“RACKETEERING“ AT WASHINGTON.
£20,000,000 "RING."
Washington. The national capi- tal is not immune from racketeer?
rule, necording to published stories, The Department of Justice is re- ported as investigating the opera- tions of what in described as a
£20,000,000 ring of dinner-jacket ed' racketeers who had their head, quarters in the shadow of the White House,"
The members of the ring are said to be captained by n" well-know!' wealthy hotel owner, and to enjoy
elose association with some of the nation's host influential men." whose alleged acceptance of boun ties is to be carefully investigated
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BOYS' DRESS REFORM.
SHORTS ALLOWED AT MILL HILL.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931.
BANDIT WHO KILLS HIS ASHES
FOR PLEASURE.
BATTLEFIELD.
BUT LASHES GIRLS WHO WEAR SHORT SKIRTS.
COLLARS AND FIES OPTIONAL TROOPS AND PLANES HUNT
Boys at Mill School are during the summer term to lead a publie schools dress reform 'cant paign.
Mr. M. L. Jacks, the headmaster. has given the boys the choice of wearing their ordinary clothes or grey flannel shorts, or trousers with
WORLD'S WORST MAN.
Rio de Janeiro. -"Lampeno,” dos cribed as the worst man in the world, and the possessor of nr. end of atrocities extending over Afteen years, is the object of one of the most determined national man-hunts in history. The Brazi- lian Government has despatched against him an expedition of 200 There is very indication that the | men, with aeroplanes, machine shorts vague will conquer the guns, and wireless, and with or school.
open-necked cricket shirt.
It is pointed out that a very highly placed United States official occupies a suite of eleven room's in Already the senior monitor and a one of Washington's lending hitela number of the older boys have at a cost of only a guinean day declared their intention of adopt
suite for which n well-known millionaire paid thirty guineas aing shorts and the juniors are ex- day.
Cabinet officials, Senators, pected to follow suit. Representatives, and bureau olb eins live in the same hotel, and of them enjoy "bargain 70452 Pates."
Banator's Suicide. Is is asserted that U.S. Senator Brandeger, of Connecticut, cum
nitted suicide after losing his for tune in speculations conducted by the ring. Other operations resulted in the suicide of Augustus Leverich, a wealthy New York building en tractor, and in the mysterious death of Allen Walker, original owner of the hotel in Washington, after he had threatened an exposure.
The information now in the hands of the Department si Justice, it is
Good for Health.
A master said to a reporter: "I is an experiment: bet if it proves popular it is probable that shorts will be made compulsory in the autumn term.
From a hygienic point of view! the abolition of tight collars and ties in favour of open-pecked shirts should be extremely beneficial to the boys, while parents will find it a marked economy,"
Should the experiment be sup-
said, revenis that the racketeerscessful at Mill Hill,, it is' certain to
of bond specialised in the sale issues on real estate promotions be adopted by other well-known which usually failed, and which public schools.
were
Jator
Acquired by their Letters received recently by the
sponsors for a song. A total of £17,000,000 of these bonds are how
in default of their interest, and
Public Schocks Parents Association show that hundreds of parents are in favour of dress reform on the lines now being adopted by Mill Hi
more than 30,000 investors have | throughout the country either lost their savings or the dwindle to a fraction.
Huge hotels in Florida. New York, and Washington are named as coming into the racketeers' clutches after their original, owners had been rained by the ring's deadly methods of financing. After each fabulous conp the racketeers: foregathered with their politien friends in one of Washington's finest hotels and celebrated their success.
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY.
NO" FUSSY" REGIME IN TRAINING.
Mr. M. L. Jacks,, the Headmaster of Mill Hill School, is 37 years of age. When appointed to Mill Hill he was only 28, and was the young
"head" in the country.
FIRE IN A SEWAGE
TUNNEL.
IS WORKERS KILLED.
Chicago, April 14.-A fire broke 130 in a half-completed sewage tunnel here last night. Nine men have been brought out dead, and Some members of the High-Speedine others are believed to have Flight, from which the Schneider Trophy team will be formed, are at Felixstowe. Some were there last year, and then few scapinnes which were designed for the 1920 contest.
The 1990 machines are not now at Felixstowe; they are being ecou ditioned. The machines available for practice are earlier types and standard Servies craft.
Probably not before the middle of August will there be any flying on the seaplanes which will actually take part in the contest, to take tace on September 12. Care bas to hexercised in order that the very highly developed engines may not deteriorate before the contest.
No Deprivationa
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perished in the tunnel. Forty. eight have been taken to hospital, It was at one time feared that the "number of dead, particularly among the firemen who were trying to effect rescues, would be very much greater.
ders to bring him back, dead or alive.
"Lamprio's" real Ramo is Virgolino Ferreira da Silva, Lam- peno" is merely his nickname and means The Lanp-post."
According to the records, he start- ed his career of crime when he was 14 by killing a companion and gutting him open to see what, was inside. He is accused of every crime in the penal code. Some of the more picturesque are?,
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The murder of nine workmen on a road in Pernambuco State merely to satisfy his Just for blood.
The murder of seven soldiers after they had surrendered with. out resistance,
...
The burning alive of a woman in Pernambuco because she tried to poison him.
Slashing the lips of his victims in such a way that over after- wards they wear A perpetual grin.
Branding his initialsou a num- her of young girls.
Killing a doctor because be dis liked his features.
A Man of Religion. On the other hand, Lampeno is extremely religious, and attenda Even in Mass every day at nova, battles with police he will abandon his gun to pray for protection, He abhors bobbed hair and short skirts, and whenever he encounters women or girls whose locks have been, shorn or whoso skirts are above the knees he makes a point of punish- ing them with a lash.
tall and
The bandit presents a gaudy and terrifying spectacle. He is very wears heavy coloured spectacles to conceal the loss of his right eye. Ho ia clean-shaven and uses perfume heavily. He is wounded in the left leg, and his extraordinarily long hands are covered with heavy ringa studded with jewels. His shirts and cats are gaudily coloured and decorated with gold and silver buttons. He is 31 years old.-British United
Pret.
The tunnel is fifty feet below the surface. The fire broke out in some sawdust packed against the bulk- BISHOP FACES ACCUSERS. head of the tunnel and spread to the supporting woodwork. The firemen who went to the reseus took with them oxygen tanks for the re-
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A dramatic and unexpected re scue of the dozens of mon' was effected to-day. Many of the work ers and firomen involved in the disaster, which is the worst of its kind the city has ever known, were choked to death by the dense smoke, It was this aspect of the tragedy which caught the attention of Mr. Peter, the Firsch inventor of a
Training for the contest can hardlief of those overcome by smoke. ly be said to have begun, and it is never intensive in the scuse training for some athletic events.
The team have not to undergo Revere deprivations. Alcohol is "knocked off," and smoking is al. most entirely given ap. To noue. ef the tech is there any sacrifice in these respecta
Preparation takes the more posi- tive form of keeping fit by exercis and games and by ordinary dietary In fact, the flying of machines al speeds of about six miles a smoko ejector. He had nearly com minute, contrary to ideas at one tiine held, does not demand abnost pleted the first model of his in. superhuman qualities. Experience, vention, and when he heard of the Informed by medical research, has tragedy he pushed on the work at robbed turning at high speed of its
full speed. By a.m. to-day ho had finished the task. At once he rushed to the scone of the disaster, set his machine working, and soon
CATE
terrors,
Turning at Speed, i "The "black moment due to the surglag of the blood, a momentary loss of consciousness, n be avoid ed, as can the worst effects of tuo rapid accelerations and decelera tions.
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ENQUIRY INTO ELECTION
FUND SCANDAL,
Washington, May 7.-On crutches Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the
to-day appeared before the Senate Committee empowered to investi. gate election irregularities, The committee in headed by Senator Gerald P. Nye, insurgent Republi- can of North Dakota.
Tho Committee has reopened hearings to determine how much money and in what manner Bishop Cannon spent funds in 1928 in an effort, which proved to be success- ful, to defeat former Governor Al-
mocratic presidential nominee. fred E. Smith of New York, De-
Although it was necessary for him to appear on erutches Bishop Can- non, a Virginian, attended the ses- Bion of Senator Nye's committeo to- day. He attended despite the warning that he may be prosecuted because his secretary, Miss Ada Burroughs, refused to testify be.
the anxious onlookers were roliov-fore Senator Nye's committeo on ed to see billows of dense white the grounds that the investigators
are without jurisdiction. smoke pouring from the tunnel as the ejector, pumps came into 'ne- tion. At the same time fresh cool air was driven down tubes into the tunnel from above.
The loss of time on a turn, it has been found, is least when the turning movement causes the pilet practically no distrous; he should just fool the ncooleration, that is
If he fools distressed it is not The firomon, who had already a good turn. The best turn is one gallant rescue work, stood at the lairly steeply banked, the pilt skilfully holding the machine down shut-hood tensely awaiting the and preventing its tendency to appearance of the lift. Then sud-, shoot up towards the outside of the denly the lift bell rang, and the Training for the contest consists cape, filled with workmen with
turn,
a very great extent of managing smoke-blackened faces, roso to the the take-off and the landing, of và- surface. Twico again the life derstanding highly technical de tails, and of an incessant watchful.dropped and brought up yet more
Desk.
of the survivors.
Several times before and during the past few years Bishop Cannon's political activities have been in- vestigated, Efforts have been made. to unfrock him. His actions havo been probed by the Bonate and by the Church and the probes have revealed the ramifications of his stock market activities. Only last week Bishop Cannon failed in the election to the presidency of the College of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sauth, because of the charges against him. It was his turn to head the College of Bishops but normal procedure was against ecclesiastical honours for disregarded in the face of petitions Bishop Cannon.
ON
A 'WIDOW'S MISSION TO
HIGH WOOD.
After 16 years. Mr. Perey Ainold, of the 14th Warwickshire Regiment, has returned to the men with whom he fought in the battle for High Wood in the Somme fighting of
1910,
His widow, in a simple and pathetic ceremony, Battered bor husband's ashes on the battlofeld, thus fulfilling a promiss made on her weddingday ten years ago."
It was, in some of the Biercest fighting on the Somme that Mr. Arnold stopped to aid a fallen comrade. As he did so a bullet pierced his lung. He remained on the battlefeld for a few hours and was then taken prisoner by the
Germans. After some time in hay pital ho was sent to Switzerland incapacitated for further fighting, Wodding-Day Promise. When he married after the war, he made his wife promise that, should he dio before her, she, would take his ashes to High Wood. and scatter them on the ground
where so many of his comraden fell.
The promise was fulfilled.
On Mrs. Arnold's arrival she was met by Captain Cockrell, a British Reserve offer, and a number of war veterans and conducted to High Wood.
In deal silence she wenttored the ashes of her husband over the accom. ground, while those who panied her stood Unreheaded near by.
Mr. Arnold diod last January from lung trouble due to his war wounds. His widow was unable, because of illness, to make the journey immediately.
She herself was a war nurse and was decorated for hot services.
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