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. ' i. .- v" -. s . .'-r?r fYr. '-- ,. .-"A. 12 T1TE MORNING" ORDGfoNIAN; TUESDAY, ' MARCH 30, 1920 &1 -1 .: ' i '. i . t i .1 A3. 1 WIFE CHARGES MATE WOULD 'SELL CHILD Attempts to Compromise Di vorce Suit Fail. IWELVIN ' LEWIS ACCUSED Judge Gatens Takes Case Cnder Advisement After Hearing Bit ter Denunciation of Man. : Direct accusations, backed by writ- ten evidence, that Melvin Lewis of , fered. In effect, to "sen" one of his ' children to the mother for $1500 were made before Circuit Judge ! Gatens yesterday by Arthur I. Moul ton, attorney for Mrs. Edith Lewis, who is prosecuting a divorce suit ' arainst her husband on charges of extreme cruelty. This charge, coming as it did at a moment when Judge Gatens was in clined to dismiss Mrs. Lewis' divorce action, threw the courtroom into con- alernation, and attorneys for Mr. ' S-ewis sought in vain to stop Moul ton's flow tj bitter denunciation as lie revealed the written offers made ', by Lewis to compromise his wife's divorce suit. The case had nearly reached a con 1 elusion when Judge Gatens announced ' that in his opinion Mrs. Lewis was not entitled to a divorce under the evidence submitted. He characterised It as one of the most flimsy cases ever brought before hira during the ten years on the bench. Bitter Attack Launched. At this point, Mr. Moulton launched a bitter attack against the defendant and revealed to the court a letter from Lewis' attorneys in the east, in which the husband offered to give his wife a divorce and the custody of one child if she would accept $7500 'in settlement. If she insisted upon the custody of both children, the cash settlement was lowered to J6000. "In other words," shouted Moulton, "he is offering one of his own chil dren, as the masters did their negro laves years ago. He tells the mother (ne can have both children if she will accept J6000, but if she will give him one of the children she can have an additional J15O0." Judge Gatens expressed consider able surprise at the revelations made by the plaintiff's attorney, and de pite the heated objections of the op posing attorneys that Moulton had no right to reveal transactions which were in progress looking towara a compromise, the court announced he hould know all the facts whether it was admissible as eviderrce ,or not. Judge Snggrutm Compromise. After this bomb had been sprung into the camp of the defense shortly before the noon recess. Judge Gatens suggested it would be better for all concerned if the man and wife could agree upon some compromise finan cial settlement. All during the noon hour and until nearly 5 o'clock last night Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, with their attorneys, endeavored to reach some financial settlement, but the husband persistently refused to grunt the financial settlement he had offered before the case came to trial. Ir was said he at first offered to give her the divorce, the custody of the children and lljOO, but later in the afternoon the financial settlement was increased to $2000. Mrs. Lewis refused to consider this offer, and Judge Gatens was also said to have remarked it was a ridiculously email offer. Cane In Continued Afcaln. After all hope of settlement had passed, the case was continued and was completed Just prior to adjourn ment for the day. Judge Gatens took the case under advisement. Mrs. Lewis alleged In her testi mony that she had been compelled to work like a farm hand. She also charged her two children. Velma. aged 11. and rrcderlck. aged 9, were compelled to work at all hours of the y and night. The husband said he did not know why his wife had left him, and he said that until his wife came to Port land for a visit more than a year ago their home life had been pleasant end happy. The girl, Velma. was the star wit ness for her mother. She testified to having attentpted a suicide hoax when her aunt helped her to run away from her father. When the mother came to Portland from their farm home in Missouri she brought the boy and later arranged for the girl to run away from the father to Join her in this city. Velma testified on the witness stand last week that she would com mit suicide rather than live with her fnther again. She admitted, however, that her father had treated hei kindly and had shown affection for her. ex cept that he made her w ork too hard. Mr. and Mrs. Leander Lewis, father and mother of the defendant, testified yesterday that they had known of nothing wrong in their son's house hold until the daughter-in-law left nd refused to return. Mr. Lewis in her complaint de manded $20,000 as a cash settlement In lieu of monthly alimony. She al leged her husband is worth $50,000. He bad a large farm in Missouri. , Scene from the special- I nl vernal aviation play, "The Great Air Robbery,' which la ahowlna; tola week at the Rivoli theater. TODAY'S FILM FKATl'RES. Majestic Pauline ' Frederick. 'The Peace of "Roaring River." Peoples Elsie Ferguson, "His House in Order." Liberty D. W. Griffith's "The Greatest Question." Columbia S-hlrley Mason, "Her Elephant Man." Rivoli Lieutenant Locklear. in "The Great Air Robbery." Star Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swanson, "Male and 1 Female." Circle Mary MacLaren, "The Forged Widow." ' Globe Corinne Griffith and Corinne Riley Barker, "The Climbers." l-c the latest scientifically perfected A.V mode of travel figure conspicu ously in "The Great Air Robbery," the highly successful feature photo play which is showing this week at the Rivoli theater. Lieutenant Ormer L. Locklear, Its good looking, daring young hero, will deligbt small boys with his amazing escapades as much as he will men who see in tne picture the great achievements of science which the wild, death-defying rides, chases and fights In and from airplanes, repre sent. The sheer beauty of the coun try underlying the soaring planee will not fail to delight many Port landers. Attention at times is even taken away from the desperate char acters f the play who are risking all to win big odds by the marvel of the earth far below yet near enough to distinguish lordly mountains, fruit ful valleys, complex cities and the magnificent highway structure which marks its location as California. The story centers around a member of ttie United Stales air mail service who had returned from overseas air service with Uncle Sam to find that his war decoration entrusted to his sweetheart has been stolen. In en deavoring to regain it, he becomes involved in a plot to rob the United States mail. Needless to say, the sweetheart becomes mixed up in it and comes in for a share of the dar ing, thrilling air rides. "Glow Worm." the popular number which 19 years ago held special charm for dancers loving the digni fied and quaint three step, forms one of the concert numbers this week at the Rivoli. Mischa Guterson, director of the orchestra, plays a violin obii palo as he does in the heavier num ber in the symphony orchestra pro gramme. Screen Gossip. A change will be made in tomor row's programme at ' the Columbia theater. .Manager Raleigh has an nounced that the William Russell picture. "The Valley of Tomorrow." has been booked and will show three days comjnenclng tomorrow. Emeline Gladys Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "Happy Jack" Walker, will be christened on Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Jensen as godfather and godmother. "Happy Jack" is in the employ of Jensen & Von Herberg. Little Emeline, who is nine months old. has been named for Mrs. Jensen. The christening will be held at the family home. 905 East Ninth street north, at 7 o'clock in the .-vening. Motion pictures are fast becoming a big feature in the public schools. It is estimated by the community motion picture bureau of New York,' an organization which specializes in this kind of work, that there are now in the United States 20 schools using motion pictures in some form. Each week the number Is being added to. In Texas it is the law that each new public school building going up shall be equipped with a projecting machine. . " For taking -chances and still keep ing game. Lon Chaney, who plays the leading role in the new picture "The Penalty," has few rivals in the motion picture world. In this picture Chaney takes the part of a man without legs and submits to daily pain by having his legs strapped behind him and wearing leather cases on his knees. Chaney has allowed himself to be thrown upon a hard cement floor, as a result of which he was laid up in bed for ten days, and has taken daring tumbles which have injured his back. When he played the cripple in '"The Miracle Man" he broke three liga ments in the side of his neck. Yet ! Chaney enjoys his work and is willing to make sacrifices for art and he knows no equal when it comes to protraying odd types. Someone found a gold nugget about the size of a flyspeck while the Reginald Barker company were on location near Sonora filming scenes for the picture "The Branding Iron," and the resulting stampede for gold nearly disorganized the , company. They went about peering fixedly at the ground, and if someone discovered a ralnwashed - gully and remarked "This ought to be a gold mine," it was a signal to drop everything ajnd swarm over the place. "What would you do if I found a rea.1 nugget?" Barbara Castleton asked James Kirkwood. Kirkwood looked at her with beetling frown. "I'd knock you down and take it away from you!" he said savagely. But no one found a nugget. During the war Mr. Herter. who is a son of the noted New York artist Albert Herter, was an attache of the i state department in Washington and translated many of the Important In ternational dispatches to the depart ment. - - Hendricks ball students of the Uni versity of Oregon will have a luncheon tomorrow at the University club at 12:30. Those who wish to make res ervations call Miss Lotta Hollopeter, Marshall $15, before Wednesday morn ing. , .-. . Mrs. George Caldwell, 504 East Twenty-second street, will entertain the Portia club for 1 o'clock luncheon today, m An Easter sale will be held at the Trinity parish house. Nineteenth and Davis streets, Thursday, April 1, at 3 o'clock. It oomes as good news to those who are looking for attractive Easter gifts as there, will be on sale novelties for children and grown-ups Including smocks, summer hats, gar den baskets, lingerie, articles suitable for bridge prizes, home made candies In attractive boxes and many other things that will make pretty Easter offerings. Tea will be served at 4 o'clock. i- , Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Farrell and Mrs. Chris Bell are in town again after a motor trip of several weeks through California. Miss Charlotte Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wesley Jones, left last week for Louisville, Ky., where she will spend a number of months. v Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thornton Ladd have as their guest at Rivera Frank Babbitt of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Bab bltt is on his way home from Cali fornia, where he has been spending the winter with Mrs. Babbitt, who re mained In the south for a few weeks longer. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Rand;ill of Philadelphia announce the birth of a son last Friday. Mrs. Randall was Miss Helen Wood, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W illiam Wood of this city. . m Miss' Thelma J. Richardson became the bride of Frank F. Katz last Thursday at the residence of Rev. J. Tibbs Maxey, 6f5 Wygant street. Mrs. Katz was a yeomanette at Bremerton, latr going to- O. A. C. where she met -Mr. Katz, who is .New York man who came to this coast on account of his health. After a trip to Tacoma the bride will finish her course at Corvallis while Mr. Katz will remain In Port land where he is engaged in business. Mrs. Carrie Louise Dunnincr who left Portland last July, spent several months in the east and since Novem ber has been in Los Angeles, return ing about May 1 to Portland, where she will spend the summer. From photoplay star to department store "sales girl" was the remark able step taken last week by June Elvidge, whose next appearance will be in "The Law of the Yukon." She acted as "sales girl" in the millinery department of one of the big shops under an arrangement whereby 10 per cent of the sales made by the members of the Social Welfare league and their guests went to the various charities sponsored by them. Miss Elvidge's popularity and knowledge of her wares helped swell the fund to no small degree. Probably for the first time on rec ord a motion picture was taken as the subject for a sermon at a service in an Episcopal church, last Sunday when the Very Reverend William MacCormack, D.D.. dean of St. Paul's procathedral of Los Angeles, made the motion picture from Basil King's novel, "The Street Called Straight; the basis of his address. "If you forget everything else and remember this one thing, you have got it all The Street failed Straight leads to the House Called Beautiful and there are lights along the way." said Dean MacCormack. "That is worthy of a place in that wonder ful book of the prophet Isaiah. I question if anything finer of its sort '.s to be found even upon the pages of Holy Writ." It is interesting to note In connec tion with "The Sireet Called Straight" that Basil King, the author, was a clergyman many years ago. m . Kenneth Earl, the 4-year-old child actor who plays in the "Kdgar" se ries, played his first part before the camera when but 3 months old. One of the grandest meetings with in the circle of the Woman's Relief corps was held March 20. A new corps was Instituted, known as the Will P. Dickenson, No. 30. Forty-eight names were signed to the charter. Mrs. Jennie Bentley, department president and her attendant officers installed the new officers into their respective stations: President, Laura Slaughterback: senlor vlre. Maria Townaend ; Junior-vice. Nora Myers: chaplain. AiarKaret Schnmn: mpi.- retary. Elenor Davis: treasurer. Minnie T. Horseman: conductor. May Worden; as sistant conductor, Lida Gray; guard. Mrs. Gordon: assistant guard, Rone Baker;' press correspondent, Cordelia Smith; first color bearer, Jennie Benson; second color-bearer. Bertha Carney: third color-bearer, not ap pointed; fourth color-bearer, Eleanor Zal lar. Among the honorary visitors were Mrs. Will P. Dickenson, wife of the comrade for whom the corps was named and Mrs. Chamberlain, mother of all corps. Your grocer pays your money back if ydu'd rather have it than Schil-, ling Tea. We pay him. Perhaps you didn't get the right flavor of Schilling Tea. Get your money! back and try again. Dor this until you have found the kind you like best There are four kinds of Schilling Tea. Nov( please do this. We mean it and so does your grocer. There are foar flavors of Schilling; Tea Japan, Ceylon India, Oolong,. English Breakfast. All one quality. In parchmvn-Uned moisture-proof packages. At grocers everywhere. A Schilling & Co San Francisco ASK FOR and GET orlicEt's The Original . Malted IHUk For Infants and Invalids Avoid Imitations aad Sabstitot club, on Tuesdav. April S, will take on extra importance from tbe fact that Mrs. F. A. Seiberling, president of the National Federation of Musical clubs, will be the honor guest of the club. The programme will be given by the Treble Clef club, Rose Cour- sen-Reed, director. Sledford Prepares for Tourlsis. ' MKPFORD. Or., March 23. (Spe cial.) Medford's growth and prosper ity along with the expected great in flux of tourists passing through Ore gon has resulted In a reported project by outside capital of erecting the largest modern hotel in southern Oregon, with 2ifl rooms, on tire Pa cific highway. In addition John A. Wcsterlund today announced that he has plans to foot to build a four floor steel and concrete addition to tbe Hotel Holland which -will add SO more rooms -to the present hotel structure. U I OVER-ACIDITY of the stomach has upset many a nighfs rest If your stomach is acid- disturbed, dissolvetwo or v three ' KH.QID5 on the tongue before retir ing and enjoy refreshing sleep. The purity and goodness of Ki-moids guaranteed by SCOTT BOWKE MQU OF SCOTT'S EMCLSXM V- M' ISS PAULINE WOLFARD be came the bride of John Morti mer Bruhn, last night at the rtoitlHtice of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lake D. Wolfard, In Irvington, at 8:30 o'clock in the presence of about SO relatives and friends, the service be ing read by the Rev. E. H. Pence. The bride was lovely in an ivory s? tin. made with a court train with a lull length veil held in place with a wreath of oringe blossoms and car ried a shower bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Callin Wolfard as matron of honor was dressed in nile green, while Miss Marvel Turunre as maid of honor wore pink satin, both carrying pink sweet peas. Lowell Kern acted as best man. Lucian Becker played the wedding march. The service was followed by a reception. After the middle of April Mr. "and Mrs Bruhn will be at home at 405 East Eighth street North. Mr. Bruhn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bruhn. The ladies of Elks' bridge club will meet Thursday with Mr. H. Brown as hostess. Last Thursday 500 hon ors were given to Mrs. N. Anderson, Mrs. C. Lamoreaux and Mrs. O. Dickinson. The Gargoyles club will meet on Wednesday. March , SI, Instead of Wednesday. April T. There will be an entertainment and refreshments after the business meeting. Mrs. Reads M. Ireland has as her guest Miss Fredericka Campbell of Richmond, Va., for a few weeks. On account of this being Holy week the affairs that are be ing given for Miss Campbell are all very Informal and small. Mr. and Mrs. Ireland bad a few friends f.0 supper Sunday evening to meet their guest. Yesterday again Mrs. Ireland asked a few close friends to have a game of bridge with her and her guest, and this evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams will be hosts for dinner in honor of tbla interesting visitor. a Many of the old families of Port land will bo interested to know that Christian R. Herter of New York -has been named as private secretary to Herbert Hoover. Mrs. Jierter is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred B Pratt of New York and a niece of Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett, William Ijdd and Wesley l,add of this city. Thursday evening, March 15, Utopia Re-feekah lodge. No.- 62.--entertained Hassalo, No. 16. and Orient, No. 17, lodges of the I. O. O. F. in Orient hall, East Sixth and Alder. A good pro gramme was rendered. ' after which dancing and five hundred was in dulged in. The hall was filled with an appreciative audience, Hassalo's band-whlch is full of pep. and jazz, and the only I. O. O. F. band in the state, rendered a number of good- se lections. Mrs. Lena Westbrook made the welcome address. Byron' Holt re. sponded for Orient and Dr. S. W. Stryker for Hassalo, another well ap preciated number was the Scotch comedian, Mr. Traham. Those in charge of the programme were Mrs. Isabelle Faulkner, chair man, Mrs. Trace Christianson, Mrs. Myers. Mrs. Ferguson, Ted Wood, L. Quimby and Mr. Vanatta. a a a The nextmeeting of the MacDowell Reservations for all social events connected with the convention cl musical clubs, April 5, 6 and 7, may be made by calling Miss Fay Rud- duck, Main 3162; Mrs. J. D. Bonbright, Tabor 7247; or Mrs. H. T. Conlvan, Marshall 1360. The Rose City Park club will give a card party today, March 30. Bridge and "five hundred will be played Mrs. George T. Carlson will be hostess, assisted by Mrs. H. C. Hemen. way, Mrs. Chester Bourne, Mrs. R. E. Dennison and Mrs. O. J. Ulrich. a The Misses V'Ona and Leila Guthrie were hostesses for tea yesterday In compliment to Mrs. Arthur Trumbel Brown and Miss Antoinette Mears at the residence of their parent?, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Guthrie, In Everett street. At a tea table, which was lively with the season's blossoms, Mrs. Francis Langton and Mrs. Nancy Zan Scott presided and were assisted by Miss Elizabeth Peacock, 'Miss Nadine Caswell, Miss Gretchen . Klosterman and Miss Louise Poulsen. AI Kader to Help Initiate: ASTORIA. March 29. (Special.) A large delegation of members of Al Kader temple Of Portland as well as Shrfners from other sections of. the state will visit Astori.. next Saturday to assist the local members of the or der in initiating 75 candidates. The programme of entertainment for the visitors includes banquets for the Shriners and their ladies, theater parties, dancing and automobile trips. The initiatory ceremonials will take place at the Astoria theater and Dreamland rink. 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