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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-07

The Week eud ~ Apgl q. -
and 81 second Baptist church was
host 20 ;ac Western Michigan
D.s'g.c sunday school and BlPl
convention FOR 80 18th annual
sec sion fif'v delegates and visi-
ipr- attended ne sessions. which
wera spffca and We'll arrange
Much stress was given the need
for more elutatlora and mission
-.rpa~ from me various church
49, a group - the ministers were
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-07

will be observed June Is Impor-
tant guests Will be present.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

time before she recovered her balance and that there
possibility that her mind might be permanently affected
The police got nowhere with their attempts to solve
the mystery until they received anonymous letter
signed "A Woman Who Made a Mistake" The communi-
cation went on to that the writer of group
of women who had become jealous of Mrs. Fransek be-
they imagined that she inviting and receiving
romantic attentions from their husbands
The letter further explained that these wives had
banded together into Ghosts Union teach the pretty
young widow good lesson The Union" had the help of
the three servants in the victims household
Now, think wrong" said the letter land
imagined that little game would lead to such
tragic results We will do anything to make amends
After few days quiet investigation the Bradshaw
police peced together the complete story of the organza
ton of live ghosts and arrested except the Fran
sek servants The domescs admitted that they had been
paid for their cooperation out Of union dues"
The whole situation explained to Mrs. Frantisek
when she discharged from the sanitarium a we'll
woman-and wiser one. She gave up her salon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

a door at cockeyed angle. The rugs rolled up.
Her three servants denied that they had had anything
do with this mischievous remodeling. week later
she returned from evening at the theatre to find
annoying changes in her wellkept household Her
bed this time, in the downstairs living And her
vanity table had mysterousy moved all the way to the
kitchen. chase-longue the lawn the front
door, and of her siken nghties hanging from
the branch of a tree for all the world to
She the point of having the servants arrested
for malicious mischief when she was awakened night
by dolorous wang beneath the apple trees in her back
garden. The tery young widow looked out her bedroom
window and whole ballet of hiterobed figures dane
ing crafty among the trees She rushed to the telephone
called the police But by the time they arrived the
ghosts had gone the officers cooked quizzca eyebrows
at Mrs Frantisek They less courteousy sug-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

IT WOULD seem that the citizens of Yugosavia
having enough trouble these days without having to
take time out to deal with union of ghosts" which
recently went to work pretty young widow and sent
a santarium suffering from a breakdown.
1t Bratislava that these eerie and unfortunate
shenanigans went The setting mansion on the
outskirts of the citya beautiful estate which had be-
something of social center for the upandcoming
young of the community and their husbands.
mistress of the mansion Mrs Sveana Frantisek
Less than year ago 25-year-old Mrs Frantisek was
living happily with her elderly husband When he died
inherited his estate which said to be valued at
hundred thousand dollars. Although there
little talk around Bradshaw that Mrs Frantisek had
entered into MayDecember romance with weather eye
profit to be derived therefrom, could
hadn't been good and faithful wife to her aging
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27


These parties became the talk of the town. There was
always plenty eat and plenty to drink and the enter
tainment was of high order
For time the wel-to-do young widow popular
figure but eventually the young matrons who had been
eager to partake OF her hospitality began to suspect
that there than met the eye in the round of
social functions the Frantsek estate They imagined
that the hostess being to their hus
bands and that said husbands beginning to take
personal interest in Mrs Frantisek
Whether the widow aware of these rumblngs of
dissenson in her salon is question She continued to
invite the cys upper crust to her place and didn't
to mind when of her invitations sent back with
regrets
the situation moved in to definitely less pleasant
stage. Mrs Frantisek could hardly collect quorum for
cocktails and her dinners dwindled into intimate little
affairs with not than half dozen guests at the
table She knew that something amiss particularly
when she returned from few days visit out of town to
find her bedroom completely rearranged The bed In
the center of the floor Her dresser showed against
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
|||| Haven't CAUGHT A Horse Thief = =|||||
== In Fiftu-five Years It

Horse and Poultry Thieves Detective
Association to include the additional
territory. But the change brought no
increased activity.
BY paying a small sum into the
treasury each potential victim of theft
aided in establishing a fund for the
general good The treasury grew to
sS42, tempting sum to anyone. So
the name was changed again. The
boys added automobiles and like We
hicles to their sphere of endeavor and
provided rewards of $50 for capture
and information leading to conviction
of horses and poultry thieves and $25
for auto thefts.
But still there was no thefts and
no thrilling pursuits of horse thieves,
poultry purloiners or auto brigands
The association, Its treasury growing
was almost desperate enough to pull
a fauy ,,,ocL t,obharia1 ftaolf Put in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

THE good citizens of Strawberry
Point, Idaho organized a group
of men known as the Strawberry
Horse Thief Detectives back in 1886
for the obvious purpose of catching
horse thieves. Since that year the
organizations duties were increased to
include horse, mule. chicken, duck,
turkey, goose, bicycle or car thieves.
Yet, to date, the detectives" are still
waiting to be called out on their first
theft.
Twelve riders" were picked from
the roster to hold themselves in readi
ness for pursuit of thieves of horses
and a captain Of riders was chosen.
The boys agreed to pay $3.50 a day
and reasonable expenses for time spent
in pursuit of any bandit in the terri
tory.
But modernism soon reared its ugly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

boys kept their 10 and IL gauge shotgns loaded and
ready no thieves brought any excitement their way
AS the members tired of waiting for devtry to conquer
they enlarged their organization to include poultry per
ing, which lot of ground and little water, If
you include ducks.
And the altered to the Strawberry Point
q 1871. by American Weekly. In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

gested that she
was m erely the
victim of a bad
dream.
II efore many
days the pole Q
had TO admit that
t hey were up
against something
more troublesome
than d re a m S or
Authorizations, for
Mrs. Fran t ! 8 e k
kept them on the
run trying to To-
cate the causes Of
a great variety Of
queer antics in and
around her uneasy
abode.
Doors slammed
in the middle Of
the n g h I. Win
dows went noisily
tt do n.
Lights switched on
and off. The widow
found some of her
most e xpe " e
clothing hanging
fro m chandeliers
and mantelpieces.
Other ghosts in
tested her lawn
from time to time,
sometimes singly,
o Their tim e 8 in
twos and threes.
Finally, from too
m u C worrying
and not enough
sleep, she suffered
a nervous break
down and had to
be taken to a san
itarium. One doc
tor said that 1t
might be mo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

= Nhot'
Some said that
she had made a
bargain and that
she had lived up
to it to the letter.
Others circulated
the rumor that she
had been the old
mans nurse dur
ing a long illness
and that he had
married her to re-
pay her for her
services. In any
case the Franti-
SEEKS w ere solid
citizens a n d no
breath of scandal
ruffled their pleas
ant existence.
For at least six
months after Mr..
Frantisek's demise
the comedy widow
s h roud e d h err
charms in somber
weeds" and had
little contact with
her friends. Then
she DOTTED the
mourning outfit
and began to in
vite people to the
house. Evidently it
was her intention
to become a fixture
in the community
and to build up a
large circle of ac-
quaintances. She
sent invitations to
Bratislava's young
bloods and their
wives. She gave
cocktail parties,
dinners, afternoon
taaa and r,niiaicaIna
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

stead 1t paid out number of So and $40 dividends and
reduced its capital to S140.75
There isn't much prospect of crime In
Strawberry Point but after all these of waiting the
association isn't going to give up So its 43 members
the other day and elected Fred Tracy president and
A. ]. Stamp, chief detective for 1941
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

few women have been fortunate enough to
know. All the things she had ever wanted to
do. all the places she had ever wanted to
see, all the silly little things and the fine big
things she had ever wanted to own-she did
and and had them And he was a good
enough actor to make those days utterly gay,
and colorful, and happy.
l have always thought myself that Lilyan
knew. For in those last months her face
grew so beautiful, so spiritual, that you could
hardly believe she was ex-Follies girl an
actress of hard-boiled and sophisticated roles
a woman noted for her jewels and her clothes
and her circle of sophisticated friends. / have
a picture of her taken in those last DAYS
which / wouldn't let off my wall for anybody
1t looks like saint 1 give you my word
and people who come in to see it, often stand
quite still before it for a long time.
1t is the face of a woman who has lived
suffered. been tempted, known everything
about life and has come out burned pure
Write at last by hove and suffering and loyalty
and kindness
And she died, she had lived, courage
ously, unafraid honest, and always loving
one man-her heartbreak only that she had
to leave him That I know is true, because
she told me-
So-Eddie Lowe went on
You can see plainly enough what an anti
climax life must have been. Aside from his
grief his utter loneliness, there was that awful
flatness and stiffness to life
The house where I'm living now at Malibu
Beach is house where Lii used to come
frequently
And to this day. there are places in this
house where can always see Eastman.
stool she used TO sit on-a doorway where she
once stood in scarlet and white beach pajamas
and told one of her witty and delightful
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

woman's spirit-and knows that day by day
her husbands heart is yearning and break
ing because it is only ghost, a dear ghost,
that cannot speak any more.
Perhaps they weren't even aware. Eddie
and Rita, Of this ghost who walked their
castle. A white lady" seen only dimly, fitting
through the charming rooms, slipping in to
Listen to the music she had loved. smiling
her ghostly smile upon the flowers on the
table, the books on the shelves.
Perhaps they don't know even now, why
there was mental cruelty and incompatibility,
why they began to get on each others nerves,
and quarrel and be unpleasant.
It, would have seemed to them, no doubt
that LIS ghost would be very welcome in
deed in their home. 1t would have seemed to
them churlish and unkind to bar the ghost
of one so loved.
But-things do happen that way A wife
Is wife, and the ghost of first wife, of
woman so remarkable as Lii. dominating
In -heF-PeFsanalty-- spectacular even in
memory, can't have been a pleasant COM
panion And no matter how devoted Eddie
was to his second wife, he knew that the
great romance Of his life was over and he
missed Lilyan.
So now Rita Kaufman Lowe Is DIVORCE
again, and Eddie Lowe has the fragrance of
a great love. the delicate odor of high romance
to keep him company. He always will
Because want to tell you something. I
don't know whether believe in ghosts or not
I've never made up my mind. But right here
in this house where 1 sit writing. with the
rain-swept Pacific pounding at my gate and
the white sands beaten flat by wind and
storm, often and often am conscious of the
ghost of friendship seem to hear
that low gay laugh Of Tashmans-o
almost, for a moment, seem TO see her.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

when she married Eddie and came to Holly
wood to live was lucky enough to win her
friendship. l think fash the most honest
human being 1 have known
That marriage was no sinecure, no smooth
path. placid rosy romance. When they
fought. they did job of it--but they always
fought fair When they had trouble it
big trouble. When Llyan got jealous, some
times she threw things and when Eddie got
sore he packed up and moved out.
But always. year after year, they went on
being madly in love always coming back
together in wild delight always enjoying each
other, laughing together. making everything
around them bright and beautiful For years
we were neighbors at Malibu. and there was
no house on the beach as exciting. as full
Of fine conversation. as exqusitey run. as
truly friendly the Loves red and white
doll house beside the sea.
As hostess Lii Eastman had no equal
in Hollywood ever. She learned the hard
way-and she learned for Eddie's sake. For
there some stupid. nasty. false scandal
about Lii at one time started by vicious
little male gossip-and for a really vicious
gossip give me a man every time. In those
days, Hollywood was in a tailspin about
something or other scared to death of it's
shadow as it sometimes is. and respectable
that 1t was painful and inhuman. Some of
our leading lights. with the most skeletons in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

stories-a bunk-bed in the guest room where
we once sat while a party was going on.
II this is true of me, what was it like
for Eddie Lowe?
Well. as / said, Rita Kaufman was pal
of Lilyan's. Oh, she was and is a great deal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

their own closets. didn't stop to find
out whether the gossip was true or
not. ut wasn't. / put in little time
on my own as reporter on that one.
because Lii was my friend II was
an outrageous lie from beginning to
end. as everybody came to know in
timeD They turned a cold and quiv-
ering shoulder upon Lilyan Eastman
Lowe. How did she take it?
=. Lii didn't give boot for herself.
She never cared an awful lot for
Hollywood She liked New York and
London and Paris better. They
seemed bigger to her, and she was
definitely Big Town and Big Time
person. But she did care for Eddie's
sake. They might have snubbed Lii
Eastman and she would have whooped
with laughter
But fash didn't propose that they
should snub Eddie loves wife, in
the town where Eddie Lowe worked
as a movie star. In her own quiet
way she started out to remedy that.
And she did it in the usual Eastman
fashion. She never went near Holly
but the first thing everybody kne
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
BY ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS

- HIS in its way. is ghost story. mi
There is. l find, other way to EzWx
j tell It, M1
On the surface the divorce of Ed #
mund Lowe one of Holywood's favorite
people. and his pretty wife, Rita Lowe,
just ordinary divorce. slightly
complicated by financial settlements way beyond
the imagination of average people and highlighted
only by testimony about ncompatbility and men,
tai cruelty The routine formula of well-bred
legal domestic crack-ups.
But behind the curtain yelling the scene was
the ghost of a lady. lovely and unforgetable
lady, who had haunted that marriage from the
first Nobody regarded the Eddie Rita Lowe
smash triangle. But IL a triangle If
you believe in ghosts. Nobody ever mentioned
another woman not Rita Kaufman Lowe
herself when she took the witness stand in the
courtroom and testified TO obtain her freedom
But there another - IL you believe
that true love never dies
The name of that shining ghost, of that other
woman who came back from the grave as it were
to through Eddie loves home Liyan
Eastman. And 10 be frank about the matter no
woman have known could follow in LIS
footsteps nor take LIS place.
There have been many stories of marriages
broken up by a first wife or the memory Of first
husband But the story Of Eddie Lowe and Lilyan
Eastman and Rita Kaufman Is different - very
different. Because you see. in the first place
Rita loved Lii too. Rita had been one of her
closest friends, one of her greatest admirers And
Lii. above all. wouldn't have wanted TO come back
a ghost Above all women LII would have
wanted Rita to find comfort and peace with Eddie
in their marriage.
Great love is rare sometimes ! think even
the capacity for great love is And this ghost
story OF mine is based upon great love- enduring
love, and very human. understanding love between
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

meet a few-a very few
always-of the most bril-
liant artists in America if
they happened to be in
Hollywood, were more
coveted than invitations
to Pickfair. But it was
typical of Lii that she
bore no malice.
AS Hollywood's best
dressed woman, she soon
had the spotlight on her.
Yet she never, actually.
cared a lot about clothes
or jewels. They were part
of her profession.
Then came the dark
days grim days. at first,
for Lilyan fought vail
antly-when death seemed
TO have marked her. Twice
she seemed to have won
the fight. though nobody
ever heard her complain.
She thought. after the
last operation, that she
had won. That she was
in the clear.
Only Eddie knew differ
entity. Only Eddie had been
told that the few months
ahead were all that she
could hope for of life.
Then / think Eddie
Lowe did the bravest and
finest thing I've ever
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

known a man to do, then he proved himself
a great lover, and their love one that might
rank always with great love stories.
He never told Lii what he knew. He never
let her see what he was suffering. He took
time out-and he made LIS life for those last
months a thing of glorious romance. such as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

more than that. A lovely
looking woman, with a
talent for clothes-with
many friends - with
much popularity. She
had been divorced after
many years Of marriage
she was lonely, too
and she had charm and
intelligence.
But what C. ance
could she possibly have
against the memories of
those last wonderful
days, against the deep
long ties that had bound
Eddie to the most UNI
usual woman I've ever
known? What chance
would any woman have
had to make a happy
m arriage with that
ghost of LIS. and all
that Lii was, always the
third member of the
household?
I can imagine that
Eddie was bewildered
when he found that no
woman. even so under
standing and wise a
woman as his new wife,
can live happily with a
ghost sitting between
them. No woman can do
her best or be her best
when she sees and hears
and feels always the
nraoanca IF that other
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

fashion. She never went near Hollywood -
but the first thing everybody knew Mrs.
Edmund Lowe was in all the society columns.
she house guest at Del Monte and
Pebble Beach at houses that really mattered
1t ut long until an invitation to one of
LIS Sunday night suppers. where you would
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

When the Movie Star
and Rita X au { m a n
Went Into the Divorce
Court. There Was No
Hint Of a Triangle. But
AdeIo Rogers St. Johns
Believes There WAS
Another Woman. Lilyon
Tashman. Whose Lin
gering Spirit Haunted
Their Memories and
Their Happiness
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

a IMAM dlA1 O NCaftoAAs
Eddie Lowe and practi-
cally went TO school together.
At least he was at Santa
Clara College when was at
tending Notre Dame Convent
in san Jose. He used TO come
to our house in San Fran
cisco on week-ends. chiefly, as
most of my gentlemen callers
did. to listen to my father.
who was the idol Of all the
college boys ! knew.
Eddie Lowe was then. and
has always remained, a pas
sionate idealist. Under his
gaiety. his humor. his man.
of-the-world air. his theatrical
experiences. there IL still the
imaginative, warm, tempera-
mental young Irishman whom
half the girls in San Francisco
were mad about in my young
days. Eddie loves beauty, and
color, and music really loves
them. And hough he's
bumped his nose. and his foot
has slipped now and again, he
loves fine things OF the spirit
as he was brought up and edu-
Gated to do.
I first met Lilyan Tashman
when she was one of the real
beauties of the Follies - and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

1911 by American Weekly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-31

licenses,

Marriage license applications
have been filed with the Pierce
county auditor by John Durica, 81.
1856 So. Wilkeson, and Stella
Owen. SIS. 22ls So. 25th; James
Elliott Birmingham, 80, elst
observation, squadron, Fort Lewis,
and Ruby Mae Wallace, "a, Route
l, Box SIS, South Tacoma; Glen
Leeper. rs. seth reconnaissance
squadron. McChord field, and
Pauline Chambers, 26. Brownwood.
Texas. Kenneth NJ. Mcpherson. 20.
IA Market st, and Mertice M.
Livingston. %. 1882 So. Steele.
Benjamin Franklin Harris, 30,
Allyn hotel. and Constance Mary
Sykes. 20, Seattle; Clifford Pinchot
Ball. 30. and Georgia Kathryn
Sage. 20. both of Seattle, Charles
Robert Pearson, 20. Camp Murray.
and Johanna J. Petersen, 20.
Kalispell, Mont.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-31
Goal Of $50
Is Sought

Seventy-five men have now
signed applications for charter
membership in post Of the Regu-
lar Veterans association to be
formed at McChord Field The goal
Of $50 paid-up members by Feb rs
is within easy reach.
Next meeting will no at 7:30
p m Monday, Feb. 3. in the base
school room.
The Regular Veterans associa-
ton is a nationally recognized or
ganization Of service men and ex-
service men. Army, Navy. Marine
Corps. and Coast Guard, who have
had one years honorable voluntary
service. and ~ exclusively for the
purpose of increasing the welfare
of enlisted personnel. Commission
ed officers who have had a years
service as enlisted men may join.
Men with less than a full years
service may join as associate men,
bers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-31
Hitler Warns Americans Aid
To Britain to Be Torpedoed

victory after virtory snd triumph
after triumph
The tslk % the British
about liberty and democracy
= empty phrsseoleg,." Hitler
aid - the audience shouted
"heil. neil They really meas
stshilisation 81 the regime Of
that eaPitslisiic group which
dominates their press
After the victory. they sad
they vii solve their social prob.
lens. can only saw that u. did
that long sgo.
In reality Britain socially.
IL the most rcactionsry I'M
deNeieped (ueckstandigel
counfr, In the world"
Hitler charged that FOR 500
years Britain has broken stat.
after state and robbed people after
people Of their freedom in order
10 form the structure called the
British empire
The real reason for the
World war. Hitler charged. IN,
In British desirc 90 maintain
= balance Of power In Europe.
Since 1871" he said when
the German reich was formed,
since the national rehirth 81 the
German people. Britain has perse-
cuted this new development Ger
many with their hatred"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-31

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