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1911 Actress Files Answer to Suit of Wallace—Won’t Share Her Earnings. 8' the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. July 8—A state ment by Mae West that she was mar ried 26 years ago in the old Milwau kee, Wis., Court House to Prank Wal lace, New York song and dance man, was contained in a court action on file with the county clerk today. The marriage of the pair, often pub licly denied by Miss West until late yesterday, was admitted in the answer of the actress to Wallace's suit filed under the California civil statutes, seeking court compulsion that she recognize him as her husband. But if Wallace expects to share in the hundreds of thousands of dollars Miss West has earned since the mar riage, it was indicated he will find Miss West opposed to him. Her answer contains the statement they never lived together as man and wife. Miss West's attorney, asked if she would fight a division of earnings as community property, declined com ment. The blond and buxom actress topped all film stars in earnings in 1933 with an income reported to Federal and State officials at $480,833. The Fed eral Government collected $234,000 of this amount, and the State obtained $50,500. *>. i-. a. workers Find License. “It's just a pipe dream, and if you want my candid opinion—and my opinions as a rule are candid—I'd »ay this is a publicity gag on the part of Mr. Wallace,” the actress told re porters in 1935. First indication Miss West had been married came in the Spring of 1935 when Works Progress Administration workers, delving into old court house records in Milwaukee, uncovered a yellowed marriage license applica tion bearing the names of “Mae ’Test" and “Frank Wallace." The document was dated April 11, 1911, the day Wallace claimed he married the actress, in an affidavit filed before the New York State Su preme Court November 7, 1936, in his fight to have New York courts declare him the husband of Miss West. The action was later dismissed, the actress not being a legal resident of New York. Doubts His Marital Status. Wallace's suit was accompanied by letters which the vaudeville actor said he wrote Miss West. One spoke of his love and affection for the actress and asked that she recognize him as her husband. Another set forth that he had a legal claim to community prop erty. “I say to you sincerely. Mae. that my love and affection for you has never diminished and through the past years I have proven this by living up to the agreement we made that neither of us mention our marriage,” read one of the letters, in part. Miss West, in her answer, however, throws doubt upon the present marital status of Wallace, claiming that, to her knowledge, there was no dissolu tion of the West-Wallace union at the time he married Miss Ray Blakesly February 6, 1916. INDIANS ASK RETURN OF SACRED SKULL Claim Absence of Thunder Bird Relic in Museum Is Bring ing: Drought. By the Associated Pres*. The Gros Ventres Indians of West ern North Dakota asked the Indian Office today to help them recover the sacred skull of their thunder bird from the Heye Foundation Museum in New' York. Legend says the thunder bird prom ised the Gros Ventres that as long as they kept his skull in their possession rain never would fail them nor would they suffer want. Severe droughts and grasshopper plagues in recent years reminded the older members of the tribe of the promise. They failed to persuade the museum to return the “sacred bundle,” acquired when the tribal custodian embraced Christianity. The Indian Office will send a field agent to negotiate with the founda tion. Heye officials contend granting of such requests would mean the loss of some of the museum's most impor tant specimens. RHEUMATISM IS FIRST OF DISABLING DISEASES Heart Disease No. 1 Killer, How ever, Public Health Service Finds. Rheumatism ranks first, heart dis ease second and “minor circulatory diseases'' third in the list of dis abling illnesses, according to the Public Health Service. No. 1 killer, however, is heart dis ease, according to statistics com piled by George St. J. Perrott, princi pal statistician for the sendee. Out of the total population 1 of every 25 was disabled for at least ft week during the year surveyed and 1 in every 5 persons suffered from a chronic disease. 35 Years of Cards Climaxed by Hand Of Pinochle Trumps By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS. July 8—After 35 years of card playing, Tom F. Powers of St. Louts yesterday held one of the dream hands of pinochle players—all the trumps in the deck. After getting the bid for 1.650, Powers spread his 1,500 trumps, all the 12 hearts, on the table. He then “confiscated” the deck and said he Intended to have it framed. —* Mae West and the “Forgotten Husband” Frank Wallace pictured recently looking The cinema's glorified siren in one Mae West as she appeared in “Diamond Lil,” with over pictures of Mae West. of her latest pictures. Wallace as the waiter. _a. P. Photos. Vacation Proves Disappointing to Luckless Indianan By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND. Ind., —July 8. —Verne Rutherford feels he has ample grounds for complaint about his vacation at Hamilton Lake, near Angola. His speedboat floated away. His automobile mired down in a marsh as he tried to reach the boat. He recovered the boat, but it turned over. He was rescued in *20 feet of water. The rescue boat overturned, throwing him into the water again. He returned to , his cottage and slashed himself with a sickle while trimming the I yard. Disgusted, he came to his home here to find his trees and lawn ruined by a broken gas main. DYER FACES CHARGE IN DEATH OF GIRLS Park Director Where Bodies Were Found Doubts Ke Is the Guilty Person. 1 By the Associated Press, i LOS ANGELES, July 8.—Alberl | Oyer, accused slayer of three Ingle j wood girls, was called to court tods' i to plead to an indictment charging i him with murder. ! Indications were the State would | delay the pleading and specify the | 32-year-old W. P. A. worker be helt | for trial within 30 days, j Haskell Wright, director of Cen ; tinela Park, from where the ehildrer ; disappeared, told authorities he doe) j not believe Dyer is the man he saw j talking to the girls. Other person) i said they saw the victims, Madeline j Everett, 7: her sister, Melba, 9. and ; Jeanette Stephens. 8, ride away from the park in an automobile. Dyer, however, said they followed him afoot on a 5‘;>-mtle trek into the Baldwin Hills. Vada Sullivan, matron at the Coun ty Jail, where Dyer's wife Is held for her owm protection, said Mrs. Dyer told her, “I felt all along he had done it, but he beat me with a belt and I was afraid to say anything.” England's minister of agriculture has been asked to boost production of cheese. CAFFERY FAVORED FOR BRAZIL POST Senate Foreign Relations Committee Recommends Others for Posts. B) the Associated Press. The Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee recommended yesterday that JefTerson CafTery of Louisiana, now Ambassador to Cuba, be confirmed as Ambassador to Brazil. It also reported favorably the nomination of J. Butler Wright of Wyoming, Minister to Czechoslovakia, to be Ambassador to Cuba in place of CafTery. Other nominations approved by the committee Included: Wilbur J. Carr of New York, now Assistant Secretary of State, to be Minister to Czechoslovakia. George Messersmith of Delaware to be Assistant Secretary of State. Ray Atherton of Illinois, now coun selor of the London Embassy, to be Minister to Bulgaria. Hugh S. Gibson of California, now Ambassador to Brazil, to be Ambas sador to Belgium and Minister to Luxemburg. Ferdinand L. Mayor of Indiana, counselor at the Berlin Embassy, to be Minister to Haiti. Grenville T. Emmett of New York, now Minister to. the Netherlands, to be Minister to Austria. William E. Chapman of Oklahoma to be secretary of the diplomatic serv ice. Leland Harrison, Minister to Ru mania, to be Minister to Switzerland. I Our ideals are the same . . . Greater usefulness through greater service . . . that has been the idea of the Jamboree ... let us carry it forward. Let us never lower our standards. We have enjoyed your visit . . . We look forward to your return. | MEADOW GOLD PLEDGE OF QUALITY . . . We pledge that Meadow Gold Ice Cream is made of pure cream, fine granulated cane sugar, choice fresh fruits, selected nuts and the purest flavorings. 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