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972
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nom.
On Paris
On demand
605
Credits 4 months'
sight
645
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T. T...
9632
On demand
96
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On demand
110
COTTON, SILVER
On demand
12014
AND WHEAT
On Manlis...
On demand
74
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62
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On demand Bovereigns bank buy-
1284
ing rate
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Bar Silver per oz.
19 5/16
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THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
Established 1919,
Head Office:---Hong Kong.
Autherfood Capital (EE. Onciunay) ---$11,000,000
1,180,000
BRANCHES —
On Japan:-
Centar, uk Wanker, Danghat, |Copper Ciah ................
and Ben Frazalarm,
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svery desertpióna wasencial.
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LOOK POONG BHAN,
Chief Manager.
Copper Cents
·1% prem.
Rate of Native Interest 8% p Chinese Sub. Cola... 33% dis. Hong Kong Suk Coin par.
LONDON EXCHANGES.
Faris
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.] New York
Authorised Capital
.... $10,000,000,00. Paid-up Capital 5,588,600.DU Beserve and Undivided
Profits
$ 2,812,000.00
HEAD OFFICE:--HONG KONG 12, Des Voeux Road Central
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Bir Shonson Chow, Chairman.`i
Li Lan Bang, Esq.
Wong Chu Bou, Esq.
London, Yesterday.
82.81/82 5.16
NEW YORK COMMODITY MARKETS
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
A.O.F.C. Quotations.
New York. Yesterday
`Last" To-day's Changes. Aver. Aver.
18 up
30 Industriale 89.90 100.88 20 Ralla
40.80 40.97 .17 up
.11 down
New York, Jan. 3.
20 Utilities. 23.29 23.18. Mesara. Asia Lands Ltd. have re10 Bonds ceived the following quotations or Commodity the New York cotton and wheat,
84.60, 24.66 66 un
,90 up
LETICIA
DISPUTE
PARLEYS Colombia And Peru Confer.
MEETING IN BRAZIL
1984
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T
NOTICE.
Manufacturers Life In
surance Company advise that they have opened an office in Canton situated at 37 The Bund and that Mr. S. V. GITTINS has been ap pointed Acting District Manager
E. J. R. MITCHELL, Manager, South China, Manufacturers Life Insurance Co.
Toronto, Canada."
AL CAPONE'S
ACTIVITIES
RECALLED
Business Built At Cost Of 700 Lives,
£50,000,000 IN 10 YEARS
Chicago.
While the repeal of prohibition* brings back to Chicago a kind of
liquor it had almost forgotten, Chi-
cago's most notorious citizen, Scarface Al Capone, languishes in a cell in Atlanta penitentiary and sees handed over to legitimate Rio de Janeiro. trade the business which he had Direct conversations between built up at the cost of 700 lives. Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Co. Re-Colombia and Peru have begun portThe market was dull, prices here to settle definitely their
The Capone Syndicate flourished tending to soften towards the close. controversy over possession of for 10 years, from 1921 to 1981, in OD Motor and steel shares were the the Village of Leticia, on the up- which period their profits amount principal interests. Wheat; The per Amazon, which nearly causeded to $80,000,000. The syndicate's uncertainty over 'monetary develop-a war last year,
rabber, alik and silver exchanges on the Commodity Exchange Inc.
New York:-
Closing Commodity Prices January 2.
Mar.
BILVER Silver: Commodity Exchange Inc.)ments is curtalling interest and Leticia, a small and unsightly principal product was Bourbon of New York:
there was little pressure. Cotton: collection of mud huts on the whiskey. This was distilled in Dec. 29 Range Jan. 2 Range The Trade bought more liberally north bank of the Amazon near noisome warrens in slum neigh- 44.90 44.90 48.50 45.50 Southern selling was moderate. the Brazilian Frontier, is under bourhoods or in rat-infested sheds May....45:45 45.44
16.05 40.05 The action of the market reffected jurisdiction of a League of Na July ...45.96 48.96 46.59 46.53 * decided improvement in sentiment. tions Commission pending re-in several Capone-controlled »mu- Total sales for the day:-
Silver: Aalatic and European ac-sults of the Rio de Janeiro Con-burbs, The distillate was mixed 119 contracts of -- 274 contracts of counts were credited with early buy- ference.
25,000 ors each 25,000 ozs eaching, with trade and banking con-
with water, coloured and flavoured. Market: Steady.
Not only Leticia but the en-ands tributed in bottles carrying the nections moderate sellera.
Itire Saloman-Lozang Business Done:-1,270,000 shares.jaigned by the two countries in
Treaty labels of reputable manufacturers. Capone started from small be- Last Today's 1922 will be discussed. It was ginnings. He had just got a job Price Price this Treaty, giving Colombia a as bodyguard for Jim Colosmio, ****** 19 09 × thin corridor next to the Brazi- the local under-world dictator, Allied Chemical & Dye,148 149 American Can
llan border between the Amazon about the time that bootlegging be- 98% and the Putumayo Rivers, which gan to boom. Closimo was mur American Smelting... 44% 4% American Tel. & Tel...111 110% roused the wrath of Peruvians dered and was succeeded by John American Tobacco "B"
living Bast of the Andes, Torio, who, after shots had been Peruvian dissatisfaction in the fired at him, removed: Himself, to department of Loretos flared healthier cilmes and left the syn- into a raid by armed civilians dicate to his formidable lieutenant, who seized defenceless Leticia, Capone and nearly brought on a war.
Dec: 29 Jan 2 Air Reduction 8.12"* 9.17
NATIONAL BILK
EXCHANGE.
Dec. 29 Range Jan. 2 Range Canadian Pacific
97%
Montreal
5.15
Brussels
28.42
Geneva
16.82
Amsterdam
8.10
RUBBER. Rubber: Commodity Exchange Inc, of New York:
•
Milan
61%
Berlin
13.63/
March
Stockholm
19.39%
May ... 9.38
9.40
Copenhagen
22.40
- July (11ft on 139. 0,65
9.64
Oslo
19.90
Standard No. 1 "B" Contract
LI Koon Chan, Esq.
P. K., Kwok, Esq
Vienna
29
Total sales for the day
Wang Yan Tong? Ex
Prague
1091
412 contracts-275 contracts
Anaconda Copper Mining 14
American Waterworks 1844
18
Auburn
54%
Chan Ching Bhek, Esq.
Helsingfors
2261⁄2
Bendix Aviation
Madrid
89 19/82
Borden Co.
Lisbon
109%
Athens
582
Jan.
1.36 1.86
L Case Caterpillar
17 .201 12% 18%
171
513
20%
Co
68% 68 24% 20
Bucharest
*550
Belgrade
240
18+ 10% 371⁄2
GR
Rio
14*
Exchange:
Buenos Aires...
Bombay
Manila
Nagasaki
85%
Montevideo li
3574
March
Shanghai
Hong Kong
1/5%
May
Calcutta Canton
New York
Honolulu
Haiphong Hankow Kobe Kowloon London
PATI
Singapore Болтавиул Swatow
Shanghai
Holiday
July
Yokohama
1/2 16/82
Market:-Quiet
Silver Spot
19 5/16
Penang
Rangoon
Silver Forward Warloan
10%
101%
change:
Kan Ting Po, Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq, Chief Manager.
II The Fong, F, Manager.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:— Amoy
Seattle
Batavia Melbourne Semarang
Pelping Synday
Taiboku Tientain Saigon Tokyo San F'cisco Vancouver Yokohama
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. L granted on approved securities.
Current Accounts opened in Land Currency and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods in Las and Foreign Currencies on terma which will be gusted on appleation
Safe Deposit Boxes To Let
KAN TONG PO,
Calf Manage Hong Kong, 24th November, 1963.
Sellers Oficial. -British Wireless Service.
THE OVERSEAS · NATIONAL BANK LTD.
National Bank Building.. 8h, Des Voeux Road, Content
Authorized Capital ... $5,000,000.00
1.35 1.85
SUGAR.
Chase National Bank
Colombia bought ships in
الله
"Highly-Paid Staff." Capone put the organisation on Europe and the United States, a business basis. He selected for and sent them across Brazil up his accountants the best of the
Sugar: New York Sugar & Coffee Chrysler MotoN.Y. 3914 38 the Amazon with several: hun-worat element in town, and "pald
Dec. 29 Jan. 2. Curtiss Wright ......
Consolidated Gas
Du Pont
Eastman
Kamoura
Electric Auto-lite Co.
Electric Bond Share
95%
94%
80%
મ
.1.28 1.26
1.88
1.82
1.87
1.87
12
Electric Power & Light 4%
General
Electric
19%
38
17
COTTON.
Cotton: New York Cotton Tx-
Gummy Foods
Motors
Gillette Safety
Dec, 29 Range Jan. 2 Range Gold Dust
Jan. ....10.09 10.09
Mar. 10.28 10.26 May ..10.41-10.42
10.28 10.28 Internat
10.42. 10,43.
Harrester
10.57. 10.59 Tel & Tel.
July....10.57 10.57 10.72 10.78 Oct. .10.72 10.72-10.92 10.98 Dec. .10.89.10.89 11.07 11.07
Middling,
Spot.10.30
10.50 CHICAGO WHEAT.
* Myers "E" Inc Montgomery Ward" National Biscuit National National Dairy Prod
City Bank Paciic Gaa & Electric Otis Elevator
Motors
Paid-up Capital woo.. 1,000,000.00) Whent:-Chicago Board of Trade: B
New York, London and Paris Agentag
. BANGTRS TRUE COMPAN
We offer facilities for the trans60- tion of a general, banking ku buala Foreign Exchange transacted.. Slan AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, and bonds sought and, solda
Loans granted on approved "sacurities.
HALER PANG,
Capital Burplus
INC.
Dec. 29 Jan. 2.
December 182%
May AW, $8554" July
September 14,
81% 844 81%
85
Total sales for the day-
20,000,000 bushela:^/
NEWLY, HINED GOLD:
**** "THE" MERCANTILE BANK OF (WASHINGTON)
IIDIA, LTD.
DEAD OFFIORI
30. Onssoniarah Seven, Pobilien,
Authorland Capital
* Babsribed Capital
· Fald-up- Capitāl
Reserve. Fund
Der
Dec. 29. Jan. 2
Radio
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dred soldiers aboard. Cautious them minimum salaries of £80 - 61% not to attack Leticia directly, week. His henchmen consisted of 19% for fear of violating Brazilian the toughest gangsters: bombings.
121
19
12 neutrality, the Colombians one-way rides, machine gung and ascended the Putumayo and took armoured cars all became part of 89% Tarapace another Colombian his organisation. His salesmen, 8544 Treaty town, which had fallen sleek well-tailored Individuals, 9%% into Peruvian hands.
with significantly bulging hippoc
17%
40
Mediation Fails, y
|kets, canvassed Chicago's speak- Efforts to mediata were tin easiest
successful until the capture by from the outfit," they, an- Colombians of a Peruvian villaga nounced, whereupon the speakeasy
far up the Putumayo enabled the owner, if he valued his health, m
mediately' stocked Capone goods to League of Nations to only the the exclusion of all other dat-
As a result Colombians returned Tapapacast declined to deal in Capone" pre- casionally, some raged: "Individual- and the Peruvians handed over ducts. His dead body was usually Leticia to the League Commis found dumped in some isolated 6% sion for a year pending direct apot
conversa. Rivala "Wiped Out,"
184
484
11a 11
15%,
8%
29%
an
鮮味
421
21%
11% Colombian-Peruvian
7tions.
Both Colombia and Peru will mercilessly, The late
Capone's rivals, ware wiped out 16% be represented by experienced Banion was one of
Dion
Medelegations here,
47% bian Foreign Mi
111
Reberto Urdaneta
82
head his negotiations,
He will be masiste
Reconstruction Finance Corpn's buying price,
BLOG 84,06 METALS.
Dec. 28 Jan, 2
FAMOUS PARK AS ich 6.917.10 SUICIDE HAUNT
52.20 53.2022
Bois De Boulogne Earns Tragic Reputation
AERIAL STOLEN FROM ROOF.
Japan-Born Chinese
Bound Over-
“I will give you another chance
on Recount of your age
Balfour at the
this morni
Тарал,
when he'
The Bols
Guillermo Valencia,
Presidential candidate,
the late Mesars,
Ben
Anselmly Newberry,
tor Lufa Cano, newspaper publi
er
were Scalisi, Kon
and Heitler, and thres of Genna-brothers,
foulsstand, most bruta murder, however occurred on Valen
ne's Day, 1929, when seven men were lined up against The three Peruvian delegates The victims were henchmen of wall of a garage and shot to death. are Benor Victor Maurtua, → a "Baga", Moran, the last of the ma veteran diplomat with a long re- for gang leaders to attempt.com- cord in Latin America, Washing-petition with the Capone syndi- ton and Europe as Emissary on cate. Moran fled and Capone Special Missions, Senor Alberto reigned supreme, until a tip from Ulloa Sotto, Mayor and Senor Scotland Yard showed the authori Victor Andres Belaunde, Univer-ties how to not him. An enquiry aity professors, HOLLY WRs begun into his income tax CVR-
Brazil, although host to the sions, the only cha stion as a micides Conference will take no part in evidence could be
the discussions.Renter,
him, and as a rasul to Atlanta Penitent
Germany
deaths;
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TOMB VIOLATED
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