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...Willful Murder." In Tokyo last week a U.S. Army court-martial, headed by a major general and including a WAC lieutenant colonel, heard the prosecution accuse Dorothy Smith of "willful and premeditated murder." Shigeko Tani, her Japanese maid, testified that she found the colonel bleeding to death in bed and Mrs. Smith, in bra and panties, clutching a bloody, ten-inch-long hunting knife. A neighbor, Lieut. Colonel Joseph S. Hardin, found the defendant sitting alongside her dying husband, trying to light two cigarettes at once. She blurted out: "I'm sorry I didn...
...Primitive Impulse." For the defense, Lieut. Colonel Howard S. Levie challenged the court-martial's legal competence on the grounds that the Army ceases to have jurisdiction over a soldier's wife at the moment of her husband's death. Overruled, Levie entered a plea of "temporary insanity" and came close to making it stick. Mrs. Smith, said a witness, "didn't know what she was doing" when under the influence of drugs or liquor; at the time of the murder she was "doped" with paraldehyde, a sedative...
...behind the scenes there has been high-level tampering with the army, in which Magsaysay has not been consulted, and Quirino's so-called "inner cabinet," which does not include the Defense Secretary, has reportedly been talking about imposing martial law and jailing the political opposition on charges of dealing with the Communists. There are many here who fear that neither the ideal of democratic elections nor the life of Ramon Magsaysay can be considered safe under such circumstances. There may be more anomalies, and serious ones, in the offing for the Philippines...
...Tiger and Christian, Fritz Mühlenweg has written a jumbo-sized adventure story for youngsters old enough to read for themselves. His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922. Warlord General Wu Pei-fu is marching on the city. Christian, the son of an American doctor, and his Chinese friend Big Tiger, both twelve, venture out to fly a kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home...
...British Embassy and swarmed into the offices of the U.S. Information Service, setting it afire. Some 60 civilians and policemen were wounded and eleven or more killed. Regent Abdul Illah hastily appointed his army chief of staff, General Nur El Din Mahmoud, as Premier. General Mahmoud declared martial law in Baghdad Province, and a measure of order was restored by tear gas and armored-car patrols...