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CALIFORNIA A Nice Point of Law The police of Long Beach, Calif, had no doubt that Arta Christiansen died by her own hand. After threatening suicide at least half a dozen times during her one year of married life with House Painter Oswald Christiansen, she spent the evening at a bar, then went home and took a .22 rifle out of a closet. She asked Oswald to load the gun for her, and he promptly did so. She told him what she was going to do. "You haven't got the guts," he said. Then & there, she proved...
...After Arta's funeral last week, cops arrested Christiansen under a state law that makes it a felony to abet a suicide. But a California court had declared such a law unconstitutional. There is no California law against suicide itself. Asked Deputy District Attorney Ted C. Sten: "How can a person be guilty of a felony as the result of aiding and abetting a deed which is not contrary...
...accompanied in this novel by the battle for the land. War Correspondent Aldridge reports this fighting from personal experience (he was correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina, Larissa, the Pindus, Arta. Greek soldiers, ill-equipped, ill-led, climb slowly down the mountainsides in reluctant retreat. They shoot their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance in a French biplane of 1918, taking along...
...just a matter of steady advance in the face of stubborn and well-coordinated rear-guard actions. The British-Greek line, which held together well, fell back to shield Larissa and Yanina in the Pindus Mountains, then back to the narrowing of the peninsula between Lamia and Arta. Early this week the Germans had reached Thermopylae, 100 miles from Athens, and were still going strong; and the British and Greeks had not much left to be glad for except that they had killed a lot of Germans and some time...
...Paintings of Leonardo da Vincl." Professor Edgell. Robinson Hall. Fine Arta...