Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 5

" TIWIVES ALLEGED - INCASE OF BIGAMY igcused Man Taken in Indi- ana on Eve of Intended Min- neapolis Wedding. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 14.— Isaiah Moore's twelfth marriage was to have taken place in Minneapoll: today, according to local authorities, ‘Who arrested the man yesterday on a charge of bigamy and émbezzlement. Moore is alleged to have had several allases, among them being George S. Melrose. Moore was arrested on a charge of embezzlement preferred by his last ‘wife, Harriet Evans, a Hoosier school teacher and his eleventh bride. He is said to have embezzled $500, from her. Moore deserted Miss Evans after they had been married less than a Week and took $500, which, she said, belonged to her, it is alleged. Miss Evans said when Moore de- Serted her she reported the case to a national detective association, who traced “George Melrose,” the, name under, which she married him, to Lo- gansport, Ind. and then back to Indianapolis, where he was arrested. Proposed to Several Women. According to the story, Moore told the police that he had proposed to al Indianapolis women since his 1 here last week. Of the eleven girls he said he mar- Tied, he could not remember the last names of two, His first wife was Flora Dolf of - Wyoming, Pa, whom he married twelve years ago. They had one @hild, he said. e is said to have confessed to marrying the following other women in the order named: Amelia Werner of Detroit, Mich., mmarried at Windsor, "Canada, under the name of Harry Moore. Sue Harris of Houma:"La., whom he married under the mame of Harry Melvin. « Bessie (he could not remember her Iast name) of Wilson, N. C., whom he married under the name of George Shields. A wumng whose given naum€ was Gertrude, but whose last name he is ®aid to have told the police he could Dot remember, of Findlay, Ohio. He &ave his nanle as Howard Wilson on that occasion, it was said. Laura Shields, whom he married &t Spokane, Wash. Florence Johnson of David, Neb., ‘Whom he married under the name of J. H. Vaughn. Helen Hardgraves, at Augusta, Kan. Deserted in Few Weeks. Up to this time it is alleged that he oourted his brides in person and de- serted each within a few weeks. As “Howard Wilson” Moore is said to have married Irene Hale, three years ago in Chicago. He met her through a marriage bureau in a southern state, he said. He deserted her, taking with him $1,500, it is al- leged. In June of last year, he is said to ngn married Laura Hertzberg at eoria, 111, under the name of George Churchill. His last matrimonial ven- ture was that with Miss Evans of ‘Vincennes, Ind., whose father is said to be in the newspaper business at Coldwater, Mich. Moore is thirty-two years old. He will be arraigned in city court as soon as detectives check up on minor details of the confession he is said to have made. S Divorced Wife Weds Again. ‘WILSON, N. C., March 14.—Mrs. Bes- sle Whitson, a young widow of this city, was married to George S. Shields here about seven months ago, according to the records in the oftice ©f the Wilson county -register ol deeds, where the marriage license was obtained. Shields is said to have car- ried his bride to Goldsboro, where he is alleged to have relieved her of a diamond ring, a_ small amount of money and then deserted her. Mrs. Shields recently obtained a di- wvorce on the grounds of desertion lndl was married at Washington, N. C., last Sunday. QODAYS FORWOMAN IN CONTEMPT CASE Sent to Jail After 'SeIIing Au- , tomobile in Disobedience f of Court Order. Because Mrs. May Kamm Baker, Whose domestic difficulties with her Rusband, Richardson K. Baker of Ana- ©ostia, have been before the courts for geveral months, refused to surrender & Steudebaker sedan, valued at $4,700, o receivers appointed by the court, and announced that she would see the re- ceivers in a warmer climate before they got her car, Justice Bailey of the District Supreme Court today adjudged Ber in contempt of court. He imposed & fine of $600, or, in default, a jafl sen- fence of ninety days. The woman had Bot only refused to obey the court's &rder, but had sold the car in Alexan- @ria. She was committed to jail. Centroversy Over Purchase. The receivers were named. last Avgust by Justice Hitz. Alfred D. Smith, .counsel for the husband, and George E. McNeil, one of Mra Baker's Jawyers, were appointed to take possession of the car until the court ©ould determine the question of its ownership. The wife declared she Bad bought the automobile witlf her own money. The husband asserted had contributed $600 and his car ward the purchase price. When the receivers reported that the wife would not part with the car Justice Bailey issued a rule in contempt @gainst her. Says She Was Abusive. At a hearing on the rule today At- rney W. A. Coombe, who was as- ciated with Attorney McNeil as counsel for the wife, was called to the witness stand. He admitted that when the order was signed Mrs. Baker was abusive and declared she would geo the recefvers in hades befors they ould lay hands on her car. Attor- ney McNeil, one of the receivers, tes- tified that he vainly attempted to rsuade his client to part with the tomobile. Mrs. Baker brought suit some time Eo for a limited divorce and’ the u sband filed a cross-petition asking e annulment of the marriage. KILLS GIRL AND SELF. 3an Infuriated “When She Laughs at Upbraiding. MINEOLA, N. Y., March 14—In- furiated when Miss Virginia Forget, twenty-three, laughed at his demand that she refuse attentions from Bther men, Willlam Magee, a car- penter, thirty-seven, shot and killed the girl, then turned the weapon on Rimself. He died two hours later. Magee, who is survived by a wife and two children, is sald by the po- lice to have confessed just before he died that he had been infatidated th the girl, who was a bookkeeper the office of Justice of the Peace tervelt. She was alone in the ice when Magee called 1ate yester- y and upbraided her for accepting entfons apd gifts from other men, said. | CONCENTRATION, $500 AND’ADVICE FAIL TO PRODUCE A HUSBAND By the Ausaciated Yress. NEW YORK, March 14.—Telep- athy, plus concentratien, plus advice purchased at a cost of $500, failed to win a husband for Mrs. Lena Dunkley, head of the Brook- lyn Truant School, she testified at the trial of Mrs. Anna War- *Wick, leader of the- Mayflower Spiritualistic Church, of Jamaica, . Y. who was in county court charged with grand larceny. For $500, said Mrs. Dunkley. she received . from Mrs. Warwick a photograph of a supposedly eligi- ble male ang Instructions to con- centrate on the likeness, with the assurance that the subject would hand over his heart and hand. She received meither, she testified. Mrs. Warwick's defense was that the $500 was a mere loan and had nothing to do with love. A jury will decide the issue. REGARDS CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AS VITAL I ! Protection and development of the - American organic chemical Industry is a matter of “national necessity,” Dr. Charles H. Herty city, president of the Synthetic Or- sanic Chemical Manufacturers’ Assc-l clation of the United States. and al former president of the American Chemical Society, declared yesterday before the subcommittee of the Sen- ate judiciary committee in charge of the dye hearing. Dr. Herty gave the subcommittee a detailed account of his activities to obtain such protection and develop- ment. . Would Speak for Importer. Senator Shortridge of California, chairman of the subcommittee, an- | nounced at the close of yesterday's session that he had received a letter from former United.States Senator O'Gorman of New York, requesting that he be advised when the subcom- mittee can _hear him for his client, Herman A. Motz of New York city, an importer of German dyestuffs, who desires to reply to statements made previously before the subcommittee by Frederick R. Coudert. counsel for the Textile Alliance, and Francis P. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation. Senator Shortridge announced that Mr. Metz will be heard later. Dr. Herty Explains Position. Dr. Herty testified that his inter- est in the development of the Amer- ican organic chemical industry be- came intensified during the early part of the European war as he saw | the important relation' of chemical development to a nation, and, during the summer of 1915, he urged re- peatedly the development of the American industry. Senator King of Utah, Dr. Herty sald, had declared before the subcommittee that the American Chemical Society, of which Dr. Herty was then president, had been drawn into the campaign for protection of the American industry by the Textile AHiance and the American Dyes Institute. Dr. Herty explained that the American Dyes Institute did not exist, and the Tex- tile Alliance was not interested in handling imported dyestuffs when the American Chemical Society began to work for protection and development of the American industry as a “na- tiopel necessity.” Tells of Previous Action. In January, 1916, Dr. Herty testi- fied, when he was president of the American Chemical Society and pro- fessor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina, he appeared, by invitation, before the House ways and means commitfee and urged ade- quate_protection of the American dye and organic chemical industry. At that tinfe, he said, all American in- terests involved, including the con- sumers, were in agreement as tp the necessity for protecting and develop- ing the erican industry, as war abroad made this vitally necessary. Dr. Herty told of his work, which began in 1916, as editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineer- ing Chemistry, theeofficial organ of the American Chemical Society. He testified he had no commercial in- terest of any sort in the industry and that his editorial policy was a frank- ly announced one of “America first.” ——— The Duke of York, second son of King George, has an official allow- ance of $50,000 a year. 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S Daniel, thirty-three years; Fred Eby, twenty-nine years; Sehew, twenty-four years. Back row. of New York|ywenty-nine years; H. H. McKeever, thirty-two years; Roas E. Gray, thirty-four years; M. M. Cleeves, twenty-two e years. d J. thirt; years, —C. G. Daugherty, NO DIVORCE EVIL IN FAIRFAX GOUNTY Clerk Holbrook Says But One Case There in 570 Persons. Now comes Fairfax county to ward off any intimation of a divorce evil that might besmirch her fair name. Taking the figures as presented by E. R. Holbrook, deputy clerk of the Fairfax circuit court, in a statement issued today, there was oniy one final decree of divorce for every 570 per- sons in the county during 1921. But that's just a mere matter of figures. It doesn’t mean that residents within the county have been coming forward even at that rate to sever the mar- riage ties. “It is natural for those persons liv- ing in Washington and other places where divorces are hard to procure to Bo to the most convenient place and establish residences, but I do not know of a single case in this county where any suggestion of fraud has been made,” he explains. During 1921, Mr. Holbrook advises, there were filed forty-six divorce suits, of which four were dismissed on account of reconciliation, leavin forty-two on the docket. Duringthe period covered by his statement, there were thirty-five final decrees handed down in 1921, and ten partial decrees, a total of forty-five. The discrepancy between the two figures is due to the fact that several cases were brought torward from the 1920 docket. Fairfax county is close to Washing- ton and Maryland, he explained, and at least two-thirds of the people of the county go to those places to be married. Therefore, he said, it would be unfair to compare the number of divorces obtained in the county with the number of marriage licenses issued. —_— WOMAN TO DEFEND CASE. Miss Birkhead Will Take Stand Against Governor. JACKSON, Miss, March 14.—Miss Frances Birkhead will appear before the legislative committee now in ses- sion In Jackson to testify as to charges made by Gov. Lee M. Russell that the $100,000 damage suit insti- tuted by. Miss Birkhead against him, alleging seductign, was fostered by certain fire insurance interests. This announcement was made today by Thomas E. Foster of Vicksburg, counsel for the young woman. turn was paramount. SAVING has the SAVING is, do- 35,310. 7 a GHenseyCo. ANTIGONISH GHOST’S FRIENDS HERE DENY PRANKS ARE DUE TO RADIO The Antigonish ghost has found friends In Washington. They have come out, in response to inquiries, in support of the ghost by dis- crediting the enemles of the spirit who wish to credit its pranks to radio disturbances in the ether. One of them is Prof. J. Harris Rogers, inventor of the under- ground wireless, and the other is E. B. Judson of the radip labora- tory of the bureau of standards. Prof. Rogers placed the stamp of disapproval on efforts of the enemies of the ghost by character- izing their explanating as “ab- surd.” Mr. Judson said that “there's nothing to it” it can't be elec- trical disturbances. Therefore, it really must be the ghost. The ghost’s intended annihilators claim that the situation of the playground of the ghost in Anti- gonish_lies in the valley of Cale- donia Mills, which is midway be- tween two big wireless stations at Wellfleet, Mass., and at Glacebay, |VOTE TO PROCLAIM FALL OF ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT Leaders to Form Provisional Gov- ‘ernment at Once—Troops Ad- vance on Tirana. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, March 13.—An assembly of prominent ~ Albanians has decided to proclaim the fall of the Albanian gov- crnment and to convene a constituent assembly to form a provisional govern- ment, siys a semi-official dispatch from Durazzo today. The forces from surrounding villages, which took possession of Durazzo Thursday, have left the city in order to reinforce the detachments which are at- tacking the city of Tirana, the dispatch sald. AIVIATOR FALLS TO DEATH. DAYTON, Ohio, March 14.—Lieut. F. ‘W. Neidermyer, jr., of McCook Field, was killed when a monoplane {n which he was doing combat problems fell sev- eral thousand feet in a tail spin. His home was said to be in Columbia, Mo. N. 8. They claim that it was elec- trical action as a result of radio waves from these stations that re- sulted in the fires at the barn, which are claimed by the ghost's supporters as his deeds alone. ‘The dropping of temperature to 25 degrees below zero is also dls- counted as to cause by electrical activity. 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Mr. MacMonnies has depicted the 8pirit of his theme as an onward- marching . youth, a mighty club slung across h y _shoulder, spurning with either foo recum- bent and alluring female, symbolic of all that isn't nice in civic as- piration. “I think it s a trifle ridiculous,” Miss Hay declared. “Perhaps the true symbolism s In the fact that “Civic Virtue' is depioted as naked. That xi: ‘ne_as rea- nable after T of what civic ‘virtue ha- *™® (o undergo from the city h... .ticions. No wonder the poor: tuing hasn’t any - clothes. “Why should MacMonnles have ! used a male figure trampling down tempting women? Why not repre- msent clvic virtue as a man and woman hand in hand, mounting confidently and happily & difficult path?’ Mrs. Laldlaw agreed with Miss ay. “Women stand with men she said. “The spirit of the times, it seems to me, is against a discrimi- nation, symbolic or otherwise.” START HOSPITAL SOON. Baptists Provide Funds Toward In- stitution Near Lynchburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 14.—The board of directors of the proposed Virginia Baptist Hospital expects to] begin work on the central unit. to be erected just outside of Lynchburg, | during the coming spring. | Plans are to be drawn for a three- unit bullding, the central one of | which 18 to be made ready for occu- pancy late this year, The full ca- pacity of the completed building will be 200 beds. i From the $75,000.000 campaign'the directors have made an allotment of $200,000 for the hospital, $125,000 of which is already in hand. Site for the Institution has been | secured on the Boonsboro Foad, four miles from the downtown section, the | hospital having street car facilities and being on a concrete state high- | | way, which connects with Rivermont avenue. FROM THE AVENUE AT:NINTH ARCHBISHOP CURLEY PUTS } SCHOOLS BEFORE CHURCH Tells Meeting at Carroll Hall There Is More Need Now for Formor. 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