NEW ZEALAND BARON

Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND BARON

PASSENGER ON LURLINE. NO RELATIONS WITH AMERICAN AIRMEN. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 1. Much interest was taken in the arrival of the New Zealander, Baron Corneille Hubert de Mey Dalkemade, a passenger from Honolulu by the Lurline, because of the story which was cabled frotn Honolulu on October 23 that he had sailed for Auckland with two American flyers recruited in Hawaii for the Ethiopian air force. Baron Dalkemade, a dapper, welldressed man of 42, wore no gaudy uniform this afternoon as he paced the deck of the Lurline. He was dressed in a well fitting suit and wore the familiar miniature badge of the N.Z. Returned Soldiers’ Association. He was silent and would not comment in any way on the story published a week or so ago referring to the two American flyers whom he was said to have recruited for the Ethiopian air force. The Baron told a reporter that he did not desire to say anything for publication. “My wife is waiting on the wharf for me and I can’t talk now, but I’ll be down at my home at Brown’s Bay if you -want to see me,” he said, so the reporter then looked up Goodson and Harvey, the two young Americans. Both smiled broadly when they were shown the cabled story from Honolulu in which their names were mentioned. “Ethiopia,” said Goodson. “Say, we re not going to that place. We are both here for several weeks to see the sights of your country and we plan to catch trout and then marlin fish up at Russell.” Both Goodson and Harvey requested that the story as cabled from Honolulu should be denied on their behalf. “What happened in Honolulu has been very embarrassing for us,” said Goodson. “We certainly met the Baron and he spoke to us about the Ethiopian Air Force, but there is nothing in that as far as we are concerned. We are not army flyers at all, although we have done a little flying. Our trip out here was planned long before we met the Baron who stayed at the same hotel as we did in Honolulu. People talked a lot about the story and we got a great kick out of it. We have not come out here with the Baron.”