FASCINATED TURK.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17926, 30 June 1930, Page 6

FASCINATED TURK.

►MANCE ENDS AFTER DESERT HONEYMOON.

in turn to an advertisecanvasser, a millionaire, and a ■ urkish prince, Sadie Wirt Spreekles, I highter of an Amerciain "suger M has just completed the fourth ■finance of her meteoric matrimonial | Sadie, '.in her youth turned down a ■proposal of marriage from a wealthy ferazilian to wed a penurious advertcanvasser from Kansas. H' Three months later she obtained a ■divorce from him and married John ID. SpreckTes; a San Francisco mil■fionaire. ■J-£Phe couple lived in London for a ■ time during the war, but soon after ■[the birth of a son and heir, Mrs. I Spreekles, returned to the United ■ States and started her second di- ■ vorce suit. ■ That action fell through when news I krrived that her husband had been I.flailed in a motor accident and as ■ she inherited his fortune, the roman■tic Sadie set out to see the world. first stopping place was ConKaftantinopte,- where she met Prince ■Suad Chikar, son of the former Turk- ■ ish Sultan. The Prince was fascin- ■ ated by the American beauty and ■fshe, enchanted by the prospect of 'heft coming a princess and living in a pal- ■ ace of minarets marble halls and ter■;,raced; gardens was quite willing to ■ enjoy the"-delights of a life on the I Bosphorous. '• ■ : Egypt and Arabia figured in the I honeymoon tour 7 but soon after the settle ddown to normat aharPried life- jn a Turkish household, m quarrels became frequent. I "Sadie pined for the freedom to ■ which she had been accustomed, and advent of a daughter failed to curb her desire for adventure and \ thrills. The prhiee followed her to America ' and despite. hiis entreaties that she vshould return, she went to Reno and a divorce oh the grounds of I his "desertion." Later she applied' for r; restoration of her rights as an AmerF ican citizen and renounced the title, i •; of princess. ; >•