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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 1929 I ri went tne Lnargesintne Jizznng Tales of Airplane, af. jooeiu Whoopee That Startled the Judge and Made Him Side With the Millionaire Husband op Sunset at Waikiki, aaaiims Hawaii'i exotic beach, A VVJV." Jh. Wlr Recent photograph of Edna Purviance, another friend of Mr. and Mrs.

Helbuih. Affidavits told conflicting tales about Miss Purviance's actions at jovial gatherings. FOR THE DEFENSE. Mrs. Maxine Hughes Shelley, who swore that those who charged Mrs.

Helbush with high-jinks were not telling the truth. At top: Kenneth Harlan, handsome movie iter, who was a friend of the Helbushes. i 3 sJ'J 0 or anmJC'fiirZ! -J Jl Diow-UD Informal snapshot nf Herman Helbuih. millionaire west coast renllor, who squelched his wife's suit for separate maintenance with a sheaf of blistering charges. his manners, education and breeding said the chauffeur.

Gwyneth, Weller charged, stated openly the only attraction Helbush had for her was his money. Once, to one of Mrs. Helbush's vivacious parties at which dark tumblers were being passed frequently, Helbush telephoned he wouldn't be there because ol an appointment Whereupon, according to one affidavit, his wife announced tfl the assembled guests: "Our dear friend. Mr. Herman Helbush, will be unable to be with us this evening and he hopes that we will not miss him too much." This was followed by laughter, cheers and handclaps.

Another affidavit, signed by Byron Williams, an automobile dealer, continued the fireworks: "That affiant had a suite of rooms at the Palace hotel in San Francisco, and there frequently entertained various of his friends, among whom were Gwyneth Helbush and Marie Murphy, that Gwyneth Helbush and Marie Mutphy came over to his suite during the afternoon and joined the party that was in progress there; that on several occasions Gwyneth 'phoned Roy Nickel and had him Join her there That during this time Gwyneth showed evidence of having a mad infatuation for Roy Nickel and told affiant on several occasions that she loved him and at other gatherings affiant saw eiidence of neck ing between iwyneth Helbush and Nickel Again. In November. 192, Williams went on. a I.os Angeles hotel was the scene of an even wilder party Next, In August. 192 the Williams affidavit eon- green bottles," more or less, a smacaer-ing of when they got bard lirker and took straight.

The worrisome borne body Is fortunately in the minority She's forever sending up a sweet maiden's prayer to get back home with tbe singing teakettle and the Chinese rug. She fusses about the goldfish, the house plants, the quack grass in the garden, the soaring light bill. By far the fussiest one I ever saw was one who left her husband at home to wrestle bis calories from the ice box and the pantry shelf. He must have been something of a mountaineer. I took It.

with a sheep herder appetite. That good lady actually feared he would mortgage tbe thatch-ed roof by taking his meals at some swell vltamlne emporium. The Scotch woman who sat up all night to watch her vanishing cream was a wanton spendthrift compared to this one But take them all in all those tourists and woodland rangers are a superlatively interesting people, studying the art. geology and temperature of Michigan's Acres ot Diamonds. They are up where the grass grows high, where shim-merlng lakes and shivering streams are friendly competitors, where all elements Jack pot together to make a wanderlust'e paradise.

"Ambassadors of Good Will" we might call 'em the bacon and the backbone ot many little Wolverine towns In tbe north. Real friends, too, most of 'em the kind who go bom and tell others; and they all come bark next year, take yon by the band and hang na like snapping turt'ea the party. BITS OF PAPER Extracts from the Helbush court testimony, with one sentence from Judge Fits-Patrick's seething comment. residing together in an apartment at the Astor Mansion apartments at 751 South Mariposa street, Los Angeles; that on several occasions during the said months affiant delivered the said Gwyneth Helbush at the said apartment house and took her to the apartment ot said Pillsbury and Murphy." Weller plunged then into details even more compromising. He declared that one evening when he dropped Mrs.

Helbush at Pil'sbury'g place she said to l.im: "Don't tell Mr. Helbush where you left me not that I care, as he has no strings on me, but I would rather you did not." He told of visits by Pillsbury to the home of the reconciled Helbushes when Mr. Helbush was away, revealed the Interchange of tender words and embraces. Once, he said. Pillsbury and Mrs.

Helbush quarreled about something. She begged forgiveness and mentioned that she had done everything in the world to prove her love. But perhaps the most revealing spotlight thrown on the taqgled motivation of the case was Weller's description of conversations he overheard between Mrs. Helbush and her friends of both sexes when the topic was her husband They laughed at his "lark ol culture." ridiculed Mrs. Helbush's suit lor separate main tenunce.

"Wl.at an aggregation!" gasped San Francisco. Jack Sullivan, the director, opened the husband's counter barrage with the first "high life" affidavit. He told of having had an argument with Helbush and said that afterward he met Mrs. Helbush and kept her out until morning. He told of numerous trips with her from Ixs Angeles to San Francisco.

Then began the amazing recital of Byzantine parlies to which, the affidavits aver, "the sky was the limit." In hotel rooms, in molor ears, on palatial yachts, on the beach at Waikiki. even in ARCET Mrs. Gwyneth Helbush, Ithering fire of counter Dashing svelte who tli a charges friin Herman Helbush when she sued for separate maintenance. One extract from the testimony is superimposed on the photo above. tinued.

there was a merry airplane ride to Catalina Island, where a party was In pi ogress aboard Allen Murphy's cruiser Lady Luck." After the festivities, Wll liams. Murphy, Pillsbury, Edna Purvl ance, and Mrs Helbush adjourned to Williams's apartment lor a few more drinks. The foregoing, of course, was Williams's version. Mrs. Helbush's reply will be gone Into anon.

But most excillng of all was the now famous beach party under the auspices ot Kenneth Harlan on the beach at Wal klkl. Hawaii. The Helbushes were about to sail for home and, since the movie star was one of their good friends, a convivial "sendoff" was in order. Harlan did his part. This larewel) party, as described by Weller in another statement, began with good spirits, in bottles and in the guests.

As the evening waned and everyone Joyously skipping up and down th beach. Weller declares that Mr. Helbush tried to persuade his wife to return to the hotel. She refused, aud when Helbush made a move toward her," she tripped down to tbe water's edge and out Into the turf, fully clothed! "Scotty" Dunlap saw her emerging uncertainly from the foam, picked her up and carried her toward Kenneth Harlan's beac bungalow "to get rid of her wet clothes," the affidavit continued. At this point Mr.

Helbush stalked off the scene angrily. Weller followed Dunlap with his prize and as a result says he saw more than enough to convince him of Mrs. Helbush Indecorum. But all the charges were not on the side of Helbush Gwyneth had her artillery too. heavy and light.

Her opening gun was a sweeping denial of all the charges In the affidavits we have Just been examining. To begin with, she said It was rldle ulous, linking her in charges with Jack Sullivan- or any other man She mad" the direct counter, moreover, that the director signed his affidavit for pay. She called his statements "willtul, fals- and untrue." Next the wife set about trying to remove the name of her friend, Edna Purviance. from the proceedings. She denied Miss Purviance's participation In wild parties, as well as her own.

All of the spectacular high-Jinks described by the affiants for Mr. Helbush were whoppers, she averred. Her statement attacked Byron Williams as a man "heavily indebted to Herman H. Helhush and of the type and character of persons who would make any affidavit of any kind suggested by Herman H. H'lbusb or hit aides Supenor Judge Kitzpatrlcg listened to both sides and then decided: "The court is convinced that It ha I been established that the conduct of Mr.

Helbush sinre tbe granting of the interlocutory decree was such that a court ot Justice would be reluctant to grant ber any relief. "To say that such a couple should continue to live together and call themselves man and wife would be an insult to decent womanhood and make the sacred relation of marriage a farce and a mockery Then the Judge denied Mrs. Helbask a petition, to have ber hisband'a final divorce decree set aside. The ex harkeep who became a real estate millionaire ia free. tOot-M lit.

lafe-naHaeal toiar STrtaSt Inc. Crsat amass tsjpn heart I THE got himself a huoc fortune, a dashing "Society" wife, friends among tlir best people hut all these things turned ti ashei because while he was acquiring them a big Pandora's box of revelations was tor the lid to blow off. And one of the most interesting parts about the ivho)e affair is that the ex-bar-Icecp himself blew the lid off. 1i blew --with a reverberation that was Heard up and down the west coast. Mm.

Herman Helbush sued for a separate tenancce. Her busb.md replied with a crossbl'l, and the affidavits resulting brought to light a sagu of sizzling whoopee the like of which has not been heard of out San way in many a day Parties which attorneys termed and in which the police fig-urc intimate accounts of five-week "gigijle water" setrinns; airplane joy rides, gay yachting panics, a midnight soiree staged by Kenneth Harlan on the bench at romantic Waikiki all these things and more seethed and crackled in the divorce court. There were servants who peeped and told -and a physician who swore he had to break down a hotel room door to resuscitate Mrs. llelbu. after an attempted suicide.

And there was a touching undercurrent ol a h'ishand whose rise Irom a Job behind a beer counter to wea'th and position brought him only an 'inferiority complex" and the behind-the band giggles of fairweather friends. Back in 1924 Mrs Gwyneth Helbush nhT.ined an Intel lorutory decree of At that time it was set down as a simple family quarrel. Then, not long ago, wynpt startled her friends by an nouncing she was still married. She brought suit for separate maintenance and hall of the pair's community estate of more than a million dollars. There had been, she said, a reconciliation since 1924.

and the decree bad thus been nullified. This was not an occasion for an.Mhing more than a deprecatory "Teh! tch." either. But then Herman countered with his side of the ea-e- and blase San Francisco's live folk woke up Nams. names, names" Bright light In the motion picture firmament stars rriil-1 onalre playboys and bejeweled ma front. Before the trial was half under way the following had been drawn Into the maelstrom: Edna Purviance.

flicker actress and former leading woman for Cbar'ie Chaplin: Kenneth Har an. film star: Jack Sullivan and Scott It (Sott) i Dunlap. motion picture dlrectois; Lrroy heir to a large portion o( the Miller 4k Lux millions, Evans Pillsbury. Francisco society youth: Allan G. Murphy.

Im Anceles rubber magnate: 11; ion William- automohi dealer: Dr. a rowan, fashionable physician, and Jean Lorraine, nsmM as rr respondeat In STATE'S WONDER SPOTS LURE SUMMER NOMADS scene of Kenneth Harlan's The Sullivan document stated "that during the Shrine convention in 1925, in the city ol Los Angeles after a party at the Ambassador hotel the said iwyneth Helbush deserted the party about 11 p. and was not heard from until 5 a. when she appeared at the home of Dr. Rea Cowan at Third Avenue and St.

Andrew's Place. In the said city of Los Angeles, having only a fur coat over a very scant and thin negligee." Then Jerome A Weller. Negro chauffeur for Mr Helbush, swore: "That the affiant knows Evans S. Piils-bury and one Allan Murphy and that the said Pillsbury and Murphy, in the months of November and December, were for chill con carne. The hard-boiled dentists who hurt your flllin's; the butcher and the baker who cleave together like bread and gravy; grocery clerks with that "And what else?" look; laboring men whose incomes go for orange Juice and spinach; and a few-farmers with ruddy cheeks and prominent Adam's apples.

Some of 'em are as particular about their outing garb as the old fashioned gal who buttoned up the back. They spell persnickety all over. Their collar bands are a perfect fit; their hiking breeches with Bartlett pear extensions are a canary's waistline; the wraparound leggins are as straight and mat as a medico's bandage on a general. And always plenty of the rough and ready excursionera. like the slovenly housekeeper, who "don't go to any fusstn'." Life up there in the epicurean wilderness is predicated on climate, an atmosphere capitalized by the pungent tang of its forests and the sweetness of utter purity.

Here, tbe unaged and the ageless forget the giant crucibles of a work-a-day world: potential "beefers" get imbued with school boy guffaws: and veteran stay-at-home rs become blistered trekkera of the wide open spaces. Dozens of turf blazers bail from every conceivable walk of life, and find in northern Michigan in strangling quantities that which the Spaniard failed to locate in Florida fountain of eternal youth. There are the big town ne'er-do-wells and small town butter and egg magnates; vocal tabloids, and silent ones with tinkling Isuehter buna on a hair trigger; and unwise folk Ilka tbe characters portrayed in the intimate- poem by Sir Walter Foss. Many erudite luminaries seek out the quietness of this prodigal verdure. By a rippling streamlet or a pine-clad lake, they pitch a pup tent and say "ain't" and "can't chew" to their heart's content One professor of advanced literature from a western university summers each year up in the "sticks" right within echoing distance of the bullfrogs and katydids.

He isn't the kind, either, who gives the impression that he learned his Mother Goose rhymes In Latin and cut his eye teeth on Socrates, but a man of the common people's heart a Roman in Rome, as it were. And the feminine outdoor devotees with serpent's wisdom, cherubic dispositions, and always the chameleon's quality for a rapid change, the one purely legitimate privilege of womankind. With a scrutiny here and there, one may glean the data ot what's latest in haberdasher' for the soprano sex. Decollete necklines and chiffon hose that get plenty of violet rays, also the fourth dimension of some Harlem sunburn Flappers In sailor boy outfits, forever snapping pirtnres of everything in sight: lire towers, farmer lads, bleating lambs, bay doodles and sunsets. Beloved among them are the antique hunters rummaging through the spoils at tbe old lumber camps.

Coffee cups big as percolators. Wash basius that would have been a home for Diogenes. And the old dripping pans, big as ton-neau seats. Into which Paddy McGraw and "Beany" Stevens need to pour 'he Johnny rak- batter. And ninety nine BY HAZEL B.

GIRARD. 1ERE." said the Michigan tourist as he climbed to the upper t--s berth of a hill overlooking the gorgeous Au river, "is what the world looks like." It would seem at first glance, to one peering from the same rostrum of observation, that his statement was absolutely correct. For here ran be seen a panoramic scope of the best the great outdoors has to offer, a never-ending expanse of garniture where Father Time and Mother Nature, in spite nf their old days, are forever steppin' out to show this saxophony world that they. too. have caught the far flung ultimatum: "Be your age." Everywhere, around and about, hither and )on.

the trees are dotted and dashed into the background like meticulous shorthand notis. Far below, the Au Sable skips along at times like a will o' the wisp on dancing feet: then again slow and reluctant, like a wallflower towing a barge around. But always, always will come tbe elastic breath of a Wolverine breeze to smack at your nostrils the full vigor of youth. Haunt-Ins Its gi ts of Imagery. It seems Now.

jou and now you-don't And these are hut a few of tbe enduring and outstanding reasons why nomads blaze tbe trails to Northern Michigan: why they return year after year like eampa'gn speeches and hark. "Back to the land." Ah' those tourists There are niliy nd nf them as there are ingredients.