The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1919, Page 3

~ANNULS MARRIAGE WITH “SPIRIT WIFE” ‘WHO SCORNS BABIES Referee Decides in Favor of| Wealthy Coal Man Wed Four Years. After four years of married tite, | John Sherwil! Conabeer jr. rich coal dealer, living with his mother at Greenwich, Conn., to-day succeeded in soavincing Supreme Court Referee Charles L. Hoffman that he should be feed from his “spirit wife,” Flor- ence W. Conabeer of No, 324 Park Avenue, Weehawken, N. J. Conabeer brought suit against his| wife for an annulment of the mar-| riage. The referee to-day recom- mended to Supreme Court Justice Glegerich that a decree be given to the husband because she had never been more than a spirit wife to the coal dealer, Mrs. Conabeer, who is twenty- eight and three years her husband's senior, defended her views before the referee and fought strenuously against his findings, She fully un- | burdened: herself on the question of | spirit marriages before the referee and produced a sheaf of love letters which her youthful husband had written to her in 1912, while she was a student at Barnard School, and he deeply in love with her and she with him, He addressed her as “Dear Fluffy,” “Dear Shrimp" and “Dearest Sweetheart Kine: and signed him- self “Your Sherwill forever.” Mrs. Conabeer's father is employed by the Sutro Braid Company, while her hus- band recently came into the fertune of his father, who was a deacon and trustee in the Baptist Church. HE WANTED CHILDREN, SAYS SHE DIDN'T. | During the two years Conabeer was! engaged, he told the referee they dis- cussed the matter of raising a family. | “I told her,” Conabeer testified, | “that I was the last one of my family and if I did not ‘have a child the fam- ily name would die out. When I mentioned the fact that I loved a! 8 OF WOOL JERSEY OF SILK JERSEY OF SATIN Bathing, Bags Shoes FEMININE BATHING APPAREL SHOP Balcony Floor ‘Jeanklin Simon 8 Co - Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets OF MIRROR VELVET 6.95 to 58.00 Capes Dretty little baby that had come to a family I knew, she grew hysterical and ald, ‘God, not the human race, is the creator of children. Love and marriage are purely spiritual.’ After we were married my father, now de- ceased, told her that he would like to r be a grandfather and that if she would become a mother he would take our child and care for it for us “It was then, she said that the more children people had the commoner they became, She objected to living in apartments where there were chil- dren, At the end of four years I lost | patience and faith in my wife's be-| liefs in a spiritual marriage and we separated.” Mrs. Conabeer’s attorneys sought by the letters she produced to show that It was Conabeer, and not their client, who objected to children, “You wrote to your wife, ‘Dearest Sweetheart, I love you dearly, Flor- ence, say only child, the only one I will have.” What did you mean’? “I don’t know,” replied Conabeer. “I was foolish, I guess. I wag just a schoolboy then.” “What did you mean by writing, ‘What any one sees in children I don't know. Of course there are some nice ones, but the are not worth a nice pup “I might have held those views once, but as soon as I fell in love I changed them,” said Conabeer, What did you mean by saying you had no soul in 4 letter which con- tained this: ‘I love every fibre of you” You say you cannot say that for your soul for you haven't any soul, for since you love her your soul is gone?” queried the lawyer, HIS FIRST “THRILLS OF EMO- TIONAL LOVE.” “T meant she had such influence over me that I would do whatever she wanted done. I was experiencing the first thrills of emotional love as @ boy.” “What did you mean when you wrote her, ‘With you [ feel as thoug> I could conquer the world When I fell in love with her 1 had @ new emotion in life and felt like a new being and thought that when we were married I would have some ambition in life. I felt as though I could conquer the world.” ‘The witness added that his wife re- mained a steadfast believer in Chris- tian Selence in spite of the fact that her mother and father, Scientists, had separated because they held to differ- ent interpretations Eddy’s writings, Mrs. Conabeer displayed exception- al calm upon the witness stand though the range of her husband's lawyer's cross-examination took her into the spirit world and treated with questions of the most intimate na- ture. ; “Did you make a statement that WHETHER ONE BATHES ON THE BEACH, IN THE SURF OR BEYOND THE BREAKBRS FEMINI BATHING ATTIRE MUST BE SMART AND CORRECT ‘OR the eternal feminine who takes her ocean bathing, on the -Zclden sands, adding, a bright t of color to the sea-scape, there are chic BEACH OSTUMES of luxurious fabrics, and with unusual embellishments. For the more venturesome, who disport with Neptune but keep well toward the shore-side of “the ropes”, there are BATHING DRESSES of practical fabrics and of unquestioned smartness. And for the daring woman who swims out and beyond the roll and boom of the breakers,:there are SWIMMING SUITS of clinging fabrics athletic in style but feminine in charm, OF TAFFETA OF TRICQLETTE OF FIBRE SILK Swimming, Tights Hats Caps of Mary Baker OSES DAILY AT 5: OF RAMIE LINEN | And | William G. McAdoo, National Chairm: Roy Scouts, and “Big Bill” Edwards Chinese Back row, left to right—Alfred S, H. Lee, Acting Scout Master; . H. Livingston, President of New York Chairman. la OAM | Fong Hor and James Chu. Front row left to right—Chinese Boy Scot Lee, William Moy, Jack Chin, Arthur Moy, Herbert Moy, Harry Woo, _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919. _ ‘Leaders of Boy Scout Drive for $1,000,000 Lads Helping to > Over’’ juts: Jung Chu, Quon God was the only creator of chil- dren?” she was asked. “I have heard such statements that God was the only creator of chil-| dren,” she replied, and she added em- phatically:, “He is. He is the creator of all of *us.” Mrs, Conabeer insisted that she loved her husband before marriage and afterward, and degired children more than he did. Mrs. Lizzie Conabeer, mother of the plaintiff, took the stand in behalf of her son and testified that her daugh- ter-in-law sald that “all children were dirty and smelly things and that the less refined people are, the more children they have.” 730 P. M. NE 1] ficers and men. FIRST RECULARS | HOME REACH HERE ONT, VERNON Oscar Straus, Back From Paris, | Is Says Peace League Vital to World. Mt. Vernon, which carried 5,954 mand of Major General Walter Gordon, were headquarters troop ton, 91 officers and 2,923 men, and llth Field Artillery of the same | vision, 52 officers and 1,383 men. compying Major Gen. Gordon Brigadier General Lucius L. Du of the 12th Infantry Brigade. Lieut. L. G. Charles of No, 238 | Street, Bay Ridge, said that the 11th Field Artillery was the most vanced artillery unit on the Am Oscar Straus, who has been in P: four months as representative to |Peace Conference of the League to Enforce Peace, returned on the Vernon, He sald that delays in negotiations of peace are caused the multiplicity of the questions involved, “Opposition to the League of tions,” sald Mr, Straus, “is misguil stone in the arch of peace, chaotic condition it wa. war started, The covenant in before of 8 it stands, it is the grea ical achievement in of the world. It forms @ thirty-two nations. nt Wil will receive the plaudits of the w for bringing this important ques tu the fore in the Peace Confe! Another passenger on the Mt, Presi dent of the College of the City Dr. Mezes, On the Santa Olivia, Bordeaux, 1,891 men, including the 303d I casual officer Mexico, last night, messages received| Court will Pas lertay st Rit y ci York to sail for Palestine. le wi by Mexican off in Nuevo Laredo | York mall for Palestina, He. will be to-day reported, OMcials had no The first of the regular army units in the A. E. F, to return from France came home to-day on the transport On board, in com- the 54th Infantry of the Sixth Divis- ean front when the armistice went | important The League of Nations is the key- Without jit the world would revert to the same League of Nations is not yet perfect, | } union of nce, Ver non was Dr, Sidney B, Mezos, Presi- | New York and a brother-in-law of BOY SCOUTS GAN FLYING START $000,000 DRIVE Rich and Poor Join Hands in Campaign, Aided by Cardinal Gibbons. With everybody scouting for the Boy Scouts—rich man, poor them—lawyer scouts, police sleuths, big girls, little girls, all good scouts, there isn’t a doubt about the result of the week's drive, The organization wants a million dollars by the end of the week. They want 1,000,000 associate adult mem- ‘bers who will guarantee a dollar a year to the tion, The cam- paign got away with a flying start of- M. and the dl- Ac- was rfee asso to-day. Meetings are planned to be held all over the city to-day\with picked speakers, entertainers and music, Fifteen Boy Scout camps have been set up in various places, 924 ad- erl~ into effect, ‘The 11th Field, according |1uncheon in the Bankers’ Club yester- to Lieut. Charles, was several miles |4ay $10,950 was. subscribed, J. .P. shead of the infantry, Morgan and Rodman Wanamaker ch, aris |contributing $5,000 es the {the Bethlehem Steel Works. Mt the by the Treasury McAdoo Cardinal Gib- bons s “The young boys of the nation are its fathers to be. 'We as a nation are best prepared when we train them in Na- ded. triotism, To make them the fit citi- zens of to-morrow 1s the sacred obli- jgation that rests upon usall, * * ¢ the| “The Boy Scouts, particularly in "| their splendid labors during the war, | the/ have shown how' their organization Ips toward such a result test organization which does not deny, ; ;|but builds upon the religious faith of e histor; the history | ee boy member; that exacts of him the faithful observace of all hfs re- 180 | ligious duties. orld b; tion tion lf: of right citizensnhip has in anawer to the call of the Presid the formation of Catholic Boy Scout of al —— FLYER BURNED TO DEATH. | Col, House, He has been acting since last December as chief of the United . Pn States Bureau of Experts associated | Airplane Burst Into Finmes as re s im Street, with the Peace Conference Dr vibes Mezes's work in Paris has been con eT. LOUIS, zune a0 Cores Bid 14 cluded and he will resume his duties [Of Wabash, Ind, civilian A burned to death at Hannibal, Mo,, this as head of the colloge. ‘ |morning when his airplane fell out of ‘I think 1 voice the opinion of all | 4 ot control and crashed into street | uninfluencec observers In Paris when |oursting into flames, Bricker # air: I state that President Wilson is the | jane was acting as herald for a con biggest man at the peace table of motor trucks making a demon iri and Mlinol Jui two airplanes at Company C and D, and some small | fly grounds units Jmet at an altitude of 900 feet, Th Santa Alighier!, M. has! - —— he Santa Alighierl, Marse nas 1,897, including the 78th Base Hospita we Ante Doiser Arraigned and casuals; the Lapland, Liverpool,|. is ¥ ei vik 50 Adelphi Street, Bre four, of » run down Irving Wolf, aged twelve, has 11 casual officers; the Lake Pepin, Parag A A lyn, was arraigned in the Gates Ave Nazaire, 12 men of the 38th Ord- | MEANT A BMara Aine CIR nee Convoy Detachment, and the | ghway Law and was Rambler, Brest, a Coast Artillery | Thursday, Tt was al \1 afled to xtop after having | front of his home at No, 666 Willough Sixty Reporte: in Mexico |by Avenue, Brooklyn, libs ttt eae LAREDO. June 10.—Sixty| Brande! alentine. | persons are reported killed and many WASHINGTON, June 10, — Justice wounded in election riots at Monterey, |Brandeis of the United States Supreme £0n~ she said, Is for a vacation and is man, middleman—everybody shouting for yesterday and kept the ball rolling bands of Ata Charles M. Schwab promised the co-operation of In a letter to former Secretary of the right principles of American pa- It is an such a movement for the promo- our hearty approval, and we recommend to the priests and laity of America, nt, units of LABOR IN FAVOR OF REPEALING LAW TO SAVE DAYLGHT FORT WASHINGTON SITE WITHORAWN FROM SALE) Historical Societies Succeed in Hav- ing It Saved From Bennett Estate Auctioneer’s Hanimer, Patriotic societies have achieved their object in having withheld from auction the site of Fort Washington, a plot of land In the tract which the. James Gor- don Bennett estate placed on anle at the auction rooms of Joaeph Day, No, 14 Vesey Street, to-day When the sale opened Mr, Day an. nounced that the plot known as Fort Washington, which fronts on Washing- | SUES FOR $28,000 FEE. | ton Avenue in the tract between 1834 and 187th Streets, would be withheld. Our Big “Home Town’’ ‘OU may travel the broad oceans and see other beautiful lands, quaint customs and charming no place like America~-our big _ people, but there’ “Home Town.” There’s way of doing things. Auerbach Almond Bars are made of rich, creamy ~ Federation by 180 to 154 Vote Defeats Resolution Pro- testing Change. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 10.~ A resolution protesting against repeal by Congress of the Daylight Saving Law was defeated at to-day’s session of the American Federation of Labor, being voted down after a spirited fight had been launched against it by delegates, especially from Ohio and the Southwest. These delegates said labor, but interfered with work upon farms, The, vote was 180 to 15 Advocates of the resolution an- serted the law had operated to the benefit of workingmen generally, De!~ tes opposing the measure said It had been used by employers to cut | down expenses and as a means of re- quiring their men to work overtime. T. 'W. McCullough of Omaha said the law worked especial hardships on ag- riculturists, F John Lewis, of the miners called the law‘“freak legislation,” Among many resolutions handed to the Resolutions Committee was one signed by negro delegates urg- ing that “a square deal” be given colored skilled and unskilled laborers and that the Fedewtion favorably consider an application for an ternational charter for colored labor. The resdlution sets forth the position of colored labor as being that the best interests of labor generally can in be conserved by a united organiza tion which is not predicated upon “creed, sex or color, but rather shall be the common lot and heritage of all” John Golden of the United Textil Workers presented a report on the activities of the mission sent to Italy by the Federation, and discussed Italian labor, political and industrial conditions and the work of the mis: sion in combatting the ideas of Ital lan defeatists and pacificists, The report showed that Italian labor leaders were anxious to co-operate with organized labor in America, Relations between workingmen in North and South America were sug ested in letters written to Samuol |Gompers, President of the Federation, jand by labor officials in Chile and Peru, which were read, ——~—— FILM CENSOR BILL SHELVED, Civie Welfare Board Finds Penal aw Sumictent, The proposed moving picture or. dinance intended to give the License Commissioner autocratic powers as a moving picture censor was recom mended to be filed this afternoon In a re ade by the Welfare 6 ot 4 mmittee, whi eld a public hearing on the ‘measure, finds that |there is ample provision in the Penal Law, Srotion 1140 A, to punish any one who exhibits an indecent, immoral or otherwise objectionabj picture. - British Dirtgible Plans for Round Trip FU The mammoth British dirigible R-34, scheduled to begin a flight from land to the United States, by w Eng- Newfoundland, about June 20, probably will attempt @ return cruise if the west- ward Voyage ia successful, British ayvii Uon officials connected with the venture dared ou thelr arrival here it worked a hardship not only ugon| milk, smooth chocolate and big fresh-roasted, crispy almonds, moulded into the finest Almond Bars in the world—and they are Made the American Way have an iced cold SPAR it AUERBACH ALMOND BARS Sold everywhere, regular size, Se.; large size, 100. 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