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Show MONTE CARLO RULER IS DEAD Prince Albert, of Monaco Recently Came to U. S. to Receive Medal PARIS. June 26. (By the Assoc!-ated Assoc!-ated Press) Prince Albeit Honodo Charles of tho principality of Monaco died here this afternoon at 5 o'clock. I (Note; Princo Albert, ruler of the smallest principality in the world, within whose eight square miles is tho famous international guming town of Monte Carlo, was born November 13, 184S, and succeeded his father, Prince Charles III in 1 889. He was twice married, first to I-ady Mary Douglas Hamilton of England in 1869; and second, sec-ond, to the Dowager Duchess do Richelieu. Rich-elieu. In lSSl. A son by hi first wife. Princo Louis who waa a soldier In tho French army, is expected lo succeed suc-ceed him. Monaco Is a French protectorate. pro-tectorate. The prince was well Known in the United States :s n sportsman and scientist. sci-entist. One of hi-i old friends was tho lato Colonel W. F (Buffalo BHD Cody, on whoso ranch In Wyoming he went hunting several years ago The prince m;ae throe visits to the United States, the first in 1868 as a sailor In the Spanish navy, when ho obtained a thre. months' leave of absence, ab-sence, the second ln'lfll when he passed considerable time In the west, and the third In April, 1921, when he received the gold medal from the national academy of science and a Similar medal from the ..ition;il Geographical Geo-graphical society for his research and In oceanography Although tor years a close personal friend of the former emperor Of Germany, Ger-many, the prince, from the beginning, supported the cause of the allies. The Germans seized his chateau de Mar-Chais Mar-Chais near Rheims and threatened to burn It unless he pSid them a ransom of $100,000. The ransom was neer paid Just before the armistice In 191 S, the prince placed at the disposal of the American goornmenl his beautiful beau-tiful estate at Monte Carlo where for months from 6000 to 8000 American wounded soldiers were brought through rapid convalescence.) ou |