1928-04-24 — Page 11

NEW AMERICAN SERIAL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

GIRL ALONE

CHAPTER XVIII.

Four girls, two of them thin to emaciation, one over-fat, the fourth as beautifully shaped as a Greek statue, tralled dispiritedly into the dress tent, their hands groping to unfasten the snaps of their soiled silk chórus-girl costumes.

Their heavily rouged and pow- dered faces were drawn with. fatigue; their eyes like burnt holes in once-gay blankets. Sally hnd watched them dance, enviously, be- tween her own performances, had hennd the crier ballyhooing them.

as: "Bybee's Follies Girls, straight

from Broadway and on their way back to join their pals in Ziegfeld's Follies."

Now, weary unto death after 18 performances, the "Follies" girls ahuffled on aching feet to their cots and sented themselves with groans and dispirited curses, paying not, the faintest attention to the lense tableau presented by Nita, the "ulu" dancer, and the girl they knew as "Princess Lalla!"

Sally's frightened eyes fluttered from one to another of that be draggled, pathetic,quartette, lant she might as well have appealed to the gaully painted banners that flut- tered over the deserted booths out- side,

By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of "Saint and Sinner.”

They called him "the sheik of the privilege car.”

up

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928.

THE TEAPOT DOME OIL. NUMEROUS TRAFFIC

SCANDAL.

HISTORY OF REMARKABLE

CASE.

...

Mr. Harry Sinclair, the oil magnate, has been acquitted on the charges brought against him In connexion with the Teapot Dome Oil scandal.

The history of the case since the beginning makea very interesting rending, and it is given below with pictures of many of the lend- ing actors in the affair.

CARDO

THIRTY SUMMONSES DEALT”

WITH TO-DAY.

There was a long list of cases, heard by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning, when the Traffic Department brought no fewer than thirty sum- monses against public drivers for various offences,

nature of obstruction and lofter- The offences were mainly in the ing, for which fines ranging from $5 to $10 were imposed."

A few drivers were penalised In 1921, the late Colonel A. E. for negligent driving, speeding and Humphreys of Texas had 33,333,- for having inefficient brakes on 338 barrels of oil which he agreed their cars. One chauffeur, with to sell at $1.50 a barrel to H. M. several conviction against him, Blackmor of the Midwest Refining was fined $25 for negligent driv-.| Co. Later the now-extinct Con-ing in Garden Road. tinental Trading

Co. of Canada

wa a organized and took over thia contract.

The Continen-

tal Co. irame- diately sold the

ail to Harry F. Sinclair and Robert W. Stewart of the

Man Injured,

car

In one case, Inspector Alexander, prosecuting, said a public knocked down-a man near the pumping atation in Pokfulam Road.

The injured man ie now in hos-i pital with a broken leg and it will [be about three weeks before ho

will be discharged.

The Magistrate remanded the Standard Oil of IL M. Blackmer defendant for a week, in order to Indiana at $1.75

be in a better position by that

a barrel, Stewart and Sinclair time to arrange the matter of com- guaranteeing the Continetal con-pensation.

Harry Sinciale

to testify.

The 'profits of the Continental Ca. were esti-

and

Happy Valley Congestion.

tract to the ex- tent of $50,000,- 000:

Attention was drawn to the con- Meanwhile the gestion on Wong Nel Chong Road nuval oil reserve during days when big football of Teapot Dome matches are played. Public cars had been leased are drawn up in large numbers to Sinclair by outside the Hongkong Football Albert Fall, then Club, blocking the complete foot-, secretary of the path. Interior.

One of the offenders Was Shortly after a brought before the Magistrate Senate committed this morning and fined $5. under the leader- ship of Senator began its investi-

passage

Absent Defendant,

The Chinese driver of car No.

422, who was summoned for negli gent driving in Queen's Road East on April 6, failed to make an ap-i pearance. Addressing his Wor- ship in regard to this chauffeur, Inspector Alexander said:-Mrs. White is the complainant in this case, but I understand that the driver is absent. I don't know if your Worship can adjourn the case for a week so that I can get hold of the driver.

His Worship granted the neces- sary adjournment.

of a law which EMPIRE CONTROLLED

you'll find that no other show in fantastically clad in purple salin Walsh (Mont.) the country will take you on. It trousers and green jacket, her face "What do you want, Nita? she will be back to the hash joints for and arms brown as an Indian's, heration of the lease, Blackmer and

business 580- you, Nita, and 1 for one think the eyes shielded by a little black lace cinte, James E. whispered, moistening her dry lips carnival will be a neater, sweeter veil. Crowds of fariners, their O'Neill, fled to and twisting her little brown-place without you. Get your make wives, their children; small-town Europe and have up off and get into bed, Sally. And business men, their wives and gig refused to return painted hands together.

don't worry. Nita wouldn't have gling daughters and goggle-eyed · "I'll tell you fast enough!" Nita|dared try to bluff a real trouper sons, avid for a glimpse of the.

naughtiness which the crier pro- snarled, thrusting her face close to like that."

mised behind the tent flap of the Sally's. I want you to give that

"For Gawd's sake, are you-all go-girlie show," pressed in upon her, sheik of yours the gate get me?ng to jaw all night a weary receded, pressed again, thrust out mated at about

valce, with a Ditch him, shake him, and I don't demanded indignantly, "I've got of her

flat, southern drawquarters, demanded magic visions $3,000,000, most of which Was mean maybe!"

some important sleeping to do, if

converted into I'm going to show tomorrow. David, his eyes streaming with Liberty Bonds. Benator Walski For the third time that day Sally Gawd, I'm so tired my bones are onion tears, smiling at her. "David Finally after protracted In- was having David Nush, the only cracking wide open!"

reading that dreadful newspaper quiries

the story-David of yesterday, saying, friend he had ever made outside

"Shut

yourself!" NitaDear little Sully!" pressing her the orphanage, thrown into her face snarled, slouching down upon the against him for a blessed minute----- as a sweetheart or worse. Winfield camp stool beside her trunk, to re-

move her make-up. "You hoofers And Nita, her eyes rabid with Bybee's casual words to his wife don't know what tired means. If sudden, ugly, passion-passion for "Can't you see she's clear gone on you had to jelly all day like I do-David-Nita that Dave chap of hers?"-had Oh, Gawd what a life! What a threatening David- made her heart beat fast with a life! You're right, midget! It queer, suffocating kind of pleasure, sure gets you-18 shows a day and

pleasure she had never before ex- this hell-fired hent." perienced in her life. Those words

It was Nita's surrender, or at had somehow initiated her into

with least her pretended surrender, to young Indyhood, fraught strange, lovely privileges, among the law of the carnival-live and let them the right to be "clear gone live; ask no questions and answer

"Does he think I'm just a little on a man-a man like David! The none.

In the thick silence that followed girl, too young to-to be in love midget's "your David" and "Of course you're in love with him, and Sally tremblingly seated herself be or to be loved?" she asked, herself, ho's crazy about you a blind per-fore her trunk and smeared her audacious in the dark. "Ifif he aun could see that," had sent her neck, face, arms and hands with was at all in love with me-but of,tnsistence

She was he couldn't be!would he be so heart poaring to heaven, like h toy theatrical cold cream.

friendly and easy

with me?

a child's clutch.

Nita's.

...gree

But she was

with them.

them. Stray bits of their conversa-

threatening

her,

David, David! The movie stop- ped with a jerk, then resolved itself into an enormous "eloss-up" of David Nash, his eyes smiling into hers with infinite gentleness and tenderness.

1

HE

Albert I. Fall

granted him Immunity from prosecution, M.

T. Everhart testifled that Fall, his father- in-law, received $233,000 in Con- tinental bonds

BY "FLAPPERS.”

LLOYD GEORGE'S LATESTĮ ATTACK,

London, Apr. 8.

A characteristic attack on Gov- from Sinclair. erament was made by the Liberal After dodging leader, Mr. Lloyd George, in a. Senate subpiena speech at the National Liberal servera

for a Club. long time, Stewart finally returned from Baldwin with a ticket-collector The ex-Premier, con.pared Mr. Cuban vacation to appear before who had wandered into a lector mittee, at the

the Senate com-"

box at a most important junction in the country and was pulling levers unknowingly.

The result of his pulling one lever, namely, the Equil Franchise Bill, had produced & curious phenomenon And 4 strange epidemic among Conservative members. Referring to the fact that many Conservative M.P's had abstained from voting on the Bill, he declared that about 200 M.P's had been stricken in a single night, like the army of Sennacherib, while two or three million women had walked off with the British Empire.

of John D. balloon accidentally released from conscious that other weary girls wouldn't he be embarrassed, and Rockefeller, Jr.

[drifted in the girl nobody can

lift," the albino girl, whose pink blush, and--and things like that? lle refused to But Nita's "that sheik of yours," eyes were shaded with big blue gog-Oh, I'm just being silly? He answer whether Nita's venomously spat command, gles; the two diving girls; looking doesn't think of me at all except he knew what shake him," aroused in her a sud- if their diet of soda pop and a little girl who's in trouble. A disposition had been made of den blind fury, a fury as'intense as bananas calen under water did not girl alone, as he calls me."

the Continental Then a new memory banished bonds. He was' "I'll do no such thing! David's aware of them rather thun saw even the "close-up" of David on the promptly cited

of her mind-u mine, as long as he wants to be!tion forced through her own con called up by those words "girl the Senate, an memory for contempt by You have no right to dictate toileting thoughts and emotions-

alone" She felt that she ought to offense punishable by a jail term. "Where's my rabbit foot? Gawd, weep with shame and contrition be- His case is, now pending in the "Is that so?" Nita straightened, I've lost my rabbit. foot! Thui cose she had so long half-forgetten

courts on a writ hands digging into her lips, a toss means a run of bad luck, sure Mra. Bybee's promise to make in.

But it was much safer in their of habeas corpus. |quiries" about her mother-the of her ragged, badly curled blond

The charge hands than in the hands of the whereon Mr. Sin-present custodians:

me-1"

Screen

head emphasizing her sarcasm. "Is "Good" pickings! If this keeps mother who had given her to the that so? Maybe you'll think I had fup I'll be able to grab my cakes orphanage 12 years before, leaving some right when the cops tap you in the privilege car--sold 58 post-behind her only a menger record- on the shoulder tomorrow) Too cards today—"

"Mrs. Nora Ford, aged 28.′′ bad you and your David can't share

suite in together!"

IL

tho

county jail.

I

"Whaddyc know? Gus the So little in those words with crier's fell something fierce for which to conjure up a mother! She the new. kid. N they say Pop By- would be 40 now, if If she were "You'd you'd do that—to David, bee's got her on percentage, as well still allvei Suddenly all her 12 too?" Sally whispered over coldne 12 bucks per and cakes. Some years of orphanhood, of longing for

guys has all the luck-" lips

I

at the fastening of her grass skirt. She knew that Nita did not an

Sally was turning away blindly, feeling like a small, trapped animal, wer

a mother, even for a mother whe would desert her child and go away

John D., Jr.

clair is now "I would rather have 3,000,000

acquitted

Was

conspiring with the Secretary of the Interior, Mr.

'flappers' than one Baldwin,” said Mr. Lloyd George.

•

:

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

2

Here is the, solution to the 1

Fall, to defraud the United States Govern- ment in 1922 in connexion with "Who's the shelk in the privilege without a word, rushed over Sally the lease of the Teapot Dome oil "I thought that'd get under your; *kin" Nila Iaughed harshly, car? Don't look like no K. P. Lo me, like an avalanche of bruising reserve which belonged to the puzzle ou another page. Then, as though the interview was Boy howdy! Hear you already stones. Every hurt she had sus government. The lense was can- successfully concluded, from har staked your claim, Nita. Who detained during all those 12 mother-celled in October, 1927, on the standpoint, the red-painted nails of he? Millionaire's son gettin' anus years throbbed with fresh vio-grounds of fraud and corruption. her claw-like hands began to pick eyeful of life in row?"

lence; drew hard tears that dripped Sinclair is still faced with the upon the Jumpy cotton pillow be proceedings for contempt. neath her tossing head, at least not in words. Gradually talk died down; weary When, the paroxysm of weeping when a tiny, shrill voice came from bodies stretched their aching length had somewhat subsided she crept NEW RELIGIOUS CULT. the midget's cot:

upon hard, wagging cota. Someone out of her cot and knelt beside it "I heard every word you said, turned out the sputtering gaa jet and prayed. Nita! I think you must have gone that had ineffectually illuminated; crazy. The heat affecis some like the dress tent. Groans subsided this, but I never saw it strike a into anores or whistling, adenoidul conscious that the midget was still carnival trouper quite so bad-" breathing. A sudden breeze tugged awake and had seen hor dimly in

London, Apr. 7. "You shut up, you little double-at the loose sides of the tent, slau- the darkness. Strangely free of

One thousand men and women crossing runt Nita whirled to- ping the canvas loudly against the her burdens, Sally lay for a long

wooden stakes that held it down. time before sleep claimed her, try the former wearing white shiris ward the midget's bed.

Ing to remember all the instruc-and trousers and the latter white "I may be a runt," the midget's Although she was so tired that tions about crystal-gazing that Mrs, dresses, were baptised by voice shrilled, "but I'm in full pos- her muscles quivered and jerked Bybee had heaped upon her. And total immersion in a huge tank be session of my faculties. And when spasmodically, Sally found that she in her childish conscience there was for a large crowd in 'Albert Hall, I tell Winfield Bybee the threats could not sleep. As If her mind no twinge of remorse that she was as converts to the Elim Four you've made against this poor child, were a motion picture screen, the to go on the next day, deceiving the Square Gospel Alliance, which is you'll find yourself stranded in events of the day marched past, In public, as "Princes Lalla, favourite the culmination of a great whirl- Stanton without even a grass skirt very bad sequence, like an unassem-crystal gazer of the Sultan of wind revivalist campaign by “Prin- to earn a living with. And if the 'bled film. She saw her own small Turkey,"

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