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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930..

GAMBLERS WHO FINANCIAL BIRDS

WILL NOT SPEAK.

DEATH RIDDLE OF A

CARD GAME..

CROOKS CODE OF LOYALTY.

OF PREY.

STRONG COMMENTS BY A LORD JUSTICE.

"I regret to say that this appeal must be dismissed, and I regret to say it because this seems to me to be a very bad example of the sort of thing that has been going on in the City of London daring the last three or four years in couauction | with underwriting."

'Gembling "kings" and gangsters, "racketeers," bootleggers, and drug traffickers, police and politicians these are the actors before and be hind the scuties in one of America's most thrilling underworld mystery drama that is being enacted in Lord Justice Serutton with these the New York Court, where George words recently ammoguced the de- McManus, leader of the undersion of himself and Lords Justices world, was recently, on trial for the Greer and Slesser in the Court of | murder of Arnold Rothstein, mil-Appeal in the appeal by North lionaire "king of the gamblers," British Artificial Silk, Lu, of bootlegger, and real estate dealer, rond-street-place, EC, from the Just a year ago Rothstein, hend judgment of Mr. Justice Rowlatt dis- of a vast underworld organisation missing their elaim for £10,425 of crime in liquor and drug traf-jagainst Tokenhouse Securities Cor ficking, was found dying on the|poration, Ltd. pavement outside a New York hotel. The claim was for alleged breach He had been shot through the groin, It was revealed that Rothstein had just left a poker game with New York's most notorious gamblers, in! which he had lost about £70.000.

Gamblers' Code.

Al- He died a few days later. though conscious to the lust, be liv ed up to the gamblers' code of say- ing nothing. Just before he breath- ed his last in hospital the detective By his side questioned him as to the identity of his assailant.

"You know me, Paddy," he re- plied. "I haven't a word te say. I What's the use !"

His mysterious assailant sure“- ed in eluding the police for so long that accusations were freely made against the authorities, So many people high up" were involved in Rothstein's criminal manipula.

tions, it was said, that the police, for fear of sensational revelations, would not arrest his murderer, who, it was alleged was well known to the authorities.

"PIN MONEY WOMEN | QUEST FOR FATHER'S

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UNFAIR.

DEPRIVING MEN OF

LEGITIMATE WORK.

A new chapter in the “sex war,” was started recently by Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Lord Privy Seal, who attacked women" who needlessly bccupy the positions, the business of men.

It is not only uneconomis," said. Mr. Thomas at the Railwayman's Sunday" meeting of the Harlesden Brotherhood. It is not only un- fair.

"It is against the nation's in- terests for women to work for what they call pin money and deprive other people of legítimate, work"

Mr. Thomas declared that, des-

MEDAL..

ARMY COUNCIL REPLACE A STOLEN CROSS.

The son of an old soldier who "won the Victoria Cross during the Zalu war fifty years ago was forced to bid in publie auction to regain the cross for the family last month,

It cost him £$3.

to Private Hitch.of the

The original cross was awarded Foot, for gallantry at Rorke's Drift in 1970, and Private Hitch was de corated by Queen Victoria while lying wounded in hospital.

The V.C. was ripped from Private Hitch's uniform by a thief in 1901, and was never recovered.

Mr. Hitch's second son, Charles, applied for replacement of the medal in 1965, and after a long

of an agreement to procure satispite the tremendous volume of un-correspondence with the Army

factory sub-underwriting contracts.

"Very Bad Case," Lord Justice Scrutton, dismissing the appeal, said:--

ploynient, there were many more" people employed than during the boom of 1014.

Had they thought how many Wonen were engaged in industry today doing work that men did in 1014 They would find it a sub- stantial figure.

¿

Spare Time Work.

Where there has been a new company to be formed during the boom that has come to an end, it¦ has been a case of "Where the carense is, there the birds of proy I should be the last to say a will be gathered together," and word that could be construed as either as promoters or under:

implying that I am in any, way writers or sub-underwriters, they unmindful of the absolute necessity have been making as much as they

of women working as well as men, could from the new company that I often wonder how many time when it had, very insuf- women there are in industry-who ficient protection from its direcneed not be. tors. This seems to me to be e

pang,

Council a new erost was granted at a cost to ex-Private Hitch of $138.

Cross Loat.

and he left his Victoria Cross to his Ex-Private Hitch died in 1913,

Frederick. jeldest son,

Frederick

was then fost sight of by the family. and when he died in 1928 the cherished cross could not be found among his belongings.

then

Widespread efforts were nude to discover whether the cross had been sold publiely, bat no trace of it fould be found,

Mr. Charles Hitch never relaxed his efforts to find the cross, and con

very bad ense of robbing the cou I remember, when the railway-tinued carefully to watch every en got their right-hour day. Trepiece of news to do with the safe their eight hours on the railway, rived complaints of men who, after Victoria Crosses worked as agricultural labourers cobblers in their spare time.

Laird Justice Serutton said that North British Artificial Silk were being promoted, it expected that the juhlie, allowing their course of speculative gambling. would rush in to take the shares, but they were underwritten by Takenhouse Securities, and the ease turned on the agreement made with them.

Stung by the gibes of the publie and the underworld, the police, in desperation, it is alleged, arrested George McManus, who took part

They were to have 5 per cent. for in the famous poker game and hifi-junderwriting, and the sub ander self lost £10,000.

The case of the prosecution is that Rothstein, failing to honour his 10t's for his gambling losses was, in accordance with the rules of the underworld, condemned to death, and that the hand of Me- Manus was the one selected to carry out the death sentence..

Police Defied.

writers were to have per cent. out of that, leaving 1 per cent. for Tokeshouse Securities, Ltd., at a time when the public. were rushing in to subscribe in any company. however ridiculous.

£55,000 Liability.

"I took a

strong stand then,

and said I did not fight for an eight hour day for milwaymen to egable them gà do other met out of

joh

No legislation enn cure this pia-money work. Morn! respon- sibility is the greatest factor,

In the same sense. I would maké andther obervation. Years ago we fought hard to altala pensions for people after" a certain period of

work.

"Morally Wrong."'

Again I say there is some- thing morally wrong when the in- dividual who has obtained his pension at the public expense allows himself. because he is assured of a decent income, to deprive other people of a living.

At that time underwriting and "Policemen and men from the sub-underwriting was a very softArmy and Navy benefited more than job," he added, and promoters, any other class. underwriters, and sub-underwriters were getting a good deal of the The trial has assumed the charmoney subscribed by the public for acter of a battle of the underworld particular services, against the police. The under world is defying the prosecution to entangle gambler witnesses into Of the sub-underwriting applica hétraying any facts of the way think for 1500 Pruferred Ordinary Rothsten was killed. The gamblers shares of £1 each, those relating to are offering odds of twenty to one 155,000 applications were ridiculous, that "McManus won't burn." "to and if any inquiry and been made burn" being the underworld slang by Tokouluse Securities ther for a sentence of execution in the would have found that they were electric chair.

ridiculous.

The drama has become one

of

not interfere with that.

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He found that a Victoria Cross,

whose description answered that won by his father, was to be sold in London anction room.

Inquiries showed that it was the cross which had been left to time eldest son, and Mr. Charles Hitch and other members of the family made efforts to prevent its sale.

It was discovered that the cross had been offered for sale by another Mr. Charles Hitch, a brother of ex- Private Hitch, the winner of the eris.

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Frederick Hitch, unknown to the other members of the family, had .parted, with it to his uncle before

his death.

Vain Efforts..

The uncle joined in the efforts to prevent the sale, but this was found to be impossible, and Mr. Charles Hitch travelled from Southsen to bid at the sale. “

The bidding opened at £20 and rus: to £85 before the cross became Mr. Hitch's property:

HUSBAND'S RIGHT TO

WORK ABROAD.

NOT DESERTION,"

It was recently in London decid- ed in the Divorce Court that a husband's answer to a wife's peti tion for restitution of conjugal rights, alleging, extravagance her part, was good in law, and that he had a right to work where he like in order to maintain mer.

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The case was listed as Q---, M.,

against U-, A.D., the identity of the parties not being revealed. The husband alleged that he allowed failed to live within her allowance. his wife £9,400 a year, and that abe

He also contended that he was unable to live in this country be- cause his position as a partner in a firm of ten merchants, operating ia England and India. required that he should live in India. He also said that if he had his wife to live with him in India he was threatened with the loss of his position.

The husband's income was stated to be £11,000 a year.

Debts Paid O

Mr. Justice Hill, giving judg

ed the allowance of more than ment, said that the husband as- serted that his wife largely exceed-

2,400 a year which he made to her, and incurred heavy debts. "He paid them off in 1920, 1925, and 1927 to the mount of £10,000.

The husband alleged that she in- curred further debts in 1928 to the amount of about £7,000.

Mr. Justice Hill added that if the facts mentioned by the husband. were proved, the husband would show a reasonable cause for refus ing to have his wife with him in Indin, and it would be, contrary to the real truth of the case to trent as deserting his wife a hus-

hand who, in these circumstances, refused to have his wife to live with him in India. -

"A husband is bound to main- thin his wife and child and to earn his living," said Mr. Justice and where he shall do that. If his Hill. "It is for him to choose how

choice is genuine I know not on what grounds it can be said, to be a breach of duty to the wife.'

Mr. Justice Fill added that the arrangement ignored the contractu- Al element in the marriage. The wife impliedly agreed-on marry- ing a man whose work compelled him to live out of England--that she would not require him to live in England..

Mr. Justice Hill. finding for the Husband, ordered that the costs he costs in the cause,

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"Dun was an application,” said. It must be left to moral respon-medal. I was afraid ho might run the bidding up much further, and i stopped at £83.

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family regnining the cross, against, and expressed regret that he should have tried to prevent the

winray is brought forward by the prosecution, but none will speak freely.

The gambler witnesses answer in short sentences, never volunteer ing information, and giving noth- ing away. The Assistant-Pablic Prosecutor said despairingly at the "conclusion of the second day of the trial: "The public can now un- derstand what we are up against, and always have been up against in this case"

sense, to the recognition that you cannot live for yourself alone, but

shares involving a liability for £35,000 by a man who had a county have an obligation towards your court judgment against him for £13. follow men and women. They put forward five other appli

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tion of a country which had been Securities Corporation recognised governed hitherto by people with an that it was a ridiculous performance look entirely different from of their contract to put forward ap- plications such as these by declin-Legacy piled up as the result of the war, and faced with a hundred and ing to claim the commission of 1 per cent. for themselves and 4 par

one difficulties. cent, by the sub-underwriters in respect of these 155.000 shares.

MeMarius has been a study for the paychologists. He changes his attitude to meet every changing The shareholders of the company. situation. When the gamblers in view of the agreement with were giving evidence he assumed a Tokenhouse Securities, had grave stern demeanour, keeping his eyes reason to complain of the directors fixed on their faces with almost who considered these underwriting

applications. hypnotic power.

New York's most notorious gam- iders, who took part in "the poker, game of death, are being called to the witness stand.

"Nigger" Nate. "Titanic" Thom- aa, Sidney Stager," and others

Schemes have been drawn up by the National Government, reports the vernacular Press, for the en-

Democracy in Power. He had no misgivings that the adrent of democracy to power would prove in the end to the ad. vantage of the people as a whole, but in the process there must be disappointments.

The railwaymen had vastly im- proved their position since the days when the average wage of a rail, wayman was twenty-four shillings ..week, and many worked for eigh-

That i teen shillings or less. provement was not achieved by

have been lined up in court for forcement of complete tariff auto-looking to the, State or any one else

identification.

sure.

to help them, but by their own grit and determination.

any

Women M.P.'s Hit Back, married women and pensioned men Mr. Thomas" denunciation of who work aroused mixed feelings.

Miss Ellen Wilkinson thoroughly disagrees with her colleague, the Lord Privy Senl.

The man added that he was an

soldier who had belonged to my father's regiment, and was there fore anxious to save one of its bonours."

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Port Jibson caused the.

An ex-

The street-car service in Peping has finally been completely restored, after being partially interrupted for months after the cars had been wrecked by indignant rickshaw coo- lies. The rickshaw pullers, ali legedly under the influence of agita- tors from the south, staged a riot, and wrecked about 30 street-cars, priving there of their livelihood. believing that the trams were de The municipal authorities suppress- ed the rickshaw coolie union, and remitted the street car company's taxes for a few months so that it could resume service. They have warned the rickshaw, coolies that they cannot stop the march of pro- gress by riots.

nomy on and after February 1. According to these reports, no op- Proud "Red."

position to the Chinese scheme is

That characteristic of the rail- "Boston" Sam described Roth-expected from Great Britain and stein's money methods at the fatal the United States as there are proaymen was the characteristic alse visions in the Sino-British and of the rest of the British working game. "Whenever Rothstein won," Sino-American treaties which relate people. They did not want to be he said, "he took the cash and put to China's tariff autonomy.

The spoon-ied. it in his pocket. Whenever he lost main obstacle at present is Japan.

What they wanted was an oppor•: he gave 10Us."

Sam" estimated The Tokyo Government, it is said,tunity to look after themselves. No that Rothstein lost £40,000 to "Nig-has purposely delayed the Sino- would succeed unless it was backed legislation of. Government ger" Nate alone.

Martin Bowe, known as "Red." Japanese treaty negotiations so 1s

to prevent China frem enforcing y the goodwill and determination said proudly in the witness stand: tariff autonomy on the date men

of the people. "I am a gambler." "He. looks like tioned. However, the National a ponderous clergyman, with a tuft Government is undeterred and is of white hair fringing this bald determined to carry out its policy spot in imitation of a monk's ton-of enforcing complete tariff auto. nomy on February 1 next in spite He answered in a gently reproy of Japan's opposition. ing manner questions designed to trap him into admitting that there was any but friendly feeling at

"The only thing to he said for the poker game, which the police

Mr. Thomas," Miss Wilkinson stat woman has a husband she is work- call "the death game." When ask

ed. is that he did share the blame ing for luxuries. She may be work- ed about McManus losing £10.00

between men and women. Evening for necessity. A great many "Red" retorted with a disdainful

then he only criticised men who, married women work because their gesture: "Why. I've seen him loss "Titanic. Thomas, who repre- while living on a retirement pen-husbands' incomes are not enough that much on a single horse race." sents Chicago's underworld, is tacision, added to the income by doing to live an,”

It is said that gambler witnesses turn, with continuously darting another job. He blamed all women Viscountess Rhondda was em- spend their time waiting to be piercing eyes always apparently on who work for pin-money. What phatic in her criticism of Mr. called in making hets among them. the alert against sudden peril, about men who work for the equi-Thomas' views.. • selves on anything that has any Sidney "Stager" is the only one valent of pin money?

"I should suggeat to Mr. Thomas, of the gamblers who shows had tem- passing interest for them.

Mr. Thomas is advocating what, 'Go home and study economica," " "Nigger" Nate wears horn rim-per. He takes his detention seri- in the long run, is a retrograde she said. His whole attitude to- med spectacles through which his ously, for he is under indictment ater. Women cannot be forbidden wards the question appears to be eyes peer with assumed benevolence charged with the possession of to work just because they are wo- fallacious, and I am surprised and towards the rest of the world. He drugs. He is a dapper, swarthy men. It is the greatest mistake to sorry to see it. It is certainly

final zeratyta Javab at thistle mga sha wams always ready step anybody working. It is on consent to say

JB against the interests of the nation for wo- slightest provocation, He carries to snarl on the slightest provoca injustice to assume that because n (Continued at foot of next column)tion.

(Continued at foût of next column.) | men 'to"work"

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