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OFTEN AFTER DEING PRESENT AT
OF NEW ACQUAINTANCES I HAVE
KREUGER A POPULAR IDOL-
BY PAUL HARRISON
4
in
were
to help the child, such terms as "conviction" and "aentence," like- ly to hamper them in after life, should disappear. Another criti- clam put forward is that the Bill should have raised the age for
"M Kreuger is in conference"! But the testimony of his Inti- "M. Krauger cannot be dis-mates shows that Kreuger loved Juvenile Courts up to 21, instead SUMPTUOUS BANQUETS IN THE MIDST of 17 years. The Young Offen- GONE TO MINE THE FOLLOWING DAY turbed"..."M. Kreuger is with luxury and speed, and had a flair ders Committee, after stating IN A BACK-SHOP OR A GARRET, IN the bankers now. He said to as for romance. Ho simply confined ORDER TO RETEMPER MYSELF AMONG sure you that the principal and his whoopee-making to his own that 2,000 of these young people THE COMPANIONS OF MY POVERTY-interest will be paid in a... E domain. They say his "only weak-
Drolli....
E. Drelil
wore champagne and are sent to prison every year, gave, Beranger.
While the trim little accretary beautiful women. But so careful- It as its considered opinion that
The Den Line 5.6. Beneruachan, Karin Bokmann, attended to calla ly, or perhaps bountifully, did the "both in the public interest and
from Home via Straits, in dus here on and callers one morning in 1931, bachelor industriallat guard his Ivar Kreuger, the mighty match-private affairs, that not one of for the welfare of the young of-, Sunday. fender concerned, it appears to us
Scaffolding around a house being maker, was alone in the "silent them ever has been aired in court. He acquired control of a big to be the duty of the legislature built on the site bordering Jardine's room" atop his Stockholm office
Buzaar at Causeway Bay, gave way building. What he had been do-night club in Stockholm, but is and of the courts to see that so
yesterday, throwing Choi Loi-fat, a ing didn't look in the least im wald over to have gone there. of paper seat- The entertainers, instead, nome- far as persons under 21 are con- plasterer, down a height of 50 feet to portant. Sheets
the street. Ho received fatal head tered over his big desk had beca times went to Kreuger's private aban- cerned, imprisonment is
injuries and died after admission to covered with a name copled many parties. Incidentally, that club hoapital.
timos-E. Drelli.. E. Dreft now is dark and bankrupt. Its doned as fur as possible."
.. E. Dreilli...
clientele wont broke along with When we come to look into the
During quarrying work on the hill-;
Finally the big blonde Indus-the billion-dollar collapse of the general problem of the youthful side at Belchers Fort yesterday, a
The silent Swede had half offender, it will be recognised that, boulder became dislodged and rolled trialist drew out an important- Kreuger "empire."
down the slope. A stone mason was looking document and studied it. in the main, it is the whole pro-struck in the right leg and was some-His high forehead was furrowed dozen houses or apartments blem of poverty and social condi- what seriously injured, boing sub with a frown, his blue eyes dull Stockholm and its suburbs, and a to the Government ed by sleepless nights of worry. lonely retreat on a tiny island in tions. The child who comes be sequently taken
Civil Hospital.
He may have noticed that his hand the Baltic. A yacht and the fleet- shook a little, but he steadied it est speedboat in Sweden fore a Juvenile Court rarely comes
Failing from a bunk on which he with an effect as he bent over the moored at his private dock. Ho from a prosperous home; usually
was sleeping, Wong Po, an apprentice
The Match King once declared he is from a home where the neces-painter, living at 134, Apliu Street, document and wrote for the last bought and drove the fastest carn.
Shamshuipo, yesterday, suffered con- time, "E. Drell."
He took the paper, together that the rules of his aucéens were afty for the mother to go out tousion and other injuries, and was work until late is imperative. or reported this morning to bo still in an with a copper plate etched with ailence, more silence, and still desperate overcrowding unconscious condition at the Kwong the likeness of an Italian bonde, to more silence. He applied them where
"Here is a even to his Stockholm office build- a printer-engraver. Wah Hospital, to which he was conditions exist--homes in which moved after the mishap.
matter so important I must at- Ing, which, thickly carpeted and there can be little control over the
Sa Mul, 65, a widow, attempted to tend to it myself," he explained with insulated walls, was nearly
confidentially. I
you toas qulet at the height of a busy children. Until there is a wip- take her life yesterday by cutting her ing out of these slum areas, we throat with a razor at her home at print this text with a border from day as it is now, following the de-.
14, Jubilee Street. She wan taken to this plate. Print 42 of them, Say bacle.
In addition to his luxurious Kreuger had n cannot expect the young criminal
the Government Civil Hospital where nothing of this. It is a secret. be-
surgeon showed a cause of the strained relations be-business office,
"silent room" where ho nover, un- to disappear. In the meantime, examination by much will depend on the spirit in superficial cut. The woman is expect tween Italy and France."
ed to
to recover. Another case, that of
As he rode back to his office, he der any circumstances, was to be Ng Sui-heung, 28. a young woman, which the new Bill is operated,
turned-out fatally for the victim, who must have known that the people disturbed. Only ho and the juni- once ft becomes inw.
Above all, was found dead with a rope passed were saying: "Look, there gees tor had keys to the room,
twice around her neck, hanging from M. Kreuger! How tired he ap- there he secluded himself to make there is wide power invented in
a typhoon-shutter at her home at 91, pears, planning his big deals his wily schemes and to study the the Lord Chancellor to make rules Wuhu Street, Hunghom. Suicide is they say, he works night and day, few records that he kept of his
advanced by the police authorities, helping Sweden and the other manifold manipulations.
Almost constantly travelling, for the Juvenile Courts, and this
who are investigating the case.
countrica... in these times it is
snw ft to maintain Hood to have so rich and powerful Krouger leads to the hope that a way will
apartments in New York, Berlin, a friend. be opened up for real consultation
They never could have dreamed Parls and London. Staffs of do- parents, have to go about assuring the
that that their idol had just executed mesties kept these places kon- In view of the fact that Hong-between the, Court, the
all world of their conviction
the greatest single fraud on re-stantly in readiness for the great kong is shortly to have its Juvenile the probation officers, and
in the child's there is no serious risk of inflation cord--the forgery of $100,000,000 man or his guests Courts, coupled with other mea-othera interested
when what they really mean is worth of securities. sures in the interests of youthful welfare. offenders, it is interesting to note some of the provisions of a new Children's Bill which is at present before the British Parliament. The
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JUVENILE COURTS.
main Act governing the treatment of young offenders and children needing care and protection was passed in 1908, and it was rightly regarded as a landmark in the
cause for the first time it was re-
Offenders,
confession.
TO
good
that they cannot yet see enough grounds for trying to hope
want
An Unreal Figure.
and
The Paris apartment where he shot himself was not a particu- larly sumptuous place, but at that
for it." The politicians share this Not even his suicide last March time he had under construction, America's Politi
altitude of the bankers to such an could shatter the romantic glamor in the heart of Paris, a new busi- America's intimation that her delegates to
Designed primarily as the head- a world economic extent that they have invented a that had grown up about the man. ness building topped by a pent-
proceed, is the world learning to
quarters of the Banque do Suedo conference would not be able to now word to take the place of Only now, as the investigations house fairyland.
It was natural that he should et de Paris, it was nearing com- give their views freely on tarifs inflation. "Reflation" is what they know the real Kreuger.
call it, and they are assiduously and the reduction of war debts seeking ways to accomplish an have become the centre of misin-pletion when his suicide brought and fanciful legend, the work to a halt. Every stone until after the Presidential elec-end, the truthful description of formation tion is a remarkable
which they are afraid to present, for he seems to have made him was specially cut and numbered mysterious figure. When he spoke den. Elaborate vaults, strong as history of juvenile legislation, be- No attempt is being made to hide to the public. This fear minni-self, deliberately, a remote and before being imported from Swe- the feeling of the Administration fested alike by political leaders at all, he was shy, almost diffident. a fortress, already have been in
Plane called for a magnificent cognised that the problem of the that a reduction, or even cancella- and financial lenders must in- ile dreaded reporters, had no stalled in the sub-basement.
tion, is inevitable, excent to the evitably stand in the way of an spokesman. America knew him delinquent child is different from American publle, and apparently intelligent and definitive settle. better than his own Sweden, for private apartment on the roof. that of the adult and needs special it is the intention of the Republi- ment of economic and financial it was in New York that he grant- There was to be an open summer with exotic plants and flowers, The can Party to fight treatment in every respect.
the election conditions in the United States, ed his only lengthy interviews and garden, and a winter garden filled
to be needed is a made his only public address.
Nearly everything about the aviaries for rare birds, and a ter new Bill, in many particulars, is with as little reference to these What seems
of lenders, as possible, instead leader, or a group based on the valuable report of vital fanuca the Committee on the Treatment of doing what would appear to be willing to risk their own political man was as paradoxical as the race from which he could contem- futures in the effort to convince fact that he cheated thousands of plate the delightful old Place Ven- the obvious thing in Britain,
ped by a statue of his only idol- the voting public of the righteous-investors while posing as a ben-dome and its central column_top- issued in
Napoleon. of Young
That does not mean
So there was a romantic side to the country on them. It would they believe. 1927. It marks another step for. Damely, seeking the mandate ofness of the programme in whichevolent giant.
Ivar Kreuger. They say, ward, but in some quarters is not seem that Mr. J. M. Keynes, the that what is needed is either a
For instance, much has been that there was a kindly one. He regarded as sufficiently thorough- well-known British economist, put new apostle. of inflation, or an im
once declared that so far as he his finger on the root of the evil passioned advocate of debt can-sald of his simple tastes going in its provisions.
over had been discharged. He One of the most important in his recent article in the "Atian-cellation. What it doea mean ia homely ways. He often travelled knew no employee of his companies
on a passenger present depression and distress nama to appear changes in the proposed legislatic Monthly." when he said that that there should come out of the unattended, and never allowed his
"in the United States it is almost men with courage enough to list. He almost invariably de-was reported to have declined a tompting offer of Russian match- and was the
wood because some of his inconceivable what rubbish a enunciate a progressive, oven afclined invitations, to bring them more into line with public man has to utter to-day if radical programme, for its correc-despair of society ion hunters would be deprived of jobs.
he is to be kept respectable." The Lion, and stand ready to sacrifice He wore plain clothes, ate plain
cigarettes in Have generous sary, in its defence. the practice already adopted in real fact is that many politicians their political futures, if neces- food, and smoked the more advanced towns and in- believe, rightly or wrongly, that troduced in London by an Act of the electorate in the United States 1920. Provision is made for nis utterly without intelligent com- special rota of Justices specially prehension of economic, financial, A qualified for the work, and it is or international problems.
leader of one of the parties said Courts further laid down that
Police very frankly not long ago that shall not be held in a
while every intelligent man knew Court without
From sanction
that there was no longer any hope of the Secretary
State of the payment of the interallied Another provision is the raising debts, and that while many in-
tion is an improvement in the con- stitution of Juvenile Courts so as
of the age under which children ftelligent men believed that their ean be dealt with in the Juvenile cancellation
would go stimulate The international trade as to be in the and a source of profit, even to the creditors who surrendered their rights, any public, man who ad-
Court from 16 to 17 years. Courts are also to be given power to deal with all cases of neglect
up to 17 years of age, instead ofvocated auch a measure, or who
on
par n
Some-
with
thin
1-4 no at present, while the general admitted the impossibility of such sign his own powers of the Juvenile Courts to payment, would order whippings are abolished. political death warrant. There are many other excellent what provisions, but there are also mat-is the statement of Mr. Newton as part of his dealt D. Baker, made ters which have not been
campaign for the Presidency, that with at all, auch, for example, as
the question of United States par- the provision of Observation Cen-ticipation in the League of Na- tres or Central Remand Homes,ilons should not be raised in the which were, in a sense, the pivot presidential campaign this year, on which many of the recommen-Mr. Baker has long been known sa dations of the Young Offenders a foremost advocate of American Committee turned. The Bill also participation in the League, yet ho differs in another important res-declines to defend his own con- electorate victions peet from the recommendations which he suspects is hostile
of the Committee in that it does not provide that offences
before
an
Mr. Keynes goes on to proved "Serious and sonsible
Bay: bankera,
or admitted in the Juvenile Court who na men of common sense are (shall not rank sa convictions. It trying to do what they can to stom has well been argued that if the the tide of liquidation-acad
stimulate the forces of expansion, whole intention of the Court is
Simple--Yet Luxury-loving.
moderation.
""'T'in so glad;^Mrs. Dobbé, that you have decided to see your fago through."
and
too,
men
He
bonuses to his aides and six of them have been in hie arrested as accomplices chiennery.
Not Eccentric.
He had few personal eccentri cities. It la not true that the Match King never carried mat- ches. Nor did he, as legend has it, always carry. a million kronen in his pocket. On the contrary, due to his forgetfulness of de- tail, he sometimes found himself unable to pay a tixi driver.
Despite his penchant for speed, Kreuger had been pledged by his bankers to stay out of zeroplancs. But he refused to take out any insurance on his life. His aged parents, who are still living, and his brother and four sisters wore woll provided for, he believed. Besides, at 52 he was lithe and healthy, said he'd live to be 100, and declared he never would re- tire.
He once. said:
"I don't know how much money I've got, and I don't care. What difference does money make 7"
Power, the Frankenstein.
So it was not money that beck- oned him on to dazzling Indus- trial coups and triumphs of inter- power. national fance. It was He had sought it over since he was 27, when ho had returned to Sweden from America, land of ma- chines and mergers, He reached Into nearly avery country in the world to snatch at opportunity. Ho became the largest private money lender to Europe. He droamed, perhaps, of dollar dieta- torship.
courage.
But the monster he created,
and partly of genius
(Continued on Pay