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SHOT BLONDE'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1936.

AMAZING DIARY SECRETS

Desperately In Love With Al Capone's Aide-de-Camp

WIFE THREATENS

"I'LL GET YOU" Chicago Society

Society Fears "Shocking" Revelations

London, July 25.

NIGHT life in Chicago and the butterfly existence of beautiful, blonde Audrey Vallette are vividly por- trayed in a little black diary which the police are studying in an effort to trace the person who shot Audrey as she sat up in bed in her negligee eating her breakfast.

Witnesses who saw a woman run from the hotel after a revolver bullet had killed Miss Vallette have identified her from photographs ap Mrs. Ruth Freed.

She is the wife of a man with whom the shot giri is believed

to have been in love.

* The man is Edward Freed,

owner of a night club-a former FELL FOUR STOREYS aitie-de-camp of Al Capone, the

notorious gangster now in gaol.

cables

Chiengo,

# correspondent

al

LIVES!

New York, July 31. Eugene Nestler, a fourteen-ye The diary revealed that Miss Val-old boy, was grin a kite on the roof lette was deeply in love with him,

of a livestorey apartment house in Both Freed and his wife are 1: The Bronk. hiding

Freed attorney mys Mrs. will surrender after she has had an opportunity of seeing her husband, who, he states, has left the vity but will return on Monday.

Chicago in deeply interested, for some of the best-known names in the elty anclety are mentioned in dlary.

Police deleted names from the extracts af the diary made public.

Mies Vallette, who was at rise of famous Elbert Gerry, the steel mat- nate, in embarrassingly frank in heri memoirs.

NIGHT CLUB ROUNDS

She disclose all the tails of! her clase friendships with many men, scessive drinking and wild parlles, Day after day with different men of the she had made the rounds night clubs.

Such phrased as We drank a pint," "Hud another pint," and "We get drunk," appeared frequently.

She told of a sight club where her friend "Lilian gof awful drank and wandered down floor naked."

to the had been She

popular Michigan resort of Cedar Lake an "would love to have a Lottage there.

this summer.

"If wasn't so tight he'd do it, He surely owes it to me."

While various men filed in and out was "Eddie" whin

of her gay life,

dominnto the diary. A few months age she wrote, "Awakened at noon to-

day alongade my Eddie. It

Wes

sweet having him with me like that. 1 think he is one awell guy and wiali he belonged to me."

Another time she wrote that Eddie's wife had called, and "she ought to know," phriously refer- ring to her own infatuation for

Eddie. Police say they have established that the night before the murder Mrs. Free visited her husband's night club, The Nuthouse," and volently Lore her own photographs from the wall of her husband's offices.

Sho had seratebed his face and stormed out, yelling: "I'll come back and give it to you both."

A little later, according to other! witnesses, a blonde, who might have been Miss Vallette, left by a side en- trunce.

OTHER WOMAN'S VOICE

Before this, police say, Mrs. Freed, who lud been visiting her mother in New York, telephoned to her husband at their Chicagò flat.

A woman answered the 'phone. Taking her mother with her, Mrs. Freed immediately flew back by new- husband

He had thrown the kite into the

and was running backward on the roof to get it air-borne when he stepped off the cornice and let inter

sparve

To the He dropped four storeys out of an extension, where a clothes. line caught his body ani enved his lif

Shot Himself in

Hall as

OXFORD

ENJOYS

A HOAX

Oxford, July 21.

WHILE their fellow-Americans are greatly amused, those directly concerned and victimised! by the hoax of the bogus "Lord: Frederick Cambridge" at Oxford¦

··

JOYCE DENNY'S

League

Protest

JEW EXILED BY THE NAZIS

Death After Pistol Crack Alarmed the Assembly

Geneva, July 24.

A Jew who had been forced by Nazi persecution to are doing everything they can to become an exile from Germany shot himself to-day in the

conceal their identity.

The hoaxer visited Oxford neverni Assembly Hall of the League of Nations during the debate

days ago. After, making frimuls with

a party of Ameriena Rhodes scholars on Sanctions, and died at 8.30 to-night.

he is said to have told them that he

was connected with the Royal Family

He was Stefan Lux, well known as a journalist, and

and that a threat of blackmail by a

Sympathy of the American party

Before he died he declared that his object in shooting him-

well-known netrons might involve him here as correspondent of a Prague newspaper.

in a grave publie sean ini.

was groused. To assist him they self was to protest against the treatment of Jews in Germany, raised £80 in order that, na he said, and to call the world's attention to their sufferings." he might leave the country,

K

When the sump was raised he ac- companied on of his undergraduate friends to London, Then after animent.

fashionable exponsive men! in restaurant be dirnppeared.

To-day the men concerned in the iboux are avalding every possible

which their" nones | avenue through

But their receive publicity, may Friends in a typical American way are he greatly amased at the success of the bogus peer's venture.

In letters found after the shooting he made the same state-

These letters were addressed to King Edward, Mt. Eden, British Foreign Secretary, the President of France, M. Avenol, Secretary General of the League, and two English newspapers. After he had shot himself, and grasping a smoking revolver, shouted in French:

"Gentlemen, this is the last shot." Then he fell to the floor.

A Schoolmaster's Daughter

Becomes "Princess of the Don"

READY? JUMP !

Following Russian method, n great jumping lower has been erected in Carcho-Slovakia for parachutists, Shafilar towers will be erveted in every

large town in the country.

plane to Chicago fund loyer Girl's

of infidelity in a stormy. threatening interview.

Although the police have kept The secret of the nomea. In Miss Vallette's diary, they have not at- tempted to hide the photographa on the walls of her hotel apart-

inent.

One of them bore the inscription: "To Annabelle-a great fellow--Max Dacr,"

Another had the signature Harry! Richman.

Arise And Walk" Vision

Calcutta, Aug. 1.. RIYA COLLIE, aged was ad- twenty-one, mitted to Chinsurah Hos- pital, Calcutta, with a badly

U.S.A. Film Censor fractured thigh.

and the

Pope's Encyclical

censor,

Hollywood, duly 1.

to

The senior surgeon decided on a major operation.

(By a Correspondent)

SOMETHING like a sensation UNSEEN WORKERS

has been caused among exiled Russian monarchists in London and Paris by the conferment upon Lady (Lydia) Deterding of the title Princess Donskaia (Princess of the Don).

na

The title at heen conferred by the Grand Duko Cyril, who is regarded by most Russian legitimists as Tsar of all the Russias, and who in proclama- tions from his "Court" at St. Briae,

refers to himself in Brittany,

Heir of Tears and Emperora."

Lady Deterding was the second wife of Sir Henri Delenting the Dutch oil magnate. She Royal secured a divorce from him in May this year, Sir Henri has since mar-) ried his formser secretary.

No higher, honour could be con-1; ferred

on any Russian than tho title "Princess of the Don." It immediately suggests a comparison with Dimitri of the Don, the great Russian ruler who defeated the Tartars in the bloody battle of the Kalikoo Pinin in 1380.

Lady Deterding is a Russian of middle-class origin. Her father was The cleaning of a great liner is an a schoolmaster Tashkent, in extensive task involving thousands of Turkestan

pople. The picture shows char-

in

She married as her first husband women going down the ladder after

completing their task. General Bagratuni Armenian.

an There was a divorec, and in 1924 she married Sir Henri Deterding as his

twoj wife. There secomi daughters of the marriage.

were

Titanic

I understand that Lady Delerding Fund Still

has been elevated to her high rank by the Grand Duke Cyril as a reward for the generous help which she has given to Russian monarchists.

Since they marriage in 1924 Sir

Growing

Henri has maintained at his own ex- IT was the announcement

pense from 300 to 300 Russian stu

by Sir Herbert Fass, dents at the universities of Prague Public Trustee, that the relief fund still

and Paris.

The Grand Duke Cyril is a Arst Titanic

of the late Tsar. He la not amounts to £309,333 which cousin however, recognised no Tsar by all Russian monarchists, and there are led me. to investigate the some who question his right to confer present position of disaster

funds in this country.

tities.

DEFIED TEAR- GAS-GAVE

It is a remarkable story which reflects the great readiness of the public to help those in dis- tress.

Most funds, of course, were

IN TO HUNGER

created after colliery disasters FOR fourteen hours a native in Next in value are the funds collected Durban defied the police, the great liner disasters of the pre-

to help dependants of those fost in,

who, with 'tear-gas bombs, tried sent century,

The terrified girl wept and pray to force him from his hiding In addition to the Titante fund,

ed all night.

Mr. Will Hays, the U.S.A. film

When morning came the staff refuses make any were astonished to see the patient oleinl comment at present on the dancing merrily in the ward. ency-client addressed by the Pope to American Catholic bishops on the

She explained that, exhausted subject of films and Alm

with weeping and praying, she fell ship.

asleep at dawn,

ecnror-

He wishes first to have an

A vision touched her thigh and opportunity of perusing the com ordered her to arise and walk. She

plete text.

It was stated unofficially on be- obeyed. half of Mr. Hays that he regarded the Pope's action as a tacit.cndorse-.j ment of the film Industry's own revealed no signs of the fracture, (censorship plan.-Rentør.

there is the Empresa of Ireland place.

fund, with a reserve of 495,000 for dependants, aric the The man, knowing he was wanted, sixty-eight

fund, with £23,750 to It was because Lusitania erept under a house. the police thought he was armed that support fourteen dependants, they threw the bombs,

The most recent report of the Ministry of Mines shown that ninety- At last the native knocked against seven colliery disaster funds have

a sheet of iron behind which he was total balances of £1,095,000. There concealed, and said he would sur- are 1,540 dependants. render because he was hungry!

From these two sections 1,080 de- "We don't know how he stuck it," a pendants draw on funds totalling police sergeant said to Reuter after- £1,500,000, representing about £70 wards, "Though we only got whiffs for every dependant, of the gas it nffected our eyes." Sixteen years ago the Titante fund lotalled 268,871, with 081 depend- olt ants, Since then the number of de-" Props because of the white ant menace, pendants has fallen-to-256, while the This enabled the wanted man to hide value of the fund has increased by from his pursuers,

more than £40,000.

•

i.

A medien examination to-day

In 'Durban houses

aro built

und the girl was discharged.

In the first moment of shock the thought of all in the hall was 0% Assassination, and the chief of thes detretives stationed in the Assembly gave the order, "Close all doors."

.ASKED FORGIVENESS

Then the President of the Assembly, M. van Zeeland, Belgian Premier, broke the silence by rapping on its desk with his mallet, and calling out, "Is there a doctor here?*

As he was carried from the hall Lux painted to a brief ease which iny beskle his seat.

In It the police found the letters. The letter to M. Avenol asks the Secretary-General's forgiveness "for the disturbance."

Said a Duchess who lived in Mayfair Duke-

2-my

brush was revoltingly bare

So for two bob, my pet

I've bought

me a Jek

For I know that it won't lose its kair!

Tek

The

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It was during the translation, toes English of a speech by M. Barcia, Spanish Foreign Minister, that we heard the shot, and then in a second of silence saw the man rise to his feet among delegates, with the revolver in his hand.

A WAR BULLET TOO

For about ten minutes the hall was in confusión. Those nearest to him Crowdet round the wounded man.

All the delegates jumped to their feet and left their seats, and shouted questions to another. to one After Lux had been taken from the halt to hospital the meeting was re- sumed, with a patch of blood on the floor drying as the business continued. The man's bullet-wound was close to the heart. A radiographle exam- Ination reveals the presence of an- other bullet in his thorax, which he received during the war.

"ALL I COULD DO"

It is not yet known how Lux suc- ceeded in taking his place among the delegates. He arrived in Geneva a few days ago for duty at the Assembly meeting. He is 48 years old and has a wife and child.

Lux was conscious almost till he died, and he told a Czech colleague this afternoon that he had no regret save for his wife and kis 12-year-old noit

He added: "It is all I could do to help," referring to the Jews in Gor- many. Friends of Lux describe him as a good-looking, very tall man, wéli off, in a good position and happily marriesi.

20 YEARS IN CERMANY

Lux had lived for nearly 20 years

in Germany, and was a member of in Berlin, where he was married.

n staff of a Left Wing pacifist review

Nazl persecullen drove him from Germany, and the treatment of the

Julnud.

Jews by the Nazis played on his

He bud vad in Vienna, but. hnd- Inot been there sinco 1933, A friend describes him as "friendly and good- natured, but nervous." He was born in Czecho-Slovakia, in which country he was a naturalised subject.

"Dead" Son Asks For Lodging

London, July 28.. JOHN EVANS, an ex-service man niissing for 26 years called on his mother this week at Fleet Road, South Benfleet. She believed hini to be dead as he had been reported led while serving in the Navy at

Jutland in 1916.

Mrs. Warren who is 85 said 'she could hardly believe he had come back.

Mr. Evans suld ho was ai Jutland and during the War served in three. warships. AM

Which ships they were and what he had been doing since was his business. He would give no further Information.

SUNDAY AT THE

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