Boy
OURNVILLE
COCOA
CADBURY
BA
Sends them
to bed
happy
V. O. S.
finest liqUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY
The public is often nervous
of whisky that is any cheap. er than the well-known. proprietary brands, and is 'usually right to be so.
The
inexpensiveness
of
V. O. S. Whisky, however, is due to the saving in freight effected by its being shipped out in cak and bottled in Hongkong under supervision.
expert
Sole Agents:-
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
(Inansporate-1 under the Companies" Ordinances of itongkang.) PRINCE's BJILDING. 100 HOUSE STREET. Tel. 20075.
WANTED AT ONCE
MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, ETC., will be very gratefully received by the HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY at its Room at the
CITY HALL
Mondays and Thursdays
from 10.30a.m. to 12.00 nood..
Send us your old clothes
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, · 1931,
AMERICA'S 800 BANDS
OF CRIMINALS.
YEARLY INCOME OF £600,000,000.
667THE criminal army is wag-
ing a national campaign- and winning. Chicago, the world's Fourth City, has fallen," declares Mr. E. D. Sullivan in his startling book, Chicago Surrenders, publish. It is ed to-day. (Bles, 78. Od.) the sequel to the recently publiah- ed "Al Capone," and to the samo author's "Look at Chicago," and It well deserves close study. carries the story of Prohibition and the gangsters hideous system of cold-blooded murder a farther.
stage
The secret source of all this not- work of crime la to be found in venal justice and the vast profits of the illicit liquor trade:
Dr. Last year, according to James M. Doran, then Prohibition Commissioner, the perfectly or ganised and murderously vicious American bootleg liquor industry had an income of £600,000,000.
Nation-Wide Crime.
This gum is divided between 800 ganga scattered up and down the United States.
а
The results have been terrific beyond all measure. Murder is a commonplace. Ja Chicago alone 6,000 homicides bave nearly occurred under Prohibition, record never semi-approached in the turbulent history of that spectacular city. Crime and dia- regard for law is nation-wide! Organisatio never before sidered possible in the underworld has been established.
con-
No one is convicted; no gangster is executed. The ganga rule, and that is the fine flower of modern democracyt
a year.
Less than a year ago, one Lingle, reporter on a Chicago newspaper. was murdered by gangsters. His salary as a journalist was £GGO I afterwards appeared that he had been spending some £12,000 a year, and that he was the liatson olleer between the gangsters and the corrupt Chicago police.
Murder in a Ballroom.
Lingle was Al Capone's friend, however, and Al Capone took steps to settle with his kilier, one Zuta, in the usual ghastly fashion, Zuta was dancing with a number of other couples in the pavilion of an hetal at some distance from Chicago, where he was in hiding,
when-
the doormin, Jon Selby, Baw about eight well-dressed men. Five went inside. Zuta, dancing within, had just passed the door of the pavilion with his partner, when the five men, one carrying a machine gun, took him by the shoulder. Ho fell to the floor, not a vestige of colour In his usually florid face. They picked him up calmly.
Not a word was spoken to Wo of the men carried him bodily to the
corner in which the piano stood. He was put on a chair. A gangster stood on either side of him; the man with the machine En stood ten feet away ready. Two others, guns drawn, herded the dancers away.
Zutn, rigid and speechless, never once looked towards his casual murderer. He was just falling from the chair, when the men be- side him stepped away and the "chopper" set the machine gun in operation.
for
the
No one has yet been puulshed About this cowardly deed.
date of it one Juliano, a gangster friend of Ai Capone with eight murders to his record, was "taken for a ride," presumably by rival gangsterk, and when corpse was discovered It found that every bone in his body was, broken."
his
WAS
What is happening in Chicago is happening in all other large American cities. "In ratio of murder to population, 12 of the larger American cities lead bullet- riddled Chicago," says the author. New York had its Al Capone in one Arnold Rothstein:
True master-mind, perhaps the keenest anti-social brain lu criminal history
known to honest policemen 48 "eop shooter"; known to big thieves as Seizure of the mercat fragment of bis ultra privato and quickly vanishing papers unearth. ed £1,400.000 worth of habit- forming druge.
a fence
While others proposed in New York, ho disposed.
and
Rothestrin, despite his polye [pоsp7] of 4 dinner-jacketed, emooth-spoken,
Caretully Jewelled figure, had about him 50 people as tough and murdererous as anyone in the world, and with those he could transact any type of business
But with all his training and calculation he could not provent one of his puppets from turning against him. One misjudgment, one ballot, спа funeral..
He had himself killed.some 15 gangsters, and after his death
Sure of a perfect reception
So will you be if you fit your set with Osram
there was a wholesale of his followers.
massacre palling regime of crime:
With repeal, the most remunera- tive industry that the underworld ever knew will be shut down- completely! What is to be expect- ed of the WOLVES? Routine and anticipates a still more ap-crime for the "punks" so called;
The author discusses the рго- bable effect of repeal, when the Prohibition laws are swept away,
Valves
organised and perfectly executed crime on a large seals by the "Big Shots."
The Prohibitionist State, in fact, is the helpless prey of the criminal!
abric for SPRING
We have marked the opening of
our new store by a
SPECIAL
DISPLAY
of Silks Suitable for Spring Wear
NEWEST COLOURS
NEWEST DESIGNS}
LOWEST PRICES
You are cordially invited to inspect the latest offerings at
The Taj Mahal
Silk Store
KING'S THEATRE BUILDING
D'Aguilar Street.
BISQUIT DUBOUCHE BRANDY.
TRULY EXCELLENT
Libstainable from all Wina Merchants.
SOLE AGENTS
THE CENTRAL TRADING CO,
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS”
and then let us plam
your. 1931 Advertising Campaign
會