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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951.

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Gracie's

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By MONTAGUE LACEY

CAPRI. FRACIE FIELDS has a new neighbour on

G the Isle of Capri--Charles "Lucky Luciano,

Dubbed by the American, F.B.I. as the "king pin" of the drug trafe in Italy and Americs, ho plans to stay for some time.

"Yep, I know all about Gracie," said Luciano. "I don't bother the little lady, and she doesn't bother me. I'm not doing anything to bother anyone."

Luciano, now 58 and greying at the temples, does not give the impression of a big-timo gangster, a man who went to Sing Sing gaol for 80 to 50 years, and was deported from America to his birthplace, Italy.

Like most crooks, he is fascinating to all except his victims. Years of dodging

DON IDDON'S DIARY

EDMONTON, Tuesday.

T is a pity Rome of the Persians are not with me here in Alberta. Perhaps if they were they would realise that one day they may have peddle their oil for pennies, because this is where most of the Commonwealth's and Western World's oll is go- Ing to come from.

to

Not today, not tomorrow, but certainly within a decade. There is more oil in this fabulous Pro- vince in the Canadian North- West than the Persians ever dreamed of.

Did they think about Alberta when they began to push the British around? Had they checked up on Edmonton when they moved to take over the Persian oilfields? Canadians doubt it.

comes this week from ALBERTA

SASKATCHEWAN

MANITOBA

CANADA

SASKATOON

*ckin

WINNIPEG

N. DAKOTA

UNITED STATES

Atherine

EDMONTON TO GREAT LAKES PIPE LIKE TOTAL LEKOTH 1,150 MILES

F1⁄2 Wilkam

Bette

"Great Falls

MONTANA

SUPERIOR

MINNESOTA

Maspoli

200

3. DAKOTA

Mited

THE EMPIRE'S

Edmonton 1s now

the old! capital of Canada. It is one of the fastest-growing eities in the New World, and perhaps the whole world.

When I drove from the airport after the long flight from New York the man next to me said: "You'll never get There's such a boom here that It takes three years to get a telephone and almost as long to

room.

get an hotel room,” But I got

my room.

Kindly disposed

EPM

PONMRU STATICIS A

CIL FIELD

WISCONSINÝ

A

ONTARIO

OIL KLONDIKE

the law have made him a good actor. "I'm looking about to see what I can do. It won't be smuggling aope,"

The report about him by the U.S. Senate crime in- vestigating committee was "all baloney." He added: But can the oil be extracted "I've never touched dope. from the sandst Anglo Iranian My big racket

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experts have had a look round, gambling joints. Horses. but have said little. Canadian And I was a bookmaker. oil specialist Mr S. M. Blair, who

has issued a long and involved

report after Intensive survey And he asked: "What's and study, belleven the sands can

such a big crime about be developed economically. One day, Edmonton says, this will be gambling? Show me some done.

person who doesn't gamble All these discoveries have some way or other." made Alberta chipper

he live today? and How does with pleased

itack. The "I'm living on my treasure- Province is happy about almost the money I had," said Luciano.

and Laughed,

refused Tits Social Credit GWerder the Premier to say more, except that hi

of Ernest

Ho

Manning, has fabulous chamond-studded belt done a good job keeping its was worth only a hundred dol-

firmly on the oil pumps

hand

lars. the Government controls more "There's nothing rich about

than 90 percent of the mineral rights of the rich earth and money flows into the Treasury rather than into the pockets of individual oil kings.

Manning, an earnest, deeply religious man, preaches every Sunday and broadcasts regularly. He is highly respected.

be doing big me now. I'd

about things if that was true the millions I am supposed to have stacked away in Ameri- can banks."

Luciano lives with his wife, dancer Igea former nightclub Lissone,

little in the

brick house overlooking the man.

ex-

Lo

"It's a poor place just four rooms that cost £20 a month in Calgary too, where there is for rent. I've always lived in sald to be great jealousy of an hotel, but that is too

pensive. now," generally called tar Edmonton's new rise to power or other they are less Kansas City, Dallas,

The future? "I'd like Ollmen themselves are

and prosperity, Monning's Palling the clastic American Western and mid- sands.

following is big and loyal In know it. I'd like to go to Eng restrained. bands tight on their bulging Western cities I have visited.

They stretch for 60 miles along fact, throughout the Province land and other places. But it

seems I'm "Look,

Governmeni dollar rolls they say:

with neon the Athabasca river 250, miles the Social Credit It is over-bright

commands the respect and faith country." was producing 30,000 barrels of dazzle and the roads are heavy north of Edmonton.

of the people. oll a day. Today she is pro- 'with dist-and the dust gots ducing more than 70,000 barrels

Into your eyes, your ears, and and we will hit the 100,000-barrel-a-day mark by your throat.

friend, two years ogo Canada

AUMONTON is kindly disposed

How did all this happen? It towards the British. It is Commonwealth - conscious — a happened suddenly. Remember- thriving, bustling, clamorous the dote, February 13, 1947-a town floating on fathoms deep date that my turn out to be the most important in Canadian history,

oll.

these taverns Niled

Vast resource

Bands

And why not? The oll was discovered when the Social THERE' nothing like these

Credit Government was In in anywhere

the

power and maybe they helped to world--at least, Albertans say 20, discover it. I would not blame and they should know. The them if they claimed some of the sands are literally 17 percent oll. credit.

These sands are the ultimate

barred in every

Luciano evades questions about his life as a racehorse owner. 14]. don't owIL any horse." he says.

But the other Saturday, he

to crossed to Naples horse run at the Agnano field. Its name was Gufo (meaning "Night Bird"). It ran in the third race, but was not

500

Knowing racegoers v placed

A

day

end

of this year. And the

But when the dust gets into Alberta is already ahead of 12 of the 25 oll-producing States of your throat there is not a great deal you can do about it. the US."

Of course, there are the beer

Alberin is willing to share the parlours

(for men or taverns and for women only vast resource of all of North credit around. It is also willing only

was Lucky's horse, under the of credit and name of another owner, "May- drinking is segregated between Arnèrica. American experts say to share the all around. It says

barrels of oil, Canadian plenty of oil for everyone. sexes in Edmonton). But I find they could consist of 250,000, there is plenty

be later I shall get an oppor cheerless pinces, 000,00.

Bay more cautious,

some horses," like a station waiting 100,000,000,000 barrels.

tunity to buy IVE A Footnote: Whatever happens in Luelano said wistfully. "But Batore I had been here a few

It was freezing cold and the room.

lut of oil by any rating. hours I was asked: "Why isn't

Are Persia there will always be oll you've got to be careful--you thero in for the lamps of the Empire in can't buy plugs." there more British capital bere? drillers were tired. For months

The beer comes from behind a you listening out

Alberta,

-(London Express Service.) Why haven't the British in the they had been working on bleak

barren lang grille similar to a bank cashier's Perata? Old Country realised what's and cpparently

The with like or no results. Then glasses at a time.

cage, Usually patrons order two happening

Alberta? in

Some put the the afternoon, 20 miles Americans have they are here at 4.30

south of Edmonton, a wildcat" bottles to their lips. Everyone well bogan do "blow." It blew seems to drink very quickly, unut and spewed torrents and streams most of the patrons at the beer

parlours. I have visited appeared. of gas and oil,

to be members of road gangs or bricklayers from the scores of

in force."

Yes, the Yanks are here more than 100 ol companies from the US, and another dozen or so are on their way. American That was the real beginning of capital flows in as the oil gushes the big find and the big boom, new out. Eximonton would like to That was Imperial Oil's Ledne all over Edmonton. sec Britain get her share of the Number Ono, a celebrated name A good deal of riches that are blooming on the hereabouts, as revered as the English is spoken, as Edinonion prairies.

I called on Mr W. A. Mac- Donald, publisher (proprietor)

of the Edmonton Journal. He said:

"One

Maple Leaf itself.

Model oil town

FTER

newspaperman A all over.

doesn't interview another, but here's

background. the

MONSTER MADE OF PAPER

about two

In the Argentine when you singapore is only EY

AVERY age produces its

own torment, which it arrive at the airport you fill up hours, but you need to allow buildings springing up then practises on itself, the required form.

113 You drive yourself twice

long, for Oura is born of the modern to your hotel, and there all'up whichever end you fly, to deal

with the form-filling- broken monstrous paraphernalia of another form.

Next morning you go to an We were all set to go from paper.

office and wait in a queue whlic Djalcaria when a new passenger now, a police officer aska you the arrived. He brought with him, day questions which you answered in a neat little package, a new

last night, although he has it all problem. on the desk in front of him.

is a city of a thundred caces,

are Ukrainians. One of them said to me: "How long you tin

Bud?"

Vast numbers of the drinkers All over the world

every minute of the and night, somewhere

millions of men, other,

children women, and even

.or

dhot, ol burst forth here.

He was a Hindu, and these One well in the

"Two days," I replied. "You

were the ashes of his dead wife. We Leduc field, a rogue and a rascal, speale English good," he said

The devol te man? was taking and Beed, British im ran wild for aix months as You better than me at speaking are filling up forms with By FRANK OWEN them home to India to cast upon

We are crying

oilmen struggled to plug it with and I've been here since 1921.” "Information" as to their

the levered waters of the Ganges, for British slock-good, cottonseed hulls, and redwood mud, tons of cement, feathers, out

Another, more sophisticated, name, nationality, age, sex,

At least, that was his hope, vigorous, young people to come and settle. There's everything shavings: but blow she did, and said "You English? Not a re- and so on.

He writes it all down again He had not reckoned with, the sealed of the mittance mats, ch? We don't

laboriously in longhand on an- fatuity officials. Nothing in here. Not merely oil, but coal before she was

This data is stamped, other form; hod produced 1,250,000 barrels want no remittance men here." and

wheat and timber and

mame nationality, any Customs schedule or annexe newsprint--send the young men of oul. Other wells blow with

similar prodigality.

Edmonton has had its share of docketed, filled, and forgot- and the other particulars. But allowed for this cargo. Was it

medical? Mineral? Ör what? remittance men, and there was a ten-until carted away to that's not all time when employment adver- the incinerator to make "Your father's name and your FEARFUL HUBBUB

here Bald: "No tisements

But room for the next crop. mother's name?”. Englishmen need apply." that was a long time ago.

"Why, they have the same The very word "pass: and they were married."-

mis.. British welcomed port" has become a

nomer. It passes you prac-Everyone else laughs, but not THE British—the right type of tically nowhere unless THE

out."

Send us the men, says Alberta, and we will deliver the goods, Government officials, however, are a ittle more catilious.

Transport the key

Near here there is a brand- new town called Dayon, named after the Devonian Himestone in the earth. Three years ago it was a wheatfeld. Only a hand- ful of men

there then. Today it in a booming oil town

were

MR Ian Mackinnon, chairman of lie own and on its own,

Burable.

A fearful hubbub #rose, In which Hinds, Moslems, Con- fucian Chinese, and European Christians all joined.

the wor British, who are willing to backed by a visa, landinger's Joy Imw been added. of the crowd, where he waited

V of the Conservation Board I drove out there and it is alid an authority. 022 the a model oll tours, Laid out with work turd and geobp: the fact resources of the Province, pored skill and wisdom, well equipped that this is not England--are card, over papers, reeled off figures to with, neat thouses, on hotel, a welcome. me, and said:

police ticket.

swimming pool, a baseball park I went ou! with Brigadier

entry permit, and

FIRST, FORMS

We

The unhappy, bewildered man another himself was shaved to the edge This is the Inquisition of Health. With clasped hands, in despair. In the end he had, to come To voyage from Britain, prob- alone-without his parcel. A ably the healthiest land on: form the right form, properly and even a night club. "Of course, we cannot take the

David. Peal, a retired British

earth, I am, tarrently armed filled in, might have saved him.. I flew to Corsion for the day, with certificates of vaccination place of Iran overnigh. Io Is Many more Devons are sprout- Army officer who is now work-

· Grief thrust her cold hand against small- not as simple as all that We ing in this area, but Edmonton is ing here in property and real We left London and landed at nid Incoulation have o long way to go but, the capital, Before the

typhus, para into a Customs house brawl, and war estate. He said: "It's no good Lyons to refuel. The passengers pox, cholera,"

was trentod there wille no more bellove me, we are going. The there were 90,000 people here; living in the past. Edmonton is also prepared to refuel, and typhoid, and yellow fever.

The made for the bar. But, and loviting to the future.

dist

care then one would accord a oil is here in vast quantities but today there are 100,000,

This is not primarily for my common snaggler, the big problem is troonportation, everyone will tell you that people are wonderfully friendly had to sign the forma

Marcarian la miming at a and belpful! They

from?"

"London." protection, but do solisty, some " What good does elf the form- "London,

via fellow staking with palsy in mijng do, bosidos maltiplying Name, nationality, Persia that I am not bringing the vestrictionis and frustrations the Plague Into his country... that bean; honest travellers? For The ally and people believe we took off for Napoleon's that they are merely on the brink land, saw the Corsicans, and practice, the entire apparatus y zakke

At feast, that is the theory. In ronds and spits get through an

castly is ovÉE, of their development: that one new fromeward at nightfall. At rem, lograsity the lust of Why, they can disappear - day Alberta, will make. Texas WOULD not call Ddowntón, a looks like a pup. ----

"and" ɑrow Lyon - we refuelled

- oficials, to - guth people around, without tenon signed/5 particularly kitsćnomo, down; Conne

sana Vakroply. The ultimate of this Idiosy buff has one and drive and It is altogether possible beWhere from "London, whe

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"Since we bull the pipeline quarter-of-a-million mark, then "Edmonton, and coor to the Grout Lakce wo sto the fult - indilion, an the say the signs, and so it does, moving the all much faster, but mdilion.

there is will so to be done. Bay, Bod I sm

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all of Carindal oli noods:

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