WEDNESDAY JULY 8, 1924
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
TRADE MARKS,
Opposition To China Bill With- drawn.
(Reuter's Service.)
OPIUM.
SACKS ON BOARD JUNK
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.
There was conflicting evidence at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday afternoon as to what had been the statement of a master of a junk when first charged with being in possession of 1,490 taels of raw opium.
WORLD POWER.
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AERIAL TRADE.
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CONTINENT..
The foremost industrial, scien- That groups of industries in. tife, and economic authorities of London having constant trade the world are on their way to relation with similar groups on the Wembley for the first World Power Continent should make use of a Conferen which, extonding over
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carcera of both Loch and Leopold ATHLETICISM IN SPEECH they found had been brilliant.
MURDER SPORT, DONE TO GET THE THRILL. Leopold is a master of six languages and is regarded as an authority on ornithology: RICH YOUTHS' CONFESSION,
Murder for sport is the latest from Chicago. Murders have been committed for sex, for revenge, a problem to his heart's desire. but at last the paycho-analyst has "We did it for the experience
the confession made by two rich most readily and economically It is proposed that these aerial young men in Chicago in admit developed,
couriers, chosen for their know-ting the kidnapping and murder In view of the promoters the edge of the trades whose interest son of a prominent millionaire.
of Robert Franks, the 14-years-old At the police station the inter- texture of our modern industrial. preter spoke to defendant through civilisation is woven of power," they will serve, should travel cons- a Chinese detective who spoke the man's dialect. The defer dant had and, therefore, it is to the distantly to and fro in the air said that the opium was his and covery, conservation, and develop-expresses, not only to take im requiring that it had been left by a friend.ment of power-oil, steam, elec-portant This was denied by defendant a tricity, water, wind or any other immediate signature but to ex- had admitted that the opium was
He said that he that these specialist representatives pedite also, by the delivering of of 80 countries will devote verbal explanations; urgent bus.
between iness
firms-one in on board but he had never sald that themselves.
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Loeb was the youngest student! ever graduated from the University
London, July 8.
a fortnight from the end of regular aerial courier service is It has been announced that it
June, is to survey the world's one of the schemes now. being view of the Manchester Chamber
The junk's number was T260 material possibilities and deviso developed by Imperial Airways, and in a spirit of adventure," is pocket-money. of Commerce's disapproval of the
schemes by which they may be Ltd." suggestion that the Boxer In-and three sacks containing onfum were found on board at 6 am. on demnity Bill might provide a means of bargaining with China July 3. for, a revision of the Trade Marks Law, Mr. A. M. Samuel, has with drawn his opposition to the Bill The "Manchester Guardian" says that good hopes of a settlement of the trade marks dispute are enter tained and that the dropping of the indentity claim as far as the British Government is concerned will probably increase the grounds for these hopes..
yesterday's couit.
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MR. SHAW ON DECAY OF LANGUAGE, '
Mr. George Bernard Shaw tool of Michigan with the B.A. degree. purt in the campaign against slip- Ee, was regarded by his fellowshed English, speaking at the graduates as a "genius" and by annual assembly of the Engliska Association at Bedford College, hie professors as "precocions."."
Both young men were supplied Regent's Park, by their parents with abundant Mr, Show began by asking him
Theit allowance audionco if they had over known Who £40 a month. They had family with "u celebrated talking motor-cars and every luxury. parrot." The family, he saið, sked their friends to come, and Planned For Months. After a grilling cross-examination hear Folly say such pretty things as made identical confes. "Pretty Polly, givo mo a lump of All the United States is to-day
They said they had sugar." und Fetch a cab." But ringing with the details of the crime, which experts attribute to planned for seven months to kid- when they got there they heard various forms of perversion, but up the son of some millionaire for Polly produce nothing but what their theories are swept aside by sport and to demand, a ransom Were to them inarticulate noises, the open confession of the young from the parents," seemed to yet were to the family intelligible men under arrest-the two 19- be a thing that would give ono a phruses. The parrot, as a matter years-old sona of immensely borit," they said, so they seized of fact, had originally spoken those them quite distinctly young Franks and forced bia into words
gradually had set in a decay of“, a paper of 150 guges on London and another in Paris, for wealthy Chicago merchants.
thrilling a motor-ear. The detective through whom Australia the Australiad exports instance."
sequence of
Be recognised thent. They language; the phrases had become defendant was said to have made
The method would be for a developments that is thought to the admission was called and re-
Australia has material prospects courier to make a series of calls have solved the murder eclipses therefore, it is alleged, hit him on modified little by little, until peated that the admission was
the head, with a chisel and then finally the pairs had arrived at apon the business houses in London the fiction of book and stage, Ample made. Questioned by the Magis of a great development.
retaining his services and then rush Jacob Franks, a retired mer-choked him to death. Leopold "sounds which were not in the least
wealth, was added: In the House of Commons, frate, (Mr E. W. Hamilton) Witatural resources are available for off by the next air express to the chant of great
like the original thing. The family Captain Viscount Crezon-asked the ness said that the statement that the the production of the necessary Continent. Arrived at his destina-driven frantic by the failure We had thought of destroying his had not noticed the change which President of the Board of Trade i optum had been left by a friend was energy. Abundant supplies of tion, he would make speedy visits of his son to return from a base features, with acid, so that be could had boon going on. That was an the statory regulation of his made afterwards. Cross-examined black coal, the full extent of which wherever required, obtaining signa- hall game he had attended in the not be recognised, but we did not instance of the decay of language Department ropiked this before by Mr C.A.S. Russ, who appeared it is at present impossible to tures to documents and transacting afternoon. He was startled inte at do that. We thought we had a which occurred very extensively proceding to sew a ship should for defendant, witness said that estimate accurately; vast deposits other urgent business, after which night by a telephone call.
tight alibi. We drove the body among human beings. If they went into Covent Garden they comply with the requirements of defendant had also said afterwards of brown coat upwards of he would fly back to London by the
around for four hours, stripped it, Seton 457 of the Merelmant Ship that he did not know to whom the 10,000,000-horse power available next 'plane available.
and hid it in the culvert. We took would hear a great deal of that opium belonged." ping Act as to her sedworthiness:
Mr. Russ addressed the court from the strains and rivers within
learned English well were put into and whether if the Bard's pop and said that the master could not
the Commonwealth, and an equal
the clothing to Loeb's home and parrot talk. If a foreigner who had Covent Garder he would not under- sonnel was not adequate to cope be responsible unless there were
amount in the territories aduinis
burned it in the cellar..
stand the language there because is with the necessary duties as resuspicions about the case, such as tered under mandate; the
pos qured by the Merchant Shipping concealing the opiwn. The sackssibility of the discovery of natural
We thought one stocking was had gone through a process of decay Act, Sections 157 to 568, he would had been found lying openly, at oil in commercial quantities; will
missing, but we couldn't be sure. and the people there were not take steps to increase the marine the stern of the junk.
Buch reserves it will be long before
this worried us, but not much. speaking English. survey stall of the Board, in order
Australia is handicapped in the 'to eisure that no vessel should
development of her industries from leave for sea in an museaworthy
lack of natural sources of power. condition.
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
Ar. Sidney Webb.-Under the
Judgment was reserved.
FORGED NOTES.'
Så søder Stapping Arts, any pori Charged with
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afternoon
Bay:
A conrier leaving London in the morning by the 105 miles-an-hour Napier DH. air express would have several hours in "Paris" to transact business on behalf of his clients and would be able to catch another express bringing him back to London the same evening.
IRISH HUMOUR,
DELIGHTFUL
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£2,000 Ransom Demand. A voice, speaking in cultured tones, informed him that his son had been kidnapped but that no harm would come to him if a ran-! som of £2,000 was forthcoming. The voice added that instructions would reach him shortly regarding the manner in which the money was to be paid, at-
"A day later Mr. Franks received a typewritten letter telling him to take the £2,000 in notes to a drug gist's shop in the heart of Chicago, where he would find in a waste- paper basket near" the telephone outh a scrap of paper containing further instructions.
He was about to depart with the
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Missing Stocking.
We got rid of every possible cle. Mentioning some of the dif met with in spoken we took the typewriter on which | ficulties
we wrote the letter to Mr. Franks language, he said, "occasionally
someone asks me out, and vagy to pieces and tosset them off a bridge into the Ingoon at Jetson oxecptionally "T accept the invitas. tion. Then I always find that, as Pack.
Lam the celebrated Bernard Shaw," people want to be introduced to Many of thein eut it short
Our plan had been to make Franks's father go to a place with the money and finally get him to go
me.
up and years,
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seaworthy sitips, hut it is one of balmed of two of the forged India can employ her water and terribly.eloquent tongue. A covered in a culvert in marshy i opposite direction to that in which" Bernard Shaw, may 1 have the
the most important duties of the Board of Trade surveyors. The to carry out the statutory duties of present staff is considered sufficient the Board, but the matter in con- stantly under observation, and if the staff were found to be adequate steps would be taken to increase it.
It was alleged that the accused notes at a money changer's shop, obtaining $16.80 in Hongkong: called later and did the same currency as change and that he thing. It was discovered the next morning that the notes were
to industrialise herself,
Mr. Hugh Quigley, economie Electrical Company and deputy adviser to the Metropolitan Vickers
organiser of the conference, dis- cussing these matters with a Daily
"Eventually my listesa up, mid says, 'Oh, Mr.
pleasure of introducing to you- moumblo, mumble, mumble. I sometimes feel like saying to my hostess, you had only been articulate when you came to Miss so, you would have been of some use to me.' "'
in-forged and when defendant passed Mail representative, stressed as am I goin' to get me little asses out culvert, but its protruding feet ing interest in the United States. Smith or the Countess of So-and-
the shop he was arrested. He had particularly important the con- o' the pond. "That's for your had attracted the attention of a
EASTERN, MEAT INDUSTRY.
-Advic—teerived Melbourne 3g from Singapore states that
the Eastern
Australian Meat Company lush formed for the purpose of ping a lens of land there for
work, als u ecuring lease of six ce depots in the F.M.S., and dealing in rat for the Mohamedan mückent. The
storage and ice
two more notes on him.
the
ASSYRIAN WOMEN.
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said,
passing labourer. It was not identified for some time because the labourer had placed the specta cles or the face of the murdered youth, who in his lifetime had not worn spectacles.
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to
bad
ship Company and a prosperous box manufacturer. The youth ex- pinined the loss of the spectacles in the marshes by saying that he
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tion as in other things, and he did not know why it was that so many young people who were quite properly proud of athleticism in lawn tennis and other sports should yet be intolerably slovenly when they came to speech. "I think they ought to be made a little ashamed of it," he said, "and be taught to understand that the mort intelligent and cultured people are generaly rather particular about their art.culation,
Canada India, South Africa,| New Zealand, the United States,
MORE uttering four Russia, the Continental countries SOME 'son who sends or attempts to send | forked 100 rupee notes and with are all contributing something on
EXAMPLES. an unserworthy ship to set as possession of two others of the those lines to the common pool of
These same denomination Le Leung, essential information. The electri guilty of a misdernierdieur,
That there is no humour like Acts further give power to the Boart described as a boarding-house fication of vast tracts around | Irish humourjs well illustrated in of Trade and their officers us detain runner, was remanded until to-day Moscow and. Nijni Novgorod has asKatharine Tynan's latest book, money when news reached him in an express train nu throw the by coraing up boldly and claining
There are senyorthy ships.
Magistracy- yesterday much interest for the world's"Memories" (Nash and Grayson). that the body of his son had been bundle of cash out at a given place, that they have known ing for statutory regulations as to, um
engineers as the problers of how Her father was a big bluff hearty identified in the mortuary by a where we would pick it
Irish farmer, with a quick temper friend. The body had been dis- race off in a motor-cur in tinker, le. Irish gipsy, turned his ground on the outskirts of the the train was going.
Country Aroused. had them put in the pound. asses into her father's pasture to town stripped of clothing and with grass and the exasperated farmer
a pair of spectacles beside it.
Not since the Thaw cass as The murderers had attempted to "I'd never have thought of hide the body completely in they crime aroused so much shrill you." the tinker said. Now how
and not since the Thaw millions
Tracing the deterioration'in pro- sideration that will be given to the self to consider Joe" my father
were poured out lavishly to save a
financial problems,
I should say by paying for
man from crime have lawyers and
nunciation as shown in the use of "If the big industrial countries them. It's the four hundredth
criminal experts anticipated such a
".and would The excess of tomago of are going into the partially trespass since January. My land
harvest as is likely to be theirs the word "modern," which d before the Franks case is finally now become mode'n,' disposed of.
soon become "god'n," he said that matter that tune alone will with a view to developing them the, asses out requirements of the world's trade developed markets of the world might as well be a common.
Let ye gimme the money to get
The-paropts of the two prisoners a great deal of that was duo-to-puro said Joe. "The right, and that time should not now industrially," he said, "there will divil a penny I've got to pay for
Good English Clue.
declare they will spare no money, alovduliness, which should not ba be far distant. Tabeir problems need to be something like a pool them. Te woulan't be keepin' me
Owing to the excellent English to defend their song." Mr. Nathan encouraged, as it destroyed some and the high costs of operation, ing of capital reserves. The co-out o me little asses how, would used by the blackmailers in their Leopold, sen., says: ly boy of the variety and music of the coupled with the discriminatory ference will require to elaborate ye."
letter the suspicions of the police cannot be guilty. The other language. People should be taught tacties of some foreign countries, some policy by which capital an The impudence of the sugges-
were at first directed to teaching family says the same, adding to cultivate and be prond of a and our own Dominis are prov be applied internationally. We on appealed to the farmer's stafla in the various schools and We know exactly where Dick was certain athleticism in their speech. ing matters of veu more moment have to advise methods by which sense of humour, and he paid the collegea of Chicago, and when one every hour of this particular There was athleticism in articula- every day, and the satisfactory co-operation in the development of money
teacher committed suicide the Wednesday." A BEGGAR'S PHILOSOPHY.. can be substituted for settlement of these would go a very markets
belief was expressed that the
of To a beggar who pleaded that he solution
the crime prospectus sets out that rapital of long way to solving the difficulties competition in their exploitation."
could not get work, the farmer been found. the company will be 1800, and that confront shipowners, and that Singapore hauts huse which are hampering not only our
offered a shilling on condition that. But the police discovered undertaken to provide £30,000 of
he spent an hour cleaning out a that, the spectacles belonged, own trade, but the trade of every It is estimated that country in the world.
shed. The beggar turned about the amount.
it" is alleged,
Nathun As Lord
and pointed towards Dublin. the Singapore debt will cost Kylsant said in referring to the £30,000.
"D'ye see that town over there F. Leopold, an honour student". With regard to the growth of the U.S. Mercantile DISCIPLINE FOR UNRULY in the smoke? Well, that town of Chicago University, the son of Mohamedan trade, arrangements Marine, there is room for all if the
has maybe two or three hundred the owner of the Manitou Steam- WIVES. have been made by the company trade of the world were of normal
roads and streets. There'll maybe for due, observance of religious capacity, and one big step in this
be thirty houses on an average to customs, and thined food importe direction would be made were Lord The position of women, and sich of them. Maybe wan out of
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an EXTRAORDINARY will bear Mohammedan certificates.
every three or four will be worth
GENERAL, MEETING of the Club! Kylsant's ideal attained of the free- laws relating to marriage dom of the sus and all ports for Babylon 2,100 years B.C., form the tuppence to 4.8. D'ye see guvnor, went there some time ago in will be held at the Club on MON- the shipping of all nations on equal subiect of an interesting article To hell with your shillin' and your guit of his ornithological studies, inDAY, 14th July, 1924, at 6.30 p.m.
hy Fir Flinders Petrie in "Ancient diny job." Fernt," the publication of the
"I was so pleased by the dimned which he was specialising.
He described his doings on the for the purpose of receiving a British School of Archaeology la philosophy of the fellow," said my Egypt.
father" that I threw him the shill-day of the murder, saying he had report of the proceedings of the been to a "gin" party with two Extraordinary General Meeting For the first time it is possible ing and he went off laughing.
girls and his chum Richard Loeb, held on 23rd June, 1924, and of to compare the marriage laws of One of the Nationalist candidates the Babylonians, the Assyrians,
In recalling ber memories of son of the vice-president of the confirming, if thought fit, as a
passed at that meeting. are words used by Lord Kylsunt at in South Africa has made public anand the Hittites, owing to the Dudley Hardy, the artist, and his famous house Bears, Roebuck and Special resolution the resolution of the privileges of the House of. the inceting of the Royal Mail offer received by General Hertzog triumph of Dr. Harozny, who, with wife and step son who was known Company.
E. B. C. HORNELL, ` financial help of the Czecho- Steam Packet Company, which has from a Tondon firm to provide Slovakian Government, has suc- Hardy decreed that her husband's tigation, disproved. They arrested as "the Kid," she tells how Peggy. This alibi the police, after inves-
Hon. Secretary. behind it a record of 85 years' pro- £1,500,000 for the purpose of
ceeded in reading and publishing
The scholastic Hongkong, 9th July, 1924. gress, and which is to-day in the establishing the diamond-cutting hundreds of clay tablets written whiskies and sodas were to be young Loeb. fore-front of British shipping enter- and polishing industry in South in the scarcely known Hittite curtalled without his knowledge. prises, says the Journal of Com-Africa, provided a thoroughly language.
"She persuaded the Kid to offer merce (Liverpool). There were sympathetic Government was in "The Assyrians had great trouble Dudley an orange whenever, he many factors which were- mon-office. He added that a high with the unruliness of the married asked for a whisky and soda, and tioned by his Lordship in the export duty would be necessary women," write Sir Flinders Petrie, a great stock of oranges was laid course of his address to the share- since other measures could be "Theft from the house and gadd-in. The Kid was to have a money
ed an orange in lieu holders which would seen to adopted in order to transfer this ing to friends were severely ward every time Dudley accept- militate against this optimisin, bui industry to Kimberley. It may be punished. If a wife stole from a certainly na fut on the R.M.S.P. recalled
Various minor house anything valued at over five whisky and soda. I don't believe he avereamed that reward. Dudley Company is concerned its history of attempts made hitherto to estab-manas of lead her husband had to came to Peggy the day after this. restore it, and crop her ears; if he believe the Kid has gone mad": in South adverso dircumstances, is one in Africa have proved abortive. More would not, then the owner of the he said. "Every time I tell him to"! progress in the face of many ligh diamond-culting
goods cropped her nose. which both the Chairman and all than, a decade ago a Select Com- "Divorce was for various causes,fetch a whisky and soda he says.
Have an 'orange." associated with the company can mittee of the Renats in its majority but always for a defect in the wife.
PHIL MAY'S TRAGEDY. take legitimate pride. Neverthe-roport decided in favour of the In Babylon a wasteful wife could
For those who remember bim. less; the future holds many pro feasibility of the dumond-cutting be called to account before the
there will be more than a hint of blems for shipowners as well as industry, and recommended a 10 authorities and divorced.""
Professor Petrie explains the ftragedy about this exploit of Phil others, and these will have to be per cent expert tax for its protec-severity of the Assyrians to their May's. Phil had been brought by faced with a courage und resolution tion. Six years later, nothing
his friends most unwillingly to which fortunately has not often having been accomplished in the women in this way
These untamable beauties consent to have his life fasured. been lacking in the management meantime, it was represented that from less civilized tribes would "It was his wife's idea to have of the British Mercantile Maring, the difficulty of procuring a proper naturally think of plundering a him overhauled first by an ordinary and which, indeed, hoe enabled it supply of good diamonds from the home-rather-than-keeping it
doctor who would perhaps put him lón a regimen and exhort him to a to pass through what has probably big producers
more careful way of living.” A doctor was announced and, Phil- made more than a clean breast of Heart rotten, lungs rotten,' family history rutten, all died early farmer of Avesnes, near Montreuil, from drink etc. The doctor adequats to pay expenses, it have boon unfavourable. The pro Pas-de-Calais, ran naked through having heard all remarked "Well, assuredly requires the greatest dominant view among experts is the commoryside clutching a come from the Insurance.com.a ability and resources to carry on in that South African cut diamonds, pocket kalf len
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been the most trying experience of obstacle. An Act was passed in ita history. With operating costs order to overcome thie difficulty,
Rescued when, in a mad fit, he more than double those of pre-war but before anything could be days, and with freights cut to the arranged the Great War inter- jumped into the village pond at very limit, and often quite in-vaned, and conditions over since dawn, Barthelemy Jolland, a
zurópábing, stimage will be 100 1
it.
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article in the Daily Herald regard ing the Charman (Majdr R. W. Barnett) of the Commitee which considered the Rents Bill was
an improper attack and a breach
Commons, the Select Committee of Privileges advise the House best to consult Its dignity and that' of the Chairman by taking no further action.
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