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ANOTHER LIVES IN DREAD – ONE YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH
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Tel 24648. TWELVE months ago John "Snake Eyes" Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, was shot to death by police officers as he left a small Chicago cinema.
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One of the greatest man hunts the world has ever seen ended.
had MONEY MUDDLE
To-day Dillinger's memory was vivid in the minds of two women. One mourned him. She was his only mourner,
This was Evelyn Freschetti, the Indian girl who remained Jayal to him to the end.
She is still serving a two-year i sentence in Milan, Michigan. prison for harbouring him against the pulice.
Preity Evelyn sobbed bitterly as she worked in the prison laundry today. Her lips moved in prayer for the repose of thes soul of the man she loved.
The serond woman was with Dil-1 Finger In the cinema on the night he was killed.
Flaming-haired Mrs. Anna Sage was credited by gangland with "squealing" on Dillinger.
IN CHINA
Ten Cent Pieces As Way Out
By ROBERT H. BERKOV
Shanghai, Ang. 5. Plans of the Chinese Government to coin ten-cont pieces, made 41 plekel, are likely to put an end to the age-old system of "big" and "little" maney which makes Chin- ese Anancial transactions complicated than those of olher nation,
more any
ten-
Although the minting of cent pieces which will be worth exactly ten cents may put out of business a horde of small money- from the fluctuations in the value changers who make a fair living of Chinese coins, the innovation She is a prisoner in her will be welcomed by the business community. Chinese and foreign Chicago home-a prisoner of residents, and tourist visitors, all drend. Only on rare occasions of whom find the present complicat- does she dare to leave her house, en system of exchange both vexi-
tious and costly. Ever since the night Dillinger} died she has lived in mortal terror! of gangster vengeance.
Last Of The Gang Many of Dillinger's friends and allies have followed him to the grave in the past year. Only one of his gang, John Hamilton, still
lives.
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To-day the coin that appears to a newcomer to be a twenty-cent piece is worth actually only ifteen for sixteen cents. It will not buy {twenty cents, worth of goods.
services, bat inust be supplemented by a certain number of coppers, which varies from day to day, to make twenty cents "big money. The coins, called "small money" are accepted at face value only by ricksha coolies and in a few other small transactions.
Most of the others died by bul-i, lets. But before they died they killed two of the men who were credited with shooting their chief, find
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Catch For Tourists The tourist is usually irked to
that when he offers twenty-cent pieces in payment of The two were Samuel Crowley an article priced at 40 cents, he is and Herman Hollis. Federal asked for additional money. Or. agents, killed in a gun battle with Dillinger's best friend. Georg "Baby Face" Nelson.
Accountants have at last worked out what Dillinger cost society It in in the neighbourhood of £250,000, made up of loot and the cost of capturing him and his gang.
the other hand, he may be surprised in purchasing a 50-cent article and offering a dollar in payment, to receive In change it is G-cents "small money" and what appears to be 60 cents. Bat netually worth only a cents less,
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In addition to the confusion arising from local ductuations. there is more
than one kind of
WOMAN CHIMNEY-SWEEP- This girl from Hungaria has begun ber apprenticeship
chimney- sweep. She will be the first woman chimney sweep In her country.
subsidiary coins. Those which circulate in Canton may be heavily discounted in Shanghai, or vice rers. In fact the only nationally- eirculated money in China to-day in the
copper coin, worth about 1,800 of a dollar, although the standard Chinese doliar now being coined by the Central Mint is ne- repted everywhere. The demand for these dollars, however, far ex- ceeds the supply.
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10 No alma will take the place of 11 This Bnishes before it is dry. 13 Rompe.
In the last few years the aboll- tion of the tael as a unit of cur toward currency regularity. The rency has been the greatest step tael, which was never coined or represented by a bank-note, wa a fixed amount of silver of a speci fed grade of fineness. As a unit it existed side by side with the yuan or dollar, although the silver content of the thel varied from province to province, and the Customs service had its own tael. Individuals and firma doing busl-18 ness in China had to maintain bank accounts in both taels and dollars, creating endless confusion in the course of trade.
Action of the Government in abolishing the tact left the dollar as the standard of currency. The issuance of ten-cent bank notes was the second great step toward the realisation of a decimal mone tary system; a goal cherished ever since the birth of the Chinese re- public The ten-cent bank notes ure "big money," ten of which are exchangeable anywhere in China for a standard dollar.
Minting of the ten-cent "big money" coins, which to the casual observer appears only a routine monetary transaction, is likely to revolutionise the money habits of the world's most populous nation. breaking down sectional barriers to commerce and relleving vast numbers of Chinese of exchange fluctuation penalties which in the course of years mount to astound- ing proportions.--United Press.
16 A malingerer may pretend to be ill in vain, but this bad hat suc- This may be regarded an jela- ceeds.
ing the hex, I think.
17 When in South America, a cali
must be made in this port. 19 A
A try made in the past. 20 Carried
out,
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21 There is not so much evidence of
chalce for the temporary owner, 23 In the forenoo I am an object.
Apparently. 24 Impure (anag.). 27 Shade.
28 There's an implication of obliga- 20 Dogs gu to such longtha in
tion in the idea,
France, don't they?
32 it merely a amenr.
33 Part of a piano which they make
in the Interior of Australin. 14 French black ured in the manu
facture of iron. 35 The Lord's Prayer.
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2 Russian mountain range.
It's tip-top up here.
How Ronald has changed, hasn't he?
The side-light in a bus enables this to be made out easily.
6 Obviously she's no artist.
7 Exciting, of course, but it makes
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one ill eventually.
People with whom the anob ked to eat his dinner,
12 May be going to get married hav- ing been selected for the job.
14 Such turns are popular in South.
America.
15
Wrong-doing.
18 Describes a friend at Court.
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joke is due to the skirt bo- ing short.
26 It's this that makes the jelly Jell,
Put in Inst 20 Think of something unexpected
for this.
27 I don't say that he is actually
hard
up, but he'd certainly be shorter without his mother's Assistance.
30 This city has no cathedral, but
why make mueli song? 31 Only.
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