THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, MAY
6, 1937.
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MRS. SIMPSON'S FUTURE
Final Decision in Early Summer"
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IE London Daily Mail understands that Mrs. Simpson will make no decision of any kind as to he future until early summer.
Formal denials have been issued of the many articles blished abroad supposed to contain statements made by her. he London newspaper's Special Correspondent has visited frs. Simpson, and is therefore able in his message below to ive a clear statement of the real position.
By W. G. FARR
Tours, April 25. PHIS evening I met Mrs. Simpson in the 16th-century Chateau de Cande, near Tours, where for the present e has made her home.
Although our conversation was general, and in no ense an interview, it enables me to convey the point of iew of the woman whose personality is being so much dis- ussed.
Legend has grown up about Mr. Simpson to such an ex- tent, and so many inaccurate reports have been circulated regarding her, that I can make a clear statement of the real position.
I was received in the large, comfortably furnished so. lon of the chateau, the broad windows of which look out across the River Indre.
Quietly but smartly dressed, Mrs. Simpson sat before a blazing log fire, her tailored two-plece costume of soft blue tweed accentuating the silmness of her figure. Lylog at Mrs. Simpson's feet was her little Cairn terrier, Slippers, who arrived at the chateau a week ago.
Slippers left England at the end of last year, but Mrs. Simpson did not take him to Cannes, as she knew there were three Aberdeens In the Villa Lou Viel, Mr. Rogers's home there, already,
Mrs. Simpson spoke rapidly and entertainingly in an accent which, to me, seemed as mucli English as Antovicari,
The reperta circulated about her in England, suggesting that she la an exotic type of
woman, have distressed her.
She realises, how- ever, that her personality is almost unknown in. England, and also that criticism was inevitable in view. of the unprecedented position in which she was placed.
One point raised by Mr. Herman Rogers, who stayed on with me after our talk, was the bellef held by many people that Mrs. Simpson is " night- club habitus."
"IDEA ABSURD"
dance
"That idea is absurd," said Mr. Rogers. "Mrs. Simpson, like any normal. person, likes to occasionally, but she has certainly never acquired the night-club habit She- -much-prefera-entertaining al home."
Mrs. Simpson's friends say that every woman will understand how Infinitely distressing it can be to feel that love for her should upset the whole course of another per- son's life. They declare that sho has not, nor ever has had, the Bilghtest desire to become an historia figure.
to
who
It is pointed out that slie hus chanced to find happiness in cit cumstances that have had far- reaching results. It is felt perhaps impossible for many live in happy homes to realise the incredible dimculties which can come to people who find them- selves so placed.
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The general impression I gained of Mrs. Simpson was of a woman who. although she has suffered great deal, asks for no sympathy.
Vivacious, good-humoured, with a ready smile and the charin and sensitiveness of a woman who likes those around her to be at their ease, Mrs. Simpson at once gives you the impression of, being tremendously alive.
Her dark hair, parted severely in the middle and set close to the head, was waved at the back; she make-up with restraint.
AN OPEN-AIR LIFE
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Here, in one of the lovellest and most historic stretches of country- side in the world, she is leading on open-air life, playing golf, walking! for miles in the woods around the chateau,
motoring, and sightseeing. The golf course in the chateau estate is one of the finest private courses in Europe.
Easter there was a small During
and house-party at the chateau,
Mira. Simpson will be entertaining again from time to time in the
Plans To
AS A CIGARETTE GIRL-This striking picture shows Veronica Gedeon, professional model who was strangled and beaten to death. together with her mother and a male boarder in her New York home as she posed for a cigarette advertisement. The nose, showing her holding a cigarette in one hand, was widely used before her mysterious death.
Fly
10. Milles High
FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT M. J. ADAM, at-
tached to the R.A.F. Experimental Section
at Farnborough, is standing by, waiting for favourable conditions to make a stratosphere flight.
It is thought that the altitude record of 49,946 feel, set up by Squadron-Leader F. R. D. Swain last September, will be beaten by a margin. of several thousand feet, and that new facts about flying conditions in the stratosphere will be established.
Flight-Lieutenant Adam will use a large single-seat monoplane in his attempt, and will wear the latest type of "pressure" suit evolved for highflyers in rarefied air.
A series of similar flights are being planned by the Air Ministry in the interests of scientific research.
Meteorologists believe that increased know- ledge of the stratosphere will lead to mora re- liable weather forecasts.
Delicate Instruments placed in R.A.F. machines and carried into the stratosphere will also record the great intensity of the cosmic rays at high altitudes, still a scientific mystery.
Dead Model: Love Letter Round-Up'
From C. V. R. THOMPSON
When Reds Ruled Malaga
A GIRL'S ESCAPE FROM PETROL DEATH MOORS ARRIVE IN TIME
By Major F. Yeast-Drown
When we went to cash a cheque in Malaga, the cashier-an Englishman- leaned forward and said: "I hope you are on Franco's side ?" On hearing that we were, he told us of the terror through which residents had lived. What he said we confirmed from other accounts and from the evidence of out eypa.
Lists had been prepared of the heading Nationalist sympathisers. On July 10, the day after the revolution broke out, the mob was sent to the house of some fifty selected victims, These places were burned and pull- aged; and the inhabitants were shot, knifed, axed, or burned alive-men women and children.
The houses were mostly on the fashionable Caleta, running eastward from the port along the shores of Between their the Mediterranean. blackened walls and trampled gardens, other villas are standing, serene and unmolested, for they belong to Red parisans, or had been required for the use of the civil or military authorities. The results of this day The of wrath are there, for all to see. Popular Front In Spain executed a long-prepared and cold-blooded scheme of terror. The mob was never out of hand. I was deliberately directed against the persons and property of Its opponents.
MASS EXECUTIONS Within twenty-four hours, the burn- ing and looting ceased; and mass How executions took their place. many people were shot and shovelled wholesale into pits has not yet been ascertained, but the lowest estimates are ten thousand. There was no trial: merely an order from one of the Hangs which controlled the city- Anarchists, Trotskyists, Marxisis, or the several kinds of Socialists. Some- house, times mere children came to a
which Of these
were eager to use.
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armed with sawn off shot guns, people the Anarchists were the worst. A distinguished American journalist who spent two months with the Red he has seen on earth, the Anarchists forces, told me that of all the ruffians are the toughest; and he should know. having described eight wars and dczen revolution in his fifty years of
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New York, Apr. 21. RITERS of impassioned love letters to beautiful Veronica Gedeon, twenty-year-old model to some of the most famous artists in America and a well-known Broad- way butterfly, were rounded up by New York's ace detectives to-day.
They were seeking every possible clue ed (it sounds fantastic) the complete to the murder of the girl, of her fifty-four-extermination of the human race. year-old mother, and of Frank Byrnes, a waiter from Salford, Manchester, who stayed, had been the headquarters of lodged with them, in their apartment near the Red Aviation Staff. It is intact, the fashionable neighbourhood-where-lived 120-oncers, of whom we were told Nancy Evans Titterton, the writer mur-that half were Russians. (The num ber may be exaggerated, but there dered by a madman in her bath on Good is no doubt that many Russians lived walters, in the hotel.) One of the Friday a year ago.
who had been compelled to serve the different There were so many
Reds but had escaped from them the the
by protestations of love for the dead girl during
panie caused in the pile of letters und that the Nationalist advance, told me that delectives, scurrying all over
women of the town sat drinking with York and
the officers night after night: citizens Mussachusetts, made slow progress, of Malaga
were starving, but the but they have attempted
officers were never short of wine ar construction of the crime, which has spread terror among New York's meat. For three and a half months the hotel staff received no wages. The housewives.
present Military Commandant. Colonel Jete, showed me passes signed by the Red Commissars, entitling the bearer to enter Malaga and-to phrase the
than the permit more politely
with to take his
1:affled me. It is people for a She expected Tonchi, her faintly possible that these documents Pekinese, to rush forward to greet may be a joke; but if so it is a very her. But there was no sound. In ugly one. When the airmen left the stead hand shot out of the dark-hotel, it was so thy that it took a ness and closed around her throat week to clean with the aid of a fire That was all she knew.
engine and disinfectants. dragged to her bedroom, stripped, flung on her bed.
So also in one of the parish churches, Beneath the bed lay another body, Her mother, too, had been strangled which has been whitewashed three 'and stripped, only two or three hours times, except that here there has been before, and had been flung there, destructiun
Greta Garbo's Dont's
To her Admirer
WITH millions of admirers resort-
ing to every conceivable means of approach to Greta Garbo, this star has just announced that she does
noti
Give autographs. Grant interviews.. Acknowledge letters..
Answer telephonte calls. Accept gifts.
Act as patron to philanthropic or
other movements.
She will befriend stray cots (though you may not send them to her!) and she must wear a belt with her cos- tumes.
Bride Aged 12 Put
course of the coming weeks. In Prison
One of Mra. Simpson's chief de-
lights
is to visit the lovely old
chateaux which make this part
ot
but OFFICIALS of Mankato, Minnesota,.
France world-famous. She saw most of them several years ago, derives great pleasure from 'revisit- ing them.
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Mankato, Minnesota, Apr. 25.
placed Virginia Johnson, nged 12, in gaol as a delinquent, has neglected minor, in order to separate In the past few days she
her from her husband, Mr. Ernest B. admiring the spent happy hours
Johnson, aged 27. magnificent chateau bulit across the River Cher at Chenonceau, the rare furniture and tapestry in the chateau at Azay-le-Rideau, and the stately beauty of the Chateau d'Usse.
GRETA GARBO
as she appeared in the "Painted Vell."
Editor Aged 11 & Shirley's Essay
New York, Apr. 25. Buster Hecter, 11-years-old editor of the Sheboygan Weekly, Wisconsin, invited essays of not fewer than 25 words and not more than 8,000-on "What I think of the Sheboygan Weekly." Mr. Johnson is the father of five
one of the Shirley Temple was children by his arst marriage, which
competitors for the prize-money of ended in the divorce courts.
Virginia protested
Mrs. Simpson will stay at the Chateau de Cande at any rate until against the separation. the end of next month, and she will make no definite plans as to the Im- mediate future until then.
M. Bedeaux, the owner of the chateau, has placed it at Mrs, Simpson's disposal for as long as she
ishes to stay.
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vehemently
The clerk of the marriage licence' the mother bureau there sald that signed a statement that her daughter was 15 years old, but records re- " vealed that the girl was only. 13.- United Press,
...
This is what Editor Buster said about Shirley's effort:
"She wrote a letter and one of the judges thought it was pretty good, but I didn't think that, just because she was Shirley Temple, she should get a prize."United Press.
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New
as
a rt-
Veronica Cedeon, they say, return
the ed to her apartment as clock struck three yesterday morning. She had spent a gay evening with
Butter, fance, her
Stephen
tailor.
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Sho was
ALTAR CHOPPED UP
as well as dirt.
The
In the next room Jay Frank reredos and organ have been torn Byrnes, who had left England twelve down, and the altar and side chapels years ago. He wns in the house have been chopped up for firewood. alone when the strangler arrived, Tombs have been dug up, pictures and was despatched with an ice-pick
are not sure which,
in
Virgin gouged out.... I repeat, these or an upholsterer's awl-the police slashed, the eyes of an image of the things stand as witnesses against the Popular Front. They cannot be deni- HUSBAND RELEASED. -
ed,, nor can they be condoned as Their theory is that the murderer isolated excesses, for they have been was a man well known to the house repeated in all parts of Spain, wherever hold, because Tonch!, who stood
there was a priest to kill or a shrine guard over the bodies, was not heard
to ravage. had who barking by neighbours,
noise it THE WOMEN IN BLACK often complained of the
women made when strongers arrived.
There were many Tho estranged husband of Mrs. Gedeon, an upholsterer, was re-black at the five court-martials which lensed to-day after twelve hours are in permanent scasion in Malaga, questioning, as witnesses proved heThe trials are public. We entered one, of the court rooms unannounced (In- had won a rame of skeeball in a tavern at the Ume the murder was deed, unexpectedly, for we merely happened to pass that way) and being committed. "My wife and I were just friendly watched for some time the trial of
Afteen
Communists accused of murder enemies," said Gedeon to-day,
The Court consisted of a Gedeon quarrelled with his wife, and arson. when their daughter Veronica was judge of the rank of major and of married at the age of sixteen to three assessors, of whom, I think, two
The
accused Robert Flower, owner of a bowling were
defended by a military officer and shorthand A writer took notes. The proceedings "grilled" during the night by de- tealives, but none supplied any were explained to us by an inter- clues.
prater, and although I would not grey-haired presume to express an opinion as to Later they sought a man with ape-like hands and flesh the fairness of a trial in a foreign wounds. Some grey hair was found largunge, It was obvious that the on Veronica's body, and it is thought prisoners. case was being heard in she may have fought for her life.
civilians.
alle Flower was among fifty people prosecuted by another.
detail.
were
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