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Part FEB. 5, 1958 Los Angeles Times Letters of Love Tangle Aired in Estate Battle Uneasy Romance Missives Identified in Court by Widow of Inventor Tollstrup Two dozen letters, postcards and telegrams were produced in court yesterday, to show the uneasy the late Duane H. Tollstrup, rich inventor and retired police lieutenant, maintained for several years with one woman while married to another. The missives were identified from the witness stand in Superior Judge Newcomb Condee's court by Mrs. El-: mira V.

Tollstrup, 40, whom, Tollstrup finally married Oct. 19, 1956, seven weeks, after a final decree of divorce, ended his marriage to his first wife, now Mrs. Vivian Tollstrup Eliason, 42. Tale of Promises Mrs. Tollstrup testified that for years after she met Tollstrup in 1948 he kept promising her marriage, parafter the birth of ticularly, Lindell, 7, whom she has identified as Tollstrup's son.

But she said that Tollstrup told her he was having difficulty obtaining his freedom from the then Mrs. Vivian Tollstrup. The second wife's attorney, Victor Bewley, introduced the messages between her and Tollstrup in an effort to show that the romance was an enduring one and that Tollstrup recognized the child as his own. Paternity Issue The paternity issue was raised by Mrs. Eliason, who contended that Tollstrup never acknowledged Lindell and that under the terms of his will all of his $500,000 should go to their adopted son, Steven, 9.

Mrs. Eliason likewise opposed Mrs. Tollstrup's claim to a widow's share of the estate. Mrs. Tollstrup, the first wife's lawyer, Leslie G.

Turner, maintained. waived all interest in the estate in an agreement she and Tollstrup signed the day before their marriage. Mrs. Elmira who once sang professionally under the name of Julie Dean, testified she wrote Tollstrup and received messages from him while he was on business trips to Houston, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii; Havana, Cuba; San Juan, Puerto Rico, and New York City. Patterns 39-inch fabric; blouse yards.

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Paul Lee, of Lee-Sheridan, section will head the northeast and John P. Sunningham, of Shell Chemical will head the southern branches region. J. Wheaton Chambers, Veteran Actor, Dies J. Wheaton Chambers, ant usher at the 1912 wedding of Secretary of State Dulles and a Princeton classmate of Judge Harold R.

Medina, friendships he kept all his life, died Friday after a brief illness. The 70-year-old actor, who resided at 1553 Hudson was born in Philadelphia of a Main Line family. He had appeared in more than 60 motion pictures and was preparing for a role in a John Wayne production at the time of his unexpected death. Mr. Chambers received his B.A.

degree from Princeton University in 1909 and was secretary at the Army and Navy YMCA in Peiping, China, until the Chineselence imported italian silk of exceptional smartly shortened jackets gently soft above the slimness of the blouson with flattering away-from-the- throat black, navy, leaf green, to 18...98.95... right: very feminine double- breasted jacket, starred by rhinestone back eased by shirring from the shoulder navy, 10 to 16...98.95... sportswear suits, street floor Once, she said, he includled in a letter a clipping on astrology which said that girls born under the sign of Capricorn (her own) did not have much luck in love and were likely to shower their affections on married men. Letter Quoted "Endless waiting is the greatest love killer of our or any other time," said one of the letters Mrs. Tollstrup identified as having been written by her to Tollstrup under date of Jan.

31, 1956, to I let him know that his promises of marriage were wearing thin. Mrs. Tollstrup testified that the marriage date was fixed three times and that each time she purchased a trousseau only to have him postpone the nuptials. She said they finally obtained a marriage license Aug. 30.

1956, but that this time she would not go through with the ceremony because he insisted on her signing an agreement under which she waived her rights of inheritance. Signing Admitted But she admitted that she signed the pact. Oct. 18, 1956, on his representation that he wanted it, only to show his friends that she was not marrying him for his money and did not intend to make use of it. "He said he had lost half of his fortune to his first wife in their divorce and not intend to let this happen again," Mrs.

Tollstrup added. "He told me he would make a will providing for me and our son." Tollstrup, 45, lost his life Feb. 26, 1957, when his automobile, moving at 70 m.p.h. on the wrong side of the San Bernardino Freeway, crashed into a bus. SPORTSWEAR straw, fashion back the face for profile in white, navy or black set off by band with grosgrain millinery, street floor Revolution, when he served, with the Associated Press.

After World War I he was active in the Players Club in Francisco, where he was in business. Came in 1929 Other club affiliations included life-long membership in the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and in the wood YMCA. The actor was secretary of the Princeton Alumni Association here. After professional experiwith the Henry Duffy Players, Mr. Chambers to Hollywood in 1929 where he resided at the YMCA.

Because of his years in China he was technical director to Mervin LeRoy in "Oil for the Lamps of China." Mr. Chambers leaves his sister, Mrs. Mary Chambers Hunt, San Francisco. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. today at Utter-McKinley's Hollywood Strothers Chapeldale, with the Rev.

Walter James officiating. Giesler Son Held on Drunk Driving Michael J. Giesler, 20, son of Atty. Jerry Giesler, was released on $263 bail yesterday after he was arrested on suspicion of misdemeano; drunk driving at 87th St. and Central Ave.

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