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GANG BATTLE IN CHICAGO.

Ridding Herself of the Incubus Crime,

AMERICAN CONCERN.

THE CHINA MAIL.

'PLANE CRASH.

ROUND THE CINEMAS SHOT IN THE BACK,

MACHINE FALLS INTO GASOMETER.

Three Ives were lost in Chicago in a remarkable aeroplane accident during a sudilen storm over the city when an aeroplane carrying two girls as passengers, crash into a gasometer, penetrated the thin of the tank into 40 ft. of water..

SUE CAROL. IN "AIR CIRCUS."

SHOWING TO-DAY...

Just before Sue Carot began her role in the Fox picture, "The Air Circus" she had completed a role

ing Back."

All is uproar on the Chicago metal roof, and fell to the bottom in the McMille production, "Walk

front, says the New York Literary

On the opening day of the aero- Two Chicago girls, Mary and 'Digest. The city is hammering away at gangdom. But, will she Eugenie Law, had been saving up plane pleture they led her over to tire? Is this battle "just another their money ac us to take a sight one of the planes and strapped a seeing flight over the city, and re-parachute on her back. She looked flash in the pan?" Will the brutal cently chartered the five-seater at it curiously as they arranged it murder of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, passenger monoplane, the Magic and remarked: Tribune police reporter, which Carnot.

Their pilat, Orville Souchy, who sent the city into this angry drive obtained a licence only six weeks

As it turned out, all the aviators on hoodlums, be permitted to fade ago, took the plane over Chicago: from the public mind, and will the in spite of a rapidly rising thun kept their minds on their work. old order be restored after public derstorm which was accompanied | They had to get the exciting scénes passion cools?

ty heavy rainfall, forked lightning, to be shown to-day. and small whirlwinds,

Caught by Squall.

"It's a great idea if the wind is blowing in the direction of home- much better than walking back."

"SUNNY SIDE UP."

·

Three aetora speaking lines while travelling 37 miles an hour

of David

BOY WOUNDED BY THWARTED BURGLARS.

BRITISH CONSUL VICTIMISED.

Alleged Embezzlement. by Clerk.

"PASSPORT MONEY.'

.:

Systematic embezzlement and

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A bey was shot in the back, re- cently while visiting the house of his employer, Councillor McClane, in Tufnell Paris Road, London, N. Councillor McClane was away on holiday, and it had been arranged

of Hampden that the boy Road, N. should go to misappropriation of money. J WING HING CO. the house each day to feed the charged against a Chinese clerk employed in the British Consulate, When he arrived at the house who was arrested yesterday by domestic peta. Phelps found the door open and the detectives from Central Police the Consular authorities. The dog running loose. He was tele- Station upon information laid by phoning to the police when he was

The police, clerk will appear in the Shanghai shot from behind. however, located the telephone Provisional Court this morning, number and constables were rush-says a Shanghai paper of Septem- ber 27, and will be charged with ed to the house, top of the stairs. Drawers had ment of sums of money totalling The police found a revolver at defrauding the British Govern- been searched and the house was more than $8,000 over a lengthy in confusion. Silver had been period. packed in bags and left, as if the burglars were disturbed when they were ready to lepve,

son's first original Fox Morlotone MR. HENRY FORD DIAGNOSES

AMERICA'S MALADY. musical comedy, "Sunny Side Up.".

Very few ao-called "running shots" have been made to date in audible pictures, and Butler's suc cess on this unusually difficult bl of recording is regarded as the greatest stunt yet done in the new. medium.

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He was

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It appears that the accused had These are questions in the minds of editors throughout the country.

been employed in the Passport Branch of the British Consulate The entire nation is watching

The plane was suddenly caught

for approximately ten years, but

Pair Chicago as she battles to rid her by the squall and started to dive

the date from which he self once and for all of the incubust earth. Souchy was unable to

has Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$ 4.50] a motor cycle is one of the ECONOMICALLY SICK menced to take the money of crime.

extricate it from ita rapid descent, in

not been fully established. Hay- Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes & 5.00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 Newspapers from coast to coast are but he had sufficient presence of unique achievements

A Butler, director, in the production

ing access to certain stamps and Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 $8.00 featuring the daily developments mind to eut off the ignition. in the fight, and their editors ex- moment later the aeroplane crush of De Sylva, Brown and Hender-

understord that the accused col-Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00 press a wide variety of opinione ed through the gasometer, which

other passport documents, it is Black or Brown Boots from

Best styles, most complate stock lected certain moneys from time to

of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. on the outcome. Some are frankly was full of gas, and plunged into

time and failed to turn the full

WONG SIU WOON sceptical; others hopeful; many the water below.

amounts over to the compradore.

Phone £1474. commend the city for "awaking ati

Firemen connected pumps to the

New York, Sept. 6.

It was by mere chance that the 2, Pottinger St. las" and express confidence that inside of the gasometer in an effort

Mr. Henry Ford sailed for she will hammer her way through to remove the water, but while they to ultimate victory.

were working it was realised that

Europe to-day after declaring that series of defalcations and em- America is, at the present time, bezzlement was discovered.

Some days ago a British resi "Chicago's war is the nation's it would take twenty-four hours to

"economically sick." war," dcclares the Manchester drain the tank.

El, Brendel drove the motor cycle

The motor magnate added, how-dent went to the passport office Steam locomative were therefore Union in far-off New Hampshire,

events for a passport. and other papers agree that the brought alongside the gasometer so while Frank Richardson and Mar- ever, that some improvement is and applied in the usual course of fate of similar campaigns in others to drive the remaining gas frem forie White occupied the "bath manifest. It will require a long asked to pay a sum approximating

tub" sidecar. All three take part time for the country to recover,

$10. Later he applied for his cities hangs in a large degree on the tank by steam."

Mr. Ford said, as it will take as Chicago's failure or success,

When this work was completed in the conversation, making it a

there was no record of the applica- Developments on the Chicago diver was sent down into the struc-particularly ticklish job for the long to become well as it took to passport, but it was found that of the money having front, as gleaned from the city's ture. He reported that the bottom sound engineer to record.

Janet Gaynor and Charles Far

Recovery must be slow, accord-tion nor papers and news dispatches, in of the tank was filled with slime. elade the following:-

Since the wreckage was buried in rell are featured in "Sunny, Side ing to Mr. Ford; otherwise the peo- been paid in to the compradore, Under "nine hundred million this mud it was hours before he Up" which will be seen and heard ple will not profit by their ailment. Inquiries were made and it was Thursday on the Queen's

He felt a sense of optimism because found that certain other amounts

were missing. tons of pressure," Police Commis-succeeded in recovering the bodies on

the people are at last thinking.

The duties of the arrested clerk aiener Russell, a personal friend of the victims which were found Theatre screen.

Later the

As a parting statement, Mr. Ford of Lingle, steps out of office, say-still in the aeroplane.

sald it makes little difference whe-were to collect moneys on pass- ing:

diver succeeded in fastening cables

ther the American Government re-port stamps and other documents "Some one had to be red meat around the wrecked plane, which

cognises Soviet Russia or continues connected with the Passport Office which were to be turned over to .. I have had an insurmount- was lifted from the gasometer. :

its present attitude.

Portions of the compradore. able obstacle. By that I mean

these moneys disappeared before Prohibition-and 1-don't give a

reaching the compradors. It has damn who knows it."

the Time to Fall in Love," are al- been ascertained that the signa- ready via the radio. The former tures on certain receipts had been song is one of the Maurice Che-forged, the forgeries having been valler numbers in "Paramount on carried out over a lengthy period. Parade"; the second is sung by The full amount of the defalca Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Lil-tions is not definitely known. fian Roth.

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With Russell goes Deputy Com- missioner Stege, head of the detec tive bureau.

"SEVEN DAYS LEAVE."

As a child Gary Cooper saw и iamous actress play on the London atage. Now that same actress has become Cooper's screen mother in "Seven Days Leave," Paramount's

eivie decency and security of life and property,"

"So far as this newspaper is all talking picture playing at the concerned, and we feel we speak Central Theatre.

well, Gary went to Britain with his First Deputy Commission Alcock for our contemporaries as is named temporary commissioner. this is a storm that is not going parents, Judge and Mrs. Charles Chief Justice Normoyle, of the to blow over," declares the Even- Cooper, when he was nine years Criminal Court, delivers a special ing Poat. It may take months to old and attended a Grammar School charge to the grand jury to "search do the job, but the "Post" is enlist-In Dunstable, Bedfordshire, for out the truth concerning politico-ed for a long and continuous war-three years before returning to his gang connections and crime pro- fure, which is just beginning." fits."

Six special "guerilla squads" of detectives, commanded by men "who have made police reputations by killing from five to eleven criminals each," take the field.

are

But can Chicago make this an

Papers effective clean-up?

all discussing over the country that question.

"It is not unfair to say that the outcome of this fight depends upon whether

birthplace, Helona, Montana.

Each Christmas while in Britain, the Coopers went up to London to see the pantomimes that are pre- sented at the Drury Lane Theatre during the holidays, and to take in the other leading theatres. of the newspapers mean the British metropolis. Michael Igoe, minority leader in the Illinois legislature, blames business," says the San Diego politics for Chicago crime in an attack on Mayor Thompson.

More than 1,200 "small fry" rounded up in police hunt Lingle's slayer.

business

Beryl Mercer, who portrays an Union. "If the combined forces of uid Scottish woman who appoints Chicago's newspapers cannot beat herself Cooper's mother in "Soven crime that is to say, if they can- Days Leave," was at that time one for not beat the organised variety, of the leading actresses in London. confining crime to sporadic, oc- The Cooper family attended a per The City Council Committee on casional and isolated episodes-formance of "Milady's Dress" in Police and Municipal Institutions then the press is a sham, the power which she had the leading role. votes unanimously to investigate of the press is a myth, and organis- Gary 'remembered the characterisa- the police department.

ed crime is unbeatable."

tion, but it was not until his

Forty-eight

Icaders, Not very sympathetic is the father visited the sound stage on members of the Association of Richmond Times-Despatch, which which "Seven Days Leave" was Commerce, vote to replace the says that Chicago citizens "must being produced at the Paramount Secret Six, a committee appointed be rubbing their eyes and asking studios, that he connected Miss Judge to investigate crime and co-operate themselves where the newspapers Mercer with the part. with the authorities, with a com- have been hiding their sonsitivity Cooper recognised the actress Im- mittee of sixteen to expand, the and civic consciousness, their mediately. work.

capacity for great moral indigna-1 During all this turmoil, the body tion." Then it demands: of another murder victim, withi "Why has this declaration of hands, head, and feet removed, is war been postponed ten years?' found in the river.

while the drive is on.

become sick.

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REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.

Jack Oakie and Zelma O'Neal sing "I'm in Trulning for You," another lively hit song, and the rousing ballad, "Let Us Drink to the Girl of My Dreams," is render- ed by a world-famous group of actors,--Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Virginia Bruce, Gary Cooper, James Hall, Phillips Holmes,,

Lagos, Aug. 23. David Newell, Joan Peers and Fay

The Report of the Special Com- Wray.

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"Song of "the ed-together-in-one sparklings heard in

report gives the main contributory Gangsters are reported leaving Lligle?"--

causes as (1) discontent caused by town, and gambling and other re- To the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, screen production will be heard Gondoller."

Many of the Interludes are film the taxation of men (introduced into sorts are said to be "taking it easy" the remedy "lies wholly with the when Paramount's talking, sing-

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Two of the numberé, "Sweepin' that corrupts politicians, police, other law agencies from the in and Prohibition agents," declares fluences that keep them from func- the Clouds Away" and "Any Time's

the public in- the Chicago Daily News, itemising tioning fully in

terest." The city must clean up the account, thus:-

"Beer, booze, and alcohol, its politics first, thinke the Jersey

Journal. $8,610,000.

Agreeing, the New "Gambling houses and hand. York World says:

"If the organised businessmen books, $1,250,000.

Inalet on a complete reorganisation of the police, and show that they are determined to prepare a real house cleaning in 1981 elections, they can end what has become a

Disorderly houses, flats, shady hotela, $1,000,000.

"Labour rackets, bombings, areon, kidnappings, $500,000.

"Total, $6,226,000,"

And these figures, the paper national scandal." B says, are conservative.

Both wet and dry papers agree alcohol But the alayer of "Jake" Lingle that the beer and what of him? Where is the left"rackets," with their enormous handed allk-gloved killer who shot profits, are the root of the city's the reporter through the back of trouble. "If the Tribune and other the head in a crowded pedestrian wet. Chicago newspapers will subway on June 97 Ten days after throw their influence to the side the murder, we read, he was still of the Constitution and the law," at large. Rewards of $55,000 says the Spokane Spokesman Re- offered by three newspapera, view, will help the Federal en coupled with an additional offer of forcement officers and lanh the $10,000 by thePress Club had local authorities to a performance failed, up to then, to land him in of their duties, these fighting fendiats will have to quit for lack fa,ceile

Newspaper's Pledge, of sustenance.

But there is a ready retort from But that cowardly killer, who ever he was, started something," the other side. Says the Now something which seems to give York Daily News overy promise of continuing until The truth is that all of us Chicago at last is freed of her police, general public, and oven In a formal resolution the the gangsters are caught in the Chicago Tapers have pledged set of Federal Prohibition, The delves to carry on the Light 10 only way to got out is to cut our way

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And the extortion, and corruption practised whole fa blended into a joyous, by Native Court members""; and (8) Intimate entertainment festival, the low prices ruling for produce ing the situation to reach such a natives working in them should be taken by unskilled European un- and the high prices of Imported climax.

The Commission finds that the employed. The firma would pay "something new on the screen."

goods.

police force, recruited as an in- to the natives, as laid down by the Many Troops Employed.

surance against disturbances, had Wage Board and the Government In the suppression of the disbeen reduced below, the safety call-would grant subsidies in order to turbances and the restoration of ed to Abs, and instructions con- bring their wages into line with order large numbers of troops were corning the defence of property European standards. This system employed, in addition to the armed along the Imo river, were unduly de- of subsidies would continue for one constabulary, and firing occurred on layed. The police force in Opobol year, which would be regarded as 18 occasiona. Most of these was too scattered and was not casions were of a trivial nature, striking force. Assurances having without casualties resulting, but been given that women were not to serious casualties resulted in three be taxed, it was necessary to forbid instances. At Abak on. De

mass meetings. cember .14, the police

Movis

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fr.

ed at the ground in front

of

of the mob

but

the

three were killed and one wounded.

The report

women,

finds that

not justified. At Utu Etim Ekpo,

な

firing on that occasion was

on December 15, the troops fired

IDLE WHITES.

GOVERNMENT'S · SCHEME IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Johannesburg, Aug. 5. Detalls of the Government with rifles and a Lewis gun on two. mobs of women. The total casualties scheme to subsidize the employ- were 20 women killed or died of ment of Europeans in poste at pre- wounds and 25 other women wound sent held by natives are now avail- ed. The report. finds that the able. It is understood that firing was not justified. At the the Cabinet regarda the scheme Important station of Opobo, on as definite solution of the December 16, the troops fired with employment problem. rifles on the women, the casualties A start will be made with indus- being one man and 80 women killed tries dealing purely with the pro-

un-

a period of apprenticeship. Should the European workers show suff cient aptitude in their new trade, then, It is believed, their employers would consider them qualified for better positions and higher pay.

The Government's proposal is de algued to serve two purposes, a there is a scarcity of native labour for mining and agriculture, and natives from the baking Industry- would be available. for work in those fields.

THEFT OF JEWELS,

VALUABLE PEARL NECKLACE STOLEN.

London, Sept. 1 Jewellery valued at between $15,-

or died from wounds and 20 women duction of foodstufe, and already 000 and £20,000, including a unique - wounded. The report states that the

Government have made pearl necklace worth £10,000, has the proprietors been stolen from the home at this firing at the moment it took overtures to

The sur Leatherhead of Mise Hulton, daugh place was justified, but adds that of large bakeries. there was no justification for allow gestion is that the places of ter of the late Mr. Edward Hulton."