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Showing TO-DAY Simultaneously

KING'S

HỒNG KONG.

ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30.p.m.:. At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

HE FACED › DEATH. WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE-

and an ache in

his heart for the woman ha lovedl. Murrieta the Mighty! rides again!

WARNERS

in his finest role since "In Old Arizona".You'll cheer and love him in

ROBIN HOOD EL DORADO

M-G-M's Mighty Entertainment!

A Year to Make!

Metro- Graneyn Mayer

STIGITUAR

Cast of Thousandsl

with

ANN LORING-BRUCE CABOT MARGO J. CARROL NAISH Directed by William A. Wellman Produced by John W. Considine, Jr..

ALSO LAUREL and HARDY

in their Latest Comedy THICKER THAN WATER"

-NEXT CHANGE AT THE KING'S-TO-SIORROW AT THE ALHAMBRA "CHARLIE CHAN AT THE CIRCUS"

with WARNER OLAND

And 9 O'CLOCK REVUE

+

Stage Show

"HELL-SHIP MORGAN"

with GEORGE BANCROFT—ANN HOTHERN

VICTOR JORY

A Columbia Picture.

TAKE ANY THAM DE HAPPY VA' LET BUE

EORIENTALE

THEATRESS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE

THE

FAMOUS ENGINEER

PASSES

MR. JOHN HAYS' HAMMOND

BOUGHT LIFE

FOR £25,000-3

Gloucester, Blass, June 8, The death has occurred here, after a long linesa, of Mr. John Hays Hammond, at the age of 81 years.- Renter.

John Hays Hammond, one of the In tho foremost mining engineers world, the man who once refused the Vice-Presidency and paid £25,000 to the Boers as the price of his life, reflected, even in his later years, the Fanie enthusiasm and forceful, reatless energy which characterized his many years of prospecting all over the world.

As a consulting engineer he was re- puted to be one of the highest salaried men in the world-popular estimatas reaching the staggering wage of £200,000 per year. A friend of Cecil Rhadea, Hammond advised the empire builder to consolidate his holdings in Africa in specified mining proper thes which Inter multiplied the Rhodes' fortune many times over.

HARDY AMERICAN STOCK

from hardy Hammond came American stock. His father, Major Richard Hammond was a West Point gradonte who moved out to San Francisco where the boy was born March 131, 1855. His mother, Sarah,

a sister of a colonel of the famous Texas Rangers. As a youth John was educated at Yale and was graduated from the Sheffield science school in 1876. Following this he went to the Royal School of Mines at Freiburg, Saxony, where he con- tinued studying minerology, engineer- log and goology

Hammond had that true instinet for mining which permitted

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QUEEN MARY'S COMMANDER

Sir Edgar Britten, commander of the famous Queen Mary, algus on in Londan.

Fatal Mishap

Aboard Liner

SEAMAN KILLED ON

QUEEN MARY.

NO HOPE OF RECORD

WILA

London, June 8. A fatal accident

reported aboard the British luxury liner, Queen Mary, to-day.

Arthur Golding, a twenty-two-year- old las, making his first trip as an ble man, was found unconscious rlimpo of the terrain and the al-and bleeding profusely on the deck. moet intunedinte knowledge of what Apparently he had slipped and struck minerals lay below. This quality is head heavily.

Reed itself in an 'early se

commission ая п mining expert in Mexico. Besides being a mining man he was also a civil and mechanical engineer and was con- sulting engineer for the Cential and Southern Pacific railroads.

RHODES' JOB IN AFRICA

In 1803 Cecil Rhodes offered Ham- mond a job at Hammond's own terms which was promptly accepted. Once in South Afrien he practically be Came head of the gigantic miring Industry; in a year he was earning

$20,000.

He died subsequently. Passengers were unaware of his death or of the brief bun service which was performed quietly.

A moderate swell to-day induced a slight roli, somewhat destroying the earlier illusions of a luxurious hotel ashure.

There is, no hope of a record on the present trip as the ship has not reached the spood atinined on her outward voyage or the average spred of the Normandie's homeward passage. The Queen Mary covered $70 miles during the past twenty-four hours. She has encountered for frequently,

Unrest caused by non-represen-Renter Bulletin Service, lation in the Boer gavernment of the Outlanders, those who owned most of Dom Paul Kruger's country and even outmbered the Boers, led

to the historic Jameson raid and the capture of Hammond as one of the committee

the who sponsored u"; rising.

Hammond,

several with others, was tried and convicted:"20 be hanged until dead." However, a

No Payment

On War Debt

EXPLANATION

Unagain for the lives of the con- WHITE PAPER GIVES lemned was made with Om Faul whereby they were to pay £50,000 aplece and get out of the country. On payment of $25,000, however, they were let off. Inimond's name was

London, Jund 8.

A White Paper issued in London

also known in“ China~and~Japan" and this evening gives the texta or cor- Hussin for his work is opening mines respondence between the United and developing railroads. As a States Government and the British special ambassador he attended the Embassy in Washington regarding coronation of George V. of England the British War Debt. in 1911.

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The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road' Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

WRS

The Department of State address-

Debi mora-

ledge of earth

051 unvarying ed a note on May 22 to the British good fortune which pursued his every Ambassador transmitting a state- venture and brought him great ment of amounts due half yearly wealth. He managed the Guggen since June 15, 1933 and including heim Exploration

The Company-a £25,- June 15 next, under. 000 post-until 1926 when he re-agreement of 1923, and the signed. In his later years he used torium agreergent of 1932. and some of this wealth wrested from reiterating the willingness of the the earth in philanthropies. One, United States Government to discuss his pet, was the establishment of any proposals the British Govern- a scholarship for a Mexican boy at ment might desire to put forward as

to payment.

Yale.

NAMED BY HARDING

President Harding named Ham mond head of the United States Coal Commission in 1922 to ascertain fundamentals of the industry with

view

prevention 10

ຕ

After the death his

Harding,

The statement shows the total amount due on June 15 next to be $85,070,705.

In acknowledging the note and ar- statement on June 7, Ronald Lindsay said:

anying

of future trouble.His Majesty's Government ex-

of Prusident

en plained in their note of June 4, 1934, his the reasons for ammo contr

which they were position and

his reports to reluctantly forced to suspend pay- Calvin Coolidge. He was prominentments. Those reasons are fortunately

GIANTS

LOSING GROUND

"CUBS AND PIRATES

GAIN STEADILY

YANKEES KEEP WELL AHEAD

New York, June 8. New York Giants still clung pre- cariously to second berth in the Na- tional League to-day, but they cannot. afford to lose another game if Chicago win. and Pittsburgh continue to Chicago is within a few points of the Glants and Pittsburgh is only a step behind the Clubs.

New York lost again, against the Cincinnati Reds, soven to three. The Iteds hit twolve times to the Giants ten. Each had an error.

Pittsburgh

beat the Brooklyn Dodgers narrowly, two to one, “win- ning on eight hits against seven. They had two errors and Dodgers one,

French pitched for Chiengo and thut out the Phillies. He gave them eight hits but did not allow a run. Philies had three errors, The Cubs turned seven hits into victory,

St. Louis, the league leaders, and Boston, did not play,

YANKEES GAIN

The New York Yankees gained an- other step in the American League and Boston, in second place to them, Inled to improve its position, split- ting a double-header with Detroit.

Yankees were not hard put to it to beat St. Louis.

They scored twelve runs on sixtern" hita, two of them homera by Dimaggio and Gehrig The Browns tallied three times on nine hits. Yanks had two and Browns one crror.

Philadelphia beat Chlengo five to four in ten innings, nosing out the Sox by the cdd hit. Each had two errors.

Boston might have come close to catching the Yankees by winning the double-header with Detroit. The Red Sux

won the opener, six to three, when

Cronin hila homer. They had only nine hits against Detroit's cloven. There were no errors.

08

Was

Detroit pulled ahend In the second contest, scoring twelve runs an

many hits Detroit's Belding weak, and there were five errors. But even so, Boston could only manage seven runs on eight hits, and they, too, had two errors.

The

Cleveland-Washington game was postponed on account of rain- Router

UNEMPLOYED DECLINE

GERMAN AND BRITISH FIGURES

on

Berlin, June 8. The uncraplayed in Germany May 31 totalled 1,491,201, a reduction of 272,000 compared with April.

The figure is over 200,000 below the t gure in 1936,--Reuter Special.

BRITISH GAINS

London, June 8. The number of unemployed in Bri-. tain on May 25 had declined by 128,- 188, compared with April ~27," while Insured employees numbered 10,831,- 000. an increase of 110,000. Benter Special.

MARKED DECREASE

London, June 8. A further marked decrease in the numbers of unemployed is shown in the return for May issued by the Labour Ministry to-night. The Ministry estimates that on May 25 the number of insured persons aged 10 fo 64 in employment in Great Bri- tuin, exclusive of agricultural work-

was approximately 10,811,000, way 110,000 more than on April 27 and 472,000 more than on May 20, 1935.

Agricultural workers became In- sured at the beginning of May, but statistics of the numbers of such, workers in employment are not yet available.

25 the numbers of regis- May

unemployed were 1,705,042, comprising 1,397,756 wholly unem

226,286 temporarily laid off, ployed, and 82,002 normally in casual em ployment. The total was 126.188 less

In polities at this time and later came less valid now than they were than the month before and 339,710

no

out in favour of Herbert Hoover, the

then. President Harding looked to him in ***His Majesty's Government desire 1923 BS & BUCCESSor to Ambassador Warrenin Japan but he declined theme to express their appreciation of

your

Assurance

that

the United

States Government are ready to

S pablished "The Auto-discuss any proposals in regard to

ward, and I

am instructed to assure

of John Hays Hammond" the on his 80th birthday. Still vigorous payment which may be put for and lusty, he told reporters he went you in return that His Majesty's swimming "overy day last year in Government will be glad to reopen Florida" and expressed satisfaction negotiations whenever circumstances that he was through with politics. are such as to warrant hope that He married Natalie Harris, of a satisfactory result might be reach- Mississippi, Jan. 1, 1880, and they ed."British Wirelers. hnd threa children: John Hays,

Jr., Richard Pindell, and Nata i

Hays. His son John Hays, Jr., in

an inventor now famous in a VAN ZEELAND TO

own right.

HEADS MOTHER CHURCH

Boston (Mass.), June 8, Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwell Tomlinson has been olected President of tho Christian Science Mother Church, in succession to Dr. Frank Colby- Reuter Special

FAIR TO SHOWERY

FORM CABINET?

VANDERVELDE UNABLE TO WIN CATHOLICS

Brussels, Jund 8. M. Emile Vandervelde has informed the King that he is unable to form a Cabinet, owing to the fact that the Catholic Party die unwilling to .co- Pressure a highest over Japan and operate, with the Socialist Party. the Pacific to the eastward All Zeeland, the Prime Minister who, Fe It is believed that M. Paul Van elongated depression lles over South China, Formosa and the Loochos. signed only last week, will be recalled Local forecast:-S.

winds, to form a Government-Router Bit W. moderate; fair to showery.

Latin Service.

less than a year ago.--British Wire- lens-

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36 Williams

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KOWLOON DOCK ACCIDENT

COOLIE SEVERELY

INJURED

A nasty accident occurred at Kow-

The annual conference of the Empire, Press Union opened in London 100 Docks shortly before 5 o'clock to-day. Major J. J. Astor, President yesterday afternoon, resulting in a the labourer receiving severe injuries. of the Union, presided over gathering which was representative Ho is now in the Kowloon Hospital,

fairly serious, of the Home, Dominions and Colonial where his condition is reported to be. Press.

The delegates were welcomed by

It appears that the man, named Dominions the

Secretary, Mr. Wong Sin, aged 32, a coolie, living

who said the

at Wuhu Ctreet, was working as a

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVAL

Washington, June 6. The Senate Finance: Committeo to day agreed to report favourably on the Jones-O'Mahoney Sugar Bill ro solution.

However, the Committee eliminated Malcolm MacDonald, the permission given to the Secretary sovereignty, now belonging to the

staging on the side of the N.V.K. ship ducers a maximum of 60 conts per The freedom of the constituent parta Helyo Maru between the ship and the of Agricultro to pay the sugar pro-Dominions was completo, and Aral. Paint-scraper when he tell from the hundredweight of raw mugar, for com- of the Commonwealth and the spirit wharfside. He was crushed between plying with the Department of it engendered was an essential con- two large wooden fenders.

dition of harmonious co-operation Agriculture's regulations,

The Committea also agrood to re- within the. Empire. port favourably on the measuro eliminating profits from war, by pro viding income taxes 'as high as 80 per cent, on the not incomes excooding $60,000 during any, period the United States is at war, and also taxes as high as 77 per cent. on undistributed corporation incomes.

According to a police report, Wong The Postmaster General, Major Sin fell into the water. He was Tryon, also spoke and assured, the brought up to the whart where. It' bonference that the Post Olles was was found that he was suffering from doing its utmost to give the Empire injuries to his hip and right foot. An

removed to. communications with the highest ambulance was summoned and efficiency and at the lowest possible injured man was

hospital rates-British Wiretoan.

tho

the

The Committee reported that such Printed and Published for the Propriators by FREDERICK PEBOY measures world serve to promote peace and put any future wars on a FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street. In the City of Victoria.

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