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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1S21. STILLilii'S CASE POINTS TO MORAL i DECHES CRITIC .Inadequacy of .Divorce Laws and Need of National Tribunal Are Seen: by Woman; Attorney. - MYSTERY WOMAN IN STILLMAN FAMILY ROW , -'4 ". 1 " ' 'J " jl Bjf .Winifred Tan Dozer" f l"nieinI 6erric' SUIT ' CoVrwpondent '' t New York, March' 24. -What kind of a father'Tr-It -who deliberately j-will sully: the nam of his children's 'mother and blast the careers of his children with notoriety and disgrace? j "If Mrs. StUlman. were guilty as -. as hades, 1 and her husband's" Own hands quite clean I can think of no i reason why he should have raised them against her. v- . "If It is true 1 that they :ar soiled ;as 8tories.,and-lferatfn is dicate J Jhe'h t I'd Mynimt ha is vlala blundering .to do-what-hfc did. - ' i That action shows to what degree our social fabric has degenerated when it will permit of such assurance on the part of any man." , This waa the statement today of Miss Xucille Pugh, young society woman and attorney. i ..-...,. NATIOXAI iiAVr URGED - Miss Push is particularly4 Interested , in. Jhe dqubja , triangle- tha t. .. exUU . in tthe tiUllman cane. ghe believes Jt to be Jthe outconwTbf social condition which she would remedy by a national divorce !law. - - .. That law, as she explained it Joday, i would facilitate obtaining of divorce decrees throughout the country by xnak fing incompatibility-"of r temperament ground for legal separation. , . "l would, however, check the tendency ,to be blown into the diverce court every passing breeze by providing for division of all property accumulated during the marital period, on a fifty-fifty basis between husband -and wife." Miss Pugh continued: "Such property division would pro .vlde for the future of the wife and ; children. You see. it would not be fair - f or the husband to be free to go out .'.and make - money while the wife was obliged to remain at home and bear .children, and- then for the"-mjsbanK to obtain everything if they , eheuidVjwp. !BEAId.OTST KEQriSITE "ff-Tf "It . all goes , back to . the old story of a man and woman entirely at odds with each other in instinct, disposition, i ambitions, and in every way,, living; to gether, because of a, tie imposed by civil law.. Certainly no religious law really .would counsel ; such hypocrisy.. : . i "The only real marriage is that in -.which . the man and woman love each .. other. - . -; - . r ."From a somewhat casual knowledge of the StUlman case, I believe hopeless Incompatibility ' existed- between the husband and wife. . What "otherwise f would send either party to a marriage 'cant so far afield? : t ' "I believe . divorce laws sufficiently relaxed to make possible separation of - a man and wife living at such cross purposes would preclude the distaste that has come about in this case, espe cially that falling upon the children, innocent victims as they are. i.:.-" 1 -"Of course, we never- shall, get Into t real man and wife equanty until women 'become educated' to self reliance and - 0, ," 1 i T v i j "11017 LEEDS" AT STILLMAN MANSION, SWEARS WITNESS i-. ''vf 1 . 1 -j-v -'t"'"f-i.--,; Banker's Wife Hears He Enter tained Former Chorus Girl in ' Home During Her Absence. Mrs. Florence IT. Jjcvuta, " former chorus girl, who is named in the i answer given by Mrs. James A. Stlllman to her multi-millionaire : busband's suit "for divorce. Mrs. j StUlman charges that the banker jf is the father of Mrs. Ix-eds 2 i year-old son. ' ; ' - independence.' t ! "Man never has gotten away from the idea that woman la a chattel. Woman has heard it so much that she believes it, too : . ' '. ! . "Once realizing- that she is not a Slave, but a' woman being entitled to all. of a man and not just protection of his home, she will be fortified with a weapon. , to. .fight 3 her own battle. "I fancy that "Mr.: SUllman believed action begun by him would force Mrs. Stillman into a panic and silence he being the one who had the money. "About these poor little babies it shows what ! a state our laws are In when a man -can question-his own child. "I believe tthat so - long, as the .. par entage of a child can be ' proved that proof should be all that is necessary to insure a j child his interest in the father's estate, i --, "It is not 'fair that a child born in wedlock should ' be assured position, while one otherwise . bora should go through life , with a stigma cm its' name. - ; . - - - "As people we are too keen about the laws of man and not enough gov erned by laws of nature." (By Universal Service) ; New York, March 2 6. Affidavits that Mrs. Florence H. Leeds was en tertained by Banker James A. StUl man in the Park avenue home -where he had lived : with his f wife and children and called It "home' ' are in thje possession of attorney for Mrs. Stillman. ' ; T , This dramatic accusation1, was - made in affidavit form- to' lawyers for Mrs. Stillman Friday by Frank Murphy, who until a few days ago was in the em . ploy of StUlman as chief steward of the yacht Modesty, Stlllman's palatial J350, .000 vesseL -. - ' 1 i SAW MRS. LEEDS " ' . An affidavit by Murphy supported by i the testimony of servants, it is said, j who were employed in the - Stillman menage at the Avignon, 270 Park r ave nue, where the Htillmans 'for several years rnado their own home and where Mr. Stillman now lives,. -declares j p "I went to" work for Mr.: Stillman last March, and while awaiting Assignment on the Modeetyr-net-'then -m commis sion, I was assigned to duty -at 270 Park avenue. - One afternoon in : April Mr. Stillman'-brought the young woman known as Mrs. Leeds to his home. "Mrs. Stillman, I heard at that time. , was : not livine in the aoartment. i I ? never saw Mrs. Stillman in the Stillman home, i but X did -see Mrs.- Leeds there. DECISIOirSEXT WEEK Other developments in the Stillman divorce tangle, the fascinating drama of society. Wall street and the North woods, were j "t v i'' L- Supreme Court Justice Morschau ser let it be known that he will render his decision upon Mrs. Stillraan's mo tion for $76,000 counsel fees and $120, 000 per year alimony early next week. At that - time, he said,:- he : will also order that all papers submitted by both Bides and attached to the alimony' -pa pers will be filed.,;' .::' ; tsu-.- m-. ' 2. Mrs. Leeds, the woman of mys tery In the case and the only, figure of prominence who has not been found by the detectives for Mrs. Stillman or by tho . newspapers since public- Interest in the case was asousedV may be in her old haunts' in New York. She is known w have started -nerth from Miami. 2USW I3T CASE 8. A new name appears in the case. "Henry K. Smith" signed his name as a reference for Mrs. Leeds in her recent request for passports to Cuba. She made a "flying trip" to Havana and return. without disembarking - at '.' the Cuban port. "Smith" swore' that he had known the "husband of Mrs. Leeds" " tor 15 years. A dozen or more witnesses : are declared to be ready to testify that James A. Stillman. president 6f the. Na tional City bank, is "Franklin. Harold Leeds." who is known as ythe "daddy of Jay Jr., the 2-year-ord son of Mrs. Leeds. : -; :- ' - - ;An , additional statement . by - Fred Beaivais, the north woods guide who 1S "chirged or credited by Stillman with being;' the father of little Guy SUllman, supports the sensational charges made ' yesterday that -Mrs. Stillman is tho vie-" Urn of a vicious "frame up" and "black mail" plot.--.---' ,;.t, Is.1- SERVES HER BREAKFAST i- Placed under no prohibition of secrecy by the lawyers for whom he made the affidavits. Murphy told the substance of ' the matters sworn to'- by"- him. He said: - - -' , "I told about witnessing- scenes of intimacy between Mr. Stillman and Mrs. Leeds' scenes : that . I - merely stumbled upon in the - course of my duties. X met Mra Leeds first at 270 Park avenue, when Mr. Stillman brought her to his home one afternoon. &ne was alone. - Then r saw her . frequently aboard the Modesty. Often she , remained over night. i "In my statement I told about a fish ing trlp the middle of February that we started but did not complete. We were going to the Island i of Bamini, owned b a Western millionaire" friend of Mr.' Stillman. fi..--. A-. "On the Saturday night Mr. StUlman and Mrs. Leeds went to a dance at the Flamingo hotel. : They were quite late returning to the'Modesty. : -i : ? 'They remained all night on the yacht. Next morning about 11 o'clock Mr. Still man directed me to serve Mrs.. Leeds breakfast in her, stateroom. He always spoke of her formally as Mrs. Leeds. She called him 'Jay. She told me she was a .widow. ; . , , . LOOKED SALLOW" - '"Strawberries and cream, buttered toast, jam and coffee, as I remember it, made up her breakfast. I found her in bed. She had on no "makeup and looked rather sallow. Her skin that looked so lovely ; later - contained ; a good many clearly visible freckles. Her mouth too, without the makeup was straight and had , not the 'cupid bow effect, that appeared in public. "She ate her breakfast and less than an hour later we headed for tha open sea. " f Soon we ran into headwinds and the waters roughened. I wondered how Mrs. Leeds was standing the trip, .but soon she appeared, supported by .Mr. Stillman. .- ' EAB5S TO CCT SQUAB ) "She wore ' only bedroom i. slippers, lingerie and a' kimona. She , was pale and -looked deathly sick. He half car ried her to a deck chair. Then she said that, she hated a rough sea and couldn't go on.- Mr. Stillman summoned the cap tain and ordered him to turn about and head again for the, quiet waters of the Miami Causeway. "Thus ended the wonderful fishing trip. - . ,v v In Miami Mrs. Leeds was known as the Widow Leeds. I thought at first she was the famous Mrs. W. B. Leeds. Then I heard her talk and watched her table manners and I knew I was wrong. Mr. StUlman, always a modest gentle man with her, taught her how to cut a squab. She also sought to cultivate a taste for alligator pears, but never could quite succeed. -. v '-.. "Mr. StUlman is a brainy man. I can not understand his fascination for ber unless the explanation lies in the little boy. Jay Jr., who is a ringer' for-Mr. Stillman." - " - Changes JJnder New : Code Are Announced Olympia, Wash., March 26. The per sonnel of the department of labor and industries, organized under the admin istrative code, has been announced by Director Ed Clifford as follows : 1 lax- ley L. Hughes, supervisor of safety; E. S. Gill, supervisor of industrial insur ance; C. H. Younger, supervisor of in dustrial relations ;. Mrs. Delphlne John son, supervisor of women in industry ; Dr. F. A. Bird,, chief medical advisor ; Captain V. W. 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