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Price, accused nine young Negroes of raping them as they hoboed their way in a freight gondola through Jackson County, Ala. Eight of the Negroes were condemned to death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy...
Professor Piccard told the story of his two ascents. "The balloon was only partially filled with hydrogen, so that, as it ascended, it slowly assumed a spherical shape. We were forced to do away with netting, owing to the dangers from the pleats of the deflated balloon. Instead, the gondola was swung from a belt, encircling the lower portion of the gas-filled balloon...
...life on any of his contraptions, crashed all over France with impunity until 1909 when he was badly hurt, decided he had played out his luck. A pre-WTar Paris sight was his baby blimp moored to the balcony of his house whence he stepped into its tiny gondola, sailed down the street. Long a resident of France and a Francophile, he was accused during the War of espionage by the French Government which later apologized and decorated him for Wartime air work. In his last years he evolved a 33-lb. machine to help people walk more quickly & effortlessly...
After dinner the Prince went for a gondola ride with the younger members of the party and, later, returned to the Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this...
...twelve years I have been employed by American Bankers, so I do not have to go back to Venice to paddle a gondola...