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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Packingtown
"Packingtown," or "The Yards,"
the scene of the recent great fire] in Chicago, is a combination of factory and cattle ranch.
It
It is a city within a city.. has its own system of electricity and water, its own police and traf ic officers, and miles of private railway tracks..
During the day-time Its popula. tlon la 75,000. Visitors couraged to inspect. it.
SHAME OF JOHN DILLINGER
OLD OUTLAWS WOULD HAVE SCORNED HIM
IDOL WITH FEET OF CLAY
(By Sir Percival Phillips.)
He chal-
armoured
Gos
Chicago. The machine-gun ago has sent the SU
UPER-MEN are popularly sup-old-time outlaw into oblivion. His posed to be one of the products technique seems curiously crude in are en of the great American Republic. the light of modern methods. The The Ar While some of the exhibits lately on outlaw of to-day disdains to hido mour Company, has 3 сокра of view are of doubtful authenticity it himself in a wilderness guides, who conduct daily tours, cannot be denied that at least she lenges society from an
The visitor can see the whole has given the world, the super-out-car and citics are his prey. process whereby pigs or steers are law. "Public Enemy. No. 1 ne bombs, chain mail waistcoats, wire- converted into a hundred varieties John Dillinger, enjoys that unen-less, sawn-off shotguns and automa- of pork and beef, not to mention a viable reputation. The outlawa, tie pistols are his tools of trade. whole series of by-products. known to Europe are but feeble off-His progress has been speeded up There is truth in the original shoots of crime compared to this and his traditional enemy, the Armour's statement that "nothing robust "killer" with the "snake's sheriff, still Ings behind. He has of the pig is wasted but his eyes" and a murderous sense
been known to evade military forces Bquenl."
humour, whose exploits continue to as easily as a wideflung police net All the newspapers and give the and to slip through the walls of an Upton Sinclair Out Of Date
apparently impregnable prison with police many sleepless nights. The history of "The Yards" is Times have indeed changes since the ease of a Houdini, written in human as well as ant-the good old days when an outlaw mal blood.
Įmight also be a gentleman. - Enemy No. 1 in this country, the The original Armour, the fam This new type of desperado
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of
Which brings us back to Public
elusive John Dillinger, now at large with a heavy price upon his head.
jous P. D., made his fortune by thrown up by the machine-gun age and an ineradicable smile upon his
T
His charmed life is nightmare to the distraught in every
selling pork "short" at the end of lacks manners as well na merala. the Civil War. His competitors He has nothing in common with the degenerate face-Dillinger, King of thought that peace was still
farheroes of the Corsican hills or the the Outlaws. away.
Sicilian celebrities of the Mafia. He was a hard taskmaster. In Unlike them, he will kill a friend as guardians of the peace those early days the working day readily as kill an enemy, if the act Western State. A fugitive convict, was 12 hours. The mea's struggle will ensure his freedom when hard he laughs at prison bars, and his for a 10-hour and, later, an eight-pressed. His flight from the law merriment has a sinister ring-. ACKNOWLEDGMENT was designed to put Germany on hour day was won only after seri has left a trail of corpses, broken Even his pursuers laughed grimly
her feet again after her cur-ous riots and bloodshed. Mrs. R. F. Mitchell and family, rency debacle was an arrange- Forty years ago the district was
their attendance at the funeral.
The China Mail
model
Your Daily Smile!
of
cars and riddled bank buildings.
when he bluffed his way out of a
There is no romarice in him. Buarded cell with a wooden revolver: He would be outlawed by the out-warders in as th
laws of the past.
The American school of crime
was nearly responsible for putting
made national fools of the
tender their heartfelt thanks to ment by which certain loans their many friends for the kind vore to be raised, chiefly in Newally a corpool, and almost liter. letters of condolence received in York and London, that were cal-aliya cesspool. their recent bereavement, for the culated to be quite sufficient for To-day the visitor, ready to boil
Dillinger A Born Bandit beautiful floral tributes, and for the purpose. They are called the with indignation after reading Up-
'Dawes' and 'Young' loans, afterton Sinclair's "The Jungle," comes the now defunct Mafia on a new that outlaws are bom rather than Dillinger's récord tends to prove the American bankers who asaway disappointed.
basis of outlawry. A few years made. His life of crime was enter- sessed the amounts required and Although for from beautiful,
ago, before Mussolini sent the In- The "Packing-town" is a
ed an voluntarily as an antidote to arranged for the security.
domitable Cesare Mori to Sielly to the barstom of the Indiana hamlet essential thing was
to restore cleanliness and hygiene.
break up that centuries-old or-j
where he was born. Since he bu Hong Kong, Thursday, June 28, 1934, the credit of German finance.
ganisation, it was the abject of The face value of the sterling
careful study by certain graduates the incidents of his mis-spent youth came the first outlaw of America, bonds was a hundred pounds,
of the gangster or cadet branch
have filled the newspapers and in- and ten million pounds were sub A commercial traveller anked an founded in Chicago. scribed, in London for the first Aberdeen draper for a repeat order for
These worthies were transplanted his home town for stories, as they quiring reporters have ransacked loan, nine million for the second, elastic.
NS, na." szid 'the The amount required for the anm for nie mair of your elastic, risen in the bootlegging and rac-elect of the United States.
Aberdonian, Sicilians or their sons who had do when a man becomes President- The Chancellor of the Exche-nual service of these loans is un- couldna mesure a yairdo your last keteering games. quer had no difficulty in passing der two million pounds. To both consignment wi'ost the darned stuff murder forced two of them to flee Johnny" in Mooresville, Indiana,
An injudiciou. through the House of Commons countries Germany sells much mapping."
Public Enemy No. 1 is still the provisions of his Bill to pre more than she buys; that is, she
the country and they were next whence he came. The 1,774 in- vide a Clearing House for for- has what is called
heard of under cover in Palermo. habitants have only to cast their eign payments, but it would be balance of trade.
a favourable
University students decided by Contact with elder brethren of the Her sales tal more retrograde step. though it was the financial policy only a third of that sum.
million pounds, her purchases
The Clearing House Scheme.
BIT OF A POSER
idle to deny that it is only one England last year were thirty vote that there is no hell. I won-Mafia there disclosed the posibil memories back ten years to recall
Al·
him as a 21-year-old machinist and der what they will raise next ties of reorganising the old-fashion-| Boatrace right? She
ed brotherhood on Chicago lines and the son of a trustes of the First Christian Church. He had an en- making it a "going concern.” Ironical
gaging stin, and went to Sunday Cesare Morf's Drive school because he had to. Bad spokenness was on a visit to a wealthy They might have succeeded but companions were "Johnny's”- down-
A young woman noted for her out--
take."
of Germany that suggested the therefore had a large sterling plan. the Bill itself is of quite balance, enough to pay the inter- general application; and it is one more step towards national trad-est ten times over. ing and bargaining in place of Instead of paying the interest but elderly bride. the freedom of contract between. in sterling as it fell due, an ela- "And do you know, my dear, on the for Meri's drive inland from the fall. His "hero" was Ed Single- The Math fell piecemeal ton, a boy older than himself, who Individuals.
horate method of deferred pay-third day of our honeymoon George coast. The scheme itself is practical-ments was Introduced that made on first przle in the Irish Sweep-into his set of gendarmes. It was also had the germ of outlawry in
in slow business, but wholly success-him. ly the same that was adopted at the bonds a much less desirable "Good heavens," the
girl blurted
ful. The Chicagoans fied dismayed One Saturday night they waylaid the end of the war, and that owed holding, and their price dropped out. Three days too late!"
to the hinterland, intent only on an elderly grocer named Morgan its origin to the war spirit. All about forty three pounds. The
saving their skins. When captured on his way home from the village the belligerent powers found money that should have been
with their more reputable com-barber shop, beat him about the tried to rob him. panions in outlawry they were head
comparative safety of the Chicago magic formula, "Stick 'em up!" courts. The others were put in Morgan grappled with him instead, cages.
"Johnny's" revolver went off, and
themselves in possession of large
perty, which they were bound to
Made
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and
ANSWERED Jused for interest was then em-
"Why does the modern artist ployed, with other large specialise, in sunsets?, inquires quantities of private enemy pro amounts-to buy the depreciat-writer. Because he never gets up thankful to be extradited to the "Johnny" for the first time used the restore to the owners on the, ad-actually resold in Berlin at
led bonds. Some of them were in time to see a sunrise. vent of peace. But feelings were profit to the Reichsbank.
Bia Preference too exasperated and suspicion too rife for a simple transaction adays of Internationalism as
One hears a great deal now-
Little Bobble had been allowed to I saw some of them months later the embrya outlaws fled. Their 'vice of handing back without the as-political theory or ideal. Up to ar
aser the brand new twins for the first at their trial in a market loan, tim staggered home with no worse surance that the former enemy twenty years ago there was into his mother at length:
Carefully looking at them, he said where the peasants had gathered Injury than a headache, would deal equally fairly with the fact a vast amount of practical "Well, they're not much to look at: late masters. They were a deject his head in the door of the local Half an hour later "Johnny" put private property held by him and Internationalism, based on good but I think I'd keep the one on the ed lot without their haloes. returnable to other nationals. A
restaurant and naked worriedly if system was accordingly intro faith and the honest fulfilment right if I were you!" duced under which a debit note of contracts. Every new shock
(Continued on Page 3)
was issued in London and would credit narrows at once both
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from miles around to stare at their
The American outlaw has always been in a class alone. Jesse James, the train robber, was the first spec- tacular member of the fraternilly to
be honoured in Berlin when ad-the field of international dealings pletely international of games.
and of individual, investment and Its world-wide. fascination has become a national figure. His enterprise.
vice was received that a payment] of equal amount had been made
LOCAL ESTATE
Leaves $21,100.
rather grim meaning for En-rough-riders, with sheriffs and their There is nothing to be said for glish people, in sterling to the holder of athe theory that 'things will right man hardly runneth to the time swept through the sparsely scified European Bank Clerk
The memory: of posses lagging Impotently behind, similar claim in Germany. The themselves in time. Confidence when an Englishman won the Westem Statea, holding up railway system worked quite smoothly, can only return by a statesman singles at until all claima had been satia-like agreement honourably ad women's singles were, in-terrified: passengers to
Wimbledon. The cars laden with specie, sifting the| fied; but it was obviously an imnistered. The League of Nadeed, in English hands for gold watch, shooting down
their last aftermath of war and not an ons should have tackled the years before the war,
Letters of administration for the every local estate, amounting to $21,100, ordinary commercial transae-
but human impediment in their path of the late Mr. Alexander Robert- tion.
economic rather than the poll-Britain has not very much and vanishing again to one of their son, a bank clerk, who died at: Negotiations have been begun of the fiasco of the World Econo-perts tell us that England may reach of their pursuers.
tical problems first. Even in face to be proud of since. The ex-remote hiding-places far beyond Brompton Hospital, Middlesex, on that we may hope will be sucmic Conference, something on come into her own again this cessful; but the new Bill confers the same lines must be attempt-year. The prospects of English power to return to war condi-] tions on the economic plane; and
It is necessary to make the rea- sons clear, The present negotia- tions. have nothing to do with
ed.
Wimbledon.
Jesse James
October 21, 1983, have been granted. to Mr. D. J. Lewis, solicitor.
awn tennis, they say, have not Jesse James had his Imitalors, Letters of Administration for the been so bright since the begin- but none achieved such, notoriety or local estate, amounting to $18,000, ning of the century, when the Wg such a distinctive figure. His of the tale Mr Chan Chuk-ling, Doherty's were beating the world, escapades entered the realm of formerly of No. 68 Seymour Road,
war debt or reparations. Dr. The Wimbledon fortnight be- If there is any soundness in hu-fiction before the end came, Bix Tientals, whose death was reported Schacht, the head of the Reichs-gan on Monday with signs that man judgment the young men in penny shockers" emblazoned with by the British Municipality Police bank, has referred to them, but it will again be triumphantly England who have come to the a lurid portrait of the outlaw, com- of Tientsis after being kidnapped on the reparations debts were wiped thrilling and populous. The queer front are as good as any in the plete with wide-brimmed hat and a October 21, 1988, have been granted out at Lausanne. Not a mark fact that a game which, however world, and the young women are brace of six-shoplers, flooded the to Mr. M. H. Turner, solicitor. has been paid on that account ancient its ancestry, is not yet also showing good promise. United States and were read with Leung Wing-foon, married since, Great Britain is merely sixty years old, should require Though the great Crawford be tearful foy by the rising genera-woman, of No. 58 Bonham Road, claiming that all creditors, should for its championships, the largest till mobil, though other wel- tion. Other outlaws of the plains died on January 10 last, leaving be treated alike, and that the trens in the world is proof in it come invaders are worthy of the followed him into cheap literature, local estats, valued at $182,500. debtor country should pay what self of the pacular fitness of best steel Britain, can, find this The brotherhood had its monument Probate with will annexed have been |ft can,
***, Jawa tennis to modern humanity. year's » Wimbledon, may bring in the paper-backed novels of the granted to Tal Tung pal line KRK.. A part of the settlement that it is to-day by far the most com- England glory again,
band,