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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1921)
4 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921 American Heiress " Object of Search Of French Police -beneficiary of Tbxan, Wife of 3 British Aviator, Disappears is iFrom Maternity Hospital I ! With Her Babe. ;l'aris, June 24. The French se ptet police and private detective tit-ncics are ransacking France afecking the whereabouts of Frances SXgnes Quinn bellaris, wile ot a 3ritish aviator, and said to be heiress " I 'if t I, .1 J apr, several minion uouars, who ais SBripeared with her 3 weeks old baby Jipm a maternity home next door to She American hospital at Neully last Loud ay morning. i Austin Chamberlain Newton Bel gian's, the husband, is watching every idat departing from French ports to Jscertain if his bride is fleeing him to join her mother, Mrs. Florence tHiinn, who sailed on the Olympic June la. Accuses Mother-in-Law. - Pilaris believes his mother-in- law has estranged his wife because dVfrs. Bellaris' grandfather, named taVoodfin, a millionaire plantation Xtfner liviiin at Iago, Wharton Jounty Texas, is said to have made :will leaving his entire fortune to 5iig granddaughter. Bellaris alleged is bride's mother, Mrs. Quinn, seeks 3o: break this will, as it cuts her off. 3 SMrs. Bellaris, who had been at h'e 'maternity home since the birth tf: her daughter, Florence Sonia, re ceived a telephone call last Monday Inpniing at 10 o'clock, the attending iiurse savs. The person telephoning said that bellaris wished to meet his wife and Slaughter immediately. Mrs. isellans, .yho answered the telephone, re--licd: i f'Ycs," summoned a taxicab, and flvJth her baby, left the hospital, 'pthing has been heard of her since. I Police Are Baffled. J Paris detectives have searched sev erpl homes of persons identified with elusive Paris societ but have 'lotind no trace of the missing wife r baby. S ''The whole thing is a mystery," Said Bellaris today. "My wife is '21. Mrs. Quinn was married in Houston, Tex., at the age of 18. T believe John S. Kirby, a Hous !toh lumber dealer, is my wife's ather. Mv wife never saw her :ather but thinks he is Kirby." Mother Is Reticent. New York, June 24. Mrs. Flor ,nre Quinn, mother of the missing Sftelress, at her home, 36 West 59th jstfeet, declared that she had no Jnowledge of the disappearance of Se'r daughter, Mrs. Bellaris, from a hospital in Paris, but did not indi cate any particular surprise. t Mrs. Quinn refused to discuss the lenort that her daughter was the heiress to $50,000,000 or to give any formation concerning her father. t H MM : Farmer Arrested ii iBeatrice, Neb., June 24. (Special.) j-jDeputy State Sheriff Fulton ar rested a Bohemian farmer named Tflrlek near Milligan, Neb., 16 gal lops of mash being found on his 3lac. His hearing will be held at .JVilber. Mrs. Stillman, Seeking Quiet in Canadian Wilds, Meets Beauvais (Thin lit the Krvrnth of m trrlrn of article tcllim Fifi MUlman'a own utory. Thry will npnmr exrlimlvrly In Tim IW. Th rlelith nrllrl will be puhlUhml Ntindajr In both niornlns and evrnlnc litloii. Copyright. 121, ty Dally Nswa, Naw York. In a remote and heavily wooded corner of the province of Quebec, Canada, where the St. Maurice river is the only highway of traffic, Fifi Potter Stillman went to find rest and quiet in the spring of 1916. Society had palled on her: Tuxedo and Newport, the two fashionable summer places which had always claimed her during the loveliest months of the year, grew to seem artificial and hectic. Her friends quote her as saying, at this time: "I want to be alone in some wooded place where I can hear my self think, and where I won't have to assume a smile and seem happy when I'm not." Seeks Out Wilderness. All her life she had been a lover of the open spaces. The demands of her career as guardian of the Stillman family's social position had kept her nose to the grind stone as effectively as if she had been a paid employe. Near the St. Maurice club, at Three Rivers, Quebec, she had been told she would find an untrodden wilderness. She found at the rough hunting lodge which the club occu pied a family of guides and camp cooks named Beauvais. The second son of the family. Fred Beauvais, had a reputation up and down the river as the best woods man in Quebec. Engages Beauvais. He was a frank, sturdy, genial person, this young guide. He could speak to her in a kind of Canadian French which was a perpetual amuse ment to her. The Americans at the St. Maurice club recommended him as the best guide to accompany her up the river. Without a thought to the possible interpretations of her action, she engaged him to go with her to find a site for a place of her own. Up the river they went, prospect- mg tor a tract ot wooaiana wnicn would "do." They did not find it that summer; instead, the tired leader of New York society occu pied an old log cabin in the woods above Latuque, on the river. Continues Friendship. The inhabitants of the Indian villages in the forest grew to know the kindly, bright-haired American woman that summer. She was gen erous to - all of them village priests who had to serve for three of four of the tiny hamlets, lodg- iner-house keepers and guides, all had occasion to thank her when she departed for New York. The young guide who had helped her look for a home kept, her inter est by a native intelligence which seemed superior to his surround ings, un ner return to iNew xorit she did not forget him. She sent him books and an occasional letter, and obtained for him an extension course from one of the American state universities in the middlewest. In the next summer she found her home on Lake Pawson, east of Grand Anse, in the St. Maurice forests. The Beauvais family came to- her as general servants; Mad I ame Beauvais, an American wom an, as cock, and her husband and sons as guides and camp assistants. Stillman Doesn't Stay. Her children were with her that summer, with their nurse, Isabel Armstrong. The solitude of the place where they lived, "Stillness," did not appeal to Mr. Stillman. He was there only a few weeks of the summer. On river and Indian trail, riding, fishing and hunting, Mrs. Stillman was accompanied by Fred Beau vais. To the few Americans who had penetrated to the St. Maurice wilds there was nothing remark able in that. But the inferences and innuendoes of Canadian serv ants, aided by an occasional sug gestion from New York, were con stantly accumulating. The evidence which was adduced by Mr. Stillman in court was based on the state ment of these French-Canadians whom he brought to New York for the purpose. Proofs Impossible. It will be thoroughly impossible for Mr. Stillman to prove any of his charges, Mrs. Stillman's friends be lieve. They are united in thinking that the free cameraderie of the woods was one of the happy inter ludes of .Mrs. Stillman's married life. First rumors that her Canadian servants did not understand her atti tude toward Beauvais came to Mrs. Stillman that summer. A woman in the street of Grand Anse stopped her and informed her that she was risking gossip by her kindness to the young guide. She was passing a few days then in the village at the house of the old priest, Father Le may. To him, in relating the inci dent, she made the statement which has been her stand ever since: Lady at All Times. "My only answer to whatever people may say about me is: I have always been a lady and I shall al ways be one." During those long, golden days in the solitudes of the forest, with New York and all its responsibilities far away, did romance come to the tired and unhappy woman? Mr. Still man's lawyers think so. But to the many friends of Fifi Potter Stillman, finding strength for their belief in the steady sincerity of her gaze, her answer rings true. They find her conduct unconven tional, romantic perhaps, but their belief the belief of people who have known her since her pigtail days at Tuxedo, before the Stillman family shadowed her life is summed up in this: "She has always been a lady and she will always be one." A wedding in Morocco is celebrat ed by the women friends of the bride at her home arid by friends of the bridegroom at his home. Bee Want Ads Prod-ice Res ilts. Radium Hunted in Bluffs' Sewerage $3,000 Worth of Precious Metal Disappears in Doc tor's Lavatory. City employes of Council Bluffs are on a radium hunt. Somewhere in the sewer system of the city is believed to be radium worth $3,000, belonging to Dr. Donald Macrae. Macrae. Dr. Macrae was treating a patient with the substance for cancer in his offices in the City National bank building. The radium was in a glass container inside a silver box which was in an outer container of copV per, one and one-half inches long and an eighth of an inch thick. The entire package weighed about two drachms. The radium had been placed in a bandage on the patient's cheek to remain three hours. The patient lay down to rest, dozed, awok.e and en tered the lavatory, and when Dr. Macrae removed the bandage, the radium was missing. A thorough search of the suite of offices failed to reveal the precious metal and the belief has been expressed it slipped down the sewer. Wndwood, N. J., has chosen a I woman as a member of its volunteer 1 s fire company. Remnants of Gulf Slonn May Bring Rain to Omaha Maybe it will rain today, says the weather man, M. V. Robins. The "maybe" depends cji the course of the remnants of the gulf storm, which began Tuesday at Cor pus Christi and is scattering itself away toward the Great Lakes. Its route should include eastern Nebraska, but may deflect and cover the whole state of Iowa instead, said Robins. Kansas City had 1.64 inches of rain yesterday as a re sult of the gulf storm. , The temperature rose to 87 Thurs day afternoon, after two days' respite from 90 or thereabouts weather. The lowest in Omaha was 07 and in the stnte 53, at Culbcrtson. Two Train Bandits Escape U. S. Prison Trusties, in Line for Parole, Flee in Physician's Car. 24. this con- Officers o.f Omaha Army Posts Visit Iowa Air Meet Army officers of Forts Omaha and Crook attended the airplane meet at Red Oak, la. Capt. H. W. Cook of Fort Crook and Lieut. J. R. Hall of Fort Omaha attended Thursday, while I.ie'uts. A. C. McKinley and J. B. Jordan, both of Fort Oma ha, motored over to the meet yesterday. Many bargains are to be found on The Bee Want Ad pages Leavenworth, Kan., June Search was being made in vicinity today for Roy Shcrril, a victed train robber serving a 25-year sentence, who with Joe Davis, al.;o a convicted train robber, escaped from the federal penitentiary here Wed nesday night. According to word received last evening from Topeka, Davis has been arrested there. Identified and is being brought back here. The men escaped in the prison physician's motor car. Shcrril nad been detailed as the physician's chauffeur. Davis was an outside gate keeper and both men were in line for parole, according to W. I. Biddlc, prison warden. Sherril was a member of a gang of bandits that operated extensively in the west in 1916. He was cap tured at Sedalia, Col., early Septem ber 14, 1918, by an armed posse from Denver and Colorado Springs. Omaha Real Estate Men Romp Ami Play at Annual Picnic Omaha real estate men romped and played Thursday afternoon at their annual picnic at the Field club. C. B. ' Stuht won the 18-hole golf match. B. E. McCague and Ernest Sweet' had to toss a coin for second place. McCague won. Fred Grossman and Marie Kocher won the popularity contests; Mary Cunningham won the baby golf and clothespin race events; Leo Beveridgc, the guessing contest; Mrs. O. C. Campbell, the married wo man's advertising contest, and Marie Frankfort the women's race. There were 192 at the banquet in the eve ning at which all speeches were barred. y!li:iiiliii:iiiliiliiliiiiiili!liiliiNliil!il!ili!iilnlilliiiil jj New Dental X-Ray I j Laboratory I Dental Films 50c Each I $3.00 Full Set - 603 Securities Bldg. I 16th and Farnam, Omaha r tln:iM'ittprr'f)l!!"!i'!;iiiittiMiiriif!!iiw s"iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiEaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJ2iJiiiiiiiiiifiitiiiiiiiiiiiijy mm mm inittllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIlllMtlllllllllMIIIKIKtlllllllillnltlllll ORCHARD & WILHELM CO, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Saturday A GIGANTIC SALE OF I! 0h IS XL j J H Two Pants I The Cleverest Lot of Clothes You Ever Saw ! There's a big assortment of these new sum imer styles now ready new grays, browns, : blues and other popular shades; pencil ; stripes and herringbone weaves; single and j double-breasted models and sport styles. ! Style, tailoring and value you can't equal at anything near our price. Remember, 2 ! pants mean double the wear. CIOTHING COMPACT 4 Many Good Reasons Why You Should Purchase Saturday Turn the Hot Days Into Days of Comfort and Enjoyment Summer Furniture for Garden - Porch Sun Room or any room in the Summer Home Prices Are Surprisingly Low 2.95 6.00 Maple Porch Rockers, with double cane seats Maple Porch Rockers, with double cane seats and backs Forest Green Porch Rockers, with double cane seats and A QC ..l.OJ backs Fumed Brown Fiber Rockers, with high backs and arms .7.85 Woven Grass Chinese. Chairs of excellent de sign and very comfortable Woven Grass Chinese Rockers to match Maple Chairs and Rockers, with slat seats and backs .13.50 14.50 ..2.50 Collapsible Garden Settees, with A C slat seats and backs, each Five-Foot Collapsible Gates to keep 2 A A baby in, 2.75; seven ft. O.UU Child's Two-Seat Lawn Swing of substantial construction, r yr complete ). 3 Green Enamelled Bent Wood Gar den Settee (48 inches) Forest Green Canvas Couch Hammock, with gold trim, adjustable head rest and chains, complete Breakfast- Set in midnight blue enamel ......68.00 (4 chairs and 65.00 8.50 :k, with 18.50 (4 chairs and drop leaf table) Brown Fiber Breakfast Set 48-inch round table) Brown Mahogany Wood Beds We show two styles of square post wood beds in brown ma hogany or waxed oak. They are substanially constructed and have good clean cut lines. 4-6 size. An excellent value 1522 All Cotton Felt Mattresses This is a special value made in our own factory from a good grade of white cotton, felted and built to give sat isfaction, enclosed in at tractive fancy art ticking. 4-6 size; weight B0 lbs. Simmons' Link Fabric Bed Springs This spring will fit the wood beds advertised, or any 4-6 metal bed you may now have. It is one of the most popu lar springs of all the Sim mons Line. Price- 075 950 Luggage Sale A Special Purchase en ables us to offer most, un usual values at the very be ginning of the going-away season. 12.00 Slat Trunk, 28 inches 9.00 16.00 All Metal Cornered Trunk, with straps and tray 12.75 22.00 S4-inch Steamer Trunk 16.50 25.00 84-inch Fiber Trunk 18.75 5.50 16-inch Black Fabri coid Bag, lined 3.85 6.00 18-inch Black Fabri coid Bag 4.35 2.25 24-inch Matting Suit eases 1.65 6.50 Fiber Case, with straps, leather corners 4.75 12.50 Leather Suitcase t ......9.00 0.50 to 11.50 18-inch Fiber Bags, special 6.75 C00 allowance on your Old Ice Box if you purchase a Herrick Refrigerator Any friend who has a Her rick will tell you that every Herrick means sanitary dry air refrigeration at a mini mum ice cost. 60-lb. Herrick Refrigerator, white enamel lined, 40.00 75-lb. Herrick Refrigerator, white enamel lined. .48.00 100-lb. Herrick Refrigerator, white enamel lined. .60.00 115-lb. Herrick Refrigerator, spruce lined, at. ...52.00 130-lb. Herrick Refrigerator, spruce lined, at.... 65.00 Inexpensive Curtains and Curtain Materials Marquisettes, 36 inches wide 25 Curtain Voiles 35 Curtain Nets 75, .85 Cretonnes . . .38, .50 .60 Muslin Curtains, ruffled and Plain 3.50 Marquisette Curtains 1.50 Marquisette Curtains, lace edged 1.85 Filet Net Curtains, 3.75 to 5.00 Cretonne Covered Pil lows 1.00 Stenciled Chair Backs at 1.00 Stenciled Table Covers ...l.OO, 1.50, 2, 2.50 Overdrapery Material, 60 in. wide, in all desirable drapery colors, yard. . .1.65, 1.75 SIXTEENTH AND HOWARD STREETS 1417 Douglas Street ( You Get Your Money Back if easy term price3 in this sale are higher than E others quote for cash or on 30-day charges. E Tay down only what you can afford use your credit at E Beddeo's and spread your payments. You need not strain E your puree while times are hard. Little payments weekly or month', will do at Beddeo's. 333 ! PRICE GUARANTEE! Combined With Our GREAT JUNE REDUCTION SALE I 5000 New Customers Is Our Goal E We are determined in our program to add the names of 5,000 new ac- E counts on our books. Our success has been phenomenal. Our startling S offer of but $5 down combined with the store-wide shattering of all E prices lias set the whole countryside to talking and buying. g Men's Fadeless Blue Serge Suits I $5 Down and Only $2 a Week E These famous suits are the masterpieces of one of America's E most celebrated tailors. Styled and finished in a manner E you'll like, single or double breasted, all sizes. No man E should permit this offer to pass unheeded. New Shipment Men's Suits Those popular lrldescents, fancy mixtures and checks, single and double breasted, all colors, all sizes. Men here are suits that sur pass anything we have offered so far this season at anywhere near this price $5 Down Gets You One of These Suits I $11.75 to $20 Boys Suits Now Here's suits of real service, real style and real value; plain and mix- E tures; all sizes. Bring the lad In Saturday for his new suit I Free Junior League Baseball and Bat Given Away Witli Every Suit Purchased A Garment Sensation ANY SUIT OR WRAP In Our Entire Stock Which Range in Values fr &nS50. nt, onlv : Clear the decks of all suits and wraps, and clear them quickly, sell them at $15 regardless of former worth, such are the orders we've received, and here's your opportunity. Two Wonderful Saturday Values TUB FROCKS Organdies, Voiles, Ginghams, Swisses Surely no woman will consider denying herself a new summery dress when such remarkable vatues are possible, and when such easy terms can be enjoyed. So9 AND 1 ) I B .95 ! 5 v 1 r uiiiiuiui.,1,, 3000 ''