1936-08-07 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

7, FRIDAY, AUGUST

1936.

SHOT BLONDE'S AMAZING DIARY SECRETS Desperately In Love With Al Capone's Aide-de-Camp

WIFE THREATENS "I'LL GET YOU" Chicago 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 tilled Miss Vallette have identified her from photographs as Mrs. Ruth Freed.

She is the wife of a man with whom the shot girl is beloved

to have been in love,

The man is Edward

Freed,

LIVES!

owner of a night clube-a formT FELL FOUR STOREYS- aide-de-camp of Al Capone, The notorious gangster now in gqol, cables 13 correspondent Chicago,

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The diary revealed that Miss Val- Jette was deeply in love with it.. Both Freedt til fat wife ne bhardles

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Freed Theù altorney Says Mr. will surrender after she has find t opportunity at seeing her husband, who, he states, has left the city but wifi rebar on Monday.

Chicago is deeply interested, for some of the best-known names

11 city society are mentioner! diary.

J'olice deleted names from the extracts public.

111 The kary made

New York, July 31. Eugene Nester, a fourteen years

old boy, was flying a kite on the roof

of a five-stary apartinent house in

BrunIN.

th

He and thrown the kite tuto the wit and was euthing backwards on the roof to get 15 larue when he steppes, off the evenice and sat ante

-pince.

storeys

To m

Be dragged foo out of an extension, where a clothr line aught has by nad of his

in

ht

Miss Vallette, who was a Birre ul famestas Elbert tierry, the steel mag- nate, is embarrassingly frank in ber memoirs,

Mi

NIGHT CLUB ROUNDS She di clones all the detal her close friendships with many men, excrgive drinking and wild parties, Dag after day with different men 145 the she nd made the units night clubs,

12

Such phrases as We drank pink" "Had another pint," and "We got drunk," appeared frequently.

She told of a night club where her friend "Lillian got awful drunk and wandered down floor na naked."

popular

She had been 100 the Michigan resort of Cedar Lake and "would love to have a cottage there this summer.

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

While various inen filed in and out of her gay life, it was "Faldie" who dominated the diary. A few months --uga- alie-wrote, "Awakened at neon to- day alongside my Eddie. It was sweet having him with me like that. I think he is one swell guy and with he belonged to me."

Anather time she wrote that, Eddie's wife had called, and "she ought to know," obviously refer

to her own infatuation for

rink

Eddie,

Police may they have established that the night before the murder Mrs. Free visited her hasband's night club, The Nuthon, and volently tore her own photograples from the wall of her husband's ellicos,

Sho had serntched his free and stormed out, yelling: "Il come back and give it to you both."

A little inter, according to other witness, a blogie, who might have been Mis Vallette, left by side trance.

OTHER WOMAN'S VOICE

Before this, police say, Mr. Freak who had been visiting her mother in New York, Jelephoned to her husband at their Chicago fla

woman answered the phone, Taking her mother with her, Mr». || Freed immediately flew back by acru plane to Chicago and accused husband of infidelity in a stormy, threatening interview,

Although the pullen have kept the secret of the names in Miss Vallette's diary, they have not aje -

A

Shot Himself in

League

Hall

as a Protest

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

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 severni : Assembly Hall of the League of Nations during the debate days ago. After making friends with

party of American Bhodes scholars on Sanctions, and died at 8.30 to-night.

he mid to have told them that he

wat ennerted with the tuyal Family and that threat of blackmail by

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

well-known netress night involve him here as correspondent of a Prague newspaper,

in grave mildic seandal.

Sympathy of the Ameriena party was aroused. To assist him the

Before he died he declared that his object in shooting him- self was to protest against the treatment of Jews in Germany, raled £86-in order that, as he said, and to call the world's attention to their sufferings. We might leave the country.

When the sum was raised no ae companied one of his undergraduate !

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

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

friends to london. Then after an' ment,

meal in

fashionable expensive restaurant he disappented.

To-day the 11n cancerned in the nye nyouding every Ho-ible hows avenge through which their names But their may receive publicity. friends in a typlent Anierican way she greatly amusist at the success of the? Ingun guvent venture,

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

Schoolmaster's Daughter

Becomes "Princess of the Don".

READY? JUMP !

Fallowing Russion methods, a great jumping tower has been erected in Czecho-Slovakia for parachutists, Similar towers will be greeted in every large town in the country.'

Girl's

“Arise And

tempted to hide the photographs Walk" Vision

on the walls of her hotel apart.

ment.

One of them bore the Inscription: Po Annabella great fellow.Max

BacT."

Another had the signature Harry Richman.

Calcutta, Aug. 1. ORIYA COLLIE, aged

twenty-one,

(By a Correspondruți

SOMETHING like a sensation

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

The title has been conferred by the Grand Duke Cyril, who is regarded by mest Russiar-legitimists as Tasur of all the Russias, and who in proclnna- tions from his "Court" at St. Brine,

in Brittany, refers to himself

"Heir of Tsars and Emperors,“

LP

+

Lady Deterding was the second of Sir Henri Deterding, the wife

Dutch all magnate. She Royal secured a divorce from him by May this year. Sir Henri has since mar Tried his former secretary.

No higher bonour could be con- the ferred on any Russian than 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 Plain in 1380.

UNSEEN WORKERS

Lady Deterdling is a Russing, of middle-class origin, Her father was | The cleaning of a great liner is an a schoolmaster

Turkestan.

.

Tashkent, in

extensive task involving thousands of people. The picture shown char

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

completing their task. Armenian. General. Bagratuni 5173 There was a divorce, and in 1924 she married Sir Hemi Deterding as his

were wife. There Secomi daughters of the marriage.

Lwo

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

· Siner their marriage in 1924 Sir; Henri han muintained at his own ex-

Titanic Fund Still Growing T

In the Brst moment of shock thể thought of all in the hall was of assassination, and the chief of the detretives stationed in the Assembly have the order, "Close all doors

ASKED FORGIVENESS

Then the President of the Assembly M. via Zeeland, Belgian Premter, broke the sllence by rapping on his | desk with his mallet, and calling out,

"Is there a ductor here**

: As he was carried from the ball Lux pointed to a brief gase which lay besle is sent.

In it the police found the letters. The letter to M. Avenal asks the Secretary-General's forgiveness "for the disturboire."

It was during the translation into English of a speech by M. Harcia, Spanish Foreign Minister, that we heard the shot, and then in a secand 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 confusion. Those nearest to him crowded round the wounded inni.

All the delegates jumped to their Teel and lett their seats, and shouted- questions to one another.

Alter had been taken from the

Lux hall 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 radiographic 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

age for duly at the Assembly meeting. He is 48 years few days

old und luis a wife and child.

Lux was conselous 'almöst til he died, and he told a Czeck colleague this afternoon that he had regrets save for his wife and fils 12-year-old and

no

He in

added: "It is all I could do to

was the announcement Fass, pense from 300 to 400 Russian stu- by Sir Herbert dents at the universities of Prag Public Trustee, that the

Titanic relief

fund still

Find Paris.

The

Grand Duke Cyril is a first

cousin of the late Taur. He is not, amounts to 2309,333 which led me to investigate the present position of disaster funds in this country.

| however, recognised as Tsar. hy all Russian monarchists, and there are some who question his right to confer titles.

was ad-DEFIED TEAR- mitted to Chinsurah Hos- GAS-GAVE U.S.A. Film Censor pital, Caleutta, with a badly

fractured thigh.

and the Pope's Encyclical

Hollywood, July 31. Mr. Will nya, the U.S.A. Dim censor,

refuses to make any

The senior surgeon decided on

a major operation..

ed all night..

IN TO HUNGER

It is a remarcable story which reflects the great readiness of the public to holp those in dis- trees.

Most funds, of course, created after colllery disasters.

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were

FOR fourteen hours a native in Next in value are the funds collected Durban defied the police, the great liner dispsters of the pre- help dependants of, those lost 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 Titanic fund,

place.

the staff

When morning came were astonished to see the patient official comment at present on the dancing merrily in the ward.

She explained that, exhausted

encyclical addressed by the Pope to American Catholic bishops on the subject of films and film censor with weeping and praying, she fell ship.

He wishes first to have an opportunity of pórusing the com- plete text.

| asleep at dawn. ̧*

A vision touched her thigh and ordered her to arise and walk. She

A medic

It was stated unofficially on be obeyed. half of Mr. Hays that he regarded

examination to-day' the Popu's action as a tacit endorse- ment of the film Industry's own revealed no signs of the fracture, censorship plan.-Reuter.

and the girl was discharged..

auri the

to

there is the Empress of Ireland fund, with a reserve of £95,000 for The man, knowing he was wanteil, sixty-eight dependants, erept under a house. It was because Lusitania fund, with £23,750 the pollen thought he was armed that support fourteen dependants.

The

of the they threw the bombs.

most recent report Ministry of Mines shows that ninety-

At last the native knocked against seven colliery disneler funds have n sheet of iron behind which he was total balances of £1,005,000. There roncealed, and said he would sure are 1,549 dependants.

From these two sections 1,880 de- render because he was hungry!

"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 £700 wards. "Though we only got whiffs for every dependant. of the gas it affected our eyes.”

Sixteen, years ago the Titanic fund totalled £268,671, with 881 depend- In Durban houses are built On 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,

help,

nany. Friends of Lux describe him as a good-looking, very tall man, well of, in a good position and happily married.

20 YEARS IN GERMANY

Lux had lived for nearly 20 years. in Germany, and was a member of staff of a Left Wing pacifist review

Germany and the treatment of the in Berlin, where he was married.

Nazi persecution drove him from; Jews by the Nazis played on his mind.

He had lived in Vienna, but had not been there since 1933. A friend deseribes him as "friendly and good- natured, but nervous,"

He was bor 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 missing for 25 years called on his mother this week at Fleet Road, South Bendlect. She believed him to be dead na he had been reported killed while serving in the Navy at

atland in 1916.

Mrs. Warren who is 8suld she could hardly believe he had, come back.

Mr. Evans said he was at Jutland and during the War served in three wurahipa..

Which ships they were and what he had been doing alnce was his business. He would give further information.

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