Ending LEONARD MOSLEY'S version of "SEVEN BRIDES
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1955.
FOR
SEVEN BROTHERS'
The seven wild Pontipes brothers live together ons tonely farm in Oregon, U.S.” Adam marries Milly Brown, then his. brothers "kidnap” six girls from the town; but an avalanche' cuts them off on the farm for the winter before they can marTY.
Comes spring, and Adam "decides the girls must go back. Now Milly concludes the story.
M
the
But still the girls screamed
Ybrothers-in-law You've got to go.. It's heard about Adam's only way," the brothers said. decision to take back the girls, and held a meet- ing. "We're not going to let you do it, Adam," they They're our girls said.
now,"
and protested, so that the boy had to grab hald of them and say them, kicking and shout ing, to the wagon.
It was just at the height of the hullabaloo, with all the girls scratching and tearing at
Liza, one of the girls, forward. “What are you going to do with him?" Shouted one of the townsfolk: "We're going to hang him with the rest!”
All the Pontipee brothers had now been lined up, and the Reverend Mr Elcott held up
his hand.
we
"Just a minuta. Before start the executions, there's one baby did I hear crying?" thing we've got to know. Whose
the
There was a silence as girls looked at each other, and
could see the same idea
dawning an all their faces.
were
They
at
He pushed them angrily the boys, that the parents from back. "What do I have to the town, guns ready, crept into
sense into view of the farmhouse, do-beat some
Don't razed horrified at the scene. your dumb heads?
The Reverend . Mr Elcott, you know taking them back is the only way you're going among the leaders, said a swift The whole Prayer: "After all these months to get them?
those brutish men are still town's coming up here attacking our poor girls! for such is Nothing, is too bad and you'll fight them,
monsters. Men, get your guns!" that it?.
"And who'll you the fighting The girls' kinfolks! And say someone gets hurt, a father or a brother, maybe? Think the.. girl will marry you after that?"
One by one they strode over to Adam and shook his hand You're right. We'll send them back. We'll go and get them for you now," they said.
DUT when they searched the B kitchen for the girls they were not there. Nor in the yard either. Nor in the barn Only when they went into the cow- shed and the chickenhouse and the woodshed
sild
they and them, hiding away.
"We don't want to go back!" they were screaming. "We want to stay here with you".
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Just at that moment, from inside the house, my baby be gan to cry. The Reverend Mr "Oh, Elcott's face went white. no," he said. "Oh no, not that too!
They loaded up their guns and prepared to move in.
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The boys *Nere so busy chasing
after the girls, and carrying them to the waJONI,
back ready to take them their parents in the town, that they did not notice that the
to
parents were already here-and thirsting for vengeance.
my
How were they to guess that the girls were fighting - not to get
from away
brutal brothers-in-law, but because they didn't want to go home..
But the Reverend Mr Elcott and
the other
and fathers brothers fell upon the Pontipee brothers with murder in their
hearts...
The boys never had a chance. The parents flung themselves upon them and tore them' sway.
All of a sudden, all the girls smilling Anch almost firstly altogether, they looked
the pinioned Pentipee boys and then at the Reverend Mr Elcott.
"Mine!" they said All of them.
WELL, as I said, Oregon In VY 1880 knows what to do when the voice of a "baby is heard and a girl admits owning "it. Ours was the State that
invented shotgun weddings..
Which is how a mass wed- ding took place on our farm. that spring afternoon, and how
brothers-in-law Ty six
gavd help me six sisters-in-law to me around the house.
It had all started as so many
the marriages do, with
Ten deceiving the women....
But that spring, at the height of the marriage feast, you could see how well it had turned out.
What Lies men will tell, andi what tricks they'll try, to get you to the altar, won't they? But you don't have to worry- always providing, of course, you've got a few female tricks up your aleeve yourself!
THE END
PEEVED OVER
SOME
PIPING
of the officers af raft carrier
Malta.
in the
are a little ok-coleur just now.
No. the rea is calm. The
trouble goes further than that to Mr JPL Thomas, First Lord
of the Admiralty,
officer visiting ·
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for conversation... white for
*Whatever gives you the idea. that The Churchill. Covernment will end with Winston's retirement ?....With the nine A members of his family already in the Ministry.
reinforced by Two more to keep out outsiders, There is every prospect that the property will remain in the
family. The only chap that needs a bullet-proof
vest in that serup is
DANES
DEN
HOME
The foreigner Rab Buller....
'THE MORE IT CHANGES
SPEN
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"DON IDDON'S CHICAGO DIARY RECORDS
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CASE
OF MURDER
Chicago, Tuesday. LMOST every time I visit Chicagu there is an election 'hulla- baloo blowing across. America's second city. The current campaign is for the- office of Mayor, and Chicagoans tell me that it is the biggest knock-down and drag-out fight since Big Bill Thompson threatened bodily, violence on a British king.
Big,
bold, lusty
Chicago keeps its
lawless
reputation
in
cor-.
more new CATS, have seen bright-coloured 1955 models, on the streets than in New York.
There is an enormous sign On Michigan Boulevard which reads: "This is the magnificent mile. It is lined with the most beautiful buildings and the finest and most luxurious shops in the world."
...
ANOTHER MOSCOW
MISSION
By David Anderson
Vienna.
NEXT week, a short,
thick-set moustached man will step on a plane for Moscow.
It will be one of the greșt days of his life.
But, unless some whim
fate turns his personality inside mat.
Julius Raaby will contriva to look, like a moderately pros
businessman perous
of
to sell s carded of nuts and bits.
"At 63, Raab is the
e unquestion ed top man in Austrian politics. But he is not impressed. Aus tria is still a country swarming with occupation troops, a coun try with the Iron Curtain runs
ning through,
te
વ
The Curtain is little thin The nowadays usually co-operative, sometimes even helpful.
le only because Raah, tha compromiser, has ma-
smooth
to convince them that Sration pays. "But the Russians are still there. Lea things get tough betwee
East
and West, and Rab
well that Austria will feel 18.
So he is on to Moscow.
But this will be something much tougher than getting policemen to behave themselves, or improving freedom of move- ment from one part of
the coun try to the other.
The Russians would rejoice the chance to dicker a treaty with Raab behind, the West's back...
A lesser man might have let them think in advance that they could get away with 1 Raab has told them flatly: "You are not going to sell me a bill of goods. Nothing will be dem. cided without consultation, with the Western Powers."
Nevertheless, Raab thinks be will get his way.
..t he does, he will do it un his usual quiet, fashiom
Madison is the most infamous | K
all
ta
army
that
The son and the grandson of master builders, he still looks like a man who is and acts content to tako bis time, tun out a lasting workmanlike job
and produce a spand busines * proposition at the same time.
to the Rus explain sians that they haven't much to gain by holding on For 24 years the Demo- pletely corrupt city
But Chicago has some Austria, that the occupation ugly slums and scars. Un-Icas
costs nDey. and the only pro The headlines hit me like crats have ruled Chicago. America."
It saddens me to hear able to sleep, I got up early paganda left in the occupation a hammer when I first Presidential candidates have
walked down West is to be had by agreeing to a deal which will be acceptable From FRANK GOLDSWORTHY
arrived. One said: "Merriam been picked here by the such harsh things said about and Charges 700 Unsolved Gang- overlords who have run the one of my favourite cities. Madison and North Clark to the Western Powers.
This is a big, bold, vital streets around, eight o'clock Quite possibly he will wil
habit of winning. Why, they say, how could the land Murders.". I thought Democratic machine.,
Merriam's opponent is town, lusty and full of life, in the morning. I was He has a
He first went into politics tong Centaur pick out his opposite: number read 70, but 700 it is over, Richard Daley, an experi- and I do not want it libelled. stopped four times in two 1927 as a right wing conserva->
a strange ship the 700 perhaps should have
tive. In the chaotic thirties be and establish a common ground the years, and so hardly a enced Democratic Party But there is no doubt that blocks by down-and-outs.
joined Prince Starherberg's politician, who lacks the its politics have been
The derelicts seem to drift Heimwehr, **
privatleas rupt.
to this city. Here on West which looked for a apply and secretariat, maroon slight case of murder. for engineering, green for Merriam (his first name electricity of Merriam, electrical, blue for instructor? is Robert) is practically a
There is a gangster group shid Row in the New World though it might
could, preserve public order in Now only medical officers are unique character in Chicago
which
tenements, decaying Syndicate," to keep their scarlet (for doche is an honest alderman
runs rotting
threat of Hitler, and the possi shopė, dirt, and everywhere the Word has reached here of tors) and orange (for dentists) and has served the city
been hotels, restaurants, bars, ugly face of despair.
of a Communist uprising Mr Tacmas's decision to take piping-because
the Heimwehr began they must be
speaking at away the coloured cloth special distinguished as non-combatants well, pressing for housing MERRIAM has
to look as though, it was going street night clubs, gambling halls, where some of and call-girl rings under the Geneva Convention. projects (slums are one of
Thriving theatre
Fascist he quit and became Chicago's greatest prob." corners
Miniser of Trade and Trans-
Th Schusaigg's govern resistance among the specialists
Will there be secret, passive lems) and crusading against Chicago's killings took place. scarcely any interference:
"I blame a corrupt and from the law.
CHICAGO today · is silli in the 20,330-ton Centaur? the tie-up between politics.
CHICAGO Democratic There is a good chance if de open town and night Filler toypied Schuseier, and and crime which plagues arrogant
went to work as technical I doubt it.. though one
machine for the city's 700 Merriam is elected he has life is sassy and bold as in Chicago.
engineer for a Vienna road- Most officers read into it commander did reflect today as
Now Merriam is running unsolved gangland murders," the powerful dupport of the any city have ever visited.
Although Chicago is less than building company which quiet plan to provide corps of all he ran his fingers over the
who be white wardroom signpost on his for Mayor on the Republican he says. "These slayings Bible of the Mid-West, the hair the size of New York it has by made a speciality of giving purpose officers
to arad-Nazis, On refugs ticket. He is backed by the have given Chicago a world- Chicago Tribune, that at almost as many night clubs, and employed in any department.
And it impresses them not
"Orders are that, the cloth official Republican Party, and wide reputation for law last reform will come to there seems to be a bar when on could easily get at all. I haven't found one
omitted from new the job he seeks is so im- lessness, and I pledge my Chicago. supporter.
self to clean up that
The city looks well. reputation.".
He also says: "Chicago is is jammed and prosperous, unique. It is the only com- husky and swaggering;
E fact.
officers wear between the gold on their sleeves.
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sleeve:
must be
nationally suits but can stay on existing portant
that uniforms.
President Eisenhower is ex This one is pretty new, I think it will appear to last a pected personally to endorse surprisingly, long time.... Bob Merriam.
Clean-up pledge
here known merely as "The one cheap saloon after another, the face of depression, the
WHEN THE WOMAN PROFESSOR
WENT
TO
THE day Professor Bar-
WHIPSNADE
By TREVOR EVANS
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in Dear Charles Debejah
„Kerr in Tealand Syripathy,"
enough
Ve
thrives also, and this secret politics he could at least Talulah Bankhead is appearing building.
and Celeste Holm is singingat
the Palmer House
Road Te
"I am fascinated and so istal cullat Hitler. He was eight. Chicago by a great battle ndj
After the war, he' emerged is being wayed between 31-year parliamentary chairman of the old Sewell Avery, chairman of
Ausician. People's Party. Bx Montgomery Ward and
Coun
years in opposition gave him a parry, a $720,000,000.
pretty! shrew ita of what the empire and mal orders house, fem was sod, a 1933 whch be and Louis Wolfson ป tough,
Took over trop focialist Chan- shrewd financier who at 43 has celice Fig), be weirendy, to swing
multimillion-ho action acqmulated - a dožjam fptune,
Austria
business
Young Wolf on wants to control of Montgomery Ware from the old Avery
("You'll people to work here unless you bara Wootton, of Lon-
pay them more t
All this has very little to do dón University, went to
-Whitechapel what they earn, with economies or murals. It is Whipsnade Zoo and looked cept that it now took two found you can ask people in
elephants to equal one spend, and save, but not people merely a system where amath at an elephant started a
and-grab is dressed up to look
So far the old man refus series of researches which woman.
All this stimulated the
ed the in Mayfair.
respectable sud justifiable 50
to be shitte. By has taken, Wootton have ended in a book about
She thinks there is too much many things batle
MTV | of Montgomery Ward's mo reputable smash-and-grab" scientific curiosity of Mrs secrecy about salaries. It is not in her search for a more orderly well. He asks what we
dis- good enough to pretend that world For example, why some wie): $327,000,000 Wootton. She soon
and workers are
paid
more thắn covered plenty of contradic income is too sordid
materialistic a-matter to be a others for working and tions and inconsistencies.
being too cautious and
versation;
vinces why women are good on a deprondon.
Who will win the duel? My to sorry-pilos amoris nes suugh to states
guess in Wolfson. The same people who
to this pose are among the dist to but not drive London taxis; and
why Soccer players seen Moira Shearer's dancing, discuss the price of goods, rank below Rugby players in
fluctuations of stocks and the sume social hierarchy of Serious thoughts shares, betting," and the oppor- the sporting world.” tumities of making more money,
-her phrase for negotiated wage rises.
RARE REWARD.
At Whipsnade she die covered that the big e there was earning at rate of £600 a year from giving rides to children. That was before the war. It like a basket of straw so happened that Mra berries, is prized and re- Wootton was then earning warded for its own sake. about £600 a year,
But that sort of “un- After the war she found scheduled reward" is rare, that two elephants were There must be other reasons jointly earning £1,855, and why Jack gets more than the job which Mrs Wootton Joe, even if Joe deserves the used to do had been re bigger reward. graded and was now worth Of course, Mrs Wootton i got £1,850 Level pegging ex help from micial sources about wage rates. The country, bulge) -with" zuch" statistica,
Wyndham Street, Hong Kong & Salisbury Road, Kowloon The Social Foundations of
proper tople for polite coo~"London" fnstead of 448 in 1 bat?". when he is acdis
This business of catch-as càtch-can in the-race for higher wage is all very well. We tolerate it because it has been with us a long time.
But it depends, more
on to
MAIN PROPOSAL
Pro-
in Austria.
Job
ther
In the
to be felt elsew
sounding
The instapher – was
a Lítilis mixed, But it had its point, Racb has.1, never made a bigh tounding speech about the Russian
He bas dared to play an "un-" NHICAGO businessmen are -supported diplomatic game with {upset by the Senate inquiry the Russian bent, however, and into the stock market and be bear been succeed. Senator William Fulbright, the A few water tights, here, a But she eventually arrives at chairman of the investigating lifting of a barrier there, the her main proposal Give priority
is being called rude odd trade deal, and
agreement wage increases for those stor: Halfbright "loa
proced strength, than on common sense. Letting less than £8 veck The Senate probe, and the
-lice Taper on increases to those get Yalta papers have captured a together, they have made
£800 to.
£1,000. Get lot of attention here. ---It-- Auslela tolerable dor tougher will with those getting the Chicago Tribune – which, time "simbe the wa more than £2,500. Treze, those learning that the New York And," added together, they tting more, dum £5,000/ Times had got a copy of the have left the Hidans not much Mr Wookon's book is alte papers, forced the State to bicker over dething In Lact stimulating and agrumentative
complete the Post deal and get out
11 is also stir with reticence" myi Wade Wooe Folley (George Allen particularly among the
money! people! and Union, 150, net).
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