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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1937.
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Girl Blames Choirboy Lover FOR THE RACES
For Murder
HE SAYS 'SHE DID
IT-I
WATCHED'
New York, Feb. 12.
ONLY a few months ago seventeen year - old Gladys Macknight and choir- boy Donald Wightman, aged eighteen, were sweethearts.
Then the hatchet murder of Gladys's mother, Mrs. Helen Macknight, In Jersey City, New Jersey, caused their arrest.
They were lodged in separate prisons. They did not meet again until to-day, when the Jersey City Court met to pick a jury to sit in judgment on them.
IGNORED EACH OTHER Gladys, frozen-faced, came court Arst,.
Wightman, pale and
into
nervous, sat
beside her. This was no lovers' meeting.
They ignored each other and then
each instructed counsel to accuse the other of committing the crime.
"Will the jury belleve I never even i touched the hatchet," said Gladys, putting all the blame on her sweet- heart.
"I was an unwilling witness of the crime," said Wightman, recanting on his first story that he killed Mrs. Macknight in self defence.
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Bustle in South Sea Island
Sydney, Feb. 10.
George Goncharoff and his talented, pupil, Stella Best, will present at the King's Theatre on some interesting dancing in Chorea riium
April 1.
Rescued Bishop Ate
Old Seals in Battle
Against Starvation
Rt. Rev. Peter Falaize Has High Praise for Aviator Who Brought Clerical Party Out
From Arctic Coast
Edmonton, Feb. 9.
Such hardships na tramping seventy miles over frozen tundra and eating "old seal" while faced with starvation on the Arctic Coast were Indicated as merely "incidents" by Rt. Rev. Peter Falsize, when the veteran
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Roman Catholle Coadjutor Bishop of the Mackenzie was interviewed here. to-day. He arrived in Edmonton on Thursday by airplane.
The forty-nine-year-old prelate,
with a clerical party, was res
VERY GOOD FLIGHT
A honeymoon trip to Tahiti, the largest of the Society Islands group in the Pacific, has led Mr. and Mrs, Z. de Havas, of Buenos Airca, to the resolve to spend the rest of their lives there.
"It was a very good. fight. Ke over from Aklavic in that Mrs. de Havas is an Englishwoman cued by airplane from the isolated came
on the Hornaday River, storm in three and half hours." and her husband Hungarian. While mission
1,750 miles northwest in Sydney on their way to Buenos about
of Bishop Falnize sald of Berry's 350- Aires to settle up their affairs, Mr. Edmonton, praised the courage of mile jump along the Arctic Coast to and Mrs. de Havas explained they Pilot Matt Perry in making the most the post, despite continuous storms were going to Tahiti because there is northerly Winter flight on record.
no fear of war in Tahiti, no income tax, no rush, bustle, or din plenty of fruit and fish without cost, plenty
nced
of Chinese servants, and people only work when they feel like it.
When they reached Tahiti on their honeymoon trip, they intended to stay three weeks, but they remained three years.
"Life can be spent there in a round
of canoeing, swimming and moun-; taineering," Mrs, de Havas said.
HE LOVED
CH
who
English As She Is
Spoke
AMUSING SIGNS
IN TOKYO
and the fact he had to make the flight during the three hours of daily twilight.
**1-did-not-think-a-pilot-could-do
he added.
Questioned about the return Bight under similar conditions when the party was forced to camp out over- night in sub-zero weather with a bitter wind blowing, Bishop Fulalze admitted "It was cold but we did not mind."
INTENDED FOR DOGS
The Bishop told of having to eat ment from a scal, "which had been in the water (dead) a long time. Its eyes were gone and it was pretty
We are informed by the Tokyo bad." It had been saved for the daily newspaper, the Hochi Shim-doned in icchoes along the Arctic but when their mission ship was b, that some of the intelli- Const, they could find no seals and
HIS SHIP entsin, shocked by the number the supply of flour and beans ran
of sign-boards in "Nipponese out.
"We had to shoot the dogs and cat New York, Feb. 10, English" found in the streets of
this old seal," he added. LIFFORD CLARK is going back Tokyo, are about to launch a to sen on Wednesday for all time, erusade to get rid of. such ad- lie was an engineer officer aboard vertisements, which in their cyes the German Hner Vaterland when
the United States Government made constitute a national shame. her the Leviathan
He served in her thirteen years; when she was laid up Clark kept his Job. He was one of the skeleton
crew.
This campaign for improved Eng- lish is in preparation for the 1940 Olympic Games. One editor, how- ever, seems to be of the opinion that should all these queer English signs Watchlug the ship rot at a pier be eliminated, Tokyo would lose one broke his heart. He gassed himself. of its outstanding tourist attractions.
The steamer President Roosevelt It does, indeed, sometimes raise will carry him to sea on Wednesday one's spirits to see a for burial in mid-Atlantic.
Princesses Take
sign "Muk
Hole" for "Milk Hall" and "Head Cutting" in red letters proudly dis- played in a
One of the leading department stores in a campaign to popularise
Swimming Lessons low-priced ready-made sults put out
huge sign reading "Please Try On
and a friend tells me that for
Frincess Elizabeth and Princess years a fashionable taller here had Margaret, watched by the Queen, a sign "Foreign Ladies Has Fits have recently been receiving swim- Upstairs. On a restaurant menu a ming lessons from Miss Daly, instruc- short
while ago 1 read "soups dif- tress of the women's section of the Cerently," and recently a Bath Club,
came from a grocer saying "with tanks for your patrons."
It has been announced that the Queen has consented to, become patroness of the women's section of the club. The King is patron of the
club,
receipt
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Chinese Stage "Sit-Down" Protest on Car Tracks in Calgary
A SCORE
Calgary, Feb. 9,
destitute Chinese staged a "sit-down" protest in the riddle of the street car tracks on Eighth Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare, this afternoon.
The Orientals, homeless and receiving but $1.12 a week from the Alberta Relief Commission, squatted between the car tracks, holding up tram and motor traffic as a throng of Saturday shoppers Uned the sidewalks, to view the unusual protest; Police soon re- moved the demonstrators.
It was the first "sit-down" protest in the history of Calgary.
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