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"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.
HERE'S AN ANSWER
FOR B & K
WHATEVER
Krushchev
By JENNIFER JOHNS
Washington the individual by the due pro- Bulganin, cess of law-and the recognition of the peonte as the ultimate Ltd. may source of government," think (and they apparently Studying the above an aver- thousand immi- think plenty) about the age hundred horrors of life in these rants a year seem to like the United States, figures just given me by Commissioner Joseph M. Swing of
the
U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service tell
idea.
Happy Brides
14 remarkably different How happy are the GI brides
story.
these days? The answer in -according to statistics given me by the Red Cross and Eng- Intrigueal by the number ish Speaking Union here very
happy
indeed. So much so that of instances of Immigrants all but a few score of the 150,000 applying for American briden who arrived kere
I citizenship
Britain-in Mr mostly from
the Swing and asked him if he wake of the war, have now be- come so absorbed in the Ameri- could tel [14- more. Mr
can way of life that they even Swing not only could but, think American, in un understandable wave of enthusiasm, did.
rang
the wid
The comment of one English war bride on Long Island is, in fact, typical: "I'm so busy bring- It appears that, at this
bg up ♫ family and Any
bony living in the community that moment, more than 120,000 m-
I've almost forgotten how it all migranta
re prepariti for
larted!" Amorican on tara sa isa by
Truk citizenship
there have been attending
CHSB
that
schools Beadaches and heartaches 3,000
the bitter diallusionment. Even Draghout the city Tame Ara these insinnces, however, schools
classes Dr
ure or broken marriages have, more ELEKET
by the often than not, resulted in the equivalent of your local councils war bride staying on in America.
The in every Stole throughout country
Home Study
All of the above by way of introducing the fact that,
even
According to the US Depart- Public Health's chief ment of TB research doctor, only a small dose of INI (n pill the alzo of an aspirin tablet) once a week will be sufficient to give protee tion to
the group of people most likely
to contract TB namely, the "tuberpulin post- Lives."
Voice Energy
AST week I was privileged to be in at the birth of one of
develop-
the most remarkable ments of radio for many years. Briefly. I was introduced to a small radio transmitter powered electricity not by batteries or
o any other external source but merely by the voice of the person taking into it.
A unique system converts the vibrations of the volce into elec- trielly. Until now experts have doubted 1 energy from the of the natural sound waves human voler could ever be used
to power
A transmitter, such They based their pessimism on the fact that it would take al million people speaking at once to create enough energy to light a single 100-wait bulb.
messages
The voice transmitter gets round this problem, however. by a process of inagnification.
can Already the voice radio transmit
more than 600 fert with the operator speak- * 150,000 War brides hove
ng in normal tones. Which, I Allered into the American way
am told, is only
a beginning. life, still more peace brides The main thing being that the are setting foot on these shores idea works. for the rat time. In the last
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more than
have married American GI's Japanese girls in Japan believe than
and not more Belush 3,000
girls utr- marrying American
in stationed
Britain
HE function of the Hamnigra- THE
tion ลอร่ Naturalisation Service is as far as the schools are concerned, merely to furnish the namER of new minigrantg potential condidates for kud naturalhation. These manies and men
to the local Chery year. If the pace goes on 1 shuil
weldresses
Jare given
authority winch,
172 Tulama, send s
I seems like doing
generous
out invitations to the immigrants begin to think that an English wel- husband is something that any
giving them a
come to any citizenship classes girl will travel 3,000 miles they might care to attend.
Realising
imiru- thut many Kranla either live in districts remote from any organised schools or are unable to allend classes because of Illness or home responsibilities, 44 Slates provide facilities for horne atuty
Bearing Bulkanin, Krush- chev, olc. in mind i kusked Mr. Swing what they stualed und
DOWN WIS esear - cut
enough for anyone:
ke away from. I wonder?
New Chemical
1000
news In
to
The battle
against tuberculosis.
A chemical which may pre- vent this disease in persons who are "tuberculin pusliive" is being tested here by the United States Pubile Health Service.
110m
Translated. "tuberculin posi- five" means any patient whose skin becomes inflamed in "They study to gain a general sponse to a tiny dose of killing kikwledge of United States tuberculosis bacill, thus show- history and of the organisation Ing that the patient either has and principal functions of the aclave tuberculosis or has re- American Government, They covered from a TB infection. must acquaint themselves with The aim of the new chemical, the more important principles of called INI (sonlcoline oeld the Constitution including, of hydrazidel is quite simply course, the concepts of freedom prevent the dungerous spread of and equality, the protection of the discase in u patient.
to
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Seven Murderers Are Walking Free
Seven murderers are walking free. They have killed-and not been brought to justice. One of them may have sat next to you in the train or bus, or he may have shared a table with you -in a restaurant. He probably looked respectable, quietly dressed and, maybe, gentle of manner. Such might well be the description of "Mr
A," who killed with a nylon.. stocking, of "Mr B," who never left a clue, of "Mr C," who must have nerves of steel. This is the first of the fantastic stories of the Seven Men Who Are Getting Away With Mur- der-the silent crime of "Mr A," who killed in the quiet, highly respectable atmosphere of London's Onslow Square.
THE NYLON
STOCKING?
KILLER
FACT
NOT FICTION
T
The people in the fluts around. No. 59 heard nothing-noi even the closing of the heavy door,
Who was this silent killer of an amiable woman of 64 who
only
and # company sought little bright conversation to en- HE subdued lights hiven the loneliness of widow
And why was her life hood? in the elegant win cut off so brutally and merel- dows facing the essly in that swift tussle behind quiet square were the front door of No. 507 flicking out one by one. like languid eyelids closing for the night, when "Mr A." struck.
Television
programmex
"Mr A," the only person who could answer these questions, vanished among London's mil- lions while the unsuspecting residents of usiow Square slept
of pretty proud mother
The best police organisation in the world moved swiftly on to the tral of "Mr A.," murderer.
the
Black police cars nosed in be-
Where
do you
M
look for A and her husband, up to her flat. murderer when you have com- She enjoyed company. pleted the routine preliminaries?
Other people who had met It is a question of finding Mrs McGrath in the Gloucester the link. The link of enmity or Arms were ЛЕКСА questions cummon Interest, of jealousy, or about her, but none was able to even friendship and love.
identify the silent killer,
tween the limousines and coupes parked in Omlow Square. From behind net curtains curtous eyes watched
voices precise speculated about the extraor- dinary affairs at No. 59.
and
swiftly bind the front door, Was that MYSTERY WOMAN
Inside the closed and guarded
door walnut
police sketched in the pleture.
No
struggle,
CUMMING up his inquiry the Coroner told the inquest jury: "You have powers to name
were over, Sunday evening isturbed. And Mrs McGrath, right wrts, so trifling that they mit after a discussion over drinks the person you consider, on the
guests had departed,
Mrs
former
Q Rennie, and Margaret the well-to-do residents of Windmill Theatre show-girl and the square professional wife of famous film star Michael Rennie, lay where she had died and their families, awaiting her daughter. titled people and the like—– prepared to go to their com- fortable beds.
men
walnut
The next day, May 10, 1934, from home Mry Rennio flew Paris. She had been there on
Behind the heavy
12-day holiday with her hus- their 14-month-old band and front door of the ground floor
9011. As she lett for London her Bat at No. 50 "Mr A" stood husband boarded another
air- over Mrs Violet McGrath as she liner to fly to Hollywood.
lay dying on the expensive car- pet, her blue-tinted grey hair
the five Mounting
steps to
tousled round her once-pleasant, the imposing door of her £400- friendly face,
-year flat In Unsion Square that warm spring afternoon,
NOBODY IN SIGHT M kennie automationuy
noticed with 1 housewife's quick eye some disquieting de-
HER head rested against the tails.
polished base of A grand- father clock. Her distended eyes stared sightlessly at the electric lights blazing down from the candelabra suspended from the tall ceiling.
twisted und knolled soft, bruised flesh.
NO STRUGGLE
THREE
stood
full bottics of milic in the porch
lika
Her mouth gaped for the sir mute heralds of disaster. The which had been stopped in her cream-and-gold, curtains at the throat by the nylon
were still drawn, the stocking windows into the hull lights were burning.
Mrs Rennie was puzzled. Sho "Mr A" looked at his victim had agreed that in her absence with pitiless eyes, Then, silently, her mother should occupy her he opened the front door-that comfortable home while her own heavy, rich door which had de- flat in Paddington was being lighted so many tenants since it redecorated. It was unlike her was installed by its first proud fond mother not to have pre- Regency owner,
pared a welcome,
He opened the door only a She put her key into the Jow inches-the legs and feet of lock and
pushed the heavy
the
SLUT.
dead woman were pressed door, Instead cí swinging against it but it opened wide smoothly back 13 asual it enough to allow him to pass out stopped hallway, Midly into the night.
prised, Mrs hennio squeezed past, then stopped.
**Mr
A" looked cautiously round the descried square, peering to right and left be tween the tall, cream-palated pillars supporting the heavy
portico.
Her sercam startled the sedate square, stopped in her tracks the nurse carrying the baby up the steps, and brought at a run the
chauffeur of the aired car which had brought them from the air-
port.
Mrs
the
the DN
murderer... which mcan
you have
sufficient power, there is evidence to put the person on
Mrs McGrath's body was be-
imposing door the key to the mystery? Had she just admitted Only slight "Me A her murderer, er-moro scratches on the left thumb and key--was she about to let nim could have been caused by the in the lounge? One fact shouted manicured nails of A woman for notice in this silent murder evidence, A smear of blood on the right whoever killed her was known hand. IT might be a vital clue, to the victim, for it was not of the same group as that of the victim. A spot of blood to hang a murderer?
An hour later the jury declar Under the blue tinted grey
The favourite heunt of Mrs ed their verdict;
and that Mrs Violet "We hair,
of the scalp the McGrath, the lonely widow who
waa murdered by dend woman, the meticulous loved company and had but McGrath
69, Onstow doctor found a bruise heavy £800 to her name was a strangulation at
friendly pub in Paddington-
Square, between 11.80 p.m. and midnight on Sunday, May 8, by the Gloucester Arms.
of Mira
Dn
A Startling Real Life Story By VALENTINE
enough to stun, but no more, What killed, coldly, relentlessly, was the nylon stocking tied in a reef knot round the neck.
No enemies? Then what about trial." her friends?
There the police sought the link to the murderer and crime rope which ends in the hangman's notse.
together in that
POLICE IN BAR
!
OVER the counter weather
servo
a person or persons unknown."
And so the death Violet McGrath passed into the of unsolved crime; and fl'e "Mr A" became one of the in- creasing number who have got away with murder.
Why did he escape? Was this soundless killing committed be- cause it was vital to the mur
derer that the victim should be
tasty snacks, deter forever silenced? tives talked 10 landlord Basil Desmouling and his wife Edith. MR A" at all but "MRS A," Was the guilty person act
of "y the dark, sturdily built wornan There the murder Motruth, who spent an hour aged about 38, who was seen or so most nights of the week leaving the flat a few hours be at the bar usually dressed in dore Mrs McGrath was, killed? the old lady for the tow a dark grey suit and a white Did she return later and mur- hat was the topic on every lip. pound notes she had seen in her
der
With good reason. That Sua- handbag? The mysterious visiter nover traced. Was her The right leg, from which the day night two detectives sat in was stocking had been ripped so a room behind the bar with its silence that of guilty
But then, would any Woman brutally that the suspender clip gleaming bottles of wine and came jawny with it, sprawled spirits, and called in customers stand over her unconscious vic- tim, decide cald-bloodedly that naked and white across the car one by one for questioning.
she must dle, and deliberately pet. The slipper which had
"Did you know Mrs Mc- cip off a stocking and strangle fallen from the bare foot lay
Grath? When did you last we her?
』·,i『 nearby.
her?"
MANY PROBLEMS
Photographers, fingerprint Over and over again the samo men, and sharp-eyed detectives questions. trained to recognise a murderer's mistake in the slightest for- Three months later the West THERE are many reasons why the police may not be able gotten detali,
methodically minster Coroner, Mr H. Neville examined every inch of the Stafford, was asking the ques- to bring a murderer to justice. four-roamed flat.
tions in his court where he was The crime may result from a long-delayed casual encounter It may be conducting the
the work of a homicidal maniac Why inquest on Mrs McGrath,
who has no link with the victim. For two days witness after In rare cases the motive
may bo witness described in the fullest hidden in some secret which details all that could be dis escapes detection, covered about the death of the
MOTIVE-That's first, was she killed, then by whom,
Burglary ruled out no sign of a forced entry.
The doctor declared there was friendly widow. no sexual assault.
And sometimes the police be- lleve they know the Idlter, but they cannot bring the crime "Mr A” the aflent murderer
bome.
The garden across the road was full of dark shadows under the trees, but the pavement was
Rennie Instinctively brightly lt. Then yards to the stooped down over her mother's
quarrel and a fight? right was a street lamp. A little form, recalled, and reached for signs of struggle beyond those how she had found her mother's of Onslow Square, could be the farther to the left was another. tho telephone, The crumpled, trifling seratenes, that single the Coroner's question, she be Person who sat by your side Nobody was in sight,
HEARD NOTHING
A
To Mrs Margaret Rennie fell the sad taak of relating again No
body. Yes she said, in reply to pathetic body was only 4ft,
bruise, and the one drop of away as
lieved that on occasion the telephone dial blood.
her last night,
Perhaps the murderer is read- whited to give the 099 call
mother had invited people "back Robbery? Now, here's the to her 'flat. At times, too, she ing these words at this moment. DID YOU KILL MRS Me- “MURDER IN ONSLOW stranges! twist to the mystery, drank more than she should.
GRATH? TAXI accelerated noisily SQUARE."
On the dead woman's left wrist
Mrs Edith Desmoulins, of the "It so do not be complacent, along busy Old Bromptons
was an expensive gold wrist Gloucester Arms, said that al- "Mr A." Few people get away Road, round the corner. "Mr
watch, on a finger, impossible though Mrs McGrath came to with murder in the end, how- to miss, a large ring. Jewellery was plainly to be seen on the the public house four or five ever silent. dressing table. All that could its a weak so
there on Sundays.. have been missing was abotat 215-the balance of a £20 On several occasions it sho cheque cashed the day before, felt like having a drink the Next Week: The Riddle Of WAS SHE KILLED FOR would · tako » - several Deople,
The Pond.
"ONSLOW SQUARE, · SOUTH A," at the door of No. 39, KEN? YOU SURE!" hesitated a moment then, as church
clock struck midnight, Tho
message went within be moved away down the steps. seconds to Scotland Yard, to and strolled off in the direction Superintendent William Judge af South Kensington under at the local CI.D. headquarters ground. station a few hundred in Chelses, to Dr Jacob Gorsky, yards away.
the police doctor,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MY JEWELS/ BUT WHAT DID I WEAR TO THE BALL THATTHE CLAY CAMEL STOLET
COPIES. WHEN YOU. GOT THE FIRST NOTE
FROM THE CLAY
CAMEL
-- I RECALLED THAT LAST YEAR
YOU PRESENTED COPIES OF THE CROWN JEWELS TO THE MUSEUM.
THAT?
AND YOU. GAVE ME THE COPIEST YOU'VE OUTWITTED THE CLAY CAMELS.
sometimes
was növer
herself including
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
BY NOW HE'LL KNOW THEY'RE FAKES--AND RETURN. BUT- IN WHAT
DISGUISE
AT THIS MOMENT, OUTSIDE
NARDA'S DOOR~~..
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