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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER.

Vanderbilt

HOWARD RADIO

Legal Battle Over

MRS. WHITNEY

Ex-King Of Spain To Become A Grandfather

Millions

PARALLELS

IN U. S. HISTORY

MOTHERS OFTEN

the

WIN

"

New York, Dec. 5. Unless the best-established legal precedents are upset by fourteen high-priced lawyers, in the Vanderbilt- farce- Whitney Morgan drama, slim little. Gloria Vanderbilt and her fat in-l 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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The courts of the nation, and especially of New York State, have broken wills, overthrown agree- ments, and even ignored moral turpitude to restore children to their mothers. The courts have gone counter to the wishes of the and have children themselves overridden religious differences to observe that "highest of natural human privileges, the right of, a parent to a child,"

MRS. VANDERBILT

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

MOTHER NEEDS MONEY Because Mrs. Vanderbilt d- mittedly is wholly dependent for support on allowances to be made from the Reginald C. Vanderbilt THE WOOLSTON.CASE

estate left to his only child, Paris, Dec. 10.

In 1929, for example, there was "Gloria," those who are contesting Friends were said to-day that For- mer King Alfonso of Spain expects to the case in which Mr. Grace Eher right to her child charge that Woolston, a Catholle, took action

interest is something more be a grandfather twice by spring

her sister-in-law, Misa than cloying maternal affection. They said that Beatrice, wife of against

Woolston, a Protestant. And yet, if precedents are followed, Princess Allesandro Tarlunia awaits Miranda a baby February while the wife of because, the Intter refused to re-no court is likely to heed a possible Consider the Jaime, the former Emanuela Beda tarn Mrs. Woolston's two children.

mercenary motive. piere will beeume a mother in.April~ Wesley, 9, and, June Laura, 10. legal battle over Diane Duff Frazier

The defendant replied that the and her fortune: fehlldren preferred to live with her; When Frank Duff Frazier, à

Aviated.

SALESMAN SAM

GLORIA

that she had given them a mother's

ber

Duff

love and care during the years their Wall Street broker, and his wife separated in 1924, he was real mother had been in a 'sani- weru tarium. She had brought up the given custody of their child for two weeks in every year. children as Protestants. She also unly contended that their mother was They were divorced in 1926. Short- immoral and unfit to care for them ly afterward, Diane's paternal

Airs. Clara because she had borne an illegi-grandmother, timate child after leaving her Frazier, died and left the child husband some years before. The $6,000,000, 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 He said: to spend the fucome from the trust.

fund.

RELIGION NO ARGUMENT

MOTHER WON CUSTODY

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1. A raml famous before the days of advertising, this magic sword. 5 Bufalo as In America.

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14 All parties have done this to

their views.

15 Oficial, not found in villages.

16 Beggar says he can't reform.

gentleman at heart, but

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No

fence

children to the mother, "These children, owing to tender age, are incapable of appreciating what is best for their welfare. The

Then began a long squabble for fact that they have learned to love

8 Tan, in short, out of the garden. their aunt cannot control against the custody of Diane. Each par-

to prove the 10 Many women who can't the wishes of the mother seeking ent went to court

other's unfiness. Until the father's

are good at thin. custody of her own children..

in 1933, and even 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 his will, Frazier 16 Humanity at large secins bene-

to estrange mother and

17. custody of her children born con- sought

daughter by leaving Diane a for-

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by chicks and taken by [cededly in lawful wedlock."

tune on the condition that she did

priers Inot live with her mother.

20- Sounds like kitchen wäre. The latter, who had remarried 22 Joins in carpets. The thatter of religion, the court and was now Mrs. Frederick Wat- 23 Heaps are applicable to this. reted. "is not controlling when rias, fought the will and obtained 24 He makes the most of Emily. it-la-clear that temporal advanta-full legal guardianship of the 28 Bad omen (anag); ges will result in placing the chlid-daughter and also supervision of 20 The second may lead to the first,

and then one gets the bird.. the various trust funds. Last year 30 Antique dresser. There are close similarities be- Florida court set Diane's per al Mystic number of trees in Kent. tween the Woolston and Vander-sonal income, and her mother's bilt cases. In the current proceed-drawing account, at $92,215 an- Ings, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vander-nually... bilt, a Catholic, has been charged

Gloria Vanderbilt' now is the by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, a Protestant, with lax morals, and second-richest youngster, for the with neglect of her child. Little courts allow U.S.$18,000 of her in- Gloria has lived with her aunt, come to be spent anitually. Mean- Mrs. Whitney, during the past two while, however, an additional $50,- years, has been brought up in the 000 is pilling up ench twelve months Episcopal faith, and has expressed against the time when she la 21 desire to continue ving on the and can live how and where she

chooses. Whitney estate on Long Island.

ren with others.""

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