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BORDER FRICTION ·
The occurrence of another border clash between Soviet and Japanese forces serves fresh reminder of the friction perlodically evidenced along the frontiers of territories controll- ed by Russia and Japan. Once
again, there will no doubt be difficulty in determining respon-
The little
yellow
door at the end of
the corridor
THERE is tensenes3
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among the occupants of
a row of cells in Trenton's
"No," he says, with the faint. suspicion of a smile. "I got the money from Isidor Fisch before he went away to die. I know nothing of the kidnapping.”
Then the Flemington, New . Jersoy, circus of a trial by jury. Dainning evidence of Anne Lindbergh, of. the sleeping suit, of Lindbergh; Betty Gow, "Jafale" Condon, the hand- writing experts, wood experts. the ransom money.
"Ho was. John.'" "Ha wrote the ransom.notes." "He made the ladder." "He had the ran- "He was the kid-
through it, unless there is money."
State Prison. Their eyes are a last-minute reprieve, will
on Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann, the rather good-look-
ing young man who is wait. Walk to his death on Monday
ing to pass through the little yellow door at the end of the
corridor into eternity. HAUPTMANN.
His pale face compels them. His sunkon eyes hypnotise them.
Unless Governor Hoffman him-
self acts Bruno Richard Haupt- mann will be dead at dawn on Monday, electrocuted by a creed that demands a life for a life.
som
napper."
America's biggest and best show drage on till February the thir- teonth, 1935. Three women and nine men stand before their prison. er. "Guilty."
The man in cell number nine straightena his shoulders as he sees. himself take It with a smile.
A nation rejoices.
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In the Death Row in the prison at Trenton, with murderers for
guarda fast, there are no
found guilty of the murder friend and the perpetual tramp of
of the Lindbergh baby
junior.
trees. no flowers, no aunshine. Just darkness or electric light.
The man in cell number nine watches himself through the
But there is long enough for Hauptmann to review his whole
A sleeping suit arrives at months, calm and placid, always lifetime. The man in cell num- Jersey, the famous home of the
Lindberghs. ber nine sees a village in Saxony, and Anne, and Charles Augustus the Lindbergh baby.
Charles Augustus "Jafsie's" house. It belonged to saying, "I am innocent."
Months of weary waiting, months It is of prayer in his newly found rell- treca, flowers, sunshine; a rude,
"John's" signal of good faith. gion, occasional deathhouse con- unhappy childhood; a sweet,
A ladder rests against an The cemetery again. "Jafsie" certs. gentle mother; a rought, drunken father.
upper' window. A man climbs grabs a box from Lindbergh's Appeals follow appeals, cach ja Then guns, trenches, dying up that ladder and disappears feet and walks from the car to quashed. To the last appeal. through the window. He returns the hedge round the cemetery. "No," say the judges of Flepilng- men, starvation.
with a heavy bundle, The man
"Hey, doctor," whispers a in cell number nine looks at him voice from inside. closely. "It's not 1," he aries. A hand passes through the The man vanishes.
Application for a writ of habeas shrubs, and the box and its ten corpus, which would have involved thousand pounds in gold certi- the automatic issue of a reprieve *ficates disappears. The ransom is rejected.
has been paid.
"That's the end." says one of the But the baby is not returned. defence lawyers. Days pass, turn into weeks. It The new year had brought new is summer; trees, flowers, sun- hopes. Governor Hoffman seemed shine.
to be friendly. America seemed to
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And after-pence. Jubless men. More starvation. He is desperate, and turns to burglary for a living.. He is arrested
Inside the house. while robbing a burgomaster's home. Prison and punishment. Scottish nurse, Betty Gow, goes
Then freedom. More hunger, to look at her charge in And then the idea of America- upper room. America the land of milk and honey. He lands in New York. Ile becomes a dishwasher,
March 1932.
house near Hopewell,
sibility for the aggression, as, NOTES OF THE DAY suspects,
in all these instances, each side invariably
that
ton. Again the judge sentences him, in the week of January the thirteenth.
and then despair again.
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"He's gone?" Colonel Lindbergh comes run- Trees. at the foot of some he willing to wait for its vengeance ning to his wife. "Anne, trees in a wood not far from the until it was sure. Colonel Lind- they've stolen our baby." A Lindbergh home two men and fry stirs on a shamed people.
bergh sails to England, and a new A blustering wind blows on nation is stunned. A nation the remains of the Lindbergh
Rumours of last-minute efforts the day of March the first. At frantic; police, detectives, baby. More questions, more of lawyers and frienda; hope again night it howls round a lonely vote a motorcars, boats, suspicions. Violet Sharpe, an New radio, airplanes. Its hero's son English servant in the home of is kidnapped. Questions, end- Lindbergh's mother, is suspect.
* less questions; suspects, endless ed. The police return, question intervenes he walks through that On Monday-unless the Governor her again and again. She dies little yellow door. He sits in a Ransom notes arrive, written by her own band.
.. square-bullt chair rather like the in a crude Teuton hand and Questions, questions. Five erude throne of an ancient Scottish signed with a mystic symbol. the other. NEW COINAGE
months go by. The man in cell king. Strips are fastened to his accuses
March the eighth. An elderly, number nine sees himself trying wrists and feet. A surly faced But whatever the facts may be,
schoolmaster to quell the fire of ambition in man walks towards the switch. it is becoming increasingly
The Royal Mint report for 1934, white haired
published, named Dr. J. F. Condon (who his soul by dealing in furs with There is a whirr. The man in the which WIES recently apparent that only a fundament-shows that during that year cols prefers to be called "Jafsie") a consumptive little German, chair is thrust forward, but his
writes a letter to a New York Isidor Fisch. al political appeasement between ages were executed for ten differ-
He wants to act as | newspaper. Tokyo and Moscow, accompanied ent parts of the British Dominions. intermediary between Lindbergh
less than and the kidnappers. Response first Lindbergh ransom money by a dimunition in the numbers These comprised no
thirty-seven diferent denomina- is swift. and bellicose spirit of the fron-tions, and amounted in all to over
appears. The police find a de- Next day he receives a letter posit slip in a New York bank tier troops, will remove a Russo-71 million coins. This was thirteen written in the same Teuton gigned J. J. Faulkner. They of the average scrawl, signed with the same never find J. J. Faulkner. Then Japanese conflict from the cate-million in excess gory of future possibilities. ItThere was, however, a decline in
during the previous ten years. mystic symbol.
-in-September 1934 ransom money is traced to, a cinema in has well been pointed out by the home coinage during the year. In a cemetery at night on a New York; to a petrol station political observer that one Plans are now being made through- lonely bench set among graves, in the suburbs: to a house in
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straps hold him. He is still. The end of a chapter.
:
On May the first, 1933, the C.V.R.Thompson
I'LL DRAW A
· CHEQUE “
obvious cause of these recurring/out the British Empire for the issue) "Jafsie" and a young man with the suburbs: to n eupboad inity of the services rendered by
Few people realise the immen. that house in the house of the big banks of the country tu Bruno Richard Hauptman.
the public. A man signs a che- Third degree,, questions, bul- lying, meetings with Lindbergh, little more of it. It must be que to pay his bill and thinks "Jafsie," scores of witnesses.
"Yes," he heard from all of must receive many hundreds of obvious to many that a bank them, "that's the man."
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
clashes is that border patrols on bearing the effigy of the new
of new coinage and postage stamps a bad cough are talking.
The young man says he is both sides are suspicious and monarch,. His
"John," emissary of the kid. King Majesty
nappers. quick on the trigger. A state Edward the Eighth, and the trans-
The man in cell number nine of military deadlock is the result ference of his name or initials to looks at him closely. "It's not of the deadlock which still con-
varlous State, documents. The I," he says again. process involves D considerable tinues politically on this frontier amount of work, and it is not ex- question. Again and again pected that any of the new coins! there has been hope of the np. will appear before June, and that pointment of a boundary de no new stamps and postal orders will be issued until the late autumn limitation commission to adjust of this year. The magnitude of matters once and for all, but the task may be estimated from Russia has usually taken
the fact that In the case of stamps the stand that the boundary is fixed alone provision has to be made for some twenty million a day. The and clear and that no delimita-process involved in the production] tion is necessary. Aside from of new coinage is a long one. the technical points in dispute, Drawings by selected artists will be it is obvious that each side submitted for searching tests by the Mint's export advisory com- cherishes profound suspicion of mittee, representing the arts, tech- the ultimate designs of the heal manufacture, and heraldry. other. Soviet statesmen have This done, the chosen artista must present carved models of their pro- repeatedly accused Japanese posed coins to the committee, after militarists of planning to seize which dies will be made of the | Eastern Siberia, while Japanese models am one or two specimen| soldiers and statesmen foresee a colis struck. After further close examination and, consideration of resumption of Russia's thrust
all the factors involved, production) for warm water ports on the will begin. Pacific and see in the Communist
Internationale an agency for the two nations came to some bringing China under Soviet kind of agreement about each domination, and for sowing
seeds of unrest in Manchukuo other's spheres of influence. and Korea, as well as in Japan To-day, each side suspects the itself. It seems clear that both other of poaching, or attempting the Soviet and Japan are pre- to poach, on its preserves, Only pared to believe the worst about when this mutual suspicion is the designs of the other. Con- removed can we hope for any- sequently, each side is thinking thing approaching quietude definitely in strategic terms. It along the frontiers and a cessa- is difficult to see how an atmos-tion of incidents which might phere of genuine pacification can easily develop into a dangerous! be created, but it would help if situation.
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cheques drawn on widely dif- ferent parts of the country and also on distant parts of the world.
Prior to the year 1775 there were few banks us we now know them; the ones existing were private banki or merchant bankers as they were styled, and they had much closer dealings in the actual commodities of trade than is the custom to-day, For
Scotia the British Linen Bank is
was established to assist the financing of the linen trade in our country.
With few banks in the country and still fower branches, the collection of cheques was a simple matter, as the clerks had little difficulty in going from bank to bank and presenting cheques which they held for cash. With the steady increase of banking, and the use of cheques by nearly all classes, of society, some systum of cheque clearance was imperative, az it is now impossible for clerk to collect vouchers on the thousands of branches that are scattered over the country, The
firat clearing-house WAA established in London in 1775. Al- though a novelty in banking, the bien was not new, as there are records of great fairs or exchanges having been hold in the market places of large Continental elties. France and Italy set up international clearing-houses ar fairs to facilitate the collection of credit
documents from for distant Jands.
It will be clear that some banka will band over a larger total in cheques than they receive, no some method" of settling, these balances had to be Instituted. So a settling bank is usually appointed each month to deal with the adjustments.
The work of the clearing-house runs silently and efficiently, overy business day dealing in vast totals. In
fact, £37,669,751,000 prased through the Dondon clearing-house during 1935. When you consider that this colossal total was nogoblated without the passing of an actual coin in hard cash, one can appreciało, the economy and usefulness of the clear.. ing-hourd..