The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1921, Page 3

| ! ry "t_ believe utting & lot_of money into clothes. No sensible woman does,” MRS GOURAUD SUED FOR 01000 FOR ALENATON Action by Mrs. Elizabeth Schill Revealed in Arrest of Lawyer Oldmixon, The charge of extortion made egainst John C. Oldmixon, an at- * torney with offices at No. 395 Bruad- way, which revealed a sult for $100,000 brought against Mrs. Aimee Crocker Gouraud for alienation of the affections of Bruno Schill, a ticket broker of this city, resulted to-day {n thej¢ontinuance of Oldmixon’s bat! of $2,000 in Centre Street Court and the Elizasein SCHL fixing of his examination for next Monday morning. Oldmixon was in court as was Mrs. Elizabeth Sshill, the complainant against him/and also against Mrs. Gouraud on the alienation charge. According to the police records Senill is a fugitive from justice, his ball of $1,000 on a grand larceny charge hav- ing been declared forfeited on Nov. 12 last. In her complaint against Old- mixon Mrs. Schill, who ts a plump blonde of about thirty-two, stated that on Dec, 9 Oldmixon and a man known only to her as Ostro, living at No, 116 West 39th Street, committed extortion on her by forcing her to sign certain papers in Oldmixon's office. ‘The complaint recited that on Nov, 28 she began an action against Mrs Gouraud by serving a summons and complaint on her charging her with elienating Bruno Sebill's affections, On Dec, 9, she went on, Ostro called at her home, No. 15 Manhattan Avenue, told cher he was a detective and showed a badge in support of the statement. He told her there were criminal charges against her husband and asked her to accompany him in order to prevent her husband's arrest, She went with Ostro, she said, to the office of the Hartford Accident end Indemnity Company at No. 110 William Street, and there Ostro said to her that if she would pay $400 the warrant sgainst Schill would be with- drawn. After that she went with Ostro to a steamship office in State Street, where he left her a moment in a taxicab, returning to tell her thai her husband owed the Swedish- America Line $528, ‘The comp'aini stated that Ostro sald to her, “Your husband is charged with « serious erime by the United States Govern- ment, that of using the maits to de ‘raud. You have @ case against Mie, raud, haven't you?” ‘Mrs. Sehili eeoonds thet she replied on @noe bv oa “Men are different. They just enjoy paying for what they buy.” in the amMrmative, after which Ostro, according to her, replied: “This is a dirty action and you only want to tlickmall Mme, Gouraud, If Mr. Marshall, your lawyer, knew of you: husband's trouble he would not take your case. Ostro then told her, the complaint alleged, that if she continued this action she would be arrested and ecnt to Sing Sing for fifteen years. Later Ostro took her to Oldmixon's office, she stated, and introduced her to him. Oldmixon told her he was attorney for Mrs. Gouraud and then refused her permission to call her at- torney on the telephone. Ostro told her that if she telephoned him she would be arrested for blackmail, but if she signed certain papers Oldmixon gave her the charge of blackmail would be dropped. ‘ Mrs, Schill stated that this caused her great distress and fear, as she believed Ostrp to be a police officer. Also she had at home three children, one a year old, another five years old and the third seven, and as she was worrled as to what would be- come of them in the event of her arrest, she signed the papers pre- sented to her. An opportunity to read them was not given her, she stated, and she was taken to a notary, before whom she affixed her signature to them.| These papers she believed to be a general release and an order of di continuance of her suit against Mrs. Gouraud and a letter to her attorney directing him to abandon the action. Oldmixon said to her, she swore: “If you'll sign the release there will be no charge of blackmail against you He also said that her action against Mrs, Gouraud made her liable to ar- rest for blackmail. Later she received trom Oldmixon two copies of documents which seemed to her the ores she had signed. One was a consent to dis- continuance of the Gouraud action and the other a letter to her attor- ney telling him to abandon the alien. ation sult. The police records of Schill show that he was arrested on Oct. 25 last on the complaint of J. L. Hall Schwenn, fuditor of the Cunard Steamship Company, charged with grand larceny of $125. He was re- leased on $1,000 bail in Centre Street Court on Nov. 9, a hearing being set} for three days later. On Nov. 12 he failed to appear and bail was for- fered. Mr, Oldmixon this afternoon denied Mrs. Schill's charges. e and this man Ostro came to my office without my knowing of her coming previously. 1 did not ask Ostro to bring her. She said when | asked her why she came to see me, that she wanted to discontinue the action she had brought against Mrs Gouraud. I asked her if she wanted her lawyer to come and she answ2z;1 that he was out of town. I dictated in her presence to my stenographer the papers for a discontinuation of the sult and left them with her to read, for half an hour, before she signed them, Not a word was said in my office about her being lable to charges of blackmail, and nothing about her being subject to arrest Ostro Was not at that time in my employ. I had employed him previ- ously to help me get sony: information about Schill, Ostro then was also in the employ of an indemnity company which had investigated Schill, ALA Ae bey STEALS TO HELP PAY WAY THROUGH SCHOOL Student of City College, Seventeen, Pleads Gailty te Larceny. Philip Kaufman, seventeen, student at the College of the City of New York, who works as a laundry boy in his free hours to mavce money enough to get him through college, pleaded guilty to- day to larceny and was held in the West Side Court in $1,000 ball for the Grand Jury. Kaufman, who lives at No. 648 East 136th Street, admitted that on his laun- iry collecting rounds yesterday he went to the home of Johnson Yen, No. 345 West 86th Street, and took a leather case containing two cameras valued at $260, checking them at the 86th Street subw; tation, seria, wad SaPetaS Bama ¥en, ohe of the Chinese advisors at the Armament Conference et ¥ “Everything I bought in Paris came to less than $5,000, I have not forgotten the day when I had to count my nickels.” ang wosbd, “Underwear so thin it can be delivered In an envelope sounds more like the Queen of Sheba than a little Pollyanna like me.” NY. PAKERS GE STRIKE BREAKERS FROM OTHER CIES Collapse of Walkout in Chr- cago Should Halt Rise in Prices Here, Is Belief. More than 200 strikebreakers from Kansas City, Boston and Philadel- phia c-rived here to-day and were lodged on the sixth floor of the Wil- son & Co. packing plant, 46th Street and First Avenue. The men, who were taken in company automobiles from the various depots said they came in response to advertisements Inserted in out-of-town papers, In both the east and west side packing districts the cold cut down the number of union men on the streets, Instead of the hundreds of strikers who have’ hitherto con- gregated on the corners there were to-day only desultory groups of two and three, Indications are that many of the plants are now making 60 per cent. of thelr deliveries under police protection. ‘The apparent collapse of the main strike In Chicago, which was said to have been the cause of the walkout here, {8 believed to have removed whatever reason there may have been for the recent jump of 29 per cent, in wholesale prices to the New York trade. Chicago reports stated that a guard of 150 policemen had been re- , called from the packing district. The New York Meat Council, at a meeting yesterday, when confronted with the figures compiled by The Evening World admitted that prices ; had arisen despite statements that the strike should not affect the cost to housewives. Memibers declaced that this rise should be only tem- porary, and those familiar with the packing industry now declare that the collapse of the Chicago strike should see an immediate return to the levels of a week ago. Newman Anderson, colored, o: 592 Lenox Avenue, & meat handler at the Wilson plant, who refused to strike, was set upon by a half-dozen men while on his way to work to-day at Second Avenue and 45th Street and beaten into unconsciousness, Re- vived at the bist Street Police Station by an ambulance surgeon and suffer- ing from a probably fractured rib and many contusions, he went to work under police escort. BERLE $100,000 FIRE SWEEPS CHURCH i No. \Priest Braves Flames to Save Blessed Sacrament in Green- point Edifice. Fire starting in the basement did $100,000 damage at 6 A, M. to-day in the Polish Roman Catholic of St, Stanislaus Kostka, Humboldt \Street and Driggs Avenue, Green- |polnt, which celebrated its twenty- fifth anniversary last Sunday. Father Paprocki ran to the base- ment, where mass is sald on week- daya, and saved the Blessed Sacra- ment. ‘The pastor and his cousin did all they could to save the fur- nishings and then were driven to the street by the smoke, which drifted into the Sisters’ Home adjoining. Father Wysleck! said he would hold |mass temporarily in the schoolhouse Jadjoining the nuns’ home. He est!- mated the damage at $100,000. ‘The building is sixteen years old. The fire the 1@ belleved to have started from the furnace y. ureh | The Question: e “W hat Did She Bring Back in Those Boxes?” * Her Thrift and Tho Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A little head, its curls yellower than ever egainst 2 rolled-back hat brim heavily studded with black beads as big as peas, peeked around the corner ofa tali screen. "ll be with you in just a minute,’ | promised Mary Pickford, “for it was | indeed she,” as they say in the old- fashioned story-books. Presently ap- peared ninety-five pounds of Mary, all there is left of “America’s sweetheart” after six months of Buropean shop- ping, sightseeing and eating; and, with Mary, ONE answer to every woman's question; “What did she bring back in those fourteen trunks?" This particular unswer was the charming French street frock which she wore. caded wool, the exact color of a baby mouse, buttoning down the front and turned back from the throat, with a round, flat collar. The extremely long sleeves—they came ulmost to the knuckles—ended in a deep cuff, like an Inverted pell, edged with fur. “What is that material?” I asked. “Don't know,” sald Miss Pickford, cheerfully. “It looks like a candy- box, doesn’t it?” “Well, what's the fur trimming?” I persisted, “I suspect it's cat,’ she admitted, with droll candor, And then came the amazing revelation. Mary Pickford likes her clothes pretty, but she doesn’t like 'em expensiv “I don’t believe {In putt.ng a lot of | money into clothes, she insisted. “No jaensible woman does. Men are dif- ferent; they just enjoy paying for what they buy. I heard a man say the other day, ‘I trade at such-and- such a shop because it’s the most ex- pensive place on Fifth Avenue.’ ” over the folly of men. “But I thought that just the duty on your new things abounted to $10,- * I protested, hate to spoil a good story, she last and all the time. Everything I bought in Paris—she paused, and her lips. moved in quick calculation— “everything, duty included, came to less than $5,000," she finished, trium- |phantly, "You see, I haven't forgotten ‘nickels for which 1 worked." | And if you don't think Mary is 9 good shopper, here is a partial list of what she bought: Thirty dresses, lf a’ dozen wraps, three or four hate six pairs of shoes and dogens and dozen of “undies.” Sihe likes New, York ha and fure are extremely. expenaly kmUndvAY, Mary Pickford’s 14 Trunks Full of Parisian Fineries Prove Her a Fine Shopper It was a pinky-gray bro-| Mary shook her wise young head | laughed, “but my motto Is truth, first, | the days when I had to count the | VivUsM bi “The waist is very long this year, and the girdles are wide and set ont from the body.” The Answer: Thirty Dresses. A Half Dozen Wraps. Three or Four Hats. Six Pairs of Shoe Dozensand Dozens of “Undies.”” And All for $5,000, Duty Included. Time, 6 Months, Including Time for Sightseeing, Eating and Sleeping. & 10, Lyd. Evening World Ten-Second Movie of Big Peopie in Action Sea enmeanu ana Bp Heat si ae “Beads of every sort are the most popular trimming, and the decollete line cuts across the oulder blades.” Mary Pickford Describing What She Brought Back From Paris in Fourteen Trunks See eeeetees : Tec TY i “Skirts are tting longer. T'm glad, for, you see, I'm not so crazy about my legs.” “s “Evening gowns are sleeve- less, but lots of mine aren't. I don’t feel exactly comfortable SS eee without any sleeves.” 7 Oe ream,” and a brocaded evening wrap of copper and gold made a fine splash of color in the wardrobe, “Isn't that lovely!” frankly ex- claimed the little star of the screen, as she exhibited an evening gown of changeable sea-coldre. sllk, a foot- wids band of silver gauze embroidered in silver around the bottom of the sk’rt, a long sash of silver ribbon. More striking and hardly less beauti- ful was a tangerine evening dresi big sunburst beautifully worked erys' the si In beading on the front panel of Irt, and three bits of monkey fur, set like artificial flowcrs in the deep girdle, Still a third decollete frock was developed .n*pastel shades of pale pink and pale blue chiffon. ‘There were three more of Mary's favorite black velvet frocks—tho per- fect setting for her bloude daintiness; one with coral beads around the neck and the short sleeves, another trim- ved with embroidery in raspberry ind silver, a third with a pattern of Harding blue button shaped orna- ments, made of blua worsted, around tho neck and the girdle. There were two smart navy blue morning frocks, one with worstet trimming, the other .howing knots of white braid on sleeves anc collar. And there was a navy blue coat, with a collar of Turkey red and more of the se Who Feast Eyes on Her Purchases Praise Her for Her Good Taste and Discrimination. abroad, so that's why she “went! light” on them and on millinery. Of all her purchases I think the “undies” | most delight her soul—a truly femi- | nine preference. { “They're perfectly beautiful,” she| s.ghed. “Handmade, you know, with | lots of handmade lace and embroid~ ery. Some of them are of a new ma. terial, something between crepe de} chine and georgette.” “Are they the filmy kind which, ac- | cording to the cables, are delivered to the purchaser in an ordinary cor- respondence envelope?” I asked ry giggled. That sounds more like the Queen’ of Sheba than a little Pollyanna like me,” she commented, "No, I haven't anything like that, I’m afraid. Bur ae be very glad to show you what I ave," | We adjourned forthwith to the closets in the apartments she and “Doug” Fairbanks have taken at the Ritz-Carlton, So I am able to re- Port on at least a part of the con-| tents of the fourteen trunks, and also to assert that Mary's taste ts as im peccable as her thrift. He new cloh are charming, | |, First, she took from its hanger a| lounging robe of raspberry ilk, with) a collar of gray fur. Then she exain- | and one of mine has two trains, I'm ited a Harding blue brocaded over- blouse, with a fur collar and long ped sleeves, | at kind of fur?” again de-| dan inquisitive somebody | ame family, 1 guess,” chuckled | Mary, with a meaning glance at the Scotch verdict trimming on the frock she wore. There followed a most enchanting | black velvet frock, with a round col- | lar and flowing cuffs of cafe au lait embroidery and narrow little red rib- bons to tle under them. Another black velvet—Mary's very fond of it! —proved to be an evening gown, with the new decollette line which does not go below the shoulder blades in the back. This dress was absolutely un- trimmed, but the material itself was shirred over the hips, to give the ef- | fect of cord-like girdle. ;'The waist in very long this yea: plained Miss Pickford, “like a Rus | sian blouse The girdles are very wide and act out from the body.” | A smart gray cloth had just such} | 2 wide, low girdle, embroidered with| iue braid and long, narrow tabs of vilky monkey fur were set lengthwise in the long sleeves between elbow) and wrist. A frock of soft brown silk | was brightened by a Turkey red sailor collar embroidered in black braid. The neckline of a gray silk evening dress was outlined in rob- | in's egg blue, embroidered with beads | “Beads of’every sort are the most| popular trimming in Paris,” Mary| told me. “And, 48 you see, most of| dresses are cut In straight lines. has any overdrapery.” | a datnty white silk voile was given a touch of color by a large med: of coral and white beaas, and py . beading at neck and any rows of shirring, together with pearl ornaments, turned a white ig dancing frock inte any etrl'a iden worsted hand entbroidery. A raspberry-c' | cloth sult was “America’s Sweetheart” Felicitates Herself on tnlshed of at the wotst with a cord and tassel of mixed chocolate and respberry wool, “and is to be worn,” sald Mai ‘with brown shoes and stockings.” Finally, she exhibited a magnificent coat of caracul and squirrel and two “little girl” hats, perfectly round, made of blue silk felt and trimmed only with a two-/ inch brnd of ribbon, knotted In a! curious shirred fashion, around the} brim, “Those are called ‘snails,'" she sald, “and are all the rage in Paris.” “Skirts,” Mary summed up, re getting longer and longer. For street wear they are down to the ankle, while evening gowns touch the floor, glad,” she added, candidly, “for, you see, I'm not so crazy about my legs! “I didn’t see a single evening dress in Paris cut to the walst in the back, and the decollete line usually cuts across the shoulder blades. Evening gowns are sleeveless, but lots of mine aren't, Somehow I Gon't feel exactly comfortable without any sleeves at all," she volunteered, in a whimsical aside, “Everybody in Parts seems to be wearing champagne colored stockings and black @hoes,” was the final fashion hint I gleaned from Miss Pickford, Meanwhile, don't you agree that she got her money's worth? WANTS HER TO GIVE HIM BACK $10,000 Wealthy Importer Says An Alleged Agreement With Miss Abbott is Void. George B. Lowerre, a wealthy r tired importer of No. 65 Adrian Ave rue, admits having given Nellie G.| Abbott $5,000 on Aug. 14, 1919, and another $5,000 on Jan, 28, 1920. Now he sceks through the courts to re- cover the $10,000 with Interest. The former tmporter recently was served with summons and complaint in @ sult brought by Miss Abbott and in answer to her complaint, filed by his attorney, George H. Bruce of No. 320 Broadway, Mr. Lowerre avers the payment of $10,000 by him was “procured by reason of threats to bring public disgrace upon him, and n fear of bodily harm, upon his art, unless he should agree to pay. * Now he claims the alleged agreement to pay $25,000 to Miss Abbott is void, because of fraud and duress, and he} seeks to recover the part payment with interest, Miss Abbott claims that in Novern- ber, 1911, Mr. Lowerre promised to marry her and that he did not have a change of mind until August, 1919. It was then that Miss Abbott says the $25,000 settlement was agreed upon in return for her not bringins a suit for alleged breach of promise. Mr. Lowerre denies that he promised to marry the girl. 2 SAFE DRILLED, BONDS STOLEN. A burglar who drilled the safe of Henry Mattras of No. 17 Varet Street, | Brooklyn, on Sunda: nd obtained $1,700 in Liberty t ) worth of Jewriry and §27 in t beb d his overn'ts. A leur them lod to the ar sto! John. So. ‘2 laborer, of N 325 Eas Sixth Sireet. Boanas, Sau! a ali knowledge of the crime. police fay they’ found ‘several driila tn bis | rm : ITINTERRA COTTA "TRUST GETFNE OF $3.00 EACH Individauls and Corporations Had Pleaded Guilty to Vio- lating Sherman Law. ‘Ten individuals and seven corpor- ations, pleading guilty to violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, in what has been known as the ‘Terra Cotta Trust cases, were sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 each to-day by Judge Learned Hand In the Federal Court, David L. Podeii, special counsel for the Government, and District At- torney Hayward urged jail sentences, stating that the practices indulrod in by the concerns and individuals could not be stopped by mere fines. Henry A. Wise and Henry L. Stim- son, counsel for the defendants, argued that many of the acts com- plained of by the Government were capable of several interpretations and their clients ‘were entitled to the benefit of every doubt. The Court held that many parts of the Sherman Act were not clear and there were few rules which could be followed with certainty in {ts interpretation. Individuals and companies fined follow: O. W. Ketcham of Crum Lake, Pa., H. P. Wey, Vice President Atlanta Terra Cotta Co: William H. Powelly President Atlantic Te Cotta Co.;7 P. G. Byatt, Vico President of the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co.; Thomas Fe Armstrong, President Conkling-Arm® strong Terra Cotta Co. veForrest* Grant, President of the Federal Terra’ * Cotta Co.; arry Lee King, Assistant® Secretory of the samo compamy.; K. V. Eckerson, President and Kart? Mathias Jr, Secretary of the New Jersey Terra Cotta Co; Peter Coo iisen, Secretary of the South Amboy», Terra Cotta Company; The Atlanta, Atlantic, Conkling-Armstrong, New Jersey, South Amboy, Federal and the New oYrk Architectural Terra> Cotta Companies. . OMELETTE ROYALE = The celebrated cook, Martin, © wished to please the pes pered palate of Louis XV. So he concocted a strange; = new dish which he called an ~” omelette royale. F It was made of cockscombs -- and carp-milk at a cost of one hundred dollar: ar Yet, apart from its oddity}!* it did not compare with the omelets served at CHILDS. Cabinets irsanpuapie LOOPS In Holiday Packing < cicdaieaNnAN shamibibiiae tinction ktied <0