The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 4

_ ISTROUND ee ! Alleged to Have Been _ Written by Beauvais In- i troduced in Court ss "NEW YORK, May 6.—Mrs, James >A, Stillman, for the first time since divorce case became public, was . ting on the defensive today. BUN maintaining a brave front, conferred with her lawyers, hur- ly marshaling evidence to offset Sensational attacks launched by ys for Stillman, former presi. it of the National City bank, MAN SPRINGS IE SURPRISES | Mrs, Stilimag has from today un- ‘May 19 to prepare her counter at- Stillman’s legal army was busy ing fresh surprises to be used J the hearing is resumed before Referee Gleason on that date. Latest developments in the legal were: ‘Testimony of Dr, Hugh Russell, a ‘Buffalo chiropractor, that Mra Still- had told him in March, 1918, Fred Beaavais, the French-Can h guide, was the father of her y, then unborn. Tentative admission by Referee J. Gleason of one of the seven Beauvais is alleged to have to Mrs. Stillman. . _ The alleged letter, supposed to Deen written February 11, 1919, | sald to have contained the follow! statements: “I hope you get the little parcels th the beaded hand bag and two of babies’ moccasions and a pin baby. I hope yours fit all right. gent the pairs of moccasions yes re from Lac Beance by registered “I hope you will have got them by time you get this letter and let know what you think of them, I told you, dear, I think, | T had written on the skins a few 3 the ning hides it now, but if| baby should wear the lining thru, would show. OKED AROUND BABY ROBE” “I looked around Montreal for a ou know, the kind you would | for baby, and the only thing Was made of goat skin wag not white, so that it was not good about 11; I can't explain it to} BY JAMES R. KELLY Copyright, 1921, by the United Prews MONTREAL, May 6 letter, which he a fil zi By Ey 3" if Hi t ere pretest Rae zesss it : ~ 3 lOUS “DOUBLE” BE PRODUCED _A mysterious “double” for James z Stillman may be produced by his 1 in his divorce suit, it was today. The “double,” it was said, would identified as “Franklin Harold ," missing hustand of Mrs. Lawler Leeds, the auburn- beauty, accused by Mrs. “Fifi” ir Stillman of being the mother | @ child by Stillman—2-yearold Leeds. . Stillman’s counter sult appar- has centered around “Mrs. .”" Friends of Stiliman feel that the can show “Mr. Leeds” was a distinct from Stillman him- her case will collapse. The de. » is understood to be ly acquainted with this phase | afd to be prepared with vertal and | documentary evidence intended to Prove that Stillman and “Mr. Leeds” "Were identical. Servants who former. worked for Stillman later entered @ employ of “Mr. Leeds,” it is al- OLYMPIA.—Supreme court docket contains 173 cases. Court convenes Monday. OH, JACK SULLIVAN, DAN LANDON, T. PAGE, HERE’S JOB F’R YA Altho magnifying devices will be used to carry the voices to all parts of the big stadium, those in charge of the production of “The Wayfarer,” the religious pageant to be given at the university this summer, are desirous to choose for the speaking parts actors who can get their words over clearly and for considerable distance. Aspirants for speaking parts will be tried out next Monday tn the stadium by Prof. Gorsuch, head of the dramatic art depart- ment, and Glen Hughes, producer of plays, according to announce ment of Montgomery Lynch, who fe producing “The Wayfarer.” writing to Mra. James A. Stillman. Beauvais’ face turned scariet with and was informed by the United Press correspondent that it had been published in New York as having hearings. “I never addressed Mra. Stillman spondent anserted, after a moment. “Someone has doctored a letter of mine, but this writing is not mine. They have made a great love letter | writer out of me.” “Someone will pay for thin,” Beauvais said. “Bo much money is being spent on this case that one can expect almost anything.” He denied passages of the letter which represented him as having whose father he is alleged to be. “I sent all the articles mentioned im this letter as I was ordered to do, as an employe of the Stilimana,” he asserted. Al! his stoicism vanished when he Joys of parenthood. His face became pale with rage. He appeared no langer able to restrain himself. “I deny all those statements,” he leried, hoarse with emotiort. “I wish I could go to, New York 1 would tell them the trith,” he ae clared. “Well, why don’t you go?” the cor- NEW YORK, May 6.—Three drops of blood have disproved James A. Stillman’s charges that Baby Guy Stillman is the child of Mra. Stillman wel. Now they are prepared to ask Still man to surrender a fourth drop of | blood—the drop by which they are confident they can prove little Guy is his own son. Therefore a hundred million dol- lars, a woman's reputation and a child's fair name hinges on— ONE DROP OF BLOOD. furious in the Stillman divorce case —and they will reach their climax in the formal divorce hearing now in progress here before the referee. Stillman, multimillionaire, former | president of the National City bank, accuses his wife of infidelity and | qharges that her son, Guy, born in November, 1918, is not his, but the offapring of the French-Indian guide, Beauvais, onetime employe at the Stillman summer home at Three Riv- ers, Quebec, Canada, He asks abso- lute divorce, names Beauvais @a co- respondent, and demands the custody of his two acknowledged children, | Anne, 19, and James A., Jr. | Mrs, Stillman, formerly “Fifi” Pot- ‘ter, noctety bell, denies the charge, and alleges that her husband has Deen used in the Stillman divorce | im such terma,” the alleged core | sent gifts to Guy Stillman, the child | to that portion of the letter In | , ehich he was made to refer to the and Fred Beauvais, according to the! statements of Mrs. Stillmag'@ coun. | Developments have come fast and) Baby Guy Stillman and the three figures in the court battle to decide his parentage (left to right)—James A, Stillman, Mrs. Stillman and Fred Beauvais. ‘Somebody Will Pay! Says Fred Beauvais respondent asked. “I haven't been asked,” Beauvais “Where the | retorted. “At present I can't spare | devil did they get that?” Fred Beau: | the time from my business, But this vals exclaimed today when shown a | Copy of the alleged “Dearest Hone is getting serious and I may go yet. | Up to the present there haa been charged with | no evidence introduced that the de fenré can't refute. “My brother Arthur will tell them anger as he read the alleged letter the truth and they won't be able to shake his story.” Beauvais was greatly exercised over stories reported to have been told by witnesses from Grand Aunse at the hearing In New York as re- ported in newspapers which he had seen. “George Adama, who ts quoted as having sald he saw me tn Mra, Still man’s room with her, waa not on the | Stillman farm at the time he tentt. fied he peeked thru a hole in the cur tain.” Beauvais declared. “Adama was there onty when I was alone with my own father, mother and brothers. The Stillmans were In New York at that time.” Beauvais maid that the B. 72d at. addrens, given on the letter head of the letter as published, was not cor. rect. “In 1919," he maid, “the Stillman family was living at 270 Park ave. and moved from the 724 st. house shortly after the death of Mr, Still man, the elder, That was in the spring of 1918. The family and I went to Quebee for the summer and returned to New York in the fall, taking up residence In the Park ave, house.” After reading the letter, Reauvats rushed from his office to consult an attorney. “I am going to nee if T have any rights in this case,” he exclaimed, Boy’s N ame ‘Depends on a Drop of Blood and the guardinnship of the disputed child, Guy, ls given over to a former judge. , Suliman asked the appeliate term to reverse the judgments, permit htm to introduce the letters, cut down the alimony and dismiss his wife's charges, Justice Morchauwer has asserted that if counter charges by Stillman and his wife can be established, neither Is entitled to a divorce, Out of the contusion caused by the efforts of attorneys on both sides there Thoms the possibility of Still man Gropping his action for divorce, but pushing his proceedings to de- termine the legitimacy or illegitimacy ot Fully and eagerly awalt- ing this latter move are a galaxy of lawyers, scientists, doctors and spe cialista, all in the employ of Mrs. Stillman, These have what they say ts “ab- solute and conclusive proof’ that baby Guy ts the timate son of James A, and Mra. “Wifi” Potter Still- man. They say this proof will not be tm Mediately intreduced, becayse the law requires that Stillman, ing made his charge of illegitimacy, must prove that charge by “unquestionable weight of evidence.” But Mrs. Stillman ts primed to vin- dicate herself before the whole world been and is maintaining in luxury «| by introducing the blood test. former chorus girl, Florence Leeds, and that this woman's son, If a blood drop from the veins of Jay | Mra. Stillman, her husband, and the Leeds, born also in 1918, is in reality | boy Guy prov identically alike, all of the illegitimate son of her husband. | Stillman’s charges are false, and Guy She seeks absolute divorce, $100,000 ja year alimony, a court mandate de- | b scribing Guy Stillman as a legitimate | child, and the custody of her other| Mra. Stillman’s lawyers, “we will call json and daughter. | a year alimony; her lawyers en $35,000 counsel fee, and court hands Mrs. Stillman an addi- becomes one of the heirs to Stillman's ired millions, “If Mr. Suliman ts bluffing,” says that bluff,” and they add they will Mrs. Stillman is awarded $90,000/ then invite Stillman to bare his arm ¢ giv-|and surrender t6 the court one drop the | of hin heart fluid. ‘They add that the three-cornered tional $12,500 for “minor expenses.” | test for their own side has already His son James, and his daughter | been mad Anna, are permitted by the court to| cules of B and that the blood mole- uvais are as different choose between father and mother, | from thé molecules of Guy Stillman jas are the finger prints of entire The case is banded to a referee, strangers, and both choose Mrs. Stillman. rik FRANCE CALLS 500,000 TROOPS Men Ready for Instant In- vasion of Germany SEATTLE STAR 42 Operations on Eyes in 5 Hours COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 6.—Forty: two operations for the removal of cataracts from the eye in five hours was the record established by Liew tenant Colonel Henry Smith of An» tiewar, India, by yesterday Colonel Stith performed the oper ations or the benefit of ° surgeons ttending the meeti t BY WEBB MII n the Ohio State Medical association, | PARIS, May 6 6 today be): Smith was at the operating table piliting a half million #o during th entire t but for a fow minutes to take a cup of toa, to invade Germany at tho slightest see evasion of the allied terma, fAN FRANCISCO, May 6—That “If any one of the obligations are yJeutenant Colonel Henry Stith of evaded in any way we will invade,” the ritish army stationed at Amrit + mar, India, has performed 99 opera tions for cataracts on the eye within one day was the state t of @ local | Physician who has worked with Col one! Smith at a clinic gan mm " Premier Briand declared as he won Mil mplete into confer with President lerand and the final arrangements to enforce Uy lied demands ‘Forty-two operations within France already has 132,000 men on) pours is not’a record for Simith, the Rhine. F 150,000 TROOPS IN FIRST LINE ARMY Briand announced that even if Ger ny accepts the ultimatum, the class of 1919, Just called to the colors, | Skull Fractured) will not be demobilixed until the! PORTLAND, May 6—Charlea A young men of the 1921 class have! ation, special deputy sheriff em: | been trained to replace it 10 1921 ployed in patrolling the exclusive class went to its training camps (Wo portiand Hel; residential district weeks ago. | was found lying on a street intersec Under present arrangements &/ tion here yesterday, bia skull trac | force of 150,000 men will constitute | cured. i the first army of invasion. Allen apparently had been at- If it moves into the Ruhr valley, It! tacked by thugs. will take with it 200 tanks, several! hundr ored cars and 24 motor ined batteries, Large cavalry forces and engineer. ing troops are held in readiness at | Deneniert, | Campfire Summer | Camp Fund $2,374 anded of ¢ this statement by Premier Briand “Our snmador at Berlin bas| With contributions ranging all the| been instructed to notify Germany | 78% from $1 to $100, the grand total that she must hand over to us thou. | the fund being rained to extablinh sands and thousands of rifies and)" *Ummer camp for the Campfire | cann Certain forts and hundreds reached 74 Friday, This,| }of machine guns have not been de! DOWever, ig not enough to fix up the |livered to us as yet. Germany also|"e#ide pie, where 1,800 Seattle | must start demobilising the Bavarian | #'t!* are looking forward to mpending | area all or part of their summer “GERMANY MUST PAY MONEY, NOT WOKDS”" “If she refuses these things the penaltion wil! be apptied. “Germany must pay without delay the money due us under the treaty.| On the subject, “How Can the It ls impossible to heritate, Strand of Life He Lengthened?” Dr. “There are the facta. If she does | Maud Parker will make a public ad- not pay, we enter the Ruhr. dress under the aumpices of the “If any of the obligations are evad-|Parent-Teacher aasociation at Con- e4 in any way whatever, we shall oo jcord school at § p.m. Friday, cupy German territory, It is not - ———— words we want, but money. It ts not by written promises, but action that we will Judge Germany now.” -. British Battleships Ready for Action LONDON, May 6—Biritain’s bat tle squadrons were ready for action against Germany today. Preliminaries went ahead with the umual secrecy. Plans of the admiray ity were shrouded In mystery It was understood the fleet would contribute to a naval demonstration at German ports, but that no block ade would be attempted. Mobilization of the fighting shipe for uch & maneuver could be con ducted quickly and probably without publicly. abinet to « al wala. Portland Deputy’s His poties star and revolver were | gone, Hin watch and money, how ever, were still In his pockets. ar accounting to be de rmany war shown in am How to Lengthen Life, Her Subject WALLA WALLA—J. D. Cook, College Place, released on $100 fol lowing arrest on charges of asnault. | He i# maid to have attacked Julius approached for his $5 Just Arrived! 100 New Jersey Jackets ‘ Special at $5.95 Germany Prepares to Accept Terms BY CARL D. GROAT BERLIN, May 6.—Germany to @ay prepared to set up a mediocre cabinet for the purpose of accepting the allied reparations terms, mean | while turning attention of the public |to the Polish invasion of Upper Sil oma, The country was in a fever heat Aa @ result, discussion of the allied | demands, and even the rebuilding of | the cabinet, took second place. Germany offered her military |]) | forces to the entente for service in| Upper Silesia, after the cabinet de. | cided not to send an expedition there on {ts own responsibility Dr. Oustay Stresemann continued today as the chief candidate for the chancellorship, with the possibility that Herr Stegewald would assume the foreign affairs portfolio. Prince Buelow also waa mentioned | for chancellor. Little attention was paid the can. didates for minor offices in the min. istry, it being accepted that the cab | inet’s career would end with accept ance of the allied ultimatum. Study of the allied terma, particu: | larly the drastic demands regarding | disarmament and the punishment of | war criminals, led to some doubt that | Stresemann would be able to form a cabinet. | | According to reports here, the Po-|}/ leh invaders, numbering 20,000 well armed men, have assumed posses sion of a 20-mile strip along the southern and eastern boundaries of Upper Silesia, “They killed 76 én tente troops and wounded 160 in the | strike, Coats 1 SHIP CLEARS FROM SEATTLE Alaska Hard Hit by Sea- men’s Strike | since Sunday Yor the first time the marine against a 15 per cent wage tied up water trans tion b thruout the country, a v uitle late Thureday steam ck, ship, 1 by Wil when unions reduction und el walled from 8« Th board carrier, Dimond & Co. ut for Por It ia expecte to induce t ne uma. and up oper Burops efforts will be made at Portland. On the progress being Washingte toward — pe! wi ispatches are ert made ling carrying at the; * lto the let of those ted up here by the seamen’s ntrike Thirty seve vessela now are in port without crews, They represent tonnage of approx at Meanwhile eut off from of ite mi ng a ebutdown of buxinem because of the territory's ab: solute dependence on water tranxpor ng went by the Alaa mmerce to all Pacifie pb. c appeals from 1 supplies and some tation, are be mber of € #t ports and to Washington Messages from Washington based their expectation of adjustment of the matter on the emiles worn by of. ficials after attending several confer. ences Thursday between representa tives of unions involved and Secre tary of Labor Davia, nwhile the shipping board, thru dintrict directors, has issued warnings to licensed offices that they will not be employed again if they quit thelr posts or refuse to sign up on the new seale, The Pacific Steamship Co. and the Admiral line have applied the sage rule to all em loyes, Hope to Settle Marine Strike WASIINOTY May 6—Hope that agrement can be reached today by Admiral Benson, chairman of the United States shipping board, and striking seamen ahd engineers, was expresned at the office of Secretary of Labor Davin Late last night the leaders of the marine engineers asked for a confer ences with Secretary Davis, The con: ference lanted until nearly midnight Admiral Benvon sat in on part of it eee 37 Vessels Tied at San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, May 6—Altho the first break in the ranks of the seven ships ‘have been added today SER-PATERSON Co, Alaska, | Today in Congress nouse Aeration of army approp Chicago packer, bill before ‘comptrotier of the nking and eurreney ind means #ub-committ ue work of framing perman: otfie mmmittee reclasnity SENATE Hearings commence on the MeNary a bill by the committee on the Youne y tariff bill n an aggregate | tely 260,000, The break in the employers’ ranks came with the announcement of the |White Flyer line operating the |eteamer Humboldt between San Francisco and Los Angeles, that it had an ‘eement for year at the old wage scale with its men, signed one Say Fishermen’s Strike Continues ASTORIA, Ore, May 6.—The fish ermon's strike on the lower Colum- bia will continue. This announcement was made to- day by union headquarters, follow ing a conference of representatives of the salmon packers and fisher men yesterday, which resulted in a | deadlock | The canneries are offering 9 cents | pound for fish. The men demand 10 cents a pound, An effort to com |promise on 9% cents met with tall | ure. | eee wate Willing to Start Fishing for Chinook | CATHLAMET, Wash, May 6— | Three bundred fishermen from Cath- lamet and the Washington shore of the Columbia today notified union leaders of thetr willingness to start fishing for Chinook salmon at § cents a pound. Decision was reached at a mass j mee ting here last night. Manning EVERETT —Roscer W. meron. = SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET Special Price Basement EXTRAORDINARY S New Sale Lots PECIAL VALUES IN Arriving Daily RIDAY, MAY 6. 1921. “LADY DEMPSEY* "HELPS HUSBANE Uses Fists Freely in Scuffle With Police had collided with atreet Thure After his auto & Rainier valley day night, Albert 6n eged to ha crew a Report was made man “crazy drunk” crowd of 60 at bay trolmen George F. ¥ W. Dench were Altho Smith with to po was Mote kept them covered with the gun, the two officers ape proached him and arrested him) But not until they bad engaged tal 1 dewperate hand-to-hand |which Mrs. Sarah 8 wife off |Albert, fought by the side of her aband. a She tried to climb on Reynola® lback, jabbed him wickedly with lrighta and lefts and hindered th larrest as much a6 possible, accor jing to Reynolds, ‘The wreck occurred at Lander at, Several street cars were ted up during the encounter and a crowd of several hundred people gathered. Lester Perry and Jim Day were lthe motorman and conductor of the street car Legion Officers to | | Take Reins Tonight Public installation of the officers of the West Seattle Post No. 160) American Legion, will be bela to \night at the Community Housg, Hiawatha Playfield. The post am founces that it will shortly give = dedication service in honor of the jopening of its new building in Weat Beattie. \Seeks Mandamus to Force Pay of Bonus Petition for a writ of mandam' to force the state auditor to pay bonus to Max Maximillion, lartilleryman of the regular army at | Fort Casey, was to be filed in q uperior court of Thurston count | Friday, aoeording to Philip Tworo lger, attorney for Maximiliion. The auditor has refused to pay the bonus on the ground that Maximillion is |not a resident of the state. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 6—A leading sportsman predicts that, om account of the extraordinary opem Levy, deputy poll tax collector, when | ship owners occurred late yesterday, | elected president Chamber of Com-| winter here, the grizzly bear shout ing ie going to be very good. Just Arrived! New Pleated Sports Skirts Stripes and Plaids Rg ghey hey - Women’s and Misses’ Apparel —at the money-saving prices which have made the Special Price Basement so widely known for economies. A REMARKABLE SATURDAY SALE OF DECIDEDLY UN Suits DERPRICED AT $15.00 Dresses fighting up to last night. ‘The invaders surrounded Katto. witz, In the southeastern section, and captured Rosenberg far to the north. | Allied representatives — reported they had not a chance of withstand. | ing the attack with thelr small |forces. Reports here that the Poles | had attacked non-combatants and| were requisitioning supplies from) the occupied territory aroused th Germang to a fighting temper. Militarists and pan-Germans ap- peared before the cabinet to urge that the reichwehr be sent into Silesia immediately, ‘The cabinet, af- ter a full day of debate, decided | against the measure but agreed to! offer the service of its troops to the entente, Two reasons were given for that decision, The first was that inde. pendent action might be taken by the allies as a warlike act. The sec: ond was the removal of the troops from Germany might encourage the radicals to some outburst, German troops were impressed into service by the small French de. {tachment in upper Silesia, according to advices generally credited here. The disputed territory was thoroly disorganized with railway and tele graph service disrupted and business at a standstill, . Collét Allied Debts, Urges Sen. Morris WASHINGTON, May 6.—Immedi. ate collection from the allies of all accumulated interests on their war debts to the United States waa pro. posed today by an amendment of. fered to the soldiers’ bonus bill by Senator Norris, republican, Nebras- ka. WALLA WALLA.—Mark A. Colt, pioneer and member of territorial legislature, dead, The Coats - The season’s new styles in wraps and regulation coats in velour, polo, silver- tone, serge and gaberdine. Colors: navy and the de- sired colors. Most of the coats are lined throughout with nov- elty silks. $15.00 - The Suits Smart Jerseys in plain colors and _ heather mix- tures. Tuxedo and Norfolk models; also the new sports style with plain jackets and novelty skirts. All finished with narrow belt of self material. Small and medium sizes predominate. $15.00 The Dresses Taffeta Satin Crepes Mignonette Tricotine Taffeta and Net Combinations Attractive dresses for street and informal wear. Colors: Gray, navy, Harding blu field brown and black. co Some have effective trimmings of all-over embroidery and eyelet work. Sizes 16 to 42, for misses and $15.00 150 New Hlats at $3.45 \ EXTRAORDINARY VALUES Smart hats for all occasions in large drooping brims, medium straight brims and poke bonnet effects. Effective trimmings of flowers.and fruits. Some embroidered in raffia, others with ribbon bows and streamers. Black, white, navy, Harding blue, burnt orange, brown, rust and red are among the attractive color showings. Le, : od