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ZEWENTY-TWO yenra ngo Jerry Sargent gave up his job with Colliery, the. Coegnant where he had worked ng a miner since he was 12.
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CALLOPING HOOFS CRONIC CRAZY BEACH MASTER FOREST GANGSTER
near-by Maesteg in South Wales. With his wife and two little sons he set out to Australia.
Europe this wook to go "down under" to report the post-election scene in Australia. His NEWSMAP clves the clus to-
WHAT IT TAKES TO OVERTHROW
A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT
the first weeks in office has won tile to them, rushed through an
Election Act amendment them fresh support;
2
that the Socialists are con- tinuing to lose ground; There he settled in the big new Industrin centre of Wollongong, ➜ that the forthcoming Slate near Sydney, where coal mines elections are likely to remove and smoking steel works nestle the Socialists from power in the between lush green pastures and last three Staten they till hills covered with blossoming control: New South Wales, trees and broad white beaches Tasinaula, and Queensland; lapped by the surf of the Pacific.
A that many trades unlonista Jerry did well in Australia.
have become tirest of Socialist From mining he graduated to frustrations and despotism. Job as draughtsman in a rolling mill. Soon
and the integrity independence of the jockey-size Hittle Welshman
won him the confidence not only of his fellow trudes unionists but of his fellow citizens
staunchly Labour Wollongong.
HIS REVOLT
THEY appointed him chiro councillor, then city aider- nan. But the biggest job of all they gave him only a few weeks back. That is the one I found him at Wollongong'a Brambon
ma
Tall.
Jerry Sargent was leading a revolt against Labour's Soellist borres. He was fighting them in a by-election-one of three key by-elections being held for the Socialist-dominated New South
ctc. and etc. Wales State Parliament,
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Idberni-the
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They are turning to those who offer them freedom from restric tions plus incentives 10 work and save and prosper.
This made It n punishable offence for newspapers or radio stations here to publish election speeches during the last 70 hours before an election.
L
DEFEAT FACES DOPE PEDLARS
By Frederick Cook
NEW YORKC agents to be sufflelent to supply IFE in America and in all the addiets in Amerien for
about a week. number of other
This, like the hotel haul, vas lands ia becoming 110 chance affair; no quick, increasingly hard for the exelting chase.
What the crowds in Perinsyl. tlope pedlar, once the
vanin Station had seen was but wealthy aristocrat of the the culmination of a hunt that underworld. Team work had been going on for months between Mr Edgar Hoover's and had led to
France, Italy, G-men, the narcotics squads and cross the Mediterranean to
Egypt and Turkey. of the big seaports, and It was through the co-opera- agenta of the United on between the UNO countries Nations in making it and the police forces In the diflicult for the dealer in various lands that the capture "snow" to turn a dishonest became possible. dollar.
Warned by the Paris police last autumn, narcotics agents Another big haul has just in New York found £170,500 been made in New York-well worth of morphine In a barrel aver £714,000 worth of pure of flour aboard an incoming heroin, enough to have made American freighter. 1,000,000 capsulen to sell to A number of other un- addicts at around 185. apiece. publicised hauls have been mado in various parts of the U.S.A. This is the story as the police as the result of months of care- tell it:
ful planning.
They were keeping watch at an hotel in a busy spot..
Two men drove up, parked their car, and went inside. In the back of the car, the pollee saw a consignment of thousands of pairs of nylons.
Time For Arrosts
Inter-
is the Co close now
national co-operation in put- ting down the dope pedlar that a single shipment of "oplum may be traced all the way from its original source in Inner Mon- In the lobby of the hotel, one golla, Japan, India or Mexico, of the men entered a telephone
When and left.
the time for nrrésis box, made a call, Housewives whom I talked Behind him on the floor he left comes they are made in such widely separated corners of_the with-in-Concord-I-found-resent-a-small-package,
that the enforcement of these amendments reacted against his party.
ful of the ever-increasing food He did not go for, but stoot world that few people realise prices. "I am an old woman" watching the box in case any all are part of the same opera- one of them said to me. "My one
in. went husband was a plasterer. Believe swooped, arrested both men.
me, we were eating better in the old days when my husband was getting £2 10. a week than we -tre-today-with- £13,"
Will the Menzies Government be able to stop the pira? will have a good try.
HOW
The
police lon.
Three Huskies
United States Narcotic Com- missioner Harry Anslinger Bald receuily: "There are no national boundaries In the job of catch-
"It often.
TN the car, underneath--the-ing-drag mugglers,
nylons, they found 33 oz. of
fakes a tip from herain. There were 13oz. pure more in the telephone box, one Peru or. Belgium of Egypt to put ounce on one of the arrested us on to a carrier headed this men, 8023 oz. In a Brooklyn fial. way, who may at the moment be This was the latest in a long in Denmark or London. From series of dramatic
nds the moment he is firmly identi- dope In various parts of the U.S.A. in fled, signala go cut. recent months.
For
The new rule made it an
the day MAX cuts offence after 10 pun,
TAX
£30,000,000 to mention the before Election name of a candidale or anything worked out, and which "capable of affecting the result of take effect in July, wil niso Peansylvania Station, scanning States
reduce the cost of living, partithe passers-by. an election."
cularly If, as expected, the cuts Include the sales tax.
Candidates were forbidden to use public address amplifiers and political parties were ordered 10 tear down their clectlon posters,
Moal probably it will raise the value of the Australian £ in order to lower home prices,
"That man la watched every TOUGH TASK
One Saturday morning a few inch of the way by the oficials to the value of months ago,
three husky men of the various countries through being were
the which he passes." eirculating among
United in New York's
many months, are to busy crowds
drug detectives have been working on the activities of a ring operating near Juarez, They were especially inter- Mexico, just across the border ested in a couple of apparently from El Paso, Texas. But; above njų), an energodę | well-to-do business
men who drive to increase production and walked through the gates and Incentives to production I took seats in the Washington Equally totalitarian, mother expected to put the brake on the train-In the Pullman car. amendment to the Election Ael present climbing whirligig. forbade the use of the postal vote
Yes, it is a tough because it had been found that postal votes most favoured the frees Menzies, anti-Socialists.
Which makes ni the mom Outspoken resentment of the impressive the vigorous new con- Australian public at this Invasion Bdener and self-reliance I have of their rights had to be heard found in everyone I have met in cigar-box,
And Socialist these first few days in Australia.grains of pure In both constitueories I met to be blitved. trades unionists acting as Tory Premier McGirr has admitted
-(London Express Service) election helters. Again and again I heard the Flory of how they had been A. I. P. supporters
That, certainly, was made clear to me by what I found on my Jom romp first of the dormiary district of Concord, where thou sands of Sydney's industrial and blackenat workers live in little one-storey houses, and later of Industrial Wollongong,
task that
The three Treasury Depart- ment agents followed, closed off the car and, with drawn gung, men and told approached the them to open their luggage.
One sultense conlained д Inside were 73,416 heroin, worth about £63,550 and said by the
(Australian Labour Party) only C.V.R. Thompson Reports The U.S.A.
n few months back.
otiers
NOW OUT 'EM
NEW YORK. DOSTON, famous for its. E tea party, göt worked
taxes.
against
luxury taxes increasing cus- percent, tomers' bills by 20 percent.
want
because American householders
comfort. Furniture makers are planning to switch from horsehair to na tural rubber for stuffed chairs and mattresses,
Rod Poppy
driven
DECENTLY, it was broken up by the Mexican police them- vs following a call from a "customer" who ha over the international line and made an offer for some opium. The "customer" was a G-man,
and opium
Morphine, heroin
all made from the red poppy mare smuggled into the United States from Mexico in huge quantities every year.
Value of the shipments is put at close to £18,000,000. And Imany thousands of pounds worth of marijuana for Hollywood's dope-cigaretre addiets comes in the same way.
of
Big hauls have also been mado and other la San Francisco Californian ports, as the result. from Britich officinis at Haudon and the Chinese Bu- thorities at Shanghal.
American authorities estimate
it the
Even the prosperous car In- dustry clohnert today that new ars are being "bootlegged" is soundland ones to evade taxes,
ITERATURE: Shakespeare,
that there Hre 47,000 drug ad- ILLIONS of Americans will Dickens, and, Indeed, all the Jane classics, except te renting out Mr Chur- British
dicts in United States. They Christmas Austen, are discarded in the list
are said to include a surprisingly chill's paintings as carcis this year. Under a three- of 40 books which Princeton Uni
number of doctors who Jargo year dellar contract with Ameri- versity described as "worthwhile have taken to drugs as the result
man." ca's top greeting-card firm, he reading for the busy Crvingt Taxation without will rell the reproduction rights Books at the top of the list are of prolonged overwork
about Russlo,
Jopan, Justificalian," they poured the to 18 of his pictures.
Persin, tickets into the water,
Asia, Arabian oll, Einstein and But, to preserve his "amateur evolution. This was just part of a coun- try-wide campaign that Holly. status," he will not sell the pic-
The price is TOME: Engineer Frank Bene- undoubtedly hand- Hdict prophesies that in the wood is waging to end a 20 per- tures themselves. cent, luxury tax on cinema ad- secret, bul Their theme song: mittances.
poor man's en- "It's made the tertainment too expensive."
And at the same time other industries are mobilising to fight almilar taxes on their products.
Now they lood outside polling stations handing out Tory cards.
But for each open avowal of Although Jerry Sargent was sort from trades unionists the only candidate not to defeat and trembers of labour organira- up again over taxes.
tions there were thousands of his opponent, bis was the most
who would not commit A group of students put two remarkable victory of all.
themselves in puble, look cards barrels filled with citama ticitets Think of it. I was standing from both sides and sought pro- into a boat and rowed out to the
in the secrecy
of the spot where their ancestors dun- lection equivalent of Tory (and from rolling Enall, "They are afraid pod British tea in the harbour in George III's of being called 'senbi,'" someone protest now on I'll call his party the Torica)-in a constituency, where sald. in previous elections for the New.
Parliament South Wales
the Socintists had been retumed unorpored. The Tories had not TACK YEOMANS, who drives fought there because I was held Wollongong's sewerage truck, to be an unassailabl te showed no such inhibitions. He gave me the terrest summary of Socialist seat,
Jerry Sargent, however, polled the reasons which had prompted only 221 votes fewer than his him to give up his old allegiance Socialist rival. In the Federal "We've hat 'em," he sail. "Now election of December last, when out 'em. Who do they think they Menzies and his Torles for the are, always ordering us about?" Arst time challenged the Socia- Tisls In Wollongong, they lost by many thoughtful artisans I have Sargent himself was typical of 3,853.
met here. "If we allow our rights And that, don't forget, was the to be taken from us we'll never famous landslide election which swept the Socialists out of the vet them back," he said to me.
sunie.
will
Australian Commonwealth Mini- One plece of fotalitarian their members are lusing their Most popular stories: They will the
stries they had orcupled for encroachment on what Aus- Jobs to bootleggers, nine years.
house of the future there will be moving stairways, cooking will TRAVEL: It fa already a diff- be done by infra-red electricity
cult to
procure shipping which will roust a joint in Ave space to Britain and the rest of minutes, and that current
be delivered without wires from Europe from now until the nu- turn, that booking agents re-
an atomic power station. port that would-be passengers Distillery unions, for instance, are using subterfuges to gain
COMMUNICATIONS: Singing are writing thousands of letters their sympathies.
telegrams, banned during to Congress complaining that
war, are coming back in lose a fortune if they do not April. It will again be possible sung to friends in 77 American Jilicit distliters are able to out-reach London by much and much to have happy birthday greetings
a time; they are retuming to they do not pay tax, and so there
are going to visit nged parents done over the telephone instead This was -70-hour election is a big whisky slump,
wito may not live through an- of by delivery messengers. black-out.
Mustelana boss James Petrillo other winter.
Students at TɅDUCATION: The New South Wales Socialist is making speeches blaming un-
tralians consider their democratic
birthright got up the backs of sell the legitimate Arras because their native ends to die; they cities, but the singing will be
A 2.30, 5.10. 7,209.30
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FOUR ITEMS
CARGENT'S big poll at Wol- longong, coming on top of anti-Sociallet victories at
many voters.
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by this year, perhups as much as 50 relaxing.
NANCY
Stranded
OH, SLUGGO
YOU?
night club lump, which he says is caused
HAVE YOU BEEN USING THAT HAIR TONIC I GAVE
SURE I'VE BEEN USIN IT FOR WEEKS
IS YOUR HAIR ANY LONGER ?
HAR
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