Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1937, Page 4

A—4 MAE WEST ADMITS fxM THE EVENING STAR, Mae West and the “Forgotten Husband” WEDDING IN 1911 Actress Files Answer to Suit of Wallace-——Won’t Share Her Earnings. B the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 8.—A state- ment by Mae West that she was mar- ried 26 years ago in the old Milwau- kee, Wis,, Court House to Frank Wal- | lace, New York song and dance man, was contained in a court action on fle with the county clerk today. The marriage of the pair, often pub- licly denied by Miss West until late yesterday, was admitted in the answer of the actress to Wallace's suit filed under the California civil statutes, seeking court compulsion that she recognize him as her husband. But if Wallace expects to share in the hundreds of thousands of dollars Miss West has earned since the mar- riage, it was indicated he will find Miss West opposed to him. Her answer contains the statement they never lived together as man and wife. | ¥ Miss West's attorney, asked if she | would fight a division of earnings as | community property, declined com- | WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937. CAFFERY FAVORED D. ¢, FOR BRAZIL POST Senate Foreign Relations | Committee Recommends Others for Posts. B) the Associated Press. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee recommended yesterday that | Jefferson Caffery of Louisians, now Ambassador to Cuba, be confirmed as Ambassador to Brazil. It also reported favorably the nomination of J. Butler Wright of | ‘Wyoming, Minister to Czechoslovakia, to be Ambassador to Cuba in place of Caffery. Other nominations approved by the f | committee included: Wilbur J. Carr of New York, now Assistant Secretary of State, to be4 Minister to Czechoslovakia. George Messersmith of Delaware to ibe Assistant Secretary of State. Ray Atherton of Illinols, now coun- selor of the London Embassy, to be Minister to Bulgaria. | Hugh 8. Gibson of California, now | Ambassador to Brazil, to be Ambas- | ment. ! Frank Wallace pictured recentl, The blond and buxom actress topped | over pictures of Mae West all film stars in earnings in 1935 with | ador to Belgium and Minister lo‘ y looking The cinema’s glorified siren in one of her latest pictures. Mae West as she appeared in “Diamond Lz Wallace as the waiter. * with 1 Luxemburg. —A. P. Photos,' Ferdinand L. Mayor of Indiana, an income reported to Federal and | counselor at the Berlin Embassy, to be| William E. Chapman of Oklahoms Minister to Haiti. to be secretary of the diplomatic serve Grenville T. Emmett, of New York, | ice. now Minister to.the Netherlands, to| Leland Harrison, Minister to Rue be Minister to Austria. mania, to be Minister to Switzerland, SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE WOMEN'S Wak-Over Soks 6.85 7 .65 9.65 All From Our Regular Stock Including the Famous MAIN SPRING ARCH SHOES Worrs Wak-Over 929 F ST. ==WE SELL U. 5. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS State officials at $480.833. The Fed- | eral Government collected $234.000 | of this amount, and the State obtained | $50,500. him afoot on a 5!>-mile trek into |it, but he beat me with a belt and I the Baldwin Hills. was afraid to say anything.” Vada Sullivan, matron at the Coun- : _ ty Jail, where Dyer's wife is held for England’s minister of agriculture | her own protection, said Mrs. Dyer | has been asked to boost production of Vacation Proves Disappointing to SERVE YOURSELF W. P. A. Workers Find License. “It's just a pipe dream, and if you want my candid opinion—and my | opinions as a rule are candid—I'd say this is a publicity gag on the part | of Mr. Wallace,” the actress told re- porters in 1935. First indication Miss West had been married came in the Spring of 1935 when Works Progress Administration Luckless Indianan By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind., —July 8. —Verne Rutherford feels he has ample grounds for complaint about his vacation at mmllwx\ Lake, near Angola. His speedboat floated away. His workers, delving into old court house| | automobile mired down in a Tecords in Milwaukee, uncovered a( | marsh as he tried to reach the yellowed marriage license applica- | | boat. He recovered the boat, but tion bearing the names of “Mae “est” | | it turned over. He was rescued in and “Frank Wallace.” 20 feet of water. The rescue boat The document was dated Aprfl 11,| | overturned, throwing him into 1911, the day Wallace claimed he | D€ Water again. He returned to married the actress, in an affidavit| | his cottage a“d_slu}‘ed _hlmself filed before the New York State Su-| [ ¥ith & sickle while trimming the preme Court November 7, 1936, in his | | Yard. . fight to have New York courts declare| | Disgusted, he came to his home him the hu d of Miss West. The! | Dere to find his trees and Jawn action was later dismissed, the actress| | TUined by a broken gas main. not being a leral resident of New York. Doubts His Marital Status, DYER FACES CHARGE Wallace's suit was accompanied by mters which the vaudeville actor said e oo s e -one s otvs| IN DEATH OF GIRLS love and affection for the actress and asked that she recognize him as her husband. Another set forth that he Park Director Where Bodies Were had a legal claim to community prop- g e Found Doubts He Is the “I say to vou sincerely, Mae, that : my love and affection for you has Gmlty Person. never diminished and through the ! By the Associated Press, past years I have proven this by living | LOS ANGELES, July 8.—Albert up to the agreement we made that | Dyer, accused slayer of three Ingle- neither of us mer our marriage,” | , read one of the letters, in part | wood girls, was called to court today Miss West, in her answer, however, | to plead to an indictment charging throws doubt upon the present marital | him with murder. status of Wallace, claiming that, to, | her Knowledee, (here was o dissoln, | 1ndications were the State would tion of the West-Wallace union at the | 9¢/av the pleading and specify the | time he mairied Miss Ray Blakesly 32-year-old W. P. A. worker be held February 6, 1916. { for trial within 30 days. o | “Haskell Wright, director of Cen- {tinela Park, from where the children INDIANS ASK RETURN | | apoeares, 1ot suiperties he o not believe Dyer is the man he saw OF SACRED SKULL tn]kmz to the girls. Other persons jsald they saw the victims, Madeline | Everett, 7. her sister, Melba, 9. and o ._, | Jeanette Stephens, 8, ride away from Claim Absence of Thunder Bird 'the park in an automobile. Relic in Museum TIs Bring‘- Dyer, however, said they followed | ing Drought. B the Associated Press, The Gros Venires Indians of West- | ern North Dakota asked the Indian Office today to help them recover the sacred skull of their thunder bird . from the Heye Foundation Museum in New York. Legend says the thunder bird prcm- sed the Gros Ventres that as long as | they kept his skull in their possession | rain never would fail them nor would | they suffer want. ( Severe droughts and grasshopper | plagues in recent years reminded lhe older members of the tribe of th promise. T failed to persuade the | museum to return the “sacred bundle,” acquired when the tribal custodian embraced Christianity. The Indian Office will send a field agent to negotiate with the founda- | tion. Heve officials contend nrantmg of such requests would mean the loss | of some of the museum's most impor- tant specimens. RHEUMATISM IS FIRST OF DISABLING DISEASES | Heart Disease No. 1 Killer, How | Public Health Service Finds. ever, Rheumatism ranks first, heart dis ease second and “minor circulator: diseases” third in the list of dis- abling illnesses, according to th Public Health Service. No. 1 killer, however, is heart dis ease, according to statistics piled by George St. J. Perrott, pal statistician for the service. Out of the total population 1 of | } every 25 was disabled for a: leas & week during the year surveye: and 1 in every 5 persons suffered | from a chronic disease. 3 35 Years of Cards Climaxed by Hand Of Pinochle Trumps By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 8—After 35 years of card playing, Tom F. Powers of St. Louis yesterday held one of the dream hands of pinochle players—all the trumps in the deck. 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