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Career Of Draft Dodger Sent To Gaol
GROVER Cleveland Bergdoll, an American of German descent, who evaded military service during the Great War and escaped to Germany, was found guilty recently by Court Martial of desertion and escape from military custody.
He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Bergdoll was arrested when he returned openly to America five months ago in the liner Bremen.
October 9, 1939.
By Walt
HOW MANY, SIR
FILL 'ER UP!.
Union Workers To Volunteer
Mobile Civilian Force
POST OFFICE
GENERL HOLIDAY
Disney
H.K. Stock Market
were
The following quotations On Tuesday, 10th October the Issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- General Post Office and. Kowloon ket this morning. Central Post Ode will be open from
To Be Created
Wireless).To meet the needs to 10 a.m. and fe other Branch Post LONDON, Oct. 8, (British am to noon Sheungwan Branch Post Office wille open from 3a.m.
of the country at ports, in any Offices will be ntirely closed. circumstances arising out of There will beone collection from war the Transport Minister will the pillar boxedas on Sundays, one delivery of ordiary correspondence have at his disposal a great at 11.30 a.m. an onc delivery of The former Philadelphia playboy,|'e Maryland so that he could visit his mobile civilian force created as reglatered correjondence at 11 am. who spent 10 years in exile in Ger- mother. it was during the visit that
The Branch Pat Offices at Stanley, and "face the music." Both he and phone rang in the Bergdoll house andied between the Minister of
one delivery ofordinary correspon- his German wife, who bore him dve he went to answer it. A few minutes Labour, the National Council of dence at 11 mi children, hoped for a Presidential ater the guards heard the roar of an Port Labour Employers, and the The Money Cder Office will be pardon but it was not forthcoming, tomobile outside and got to the Transport and General Workers entirely closed.
window in time to SUC Bergdoll driving away.
many, said he wanted to return home firrginit escaped. It was salda te result of an agreement reaen-Taipo and Un ang will also have
MARRIED IN 1926
are
than the
Bergdoll was born in 1894, the sont
and associated unions.
Owing to the uncertainty of Sea of Louin C. Bergdoll, wealthy
The scheme provides for the volun-transport the pulle are requested to Philadelphia brewer." He had three
tary enrolment of dock labour willing post Christmas Hrcels early. brothers and a sister. One of the
to transfer to any port as necessity The Bergdoll hunt was on any arise, and where the number of brothers, Erwin, also dodged the
OUTWARDMAIL TIMER draft. He evaded mliliary nuthortites but Ie inanuged to elude his
Registered and Parcel Maila registered dockworkers, inadequate. for three years but gave himself up searchers, escaped to Canada and|
Germany. in July, 1920, and was sentenced to 5alled for
There he Lists of volunteers will be prepar-closed 15 minute earlier four year at Fort Leavenworth, married Bertha Franck in 1920. Ined at the unions port offices, and time given below unless otherwise 1030, after four children had been normal arrangements for transferring stated, and wheri malls are advertis- Grover Bergdoll was 23 when the bors, his wife came to the United men will be made by the local labour to close at a before 9 a.m. re- gistered and parel malls are closed local draft board at Philadelphia rent¦ States with them visit Bergdoll's transfer will only take place wheremails are adverted to close after 5 exchange machinery. Long distance at 5 p.m. on the revious day. When him a selective questionnaire in July, other. It was during the visit that at least six days work is expected, p.m. registered ad parcel mails are 1917, three months after the United his wife appeated to Washington for a States had entered the World War, pardon so that Bergdoll could return.
Free Travelling He had registered for the draft Her request was turned down.
Government provides free, travell- month earlier but failed to respond During her stay here, Mrs, Berg-log expenses and there are arrange-
INWAID MAILS when the board called him for & doll's fifth child was born. Bergdoll's ments made for subsistence allow- Ale Mall by “Imprial Aleways Direct physical examination.
mother once sold her son come to the ances and guaranteed minimum earn- Service"-Londo date 30th Sept. United States for a brief unknown ings.
FLED FROM HOME
closed at 5 p.m. į
visit and was here for the birth, but The scheme evolved from proposals Straits On learning that the government later she and her daughter-in-law made by the Union which states that Calcutta and Straks was looking for him, Bergdoll fled denied it. Mrs. Bergdoll went back the whole problem will be dealt with Straits... Philadelphia without saying goodbye to Germany.
an industrial basis by muutai Haiphong to his mother. More than once
arrangement, and while assuming the Shanghal
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federal agents descended on the in- children returned to the United States during a mass of temporary unskill- Air Mall by
In April. 1039, bis wife and necessary labour force avoids intro- Shanghol posing gray stone Bergdoll mansion to search the hous despite protestsid she revealed that her husbund; ed men, and retains work for the Service"-Paris ute. 4th October from his mother. Mrs. Emme C. Was going to come back and serve the experienced docicers, Bergdoll, who received them with prison term if necessary. large calibre revolver in a holster bell about her waist,
The Union appeals to the dockers | Air Mall by “Par American Air- ways Direct Service"-San Fran- "He is homesick for America," she to volunteer "in the interests, not only of the war which are vital, but for said. After all, this is his home and the sake of their own future," and Bangkok.......
cisco date, 5th Otober .Oct. 1. he wants to come back. And it's
asking members to Java and Manila going to be my home
and our concludes by
make a success of the scheme, which, Manila children's home, too, from now on."
preserves civilian liberties and en- | Air Mall by "Inperlal ables industry to carry on effectively Direct Service"-London date, 4thị under civilian conditions.
Finally, after their search for him hnd extended into every state in the union and Mexico, one of the ralds on the Bergdoll home was successful. ARRESTED AT NEW YORK A dozen plain-clothes agents In January, 1920-after the war way; over-found him hiding beneath a returned and was seized by army at- A month later, on May 25, Bergdoll window seat in the spacious home. Ihorities.. He had aged during his 19 He offered no resistance and was years exile and bad, grown slout_in] hustler off to Goveriors Island liorp contrast to the handsome youth New York
who disappeared during the wor.
His mother immediately ordered the door to his bedroom locked wi
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"There are many reasons why I am Sie Henry, nan ld Journalist, tan Japan and Shanghit that when her ron returned he would coming bagit." he said. "Homesick- see the question, of course, from the Straits and Manila And his trousers where he left them, ness. "My wife. My children. My ; professional PR well an from the a book, which he was reading, open; mother, too, I want to see my wife,' pubile's point of view. He does not, In on the table. She also ordered that my children. My wife, she cannot any way mince matters, but sels aut an open touring automobile In a shed live in any country but Amerle, and with the bold statement that the drly- at the rear of the home be left un-I want to bring my children up in the gravely mistaken polley."
ing out of the war-correspondents is Pornosa molested until "my boy comes home.") United States.”
SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS
Bergtioll was taken to the military making warg garments for the troeps Working parties for the purpose of Less thin three months after his on at Governors Island la New at the front have been organised by York Bay to serve the unfinished four a Committee called together by Lady capture, Bergdoll was court-martial- ed and sentenced to serve five years year and ten months of the origlus] May, and the meeting of the Kowloon in a military prison. Few people had five-sear sentence.
kind word for him. He was called:
a coward. despite the Inel that he;
had defed death many times when
pioneering www
lic
with racing Only a
automobiles and airplanes.
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few of his closest friends thought that BE ELIMINATED towards buying materials which may Conton
because he offered, while in hiding,
to join the aviation corps to teachi flying the sentence was too severe.
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be from 10 cents to $5 may be sent Fort Bayard to Mr. J. HT. Kemp, 3, Gomes Vilna: Manlio. LONDON, Oct. 8 (Reuter).The Kowloon, South African Minister of Finance
10 YEARS AGO Bergdoll began and Education to-day said that the
Qet. 9, 1929. Ord, serving his sentence he started talking present threat to all that makes Italian and Japanese tiovernments to Manila, Maensser id Sourabaya
The British nate inviting the French, Haiphong about a "pot of gold" which he said civilisation worth he ld buried in Maryland during eliminated.
while must be
participate in the proposed, Ave-pawer the days he was a fugitive. Knowing
naval disarmament conference, together with coverlay lettur
to General Manila
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8.30 a.m. ...10.30 a.m.
that Bergdoll was wealthy, authorities Any peace which condoned acts of Dawes, the US. Ambassador. În Lon. Air Mtall for "Imperial Airways Direct Anally Diamnod permission from the power politics niready perpetrated don, has been issued for publication. Service"-due London, 18th Oct. Wae. Department to take Bergdoll to and which would give Hitler time to Maryland o he could locale the prepare for the next spring. would The inaugural concert was" brandenst
The a pence that was no place. Bergdoll's attorney induced the
This was the kind of peace litler draft dodger's gearrls the iden desired, but it was a pence he would stopping in Philadephia on the way not be allowed to have,
treasure,
inst from the studio recently edmplated:
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PARIS, Oct. 8 (Reuter).-M. $...13 n. making a threatening speech at Thorez, Secretary-General of the
Nazi meeting at Nemacheild former
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Allegod Fight Soquel
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Three Europeans who were .Noon. moned before Air, R. Edwards at the A p.m. Central Magistracy this morning did
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Douglas Arc
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Fort Boyard, Hothow and Pakchot
In the waiting room there were five Swatow and Parcels only for Shang-architect, reading at the Hongkong toud speakers, alt, of which worn used hai and Tientaln
at different times and the reception Shanghal
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was given as previously, published, with Local and Rugby nowe announced dur-) ing the Interval Following were the contributoral-
The Aloha Berenadors, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bowes-8mith, Mr. Ll Chor-chi, Mr. John Braga, Dick Barly, Mrs. G. W 1. Grlugs, Mrs. 0. C. Womack, Birs, Scott-Little, ABty. 11. Glovor, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cornelius, Mr. Frank Austin, and Mr. Geores' Grimble.
5. YEARS AGO
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Oct. 9, 1034 Richard Haupimana, charged in New York with extortion, has been indicted| by the Grand Jury chere on • chargel of murder is connection with the Lind- borg kidnapping.The Indictment dei clared that Hauptmann,¿"on or labout; March. 19.1832, with fares and (arms, did wilkally; talentovRİY and with malige afore-thaight, XII and murder Charles Lindbergh, Juntor.”
dis- France (Faris and Northern Pro- orderly conduct and fighting at the vinees only) by the "Air France Hongkong Hotel Isst Saturday. They Airways. Direci Service" — dac were on ball of $25 each. Parts, 19th Oct.
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When the case opened this morning, Inspector A. Kirby said that Keys .5 p.nu. was in hospital undergoing a major 5.30 p.m. operation. He would probably be in
hospital for two weeks.
Thompson and McPherson, unid
.5 p.m.
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Air Mail for Manila, Gnam, Honolulu appearance at Court. Their ballj
and U.S.A., by the "Pan American was entreated.
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Mr. Edwards then turned a Warrant .Oct. 11, 5.30 pm. for the arrest of Thompson and Mo G.P.O.
Pherson, and said that when, found
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the defendants would have to put up ball of $10 each instead of $25.
Frau Ziegler was taken to hospital.
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