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Anyone who has read Gadfly cannot fail to see the superb butchery done to it in Mr. Ashcraft's review. Perhaps Mr. Ashcraft alone is blind to his literary crime, having somehow forgotten to read Gadfly himself...
Legal Advice. In Chicago, after Mrs. Hattie Payne testified that her husband gave her 1,600 beatings and almost 800 black eyes during their 16 years of marriage, Judge Alan Ashcraft commented: "You would have been better off marrying a prizefighter, because you could have saved him the cost of a sparring partner...
Missionary E. P. Ashcraft wrote from Chengchow in September: "At the mission a few days ago six children were tied to a tree by their parents so they would not follow them as they went in search of food. One mother with a baby and two older children, tired from the long search for food, sat down to rest under the tree. She sent the two older children to the village ahead to beg a little food. When they returned the mother had died of starvation and the baby was still trying to nurse at her breast. These are just...
...Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William...
...Supply Sergeant, H. H. Pell; Cadet Sergeants: C. R. Larrabee, C. H. Hyannis, C. S. Howard, L. W. Smith, C. E. Daly, B. W. Sayer; Cadet Corporals: G. Baker, F. Beidler, Jr., J. G. King, E. B. Brady, R. F. Nash, W. L. Byers, F. A. Delapenha, J. D. Ashcraft, C. Taylor...