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Did I witness a miracle in a mountain village?

SEND you this report from the Middle Ages. From the very core of Europe. From a Bavarian village, when on Good Friday there

were scenes that most of us know only from the more Jurid chapters of history books.. a German woman of 62 called Therese Neuman suffered from apparently uncontrollable bleeding, as she does on about 25 Fridays in each year.

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She has the Stigmata, and in these parts she is holy

woman.

She

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Was surrounded by priests, on view for all to ser as she bus beer nearly every Good Friday s'nce 1926.

A miracle"

This year Lourdes celebrates its centenary, It would be that Konsersreuthi will be another Lourdes i 70 years. with hundreds { thousands of pilgrims.

In case that is the way things are going to be and it looks very much like it-let us have a look at the feels.

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Therese Neumann, who is The daughter

the village tailor at Konnersreuth, hos been the centre of controversy for many years.

The vision

In

If all started during Leat

1920, when Therese Neumann vision of laimed she saw Christ

A agony. During the vision, she said, she felt a pain In her side. When it was over the found she was soaked in blood from a wound.

clinic, but no one has ever discredited her.

Now she is unofficially recog- nised by the Church,

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1958. V

Another, from Munich, said: The inns for miles around are booked up. My wife and I are old age pensioners. We are poor, but we come.”.

came to the bleak mountain yllinge of Konnergreuth to see her. She sees' people MDS! This is no laurist attraction, weeks the year, although run by slick money-makers, Good Friday la the day when There are no cafes in Konners- the biggest crowds gather._ reuth, no molor-coach parks,

no facilities for the morbid sightseer.

Poor homos

HE road that leads to Kon- THE

nersreuth is lined with Cruel.

fixes.

Konnersreuth itself is a small

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Eyerwhere there is an air of heavy and mediaeval evangelism. There is no sound of children playing the streets,

At last, after hours-of-wait-- Ing. I was told I could of poor house, Therese Neumann. huddled together in a valley. A A few people, including 1 large church, with raten-shaped dozen griests and my Swiss spire, dominates the village.

Irlend und his wife, huddled around the front door. Thoy chanted in prayer:

collection

There are only two other buildings. that anyone would notice. One is the inn, and the other Is the house of Therese Neumann, from which she seldum emerges.

The house is in the middle of the

village square, In the shadow of the church spire. In complete contrast with the other buildings, it is a modern type of house.

At the int I waited a day to sce Therese Neumann. This is

As Leul drew on Therese the fecal point for all the pil- Neumana had other visions of grims who collect during the Christ. With each, vision her week, in the hope of seeing her on Friday. They sit there wounds increased until they were like the Stigmata, and her tensely waiting. sufferings apparently paralleled those of Christ, ·

Doch Good Friday, es the day

sald begins at midnight, she

Like, the village itselt it is mean and humble place. On iis front, a huge Virgin and Child is embossed.

Peering through the gloom et

The door opened. I crossed a stone-flagged floor, and was ushered up

stairs. Every- one's face was pale. Some of the women starling weeping,

in a bedroom Therese Neu- man was sitting upright in lxed. She was covered in a white shroud. A priest stood beside her, mumbling something I could not understand.

Therese Neumann hardly human.

looked

She was roaning. Bloed was streaming from her eyes. The white shoud was covered in bloodstains, especial- ly at the temples and the wrists. Such of her face on could bo seen behind the blood' appeared blank and expressionless.

The room was a mess crosses

and religious texts. There was an unpleasant, musty smell. :

Enough

of

to see gain the vision of the Passion. At 1.30 on Good Fri- the inn, I talked to some of the day afternoon she crumples pilgrims. back as if dead. But in a few`- hours the in' bock to normal.

The Roman Catholic Church has ordered three medical in quirics, in 1927, 1928, und in 1933. None of them refuted

"My wife has made me come,” It is either a deep religious Therese Neumann's claim to he said. "She has been before

experiènce, or a horrifing, reproduce on her bwn body the many times, and now she made ghoulish nightmare. five wounds of Christ. She has me come. Wives are the same bean examined in a university the world over."

On mon, who had come from Switzerland, told me that visitors

FEW seconds in that room came to this remote corner of

cre enough for even the Europe from Americo, Austria, most fervent believer. in France, and other countries.

Therese Neumsan.

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Therese Neumann has been lying like that for more than 30 years. It is said that she has taken no food or drink, except for Communion, slace 1923.

It is said that mingled with" her groans are Aramaic words, Buch as Christ spoke. Thirty years is a long time for a take, and anyone who has seen her will hesitate before condemning Therese Neumann,

Miracle? I do not know. But I do know that as 1 drove sway. down that rough, bumpy road, the miles between me and Kon- nersreuth could not pass quickly. onough,

up

I picked the phone...

a voice said

'I'll get you'

THE

New York. telephone always rings twice. The first call came in the early morn- ing a few hours after I had returned to New York from Cunnda. A man's voice, hoarse with drink, or men. ace, said: "That Don Iddon? I'm going to get you if it's the last thing I do."

A stream of curses and ther: "I'm going to get you and your wife and daughters, Iemember what happened to Victor Riesel. Watch out, you're going to get it soon," There was heavy Dreathing at

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other end. of the wire. I snid: "You're mad or drunk or both...and I'll have

Lana (LIKE THEM ALL) sent for

Giesler

JHEN Hollywood is in

Wtrouble it: Vaina Jerry

Glealer, the mouthpiece of the stars,

Among the first things that Lania Turner did when her daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's boy-friend John Stompanalo to death was to ring up Glester and say: "Jerry. I

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where he had lived for 52 years.

Crane,

need you. I need you right away, I'm In deep, deep trouble,

It was Gléster who, along with Lana's ex-hus-

band Stephen

tccompanied the act-

ess, who was hysterical and the 14-year-old daughter, who was

this call traced in seconds."

The man rang off and, as It turned out, I wasn't Able to trace the call. You have to get married when he was 73 and she calm and perhaps suffering from

the police un another line white keeping up the conversation- If you can call it that with the chimeter who is threatening.

At his bedside was his actress wife, Julin Heydon, whom he

was 45.

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shock, to the police station, Nathon ind the longest run I was Giesler who argued on Broadway. Hy sal lo the with the detectives, spouting stalls for 40 years, Millions of eloquence before the homicide his type- squad,, and it was Giesler who Victor Ricsol is the columnist words poured from

told the Press: "This is Just on labour

who was writer as he debunked hokum unions blinded when a thug, a fringe and sentiment and crusaded for flabie homicide. The child is a member Johnny Dic's gang. bigher dramatle standards,

ung acid in his eyes as he Hls closest friend was H. L.

Broadway Mencken, left Lindy's, the

whom he resembled restaurant. Other Journalists in

biting wit and sword have been threatened, but violence has been done.

minor. Talk of murder is konsense. The stabbing war forced upon her.”

He is by far Amorlea's most successful criminal lawyer, and no sharp tongue, which punctured although he has not the emo- the pretentious, the banal, andtional drive of o Clarence the mawkish. Mencken and he Darrow, legal experts say he is The second call came the next

He a night, but later, about rine were the terrors and scourges of a better attorney.

the incompetent.

master of courtroom technique o'clock. 11

very brief.

and wins the jury, and often "You're another 24 hours nearer George Nathan was a brilliant the judge, with easy skill, what I promised...."

editor as well as distinguished This time the men was not author and critle. Along with

ALL SAVED drunk.

Mencken he edited the mega- zines Smart Set and American

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calls, one to my home and one Mercury, and helped to swell OF

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70 of his clients accused of

electrle chair, the

He chamber, or the gallows didn't get them all off, but he saved their lives.

to my office. I have, of course, the fame of F. Scott Fitzgerald, murder not one has gone to Inforined the police, and I am Aldous Huxley. Theodore the

Jamey giving the F.B.I. (the Federal Drelser,

and Bureau of Investigation) the Eugene O'Neill, details.

Joyce,

Although Nathan-was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was a and New Yorker by instinct preference. He sneered at the

Glesler has won 90 per cent of the more than 2,000 cases which he has handled.

LAWYER DIESLER.

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paragons of virtue of Errol

Flynn and Lili St Cyr.

Glealer Is

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a quiet operator, qulet outside the courtroom and Inside until the end of the case, until his Anal appeal to the Jury. He rarely raises his voice: His clients have included Joan Crawford, Dette Davis, John Barrymore, Coorge Rat, Louls B. nyer, John Wayne, Shelley Winters, Za Za Gabor, and Marilyn Monroe.

Nof long ago Glesier lectured undergraduates at Yale und Harvard. He said: "The most valuable asset of all that I have ever been able to discover is common, ordinary everyday courtesy, It takes less effort than to be unpleasant."

All the frailties of human beings he forgives. And he has handled

ranging from charges of rupe to cold-blooded and hal-blooded murder, He It is a curious, chilling In-

has

the successfully defended cident in my 25 years as

frantic and the frivolous. He foreign correspondent. The voice

carefully coaches his witnesses.. pounds British, though lacking

When the strip-teaser 'LUI SI culture, and the person who is Great White Way, but loved it. Plump, balding, he sometimes Cyr was charged with making these threats is obvious-

He was a landmark and in-wears a toupee, he is not par-

exposure Giesler told the court: ly obsessed with rage and prestitution in Manhattan

Here ticularly impressive in presence "I think her dance is beautiful.. sumably wifal ho

are some of Nothin's most appearance.

She has her heart in her art. revenge against me.

He has a pot-belly, but during Here is a fino young lady trying The reference to Victor Riesel acidulous comments on people

a strenuous trial he has been to lift herself up in the Iruo is puzzling. Although I have and affairs,

known to lose a stone and

American way. "That's a right written about Johnny Dlo and Work: "belleve about work half.

we all have his gang, it is unlikely that they as believe about drink. IL Today he was consulting with are readers of any newspapers should be used in moderation."

Later the prosecutor shouted Lana Turner, soothing her more at Miss St Cyr. "Do you in which this column is

than the sedatives which the usually take off your dress to syndicated.

octors had ordered, "Now, try en a hat?" don't take on so, Lana. We'll Miss St Cyr replied demurely: have you out of this and your "Of course." daughter back with you In no Alcottol:

to make time." "I drink other people interesting."

Glesler rarely uses the word Most modern playwrights: "1.” He says "we," although "They read and aci ilke pulp the Glesier defence is essentially against Charles Chaplin and the writers crossed with telegraph || a one-man show.

rape charge against Errol Flynn D soddened by the death of key-men."

He has a genius for portray- did not dent their reputations that fabulous imp George Jean Noel Coward: "He has nothing ing his cilent as "just an inno- too much. Giesler zaw to that, Nathan, drama critle extraordi- to sell, but his own vast personal cent vletim of circumstances,"

Flynn.pald Giesler a $30,000 bary, savage

He made Robert Mitchum's fee. satirisi, author, boredom."

The Hollywood mouth- and pulpiteer,

T.8. Ellot's The Cocktail smoking of marijuana another pieco's services are expensive, He died, aged 76, in the Party: "Bosh sprinkled with example of "innocenco in the The current case will cost Miss theatrical hotel, the Royalton, mystic cologne."

circumstances" and ho made Turner plenty.

considers

Sex: "To the Latin sex is an Anyway, there it is-a bizarre hors d'oeuvre, To the Anglo- home-coming to Manhattan) 1 Saxon it's a barbecue.” will keep you informed of de- velopments,

Fabulous

DOARDWAY ja sad..

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over-

Almost all the Glesler cilents, despite the tangles they get in, return to the studios with little. tarnish. The paternity suit

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Court

By FRANK HOAR TN 1807, the year of her Golden Jubilee, Queen Victoria became Empress of India. The old Sports Ground at Earls Court provided the site for the Indian and Coloniai Exhibition, and the Exhibition Hall there was named the Empress Hall in the great Queen's honour.

Until 1014 the hall and grounds were used' for exhibel- tion purposes and between 1914 and 1918 it was filled, with Belgian refugees. Thereafter the grounds became graveyard for old London buses and à training depot for drivers for the London General Omnibus Company",

In the mid-thirties the Company leased the grounds to a public company who built the present Exhibition

Hall. The old Emprons Hall in Lilllo Rond, now over 70 years old, has outlived its use and would be too expensivo to módemise. It is proposed to demolish it and erect on ita silo a glittering 300 foot high office block in reinforced concrete, which, until the Shell building is completed will be London's highest.

Designed by Mr W. J. Biggs and Mr J, K. G. Sargeant of Messrs Stone, Toms and Partners, architdets of some of London's biggest dovolopments, I will hold $2,500 people. There will be a car park for 210 to 300 cars. ? Tha cost will total about £3,000,000.