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Show 'Moral Turpitude' May Send Her Home w MAGDA DE FONTANGES ON ARRIVAL AT NEW YORK FROM FRANCE An immigration officer questions woman journalist involved In count's shooting; Mussolini's 'Lady Friend' Barred From U. S. Entry NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (AP) Magda de Fontanges today was barred from entering the United States by a board of U. S. immigration immi-gration commissioners who heard her case at Ellis island. They refused her entry on grounds of "moral turpitude." Ths dark-eyed French girl who shot the former French ambassador ambassa-dor to Italy, Count Charles de Chambrun, after she said he ended her love affair with Premier Mussolini, Musso-lini, was refused the right to enter the United 8tates by a board of special Inquiry. Ths formal decision was announced an-nounced as follows:. "The board of special Inquiry at Ellis Island, after a hearing, has excluded Magdeleins Jeanne Fontanges. Fon-tanges. a passenger on board the S. 8. Normandle, because of an admission ad-mission of a crime Involving moral turpitude, to-wit: assault with a dangerous weapon." Mme. Fontanges, on arriving yesterday; yes-terday; declined to discuss her self-proclaimed self-proclaimed romance with Premier Mussolini. I She cams to this country to ap-I ap-I pear In a Broadway night club, but I pending th hearing at Ellis Island sh was compelled to remain aboard ship. This morning, while crowds lined th sea wall at ths Battery to obtain a glimpse of her, aha was taken In a government ferry to Ellis island. Following the local board's decision de-cision to exclude her, ehe announced that aha would appeal to the board of review at Washington. Ths appeal ap-peal will act as an automatie stsy and sh probably will remain on Ellis Island until Washington authorities au-thorities act In 12 U. 8. authorities refused to permit Vera, former Counteaa of Cathcart, to enter the United States on ths same grounds. Prior to coming to New Tork she had been divorced In England on charges based on her friendship with th young Earl of Craven. She finally obtained a writ of ha-beaa ha-beaa corpus and was permitted to enter ths country. |