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Mystery Man Evades Questions(Continued From Page 1)Questioned about the years’s sus-I pended sentence he got in Phoenix, i Ariz., for practicing medicine with.out a license, McDonald commented in his on-again-off-again style ! of talking that he’d proven a point that you couldn’t be extradited from any state if you are a citizen.This was the closest we could get to encourage tl)e man whose record dates back to 1911 as to why he considers himself a man without a country. Records show that McDonald was charged with illegal entry from Canada to the United States in 1934. “I didn’t come into this country illegally,II came right across the border be-I cause I was bom in Washington,D.C., but I had served in the ! Canadian Army and they said that | when I did this I gave up my ! citizenship. But you notice that , they didn’t deport me.”Point CM Confusion i McDonald has a point there because his coming and going from Canada does seem confused in that his first arrest is recorded as 1911 in Philadelphia and then the next in 1914 in Winnepeg, Manitoba.So during World War I, McDonald was in Canada and thus could have served in the army but his refusal to discuss his life leaves some interesting blanks.He claims to have argued a point before the Supreme Court but declines to identify just what it was. Why don’t you write to the clerk of the court and find out,” he quipped Then later he leaned just a little further and re. marked how it had to do with the judge in Phoenix giving him a suspended year's sentence on the illegal practicing of medicine charge providing he would leave the state.What I did in that Supreme Court argument helped a lot of people to have more rights,” he commented.Alternately going into a shell of “you are not interested in me you just want to sell papers” and “who gives a dam about people like me who are treated like ani-mals.” McDonald skillfully evaded , manuevers to get him to really j tell about himself.“Everybody’s out to get me convicted before I’m even tried,” he challenged.Paced CellAlternately pacing back and forth in his cell and then sometimes dropping his Leavenworth gained attitude toward the outside world, McDonald offered two indications as to why he’s again behind bars.“I don’t drink, never have and don’t use drugs — so those aren’t the reasons for my downfall,” he said — and pointed to his general physical well being as proof.Once when explaining that women who seek husbands through such deals as marriage marts and lonely hearts club are “out to get a guy’s insurance,” we pressed the point.“You’ve got insurance?” we asked.“Certainly,” came the answer from the sharp witted man.“Who are you going to lave it to,” was the question.“Oh, probably an orphanage.” he replied and then in one of his few moments in which he wasn’t verbally sparring, McDonald mur-mered, “I didn’t have any parents.”In discussing his knowledge of medicine we asked how he had acquired it and McDonald declined to answer. Then he recalled how he had been in a psychiatric section of a hospital once for 30 days as if to use that as the answer.Blamed The LawDuring the Interview he wasmostly concered with blaming I law enforcement people for this and that but was most emphatic | on one point:“Those things they found in my bag — they may try to tie me into doing abortions but I'll tell you right now that I’ve never done any-thing like that.”And he said it as if he meant it —despite a record of charges that make “Dr.” Gordon McDonald, or George S. Talincoff a man of mystery. A man who could really spin a yarn if he'd ever open up.*'Spectatoritis' Plagues BaptistsATLANTA (AP) — Southern Baptists, one of the fastest ex- 1 panding of all Protestafit denominations, are accusing themselves of getting “fat and lazy” and becoming religious “spectators.”“The besetting sin of Southern ■ Baptists,” says Convention Presi- 1 dent Ramsey Pollard of Knoxville, , Tenn., “is the sin of taking it j easy, getting to be fat and lazy.’ (“Spectatoritis is the blight of our religion today,’ adds Howard E. Butt Jr., a prominent layman j evangelist from Corpus Christ!, Tex. “When a person's religion 1 consists of coming to a service 1 and listening to someone else perform, that person’s religion is par- 1 alyzed.” iPollard and Butt spoke at a re- i cent convention of the Baptist : Training Union.- 11
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Sarasota News
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Jul 10, 1960
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