THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY
16, 1936.
SCOTTSBORO NEGROES FACE NEW RETRIAL
Five Year Fight For Vindication
NEW TRIAL STARTS
THIS WEEK
Decatur, Ala., July 1.
New York U. S. MAY ENLIST
"Noblemen's Club" to Ban Bogus Titles
New York, July, 1. NEW YORK Rociety, which harbours in its midst some With one more exciting chapter written into the five-3,000 titled men and women,
to to-day year history of the notorious Scottsboro assault cases, six extended an amused welcome! of the nine Negro defendants will be brought to trial once Club. more here this week.
the "Noblemen's
G-WOMAN SQUAD
IN CRIME DRIVE
By MARY KNIGHT, who was until recently United Press Staff Correspondent*
in Hongkong
Washington, July 1. The founders of this novel in-
G-Women may become a potent factor in the battle At the end of the trial of Hey-assault of Mrs. Victoria Price, white stitution describe it as a “clearing wood Patterson, which resulted woman "bobo," aboard a freight train house" for the purpose of banish-
near Palat Rock, Ala. The prosecusing from polite circles "bogus" against crime, in the opinion of J. Edgar Hoover, director in a 75-year sentence, the trials tion hos contented the nine Negroes noblemen and noblewomen who the U. S. Bureau of Investigation. of the six were continued due to assaulted Mrs. Price and Ruby Bates, the illness of a witness consider a white girl companion, after throw prey on the credulity of American ed material by the defence, white men who accompanied the hostesses and business men.
two warnen from the train. Only seven of the defendants were arraigned at the special session of the court here in January.
It was at the end of the Patterson trial, while the defendants were being taken to haloggham, where they are held in Jail, that the most recent episode-in attempted break for liberty-occurred.
Orte Powell, one of the nine de- fendants, was shot and critically wounded by Sheriff J. Street Sandlin after the Negro had slashed the thrust of a deputy sheriff in his attempt to
escape.
NEGROES SITTING TOGETHER
"G-Women are indeed a possi- danger and yet Mr. and Mrs. Citizen read their newspapers, see the head- At the club's headquarters, amibility of the fature," he says lines about this deadliest of all dis- the hum of many conversations con- The Negroes testified that there had ducted in precise English, tinglad "There is much that they can do. cases and do practically nothing about
accents, They are already playing a con-it. been a fight with white boys on the with Italian and German
in the smooth- "Olten newspapers prolong our train, but all dented they had assault- Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuova,
de- capture of criminals by publishing ex the girls. The Negroes and tire after explaining that his own title spicuous part
what we are about to do instead of women were taken from the train at dated back to the days of Philip II.running organisation of this
be counted Spain (1656-1698). stated:partment. They can Paint Rock by a panse that had form- [of
walting sometimes only, a multer of when i telephone call from the "There are from 700 to 800 qualified upon to handle not only details but a few hours until we have done it. youths thrown from the train had in-potential members of our elubmar formed townspeople of the fight.
quesses, barons, counts, even dukes important major problems in athus giving the murderers or kid- Gelent time to flee to another hideout and princes, with, of course, the cor- crisis sometimes better than men."appers or whatever they are, suf- responding number of women tile
there holders.
Hoover, the bachelor man-of-affairs which costs us more time and money
in prolonging the search. Ir
could We who are genuine are hura who amazes Washington society by his was closer co-operation, we ing with indignation at the injusticeability successfully to avoid matri- both become past masters at our done to our prestige by the activi
is launching a war against work. I know they will, as soon as more in- ties in New York of frandulent meny.
gladly 'noblemen' and women falsely crime and he may resort to G-Women they realise how much
we ran and will formation claiming titles."
to help him win the Anal victory,
them if they will work with The baron declared that the club They won't necessarily be called on proposed to launch a campaign for to do strong-arm work, although,
BILL OF EXCEPTIONS FILED
A bill of exceptions has been fled by the defence in the Patterson case. It is the intention of Samuel Lle- bowitz, New York defence attorney, to carry the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, If neces- sary, to obtain a new trial, he said.
Leibowitz has successfully argued The break was made as the tobr
the cases before the Supreme Court ear which Sandlin drove, and in which
on two previous occasions. He ob- the deputy. Edgar Blalock, rode, tained one reversal of i death convic- reached the erest of Lacon Mountainton on the grounds the Negroes were between here and Birmingham, Bla-
not permitted adequate time to pre- Tack and Sandin were in the front
In defence, Another reversal Jare seat of the sheriff's car. Powell, held that they had been tried um Andy Wright, and a third Negro were properly by Juries from which in the rear seat,
Negroes had been excluded.
Sandlin said he saw Powell slash at the deputy, and in the rear-view mirror caught a dimpse of Wrigly
The Intter decision brought weeping change in the hry system of the state and the South at large.
drawn for Jury service in numbers. unknown since Reconstruction days,
preparing to manke an assault on Negrees were placed on panels and
Sandlin said he turned and shot Powell once in the head. He halted the car and his siren brought hid from a state highway patrol car that w following,
Blalock was not seriously injured. and Powell recovered after weeks in o Birmingham hospital.
TWO NOT ARRAIGNED
the emctment of a law making it a criminal offence to appropriate titles.
TITLES AND PUBLICITY "We shall make things very un- claimants to comfortable for any nobility who cannot produce our card of membership," he added.
Ile concluded by pointing out the great benefits which the new club would confer on national adver- tisers who, when a member attach ed his or her name to a brand of condensed milk or whisky, or to a cosmetic. could be aute that the title used was authentic. Secretary of the club is Baroness Catherine Henkel Gebhardi, whoso family, it is explained, was originally honoured by Maria Theresa. Empress of Germany from 1717 to 1780.
some
even wie filted for that. They will use their heads and be put through as rigorous a training school as ever the nwa have experienced.
CRIME COSTS ESTIMATED "Crime like charity," says Hoover, No American home "begins at home. is free from it. Last year the mini-
us."
..
STRESS PLACED ON HOME Without waiting to become G- Women, the average ADC woman has a big job in preventing a crime that may begin right in her own home. Education of her, children is Hoover the first fundamental,
crinie that The belleves.
proat begins
at home, he says, "comes of the fact that 20 per cent. nur crime is commilled by persons not yet old enough to vote, by those
mum crime #gures topped 12,000 murders and an estimated total
not even out of their teens' and 'whn 1.445.581 major crimes. This in cidentally for whatever anybody may are not past high school age and ought think it is worth, is costing the Ameri- to still be under the active manage can stizen the modicum of $120 a ment and responsibility of the home..
Our annual crime bill is
you like, ABC- inFrom simple, if excess of $15,000,000,000.
women, the modern woman with her "If a typhoid epidemic broke out in wits about her can work into a first
year.
a city, endangering the lives of citi-Class G-Woman. It is her business zens, thousands of volunteers would to remember that crime begins in Charlie Weems atrallantly rush forth to risk their lives America to-day in the erasite, arid that Lieul, Gov. Thomas E. Knight, Jr.. loved ones against the ravages of suching that condition is the hand that
TRIALS OF SIX DELAYED
The trails of the six defendants were scheduled for an earlier date, ftit were delayed because of an ossault-murrier trial of another Negro, Roy, Wright, Waller Willer, at nearby Huntsville, Wille Robertson. Ala. Two trials of such character Powell and Andy Wright were the held so cle together might create a two Negroes who were not arraigned "bad" situation, they said. at the recent trial, their counset de-¦ Lebowitz and Clarence Watts, elaring they were juveniles at the Huntsville attorney who entered the time of the alleged attack, on March case for the first time during Patter 25, 1931, and were not subject to the
power of the court.
a
son's last trial, are expected to defend
the six Negroes, Clarence Noris,
first trial, will head the prosecution. He will be assisted by Melvin Hutson, local solicitor, and members of the attorney general's office.
in an effort to protect their homes and the greatest influence toward eradicat-
at the trials, which are expected to
Judge W. W. Callahan will pre-ite Radiation
All others were charged with the Olen Montgomery. Eugene Willians, begin about July 15.—United Press.
That Kills
"Lynch Mob" Attacks Film Star All Germs
. ESCAPED FROM
BANDITS: COMING TO H.K.
Mr. A. M., Bosshardt, who escaped from bandits In Yunnan, is coming to Hongkong to recuperate this month.
RELIEF
New York, July 1.
DRIVEN OUT OF
TOWN WITH HIS FRIENDS
Blonde Girl Spy Arrested
Chicago, July 7.
the cradle."
Hoover believes in parole but sly for first offenders.
PAROLE REFORM URGED "Heretofore." he says, "this malter of parole has been the domain of the sentimentalist. It is easy to remem ber the sad face of the man behind the bars and to shed a tear in the knowledge that he is separated from his freedom and the little woman and. kiddies--but why not remember the
victim sprawled form of a murder upon the floor?
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A barrage of radiation which "Our records show at 3,576 nem- apparently destroys germs float-bers of the desperate criminal group have at some time or other felt tha ing in the air of hospital operat-mercy of parole or probation or even ing rooms has been described by pardon. IL happens that
50 Dr. Deryl Hart, surgeon in numerous occasions criminals have Paris, July 1. Chicago, Duke Hospital, Durham, been arrested for new crimes before law-enforcement officials have been Los Angeles, July 1.
notified that the prison gates had been ILLIAM HAINES, the film LYDIA OSWALD, blonde girl N.C.
spy, who was released from
"Operating room infections, thrown open from a previous sentence be which they were supposed to actor, has been the victim of the naval prison in Brest last which were fairy common before serving. a mysterious attack by a mob of December after serving a nine- these tubes were installed." Dr.
"Thal, in a nutshell," concludes the 1100 men and women near month sentence for espionage, Hart reported in the June issue director of the Bureau of Investiga-
Mahattan Beach.
has been arrested in Turkey. of the Modern Hospital, "practis, "is the story of a national, dis- After severely beating Haines and companion, Jimmy Shields, She is in jail, with a Swiss the mob pelted them with tomatoes journalist named Nauerberg, in- and drove them and 19 friends the little town of Mamatia,
from the town.
A society known as the "White Legion" seems to be mixed up in the affair. Several men in the Mahattan Beach aren say they are members of the Legion and admit that they had a hand in the dis- turbance.
"BLACK LEGION"
There is another organisation called the "Black Legion" which may have some connection with the
"White Legion,"
A message written in human
United
grace which has been brought about tically disappeared."
by this country's debauchery of sen- "Improvement în the entire con- timentalism and clemency." valescence was good. There was less Press. post-operative pain; the general con-
It appears that Lydia Oswalddition of the patients returned more and ferr Nauerberg were motor rapidly to the pre-operative level, and ing through Turkey on their way the hospital stay was shortened. to Iraq and China, Swiss Lega- "Contaminated air cannot longer be tion officials who are trying to ignored in the operating room.. If it secure their freedom believe that is, primary healing cannot be expected the two motorists may have enterte obtain in all surgical wounds." ed a military zone by mistake.
LIGHTER POSTMARKS PHILATELISTS PLEASED,
Wellington, NZ., July 1.
Previously, Dr. Hart declared, even under the best conditions the number. of organisms in the air has been guili- nds, instruments and supplies, de cient to contaminate ad exposed
thoroughly cleaned rooms and nose spite precautions of washed air, and mouth masks worn by surgeons | and attendants.
The apparatus has like a chan
Julius Caesar and Abraham Lin-blood was received a few days ago The New Zealand Post and Tele- coln both receive workmen's com- by the Detroit police, who are in-graph Department has adopted a pensation benefits from the Newquiring into the activities of the new type of roller stamp for canceleir over the operating table, with York State Insurance Fund, accord-"Black Legion." It stated "Lay celling stamps on parcels. ing to a press release from that off the Black Legion.-The White organization,
Legion."
Cæsar suffered an injured fore-! Mr. Haines says that he docs not finger when an iron pipe fell on it know the reason for the mob's while at work, and Lincoln was attack. injured in his right eye while "It was a lynch mob all right," working for a contracting company, he said, “Some wild rumour must -United Press.
have stirred them up-Reuter,
WATSON'S
ray tubes extending in the form of a hollow square about central light. Bany packets sent by airmail The radiation is effective germ- enery stamps of large face value, killer at a distance of five feet or and the new cancellation, which more, tests showed. leaves à very light ink-mark, will add to their philatelic value. It will also obvinte damage. formerly caused by the heavy stumplug necessary with the old type.
BABY WATER
25 cts. per Bottle
ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP
Since the radiation produces a slight reddening of the skin,. like sunburn. persons in the room aroj equipped with protective covering, in- cluding goggles of plain glass, im- permeable to the radiation.
"Wounds in animals were exposed to the radiation for periods varying from 30 to 90 minutes," Dr. Hart re norted, "without apparent damage.j Healing. In fact seemed to be more rapid than where the radiation was not used.
"After satisfactory experimenta- tion with animals, operations sero then performed on patients. From the first the results, were striking.
"While the bacterial radiation did not eliminate more than 80 to 90% of the bacteria in the extreme corners of the room, it did kill practically all the bacteria in the air · about the operative---wound, supply and--in- strument tables."--United Pres
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