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edford Mail T Second Section Eight Pages Second Section Eight Pages DtUl TwtutF-lounb Vmi. MEDFOKD. OUEOOX. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929. No. 195. M RIBUNE STAGE STAR IS A VICTIM OF ALCOHOL Jeanne , Eagles, Creator of Famous Character in 'Rain Dies in Convul sionsSame Old Story ..Says Autopsy Surgeon Had Been Acting Pecu liarly for Several Days. NEW YORK. Oct. 4. (JP) Tho thfiitiicAl world was Allocked to day by the sudden deuth of Jeanne Jiik1h, at:trHH, who i-rt'atoil thu (frarai'ter of Sadie Thompson" in ''Kaln." Sho was 35 years old. She was seized with convulnlons last niKht as she was preparing for examination In a private sanitar ium on Park avenue conducted by Dr. Edward S. .Cowles, nerve spe cialist. Her secretary, who had accom panied her to tho sanitarium, and nurses called a physician, but when he examined her she was dead. After an autopsy, Dr. Thomas A. Oonzales, assistant chief medical examiner, said death was caused by alcoholic psychosis. He said a chemical analysis of the vital or gans would be made. "It's the same old story, nothing unusual," Dr. Gonzales said, "Miss Katies died of alcoholism, not from acute alcoholism but from alcoholc psychosis. She had been acliiiK stranKt-ly for three or four days but had not taken a drink in two days." She was preparing to return to Hrondway after an absence of 18 months enforced by her suspension ly the Actor's Equity association, tfhe was suspended for walking Mil on the play "Her Cardboard 1-nver" In St. Louts In March, ' k'tiviiiK the show utranded without -a Mar. , v. ,f Mnrie Pli'tureii During her us)enslon she went to Hollywood where she made two talking pictures. "The Letter" um "Jealousy." The flint was rated as a success. The second was re leased only recently. jefure she began her career as a dramatic actress she was u toe dancer and had appeared in musi cal comedies. In 1923 Miss Eagles' engage ment to Whitney Warren, Jr.. a member of one of New York's prominent families was announced by her molhef, Mrs. Julia Eagles. It was denied later by Warren's father. She was married to Edward Harris (Ted ) Coy, famous Yale football star, In August 1925. This marriage was ended by a divorce in Chicago In July 1128. In her greatest success "Kain," she play ed the part of Sadie Thompson, of the underworld who Is reformed by a missionary at I'ago Pago In the rainy season when the ship on which she Is fleeing is detained by a quarantine. She retrogresses at the minister's instigation. Coy arried her at the height of her t'cess in ' Haln." IfiT- YQOERI ES Oci. they CENTRAL POINT, Ore., 4. (Special) "Hoys! Are worth while ? ? ? ?" Large cards bearing this and similar questions are scattered about in windows, shelves a tut other prominent places in the businesH district of central Point. Not knowing what it was all about, and later jm-eting a friend who se.emed wise to il, he said, "'to be answered next Tuesday evening at the J trick church." Now my curiosity is aroused.. jna PASTOR RETURNS ASHLAND PULPIT . ASH LAND, Ore., Oct. 4. (Spec ial) Hev. (1. V. Eiillis, who has been pastor of the Methodist church for the past year has been returned to the Ashland field by Hishop Titus Ijowe. at the annual conference, which has just ended In Portland. Iteverend Ealtis re turned from the conference ses sions on Monday. Mrs. J. J. (irim, who spent the past four months with her dau ghter. Mrs. Wilcox, and family of Amity. Oregon, has returned to her home. Miss Lola Davis is back at her post as clerk., in Faber's grocery store. W. A. Crary of Hosehurg and well known in Central point, hav ing visited here about a month ago with Mrs. .1. H. FVrritt. pussed away suddenly on Tifc-sday night from heart trouble. The in tarn son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Uohnert. receiving treatment at the Purucker home in M ed ford, is not improving as rapidly as parents and friends could wish. Mrs. Dora Lynch has returned to her home in Weed Ca 1 i f ., af tor visiting her, daughter, Mrs. Carl Otiackcnhufth nmLfumily and otb r friends. Mrs. Lynch, a former resident nf Central Point, is still a good booster for Hogue liiver valiey. OF IN LAKE CREEK DOT. hAKV. Cnrcrciv, Ore., Oct. 4., (Rppclul) Tho Pech lirot!ii-8 hnve nlmut fininhed hurvestinc their fine crop jif ,onionsv-iind -will 'sjpnn be-KliTirOi-KrhV tlieni 'to'Xledfo'rtf." J. II. Short nnrt G. A. Pech were, dnlnc business in Medford Mon day. .Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Tyrrell of Perrydale, came out Friday and spend tho week-end with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Fai'low and family. Tom and "Wallace Ilnssdale left Monday for Tom's home In Oak land, Talif. Mr. and Mrs. A. I.. I'ech and Mr. and Mrs. H. T,. Tonn were Medford shoppers Tuesday, Mrs.. K. H. Jones anil Mrs. I.oren Farlow were callers at the C. Jt. Moore home Monday. II. K. Pech spent the week-end In Medford. Charles Klncaide of K a k 1 c Point, was a business visitor at the 1.. J. Grlssom home on Tues day. F. W. Pech. who has had his teams on road construction work above ltutto Falls nearly all sum mer, returned homo Thursday for tho winter. . Mr. and Mrs. H. h. Tonn were Sunday ailests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wahlers in tho Pry creek section. Vernon ..Monia of Tirownshoro and tho Misses Elsie and Dorothy Wllhlle, who are attending hit-h school In Hade Point spent Sun-' dav r,t the C. K. Wllhlte home. Mr. and Mrs. .1. B. Cole of Med ford were Ashland visitors on Monday. I Misses 1ok Joy Hansen, ilnimh ter of Dr. and Mrs. C. II. Hansen and Miss Luetic Carson, both nr.nl tmtes of the Ashland hlfth school who are attending the University -f OreKon at Kunene, have been .pledKed to Alpha Delta PI, nat ional social sorority. Miss Carson Is taking ft courso In physical edu cation, Mr. and Mna. Ralph Hllllnc re turned on Monday from a visit to the state fair at Salem and from Portland, where they attended the Methodist conference. Mrs. Taylor of the Taylor apart ments, left on Monday for an ex tended visit In the east. n. X. Kramer, Koss Kramer. Dtiko 1 .or ton. and Dr. K. O. swed enhuru are on a hunting trip Into Klamath county. Professor and Mrs. F. C. P.elmer of the Southern Oreuon experiment nation at Talent, nnd their dnuirh ter Mrs. Shelby Vennble, of Re dondo Heaeh. t alif., were dinner guests recently at the home of '. H. Howman on Granite street. Wr. Bowman's sister-in-law, Mrs. Jfarnbnuifh, presided over the de lightful meal. Others who were -ated nt the table were H. M Turnhauuh and Mls Alice Uow- r 7 1 vp nt ..J: r Pinl-Vi am table Compound is a wonder ful medicine at tne nange oi t ;f I ,r.ii1 apt rilnp snells and just walk the floor. 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