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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1935.

Legal Battle

MRS. WHITNEY

Ex-King

Of Spain To Become A Grandfather

Battle Over

Paris, Dec. 10.

Over Vanderbilt Millions

PARALLELS

IN U. S. HISTORY

MOTHERS OFTEN

WIN

New York, Dec. 5. Unless the best-established legal precedents are upset by the fourteen high-priced lawyers in the, Vanderbilt- Whitney Morgan farce- drama, slim little Gloria Vanderbilt and her fat in- heritance are about to have another Airing in the Court, Mrs. Vanderbilt's attorney this week applying for a rehearing in the Supreme | Court.

Actually, there is no known major development in the bitter battle which has not been closely paralleled by a previous case in which the mother emerged the winner.

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MRS. VANDERBILT

Possession may be nine points of the law, but it becomes a futile fraction when arrayed against a mother's rights.

The courts of the nation, and especially of New York State, have broken wills, overthrown agree- menta, and even ignored moral turpitude to restore children to their mothers. The courts have gone counter to the wishes of the have and children themselves overridden religious differences to observe that "highest of natural human privileges, the right of a parent to a child."

MOTHER NEEDS MONEY Because Mra. Vanderbilt nd- mittedly is "wholly dependent for support on allowances to be made THE WOOLSTON CASE from the Reginald C. Vanderbilt csinte left to his only child, In 1929, for example, there was "Gloria," those who are contesting Friends busy said to-day that For- mer King Alfons of Spain expects to the case in which Mrs. Grace Eher right to her child charge that

Woolston, berandfather twice by spring.

a Catholic, took' action her interest is something more

Miss

than They said that Beatrice, wife of against her sister-in-law,

cloying maternal affection. Princis Allyanndra. Torlonia awaits Miranda Woolston, a Protestant, And yet, if precedents are followed, a baby in February while the wife of because, the latter refused to re-no court is likely to heed a possible Jaime, the former Emanuela Beda-tarn Mrs, Woolston's two children.

mercenary motive. Consider the plere will become a mother'in April Wesley, 9, and June Laura, 10 logal battle over Diane Duff Frazler Asisted.

The defendant replied that the and her fortune:

GLORIA

SALESMAN SAM

DON'T WORRY MISTER!

"I'M COMING!

that she had given them a mother's

children preferred to live with her; When Frank Duff Frazier, a love and care during the years their Wall Street broker, and his wife separated in 1924, he was real mother had been ill in a sani-were tarlum. She had brought up the given custody of their child for two weeks in every year. children as Protestants. She also only contended that their mother was They were divorced in 1926. Short- nfterward, Dlane's paternal immoral and unit to care for them ly because she had borne an illegi-grandmother, Mrs. Clara Duff timate child, after leaving her Frazier, died and left the child husband some years before. The $5,000,000, to be kept in trust until she became of age. Just as in the husband subsequently had died..

But Supreme Court Justice Ed-Vanderbilt case, the person with ward R. O'Malley' restored the whom the child lived had the right children to the mother. He sald: to spend the income from the trust

fund. "These children, owing to tender age, are incapable of appreciating MOTHER WON CUSTODY what is best for their welfare. The fact that they have learned to love their aunt cannot control, against the custody of Diane. Each par: the wishes of the mother seeking ent custody of her own children.

Then began a long squabble for

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8 Itan, in short, out of the garden. went to court to prove the 10 Many women who can't fence other's unfitness. Until the father's

are good at this.

in 1933, and over after-11 Alert.

(Mrs. Woolston's conduct) is an death offence in the eyes of the law...ward, charges flew back and forth 12 Melt. however, I do not think it is a until there were eight volumes of 13 This isn't right. sufficient ground to deny her the testimony. In hla will, Frazier j 10 custody of her children born con-sought to estrange cededly in lawful wedlock."

RELIGION NO ARGUMENT

mother and daughter by leaving Diane a for-

tune-on the condition that she

did 18 at large seems bune-

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anecdotes.

by chicks and taken by

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not live with her mother,

120 Sounds like kitchen ware. The latter, who had remarried 22 Joins in carpets. The matter of religion, the court and was now Mrs. Frederick Wat- 23 Icaps are applicable to this. ruled, is not controlling when riss, fought the will and obtained. 24 He makes the most of Emily. it is clear that temporal advanta- full legal guardianship of the 28 Bad omen (anag.). ges will result in placing the child daughter and also supervision of 29. The second may lend to the first, ren with others."

the various trust funds. Last year 30 Antique dresser.

and then one gets the bird. There are close similarities be-

Florida court set Diane's per 31 Mystic number of trees in Kent. tween the Woolston and Vander-Bonal income, and her mother's bilt cases. In the current proceed-drawing account, at $92,215 an- Inga, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vander-nually. blit, a Catholic, has been charged

by Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, a Gloria Vanderbilt now is the Protestant, with lax morals, and second-richest youngster, for the with neglect of her child. Little courts allow U.S.$48,000 of her in- Glorin has lived with her aunt, come to be spent annually. Mean Mrs. Whitney, during the past two while, however, an 'additional $50,- years, has been brought up in the 000 is piling up each twelve months Episcopal faith, and has expressed against the time when she is 21 a desire to continue living on the and can live how and where she

chooses. Whitney estate on Long Island.

Now He Feels Cheap

HELP

HELP

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TAKE THIS DIME,SIR, AS A REWARD FOR SAVIN MY LIFE!

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