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MY 1934
THE CAR SUCCESS
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DE LUXE SALOON -£230
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NOTES OF THE DAY FEET OF
LOANS TO INDUSTRY
Mr. Eugene Black's hnnounco- mont that the Federal Reserve Banks are now prepared to re- ceive applications for direct lanns to industry may prove to be one of the turning points in the Rose volt recovery programme when tho value of its operations is Bessed. Efforts to crente, now in the United primary money States have not proved conspicu- Qualy successful and it is hard to any at this stage what will be the precise effect of the expansion contemplated by the use of silver. It ha
has, however, been clearly shown
that until "accondary money" bocomes moro widely ugod, until that is, there is an increase in business loans, in- creases in currency supplies are of little value.
BORDERLINE BUSINESS
trial
CLAY: The Very Idea!
JOHN DILLINGER
MUPER-MEN are popularly eup-fremate hiding-places far beyond
posed to be one of the pro-reach of their pursuers. ducts of the great American Re- public. While some of the ex-
•
financiar cannot start with-enemy, if the net will ensure his trade. 1s
•
JEEJEEBHOY PASSES
ON
By George
"THE GOLDEN CANDAREEN”
Last- Instalment
was a beautiful sunny
I way in Hongkong and
Nothing, did we sayt
"A quarter past twelve," - she muttered, instinctively correcting the clock.
The brightest of our readers will have conjectured by this time that the broken unlovely creature whom we have described dropping her feet all over tho Praya is no
hibita lately on view are of doubt- Jesse James had his imitators, ful authenticity It cannot be but neno, achieved such notoriety. denied that at least she has given or was such a distinctive figure. deni the world the super-out-law. His escapades entered the realm of "Public Enemy No. 1, ne John fiction before the end came. Six- Dillinger, enjoys that unenviable penny "shockara" emblazoned with apart from the Number 9 reputation. The outlaws known a lurid portrait of the outlaw, com-Typhoon Signal which had to Europe are but feeble offshoots plote with wide brimmed hat and a just been hoisted, there was of crime compared to this robust brace, of six-shooters, flooded the "killer" with the "snake's oyes" United States and were rend with nothing to mar the peaceful and a murderous sense of humour, fearful joy by the rising genera- serenity of the great City. whose exploits continue to fill the tow. Other outlaws of the plains newspapers and give the police followed him into cheap literature. The brotherhood had its monument many sleepless nights.
Along the Praya cante a large, Times have indeed changed in the paper-backed novels of the
gaunt woman making rapid pro- since the good old days when an day. outlaw might also be a gentleman. The machinegun age has sent the gress by the simple expedient of old-time outlaw into oblivion. His ifting up her feet and dropping Expert examination in the lust
technique seems curiously crude in them a little in front of her. Low months has rovented clearly
This new type of desperate the light of modern methods. The As she come
Uji to the Star that "accondary money" is show-thrown up by the machine-gun nge outlaw of to-day disdains to hido Ferry she raised her rugged.
wilderness. ing no great expansion in propor- lacks manners as well as morals. himself in
He heavily-lined face towards the Vaux-tion to "primary" money. Bankers He has nothing in common with challenges society from an armour-clock and noted that it was twenty
have insisted that an increase in the heroes of the Corsican bills or od car and cities are his prey. Gas past twelve.
the Sicilian celebrities of the bombs, chain mall waistcoats, business loans, must wait upon business recovery: Business men Mafia. Unlike them, he will kill wireless, swan-off shotguns and naturally retorted that the indusa friend as readily as kill an automatic pistols are his tools of progress has been out
lubrication, The freedom when hard pressed. His speeded up and his traditional light from the law has left a trail enemy, the shariff, still laga be- Case hns almply been made worse by this argument and counter- of corpses, broken ears and riddled hind. He has been known to evade argument; for, as time goes on,
bank buildings. businesses that are starving for financial accommodation' must be come increasingly rinity as credit propositions. That is why the Government
has stepped in. Through the Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation, it has alrendy strengthened the position of the banks, and now, through the pro-ugo, before Mussolini sent the in-Enemy No. 1 the elusive John domitable Cesare Mort to Sicily to Pillinger, now at large with a break up that centuries-old organi. heavy price upon his head and an sution, it was the object of careful incradicable smile upon his deber, incautiously flung kereself at study by certain graduates of the generate face-Dillinger, King of Madge's feet in our last instal- His charmed life isment, has learnt her lesson by now gangster or cadet brauch founded the Outlaws. in Chicago.
ja nightmare to the distraught and is reduced to her normal state
| NOT AN INNOVATION
These worthles were transplant-uardians of the peace in every of mind. She is supposed to be ed Sicilians or their sons who had vict, he laughs at prison bars, and
Western State. A fugitive con- accompanying Madge but prefers to walk on the other side of the The scheme is no innovation. risen in the bootlegging and his morriment has a sinister ring, road taking a surreptitious peep In the Hoover Administration, the racketeering games. An injudic Federal Reserve System War em feus murder forced two of thent to Even his pursuers laughed grimly into her beloved volume of Chau
when he bluffed his way out of a
cor's "Early English Poeme.' powered to make loans direet to flee the country and they were guarded cell with a wooden revol- Arrived under the windows of
next heard of under cover in ver and made national fools of the the P.W.D., Madge elevated her." deserving applicants unable obtain accommodation at the com- Palermo. Contact with elder No-one acquainted with the mercial banks.
warders in his path.
xlasa eye towards the place where Little business, brethren of the Mafia there dis facts is likely to dispute the however, was done. Apparently closed the possibilities of re- Dillinger's record tends to prove | Jesjecbhoy, his hair neatly amarm- statement made by a correspond- the credit conditions imposed were organising the old-fashioned that outlaws are born rather thaned behind his ears, was leaning ent yesterday that the police are too exacting. Another effort to brotherhood on Chicago lines and made. His life of crime was en-over a typewriter. As he mani- [faced with à diffleult position in
clear the channels between the making it a "going concern." tered on voluntarily as an antidote cured his dainty fingers, his clear to the boredom of the Indiana ham- voice carolled in song while the dealing with the present out-reservoir of idle money and the
They might have succeeded but let where he was born. Since he Director and other satellites stood break of rabies. If existing publie was made when industries for Mort's drive inland from the became tho frat
were required to band together in- coast. The Mafia fell piecemeal
outinw
admiringly at n distance. regulations are not adequate, to mortgage companies as a pre-into his net of gendarmes. It was America, the incidents of his mis- there, is every reason why they liminary to borrowing from the slow business, but wholly suc-papers and inquiring reporters spent youth have filled the news- should be strengthened, in order Reconstruction Finance Corpora- cessful. The Chicagoans fled dis to give the police lawful author- tion. But, except for the cotton
Hong Kong Hotel Garage Stubbs, Road.
The
Hongkong Telegraphi
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.
THE COLONY'S STRAY
DOGS
posal to make direct loans to in- dustry, it is taking, the initiative In financing borderline business. In no other way could the Gordian
knot have been cul.
to
There is no romance in hin. He would be outlawed by the out laws of the past.
The American school of crimea was nearly responsible for putting the now defunct Mafin on a new basis of outlawry. A few years.)
military forces us easily as a wide flung police net and to silp through the walls of an apparently im- pregnable prison with the case of
Houdini.
Which brings us back to Public
of
other than our heroine,
Madge was on way to force Reg into a tiffin_date having swallowed her prido and a tidy lot of gin in arriving at this decision.
The amah who, you will remem
*
Jeejeebhoy paused a moment to yawn, covering his hand with his mouth in the approved manner.
fity for steps considered necess-textile industry, moves to effertayed to the hinterland, dntent/have ransacked his home town for As he did so he saw Madge.
WISE REFORM-
to
put in cages.
Mor-
Giving the Director his type- writer to hold, Reg thrust aside the lift which had boon brought up for him and shinned down the stairs.
For answer Madge drew a quart whisky bottle from her stocking hidden. Inside, the dreaded cock. where she had kept it carefully. roach was Imprisoned.
Jcoleebhoy reached out his hand
to take the bottle but Madgo with a subtle leer put it back in har .stocking.
"Reggle darling, how about my roward?" Then relapsing into the vornacular, "How fashion you face No muchee red allsame father?" It was true; Reg was blushing! Could he kiss this girl when he was promised to another was the wild thought that, throbbed through his brain,
only on saving their skins. When stories, as they do when a man be-
She drew back into the shadow ary in combatting a very serious aneh borrowing organisation seem captured with their more reput comes President-elect of the United danger. The suggestion made to have boon rare. For one thing, able companions in outlawry they States.
and tried to disguise herself, as the the procedure was cumbersome. were thankful to be extradited to Public Enemy No. 1 is still bark of the tree. She would have that the Colonial Veterinary For another, strict requirements the comparative safety of the "Johnny" in Mooresville, Indiana, stood a better chance if there had Surgeon and the Government's as to security were not "lightened. law officers should consult for the The new step is designed to relax Chicago courts. The others were whence he came. The 1,774 in- been a tree there but as it was, habitants have only to cast their Jeejecbhoy had already discovered purpose of devising measures the requirements.
I saw some of them months later memories back ten years to recall her. which can be enforced, and which
at their trial in a market town,him as a 21-years-old machinist hold-some prospect of success, is
where the peasants-had-gathered and the son of a trustee of the therefore much to the point.
from miles around to stare at their First Christian Church. He had Much of the present trouble, we
There is clearly a great need late masters. They were a deject-Jan engaging grin and went to Sun- for some such financing. Quite ed lot without their haloes.
day school because he had to. Bad are convinced, is due to the large apart from the urgency of the namber of stray dogs which in-situation. industry in the United ways been in a class alone. Jesse full. His "hero" was Ed Single- The American outlaw. has al-companions were "Johnny's" down-
In a moment he was by her side. fest the New Territories. How States requires the same kind of James, the train robber, was the ton, a boy older than himself, who "Have you got it?" he whisper-. many of these animals there are, "Intermediate" banking facilities firat spectacular member of the also had the germ of outlawry ined hoarsely into her ear which he it would be difficult to say, but which are already available to fraternity to become 1
had pulled down a couple of feet Banks prefer
national! him. if in one district alone it was agriculture.
figure. His rough-riders, with
for convenience. ninke loans which can be liquid-shoriffs and their possca lagging found necessary to destroy some ated at the end of the process of impotently behind, swept through THURSDAY, JUNE 28th
One Saturday night they waylald two hundred recently, the num buying raw materials and the dis- the sparsely Bettled ber must be legion. According posal of the finished product. I States, holding up railway cars his way home from the village har
Western an elderly grocer named Morgan on to Inw, all dogs within the Colony vestors generally help industry to laden with specie, sifting the ter- ber shop, beat him about the head have to be licensed, although no make capital improvements, andrified passengers to their last gold and tried to rob him. "Johnny" fee is payable where it is shown take in return, bonds with a long watch, shooting down every human for the first time used the magic to the satisfaction of the Inspec- maturity. An intermediate credit impediment in their path, and formula, "Stick 'em up;" tor General of Police that a dog system is necessary to fill the gap vanishing again to one of their (Continued on Pago 4.)
For is kept by an agriculturist as a Staten has witnessed the spectacle several years, the United watch-dog and is necessary for of a money reservoir with most of that purpose. This exemption the outlet channels clogged up.. follows somewhat on the lines of If the present move is a step to the law at Home, but whereas ward a permanent connection be to farmers in England one or tween the actual borrowers and more dogs are a necessity, for the Federal Reserve System, it the rounding-up of cattle, sheep, so far initiated.
will be one of the wisest reforma etc., that is not the case here in Hongkong. The point therefore suggests itself whether for ioo many dogs are not permitted to Meanwilic, the precise signific- New Territory agriculturists. ance of Senator Dies' explanation It would, indeed, be interesting of the Treasury stiver policy is to know whether any actual market. If the statement
still puzzling observers
of the Was check is kept on the number, authoritative, it means that the whether licensing is enforced, or Treasury la proposing to carry out whether the law requiring the 75:26 ratio policy, requiring owners to establish to the satis-the purchase of over 1,245,000,000 faction of the police the necessity ounces of allver, by the end of the of having dogs is applied. It is year. President Roosevelt's mess- conceivable that if owners had age to Congress is worth recalling In this connection, He said: to pay a licence fee for such dogs "We should move forward ns. as were not strictly needed, there rapidly na conditions pormit in would be a marked diminution broadening the metallle base of in the numbers on the mainland. | our monetary system and in But in addition to dogs actually stabilizing the purchasing and owned, there must be very many, debt-paying power of our money not only in the New Territories, on a more equitable level ... wo but in Kowloon and on the island silver in improving our monetary
should not neglect the
the value of Fas well, which are strays.system. Since 1929 that has been These, being in nobody's care, obvious. Some measures for mak- are obviously of a type likely to ing a greater use of silver in the spread rabies. It would there- public futerest are appropriate for fore be a wise plan if, along with Independent action by us.
On a strengthening of the existing others, international
co-operation regulations, some definite action should be sought. Of the former were taken to investigate the class is that of increasing the pro- portion of allver in the abundant number of ownerless animals, metallic reserves back of our paper with a view to their dostruction currency. Here again, however, as one step in the campaign the question comes, Does it mean Lagainst the rabies outbreak. what it hints?
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"Well, we can't pay anything on Billy's alimony until Trene gets
a cheque from ber ex-husband,"
"But Madge, look you," ho be- gan, his native Welsh coming, to his aid at this difficult moment, "It is no good whatever will come of this. I love another."
Madge gave a loud shrick of horror and fell in a dead faint.
Jeejeebhoy quickly removed the whisky bottle and, as an after thought, took the ment akewors out of his erstwhile sweetheart's hair and pinned the hair into the ground.
Then, hand in hand with the amah,, he passed from view
:
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(Dear Readers. This is the last of Jeejeebhoy as far as we are concerned and we must leave him and his lawly love to their troubles. Auch as it pains ̧ us“ (and Madgo) to leave her in here: humiliating position we find it better to do this than leave her at large. If we had continued the might have given her a wig Ro that she could be free apain but far be it from us to hope to im. prove on nature. Rather lot, a shed a saline tear on one so much misunderstood and deceived, and hope that in the untorilten in- atalmente of her future life, she may meet a love worthy of her nable character.)