The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1922, Page 6

ee ae RS BINPED HB N01 SHETHOUGH DEAD, I SUBWAY Marriage of Mrs. Courtney of Brooklyn to No, 2 Is An- nulled by Court. Alleging that she had recently Dumped against George Beck, her first husband whom she had not seen in seventeen years when the subway train stopped suddenly, Mrs. Helen Courtney, of No. 824 Broady Brooklyn, to-day asked Su Court Justice May to annul her mar- riage to her second husband, Hugh Courtney. The court granted an in terlocutory decree. There was no op- position interposed by Courney, The first husband was not in court. “I was married to George Beck, my first husband, in March, 1906," Mrs Beck Courtney explained. ‘I was young at that time, We separated after eleven days of married life. Subsequently I learned Mr, Beck had gone West for his health, I never again heard from him and as the years went by I came to the conclu- gion he was dead. “So in 1914 1 believed I was free to rewed, On Feb. 10 of that year I was married to Mr. Courtney. I continued at my employment. “On June 22 last I was returning home. with Mrs. Pauline Namm, a friend. The subway was crowded. Suddenly the train stopped and I was thrown against a man, To my horror T discovered it was Mr. Beck, my first husband. is “Mr. Beck confirmed the fact that he was my first husband, He gave me his address. “That night I told Mr. Courtney of ‘my experience. He told me the only thing we could do was to separate as legally we were not married. And so ‘we parted. I do not know what we will do in the future’ HARD COAL PARLEY ENDS IN FAILURE Miners Reject Arbitration, Strike Continues. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.—With the miners insisting on the 1920 wage scale until April 1, 1924, and the oper- ators unwilling to contract for the old seale beyond April 1, 1923, unless pro- Wells, Vice President, Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe; (Percy R. Todd, President, Ralph Peters, President, Long Island; Alfred P, Thom, Vice Chairman and General Counsel, Association of Rail- way Executives, the railway service in New York at the executives, & meeting of the executives and the five union chiefs, but the latter are on hand In case of emergency. Most prominent among them is Warren 8. Stone, veteran chief of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, who Is the leader of volunteer committee of mediators. Five’ are T. C, Cashin, representing the switchmen; William Doak, train- men; L, E. Shepherd, conductors, and H. H. Robertson, firemen, representing allied shop crafts unions are J. A. Franklin, President, Botler- makers; Martin F. Ryan, President, Carmen; James Burns, Vice Presi- dent, Sheet Metal Workers; Edward Evans, ‘Workers; dent, Stationary Firemen and Oilers; W. D. Helt, President, Signalmen, phers; E. F. Grable, President, Main- tenance of Way Men; Vice President, Railroad and Steam- ship Clerks; President, Machinists, and Bert M. Jewell, President, Railroad Employ- SMALL PEACE HOPE FLOOD OF LAW SUITS SFEN IN CONFERENCE | THREATEN WOMAN WHO _ > —- (Continued from First Page.) (Continued from First Page.) Valley; Axnew T. Dice, President,|cherishee and the thoughts of going Philadelphia and Reading. to her beautiful home appealed to me. W. R. Oole, President, Nashville, | went, Chattanooga and Bt. Louis; Lyman] “I had only been there a few days Delano, Vice President, Atlantic Coast}when Rodney and Mrs, Waftefleld Line; 8. M. Fgiton, President, Chi-}came to me with a proposition that cago and Great Western; Edward J.]I relinquish my hu nd. They told arson, President, New York, Mew]}of their love for each other and of- Haven and Hartford; C. L. Bardo,|fered me $100 a month for life if I Fresident, Central New England; W. | agreed. J. Marahan, President Chesapeake} “I was astounded at first. 4 and Ohio; W. D. Naber, President,] ‘But then I thought of my child Norfolk and Western; C. H. Mark-]and how little we always had had that ham, President, Mlinols Central; {Was our own, and I decided it might Daniel Willard, President, Baltimore} >e best after all for me and for my und Ohio; J. H. Hustis, President, | baby. Boston and Maine; H, Stein, Gen-] ‘It was hard to think of giving up eral Manager, Central Railroad of|Rodney, and after I agreed and saw New Jersey, them openly showing affection for 8. Ennis, President, Wheeling anajeach other, I realized what I had Lake Erie; J. M. Kurn, President,|4one. A woman can stand only #0 St. Louis and San Francisco; A. G,|much. It is very hard indeed to see the man she loves and another woman re-enact and go through the same fond scenes that she herself had en- acted just a few years before. “I began to see how utterly foolish I had been, and when I heard Rodney and Mrs. Waketield planning a trip to Truckee together, I couldn't stand it any longer.”" In place of this unique adjustment Proposed by Mrs, Wakefield, she faced a possible barrage of law sults; vig: Suit for $25,000 (or more) damages for alienation of affections, threat- ened by Mrs. Kendrick. Counter divorce sult by Frank Wakefield, her present husband, whom she !s suing for divorce, Court action to relieve her of the custody of her three children by her first husband, divorced, the late John D. Spreckels jr., son of the late Call- fornia sugar king. Mrs, Wakefield also may lose an $80,000 bequest from the estate of Spreckles as a result of her affair with Rodney Kendrick, newspaper artist. It was reported that John D, Spreckels sr, had come to San Fran- cisco from San Diego to take steps to obtain the custody of Mrs. Wake- field's children and to investigate the possibility of legal proceedings to sect aside the bequest. Mra, Wakefield now has a divorce suit pending against Frank Wake- field, well known business man of San Francisco, Bangor and Aroostook; On the union side there was @ rep- resentation of almost every craft in opening of the conference of No date has been set for ‘The other members of the “Big Among the labor leaders in town Vice President, Timothy Healey, Electrical Prest- Edward Manion, President, Telegra- Richard Doe, William H, Johnston, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1922. FOR $125,000} OF HIS AUTO; Andrew 4. pat Sum Contin Says He ta Oat » Ton Bid. Truesdale & Nichols of No. 149 Broad- Rawson Under! day for $125,000 damages ageinat SUES MELLON’S BROTHER |DROPS DEAD AT WHEEL WIFE AND SON IN PERIL 8 Beldce | om Powts ai Collapses. a sister of Mrs. Un i, In Keyport]. Way, a4 counsel for Andrew A. Coblll,] jtayson Underhill, fifty-five years old,|the car suddenly swerved to the left, an engineer, who Is concerned in the], retired business man, formerly of New| #Tuck ® gasoline tank, and continued construction of the Queens tuni 4 oof . until it hit the posts of a bridge, when the Euat Iver at oon Bison, Uionent York City, who has been living at 118}i¢ topped. Underhill was dead when a sult In ¢ feral District Court to- {St Clair Avenue, Spring Lake, N. J.. the car stopped. died as the result of a heart attack while driving his automobile, In which his wife and small son were with him, while wing through Keyport to-day, The family had left home at an early Nour for a trip to Troy, N. ¥., to visit Thomas A w of the Seeretary of the Trea- Mellon of Pittsburgh, o -——-—-~- riding to the complaint of June Mellon made an agreement with 27, 192 Conill to form a corporation for the purpose of making a bid for the vehlou- lar tunnel under the North River at Canal Street, to New Jersey. Cohill al- leges that Mellon, despite that agres- ment, failed to form the proposed cor- poration and also failed to make a bid for the tunnel, the contract for which was finally award Booth & Flynn the Hotel Pennsylvania, alleges he ts damaged $125,000, Conklin & Montross of No. 69 Wall Street represent Mellon. EUROPE’S WHEAT SUPPLY SHORT 582,000,000 BU, WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Burope will have to {mport 582,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, or 27,000,000 bushels more than Inat year, because of the decline in this years production, the Commerce Department was advised to- day by Alfred P. Dennis, {ts special representative in Berlin, Exclusive of Russia this year’s Bur- opean wheat crop is estimated at 1,057,- 000,000 bushels, ‘The total represents a decline of 156,800,000 bushels as com- pared with last year's phenomenal yleld. This falling-off was accounted for py a reduction of 1,600,000 neres in the area sown in Europe, by unfavorable growing conditions in the winter and early spring and in the case of Germany and eeomees Wanted meee Good Stenographers There are hundreds of good positions seeking competent operators at $15 to $3 0° per week Our Free Employment Dept. is the largest in the world. positions, The service is free to both employer and employee. 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The machinery for ending the strike, the joint oommittee of oper- -—~ tors appointed at the New York City conference of March 15, re- Hand-made Filet Lace Curtains, Window Panels, Bedspreads and Table Runners Stern Brothers West 42d Street and West 43d Street. mains in existence, tis functions sub- Ject to the call of Secretary James A. Gorman, on request of either side, bit the prospects that it will be called to meet much before Oct. 1 is, in the opinion of miners and operators, de- eldedly slim. apenas PITTSBURGH OPERATORS OFFER OLD WAGES Eliminate Check-Off System in Proposal. PITTSBURGH, Aug, 23.—The Pitts- burgh Coal Operators’ Association, the largest single bituminous producer in the Western Fennsylvania district, to- @ay aswed striking miners to reutrn to work under the wage agreement reached at the Cleveland conference, minus the check off. This marks the first break in the deadiock between the miners and the Pittsburgh operators, who have held out for a district agreement, lower Wages and elimination of the check-oft system of collecting union dues and agsensments. Simultaneously, a general increase in wages ranging from 83% to 58 per cent. went into effect In thee oal and coke fields of Fayette County, in an effort to get the recently organized minerg there back to work on an open shop basis. ‘ 5 ILLINOIS COAL MINERS RETURN TO THEIR WORK Pour-titt of Soft Coal Fields Now Producing. CHICAGO, Aye. 23.—Illinols bitum!- nous cual digsers to-day resumed pro- duction, Union officials estimated set- flements had spread now to include four-fifths of the unionized soft coal fields. In Kansas and other Southwestern fields an early end to the strike is pre- uleted, BOMBS EXPLODED IN RAIL CENTRES Violence Keeps Strike Fever at High Stage. “CHICAGO, Aug. 28. — Exploding bombs are keeping the rail strike fever at a high stage in some of the Nation's rail centres. A tremendous day in the Chic: house at Venic within a radius of three mil police squads were rushed to th when further vicience was threat a Bombs were huricd at the homes of Atehixon, Topeka and Santa Fe em- ployees ‘at San Bernardino, Cal., where daily outbreaks have marked the shopmen's strike. Switehmen in the Nashville, Chat- tumooge and St, Louis yards at Pa- ducuh, Ky., refused to go to work be- éause of an alleged attack on ono of the number by a railroad guard, xplosion early to- and Alton round- I., shook buildings and quirements this fall; that the grain carriers are in fair shape to handle coming crops, and there will be only a trifing shortage of coal cars to handle the maximum production, In other words, that the roads are pre- pared for PRESIDENT HARDING'S TRIP announcement that President Harding had called off the trip he expected to take to Mooseheart, Ill., the latter part of the week, was made to-day at the White House, ‘The President, it was said, feels It would be inadvisable for him’ to leave Washington during the present industrial crisis, Lifebuoy awakes the sleeping beauty finish fight, of your skin. ——_——- TO MOOSUHEART OALLED OFF. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — Definite Wake up your skin! LIFEBUC HEALTH SOAP W. & J. 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