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No. 22090. GHANA¤ ¤1⁄4*A**** HONG KONG, THURSDAY,

"A GOLDEN DAWN"

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held in London in September, 1930..

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"HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS,'

11, Ice House STREET,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

To-day.

(April, 10)

H.E. & 'bai Hotels, Annual

leeting, Exchange Building, 11.30

A.M.'

.

Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis Tournament:--

Open Singles:

W Lo.

Managing Diraczar

Press

ess. eg

Begistored as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

APRIL 16, 1931. 肆拜禮 日陸拾月肆年营卅佰玖仟登英 Price.

DOWNFALL

OF AL

CAPONE.

NEW KING OF U.S. BOOTLEGGERS.

DEPOSED LEADER'S LIFE OF TERROR.

Semi-final: E. C. Fincher v. M. Miami, Florida. Scarlace Capone, 128. per barrel and sells it to thou- "the big shot" of the Chiengo | sands and thousands of "speak racketeers, has reached the end of easier at £11 per barrel), did not

actually resign his sceptre.

Handicap singles "A":

H. Owen Hughes (owe 18.2). winner of the tie H. J. Armstrong (owe 15). N. L H. Nailton (owe 5/6).

Handicap Doubles:

Price and Price (owo 9/8) Penn and Collin (owe 15). Mixed Doubles:

his rope, and a new king has been appointed to reign in his stood. ̧*

The authority which his well- Publicity, with its power to make organised gang, operating with the or to mar a man, explains the methods and personnel and experi v.nemesis and downfall of the mostence of big business, vested in the spectacular figure in the annals of Big Shot, an authority maintained vigorously by armed guarda and gunmen in charge of browerics and

Mr. and Mrs. Stark (ser.) v. Mr. America's underworld of crime and

graft. and Mrs. Blaker (rec. 2/6),

Queen's Theatre: "Strictly Un- bonventional."

World Theatre: "Last Perform ance" and "Hold Your Man."

Central Theatre: "The Laughing | Lady,"

King's Theatre; "Animal Crack

erg"

Dances: Tea Dance, H.K. Hotel: Dinner Dances, Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

European Mail.-Inward: Europe ia Suez (Haruna Maru).

The redoubtable gangster and his great fleet of motor-trucks, has associates have realised from the been gradually, withdrawn, and first that they must remain under- very soon, even the name of Al ground to achieve success in their Capone will be effaced, so far as undertakings, but publicity, con- the control of beer and corruption tinuous and remorseless, has been in Chicago is concerned, thrust upon the king of bootleggers at avery step.

Biggest U.S. Racket, Please remember beer is the This publicity, not only national biggest racket in the United States -not whisky OT wine-and in but international, has been the

Chiengo the gambling-houses and direct result of the rise of one brothels and "done" houses are strong man of Italian origin, born and reared in a respectable suburb: of New York, to a place of power Lecture by Mr. B. G. Birch on

colossal wealth in Chicago "Some Notes on Histories and His and torians," University Union Assemb-soldom achieved in Europe by a ly Room, 6.30 p.m.

feudal baron-a power exercised as

Friday,

(April 17.)

Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennis Tsar of the bear industry, which he Open Singles:

Tournament:--

|but sidelights in a network of nefarious industry controlled by the Big Shots" of the gangeter's or- ganisation.

Three times since Christmas the

master minds of Chicago's racket-

THE

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has maintained until recently, de-eers have travelled fifteen hundred abéo Addrem:

miles south of Miami, Florida, to confer with their chief, who is a

Semi-final C. A 'L' Rumjahn ». #pite the army of Federal prohibi- S. A. Rumjalin.. Mixed Doubles: ·

H. J. Armstrong and Mrs. Keary (owe 15) v. winners of the Mr. 'smi Mra. Stark (arr.). Mr. and Mrs. Blaker (ros. 2/6).

Queen's Theatre: "Strictly Un- conventional.'

tion agents, the city, police and the Chicago judiciary, plus the bittor enmity and bloodthirsty rivalry of competitors, old and new.

Victim of the Press.

winter, resident of Palm Island, three miles off the coast, but con- nected with the beautiful city of Miami by a causeway three miles long. In each case they have re- Searface, to put it frankly, haa mained-threo, days, and their con- World Theatre: Laat Perform been slaughtered by the American ferences have taken place either on ance" and "Hold Your Man."newspaper Press, greatly aided by the lawn in front of his flat-roofed Central Theatre: "The Laughing the Secret Six," Chicago's Reforia Spanish villa or on the porch of the Lady."

Committee, which has disclosed gangster's house, King's Theatre: "Animal Crack-

hurid details of corruption and cra,"

but Dances: Tea Dance H.K. Hotel. crime suspected by many Dinner Dances, H.K. and Penin-hitherto concealed from the public sula Hotels and Hotel Cecil.

ground).

Saturday. (April 18.)

ejo,

2

Al Capone's residence and plea. sant gardan, where cocoanuts, oran- ges, and grapefruit grow in the open, has been surrounded by ita present owner with a wall of white coral 10ft, high. Additional privacy is secured by his bodyguard, big hefty-looking fellows, numbering

The name of his successor in the control of the manufacture and dia Athletics-St. Joseph's College tribution of beer in the city of Meeling (Caroline Hill), noon.

Football-Sunday Herald Cup Chicago and the County of Cook, Final, Scotland Chiga (Club of which Chicago is the most im twelve, one of whom stands at the Racing-Third Extra Race Meet-portant section, is known to a few island end of the causeway, another only, and to date has not been at the harred entrance to his en closed estate, and still another, at ing (Happy Valley).

Queen's Theatre: "Strictly Un- pritited. The Vice-Lord of Chicago, the front door of the house. They the man whose profits in the beer! business alone are estimated by are on duty night and day, and private grounds or house without Central Theatre: "The Laughing Colonel Robert Randolph, head of nobody is permitted to enter the Lady."

the Secret Six, at £400,000 per week special permission or invitation. King's Theatre: "Animal Crack-

(Capone brews bear at a cost of (Continued.on Page 4.) CTB."

conventional."..

World Theatre: "Last Perform- aseo" and "Hold Your Man."

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