1933-02-21 — Page 7

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.

G. ZANGARA

SENTENCED TO

80 ́YEARS' GAOL Attempted Murder. Of

Mr. Roosevelt.

ITALIAN BRICKLAYER PLEADS GUILTY

SMALL-POX SCOURGE COPING WITH

IN COLONY. 23 Cases Reported Yesterday.

26 DEATHS LAST WEEK

Twenty-three fresh cases of

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

THE MENACE

FROM THE AIR

Geneva Seeks Control

Of Aviation.

MUCH

GOLD

By R. E. Moreau.

small-pox. 14 occurring in Kow- BRITISH PLAN TO SAFEGUARD "No, I had enough of Gebel a good deal of the Arabian littoral

loon, and 9 in Hong Kong, were notified to the Health Authorities! yesterday. Also, one case each of diphtheria, meningitis and puer- perni fever were reported.

casen during the week ended

Fe-

from Old and New Kowloon, and

fever 4 cases, 3 deaths; diphtheria,

3 cases, 2 deaths; tuberculosis 6

PEACE

London, To-day.

for. <

Tagloun when I was there and the Red Sea hills.

When the pitiably flat feet of the Inst," said the sunburnt man with emphasis. He sucked in the cor-little. Greek waiter had brought the Miami, To-day.

ners of his mouth to give weight drinks and retired again behind the Zangara, the Talion would- be assassin was sentenced

The task of devising a practical to his words. "No," he repeat- bar the sunburnt man wedged one to a total of 50 years' im-

The total number of small-pox scheme which in the words of Lord ed, "I wouldn't go back there shoulder comiertably against the "He broke off and his fly-blown wooden wall of the Cafe prisonment o feur charges

"It was in Kosseir," he began, for the attempted murder of

bruary 18 in 48, and there were Londonderry. British Air Minister, eyes roved round the Cafe Bar Bar Poseidon. President-Elect Franklin D.

26 deaths from the disease. Of the Will give to all nations real pro-Poseidon as if in search of ins-

Wotherspoon. Did you ever meet "He Rosevelt and three others.

cases reported, 26 were from the tection against the horrors to which piration. Suddenly he leant for "that I ran against Old Charlie

head. I shook my receiving 20 years' imprison-

Victoria registration district, 20 imagination can put no limit, while ward and breathed heavily in my ment on each charge.

can find there," he finished con-was a heary lump of wickedness who had knocked about the Middle Ivenience beneficent development of fidentially. Zangara pleaded guilty to all one each from Shaukiwan and the preserving for their use and con- face. "For less than I know him?"

Three small-pox the charpes, thereby putting an New Territory.

peaceful flying", was begun at He sat back in his chair and re-East for more years than he could He spent a bit of time in end to the expectations that hei

cases were imported.

in a wink India, where he seems to have pick- would attempt to escape impri-

Other returns for last week are Geneva yesterday by the Air Com-garded me with a sublime knowing count.

ed up most of his ideas, which were as follows:-meningitis 13 cases.mittee of the Disarmament Con-ness which culminated like the slam of a 'door..

One thing he did sonment by claiming insanity.

The sentences will run conse, 6 deaths (1 imported); enteric ference.

"Have another drink," I suggest. few and queer.

believe was that when he died his Committee men, in pursuance Jed. cutively.

of the resolution passed by the

"Well," he said, "I wouldn't with Boul would come to earth again in General Commission, met "to everybody.

Some people would try another shape. Reincarnation, don't In his later life be examine the possibility of the en-to get me canned to make me talk they call it? tire abolition of military and But you're different. I like you. got a great idea of finding coal one side or the other of the Red Sea.) naval aircraft, and bombing from Thanks, I will." the air, combined with effective) 1 signed to the little Greek waiter Coal!" The sunburst man spat dis- "len't this part of the control of civil aviation."

to bring us each another whisky.gustedly. Referring to the menace which Beads of sweat stood out on us and world hot enough already, without the misuse of aircraft would the flies stuck lovingly to our ears, looking for anything else to warm Fer Old Charlie to! constitute to the civil population, A breath from the oil refinery, it up with? (Continued from Page 1)

which has done so much to increase spend his last years looking for coal! Lord Londonderry said:

a ship-chandler turning "When I used the word Japan. I "Their development In the last 20

I religious.

"Anyhow, he and fetched up at ust not be leunderstood. The ears has laid open to attack, cities the amenities of Suez, oozed in was like

Each year has thanked heaven that another twenty-

As there was Japanese people have always been and centres of population lying far through the closed shutters. sincere and enthusiastic in their behind the frontier.

an increase in speed, range and carry-four hours would find me on a boat Kosselr at the same time, and I was

and northward bound. Meanwhile on my beam-ends. support of the League of Nations, ing capacity of machines, so that nl-

momentarily controls

stone and, like any two people who good deal of one another. Europe tra the other. Government of Japan, believes,Even oceans are no longer a bar-have ever roamed the desert, we had me that after he'd grown a bit tired! that it can successfully defy both rier, and, as aircraft, whether civil or begun to discuss it, and from every of persuading reluctant Bedouin to military, are increasingly annihilating other topic we returned to it. He dig in very hot and hard rocka for) time and distance, the whole world is becoming as une continent."

Attempt on King of Italy. The attacker confessed that he deaths.

kill Mr. Rougerelt had intended to

he had 120, and that, ten years taken part in a plot to assassinate

King Victor

Emmanuel

fly SEVERE FIGHTING AT

CHAOYANGSU

Both blot ind failed, cause the crowds were too large.

He said he was

he said, be-

Guiseppe Za

and

gara, an Italian bricklayer. that he hated all rich and power. Mr Roosevelt was jast ful persons one of the many, he said.

Zangara said that, when he heard that Mr. Roosevelt was coming to urge to slay came Miami, the old

That desire was proh over him.

rendy are

aircraft Exist which could

the i

ably aggravated by the fact that he but the Japanese General Stall, hurch an air attack from one end of, had fallen in with this rolling only one bar we naturally saw

had recently undergone an operation for a stentach diserter.

He paid

$ for the gun that was intended to kill the President-eleet.

Though still ill from the opera tion and sere from the blows of a World War veteran, who smashed) bim full in the face before the police could interfere, the prisoner no will was calm and showed

toward the polire when arrest-) 4. He did not kuk the "killer He answered the quodions type" readily and said he was prepared to

in t take whatever punishment was store for him.

Woman's Bravery. By the margin of a split second and through the bravery of a

which

Moscow and Geneva.

"That road can never peace," he said.-Reuter.

lead to

Japan May Lose Mandates.

LEAGUE WITHDRAWAL "A BLUFF."

Cunton. Japan's threat to withdraw from the League of Nations is a bluff, as this means it has to give up the

mandates of lands

former German is- in northern Pacific

He

to

He told

said the

found

(seemed to have been free-lance leonl, he had suddenly thought of

You know,"

"It's often was authorised to repeat on, be prospector in the sub-troples, most-platinum. half of his Government, the declara-ly after oil and gold, in the course sunburnt man, tion made last November by Sir Johmf which secupation he had visited somewhere near gold, and there has Simon, that the United Kingdon Gov- erament are prepared to subscribe the universal acceptance of the aball- tion of naval and military aircraft and air bombing except for police pur- peses, provided only that there can be desised an effective scheme for inter- national control of civil aviation which! will prevent all possibility of misuse of civil aireraft for military purposes,

It was manifest that the

pro-

TROOPSHIP NEURALIA

ARRIVES

been gold in these Red Sea hille. The Romane and that crowd work- jed it, and worked it so thoroughly

that it doesn't pay to scratch over! with modern' their dumps even methods of extraction. But, as Old Charlle, said, they hadn't been look ing for platinum, and if it had been: uses they shoved under their

hibition of mintary aircraft and an S.W.B.'s Rugby Players wouldn't have set much store by it.

Quarantined. So Old Charlie, according to

agreement not to make use of

до

He

"

..

hisi story, had gone poking about round Mr. powerful a weapon, could not give

He never H. M. Troopship Neuralia arriv. the old gold workings. Florida woman, the President-elect. Hsian Fu-chen, member of Kuo any real sense of accurity go long

as there was no effective guaranteed in Hong Kong from Shanghat found any platinum, but he did Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped mintang C.E.C., asserted to-day.

He believed that in view of the that civil aircraft could not be 30

yesterday, with the 1st Battalion, strike gold. He told me that he had veln of auriferoual death at the hands of an assassin

Before the at-keen naval competition between Ja-misused.

the East Lancashire Regiment on found a thick on February 15.

United States, the

Effective Regulation,

board.

quartz right up against one of the tucker's hand could be stilled by parf and the

The problem before the Cum-

The East Lancs have been sta-jolds shafts on Gebel Tagloun. an infuriated crowd, his gun hat former will be unwilling to relin- felled five persons, including Mr.quish the mandates.

The aged Kuomintang leader mitee, therefore was to devise such tioned in Shanghai for the past couldn't understand why the Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chiengo,!

the their barracks at Catterlek after a friend of Mr. Roosevelt, and a five- warned that Japanese aggression an effective regulation of civil avia-three years and are returning to cients had never tourhed it." year-old boy who stood admiring of China would not cease just being as would make feasible

of air The South Wales Borderer's rug- the next President of the United cause of diplomatic failure, much abolition of naval and military air- long spell abroad,

less it would restore the Three craft and the prohibition

bombardment.

by team which played a series of Without such a regulation, danger games in Shanghai, should have Amid shouts of "Kill bim!" and Eastern Provinces to China. The

te world's peace would otherwise be returned by the Neuralla, but ow- "Lynch him!" there was a rush for Chinese people, he said, should re- the the gunman but, before he went sisi Japanese invasion

tere, contracting small-pox, the down, he had fired all six shots only way out of the present situa- increased rather than diminished, ing to one of their men, Pie. Wal-

Bald Lord Londonderry.

Any such scheme must satisfy at whole team have been quarantinedi from his newly-purchased revel, ton.

It must pre-In Shanghai targets. The five who fell and Mr. Istao believed that General least two conditions. who were taken to a hospital, Cheng Hsuch-liang may really re-vent all possibility of the resources where they were visited by the sist this time, lest he should tone of civil aviation being used for

Peiping and Tientsin. President-elect, were:--

States.

ver, five of which found human

Mr. Anton Cermak, Mayor of -Chicago.

Mrs. Joe Gil, wife of the presi- dent of the Florida Light & Power

Co.

D.C.

of

an

Turning to the Jehol situation,]

Therefore

News In Brief.

and

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be "The Third Performance," by Anthony Gillins.

The sunburnt wetted his lipa.

man paused and

WAS waiting In "Old Charlie

was Kosseir for some cyanide he

Mean- having seat down by boat. (while, he managed to fake up some Famous Engine-Driverwort of a hand-crusher for the

Retires.

26 YEARS ON FOOT PLATE.

rallitary purposes in the event of the MALCOLM CAMPBE. L

OF RAILWAYS, a big battle in Jehol will break outbreak of hostilities and it must! not prevent or hamper the fullest out, he added.-Central Press.

development of aviation. in every commercial country for civil and

restrict freedom inf purposes nor

quart. He wanted a partner, and the realm of experiment

the offered me a quarter share of the research. Miss Marget Cruise,

boodle if I would come back with Regarding the first, Lord Lon- Newark, NJ.

him to Gebel Tagloun and help with] the hard work. As 1 knew he William Sinnott, New York de- Mr. Arthur Newark, instructer donderry pointed out that the July

London.

hadn't much more tective guarding the President-of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, resolution contemplated that some

money than I

elect

who WELK

successfully regions should be excluded, but recently

After over 26 years on the foot-had, I asked him how he was going] Russell Caldwell, Miami, aged 5, operated upon at Bungsar Hospital, means were obviously required to slightly wounded,

has left for a trip to Hong Kong. prevent civil machines existing in plate, Driver William Barnes, who to raise a caravan. You can im for has been described as the "Mal-jugine that we weren't taking aloug Record of Altacks.

those areas being available

colm Campbell' of the London and a very elaborate outfit, but we did who have A gold wristlet watch was found military purposes. The following men been elected to the Presidency of by Police at the race meeting yes- Begarding the second condition, North Eastern, Railway, has retir-have to have several cameis. for the Old Charlie said the that a Con-ed. He revelled in speed and, no watersupply.

would appear all right,' the United States have been attack-terday. The owner may have the it was inconceivable

designed to promote matter how much the delay, he was caravan ed by assassins:-

watch on application to the Invention

cyanide had arrived, the cemels Abraham Lincoln, assassinated spector-in-charge of No. 2 Police security and goodwill among nations rarely late in arriving at his des- Sure enough, a few days after the

should be sa forward as to check Lination. on April 14, 1865, Washington, Station.

the free development of what was While others regard their life's turned up in charge of several durly- I fancy he got James A. Garfield, assassinated! Ng Kai-chuen, a Police Reservist, perhaps the most important agent work as monotonous, it has not been looking Bedouin. en July 2, 1881, Washington, DC. residing at 165, Pak Tai Street, of the present day for encouraging so with Driver Barnes." "I have en- them by blackmailing one of the William McKinley, assassinated Kowloon City, has reported to the peaceful communications and the joyed every minute I spent on the Ma'ara sheikhs. There were several

of commercial and footplate."

He declared on his things about the hashish traffic be- on September 6, 1901, Buffale, N.Y. Police the theft of a Smith and development

Mamour of Theodore Roosevelt, attacked and Wesson revolver and 50 rounds of friendly intercourse on the problem last trip. It is a glorious adven-tween the Red Sea and the Nile

ture. The screech of the whistle Valley which the which the Committee must face. wounded by assassin on September ammunition, from his house.

Lord Londonderry reminded as we pass beneath a tunnel or fly Kosseir would have been glad to 14, 1912, Milwaukee.

"It was really too early in the Franklin D. Roosevelt, attacked

While engaged in cutting earth et members that aviation was only in through a deserted station, with the know. Stanley, & inbourer Chung Loi, 25, its infancy and that they were con- lights twinkling is music in my

The sooner you sustained as injured leg when a tree aldering & Convention to safeguard cara, If you love the work there is season to start, but tick is very became dislodged and fell on him. the future as much as the present, nothing more thrilling. Speed has limited in Kosselr.

always been my hobby."

got away the sooner we'd be back He was sent to the Government-British Wireless Service.

In spite of his seat for speed, he with the wherewithal to do our Civil Hospital.

saya that it is impossible to satisfy selves proud. We went down south some passengers. On one occasion, quite a long way, to somewhere hear after having driven a considerable Rus ed DIN, then struck Inland distance at 80 miles an hour in an across that beastly cósstäl ́ plain effort to make up for lost time, he which is worse than anywhere else arrived 15 minutes late and was on earth except perhaps El Qa. It told by an irritable old gentlemon wasn't the happiest of journeys, es- that he ought to be arrested for pecially with sulky men and camels which had been picked by the Ma'ża, loitering, e

but not wounded, on February 15, 1933, at Miami-United Press.

SHIP'S OFFICER FOUND. Reported To Be Sick.

Mak Yat, master of the Kwong

EXPLOSION

Tai Shing Timber Yard, Anchor TWO INJURED BY PREMATURE Street, has notified the Police of the loss of an electric motor, valu- ed at $296, the property of the Mr. Tomas Endeson, recently, China Light and Power Company. A premature explosion while a blast was being prepared at a quar- "Chief Oficer aboard the an. Belar

The annual ball given by bachelor ry at old Kowloon Tong, near No tan, who was reported, as missing

of the Craigéngower 8 Railway Bridge youtérday after, Juri an the sailor always longs to for their worthlessness; Old during the week-end, his been members found. He has been staying with Cricket Club will be held on Bater noon, led to two stone cutters, Chan Doard do a farm nó, dose Driver Chatila's temper wasn't friend, in Kowloon and is very day, next at - the club home. The Wun 25, And Young Ping, 18, be- Barass and he is now falflling his with one thing and the

wish by retiring to bachelor members will be at home ing, injured,

miles fromTM through those furni Mr. Endeson received his dia- to all married members and their. Both were sent to the Kowloon in Alwapy Sussex Hospital in a serious condition. Amiinline rZINAY, charge from the Solstan Inat Tues- ladies.

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