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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1922)
THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, MAY 14. 1922. Shock of Falling Meteor Felt Over 50-Mile Radius Christian Endetvorert Hold Convention at Arapahoe Arapahoe. Neb, My 12. (Spe. ) The annual couvrinwn o' the Chruiian Endeavor society, Nine teenth district, started her HuUy and will continue through Sunday Over 250 preregittraliont were re corded and the members of the local toticfy found, place among the homes of the city for the aecoinmo dation ef the applicants. National Secretary E. P. l.atcs of Boston il Beatrice Woman Has Narrow Kscape From Fire in Room Beatrice, Neb.. May 12. (Sewciat.) Opportune arrival of her husband saved Mrs. Sop of Blue fcpiingt from being burned to death. An oil stove, which was being used in the a helpless invalid fur )tar, w cidenially overturned, the (Uines quukly spread la the bedclothes ait I carpet. Mi screamed for help and her husband, who had Just arrived from town, ruhed into the room and eslinsuUhcd the bUicbelort any damage resulted. Be Want Ads bring re.ulu. Scrk Missing Man Pel Uoinrs, May J-(Spt(UI Telegram ) George jatvu, 7J. p. j-rieior of the Arlington hotel, duap peared Wednesday. I'olue were re queued to co-oprrate in the starch for the mioing hotel owner by Ms family and buines asMxUtci, "Screen's Greatest Lover" to Wed Stage Art Director here and will deliver addresses. A Christian Kndtavor world banquet win lie nem in me at. r.. cnurcn batement Saturday evening. Bee Want Ads bring results. room where Mrs. Swops has been I Srvrral Tree Burned Whn Flaming Body Crashes Down in Grove Windows Rattled in Towns. 2-a: NorMk. Vs.. May ll-The shock of a .tMon meteor, which rraihed lo , iht ground In an isolated spot in Nottawa county, 1 mile northwrtt vl Ulaclutone, late Thursday night, was (ell (or radius of SO miles, nhile the brilliant glare of the in candeccnt body illuminated the heavens over southern Virginia and section of North Carolina. The trail of light, at the meteor fell in a alow curve from the lenith at an an gle of about 45 degrees, wal visible in this city, Kiihmond and at point! along the James river, creating gen eral excitement and even consterna 1 he meteor, competed of a metallic substance, crashed into a grovt of . oak trees with in explonvi roar, oiiie distance from any houte. malt ing a hole 500 square feet and bury ing several trees with it. t lames im mediately shot u which were visible for many miles, while trees caught fire. . i The shock of the fall was felt in several towns. At Lawrencevtlle, 100 . miles west ol here, windows were rat tied and houses shaken, while at mase uty similar effects were noted. Automobilists said it seemed as though their cars had caught fire, so great was the illumm.'.tion. In Norfolk the meteor appeared to be about half the diameter of the full moon. and much like a street arc - light. Its tail, of orange brilliance ,- with a sharp blue flame fading out at ' the extreme end, apparently was 10 or 12 times as long and fully as broad as the body. Opponents of Prohibition Launch First Convention Baltimore, May 13. Opponents of ,; the prohibition amendment from all :!' parts of Maryland gathered in con- vention here last night to give im- ' petus to the movement for repeal or modification of the dry law. Called by the Maryland division of the Association Against The Pro ; hibition Amendmeqt. the convention '.- was said to be the first step of this : kind to be taken since the eighteenth amendment went into effect and it jtj was expected to be followed by simi . lar movements in other states. '' Branches of the association are '' reported to have been established. in :j' 16 states and temporary organiza- tions have been started in 14 others. j!j Man Sentenced to Death ;J Escapes Gallows for Time Des Moines, May 12. (Special Telegram.) Ira Pavey did not meet ',- death on the gallows at Fort Mad 1 1 ison penitentiary today as the result J' of the failure of the Iowa supreme i" court to hand down an opinion on j ..... . Counsel for Pavey had negotiated ( for a rehearing, and he could not be ; executed until the high court . had f designated its will. i: Warden T. P. Hollowell stayed the iljj execution Thursday after the had i, been informed over the telephone by j5 Governor N. E. Kendall that the su jjj pre me court had failed to act. . Charles Bryan Boom Opened iii By Grand Island Petition li; Lincoln. May 13. The boom for Jji Charles W. Bryan of Lincoln for i; governor -opened today with Jiling !j of a petition signed by Grand Island H residents urging him to enter the i! democratic nrimaries. The Brvan Vr-fviopm follows the refusal of Dan 1. Butler of Omaha to indorse the state ' j ; law enforcement department, cre- mated largely, through efforts of :,)"-Bryan, and the action of Norton in !! refusing to accept either theidem i ocratic platform or the progressive ,' platform, and yr.t bidding for. votes of both parties. If. J , 4 Jm I i Miss Winifred Hudnut (above) of New York will marry Rodolph Valentino, according to reporta from Loa Angeles. Miss Hudnut, known professionally as Natacha Rombova, wai art - director for Naaimova Valentino la the idol of thousands of American girls and la known as the screen's "perfect lover." Guide Sold Mrs. Stillman's Letters for $15,000, Detective Testifies Missives to Fred Beauvais Accepted in Evidence in Divorce Fight of Ranker Defendant Says They ' Are "Mere Scraps of Paper." told any lie to get letters from a man of the character of Beauvais." The letters were considered by Mr. Stillman's lawyers, it was learned, as among the strongest evidence they have introduced to prove their con tention that Guy Stillman is illegit imate and to cinch their-allegation that Mrs. Stillman was unfaithful to her husband. . . - But Mrs. Stillman seemed unruf fled tonight when, with her oldest boy "Bud" and Fowler McCormick, son of the Chicago harvester manu facturer, she departed by automobile for New Vork. She referred to the letters as four worthless' scraps of paper. "1 have rested my case," she said. "I am confident to rest it with the testimony of a gentleman who stands, or who did stand, at the head of fi nance of the greatest bank in the greatest city in the world. . And he fought with gold. Testimony of his own witness as he closed his case was that he paid $15,000 for four worthless scraps of paper, I have nothing further to say. I am content to await the verdict." Purchased Letter. One of the letters said to have been bought from Beauvais read: "Dear Darling. v - "The wedding is over and it is 12.45 p. m. and I have just had a hot bath and am in bed, but I just had to write you a letter. There never will be and there never has been anyone like tyofl. I love every pore of your skin. I love the dear ground you stand on. I love you better each day and every day shows me how foolish- it is to live without you., I love yoti beyond words. I love you forever and ever, through this world '6n to all the others. I want you more than anything on this earth. . My uncle said last night: 'As we get older it doesn't seem much matter where we are but who we are with.' When will you be down dear, and when can we get mar ried. That is all I think of. Then nothing will ever take me away. ','Write me, dear, how you are, won't you I am so tired of everyi thing, so tired I just want to rest and rest in your dear arms. It frightens me when I don't hear from you. Let me hear soon. Oh, my dear. I am dead for you, just dead. "Your kathitjo." Sentenced to Prison Falls City, Neb May 13. (Spe cial Telegram.) Carl Lanning of Dawson, charged with a statutory offense against Viva Nichols, 16, also of Dawson, was sentenced to three years in the men's reformatory at Lincoln by Judge J. B. Raper. By The AMoclated Preu. Poughkeepsie, N. Y, May 13. The hearing of testimony in the Stillman divorce case closed with a sensation yesterday when Edmund Leigh, a de tective hired by James A. btillman, New York banker and plaintiff, tes tified that he and Outerbridge Hor sey, one of Mr. Stillman's lawyers had paid $15,000 to Fred Beauvais, Indian, guide named as co-respondent, for four letters alleged to have been written to Beauvais by Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. The purchase of the letters from Beauvais. who Mr. Stillman contends is the father of GuyStillman, 3, was made in Montreal last week, the de tective said. It was arranged throueh James Shean, a New York newspaper man, Leigh explained. The letters, replete with terms of endearment and such expressions as "I love every pore of our skin" and When can we get married, were accepted in evidence after Mrs. Still man had denied ever having written them. Harriet Hibbard, housekeeper for Mr. Stillman, looked at them and said that to the best of her recollec tion the handwriting was Mrs. Still man's. . . . Beauvais demanded $25,000 for the letters, Leigh testified, but. after sev eral days of negotiations hi accepted $15,000. He described dramatic con ferences with .the guide and Shean and said he promised Beauvais that he would say the letters were among those stolen sometime ago when a packet kept by the guide was robbed. "You lied to Beauvais. then?" asked one- of Mrs. Stillman's lawyers. "Yes," said Leigh. "I would have Heret New Arrivals in Lustrous Extra eavj? 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