FORGIVING SPIRIT
LETTERS TO
SENTENCED ·
KIDNAPPERS
Girl Victim Writes To Quondam Captors
SECURES COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCE
Kansas City (Missouri). Three desperadoes now serving sentences for the kidnapping of
THE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936
CREED
‘AMERICAN'S CREED”
STEEL OUTPUT IN BRITAIN March Creates New High Record
1931 RATE DOUBLED
Production of British steel dur- jing March established a new high
record for the industry. The totali of 980,100 tons compared with 933,500 tons in February, which was itself a record.
In the first three months of this
the daughter of the city manager year 2831,100 tons of steel were of Kansas City in May 1933 re-produced. This exceeds by 19 per ceive monthly letters from their cent. the output in the first quar-
ter of 1935. victim, Mary McElroy.
Ever since their cunviction, in The rate of production so fari which she played a major part, this year is more than double that Miss McElroy has befriended her of 1931. before the introduction ofi kidnappers.
ja duty on foreign steel.
I2
It was she who interceded with Manufacture of pig-iron, too, is!
of Kansas and se-beating all previous records. the Governor cured commutation of the death March 633,600 tons were produc- on Walter Me-jed. against 584.700 tons in Fe- Gee, the only one of the three sen-buary. For the first quarter
1936 the output tenced to die.
tons.
sentence passed
"I didn't want his death on myj conscience." she explained in an interview.
"Greatest Experience" "
"He is serving a life sentence, now, and I write to him and tol Clarence Click and George McGee every month."
"I suppose that kidnapping was! Jy greatest experience. Those men knew they ought to kill mei because I could testify against! them.
All three of them were
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At Buckingham Palace recent by the King gave several sittings to medallionists from the Royal Mint.
The new medals may not be prepared for some time, as no date has yet been fixed for the "investitures at which the. King will confer the decorations grant- ed in the Birthday Honours.
ashamed of having kidnapped).
me."
For thirty hours Miss McElroy | was chained to the wall in a base- ment. In the interview she des cribes them as "the calmest thirty hours of my life.”
"I grew up in those hours," she said. "I was so sure I was going to die that I wasn't even frighten
ed."
"A Nice Party"
VER
of 1,813,800
LONDON MUSICIAN TO DIE IN N.Z.
Guilty Of Murdering Actress Wife
Auckland (NZ). The application of Eric Ma- reo, the London musician con- demned to death for murder- ing his wife, for a new trial was unanimously dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Marru was found guilty of mur-] den by administering veronal. He was recommended to mercy by the. Jury, but was sentenced to death.
This is the first death sentence which will come before the consi- deration of New Zealand's Labour Government.
new
Mareo has written 700 songs. including several written in pri-
the Helmuth Hirth, above. well-known German aeroplane designer. celebrated hie 30th birthday on April 24. He en- tablished a world altitude record in 1911 at 2475 metres, and has been decorated by the Emperor of Japan for his services to avia- tion.
“LADY PRECIOUS STREAM” TO BE MARRIED
Australian-Born Actress Who Played Role In London
The engagement of Miss Card Coombe, the actress, was announced last month.
She is shortly to marry Mr. Ronaid Armstrong-Jones, only son of Sir Robert "Armstrong- Jones and Lady Armstrong- Jours, of Plas Dinas. CaernTLET-
”“ ¢≠?! ...
in
Miss Coombe for some time played the leading roic "Lady Precious Stream."
She is the youngest daughter af Sir Thomas Coombe, an Aus- trellan theatrical megnate.
RUBBER-STAMPED HIS CLOTHES
Wife's "Credit Mania"
POLITICAL FAITH
SUMMARY OF
PRINCIPLES IN
Prize
SHORT FORM
Composition of 18 Years Ago
HAS REMAINED ‘BEST-SELLER' EVER SINCE
GIRL FINED £5
FOR MARRIAGE
LICENCE TRICK HAIG in the Home
Consent Of Mother
Not Obtained
IMPERSONATION OF PARENT
BY WOMAN FRIEND
A fine of £5 was imposed at East Ham recently on Grace Edith Laughton, aged 19, of Benson-
avenue, East Ham, who admitted
making a false representation when applying for a marriage li- cence.
to
Mr. B. G. Saywell, for the Direc- tor of Public Prosecutions, said: that on January 29, Laughton and Eighteen years ago William a woman named Goodchild went Tyler Page, Republican clerk of to the office of the superintendent the House of Representatives,ply for a marriage permit.
of marriages to give notice to ap
The was awarded $1,000 for compos-girl said she was under 21 and| ing the prize-winning "Ameri-Goodchild representing herself as can's Creed," setting forth in Laughton's mother, signed a state- 100 words the basic principles ment to the effect that she gave
her consent to the marriage. of American political faith."
The formalities were completed, The creed, at five cents a copy, but Laughton's mother went is still one of the Government the registrar and when her daugh-ļ Printing Office's "best-seller." Itter appeared for the marriage she has been memorised by millions was confronted by her mother,!
who declared she had not given and is recited in schools from
her consent to the marriage and Florida to Alaska. The Daughters that the signature on the official of the American Revolution and form was not hers. other patriotic societies have far- The woman Goodchild had since thered its distribution by obser-died. Mr. Saywell added that the offence ving April 3 each year as Ameri-jutmost penalty for the can's-Creed Day. Two hundred was seven years' penal servitude.
The girl merely said that her and fifty thousand copies of the creed were sent to the trenches mother had refused her consent to during the war, It has been put the marriage.
to music and has been done, in Braille for each blind institute in the country.
Mr. Page's aim was to obtain the briefest, pusgible summary of American political faith founded jupon fundamentals distinctive in American history and tradition. Approximately 3,000 creeds were! submitted.
A Student Of History
in
Mr. Page was well versed patriotic literature. For 20 years. previous to the time he wrote the creed, it had been his custom to
son to pay for his defence. He When William Scott, of Green-spend the Fourth of July each year has given concerts in many coun-wood-road, Plaistow, answered ain his library reading historical tries.
judgment summons at Bow coun-[documenta. From them he learn- His wife, Thelma Clarice Maty-court recently, it was pleaded ed pertinent lines which he put in]
was a native of Australia.that the debt concerned good supa form similar to that of the and under her maiden name. Thel-plied to his wife, who had a mania Apostles' creed ma Trott, often appeared on the for obtaining things on credit. Australian stage.
reo,
FILM EARTHQUAKE
INJURES STAR
Clark Gable Hurt In Studio Crash
Hollywood.
Clark Gable, the film star, was hurt recently in a film quake" in Hollywood.
The result was as follows:
Mr. Scott bad inserted a news- I believe in the United States paper notice disclaiming responsi-] of America as a government of bility for his wife's debts, and had the people, by the people, for (even rubber-stamped his clothing the people; whose just powers with his name and address and are derived from the consent of the words, Not to be sold or the governed, a democracy in a !pledged."
republic; a sovereign nation of He asked for a new trial on the many sovereign states; a per- ground that he had forbidden his feet union, one and inseparable; wife to pledge his credit. Judge established upon those princi- Owen Thompson, KC, granted a ples of freedom, equality, jus new trial.
tice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed "their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.
earth BODY DISCOVERED
He had to be dug out of the de- bria of a wall that collapsed in the film "San Francisco." He was "Sometimes I think that where taken to hospital to be treated a situation is so tense, so electric, for shock, bruises and cuts. our perceptiona are sharpened, It was an 18ft structure made
and we see things we have missed. of wooden bricks that fell on and;
IN VAT OF ACID
Lyons Police Making
Investigations
Paris.
"The American's Creed," Mr. Page says, "is not to be inter- preted in a provincial or selfsh Lyons police have tentatively spirit, just as there is nothing Leven think I came to understand actors, portraying workmen, land-identified as me. Gilbert the wo provincial or narrow about the
ed on the heap on top of him.
I got to know those three men, and completely buried him, while some
them.
RUN OVER BUT UNHURT
man whose nude body was found principles of our republican form in a vat of sulphuric acid in a of government. The successful de- small local factory récently. Her velopment of these principles has clothes were discovered in a cel- proved 20 induence for good
throughout the whole world.”
123.
"Do you know what George Mc- Gee, who talked to me all that aw- ful night when I was chained to the wall, said? We were talking about various dance-halls, and I
A railway inspector, who was The police are questioning a was asking him whether he went knocked down by a shunting en-man who worked at the factory to them. He said:
Bournemouth gine at
Central who is suspected of having met "Mary. I don't like to go them
station goods yard last month, lay her during the night, killed cheap dance-halls. If I can't go between the rails while the engine and then taken her to the factory, to a nice party I don't want to go passed over him, then got up and of which he had a key.
to any."
RARE COINS STOLEN
Case With 33,000
Trenton
--who
into
[continued his work.
tests his innocence.
Doctors To Drop}]
her
He pro
"DECREE NIST” FOR WIFE
Bernard Carslake Divorced
WES
A Decree nisi with costs granted by Mr. Justice Buckni in the Divorce Court last month
From The Skies to Mrs. Annie Carslake, of Curzon-
street, W., because of the miscop- Clues
Moscow. The first “parachute a leap, wearing gas masks and duct of her husband, Bernarti expres aquad," consisting of 20jcarrying bags with full emergency Caralake, the jockey. The sult physicians, surgeons and, nurses, equipment.
was not 'defended. (NJ)—New Jersey
It is expected that many of the Mr. and Mrs. Caralake. were -detectives, working on a robbery has been formed by the Soviet case, have 33,000 clues to aid them. Red Cross unit of Moscow. Mem-medical profession in other cen-married in November, 1907. There
Thieves,
broke
bers of the squad will drop by par-tres will follow the Moscow
were no children. achute to render emergency aid in ample.
Mrs. Caralake's case was that a slaughter-house here, stole a
Military authorities attach in 1930 her husband told her hel leather bag containing 33,000 Isolated communities where an
great significance to the services had been unfaithful to her. There American "Indian Head" pennies aeroplane landing is impossible.
which such squads could render were quarrels, and a separation from the owners, three brothers
Physicians and nurses have un-in wartime.
deed was entered into in June, Couse of in time of peace these "angels 1931. Last year she received ed them as a hobby. A few hundr-dergone an intensive ed pounds in cash was also stoler. training in parachute jumping at from Heaven" will undoubtedly be some information about her has
of band and had him watched. The pennies are comparatively the Moscow airport, each having used to combat the practices
# the performed
miniran of five) medicine men and witch doctors rare since the adoption of
Misconduct was alleged to have
Lincoln Head
and the jumps. The finishing touch to in Russia's backward communi-been committed by Mr. Caralake penny,
at Higherdrive, Banstead. police hope to make an early arrest. their training course consisted of tips.
named Feldman, who had collect-
LARGE REVENUE SURPLUS
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Increased Yield Of Income Tax And Death Duties
Capetown: South Africa's sur- for the financial plus revenue year 1933-36 amounted to £3,- 505,000. Replying to a question raised in the House of Assembly recently, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Eavenga, revealed that the final revenue figures were $650,- 000 higher than the originally estimated surplus of £3,055,000.
Income-tax and death duties were mainly responsible for this increase, which is to be paid into the sinking fund for debt re- demption.
CHILDREN IN ACCIDENTS
Eight-Year-Old Girl Shot Dead
Berlin
An eleven-year-old boy in Soest pointed a maniature rifle in fun at an eight-year-old girl and fired. The girl was shot dead.
While boys in Haltern were playing with bows and arrows one youth was struck in the eye with an arrow, losing his sight.
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