Union Jack Greets Roosevelt
President Sits in British Governors' Chair
Aug. 10,
Williamsburg (Virginia). WHILE British flags waved in
the streets President Roose- velt sat in the finely-carved chair' used on State occasions by the old Colonial Governors of Virginia when he paid a visit to this ancient capital of the Royal colony.
The chair. which symbolised the authority of the ritish Crown in Colonial days, is now placed if the Bruton parish church, and the Presi- dent attended service there.
The rector, the Rev. W. A. R. Goo!- win, reminded the Preskient that the church had be the regular place of worship of Patrick Henry. Washing- ton. Jefferson, Montor and Madison
d that eight Presidents of the United States had occupied the same chair before him.
LOYALTIES
Evidence that Virginians have 'nat forgotten entirely their old loyalties was visible a short distance away in The shape of the British ng flying over the streple of the old Royal cupitol, which has recently been restored in 119 originui conelition of pre-revolutionary tas
All along the route over which the, President drove to come to church be passed under seuren of British flags, besides the Stars and Stripes,
numerous Confederate fags-
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emblem of the Southern States 19 the Civil War wore ho displayed. --Renter.
GOERING BANS RIDING TO HOUNDS
Berlin, Aug. 25.
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RIDING to hounds is now
banned sport in Germany. General Goering, in his capacity ns Reich Hunting Master, has issued ณ decree prohibiting "hunting on horseback with a pack of hounds."--Echange.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936.
Film Producers In Bid To Stop Astor Case
Declaration by Congressman William Lenke, Union Party presidential candidate. that he is "100 per cent for na old age revolving pension" was the finale of the Old Age Revolving Pension convention in Cleve- land, Ohio, closing with a huge outdoor meeting at Cleveland Stadlum. Photo shows Dr. Francis E. Townsend, OARP founder, left, with Lemke.
GENEVA MURDER
PLOT STORY
PRISON
WHO
NAMES OF FIVE
MORE STARS IN
FAMOUS DIARY
Los Angeles, Aug. 20.
Hollywood's "big shots" to-day began a new attempt to stop Mary Astor's court battle against her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for the custody of their four-year- old daughter.
They feared for the reputations of half a dozen of the more pominent Screen Romeos if Dr. Thorpe's lawyer, Joseph Anderson, continued to serve subpoenas on men who figured in her "mis-step diary."
Producers pulled strings to effect, denying the possibilities of a settle- a settlement after Miss Antor had ment. admitted an association with the playwright, George Kaufman, author of "Dinner at Eight.”
'NOT INTERESTED' Meanwhile, two Hollywood per- sonalities defnitely linked to the They learned thal apart from Cise responded in their different screen lover No. 1, Jolin, Barrymore, ways to the revelations in court. at least five other artors, whose box- Grorge Kaufman, who, according office valite runs into millions or to Me Astor's evidence last night, dollars a year, were being stalked by officials with winess summonses,
The producers, decided that, the case was becoming too hot even for Hollywned, and something had to be done. But both sides adam- antly, refused any quarter,
"I know nothing ofa settlement,”":
Dr. cald Attorney Anderson for Thorpe, who obtained custody of the child after an uncontested divorce An April 1935.
"SPIES" recent years has been
FOR THREE.
ONLY WATCHED
Geneva, Aug. 10. THREE men, stated to be agents of the Soviet Govern-
ment, have been sentenced to imprisonment by a Geneva court for alleged spying on a Ukranian whom the Russian and Polish police suspected of plotting the assassination of M. Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Col. Beck (Polish Foreign Minister).
The charge was that the accused "imperilled the safety
of the Swiss Confederation by carrying out espionage for a foreign Government."
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Konovalek in Amsterdam, but he sent a telegram to the.President of the Court saying he is ready to re- turn 10 Geneva to "denounce Bolshevist Intrigues."
Two of the three men were not in court, for they escaped while re- leased
£1,200 bail, in their absence they were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
The third man ta Swiss Com munist) received a sentence of 45 days, as he was considered to be a dupe.
"Practically every star flm aeler!
written about by Mary Astor, and we expect to call a large number of them to the stand next week.
Roland Rich Wooley, Miss Astor's lawyer, was even more emphatic in
Testimony that Creighton Chaney, son of the late Lon Chaney, drank to excess and remained away from libise won Mrs. Dorothy Olney
divorce decree in Los Angeles. courts. She was awarded custody of the couple's two sons.
Choirmaster Goes To
Chair For Wife Murder
Boston (Mass.), Aug. 21
was the famous "George" lovingly referred to in her diary, declared over and over again that he had nothing to say, "I am not interested in Miss Astor's testimony," he said, i am just a friend of Miss Astor. that's all."
The passage in the diary to which particular reference is made ls:-
"1. love George, and the feast 1 can do is to save him from a messy scandal. Maybe I am being fool- ishly gallant. but maybe, also, I can do one nice thing in ny
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life John Barrymore, summoned court to tell all he knows, was in a sanatorium. Guards, armed with baseball bats, alood at the gates to word off the court officials.
A doctor has put in an affidavit that Barrymore is too I to attend and
that his appearance might endanger his life.
The diary itself has not yet been introduced as evidence, and may never be, because some pages are missing, and the lawyers contend that it must be entered in lis en- tirety or not at all.
IN LAVENDER INK
Some pages of I. written In lavender ink, were, however, klenti- led by Miss, Astor os her work. These pages contained the phrase quoted: love George ...,“
that the reason she let her divorcego undefended was because she was in love with Kaufman.
But she denled
Miss Astor said that she toki Dr. Thorpe: "You lanew about George Kaufman inst September. You have lived with me as man and wife since then. You condoned it, and now you want to use to rob me of my child."
During week's reecss Mixs Astor's attorney will, if permission is granted him, go to Florida. "I want deposition-to-support-the-claims- that Dr. Thorpe lived there Lillian Lawton Miles, to whom Miss Astor alleges her husband Wod legally married at the time he'mar- ried her," he said..
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every nerve, abre and tissue of your body. If these little red corpuscles become too few, or do not curry enough haemoglobin-look out for
this army that is a danger signat
NEWELL PAIGE SHERMAN, twenty-seven-year-old choirmaster trouble. For it is the weakening of
and scoutmaster, went to the electric chair in Boston Prison to-day for murdering his twenty-three-year-old wife a year ago.
A few hours before the Massa- chusetts Supreme Court had refused to stay, execution-Sherman's second uppeal to the courts had proved vain. The trial become known as the "New England American Tragedy"— because the crime resembled the plot In Theodore Dreiser's novel "Ameri- cun Tragedy."
Liku the villain of the book. Sherman took his wife, mother of two children. for an evening paddle on the Jake; upset the canoe; pushed her away. She could not swim.
Sherman's own story-in a con- fession which he afterwards with- drew-was-
"I was singing to her in the entive. My only religion is song, and I put my whole heart and soul into it. I was singing a hymn."
'INFATUATION'
He added: "When I stopped sing- Ing, the thought of murder came in- o my mind. I must have been crazy."
Later, he declared thai the canoe upset accidentally.
far
The molive?— Infatuation pretty seventeen-year-old Esther Magill. factory girl, principal wit- ness for the prosecution, who was held to be blameless.
**Dead" Baby Comes To
Life
CRIES AND KICKS
W
HILE mourners gathered nutside the house, and it relative went to buy a coffin, a Singapore Chinese baby which had been certified dead by a doctor, suddenly bught to cry and kick.
The "dead" babu, a one-month old boy, was removed to hospital, still crying and kicking. It died 48 hours later.
The doctor who isaned the death certificate is a Chinese practising in Singapore.
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