1938-01-18 — Page 7

BOB NEEDS A SHAVE!

UFS,

ADMITTING họ needed a shave, here is Robert Taylor, heart- throb screen idol of thousands of girl fans, breakfasting in his stateroom on the Queen Mary, as the ship arrived in New York. The screen actor was returning from England where he starred in a forthcoming Britisli' picture.

LOVE-LETTERS

NOT

CLIPPER AVERTS

A "TRAGEDY”.

SILLY -Divorce Judge "SOB-STUFF" SAID HUSBAND

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY.

Use Your Hand Signals!

VITAL IN ROAD MANNERS

Giving Warning To Other Drivers

These Signals Meart

STOP

i am going to turn to the right.

You may overtake

Correct use of hand-signals by motorists was one of the most urgently needed reforma in road manners, Traffic Official 'told the Telegraph.

Too many road uters either neglected to give any signal or made the signs Improperly, they said. Omission to signal clearly wag not only a form of discourtesy and a menace to safety of others, but also it was an Infringement of the law,'

The law demanded that all drivers or riders of Vehicles give early and intelligible warning of their intention to make any reduction of speed or change of course which might effect other trufllc. NEGLECT CAUSES ACCIDENTS.

Many accidents are caused through motorists falling to signal their intention to make a right- band turn until they were actually turning.

The signal should be given in ample time to warm following drivers.

Drivers' hand signals were merely an indica- tion of the algaller's intention, however, and did not absolve him from first making certain that a projected manoeuvre could be carried out without unduly interfering with other tramc. They had not the authority of signals given by the police, which must be obeyed.

WHAT SAFETY DEMANDS

It was also advisable for drivers

Before stopping in a public street | or highway a driver should, it lo indicate when they were slackening distance of not less than 25 yards speed, even if they did, not intend from the place, at which he

It is the luty of all traffic to net intelligently upon observing alt drl- vers' hond signals and not discourte ously to interfere with a projected manoeuvre.

JANUARY

1938,

ERADIO BROADCAST

A Talk on Tonkin In

French and English 2.

C. HARPER AT THE PIANO

Radio Programme. Broadcast by 2.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 k.c/s,

9.52. m.c.'a

12 noon. Relay of service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m. Mozart-Violin Concerto

in G. Major No: 3.

Yehudi Menuhin' and, the Paris

Orchestra Symphony

cond. by Georges Enesco.

12.55 Mozart-"Now your days of philandering are Over" (from "The Peter Marriage of Figaro")..... Dawson,

1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.

Booth and Alfredo

1.03 Webster Cahpoll's Orchestra.

Love in idleness (MacBeth). .... Orchestra; Pil Wait For You; I'm All Alone (Feiner). .... Tenor; Your Heart Called Mine (Haydn) ...... Orchestra.

1.15 Light Opera.

Selections from "Les Cloches de Corneville" played by De Groot and His Orchestra; Selection from "The Gipsy Princess" played by De Groot

and the New Victoria Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby, Press; Weather Forecast and Announce-

ments.

Accordeon Band:

1.40 Variety and Dance Music, King Canute; Melodrama of the Flotsam and Jetsam; You Mice. ... Necdn't Have Kept it n Secret; In The Mountains of the Moon..... Primo Scola's Hildegarde Looks Back..... Hilde- garde with Orch.; I'm Happy when You're Happy; The First Time 1 SOW you (Foxtrot) His Band: Would You Take my Jay Wilbur and Heart..... Greta Keller; The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Fox- Billy Cotton and Ills

2.15 Close Down. 6.0-7.0 p.m. Chinese Programine. 7.0 Variety Programme. Old Song Memories... minster Ballad

West- Singers. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. Do Charlie Kunz. Sandy's Happy Home Sandy Powell. It's Party Time Again: The Yodelling Working Man of Friends; I'm a Little Piniric Flower George van Dusen. The Best

...Billy Colton and His Band. 7.33 Joseph Hislop (Tenor). Herding Song (from "Songs of the North"); An Eriskay Love Liit (from "Songs of the Hebrides"). An Island Sheiling Song: The Island Herdmald (from "Songs of the Hebrides"),

7.45 Studio C. Harper (Plans), 1. Prelude No. 17 in A Flat Major; 2. Valse A Flat Major: 3, Mazurku No. 14 in G Minor; 4, Mazurka No. 15 in C Major; 5. Nocturne No. 2 In E Flat Major (Chopin),

proposes to stop, Indicate his Into stop. One signal is to extend the tention either by extending his arm arm, with the palm of the hand down-trot)..... beyond the motor car and raising his ward and to move the hand up and Band. hand with fingers extended and down. pointing upwards, or by means of a mechanical signal or

or device approved by the Traffic authorities, so that the hand or device shall be clearly visible to the driver or any following vehicle; Before turning such motor vehicle

right,

driver should indicate to his Love-letters were discussed by his intention by extending his arm Mr. Justice Buckmill in the beyond the car with hand and Angers Divorce Court recently when a pointed horizontally, in the direction retired major of the Indian Army in which he intends to turn. the

was cited as co-respondent by authorities was for a driver to signal and safety.

A third signal approved by the "Courtesy is the parent of road sense. naval officer.

San Jose.

As a ship somewhere in the middle of the Pacife Ocean sped the San Jose State College. football team toward the Hawaiian Islands for an annual football encounter. with

stark University of Hawaii, tragedy was uncovered on the local campus-the team. In all the excitement of the send off. had forgotten its football pants, Nothing to be excited about. perhaps, for grass skirts could easily be borrowed from the islanders.

But the pants were Indeed, very special pants. they were specially male for silken the island game from cloth of super-dazzler stripe. The campus was in a diiher until someone suggested a way out. Why not send the pants by

China Clipper?

Thas 12 pairs of "Britches" of super-dazzler stripe arrived in the Hawaiian Islands day ahead of their wearers. and. perhaps, have the honour of being the first football pants to fly across the Pacific Ocean. Incidentally, the bill to air- express 12 pairs of football pants to Honolula-should you ever care to do - $38:

"The husband," he said, "showed n complete lack of the very necessary give-and-take if the marriage was to be a success; he regarded love-letters as silly.

"Perhaps, from an engineer's view. from a human they may be; but, point of view, they are not."

The judge quoted a letter written by husband to wife less than a month after the marriage. This stated:

"You talk.as.If one moment away. from me was some terrible affic- tion, from which you will never. Be prepared to cut

recover.

out the 'sobstult, Be prepared to lve where I want you to live; no tears or fits of sulk.. ."

PETITION FAILS Engineer - Lieutenant- Commander

a following driver to overtake him.

Road sense has been defined as the art of anticipation which enables a driver instinctively to do the right thing under all conditions

travel.

of rond

This could be indicated by the driver Every individust can help' to cul- extending his arm from the car point-tivate rond sense and courtesy by ed toward the ground and moving pointing to infringements road the hand backward and forward. manners and suggesting a remedy.,

Boy Or Girl At

Choice Of Parents

London.

Dr. David H. Sandell, success- Francis Henry Lee, R.N., of Cowes, ful London gynecologist, con- Isle of Wight, and formerly of Stoke, tends that a method by which Devonport, petitioned for the dissolu- prospective parents may have tion of his marriage, alleging adul-boy or girl babies as they desire tery by his wife, Mrs. Elfe Mar- guerite Unlake Lec, of Marloes Road, has proved 100 per cent, efficient Kensington, with Major Francis Ed-in tests conducted over the past

Naval Officer ward Morley Clarke, Ghurka Rifles 18 months.

3

Case:

(retired), of Newton Ferrers, Devon.

A fellow of the Royal. College of Mrs. Lee and Major Clarke both Surgeons, Dr. Sandell said he has yet denied adultery.

The judgo dimissed the petition to experience failure with the method, which achieved publication in medi- cal journals when first announced ployed. but has not yet been widely em-

and dismissed

Sentencedespondent from the suit.

(Continued from Page 3♪

the co-

Adultery was alleged to have taken

place at the house of Major Clarke's

mother, and at an hotel in Southsen.

"DISASTROUS" MARRIAGE

Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Buck- nill said: This marriage from the first was a disastrous one,

theory that male-begetting sper

The method is simple, based on the

matozoa are more active in an alka- lino medium while the female getting type prefers an ucid medium.

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lactic

acid

of

AIR DEFENCE

OF INDIAN PORTS

Calentia.

It is learned that the possi- bility of an R.A.F.. squadron being based on Madras is being dlacussed by the authorities.

Members of the local · flying club are co-operating with the authorities in testing the capa- bilities of the shere defences against attack. Madras is fully allve to the need of strengthen- Ing Its defences, having been shelled in the war by the Ger- man raider Emden.

Stay-in. M StrikeMr. H. Butler, Director, International Labour Office, League

of Nations, who is on a visit to India has successfully inter- vened in the stay-in mill strike At Pondicherry which has been going on for five months,

HIT ON THE

HEAD

Assailant Sentenced At Sessions

8.0 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.

8.03 Studio-A Talk in French, on **Tonkin" by Mon. Montargis follow- ed by a translation in English

8.26 A French Programme. Coppella Ballet (Delibes) Dance of the Automatons and Waltz... San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Lakme (Delibes) Oriental Prayer: Bell Song

Miliza Korjus (Soprano), Thais. (Massenet) Meditation** Mischa Elman (Violin). Mignon (Thomas) Gavotte Philadelphia

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Philadelphia Orch. under Stokowski. Massenet-Elegie; Messager La Maison Grise from "Fortunio". ... George Thill (Tenor). Saint-Saens-Marche Herolque Orchestra Symphonique de Paris.

9.15 p.m. London Relay.Robb Wilton as Mr. Muddlecombe J.P. in the "Court of Not-so-common, Please!" written by Robb Wilton on on original Iden by Barry Bernard. Presented by Man Kester.

9.30 London Relay The News. 9.50 Light Opera Selections. Merrie England (Edward German). New Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargeant. Monsieur Beaucaire (Messager) Vocal Giems ... Light Opera Company.

10.00 Band of HM Coldstream Guards,

Youth and Vigour (Lautenschlager). Pas des Cymbales; Air de Ballet;

·Callichos (Chaminade},"

10.18 Amelita Galli-Curel, Bolero from "The Maids of Cadiz" (Delibes): Song of India from "Sadko" (Rimsky-Korsakof),

19,24 Avshalamoff-Concerta la G upon Chinese Themes and Rhythms, Played by the Shanghal Municipal Orchestra with G. Singer at the Plano and conducted by the Composer.

11.0 Close Down,

doubt exercised same control over to maintain herself and her motherception desired boys and thirty want alght. A. L. S. Read and Chou thought there was a chance of com-

Dealing with Duke, the Inspector for that reason that she married her

husband.

was afterwards found that the man was not suffering from the complaint for which Davies had prescribed.

If a boy baby is desired a solution "He has obtained from an elderly

of bicarbonate of soda, usually one widow at Bayswater £533. He pre- "I think the petitioner was right teaspoonful to a pint of water, is used fended ho was her doctor. He obtain when he said his wife had no strong as a douche before intercourse. If a ed from her £200 for costs of an affection for him. So far as she was girl baby le wanted,

Found guilty on a charge of wound- operation and £200, as he said, to concerned it was a marriage of con- solution is used, but with cautioning with intent to cause grievous help him out of difficulties with the venience, and the petitioner, 1 sup since it may act as a complete con Kwan Po

bodily harm, Kwong Tong, allas Medical Council." The woman had pose, was proud of acquiring a young traceptive. The proportions used in Criminal Sessions yesterday to three was sentenced at the declined to proceed

oceed against Davies, and certainly attractive and intelli- the solution vary with the acidity or "There

Is no doubt that this man is sent wife.

alkalinity of the individual weman. R. E. Lindsell, who described him as years' hard labour by Mr. Justice llar and impastor and a very "It has been said that she was cold, "I am thoroughly convinced of little less than a murderer at heart. capable cheat impastu ald the calculating and not passionate.

the method's efficiency," Dr. Sandell "She has also been described as a Inspector, as he ended his review.

told the United Prest. "I employed blow, but denied his action was pre- Accused admitted having struck the Inspector said that Gwendoline woman of brazen impudence. My it in a limited range of patients meditated. His remarks were taken The Davies, whom he now referred to as opinion of her character and a man

during the past 18 months with re- as a plea of not guilty, and the Gwendoline Edwards,

always puts a woman's character for suits 100 per cent, successful Seven- following Jury was empanelled to having treated complainant, who was came of respectable parents and had

ward with some difdence--is that ty per cent. of the patients who hear the case: Messrs, W. Robertson suffering from a depressed fracture no. pre- vious convictions. Davies had no

the guiding principle in her life was followed my directions before con- Foreman), Chlu Jack-man, Oscar Val of the skull, which could have been by honourable means, and it was ed girls.

Lim, Young Chung-mow, T. L caused by her.

a hammer. Witness "Without exception, cach

gave Sing-tal. sald that be retired from

birth to the sex desired." "When she found that the marriage

plainant dying if he had not been Complainant was Lo Kom-yuen, brought to the hospital and operated post which was redundant, after rapid was disastrous she began to contem

де He explained that in alkaling 19-year old hawker, and according to on straight away. promotion. He was paid £1,000 plate the possiblity of getting rid of spermatozoon is encouraged to swim Bolicitor, who prosecuted, he

surroundings the male-begetting Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Plans of the scene of the' attack when he left with a but; taking to drink, quickly dispersed her husband and marrying someone faster" and thus reaches the Fal-struck on the bead with a hammer by of the. P.W.D., after which com-

good character,

Was were produced by Mr. C. H. Douglas, else. capital. He had been treated for

lopian tubes first, the female type accused while squatting at a veget-plainant gave evidence of the attack, "In his letters the husband never being handicapped by the alkalinity.able stall in Graham Street on the saying he was struck from behind. nervous

disorder. In 1020 he became Rot a laxi-driver.

beyond calling his wife DearUnited Press. He had no previous Elfie."

night of November 27 Joal, Prior to Kwong Kwong and Wong Sze deposed It seems rather cold for a convictions.

the attack, complainant and accused to having seen the assault, and evid- Regarding four outstanding charges

young husband."

had been on bad terms Davies asked the Judge to inite into the result was that there was played She became hysterical orbond accused attempted to escape by run- Court of the arrest of accused; Leung "There was a rift in the lute and up and took her away from him. fought each ather on two occasions.

and had ence of identification was given by Mr. F. W. Shaftain, A.D.C.I. (Crime). consideration

After he had struck complainant, atlon one relating to the forge very modest melody."

seemed likely to throw

Sergeant D59, Láu Tin-po, told the ing of a motor vehicle licenco,

Major Clarke, the judge anld, whe Duke said that he would, If possi- a man of 38. He was living apart Clarke was in love with Mrs. Lectral, but was stopped by Sergeant anding of the receipt on his person; "The letters showed that Majorning towards Des Voeux Road Cen-Wing, Police Constable C08, of the ble, like to appeal.

After Davies had gone below coun-years of age. While on

from his wife and had a boy eight that was the right word to useand

D59, whose attention had been sel fold the Judge that he had re-back from service in Burma ho met was not suggesting that he took Mrs. Headquarters, A receipt relating to The evidence given by accused in

the way she liked him very much, but that tracted by the hue and cry,

at- and Yue, Fook of having mold the ceived a note from the legal wife of Mrs. Lee in a P. and O. liner.

On his being searched at Police him.

hammer, and two pieces of iron to Davies saying that she would like

Lee to his mother's house and his IKO LANG DANCE INCIDENT:

sitler's house for any wrong purpopleces of fron from Yus Fook, widow, stated in effect that he struck com the purchase of a hammer and two the Magistracy was read out, and it "I have seen Major Clarke, and:

plainant while being chased by him and several others.

N ... WTHOF Jury returned a verdict of

hls

to.

railway

take him back when he comes out

go sen hér husband. “She is willing mere was one incident on bösed | am quite satiaded of one thing and was found on the person of-ntoured,

of prison for the sake of her the ship to which I will refer," con- that that he would not take any childremyn he said.

SKULL FRACTURED R

Unued the judge, and that was woman to his mother's hoias, or the Mr. Justice Tucker granted the when Major Clarks and Mrs, Lee, house of his sister, it beated: 15 Dr. F. FB Court, medical officer sulity and sentence war-passed ar

***Were dancing. The husband came commit

adultery

Criminal Sessions

A robbery on board a junk in Ping Chau Island, Mirs Bay, on the night of October 19 had a sequel at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when Li Tam-wel, unemployed, was charged with having participated in the crime,

The complainants were Wong Che- kwong, who was robbed of four sacks of rice, eight tins of biscuits, 15 boxes of cigarettes and a quantity of groceries, and Li Kat-fāl, who lost a sun belmet and four walls of clothing.

Accused pleaded not gully, and

the following. Jury was empanelled to try the case: Messrs. J. R. Jones (Foreman), W. A. Tanley, J. Adam, H. R. Weils, J. E. da Rocha, Lai Kwong-hing and L. G. Rozario.

According to Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant Attorney-General, Wong was the master of a grocery shop In Ping Chau Island, and on October 10 he left there for Shaukiwan for the purpose of making purchases for his store. He started his return journcy on the night of October 19 in a Junic on board of which.

Was another passenger, Li Tat-fal, the master and a foki. About 9 p.m., a small boat containing six or seven men was noticed a few feet from the junk. Four of the men, armed with revolvers, a kalte and a long gun jumped on board, in- cluding accused, who was recognised by Wong as a fellow-villager. The victims were ordered down into the hold, where they remained for about two hours."

A

away

After looting the junk, the robbers departed in the direction of Chinese A report of the crime was

terrently made to the Police, and

on November 25 as a result of cor- tein information received, Sergeant Wilcock went to a house In Chau Tou Village, where he found accused hiding underneath a bed.

The case was adjourned until-to- dny,

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