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Why they watch Relative Strengths

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far, the situation deve- loping in the Dutch East Indies is one of diplomatic hints, but the stakes involved are high. It concerns the security, welfare, and future of four empires-Britain, Japan, Holland, and the United State,

This trouble in the Pacific is really a side-show of the war in Europe; for it began under the thửent of a possible invasion of Holland, whose empire includes The Dutch East Indies..

When thist be- gan to be talked about. Japanese spokesmen--that means Govern ment offe·lais- Jumped in

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SURDA ISLANDS

Holland has £300,000,000. in- vested in these islands-four empires are concerned in case their security be threatened.

netion in the event of any belligerent Power doing anything to affect the status of the Dutch East Indies.

If that meant anything at all, it meant that Japon was ready to step. Into the Indies it Halland became involved in the war in the West,

So it was Interpreted by the United Stater, and Mr. Cordell Huil. who looks after America's foreign policy, cults on the nations-mruning Japan to respect the status quo of the Dutch East Indies regardless of what happens to Hollandi,

That is followed up at the In- Kule. where The Dutch Foreign Minister tells the Japanese Minis- ter that "the Dutch Government have not sought, nor will seek in future, any country's protection of the Dutch East Indies."

Which is the diplomatic way of saying, "Keep your hands oft!"

.Of course, the United States is concerned because the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies would alter the balance of power in the Pacific.

Then fur Britain, the Dutch Enst flies are near enough to the great naval base of Singapore to war- rant our interest in that direction.

The islands. which old-time sailors called "the Indies," pro- duce pearls, splees, rare woods, and many countries depend sub- stantially on them for their sup- plies

of important commodities, such as rubber, tin, quinine, and copra-four

specifically products mentioned by Cordell Huli.

The islands, of which Java and Sumatra are the chief, cover 730,000, most of whom, of course, are the brown-bodied, beautiful people made familiar to us by the tourist agency posters inviting us to "Came to beautiful Bali."

AS long ago as 1001 Dutch ad- venturers set out to elain the islands, but for a period of eleven years during the Napoleonic wars, the islands were temporarily un der British control.

Like Batish India, the Nether lands Indies as they are called ofcally-are divided into Stales under the rule of native princes, but the

grip on inter- Dutchman's nal government is nach tighter. The overlordship of the native princes is stronger; and, in fact, about five-sixths of the population are ruled from Batavia, capital of the Dutch administrallus.

Certainly there is a local Parlin- ment called the Volksraad, but the real power rests in the hands of a man who sits in a tropical palace near Batuvin,

Excellency Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjardn van Starkenborgh Starhouwer, Govern- or-General of the Netherlands In-

The colonial Dutchmen live well, but the natives do not enjoy a higher standard of living than those of British India,

The old Dutch adventurers did not know what a prize they were bringing to their homeland when they set out to claim the islands. Oll from Borneo and Java, rub- ber from Sumatra, tin from Bang- ka. tea, tobacco, sugar, coffee, and rige,

what these Islands TO show mean to the Dutch and what a tempting prize they are 10 envious nations-please note that Dutch Investments there arc valued at about £300,000,000, und about one-sixth of the people of Holland live by their trade with the Netherlands Indles,

The figures help' to explain why it is said that Wilhelmine Queen of the Netherlands is one of the rich- est rulers in the world. She has never visited her rich possessions. So no wonder eyes are now on the Dutch East Indies and that. heavy hints are dropped by the diplomats.

Round and about the Islands aro key Paclite possessions of the other nations-Britain's Malaya, Burma, Sarawak, New Guinea and Hong- kong: France's Indo-China; the United States Philippines, Guam, American Samoa; and Japan's two Ifille possessions, the Spratly and Mundated Islands.

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Durk skins, drp, should use it special blend of several waxes. After cleansing, with cream, this wnx-stick should be smoothed gen- tly over the skin and left on 'all night. In the morning can be removed with cream and soft tis-

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Medium dark skins, greasy, and fair, greasy skins should be treated with the wax in exactly the same way, except that a cleansing milk should be substituted for the cream.

All other types of skin need an nvocado .oll lubricant. Cleanse with cream or milk, according to texture, then top in the avocado oll preparation and leave on all night,

Now for the second part of the treatment, which is muscle-toning. You should add it to your routine after a week of the skin lubrica- tlon.

Every night cleanse, then top in as lightly as you possibly cun a muscle-tightening preparation, Do this directly you begin to get un- dressed which will leave it 15-20 minutes in which to do its work. Just before you get into bed apply your lubricant, and, as usual, Icave It on all night.

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NEW YORK. ERE as briefly as possible

Hue stories of six murders -six out of what may turn out to be thirty or more com- mitted, inspired or instigated by a group of men with the morals and manners of apes.

Each of the members of this group is entitled to call him.

self a gangster, a word which both in and out of the United States has acquired a romantic glow, a connection of daring and adventure.

The six murders which are here selected, as fairly representative examples of Brooklyn underworld technique, have been reculled and recounted as part of the compli- cated picture drawn by various big and little gangsters now in the care of the police.

Murder No. 1.-Walter Sage hud been on the gang's payroll at five dollars a murder and

been hnd allowed to make little extra money by running a slot-machine racket in an area where the gang controlled all the rackets. But presently he got to know too much.

He was Invited by other mem- bers of the gang to take a ride in a car. At a given spot the car was stopped and Sage, who was in the front seat, was attacked and stabbed to death with an iceplek. His body was then chained to a slot-machine which the gang had The brought along in the car. body and the machine were thrown into a lake.

The man alleged to have done the stabbing has been arrested in Hollywood. He was playing small parts in gangster filnis.

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Murder No. 2-Irving Ashkenas was given the job of clubbing to death with a sawed-off billiard-cue.

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dress manufacturer, who had refused to pay the "protection" money which

Не gang demanded. Arrested, but the gang so terrorised witnesses that he got away with few years in gaol on a manslaugh- ter conviction. When he came out of gaol he began a taxi service with the money he was still -regularly receiving from the gang.

Suddenly the gang got tired of paying him. He complained. Ils bul' et-ridilled body was found one day in his own taxi.

Murder Number 3.-Irving Penn, a perfectly respectable musle pub- Hsher who had never met a gang- ster in his life was shot dead as he his emerged one morning from apartment in New York on his way to his business. It turned out to be all a mistake. The thugs, who had fired the shots from a car, meant to kill another man who was to be p witness against a gangster whose trial was pending. They mistook

Penn for him.

Murder Number 4. — Soloinon Goldstein had n quorrel in Bi Brooklyn haberdashery store with a fellow employee of the gang named Robert (Boggy) Feuer.

He pulled out his gun and fired five bullets.point-blanit into Feuer,

who died in hospital after six months of agony. Shortly after- wards Goldstein got married. While he was on his honeymoon he received a telephone call from n member of the gang instructing him to attend a meeting. He left his new wife to go to the meeting and hus never been seen since. His body is now believed to be at the bottom of a lake, wrapped in a weighted blanket.

Goldstein and Feuer were both 24 and had been friends since childhood.

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Murder Number · 5.---A member namer John (Spider) Murtha was strolling along 83

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his girl. Florence Nestiteld, when two men -appeared, -motioned-the-girl-to-

dead. stand aside und shot him That was in 1935. Not until this week is the girl said to have told the police that the two men were Mux (The Jerk) Golob and Frank (The Dasher) Abbadando, whom the police are now seeking to in- dict. Detectives are guarding the girl day and night,

Murder Sumber 6.-Three men, not members of the Brooklyn gang. tooly a bookmaker named Joseph Caroselli for a ride intending to rob him. They learned during the ride that

he was paying protection money to the Brooklyn gang, 50 they shot him, knowing that it he were allowed to tell the gang he had been robbed they would all be rubbed out,

What has happened 'within the last few days is that, recently elected District Attorney O'Dwyer la "cleaning up" Brooklyn and has arrested some of the gang leaders, They bear such names-often seit chosen as Abe (Kid Twist) Reles, Harry (Pittsburgh Phill) Strauss, Martin (Buggsby) Goldstein, Harry (Happy) Malone.

Most of the singing" (Inform- ing) is being done by Kid Twist Reles. He seems to be an unplea- sant little bully, whom O'Dwyer has adroitly frightened by confronting him with evidence that his 'col- leagues are double-crossing him. The

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ure under local political control, so that murder is safe or unsafe in any given locality in accordance with instructions which come down from the elected bosses), but the investigations are throwing. very clear light 011 how gangsters are.

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Twist and his friends made. never had any dimeulty in getting recruits. All that was necessary recruits was to lend some East Side youth samme money and when he deeply in debt give him a small hold-up job to do, with the pro- mise that when he had done it he would be considered to have paid the money. When the gang "hod something on him" the rest was ensy.

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