POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Imogen, dear, I'm afruit you've still not quite grasped what we mean by "Current
Affairs
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
SO THE SNORER AWAKES
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953.
Beginning a new one-week serial that will startle you
I know the
T
master-spy
UE condemned cell at Fentonville Prison has two- doors. They are so familiar to me that if you locked me in at night, turned out the light, and spun me round just to con. fuse me, I should still walk without hesitation to the right one-the door leading back into the prison proper, and not the one
through which the warders take their charge to the gallows at nine o'clock on the appointed morning.
That's why a man about to die said
THEY CAN'T
HANG ME!
and told the police to hurry
along to the flat.
When they got there Yvelle
Saunders was lying across her
divan bed in
Pitt was attempting in an effort to save his meelt,
But when the message * came at lunchtime, It jolted me. Robert Pitt ceused, from that moment, to be just another tired business man whe hat become rough Sud- with sell sweetir. tlenly he was vital to me, to security, and to Britain.
was a note written in just the right way to arouse the interest of my department,
They are planning to hang me state hardly next Saturday for murder, and suitable for the reception of I am not tooking forward to it." visitors. She was unclothed; she said the letter from Pitt. "I did and was dead; and even an in- not kill Yvette Saunders experienced policeman could I am innocent of what happened tell by the look of her that she that night.
been given
dose of "T WAHIL your help to get me had
lychnine,
Pitt was the fast kind of man
Catal of here. Why should you Robert Isaac Pitt was caught do it? Because, inspector, I can trying to escape by climbing tell you who Leonidos is--1
we iwa
know, don't we, that out of the bathroom window. He was taken to the station. ques Leonidos holds the security of
some hours, tioned for
and the Western World in his (or charged just before dawn with is it her?) hands. SAVE MY LIFE and I will betray Leon- Yvelte Saunders's murder.
Ides and perhaps save England, tes I sound like the melo drantle note of a man on the verge of insanity? certainly does. But I have come to know, through my work, that all people who meddle in inter national espionage dramatic neurotica. *
I still can't make up my mind which door Robert Pitt is going to pass through at the end of the week.
Will he
njury, bang-as Judge, and Court of Appeal has said he must? Or will he, for the of Arst time in the history British Justice, be a condemned killer rich enough in Vital in- DEP off
your back
formation to buy his life from
you would expect to find mixed you are asleep the State? when
Fentonville up in Soho love-nest murder. I went to that is the position Wher
was a high official in the the this morning I was responding, He that usually produces
don't
mind admitting. to Civil Service, and had a loving in most rip-snorting snores,
than A nothing more
Casual wife with whom he lived Bunch.
Six days of the I know Oh yes,
week he spent with her,
was rc- garded as a pillar of rosity in the But he
So
many
"cruelty" divorces have been grant the condemned cell
ed to
American women at married to snoring
Fentonville, But men the men I have help. ed to put iño it-
that no, fewer than 300 the individuals store-prevention gadgets have
have been invented,
is for instance:
delivered into hands There the
Surrey,
the
.
- have hangma never been ordinary,
The snore ball, a rubber straightforward mur-
squeaker fastened to
back
jacket.
ہیں
the
derers like Robert Pitt.
the pyjama
If you roll on to
your back.
They were spies whom asd traitors
the squeaker my colleagues and I
wakes you up), ...
caught during the war as they tried to
only
sa
every
and
Friday
stayed in town-tu work late, he toki wife. Actually
inanzier
I know.
was
namic
melo-
that mude me begin to revise any opinions about him,
"I don't like it here," he said. "These เพอ oats Who spend and every moment of the day
They keep re- though they don't night with me. mindlag ne, be hanged. I want you to put an say it, that I am, scheduled To end to all this nonsense.
Illustrations by
ROBB
In all things...
"And I warn you, inspector, this is a time in history when Leonidos must be caught before he turns over the really vital information for which your enemies are waiting. I will sell his identity to you, in return for my release from this cell." He gestured for me rough the door leading back Into the prison. "Don't delay necessarily either, inspector, As far as I am concerned, lime it becoming somewhat pressing."
a
to 10
sald one
"I can provide you with proot that, for the past nine years, while I have been both in the Army and in the Civil Service, I have are
iuteri netlog as a go- between in a ring of ogents pass- I walked out of the prison ing Western secrets into Eastern
gate into the damp, almost Europe. One of the chlof pro- empty streets. My mind was in NONE the less should have viders of the vital information I
torment. At the corner N thrown Pitt's message into have had handle is Leonidos,
bought a Sunday newspaper, "I could lead you to him and wandered on until I sighted the wasto basket hnd it not been
one word, tonight, it would be a good time a taxi, and set off back to Scut- for the mention of
to catch him. Just before he and Yard. "PITT, MAN FROM LEONIDOS!
Like Alck (wlo Nunn delivers the latest
alom secrets MINISTRY, TO HANG FOR he spent the night
Max and Jultus (who was to the enemy." with Yvette Saun-
BLONDE KILLING," I said: "What's the price?" Rosenberg] the ders
"Get me out of here," he said. headline. "DOES RUSSIA AVE hardly ศ keeping cropped up in scores of confes-
"You're a convicted murderer. IYDROGEN BOMB SECRET?"
asked another, the traditions-siona or intercepted messages The Jaw says you will hang.
on the opposite with
Only from spies.
can't make any bargains with side of the page. been silenced-but you." Julius have been
I was the only man In the Leonidos goes on....
"Let's not talk about the law,"
world,
who at that momeni, Although not more
than a rald Pit. "I should never have could appreciate how closely two different headlines dozen people know it, a man for been put here in the first place. those
Inter- interlinked-and were perhaps a woman) known to the I didn't kill Yvette. It was all a the code-name of stupid bungle. Get me out of enemy under
and I say,
Jet's have twined with our own destiny. enough of this nonsense, Other-
MONDAY: Leonidos threatens the security here,
Leonidos Is--this we know wise the identity of Leonidos of our world.
follow the trail of Yvette highly placed scientist or remains a secret. amcial closely in touch with developments in atom bomb war-
of his office.
Saunders Yvelie
whose Was a yiri background can be suffl- summed up clently by saying that she
was born in Bor- deaux, married a British seaman in Gibraltar, and came to London on her own in 1049.
The wrist binder, a leap secrets out of us behalf of the ther thong which keeps on
The to a bed-enemy. ane arm locked
other tire post.
so that you cumot Fentonville in
peace-time was turn on your back,
when I came to say goodbye to William Joyce just before they
Yvette differed from the other The gum shield, a spring- executed his for his warthine
girls on the Metropolitan Police Jonded plastic gadget which work for the Nazis. provents
breathing My name is Ralph Brown and books, however, in that she was an Intelligence officer only once. convicted of lollering through your mouth, yet attached to the Specini Branch on the streets.
Thereafter she confined herself enables you to relax your at Scotland Yard. My job is
to her Soho flat-where she had tu catchi jaws,
saboteurs, but mostly to prevent several other regular visitors
our security besides Robert Plit. secrets vital to reaching that part of the world would do us least where they
I'
you
The neck stretcher,
snoring.
L
metal
good.
good.
LTTA
spend-my-day
ut
10
spies
THE
*
TIEN, suddenly She was mur
dered. Pitt swore in dock that he did not kill her. But when he was asked who did, he shrugged his shoulders.
The case against him overwhelming
WDS
11
fare.
hus
i
Alcit and
We know that, systematically, Leonidos has been milking the Western world of its secrets-
enemy, file by file, formula by smuggling them out othe formula, method by method, in- gredient by Ingredient.
It is a leakage that diabolic- ally effective. We know that Leonidas is the agent who is sending the secrets out. But who is Leonidos? And how la he (or she) getting ther
them through our
security barrier? Was I going to get the answer So he was found guilty and to our mas desperate security!
to death.
It seemed problem from, of all people, a on open-and-shut ease of a man condemned murderer awaiting whose scandalous private life execution for a love-killing in
Fentonville Gaol? got loo much for him.
We
were surprised at Scotland Yard when he appealed, and not turned down.
collur which holds the neck and rigid, upper part of the chest (This is the "last resort" gadget.) WHY YOU SNORE
secret reports from our agents. BRITAIN about 1,500,000
today And yet suddenly marriages
menaced nothing that those reports tell are every night by saoring. Doctors me measures up to what I have limate that 12 out of every 100 been told by a man in the con-
Fentonville peuple make Efe miserable for demned cell
streplug partners common, straightforward mur- serienced
by
derer waiting to be hanged not or political for high treason What causes the trouble? assassination, but for the sordid crime of killing his blonde mis-- Soft tissue at the back of the tres the moment she began to palate forms a vibrating tube be difficult.... if it comes into close contact If you read your newspapers with the throat Üssues,
Usts morning you won't need me Audiometer readings of full-to tell you that the Home Serre- throated snores show that theytary has refused a reprieve to produce as much loca; noise as R. 1. Pitt. His appeal has already up the been summarily dismissed by
the Court of Criminal Appeal.
heavy truck racing street in low gear.
and
Excessive - smoking drinking are believed to swell
Until
I ever anyone
TE was playing cards with his
Band pitt looked every inchl
surprised when his plea was HE worders when I was shown seemed like material for the Into the condemned cell, but allows, Robert Isaac Plit was though they sprang to their feet the man.
he stayed sealed, calmly studying morning. this
This his morning a messenger came by motor cycle from Fentonville typleal elvil servant of the well-groomed, and delivered a letter from the higher grade: governor. "We have a man here amiably at ease in spite of the nged nature of his surroundings, no named Pitt who will be hanged next Saturday for murder," sald sign on his face that he was "He hus asked aware of the desperate gravity of message.
He looked more permission to send a message to his position. you. It may just be one of those like u man issuing licences than tricks that
man in extremity a murderer fighting to escape the 11 was a sordid enve with tries on but somehow I really hangman.
We shook hands gravely and saucy trimmings, as you no doubt do think he has some important remember. The selling was a Information to impart. Do you smatt-lelked until the assistant- top-back dat in Soho, just behind want to see the message? governor got the warders out Shaftesbury Avenue.
I told the Sunday-duty seere of the cell.
The moment they were gono At 11 o'clock one night, in tory to send for the message
and waited for it to come, won- Plit swung round on me and It is for such difficult cases the week before Christmas, a
there was suddenly a quality In that the metal collar is pre- mysterious somebody. who has dering idly (and not very ex- scribed.
not since been traced, dialled pectantly) what sort of bluff his eyes, a harsh, angry glint,
the soft palate and so encoura dancer named Yvette Saun-
snoring. But a chronte infection or a bone deformity in the Jose can also cause it.
But aften no physical
cause
of the affiction can be detected.
The bleary eyes of the long- suffering belinate are the only ellaleal symptoms,
OR 'poisoning a 24-year-old ders, Pitt is scheduled to die on the gallows on Saturday.
DOUBLE-JOB
DR ALLEN,
IDA
to
the
WIVES
(55 per cent) are married.
GET RAPPED
Dr
!
Rnd to work, Now York, them-go out
But hers is not the only volce wasted through the payment of number on the topic.
substitutes for mothering, such as BAILEY more than half that
American opinion hon been private schools, servants If avail- ง plump, Saya De Allen: "Few women shocked by recent FBI figures able, the hurried buying of high- double job of which showed that teen-age priced foods that can be quickly briek. twice widowed are equal to the grandmother in her sixties, home-making and a career. One drinking and drug-taking have preporest, the discarding of cloth- of the jobs has to suffer usually soared in the past two years. ing that would otherwise be has been a household name the home. The working job is
"To a large extent prevent mended." of considered the more important two
Allen. able," generations
comments
Dr Allen believes that girls... because it brings in money,” ́ "when the woman of the home and boys, too-should be taught Americans.
Now she is campaigning to Dr Allen (the doctorate, accepts and carrick out her the domestic skills.
chosen profession of wife and
daughter to "I taught my ago by A stop the cxodus of married awarded two years women from the homo into Brookline,' Mass., clocution mother the biggest job of any."
The American home, Dr. Allen cook before she was 12," the business and industry. Wives college is for "oratory") might who work she says, are large- be considered to have a vested says, "represents the highest ys, The cider of my two ly responsible for the nation's interest. In home-making. standard of living in the world, grand-children is only Unice, but
hat is the root of plenty scrub and boil potatbes.
already she can scramble · eggs, mounting divorce rate, and for
And that She has recently published her of trouble, in her view. For Dr Allen thinks highly of the the sharp increase in teen-aga. 400L book on cocidng and thousands of wives go out
"Double-job home-makers" dietelles; she is the author of a world, not because their husbands British way of school life In are undermining the security of syndicated cookery column with
a readership of 35 million daily cannot afford to keep the home America," she says, "our betool millions of homes each year, and she lias Thado, more than going, but Becatube the family airis ate so sophisticated that they must be taught hamberoft she told a recent Washington 6,000 broadcasts on domestle walit much more than they can before Uley enter their tempo gathering of the National Hadio subjects."
afford. The high cost of want Aften that they are Hote Inter- ing" Dr Allen colls it, Home-makers Club, of which she is founder and proaldent., She told me that she had made "The morje rded by the filed in dates than in "goness
One-tiled of all the women a million dollars from these double-bhohe makes mal de in the United States that activities and spent Them, poured into the family banking
Evelyn Irons account," she says, "I largely means nearly 20 million of too."
crime.
7:
A letter
from Brazil*
"Mhave worn it constantly ever since,
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