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IT'S A SEASONABLE TIME
DOWNFALL OF AL
CAPONE.
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To all appearances Palm Island; in the lovely Bay of Biscayne, with its water seldom below 70deg., in safe enough; but Capone knows
that his life is at stake and ho takes no riska,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
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355 METRES,
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" etc.
1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press nows. 2 p.m.-Close down.
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It is known from disclosures of malcontents who have seceded from Scarface's gang, and from other] sources perhaps more reliable, that i the weakening of the chief's rule haa 0 to 0.27 p.m.- been the topic of angry discussion. Capone insisted at first upon his complete domination of the Chicago' front and of the organisation of which he has been the mainspring. His opponents, hungry for power and bigger division of profits, argued in favour of a now distribu-Old Folks at Home and in For- tion of territory and the appoint- ment of new "district rulers” in places where busines had either de clined or was increasing too slowly,
Farewell to His Greatness. Scarface's rule was uttacked
TO GET A WINTER SUIT OR OVERCOAT.|| savagely, and the notoriety which
We have Just Received a Wide Variety of Woollens for Your Selection.
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PRICE REASONABLE.
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de nounced as a menace not alone to the future of the "business," but also to the personal safety of his associates. The chief was held re-
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YOUNG SOLDIER'S TALKIES AND YOUR PUBLIC AUCTION.
TRAGIC END.
SUICIDE FOLLOWING
PUNISHMENT.
Pathetic notes from a young ar
Liver in the Royal Artillery John Arthur Ransome, aged 20, of the lat Training Battery, 1st Training Brigade, Woolwich, who hanged himself after being punished, were read at the Greenwich inquest.
Ransome, it was stated, was given seven days C.B. and his temporary bombardier's stripe
taken nuay for being improperly dressed on a brigade parade
พทย
RADIO.
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Bimaplast, But Best.
But the now invention (I can call
it that, for it has only just reached its presont stage of complete per- fection) comprises an entirely new principle and involves a simple form of mechanical synchronising for coupling any ordinary home projector with any ordinary grano- phone, from the simplest mechanical | type to the most expensive of the electrionis.
Band Bolections.
"Parsifal-Morch of the Knights
But although it is undoubtedly of the Holy Grail" (Wagner). Ransome wrote to his father, the simplest Home Talkie in the The Regimental Band of H.M. Capt. John William Kansome, a world, no other one can give better Grenadier Guards, conducted retired officer of the Cheshire Re-results, and there are few, if any, by Capt. George Miller.-DX76,giment asking him to intervene.
Capt. Ransome, of Liverpool, said that his son had boop in the Army since he was 14.· On Feb. 27 his son spoke of the punishment
eign Lands" (3. C. Roberts). Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, conducted by Capt. George Miller-DX210. 6.27 to 6.66 p.m.--
Humorous Songs,
Song-"A Fine Old English
Dearth
www.
The
in a letter.
Capt. Ransome added that he wrote to the coinmasiding officer at Woolwich. Ho considered
the punishment his son received was Bovere.
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Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION-
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SATURDAY, APRIL 18,
COMMENCING At 11 AM.
AT. THEIR SALES ROOM, 4, DUDDELL STREET,
2 CASES IMITATION TIGËR
... SKINS
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HE Undersigned have roonivad
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, Concine at 11,30 AM.
2 DOZEN SCOTT'S EMULSION 2 BAZEB SCARLET BLANKETS
*
to equal it. This is all totally irre- TERMS-CASH ON DELIVERY, spective of its price,
·LAMMERT BROS.,
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The pictures are, in fact, an good as those which the projector can give, and the tone and clearness of the specchi and music equally re-
gramophone is capable. Nothing at present the optimism of which the
all is lost at either side; actually, there is often a gain duo to the speed, stabilising effect of the syn-HE Undersigned have received chroniser. This is particularly no-
Instructions
gramophone is used.
Bombardier Artificer Harris said that Ransome and he worked toge- ther in a fitter's shop at the Wool-ticeable when a cheap, portable wich Depot. On Tuesday morning when he went to the shop he found the inner doors locked, and on it was a note in Ransome's handwrit
which said:
Gentleman." Harry (Haritone), ---DX50, Chorus Sir Harry Lauder
Songs "Vocal gems. Border Singers.-DX 103,
Winter Song "If
Comes," Billy Bennett,-DX13. downfall.
Descriptive Sketch" An Old
Time Sing Song."-Charlesing, Coborn.-DX21.
WING HING CO. |sponsible for his failure to come to
TAILORS.
164, QUEEN'S ROAD. PRON 21417.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTIOULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to bo hold on MONDAY, the 20th Day of APRIL 1931, at 8 .M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department by Order of His. EXCELLENT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lat of CROWV LAND at Tai Kok Tsai, in the L'alony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 rears, with the aption of renewal at
rown Beat to be fixed by the Survey of HIS MAJKAIT THE KING, for on- Jurther term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale. }
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 24589.
Junction ef Ki Lung Street and Poplar Street.
Boundary
Mosaure
mante.
As por
zale plan
Contenta
"“godz sawnbg
Aboat
1,437
Annual
Rental.
| Upre£ ince.
130
fate
1853
" who'
terms with "men higher up are working for his Pointed reference was made to the increasing power of the “* Big Six "' Reform Committee of Chicago's business inen.
were accusations made that high officials who fornier- ly winked at the beer rarket are nów frowning upon the present, methods of alleviating Chicago's thirst.
The first conférence on Pales Island
only preparatory-n clearing of the ground. It was, ae." cording to all accounts, a love least compared with the second, when Capone, tired out by angry discus sion, virtually placed his fate in the hands of his constituents. The third conference ended in a drunken | brawl, in which many bottles from
the Bahamas and the Island of Cuba) -two hours' flying distance from Minani airport--were suashed,
All these conversations took place anid idyllic surroundings, under the shades of the whispering paling an Capone's private property. They were known to the Beory of resi dents on the island, all enemies of the Big Gungster because his re sidence amongst them has reduced the value of their real estate by 50 per vent.
8.55 to 7.13 p.m.-
Planoforte Solos..
"Caprice Chinoise" (Cyril Scott):
-Cyril Scott; "Pensoso" (Cyril Scott), Cyril
Scott.-2284: "Paraphrase on Rigoletto Quar-
tet"
(Verdi-Listz). Ireno
DX205.
*<
in.
Fetch a constable, Bust the door I am dord. One a.m. 3/3/31. Miss Lilian Hammock, Ran- some's fiancee, said she saw him on Sunday and again on Monday evening, when he had a very bad
The synchroniser which will, I suppose, cost absurdly little to buy, for it is the perfect mass-production job, is a flexible compling that will be available in various lengths, There will be short ones if you want to couple a nearby electric gramophone or long ones if you wish to comple with a gramophone placed near to, er
cold and was quiet and despon-screen, dent.
Mia Hammock added that flan- somo also told her that he had beca punished because he did not have a woollen cardigan on parade on the Thursday morning.
behind the
Any Projector Any Gramophone,
At each end are the adaptors, and these enable the coupling between any little projector and gramophone Scharrer,-2395,-
in a matter of seconds. One of the p.m.--Stock quotations,
main secrets is the use of a special 7.43 to 7.40 p.m.-.
MS. Pinafore "Vocal gems. Gems from Gilbert and Sullivan.
A Previous Offence,
turntable device for placing on the Capt. Kenneth MasWichan, gramophone. The master patents -Columbia Light Opera Co-captain in the Royal Artillery, cover the only practical ways of who is temporarily in charge of connecting to an existing grame- "Yolanthe "--Vocal gems-Colim- the 1st Training Dattery at Wool-phone. The mechanics of the thing bia Light Opera Co.-DX17. with, said that he regarded Ran. are simplicity itself. A balancing and Patience "-Vocal gema-Coluro- some as a good workman, but was retarding action operates through bis Light Opera Co.-DX39. disappointed in him because he was 1. straightforward worm-gearing. 7.40 to 8 p.m.-
not justifying the temporary strips | In ordinary language that means ho had been given on his recom- the one end of the coupling is free mendation for his work as a solto, mave only with the rotation of dier. Ten days before the "crime" a 'worm You see the idea! But he had congratulated Ransome of
in cate you think the invention is one of those that are too beautifully simple to bo practical, you can
Violin
Concert Itsmg,
Solo-" Persian Seng" (Clinks and Zimbalist).—Efrem Zimbalist-2101,
Song" Eileen Alannan "(E, S.
his work.
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Commencing at 2.30 P.M.
AT THRIN SALES ROOM,
4, DEDDELL STREET,
A LARGE QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD, FURNITURE
Comprising
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, Marble Top Jardinieres, Armchairs, Mah Jong Tables, Cabinets, Bodstead, Marble Top Opium Stools, Clients, Half Round Tables, Tea Poys, Oblong Tables, Desku, Lampstands, Marble Top Round Table, Table Screen, Chaira, Lanterns, Lying Chairs, Couches, etc., etc.,
and
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
}
AT THE SALES · ROOM,"
4, DUDDELL STREET,
A QUANTITY OF OLD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ETC., ETC.
TERMS:~-~CASH ON DELIVERY,
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THE Undersigned have received
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MR. JOHN 9. SMITH, the Proprietor of the
STATION HOTEL,
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
Or
THURSDAY, FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY, THE 23RD, 24th and 25th APRIL, 1931,
COMMENCING EACH DAY at
10.30 A.M.
AT
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NOB, 65 AND 67, NATHAN ROAD,
KOWLOON
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising
FORNITURE,
Including: Chesterfold Couches and Armchairs, Bookcases, Glass Cabinets, Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror,
Teak Hotstand, Chesterfield Couch Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, and Chaire, Large Armchairs, Book- Card Table, Marble Top Washstands, cases, Side Boards, Folding Screens, Pictures, Hand Paintings, Crockery, Fenders, Brass Ware, Ornaments, Glass Ware, Ice Chests, Gramaphono, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Flower Records, Brass Ware, Table Lamps, Stands, etc., etc. Table Fans, Vases, Brass Gongs, Cutlery, Blanketa, Linen, Mosquito Nets, Rugs, Cloisonne Vaser, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
Marble and J. Thomas).-Dame Capt. MacKichan said that a week take it from me that some hundreds Iron and Teak Bedsteads, Ornaments, Long Mirrors, Pictures, Clocks, Brass
Clara Butt (Contralto).-X341. Pinnoforte Sala-"Gnomeareigen" (Listz).-Leff Touishnoff.--2053, Song "Thou Remainest" (Me- ----Granahan)-William McEwan
A few hours before Capone went by his private yacht to Miami air- port to fly to Chicago, where he has been sentenced to six months; imprisonment for contempt to court, it was known to, the Federal detec tive police, as well as to the boot- legging fraternity in this city, that Capone had said farewell, perforce, to all his greatness, and that an- PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS other had been appointed with 8 p.m.-Weather report, local time,
lesser prerogatives to reign in his rtc. stead.
B.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
the by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 20ru DAY of APRIL, 1931, at 3 m at the Offices of the Public Wor
A1assing and Kidnappers.
(Tenor).-2035.
Referring to the punishment, previously he had had Ransome be fore him in the orderly room and had warned him for offenco, so that when he again ap Peared on Feb. 26 he told him that he had no option but to punish
22 similar
him. The punishment was for a
6.03 to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio ade
concert.
Al Capone's favourite pastime is 10.30 p.m.-Close down. Department, by. Order of Hasling Sailfish, ranging from 25
EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, OF Оле
ak CROWN LAND at Tai Kek to 100 lbs., are exught here,
for a term of 75 years, with the
also the sportive' tonn-hook one
of gear wheels were cut before ex actly the right pitches of threads
were arrived at.
When the adaptors at each end of the link_have_been screwed in place, you merely have to switch on
the projector, and off you go. And
bad turn-out on a cerimonial parto stop it you switch off. There are
no adjustments of speed to make- "At the same time," said the off your gramophone already does that cer, "he was uncivil in the office for you, and there is not the slight. deliberately, I considered-and as I had warned him previously about
Tan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, and fight an hour"-weighing from SOVIET EX-OFFICIAL FILES that, I gave him half an hour's option of renewal at a Crown Rent 5 lbs. to 150 lbs., barracudas," the
to be fired by the Surrayor of Hastiger of the sea, and plenty of fish MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of smaller size.
of 75 years.
No. of Sale,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality.
19
Kowloon Island Lot Registry No.
Adjoining .... No. 2459.
Adilson faland
Ki Lung Street
Boundary ad
Measure.
mente.
EL fift
cale plats.
Contests
Square
Annus!
About
(013
Upact Price.
18,201
Sea-daning is another diversion:
of the dethroned potentate:
He
does not play golf, but spends hours at cards with his bodyguard. He
Ni
SUIT.
ACTION AGAINST GERMAN PAPER,
sheet."
shouting drill to try and teach him his mannera. I did not want to put against him a charge of in- subordination, because that would have looked bad on his crime:
Police constable Flummer pro- duced four notes which, he said, he found on a teble in the fitter's shop addressed to the coroner, Capt. Mackichan, Miss Hammock, and Capt. Hansone. To the coron er Ransome wrote:
You will hold an inquest over my body. I am not of unsound mind, but perfectly collected. I make a protest against the methods of the Army Capt MacKichan will be an important witness. My career. is ruined. I ask you to sparo the
754.
ON VIEW From MONDAY, the 20TH APRIL, 1981.
est possibility of the thing getting TERMS OAsh on Delivery, stop and start the apparatus in the out of synchronism. You can even,
middle of films without affecting the synchronisation.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS. ··
Perfect Synchronisation. And when say that you can alter the speed of either the grame-out of the room and came back later phone or the projector without mak-
ing any difference, I know you will to switch off at the appropriate find it hard to believe-but it is time. Generally, of course, you
Why, should you at the begin-join the audience. ning, set the film or record only approximately, you can bring the two into synchronism while the gear is actually running.
Belf-Governing.
fights shy of the city of Miami, Berlin April 10.-Bessedowski, where he has been arrested several the former Councillor of the Soviet times as a "vigrant."
Embassy at Tokyo and later on at Miami is not proud-of-her Paris, whose sensational flight from winter resident." A few days ago the Paris Embassy and subsequent the Red Cross here refused his publication of alleged secrets of donation of £200. His presence even Soviet diplomatic and political in Palm Island is considered as a methods attracted world-wide at-
Dr. Roberts was demonstrating And all this, remember, with an his Home Talkie to a few friends liability and as a slur upon Miami's tention, has led a suit for heavy 136 reputation with tourists.
damages in the Berlin court against
outfit costing but a tenth or twen For Mra. Capone, a good-looking the National Socialist organ Foel
tirth of most of those Home Talkies little while back when he was Irish woman, also of Brooklyn birth, | kischer. Beobachter which in com-
that are selling widely in the United summoned to the telephone in an Sintes! ane finds considerable sympathy.enting on his allegation that the She goes to Mass regularly, and in Hitlerites had appealed to Moscow
adjoining room. They were greatly Dr. Roberts has been having it
surprised when, with an apology, Theress. Sho seldom lerves the called Bessedowaki an "infamous
Fair to the amazement of the ieland home except to go to church. scoundrel" who for years had lived
Brooded Too Much.
most critical technical, musical and out so much as glancing at the Guard on Schoolboy Bon.
in luxury at the cost of the Russian
artistic people. Many have said "Tony," the ten-year-old son of the Suviot Embassy only when the Knight, addressing the father, ized apparatus in London cinemas!
people and staged his flight from while of unsound mind, Dr.
Recording a verdict of suicide that the agrehranisation and tune miniature talkie drama that was in
are better than are given by full-progress. the Capones, is bright little Tuesis police were about to bring said: "I think he brooded top much And-all-this is obtainable-with fellow-He-goes-to-Miami-daily in him to book. The trial is being over this punishment. It is now gear that, given a gramophone for there is no danger in leaving They needn't have been surprised, roadster driven by one of his awaited with great interest as abrious that that would not have (with or without a pick-up driven the apparatus to itself-over-run- father's Pretorian guards to attend Bessodowaki has announced that he affected his promotion. There are through your radio outfit) should ning or anything elso likely to cause the school conducted by the Jesuit is ready to prove his allegations many good soldiers who have far cost less than most three valvers. Fathers of the Church of the Re-against the National Socialista, more entries on their crime-shoots deemer, where he was recently con Meanwhile the Secessionists from than he seems to have had.
For those who don't happen to trouble, is quite impossible. Two great foars prevent the fulled by Captain Stennes are gaining probably owing to an attack of in-home projectors are already in make it clear that I have written
the National Socialist Party head certainly had got very depressed, realise it, although it is estimated thas over one hundred thousand
In conclusion, I would like to enjoyment of Psalm Island and its more adherents than had originally fluenza, and this depression was in in this country alone, the little pro- this article so that readers aba!! wild orchid by the gangster's been expected. They are calling creased by his bad cold. I think jectors use non-inflammable film, know that Dr. Robert has brought domestic circle. First there is the themselves "Revolutionary Nation he laid too much stress in his mind Clothing and Household fear, nover absent, of assassinational Socialiste" and have issued the
and are quite automatic in opera, the Home Talkies tot its final stage More than one bomb has been first number of a bi-weekly nowa pairing his prospects
on the fact of his punishment im
tion, Gooda gratefully accepted at thrown over the barricade of the paper Throughout northern (ler- say he was a young and ambitions will carry on without the slightest, that the necessary films and records
of perfection. You set them running and. they It only remains for me to add f CITY HALL any MONDAY Spanish villa from the waterside many the movement is growing but soldier, and would have made
-by-someone in a speed-boat-The in spite of this it is still too early good soldier in time...
attention until the film is complet will be available in due course for for THURSDAY between second fear is that young Tony may to estimate. what influence it will Outside the court Capt. Maced. You don't have to apply any general circulation at prices within be kidnapped-London Daily Tele-hays on the future of Herr Hitler's Kichan and Capa Ransoms shook technical skill, you can even go the reach of all.-G. V. Dowding 10.30 and 11.80.
graph
party.
Fontinued at foot of next column.) in Popular Wirelesk,
member of the Sisterhood of St, for subsides; and had received them, notoriety which will follow this exhibited at the British Industries he left to attend to the call-with-1
H.K. Benevolent Society.
JUMBLE SALE
MAY 5th, 2 P.M. CITY HALL.
firmed.
hands...
Ha
I should
a
Teak Dining Tables, Round and Square Tables, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Filters, Dianer Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Cutlery, Table and Ceiling Fans, etc., etc.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Double and Single Wardrobes with Bovelled Mirror Doors, Mantle Pieces, Dressing Tables, Marble Top Wash- atands, Chest of Drawers, Dénks, Rattan Ware, Linen and Blankets, etc., etc.
Electric Lights and Fittings, Porcelain Wash Basins, Shanghai Baths, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, Water Tanks, Plants and Ferns in Pots, etc., etc., etc.
Also
CHUBBS SAFE PIANO by MOUTRIE
and
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD WARE,
TERMS-CASH OF DELITERY.
On View from TUESDAY, the
21st Aram, 1981. LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
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