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YOL. 290. Published Dally (Except Sunday) By Nevra-Star Publishing Ltd. MONROE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927. Entered as Second Class Matter June 1.

Hi09, at Monroe Poet Office PRICE FIVE CENTS LARGE COTTON CARGO TO GO VIA STEAMER Shipment of 912 Bales Ready for Loading On BILL INVITA TIONS CALL OUT HOT REPLIES Chicago Mayor Organizes Association. TWENTY-YEAR RECORD Much of it as Raised in Overflow Area to the East. Breaking the twenty-year record for cotton shipments from Monroe, the steamer is today loading a total of 612 bales of cotton and linters consigned to New Orleans, ('apt. L. V.

Cooley will be in charge ol' the river trip. For two days time, trucks and cotton wagons all loaded with bales of cotton piled to capacity, have been making their way to the river landing near the foot of Pine street, which late yesterday, with cotton piled in every direction, began to appear as it did in the o.d Negroes and roustabouts were busily engaged in stacking the bale- in anticipation the arrival noon from Camden, of the steamer which is to convey the record-breaking load south to New Orleans. Commercial Agent Herbert U. Mi 11(taps. of the Cooley line, stated today that he is positive that no such heavy cargo of has been ship ped out of here at a single time by river boat for twenty years.

The cotton is all high grade and was bought by B. F. Tatum, local cotton buyer, and vsrtua.ly all was raised the region fast of on land that was overflowed last spring. The is planning to carry similar large cargoes of cotton on subsequent trips down the river. It will require possibly 24 time to load all the cotton cargo on the boat, so that there is iittle pr pect of the steamer leaving the Monroe wharf unt.

1 some time Sunday. River navigation seems to be taking on new life genera.ly. Several boats are under construction, such as yachts, the rebin ding of barges for as service and other similar operations. Also Mr. Milisaps states that Captain Cooley is to ai range for the construction of new warehouse and line.

Plans are i detail, but it is 1 be ready for an- ind that Monroe is wharfage and sto- By Associated Frets. CHICAGO, Oct. dash of George M. Old a touch of Stephen RiRht or and a taste of opera bouffe seasoned Mayor Thompson's efforts today. Ills appeal for support of the First foundation, with a $10 membership fee, brought many returns.

Some were complimentary. Not a few were condemnatory. Several were ironic. The plea for members in the foundation, a national, patriotic organization better tizenship, based on loyalty, with a nation-wide program to teach the constitution of the United States and respect for our form of government and a thorough knowledge of its fundamental was telegraphed to mayors, congressmen, senators and governors. Alfred M.

Phillips, mayor of Stamford, wired back, charges collect: you say fee or No reply was rete ved. Again he wired, also tolls collect, cautioning Mayor Thompson that the tricky British have some pretty mean propaganda against him in in The Stamford mayor quoted from that book the story of the old man, I criticised by his son for standing on his whose answer was: my youth I feared ft might injure the brain, but now I perfectly sure I have ailed Ridiculous Another reply from Congressman Emmanuel Celler, Brooklyn, N. read: you not so enthusiastically misguided in your campaign against anything British and were it not for your raid on the Chicago library 1 might consider your proposal seriously, but your anti-British mania has made you ridiculous in the eyes of intelligent To which Mayor Thompson rejoined telegraphically: "Sorry you wasted so much money in such a long telegram and if you are not beyond advice permit me to suggest that you not use the word intelligent over your own signature because if you had more bra ns you would have enough to learn the truth before spending your money in such long telegrams. With best wishes for future, I am sincerely yours." to join and support in any way the America First association for purposes outlined in vaur telegram," CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE RUTH ELDER TO DO LOTS OF SHOPPING Tired of Knickers and Slim Wardrobe, She Snvs. RECORD CROWD GOES BELIEVE N.O.

TO FORS YTHE TO SEE SUSPECT HAS TECH MEET RIVALS KILLED SELF FRANCE LIKES HER American Oirl Makes flood Impression in Paris. Campbell House Burns, Old Bastrop Landmark Well Known to Public for Many Years of Service. Specie to The BASTROP, Oct. 29. The Campbell house, one of the old landmarks of i this section of the country, was almost co pletely destroyed by fire' at 1 this morning, only a.

small detached part of the main building escaping undamaged by the nly partially cov- is estimated at rminals for hi worked out iid that they w. juncement soon i have first cias tge facilities. BASTROP MOTORISTS ENJOYING 12-CENT PRICE OF GASOLINE Special to The News-Star BASTROP, 29. Bastrop motorists are basking in the pleasant of a full-fledged gasoline price war. Filling stations have been eutting quotations for some days until today the price bumped down to 12 cents per gallon.

Almost everybody is enjoying the and hoping that no armistice will come until Armistice day, or later. The Snyder Oil company started cutting prices at its station several days ago. The price went from 18 to 15. Other stations followed. The price fluttered down to 11 and the others came in.

Then today the price went down to 12 and this quotation was reigning supreme ail ovpr the city at noon. flames. The lo ered by insura 110,000. How the blaze started is not known but it was discovered in the kitchen and an alarm quickly brought out the Says Prince Could Beat Mayor Walker in Ring NEW YORK, Oct. some announce at Madison Square were called upon to say, this corner, his royal high- ness Albert Edward and In the corner the Hon.

James J. (5 the rc-ult, an expert opines, would he a victory for the Prince of ales. George Mason, who is retiring from the sea after running the on the Berengaria. has boxed them both. knqw the Prince of Wales could put it over the he said.

George has a grievance against Sir Harry Fau- der. He let Harry flop him and the comedian fojfgot to tell the other passengers it was a frame- up. Three From Monroe On Annual Staff fire which did excellent work. The building was one-story and of frame construction and burned with great rapidity. All the gue-H were able to leave the building and most of them saved their clothing and other personal effects.

The home of R. Is Thomas, a hardware merchant, located next to the hotel caught fire, but the blaze was quickly checked with slight damage. Traveling men have for years stopped at the Campbell house which has stood for probably half a century on the present site. Of recent years, and at the present time, it has been owned and operated by Miss Tina Collins, postmistress of Bastrop, and by her sister, Miss Mamie 3 FORMER RICH MEN OF RUSSIA ARE EXECUTED Milita Espionage is Charge of Soviet Rule. RIVER STAGES Mississippi St.

Memphis Vieksburg New Orlean8 Camden Monroe Stage 8.1 12.5 ...23.5 5.6 (bange fall .4 fall .3 fall 1.1 fall .2 3.7 unchanged .13.7 unchanged Special to The Kevi-8tir. October 28, 1J27. Since Eva Fowler. Emelyn Cason, and Anthony Buttitta, all from Monroe, have taken up their duties as editor-in; chief, literary editor, and business manager, respective ly, of the the Louisiana State Normal college annual, the students are following their lead in making the annual a success, according to Prof. R.

L. Ropp, of the publicity department, be one of the best in the history of the college. Monroe has furnished us with editors for i years, the most remarkable being Pauline Olmstead, who edited the 1927 Potpourri. Without doubt I can say Monroe is leading in having lit- erary material. The masses just have I to follow the.ee Slaying of Dentist in N.

Y. Mystifies Police Theory of Robbery Eliminated, Money Found. By Associated Tress. NEW YORK, Oct. soiled gray cap and a chart of three defective teeth were held by police today as clues in the killing of Dr.

Jacob Gross, mysteriously shot while at work in his office in the West side negro district. When detectives answered the call of Timothy Healy, tenant of a neighboring office, they found Dr. Gross dead, slumped at the foot of his dental chair, his head back, his eye glasses jarred down over his lips and a small dental mirror clutched in his hand. On the wall beside the chair was a mouth chart, on which two teeth had been marked. A line ran from a third tooth off the edge of the paper.

The pencil was on the floor. From this police were prepared to advance the theory that the dentist had been shot when he half turned jg from his patient to mark the chart, i Police eliminated the theory of bery, as the valuable dia- mond ring, his gold watch, and $213.40 he had in his pocket, had not been taken. The theory that the killing was the work of a drug addict was hardly tenahle, detectives said, as the dentist narcotic cabinet had apparently been untouched. Martin Gross, the brother, suggested however, that a drug addict might have slain the dentist on being told that the cabinet held only Focal anaesthetics, which was the case. The variety of theories put forward included the possibility that pain had driven a patient to slay Dr.

Gross. Bootleggers were also mentioned as the possible slayers. The forty-year-old dentist was known to have been in the habit of making deposits of from 3200 to $300 a day, although his practice, partly theatrical and partly drawn from the negro section, was said to have been small. His wealth was estimated at more than $100,000. By Ass.vH.ited Press.

MOSCOW, Oct. 29 Three former Russian millionaires, the Vladimir and Cyril Prove, and their Kore pun off, sentenced to death on charges of military cspi mage, were executed today. The executed men, sentenced last Monday, were charged with systematic- illy supplying secret military data to Edward Charno first secretary nf the British mission at Moscow, which recently was withdrawn when Britain severed relations with Russia. In pronouncing the death sentence, the head of the military tribunal of the supreme court said that the sentence was final and could not bo appealed. Two other men arrested with them were, sentenced to two years imprisonment eacn.

The brothers turned evidence, hoping thereby to save their lives while their brother-in-law. Koropnnoff, pleaded lack of knowledge of the of queries made by Charneck at the Prove home. As counsel to the war commissariat, Korepanoff was familiar with military secrets, it was stated. In his final statement to the court before being sentenced, Cyril Prove, who was known as one of best sportsmen before the war, broke down and wept bitterly, asking for mercy. Wladimir, the younger brother, who frequently played jazz music at embassy entertainments, bore up more bravely.

The head of the military tribunal, in sentencing the men to death, declared that there were many instance; of espionage carried on by the British mission at Moscow since 1921 under the leadership of Sir Robert M. Hodgson, charge and commercial representative. The court declared that Sir Rrbert obtained for the most part financial and economic secret data, while Charnock, who in Russia under the czir, carried on military espionage. Burned to Death at Louisiana Retreat By Associated PARIS, Oct. of the masculine togs she has worn since she hopped off from Roosevelt Field, N.

October 11, Ruth F.lder today turned her thoughts to the dressmakers of Paris. I going she said. bet! I am going to get clothes, lots of them, all kinds. They will he feminine things, you bet I am sick and tired of And she indicated the ard sweater she wore. Her Dream have realized my dream.

AH the past is forgotten, I am in Paris at she exclaimed. are my plans? Why to visit your chic dressmakers the very thing. had enough of these Vindicating her flying they are my whole wardrobe. For contrary to reports, no trunk has been on 'or me. What I have on is all I managed to save when rescued.

She hesitated and then continued, not She dug into her pockets and pulled forth the keys to the cabin of her plane, the American Girl, and a lip stick. was distressed to she said, I thought I was going to sail right away without a chance buy even one dress. I have dared face my friends at home. I know what I will buy, but you can be sure they will have And again she looked down at her knickers. Miss Elder re ve a lei that she had received many from various Amer an impresarios, but that she had reached no decision on them yet.

ikes Her present which are I able to be are to sail on the Acuitar.ia, November 5, but before leaving Europe we hope to a little trip to she Paris has taken Ruth to its heart. Youth and beauty are perennial attractions to and they agree that fhe has plenty of both. Enthusiasm tor this American girl burst all bounds at the old timers club dinner. She revealed a- a worthy rival to Lindbergh in the art of raying the right thing. Her words were few-.

"Your kindness overwhelm- me," she declared. feel that I do not. deserve half of it, but my heart out to you. I am so h.appj to be hero and awfully d. appointed I did not finish what I started out to do.

A though 1 did not do it, I am sure some other woman going to do The resounding kiss planted on her forehead by Maurice Bokanow- aki, French minister of commerce, at the conclusion of that modest speech was the on.y possible expression of what all who heard her felt. By Assodnted NEW ORLEANS, Oct. Roeling announced today that J. P. Mann.

40, was burned to death in a fire at the Louisiana retreat yesterday. Death was due to burns on the arms and legs, the coroner said. Mann was an inmate of asylum. The fire is reported to have started in a locker. Little damage was done the building, it was stated.

Rare Picture Recalls ROOTERS INVADE Tech Game here in 1902 CITY, YELLS AND Ilf AM A MUSIC BY BANDS roe Men of Today Were iUUNu WUIflAN CDDCADIMf On Local Team ir.nn a JrKliAUlWU ftr RAILROAD TICKET RECOMMENDED AS MARRIAGE BALM By Associated NEW ORLEANS, Oct. of more railroad tickets would mean fewer divorces, the opinion i of Mrs. E. M. Gimler of New Orleans, better known to newspaper readers as "Dorothy The arbiter of marital troubles, speaking last night before the railway magazine association, expressed the opinion that if hu- bands would buy a railroad I for their wives so they could have a vacation when the bonds of marriage I become irksome the divorce courts would lose a lot of business.

MEDITATIONS By J. P. Alley A MAN wAMTfcR Mt i A lot in i at grave ah vnhah pey kin i ay ME To RES'SOME PAY, Bor shucks I in takc pat much money en Res Right now if Today Monroe is witnessing its first inter-collegiate football game, but it is not the first time that Louisiana Polytechnic Institute ever sent an invading team to Monroe. A picture, a relic of Thanksgiving Day, 19D2, which was put on display in the show window of hase-Amman Drug store today on the occasion of the Tech-Mississippi College game, showed a Monroe team of 1902. The lineup of the team was given with the picture and the store was 0-0.

team of that day was not a high school team, nor a college team, but just a made up of local football players. Those shown on the picture are: Percy Fox; Walter Curry, right guhrd; Harry Mounds, right half; Mifld taugh; Peyton Parker; Cartwright; Gordon Michie, manager; Bfoulict, left half; Warren Garrett, E. L. Neville, left tackle; Clyde Sanders, left guard; Phil Chauvin, left end; Ham Breard; Wiley Bentley, right end; I). Armund ard, quarter back; Lynn Trousdale, mn cot; Ernest Fudickar, full back; Charles P.

Hartley, right tackle. Ham Breard was a small chap and not a member of the team, but he was present for the picture, taken on the city high school grounds. Some of the Percy Fox was since drowned. Fey; ton Parker lives in Monroe today. I Gordon Michie died in Lake Charles.

Warren G. Garrett lives in Monroe. E. L. Neville is superintendent of city schools, with which he has been connected since 1902.

Clyde Sanders today is bookkeeper for Monroe Grocer company, ltam Breard is connect! ed with Breard Motor company. D. Arm and Breanl is president of the Monroe Store and Office Equipment company. Lynn Trou'dale died while abroad. Ernest Fudickar still lives in Monroe.

Charlie Hurtley is in the same business today he was in then, biacksmithing. Several of the members of the 1902 team were college men at the time. Brouliet was from Washington University. Garrett was a Centenary College man. Neville came from the University of North Carolina.

Fudickar was a Sewanee graduate. Mounds came from an Ohio high school, Breard was an L. S. U. man, Hartley came from St.

academy, a Baton prep school. Harry Crandell was Tech coach then and went into the lineup during the ast half of the memorable game. The year before, he had been namd an southern man. James Smitherman, Shreveport millionaire today, was a member of the Tech squad that faced Monroe, and received a broken ankle in the game. Park on ashington The park in those days was located at the corner of Washington and Seventh streets, where the Charles P.

Guerriero residence is today. father was the first man to dull for oil in this territory, putting down an unsuccessful in (. heniere brake that is said to have into a water well, one of the best water wells in this vicinity today. So it waB on Thanksgiving Day, 1902, that Tech first invaded Monroe, and was held scoreless in a game that is now with a rich history. Tech comes again to Monroe a welcome invader, to fight, the Mis- ossippi Choctaws in the first inter- i collegiate game Monroe ever played host to.

Some of the members of old team have drifted away from Monroe and their whereabouts and 1 current history is not known so clearly as is that of those who have remained in Monroe. Team mates and old timers today failed to recall the first names or initials of some of the 1902 team members. o------------- YOUNG WOMAN LEAPS TO HER DEATH IN N. Y. By Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, Leaving a note to her mother saying know I do not love Buddy and this New i York life is driving me a 24- year-old woman who registered as M. E. Greene of Passaic, N- jumped to death from her eighth floor room in the Hot( 1 Knickerbocker early Her body landed on the rood of a second story extension. Shortly after 3 in the, morning, the hotel telephone opera- tor received a call from the worn- i room.

am going to takc poison. I am going to commit the voice said. Two led boys and an elevator erator tried to enter the room, but the door was bolted and hotel cm- I ployes found the mangled body of, the girl. In the room hotel officials said, there were found empty whisky and ginger ale bottles and three empty cigarette packages, along with the note to her mother. WOMAN DEFIES DEATH TO RESCUE HER HUSBAND Bv Piled Press.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 29 The story of how a woman defied possible death by going to the rescue of her husband after he had received two bullet wounds in the body was told today at a local hospital where he was being treated. Sharp Blount, 34, farmer, with his wife and 18-year-old son, were setting in a dar, mg pavilion last night at Loranger, thoir home town when a man, said to be Miriam Bohan, a life long friend of Blount, came out of the crowd dancing on the floor and fired two shots into the body. As another shot came from the revolver, Mrs. Blount Jeaped toward the assailant, grabbed him around the Waist and attempted to force to the floor.

Men quickly left their dancing partners to assist the woman, but the man escaped in the excitement. He is alleged to have been drinking. Blount vuis given a blood transfusion here this afternoon in an effort to save his life. o------------Even Kings Like Back Seats in School Rooms By Assorl ted Press. BUCHAREST, Rum an Oct.

Even a dig must face the tryrannv of school. King Michael, who has just celebrated his xth birthday is go ng to be taught just like any other boy of his age. Bucharest newspapers His mother. Princess Helen, has allowed to play to his heart's delight with toys and his I American playmates. Now a small classroom has 1 established in Princess home.

There e'gh- teen small of all classes inrlud- King Michael arc instructed daily in three hen was offered a in the front, row, facing th(. teacher he refused saying that he preferred i to be number eighteen in the last row. There teacher would not reo so what he was up to and i he would be out of reach of her ruler. Late News FLASHES Associated NATCHITOCHES, Oct. jumper with the right lapel and right hreaet shot away and bullet holes in the right sleeve, found not far from the scene where Ross Dobson was shot and killed Thursday night, gave brought to track the murder down a clue which they followed in and out of the woods very readily, winding up near Skidder, a water station on the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad, about four miles from Cheatnut where they lost the trail.

Automobile tracks on the road indicated the fugitive probably had been picked up by a passing car. Storm Warning Issued By Weather Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. The weather bureau today issued the following storm warning: 11 a. m.

tropical disturbance of alight intersity, apparently moving west or west -northwest, passed over St. Lucia, last night. Pressure is relatively low south of RAPS INTERFERENCE LONDON, Oct. shall b- Sunday golf in Torwyn, Wales, notwithstanding parades of indignant townsmen on the fairways and a ram with big horns on the seventeenth green. A judge in an injunction remarked that the ob; jectors could practice tbeir religion without interfering with other people.

Estimate Park Throng at Parade in Business District is Feature of Polytech Migration to Monroe. Boforr; a crowd which establishes a record in Monroe football history, Poly tech of Ruston met the Choctaws of Mississippi College at Forsythe park this afternoon. At 2:80, the time of the kick-off, it was estimated that there were 5,000 spectators present, with more still pouring in the (rates. Tc kicked off to the and for the first five minutes play oven. The crowd went wild the game started in earnest.

The blue sweaters of Tech contrasted well with the yellow sweaters of the Mississippians and Forsythe field, under a clouded sun, was an ideal setting for the football clash. from almost every city and town within motoring distance of Monroe were noticed in the wide expanse of packing at the park. It who one of the greatest the city has evtr seen. It is believed the attendance will reach six thousand. Earlier LouiUana Polytechnic Institute was virtually transported in fact and fancy to Monroe when eeveral red students from Ruston arrived on a special trail about 1 at the Illinois Central station, and immediately organized into parade formation and the town, f.guratively and physically.

Invasion Although students had been filtering into Monroe all through the morning, and the Miaeirsippi College 30-piece band and a bunch of students from the wigw at Clinton during the morning, it waa not until the Tech entered the portals that the reached its in downtown circles. The Choctaw band paraded DeSiard street this morning, but there were not ry many sutdents present to augment the pm-essional. However, thn large hand, attired in natty blue trimmed in gold, the school colors, rrrade a very impressive appearance. The Tech outfit started its parade fmm the depot and reached street via Grand. At DeSiard, the long train of students turned east and marched down DeSiard to Five Points, where they turned and came hack on DeSiard to St.

John and down St. John to the Virginia Hotel, where the parade disbanded. Band Leads The Tech band headed the parade, ile the students body, first and the boy, their wake, marched shingle file, hand in hand, to form quite a engthy line. The business -ection resounded w.th their roui- ing yells. The Tech band brought up the rear of the panade.

main street was lined to capacity on both sides with spectators. Many residents of the city had come to town in anticipation of the parade and were waiting for it, while the business emptied who fled to the streets, window sills and other points of vantage to get a peep at the Teoh. hen the parade disbanded at the I Virginia, the students crowded into the lobbv where a "pep was held and the hostelry was made to loudly ring with the cheers. Those i CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Police Fail to Find Trace in Trunk Murder. VICTIMS ARE BURIED ------------Excited Man Seen Along Waterfront Early Thursday.

By Associated NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 29. Moity, souirht by police in connection with the double trunk murders of the Vioux Carre Thursday, waa believed today to be in hidingf I in the vicinity of New Orleans, or dead. Police believed it that Moity mny have committed suicide after his brain cleared and he to a realization of the horror of crime. A policeman stationed along water front told of encountering an excited man early Thursday who answered to the general description of Moity.

The man asked the patrolman where the Texas and Pacific transfer boat was moored, and the officer said he either crossed the river or I jumped into the stream, The body of Henry Moity sent to New Iberia Friday for by the parents of the woman. The other victim was buried in a local cemetery, Moity was formally charged with the murder late yesterday in criminal district court. RUMANIA IN HOMAGE TO QUEEN MARIE ON HER BIRTHDAY By i ited SINAIA, Rumania, Oct. honored its widowed queci Marie on her fifty-first birthday today fcv 'ing religious services throughout the country and sending i of peasants and others, to the rova! of the iuntry a hnnpicj vear than she had last year. 0 Ira Nelson Morrh, former minister to Sweden, and Morrh, who spent the day with queen brother conveyed greetings from American fr nds, while cabinet ministers journeyed from Bucharest to felicitate the queen In behalf of the government.

William S. Culbrtson, American minister to Rumania conveyed the good wishes of the peopls i the United States. Coming afoot from ell parts of Rumania, groups of peasants brought many quaint gifts including hundreds of fcr.nd embroidered national eos- i tumcs. Among the family gifts was i a tiny ban of forget-me-nots from Little Michael, which ho him- -r 1 picked this morning in the palace grounds. One of the first acts today to order a huge wreath of flowers to be placed over the tomb of the late King Ferdinand.

The only formal function at was a birthday lucheon attended by 25 relatives and friends including Mr and Mrs. Morris. Ihero ere no candles in the huge birthday from an American recipe remind one of the age, queen has no business getting she laughingly remarked to Mrs. Morris. must remain eternally young, energetic and resourceful in order to cope with the thousand and one things that cornu up in her life.

FOOTBALL First At State 0, Chicago 7. At. New 0, Dartmouth 0. At 7, Indiana 0. At Philadelphia- Navy 6, Pennsylvania 0.

Ohio State 6, Chicago 0. Army 12, Bucknell 0. Barber Shop Talk Not Always Wasted By Associated MIN EH AD, England, Oct. 29, English war veteran was having his hair cut in a little shop here when he began to talk of his experiences at Gallipoli. remember he said, a bomb dropped beside a man with a belt full of bombs.

We threw ourselves down in the trench, flat on our fares. The man next to me slipped on my bayonet and got a nasty wound. have often wondered what be- came of that The man In the next chair stir- red, he exclaimed. I know what caused that He rolled up and showed the scar which the first bay onet had made. They had not met since the second man left the trench on a stretcher.

Noted Basso Chaliapin Seeks Russian Divorce His Wife, Former Dancer, Stricken By News of Suit. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. Chaliapin, noted who left Rus; sia in 1996 to become a of the is seeking a divorce in Moscow from his wife, a former dancer. 54-year-old Igna- 1 tievna, who In Moscow, received notice of the divorce action by the publication of a brief court item announcing the filing of the suit by the singer in a Moscow paper, erniaya Moskva.

Papers were for- i warded to the Moscow court through the Soviet consul general at Paru. jln the petition the basso offered his wife monthly alimony during her life. Divorce procedure in R-iatii in since under the present marriage is purely a civil contract and a certificate attesting its severance 60 i Eight children were born of the marriage. Irene Feodorevna, the eldeat, who an actreas, was with her mother is when they learned of the basso's act. Chaliapin wa8 stricken by the news, Irene said.

account of suit i struck a heavy blow at the family. I simply cannot believe that father took such a horrid She said she believed that either the report an error or that the act waa a thoughtless step which Chaliapin would recall. Of (fhe other children, Stella caused a sensation in New York whan aha went to work in a Fifth avenne partrwent iaat spfting afainti her 4.