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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MAN WHO MADE (CHICAGO)

Gangsters Are Behind

SOME SERVING

DRINK; OTHERS

SERVING

By HOWARD WHITMAN

TIME

TRANSFORMATION of ex-triggermen of Chicago's gangland into polite bar-tenders who shake a neat cocktail was described in London recently by crackly- voiced Judge Robert Crowe, former Chicago Public Prosecutor.

Said he: "Our bad-boys can't make a living out of the gangster profession any more. They're all finished, washed up. The opulent bootleg barons you used to read about are so broke they couldn't finance a decent crap game (dice throwing).

"A few of the dyed-in-wool gangsters who haven't bumped each other off are trying to eke. a living out of cheap thievery. But most of the boys have quit. You'll find them quietly serving beer and shaking cocktails very politely in the night-clubs now."

cross-

Judge Crown, fifty-eight years old, staying at the Savoy Hotel during a holiday globe-trot, resigned his post as Chief Justice. of Chicago's Criminal Court to become Public Pro- secutor (1920-29) while 'what he described as "a reign of murder" was in progress.

He sent fifty-eight racketeers to penal servitude, questioned auch gangland cele- brities as Al Capone ("a tough nut to crack"), Baby Face Nel- son ("Loo smart to pin anything on"), Tim Murphy ("he's been bumped off, too-these people die at an early age") and the Five Genna Brothers ("three of them were put on the spot... the two others disappeared").

"But the gangster's day is done now he is the vanishing American," Judge Crowe declared.

COMFORT THE SOLDIER

FOR

HOT WATER AND WIRELESS

ARMY COUNCIL'S PLANS

OLD-TIME BARRACKS AND THE NEW

By A Military Correspondent "Burracks" as a word signifying ex- terlor ugliness and interior lack of comfort has for long been current in the language. At last the Army Council has made up its mind to re- move the reproach that the soldier is accommodated in unattractive con- ditions.

GOOD SAYS:

THURSDAY, ·APRIL 8, 1937.

Bars

Now

HOMAGE TO DEPARTED KING-Respect to the memory of their beloved war-time ruler, King Albert, was paid by members of the garrison at Namur, government officials and World War veterans at Marche les Dames, Belgium, as above. The cross in the up- per background is where the King's body was found after he met an accidental death in mountain climbing, in 1934.

Secret Men

Won the

Who War

"The repeal of Prohibition (1033)

MATA HARI, Sir Roger Casement, Trebitch took away gangland's big occupation,

Lincoln Who caught these famous spies? That's why you'll find ex-gun-toting

The best feature of the new type of gangsters serving-as-contentod bare

They were trapped by the British_Intelligence Division, a men to-day. They're behind the bars barracks, some of which are to be all right, but serving beer-not built almost at once, is the provision secret organisation which, in its 50 years history-it celebrates more romance and of a club or sitting-room connected to serving time."

each pair of dormitories for about its golden jubilee this month has seen twenty-four men. For the first time drama than the rest of Whitehall put together.

the soldier And there is nothing more exciting in the Division than in the history of the Army is to be povided with a real living "Room 40 0.B." room adjacent to but apart from his sleeping quarters and dining room.

PRINCESS-Miss Hiroko Saga, a Japanese girl of Tokyo, who has announced her engage- ment to Pu Chich, younger brother of Emperor Kang-tch of Manchukuo." The marriage would confer on her the title of princess, The, groom-to-be is studying at the military acad- emy in Tokyo."

500 PRAY FOR WOMAN WHO WAS UNFAITHFUL

Steel wardrobes for each mun, een- tral heating, constant hot water, a plug for a wireless receiver in cach living room, together with a really good arrangement of kitchens and dining rooms, will provide a degree of comfort not yet experiened in uny barracks.

The soldier of fifty years ago would -be-astonished-at-the-degree-of-com-- fort to be obtained even in the pre- sent-day barracks, which in their turn are now regarded as out-of-date and a deterrent to recruiting.

KIPLING'S DREAM

The Queen Postponed Holy Week Party

Barrack life hug always las Priest's Request

somewhat behind home life, but at

last an attempt is to be made to give the soldier something rather better

than he can get in his own home. We THE

This tiny room at the Ad-, -miralty in the centre of a marvel- lous.organisation which probably won the war.

ERADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music from The

Hongkong Hotel CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelengths of 350 metres (845 k.'s), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's).

ILK.T.

12.30 p.m. Musical Comedy. 1 p.m. Time and Weather.

1.03 The London Symphony Or chestra.

4.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements

HATS

1.40 A Pianoforte Recital by Elleen by

Joyce,

1.57 Terence Casey at the Cinema Organ.

2.15 p.m. Close Down,

K p.in. Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden.

6 p.m. From the Studio.

A Chlidren's Concert. 6.30. p.m. Orchestra.

De Groot and His

"Gipsy Love"-Selection (Lehar); In the Night (Tale); Under the Roofs of Paris (Moretti): First Waltzes- Potpourri (Robrecht); "Les Cloches

de Corneville" (Planquette); When the great, red dawn is shining

(Sharpe),

6.55 p.m. Songs by Charles Kullman (Tenor) and Norman Allin (Bass), with Pablo Casals (Violoncello).

Tenor Solos-I love thee (David and Grieg); Still as the night (Mor- gan and Bohm); 'Cello Solo-Moment Musical (Schubert); Bass Solos-- True till death (Scott Gatty); The Midnight Review (Glinka and New- march);

ch); 'Cello Solo-Apres un Revo back to .(Faure);

Solo-Come back Tenor Sorrento (Aveling and De Curtis); West Country Courting

Base Solond. (O'Reilly and -Vito

Spa anderson)

Sola

Celto Dance), Op. 54, No. 5 (Popper); Tenor Solo-By the dark lagoon (Baddeley and Leigh).

7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Markel Report

7.35 p.m. Charlie Kunz at the. Platin

with

The Milla Brothers. The Mills Brothers Sweet Lucy Brown; Plano Solo-Charlie Kunz Plano Medley No. R. 2; The Mills Brothers Long about mdinight; Swing is the thing Plane Solo- Plano Medley No. R. 10-Charlie Kunz: The Mills Brothers-Rhythm saved the world.

8 pm. Time, Weather and An-

nouncements.

8.03 From the Studio,

A Chinese Concert.

Pro-

11 p.m. Close Down.

European 8.06-11 p.m. grammy from ZEK on arc quency of 640 klecycles.

8.05 p.m. Symphony No. 7 In C Major (Schubert), played by The LLC. Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Adrian Boult.

1st. Movement-Andante. (Part 1);- 1st. Movement-Allegro ma troppo (Part

Andante con moto; 3rd.

non

3rd. Movement Trio and Scherzo (Allegro vivace); 4th. Movement-- Finale.Allegro vivace,

Some of the cleverest cryptograph-Scherzo (Allegro vivace) and Trio; ers in the world worked day and night during the war deciphering wireless communications of the chemy, received by a chain of laten ing 'stations.

The effort by the notorious Sir

8.55 p.m. London, News and An- nouncements,

9.15 p.m. The Regimental Band

Roger-Casement to start a roof-H.-M..Grenadier Guards

bellion in Ireland at the bidding

of Germany was frustrated by the Secret Room of Death. Casement planned to land a brigade at Irish prisoners of war in Ireland to

start a revolt.

But the plan was nipped in the bud.

AMAZING PLOT

Three Irishmen who had been cap- tured by the Germans volunteered to

come over to Ireland to test the feel-

HE Queen, following a letter from an eighty- ure still, however, far from the ideal set forth in Kipling's "Army of a

visualised a one-year-old Anglo-Catho- Ing of the people. which he Dream," in

lie priest, altered the date of separate, room for each man.

rds the end Until towards

a Buckingham Palace party eighteenth century soldiers in Eng- land were usually quartered on the so that it should not be held populations of the towns they had to in Holy Week.

of the

Harrison. Barracks for the Foot,)

Guards had been built in 1000, and i

built in 1700.

Father Herbert Williams,

They rst came to England. One of them tried to securo Д post with Sunday Chronicle, and was trapped by the police. Then he confussed the whole amazing plot.

Three months later Casement faced

his judges in London.

Another "Room 40

Q.B."

was

famous figure which

unmasked Trebitch Lincoln, the fantastic figure who was in turn a curate, a philan thropist's secretary, an M.P., a spy, a fugitive, and who is now a monk in

the Royal Barracks in Dublin were vicar of St. Alban's, Ted- The early regulations concerning dingtion was the writer of barrack construction and maintenance the letter. show that conditions were bellevably bad, according to modern "In it," he said. "I pointed out

Overcrowding was

general that a royal party had been ar-Chino. and married quarters were usually

ideas.

un-

BETRAYING THE NAVY

"The Beggar's Opera" Selection (Gay-Austin); Songs of Scotland (arr. Dutholt).

9.30 P.M. Variety,

VocalDas ist die Liebe der Matrosen...The Melody Gents; Instrumental-The Boosbeck Long Sword

Dailogill)... Dance (Lass O'

Vocal- George Tremain (Melodeon):) Stompin' at the Savoy....Judy Gar- Vocal-All my land (13 years old);

Instru- life...Leslie Hutchinson; mental-Le Regiment qui passe. Marlo Maccaferri (Guitar); Vocal- Don't you ever fall in love; Rais.... Aileen Stanley (Comedienne); Organ Solos Second Serenade, (Heykens); In a Mansele Garden (Kotelbey)

Reginald Foort.

10

yours

p.m.

Luv Big Ben.. Dance Music. Fox-Trot-Yours truly is truly Comedy One-Step-Fancy meeting you; Six-Eight--Andalusia; Popeye, the Comedy Waltz-I'm Sailorman; Fox-Trot-There's a new world; Fox-TrotO.K. for sound; Fox-Trot-When with

you; Fox- When I'm Trot-But definitely; Fox-Trot

provided by the simple expedient of ranged for Wednesday of Holy Lincoln swore, when war broke Twelfth Street Rag Fox-Trat

putting a blanket screen round one

quarter of the barrack room.

cize.

Week. I reminded the Queen out, that he would help to smash that I was an old friend of a Britain, which he hated. former chaplain at her old home] His audacious aim was to betray

the whole British Navy. at Glamis Castle.

Very "Room 40 0.B.” had

soon the full facts of his treachery, round him's net from and

move round which he managed to escape-by going to New York.

Awful sad; Cuban Dance La Com- parsa: Rumba-Bellita; Fox-Trot little Robin told me so; Fox-Trob Never gonna dance; Quickstep- Diddlc-dum-dee; Fox-Trot--Goody Goody: Fox-Trot-Temptation Rag:. Fox-Trot-Somebody stole my gal; Wallz-Marie Louise.

11 p.m. Close Down.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. DONATIONS TO THE KING GEORGE MEMORIAL

Further, donations to

WELLINGTON'S REFORMS Wellington was the first reformer, and he insisted on single iron bed-

"I received a reply from Lady steads for every man instead of

Helen Grabam, lady-in-waiting. It wooden berths, and a definite number

was so typical of the Queen's Birkenhead, Apr, 1. of cubic feet of space per man. In

kindly understanding that I posted At the close of a service at Christ the old days the men had to cook

14 and when kitchens

up in the church porch for my

The war produced no more dan- Church, Claughton, Birkenhead, to their own food,

to parishioners Introduced-a much-derided night a congregation of 500 knelt in were

gerous spy than Mata Hari, the fread. The letter said:

dazzling adventuress-spy, who met prayer for a convicted thier and a novelty strict rules were made that

"Sir, I am commanded by the her doom blowing kisses to the Bring woman who had left her husband, the soldier was to use the kitchen,

to acknowledge your Queen and not do for another man.

letter party, whose rifles were levelled at his cooking anywhere and to thank you for its contents. her breast. The service was the sequel to cre

Her Majesty, owing to the faci The Crimean War, which drew at that Easter falla so early this year. invitation by the Vicar (the Rev.

many abuses in the did not realise that the function, J. R. Bates) for questions on court- tention to so

Army, was followed by a Commission ship and marriage' problenwered to inquire Into barracks, This Com which it was proposed to hold on met her death with the same, steet | George V Memorial Fund have been ·

Among the questions he to-night was one from a Wednesday, 24,

in Holy Week, but now that you career as a spy.

and Shanghai Banking Corporation: wrote that she had left a good time mortality in the army was have drawn attention to it the

Previously acknowledged $147,717.17 husband in a Bt of exasperation and nearly double that of the civilian Queen has had the date altered.

these bury days, it is very easy to How Chunk Pak stayed with another man. She asked male of the corresponding age.

**] know you will understand overlook certain facts, but the Lan Chun Kwok. If she could expect her husband to recommendations of this Commission that wow the great press of Queen regrets extremely that she Wang Chol Ho

were drastic, and were followed, with questions, and decisions that have had inadvertently chosen 50 un- Wun Foo There has not been a divorce, so the result that the peace-time death to be taken by Their Majcstles in suitablo a date for this function.*": Lan Che Nol the way is open to reconcillation,"

n" rate in the Army dropped to some-

Au-Yeung Yiu. Ming the Vlear replied. "If her husband thing like

that of the elvillan

take her back.

in good according to the standard of male. Ma w

The barracks at procent

at present in

The

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attitude of Christ, he will take her back. It is tragle that she talks of though some of them are of consider- her home rather than her husband. able age, give little cause for com She must really make up her mind plaint as to healthiness. It is the the fact that that she wants to go back to him appreciation of rather than the home healthiness of body can be increased Aman fust completing a sentence by happiness of mind which underlies for theft wished to know if he could the design of the new "Sandhurst" expect the affection of bis wife and type of barracks. -children when he came out of prison.

To a 19-year-old girl who asked solled, "Such marriages almost al- whether she should accept a proposal ways load to misery if nothing from a man of 32, the Vicar, coun- worse,

She fell because she tried to make money out of both sides.

She gambled and lost. And she

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided. Joined in the applause.

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