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Death of Paris
Stage Favprite
Caps Tragedies
y Suicide of Mrs. Hallye Peck
I Seventh In Year's Cycle
- of Violent Ends for Once
: ' Happy Crowd.
By ROBERT J. PREW,
' 3 ' Universal Brirloe Stuff Cormpoadent.
Z. London, Dec. 30. The suicide in
; Pari of Mrs. Hallye Whatley Peck
j' caps the most startling series of
' tragedies within a single social set
that has ever been recorded.
i Inside of one year seven men and
U women, all dazzling figures in An-
f glo-American circles, moving in
T. London, Paris and New York, have
Z met sudden or violent ends.
The first- link in the chain of ca-
- lamities was forged early in the
Z year, when Gaby Deslys, stricken
with cancer, lost-every vestige of her
S famous beauty and died in a Paris
Z cursing home.
t Eva Luscombe Second.
S Then Eva Lflscombe, one of the
- finest dancers of England, was
burned to death in New York. A
C few months later her closest friend,
'Babs" Taylor, wa slain in her
tashionable apartment by George
C Augustus Kelly in a fit of jealousy.
S While his sweetheart was dying in a
a . l l i f .
iiospuai wnere snc was laxcn jincr
Kelly shot her, he turned his weapon
upon himself and died a suicide.
Dm tm cam Ani Vfia. I liarnmhfi'l
t husband, who was the son of a baro
' net, fell dead at his dressing table.
t "Babs" Taylor's close friend, Phyl
2 lis Maude, a beautiful chorus girl,
v who had married the Marquis de
r Sain, died the same week in Glas
- ' gow boarding house.
' ? Gaby Knew "Babs" Taylor.
, ' - At one of her last appearances in
' London Gaby Deslys played at the
? Globe theater in "Suzette" with
"Babs" Taylor and Hallye Peck.
itrhr.,. Aaoth th last vuer)c in Paris
j (rdm an overdose of veronal dbliter
Sated from this life the last member
of the tragic circje.
- ' Mrs. Peck was a beautiful woman
" about town, frequenting the best ho
tels and night clubs for some years,
her bills being paid by a famous
It millionaire. In her heydey she had
!'a house in exclusive Curzon street,
where her expensive parties were at
tended by famous people of art, let-
ters and drama.
, I ; Then fell the evil days when she
moved among the desperate gam
I biers and quickly sank from wealth
to poverty. She was only 26 when
' she died. The early days of her
t:f . Vimnv hut she be-
? came estranged from her husband
: when she launched into the night
" life of the West End, dining at the
I I! Ritz, Savoy and Carlton and fraish
t f; ng her nights in gambling dens.
1 1 Lived With Gaby.
; I ; She once shared an apartment
S with Gaby Deslys, whose death
- greatly influenced her during the re-
U cent months, though penury, and not
? grief at the loss of her many friends,
i caused her to take her life.
She went to Paris after pawning
3 S her jewel with friends, and divorce
- - proceedings were pending m Pans
5 when she fell inextricably into the
clutches of drugs.
, At the end of the summer, she
- made her first attempt at sniciur
'"with veronal. Paris doctors saveo
her that time, though she hovered
- between life and jjeath for several
days" she Arranged Funeral.
r When she recovered she made a
V--: last futile attempt to, restore her
"r financial position by pawning her
2 furs. Describing her later months
a, a -"wounded butterfly's last pa
3 thetic days." one of her London
friends 1m just said:
"For many months , Hallyo- was
continually plotting and scheming
S to find a way out of hef difficulties.
And at the end when she had de
cided npon death for herself she
spent weeks in deciding how to-dw-
tribute her remaining personal be-
longings. - , , .
"She even arranged her own fun
5 c'ral Before she died she expressed
the wish io have her remains eremafc
; ei and the ashes scattered to the
i four winds.. She bequeathed her
- maid to 'her friends, hoping that
some of them would care for her
i sole remaining servant"
3t nil i i ' "
Schoolmasters Want '
"Soviet" for France
: Paris. Dec. 30. Thirteen thousand
schoolmasters employed in French
public schools are in favor of a so
viet for France.
This fact was discovered when a
census was taken recently of mem
bers of the extremist wing of the la
bor party, which recently urged ad
hesion to Lenine's third interna
tional. " ' '.
Most of the tutors give as their
reason their underpay.
"The schoolmaster is the most im
portant personage in any country
and he is paid as though he counted
for nothing at all," they state. T Un
der the communist system we could
get our just dues."
i A surprisingly large number ot
r "intellectuals" in France -are sub
scribers' to the third international
Railroad Asks Permission
To Sign $1,000,000 Note
i Washington. Dec. 3U-The Chi
icago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway company today
: asked the Interstate Commerce
commission for permission to re
new a promissory note of sl.uuu.
r 000 payable to the Chicago & North
is western Railroad company and to
t 1930 issue amounting to $1,200,000
;Shipi
jpment of Rags Yields N
I .nrc Amount of Whisky
; Chicago, Dec. 30. Forty bundles
f of rags, shipped by a New York bag
company to a Chicago iron and metal
concern, yielded up 40 cases of
whisky when prohibition agents
'". searched several railroad shipments
) whkh arrived here last night
I Kilduff Signs Contract
I New York, Dec 30.-Pcte Kil-
i duff, second baseman of the Brook-
lyn National league champicna.-1ias
, signed a contract for next season,
- it was announced today. be
his third year with the Dodgers.
Lighting Fixtures Granden Elec
: trip Co formerly Burgess-Gtanden
Two Stars of Filmland
In Double Elopement
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New York, Dec 30. Two of film
land's most popular stars, Dorothy
Gish and Constance Talraadge,
eloped to Greenwich, Conn., last
Sunday, and were married without
a single moving picture camera to
click out the scene.
Miss Gish was married to James
Rennie, who plays Pancho in
"Spanish Love," and Miss Tal
madge was married to John Pialog
lou, a Greek tobacco importer.
The marriage of Miss Talmadge
took place in ihe presence of the
bride's mother and-her two sisters,
Norma and Natalie. -
Since Sunday both Miss Gish and
Galli-Curci and
Samuels Will Wed
At Minneapolis
Ceremony, Which Will Occur
January 15, ill Be Quiet
Home Affair at Residence
of Parents of Groom.
By EARL L. SHAUB,
Vnlvertal Bcrrlca Htaff CormpoDdcnt.
Chicago, Dec, 30. Mme. Amelita
Galli-Curci, grand opera star, who
will wed her accompanist, Homer
Samuels, in Minneapolis January 15,
didn't know she was in love with the
talented musician until she became
lonesome in Paris last summer, she
said today. The couple will be mar
ried at the home of the parents of
the groom. The wedding will be a
plain home ceremony.
Samuels was lonesome, too, while
she was abroad, and so when she re
turned to New York he met her at
the dock and right then and there he
popped the question and she said
"yes." Neither had spoken of love
before
"I went to Paris; Homer stayed in
New York," she said today. "When
I reached France I found I was
lonesome, more lonesome than ever
before in my life.
Felt,Very Lonesome.
"At first I did not know why I
telt so miserably happy. That's the
only way f-an explain my feeling.
Uut soon I knew. It was Homer.
"Back I went to New York. Mr.
Samuels met me at the dock.
-" 'I was so lonesome here without
you,' were the first woids he said.
" 'And I, too, was unhappy alone,'
I found myself telling him.
"'I'm in love,' I said to myself.
" 'I love you,' he said to me.
"And we became engaged on the
spot."
She asked that her first marriage
with Marquis Luigi C Curci, from
whom she v. as divorced a year ago.
be relegated to the things that were.
"I am living in the present," she
said, "and I am as marvelously
happy as as a soon-to-be bride
should be.
"Homer came with me in 1917 and
we were good friends, pals, but nei
ther of us thought of love until last
summer.'' n
Then she gave her views on mar
riage. In substance it is: "It at
first you don't succeed ycur next
venture into matrimony may bring
you happiness, so try, try again."
' Gives Marriage Views.
"No girl should marry kef ore she
is 30," she said, "yes. 30." she repeat
ed with emphasis.
"She seldom before that age
knows how to distinguish between
her emotions and real love.
"But if she does marry before. that
time and is unhappy, there i no rea
son why she should ruin her life.
You know the old saying 'If at
first you don't succeed, try, try
again.' , ' - ' "
"Well, marriage is no different
than anything else. And I want to
say right here that my second mar
riage is the right one.
"Happiness in marriage depends
onlv unon one thine. Both the wile
and husband must be in love and
with each other." "
Admiral Nihlack Ordered
To Command in Europe
Washington, Dec 30. Rear Ad
miral A. P. Niblack has been order
ed to assume command of the Amer
ican naval forces in European wa
ters, succeeding ,Vice Admiral H.
McL Hue, it was announced at the
Navy department. Rear Admiral Ni
black will take the rank of vice ad
miral and will fly his flag on the
cruiser Pittsburgh. He has recent
ly been naval attache at London and
during the war commanded Ameri
can forces based on Gilbraltar. He
was later chief of naval intelligence
at the Navy department
New Orleans Authorities
Launch Anti-Hobo Drive
New Orleans, Dec. 30. Police of
this City have launched an antihobo
campaign fearing that activities
(gainst the crime wave by the au
thorities in the north might start a
tourists this way. The jail was
crowded with wayfarers accepting
pilgrimage of undesirable winter
this'enforced hospitality,
Miss Talmadge have been living with
their mothers at Savoy fyotel, while
their husbands have continued at
their bacholor apartments.
Although" Mrs. Gish was inclined
to smile at thejnvasioi of the Gish
family by Mr. Rennie, whom she
likes very much, Mrs. Talmadge was
very much upset.
The studio work at the Talmadge
plant in East orty-Eighth street,
was interrupted for the dav. and
when Miss Constance Talmadge re
ceived reporters she was in bed with
a headache.
"Yes, we have a man In the fam
ily," was the way in which Lillian
Gish, Dorothy's elder sister, an
nounced the tidirgs.
Hostilities At
Fiume Ended As
City Capitulates
D'Annunzio Plans to Leave
City In Company With Sig
norita Baccara by
Airplane.
Triste, Dec. 29. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Hostilities at Fiume
between Italian regular troops and
d'Annunzian legionaries ended to
night , '
The agreement for the capitula
tion of Fiume will be signed to
morrow morning.
Orders for a cessation of fighting
at Fiume apparently followed a re
port to General Caviglia, com
mander of Italian regulars in'Dal
matia, that the council of Fiume.
to which Captain Gabriele d'An
nunzio had turned over his powers
as head of the "regency of Quar
nero," had accepted the terms of
the Italian government
-At a conference held at Abbazzia
yesterday the council gave complete
recognition of the treaty of Rapallo,
against the application of which
d'Annunzio and his men were fight
ing. The iast news from d'Annunzio
personally stated he had resolved
to leave Fiume by airplane, and it is
presumed he planned to take with
him Signorita Luisella Baccara, who
has been in Fiume for several months
and to whom he has declared he will
be married as soon as he is given a
divorce from his present wife. Shr
norita Baccara refused to leave the
poet-soldier when an attack on the
city Was imminent, declaring she
would rather be killed than to quit
the city.
Speaker Makes Appeal to
Rotary Club for Legion
A p.lea for a firmer co-operation
with the American Legion on the
part of Omaha business men was
made Wednesday noon by T. J. Mc
Guire, speaking before members ot
the Omaha Rotary club at the Rome
hotel. McGuire outlined 'he plan
for a coming drive for legion mem
bers and asked the support of the
Rotarians. 1
Guy M. Hoyt, resigned executive
of the Omaha Boy Scouu, who
leaves soon to enter the University
of Chicago, was given a farewell by
the Rotarians.
Ezra Meeker Celebrates His
90th Birthday at Seattle
-. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 30. Ezra
Meeker, known from coast to coast
by his pilgrimages with an ox
drawn prairie schooner fever the
route of the old Oregon trail, which
he traveled ior the first time 50
years ago on his westward journey,
celebrated his yutn birthday nere
yesterdav. Part of the celebration
trrtt night was an old fashioned
spelling bee with a spelling book
published in 1829 used as the text
Fifty years' residence in this state
was required of entrants.
Residents of Hurley, Wis., Blame Wholesale -Raid
oriturse Placed on Town by Lone Woman
Chicago Trlbune-Omah Bee LmmI Wire.
Hurley, Wis.; Dec. 30. This town,
"the wettest in the Iron range," yes
terday surveyed the darkened doors
of 38 of its saloons and pondered
upon the potency and peculiar work
ings of a mother's curse.
The curse was laid upon Hurley
25 years ago by a Chicago woman,
whose name has been forgotten. She
was searching for a daughter who
had been lured to the infamous Alca
zar theater. That was about the
time that a stockade was maintained
in the dense woods and filled with
girls recruited from Chicago.
Once inside this stockade, which
was patronized by lumberjacks, the
girl never came out until she was
carried out in a pine box. The Chi
cago mother tried to rescue her girl,
but failed. Then she went out into
Main street, knelt in the snow and
cursed the Alcazar, its proprietors
and the entire town that permitted it
to exist Two nights later. her
daughter was dancina; in the Alca
zar, her flimsy gown blew against an
opeu gas jet. The piue building
Tgc pEE: OMAHA', FETDAT, DECEMBER 31, 1920.
Telephone Girl
Gives Cliie to
Bathtub Murder
Reveals Name of Man Whom
Mason City Woman Went
To Chicago to Visit
Before Death. "
Des Moines. la., Dec 30. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Miss Evelyn Beck-
ner, employe of the Iowa Telephone
company here, gave authorities a
clue to the identity of the man who
is being sought in connection with
the mysterious death of Edna B.
Wilson of Mason City. Miss Wil
son was found dead in the bathtub
of her home yesterdav. entirely
nude and police allege she was mur
dered. According to Miss Beckner,
the man whom Miss Wilson went to
see on her trip to Chicago, just pre
ceding her death, was Arthur J. Sul
livan. , t
In a letter to Miss Beckner. writ
ten a few days before her death,
Miss Wilson said that she was "tired
of life. ' She seemed morose and
brooded over her imaginary misfor
tunes. She spoke of the intended
trip to Chicago to visit "Sully."
Omaha Boy Seek Mother. '
Lester Bagsley, 15, 2023 .Paul
street, Omaha, wants his mother. In
a letter addressed to Cruef of Police
Joseph Donahue, the boy pleads
with the chief that he make all pos
sible efforts to find her Her name
is Mary Alice Bagsley, and she is
believed to be living in Des Moines.
The letter reads:
"Dear, Kind Chief of Police!
"I want yon to please Nfind my
mother, Mrs. Mary Alice, and read
this letter' to her. Please let me
know as soon as you find her. She
left me with these people when I
was a baby. I am a big boy now. I
am 15 years old.
"I want her to send me some
clothes, and I want her to come and
get me.
I want my mother.
"Well good bye and please find
her. Her son, ,
"LESTER BAGSLEY.
Chief Donahue has written the boy
a letter to ask him for her descrip
tion! for a picture, and other infor
mation which might help in finding
her. i
Big Legion Meeting.
A monster Legion meeting at Des
Moines for the purpose of boosting
the Iowa Legion is planned for
sometime in January, probably about
the middle of the month.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
and Major General Wood of Chicago
and National Legion Commander
I. J. Galbraith will be present and
will address the meeting..
The governor of Iowa and distin
guished citizens from this and other
suites win De guests ai rne meeung,
as well as members of all Iowa posts
and state legislature. Commanders
and Legion members from all over
the state will be present.
Attaches of British
Embassy Win Soccer
Game From Diplomats
Washington, Dec. 30. Sore
muscles and bruises were prominent
along diplomatic row today, arising
trom a soccer foot ball match yes
terday between a team of British
embassy attaches and an allied
force from four other embassies or
legations. The Britons won, 5 to 2,
despite the fact that they loaned
three men to the allied tearri to fill
its ranks to war strength.
General Bethel, British military
attache, captained the Britishers,
while Captain Huntington, Italian
military attache, led the allied host,
which included two other Italians,
four men from The Netherlands'
legation, one Brazilian and one Ar
gentine diplomat, in addition to the
three borrowed Britishers.
The winners have challenged the
State department. . '
Man Charged With Throwing
His Wife Through Window
Los Angeles, Dec 30. Arthur
Boyd, 30, threw his wife, Margaret,
24, out of a second story window
of their home here, according to a
charge filed against him at the city
ail where he was a prisoner. Mrs.
Boyd fell upon a passing pedestrian
and sustained a broken right leg
and minor injuries. The pedestrian
was unhurt
The police said that Boyd told
them he did not know why he com
mitted the act, and that Mrs. Boyd
also declared she had no idea what
his motive was.
Omaha Man Elected Head
' Of State Bar Association
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 30. (Special
Telegram.) The State Bar associa
tion, in session here, elected the fol
lowing officers: President. Alfred G.
Ellick of Omaha; vice presidents,
Charles P. Anderbery, Minden; Wil
liam E. Schuman, North Platte; Earl
M. Cline, Nebraska City; secretary,
Anna Raymond,- Omaha; treasurer,
R. M. Crossman, Omaha. The mem
ber elected to the executive council
for three years was Guy C. Cham
bers of this city.
burned like a powder train and a
dozen men and women, among them
the Chicago girhwere trampled -and
burned to death.
This sort of sobered the town for
a few days. Local priests urged the
proprietors of the Alcazar not to re
build it but thev disregarded the re.
quests, and the notorious den arose j
..v... i noma uiui M ui accil lllilil
ever.
It lasted six weeks. Then a second
fire swept it and twenty-seven per
sons perished in the ruins. This time
it was not rebuilt and for sixteen
years the twisted iron and charred
wood remained untouched. New
buildings Sprang up but ,the cue of
the Chicago mother was applied in
various ways.
Joe Chirpuisio, whose family was
interested in the Alcazar was re
cently killed in a battle with federal
agents. Several of the saloonkeepers
arrested yesterday, were connecte'd
with the wild establishments running
when the anathema was pronounced.
"Our bad luck U all due to that
crse," they said ' -
Sister Causes Her
Brother's Arrest
Man Who Came to Collect
Part of Estate Charged
With Disturbing Peace.
W. B. Earnest of Logan, la.,
came to Omaha yesterday morning
and visited his siter, Mrs. Cora
Bramon, 412 South Twenty-fifth
street, to claim two diamond rings
and other articles in the settlement
of an estate.
His request being refhsed by the
sister, he obtained a writ of replevin
in municipal court and returned to
the Bramon home in the afternoon
with Constable F. W. McGinnis.
The next movement of Mr Earn
est was to the Central police sta
tion ona charge of disturbing the
peace, brought by his sister, who
alleged that during his morning
visit the brother used violent and
abusive language.
Mr. Earnest came to Omaha with
his brother, Thdmas, in connection
with their joint administration of
the estate of their sister.
Earnest, formerly of Omaha. They
allege that the sister willed all of
her peronsal effects to them and that
Mrs. Bramon . held two valuable
diamondvrings, one wrist watch and
a Hudson .seal coat, all of which
were mentioned in the wrt-of re-
plevm issuea yesteraay to v-onstaDie
McGinnis, who obtained the seal
Coat.
The Earnest brothers are farmers
ajt Logan, la.
Greeks Meet In
Secret Session
Stage Set for Grand Ball of
Alpha Tan Omega
Congress.
The fraternitv grio" and pass
word were necessary for attendance
at the second session of the 27th bi
ennial convention of the Alpha lau
Omega fraternity in the Hotel Fon-
tenelle yesterday.
It was behind closedS doors, and
those not possessed of credentials to
acmit them into the realm of A. T.
O. Greekdom were turned away with
happy shrug by the sergeant-at-
arms stationed at the entrance.
After the meeting all officers of
the various provinces throughout the
states gathered at the Farnam en
trance of the court house for a pho
tograph. ,
Three hundred couples attended
the ball at the Fontenelle last night.
One of the happiest meetings of
the congress was perhaps that of
Dean Thomas R. Clarke of the Uni
versity of Illinois, with his former
pupil, Claude A. Smith, whose life
. . t - r- it 1-i io
worK Kepi mm in nuropc uic iasi it.
years.
Clothing Workers Are
Charged With AUempt
To Organize Combine
Boston. Dec. 30. Charges that
representatives of the clothing manu
facturers in New York City had ap
proached Sidney Hillmah. president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America, a few months ago
with a proposal for combinations in
that industry similar to those dis
closed in the building trades inquiry
in New York, were made by nill
man in addressing 2,500 members of
the organization.
Mr. Hillman said the proposal
called for "friendly strikes and lock
outs," which would force a clothing
shortage and make it possible for
the manufacturers to "bleed the pub
lic to the limit."
"We rejected their plans," he said,
"and later, when manufacturers in
Chicago, Baltimore and Rochester
refused to join them, the plans fell
through."
Police Seek Missing Man
St. Louis, Dec. 30. Police today
began a search for T. Oicar Boeck,
secretary treasurer of a local bat
tery company, who failed to return
home last night A note found in
his desk read: "We'll get vou and
your crpwd BLACKHAND."
Habitues of the Gilded
Cabarets of New York
Ready for New Year Eve
New York, Dec 30. Habitues of
the gilded cabarets along the "gay
white way" will have at least one re
minder this New Year's eve of the
old time rollicking midnight celebra
tions before ' the demise of John
Barleycorn the prices for viands
will be as high as usual. In some
establishments diners will be asked
to pay $15 for -cover charges as a
preliminary fee for the mere privilege
of paying still moreMor a meal.
Nearly all rcstauranters announced
today that all tables had been re
served. Their menu proof sheets
show, among other things, cocktails,
punches, fizzes, highballs and juleps,
out the "foot notes" explain, la
boriously, that these beverages are
non-alcoholic.
There's three
fold goodness
to CHOCOLATE PUFF
CAKES thesoft.fresh
cake, 'the creamy marsh
mallow, and the thick
chocolate coating. Sold
by the pound.
NATIONAL BISCUIT
COMPANY
V
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In
auantk.
President-Eleet
Spends Busy Day
In Conferences
Coal Situation, Packer Con
trol and " Naval Program
Among Subjects Dis
1 cussed at Marion.
Marion, 0., Dec 30. Wide varie
ty of subjects, including the coal sit
uation,' packer control and the naval
building program, were talked over
by President-elect Harding yester
day in a dozen conferences which
kept him busy from early morning
until late at night
The coal production problem was
presented to him by Daniel B. Wentz
of Philadelphia, president of the Na
tional Coal association, which fur
nished detailed information about the
present rate of. production and the
outlook for the coming year.. Mr.
Harding asked many questions on
the subject but it was not indicated
Nettie4wnat tlitude he took regarding gov
ernment regulation 01 inc inausiry.
On the subject of naval construc
tion the president-elect sought in
formation from Representative Pat
rick A. Kelley of Michigan, chair
man of the house subcommittee
which handles naval appropriations.
Means of Cutting down expenditures
without crippling national defense
were discussed at length, Mr. Kelley
suggesting that while the present
building program was being com
pleted, an international aoreetnent
might be perfected for limitation of
armaments.
A committee from Chicatro. headed
by S. B. Stafford, president of the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange, took
up with Mr. Harding the question
of government regulation of the live
Stock industry and nresented a nlm
that during the next four years the
Dusiness snouid not be harrassed un
duly by legal restrictions. They
asked that a secretary of agriculture
be selected in harmony with that
policy, but said afterwards' that they
had not put forward any particular
candidate.
Another caller was Victor F.
Lawson publisher of the Chicago
Daily News, who said his conference
concerned various domestic prob
lems. Charles B. Warren of Detroit,
former republican national commit
teeman for Michigan, also called to
see the president-elects and had
luncheon at the Harding home.
Canadian Engineers
Lose Membership in
Trades Organization
'Ottawa, Ont, Dec '30. The char
ter of the Canadian Brotherhood of
Railway Engineers has been re
voked, Tom Moore, president of the
Canadian .trades Labor congress.
nnounced. The union comprises
more than 112,000 railroad workers,
. f . e , ,
inc majority, or w,nom are employed
on the Canadian National railways
Mr. Moore said the charter had
been revoked because the brother
hood's activities had conflicted with
those of the International Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks, Fright t Handlers, Express
and Station Employes, the only or
ganization which will, in the future
be recognized by the, Trades and
Labor congress.
Marshall Field HI Takes ,
Up Banking as Life Business
Chicago, Dec. 30. Marshall
Field III. announced today that he
had decided to take up investment
banking as his life business and had
formed a partnership with a Chicago
investment banking firm. Mr. Field,
who was the principal heir to the
estate of his grandfather, Marshall
Field, which made him one of the
wealthiest men in the world, also
will continue his association with
the various New York and Chicago
interests left by his grandfather.
"ONYX"
Fibre Silk Hose
3 Pair
Pint quality llila iilk
alt Rood color.
Here't without demht
Mt hMt Honlery offer
of tnt! Any.
Limit f? Pm'r to
a On stem nr
i For Friday Only ' I
1 ywh 300 Beautiful New I
M. DRESSES J
ii i it
for dl.UU
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Laws Urged To iVid
Mothers of the U.S.
Association' for Labor Legis
lation Seeks Co-Operation
In Protecting Maternity.
New York, Dec 30. Enactment
of laws in all states to co-operate
vith the federal government in pro
tecting maternity, particularly
among working women, was urged
by speakers at the closing sessions
of the 14th annual meeting of the
American Association for Labor
Legislation here today.
Restriction of employment, rash
benefits to offset los of earnings,
and free medical care were Jeclared
to be the pressing need o over
come an increasing mortal ty- rate
for both mothers and infjmts.
Dr. Richard Bolt, general director
of the American C,hild Hygiene as
sociation, said it was a "ct.ndemm
ing fact that in .this enlightened age
and prosperous country more wom
en between 15 and 45 years of age
lose their lives from conditions con
nectedwith child birth than from
any other cause except tubcculosis.
More than 23.000 mothers died
under these conditions in the United
States during the past year." Jie
said.
"What would the novernment
do," Dr. Bolt asked, "if . 20.000 or
more persons died in this country
in one year from smallpox or bu-
bonic plague?"
San Francisco Cops
Have Whisky Mystery
On Their Hands Now
San Francisco. Dec 30 The
'evaporation" and loss ' of proof in
48 barrels Of whisky that traveled
less than five miles through the
streets of San Francisco ysterday
is today under federal investigation
Under heavy guard and wih exten
sive entourages of motion picture
operators and newspaper men fh
whisky was moved from the rotr.e of
its ownei to a warehouse
When guaged previous to its de
parture each of the 48 barrels was
found to be full of 102 proof whisky,
federal officials said. A re-guage at
the warehouse showed jgvery barrel
tacked from two to three gallons
tapacity, they declared. i
THOMPSON BELDEN
? COMPANY
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A Sale of Aprons
In the Basement Housewear -
H Charming little organdie aprons
which have sold for 79c, 89c and
98c all go at one price Friday, 59c.
U The $1.25 and $1.50 aprons for $1.
. Attractive New Prices
on house dresses, dresses for chil
dren, bungalow aprons, petticoats
and new middies.
and every dress involved is easi'lv worth
three and four times this price.
- Here's the greatest value surprise
announced by any local store during
1920. Dress hfferinsrs that soem
v quite impossible. It's a one dar
. . .
event, so oe nere
Lace Striped Tricolettet .
Tricotines, P inured Georgette
Crepe de Chine Foulards
Serge Velomt Cheek Velotxri
Beautiful Beaded, Yarn and SUE
embroidered, iridescent trimming,
silk braid, combination effects.
We appreciate that 300 dresses at this ridicu
lous low wire can not, last thmnehnnt the dar,
and our bpsf advice f o patrons of th! store is,
v be here when the doors open at 9:00 A. M.
"harp. .
Woman Awarded
$40,000 Alimony
BylovvaConrt
Farm . Land and CaliforniaY'
Home Given to Wealthy Wi
Land Owner's Wife ' ;
by Judge. I
Audubon, la.. Dec. 30. Alimonj
approximating $40,000 and an abso- ,
lute divorce has been awarded Mrs.
Olive Halleck in her suit against her
husband, Keyes Halleck. wealthy
Audubon county land ownev
The diyorce was granted by Judge
O. D. Wheeler of the district court,
who heard the case two weeks ago.
Mrs. Halleck sued for a divorce on
the grounds of cruel and inhuman -treatment.
She asked $80,000 ali- I
mony and sought to show her hus
band to be worth from $125,000 to i
$200,000. ,
Hallack did not contest the divorce
but made a determined fight against j
the claim for alimnoy. He is the I
owner of 1,065 acres of land situated I
near Brayton, this county, and also
owned a residence property in Mon
rovia, Cat '
The court awards the wife 234
acres of land, the property in Mon
rovia and $4,000 in cash, the latter ..
to be paid by February 1
Because of the prominence of the
Haltacks, the case attracted wide at
tention It was bitterly fought for
four days. On its submission to
Judge Wheeler he took it under ad
visement. Mr. and Mrs. Hallack are middle
aged people and have grown chil
dren. The latter took sides with their
mother.'
Call On Bond Brokers to Give V
lip Property to Cover Losses
Portland,' Ore, Dec 30.-W. D.
Whitcomb, temporary receiver of
the bond house of Morris brothers,
which failed to open last Monday,
following the flight of its former
president John L. Ethridge, now
under arrest at Minneapolis, an
nounced last niffht that he will make
legal demand tomorrow npon Fred
S. Morris, who succeeded Ethridge
in charge of the business for a few
days, for the surender of all prop
erty owned by the corporation for
the benefit of the creditors of the
firm.
Housewear Basement
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