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New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Homely Woman ADJ
Brings One ON a Bet,
But Far From Ugly
Retail Milliners Find That
Even 500 Prize Contest
Can't Beguile Plainest to
Admit Her Lack of Beauty

Miss Vanity Fair took one look in
her mirror yesterday, powdered her
nose and decided that not even a $100
prize would tempt her to admit homel-
ness. The money was waiting for her
in the Offices of the Retail Millinery
Association, 1910 Broadway. She had
nothing to do but emphasize her ugli-
ness sufficiently to cast a halo, by way
of contrast, around all the other plain
women who might submit themselves
to the test
Harry S. Bernhard, president of the
association, was the ingenious man who
concluded that the real test Of hats
becomingness was it's power to beautify
the plalnest of wearers. 1t was easy
enough to make a good-looking woman
better looking by placing a becoming
hat at chic angle on her head That
was child's play. But it occurred to
him that it would be more of an
achievement to put a really charming
hat on thoroughly homely woman and
effect transformation.
Only One Appears
So q modest advertisement was in
serted IN the papers saying that a
Cno
ugiest candidate to act as model for a
fashion show which will be given at
the Hotel Astor February d. She was
to subject herself to Transformation
under the most stunning of hats. And
she was to carry away with her per
fectly good hat in addition to her
money prize.
The bait was attractive, but the fish
refused to bite. Only one woman out
of New York's thousands came forward
and announced herself a homely per-
son. She gave her name as Josephine
Morris, 142 West l30th Street, and her
occupation as model for evening
gowns. Edgar V. NJ. Goldberg, manager r
of the Retail Milliners' Association.
who is judge of the contest, was
frankly staggered when she walked
into the Office and announced her can
dldacy He wondered If he saw
straight
Did 1t On Bet
Here was a fne-looking girl, with
dark brown hair and large gray eyes,
deliberately seeking the stigma that
the plainest of women would gladly
avoid Put under examination she fin
ally admitted that snc entered the con-
test on S25 bet and that, while she
did not consider herself beauty, at
the same time she was quite aware she
was far from homely
1t would appear, however, that IL
there is one good-lookng girl in this
city who does not mind being termed
ugly there are hundreds of genuinely
plain girls who would like to pass
themselves off as beauties.
The amusing thing about this con-
test is that two weeks ago we inserted d
an ad. for good-looking girls to wear
hats said Mr.. Goldberg. eve only
offered them $40, but fhey came in
throngs. Most of them were so plain
and few so positively ugly that we
turned them away as fast as they came
Now, when we really want plain one,
and offer them $780, they are not forth
coming-which goes to prove that g
woman does not know herself whethe,
she is beautiful or ugly"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Policeman Seized
In Court Charged
With Aiding Theft
Accused Chauffeur Asserts
Officer Directed Larceny
of Auto and Magistrate
Orders Latters Arrest

Spectators in Yorkville court yester-
of the East Twenty Street police
station, arrested by brother officer by
order of Magistrate Joseph S. Schwab,
after Behan had persisted in his re-
fusal to testify in case involving the
accused by the alleged thief of being
his co-consprator in the crime.
John Falter, twenty three years old,
of 2196 East Hath Street, chauffeur,
was arraigned by Detective Martin
Owens, former captain of the A. E. F.,
on q charge of stealing a cab owned
by Harry Vedus, twenty three, of
Englewood, N. J. Vedus had been
hacking at Fourteenth Street and
Irving Place, he Testified, and on
from that corner
Owens was assigned to the case
January is, and last week he saw
Falter driving car answering the de-
wheels had been changed and it bore
different license number. Owens
questioned the driver and arrested
him.
Then the detective found vcdus who
identified the taxicab by it's motor
days ago and gave information which
brought about the issuance of a sum
mons for Patrolman Behan. Yester-
day Behan appeared, and after Falter
had pleaded not guilty he was ques-
toned by Assistant District Attorney
O'Shaughnessey
The chauffeur told the court that on
the night Of the theft he was ordered
by behan to take the car to a garage at
Eighteenth Street and Seventh Avenue,
the patrolman remaining on post.
ley ley days later, the chauffeur said,
Behan met him again and instructed
him to have the wheels of the machine
painted red and to remove the license
plate. Fater complied.
According to Falter, Behan then met
him with another man named Make"
and they talked over the disposition of
the taxicab. 1t was agreed, the chauf-
feur charged, that Falter was to super
intend the cars operation. make" was
to do the driving and the policeman
and Falter were to "split" the proceeds
After Falter had testified Magistrate
Schwab went into conference with
Behan and Captain James H. Post, of
the East Twenty second Street station.
After the conference Behan refused to
testify, and Magistrate Schwab ordered
a full complaint drawn. Detective
Owens made the arrest The specific
charge is acting in concert to commit
grand larceny. Fater was held for the
grand jury in $4,000 bail and Behan
was held in $1,000 bail until next Mon
day, so that he could procure counsel.
Behan is married and lives at 1924
Jamaica Avenue, Woodhayen. He is
twenty-five years Old After the hear
ing. Magi Schwab said:
"Ths administration, headed by
Mayor Hylan, l know wants the law
carried out in every respect 1t is a
terrible thing that member Of the
Police Department should be charged
with such crime. If the policeman
is not guilty | am sure every aid will
be given him"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
200 Patients Suued
From, Panic at Fire
Phone Girls at LenOx Hill
Hospital Stay at Posts
in Flames and Water

Two hundred and sixty bedridden
patients in the Lenox Hill Hospital, ,
Seventy seventh Street and Park Ave-
nue., were saved from a panic by the
calmness Of nurses and patients yes
terday afternoon during fire which
destroyed the operating rooms on the
fourth floor of the hospital admins
tration building.
The fire started from defective wire
progress. The hospital, formerly the
German Hospital, adjoins the Anna
Ottendorfer Dispensary. AS precau-
ton a triple alarm was sent in, and
seventeen fire companies responded
under the direction Of Chief John Ken
Ion.
The smoke spreading into the lower
floors Of two wings connected with the
administration building caused many
Of the patients to leap out Of their
beds. DR.. George F. Sauer, the super
intendent, summoning his staff Of
twenty physicians and 120 nurses, sent
them through the wards cautoning the
patients that the fire was trivial. By
this time blaze was pouring through
the glass roof of the operating rooms
and smoke was issuing from the
nurses rooms on the top floors.
The calmness of the medical staff
reassured the patients. Only a dozen
Of them had to be removed on account
of smoke. No one was injured. DR..
Sauer said the loss would be $4,000.
Charlotte Boden and Helen Kauf-
man, telephone operators, whose
switchboard was on a lower floor di-
rectly under the fire, remained at their
posts despite downpour Of water.
Firemen covered them with tarpaulins
to protect them while they answered
calls from relatives of patients.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Charter Change Indorsed
Aldermen Would Substitute
"Welfare" for s$Charities''

The Board of Aldermen passed a
resolution yesterday requesting the
Legislature to amend the charter Of
the greater city so that hereafter the
Department of Public Charities will be
known as the Department of Public
Welfare
Alderman Vladeck, the Socialist lead
er in the board, declared it made no
difference what the department was
called it remained charity neverthe-
less. He said if the city paid it's en-
ployees better wages there would not
be so large a demand for charity.
You might just as we'll call Tam
many Hall SUNDAY school," he said
ut would be Tammany Hall just the
same"
BY rising vote the aldermen adopt
ed resolutions on the death of William
A. Gramer, who for thirty years was
City Hall reporter.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Trade With Soviet Opposed
Defense Society Sends Telegram
of Protest to Lansing

The American Defense Society yes
'erday sent telegram to Secretary Of
State Lansing urging him TO take ac-
ton against the attempt being made
TO have the American government
enter into an exchange Of goods with
Russia.
The Defense Society is Of the opin-
ION that such an exchange would
mean physical. moral and vital aid 70
the enemies Of civilization" The so.
ciety is undertaking nation Wild.
campaign 10 prevent recognition Of
the Bolshcvists The organization. by
formal revolution. pledged itself 70 Oh,
pose me efforts Of business interests
N this country to carry on trade with
cove. Russia
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
$4,000 Verdict for
Corrigan Is Reversed
Court of Appeals Rules Jury
Should Not Have Awarded
Punitive Damages

ALBANY, Jan. 27--The Court Of Ap-
peas to-day ordered new trial Of the
libel suit which rcsute din a verdict
for $4,000 in favor Of Magistrate
Joseph f: Corrigan, of New York, and
against George Bronson Howard and
the Bobbs Merrill Publishing Company,
author and publisher Of Goods Man.
The Appellate Division had cut the ver-
dict to s25,O00
The Court Of Appeals ruled that the
trial jury had no right to award puni-
tive damages against the publishing
company and that it should have linn
ited its verdict to the actual damages
suffered by Corrigan
"God's Man" contained as one of its
characters magistrate named Judge
La Corrigan," who was portrayed in
anything but complimentary aspect.
The Bobbs Merrill Company withdrew
the book from circulation after Corri-
gan claimed it ibeiled him.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Son Wants Mother Removed
As Buff's Administrafri,

William Baff, Of ~ East 1O6th Street.
applied to the Surrogates Court YES
tcrday for the removal Of his mother.
Mrs. Fannie Baff, as administrative Of
the estate Of his father. Barnet Baff.
the Vest Washington Market poultry
dealer who vas slain in 1914 by gun
men.
baff said his mother had failed TO
'lle an account Of her husbands cs-
tate or to have it appraised Surro-
gate Foley signed an order directing
"a hrs. Haff 70 show cause on Friday why
she shopM 9ot 10 removed
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
You HA We the Furniture at
astonishingly lou prices.

true, that the explanation was
forthcoming, I'VE have been
handicapped by the unusual condi.
lions, and have just had to make
The best of them.
This furniture of your is Wana.
maker furniture, up to the Wana.
maker standard.
Taking the class of furniture
usually termed little furniture"
small tables of many types and
styles, book racks, muffin stands.
etc, etc.-your stock has real dis
tinction. There is no mere filling
in Of floor space with whatever
could be had from a market that
had been cleared of its best. no
placing of this furniture widely
scattered over a broad area to Gre
ate an impression.
In every classification of furnj.
ture you covered your case lust az
fully as you did in these men
toned classes.
You have the furniture. and you
have it at astonishingIy low prices.
Your stock occupies a novel
position in the merchandise world.
for there is no furniture which
costs as much to produce and is
sold SO low.
My investigation was based on
reckonings of mathenlat teal exact
ness, and every class of furniture
was compared and considered
But investigators are entitled to
their enthusiasm after they have
established by cool, deliberate cal
culations the facts on which the
enthusiasm is based. and 7 must
record my most enthusiastic ap.
proval.
Now, I was free to observe whet
the public thought Of this furn;-
ture event.
There was no doubt what the
public thought.
They went into this sale with
rush. When they had chosen what
they wanted, they stayed with it
until sold" tag was securely at
tached to it.
No wonder that a woman who
had set her heart on lovely
davenport rushed to the phone and
called up her husband. giving her
enthusiastic approval of this piece,
while she excitedly insisted that he
come right up and look at it. keep
ing her eyes on the davenport as if
in fear Of losing it, while in clear
and unnistakable manner she
argued with him that there was no
time to be lost, declaring she
wouldn't think of waiting until to-
morrow. She finally closed the
phone with "Come on right up
here now. I am going to sit on
this davenport until you get here"
And she did.
Men and women were equally
interested.
One family had the loveliest
time imaginable selecting a living
room table. They had been every
where, seen everything They were
a unit when they came to the
Wanamaker Furniture. and when
they had made their selections the
father said: "Now we are all sat-
istied, let's have luncheon"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Grand Jury Calls Gibbs

1t was learned yesterday that let
ter has been mailed to Judge Louis D.
Gibbs, requesting him to appear be-
fore the Bronx County Grand Jury to-
morrow morning
The summoning of Judge Gibbs be-
fore the grand jury follows the &C
quittal by a jury in Judge Gibbs's court
of Patrolman John Morris, of the Alex
nnder Avenue Station, January %. He
has subsequently been rearrcsted and
relndicted on charges of bribery
The Bronx County Grand Jury is
making an ivestigation Of the pa
trolman's case
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28

Newspapers have devoted col
umns to the conditions that gov
ern the Furniture market, and the
consequent shortage and high
prices.
One Of the leading papers re-
Gently predicted that the scarcity
of Furniture would not be re-
lieved for five years at least.
One of the best known trade
journals of the lumber industry
supplied statistics that were in
proof Of the most disconcerting
facts, both as to scarcity and
price.
An authority on furniture and
the furniture market told me that
it would be impossible to meet the
demands for furniture, and that
prices would advance.
And so l started forth to inves-
tigate conditions as I should find
them.
Was there a scarcity of furni-
was it?
The surest way to determine
this was to go right to the New
York customers source of supply
the New York dealers in furni-
ture.
Furniture houses that supply
dealers and interior decorators
were visited.
These houses gave confirmation
of all the pessimistic reports on
the outlook as to furniture.
Then to the shops that made
furniture on the premises or in
out of the way places of business;
but they couldn't take any orders,
not even if you left the price open
and agreed to take the rise, which
they said was sure to come in
labor and materials.
Next, the furniture shop which
carried not a large stock, but just
some choice pieces, was visited.
When I asked about prices, the
dealer said
"Price is not the question. /
can get any price, if could only
get the furniture"
Then the furniture stores, where
the stocks were on hand. What a
relief to be able to deal with the
actual.
After I had seen several of
these stocks, there was no longer
any chance Of doubling the short
age.
When shortage of upholstered
furniture, which was apparent
everywhere, was recognized and
commented upon these firms told
Of the unsuccessful struggle to get
goods, Of the terrific prices that
were being paid for this kind of
work, and numerous difficulties
that had resulted in their small
showing.
In some places, which had form
erly carried dozen styles of bed
room furniture, there were only
half the number, and less, and
these stores said that they were
fortunate to have even that num-
Der under the present circum-
stances.
In smaller furniture, many
stores had almost nothing. One
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Jailed for Biting His Wife

Snderio Ansclino, forty-five years
old. of 10 Stanton Street, was arraigned
yesterday before Magistrate Douras. in
Essex Market Court, charged by his
wife. Nellie, with biting her cheek.
what do you mean by biting your
wife's cheek?" demanded the court
DO you think you're cave man p"
~ love my wife" the prisoner re-
plled. II just wanted TO kiss her"
"That's no way to show your affec-
tion." the magistrate said. Thirty
days on Blackwell's Island"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
More than a Million Dollars of Furniture for nU
rooms, at savings of 10 to 33 per cent
SntbC
Reproductions of
Old English Glass
Au Qudtrien,e

Complete sets Of old glass;
hne and equality of
acneVenen u Quatrleme In weight and
texture this glass resembles closely
people VINO familiar glass
asonh them by telling them the glass
England by much the by
That people always
Au Quareme When thing is DID, tell them a repro
ducton partially history-what
old, what
Two Sets in the Collection
Two the collection English
are typlcally lovely design color. amber
remarkable color itself all
produced by of
lot hat reason In
tunber finger bowls, and hundred
and thlrty-three the $4,000
OF Lovely Apple Green
another set carved quantity growing and step
cutting 1t particularly apple green verv
me effect very lovely One hundred thirteen this set
Price $1,5O0.
Fourth floor Build
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Dies in a Lime Vat

Bernard Bromback, night engineer at
the dye works of A. b. Ansbacher e.
Co., 80 North Seventh Street, Brook
lyn, last night climbed to the top oe
lime vat to adjust some pulleys. He
lost his foothold, slipped into the vat
and was burned to death Fircmen
recovered his body
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Girl Tries to Take Poison

Philomena Giela, thirteen years old,
Of 437 East Hath Street, tried to drink
iodine yesterday because her name was
not read among the pupils who are to
graduate next week Srom Public School
SO at 24l East l19th Street Another
girl knocked the bottle from her hand
She was taken to the Harlem Hospital
in "A serious condition.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28

they had not been able to get any
thing in small furniture for
months, and that they had prac-
tically nothing left over after the
holidays And so the story went,
and
came TO Wanamaker's
firm in the belief that the Furni-
ture situation offered unsurmount-
able difficulties.
I entered these floors of Wana-
maker on the opening day, with a
lit can't be d0ne' manner, and a
"ShOW me" air, feeling that Wana-
makers will have something to do
to convince me.
And I went into the section of
upholstered furniture, for every
store had agreed that this was the
weakest point Of their furniture
stocks and that it was impossible
to guard against here.
But the shortage which had
been insisted upon as absolute,
and from which no one had es-
capped, failed to materialize!
Here was the largest stock of
upholstered furniture in New
York. as big as the two largest
stocks elsewhere.
Every kind of upholstered fur
niture that was worth while was
laid out on this floor in front
Of me.
Certainly the price must be tre-
mendous, I said to myself. Here
must be the rift in the lutte,
But no! the prices were exceed
ingly moderate Knowing the con-
ditions which surround the manu-
featuring of upholstered furniture
today, l am more mystified by the
low prices of Wanamaker furni-
ture than by the fact that you
have so large a collection.
Bedroom furniture and dining
room furniture were next to be
inspected. There was suite after
suite, and pieces to be used sepa-
rately, and all of them showed the
same discriminating taste that
characterizes Wanamaker furni-
ture.
There was no record here of
conditions that I had observed
elsewhere. Why, at one furniture
store there had been such an evi-
dent falling away from their own
former recognized quality stand
ard, and the fact was so glaringly
New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Business certainty
has it's temptations

So has a professional life, and
leisure also has temptations; so
has poverty.
Preaching and school teaching
also frequently test mans quail
ity.
Business and uprightness are
not two things only to be joined
together by high pressure.
Temptations are not trihes, but
an honest business man could do
business as rightly on Sunday, so
far as integrity is concerned, as
on any other day.
1t is not done on Sunday be-
cause of the distinctive and "all
absorbing claims" of the Lawgiver
of the Universe.
Young man, entering business
life, be good at heart and work
conscientiously on honest prin-
cipleS and when the balance of the
year is struck there will be much
to the good.
There is no harm in being rich
if the rich mans spirit is right.
This store has broad conception
OF its duty to its employees and to
the public.
(Signcd)
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
He Looked Like LEROY.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
OAKLAND, Calf, July 80. - Oak
land police today attempted to trace
baggage alleged to have been left
aboard a train leaving Chicago for
Oakland last Sunday by a man said
by H. ]. Bruth, of Oakland, a passen-
ger on the train to answer the descrip-
ton of Eugene Leroy, suspect in the
mysterious New York-Detroit trunk
murder case.
Bruth reported to the Oakland police
that the mysterious stranger left the
train at a water tank near the Cali
fornia-Nevada line, only taking away
part of his baggage and despite the
fact that he had ticket for Oakland.
He said the man bought newspapers
at almost every station and read only
the front pages and the accounts of
the trunk murder.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
Unfair Provisions

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. l
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 30
Heads of the four big railway broth
erhoods were in session here today
for discussion of what was termed
the unfair provisions" of the rail.
way increases granted recently.
Attention, it was understood, is
being given the awards made 70
switchmen, passenger and shop en-
ployes, maintenance of way and
structures workers and certain work
ing conditions.
Those in session were Warren &.
Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers; w. G.. Lee,
head of the Brotherhood OF Railroad
Trainmen; W. S. Carter, president Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men, and L. E. Sheppard, head of the
Order of Railway Conductors.
when we reach a definite conclu-
sion, it will be forwarded to the rail.
road board at Washington" Lee said
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
KIDNAPPED
BY SINN FEM
Brigadier General Lucas Made His
Escape From captors, But is Am
pushed on Way to
Safety. -

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DUBLIN, July 30.-Brigadier Gener-
al Lucas, who was kidnapped by Sim
Feiners from hunting lodge recently,
boarded military lorry near COLA,
Tipperary today and escaped, accord
ing to adyices here
Sim Feiners pursued the lorry and
a group waited in ambush when the
vehicle came along suburban road.
Two soldiers in the lorry were shot
dead and three wounded. The second
lorry got away without any of the
crew being hurt Lucas was taken to
British military headquarters at Tip
perary.
COLA is eight miles northwest of Tip
perary on the Tipperary-Limerick rail-
way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
CROWN PRINCE
TO RETURN
To Visit Berlin Incognito, Attending
to Some Real Estate Busi-
ness, But Not Talking
Politics

limited Press Leased Wire Service
BERLIN, July 3O.--The former
crown prince plans to return quietly
to Germany in the near future, to
attend to some real estate business,
a person close to the Hohenzollern
family told The United Press today.
Frederick William intends to visit
his fatherland incognito, spending
much of his time with relatives at
Potsdam 1t was emphasized that no
political significance can be attached
to this trip and that the government
may grant either open or tacit per-
mission.