3
ATTEMPT ON HUEY LONG
EYE-WITNESS STORY OF OUTRAGE
|
JAPAN POLITICS
SERIOUS DISSENSIÓN OF POLATICAL PARTIES
Tokyo, Sept. 9. According to the Nippon Dempa Agency, the Premler, Admiral Kelsuke Okada's decision to accept the post of Minister of Communica- tlona temporarily, has resulted in
controversy.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1935.
HER LAST VOYAGE TO CHINA
FINAL VISIT OF P. AND O.
LINER MANTUA
DEATH OF MR. H. L. DOHENY
OIL MAGNATE'S RISE TO FAME
MOSLEMS PROTEST
ALLEGED DESECRATION OF
CANTON CEMETERY
Heports of Encroachment by a con- | atruction company of Canton on the private ground of the Moslem Ceme tery at Lau Fah Kiu in the Shiupak nauburb has aroused indignation among the Mohammedans. The following in Chairman of the Kwangtung Provin- Mr. R. Soofit Ghafoor. elal Government by an Indian Moslem,
The P. and 0. liner Mantua, which nrrives in the Colony to-morrow mor ning from England, will never visit Hongkong again after ber doparture on Thursday for Shanghai, for the is to be broken up on the completion, Doheny, the oil magnate a letter went to Mr. Lin Yum-koy, the
Far Eastern run
Les Angeles, Sent. 9. The death is announced, after protracted illness, of Mr. Edward
The Seiyukai and Minselto par Ship Breakers, Ltd.,
of her outward yoyage by the China | Reuter.
Shanghal.
Bora at Fond du Lac, Wis- ties both insist on one of their
The 11,000-ton ship has Bern 011 the consin, on August 10, 1856, Ed- loaders obtaining this post.
many years, and ward Laurence Doheny had been news for though she has been on other runs at prospector, gold miner, surveyor times she la probably better known to people in the
world.
Baton Rouge, Sept. 8. Mr. Jamen P. O'Connor, the Louisiana Publle Service Com- missioner here, suld in an inter-party view "Senator Long, collapsed in my arms when he was shot, He fhad just left the House Chamber and had walked a hundred yards along the corridor towards
Prior to his acceptance of the Governor Allen's office UNSUR- post, the Premier commended Mr. pectingly, when Weiss, who was Kelsuke Mochizuki, who recently standing opposite the entrance to resigned a Seiyukai sent In order the Governor's office and hidden to
accept membership in the behind a marble pillar, suddenly | Cabinet Deliberative Council. stepped out and palated a Luger pistol at Long's stomach, Long grasped the gun and spun round, partially deflecting the bullet which entered his right side just under the urm-pit and passed completely through his body, emerging from his left side,
"Long staggered a couple of
Constable paces, und
Rhoden sprang at his assallant with his gun drawn. The two fell on the floor with Rhoden's gun spilting Bre.
"Rhoden broke loose and half a dozen other policemen riddled Weiss' with bullets.
"I was standing less than ten feet away" said O'Connor," and 1 tid not realise that Long had been hit. He walked slowly towards me and said "I am shat, shot."
that he had been wounded.
I am
"I whisked him rapidly to Our Lady of the Lake Sanitorium where he was taken immediately
to the emergency operating room.
As soon as the word that he had been injured spread, a great crowd of Long's friends and
traille
The Minselto party demanded the appointment of Mr. Takuichl Kawasaki in order to preserve the balance.
Although the Asahi nsserts that the internal difference threatens the collapse of the Cabinet, most political writers beleve that the cabinet will survive and will agree in a few days on the appointment of a permanent Minister for Com- munications.-United Press,
other part of the rent than in nay lawyer and labourer-alt without the Shiupak suburb of Canton is
success--until he turned to "black gold" which made him one of the leading, men of wealth in the United States,
to
int-
May it please your Excellency.The of the desecration of the Moslem cemetry at Lau Fah Kiu In most disconcerting and has shocked Muslim feelings. It is hoped the cident is not Д insult
case of wanton Moslem Sentiment. Peculiar sacredness attaches to the His.father was Patrick Doheny, cemetery as it is the resting place a poor Irishman, while his mother, of one of the Holy companions of before her marriage, was Elizabeth Our Lord Muhammed, the holiest and
has been a resort of Quigley
pilgrims
from all over Chlua for the last 13 een- There, was little about Doheny's tures. I must respectfully request your boyhood to set him apart from Excellency to kindly take up the mai other lads of his age. He attend-ter officially on behalf of the Pro- ed school and advanced rapidly, vincial Government and award ade- of being particularly bright in thegante punishment to the perpetrators different mathematical and scienti- of this outrageous act of brutality fic subjects, the
There was a spirit of adventure tude of the Moslem community. within the youth which rebelled at the idea of spending his life
The Mantan was built in 1909, by Messrs. Caird auf Co, at Greenock, and the same year she made her muiden voyage to Sydney. This year, just 20 years later, the Strathmore will make her maiden voyage to Australia as the third of the "Strath" clans. The Strathmore is not
replac ing the Mantua Lut she is helping to maintain the strength of the P and O fleet while the Mantun is going to make way for newer and better ships, An older
vessels have passed out of the P. and 0. feel. years they have been replaced by fast
Au
during
and thus win the everlasting gratis
the
Viceroy of India, the Strathanver and and luxurious liners such
Strathaird, and now the Strathmore whleh is at present on a Mediter
The first well was The vacancy in the Ministry of ranean cruise--during which she help Fond du Lac, or any other one for more, and Bubeny, using the the signal. Communications was caused by the ed rescue the passengers from the place. This unrest influenced him knowledge he had gained from death last week of the late Mr. Dorle-und will Inter this year set out
out to leave home in July, 1872. at the Goodyear's book, started out over Takejiro Tokonami, Minister of for Australin.
age of 16. He went to Kansas, the Not Worn Out
State. We discovered Communications, who had been
a Government famous Orange county fields. In suffering from illness since. July. Actually the Mantua, though an old where he joined Formerly a leading member of the ship, is hit for many more years of surveying crew, and in the follow-1999 He organised his first com- service where speed is hot too essening year he accompanied a new pany, the Petroleum Development, Selyukai Parly he was expelled in July 1934 when he accepted a port-tinh; but it has been the policy of the Government surveying party to Company, which bought more oli
up Indian territory, which later befunds in Kern county.
came Oklahoma, where he helped sub-divide
Later he sold this property to the Comanche And the Santa Fe railroad for Kiowa Indian reservations... quarter of a million dollars--and
again became a prospector. Outdoor Life
folio in the Okada Cabinet.
in the rond outside and main- tain absolute quietness."United plete control of Lousiana.
Press,
Condition Satisfactory
રી
This outdoor life kept Doheny satisfied for three years.
He was.. and spent all his extra. living in the open, liked the work, hours studying books on geology and science. Then came news of the discovery of gold in the Black
Acting on the suggestion of Mexican Central railroad, Doheny, A. R. Robinson, President of the with Canfield and A. P. McGinnla, set out on what was destined to be the most successful oil pross pecting trip ever made by men.
Success at Last
TOOTAL'S
New Designs and Colourings
IN EXTRA
LONG
WIDE END TIES
B
BEST BRITISH MAKE
PER S.S. ‘RAJPUTANA' A NEW AND EXCELLENT VARIETY OF AUTUMN COLOURINGS IN TOOTAL'S FAMOUS NON- CREASE NECKWEAR
PRICE $1.00
cach.
LIGHT WEIGHT SPORTS
JACKETS
TAILORED LIGHT GREY CASHMERE SPORTS COAT IN DOUBLE OR SINGLE
BREAST
LT. GREY ART SILK LINING THROUGHOUT
SMARTLY CUT AND TAILORED
Price
1950
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
and O. to sell for breaking: Thought He Was Joking
when a ship is Ining below the "1 thought he was joking and
spec and other standards required, Weakens the Cabinet then I noticed a trickle of blood
rather than well, even at a
better1 oozing from his
mouth. I bnd
Tokyo, Sept. 9.`
price, for employment in cheap com drawn my own gun, but I pocketed
Both the Minselto and Selyukni
petition against British shipping,
Thus one of the conditions on which 41 and took Senator Long in my parties leaders are exerting the the Mantua will be handed over to arms, carried him outside and strongest pressure 011 Admiral the Chinese shiphreakers is that she placed him in his automobile | Okada to appoint their respective is not to be re-sold before anyone else inside knew nominees for the vacant post in thee Mantis gain, either under her employed. therefore, will never see Ministry of Communications.
the present name and ang or that of any weakened the prestige of the
The dissension has seriously other owner.
The Mantun, Inst of the "51" class, Cabinet in a manner which is likely her sister ships Mores and Malwa Bills and Doheny rushed to that Down along the eastern coast of to become worse through Admiral having already gone, has a speed of field, inspired by the lure of the Mexico they travelled, to Cardenas, Okada's action in temporarily as-about 16% knots. She is by far the yellow metal. suming the portfolio.
But he was doom-ul commenced investigating the largest ship to be scrapped in Shanged to disappointment, as the Blackpit exudes in that vicinity. With hai and her scrapping marks a mile- officials gathered in the Hospital peror permally installed the Pre-port. The China Ship Breakers,
At the Hayama Palace, the Finstone in the shipping histers of that Hills were still Indian territory, the Mexican guide, they pushed corridors. There was little noise, mier as. Minister of Communien. which is a
through the dense underbrush if but tears strennical down many tions-Reuter.
Enbidiary of No, and not open to prospecting.
jungle reached News of a silver strike in the
the La faees and we had to call the State
Wheelock and Company, have
Colorado carried him to that place, Huasteca plain, and finally, on a Highway police to direct
cessfully broken op a number of where silver had been located, little. conical hill, came upon a constal and river steamers, but never but the oncoming before have they undertaken so large prospecting impossible,
winter made pool of bubbling oil.
Doheny, and his
crafts and a task at the Mantun will present.
looking He has become popular as well
In her 26 yenra of service
restless spirit would not let him ahead, immediately commenced As notorious all over the United Mantun has several times had excit
the
wait for spring.
purchasing land on all sides, until States thanks to his "Share the ing experiences, perhaps the most ex-
Gathering three other dishe acquired 45,000 acres at a very Wealth" movement, for which hechting being in 1914 when, to escape gruntled prospectors, Doheny set low price, as it was unfit claims 15.000.000 supporters. He capture in the Baltic, she made
for has spoken regularly on the wire-dash for home and was forced to use burros to carry their
out afoot for New Mexico, with agriculture. In May, camping
1901, drilling. was commaking more stenera, than less to the entire nation, his talks her, wooden decks and fittings for equipment. There and
started, 35 miles west of Tampica.. inkers to the out the supply of Arizona. he spent the next 14 The well came in big, and. was conl. those of anyone else except Father A bulletin issued following the
1914 Experience
years-years of long, hard days of followed by others in Coughlin. Ho also founded emergency operation describes "Share the Wealth" clubs all over to northern waters and on the report the point of failure.
In July 1914 his was on a cruise toil, and with success meagre to succession.
Additional companies were or Huey Long's condition as the country and prepared ગ thoroughly autisfactory-Rouler,
of the inminence of war her comman Doheny worked in almost everyganlacd and Doheny became manual for them containing der decided that, though she should mining camp in the south-west. President of the Mexican Petro quotations from the
bunker before undertaking the voy The discovered three new veins of eum, Lid, the Bible,
Huasteca Petro- Denver, Sept. 8. Josephus, Milon,
age, the ship would perhaps be safer Goldsmith, if she risked the long voyage short
ore during those long years, but leum Co., the American Oilfields Miss Callie Long, Senator Huey Daniel Webster and himself. Illa
his restiens aptrit would not let | Co., and the American Petroleum Long's sister, stated that he had proposals include drastic income
The managers of tho Canton branch Coal.
long enough On arrival in England the Mantua bim tarry
to Co.
of the Bank of Cantan, Messra. two bullet wounds. She said she and inheritance taxes and a fat and the Macedonia were immediately capitalize his findings.
Involved in Scandal
Clan Sin-ming and Ng Shi-taat, sent had telephoned to the physicians limitation on the annual income or requisitioned by the Government and
During the War, Dolieny work-
a telegram last Saturday to the Can atlending her brother and they the complete fortune of everyone... equipped as armed cruisers, their
A Tectotaller
ed in Washington, helping supply
yesterday afternoon.
ton Department of Finance, the Can- had reported his condition serious", "One of his "stunts" for increas. fitting-out taking only a week. After
The defendant was banished on ton Court and the Canton City Cham- but not critical-United Press.
service throughout the
Hardships and dangers beset the navy with oil. He subscribed ing his popularity is incursions
ton ber of Commerce, explaining the, sus- July 26, 1934, -for a period of On heavily to each liberty loan and years. He was arrested in the young miner as well,
Queen's pension of the Bank and steps for Later, înto adjacent States with his liner, and in 1920 resumed her
Mantua was re-fitted as a passenger occasion he, had his hand badly was said to have bought a million toad West on Information on the the liquidation, says. the Canton A later United Press message, private army and his political ular
Gazette, night of September 4. running for the P. and chewed by a mountain lion, which dollars' worth of liberties stated that at 4.45 am. (at Baton "Tans," 5,000 strong in gally Since then she has been in continual he finally killed. On another, he
After the War, and late in life, bulletin stated that striped frains to attend football service, the majority of the time run-fell down a mine shaft and broke politics, and was powerful in having traced a record of six previous, telegram for the settlement of its
-Sergeant T. G. MacKay, Rouge) n
he took an active interest in Criminal Records Offee, testified to have been appointed, according to the Two attorneys and one auditor Huey Long's condition was satis matches. Ile was described as ting to Far Eastern ports, becoming both his legs. factory.
the best showman in U.S. politics, one of the Best known ships on the
Neither during his mining days his money going into the partyefondant said that on his return to bank expresses its a wayed behind
Democratic circles for many years, convictions.
affairs with the Department of Elaborate Precautions
But, while he studiously apake China run.
ater was ho known to drink or ungrammatically in public and
smoke." nor during those
of prosperity campaign chests. New York, Sept. 9. National guardsmen are already posed as a pisin man, those who surrounding the State Capitel and know him declare that he is also the hospital to which they man of brains who knew exactly what he wanted to do and how Long was taken.
to do it.
Baton Rouge. Sept. 9. Senator Huey Long remained conscious during the blood trans- fusion operation and hour afterwards was shutting to be
doctors.
Reuter.
Was
Two Wounds
A Self Made Man
|
t; "
war
TO BE REWARDED
+
BELILIOS BRONZE MEDAL FOR CHINESE
the
risk, to save a 34-year-old married
of
Quick COMMITTED FOR TRIAL BANK CLOSURE ECHO
from
BANISHER WHO RETURNED FOR OPERATION On a charge of returning banishment, Lo Kwat, 40, was com mitted for trial by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central Police Court
کم
of the
CANTON BRANCH MANAGERS ASKED TO RETURN
1.
-
In a statement from the dock, the Finance and the Canton Court. The
resulted in steps being taken to men in high places in politics the defendant added.
of the Gt.
had
גן
he
I
Depositors' Claim
Captain J. M. Legg is in command of the Mantun on this, her final while the Chief Ofeer is Mr. II.
In the early part of 1924, the country he found that his house after its closure no one stayed behind Weston, the Chief Euginser Mr. J. S.
He married, taking for his wife great naval oil reserve
Doheny became involved in the and lands had been destroyed by the to shoulder, responsibility. Blair, the Purser Mr. L. S. Warren, Carrio Estelle
floods and he was destitute. He was Betzold,
seandal. because of growths on his back. and the Surgeon Dr. H. Sutherland. Marshalltown, Town,
Meanwhile, a committee of threa (the Teapot Dome) following his The Chinese doctors could not perform lished last Saturday by the order of for liquidating the bank was extab- Others are standing by ready to
The Mantun will not continue past Finally, disappointed at long securing leases on all properties the necessary operation and rush to Baton Rouge and guard In November, 1934, he got his Shanghai, there being no passengers years of toil which brought no
The in California which had been came to Hongkong with the intention the Department of Finance. aboard for Japan. There will be no State building and every
the fame legislature to pass a two-week in the fortnightly sailings of reward, Doheny gathered together break of this investigation, which upon by
reserved for naval use. The out-of going to hospital to be
members of the committee are Messrs. operated Chiu Chur, Lav Poo-chi and Ching homes of all State officials. year moratoriun on public and the P. and 0. from Hongkong to Erg- bis few possessions, and, with his drew into it a former Secretary night he arrived he was arrested.
English doctors. On the
Men-yang.
Itegistration of the cre- private debts, provided debtors | land.
wife, went to Los Angeles. Some of the Interior, Fall, Harry Ffr the Court wishes to examine me
Task to be dealt with leniently at the bank. On Saturday more than ditors of the bunk started Saturday could show that it was necessary.
time after his arrival, he formed a Sinclair, another oil magnate, and can show the growths on my back," Huey Pierce Lang, the self-As a result the U.S. Government
partnership with Charles A.
130 creditors registered. styled "Kingfish" of Louisiana, cancelled a loan to the State.
Canfeld and Joseph A. Chanslor, born of a poor family at white. retail shops considered.
Branches of the Bank in some The Magistrate: You have been districts of Kwangtung are also and the threo pooled their alender invalidate the leases under which medically examined and found to be being liquidated. Winnfield in that State In August, stopping all credil transactions.
resources and went out into the Doheny secured control 1893, and was, a self-made man. Long also got authority to dietate
Mojave desert, in San Bernardino In 1929, while Governor of the the rates charged by public
county, accking'gold. They, found
California fields,
Unwelcome Guesta State his contempt for cere utility companies for gas, water
it, in small quantities, and started
Doheny was always sure of monial conventions nearly caused and the like. He told them that In addition to cash reward of a mine; but the metal faded, and himself and his own ability.
Pleading guilty to a breacle of the
Canton, Sept. 9. international trouble. A German these would be cut at once, if the $25, the Belilios Bronze Medal for they returned to Los Angeles "fiat decided to retire from business. from banishment before the expiration Bank of Canton Ltd., registered their November, 1928, Doheny Deportation Ordinance, by returning approximating $100,000, against the Abut 130 depositors, with claims cruiser arrived at New Orleans | firms did not do so voluntarily.
bravery is to be awarded to Li Kat, a broke" to start life anew. Doheny In February, 1929, he sustained a and the captain landed
pig-wash carrier, in recognition of his
of his time, Lan Yuk-sing was acn-names at the provincial treasury, and In the
Candidate for Presidency
act in attempting, at great personal was then 40. morning to pay his respects to the
the murder by tenced to 12 months hard labour by many more fled their claims with Governor. Long received him in
Mr. woman, Li Lin, who was drowned in Doheny happened to pick up taken over control of his big oil mitted three previous convictions for depositors and ordinary creditors.
While working at odd jobs, great blow in
of his son who. secretary
Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon three lawyers whose scrvicce havo pink pyjamas and carpet slippers, candidate for the U.S. Presidency well at Tung Tau Viliage, Kowloon book on the oli exudes of Cali- interests, valued in California burglary and stated that he was pass. Others have held back, confused by
Long admits that he would be a
Magistracy yesterday. Defendant ad- been engaged by as many groups of Highly indignant, the captain in 1936. Although a Democrat, City, during the, early hours of July formia, written by W. A. Goodyear, alone at over £8,000,000. made a formal complaint of dis he was an opponent of Roosevelt's rendered valuable assistance by takingfornia in 1887, after Goodyear had interests, Doheny was one of the sccutor.
21. A man named Cheung Yau, who assistant State Geologist of Culi-
ing through the Colony on his way the multiplicity of registration head-, courtesy
And mach tactful policy. His behaviour has led to
Apart from his commercial to Swatow. Inspector Shannon pro- quarters. Chan Sin-ming, Manager, diplomacy was required to smooth fears of Fascism in the United Stone down the well, in to receive made a careful investigation of prominent leaders in the campaign
and Ng Shi-taat, Sub-Manager, are the incident over.
Nine months' hard labour was im- desired in States. People have began to ask
Canton to open up Before his term expired Long whether he was not America's was subsequently conducted by Mr. studied the book thoroughly.
It was at the death inquiry which all prospects in the State. He
for Irish freedom conducted in the posed by Mr. Macfadyen at the Cen- the bank vaults and to throw light
iral Police had been elected to the. U.S. potential litier and believe that W. M. Thomson at the Kowloon
United States. He acted .as
Court yosterday un on the book entries Mr. Sham Taoi- Kwan Yin. 61, unemployed, Senate.
who woh, representing the Government is Cyril Astor, Lieuthis success will man a dictator-Magistracy on August 16, that the
Bamon Oil Venture
de. Valera's agent and pleaded guilty to a charge of return to go to llongkong, and may already Governor of Louisiana, at once ship and the end of democracy. men's gallantry was disclosed. The
advocate in Amerien and served ing from banishment before his period have gone, to try claimed the Governorship on the His actions
get them to re- recall those of the evidence showed that early on July former partner. They decided to Association for Recognition of the plred. Defendant admitted he had a depositor do violence to the managers, Doheny looked up. Canfield, his as president of the "American of ten years from June last had ex-turn with him. Lest some excited ground that Long's term was thus Nazi lender. Thus he ordered the front went off to draw water dig for oil, and, scraping together Irish Republic." He appeared on previous conviction earlier this year they will be given a atrang guard automatically ended. Long order.
the village well and did not re- destruction of a students' paper turn. Her mother-in-law, Lam Tai, all of the money they had, pur- the floor of the ed the police to arrest Astor, if he which criticised him for appoint went out to look for her and noticed chased a lot, where the soil was National Convention a few years Democratic
Our Own Correspondent. appeared to press his claim and ing a football player to the two wonden clogs floating on the water black and thick. also called out the militin. He Loulainna Sonate. "This is my
ago and tried to obtain the incor.
Composition Beheme in the well came into confllet with Texas qrer university," he said, "and I will In paver to the old woman's shout-picke and shovels, which Canter, Party's platform of a blankary at No. 501 Canton Road, ground reopened if depositors would waive
They had no tools, other than puration in the Democratie Charged with committing a burg The Bank of Canton may his proposal that all cotton throw anyone out who
LI Kat utters of the womy's fear that her daughter.
came up, and, when informed who had turned to digging water favouring the growers should sew nothing for word against me. will expel a
recognition of floor, on Sunday and stealing 66 all claims to their money which will 1932 so as to raise the prices. He thousand students, if necessary.
in-law had fallen into the well, he wells, supplied. They commenced Ireland. He was
of also supposed the property of Ng Chun-aum, the Canton provincial government would
packota
cigarettes and five cigars, be regarded as now shares and if tho initiated a great road construc- tion scheme in the State and Association," which opposed him, the assistance of Cheung Yau, who oil.
recovered Li Lin's body and with a gas pocket, followed by a little sum toward the Irish propaganda 30, unemployed, was brought before it to resume business, says the Canton began to tax the big corporations, was put out of netion at Baton obtained a ladder and took
in the United States in recent Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Daily Sun. thus earning
A banker finally agreed to back years. their
д горо lasting. Rouge, Long getting martial law down, the body was taken up.
Magistracy them to the extent of
tracy yesterday and hostility.
According to the tentative plan, How much money Doheny, has sentenced to two months' hard labour. passed and calling oub
In returning a verdict of accidental thousand dollars, and they bought probably no one knows, even him- Detective Sergeant E. Franklin stated will be reduced by fifty per cents in Virtun1 "Dictator"
the present shares of the Company the death the foreman of the jury said, some cheap drilling machinery, solf. When he was on the stand that defendant was arrested in the value. It is understood that the Call National guards, Afterwards he "Li Knt is to be complimented, and and continued sinking a shaft. An exceedingly astute politician | broadcast allegations that this
in the Fall investigation he aak were found in his possession. It was and should be able to refund money street about 8.80 a.m. and the things and a skilful organisor, Long set was a revolt inaligated by the some tangible way if possible."
we suggest his deed be recognised in At 600 feet they struck off-the he regarded the $100,000 he had found that the lock had been broken to depositors if funds are not remitted ton branch is not heavily indebted up a bystem like that of Tammany Standard Oil Co. and that officials The date when the awards will first woll suik on the Pacific "loaned" Fall as the ordinary off the iron bar on the door of the Hall and eventually secured com- hnd plotted to murdor him.
citizen would regard $10,
promines.
for. a similar offence.
Burglar Sentenced
The militant "Square Deal Imediately dived In: Eventually he digging and at 50 foot they struck to have contributed a considerable master of the Wing-Loi shop, To Chol, grant a loan to the Bank to onablo
be made has not yet been disclosed.
Coast.
a few
Was
to Hongkong..
Page 5Page 6