Evening star., 1924-05-12
COUNT SALM LABELS
MARITAL BREAK BUNK
Declares He Will Rejoin Former
Millicent Rogers in U. S. After
Davis Cup Tennis.
FRIENDS STILL SKEPTICAL
See Significance in fearful Eyes of
Bride on Ship.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
| PARIS, May 12-Friends or the
dashing Count Salm Won Hoogstrae-
ten are specu1ating as to the truth
OF the story that he and his new
| countess, the former Millicent Rog-
| ers of New York, are estranged. The
countess and her father, Col. III. III.
Rogers, are homeward bound aboard
the steamship France, while the
count is in Vienna, where><ie went
| after seeing his wife off "a the sta
ton.
Talking With correspondent after
his arrivalfin Vienna, the count de-
clare the rumor of an estrangement
ter be "buncombe," and added that he
had gone to Vienna to play in the
tennis competition for the Davis cup.
His young wife's fearful eyes. how
ever, did not escape the observation
of those who saw her as she boarded
the liner at Havre, and friends Of
both sides declare that Col Rogers
desired his daughter TO separate from
her husband. Intimate friends of the
count and countess declare she is in
a condition which makes the sepra-
ton harder for her bear.
First Reports Incorrect.
1t was at first reported that the
count was accompanying his wife to
the United States, this misunder-
standing arising when he left his
hotel early in the morning to see
the countess and her father off on
the train for Havre. The hotel
management was under the impress
-Ic01 n
when he returned just in time to
collect his baggage and catch the
Oriente express for Vienna.
The young wife, up to the time of
leaving in the company of her father,
insisted that her relations with her
husband were of the friendlieSt ma
ture.
The counts explanation of why he
was not going to America with his
wife, as expressed to an acquaintance
who saw him off at the station, was
that he was scheduled to play on the
Austrian Davis cup team against
Switzerland on May 16, and he in
tended to participate later in the
Olympic tennis here. after which he
intended TO join his wife at the
Rogers home in America. He ex-
planned as the reason for her not
staying abroad throughout the sum
mer that her physical condition made
it inadvisable for her to take trying
trlDS tuc lehIlio SSsA~ooi-
Father-in-LawN Now "Charmed."
Count Salm admitted that the atti-
tude of Col. Rogers toward him had
been rather distant and cold at first,
but that recently his relations with
his parents-in-la law were most cordial
adding that his father-in-law now
seemed charmed"
Count Salm is described by those
who know him well as anxious to
resume in the tennis world the po-
sition he occupied previous to the
war, when he was one of the best
players in Europe and a prominent
figure in the Riviera tournaments
and the Davis cup matches. He was
in Pittsburgh in the Davis cup semi
finals in July, 1914, when the war
was declared.
The fearful eyes of the countess
as she boarded the transatlan tic
liner at Havre yesterday did not es-
cape the observation of those who
saw her depart, and friends of both
sides today averred that Col. Rogers
was desirous that his daughter should
separate from her husband. His hope
was. it was further stated, that the
countess absence in America while
| the count was in Austria would favor
his suggestion that an arrangement
could be reached whereby his daugh-
ter could have her American citizen
| ship restored, either through per-
| manent separation or by other means.
But up to the present no such agree
| ment has been reached.