The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1920, Page 3

\ 4 7 | AND ‘NEW YE It’s the First Reunion of First New York Fighters Who Went to Big War. SPA IN ITS GALA DRESS. _ OfRyan, Nagle and Other New York Soldier Idols Prominent Figures, By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent ‘of The Evening World.) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Sept. i way 6 a beautiful spec- tacke of flags strung from on high Soross the Boulevard, and every store &n@ hotel and house is decorated with national colors in honor of the first reunion of the 27th Division, “Now York's Own,” the boys who were q “mong the first to enlist in the cause of humanity and help win the war to inake the world for democracy. Long since have tho veterans of the old 37th returned to the rut of ther everyday life—those of them who came back from France—-barring many who have been reduced to in- firmity through the wounds of war, and this is the first “get together" oc- casion since the kbak! was shed and 4 the division mustered out of service. Thousands of the lads trom over \\ the sea onme yesterday and to-day to attend the three days’ convention. ‘They came in khaki and in mufti, any way they desired, and will march this 1 * afternoon with the same regard or disregard to uniform, But the old spirit tha guided them through skir- iailsh and battle, when they were mix- ing it with the former Kaiser's sea- woned guards, prevails at the Spa. It is a reunion, all right, where olt {riendships of the battlefelds are be- ing renewed, whore old tales ara be ing retold—many of them new to thr publio—old battle gongs being sunr and battles again being fought, battles which brought new lustre to Old Glory and hew glory to the gal- lant 27th. Unique was the history of the 27th A, SARATOCA GALY CREE 1 THE 27H OMSON HERES. KS OWN BON | N.Y. WOMAN ARTIST ISSWEPT TO DEATH ONHERBRIDAL TRIP Husband Saved‘ in Storm on Lake, but Is in Precarious Condition in Hospital. CHICAGO, Sept. 18—John A Jones, a landscape artist, 1s ine ser- jous condition In a Racine hospital while search is being made to-day for the body of his bride, who was Miss Anna Mitchell, a portrait painter of New York, and who was dtowned after thelr motorbout capsized six miles out in Lake Michigan, off Racine, . Jones 1s the divorced husband of , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the New York Socialist, who married him tn 1908, retaining her maiden name, and always addressed him as “Comrade.” The ceremony was performed while they were on a speaking tour of the Minnesota iron min d sho was known as the “Socialist Are.” Last July Jones obtained a divorce from her, alleging that she denetted him two years after their marriage. Last Aug. 13 he and Miss Mitchell, whose family opposed thelr marriage, eloped to Crown Point and were mar- ried. They left Chicago on their honey- moon in an eighteen-foot launch, carrying a square sail, A storm half swamped their boat and they put tn at Ephraim, Wis., Aug. 21, with much difficulty. Later they proceeded farther and were on their return trip, leaving Milwaukee Saturday after- noon, The motor stopped at 8 P, M,, and while Jones was trying to start it the high waves overturned the boat, Joan of in the war. The division was split in half upon arriving on the other’ sida, the infantry being assigned with the British troops and the ar- tillery and artillery trains going with the artillery of the First Army and remaining with it tll the end of the war, ‘The two sections did not get i together again until after the arml- am . stice, but the division never lost its individuality and retained its New York designation, the 27th, Major Gen, John F, O'Ryan was the only 2 | division commander who went out of “I found my wife struggling in the water,” Mr, Jones said to-day. “I got her into the boat after I had righted it, I put her in the bow. Then came another heavy sea and the crazy boat tipped over again, “Then I got the chain and fastened the poor girl, I though she was se- cure, but the waves released her from’ the chain, shpt her into the lake and carried her beyond my reach, “Meantime, 1 had been burning clothifig soaked in gasoline, Nobody saw the signal. Nobody came, I saw the National Guard to retain his Passing craft all Sunday, but could 4 a to the end, |not aturact the attention of any of | Sepa ‘ them,” | i “ PEP” AS : O'RYAN, jel ore | His wife had remained chained to ) EVER, y | the centreboard, bravely struggling to i Gen, O’Ryan, recently returned'iive, for eight hours, when she was from a mission in France, was amou@ swept away, He had been for eigh- the first, accompanied by his staff. teen hours clinging to the boat when to reach here Saturday. War agreed) rescued by the fishing tug William jr. with the veteran guardsman, both the! - a i Mexican border and fue pasagenenly ALIVE, BUT HUNGRY, in France. He ts sprightly and IS JIMMY HENRY as vigorous and youthful as when he Sought as Dead for Sixteen !Hours, went to the border in 1916, when, even in the days before, men who) Then Found on Roof of His Home. knew would turn to follow his move- ments and declare: “There goes a soldier." With the General were Col. H. L./ eins For aixteen from Satuniay Sternberger, D. Q. M., also a veteran . | tl 4 o'clock Sunday morping, of ; . Col, Willlam T. | "207 3 f of the border; Teut, Co the police of the 40th, 38th and étet Starr, Col. J, Leslle Kincaid, Licut.| the police of tie eet parle and at’ Col. Raward Olmstead, Major J. A. 8./ 4, Washington Helghts in the att. Mundy and Major A. N. Towner. to find James §, Henry, five Secretary of War Newton D. Baker who mysteriously disappear reached the Spa yesterday and 18/ sidewalk In front of the Plaza Apart- quartered at Yaddo Q, Trask estate, a ments at 150th Street and St. Nicholas mile from the town, and one of the | Avenue, where he had been playtag with show places of the Spa. Gen. O'Ryan |@ toy train. The tall grass of Wigs- and his staff went out in the after- Combe Purk and the bushes of the Spx thelr respects and the/™®Y Were searched and scores pon to ner hunters were calling "im! Jim! Secretary, last night, addressed the! i) was no sign of him nor an voterans in the Casino, ag did Senator | ewer, Around 4 o'clock the searcher James W. Wadsworth, Major Gen. decided to stop and begin again at di George Wood, commanding the Sth | preak. Some of searchers belleved that Corps, U. 8. A; Brig. Gen. Edward the boy's body would tbe found at th M, Lewis, commanding the 8d Divi- | foot of the high rocks. Then one looked sion, U. 8, A, former Commander of |o7 the foof of the Plaza and the mo- the 80th Division, A. B. F,, and Col. | ment he got there he was greeted by Carey, F. Spence, former C. 0, 117th |* 17” of but unicomerned "Hello! I'd ike a | woft-bolled egm!" Infantry, 80th Division, A. BF. | It was Jim, leaning against a chim- Among those who patd their re- | ney, | spects to Gen. O’Ryan were three | we well-known Majors—well known !n|MILLION IN GEMS OUT OF PAWN TO-DAY New York and well known In Francs Jewels Withdrawn From East Side Major Percival 1, Nagle, of the 62d Field Artillery, and Majors Thos, T. | Shops to Be Worn During Jewish Holidays, Rellly and William Kennelly of the Out of the murky cast side pawn- Old 69th, and later the 165th, WHY PERCY NAGLE IS A MARKED shops, institutions that serve more pur- poses than might bo suspected, a hatful MAN AT REUNION. The story of Major Nagle te a of bright yewels, more than $1,000,000 worth, have been withdrawn within the well known story to New York. He was an old 69th man, and the old 69th was part of the old 27th Division linet day or two. This is a conservative estimate made by a pawnbroker, who! nays the jewels are boing redeemed: to Nagle was fifty-nine years old and a grandfather when he enlisted as a! adorn the wives of the owners during the Jewish holidays. private with the artillery of the 27th, He is still to-day a perfect specimen of manhood, standing six feet and “AIL these tht will be back In pawn |4n a few days," he sald, “not because |the owners need to borrow money, but something in the air, erect as a red- wood tree and as tough as an oak. because they find a pawnshop ts more convenient and less expensive than a They couldn't keap that hardy old veteran out of the war, Where there was fighting he had to be, and he got safety deposit vault for keepin a! Safe.” They bortew ony norinal sumer And the interest 1s leas than the rent in ag a private in the 1024 Ammuni- would be in = deposit box tion Train and came back a Major in command of the 624 Field Artil- jery. You can't get the old woldier to tell of what he went through, but he was in the drive at Wontinued on C.aveenth Page) La GIRLHOOD FRIENDS RECALL EARLY DAYS OF OLIVE THOMAS Many in McKees Rocks, Pa., Mourn Death in Paris From | Poison of Movie Star. | By Isane Shuman. (Special Staff Correspondent of The, Evening World.) PITTSRULGH, Sept. 18. MeiKnes Rocks, the home of Olive Thomas fi her twelfth year until, at ninetren she went to New York and became almost overnight a celebrated ‘stase beauty to whom Broadway drank toasta and artists paid homage, alse has a theory concerning the gau that led to the tragic death Sf the famous moving pietre atar. Her old friends nere wene erently shocked when they learned that she had died in Paris of mercurial poison, which her friends eny was taken by mistake, and that the French police were investi¢uting the cane, | “Olive had b playing too hard to make up for the many years of her childhdod when sha knew no ‘es Rock people her life al- mn play," sald the McK that had known ber an most from infancy. he played | heegllessly, now that she had the means, at anything that would bring her pleasure. days of her childhood tn Char where she was born, and where her father died when she was four, in- toxicated her, The music, the laughter, the gatety, the fine clothes were all so difterent from what she had known—poverty, which sent her mother out to work by the day to keep the family golng, whieh d prived her of an opportunity to pla) rol, of more than the barest schooling, of even shoes and dresses such as or- dinary children by She couldn't get enough of the contrast. and the strain of the pace she had been go- ing told in the nervousness which led to her choosing by mistake the poison which ended her life.” McKees Rocks is suburban to Pitt burgh, but the ever-lengthening Line tn- of the city's smokestacks have vaded jt, and the rrow, Lig stoop ed houses that line the sinuous, cot ble stone streets of the town be t grime that is the badge of labo: Pittsburgh Olive Thomas lived in one of these houses, ‘The narrow poreh that faces Patterson Avenue erlouks a Visla of stacks reared above Until ts like at C noWN except for year had ved ag clerk at Joseph Horne’s ‘and. the | ue department to Bern xt her marriage Thomas of No, 404 Woodward nue, West Park, a suburb adjacent to MeKees Rocks | LITTLE KNOWN OF HER EARLY CHILDHOOD, Charleroi knows little about Olive's childhood, although she often after moving to McKees Rocks visited there at the home of her grand mother, Mrs, Rene McCormack, who made it her Olive was born the , the second of thre thers were boys, William and James, whore father was | James Duffy, a structural steel | worker, Upon his death the burden of caring for the fainily fell upon Mrs, Duffy, who, bors related, moved her family over to the home of her mother, Mrs, McCormack, and went to work’ “by the day." One of her positions was in a laundry, but after a year gr so of such, work she started a smal restaurant near the ratiroad station liroad employees were her chief patrons, and at first she did all the work alone, asstated by William and Olive Ny Here it was that Olive first new the meaning of drud She washed dishes, she swept, she carried water, and once while walking on the silp- pery kitchen floor of the restaurant she fell and broke her left wrist, sustaining an injury that was made worse when a few years later she underwent an attack of rheumatism that made her left arm slightly crooked, a defect In her body that few movie fans ever noticed. dae ending WORLD, eb dtiit hb. Pretty Olive Thomas at Various St Her Meteoric Rise From Shopgirl to F FINAL STANDINGS IN CONTEST SEPTEMBER 13 — SV Il a admittanc y. According to th TO PICK PRETTIcS? U.S. WE ME? Pictures ot Favorites Chosen by Evening World Readers Are Sent to Artist E, O. Hoppe. The great American Beauty Contest Is over, and readers of The Eve- ning World have cast thousands of ballots for their favorites. The list nelow shows the standing at noon Saturday, when the polls closed. The final standing of the American Beauties has t sent to E, 0. Hoppe, the celebrated London artist-photographer, who cl the tye beauties of England and, on comings to this country, asked readers of The Evening World to help choose the five American Beauties, All pictures published by The Eveuing World have also been sent to him, and he will soon select the five pretilest picture will through the thousands of pictures from ail over elect \ the tive peerless women of America. And { of the eclions of The ning World r ler At rate, Watch for the five prettiest en bd readers of The Evening World The final stand!ng Is as follows: 1, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt 6. Mrs, Gurnee Munn | 2. Mrs. Preston Gibson 7. Mrs, Char B, Dillingha | $. Mrs. James Mace 8. Mrs. Aneier LB. Duke | 4. Mra. John Barrymor 9. Mrs. John Wanamaker, Jr. | 6, Miss Mary Millicent Roger 10. Miss Shella Byrne. __ | | | Feose COL But it was through the restaurant | (Gontinued on Thirteenth Page.) a STRPNNNEAUTOS: ages of Her Career; IMARY for ame in the Films fomorrow—September 14th—from 3 to 9 o'clock P. M. _ Candidates of the _Democratic Organizations In the Counties of New York and the Bronx Justizes of the Supreme Court Ist Judicial District Make your cross (X) mark in the voting squares as indicated below. LY nine candidates may be voted for: JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT (vote for nine) _ESPTE REPORTS, SAYS MRS CANE Everyone in Europe “Touch: But No Real Evidence Hostility to U. S, | | | Mr. and Mrs, Astor Chanter, ae: | companted by thelr son, Ashley: ler, returned from a ttip to | France and Italy on the i day. Mrs, Chanter, who ie at head of the Lafayette Heroes 1 mortal Fund and also p i the Society for the Preservation — the Rirthplace of Lafayette, has ite headquarters tn the Lafayette, sald that to ber omed the most busy of the now undergoing reconstruction the war, ‘ “But {t te a case of ‘nerves’ and everyone fm ‘touchy’ ”" she "Perhaps there are mistakes and once in awhile an Incident or a so-called evidence. feeling against the United States mantfeat, but it ie not ¢rue of the jority of the people. « 7 “I am sure that everything the United States has done is appreciated in France. Just now: seems {0 be the country thut ts near est to the United States tn frtend sentiment.” « . She sald that she would her home tn this city as there je much work to do to attempt social sumering, |MRS. GARVEY ASKS ALIMOR |wund tor Diverce She "Commteal! With ation Action, | ‘Trial of the domestic relutions #uits! of Mracus Garvey, editor of the Neste 9) World, and bis wife, Amy, which was 0 for toMay fn Supreme Court, hes | 9 heen postponed until Bept. 20, ay ' Garvey hue fled sults for goth anna ment of hia marringe and divorce trom” hie wife, whom he marrted Dec. 26, ot Mire, Garvey hae fled a counter sulk: aration againat her husband, hor papers she claims Garvey has 5 < i vei | w und oF © of $20,000 a year, She ese tick WV Ned at ah Gt a ‘week alimony and $5,000 counsel vd Wighth n tuy nlight f He i oe arena ie x} Jovtien tt is thledeu hea: ised | anneal ee % CAMP DIX BIG { STEAL ANOTHER 1h is transport $8,007 worth af aute Ac WHO KNOWS THIS WOMAN?.” cesosriva Chey had riripped trom nine — ee, EDUCATION CENTRE J atoms [Pound Crying om Doorstep of | ——— ue M. 08 | Brooklyn Police ee , exalt nah ON JOB.!. A woman found crying by ‘ War Veterans to Have Classical PARRY AM AY | ADT: ea eres Paar ‘ |Gn the doorstep of the Clymer Street | and Voeational Courses Under it § ; lalmed the suspicion cit ty Seekn ef police station, Brooklyn, this Yt hal (Cou 4 | Mpon hie Hiitional ey Watchers at was taken to Kings County Hospital It 200 Teachers. es on the part o thieves John R Voorhie, President the | was sald she was suf*sring from amne- CAMP DIX, Sept, 19.—Camp Dix 1 ect in- $3,000 .Ga According to the potice the thtes dard of to-lay recelved a sia, Her name was given ae Mra, Margy i rapidly being transformed into one nv . Shatin t an entrance into Mackle's gar bim mid Mayor garet Arid, sixty years old, ean the largest educational institutions, both| Rurglary Savs He Is Victim vee by lowering themselves to. the John Rlddk, State A descriptioh of hor was sent out bg | prea atacpaves shi cca lead Ulawirs tre : p foot With @ rope from a ehlinne velullat Party, waking the police: J A AE Gttenen te can of “Planted” Letters nehwon on an adjoining tenement vers af the Mochellat Det. 15. betwe DOO Ani . an then opening the skylight with a Chicago Movie Mustetans be Hing studies - fimmy ‘i Strike, 100 classes a body of 200 tenc . They en Jacked » nine automo \ This ts ta accond with \the polt i f SunnIOR)Y f polos wise and Inauneylls CHICAGO, Sept. 1 —Granted a G0, the War Department to co-ordinate o1 ved ga veties on the west st ped them of carburetors and to\80. pet. onnt, snerenne tf . ae ational and military tnstruction so t side in years came to tmbt to-day UPS tne y other removable 4 fused against (ne picture theatre musicians, who have CHIR DULiGr tke Service wil Y ; part, Loading the toot Into an auto finion candidates been on strike since July 6 were Beale: fitted to take thelr places tn civil lif nen -Fulipk Greoo, forty nalx: (Uk eee a eed whe frome hohe they id to-day he would tay | thelr places to-day. Ninety per oeneig The educational courses will take ver of No. 33% Ki 108th Btreot.’ Grove away, NE ENO RW, " the holrd at ite mect- of the city’s theatres were affected by grades of work, Including high sch See Che Wee and a cell ioty Seare | linoup at Pole = — group, ot paring to feadqun nm of t POLITICAL PO-.ITICAL, POLITICAL. DAY 16 EDWARD SWANN 15 EDWARD J. McGOLDRICK 17 LEONARD, A. GIEGERICH 18 JOHN FORD 19 CHARLES L. GUY 20 M. WARLEY PLATZEK 21 MITCHELL L. ERLANGER 22 “Court makes the ballot for that of! ‘This Advertisanent paid for py che Commitie 04 Nominations, wn; NOTE:—To vote for more than nine candidates for Justices of the Supreme ce void, ¥. Monrelner, Chairman,