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...agents that Nelson's woman companion had been his 21-year-old wife Helen. A one-time Chicago salesgirl, she has borne him a son aged 5, a daughter aged 4. Last week as a "no quarter" hunt was supposed to be closing in on Helen Nelson, her terror-stricken father appealed to her through the Press: "Give up rather than face Government bullets." But Federal Agents announced that they had already captured her the day after her husband's death...
...Panic-stricken for fear Leonard would leave her, she talked of a suicide pact, wrote him foolish letters which he foolishly kept, toying with the idea of removing their stubborn obstacle. When one night Leonard made a drunken attack on her husband and unintentionally killed him, they were both charged with murder. Not even after the verdict was pronounced could Julia believe she would really have to die. The hypodermics they gave her as she waited for the gallows dulled her mind but did not change...
...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...
...fifth of all U. S. railroad mileage is in the hands of the courts, and nearly one-third of that stricken mileage is accounted for by Missouri Pacific Railroad, biggest province in the Van Sweringen empire. Missouri Pacific is also RFC's largest creditor, owing that Government agency $23,000,000. RF Chairman Jesse Jones lately had Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, elder and wiser of Cleveland's bachelor brothers of railroading, on the carpet in his Washington office, trying to find out when their great Western carrier would be reorganized. Last week's meeting at the Down...
...them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. When the Abbey turned down The Silver Tassic, an anti-War piece, O'Casey...