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take it away and have it chopped. Ah Leung went away with the note and returned about ten minutes)
FIND MAN AND GIRL SHOT.
DISCOVERY AFTER SEARCH AT NIGHT.
How two fathers discovered
RATIONALISATION DEFENDED.
THE ONE WORD CURE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.
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TEN YEAR EFFORT. TREASURES VANISH.
later without it. He explained TRAGEDY IN VILLAGE,
So many brickbats have recently Valuable books, manuscripts, that a friend of his (accused) had The master of the Fook Mo tailor's shop in Bridges Street, and medals were stolen during the got the note. Witness stated that their son and daughter dead un- been thrown at "rationalisation opposite the Chinese Y.AL.C.A.. was Whitsun holidays from the library she did not see it again until it der a tree after an all-night search which has been the butt of those is told in the story of a double seeking an easy explanation for the summoned before Mr. Lindsell at of the Royal Army Medical Col-
was shown to her at the police tragedy at Bishop Wilton, a pretty unemployment crisis, that I thought lege, Millbank Barracks.
it worth while to learn what one of the Central Magistracy this morn
English museums and police station. She asked Ah Leung for East Yorkshire village.
The couple, who were found the leading apostles of "rationali ing, on charges of having, on July 12th between the hours of 9.45 authorities on the Continent and the note but he replied that he p.m. and 11 p.m. caused an an- in America have been notified of would have to look for his friend shot in the early hours of the morn-sation" had to say in its defence,
ing, were:
writes a News Chronicle correspon- noyance to the complainant, Mr. the thefts, and a watch is being in order to get it back.
Replying to the jury, witness Alfred Swaine, eldest son of dent. C. N. Brown, by ringing, or per kept on British ports.
A police examination revealed said that as she knew it was a Major and Mrs. A. F. Swaine, of Accordingly, I called upon Major mitting his telephone bell to be that during a
Urwick, of the "International In- recent Sunday forged note, and she was sure it Bishop Wilton, and
Mabel Winifred Jofferson, dau-situte of Selentine Management," rung, and also with having been
night # room. had been could not be used, she made no the occupier of the premises in
entered by a window facing further attempt to get it back and ghter of Police-Sergeant and Mrs, author of the recently published which the annoyance was caused.
book, "The Meaning of Rationalisa more interest in the Jefferson. There took no courtyard.. The evidence of Mr. and Mrs. was a hole in the window large matter.
Sargeant Jefferson had belleved tion," and asked him what was his that his daughter hnd left the reply to those who see in ration. Brown was to the effect thut on!
enough for the insertion of a Friday, the 13th inst.. Mr. Brown man's hand, and the handle, which
village for a situation at Shipton-alisation the cause of the growth answered 11 call. Then Mrs,
thorpe. appeared to have been reached Brown took the receiver and kept through the hole, had blood marks on the line for nearly half an hour, until Mr. Brown went to make a
complaint to the engineer, who lived next door, as they had been subject to this annoyance for the last two months.
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on it.
inside
Knowledge Or Not? Detective Sergeant Fitches was re-called, and in answer to his Lordship stated that he searched accused when he was arrested. Witness said that he found the penknife in accused's left hand trouser pocket.
Bootlace Tied to Gun. The dead couple were lying close to a path. Both had been shot with a shot gun which was found lying by Swaine's side with When asked if he wished to a bootlace attached to the trigger. Whether the couple had been enborrowed the knife from people in it is not known but it is stated
question Sergeant Fitches, accused said he (witness) must have meeting secretly in recent months
It is supposed that the thieves either jumped from an adjoining window in a passage or walked across on a short plank found else- where in the building. No èx- to the means by which they planation has yet been offered as
tered or left the building.
the house.
he
of unemployment in most of the industrial countries of the world. He replied quite tersely that while rationalisation got all the blame for the loss of jobs by individuals, it got none of the credit for the ultimate benefits it conferred.
alisation," he said, "when he loses "A man naturally debits ration-
his job but he credits his own in- goes and gets a new telligence and initiative when he one which rationalisation may have created."
Effect of Unemployment.
and il m.. the telephone bell On Saturday between 10 p.m. rang again, and Mrs. Brown answered it. With an interval
Thieves' Strange Selection. In his summing up, his Lord-in the village that the girl's father of three minutea the bell rang on
A remarkable feature of the ship pointed out that the follow-objected to their keeping company three occasions. In disgust, she plugged the phone with a piece robbery is the unique character ing facts had been clearly proved. on the ground of the girl's youth:
On broad grounds, Major Urwick of botting paper, but stil the of the objects stolen, and the dif- That the note was a forgery; that and the diaparity in their ages.
Reprimanded Her.
argued that increased efficiency muilled ring kept on going on for feully which must inevitably be accused, passed it, and that
could not in the end be a bad thing. some time. Both of them re-experienced in their profitable obtained money upon it. The for only question for the jury to de-
Sergeant Jefferson said: "I got and so far as rationalisation is cognised the voice as being that disposal. The manuscripts, of the same person, the defendant. example. include the "Sharagam ide was whether or not when to know some months ago that my responsible for the present crisis accused passed the note and daughter had been going out with he likened the situation to that Bible." a solitary copy of an obtained the money he had guilty Swaine, and I reprimanded her be created by the introduction of Armenian translation made by the knowledge or whether he did so cause she was too young to start muchinery. The populace, seeing Deacon Philinos between 1580-90.without guilty knowledge.
their occupation removed, smashed courting. Mra. Brown, however, had some is richly illuminated through- His Lordship went on to analyse
the machines, but in the end the thing further to add. It appears out, and contains a number of the evidence, pointing out that "They met at village events. machines created vast new indus- that yesterday evening two
a popular local tries. full-page plates of remarkable there Chinese came to the
was a great conflict. He Swaine was beauty.
instanced the evidence of Ah cricketer, and as my daughter used
I objected that the saving of time with a summons for Mr. Other unique objects include Leung who had stated that when to go to the matches she frequent- and labour was hardly.comparable Brown. One of them asked for Mr. Brown, and on being told that series of Waterloo sketches, made accused received the note he told met him. Once I saw them to to the creation of new industries, he was resting, as he was not by Sir Charles Bell, the Surgeon-him it was a forgery, but accused
for the immediately resulting un- in-Chief to the British Army, and had denied that A Leung told him
employment tended rather to reduce the power of consumption. the notes of battle-cases made by himself and his assistants.
"Can Settle Outsitie."
flat
feeling well, they persisted in asking for him. She asked them to tell her what their business was, but the spokesman said:- "More better see Mr. Brown, can Bettle outside." She gathered that they had come to see Mr. Brown about settling the case out- side the Court.
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Defendant, when asked by the Magistrate whether this was 80, pointed out a man in Court as being the spokesman. His com- panion was not in Court.
In all six cases were rifled and some 50 books and manuscripts removed, many of them medical treatises or Service relies, which would be of much smaller value to any owner but the Library "au thorities.
FRONTIER FIGHTS IN INDIA.
..
gether, and told Swaine that a man of his years should have a little more sense than to give his affection to a mere girl."
On a Monday night the couple were seen at the village tennis clumb dance, but it is said they did not dance together.
Some people advance the theory that Swaine shot the girl acciden- tally, and in despair, turned the weapon on himself.
A Gallant Man. The father of the dead man had
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Indian Princes" Views. "It would be difficult," Sir Frederick Kenyon, the Director
Simla, July 14. and Librarian of the British
The Indian Princes met to-day Museum, stated, "to see how in order to consider the question] The man gave his name as a thief could obtain a higher of drafting their views on the re-a brilliant career in the Royal Ar- Kwan Tung-nin, employed under price for them than na unknown port of the Simon Commission. It tillery, and was promoted from the defendunt. He admitted that curiosities."
is understood that while favour the ranks for gallantry. He re- he had been communicating with
ing co-operation in carrying out tired with the rank of major. Mr. Brown on the telephone,
the design of na ultimate He was wounded in the war. because he wanted to get a job
federation and agreeing to join a His family had travelled, with him as an apprentice under him:
Council of Greater India, the on foreign service, and young The Magistrate:-Do you admit
Princes totally reject as unsatis- Swaine joined the Artillery. He that you were continuously ring
factory the financial and other left it in India about two years ing complainant up between 10
recommendations made by the ago, and since returning to Bishop a.m. and 11 a.m. on Friday?
Simon Commission with a view to Wilton had been farming. Witness: No.
giving effect to its schemes.
Witness said that he had gone) to see Mr. Brown on three occa-3 sions during the last three weeks, He had visited him in his flat before. Mr. Brown was a tailor) at No. 7 Duddel! Street, second) floor.
The Magistrate:-Were you an the telephone on Saturday night? No. I was away at the time. Who was with you when you went to see Mr. Brown --My foki, Yan Yit-hong.
Denied Story.
Why was he with you?-Just to keep me company,
Sir Frederic recalled that such famous thefts as those of Gains borough's Duchess of Devonshire and of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre had been financially, fai lures. The minor treasures of cathedral libraries offered a more ready prey, and some thirty years ago there had been a scholarly gentleman who specialised for many years in this class of "work"
"BIG BEN" CAUGHT NAPPING.
My A
GREENWICH CLOCKS SET IT AN EXAMPLE.
I said I wished to see Mr. Brown. second on 104 occasions during the
The Princes also regret that the recommend Commission did not the institution of a Supreme Court) of India, which they consider to be essential perquisite of the federation-Reuter.
an
Congress Attitude.
Miss Jefferson was at one time employed at the local Fleece Inn, and the landlady, Mrs. Holgate, curly black hair and "very dar- says she was a pretty girl, with
ing." She loved to ride farm horses.
drove
To this Major Urwick replied that rationalisation in the long run increased consumption by cheapen- ing production. For instance, he said, if America had not introduced the modernised, rationalised motor industry, she would bave four mil- lion men to employ. It was only by extreme rationalisation that this. industry had been built up-by: constantly decreasing the price and widening the circle of consumers. "There is all the difference," he said, "between unemployment and displacement. By producing goods more rapidly and more cheaply you create demand: then it becomes a problem of distribution. You can- not take unemployment as an isolat- ed phenomenon. An American has said, 'Unemployment is a function of obsolescence that it to say, if every manufacturer made the im- provements he ought to make, there would not be any unemployment.
Profits and Progress,
or
use
America." he added, "which was "I know of one factory in
never occupied at all. It became obsolete before it was completed.
"I remember being shown over the Guaranty Trust building in Bombay, July 14, Vallabhai Patel, acting Presi-
When he saw a man jump into New York. I remarked on the value lent of Congress, in a statement the River Seine in Paris Dimitri of the site and was told that the expresses the opinion that there Abramoff, a Russian taxi-driver, building had been erected in place "Big Ben" and Greenwich are is nothing in the Viceroy's state-topped his cab, leaped fully dress-of another which had only been up not always in complete agreement. ment of July 9 justifying the ed into the river, and brought him ten years. That was because they
could erect a building ten The Board of Visitors to the Obser-slightest change in Congress" atti-ashore. The driver accepted a vatory was informed by Sir Frank tude. He does not doubt that the glass of mineral water from admir twelve stories higher, and so
"British industries," he con- What did you mean when you Dyson, the Astronomer Itoyal that delegates at the round table con-ing by-standers, apologised, to his the site to better advantage. told Mrs. Brown More better see "Big Ben" was a second out on 24 ference will in due time be com- fares for the delay, and
tinued, "are pouring too much into away without any more fuss. than half a pletely disillusioned-Reuter. Mr Brown, can settle outside?"-occasions and more
the pockets of the shareholders and into taxes instead of pouring the profits back to keep pace with in- dustrial progress. The older in- -dustries, in America are conserva- tive too, but they have the standing example of the newer industries to shake them out of the rut. There has been technical and financial rationalisation in England, but not enough rationalisation in organisa- tion. To combine firms in not to rationalise them, but only to create the opportunity for rationalisation." "Unemployment in Great Britain can be cured, but it will take ten years of national effort comparable to the effort we made to provide our selves with munition during the war."
I did not say I wanted to settle past year. Indeed, the time balls outside.
at the Admiralty Signal Stations
Mr. Brown, recalled, said that at Portsmouth and Portland proved.
for he had
witness before. | better timekeepers, Acen
on only Witness had come to his place to two occasions did their error in ask him whether he could teach the year exceed half a second. him tailoring.
Dr. Jackson, Sir Frank Dyson's The Magistrate (to Mr. Brown); assistant, at a recent meeting of Do you train apprentices?-No. the Royal Astronomical Society. Mr. Brown said that he could not gave an account of the performance often recognise the voices on the of the "Shortt" clocks, three of telephone, because there were which were installed at Greenwich other sounds interrupting, but he Obervatory in 1925, 1926, and 1927. was prepared to swear that it was Such small errors as are revealed- witness' voice which he had heard (and a microscope is necessary for | on Friday and Saturday.
their detection-have for the most Mr. A. Braude, of the Telephone part been ascertained and allowed Company, said that Mr. Brown for, and the position to-day is that complained to him about 1.30 p.m. one of the clocks can keep time to
on Friday. He had then tele- within a second in a year on its
phoned to the exchange engineer, who traced the calls to 22259, in Bridges Street.
Exchange Evidence.
·
own dead reckoning,
So important is this advance that
In the opinion of Mr. F. Hope- Jones, a Fellow of the Society, "there is ground for hope that, Mi. T. Davis, the exchange when two or more clocks, set going engineer, said that when he got in the same group, are closely com- the message from Mr. Braude, he pared blocked up the connexion, and by that means the calling subscriber, even if he were to hang up his receiver, could not get away, and he traced the connexion to 22250 calling 23056.
you
tin-
and their performances studied with the same care, they will throw light on hitherto solved problems, such as the dis- crepancies between the period of rotation of the earth and the mo- tions of the moon and other mem- ber of the solar system." The Magistrate:--Once block the telephone, would it be possible for the caller to ring up of the premises in which this tale
phone is registered. ugain?-No.
The defendant said that his admits that he rang up the com- number comprised two arms, do plainant two or three times, you happen to know if this is car that not highly suspicious? rect? Not to my knowledge.
The Magistrate (to defendant):
It makes no difference, whether
Your fok!
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Defendant:-I was not in the shop at the time.
The Magistrate dismissed the
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Dangers of Rationalisation.
I suggested that in America pro- duction had reached saturation point. He would not agree. There would be no saturation point until five- every man in China had a roomed house with a bathroom, and then men would have discovered. fresh needs.
But rationalisation has its dan- gera.
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A British subject pays 7a. 6ď for a passport and 10 dollars for a The House of Representatives at visa for the United States. The Washington has already passed a passport is valid for five years and,
"The real risk of rationalisation," Bill reducing from £2 to 21. the can be renewed for a shilling said Major Urwick, "is the man at cost of a passport, and extending year for five years. That is only the top. You will not get ten- its life from five to six years. 12s. 6d, for ten years. The standard unless the When the Senate follows suit, the charge for a visa to an allen en- thousand-a-year men
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