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DANCER SUES A STUDENT PRINCE

£3,500 "BREACH" CLAIM

Paris, Apr. 30.

The romance of a Prince

of Cambodia (French Indo gian dancer with whom he

China) with a beautiful Bel-

fell in love while he was a law student in Paris, was re- vealed in a breach of promise case heard in the Paris courts to-day.

THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH.-MONDAY, MAY——4,

BLONDE'S"

FIERY

TEARS AS THEY WERE READ AT MURDER TRIAL

Shot Banker's "I Miss Your

Lips, Your Kisses"

New York, Apr. 20. PASSIONATE love-letters, written and received by Vera Stretz, the "icy blonde," were read during to-day's dramatic hearing of the New York "skyscraper murder" charge.

One passage brought tears to the eyes of the statuesque secretary of 31 whose iron composure has earned her nickname and who has confessed that she shot her employer-lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, a wealthy Gorman economist and banker, in his 21st-storey flat. Milo, Gellhan, whose stage|

Women, most of them young, in broken sentences of events name is Vera Barlow, claimed

Gebhardt's £3,500 from Prince Norindeth who thronged the courtroom, which occurred in

Miss apartment on the fatal night of Norodom, of Cambodia, alleging craned their necks

with 4 revolver shots, that, after promlaing to marry Stretz, neatly dressed in blue November 11, when she killed him her, he suddenly hurried back silk, took the witness-stand. to his kingdom and became a priest in the Elephant Moun- tuin."

The notion was brought on be-i half of the dancer by her father- in-law, M. Tryens, who declared: pag- "This young Prince fell sionately in love with Mile, Gell- han. He said they would live happlly in Cambodia.

"Then a audden fit of mysticism seems to have assailed him, and hla he left Paris to Journey to

YOWA of a country to tak" the secret order."

For the Prince it was pleaded that the case should be decided in the courts of Cambodia, and judgment was postponed for six weeks.

5,100-MILES "HOP" IN

SUB-STRATOSPHERE

ATLANTIC AIRMAN'S

PLAN

New York, Apr. 30. Mr. Clarence Chamberlin, who in 1927 flow from New York to

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She declared that Gebhardt in- They watched her counsel, Mr. duced her by a telephone call to Samuel Leibowitz-"America's visit him in his room on the pre- Marshall-Hall"-pick up an un-text that he was . expurgated version of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover," and noted her nod as he asked if she had read "This glorification of physical love." Passages from the book were

included in letters which passed between the lovers while Dr. Gebhardt was in Europe last year

1936

LETTERS

-AIR-RAID WARNINGS

Crowds screwed up their faces and plugged their enra at Hendon one day last month, when types of air raid warnings wore tested. The syren, one of these tried out, is of the type used by French firemen.

"LIKE A CIRCUS TROUPE"

bused Queen Mary

When she appeared, with__a cont thrown hasily over her night gown, he threatened her. As he seized her by one hand, the revolver which she held went off. Gebhardt fell on the bed and she shot at him again,

After making this stateme it,

Stewards

Complain

Their Jackets And The Cost

Are Too Far Too

High

Gay

on a visit to his wife and two Vera Streiz broke down in cun- STEWARDS on the Queen Mary are to have special uniforms, and

children.

en-

From

Vera Stretz squirmed in barrassment 1629 extracts Gebhardt's letters were read; she became even more uncomfortable when her own letters to him were produced by the defence in effort to prove that she was ex- pecting to be married to the doctor.

"I Miss Your Voice"

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In one letter she described having found a flat which would enable Gebhardt to live on floor and herself on the other, and, Indded:

one

"When you feel you've had, enough privacy you may desirend winding steps at the back and And me waiting."

"Every,

Dr. Gebhardt replied:

every gesture."

Berlin, accompanied by Mr. Cline is a piece of you-every word, Lovine, announced to-day his plans for 5,100-miles sub-atrato- sphere flight from Dallas (Texas) to Paris in June.

Mr. Chamberlin says he wishes to test the benefits of flying in the lighter air. The aeroplane will carry

navigator and a radio act and 1,6001 Kallons of potrol. Two thousand, Kallons of fuel will be nerded," says Mr. Chamberlin, so I shall probably refurl over New York."

Liquid oxygen will be sealed in the neroplane for use at high altitudes.

Australians Seek

To Solve Problem Of Young Hoboes

Sydney, Apr. 30.

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In a second letter, hoping for wrote in

word at Hamburg, he rhapsody:

"It is very difficult to live only on your letters ur your! words of love. I do miss your volce, your lips, your kisses, Vera my dear."

It was the reading of this note which brought tears to the ey blonde's eyes.

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Again, the lovesick man wrote: "Your letters are wonderful source of pleasure and power. You suit me in your lettera. Love and-a-hundred-thousand-kisses-all-

yours. Fritz."

O11 another wrote:

occasion

Vera

"Then" (Gebhardt's wife] "ioves you too much for us to hurt her all our lives. Our dreams must

The depression brought into be forgotten." existence in Australia a new class i

Without sparing any details,

-the "hobocs" of the road-and Vera Stretz testified with sobs and

now, although economic recovery has been largely achieved, the "hoboca" remain as a social prob. lem with which the Australian Governments have to wrestle.

Diviner

Hunts For Treasure

in

vulsive sobs.

Trousers, In New

there is laughter and annoyance at sea about the matter.

Not Breeches, R.A.F. Uniform

THE Air Miniatry yesterday issued details of the R.A.F.

"dress reform" to be introduced this year.

Trousers, or "slacks," will replace breeches and puttees for all ranks on all occa- sions. Field boots are to go.

Open-necked tunica, of the type now worn by officers and sergeants, will be worn

by all ranks,

Blue-grey collars and black ties will be worn by all ranks. The present white collars worn by officers will be scrapped in the interests of laundry economy,

The present peaked cap will be retained for care- monial occasions. On all other duties a field service cap of the old Royal Flying Corps type will be worn. This can be adapted for use as un improvised flying hel- met.

In bad weather, men will wear- biao cũnvas gaiters of“ naval type.

The Old

The New Officers will begin to change uniform on May 1. The order for change becomes compulsory on September 1, at which date the other ranks will change.

VIEWING THE NEWS.

San Francisco, May 1. Scanning the horizon with the News-o-scope reveals some out of-the-ordinary happenings that might be worth giving a second glance.

The laughter is caused by the (style of uniforms prescribed. Some of the men will be dressed in mess jackets with red collars, with, in some cases, lettering in other contrasting colours.

"We slull look like a troupe of sireus horas," writes one of the men likely to be transferred to the boat.

The annoyanco is due to the com- pany's insistence on special uniforms. After the war, the shipping com- panies got together and agreed on a Blandard uniform.

For the Queen Mary, however, the Cunard-White Star management has broken away from that arrangement, and men transferring to the ship will find their present equipment useless.

There is to be a new type of tuxedo. jacket for day wear and a mess jacket for evening use, and waiters and public room attendants will need · four of each.

The eight will be supplied for £5 128 and £1 will be deducted from wagen nt the end cach of the first Avo voyages and · 128, at the end of the sixth. The men_will be required to sign a hire-purchase agreement.

Bedroom and engineers' stewards are to have a new pattern coat simi- lar in colour and material to the waiters" jacket, but with a red collar, and each man is to carry at least

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A similar coat but with lettering in, contrasting colours on the collar must be worn by bathroom stewards, boots, clothes-pressers and gardener, The suggestion has already been made to the management that the proposed financial arrangement is a contravention of

Act, the Truck which forbids any interference by an employer with the way his employco spends his wages.

But, apart from that, there is strong resentment at departure from standard uniform. An this means further encroachment on the mon's pay.

In New York, the Frank Bouchers of modern machinery, In asking for a bad, bold bandit fired one close to have announced that Jerry, their an increase of payroll, he charged Lipking coffee-drinking sparrow-very little that addressing, billing and posting Lipkin swung a baseball bat to the head during a robbery, cream, please is on a regular machines purchased two years ago bandit's head in anger. Now, the diet of steak, potatoes, eggs, butter for $100,000 were alowing down the bandit is said to dread bats. home-life of this feathered into the work in his office.

"feathered-phenom' it's learned that the Bouchera ac- quired Jerry four years ago, and that

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Clarence Warren, of

The swagman ("swaggie") or "sun- downer" has long been a feature in the outback-generally he is a lone elderly man, humping his swag of blankets from settlement to settle-;

Portsmouth, Apr 26. ment, from farm to farm, doing al sometimes an educated in for food. TWENTY members of a unique

man fullen |

And a Chicago judge has ordered -expedition are to shil from high estate through drink, dis-

one of their local dad men to have honesty, or other cause.

search of buried treasure, and

after months of training he now (ME), still slivers at the sound Wilson, 19, robbed a candy

his head examined. Recently Bernard store Many Companions If they fail to find the treasure comes to the table and cats whatever a drain whistle. Recently Warren's clerk of 38. Later he returned half But while the swaggle" still is they will dstablish a self-they have for dinner, Jerry does, truck skidded at a crossing, and a found, with his roll of blankets, & supporting colony on a South however, draw the line on two things train ripped off the fenders, Warren the money, saying was enough to panniken, and (nearly always) Seas island.

with which he'll have nothing to do got out, wined perspiration from his Judge J. M. Braudo ordered a mental take care of pressing obligations, brow and noted that no damage had test for Bornard. dlog, to-day he has many companions

been done to his cargo, and heaved was 7 tons of dynamite.

of the road-the youthful to middle- The leader of the band is Mr.1

country."

onions aml beer.

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Newhall,

Ogden, Utah; An irate Idaho father who sat in a car drinking his beer while his daughter eat in A cafe, drinking her milk on a recent Sunday puzzled over Utah laws that spilt his family at mealtime.

nged adventurers, who, unemployed George Cooknell, a diviner, of So much for bird life. Now pondera sigh of relict. Oh, yes, his cargo in the elties, some of them unem-Coventry. He feels certain that this mere man gets in the last ployable, have ventured into the his methods will locate the word!

J. W. Cargile, of Tulsa, Oking, had Visalia, (Ca), contributes this: These men live on Government treasure which pirates are said an argument with his wife at home Civilian Conservationer Ray Williams provided food relief, to walch unem to have left on Cocos Island, in but finished second in the close-ups. eyes bulged when he opened his pay So being manager of a sound equip envelope and Tcund a salary check for ployed men are entitled, increased the Pacific Ocean.

|ment ́ advertising firm, Mr. Caigile | $200,000.22. But not for long-gov. "I can't sell a bottle of milk undor. by food begged, bought, or stolen ns

commandeered one of his own cars, ernment officials took back the check Sunday closlag ordinaness here, but the opportunity, offers. They steal

drove back to his home and through before Williams recovered his equili- if you bring your little girl in, she riden on trains and often goods in

the loud-sneaker, goured loud enough brium, explaining a slight mistake can drink a glass of milk," the cafe transit often they get caught and spend a few days in lock-ups. There

to be heard by all Vinred out; had been made in the bookkeeping proprietor told him, "And I can' "Mrs. Cargile, I won't be home until sector. They did promise Ray would sell you a bottle of beer, but under seems little doubt about the per-

6 o'clock and that's final.” Some re- get his regular $86 walary check for the liquor laws, you will have to drink manence of this class, and authorl-

parteel

his month's labour' a little later, it outside," he added, ties, are concerned about means to

"What kind of a town is this any bring them back into society.

Fessel Lipkin, of Kansas City, way?" the father anorted.---United

Press.

The expedition is being capitalised at about £10,000, and negotiations are TOW going on for a sultable ex«

at pedition vessel

Ports- mouth...

Mr. D. D. Curle, of Burlington Mansions, Southsea, is one of the

In Cleveland, O., John Doyle, Conference At Sydney party setting out on this modern county treasurer, doesn't think much dreaded guna. Always had. So when The Queensland Minister for La-version of Treasure Island.

bour, Michael P. Hynes, speaking at

THE COLONISERS

a recent conference in Sydney on "If the treasure is recovered," unemployment, said that this hobo clans mostly comprised youths who he

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said recently, "the .whole

left school and were without em- party will return to Britain, but loyment, who were too independent should wa fall the whole party' to stay at home and take the bread will proceed to an island 000 out of the mouths of others, and who miles south of the Cocos Island, ultimately embarked the adver- and there form a solf-supporting turous career of "jumping the rat colony which it is hoped to make iler."

They now actually had an organ-independent of all outside sup isation of their own, with a direc-plies."

tory, explaining to them, for ex-

umple, where they were to go, where

they could get food, clothing and

The states are awake to the prob-

gifts at farms and sheep stations, lem and are endeavouring to find a and how they could evade restric-way out for the benefit of the wan Ilons in their applications for relief. derers and the states themselves.

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