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Recommended for a valor medal in Michigan was Corporal Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"),* tricky oldtime middle-weight prizefighter and barroom brawler. Two years ago fisticuffer McCoy finished a nine-year term in San Quentin Prison for drunkenly killing a sweetheart. Last August, when a boat capsized in a lake near Ann Arbor, he raced to the rescue in a motorboat. Grey, paunchy and 61, Kid McCoy fished five children from the water, dived deep for their parents until his nose spurted blood from the pressure.
In a lodge on his father's farm at Berwyn Heights, Md., Douglas Schall, son of Minnesota's blind Senator Thomas David Schall, was poring late over his Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother and new sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, flew into Jamaica from Haiti, settled down to wait for tardy Gloucester.
An innkeeper at Kitzbuhel in the Tyrol charged the vacationing Prince of Wales $13.10 for a bottle of whiskey and the Austrian Government, taken aback, formed a commission to control all future liquor prices.
Six hundred and fifty-eight dollars was all that the French Government realized from an auction of the personal belongings of the late Great Swindler Alexandre Serge Stavisky, against whose estate lie claims of $16,500,000.
Last week Vivian LaMarre, Frances "Queen of Diamonds," upon whom Swindler Stavisky reputedly spent $6,000 a month was ordered to pay her rent or quit her apartment. Mile LaMarre drew her revolver, shot & killed herself.*
A Paris court found Charles A. L. Audry, nephew of France's onetime Premier Gaston Doumergue, guilty of swindling, gave him a suspended sentence of 26 months in jail. For the same deal onetime Minister of Commerce Louis Serre paid a fine of $250 and two accomplices were jailed. Swindlers Audry, Serre & friends sold $1,980,000 worth of stock which had been entrusted to them, fooled the owners by paying false dividends.