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"UNCOMMON" BENEFICIAL"

GMEN FORCES IN

AMERICA

WAR AGAINST GANGSTER

ELEMENTS

The Brussels Exhibition pab- EDGAR HOOVERS NEWLY FORMED

licity department recently issued

a letter headed, "Transmitted for information, with hearty thanks." It states:

Already upwards of 7 millions

FORCE OF BULLDOGS

the Gr yet em

(By W. F. Bullock)

that 2

of visitors are invading the ET em, alive or dead, but shot with either hand and was

Tielding to

brought up as a Texan ringer. capital-town. seductive sites of Belgium attract- Those words Blazing forth Opposed to these men of law public ed besides by the reputed comfort from the front of a famous and order are 10,000 afforded by its holiday-resorts by Broadway cinema told all who enemies, including gangsters. the general cheap standard of life. cared to know

newwho shoot only to kill crooked underworld flowered moreover by an uncommon]“G-Man” film had come to town politicians,

beneficial money-course, by the It was Machine-Gun Kelly who lawyers, officials who take bribes facilities of the quick interior named the members of the criminal doctors who "life" the transfer, crowds of foreigners are Federal Bureau of Investigation face of rich desperadoes, and wo thronging in to Belgium, the pre-"G-Meri" He himself was cap-men who shelter them. Dillinger Isent Universal goal of excursions." tured by some of them. Kelly had was trapped because the G-Men The Lodgings-Office is in a two pistols with him. He did not knew that he was mad about films. Whatever the risk, that. strong position. "The amount of use either. lodgings," the letter adds, "is pre- "Why, if you were armed, didn't desperado could not keep away, sently so considerable that the you shoot he was asked. Office is in a situation to meet all "I knew if I did.” answered the death outside one. demands even on days when the gangster, "that you G-Men would crowd of foreigners. is to be shoot me" densest."

“ALICE" RELICS

Har-

11

Your Daily Smile!

from cinemas. He was shot to

do-

Burean Activities Every effort is being made to Officially these men are known extend the activities of the as the FBI a contraction which Bureau..consistent with States" brings them superficially on a parirights to police their own with the famous. CLD. of Scot-main. The Bureau has 5,000 fin- land Yard..

ger-prints of men known to rob Small Force

banks. It is now a Federal of fence to rob a bank which, con- There are many who think that tains Federal moneys. One bank was astonished when

When Mrs. Reginald greaves, the original "Alice Wonderland," died last year, she left a number of interesting relics which her son, Captain Caryl Har- greaves sold in London this these Federal agents are worthy robber

of a place beside the Scotland Federal agents arrested him. month

Yard detectives. They are de-"What," he exclaimed. are you. They include 2 number of

Canadian Mounties and as being National Bank.” The China Mail tracks instead of roads it is editions of "Alice in Wonderland scribed as equal to the famous guys doing here. This is not a quite possible to imagine an in various languages, signed by more dramatic in action than the "No," replied an agent, "bat advance.coming to 2 stop Alice herself. There is a biscuit French Surete..

there's Government money in it.”: "I wish I'd known it," remarked Hong Kong. Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1935, because so many men are retin, whose sides, and Edcon This force numbers hardly quired on the line of communiain coloured illustrations from

more than 600 men. These few the gangster ruefully. cations.

Through the Looking Glass.” hundreds seek to protect the lives In his office Hoover has a map It cannot be assumed there

There are also photographs of and property of 125,000,000. They of the United States stuck all Banditry

fore, that there is any blame to Alice at valous ages, taken by work from Maine to California about with pins. Each pin with be attached to any particular Lewis Corral" himself, and plas-from the Mexican border to the a tiny coloured label attached To every man his life is the officer for the capture of Mr-ter figures of the "Wonderland Canadian line. The Bureau in tells him at a glance where his most valuable thing in the Jones, or for the subsequent characters presented to her on her Washington has this year an ap-men are and what is each one's world, and yet it is one of the attack on an express train in eightieth birthday.

Ipropriation of £800,000 with which particular job. On the top floor fatal The only claim to immortality of paradoxes of life that if he which there were seven

to operate. It is estimated that of the Department of Justice worries about it unduly it be casualties; what is obvious is a certain member of the editorial

last year, when the allotment was Building is the fingerprint rooms comes much less valuable both that one Government or the staff of one of Hong Kong's papers much smaller, £4,000,000 in fines Here 2.500 sets of fingerprints to himself and to the rest of the other, Chinese or Manchukuoan, is that the original "Alice" was

and recovered stolen property are received daily, from all parts It is not a matter of or Japanese, must be held his great-aunt.KUS A world

were reclaimed by "Edvar Hoover of the world. surprise that Mr. Gareth Jones responsible in any particular

and his devoted men.

Police Model should want to see what is area and the foreign Govern- going on in the Chahar Pro-ments cannot be expected to put vince and the North of China; up with outrages to their

Ten cents isn't supposed to be nothing could go more against nationals. If the cost of keep good as a dollar, but it goes the 'professional instincts of the ing the peace is excessive, that church more often. keen journalist than to have to is one of the possibilities which be put off with doctored infor- should have been taken into mation which is liable to be con- count before entering upon the tradicted the next day; and the adventure of assuming control fame of the Manchester Guardian of an unwilling population. rests on the fact that that kind There is a mistaken idea that lamb?" of obfuscation has always been the British objection to the a challenge to the staff. It may conquest of Abyssinia without replied: "Father." be true that the Japanese colour of right, and without officials warned him of danger even any pretence of being but that is little more than an invited to do so by the people of official convention which is very the country, is either from different from an order not to some intention of hampering proceed, and is never taken the spread of Italian civilisation seriously except by tourists-or, as is more commonly sup Nonetheless the sad loss of a posed. from some purely idealist Iman so widely known cannot theory of pacifism and support but draw attention to the con-of the League. It is really ditions in that part of the coun- from a very vivid realisation try A widely held view is of the "outrages," as they will that robbery and abduction be called, that will follow under arms is growing more forced surrender, and the repri- frequent, and that it is costing sals that will be considered to the Manchukoo and Japanese be justified against the rebels" hadn't time to come in.”. Governments a steady drain of It is only a technical absurdity men and money which cannot that classes all cut and run” be indefinitely maintained. warfare as illegal because of the

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It is quite likely that some issue of a proclamation of! of the trained soldiers who annexation, and authorises the have been consulted by the destruction of whole villages in Abyssinian Emperor have vengeance for 2 successful advised him to save his men hold-up."

** *

Ahem*

to

Edgar Hoover, who "is not re- He hopes that eventually the Izted to the former President, States will take his Department asļonly took over the job when 28-as the model for their police sured politics would never be al-forces. He says that some local lowed to influence his work. He police are armed with

"borse has a bulldog temperament. His pistols against gangsters who Teacher was giving a lesson on the men call him ruthless in action, se "guns that fire three miles. weather idiosyncrasies of March but devoted to their interests. He Eighty per cent of the G-Men: "What is it," she asked, "that comesfimows every one

of them, their have college degrees. Hoover in like a lion and goes out like a faults and their capabilities. trains them to the highest point U.S. Wakes Up

of efficiency that money will “'“ al- {low," and "supports them with the When the telephone number best scientific laboratories." "National 7117 Washington" If the G-Men ever transforme starts ringing America wakes UP America into a crimeless Utopia with a bang. Hoover is on the they will have to obliterate some it job, issuing instructions with the pretty tall statistics. It is esti--

speed and accuracy of a machiús mated that 12,000 citizens are gua in action. The whole force murdered each year, 100,000 as-- is concentrated on the scene of salted, 50,000 robbed, and 40,000

have their homes burgled.

And little Julia, in the back row,

Spelling Lesson "Now, if I write e-w on the blackboard, what does that spell

*New."

“Now FI put a 2 in front of and what have we ??

"Canoe,

Horse Sense "Dad, when has a fellow horse the crime.

“When he can say 'nay,” sOIL”

A typical and striking example The new American Sherlock was the Weyerhaeuser kid Holmes, who looks like Lon napping Within ten minutes of Chaney, has plenty of work ahead In a Hurry

word being received in Washing of him But he holds that the Husband: “Who was that you were talking to a whole hour at the gate?" ton of the dastardly crime. G-Men average criminal is a coward, Wie: "That was Mrs. Smits the from all parts of the country were and will cry "Quits" it only the

fying to Tacoms. For three days punishment is severe enong)

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

and nights Hoover and his office

| staff never went to bed. Cupping

his hand over the telephone be TICKET COLLECTOR

side him Hoover rushed such orders as: "Send: Johnson fram The s.s. Sirdhana will leave for San Francisco, he's a good shot,” Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe and or "Go by aeroplane and open up Osaka at dawn next Thursday an office in Tacoma. -Tell the

family to keep quiet and let us handle this.

Hoover laughed when the news-

was suspected of the crime, Davis

ASSAULTED

Assailants Fined $25 Each

Charged with assaulting Thi

for this sort of fighting. The In the second stage of the trouble with untrained men, Boer War General De Wet won particularly those who are good his fame rather easily, for the Whist Drive and Tombola will fighters, is to hold them back guerrilla can travel light and be held by the EEOCA, in the papers reported that Voiney Davis Man, a ticket collector employed on the Hong Kong-Yaumati Ferry air, Wellington Barracks, on open from the mass charge which is choose his own time and place Monday next, commencing at 3.30 in a Chicago gaol, but no

launch two : Chinese"- males, Lo so hopeless against modern No army can afford to keep a weapons There are many force all along a line of 700 P cases on record of primitive miles of rail sufficient to repel forces who have simply broken a rapid charge of several him Among the loose from discipline and even dred men. And nothing is ved in Hon killed the officers who tried to easier, than to remove or blow, by the JC hold them back. But there can up a rail and thereby send the were the

one but the Bureau knew of it Wing-yin and Lo Kan, were each one month's Wild FunZons that Alvin fared $25, in de passengers who arKappis was connected with the hard labour, by Mr E 1 Wynne

this morning kidnapping were encou

Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy mer Tilbadak the G-Men to aid

this morning.”

press.

be no doubt about the advan-engine over an embankment Stop Revpe Company, who

opening to-morrow at the Kin tages on the side of the guer-In Europe the capture of a capi rillas, so great as to cancel much tal disorganises the whole

of the advantage that modern, tem of defence; in most armament gives to the regulars lands it does little mo in a pitch

Big guns pin down a large

In Africa - there is: on between the w and the black man

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gangster t

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