Lieut Wood Nets Fortune on “Street” Son of Governor General of Philippines Cleans Up $700,000 in Specu lation. New York, Dec. 26.—Lieutenant Os borne Cutler Wood, 26, son of Gover nor General Wood of the Philippinee, has admitted making between $700. 000 and $800,000 In speculation In Wall street securities conducted by cable from Manila, where he is an aide to his father, says a copyrighted dispatch to the New York Times to day. The dispatch, by Richard V. Oula han. In part, follows: (Copyright, 1923. by The New York Time* Co.) (By Permission of The New York Time*.) Manila, Dec. 24.—Lieutenant Os borne CuUer Wood, son and aide of Governor General Leonard Wood, will return to the United 8tates soon, probably by the end of January, with the Intention of resigning his com mission and entering the diplomatic service. This step Is not only In accord with his Inclinations', but he is better able to take It for the reason that he has accumulated enough money through fortunate Investments to enable him to follow a diplomatic career inde pendent of salary considerations. Lieutenant Wood's streak of good fortune begnn in September or Octo ber of last year, when he bought stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Juat prior to Its sensa tlopftl rise. Although his capital was extremely small then, he told me to day, the fact this 4tock rose approxl nvately 60 points gave him profits ^^wnlch placed him In a position to ^ make further investments on a large scale. Practically all of them were profitable. Stories in Circulation. For some time storl?s have been in circulation in New, York, Washing ton, Chicago and Manila that Lieu tenant Wood had engaged in heavy investments In securities and it was reported that he had made deposits in New York and Chicago aggregating $2,7501)00. In the course of its circulation the story some times took the phase that these large sums had been sent from the Philippines by Governor General Wood.Nothing ever appeared or has been disclosed by In vestigation here to bear out such an Insinuation. On the contrary' accord ing to what I am assured in the best Information sources. Governor General Wood remains a man of small means, which he Is obliged to conserve with true frugal methods. It was General Wood who put an •nd to Lleutenand Wood’s financial ventures when he learned of them. This attitude on his part Is under *tood to be not due to any feeling that Lieutenant Wood's transactions were not legitimate, but to the belief that it was unwise that such a young man should accumulate a fortune so rapidly and to a desire to afford no ground for gossip that Lieutenant Wood's Investments were In the Philippines . . . Wants Nothing Concealed. The matter of Lieutenant Wood's ^^inancial operations was brought to PMroneral Wood's attention by me on his return from his Java trip to Manila in connection with the resolu tion of Representative Frear calling for a congressional Investigation of the Philippines . . . General Wood immediately sent for the lieutenant, who was in the palace at the time and in my presence asked him .Jo give me all the facts of his financial ven tures. "I want nothing concealed. Hardened Wall street speculators are Inclined to the belief, the Times says, that Lieutenant Wood must have followed the speculative method known as "pyramiding” or the pur chasing of additional stock with the profits accumulated on pa) f from a former purchase. This method is in daily, and often disastrous, practice and frowned on by most conservative members of the New \ork stock ex change, where the stock of tire Stand ard Oil company of New Jersey, in which most of Lieutenant Wood's fortune is believed to have been made, is traded in. Lieutenant Wood, the Times says, is believed to have "caught” the be ginning of the so-called dividend mar ket in the fall of 1922 and happened to pick out the one stock whose ad vance was most violent and con sistent.. This was Standard Oil of New Jersey, whose directors in the early fall of 1922 were laying plans for a stock dividend of 400 per rent. * which they declared on October 11 of that year. ^^In the late summer of that year stock touched its low price of $169 a share. On September 1 it sold at 183, moving up to 188 two weeks later. In the week of September 30 it crossed the $200 mark and between September 30 and October 11, it rose exactly 60 points to $250.50. Then it broke to $200. The four for one stock now sells around $37 a share. School Rector Lincoln Bishop Cincinnati, Deo. 2fi.—lit. Rev. Mon signor Francis J. L. Beckman, rector of Mount fit. Mary Theological sem innry, North Norwood, O.. has been appointed bishop of Lincoln, Neb . It was announced yesterday In unofficial but authVntjc reports from Lincoln. The diocese to which he has been assigned has been vacant since the denth of Rt. Itev. Charles O'Reilly last May. Monslgnor Beckman Is 47. Four years ago he was honored by Rome, when he was made a member of the pupal household, with the title of monslgnor. This Included the right to weur the purple and tho episcopal rochet. Monslgnor Beckman Is the. first priest of the archdiocese of Cincin nati to be elevated to the episcopacy within the last quarter of a century. Boulder Derails Train. Albuquerque. N. M., Dec. 2fi.—The ^^Miine on Manta Fe passenger train J^No. 28, running between lil Paso. Tex., and Albuquerque, was derailed yesterday afternoon, when It slruck a boulder which had rolled on the track. « EDDIE’S FRIENDS Getting I p a Parly j •'^vOEU-.OE COOP.SE, UOE CAM'T^IV/E WOO A UJRlTT&Ki GUAEAM7EE U£u tTsrwfc ' MOO'LL WIM - MAMB& ^vJBTrtiS 6UV[ T^E FELLOWS U>\U-LET A TASTE OP * 1 MOO MARK ThlE CARDS CAM.T SOU PAWS ^-J4mAT“-1 Some op moor courage cw^stmas presents?/ \ €)im ■» iwn. FiuTum 7227 STELLA DALLAS By Olive Higgins Prouty. s _ __ SYNOPSIS Stella Iiallnn separated from her l»us baml. owing to lncomptttabillt.v of temperu merits, and her duuguter, Laurel. 13. live in the "cheapest room" ©f u fasluonuhle hotel In Milhnmpton. In the parlors, where she passes much time readme. Laurel overhears scornful referenda to her mother made hy social leader* In the hotel world Both mother ami daugh ter ure always smartly dressed when they go together to the dining room, laturel goes m\ h visit to her la’oer in New York and he leaves her at the home of Mrs Morrison, a friend, while he Is away on a trip to Chicago. Alter seeing her daughter aboard the truin in Boston Stella goes to a cafe where she meet* an old admirer. Alfred Munm with whom she attends a musical farce. (Continued from Yesterday.) It was not only a regard to her relation with men that Stella turned deaf ears to Stephen. Under the head turning effect of attentions paid her by such women as Phyllis Stearns and Myrtle Holland (Myrtle Holland took up Stella Dallas as a sort of fad that spring, her friends said) she came to consider ail Stephen's ideas as old fashioned, and out-of-date. She could seo nothing but advant age in forming alliances with such "They're in everything. They go everywhere." Nothing but distinc tion in entertaining Into every activ ity and amusement that they suggest ed. "Graoious, how little men know to get on in society." Stephen was harping morning, noon, and night, on the dangers of too intimate friend ships, and too rapid progress. “If I followed your advice 1 wouldn’t get anywhere. You’d make out of me just a prim, stupid, little stay-at home. Myrtle says she d just die if her husband tried to dictate to her the way you do to me." "'Myrtle says’! Oh, Stella, you don't talk over our affairs with your women friends, do you?” "Oh. rio! Of course not. We talk just about the weather!" _ "But. Stella, surely your sense of good taste would prevent you from telling any one of our differences of opinion?" “Our ‘squabbles,’ you mea'n? Oh, Stephen, a saint couldn't please you. Finding fault with the things I talk about with my girl friends! Honestly!" "They'll only ridicule you after wards. I don't like those women. I wish you'd avoid them. I don't think they're real friends of yours.” "That's right. Run them down. Have friends of your own, you lunch with and play cards with, and golf with, and have a regular good time with, but don't let me have anybody! Myrtle says some men are like that— jealous even of their wives' women friends. Oh, Stephen, why will you try to take the joy out of everything so? Why don't you let me have a little fun in life without all this argu ment? I get sick to death of It." "Oh, very well.” "Yes. you say ‘very well,’ hut you'll lie at me again tomorrow. I don't find fault with you, do I?" "No.” "Well—?” Stephen was silent. "That’s right, now get glum and sulky, and don't say anything to me but stiff formal things for a wek. Oh, gracious!” Stella could forget all alsaut such discussions as this by the following morning. "I'm blessed with a good disposition,” she was fond of boast ing. "Dad used to say It was almost Impossible to worry me cross when I was a kid. Come on. Stephen, cheer up." If Stephen didn’t. If lie couldn’t “cheer up," Stella would fling down her comb, or slam a door, and five minutes Inter he heard humming a song In her bath. Stephen suffered. « "Why did you ever marry me, Stella?" once despairingly he Inquired. "Why, because I was crazy about you. I thought you were perfectly great.” "How can a woman he crazy about a man—oare for a man, and not lie willing to adapt herself somewhat to him, to give up a few things for him?" "How would It do for you to do a little of the adapting, Stephen, n little of the giving up? Why did you ever marry me?” she retorted. * - —— CHAPTER VIII. 1 It was an Ironic coincidence that the same cause that Rilled the last lilt of struggling love Stephen had for Stella (If indeed love It had ever lieen) should also hind him to her more closely. Suddenly In the midst of Stella's first year of social success in Mil hampton, she found herself facing the dismaying possibility (hat she might soon become a mother. She didn’t want to! Not now! It would be a terrible tragedy Just when shn was making such headway In Mllhampton. It would wlje her off tho social map for a whole year, or more! When the possibility became a certainty. It seemed to Stephen that all there was left sweet and fine In Stella dlslrile grated suddenly and completely into futile and unbeautlful protest. She fought tho fighting fact day after day, night after night, with violent attacks of crying, with uci controlled fits of rage, self pity and despair, aa If in frenzied resistance lay possible escape. Her one desire wees to escape—somehow, anyhow, from the horrible trap that had simp pad on her, and held her In Its grasp. She talked In a way during this time that made Stephen want to go Into another room and close the door. He did, sometimes. Her complaints were worded In the parlance that came easiest to her tongue. She was in no mood then to pick words and choose phrases. All thnt Stephen held most sacred and precious about mar riage went to pieces under the con stant fire. He took many long lonely walks lino the open country around Mil hampton that fall to escape from Stella, to get out of sight and sound of her and purify himself, if he could, under the open sky. His thoughts were bitter ones as he tramped and tramped. It seemed as if life was determined to grind Us heel upon him, and crush him. lie didn't believe in fate: lie didn't be lieve ill fortune or good fortune was planned and sent to helpless victims. He believed stanchly In the unchang ing law of causation. Rut, oh. it did make a man wish there was some other reason than his own fault, for disaster followed him, wherever he went, whatever he did. It had been In an attempt to escape the horror of his father's last act that he had come to Miihampton. And now the horror of finding himself married to a woman he did not love, had never loved (It was to get away from Mrs. Bean's boarding house that he had married! was his to bear. He wished he might go back to Mrs. Bean's boarding house. There are seme kinds of unloveliness more difficult to endure than mere dirt and grime. The apartment was no longer a re fuge. Stephen made no effort to reason with Stella. In the beginning he told her briefly, sternly, that she must accept the fact of the coming child, unwelcome as It was to her (un welcome as It was. therefore, to him). They must both accept it. There was no escape. Absolutely. Having de live red himself of this dictum, he treated her as kindly as ho knew how. as he would a sick and unreas onable child—tolerated. Indulged, anJ endured. Stella's protestations quieted down. Her attacks of crying and abandon ment to despair grew less violent, less frequent. They disappeared complete ly after a month or so. That was nature's way. Stephen knew that no emotion can continue long in in tensity, in the consciousness of a hu man being. It runs a course, like a disease. Mercifully. Recuperation begins its gintlc work, once facts are comprehended and accepted Stephen j exported that in time Stella would acquiesce and submit to "her inevit able.'' But he did not expect hei acquiescence and submission to t* come Interest and delight. One evening In January site showed Stephen a little dress she had been working on In secret, daytimes, when he was absent, she explained. As she held It up l>y the arms for him to see. »he gurgidd with amusement and pleased satisfaction. "Isn't 'he' cute?" she laughed de llghtcdly. Stephen stared at the little dress, amazed. Why. six weeks ago Stella had declared she wouldn't take a stltijr for the baby! He couldn't re fratn from reminding her of that. "Well, what of It?” she shrugged, sold all sorts of things then. In the beginning, when I was scared. I suppose. Oh, Stephen" she laughed good-natu ferity. "you don't know beans altout women. Why. I'm get ting quite crazy about the baby now!" Stephen looked at her sharply. Hid the maternal instinct come alive sud denly in some women, like that? "Really?" "Certainly," she assured him light ly. ‘Of course It will tie me down, terribly, for a while, but Myrtle says” (she was constantly limiting Myrtle to Stephen), "Myrtle says I'd he awfully out of things In the long run. if I didn't ever have a child. All (he young married set talk babies—at least the women: and. after nil, It Is sort of fun to dress the cunning little things up, and send them out rolling, with n nurse girl. Myrtle has got a baby. She dresses her In dart log things, and I'hyllls (Phyllis was often quoted to Stephen, too) "told me something Is going to happen to tier next summer. I'm really quite In the swim.” Stephen turnd away, no longer ills inayed. Only a little more dtnillus toned. «* Laurel was liorn in June Stephen named her Laurel—at least It was the name he applied In her the first time he saw her. lie had come arrner some Humps of mountain laurel In hud a day or two before, when out on one of hie long tramps. Tlu> buds were clusters of sticky little spins of deep pink and red. The first morn Ing the trained nurse brought Laurel to Stephen for Inspection, the bnby was wrapped up In layers upon layers '-t u Absconder’s Wife Says She Was Left Penniless Mrs. Leo Koretz, wife of the min ing oil bubble promoter, reluctantly testified before a Chicago referee In bankruptcy on deals her husband made. She lias been left pennlleaa by Koretz, she says. of flannel. Only the tip of her little pink head was showing. "Hello, you Utile mountain laurel bud," Stephen had said to her, at a loss to know what to say. He never would have called her a laurel bud again. It was the nurse who InHsted upon the term. Every morning when she took the baby to Stephen for Inspection (a ceremony she never failed to perform, she re marked. "Here's your little mountain laurel bud. Mr. Dallas: ' Laurel's real name was Hildegarde —it was as Hildegarde that she was enrolled on the city's records—but she was never called anything hut laurel and "Lollle." and sometimes "I«ollle pops." Myrtle Holland had suggested Hildegarde to Stella. It was a name that ha I style and distinction, she had said Stella fully Intended to adopt It as soon as Lollle was old enough to go to school. But by the time Lollie was old enough to go to school, she had Ideas of her own upon the sub ject. She didn't like Hildegarde. "It's big and ugly and has corners,” •he announced. , During the first few weeks of Laurel's existence Stella gloried much more In the pleasing curves her own figure assumed than In the exquisite beauty of Laurel's perfect body. Oh. ves. it was a cute little thing, she acknowledged, but she had wanted s boy—always preferred the opposite sex. She nursed the haby for a week or two. but she warned the doctor, with a gay little nod of her head, she wasn't going to tie "a cow" once she got up, How Stephen had cringed iSb.cn she referred to herself as "a cow." Honedlly It was funny how the English language could hurt Stephen. laturel was barely five weeks old when tSella donned an evening gown —{“Look at me, Stephen," she had exclaimed delightedly; "I'm a perfect svlph ") and went to an evening dance. It mitlnurri In The Mnrnlnr Itee. Baby Swallows Light Bulb. West New York. N. J .. Dec. 16.— (.ouls Bometlch, Hi months. t» In a critical condition in .1 hospltnl here as the result of havln* swallowed a small electtic llpht l)ulb of the size used for IllumlnatinK Christmas tree*. During treatment to remove the hulb from the child’s stomach, the «!«** was shattered. The New York Globe Theater World’* Famous Musical Comedy With the Famous Sunbeam Girls 1 Evas.. SOe la $2MO; Mat., BOc la $2 00 . New Vear's Ere. Mu, lull., Wed., Dec. SI, J«n 12 TWO MATS. N;-d W sk» POST Direction Melville H. Raymond In l.ocke's Master Play “The Climax’’ ol ppippc. Wed Mat . (10c to $2 ri\ICeGJ . Nights. $1 to $.1 Tuts Mat (New Yoai’sl SOc to $2 HO Seats .Helling ^^o Phone Oideis or Heats Laid Atidry W. D. McHugh. Former Omaha Lawyer, Dies Was Counsel for Internation al Harvester Company—Ap pointed to Federal Bench by President Cleveland. — Judge William D. McHugh, former Omaha lawyer, died at 2:30 Wednes day a. m. at his home, 232 East Wal ton place, Chicago, after an Illness of several months with cancer of the throat. His wife and children, Mrs. Clara J. Baird and W. D. McHugh, jr.( both of Omaha, were with him. Less than four years ago Judge Mc Hugh left Omaha, where he had lived since 1887, to accept the post of gen oral counsel of the Internationsl Har rester company with offices in Chica go. The salary was between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. The fatal disease manifested Itself several months ago but Judge Mc Hugh Insisted on continuing hie duties. Though he has been unable to speak for months, he went to hie offices dally until a few weeks ago and worked on the harvester com pany’s defense In the suit started by the government to dissolve It. Besides hla wife and children, he Is survived by a sister, Mlse Kate Mc Hugh, for years teacher and later principal of the Central High school; two brothers, John McHugh, secre tary of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and Daniel O. McHugh of Calgary, Canada; and a niece, Mies lone C. Duffy, owner of the VanSant business college, Omaha. Burn in Illinois. .William D. McHugh was born in Galena. III., September 10, 1859. He attended the public schools there Then he learned the shoemakers trade and became a first class cobbler From that he went to the state nor mal college, taught country school, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He married Carrie' K. Jones In Galena in 1886 and came to Omaha the next year. He became a partner of Gen. John C. Cowin and later of Judge John N. Woolworth till the death of the latter. He was counsel in some of the big gest law suits. As attorney for the Omaha water Maid he obtained a re versal of Circuit Judge Sanborn's de cision .which held the city of Omaha l.able for *1,000.000 of Interest. For the Chamber of Commerce he con ducted Important litigation against railroads for modification of freight rates. On Federal Bench. President Cleveland, In his second administration, appointed him fed eral Judge. He occupied the bench less than a year when, owing to Senator Thurston's opposition, the appointment was not confirmed and he returned to law practice. In the Count Creighton will case he was paid a fe# of *50,000. The funeral will be held Friday at 3:30 at the homem of his daughter. Mrs. Baird, 316 North Forty-first ftreet, with burial in Forest Lawn cemetery. Aged Woman Beaten to Deal!* Hartford, Conn., Dec. 36.—With skull battered by a blunt Instrument thought to be a hammer, the Mdy of Mrs. Mary Munseil, 73. a widow, was found thinly clad on a bed at her home in Burnside, Last Hartford, \ss terday. A window at the rear of the house had been forced and signs of a strug gle were evident. A hammer was found on a stairway and an alarm clock which had stopped at 3:15 a. m. These nre clues on which the police are working. Robbery la thought to be the motive of the crime Mrs. Mun sell lived alone. The British navy proposes to add six cruisers of the 10,(too ton type, carrying eight-inch guns, during the next three years. 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