1948-05-17 — Page 4

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

$V-DAI AI

TO-DAY ONLY AT

2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

OLORIOUSLY WAY MGM TECHNICOLOR MUSICALE

HREE DARING DAUGHTE

Jeanette

Jose

MacDonald Iturbi

Jane Powell

OPENS WEDNESDAY AT THE

QUEEN'S

FOR ONE DAY ONLY! JEAN SIMMONS in

"UNCLE SILAS”

EDWARD ARNOLD - HARPY DAVENPORT

, OPENS TO-MORROW-

AT THE ALHAMBRA

LINDA (FOREVER AMBER) DARNELL

"CITY WITHOUT MEN"

CENTRAL

"5 SHOWS DAILY

AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. FIRST EPISODE

· The daredevil 'of1 "Dick. Tracy" pitted against the screen's horror man!

SOS

GUARD

CASTIC

RALPH BYRD BELA LUGOSI

MAXINE DOYLE

AËREPUBLIC

12

LIGHTHING EPISODES/

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2,30–5.15—7.30-9.30 P.M.

A ROMANTIC-ACTION-FICTURE!

HUMPHREY

BOGART SCOTT

LIZABETH

Monts

I met you in another

guy's dream!”

JOHN CROMWELL'S

DEAD RECKONING

Charles WWE Starvin

WEXICO

CARNOVSKY-CANE-PRINCE MILLER FORD

Screenplay by Diler 15, P. Carrett, Slavs Phler

Directed by JOHN CROMWELL - Prodané ty SIDNEY BIDDELL

A COLUMBIA PICTURE:

NEXT CHANGE: "FRAME D"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Fat the heat the I

· Vatchk Monte Cire

secre

led?

MAJESTIC

"Destroying his enemies ....... one by

Fieniig a woman

COLUMBIA PICTURES prostata

The Retumor Monte Cristo

T

WLABOUR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1948.

INE

MÍS APOLOGY STUFF IS ALL, VERY WELL. BUT I THINK WE'LL KEEP THE BLOCK AS A DETERRENT.”

«Courier » SHOULD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BE ABOLISHED?

I have just been

All the spending a wook

Wooing

in Rome to take a sounding after the voting frenzy

has left Italy dangerously cocky

THE first lock-out notice in Italy since 1922 went up ten days after the grent election victory of Alcido de Gasperi's Christian Demo crat party over the Communist- Socialist Popular Front,

SEFTON DELMER'S

NEWSMAP

nanounce that

|

The company of Cain

By B. E. MILES

Aro

DREAD SENTENCE`

N the carpenter's shop It is, in act, nothing of the kind

there were 25 men; 20 rather the reverse.

It had well be argued that were reprieved murderers. informed drunkard makes a case serving life sentences. Twenty for the abolition licensing men' who had killed; experienced laws. the agony of the hunt: tho

The

whole point is that, these macabre ritual of the murder men are not only murderers; they trial; faced the judge in his ar murderers who have been re-

prieved; which black cap; lived the

means that, after wardered microscopic examination mething life of the condemned cell, and about each case has been found approached appointment with which justifles reprieve. the hangman; and then-under the shadow of the gallows-- -- bron reprieved.

As an argument for judicial re- prieve, and for the emciency of When I joined them they its application, it la unanswerabla. were engaged on the interior as an argument for some sort of woodwork for a now chapel: degrees being introduced to the The benches up and down the murder charge it may be powerful; shop were laden with great but on an argument for the abolition of the death sentenco itself-it IB roof principals, pillars, pews, negligible. and pieces of pulpit.

There is not, and, never should' The floor was deep with be, one real gunman among these Aweet-smelling shavings of pine men, or one calculating poisoner.

They are not of the breed of men and ouk.

who have inade violence their creed." and who mean to shoot their way out of any corner.

And 20 murderers were deep ly engrossed in creating a new place of worship, to be used-by succeeding murderers for generations to come.

For three years I worked with them and audied them.

When I first met them it was with a feeling of awe,' thinking of them as men who were different from their fellows. I could not forget the background.

THE 'ARISTOCRATS ...could not suppress a sudden start when I realized

that the benign old man with the white. hair, so intent on setting his gauge, was the once notorious X of the W murder; or that the fresh-faced youth, so akilfully carving an altar plece, was actually Y, who had.

But as time went past I becamo accustomed to all this. I forget the backgrounil. E became able,' to consider these men without bias.

among them no doubt many Com- munist agilators. And however And gradually I realised some skilfully they handle this problem, interesting facts about reprieved the Communists argue, the Govern- murderers serving life sentences. ment are bound to come in confilet In the first place, they differed with organised labour as a conse-

in that they from other criminals

quence.

were not a type. They did not have some feature, or features, com- mon to all of them, or oven to several of them.

I agree. That is why de Gasperi cannot afford to have his Socialist allies attacked in the arrogance of victory.

The notice was put up on the boards and gates of the great say that they will occupy the work Falk metal works at Sesto, San shops. The police

bers, force will be used if necessary Giovanni, near Milon.

against trespassóra.

Now from a purely business

And

point of view this lock-out is that the Communits are rubbing vernment outsida Italy as well.

I

This victory intoxication is going to cause trouble for the Italian Go- shall be surprised if America and beads. They may yet keep control of the British don't find themselves up without doubt amply justified.

-trades unions if the other side's ex- against it with a bump, and quite For the previous three weeks tremists, exultantly above themselves soon, too. the transport workers of the in their unexpectedly complete vic- Falk concern in Sesto, San tors, cet about frightening the Giovanni, had been on strike, workers back into Communist al-

legiance. and rejecting all arbitration proposals. Trucks had been piling up in the sldings, while the workers refused to load or unload them.

The firm had been paying out millions of lire for the-delay. And the stoppage of supplies meant that hundreds of hands in the factory were idle while receiving full pay.

Sounds Logical

a

And belleve me, for the moment they are bove themselves. **

";

Mr. Ivor Thomas, M.P. In particu- lar, has a surprise waiting for him.

He should hasten to Rome before ho makes any. more speechos pro- posing that Italy be admitted to the western Union as a reward" for not allowing the Communists to win the election.

the Italians. "Before we even so much as discuss joining the Western Union there must be a complete revision of I found it feverish. The attention the Peace Treaty. If we are to be Italy had been getting from West alles, wo must be allies on a basis and East seemed to have gone to its of equality

I stopped off in Rome on my way back from Athens to take Italy's

post-election temperature and find out what I could on how things are

going to develop there now.

head.

"Howard

my foot,"

Rearmament

means

say

rearmament

The Italians. I talked with — duchesses, Journalists, all-Com- muniste, Socialists, industrialists, all DEVISION cannot afford this," said Communist high-up-spoke of the

with one exception and he was a logical enough if Italy is to be "WE

a bulwark against Soviet Russia and the management, "we election victory not as mere elee her allies), return by France of must close the works until tion victory. It was a great battle auch "frontier rectiäcations" settlement is reached."

which Italy, fighting single-handed Brigue and Tende, and, above all, re- with the greatest self sacrifice and the turn of Italy's former colonies. most heroic daring, had won against insuperable odds on behalf of the to re-establish their administration The fact that any Italian attempt rest of the world.

In Libya will be fought by the Arabs, extolled Its that it will cost millions of dollars to set up Halian settlers there after own contribution and expected poll Arab resistance has been crashed- cal concessions in accordance. There all this is of no account today. Italy, was little readiness for give and drunk with victory, now ence more take.

All of which sounds quite ogical. But I wonder whether it is politic?

For the fact that this lock- out is the first since 1922, and that it follows so closely on the defeat of the Popular Front, gives it all the appearance of being a showdown. And, what is more, a showdown forced' on

Each political group

Their Tactics

it has not.

they.

They are. men who, in certain circumstances, have committed murder; not men who will coinmit murder, in any circumstances.

In fact, they are an argument for the retention of the death. sen- tence-it only as a deterrent..

For, after making some allow-

bravado, it ance for sible to listen to these men without was impos- realising what o dread thing in. their lives the death sentenes had been; and how immense, even years afterwards, was the relict of re- prieve.

Many of them fold me so-and- they should know.

MISTER GINGER

This is how John Deano Potter wrote up Hong-

U koug's

the Daily

Tat-cheo Express

#1

is one of Hongkong's delerates to "the tinh Industries

Bri-

Fair.

MR GINGER-a Street corner boys, violent, rob

confidence tricksters and plumpish fifty- Chinese year-old sexual perverts are opt to run to colled U. Tat Cheo typo. They have certain charno-arrived in Lon- teristics in common.

Their eyes, their ideas, the books don recently head. read, their reaction to of the biggest authority, and their talk above all, ginger distributors In the world, and their talk-link them together,

The trickster will be tricky in he hopes before he little things as well as big. But it leaves Britain to

conclude a deal which will give Bri- is not so with the murderers.

They are as diverse as the chance tain's housewives enough ginger to

last them for travellers in a bus, and I would last

years. His first object dare to add-as harmless.

They regard themselves, and with some justification, as the aristocracy of the prison.

TALK NORMALLY Generally speaking, they are not who have cunningly and deliberately followed some" tortuous criminal path

men

They have not swindled and rob- bed and cheated; and, for the most

part they would not do so.

And whereas the conversation of

is to sell us a "sample" of 250 tons.

"Mr. Ginger," in his well-cut suit, is a very different person

who,

from the pig-tailed sweetmeat

Chi

11

hawker called

ΜΠΟΤΟ than 100 years ago, stood on street corner in Canton, just up the river

Chl from Hongkong. used to experiment in his paper. windowed hours........with....a. sweet root which grew in the fields of his province.

to

bo

One day an Englishman bought the forger and the burglar is all of some of his roots and liked them. the latest practices in the arts of He sent cases of Chi's preserved modern forgery and burglary the ginger back to his friends in conversation of the reprieved mur-Britain. Someone gave A Jar of derer is that of reasonably normal it to Queen Victoria, who liked ly, to some decent future.... men; looking forward, rather fimild-to much she gave an order

that no banquets were prepared where preserved ginger was not served as a dessert,

When this happened the future of pigtailed Chi was assured. He opened a factory and took the name of Prosperous Chi, Now there are 11 factories in Hong- kong making preserved ginger,

Quite often they are ordinary Hitle men who have been exposed to some temptation, or caught in the torrent of some violent passion.

You would

à become never

hag

a civilising mission" in North seven-day drunk: you have not the Africa. And the highest Foreign skill to make a forger, or the cour- Offer ofcials are as chauvinistic as age to make burglar; but can you say, given certain circumstances,

- everyone else.

They prefer not to join either bloc,

WHEN THEY LEAVE

When they come out of prison, which they do on an average aflor serving ten to 15 years, they settle bacic into life quietly and gratefully, The forger and the burglar only too frequently return to their evil, and go backs to prison time after ume.

do Gasperl by his triumphant PHE Communists are delighted.

But I do not believe the Italians that it is not just possible that you Right-wing backers before he condleting currents among the Go-the Western Union,

They are hoping to play off the have any serious intention of joining could become a murderer...?

even if they has had time to arrange his vernment supporters against each are given all the "rovision" they ask. now Government, strike the other, not in the Chamber, where do balance between his Right and Gasperi's party has an absolute Left-wing supporters, or make majority, but in the Senate, where but to go on being woord and cour- ted by both. Miss Italy does not clear what kind of an industrial

want marriage, They count on and labour policy he intends to challenge of the Saragat secessionists offsetting the

She believes there are more pre- follow.

and their own waning popularity in sents and more treats to be got out And so I fed cafe in The situation has been made no the unions recent elections in the of firtation. caster by the workers.

They are textile workers and railway workers predicting that when we start talk- refusing to accept the lock-cut, and unions showed a diminishing Com- ing Western Union with her we shall munist voleby exploiting the Go hear a great deal about "Italy na n vernment's handling of labour in the bridge between East and West" the usefulness to Europe of a "neutral *There were no lock-outs under big lay-off that is coming. Mussolini's Fascist regime. Lock- Hallan

over-staffed with in the Danubo Basin..

This, to be sure, has nothing to did the Allied. Military Government workers to prevent unemployment. permit them. And there was none Now It is expected that the Go- do with victory intoxication, but is under the Italian Governments that vernment will authoriso employers just the sober traditional polley of followed AM.G.—not until noto." to dismiss these supernumarles, Italy.

outs-like strikes-were illegal, Nor been dedustry, since the war has Italy," and, Italy's need of markets exceptional ·

But is there a case an record of a reprieved murderer. comumilling a second murder? If so, it is quito

Now, at first sight, all this looks Hike an argument for the abolition of the death sentence; and it has, been used na recent months, such...

in

AT 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

NANCY

Happy Little Chirpfest

By Ernie Bushmiller

HOW'S YER SICK

BOID TODAY,

NANCY ?

IS SHE LONESOME

THIS IS VISITORS

DAY

A LITTLE BETTER

OH,

SICK

ROOM

LOUS HAYWARD BARBARA BRITTON

GEORDE MACREADY

Stone

O'CONNOR $IKTHENSON • SEMAY» COLLINS AN EDWARD SMALL. PRODUCTION

Next Change: "THE WHITE UNICORN”.

*

Mandarin

is U. Tat Chee,

of the manufacturers but he has his troubles, Britain has always been the biggest market for preserved ginger: now tie trade is only a the third of what it was before war. Also it costs 12s. 6d. for a half-pound far, instead of the pre-war 38. Gd. for two and a half pounds.

Mr Ginger: "Hongkong has a

of monopoly

ginger preserving because only the roots ΕΤΟΥΑ from the neighbouring districts suitable. Other ginger is hard and hot and unsultubla for Western markets."

..

He has prepared for his visit in the best tradition of his pig- talled predecessor

Bending by 12 jars of ginger to the. Quech.

MUSHMILLER.

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

«SURE KILhi

BRIGHTS NAN KANG CO, URION BLOGI K.