Mrs. Katherine De Salas MrR: R. Lockhart of Lloyd's Register of Shipping left here yesterday in the s. Shanghai Maru for Japan, for a short business trip.
Emperor Hirohito on March 29 received in audience and later played host at a luncheon to 900 members of the Diet and Cabinet Ministers, headed by Premier Prince Konoye, Min. Theodore Cook, 39, of Los Angeles, jobless and despondent, made sure of his death, He turned on the gas, slashed his throat, stabbed himself with an ice pick and hanged himself, Pmorgsson Austin Smedley, of the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages, was on March 29 decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class, in recognition of his contributions to Japanese education, Charged with Larceny by Trick; Case Continuing The case against Mrs. Katherine De Salas on charges of larceny by trick was adjourned by Judge Milton J. Helmick of the U. S. Court for China yesterday until this morning.
Over ten witnesses appeared during yesterday's hearing, in which the defendant was alleged to have obtained goods from local shops before her departure from Shanghai by issuing cheques which were returned marked "insufficient funds" on presentation at the bank, Mr, Leighton Shields, District Attorney, who prosecuted, presented nine cheques to the Court as evidence. The amounts written on the cheques ranged from $20 to $600, the total amount being $2,143. Mr. Shields told the Court that the cheques were issued' by the defendant, but there was no deposit in the bank against Tue National Government, by 'a mandate issued on March 28, appointed Major-Generals Pang Chin, Chen Chin-chu and Yang Ming-fang members of the Military Advisory Council, says a dispatch to the "Standard."
There will be a specially arranged Lenten Service in the Holy Trinity Cathedral this afternoon at 5.30 O'clock, when Mr. Ottewell will deliver the fifth in his series of devotional addresses on the work of the Holy Spirit, his subject this afternoon being, The Gift of Might." them.
Mr. Andrew Clark of the' N.Y.K. shipping firm, who was one of the witnesses, told the Court that a ticket was sold to Mrs. Katherine De Salas on February 1 for the Shanghai Maru which sailed at noon on February 7 according to schedule. The ticket was for a passage from Shanghai to Nagasaki and was paid for in cash. It was delivered on the production of the passport of the passenger.
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