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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

1935.

FILM STAR WEDS

TWICE SENTENCED

Tremendous interest was shown in Shanghai in the wedding of Mian Butterfly Wu, famous Chinese movie star, and Mr. Eugene Penn, at Holy Trinity Cathedrale The above photograph taken just after the ceremony, shows bride and bridegroom with some of their atten- dants, among whom were several well-known cinema personalities.

Vienna Holds Trio In Girl Torture Case

JEALOUS WIFE KEY FIGURE IN VICTIM'S CHARGE OF ORGIES

ADELAIDE'S CENTENARY

EXHIBITION

The British government and all the Dominion governments will now be represented at the South Australian Centenary Exhibition at Adelaide from March to May, next year.

A special Centennial Hall occupy- ing two and a half neres, is being orecled, says Anatrul News. There arc a central hall, seating more than Vienna, Dec. 1.

3,000 people and five large antiexes, It A middle-aged wife and two men

will be the largest awalt

Empire exhibition ever held out- sido Britain. most sensational criminal cases,

The defendants, Mary Gruberth. 36, Adolf Olle, 23, locksmith, and

trial in one of Austria's

Johann Schloegtanuer, 28, itinerant U. S. READY

worker, are accused of kidnapping

and torturing pretty-18-year-old

Ernestine Podlipnik. Details the crime with which they are

TO COMBAT

charged would rival the imagina- GERM

tion of Edgar Wallace or a Pon.

Police believe that Olle planned

the crime. They suspect that he WARFACE

also contemplated polsoning Mary Gruberth and her husband, John. to obtain possession of their vill near Moeding.

Married Life Unhappy

The Gruberths, parents of two children, did not lead married life. In recent months Gruberth rarely entered his home, which ho previously had turned over to his wife. Mrs. Gruberth allegedly consoled herself by close friendship with Olle, who lived nt the house. Police say she signed over the house to Olle even if her relations with him should cease before her death.

New York, Nov. 28. Would disease germs dropped from hostile war planes, cause epidemics?

The possibility is denied by some medical authorities; but the United States Government is determined to risk no such danger.

Already it is announced by Rear Admiral P. S. Rossiter, Surgeon- General of the U.S. Navy, that he has begun to establish what he des cribes as a chain of "fortresses against disease,” in pursuance of a plan to recruit Amerlea's best scientific brains in time of war ar any other national emergency.

TO DEATH:

ON TRIAL AGAIN.

COLOUR QUESTION IN ALABAMA CASES

Growing Sentiment Noted in Favour of Nol-Prossing If Necessary to Rid State of Heavy Cost And Notoriety

Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 1.

A growing sentiment in favour of nol-prossing the Scottsboro assault cases is evident in Alabama.

Some citizens advocate execution of the defendants, others declare they do not care what disposition is made of the case, but all agree they want to rid the state of the notorious trial as quickly as possible.

Sentiment for dropping the cases has grown steadily since the United States Supreme Court ordered Alabama

counties to add the names of Negroes to jury lists.

It is feared that further prose-

cution of the charges that nine

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King Leopold of Belglum before

the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier lu

Brussels during the traditional

ceremonies on Armistice Day.

Negroes attacked two white girl AIR DEFENCES

aboard a freight

in Jackson County on March 31,

1931, will result in a ruling even REPLACE ROMAN

more objectionable to Alaba-

manis.

There are other reasons for the feeling of repugnance toward the cases. First is publicity that is felt to be unfavourable to the state. Citizens are out-

FORTS IN PARIS

spoken in their resentment of Excavators Find Reminders of Invasions,

the entry of "Northern law- yers."

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Sieges and Revolutions on Seine Island, Site of Notre Dame

Paris, Dec. 4.

Second there is the high cost of the trials. A bill asking the state to appropriate and give to Jack- Bon and Morgan counties $50,000 to repay the expenses of the trials was introduced in the legislature

Far below the ground on the island in the Seine from this year. It passed, but the ap which rise the graceful towers of Notre Dame labourers propriation was cut to $35,000. hastily building protections against the next war are find- PROSECUTION GOES FORWARDing reminders of other wars, of long forgotten invasions, Meanwhile the state is going harrowing sieges and bloody revolutions nearly two thou- forward with its plans to bring the Negroes to trial. A special

sand years into the past. sion of the Jackson County grand jury will be called within the next week or ten days, it is believed.

That body will ba selected from a,

Hes-

jury list which contains the names probability that any Negro will be of Negroes, but there is only a

chosen.

son

The Negro population of Jack (Scottsboro County is less

than any in the state, and the num ber

of Negroes drawn for jury service is certain to be correspond- ingly small.

In the courtyard of the sombre Republican Guard barracks on the Ile de la Cite labourers are excavating for the construction of a huge shelter against air bombardment. A few days ago. archaeologists were called in when the workmen came upon ruins showing that this is not the first time Paris has been called on to protect itself.

Walls and columns of an tied up with the tragic series of ancient chapel and a church invasions by the Normans which were discovered. Searches re- preceeded their slege of 885. NEGROES UNLIKELY TO SERVE vealed ruins varying in date MONKS FEARED DEPREDATIONS

In Morgan (Decatur) County, where the Negroes will be tried, from the fourth century to the the Negro population is larger, French revolution, and turned and three Negroes are now serving up human remains: on the grand jury. But Negroes

this

In the years immediately.before the siego the monks of monastery of St. German-des-Pres felt that their great establishment on the southern slopes lending to the Siene-now in the very heart of no' longer gafe. confident, Parla-was

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have shown a marked disinclina- tion to serve on juries in the state and it la certain that no Negro would wish to sit on a jury that further, that they will find another Especially they feared the Norse- will try the Scottsboro defendants. section of the original wall of the mon would gain possession of It is expected that if any are ancient Gallic city of Lutetia and their most precious relic-the body and the state is expected to use the Arst attacks by barbarinns monastery. called they will excuse themselves thus piece together rains recalling of St. Germain, founder of their some of its peremptory challenges, from the north and cast, the daya So the monks brought the body If necessary, to remove any Negro when St. Genevieve, saved the into town and buried it in the from that jury..

They, were The Jackson County grand jury

small mud-hut city from the Huns, Chapul of St. John. "We face very unusual problems will act on warrants sworn early and the epoch when Clovis made (Just in time, for In the slege of 13 his capital. They already have months their monastery was raid- Victorin Bunmer by Mrs.

found structures dating to the 4th ed. On the spot where they burk IN Price, one of the alleged victims, century, to the siege by the Nor-St. Germain they felt a more im- which charged nine Negroes with criminal assault against her. Ruby mana in 885, to the 15th and 16th posing church was fitting, and Bates, the other purported victim, centuries and finally, remains of therefore built St. Germain le repudiated her testimony at the flats built during the French Re-Vieux, which lasted until the Decatur trial, and deposition tes- / volution, when the state took over { various changes in the 15th and timony was used in her absence property of the church. from the third trial.

M. Aime Grimault, inspector of 16th centuries but, as near as can. Once the Negroes are indicted, archaeological excavations for the be learned from the present extenb County circuit.court is expected to carefully directing the work, ex a special session of the Morgan Commission of Old Paris, who Is of the excavations, always kept its be convened.

and the defendants plained the finds to the United probably will go on trial late this Press.

Hf revealed that the workmon uncovered the floor of a chapel built in the 4th century, when

Gruberth, while planning to divorce his wife, mot Miss Podlip- nike in Vienna moving picture and responsibilitles," he says. "Dis- house. He promised to marry her.enses that do not trouble the or- Police believe his intentions be-dinary population may break out came known to his wife, and Olle, in a deadly epidemic form." and they charge that the latter suggested to Mrs. Gruberth a de- vilish scheme for revenge.

Mobile Unit

As a start, a "mobile research Investigators learned that Olle specialists anft has been set up and Schlocgibauer bought men's at the University of California, clothing for Mrs. Gruberth as the under the direction of Lieut.Com- first step in wreaking vengeance on mander A. P. Kreuger, of the the young girl. Late one night the Naval Reserve, the Professor of three drove to Ernestine's home. Bacteriology. The two men, police charge, knocked on the girl's window and

told

her that her brother John, who was seriously ill, demanded Immediate attention.

Girl Entors Trap

The girl unsuspectingly entered a motor car where she was searched

organised in an Eastern medical A similar unit is soon to be

centre,

The "fortresses" will function enly during an emergency. Each will comprise a dozen trained re- search specialists.

month:

FOURTH TRIAL FOR ONE

French revolution. It underwent

Roman character. Among tho Walls which he has uncovered Grimault has found some sections curiously painted red.

yeara old. There they built houses which lasted until the

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CHURCH PROPERTY TAKEN OVER It will be the fourth time Hay- Paris still was a few mud houses

With the overthrow of the Bour- wood Patterson has been tried, huddled on an island in the Soine bon monarchy, the revolutionlatu and the third' for Clarence Norris. In # swampy, uninviting bus took over church, property, and, Patterson has had two death sen- strategic valloy. This chapel was much in the same

way as the tence convictions reversed by the called St. John the Baptist, and its Soviets have done in the past two by the two men and Mrs. Gruberth. Podlipnik, Ernestine's brother, United States Supreme Court, early history is lost in the decades, put some of it to other It was charged that the woman came to the villa, but was refused and one conviction was reversed by, obscurity of the ancient Gallio 843. They wanted the site of St. brutally tore a diamond ring from admittance. He had found some an Alabama trial judge. the girl's finger. It was a present clue to her whereabouts. Finally The Indictments will be returned town, which was first mentioned Germain for housing pace, and to Ernestine from Gruberth.

in. Caesar's Commentarica a summarily tore down the church police suspicions were aroused when

in Jackson. County, because the Lutetia.

that was then nearly a thousand Including To-Day Then in reconstructing. events Olle tried to obtain leper anthrax Supreme Court ruling held the that occurred, Investigators say the bacilli from a veterinarian insti- indictments were invalid as they WALLS SERVED AS-LEVEES giri was driven to Mrs. Gruberth's tute. Investigators theorized that had been returned by a grand jury The walls around the faland, present barracks were built in villa near Moeding where prepara- he planned to polson Mra. Gruberth from which members of the de- two vestiges of which previously 1847. tions had been made for holding and her husband to gain possession fendante race were systematically have been found, served two pur- There was one fortunato cir- her prisoner. Servants, had been of the villa,

excluded. They were granted a poses in those days. One was to cumstance for the archaeologists. dismissed to eliminato unwanted Throughout prolonged examina- change of venue from Jackson to protect the city against the flood The level of the island was raised witnesses to the abduction, police tion Mrs. Gruberth, Olle and Morgan County after the first trial, waters of the Seins; the other was slowly during its some two thou- Schloeglbauer insisted they were and it will be necessary to try them to protect it againat the Normans, aund yours of civilization, first by The girl was kept prisoner in innocent. Later they were taken in the latter county.

who were making constant inconstant building and deliberate the villa. Sho charged that she to Vienna, where they are now Two of the defendants have been alons from the north. Grimault, embankment against floods, and was forced to take part in orgies; held in detention awaiting trial. remanded to the jurisdiction of who has been studying the subsoil finally by the construction of the that her picture was taken in com-. Police are continuing their in- Juvenile courts, and while they too of Paris for many years, knows present quaya. promising positions, and that ale vestigation of the bizarre case, for are expected to be indicted, they where this wall ought to be, and Thus, when the church of St., was forced to send these with at the present stage it seems far will not be tried with the others, Its line, according to his calculs-Germain, was bullt over that of letter to Gruberth saying she had from being cleared up. One puz- It has not yet been indicated tion, passes right through the ex- St. John, and when the city flats, bean. untrue to him and did not zling thing is that Gruberth, who whether all will be tried or whether cavation now being made for the were built over both, the lower. want to marry him.

was expected to testify, did not.

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bo granted. bombardment shelter.

levels always remained, More Ernestine charged other tortures.at a preliminary hearing. He later | She told police Mrs. Gruborth had was found to have left his Vienna her stripped and then poured hot hotel. Palice bellere he may have and cold water on her naked body, salled for the United States

During these tortures, John United Press.

say.

Other Tortures Charged appear before the examining judgo Severance, was granted after the Just above the chapel of St. than that, Grimauilt hopes that

Brst trial. As a result, all the de- | John, and built around it, Grimault below these will be found burial fendants except Norris and Patter-made his most important. find-vaults or treasury chambers which pending the outcome of the Supreme known as St. Germain le Vieux constructed by the finds, he has Court decision.

(the old). This church is closely already made

son have been held in init here the remains of a church that was will add more to the history, ro-

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