1961-03-18 — Page 12

JUST

A

FANCY

THAT!

London.

FRANTIC mother phon-

od the police: "Some:

one has stolen my child," sho said. She had found the baby's empty prum

In

the garden tho clothes ruffled up.

Police cars raced to Canter- bury-road, Croydon, Surrey. only to find др apologetic mother walung for them,

Five-months-old Cherry Law- son was gurgling happily in her cot-where her absent-rainded mother had placed her time before.

some

UNDREDS of angry chil-

dren mobbed the com- mentator at a comic foot- ball match at Aylesham, ncor Canterbury, the other day, whom their favourita television stars failed to play.

They were annoyed when band leader Achter Bilic and TV stars Harry "Flogger"" Fowler and Jim Dale did not turn up, and after yelling and booing through the microphone finally invaded the pilch.

(London Express Service).

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1961.

BY

Anyhow You Can Tell its a girl

Wacky Mendelson cause of The way SHe's Always

JACKYS DiaKY 33

DIARY

THERE'S LOTSA X-citemint over OUR HOUSE ON a COUNTER LAST Week MomMY WENT To THE HOSPITtle & Won a Free

BABY

ON

BOY.

HOSPITTLE

EVER SINCE She got Here Daddy has StARTID in fooling with His Chemikul SET, HE STAYS UP EVERY Night Making diffrINT FORMULAS,

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World rights reserved.

EXSEPT WHEN SHE gor it Home it Turned QUT TO BE A GIRL

ONLY we CAN'T X~- CHAnge it ON a Count of WE ALREADY USED heR

FOOEY!

HolleRiNg i guess she Must

AN other "ProBLUM is

THAT MOMMY CAN'T DESIDE how To dress HER UP. SHE KeepS ON Putting on Pants on her & TheN

TAKing THEM

off aGAIN.

IS THIS THE UPPER LIP GUIDE TO CHARACTER?

Be Home-

Sick,

MOMMY SAYS She got Daddy's Eyes,

GraNmR'S MOUTH, GRAMPA'S NOSE, PS

BOY WHAT A CROOK!)

1 good ThiNG THough, is That Now When Take A Bath with all Those DiPens, à CAN MAKE OUT. LIKE I'M THE GAPTIN of a REAL Live Sail Boat

JA

TOD TOOT! BATTIN DOWN

The Hatchets!

FOOL SPEED aHeAd!

.

She BETTen

HURRY UP + SWIPE Some- Body's HAIR REAL SOON,

on else She's gonna bE BALD/

@TheRWize, NUTHing mUCH is New

2-19

Double The JUDGES and the JUDGED

Tyrants with toothbrush

toothbrush murder

THE man with a "toothbrush" moustache-the

type most firmly fixed in the public mind as typical of the Army-is the least likely to make a good officer, a former Army psychiatrist reveals.

Results of the Brat scientife Inquiry into the possible Ink between the hairiness of man's upper lip and his character, published "by permission or The War Office," show that

those who sport a "toothbrush" are like their moustaches. They are 100 prickly and too pre- cise."

The men most likely to become good leaders sper: luxurious bushy moustaches or are clean-shaven, Major. Geo-

TARGET

HAS

TOY

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How many

words of tour latters

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on the falt "

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making

words,

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letters Ge used once only. Each ward must contain the large tetter. and there must be at least que ten-letter word in the That. No plurals; no furelan words no proper names, TODAY'S TARGET: 41 words, Bood 08 words, very good. BO words. excellent. Solution on Monday,

YESTERDAY'S SOLUŢIUNI Col deL DIFFICULTY dulcify duly fittal duy Bic Bato Budry fluidity duty felly tály Jayi Dat Bir tuid tucfalty luft cidity.

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moustaches

By

CHAPMAN PINCHER

Trey Feberdy, now at New- castle General Hospital, reports. "Increased bushinces of moustache among men suitable for officer-trainlug was Asso

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the difference

To his surprise he found that out of 400 moustached men every one with a "toothbrush”: falled.

\

The toothbrush men were consistently turned down be- cause they were too rigid In character, locked imagination, elated with increased lender were faintly rebellious, and so effectiveness whereas exagger- touchy that they tended to ated thinning was broadly as create antagonism. soclated with lessened leader effectiveness," he claims.

Major Peberdy carried out his penetrating moustache

BEER-STRAINERS

as

survey" while serving as psy- Though they had done chiatrist on two War Office well as other men. In Civvy selection boards which examin- Street-some

Were company

ed candidates for commissions. directors the board decided First he divided moustaches that they would do no good in into five types:-

the officers' mess.

1." "TRIMMED full fringe of hairs flutty covering most of the upper lip.

2. "DIVIDED"-a small patch

of hairs on each side.

3. TOOTHBRUSH" clipped

PART

but what was the motive?

By EDGAR LUSTGARTEN

WHEN I heard that Daniel Raven would

be coming up for trial at the last Old Bailey sessions of 1949, my immediata- and sustained personal reaction was: Thank goodness, Jimmy Cassels will be trying him.

It is not from presumptuousness or in disres pect that one employs that familiar designation. Mr Justice Cassels is generally so known by those who have professional connection with the courts; it is, at once a token of genuine affection and a spontaneous tribute to his warm humanity.

But equally prominent among Major the judge's qualities are prac-

tical conse and businesslike be

"They

disciplined others ruthlessly. and themselves to

ncar-mutilation," " more likely to Peberdy reports.

N.C.O.S.

They were make

good haviour; they had characterised his fine performances at the

until the hairs are short and with big, bushy, beer-strainers

As commonly believed, men criminal Bar, and it was parti, cularly comforting to know that prickly,

they would in at Raven's trial.

function on the Bench.

4. "LINE"

strip, like ал

eyebrow.

5. "BUSHY"

very

Office now findings to for likely

were prone to self-display narrow. other ways. overplucked

Will the War. make use of these including, speed its search handlebars, Old Bill, and officers? lesser hybrids." Then, as the spruced-up, Peberdy.

"Certainly_not," says Major The cut of a man's before the selection board, he moustache could never influence

selection board's decision.”

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candidates saluted

made careful moustaches.

notes

sinartly

on their

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The special problem present- est by the Raven case "derived from the 'peculiar ethos of its time. In 1948 capital punish- mment, always a provocative issue, had aroused even more controversy than usual The House of Commons had actual- ly voted in favour of abolition; and for several months, until the Bill was thrown out by the Lords convicted murderers were automatically reprieved.

The consequent backwash of muddled thinking and confused emotion still influenced many 1040. And Raven's, crimes were

MR JUSTICE CASSELS

summoned by the little family group which had come upon calamity unawares, Raven appeared as astonished as they....

tablished that, sines leaving when they say, "He had no there, Raven had changed at motive." Merely that he had least his suit. · An inspection of no apparent motivo; no motive Haven's

house revealed a that they are able to ascertain. Who can tell, though, all that charred suit in the boller--a

suit on which could still be passes in another's mind? And seen the stains of blood, La- what murderer voluntarily hys boratory tests fixed that blood bare the springs of murderous in the rure AB group-the actioa? Mr Justice Casscla group to which both M and made this point with telling Mrs Goodman had belonged.

Elmplicity in his summing-up. Thcso successive discoveries "Men kill," he said "for were damning. It was in an at- many reasons. They do not kill tempt to surmount them that and leave statements of motiva Raven changed his story, adopt by the body."

Wis. copiously repeated in the box. and smeared with

of a type that might have cluded reposing in the kitchen sink. Its in that which, substantially, he retribution simply because, '

barc on heavy the subject of murder and Its splashed punishment, the pubile mind had blood been unsetiled and bewildered.

SHAMBLES

nursing

"After I left my parents-in- law," he said, "I went round to a cousin of mine, but got no The Goodmans lived alone.

On the way home Raven, in the temporary ab had to pass the Goodmans sence of his wife, was also house: the lights were on, so living alono-500 yards away. I thought I'd go in again.

and

answer.

HIDDEN

The defence's confcation upon this theme, however, em- braced a positive as well as a negative side. Not only did they motive; they also sought to seek to show that Raven had no

show that some other person had.

dection.

Mr Goodman often helped tho It was rightly described as an Responding to an urgent sum- "And what did you scar" police in currency matters;, manz "unnatural" Mtory—but then mons from the little family asked counsel.

rogues, they argued, had a score murder is, in most cases, an group which, had come upon unnatural act. On the evening of calamity unawares, he appear That face-I can never forget it for Raven--the obvious work of "I saw Mrs Goodman first. to settle with him. Wasn't this appaliing crime so motiveless October 10, Raven, with his ed as astonished and as dumb I felt elck. I knelt down be un intruder bent upon revenge? parenis-in-law, Mr and Mrs founded as 'they.

-side her. Then I saw Mr Good- "It may have Goodman, called at a

been." Mr home in Muswell Hill to visit and preparing for such a sum

That he had been expecting man, too, I couldn't bear it-I Justice Cassola sold.

"It may couldn't stay 123 the room have been. his wife and first-born infant mots, that he had looked upon the hall... and tiere I saw brief instant, he halted in re- Give it all your another moment. I stepped into caretul consideration. For a 600. All three visitors drove this dreadful spectacle

before, from there to the Goodmans were imputations which had blood on my trouser leg." home in Edgware, arriving anyone made them at that slage The rest the secret fight, the "It was a. strange Intruder, Raven's own account at halftaven would have totally and burning sult, the lles-were all won't it, who went to carry past nine.

Exactly how long haven stay the Goodmans it and well, he panic,

strenuously denied. He had left "exptained away as the result of out such a design without any ed is a malter ut conjecture card,

arms or weapons? And it was One only knows for certain that

knew absolutely

a fortunate. intruder, wasn't it. he had gone by ten. For et that nothing more about them until

because in the hall of the house hour some other members of the him post-haste froth his home. starting nessage brought

he found the weapon to his family called, and, obtaining no He maintained that position, little comfort from the facts, to dragoon a jury. Always it is

Raven's defenders could take hand? reply, got in by a

Never is it n judge's, business The sight that met their eyes Interviews, mil

through a number of peparate Their one strong card wea was described in court by Mr afternoon.

Late next purely psychologieni.. Although

a judge's business to direct a Justice Casseir na 'n shambles."

Jarge cums of cash were in the

jury.

Tobbery had been effected or

Cassels was both" sound Although feeling firm, et a period when hysteria between his parents-in-law and was both prevalent and Infec Raven was lukewarm, no open tious: and the subsequent dis- quarrals had been remarkod patch of a double murderer. imdoulade stajo, of Raven's or, at any rate, reported;

redecis credit "equiiły - on, tho **The injuries to both,” salit plothes; crisp shirt front, spole

jury and on him. Cassola, word “fiendlich. In the leas cufts, and collar, jacket and It might, therefore, be plais extremo": they lad been trousers without, a single wein- lily said that the prisoner had slauglitored ·· “almokt' with

·kle--not a-mack, not n; trace, no molivo,« proposition gun- tho ferocity of a'maniad?

of the busy, rolling day. The mbloed, even in moru · normal. The instrument of this kavines thus promptext bore years,"to give any jury pause. butchery had not been for to. Bignilleati fruit,

But when the facts point seek. "A televisions aerial, pres A telephone dell to the murs- ineluctably to a prizoner's malis, viously in the tall, was found ing home at Muswell Hill es what do people really mean

window.

and

Mrs Goodmau may already dead, Meanwhile, though, the police Goodmans' house that night, no The direction of Mr Justice Mr Goodman lay, doeply uncon had been following up a clue selous and on the point of dy spotteti early on by a keen attemptext. ing, in positions which sug- eyed öfleer, Inspector Diller, gested that she had come down-obrarving those assembled at the stairs when she heard the stricken house, had noted the attack on him,

NEXT WEEK:

Mr Justice Swift

--(London Exprete Service).