New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 5

FRAUD CHARGED IN AVIATOR'S DIVORCE Amold Marriage o Prisci Dean May Be legal Atlanta, Ga., June 19 M—What was characterised as a fraudulent divorce from a former wife appear- ed as a shadow today over the re- cent marriage of Leslie Philip Ar- nold, one of the six original round the world fliers, and Priacilla Dean, motion picture actress. ‘The Fulton county superior court yesterday set aside the divorce from Mra. Mildred Arnold granted the former officer of the army air corps at Atlanta in April 1926, on the ground it had been obtained by traud. Arnold and Miss Dean were married in September 1928. Arnold was represented by coun- sel but was not present. The fraud alleged was that he did not have Mrs. Arnold served with papers in the case when the suit was filed in March 1925. Arnold set up grounds of desertion. Mrs. Arnold said she had not heard of the proceedings until some time later when the army officer wrote her at her home in Groton, Conn., from Los Angeles that he had been granted a divorce. She testifiel he did not tell her where the divorce had been obtained but that she received this information from the war department. Army officers testified they con- ducted an investigation in the case with the result that Arnold resigned his commission. Mrs, Arnold said she and the flier were married in August 1917, and later went to France with the A. E. F. Upon his return, she testi- fied, he came to Groton for a short time, then deserted her. EXPORTS OF STATE “SHOW SLIGHT DROP Figures for 1928 Million Below Records for Preceding Year Exports of merchandise from Connecticut were valued at $47,- 796,768 during 1928 compared with $48,900,735 in the preceding .year, according to figures made public today by the department of com- merce. ‘Typewriters ranked first in order of value among the commoditics sent from the state to foreign mar- kets during the year and were valued at $3,286,912 compared with $5,414,097 for 1927, Other leading exports with com- parative values for 1927 when avail- abel were metal-working machinery, $2,189,368 and $2,014,115; ammuni- tion, $2,038,299; rubber tires, $2- 022,191 and $2,372,805; brass and bronge manufacturers, - $1,733,699 and $1,791,178; rubber foatwear, $1,360,175 and $1,413,836; mechan- fcs’ and other hand tools, $1,202,743; sewing machines for factory or in- dustrial use, $1,120,424; copper and manufactures of copper, $999,630; ball and roller beard and parts. $924,478 and $913.9: sockets, re- ceptacles and lightl switches. $877.403 and 0784,208; cutlery, $867,087 and $723,859; and batter- ies, $803,325. Clocks, rifles. revolvers and pis- tols, musical uments, dental creams, cosmetici primers ceutical preparatios tic heating and cooking devices, flashlights, printing machinery. chains, needles, locks, axes, nails and bolts, wire, iron and steel tubu- 1 roducts and fittings paper and rufactures, textiles, tobacco and odstufts were included among the diversified commodities exported from Connecticut in 1928. New England Exports $304,463,352 Exports from the six New Eng- land states were valued at $204.- 463,352 during 1928 compared with $197,392,406 in 1927, an increase of $7,070,946. Connecticut ranked sec- ond as an exporter from his section, being topped by only Massachusetts and followed by Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Total exports of merchandise from the United States in 1928 were val- ued at $5,043,973,142 compared with $4,758,721,078 during 1927, an in- crease of $285,252.084. The first ten states in order of value of exports during the 12 months of last year were New York with exports valued at §861,678.925; Texas, $817.002,082; Michigan, $367.- 253,148; California, $345,436,658; Pennsylvania, $292,087.241; Louisi- ana, $235.467.286; New Jersey, $221,530.869: Illinois, $206.355.671; R and Virginia, $142.504.115. Thirty-two of the states and ter- ritories of the United States increas- ed the value of their exports over 1927. Texas registered the greatest increase. $169.975,941, followed by New York which showed a gain of $91.812.028; Michigan, $40.373.562; California. $35.891.912; Washington, : Wisconsin, $10.759.541; North Carolina, H ssachusetts, $6,7 Lonisiana. $6.162.324; Ten- 8: Virginia, $6.087.- $5.385.930: Oklahoma, to show fincreases were Florida, TNhode Island. New Hampshire, Mon- tana. South Dakota, Delaware. Vi mont, Hawaii, Colorado. daho, North Dakota Alaska and Washing- ton. D. C. O. . 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