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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1920)
'' I V T ' I v. ' .... ' - ' - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 12, 1920. 2 A I 0' I i v e Thomas filled Herself lijF After Quarrel Film Star Drinks Poison Fol-" lowing Remonstrance Upon 'i Return to Hotel From All-Night Party. aris. Sept. 11. The lure of the Tarfs night life, sumptuous t cham pagne palaces on the heights of the iMMrtmartre, coupled .with youthful txuberaflceiini artistic temperament; wa responsible for the early morn ing drama- as the result of which thfcyoung and beautiftil Olive Thom as,, ftekfOfd, idot.of movie fans the . world oyer, died"friday morning in theAmericati' hospital in Paris. ' following ih6 fatal moment when sht :waU(owed eight grams oi bi cbjpiride, theractrcss lay in a senii cojnatose. condition unable to rec ognize her husband, Jack; who, heart broken, jd.ijot. left her bedside in 84Jiouu. jfiiii Jfe .Opposed Parties. jAjdcording ta iiitimates the climax t toilltlie Pickford's "second honey mAcm" cam fallowing frequent re- ' trubhsVanceS' by tha husband against Otive'a youthful impulses Which led hfi to 'succession" of flight parties iit'the company of the wildest of the Piris younger set. . i s&he was warned, several times to abandon her freqnent visits to the tago palates and the tinselled rcs tajurarffs offering: sham gaiety in the , shape of "daring costumes, dances ail4:; unlimited champagne in ex- - change for enormous sums of money, bt;;;she refused to quit her friends among whom arjj' several screen personalities.- i Staged Aft Night Orgy. i tffr see "real old Paris" Olive, Sat ut'qy night, accompanied by several i ofhese friends, visited the "Dead Rjft the most famous of the M'ont mftrtre resorts. She appeared to be irtj'Uhe highest spirits, although so tifed that some of; her intimates wifhed her that she would collapse if She persisted in burning the candle : at'both ends. (Not heeding this she' remained ;at htt.i "Dead Rat" until- the closing tur. 1 a. m., and immediately there- alter started on a taxlcab round of " tltlxlandcstine resorlSwhich always op$n tft the pass kcy--gold. At 4 . m. shye arrived back at the Rit where she found her husband bitterly resentful". At this time she wis starcely normal, being extreme- ly;;excited. 1 jil took Poison After Quarrel. After listening' to her husband's remonstrances and apparently taken with a fit of despondency, Olive went to the bah room where she drink three-quarters of a bottle of bichloride solution prescribed for ex ternal use. , : . . ' ,i - - 'immediately afterward, with a pfefcing scream, she rushed to the bedroom crying ta her husband: jfi've- taken ' poison, goodby, 1 Tack." ,.C .Without losing a moment Jack forced her to drink hot sa't water and some bicarbonate of soda, in th meantime applying viblent.mas sjifle to create a quick reaction. An alarm was given. The hotel doc teiTesponded. He effected a quick transfer to the hospital' in the Pick-" foitid limousine. Dr. Joseph Choate dfriLos Angeles, a family friend, be-i((g-irtParis, was summoned and ttjifrk complete charge of Jhe case, fjjV Specialists in Charge. ; ijjRealizing at once, its. gravity he ' Mtgraphed Jor the greatest special ifftg in Europe. They were con sttitly in attendance. Dr. Choate examined Olive just before she left tit':' United States for Paris, inci dental to her application for a. life iterance policy for ' $3Q0(0OOr He ftind her i"( first t'ass physical condition. A stream of automobiles went to tlU-Vnospital constantly. Thousands afijSympathizers made inquiries. iJJjjl Bad Year for Stars. - i !A manager 'of the most promi nent moving picture firm in Paris J remarked toaay mat evidently iu Jli an unlucky" year for movie? stars, a'H'jft has already registered the death of'Gabv Dcslys and Susanne Gran nie, the most prominent French screen 'favorite who was run (over Jtnd .killed by an automobile one week ago. And now Miss Thomas. iijMrs. Clarence W Wulfclt of Los J(pgelesvtoday gave out .the follow ing statement: ; ' I'li- Strangers in. Party. S siiffOlive was rav dearest friend. She had been feeling ill evei since her afrjval here. Saturday tiight Jack tyied to persuade her to stay in bed,. bjt she insisted that, being unable to siioep, she wanted to- dinesout. We dined downtown and afterwards vis fteHi the Montmartre restaurants, in ctedinj the , Abbaye Thelclme. Ajnong the others who were with us were Xieut. G. A. Ray of the'Amer '""ican embassy and Fred' Almey of lies Angeles. We returned to the fijti at about' 3:30 o'clock. Olive ijc-tnplained of3; fatigue . and in jijimnia.'S i U;At the etftbassy it was stated that My left onf week ago, ostensibly to go ,to London for a yacation. ,Mr. ' Almey could not be found. 1 ' -liJAccording to Fred Wt Nelson, he, 1yril Gray and Wilfred Grahanl, all Los Angeles, joined the Pickford fitty at the Montmartre. "But," he Sfflded, "I can't tell you what hap flned, though, because I don't re . ffl'ejnber a thing after 2 a. m."r r- Ifeatrice Eljss Will Burn p; $13,000 Mortgage; on Home !;Beatrice, Neb., - Sept.' 11. (Spe cial.) The 16cal lodge of Elks will barn the mortgage of $13,000, the balance of indebtedness on their new jiline, at the first regular meeting in 0Wober. -The lodge .now hasa membership of 500 and will make a dfive for 100 new -members during t&e month of October. x v , Guide Rock WomanyHeld " pi yt on Charge of Forgery pBeatnce, Neb., Sept. ll-(Spc-- cial.) Mrs. Hazel Stanley, formerly ' of this city. wasJirought here yes terday by Sheriff Schiek from Giride Rflck, Neb., on the charge of forging ' tine name of Viola Ashenfelter of this thy to a check for $13. The defend ant wa arraigned before Judge Craig and pleaded not guilty. ilienmark Jus but 6,800 textile . .1drkers,jand more than'19,000 iron Ikfid $tedlworkers.;pv: JohnDreyerlsNow. General Manager of v Western Jewelers o Too Much Money Craze in Church, Says Preacher Dollar Sign Must Be Subordi nated For Sake of Relig ion, District Superin tendent Declares. John J. Dreyer. x The Western Associated Jewelers have moved their headquarters irom the Federal Reserve Bank building at Thirteenth and Farnam streets to the Standard Oil building, 1914 Far- nam street. The local office is headquarters for branches in towns in Nebraska, Iowa and neighboring states and has a, buying power commensurate "with the needs of the, 00 subsidiary stores. Coincident with the enlargement of the retail end of the firm, John J. Dreyer has 'taken over the general management of the business. Mr. Dreyer started with the West ern Associated Jewelers eight years ago. Later he went tothe Loftis in terests as store manager in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago. He is well known in Chicago, where he has re sided, with the exception of thrre years, since 1894. , - 1 Revels of Gay Paris That the dollar sign has entered too prominently into the affairs of church work and the danger of los ing the true perspective of rehgion on account of consideration was the gist of a report read yesterday by the Rev. C. C. Cissele, district su perintendent of the Methodist church, at the morning session of the Methodist conference. 1' Several hundred ministers' from throughout the tate were present. "Financializing of tli'e church must be done away with," the Rev. Mis Cissele declared. "We are en gaged in saving'sfuls. and'not in! getting money. Too many church es are looking for business men to run their affairs instead of ritinistets to preach the gospel." The district superintendent also touched upon plans of social and re ligious work for the coming year. Establishment of a social settlement house on the South Side and the opening of Brownell Hall to be used as a working girl's home was rec ommended. , Rev. W. D. Schermerhorn, presi dent of theconference, delivered an address on "Thought." . ' During the morning session Bishop Ji. U Munt, head ot the .Nebraska. Methodist diocese blessed ' Rev. Floyd Shackrotk of Raymond, Ne').. and Rev', and Mrs. Wilbur Fowler, missionaries who will leave soon for religious work in the Orient. -Business affairs of the conference concluded the morning session. A hSunday school rally and an address ,by ut. H. M. 1'ingree ot Kansas City took up the afternoon session. "The conference ends "Monday. Omaha Selected As Junction Point . For Air Mail Service Omaha is -to be an especially im portant pivot on the trunk line 41 the New York to. San Francisco air mail route, according, to Otto Prae gcr, vchief of the United States air mail service. This city is to be the junction point from which a num ber of branch lines will extend north and south, Pracger said. That is the news hroutrht hark from Washington by-J. David Lar-" son, commissipner of the Chamber,' of Commerce, and Congressman A. W. Jeffcris, who went to the national capital to confer, with Praeger in connection with , 'the plans fotht future of the air ' mail station in Omaha. ' The braiichjtiics extending from Omaha are. tq be handled by private aviatdrs under, contract with Ihej government, the air mail -chief said, Charles ''Saliey; inspector fox the air mail service was in Omaha Sat urday to make plamr'for the, heating of, the Hangar here. Sahey declani that the local station is by far the best in any city he has visited. i Two Towns Gain Washington, , Sept - 11. Lawton, Va., 8,930; increase 1,142 or 14.7 per cent. Sweet' Water, Tex., 4,307;' increase 131, or 3.1 pet cent. Draw Fire of Criticism . (Continued From Pace One.) utterly'by the'accursed lure of the modern Babylon. , "They new spend theii time in practically a ' continuous state of intoxication from win and worse. "Washington should send another 'undesirable ark,' similar to the one in which Emma Goldman and the other reds were deported to clean up Paris of' the horde of good citi zens now rapidly rushing to totabl perdition. "Until that is done, until-the wo men are forbidden to make shame ful exhibitions of their . forms in places under the rame of dance halls that are nothing less than 20th century reproductions of the Gracco'Roman orgies, the souls and the .lives of unsophisticated Ameri can girls and young men are not safe in Paris." , "I " ' The Duchess DUies, famous suffragist and Society leader, de clared "the death of Olive Thomas clearly shows the, terrible consequen ces of the notorious gay life of Paris, which sinrp the armistice ha crown more and more flagrantly immoraL In my opinion UhVe was murdered by the Montmartre. When ths French yomen gain the reins of power their first action will be to close the palaces-of shame mas querading as restaurants and "ball rooms." MrsE. H. Gary, vn'fe of ex-judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, said: "I am dreadfully upset by the tra gic death of the beautiful and sweet Olive Thomas and would like to say something concerning the Paris life, but I feel that an American is not entitled to critise a foreign country. The French ,run Paris according to their lights, Americans should keep out of the interna? affairs of Europe. Clement Vautel, known as - the "French Mark Tw.ain," said: "Americans come to France on a sacred pilgrimage to the graves of their sons and brothers at the front. They end up in the casinos at Deau vilte and Biarritz and in the tango palaces of the Montmartre. i Only two per cent of the Americans who come to France visit the battlefields. The tourist companies" founded to provide for them are going broke." Colonel De Chartier, the Salvation Army commissioner to Europe, said: ( "It is a pity so many American woman frequent places in Paris which they would not think of visit ing at home. My reports indicate that we are living in an age, of un trammelled,, wicked and tolerated vice." , Announcement by Labor Leader SfSrts Disturbance New, York, Sept. 11. Police re serves "were called to the Central $pcra house at midnight to suppress a disturbance, which followed an nouncement by Samuel Gorapers of the names of a committee appointed to draft a constitution for the newly organized central trade arrd labor council of Greater New York and vi cinity. . t Central City Oats Yield Central City, Neb.,' Sept." 11. (Special.) Charles Erickson this year raised 817 bushels of oats on a fraction less than eight acres of lanfl on his farm west of Central City. This makes an average of over 10? bushels to the acre. Mr. Erick son sowed less than 10 bushelsvpf seed. , ' j Gage County Republicans i , Organize for Campaign Beatrice, N,cb., Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) The republican county central committee has opened headquarters in the Lyric building for the re mainder of the campaign. 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