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...Chinese general with a pretty taste for virgins, casts desperately about to find someone she can claim as husband and thus secure her release. A British consul, acting as her agent, obtains for a fee the signature of a Scotch sailor who happens to be in the Shanghai jail. A later divorce is promised, and as neither party has seen the other, the sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack-tar. The two do not meet until they return to Scotland some time later...
Last week Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Chattopadhyav Naidu became Acting President of the Indian National Congress, the sixth Acting President appointed since St. Gandhi was clapped into jail in January (TIME, Jan. 11). Poetess Naidu is still rich, still a potent poetess, but the slender, bashful Victorian maiden has become a matron with grown children who now devotes her large person and her vast wealth to the cause of Indian Independence. Fully expecting that His Majesty's Government would soon jail her, Mrs. Naidu keynoted while she could last week these facts...
...series of warnings that we will be thrown in jail or "taken for a ride" have been issued during the trip by County Attorney Smith. The students refused to be intimidated and went ahead with plans for investigating the situation. We wish to speak with both operators and miners and to distribute food gathered by the national Students League to the starving families of the strikers. This is evidently regarded as a clear sign of Communistic tendencies for which Smith stated we would be immediately thrown in jail "along with the rest of the exhibits". The morale of the party...
...large room in "Section D 5" on the sixth floor of Cook County Jail on Chicago's west side went a Hearst reporter one day last week. He was older than most newshawks, grey-haired, baldish, dewlapped. Within the room he found, playing solitaire at a table, "Scarface Al" Capone. For about an hour reporter and prisoner talked together...
...Brisbane interview reported "Scarface's" willingness to help hunt for the Lindbergh baby if the authorities would let him out of jail. He would, he said, let a Secret Service man accompany him day & night, "and I will send my young brother to stay here in jail until I come back. You don't suppose anybody would suggest that I would double-cross my own brother and leave him here, if I could get away...