1935-11-08 — Page 7

Hongkong Greets

THE •HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

MR. PAUL BARKER PASSES

Newspapermen DEATH OCCURS IN

HOWARD FATHER AND| SON ARE WELL KNOWN Hongkong journalists, despite the surfeit of contemporaries who passed through the Colony earlier) In the week with the Congressional delegation to the Philippines, wore eager to welcome yet another two who have achieved consider able fame on the Inky Way in America.

They are Mr. Roy Howard and his son Jack, both well known in Far Eastern Journalistie circles,

and both at the gont aspired to by many newspapermen. Accompanied by their wives, the Howards ar rived in Hongkong by the Dollar Hiner President Polk this morning.

Mr. Roy Howard Mr. Howard, Senior, is co-head of the famous Scripps-Howard newspaper group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Press, and Editor of the New York World-Telegramı,

His son is associated with Scripps-Howard in Indianapolis, where he has apparently settled after a journalistic career that has taken him around the world.

The Senior Mr. Ioward and his wife, who are accompanied by their daughter, have thrice pre- viously visited the Far East, where many friendships made us long ago as 1925 have been re- newed on the present visit.

Howard Jr.--"Jack" friends-frst arrived in the For East in 1932, when he worked as reporter on the Shanghai Evening Post. Previously he was asscointed with the Japán Advertiser, the leading English newspaper pub lished in Tokyo..

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ENGLAND

News was received in Hongkong to-day or the death of Mr. Paul Enginnd Barker. Mr. Barker died yesterday at the village of Much faunam, Hert.ordshire, England."

A resident of Hongkong for over ten years, Mr. Barker has a great number of friends in the Colony, white many hundreds of others, though they did not personalty, appreciated his work in connection with the Socfely for the Protection of Children.

BRITAIN REASSURES EGYPT

STATUS WON'T BE

ALTERED

London, Nov. 7.

A communiqué issued to-day announces that Great Britain has given ansurances to the Egyptian Government, through the Egyptian

MOTOR TRANSPORT

EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA

London, Nov. 7. The Commercial Motor Trans- port Exhibition opened at Olym pin to-day. The Visitors Include A largo attendance of foreign buyers. The exhibits range from large coches and lorries to 'small delivery tricycles, and include fire engines, ambulances and dust

carta. know him

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

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Minister in London, that la Majesty's Government has never considered profiting by the present disturbed circumstances to modify Egypt's status.

Diesel engines are in the 48- cendency, and electric vehicles also compete with petrol engines. Iris Majesty's Government has Three-wheel tractors, which can never even entertained the Idea be automatically coupled to de- of establishing a naval base attachable trailers, are prominent, Alexandrin, it "adds.

offering a degree of manoeuvrabi ifty rivalling any horse-drawn velticle.

Immediately the Italo-Ethiopian conflict was liquidated all British warship would he withdrawn from Alexandria, the communique asserted.

Great Britaly, it was stated, Egypt's present

England, but some two months Inter he became ill and underwent two operations. His health did not improve and he was ordered Homo once again, leaving for appreciates England in May. Mrs. Barker | attitude.--Renter. hat stayed in England when her husband returned to the Colony, nam intending to rejoin him shortly aftorwards. She met him on his return England and was with him when he passed away yester-. dny. From the time of his leave ing the Colony, Mr. Burker's health did not improve and he was under treatment during the whole time of his recent leave. For the last three months he was confined! to his bed.

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During his stay in Hongkong Mr. Barker, who was in his late thirties, won many friends, being a member of the llongkong Club and an ardent worker in the in- terests of the Society for Protection of Children. He spent much of his leisure time at Cheung Chau and was closely associated with the Island and the improvements which have, been made there. The cable received by Gibb, Livingstone this morning stated that Mr. Barker had ex pressed the hope that anyone living in Hongkong who would have ex- pressed their sorrow with flowers had he died in the Colony, should make a donation to the Society for the Protection of Children

Much sympathy will be felt for the widow in her bereavement.

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS

FINE SHOW AT

KOWLOON

TCRBARUC

“TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT

To-morrow's Picture

Features

There will be many topical photographs i Lo-thorrow's issue of the Telegraph Pip torial Supplement:

Weddings iustrated will be those of Lieut. Khox, R.N., and Miss Joan Ilingsworth, Mr. If G. Glasgowaki and Miss M. A. M. Kiota, and Mr. Andrew Mar and Miss Mary Chan'.

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will include Hong- Groups kong University Arts Associa- tion, warrant officers and senior N. C. O's of the Royal Engineers, and A. D. 0. ́S. Staff, China Command. There will also appear a photo taken, at Riarewell dinner on the eve of Mr. E. M. K. Mend's departure, and several pictures in connection with the Hongkong Area rowing regnila.

BRITISH CRUISER

CONTRACT

LATEST ORDER FOR.

THE CLYDE

London, Nov. 7,

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One frm shows a street savcop- era collector which looked like being as cfcient on the roads as a carpet sweeper in a home. There are several fine examples of modern ambulance construction. Light vans are shown by a large number of makers and the special needs of every conceivable trade. and its delivery requirements are provided for.

The crowds show particular in- terest In various "stripped chassis" exhibits showing detaila of transmission, as, for example. of a big rail car priced at £5,000 and driven by 230 h.p. Diesel engines-British Wireless,

NOTED SURGEON IN CANTON

FROM WANG CHING- WEI'S BEDSIDE

Canton, Nov. 7. Dr. H. W, Miller, the surgeon who was called from attendance at the China Medical Association meeting by the authorities at Nan- king, where, with others, he held a consultation over the condition

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NOVEMBER 8, 1935.

RADIO BROADCAST

R. Abbit's, Talk on Interport Cricket

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Front Z.E.W. on a wavelength of

35 metres (845 kilocycles) 1

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Frogtamune, 7-7.30 p.m. Orchestral Music, Ofertare. The Merry Wives of

Windsor" (Nicolni),

Triste VRIEN

(Sibolius).

Le Propheto-Coronation - March

(Meyerbeer) Perpetuum Mobile (J. Strauss).. Cossack Dance (from "Mazeppa")

(Tschaikovsky). The "Sleeping Beauty" Waltz

(Tchaikovsky).. 7.30-7.45 Four Songs by

p.m. Alfred Plecaver (Tenor).

1. Walt! (d'Hardelot); 2. Love is Mino (Garther); B. For you alone (Geehl); 4. Kashmiri Loyo Song (Woodforde-Finden).

7.15-8 p.m. From the Studio. A Talk on "Interport Cricket--Past and Present" by R. Abbit.

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report; Closing Local Stock Quota- Lions

8.05-8.20 p.m. Variety Items, Plano Solo Hack Coffee,

Carroll Gibbons. Song--I Think I can: ("Brewster's

Millions"). Voent-St. Louis Blues.

Jack Buchanan.

The Boswell Slaters. Organ Solo-The Blue Danube Waltz. Reginald Foort. Orchestra-Fairies in the Moon-

Intermezzo Entr'acte. 8.20-8.30 p.m. From the Studio. A short Recital by Mand-Fitz- Stulbs,

Australian Pianiste.

Programme.

1. Andante from Soanta in E Major....Gollnelli: 2. Melody in E flat Minor

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Gottschalk;

Nocturno (with Variations).

Fitz-Stubbs; 4. Impluse (A Musical Moment). .Fitz-Stubba.

8.30-9 p.m.

from A Relay Daventry.

The B.B.C. Danco Orchestra, direct-

0.9.15 p.m. A Relay of the Daven. try News Bullețin (Copyright by Reuter).

9-9.16-10 p.m. From the Studio.

A 60th. Recital of Gramophone Records by the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, 10 p.m. Big Ben: Reuter Press Bulletins.

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

of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Pra-ed by Henry Hall sident of the Executive Yuan, re- turned to Canton on Wednesday by the China National Aviation Cor poration's plane, arriving at 9 n.m. Dr. Miller Blew back from Nan- king to complete his work in con- nection with the China' Medical Association meeting, where he has a health exhibit and hospital furniture made by the Mission industrial schools at Nanking and Canton. He is also operating a thyroid disense clinic at the Can- toh Sanitarium and Hospital and a nuinber of the doctors from Bec- tions where goltre is. prevalent have been in attendance.

After landing this afternoon,

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES-

This Evening's Broadcast From The German Short-Wavers

Special programmen for Far Eastern Hatners wil be broadcast from Zeno na follows

SOUTH ASIA ZONE (South Asia Zone, broadest from DJB, (10.74 metre) and DIN (31.45 metrow).

DJB DJU

DIN

19.74 m 15,200 ke 1.33 .p.m. 20.74m 15,298 ke 4.45-8.10 p.m. 21.45 m 9541 ke 4.45-8,16 p.m. -49.14. m —16,279.kc..._9 0.1% 12,30,4 +20% 4.45 p.m. Ca... DJE. DJN (GM

Barmaton's Cireus, which has a big reputation in the entertain- ment world of the Far East, pro- vided an 'excellent programme lo an Cruiser contracts of the 1835 appreciative audience last night programme are completed with the Dr. Miller returned to the Sani- when they commenced their local allocation of an order for 14-

tarium to complete his clinic which season. The Royal Menagerie also chinery for a third cruiser to the

spectators who Scotus Shippbuilding and En-to the bedside of Mr. Wang Chingm

had been interrupted by the call drew a host of feasted their eyes on the eagal gineering Company, a Clyde firm wei. The entire night before ho tigers, cheetahs, leopards, ang which has already has in hand left was spent in the operating

and the bull and machinery of H.M.S. hyena

room, where he did ten operations, Glasgow, of the 1934 programme, aine major and one minor. Several and two destroyers. The addi Lional contract is estimated to be of these were for goitre and four worth about half a million pounds.been eminently successful and has

from Hongkor. He

Groos, monkeys, viephants.

Outstarding on the programme was the appearance of performing cockatnos, introduced by V. Piers. The beautiful white-plumed birds

The sixtli

naval vessel to be

were

has

played see-saw, role and pulled a launched on the Clyde this year, thyreld cases.

operated on nearly two thousand

Picksha, played merry-go-round the destroyer Gipsy, took the and one of them caused much water from Messrs. Fairfeld's somer-yard to-day. H.M.S. Garland, a amusement by turning saults! The act was carried sister ship, was launched by the through with precision and it wassume firm over a week ago. Both vessels are of 1,400 tons displace- obvious that the birds were ceptionally well trained, so much meat-British Wireless, so thut at times when Piers had them they simply his back to

without a carried out the act

Mrs. Ray Howard When he returned to the United States from the Far East and other countries he visited on his word. round-the-world

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As there are many people afflicted with this condition throughout China, he is desirous of having the doctors from these districta learn his technique.

Dr. Miller has a paper for dis- tribution at the Association meet- ing, "Thyroid disense in the Orient." This can be obtained by those interested by writing to Dr. H. W. Miller, Shanghai Sanitarium and Hospital, Shanghai.

HOLDING COMPANY ACT FIGHT Plers also delighted in the first working tour, Howard the Younger married and half of the programme with some monts to the Constitution, in that went to work on the Scripps wonderful juggling, a feature of many of the Act's provisions are Howard chain at Indianapolis. He which was the uncanny manipula- grossly arbitrary, has been hard at it since. The tion of three sticks with lighted and capricious, owing to various the Chinese paper called the present trip is not in response to the inres. He also juggled a large restraints, regulations, prohibi-Shue Chiu Yuct Po, or "Siqux of

tions and penalties imposed; call for adventure that took him ball, an egg and a plate.

unreasonable

It may be of interest to note that Dr. Miller when he first came to China was located in Honan Province. He was later editor of

department. He has ligh

on his provious trip, but is merely M. Suvel introduced two elever (4) That the invalid separabili- the Times," of which he ja veill a holiday for himself and wife. white horses and a trick horse ty clauses are so multifarious and contributing editor for the medical Mr. and Mrs. Roy Howard arenained "Jack", but the best of all sn intimately interwoven through medical book for the Inity called, making a trip to Canton before was the act in which elephants out as to render them incapable, "How To Live," which has been leaving for Manila on Tuesday, appeared. The animals carried of separation from such parts, if translated into Chinese and has "Jack" and bis wife, however, out their number in quick tinienny, which otherwise might be had a wide sale. After spending a are proceeding direct to the and in the end gave the accustom-valid.-Renter Special. Philippines capital by the Prested artistes bow to the audience,

dent Polk.

PEPPER CASE CHARGES

LONDON SENSATION

RECALLED

· London, Nov. 7.

COAL MINE DISPUTE

London, Nov. 7.

accompanied by much applause. A. Alexander showed he wat master at the art of hand balancing Perched on #small

A joint meeting of miners platform about ten feet from the officials and colliery owners' ground in the middle of the ring. presentn')ves has been held, at he balaned with perfect ease which explanations were given of first of all on a plank placed on

the principles of the system of

The marriage of Mr.

Vyner

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term of years in China he return- ed to the Washington, D.C., Sani- tarlum as superintendent. While here he met a number of China's statesmen. He has been an ex-

perimentor, as well as surgeon, editor and administrator. His last achievement is the perfect- ing of a milk substitute for babies which he calls Vetose

This n

After completing his operations

at Canton. he expects to return to K.

Engli, Cerman Folk Bong. Pro. tramme Forecast (Germ., Engl.)

m. Why go no far wway? 6.30 pm. Newa in Engllaḥ,

5.45 p.m. Dance Musle.

6.48 Dam News In GermKAN,

? p.m. Concert af Light, Maale,

#p.m. Newn in Engilar.

4.10 p.m. Cloes down DJ, DIN (Germ

Engl.)

EAST ABIA ZONE

Fari Aala Zone mulcast through DJQ on 10.60 metres (18,280 k.e.) 1.33-3 p.m. Concert, NEW KL 2 p.m.

9

p.m. Call DJA. DIB, DIN

(Germ.

Engi.

German

Sonr.

Engli

Forrcant

Renalance

(Garm

Chamber

DURABLE

9.15 p.m. German

Muale 9.4 p.m. News In English on DSA and in Datch on DID, DIN,

10 p.m. He who never went abroad, dore

not know his own country. 10.15 p.m. Dance Modle. 11.16 pam. Now in German un DJA, DJD,

BIN. Close DID (Germ., Engl). 11,30 p.m. To-day in Germany. Bound

Picture

11.45 pm. Relayed from Stattgart: Why

so so far' away? 12.15 a.m. News in English en DJA and in

Dutch on DIN.

11.81.m. Clone down DJA and DJN

(Germ., Engl).

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

To-day's Broadcasting From Four Transmissions

The following ware-lengths and irequencies

are sbserved by Daventry,

Call Blan Frequracy

4,080 k.c.

Wavelength

GHA

G8H

CEC.

xD

CHE

·9,330 k.c. 1,685 .c. 11,750 k., 11:365 .e. 18,340 k..

49.59 31.46

**P

器材

FIRIT

cai

(IHL

metree metres 31.30 matron 25.23 matres 25.21 The Le

183.31 rootres 16.34 metren 13.07 16.16

matras

17,200 ke 21.430 h.. 18,260

metros 21.640 ke. 13.93 restr

110 k. 49.10 weizen

Transmission 5

(0.8.01, *** (1.8.0.1

Tas. Al Ban The Lelle Bridgewater

Quintet. 7.15 m., "Lacking Backwarda," 7.58. A Programme, of Welah Masle.

Greenwich Time Signal at 8 am, (Continued on Page 4.)

The Wrong Side Of The Bed.

There is no such thing as 'the

persons who rely upon Pinkettes to keep their Intermal organs active and in good working order.

a roller and then on a walking central organisation for complets soya bean product which he has stick. The two Kerrieloffs also and effective control of the sale proved by experiment will provide delighted with ladder balancing of coal, which the owners have a cheap and emcient food for

millions of the underfed Odette and Ricardo appeared in agreed with the Government to

and a novelty net, Odelle dancing on establish.

undernourished babies of the in- The minora' wages As n sequal to February's pop-her toes while Ricardo was the claim was not discussed at the terior of China where dairy milk

unobtain and milk powders are per market crisis. it is learned contortionist par excellence le meeting-British Wireless. that summonses have been served literally tied his legs im a' knot

able. upon three business. men in con- behind his neck and hopped off nection with the failure of Mesere. the table on to the ring like a Trok; Gordon, of the Hongkong Tramways Nanking for further consultation (wrong side of the bed' for those wise James Shakespeare and Company, i

The three men are M. Garabed some polished double riding leap-will now take place at St. John's

Miss Leonora and St. Leon did Limited, and Miss Marion F. Gaininer in regard to Mr. Wang Ching-wel. Bighiraian. Mr. John Howesen,, Ing on and off a bare-backed horse Cathedral on Thursday, November 14 and Mr. Louis Hardy.

trotting round the ring. The and not on Tuesday, November The action was taken on behalf clowns, Melo, Johnny. Emile and as previously announced. of the Director of Public Prosecit Florians, had their share in the tions, and the summons of arch is comic side of the entertainment. returnable to Mansion House

which Polion Court within a fortnight.

The Arcos troupe did some daring of Miss Palomar It is understood

feats on the trapeze in the opening cleverly executed. the chargea

item after the Interval,

The programme was brought to concern the momectus inaned, to

The trick eveling by the Florians a fitting climax with the appear the rychle with`recard in Messrs, James Shakespeare and Company. Duo brought forth much applause, ance of "Our pets from the jungle -----Reuter,··

aa did the splendid wire walking introduced by A. Turkl.-C.I.R.E:

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WAB

SUPPORT SANCTIONS

Canberra, Nov. 7. The Government of Australla,

Convention in the food tract cauBON liverishness, billousness, drowsiness, slek hoodache, giddiness, bad taste in the mouth, foul broath, and genemi rritability and depression. Pinkettes gentiv, but surely dispel constipation, in the face of strenuous Labour stimulate the liver and restore normal onposition. forced through the intestinal activity. Try them to-night,

anch'ona b'll, in all its stages, and of chemists everywhere. the anal vote was 33-22.-Reuter.

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