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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1938,

MEMBER OF

OF PARLIAMENT AND WIFE OF LONDON MILLIONAIRE

POLO ACER FILOM MEXICO-Mexico's famed polo team on it arrived in San Francisco to play a series with an all-star California quartet. Left to right, with Dora, Major Antonio Nava, Captain Alberto Sesina, Lieutenant Joso Villalobos, Major Juan Gracia, Major Francisco Medina and Julio Muller, The team was a runner-up in the 1936 Olympic contesta.

Ferret Killed Their Baby

Parents Leave Dream House

UNTIL a polecat ferret attacked and killed their seven-month- old daughter, Mr. Benjamin Frankel, dance-band orchestra- tor, lived with his wife in a dream house.

It was the kind of house that was symbolised by the song: We want a little white room with a window by the sca;

It must ba the right room, the room for you and me We want a little bright room as bright as bright can be ... Beverley Nichols, famous writer of: "Since the loss of our daughter Page Two, wrote the words und Julla, my wife and I have decided to music for this hit number of leave the house as soon as we can," "Floodlight." Mr. Frankel orche-Mr. Frankel

Sunday told the strated it, and Frances Day, Sunday Chronlele. Chronicle beauty editress, sang it. "It would be impossible for us to

ONE COMFORT

be happy here again because of the The melody associated itself in tragie associations, Mr. Frankel's mind with the happl- nass he ind found Partridges," sixteenth-century house at Dadhurst. Sussex,

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"The

"We came to live here less than six months ago. It was the house of our dreams. Now..

"One comfort is that we still have Now the dream house is a dream our little boy, who is aged nearly

two." Jiouso no more.

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2 HUSBANDS

St. Clairsville, Ohio. Mrs. Mildred Ullom had twoj husbands for one

moment re- cently--but it was quite legal.

her son.

CHANCERY COURT HEARS OF MARITAL DIFFERENCES

London.

The long expected trial of matrimonial differences of Captain A. S. Cunningham-Reid, Conservative M. P. for Marylebone, and his wife, has commenced in the Chan- cery Court: There are further proceedings about to be taken in the Divorce Court but the present action does not affect these in any way. All it doos is deal with the in- come of the two parties.

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Captain Cunningham-Keld: She It would appear that Mrs. Cunningham-Reid was co- has the arrangement she desired.. heiress with her sister Lady LOVE LETTERS IN COURT Louis Mountbatten to the six

Although this particular lawsuit million sterling left by their started quietly, it is now breaking grandfather Sir Ernest Cassel.

up the newspapers, since Cunning-

Married at 20 when a Wardham-Reld's love letters have been in Chancery, the wife had a com-read in Court. As all of them seem paratively small allowance, but to have been inspired when these after marriage she had an in-law suits were impending and were come between £70,000-£90,000 typed by Captain Cunningham-Reid on the advice of his solicitor, I am not quite sure of the genuineness of most of them. The phraseology is just what newspapers love, and this sort of thing:-

a year.

It was necessary for the husband to pay most of the money for her trousseau and, he also paid for her wedding present to him.

position of

Mrs. Ullom was granted a divorce Immediately after the marriage, by Judge Clifford L. Belt on the con-however,, the financial dition she marry within six hours the two was completely changed. man who she said was the father of Captain Cunningham-Reid himself was not a poor man because prior very considerable Within six hours after the Judge's to the marriage ruling, Mrs. Ullom, her intended hus- sums were passing through his act band and a court balilff were at the count, up to £6,000 or £7,000 a year marriage St. Clairsville Methodist Episcopal and up to the time of the Church. The Minister finished the he must have had a capital of £30,- 000 including the settlement on his ceremony, the newly-weds kissed, wife. After the marriage the wife and the ballft handed Mes. Ullor came into money and enjoyed an in- her divorce decree.-United Press.

come far beyond that of her hus- bard.

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Philadelphia.

As she was very much in love with her husband she suggested that she ahould provide her husband with definite income and that any savings A "blood donors corps" has been should become his personal properly to formed by the 155 members of the and should be invested by him

A joint be- Henry H. Houston, 2nd Post, Ameri-build up a capital sum. can Legion, here. Purpose of the count was opened at Lloyds Bank. corps is to pledge itself to supply and elther the husband or the wife hlood for transfusions for any-mem- could sign cheques upon it. ber of the Post or their families.

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1935

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Over nearly ten yearn money was drawn out of the point account by Captain Cunningham-Reid, apart from establishment expenses, to the extent of £282,000. During the same time he paid into the joint Account £175,000, leaving a debit of

£107,000 roughly.

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"Darling I only got your note late at night as I had been hours with Barbara. How profitable that time with her would have been if it had occurred before, but now I know what a completo ostrich I have been. Do come back to me. You and I have bulit up so much together that is worth while that it would be terribly sad to give it all up. I have realised Occasions has that my attitude upset you. Mary, come back to me. At the worst, If I have forgotten my Jesson you have your remedy. I can always make you happy as I belleve I have done sometimes

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friend and my whole existence.'

Of course all the posters arc out with "M. P. and Sweetie”.

The case is not very edifying. It

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is not a very good recommendation of the hgher strata of society those less well-off and there is not much sympathy for anybody in it. At present it is briskly proceeding. and the Army of Council are raking. in huge fees."

CASE SETTLED

London, Later. The Cunningham-Reld case came

It was that money, or the property to a sudden end to-day, Just when represented by it, to which Mrs. the public was beginning to enjoy Cunningham-Reld now claimed to belt. Presumably both sides thought

calitled.

was never

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that there had been enough dirty linen washed and if there is to be TRUSTEES NOT TOLO

any more laundry work it is to

to be Counsel for the wife has suggested done privately, so far as the dispute that this joint account arrangement over eash is concerned. The other have communicated the legal proceedings to which Trustees of the estate, which seems alluded will be taken in due course. to be true, and there were plenty of Not a word "was stated in Court other suggestions, made in the case as to what the settlement was, except to the effect that everybody on the that the Judge remarked "I don't wife's side did not like the marringo | think, in the circumstances, I need at all. There is, however, no doubt say anything except that I congratu that the parties did like each other, įlate the parties on having agreed to and the following passage, is illum-end what I can only regard as very inating-

unfortunate Btigation." Counsel "You knew", suggested Sir Patrick alleged undue influence,

made it quite clear that neither side

fraud Hastings, "that by that time she was dishonesty. a very love-sick girl."

"We were in love with each other," said Captain Cunningham-Reld,

Sir Patrick:

You knew she was blindly Infatuated with you and would have done anything to please you? I knew she loved me.

To your knowledge she was abso-1 lutely blindly infatuated with you, and was seriously and gravely lil because of the attempts to prevent her marrying you?-I agree.

And within a week of the marriage

she was making to you large gift?That is so.

this very

I suggest that no honest man, if your story is true, could have kept this gift to himself and not told her faller or trustee.-1 say that it did not concern either of them,

Sir Patrick: When your wife had Ielt you, was this her position, that she had no house, no furniture, no investments, only two-thirds of her former income, and that you had got everything else in the world that hnd been bought out of the joint estate -except, of course, clothing?

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Capt. Cunningham-Reid was in Court but his wife was not. On the previous day on the best American lines, the papers were beginning to describe the "Court Scenes". might as well give this little passage which shows the sort of thing every- body was warming up to:-

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"Expensive, eccentric little hats from Bond-street, and Paris were swept from their wearers' heads und trampled underfoot, and the gowns of counsel, Including Sir Stafford Cripps. K.C., were tam in scuffles as women rushed the doors of the court. The corridor was thronged with expensively dressed women queuing for admission; row upon row of mink, Persian lamb, and silver, fox-wrapped women, filled the court, close na hothouse, behind slighti and auburn-haired Mrs. Cunning- hum-Reid.

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WORE NO JEWELS She wearing the plain black tailored cloth coat in which she first

the court

Tuesday, (altended.

would have been passed over sa millionairess for any one of a dozen other women who sat na spectators. Captain Cunningham-Reid: That She wore no jewels but a double is not true.

pearl ring on her marriage Anger, and a broad diamond clip gripping her black felt, close-fitting hat.

Pressed by Sir Patrick, Captain Cunningham-Reid said his wife had her jewels, her income, a comfort- uble hame, her husband and her children.

DEPENDS ON THE HUSBANDI

"Lots of women would like that and £70,000 a year", he added.

Two rows behind sat her step- mother, Lady Mount Temple, wear- ing blue-tinted spectacles, a magni-

flcent silver fox fur collar to her coa! and a trimming of the same fur on her upturned black hal. Mrs. Cun- ningham-Reid, her eyes dark and

"It depends upon the husband!"weary, her sdn pale, scarcely touched by make-up, sipped an occasional was Sir Patrick's retort,

gloss of water as she listened to the Sir Patrick referred to solicitors cross examination of her husband lettern, then said: "Listen to this and long legal arguments which filled and answer whether this was meant the greater part of the day's hear to be cynical, humorous or contemping. Now and then she scribbled on tuous: Our client does not claim writing pad aimless little designs, any of the cars or dogs that are now which she tore up and threw away at Six-Mile Dottom as his property." Inmedintely, the

Sir Patrick: Out of all the money Captain Cunningham-Reid in the of hors spent during those ten years, afternoon was joined by his mother, what has she got in the world ux-white haired, wearing a cape of cept her clothes, her jewels: and her silver fox, whom he kissed as sho

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