THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.
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GIRL WITH HER GUY AND GOB-Lucille Ball with her two sweethearts-Edmund O'Bilen as the guy and George Mur- phy as the gob-romps through a dizzy succession of lusty com. ody situations, leaded with high-explosive gags and wisecracks, It's the a l-out laugh show-the In "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob."
famed fun-star Harold Lloyd. first produced for RKO Radio by
Now at the King's
R.S.M.'S STORY OF ROBBERY BY A MAJOR
ALLEGATIONS THAT AN Army major had assaulted him, seized hold of him by the throat as he lay on the floor and extracted £2 from his wallet were made by a former regimental quarter-master- sergeant at a general court-martial held at Leeds.
The witness stated this after confessing he had shared in the proceeds of an alleged fraud with the major.
The case was that in which ments, the amount involved being Major John Vernon Gibson, 47,|400ut £400. Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
commanding officer of a technical "Twisting All Round" training group, appeared to ans- wer to forty-six charges, includ- ing conspiracy, embezzlement for- gery and ultering forged docu-
LASH TO "REDEEM HONOUR"
In calling for Regimental H. B. Quartermaster-Sergeant Wright to give evidence, Captain M. H. Rogers, prosecuting, said:
FAKED AGE TO JOIN UP
Gaoled
A man who joined up in the last war by giving his age as 19 when he was really 14, wanted to serve in this war too.
But as the result of giving his wrong age last time, his Army papers showed that he was too old to serve in the present war.
So it was alleged at Malden. head Police Court-he stole a blank birth certificate and fill. ed it up himself with the Idea of getting in the Army again. And the result was a prison
sentence.
The man was Danely Ralph Millner, fancy goods manufac- turer. of Eastfield, Furze Platt, Maidenhead. He was sentenced to a month's hard labour for stop)- ing a blank certificate. And io fourteen days for misleading the Army authorities.
was stated that Milner is
a married man with six chil- dren.
Mr. E. C. Jones, prosecuting. said that
Milner went to
the
Hampstead registrar's offic".
the registrar's
and when
was turned took a blank
out of the book.
Keen To Join
back
form
The form, said Mr. Jones, was used by Milner in an attempt to get a commission in the Army, and gave his age as 41, whercas he was 47. In
a etatement to the police Milner said: "I was desperately keen on joining the Army, and was asked to produce my birth certificate. I filled it up from memory, and from particulars on my marriage certificate."
He told the Court that a clerk in the registrar's office gave him the blank form, but he would not disclose the clerk's name. In the last war, he said, he joined up when he was fourteen, giving his age as 19.
When sentenced, Milner said he would appeil.
ONLY ONE
ARM BUT
"He has already been dealt with HE DODGED
for his connection with these crimes."
expenses
THE NAZIS
Wright described alleged frauds commit'ed in connection with travelling
A British officer whoi of members of the training group, and also
lost an arm and was relating to a deduction of 15. monthly from the men's pay for taken prisoner at Dun- barracks damages and amenities. kirk has escaped from his
Wright said that the proflis from these frauds went regularly into Major Gibson's pocket. and that in August last he told Gibson For forty-five minutes that members of the staff were the monthly nay and
two pretty girls merciless-complaining about
their deduction from
Nazi captors.
an-
This was revealed by the nouncement that Lleutenant J. M. Langley, M.C., has been awarded the O.B.E. Lieutenant Langley is the son of Mr. F. O. Langley, magistrate at Old Street Police ly lashed with a cat-o'- saying they did not benefit.
Court.
the nine-tails the bare body
He won his M.C. during Major Gibson said Wright be-
rearguard action fought by the of Max Caldwell, prom-came angry but promised to hand inent university athlete, him a third share of the profits Coldstream Guards on the banks
derived from fraud for the staff.
"as redemption of hon- He only handed over a quarter
our."
This happened at Camdenton, Missouri, Standing near, urging|
lash hard, stood Dr. them to Robert Murrell, flance of Hilda Rhodes, one of the girls whom Caldwell is alleged to, have be- trayed during a gay party a year
ago.
of the August profits.
"I pointed out to him," gald Wright, "that he was not shar- ing according to his promise and that now he was oven twisting all the way round. The major was very annoyed with me." "Chased Round Desk"
Wright spid that on another When Murrell proposed' the occasion, out of about £100 profit £33 fos. Bd. other day to blonde Hilda, she, he himself retained whispered to him the story of Tor himself and the staff; the betrayal.
“Then before I marry, you ! want you to avenge yourself," Murrell told hør,
"Pull Off Your Shirt!! ·
So the other day Murreil in- vited Caldwell to his home. "Pull off your shirt and lie on the floor,' Murrell ordered him.
When he handed over the balance of £67 10s, to the major, Gibson said he wanted all the money. Pu
Major Gibson then assaulted me," continued Wright. "He rose from his desk and cut off my retreat for the duor. He chased me, round the desk two or three times.en
of the Yser Canal during the Dun- kirk evacuation,
El While ho WAS ope ating
cot- from a Belgian Bren gun tage, a shell burst and wounded him. Only the immediat am- putation of his left arm could save his life, and this was done. Lieutenant Lang'ey was unable to wade through the water to the waiting ships off Dunkirk and had to be left at a casualty station. with other wounded men. With them he was captured by the Ger- matis.
M.P'S APOLOGY TO
THE ASTORS
Mr. Leach (Soc., Bradford Central), in Parliament made a personal apology to the Astor family, for a statement he made about the Astor: gardens at caught
"my knee against Cliveden.. chair end, fell to the floor. This statement, he said, was The major then. not on top of based on the Press interview me, and took me by the throat given by the head gardener, Mr. There was a struggts. had Young, who was reported to the wind up."
have said there, were fifteen gar- Captain Rogers: How did you deners under him, and they did not intend to grow for the country.
"Hilda and her close friend Aldy then Keith, entered the room: Mürrell handed the cat-o'-nine- tails to Hilda, and she lashed Caldwell until she was exhausted. Ket away? Then on Murrell's orders Aldy-Wright: I think he realised, he then continued the lashing.
All three were arrested, Cald- well denied having: hetrayed Miss Rho
had done something very drastle He took my wallet out of my pocket. There was only £2 in 't. He took it and throw away the wallet.
Mr. Leach sold a question; hó addressed to the Minister of Agriculture did not go beyond any of tlie statements in the in terview.
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