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The results were not learned.Motor Torpedo Boats Engaged.The navy also disclosed that some of Its motor torpedo boats were engaged in the Solomons action and said that they had attacked enemy warships shelling the American positions on Guadalcanal. the night of Oct. 14-15, and reported a probable hit on a cruiser.Meanwhile, General Mac Arthur’s allied troops in New Guinea pushed the Japanese slightly further back toward the enemy invasion base at Kokoda but the communique also disclosed that the Japanese had extended their occupation of some villages on the northeastern coast. These troops, the communique said, were machine-gunned by allied planes.Errol Flynn . . .(Continued from Page 1.)Another letter to a married sister here had asked for Betty's birth certificate.A 19 year-old brother, Billy, works in the trade school at Milford.Blames Movie Folk.Often lauding the beauty and “cuteness’* of her daughter, Mrs, Hansen concluded her interview with a snort of indignation and this:“She’s the sweetest little thing that ever walked. But you know how them movie stars are, Migosh'”“Hardly Knew Her.”Meanwhile Flynn, back at work on a movie under $1,000 bail, maintained that he scarcely knew the girl.“We exchanged only a few words when we were introduced at din-V.CHECKner.” he said. “I was with Mr. McEvoy all evening, and left before any of the other guests.”Grand Jurors had declined to believe Miss Hansens story, so she went to the district attorney, and the charge followed. Willing to go to any lengths to break into the movies, she related. She willingly had sexual relations with all the men she named, believing they could help her. Under Cali* fornia law the maintenance of such re lations with a girl of 17, even with her consent, constitutes statutory rape.She worked as waitress in a Hollywood drugstore, she told the district attorney, in the hope of meeting men from the studios,and almost at once met Armand Knapp, studio messenger; Morris Black, clerk, and Joseph Geraldi. song writer. Knapp told her if she would go to a swimming party at the home of Fred McEvoy, British sportsman and one time Olympic bobsled champion, she could meet Errol Flynn, whom she had long admired on the screen. Denied the afternoon off, she gave up her job and went to the party.She told authorities someone gave her a cocktail alter dinner, and as she didn't feel well, she lay down on a couch in the library. Mr Flynn found her and took her upstairs.The contrast between her appearance m middy and short skirt, socks and sandals, and the story she told of her relations with Knapp, Black and Genfldi made authorities gasp, say Hollywood press dispatches.”1 did it of my own free will,”said Betty. ”1 thought they could get me into pictures. I wouldn’t be in court here now if it weren't for Sis.”“Sis” was Mrs Jack Marsden. who reported Betty missing. When police located her, they found Flynn’s privately listed telephone number in her note book. After sessions with juvenile officers, the grand jury and the district attorney, Mrs. Marsden filed the charges against Flynn and the others.!
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1942
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