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...platoon of newshawks and cameramen who met Mooney at the San Francisco jail found him, as always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears...
...year-old girl, who said he had knocked her on the head with a wrench and raped her twice, got Thomas Alton Tully, son of Jim Tully (Jarnegan, Beggars of Life), arrested for the fifth time on charges of criminal assault, sentenced to from one to 50 years in jail...
Lonnie Thompson, the here, played by Frank Silvera, is a negro railroaded to jail by his employer on a trumped-up charge of raping a white girl. He escapes, and while in hiding leads a gang of negroes against a gang of whites who unofficially undertake to clean up the negro section with bricks and guns. (Scene: New Orleans). The negroes throw up a barricade of furniture and after much noise and violence, during which only the negro side of the barrier is visible to the audience, the defenders apparently are victorious...
Appropriately, when onetime Socialist Polish Deputy Stanislaus Dubois led an anti-Fascist mob against the Italian Embassy in Warsaw last week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall...
...Evelyn Hoey, honey-blonde torchsinger (Fifty Million Frenchmen). When police arrived they found Actress Hoey dead, Host Rogers stumbling drunkenly about the front lawn muttering about his "sweetheart." Told that Rogers & Hoey had spent the day in alcoholic bickering, police clapped Host Rogers and a male house guest in jail. Day later, believing the death suicide, they released both on bail...