Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mate Adams' Killing Sirs: In the Aug. 24 issue of your interesting magazine you published the news of arrest ef one L. C. Adams, mate of American ship Sundance, charged with the murder of one of his crew in a foreign seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams...
...King's men and the Law." Famous and awesome are the "laws of the Medes and Persians." And once on a clear, balmy night in London the Vagabond himself saw a mad wight dragged off to the courts by a Bobby for stoning the Albert Memorial, an arrest which was inexplicable...
...excuses for refusing a Pacific flight permit to Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, the Japanese Aviation Bureau protested last fortnight that the application had been before it for only two weeks. This was true, although the flyers' plea had made international conversation since their arrest six weeks ago for violating Japanese aviation laws (TIME, Aug. 17). Then the officials said they were afraid that the permit would be taken as a "precedent" by future offenders. Next, they suggested that the flyers wait until spring for the flight; but they would not promise to issue them the very first...
Many a reader of the McCormick-Patterson tabloid New York Daily News, like many a reader of any newspaper, skips the editorials. But one day last week the News's editorial column was calculated to arrest the most cursory eye. On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel. The body was the body of any corpulent, middle-aged man but the head was the head of Herbert Hoover...
Embezzler Wolf was not under arrest last week. He was living in a hotel under guard by Lloyd's detectives pending the insurance company's efforts to recover some of the securities from Wolf's brokers. "I'll be able to help quite a bit in checking everything up," he said...