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THE CHINA MAH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936
EXPLANATION
The China Mail
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Ninety-first. Year of Publication.
Sa Wyndham Street, Hons The Father Of American
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17. Garrick Street, London, WC2 Notice To Contributors.
Surgery DE Philip Sing Physick (1769-
1837) wanted to be a gold-
Here There and Everywhere.
SPY STORY
All communications intended for smith like his maternal grand- publication should be addressed to father: Although be yielded Armistice Day was purposely the Editer, and be accompanied by his father's wishes and became a chosen for the publication of Mrs. the Writer's Name and Address famous surgeon, most of his later Shirley Millard's diary and recol- not necessarily for insertion, but inventions and surgical improve lections of her experiences as es a guarantee of good faith.
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LOST LEGACIES surgeon and a nurse followed.
OF £13,000
Man's Ventures In Whisky And Flats
FINANCED GAMBLING
a
U.S. GANSTERS OF OTHER DAYS
FAMOUS DALTON RAID
RECALLED
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN 1843 FIGHT
in
ESIDENTS of
"I
Ras recently relied the old brothers
Coffeyville, did not have as bad a reputation as
anniversary of a stirring event in In recalling the battle recently, the town's history. It was on the Mr. Gump said:
2
So
day. 44 years ago, when five de I always felt kindly of Em-
He was the young flourishing revolvers mett. speradoes,
-
ont.
into
He is
When of the
ments can be traced to his earlier nurse in France in 1915. mechanical bent. Dr. Physick Here is one of the stories studied in Philadelphia and in her book, which is entitled London. Later he practiced in Saw Them Dic." London and Edinburgh. In 1800) While she was undressing he returned to the United States badly wounded German prisoner Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. S. 1936. and lectured in surgery
University of Pennsylvania Of be said in perfect French: "Don't
ville on horseback Their purpose it." his many famous operations the bother undressing me; I'm too far and rides, rode madly into Coffey His brothers dragged him Respectable Citizen was to raid the two banks of the best known is the one of lithotomy gone," and asked for the Agent
place. The raid never came off. To-day Emmett Dalton is the performed on Chief Justice Mar de Liaison.
At first Mrs. Millard was shall in 1831. He justly deserves the title of "Father of American surprised that she stared at him. The reason was the quick action of sole survivor of the ga
la resident of the town.
and has turned to religion for com- to lose." It was not stubbornness of Surgery bestowed upon him for "Quick," he said, "there is no time Charles T. Gamp, now 75 and still a respected resident of Los Angeles On that October morning long fort On the anniversary of the successful operations pride or hardness of heart his many
When she told the officer helago Gump saw the bandits riding Coffeyville raid he attended. ser- the Angelus Temple. which impelled the Prime Min- and daring surgical innovations,
came at once and patted the manlinto town from the window of a vices at ister last month to refuse faci- some of which are still in use.
gently on the shoulder. He was hardware store. He grabbed' * where Aimee Semple McPherson lities to a motion for enabling
wheeled into the dressing-room-rifle and ran out into the street. officiates. set
The Agent de Liaison, the head shouting:
"Since the day at Coffeyville." unemployed marchers to forth their grievances in per-
"It's the Daltons!""
said Dalton, "I never have com- cart son at the Bar of the House of
An hour later, when the
And so it was. The three Dal-mitted the slightest infraction of Commons. It was the constitu-
was wheeled out, the man's face ton brothers, known throughout the the laws of God or man."
This was true also of the later tional principle that it is the
was covered. The nurse was cry-west as ruthless killers, with the function of the House itself to
ing and the officer was wiping his two other members of their gang life of his brother, Bob discuss the grievances of any
the terror B Powers and Dick Broadwell, the gang was glasses. section of the community. If
The man had belonged to the had chosen Coffeyville as a scene west Bob Dalton was reported to fateful bare nctched his gun 32 times as it could be shown that Parlia
French Intelligence and had slipped of operations. It was a into the enemy's lines. The sur choice. Gump's shouted warning reminders of the men he had kill- ment had in any way failed in this respect failed, that is to
After leaving prison- Bob “SYSTEM"
geon had kept him alive with saline brought dozens of storekeepers and led
turned respectable. He injections just long enough to get other residents armed with pistols. Dalton
about say, not to find a remedy but to discuss all remedies that
enemy shotguns, even knives, came run had been pardoned by President Legacies lost in house and flat his information anyone could suggest the
ning into the street Gump fired Theodore Roosevelt. Bob went to case would indeed be different property were mentioned at Lon troops.
the first shot and in a moment a Mississippi and became a prosper
He was But the distress and the griev-don Bankruptcy Court recently
battle was raging. It didn't last ous oil field developer. lances of Jarrow have been re-when Alexander Fraser Reid, of adjudged
long.
made a deputy sheriff for three the Warwick-road. S.W considered by
and received peatedly
Misissippi counties November. 1925.
Reign Of Terror Ended The Fashion House. Mr. Attlee, who moved bankrupt. in
Mrs. County-Hasn't our hostess an Outnumbered and surrounded the letters from a long list of national the adjournment to raise that sought his discharge.
Mr. C. Brace Park, Official Re extensive repertoire?
Dalton brothers, Bob. Grat, andjand sectional leaders attesting his question, earnestly pleaded that
Mrs. Newlyrich-Yes, and don Emmett, made a desperate attempt character and standing as a citizen. these marchers, felt that their ceirer, said there had been a total
to shoot their way to freedom. In later years Bob Dalton not realisation of £746 and a dividend that tight gown show it?
as "Colonel" desperate position was
First to fall fatally wounded was known Playing Providence realised by the rest of the of is 4d in the pound was paid
Prisoner: I know I'm guilty. It Grat. Next a city marshal and several years ago.
death
Crime Suppression country, and that the Prime on proofs of debt admitted for
She three residents toppled in was on account of the missus.
Bob Dalton fell, badly wounded. On the subject of crime sup- Minister would be wise to give 2390.
In 1919 Mr. Reid received ap-is about to be confined. the House an opportunity of
under his
Judge: Strange coincidence. So are Emmett's borse was shot from un-pression Dalton had definite ideas. seeing them and hearing their proximately £9,410
der him and he surrendered. Po-You can stop crime if you want case. The Prime Minister, Father's will. He then began to you
well and Broadwell were killed. It to," he once said. "Give me a few however, thought that wisdom speculate in house and fiat pro-
Epic of Push "Come, my good man," quoth the ended the reign of terror of the fast, hard riding, hard shooting Bob the Dalton gang-
and Emmett westerners of the old school and in pointed precisely in the opposite perty in Kensington.
In February, 1923, his brother'
full-paunched plutocrat direction, and justified his con- tention by grave and cogent also died, and he received about carious depths of bis powerfully Dalton were convicted and given 60 days. I'd make the worst city in out of sentences of 20 and 15 years in the count look like a tabernacle.". purring automobile, "T
Emmett argument and by the presenta- £4.000 from that estate.
petrol, but I haven't all day to wait
He was particularly contempta- Everything Lost
prison, respectively. tion of the long view as opposed to the short.
But the moneys be had inherit-for i You must get a more on--|
He was only 21 and gangs of modern desperadoes and success in this of his age. attain any material
predicted the Dillinger mob would Jarrow's disappointments have, together with money borrowed exhibit some push. You will never ceived a lighter sentence because ons of the Dillinger and similar indeed, been quite unusually on the security of certain rever-hard world unless you have pash. pushed, and
It did. But even so, its unem-sionary interests, were all lost in when I was young.
petrol pump, "there's no' a drap o'lcome to the same end as the old
(Continued on Page 6) ployment figure had fallen in speculative ventures. In Febru❘that got me where, I am to-day!"
"Aye, man"
said the mournful petrol the place. I doot ye'll be Dalton gang. September last by 50 per cent.ary. 1924, he borrowed £100 from from its peak. The case of a moneylender. He defaulted in youth who was draped on the ancient needin' tae start pushin' again." Jarrow, bad though it is, is not making the stupulated repayments the worst, and a repetition of and the proceedings in bankruptcy whatever departure from
Mr. Reid attributed his insol- sound rule might be made in Jarrow's favour would at once vency to depreciation of shares be claimed for other districts and the failure of a company to whose case was worse, and then repay £3,000 which he had lent it. Continuing, Mr. Park said that, for all which, irrespective of
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the degree of their misfortunes, in addition to the losses mention- were sensible of the value of and. Mr. Reid, in 1923, lost £500 which, he said, he handed to an- advertisement.
other person for, among other things, gambling at San Sebastian.
All marches, it is to be re- membered, have not been of the
The person had represented to as that same orderly kind
him that he had a system which he j which has at this moment con- ciliated a general goodwill In Mr. Reid) agreed to finance in one recent and well-remember-consideration of being allowed be
share in the anticipated profits.
Hunger March carried liberal
ed case the supply wagons of a An additional £1,200 was lost in provison of rude but not ineffi-nancing a secret process for m cient weapons. In these days.turing whisky. when the gravest dangers which confront Parliamentarism are accompanied by marching men,!
The discharge was granted, sub- ject to three months suspension.
it behoves all sincere Parlia-PUBLIC-HOUSE MAN mentarians to be particularly careful about encouraging their
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fined £10 Prime Minister. He sees in house, Edgware, was
with £6 costs at Hendon last month! these marches the ever present
be potentialities of civil disorder, for permitting the house to
used for betting, and Jack Lam- for there are people in England bert, aged 50, of Whitchurch- just as anxious to proceed by
javenue, Edgware, was similarly force as their fellows elsewhere, ned for using the house for bet- He fears the first beginnings of
ting civil strife, for civil strife, as James Goodwin, aged 36, of we have seen too often lately, Granville-road, Childs Hill, a bar- goes on sometimes to civil war.;
man was fined £2 for assisting Any such demand as for the conduct of betting; Arthur column of unemployed marchers Whiting, aged 56, of Evelyn- to be received by a particular? Minister or
to address thereaue, Kingsbury, summoned for House of Commons is in effect being found on premises used for a demend with menace so long Letting, was discharged.
as the constitutional way of presenting grievances stands wide open and in fact is freely used. No Government to-day
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The Traffic Inspector would like jcan afford to yield on such a the European gentleman who was point No-opposition least a passenger in public motor car of all a Constitutional Socialist No. 178 when it knocked down a Opposition should encourage Chinese male at Hennessy Road sada demande, which, auce.con-near Lee Garden at 5.30 4.3. on ceded, would be renewed when December, 6 to communicate with they get into office in an in- Wim at the Traine Office, Central
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