUNDS

The decision, which was given by Judge Coleman, and which comprised over 30,000 words, ruled that the Holding Company Act was "invalid in its entirely" on four main polata:

I

Mr. Walter Elliott, President of i the Doard of Agriculture, at Clyde- side, and Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, at Woolwich, are both fighting a hard battle. All the other members of the Cabinet are expected to retain their

seats.

LINCS. PRIVATE

FINED

NO LICENCE FOR MOTOR-CYCLE

#

There will be branch services with landplanes connecting Kenya, Tanganyika, Northern and South- ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the through service. There will also be a ranch Jandplane service between the Union and Northern Rhodesia, and by means of these branch services the existing land Admitting Opposition leaders who are con-

summons for route through Kenya, Tanganyika Northern and Southern fident of success include Major driving motorcycle No. 176 at and

Rhodesia will be maintained in Attlee, the Labour Leader, Mr. Cheungshewan Road without a Lloyd George and Sir Herbert Valid driver's licence on October addition to the const route of the

main service. Samuel, walle Mr. Winston Chur-24. Private Arthur Shord, of the Lincolnshire Regiment, was fined chill is expected to hold Epping-$10 by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at

the RADIO'S PART

Kowloon Magistracy this morning. London, Nov. 7.. Traille-Sergeant f'aton stated A development of modern that defendant was coming out of electioneering, which has grown the barrack grounds at the end of with each campaign of recent Cheungshawan Road, when he years, is the use of amplifying and knocked down an old Chinese man. relaying equipment, Loud-speakers The man WAR not seriously

·Router.

Airways for operation of thin and The agreement with Imperial other trunk Empire services will be for a period of years commen- cing in 1937, and the subsidy-pay- able will be on a descending scale, subiect to periodle review of costs.

British Wireless.

PASSES

are installed at every big meeting, injured; he was taken to hospital MR. PAUL BARKER and where the principal speakers and discharged the same day. (1) That Congress had itogrant- are of national reputation the When defendant was asked for his ly exceeded ita lawful power specches may be relayed to neigh-Beener, he, produced one for last under the commerce clause, inbouring halls. Loud-speakers are year. The licence had since been that the Act aims to regulate also in demand for open air renewed, virtually everything that holding gatherings, and wireless vans, are Defendant admitted the offence companies and their subsidiaries in use.

and stated he had just bought the do, whether in inter-State com-

The coincidence of the General cycle and was on his way to have merce or not;

Election campaign with the the licence renewed. Defendant Armistic Day ceremonies is strain- Ing to the utmost the resources of firms providing apparatus of this kind.British Wireless.

(2) That Congress exceeded its lawful authority under the Postal Law, in that the Act is arbitrarily unreasonable and denies the right of the use of mails as a penalty for non-compliance;

(3) That Congress flagrantly violated the requirements due to the process of law under amend- ments to the Constitution, in that

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further admitted that he had bean summoned for, the same offence about two years ago. He had

been driving for six years.

DAY BY DAY NEWS

WISDOM 18 OFTTIMES NEARER

IN BRIEF Mr. S. A. Gray, of the Hongkong WHEN WE STOOP THAN WHEN WE Telegraph, returned from Home leave by the ss. Hakusan Marn yesterday.

an-

many of the Act's provisions are FOAR--Wordsworth. grossly arbitrary.___unreasonable. and capricious, owing to various restraints, regulations, prohibi- The forthcoming wedding is

The Hongkong Tecgraph has re- tions and penalties Imposed; nounced of Mr. Aubrey Cheng, mer-ceived from Mr. and Mrs. N, M. (4) That the invalid separabili. chant, residing at Great Hastern Currie a donation of $5 for the Society of Chidren, in of 21, for the Protection ty clauses are so multifarious and Hotel, and Miss Mary Lee,

inemory of the Inte Mr. Paul Barker. Fung Fai Terrace, Happy Valley, so intimately interwoven through- out as to render them incapable of separation from such parts, if any, which otherwise might be valid Reuter Special.

MOTOR TRANSPORT

EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA

A married woman, Tai Ying-hung, The marriage of Mr. Vyner R. aged 40 years, was admitted to the Gordon, of the Hongkong Tramways Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries caused when she was assaulted by a stonecutter, who has been arrested, in Kowloon.

The monthly water return shows

Limited, and Miss Marión F. Gairdner will now take place at St. John's Cathedral on Thursday, November 14 and not on Tuesday, November 12 as previously announced.

The Hong Kong Travol Association

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DEATH OCCURS IN ENGLÄND

News was received in Hongkong. to-day of the death of Mr. Paul England Barker. Mr. Barker died yesterday at the village of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England. .A resident of Hongkong for over ten years, Mr. Barker has a great Bumber of friends in the Colony, while many hundreds of others, did not know him though they personally, appreciated his work in connection with the Society for the Protection of Children.

Mine (Garther); 3. For you Wait! (d'Hardelot); 2. Love alone Gechi

4. Kashmiri Love Song (Woodforde-Finden).

7.45-8 p.m. From the Studio. A Talk on "Interport Cricket-Past

and Present" by R. Abbit.

Я p.m. Local Time and Weather

Report: Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

8.05-8.20 p.m. Variety Items. Piano Salo-Black Coffee.

Carroll Gibbons. Song I Think I enn ("Brewster's

Minions").

Jack Buchanan.

The Boswell Sisters.

Vocal-St. Louis Blues. Organi Solo-The Blue Danube Waltz.

Reginald Foort.

Orchestra-Fairies in the Moon-.-

Intermezzo Entr'acte. 9.20-8.30 p.m. From the Studiu. A short Recital by Maud-Fix- Stubbs.

Australian Pianiste.

Programme.

in E

1 Andante from Sonata Major....Golinelli; 2. Melody in E flat

Minor

Gottschalk; 3. Fitz-Stubbs; 4. Impluse (A Musical Nocturne (with Variations). Moment). Fitz-Stubbs. Daventry.

8:30-9 p.m. A Relny from

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, direct- ed by Henry Hall.

9-0.13 p.m. A Relny of the Daven- try News Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter

3-0.16-10 p.m. From the Studio, A 50th. Recital of Gramophone Records by the Rev. C. B. B. Sargent. 10 p.m. Big Ben: Reuter Press Bulletins.

10.10-11 p.m. Dance Music. 11 p.m. Close Down,

PEPPER CASE CHARGES

LONDON

SENSATION

RECALLED

London, Nov. 7,

As a sequal to February's pep- per market crisis, it is learned. that summonses have been served upon three business men in con- nection with the failure of Messrs. James Shakespeare and Company.

Blahirgian, Mr. John Howeson, The three men are M. Garabed and Mr. Louis Hardy.

SESSIONS LIST

Mr. Barker came to Hongkong in November, 1921, and joined the staff of Gibb, Livingstone and Co. In February this year, he returned from leave spent in England, but some two months later he became ill and underwent

The action was taken on behalf two operations. His health, did of the Director of Public Prosecu not improve and he was ordered tions, and the summons of each is Home once again, leaving for returnable to Mansion House England in May. Mrs. Barker Police Court within a fortnight. had stayed in England when her Suffering from severe scalds caused

husband returned to the Colony, It is understood the charges when he slipped and fell down while carrying a bucket of boiling sugar, acknowledges with thanks the receipt intending to rejoin him shortly concern the prospectus issued to Kwok Ngon, an employee of the Tai of the following subscriptions:-The afterwards. She met him on his the public with regard to Messrs. Tung factory, Kowloon, has been ad- Peninsular & Oriental Steam Naviga- return to England and was with James Shakespeare and Company. mitted to the Kowloon Hospital. tion Co., $500; the British India Steam him when he passed away yester-Reuter.

Navigation Co., Ltd., $5250; previously day. From the time of his leav- acknowledged, $12,280; total, $18,035. ing the Colony, Mr. Barker's health did not improve and he was A 10-year-old woman, Tong o- under treatment during the whole gallons, compared with ching, WAR brought before Mr. time of his recent leave. For the 2,267.82 last year. On the mainland,¦ Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Mngis- last three months he was confined the respective figures were 801,60 and, trney this morning, charged with to his bed,

SMALL CALENDAR 715.75 million gallons.

possession of 40 tuels of raw opium During his stay in Hongkong at the Kowloon-Canton Railway Sta- Mr. Barker, who was in his late

FOR TUESDAY For trespassing on the grounds of tion. Defendant pleaded that the thirties, won many friends, being Whitfield Barracks on

The following Wednesday, opium, was not found in her luggage to grass cutters, Hul Lung, 24, and and intimated that she would like to and an ardent worker in the in- Seasione which commence on next a member of the Hongkong Club for trial at this month's Criminal

cases are down

Lam Pui, 21, were each fined $10, with consult solicitor. The the alternative of 14

hours. Revenue- terests of the Society for days' hard "emanded for 21

the Tuesday: Diesel engines are in the as- labour, by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at Ocer Grimmitt prosecuted.

Protection of Children. He spent cendency, and electric vehicles the Kowloon Magistracy this worn-

much of his leisure time at Chan Fat, alias. Tau Pel-lo, alian also compete with petrol engines. ing.

For keeping

Cheung Chau and was closely Tal Pei-kwong, charged with hav- gaming Three-wheel tractors, which enn

house at the now Central British associated with the Island and the jing wounded Lo Yat with intent to be automatically coupled to de-

Appearing on remand before Mr. School under construction near Argyle improvements which have been malm or disable him on board boat tachable trailers, are prominent, E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Street,

yesterday, Lung, 39, brick nude there. The cable received No. 4410 offering a degree of manoeuvrabi- Magistracy this morning, Fung Chau, layer, and Wong Man, 53, earth coolis, by Gibb, Livingstone this morning Deep Water Bay.

32, unemployed, who was charged were ench fined $25, or, in default, stated that Mr. Barker had ex- vehicle.

one tracy this

London, Nav, 7. The Commercial Motor Trans- port Exhibition opened at Olym- pla to-day. The visitors include a large attendance of foreign | buyers. The exhibits range from large coches and lorries to small delivery tricycles, and Include fire engines, ambulances and dust carts.

that the contents of reservoira on the island on November 1 were 2,108.74; million

a common

case was

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lity rivalling any horse-drawn with being found in a dwelling at No. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloun Mr. pressed the hope that anyone living and Chau Chok-hing, each charged Ono firm shows a street sweep-Tuclay last, was sentenced to were charged with playing fan-tan pressed their sorrow with flowers with uttering forged bank-notes of

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Tung Chol Street, first floor, on labour. Defendant

in Hongkong who would have ex- era' collector which looked like!

hard being as efficient on the roads as a alleged that he had gone there no and were fined 12 play the had he died in the Colony, should carpet sweeper in a home. There look for a friend, who had moved alternative of three days hard labour make a donation to the Society

several fine examples of away about two years ago. Detective. The sum of $2.62 picked up was placed, for the Protection of Children. modern ambulance construction. Sergeant Franklin prosecuted. Cheung in the Poor Box.

Much sympathy will be felt for Light vans are shown by a large Fung-yee, 22, married woman, was

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COAL MINE DISPUTE provided for.

London, Nov. 7. A joint meeting of minors'

Puke i monction, was sortenced to two officials and colliery

owners' ro-

the Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China.

Lai Wan, Ng Ting, Wong Hin, wong Mun, Pon Shio-chan and Tsang Kan, charged with breach of the deportation order,

Charged with having broken_open a show case at No. 41 Argyle Street 28, and Wu Klu, 30, appeared before Ying, shopkeeper, Yu Cheong, 10, un Two unemployed men, Chan Choi, on Wednesday, the property of Chan Mr. Wynne-Joncs at the Kowloon employed, was sentenced to nix weeks' The crowds show particular in Magistracy this morning, charged hard labour, while Chan Fai, 27, un-

The Wrong Side Of The Bed. terest in varlous "stripped with unlawful possession of a piece of employed, who admitted a previous

There is no such thing is the chassis" exhibits showing details Jade. First accused alleged that he

wrong side of the bed' for thone wise of transmission, as, for example, and picked the fade up at Choungsha

persons who rely upon Pinkettes to Fok Sun, 46, shapeeper, of a bly rall car priced at £5,000 Wan Road while second befendant was charged with Gulving 208 prosental)ves hau beon hold, at me poper internal organs active and

the other

[in good working order."" told packets of the cigarettes and was which explanations were given of man had him that he не

Congestion in the food tract causes Jado for $1, and asked him to redeem A shop foki. Want Kam, 20, was also central organisation for complete liverishness, billousness, drowsiness, it and see if ha could pawn it for

with receiving but he was and effective control of the sale sick headache, giddiness, bad taste in The Consul-General for Italy Is morn. Detective-Sergeant

Franklin holding a reception in the consular stated that there was a niece of chain defendant

purchased the stalen offee, Exchange Building, from 11.30 attached to the jade, and it looked as cigarettes from the first two accused, establish. The miners'

agreed with the Government to irritability and depression. Pinkettes gently but surely dispel constipation, wages stimulate the liver and restore normal if it had been snatched, but. admitted and xolt some of them to the fourth .. to 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday, No-that it cor have been lost. Bollman. Inanector Portallion prosecut claim was not discussed at the intestinal activity. Try them to-night, vember 12, in celebration of the 'King's birthday.

men were discharged,

moeting-British Wireless.

Of chemists everywhere.

engines.--British Wireless.

and driven by 230 h.p. Diesel, stated that had pawned the nicee of; sentenced to six weeks hard labour, the principles of the system of

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