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Cocksure Errol 1Actor to Face Joint Hearing on November 2; Attorney Claims Dapper Client PersecutedHOLI/WOOD, Oct, 22. — CLP) — Film Slur Errol Flynn, as cocksure as he ever appeared on the movie screen, surrendered today for (he second time in a week on a charge of statutory rape and after arranging bail returned tri his movie heroics,Hearing Set The swashbuckling actor, wearing a snappy light blue suit, grey felt hat and checkered necktie, was arraigned before Municipal Judge Byron J. Walters. There- the two charges were merged in a single complaint and preliminary hearing was set for Nov. 2.The new complaint charged that Flynn had intimate relations with two teen-age girls, Betty Hansen, a movie struck Nebraska girl, and Peggy Satlerlee, a night club dancer, both 17.Flynn already had been accused of criminally attacking Miss Hansen when the district attorney’s office issued a second complaint, charging he also had two illicit affairs with Miss Sattorlee nbnard his yacht.Charges Combined Miss Sntterlce told investigators she submitted to the actor on a trip to Santa Calnlina island and again while returning to the miiin-land.With the combining of charges, Flynn will not have to appear for a preliminary hearing tomorrow to answer the allegation he had an affair with Miss Hansen during n Hollywood party. The 51000 bail he had posted was transferred and the film star was released pending the newly scheduled preliminary heaving.Three other men, with whom Miss Hansen admitted having affairs in the hope of getting a movie contract, were not released from the preliminary hearing tomorrow, however.Charges Claimed Uni rue Flynn was accompanied to (he hall of justice by his attorneys, who reiterated that both charges against the actor were untrue and that Flynn would fight, them until vindicated,It Jooks like open season on Flynn,” exclaimed Jerry Gicsler, one of the West’s outslnnding criminal attorneys, who took over his defense. “T think it is odd that if^ the prosecution were satisfied with its first case, it would bo bringing in damaged goods like this.”Claims Persecution III yellow grease pnint nnd battling the movie uazis at Warner Brothers studio when .Miss Satter-lee filed her complaint yesterday, Flynn cried: “Why are they persecuting me? He rubbed the paint off his face, said he felt sick, and went home, fliesler issued n formal statement later quoting him as saying:“It is very strange that I now am charged with an alleged offense that supposedly look piace over a year ago. I recently became an American citizen nnd I have absolute and abiding faith in the American principles ol justice. J am confident that my innocence will be demonstrated in court beyond any donhl »Mias Sattcrlec, aviso dances bynight in a Hollywood hot spot known as N. T. G,'a Florentinegardens and who recently cuinjiiel ed a role as a harem dancer in a Universn] studios movie, snid she first went, boat riding with Flynn in company of her sister, Mickey June.Then she said Flynn took her again, aione. Just before his luxurious yacht, the Sirroco, nosed to the dock at Catalina island on Aug. 2, 1041, she said she went into the master's cabin and spent the night there with Flynn. Another improper act occurred the next day, she said, while the Sirroco was scudding back to the mainland.Pair ninappcnrMrs, William C. Satlerlee, her mother, immediately reported the episode to Hie district attorney's office, the files revealed, but before an investigation could be completed, mother and daughter disappeared,A few weeks later Mrs. Satlerlee and her husband wrote the district attorney from Santa Barbara, Col., asking that the charges he withdrawn because of the adverse effect the resultant publicity would have on their daughter's career. Authorities dropped the case and did not revive it until after Miss Hansen had told her story,Hal Chase BookedAs Drunk DriverLOS ANGELES, Oct. 22.—(IP)— Hai Chase, one-time first baseman for the New York Yankees, was booked today on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.Police said Chase and a companion, 31-year-old Enid Black, n stenographer, who nlso was taken in custody, was driving erratically and when slopped, tnld the officers: “You shouldn't arrest a man as famous os 1 am. I’m Hal Chase, the baseball player.”He failed tn impress the officers, however, and they look him to jail, where lie was booked as Bimovo Axel Chose, IS, a salesman of Huntington Park, Calif,1Mrs. Amelia Munich Dies at Atherton(Timex Ketlnooil Clly Hurenii)PALO ALTO, Oct. 22.—Mrs. Amelia M. Munich, 8.1, mother of Mrs. Florence Andrcscn of Twelfth and Fair Oaks avenues, Atherton, died yesterday in Falo Alto hospital after a short illness. She had been visiting her daughter.Mrs. Munich come to this country 58 years ago front her native Hungary. She is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. John Rlotn-sclt of Seattle _und Mrs. Paul Reincke of New York; n son, Henry Munich of New Jersey; and a brother, Fred Suffer, in Brooklyn, Her husband was the late Frcdor ick Munich. The remains, will be sent to Brooklyn for interment, under direction of the Tinney mortu-■ii-ii P-iln ulfri
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Thu, Oct 22, 1942
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