The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

i V. UIBVANDERBt upid Had a Bad Day Yesterday Two Romances Come to End THIRTEEN YEARS ADDED TO LIFE'S SPAN SINCE 1900 AIRPORT'STA. prettymaCa i i fv Witness in inal Afeatio MiUionre. i 1 KI.A 1 ornii.js i lent 1 h- responsible fi a ta.it for a ,1.1 r-, i- iaii'l- Tin thJ.Jouglit, -out yterday J(i roMi nation! Pretty-i man, mf di vision full lie! 1 K- (1 by ttie -if on at Real iy-creaUri VI MARILYN MILLER, dancitsg star of "Sally," sought-by dozens of suitors on Broadway, married Jack Pickford, motion picture actor and brother of Mary Pickford. Marilyn appeared in New York her husband haunted the stage door.

In the summer season she was with him in Los BUT NOW they have agreed to disagree and are living apart to how it works out. "It is a trial separation," they say. "We may be able to straighten out our difficulties later. We will see what happens. The photo above was taken while they were on their honeymoon and shows them after a dip in Mary Pickford's private swimming pool.

PlCKFORD's first wife, Olive Thomas, also an actress, committed suicide and trouble had dogged his steps in all affairs of the heart. He declared that he had found true happiness at last, and, for once, the cynical stage folk believed it was true.f Jack and Marilyn seemed to be an ideal 1 I I GER, many years his wife's senior, had been married twice before. He is the owner of a chain of theaters in Pennsylvania and has other theatrical interests. He is rated as a millionaire and spent money with a free hand to make his third wife happy. They were touring Europe when "Miss St.

Louis' -decided to file her suit. CHARLOTTE NASH, St. Louis beauty, who represented this city in the national contest at Atlantic City, and who later married Fred G. Nixon Nirdlinger, 'wealthy theatrical man. has filed suit for divorce in Paris.

The details are not known, but Mrs. Nirdlinger left her husband once before, returning to him after his attorneys effected a reconciliation. Miss Nash sprang into prominence through her appearance at the pageant and her marriage. After the contest she made a brief stage tour and met and married Nirdlinger affer a short courtship. r'(j)t- Board, l) I are sustained as a 'slate brokffJs revoked.

J'" i the fin.n faCt; iA. nc salt hoard. 7 The ijepr that an ai-- orf was to on fhe 44.000-Horf Jrttyman was "'oping, those th state Wf Pl. also is ton-tended that liman promise! purchasers of rfin his tract that land won? '1 rained, hard maris would divided and farm rjrperiment stl would be f-talliincd. rf'prcsmta-tions.

the statfvs, were fal.s-. I iiiorittn in Ccmrt. -Ar- T. Gaii I Jitor of thf Ka-'1'itibfar-h joiJ. wns thft witnrss vho'ai(i VnJl'ilt was for the imation about, the airport whicits proposed.

At one jkI in the hearing ftix-Ks the "harm Health Congress Is Told Research Paves Way for Centenarians. May i. (By V. Medical 'Vfficiency engineers" have reduced Infant mortality since 1900 and have Increased the upan of American Ufa from 4 7 to 60 years. lr.

Louis rublin. renowned statistician, told the National Health Congress her today. "In 1900 doctors hit babies on the hcHt 'o make them cry and killed many in the process," he-suid. "That was the dangeroua period. But n-tdtcn! science produced a safer and equally effective method from their research Hbor-titorles tind eliminated the wast.

"Coupled with 1hat baibaric cup-torn in medical practice a quarter of a century ago, no on had thought of a beneflciat din for the child. That added la infant mortality. Scrums to res'st infc tious diseases hiul not yet appeared Whoopinsr cough, kindred disease and wrong personal hygiene were exacting a high toll l-cause public heulth service was going through the experimental stage. Solution of the problems was made possible by improved economic conditions, and money for extensive research. Children Poorly FhI.

"This great prosperity. oouple1 with the production In th United States durtng thos; twenty-stx years, has put us to the fore In reducing birth mortality, unl at the same time has beaten a path for many of us to live to be centenarians." lL Dunlap. assistant secretary of the department of agriculture, said natie born of the cities were-not producing enough children to maintain themselves. "The future of the United States H-s In the quality of stock sent to the citie from the farms." he said. "Every 1,000 child-bearing women should produce 460 children for Jlhe cities, if they ure to maintain their populations." A plea for the undernourished child, a century behind In health because his parents will not take the trouble to learn his needs, waa made by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, president of the American Child Health Association.

Hoover advocated a definition of "twenty-first century normality of "We must strhe for this goal In the twentieth century because the normal child of 1800 will not serve us today." htf said. Birth Mortality Reduced. Hoover told the 6.000 deleffat that 42 per cent of 35,000 fifth-grade children In 8 American cities receive less than the requisite pint of milk a day. Nearly one-fourth of that number have no milk at all, he Man's llody Found In lUver. The body ot a man about Bfl years old was found floating in the river today at the foot of Fillmore street.

The body was clad in a gray coat, black vest and black trousers- Byrd Announces He Will Try for South Pole Now Volunteer Killed by Gas in Attempt to Connect Stove TWO WJN PLACE IN FINALS IN STAR'S CHARLESTON TEST POWER OF SPEECH RESTORED DURING NOVENA IN CHURCH KRESGE WILL GIVE AWAY $23,000,000 WITHIN FEW DAYS PIE MAKER HAS TWO WIVES, HIS EX-MATE AVERS t.v fupm i MH 1CI III! IMIt) I foot If) and his statement met bv iplause from the Mvcf ators. Mpe Peacock raid t'harlc-s Lane, 45 years old, 1321 Fianklin avenue, last night volunteered to connee the gas slove for his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walsh, who-were moving into rooms ct 1801A Morgan street. "When Walsh and his wife reached the house at 8:10 p.

rn. they tounu lane dead in the gas-filled kitchen. He had tried to make the connec Chain Store Owner Offers Part of Fortune to Charity and no more such Jem. Eliminations Open at the Missouri Previn Is Master of Ceremonies. Another Sufferer From Paralysis of Arms Reported i Cured.

mere would ons rations. Welfare Work. "Perhaps major would was C. W. Eichhorn Says Evansville Woman Told Him She Had Divorce.

Carl V. Kiehhorn, famous in Evansville. for and who, with the aid of his wife, )uilt no a pie business that netted tfiem rettyman ft part of the he irood for adequately state farm rnrminjr i flit NEW YORK, 19. Sebastian Kresge away within the next few (By U. will give days ap- drained," Brown, tion without turning off the gas.

teRtll! under cross cxam- ination. ,00 a yeav. is under arrest nerej GREEN HARBOR. SPITZ-REKGEN, May U. I-ieut.

Commander Richard E. Byrd. U. S. who flew from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back by airplane, will attempt a flight to the South Pole, he announced here today.

He will start from New York by ship the middle of Septeni-ber. Byr-1 will attempt to" reach Framhtim. which was used by Capt. Roald Amundsen asa base for his expedition when he visited the South Pole, and will start his flight from If he reaches the South Pole he plans to return north next spring and fly from Etah, Greenland, exploring the sector of the Arctic in that district west of Spitzbergen, which he had hoped to visit this- jear. Floyd Bennett, who accompanied Byrd as pilot on his dash to the North Pole, will pilot one of the planes in the South PoKi expedition, while Rernt Balchen, a Norwegian, possibly will pilot the other.

had written me and I was freed." Recently Came to St. IOuis. The Star's city Charleston contest for girls opened at the Missouri Theater last night when eight dancer, competed for the right to enter the finals next veek. Two girls. Dorothy Shirley.

412 North 'Union boulevard, and Krma Shy, 4196 Manchester avenue, who with her brother, Willard Shy, holds the national team title, were selected hy the enthusiastic audience, which remained after the last show, as those best qualified to compete In the finals, the winner of "rown he had indorsed the project 0I, i0n lhat Irainapo. ui aaxnred butt said he iflould be criminal to place farnon 1h. land in its unimproved Jbndition. Ife said ie had refunJ to establish experiment farms on he hut would cooperate. Jffhe land was cleared and May 19.

(By IT. Tales of miraculous cures wer told here today fojlowing novenas As the Rev. W. J. Casey.

Ros-bury pastor, was pronouncing the benediction at a novena to Little St. Teresa, Miss Mary Manning1 of Welles-ley, fainted. She was revived by her mother. Mrs. William Manning, and.

aunt. Mrs. Mary Lane. Relatives were astounded when, it was declared, on opening her eyes, the young woman said, clearly and distinctly: "Praise be to the Kittle FVwerl Aunt Mirv and proximately $23,000,000. The chain store owner, who started his career with less than $8,000.

has offered that' part of his fortune for charitable and public welfare purposes. The Kresge foundation, established in 1914, yet never publicly announced, will receive the gift, making available about for its philanthropies. A thorough survey to determine the best channels for distribution will be made. with woman whom he says he married, thinking; his first wife had obtained a divarce. The first wire, Mrs.

T.ois Kiehhorn. came to St. Louis from Kv-ansville yesterday after she had been informed by her s'wter-in-law. Mrs. Sophia Jarbo.

Olive street, that Kiehhorn and his second wife were In charge ofv two concessions at Forest Park Highlands. rained Eichhortx said he and the second wife came to St. Louis April '5, residing at 1323 South Jefferson avenue. Mrs. Eichhorn returned to Kvans-'vllle.

last night, according to a neighbor of Mrs. Jarbo. Assistant Circuit Attorney said a warrant would be Issued today, but that if Kiehhorn does not return from Evansville the case would be dismised. Mrs. Kiehhorn told the police she would prosecute.

Kini) Yanatka of rhicapo. testi which will be city champion and 'Mv first wtfe is to blame, ticn- I have reeovJ told the police. "She is a mother. I can speak horn fied fha he paid $6,800 for 20 acres of land and two. lots on the nsstirane that the land was six miles ffom the Daytona Beach city liniifs--nd was -well drainel.

Jla naid hp found later that most of the. Jn.ivt was swamp. He said he was avowed to select another tract. wonderful pie-maker and a pood me. ered my voice." Not since she was stricken paralysis seven months1 Miss Manning been able to with had talk.

little woman, but she nagged 1 thought 1 was marrying my ond wife legally because my "It will make no' difference to us," Kiehhorn said. "I am morally married to Kva, if not legally. We 'wrote to mo saying that shi a 10 the trrrn -of --tiia wife (Jove each other'' and some day I had obtained a divorce. 1 pave iet $500 a Month Alimony. NEW YORK, May 19.

(By U. P. MVs. Isabella Adams Wells, wife of Thomas Bucklin Wells, wealthy son of Frederick 11. Wells.

Minneapolis miltionaire, was granted an interlocutory cleere.i of divorce in supreme court here yesterday by Judge Nathan Bijur. She was allowed $500 a month alimony. her relatives stated. In a like manner, -31izat-eth Charity of Lowell, while attending a novena to St. Rita, was credited with raising her arms, which had other chance in open competition.

Both tonight and tomorrow night Charles Previn will continue to act as master of ceremonies and as leader of a syncopating Jazz combination which, he has brought on the stage for the elimination trials. been paralyzed. Her parents paid their had regained will receive a twelve weeks' contract at $75 a week -with John Murray Anderson's production, "Charleston Revue." The eliminations will be continued tonight, when he following eight girls will dance: Helen Bros-ky, 7324 St. Charles road: Dorothy Poepping. 4926 Reber place; Helen G- Sparks.

4055 West Pine boulevard; Louise Perrin, 705 Doddridge street; Klizabeth Clark. 204 North Eighteenth street: Florence Jones, 4018 North, Twentieth street; Olive Gowdy. 1210 and Helen Jackson. 4006 Shaw boulevard. In order to accommodate late entrants In The Star's contest, Thursday night will be a comparatively open- night in the contest.

Two girls who have "signed contracts, Helen Wessel, 3915A North Ninth street, and Elenor Louise Lark, 49 4 "A Iwisdowne, have been formally entered, and there will be contract blanks backstage which anyone desiring to enter may sign an'a become a sntestant. In addi she apparently-full use. hope to have another pie business. EX-HOUSEKEEPER IS HELD ON CHARGE OF $736 THEFT Mrs. Ada Iangeneckert, 23, T42T South Broadway, was.

arrested yesterday on complaint of Steve Orzol, 2525 North Broadway, by whom sW formerly was employed as housekeeper, who told police he had sent her to a bank October 30 to deposit checks for $736 but that she had cashed the checks and kept the money. Mrs. Iangeneck-ei-t told Detective Roach that OrzaJ gave her the money to go to California and get a divorce from her husband so ho might marry him. Instead, she went to Chicago and had a good time, she said. money was retuscd.

4 Pretfynan silmrfionea 145 ucsscs for Jiis defense, but many of them left court when Prcttyman refused to guarantee their expenses while they were here for the trial. There are thirty witnesses -for the prosecution. Vrett man's Defence. The defense will contend that no development work on as vast a scope as planned by Prrftyman can he i-complishcd in five months, the lime which hsis elapsed since the tract was thrown open. It also will be contended that the promised dratnaire system was dependent upon the organization of a drain-ppe district." the costs to bo against the individual property owners, and that such an organization is legally impossible in such short time.

Tbe I'rettyman tract is about frn -five miles from the Atlantic There were to be farms of various siv.es With si town site in a central my first wife our pie business and was intending to start another in St. I.ouis." Woman DUorcff. The "other woman." Kva Ciinard, 29. is a divorcee, originally from Owcnsboro, Ky. "1 received "teller from my wife in which she wrote 'you haven't any more home than a Kiehhorn said.

"Then November 2 3', last, my wife sued tue lor divorce and named Kva as co-rt spondont. On December 2o my wife, wrote me that she was fre. and was glad to got rid of me. so Kva and 1 went to Covington, and were married. "We- returned to Kvansville and announced our wedding.

My first wile asked me what was our hurry, then informed me fhat she, bad not. obtairied a divorce ur.d would not. "She swore out a warrant me with non-support and big-piny. After wat- in jail foity-six tl V-i-i 4,000 VETERANS ATTEND CONFEDERATE REUNION BIRMINGHAM. May 19.

(Universal Service.) With nearly visitors. Including more than 4.000 gray-haired veterans In attendance, the thirty-sixth annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans got under way yesterday. Gen. W. It.

Freeman. commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, formally opened the tion ihe who were will be given feated last night lays I produced (he letter my wife CVT In reply to inquiries from motor buyers, this definite assurance is made to the public: There is no intention to either discontinue manufacture of the Essex "Six" or to change its name. i Essex is our largest selling car. More than 300,000 are in service. Daily production has just been increased 50, which will make the May output for the Coach alone greater than the entire Essex May output for last year, the then record Essex month.

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