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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST

1935.

HUNT ACROSS ATLANTIC COAL MAY OUST PETROL

"G" Man Hits The Trail

To London.

SEEKING MISSING LINK IN LARGE SWINDLE

NE of America's famous

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"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, Insp. Frederick R. Mayer, in his task. A few hours after landing at Plymouth, he reported at Scotland Yard, and an inspector was detailed to co-operate with him.

hours

Within twenty-four Insp. Mayer had interviewed Charity Commissioners, mem-

bers of the War Office, officials B.

of the British Legion, and

FIRST STREAMLINED FERRY NOW OPERATES

This ferry, the first of jis kind, now operates on Puget Sound, between Seattle and Bremerton, It's the motor ferry Kalakala, 278 foot long with a beam of 55 feet 1 inches, and completely enclosed by a welded steel shell contoured to reducs wind resistance. Motor care antar by doors at the bow

and ⚫torn.

M. A. Bid

various members of the Govern To Make

ment.

Four years ago the State of Missouri War flooded with sweepstake tickets issued on be- half of "The War Orphans of London," Thousands were sold. Big prizes were offered to theị auccessful 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 U.S. A SPECIAL committee citizens, it transpired, had sub-! of the British Medi- totalling hundreds of pounds, cal Association has issu-

scribed, Bome investing sunis

this mysterious

They have decided, after!

Sport Does. Not Make For Friendship

-Lord Derby

ENGLAND'S DEBT TO SCOTLAND: GOLF

AND WHISKY Lord Derby, speaking in London last month, flatly con- tradicted the theory that inter national sport made for good friendship. He said:

In the old days, when the game was played for fun-yes, But they have come too much Into the limelight."

He was speaking at the annual dinner given to the British Em- jpire Oversens Golfers by the Lucifer

Golfing Society.

..

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 us ing a fuel of which petrol from British coal in 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 flow solely on motor spirit produced from British coal, and the results were antisfactory that a contract was placed to supply seven squad-

rons.

ON

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 coal in oil.

that

The report also stútes with the methods now in use only three gallons of motor spirit can be obtained per ton of cual carbonised.

It has been shown that prac tically the whole of a tar pro- duced at low temperatures and considerable proportions of other tara

It is the boast of the "G" Men ed a remarkable report that they always get their man." on the part played by Insp. Mayer, is condent of 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 throw consider. able light on

intricate tests, that not one SKYSCRAPERS FOR WORKÈRS-- organisation which has success-of Britain's two and a half New 15 storey dwellings for FrenchLloyd George and M. Briand in the at the Fuel Research Stution and fully gulled A 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 labout 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-

of Paris.

CRIME CURE

days to assist the "G" men in Belisha. They set up a special Sterilisation

MODEL LAWS

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. B. Spurgin, check up on one vital point. Metropolitan Police surgeon. am now satisfied that such and 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-und that

1. Diminished attention and ware States Hospital for the is a lot of money.

of

"I came to London to find the missing link in our chain evidence. Scotland Yard has been very helpful. I will leave for the U.S. this week, taking back with me the evidence we wanted.

control;

2. Reasoning versely; and

affected nd.

3. A tendency to think, mis takenly, that you are driving with more than usual skill.

"Alcohol leads many persons to make rapid decisions and to take "Since I arrived here I have risks less judiciously than they

our

become convinced that- citizens have been the victims of mittee say.

a barefaced fraud-one of the worst in our history. It should have occurred to our people that to-day war orphans would be at Icast seventeen, years of aige— but somehow it did not.

skilled

Moving Eyes

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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. an important branch of research

houth of France when they were plant on a semi-commercial senle both Prime Ministers some years to carry the experiments further

is being erected. "Lloyd George had the best of the handicap." he said. "M. Briand speedily got himself into a bunker. All would have been wel

ago.

it had not been for the cinemalo-

Girl Of 19

graph film shown in Paris shortly Who Is Earning

Afterwards.

"In The Holo"

£50 A Week

The French Prime Minister was shown in the hole he had got him- self into, and the English Prime Minister was looking on with that sort of face that you all know when AT BRITISH STUDIO you say to your opponent, *Hard lines, old fellow,"

“M. Briand got back to Paris the

of office the day after."

Another of his sallies was:

[OT long ago a film agent

NOT

ext day, and they turned him out. said to a girl called Vivien Leigh, "I will make "Whatever we owe Scotland, we you a star." 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 headlines, and she received a golf, and the other is Scotch whisky."

£50,000 film contract from

Overacas Empire

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

and British ducer. golfers, he said that they might

Her

name is Sally Gray. Three months ago she was an unknown chorus girl carning £4 a week. Now she is to be pald £50 a week.

fle sald to me: Must be a terrific sirain on the fuselage I paid to him; fr'à a greater strain to refuselagi Jokanie Walker.. I

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 to

Johnnie

Na Majesty the King

Walker

Born, 1820-

Still going Strong

Sole Agents for China

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO. LTD. HONGKONG

KING'S THEATRE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

THE MANAGEMENT BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT FROM

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

1.46 TRAILER

2.19 FEATURE

3.31 TRAILER

.3.33 NEWSREEL

1.48 NEWSREEL

1.57 COMEDY

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2:17 TRAILER

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4.02 FEATURE

5.14 THE END

Insane,

"We have to face the fact."-he said. "that the nation poisoned by the rapid production is being of mental and moral defectives and to insure the survival of the fittest we have to control defers have got Mr. J. H. Thomas to Giddon, has discovered a second Now the same agent, John tive,"

propose it. He felt that Mr.

film star. would otherwise do," the com-tion law, which has been in opern Under the Delaware sterilisa-

Thomas would have known all about the Empire, and he would have proponert the tonst since 1993, approximately much

in language persons, both male and Laughter drowned the rest of his female, have been sterilised. One words. "The driving of a motor-car was a prisoner, who had the opera- Lord Hailsham said: "1 know Sally Gray is to be starred involves a succession of highly tion performed at his own request.

nothing about international muscular movements,

golf with Stanley Lupino, in The sterilisation of criminalsmatches. The only kind of games romantic comedy based on the which are dependent on rapid who have committed three felonies I know anything about is imperial true story of her own "I am hopeful now that the and accurate co-ordination be, is one of the developments, in the cricket, and you all realise that ordinary life. She will act the sterilisation law sponsored by Dr. that never provokes any controversy part of herself. The name of evidence I have secured here The eyes are constantly moving the earlier law during the 1929

tween the eyes, hands and feel. Tarumianz which was added to of any kind." will lead to the complete unmasking of the man behind response to changing visual session of the legislature.

impressions. this vast and daring swindle. "The trail has led from St. Louis to Now 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

Chicago, Aug. 17. Mrs. Anna Sage, "the woman in red," who betrayed John Dillinger to the polico-just over a year ago, will be deported to-day: She wii be sent back to her native country, Roumania,

No one will be happier than Mrs. Baro to leave Chicago. --

up anywhere.

extra-

the heroine in the film will be her own name-Sally Gray.

Stanley Lupino is so impresS- ed by pretty young Sally-19 years old, blonde and happy---- £30,000 on her success. that he is preparing to gamble

This will be the cost of pro- duction.

"Cheer Up !"

Dr. Tarumianz contends that CRIMINALS ARE "It is found that the speed | Delaware's law is

the best that with which the gaze is directed | has been Bet

COMING TO EAST to fresh objects is measurably "Every safeguard is provided for impaired by the drinking of the person and at the same time TO HELP SAVE UNCLE alcohol."

the public is fully protected The committee also discovered against those mentally denelent,"

SAM £10,000! a now test for drunkenness, he added.

Washington, Aug. 1. They discovered the typewriter. "Regarding the case where a

The signing yesterday by Preal- Any one who can operate a key-man has committed three felonies,

dont Roosevelt of commutationa board without mixing up thethe law makes possible the sterill-

of 150 prison sentences passed on And, if the film is not a suc- sation of

allons, so that the Department of cess, Stanley Lupino will work type is definitely sober..

such persons even though they aren't confined to an

Justice might deport them, will without salary, and will lose in Eight men and, five women

save the United States £10,400 ajaddition £8,000 of his own were. tested for their skill at Institution." typewriting and it

lyaar in upkeep. It was explained by Dr. Taru was found

A score of different countries that moderate quantities of lanz that every person who was

are affected by the deportations. Up." Production

The film will be called "Cheer alcoholic liquor corresponding sterilised underwent the operation

starts 'on One murderer, Harry Johnson, to two or three ounces of whisky with the permission of the family (three cunces la a little more or the patient's nearcet relative. Murray, imprisoned for violating Studios, London.

will be sent to England. Beasla August 26, at the Ealing Final authorization of sterilisa. than three "singles")-produced

Sally Gray will be paid £60 a un effect in all of them.

tion comes from the State Board the poatal laws, will go to Ireland,

The largest contingent, 62, are week for five weeks. The magnitude of the effect of Charities, which also acts only Italians-The-second-largest-group-in According to her agreement depended on the amount of food upon the recommendation and 10 Chinese, caten

report of the mental hygiene The consent of the countries to with Stanley Lupino Produc Where no food was taken the the superintendent of the State must be obtained before the do she may be required to star in clinic of tho State Hospital and which the criminals are returning tions, the company just formed, typing mistakes were doubled Hospital or other institutions in portations can be carried out two more fime at a rising or trebled in number.

which the person is confined.

salary

Reuter.

money.

ENTIRE

ENTIRE

ADMISSION: STALLS 40 cts. CIRCLE 70 cts..

TO-DAY to SATURDAY

THE MEN LOVED HER! TWO WOMEN LOVED HIMI

RANSIENT