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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935.

HUNT ACROSS ATLANTIC COAL MAY OUST PETROL

"G" Man

Hits The Trail

To London

SEEKING MISSING LINK IN LARGE SWINDLE

ONE

NE of America's famous "G" men-the Federal detectives who hunted Dil. linger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd to their doom-is in London.

He has travelled 6,000 miles from St. Louis, Mis- souri, to unravel a mystery sweep-stake scheme which has already cost the citizens of St. Louis and district over £60,000.

Scotland Yard men are assist- ing the "G" man, Jusp. Frederick R. Mayer, in his task. A fore hours after landing at Plymouth, he reported at Scotland Yard, and an inspector was detailed to co-operate with him.

Within

twenty-four hours

Insp. Mayer had interviewed!

Charity Commissioners, inem-

bers of the War Office, officials B.

of the British Legion, and

FIRST STREAMLINED FÈRRY NOW OPERATES

This ferry, the first of its kind, now operates in Puget Sound; between Seattle and Bramerton, It's the motor ferry Kalakala, 276 feet long with a beam of 55 foot 8 inches, and completely enclosed by a welded stool shell contoured to reduce wind resistance. Motor cara enter by doors at the bow

M. A. Bid

various members of the Govern To Make

ment.

Was

Four years ago the State of Missouri

flooded with sweepstake tickets issued on bè- half of "The War Orphans of London." Thousands were sold. Big prizes were offered to thei successful subscribers.

Complaints reached the head. quarters of the "G" men. It was found that none of the big prizes

Drivers Dry

BRITISH REPORT TO MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT

had been paid out. Many USA SPECIAL committee

citizens, it transpired, had #cribed, some investing

1m4

Insp. Moyer is confident of

of the British Medi-

totalling hundreds of pounds. cal Association has issu- It is the boast of the "" Mened a remarkable report that they always get their man."{ on the part played by: living up to this standard. alcohol in road acci- This week-end he is interview-dents. ing a number of people who are expected to

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They have decided, after

Jazz

and, stern..

of Paris.

CRIME CURE

Sterilisation

throw consider- able light on

intricate tests, that not one SKYSCRAPERS FOR WORKERS— this mysterious organisation which has success of Britain's two and a half New 15 storey dwellings for French fully gulled considerable million drivers should con-workmen, erected on the outskirts section of the American public.

sume alcoholic drinks, even "Getting His Man".

in small amounts, when Several Americans resident in jabout to drive. London have been informed that! The association were invited! they must be prepared to leave to report on the question by the England within the next few Minister of Transport, Mr. Hore- days to assist the "G" men in Belisha! They set up a speein their investigations at St. Louis. committee of fifteen, which in-.

"By the time I get back to St. cluded' Dr. Isaac Jones, chief Louis," Insp. Mayer said, "I will medical officer to the Metropoli. have travelled 10,000 miles to tan Police, and Dr. P. R.'Spurgin. check up on one vital point. I Metropolitan Police surgeon. am now satisfied that such an The committee examined the

Wilmington, Del., Aug. 8. organisation as "The British scientific evidence on the effect criminally minded people is a Sterilisation of criminals and War Orphans Fund" does not of liquor on the human body. better antidote for the preven- exist.

They reported that some of the tion of crime than the whipping "This means that I now have very serious dangers of taking post, according to Dr. Mesrop proof that in four years the U.S.say, a stiff drink to pull yourself A. Tarumianz, state psychiatrist people have been systematically together on a long journey were; and superintendent of the Dela- defrauded of £60,000-and that 1. Diminished attention and ware States Hospital for the

is a lot of money.

of

control;

2. Reasoning affected Bi- versely; and

MODEL LAWS

Insane,

"I came to London to find the

"We have to face the fact," h missing link in our chain

said, "that the nation is being evidence. Scotland Yard has

. A tendency to think, mis-poisoned by the rapid production takenly, that you are driving of mental and, moral defectives been very helpful.' I will teave

with more than usual skill. for the US, this week, taking back with me the evidence we make rapid decisions and to take tives."

"Alcohol lends many persons to attest we have to control defer- and to insure the survival of the

wanted.

"Since I arrived here I have risks leas judiciously than they become convinced that citizens have been the victims of a barefacel fraud-one of the worst in our history. It should have occurred to our people that to-day war orphans would be at least soventeen years of age- but somehow it did not.

our

Sport Does Not Make For Friendship

-Lord Dering

ENGLAND'S DEBT TO SCOTLAND: GOLF

R.A.F. Flies On Fuel From Mines

NEW REVIVAL IN BLACK DIAMOND

INDUSTRY?.

THE output of petrol from British coal and similar materials rose last year to 52,000,000 gallons.

In the previous year it was 45.- 000,000 gallons. In 1931 it was 38,000,000.

Nine R.A.F. stations are NOW UR- ing a fuel of which petrol from British coal is a large Ingredient.

The most recent previous an- nouncement by the Government was that seven squadrons were using it.

In 1933 one home defence squadron flew solely on motor spirit produced from British conl, and the results were satisfactory that a contract was placed to supply seven squad-

rons.

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During the same period about 2.000 tons of oil produced from coal were supplied to the Navy.

Trials of this fuel have been carried out both at the Ad- miralty Experimental Station and on service afloat.

Pulverised Coal

The Board is also investigat- ing the use of pulverised coal at sea, which is progressing satis- factorily, and experiments are being carried out on fuels con- sisting of a suspension of conl in Loil.

AND WHISKY

The report also states that Lord Derby. speaking in with the methods now in use London last month, flatly con-only three gallons of motor spirit tradicted the theory that inter-can he obtained per ton of coal national sport made for good carbontsed. friendship. He said:

It has been shown that prag-

In the old days, when thetically the whole of a tar pro- game was played for fun-yes,duced at low temperatures and But they use come too much

considerable proportions of other into the limelight."

tars He was spenking at the annual dinner given to the British Em- pire Overseas Golfers by the Lucifer Golfing Society.

can be converted into first-class motor spirit by treating the tar with hydrogen under pressure. Lord Derby told the story of the

A study of this process forms historic golf match between Mr. Jan important branch of research Lloyd George and M. Brland In the at the Fuel Research Station and south of France when they were plant on a semi-commercial scale hath Prime Ministers same years to carry the experiments further

is being erected, **Lloyd George had the best of The handicap," he raid. "M. Briand speedily got himself into a bunker. All would have been weli 57 it had not been for the cinemato-

Lugo.

Girl Of 19

graph film shown in Paris shortly Who Is Earning

afterwards,

"In The Holo"

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"The French Prime Minister was shown in the hole he had got him- [self into, nud the English Prime Minister was looking on with that

£50 A Week

sort of face that you all know when AT BRITISH STUDIO you say to your opponent, Hard lines, old fellow.'

"M. Briani got back to Paris the

office the day after." next day, and they turned him out

NOT long ago a film agent

said to a girl called Vivien Leigh, "I will make you a star."

Another of his sallies was: "Whatever we owe Scotland, we have generally given her credit Six months later the name for. There are two things we of Vivien Leigh was in the shall always pay for one is headlines, and she received a £50,000 film contract from

Overseas Empire

In proposing the toast of the Alexander Korda, the pro-

British ducer.

golf, and the other is Scotch whisky."

and

have gat Mr. J. H. Thomas to Giddon, has discovered a second golfers, he said that they might Now the same agent, John propose it. He felt that Mr.film star. would otherwise do," the comtion law, which has been in opera-proposed

Under the Delaware sterilian- the Empire, and he would have Thomas would have known all about mittee say.

tion since 1923 approximately much

the tonst in language J25

persons, buth mate and female, have been sterilised. One

Laughter drowned the rest of his words, was a prisoner, who had the opera- tion performed at his own requeat. movements, The sterilisation

Moving Eyes

"The driving of a motor-car involves a succession of highly skilled muscular

Her name is Sally Gray. Three months ago she was na unknown chorus girl earning £ a week. Now she is to be paid £50 a week.

Lord Hailsham said: "I know

Sally Gray is to be starred nothing about international golf with Stanley Lupino, in

which are dependent on rapid and accurate co-ordination be- one of the developments in the cricket, and you all realise that ordinary life. She will act the

"I am hopeful now that the tween the eyes, hands and feet.

who have committed three felonies know anything about is Imperial true story of her own extra- of criminalsmatches. The only kind of games romantic comedy based on the

Sterilisation law sponsored by Dr. that never provokes any controversy part of herself. The name of the earlier law during the 1029 Tarumianz which was led to of any kind."

the heroine in the film will be session of the legislature.

her own name-Sally Gray. Dr. Taruminuz "It is found that the speed Delaware's law is the best that

contends that CRIMINALS ARE

Stanley Lupino' is so impress- with which the gaze is directed has been set

COMING TO EAST by pretty young Sally-19 up anywhere.

years old, blonde and happy-- £30,000 on her success. that he is preparing to gamble

This will be the cost of pro- duction.

to fresh objects is mensurably "Every safeguard is provided for

evidence I have secured hero The eyes are constantly moving will lead to the completo

behind in response to changing visual unmasking of the man

impressions. this vast and daring swindle. "The trail has led from St. Louia to New York, into Canada, back to Washington, back to St. Louis, and now London. But I am certain now that I have got my man, and that is all that counts to us of the Federal Government detective service."

Dillinger's Woman

Betrayer To Go

...

impaired by the drinking of the person and at the same time TO HELP SAVE UNCLE alcohol."

the public a fully protected The committee also discovered against those mentally deficient," a new test for drunkenness. he added.

They discovered the typewriter. "Regarding the case where a Any one who can operate a key-man has committed three felonies, board without mixing up the the law makes possible the sterili type is definitely sober.

sation of such person even Eight men and five women though they aren't confined to un were tested for their skill at

Institution." typewriting and it

It was explained by Dr. Taru- was found that moderate quantities of mianz that every person who was alcoholic liquor-corresponding torilised underwent the operation to two or three ounces of whisky with the permission of the family Chicago, Aug. 17.

(three cunces is a little more the patient's searcat relative. Mrs. Anna Sage, "the woman in,

..than three "singles")-produced Finnl authorization of sterilisa- tion comes from the State Board an effect in all of them. red, who betrayed John-Dillinger

The magnitude of the effect of Charities, which also acts only to the police just over a year ago, will be deported to-day. She will depended on the amount of food upon the recommendation and roport of the mental hygiene Where no food was taken the clinic of the State Hospital and No one will be happler than Mrs. typing mistakes were doubled Hospital or other institutions in the superintendent of the State Sage to leave Chiengo.

or trebled in'number..

which the person is confined...

be sent back to her native country, enten. Roumania.

"Cheer Up !"

SAM £10,000!

Washington, Aug, 1. The signing yesterday by Presl of 150 prison sentences passed on dent Roosevelt of commutationa aliens, so that the Department of ceas, Stanley Lupino will work And, if the film is not a suc-. Justice might deport them, will without salary, and will lose in Have the United States £10,400 a addition £8,000 of his year in 'upkeep.

money.

own

Production starts on 26, at the Ealing

A score of different countries The film will be called "Cheer are affected by the deportations. will be sent to England. Bessie August One murderer, Harry Johnson, Up." Murray, imprisoned for violating Studios, London. the postal laws, will go to Iroland, Sally Gray will be paid £50 a

The largest contingent, 82, are week for five weeks. Italians. The second largest group la

According to her agreement The consent of the countries to with Stanley Lupino Produc- which the criminals are returning tions, the company just formed, must be obtained before the deshe may be required to star in portations can be carried out two more films at a rising Reuter..

salary.

10 Chinese.

He sold tagur: Must be a terrifle ateule on the fuselage

Tastgohim. Från greater strain to refuselage Johnnie Walker .... 1.

Let a man go where he will-a bottle of Johnnie Walker is sure to be found within reach. This old whisky is far too excellent to be confined to one country, or one corner of the globe. The fame of its very special qualities has travelled to all parts. You are indeed marooned if you are long separated from your favourite whisky.

By Appointment la

Johnnie

Its Milesty the King

Walker

Barn 1820-

Still going Strong

Sale Agents for China

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HONGKONG

KING'S THEATRE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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TO-DAY to FRIDAY 30th AUG.

PICTURES WILL BE SHOWN

CONTINOUSLY

From 12.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

-TIME SCHEDULE-

22nd AUG. TO 24th AUG.

12.30 OVERTURE

12.34 FEATURE

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3.31 TRAILER

1.

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TO-DAY to. SATURDAY

THE MEN LOVED HER ! TWO WOMEN LOVED HIM!

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