THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1989.
Curry, Shereme Court
Joan's Whispered Words To Judge Secure Her Divorce
"Franchot And I Still Friends"
New York, April 12.
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Gaily dressed in an orchid-coloured spring outfit Mrs. Franchot Tone màde a surprise appear- ance in a half-empty courtroom at Los Angeles to- day, whispered a few words about the behaviour of her socialite actor husband, and, in a few more moments, walked out of court as Miss Joan Craw- ford again.
Miss Crawford could not wait until next week for the divorce which she was denied when she applied for it a fortnight ago by proxy during her visit to New York and to her husband.
The judge, objecting to what he called “mail
SOVIET FLIER
ALOFT FOR 70 HOURS
Moscow, April 14. The well-known arctic flier Ivan Cherevichny, piloting a heavy twin-engined plane, yesterday completed a flight along the itin crary Moscow-Yakutsk-Verkhne- kolymsk-Yakutsk. The flier re-
mained aloft for about 70-hours, covering 12,000 kilometers.-Tass,
GERMANY CLAIMS AIR SPEED RECORD
Bomber's 321 M.P.H.
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It is claimed in Berlin that a German Junkers twin-engined bomber has set up a world record by flying 621 miles, with a pay load of two tons, at an average : speed of 321 mp.h.
The record was previously held successively by five Italian aircraft, fat a speed of 295 m.p.h.
The flight was made between the Junkers works at Dessau and the
U.S. AND BRITAIN Zugspitze mountain in Bavaria,
order divorces," insisted on Miss Crawford's ap- "BACK TO BACK"
pearance in court,
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2 luncheon of the American
To-day Mrs. Tone's large oval[mered a word or two, then said: Mr. Philip Guedalla, the author, eyes were downcast in silent ap-"I can only explain that in this at. proval when, in court, they read way: I hope I am intelligent enough Chamber of Commerce in London, over her charges that Mr. Tone was to be friendly with Mr. Tone, even said that America and Britain dis-
too though I cannot be married. unsympathetic to her career,
liked the same things. fond of a good time, and unreason-jshall always be friendly to him.
are both actors, and able when she wanted to stay at Why, we home and study scripts for her might be called on to work on the same set with him. We should have to be friendly.”
movies.
But there were no tears in those eyes, and
no nervousness in her tow, husky whisper as she answer- ed the court's questions.
"He left me," she said, when her lawyer asked how the separation began last July.
'HE STAYED OUT ALL HOURS'
"Did you consent to a separa- tion?" she was asked.
"No," she said firmly.
Miss Crawford testified that she made a pre-nuptial agreement that she should be allowed to continue with her career.
"And shortly after your mar- riage", "said her attorney, "when he asked you to go out socially and you were unable to do 80, what happened?"
out all hours..
"Wo do not like
To conform with the Inter- national Aeronautical Federation's regulations, the course was flown twice, once in each direction.
The bomber, it is stated, covered the double journey of 621 miles in 116 minutes.
LATEST BRITISH 'PLANES cruelty, we do not like common theft, and we re-
The speed claimed for the Ger coil from the same threat to peace, man bomber is greater than that freedom and ordered life.
of any British bomber that has yet "We find ourselves driven back been revealed, but it is consider- Craw- to back and facing the evil darkably slower than that of the Spit- After evidence by Miss ford's "stand-in," Kasha Haroldi forces which threaten the life of fire fighter, which is in the region (who might have been her twin the common man.
of 360 to 370 m.p.h. "The American knows he is The new long-nosed Blenheim sister), the judge said to Mrs. Tone:
to resume the use of American without having to take a bomber has a maximum speed of "You wish
name-Joan your maiden
Craw-blood test, or organise a torchlight (295 m.p.h. ford?"
tattoo. He knows the United States Performance figures for the "Yes," nodded Miss Crawford. is a great force without having to latest types of bombers now com- And a demurely smiling ex-Mrs. assure himself of the fact by ing into service with the R.A.F. Franchot Tone left the courtroom (knocking down a little one.” are still secrét.
a free woman again.
FRENCH AIR RUSSIAN GOLD FORCE TRAGEDY PROSPECTING
PARIS, TO-DAY.
FURTHER DETAILS ARE TO "When I refused to go out,” said HAND REGARDING THE Miss Crawford, “because I had been TRAGIC ACCIDENT INVOLV working so hard and was tired, he ING TWO BOMBERS OF THE became angry and went out by FRENCH AIR FORCE AT himself. He would not tell me TOURS ON SATURDAY. where he had been, and he stayed The machines, after colliding over the aerodrome, burst into "He refused to talk to me some-flames. The flames were so fierce times for two or three weeks.. that the airport personnel were "Then, after a quarrel, and be unable to approach the planes. cause of his insistence, we went It was the second crash with- partying around all night.
in 24 hours, a bomber with five I'M NOT THE MARRYING KIND' passengers having crashed late "He once said to me: 'I'm sorry the previous night near Beauvais, we married. Marriage was a mis-Trans-Ocean. take for me; I'm not the, marrying kind. I want my freedom."
"Naturally it worried me," went on Miss Crawford, "when I didn't know where he was. Sometimes I couldn't sleep, and it affected my appetite and interfered. with my work. I lost weight, and finally I had to call in the doctor.
FINE GLIDER CHANNEL CROSSING
London, To-day.
was
"On some occasions I had to leave the studio in the middle of my work because of my condition.' A fine gliding feat
There Judge Benjamin Sheinman achieved yesterday by an Eng referred to the many recent meet-lishman, Mr. Stevenson, who suc- ings between Miss Crawford and ceeded in crossing the Channel her estranged husband in New by glider. York night clubs.
He said: "You say your husband caused you much nervousness and mental anguish, How does it hap pen, then, that you were publicised -pictures were published all over
It was not the first time the Channel had been spanned by glider but the first occasion when a glider had been flown from England to France without a preliminary tow by an aeroplane.
the world having a Triendly din- Mr. Stevenson was launched from
EXPEDITION
MOSCOW, TO-DAY. SEVERAL PARTIES OF GEO- LOGISTS AND ENGINEERS ARE SHORTLY TO BE SENT BY THE SOVIET AUTHORITIES TO SIBERIA, AND THE URAL MOUNTAINS TO PROSPECT FOR GOLD.
One group, will go to Tschita ter-
ritory to work over 5,000 square kilometres of the unexplored Taiga
region.
With special equipment, a search will also be made for diamonds. Till now, diamonds have only been obtained in Russia as a subsidiary yield in mining for alluvial gold- Trans-Ocean.
POLICE RAID ON “PEEP-SHOWS"
All available one-cent peep-shows in the streets of the Colony were "raided" by the police yesterday and some 40 of these "wayside. movie- shows," including the "managers,” were taken into custody.
A police-van,, with police officers, toured the city yesterday with`` a special mission of clearing the city
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A LYRICAL LOVE AD- VENTURE ON. THE ISLAND OF BALI, A. LOTUS LAND IN THE
LANGUOROUS JAVA SEA !
"MAN'S PARADISE"
ADDED
"THE RIVER OF DEATH" An Adventure into the Wilds of South America.
with.
ALOHA WONDERWELL
WEDNESDAY
ner with him in New York after the ground at Dunstable and land- of exhibitions which are alleged to ALHAMBRA
these proceedings had started?"? ed near Boulogne, 126 miles away, have been displaying obscene pic-
Miss Crawford hesitated, stam-three hours later-Reuter.
tures..
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