Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1935, Page 6

MDIVANI KILLED BY AUTO N SPAN Woman With Ex-Husband‘ of Barbara Hutton Crit- ically Hurt. By the Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain, August 2— Prince Alexis Mdivani, 3i, divorced husband of Barbara Hutton and one of the most colorful figures of inter- national society, died today 85 dramatically as he lived. The Georgian prince was killed in- stantly and his pretty young woman companion was injured critically in an automobile accident after bhe volunteered to drive the woman, who had missed her train, to her home in Perpignan, France. E The couple left the palatial hom at Palamos of Mdivani's sister, Mrs Jose Maria Sert, where the woman had been a house guest, shortly be- fore last midnight. Car Plunges Into Gully. Roaring toward the French border., Madivani's powerful roadster struck & culvert in a winding road at Albons Gerona Province, and plunged into a deep gully. Two hours later, just as her last guests were leaving, Mrs. Sert Was notified by telephone that a motorist had found an overturned car and that a body had been taken to an un- dertaking establishment at Albons The girl, believed to be dying from her injuries, was taken to the Gerona Clinical Hospital. The prince’s sister, wife of a noted Spanish mural painter, ordered her own car and went immediately to the mortuary. It was believed she would have the body removed soon to her Polamos home. Surgeons performed an emergency operation on the prince’s injured com- panion in an atiempt to save her life. Suffering from a fractured skull | she was still unconscious at 6 am and hospital attendants said there was little chance for her recovery. Attendants who prepared her for the operating room said they found no documents of identification. Un- til they could communicate with Mrs. | Sert there was no way of establish- | he injured girl. | Question. 5 said che was an attrac- tive brunette, about 25 years old and French. Servants at the however. said they be- Leved her to be German. Although Mdivani frequently drove from Paris, where he made his head- quarters, to visit his sister, he was little known in Spain, except among 2 few intimate friends with whom he occasionally played polo he prince’s visits, especially during hus estrangement from Barbara Hut- ton, American ss to the Wool- worth millions, now married to Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, were made in greatest secrecy. His friends co-op- | erated to enable him to cloak his movements successfully. The prominence apparen Sert ho of Mdivani's 20¢ » ruut THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Copyright, R v Crash Victim and U. S. Wives LEGION PARADE PLANS ANNOUNCED Nine Marching Units Will Be in Line Next Thurs- day Night. Nine marching units with bands, floats and Cavalry will participate in a parade next Thursday night featur- ing the seventeenth annual conven- tion of the District Department, American Legion. | Parade orders issued today by Col. | Kenyon A. Joyce, grand marshal and commander of the 3d United States Cavalry, called for assembly at 6:45 p.m., with the parade to start at 7:15 p.m., rain or shine. Unusual Line of March, The line of march will be somewhat unusual. customary parade route up Pennsyl- | vania avenue to Fifteenth street and either south to Constitution avenue or north to Pennsylvania again, the Legion will turn off Pennsylvania at | | Thirteenth street, move northward to | K street, westward to Connecticut FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935. On the Ethiopian Front Italians Try to Discourngé Writer From Entering Ethiopia—First Line of Defense Found Lack- ing in Gun Placements and Barricades. This is the fAfth of a series of seven dispatches in which a well- known French author and jour- nalist describes her experiences'on @ tour she has just completed of the frontier provinces of Ethiopla and Itallan Eritrea, over which war clouds are now hovering. BY MARCELLE PRAT. By Mail (0 The Star. ADDI UGRI, Eritrea (NANA)—| While the Italians did what they could 10 discourage me from entering Ethi- | opla, the Ethiopians saw to my | preparations for the journey. Buddenly the Ethioplan consul with- drew the ban on an Itallan to ac- | company me. And then the one man who had been willing to go disap- Instead of following the | peared. The Italians appeared to have | Prince Seyoum began to bull lost all interest. The consul thereupon sald his wife would travel with me, and the following morning she came | for me. | We were o travel by car as far as | the River Maob. From that point | ascending, now descending. Our es- cort marched alongside, glants in bronze, with thick lips, bare feet and guns on their shoulders. They were chattering Incessantly in their own tongue. ished steel of the arms caught the beams and threw them back. A hun- dred soldiers waited for us above. My pulse quickened. In the gorges hyenas yowled. A war song came from thc mountain top. Those were extraordinary min- | utes during which we tiaveled toward | & human barricade, with lances catch- ing the moonlight. Not & man among them moved. | The consul’s wife, preceded by 20 | of our men with fixed bayonets, went | shead. I followed, She began the | crossing of a platform similar to a drawbridge. When she pulled up her ' mule, the soldiers haited and we walt- | ed in silence. \ Prom the summit a mounted soldier approached at a gallop, lance in Our caravan moved like & cater- pillar across the mountsins, The kingdom of the King of Ki un- ng! ng ngs hand. folded itself reluctantly, The heat finally compelled & halt, “We will stop at the first viliage,” id the consul's wife, A few straw shelters, a carpet stretched under s tree—that was our halting place, and there we were to stay until the sun moved down toward the horizon. “Above there,” said the consul's wife, pointing, “the eldest son of s fort, He intended to make this a strategic point in the defense of the Tigre. When he dled the work was not con- tinued. But his brother, the young Mangacha, will carry on his work.” “Brother?” 1 demanded. “I thought In & twinkling he was there, | | the chiefman of the district, his cape | | flowing in the wind. The warrior threw himself to earti before us, paid his respects, and give us clear pas- sage. Now our caravan followed him and slowly we flled between two ranks | of soldiers. Eat From Straw Table. On a straw table they served a meal— chicken, eggs, rice and pimento sauce. we should travel with the caravan |I had read that the Ras Seyoum had | Everything was broughs in on & sort | of soft, elastic paste, a dirty gray in | color, which looked like cloth. But those great pancakes were the na- | tional bread, the ingera. After eating we went into s tent, the consul’s wife and I, to sleep. Two chairs were brought for us.| Prince Alexis Mdivani (center), an auto crash in Gerona Province. At the left is Louise Astor Van Allen, and at right, Barbara Hutton, his two American heiress wives, both of whom divorced him, |avenue and northward to M street, | where it will disband. The head of | | the column was directed to start from John Marshall place. The reviewing | stand will be on the east side of the | Georgian prince, who was killed in brother-in-1aw In Spanish art and social circles, however, caused the Spanish press to devote much space to the prince’s series of romantic afli Alexis Mdivani, son of the Gen. Zachary Mdivani, former | late aide Ru: ia. was descended from the i family which acquired the ¢ prince in 1752 for military achievements in Georgia, which be- came a Russian province in 1801. He was a brother of Prince David Mdivani, former husband of Mae Mu motion picture actress, and of ¢ Serge Mdivanl, former hus- | band of another film actress, Pola | Negri, and of Mary McCormic, opera singer. Besides his sister, the wife of Jose Mari Sert, Spanish mural painter, he had another sister, the wife of Charles Huberich, Paris lawver, Alexis Mdivani was married first to Louise Astor Van Alen, a descendant of John Jacob Astor, at Newport Villa, May 15, 1931. They were divorced a few months later. His second marriage was to Barbara Hutton at a civil ceremony in Paris, June 20, 1933. They were divorced at Reno, Nev. May 13, 1935. When Miss Hutton was married to Mdivani she retained full control of her fortune of approximately $42,000,- 000, but it was reported that she gave as a wedding present to her bride- groom a set of pearl shirt studs, a string of polo ponies. $1,000,000 and a trust fund that paid him $50,000 a year BARBARA RECEIVES NEWS. COPENHAGEN, August 2 (#).— =QUART BOTTLE TWO FULL-PINT BOTTLES, 25¢ . (plus bottle-deposit) 4 full quart is 32 ounces and a full pint is 16 ounces. All ginger ale makers must print net botile-contents on the label. Look before you buy, and get your money’s worth! de camp to Czar Nicholas of | M | terested in ol holdings in Southern | Richard A. O'Brien: fourth, Porter L. Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow learned of the death of her former husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, as she traveled here by train from Paris today. She and her present husband, Count Coutt Haugwitz-Reventlow, reached Warnemuende, Germany, 12:05 {1000 block Connecticut avenue, in front of the Stoneleigh Court Apart- | | ments. Col. Joyce directed Legionnaires to | wear the Legion uniform or cap with | white shirt and pants and black tie and shoes. Lacking both, they are to wear a special convention cap, avail- | | able at any District post or at the | | formation area, | at m. . The heiress to the Woolworth mil- lions remained in the train compart- Parade Divisions. ment and refused to show herself of | The first parade division, under the | to speak, but her husband leaned from command of Maj. Arthur P. Phayer, | the train window and said they had 3d Cavalry, assistant marshal, will in- | learned of Prince Mdivani's death in | clude Col. Joyce, Supt. of Police an automobile accident in Spain. Ernest W. Brown, the 3d Cavalry BROTHERS TO GO TO SPAIN. |Mounted Band and Anti-Aircraft, R e | Coast Guard and Army Engineer de- 10S ANGELES, August 2 (#) — | lachments. The second division, un- David and Serge Mdivani, elder broth- der R. E. Lee, assistant marshal, will ers of Prince Alexis Mdivani, fatally | include Legion department command- injured in an auto wreck in Spain,|€rs and units from Maryland, Vir- today planned to leave without delay | 3inia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. for Barcelona. Other division commanders were an- Prince David, who with Serge is in- | nounced as follows: Third division, California, indicated they might leave | BUsh; Jfth, William P. Kershner; during the day or tomorrow for Spain, | SIXth, Lieut. Comdr. J. Y. Dreisen- Serge was out of the city last night | stock; seventh, Robert R. Spriggs, when word was first received of the | ¢#hth, Lieut. Col. Charles Demonet, death of Alexis. David first heard of | 80d ninth, George Chrisman. the accident while attending a party at a fashicnable country club. | “I am deeply shocked, and there is 30000000000“'00000“00‘ not much else I can say at a time like | & SWAT THE FLY § this,” Prince David sald. “Alexis was a real brother, kind The Star has for free dis- tribution wire - handle fly swatte considerate and extremely good to me. We shall miss him greatly." Prince Serge is the former husband of Pola Negri, exotic movie actress, ASL o onelatithe MaiaOF Prince David is the ex-mate of Mae | i“ MNTWM St 1lia Ee | Murray, blond stag of the silent screen | b years. | 0000000000000000600004 ees00tttettee and Mary McCormie, the opera singer. 90000040000 - THERE won’t be any “Family Hold Back” when you serve Clicquot Club! For every two of these full pints or full quarts hold 8 extra ounces — enough to make an extre drink! Clicquot gives you the gentle tingle of Jamaica’s mild, quality ginger. . . . 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Accompanied by our escort, we went | forward to the land of the King of Our road wound along, now Sanita Kings. and so thi every department. tronage during our 26th Birthday week-end we've lined up a no successor.” | My companion smiled. | were up. Slowly the sun rose behind Hard fo Keep to Truth. | the mountains. Beyond those moun- “They write so much” she said tains ... was there an army eager complacently. “And cspecially about | to be on the move? I arose abruptly Ethiopta. How is it possible to keep | and went after a little information. them to the truth? Few people come “Where are we now?” here. 1 belleve you are the only “This is & strategical point . . . the European woman who has been in | first line of defense of the province.” this region since the victory at Adowa.| I looked around. There was no I can assure you that you are the telegraph post, no telephone only French woman.” | “How do you send news We pressed on by moonlight, | army?” clamped to our mules. 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