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Kansas City yielded 51 dopesters, Chicago 53. A Texas opium den produced eight Chinese, large quantities of opium & equipment, an arsenal of revolvers and automatic rifles...
...Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned tip-off to a Boston opium...
...Japanese justice in Port Arthur last week stood four stolid Germans and a Swiss, thieves, murderers and pirates all. Not since the desperate days of Chinese opium smuggling by 19th Century white cutthroats has the Orient seen Occidentals charged with such a combination of atrocious crimes. To assure them a fair trial, Mayor Yoneoka of Port Arthur, famed Japanese barrister, was assigned to their defense...
...judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing the murder nonetheless. Drood disappeared, bided his time, finally confronted Jasper who broke down, confessed. Mr. Leacock points out that this solution would have permitted Dickens a happy ending, with marriages and children all around...
...otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...