THE CHINA MAIL.
MONDAY JULY 1928
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Mrs. A., M. Baker, mother of Martha Gonzales, the new "American Venus, claims prenat influence made her beautiful daughter the "perfect 34" she has been acclaimed. 'Before Martha was born Mrs. Baker, always a lover of the beautiful, purchased a reproduction of a famous painting, representing a scene from "Tristan and Isolde," in which appear several perfectly formed femlee figures. Mrs. Baker spent many hours a day gazing at the picture and hoped that her ex- pected daughter might likewise be endowed with perfection of physical charms. Her wishes were realized when her child was born. Only a Le days ago, Miss Gonzales (her professional name) was acclaimed the "new America: Venus" at the Masonic Fashion Show. She is shown here, wit, her mother, gazia; at the picture to which her mother attril. ates her physical perfection.
Misr Eva Gauthier
Miss Eva Gauthier, noted concert singer, is one of the women hit by
the slurs of the poison-pen writer whose case is now before the Grand Jury. George Maxwell, noted composer and music. publi- sher, now indictment as the writer, but he is in Europe, is under
returning post-haste to fight the charges, which he denies in toto, declaring he himself was a victim.
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arrest of Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes, modiste and mil- Mrs. Flora McCormick, has as- liner, of many cllles, charged with sumed her duties as President of a forging the name of Charles M. bank of which her late husband Schwab to huge potes, C. B. Man-was formerly the head. When ville, New York “asbestos king".
Mr. McCormick died the directors and aged founder of the H. W. unanimously named her for the Johns-Manville Company, a multi- millionaire, came forward with the statement that coterie of shrewd women had "ml.ked him of hun- dreds of thousands in similar transactions and had caught others for years. Her four sons for millions by illegal use of his officials in the same bank, name. The 89-year-old man's son said his aged father had been the unfortunate dupe of women in oil deals.
place. She is the only woman to hold such a position, but is thoroughly versed in banking details, having aided her husband
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Juanita Bakes,
Six persons, including Miss Juanita Bates, and Laurence Schwar were killed when a passenger airplane, flying between Paris and London, was consumed by flames near Mongures, France.
M. Georges Barbor, the French aviator, who made the first gliding voyage across the English Channel twice in one day, is shown here with the tiny motor he used in carrying his airplane te sufficient height to make the long glide. It is a 15-horsepower Clerget, which consumed one gallon of gasoline. The time from St. Ingelevert to Lumpne was was one hour, and the return flight was made in three-quarters of an hour.
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Nancy Hay
On the very diy set for her wedding to Lientecant F. Wiseman-
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Noah Lerner, a young, radical, who went to Rassia with "Big Bill" Hayward and returned to promote colonization in Russia, is held without bail in New York | City, charged with complicity in Clark; British naval officer, and while the wedding guests were as-
the Wall Street bomb outrage of sembling, Miss Nancy Hoyt, announced that she had broken her September 16, 1920, in which 33
Art circles, the world over are engagement and there would be no wedding. Miss Hoyt is under the persons were killed. Mr. and Mrs. yard football star, is under indic-$500,000 against. Sir Joseph Du- Charles, Brickley, former Har stirred by the impending suit fos care of physicians. It is reported the parents of the young naval officer Thomas Doyle, who had gone toment, on charges of Illegal stock veen, famous art congoisseur and had a hand in breaking the engagement, being indignant because of Russia with Lerner, assert he negotiations, Brickley is charged collector, of an alleged "slight" to their son, although the officer himself used every boasted he drove "the little red with the alleged theft of $10,000 Demotte,
London by G. Y edeanvor to have Miss Hoyt go through with the ceremony. It is said wagon" which carried the bomb to from the Commercial Trust Com Demotte charged that Sir Joseph an art dealer, Mr. there is no truth in the statement that his parents were enraged be-j cause they had not been told of the elopement of Miss Hoyt's sister,
to the corner of Wall and Broad pany, arising from the deposit of declared the Champleve enamel, Mra. Philip Hitchborn, with E. Horace Wylie, which shocked Wash
streets, where it was exploded in certain stocks of the BigelowVirgin and child," sold by ington a few years ago. Mrs. Hitchborn secured a divorce and marri- front of the office of J. Pierpont Hartford Carpet Company with Demotte ed Wylie, wliom later she also divorced. Several years after the in- Morgan and the United States the bank as security for a loan, Dreicer, jeweler and art collector, mouth. It is declared he has already sounded out the politica
to the late Michael cident Hitchborn, despairing of regaining his wife, killed himself.
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He denies the charges.
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