THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ..WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
KINGS
SHOWING TO-DA
AT 2.30, 2.0, 7,), ở 930 P.M. HAILI HAILI THE GANG'S ALL HERE!... And so is the grandest film howl of the monthl
WE WENT TO
COLLEGE
CHARLES BUTTERWORTH WALTER ABEL HUGH HERBERT- UNA MERKEL EDITH ATWATER
Directed à JOSEPH HANTĚRY-
· Produced by 31ARRY RAFF
The old grade ner
backswand how they let. thestandvar got
**Romanar aðón
campus -Jinke gridiron the
Le me a great chat of
„Fuastera Icađa The
Mlaugh parade!
GALA PREMIERE, FRIDAY, AT 9.30 P.M. OPENING SATURDAY, 12TH DEC.' NORMA SHEARER -- LESLIE HOWARD in
"ROMEO and JULIET"
with JOHN BARRYMORE
100
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor Picturo
QUEENS
DAILY AT 230-515·7·2089:30 ·TEL.31453
TO-DAY & TO-MORRÓW
The wrath of a city rises against the
shame of a nation mob controll
FRED STONE
GRAND JURY
Owen Davis, Jr.
Louise Latimer
Directed by Albert 5, Royell.
RKO.RADIO
#ICTURE
ALSO: March of Time & Colour Cartoon
FRIDAY
+ SHOWS
OMLY
*.-E.
T.15-14.30
DAYS
&
FRED ASTAIRE
GINGER ROGERS
in "SWING TIME”
TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUB ·
ORIENTAL
FLEXING
ROAD WANGHAI
TEL MATS
•20AY TO-DAY OTO-MORROW
A GRAND COMEDY MYSTERY PICTURE!
ONE HOUR THEY COULDN'T ACCOUNT FOR... cast a shadow of the past ...a mystery of the present... across their love! LORETTA
You The
FRANCHOT
Tone
a film full Haughs and
HOUR
ARDED
LEWIS STONE
ROLAND YOUNG
JESSIE RALPH ·DUDLEY DIGGES
"
PARIS TO
THREE ON
TUNIS ON
MYSTERY
FIRST HOP
FLIGHT
FLOODS RAVAGE ANATOLIA
PERAUD AND DENIS HURRY TO CANNES OVER 300 PERISH;
SET FAST PACE
HEADING FOR
TOKYO
Tunis, Dec. 8.
Denis, two brilliant French
FROM CROYDON USING KING'S PLANE?
London, Dec. 8. -
On a sky-trall few have flown, Much curiosity fa being ex- which leads them from Paris tohibited here regarding a mys- Tokyo, Jean Peraud and Gilbersterious aeroplane which left arrived 1 here from Paris to-day, hav-Croydon this morning for Ing completed this first leg of their Cannes. After an hour's delay, long flight in something less than owing to bad weather conditions, the aeroplane flew on from Le Bourget, Paris, despite the storm, which was still un- diminished:
seven hours.
Starting from Paris at 8.36 am, they set their powerful machine down in this African city at 3.15 p.m. the
namo day.
They are attempting to lower the record for the flight and thus qualify for the prize of 400,000 franes which The Ministry of Transport is offering. The daring young aviator, Japy, who arrived at Hongkong recently on his ill-fated race to Tokyo from Lo Bourget, was alone on his adventure. Ho scarcely slept at all during his fight which probably accounted for the fact of his dying into a mountain- side when nearing his goal in Japan. Bui Peraud and Denis are both com- petent at the controls, and while one rests the other can still drive their roaring plane along the course pre- scribed.--Reuter.
MERMOZ STILL MISSING
Paris, Dec. B. Germany has ordered the aircraft carrier Dorm to join in the search for the French flier Mermoz, missing
The occupants are stated to be three meni One report says they are. Home Office officials.
A cordon of gendarmes guarded The aerodromes, both at Le Bourget and at Lyons, where the plane was Nobody was expected to refue). allowed to approach the landing Acids. Reuter."
Off For Marseilles
Lyons, Dec. 8. The mystery plane from Croydon, en route to Cannes, departed for Marseilles after refueling here-
Reuter.
Passengers Identified
Marsellies, Dec. 8.
A plano from Croydon, England,
THOUSANDS STARVE 50,000 LEFT HOMELESS
Istanbul, Dec. 8. Over 300 persons howe
been drowned in a flood disaster at Odana,
South Anatolla, thousands are injure
ed_and 50,000 homeless.
The survivors are suffering from cold and starvation, and are wonder-
ins aimlessly about, practically un-
clothed.
The whole of the cotton and orange plantations of the once fertile, ares |↑ are destroyed.-Renter Bulletin Ser- vice..
"BOY" STEALS JEWELLERY
RESTITUTION ORDER AND GAOL
A 21-year-old Chinese "boy" who betrayed a trust, appeared before Mr. Macfadyen at Kowloon Magistracy this morning charged with the larceny of two rings and a pair of all. gold cuff links, valued at $170 In
Defendant was Cheung Hon, of No. 11, Cheungshawan Rond, who admit- ted stealing the jewellery from Mr. Rhemat Khan's house at No. 62, Un. Chau Street, on November 18, when
over the Atlantic on a mail route | carrying three passengers, landed he was left in that defendant once
test flight.
The freighters Cripton and Jean Louis Dreyfuss have also sent wire- less reports that they are searching
for the lost airman-United Pres.
40 PERISH AS
BUILDING COLLAPSES
Women, Children Chief Victims
Lisbon, Dec. 8, Forty people were killed and over a hundred injured at n meeling of a Catholic society at Leiria, when a school building collapsed, owing, to overcrowd- Ing.
Most of the victims are women and children-Reuter.
Girl Guilty In "Dope" Trial
here to-day. Its occupants are ex-. here until to- pected to remain morrow. Marseilles is only 90 miles from Cannes by road.
The passengers are reported to be Dr. Kirkwood, Mr. Theodore God- dard, Mrs. Ernest Simpson's solicitor, and a clerk
While the pilot and wireless opera- tor of the plane remained at the air port, the three passengers drove to Marseilles proper by taxi The plane in remaining at the airport until to-morrow.
Leave For Cannes
The three passengers of the plane from Croydon, it was armounced later, after dining at a local hotel, left by motor car for Cannes... Reuter.
Mrs. Simpson · Well
Cannes, Dec. 8. Lord Brownlow, who is Lord-in- Walling to His Majesty the King, and who yesterday issued on Mrs. Ernest Simpson's behalf a statement which has been interpreted in the London prea
as a renunciation of that lady's love for His Majesty, 10- day issued a further announcement. Mrs. Simpson, he said, would re- main at Cannes over Christmas.
He added that Mrs. Simpson was keeping well-Reuter.
King's Plane?
MARIA WENDT FACES
LONG PRISON
presented Los Angeles, Dec. 8.
Parls, Dec. 8.
|
It was stated
worked for complainant, and, after he was dismissed, was in the habit of valting the house to take tea. One day he was left in charge and the jewellery was later missed. When accused, he admitted the theft and revealed where he had pawned the rings for $60 and sold the cuff links
$43.
The Magistrate sentenced defen- dant to three months' imprisonment and ordered him to pay $70 amends to complainant or serve another six wocks. The rings were to be re- deemed for half the price for which they were pawned.
PEAK LADY CHARGED
DANGEROUS DOG SUMMONS FAILS
Mrs. D. G. McAvoy, of 502 The Peak, was summoned before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning on a charge of having kept a dangerous dog and falling to keep It under proper control at 4.30 p.m. on November 10. She pleaded not guilty
Sub-Inspector McEwen said the summons
was taken out on the in- structions of the Postmaster General as on November 10 a postman had been bitten at defendant's address.
A mysterious plane, belleved to belong to King Edward, passed through Paris en route to Cannes Explaining, Mrs. McAvoy said that m the day in question she was talk- from Croydon to-day, Capt. C. J. Almonn and carrying deg was. beside her. The postman
piloted by
inging to her servant in the pantry. Her three passengers, including two mem-
entered the pantry without her TERMbers of the law firm of Theodore knowing it and touched
Goddard and Company, which re- soun
tters. Her parcel of letters,
then, be Mrs. Simpson In her re-
postman gan barking and when cent divorce sult.
started running it made snap at The
the presence of the solicitors
man's legs, scratching him caused considerable speculation as it
slightly. There was no blood from is recalled that in English Inw it is
the scratch. She treated the man, not necessary to wait for the pre-
after which he left. There was no scribed six months before
divorceecessity of the man entering the docree nai can be made Anal, pro-
house at all. viding the court can be shown good
A Federal Court Jury has found Maria Wendt, pretty Shanghal girl, gulity of smuggling $100,000 worth of narcotics into the United States, cleverly concealed in the compart ments of trunks..
It
The girl was arrested in San Pedro aboard a Japanese ship, and though is known she had accomplices, she alone was taken. It was suggested in defence that she was merely the in- tool of unscrupulous "dope
nocent runners."
Since she has been in custody, Maria Wendt has twice attempted to take her own life, the last time by swallowing poison.
She faces a long prison term United Press.
Big Output Of
Aircraft
CHINA IS AMERICA'S BEST CUSTOMER
Washington, 'Dec. 8.
The Bureau of Air Commerce re- ported to-day American manu-
rea5011.
One adequate reason might be the necessity of the complainant remain- ing abroad for a protracted perlod, it is thought.-United Press.
Solicitor Arrives
Cannes, Dec. 8. Lord Brownlow stated this evening that Mrs. Simpson's solicitor, who has arrived at Marseilles by acro- plane, is coming to Cannes et his own suggestions to discuss details with regard to the disposal of Mrs. Simp son's town house, as she has no in- tention of returning to London for a considerable time.--Reuter.
Attorneys. Arrive
Cannes, Dec 8. Mr. Theodore Goddard and Mr.
Sydney Barron, Mrs. Simpson's at- torneys, have arrived here, together with her physician," Dr. Douglas Kirkwood---United Press.
acturers had produced 2,197 planes Frost Disrupts
in the first nine of
Increase of 68 per cent, compared with last year's output.p
Of the total, 573 were Pat O'Brien
e military
⠀⠀ “CEILING ZERO James Cagney
© MATINEES: 20c.-30c
EVENINGS: 20e.-30.50c,-70e.
WHEN AT HOME The
Hongkong Telegraph
MAY BE PURCHASED
AT
SELFRIDGE'S
London Traffic
nt
Mr. Keen remarked that he did not consider the dog to be danger- ous, and Inspector McEwen ogreed.
Dismissing the case, Mr. Keen said: "It seems to me that the dog was more or less protecting its mis- tress,**
MUI-TSAI CASE CHANGE OF ADDRESS
“NOT, NOTIFIED
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD. HOWLOON:DRIYAT 1:30:320:25OTE 9.50 CTELSOBA:
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
A Light, Gay, Intriguing Comedy-romance
You dope,
(why don't you make me kang up......... and tika me in your [_arms where !" belong!!
Directed by Alfred E.-
Groon
A Colombia Picture
FRIDAY
An R.K.O. Hadlo Picture
DAILY
AT
230 520 720
920
series of laught in the il: Hap-
•pened Dis Night volal”'
brave the critics.
Ja
with
JOKESTER MORRIS FAYL WRAY
LIONEL STANDER
A Super Musical Hit ? : FRED ASTAIRE & GINGER ROGERS
in "SWING TIME”
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT MAGNIFICENTLY PRODUCED Starring
Evelyn Laye
Whoes greet artistý will enchant you
FRITZ KORTNER EMLYN WILLIAMS CARL ESMOND ALICE DELYSIA CONCHITA SUPERVIA
EVENSONG
Directed by
VICTOR SAVILLE
FRIDAY & SATURDAY FRED ASTAIRE : GINGER ROGERS"
4 SHOWS DAILY *1.30 · 5 10 220.0.30
HÁNKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL
57795
"SWING TIME”
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON. TEL. 67212
MATINEES: 20c-30¢.° EVENINGS: 201-30«50470,
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW::
A WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO "ONLY YESTERDAY"
Margaret SullavaN, OF Ursula Parrot's most vitalheroine, takes you into the secret corners of humanity's heart!
NEXT TIME FOR
A widow, Chan Li-szo, aged 00, appeared before Mr. J. A. Fraser of the Central Magistracy this morning, summoned with falling to report the change of address of her registered mui-teal Li Ho, aged 15, from No. 35b Wellington Street, third floor, to No. 37 Staunton Street, first-floor.
#Inspector H. W. Fraser, attached to the
Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, anld that on November B last, a lady inspector visited No. 356. Wellington Street, for the purpose of
seeing the girl. She was informed by neigh- bours that defendant had removed to another address. A few days later, a report was made by def
defendant's daughter that defendant was about to take the girl to the country and It was then discovered that she had
Staunton Street. De removed. to fendant had been warned once before by the S. C. A. for falling to report the
of address of her mui-trat. The girl was und hud do in the
There were so that
through the Ing traille occurred in all parts of pubilelty of the press, it
it was hoped Greater London as the result of to keep this fact before the public. Appearing on remand before Mr. sharp frost, following rain, pa
Defendant said, sho foll 111 after J. A. Fraser at the Central idagistracy Conductor rails were frozen, pre- returning from the country, and was this morning on a charge or pusses venting the operation of the electric unable to report to the S.CA DONATIONS TO KING GEORGE sion of 100 horoin pills at Ko Shing train service
on several routes. Remarking that there were ex- Street on November 26, 19-year- Road traille was brought to a stand-tenuating circumstances, bis Worship old youth, Li Hak, was sentenced to still in many places especially at
machines.
China is America's biggest cus
tomer in the acroplane market, taking MANY ACCIDENTS ON 112 planes since the beginning of 1936. The Argentine. has purchased 41, Mexico, 39, Canada 27, Japan Ave, and Russia, and Spain one each- United Press,
SLIPPERY ROADS
London, Dec,“ 8; ̈ ̈
Serious dislocation of early morn many girls little work
|-three; months' hard lgbaut. Defend- both ends of steep hills--and there ed a fine of $10.
ant
́said that: seaman of the were many minor accidents, R steamer Chaksang gave him the
to
pills Inspector, Houriharanid de Almosti un tamble and hundreds of sleepers acknowledges collections by - Pedestrians – also: „found <footway's The St. Francis Home for Street
fendant was taken on board the casos for steamer, but no-one on board knew treated
njuries from falls were Inter-Parnch!al Committee at. Bt. hooplial.—British | Joseph's Church on Sunday, amount-
Ling to!$10762.
U
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!
A CHARMING MUSICAL COMEDY I
"LA VIE PARISIENNE
(PARISENNE LIFE) E
A UNITED ARTISTS - BRITISH PICTURE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS donations to the King George
MEMORIAL FUND
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Momorial Fund: Previously
ledged
Chan Man Chee. Steam Laundry.
has received the following further sus tarah
Frinted, and Published for the Proprietors by FRE
LIN, at 1% and
kohg.
$103
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.