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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21

been placed there 10 years before by
Myers for just such an emergency i,
confronted him now. He seized the
rife from its oonccalment, thrust the
muzzle around the door. pressed il
against the bandits side and fired The
bandit sank down on the bank floor.
Don, shoot again." he said. The
other robbers fed. Myer, gave chase
and fired after the fleeing bandits with
on, effect. Then he came back to, the
rohber he had fclied.
I'm Henry Starr" the bandit said
simply.
Starr was taken to the county all and
placed on a cot in a cell The doctor.
who were called said there was no
chance OF his recovery. for the bullet
had severed his spinal cord. He fingered
for four days. conscious all the time.
His wife came from Tulsa, and his
son from Mu'i;ogee, where he was in
school
Go straight" was his deathbed mes
sage to his son.
Ard that was the end of Henry
starr-Fhilaiclphia Record.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21

Instead he marched J. NJ Reed.
customer OF the bank. to back room,
where J. B. Charles, prcsiden. OF the
bank. was. Then he went to the tell
cr's cage, threw flour sack at Lee
Patrick. vice president OF the bank and
said: Empty the safe and put it in
that sack"
Boy Shoots Bandit.
The money in the front cage was
taken, and then Starr demanded action
abou, the funds in the vault at the rear
OF the room.
Open that safe the bandit de-
manded.
81 can't unlock it," Patrick answered,
ITS time locked
You'll open /, or III blow your
damned head off"
81 can't open it." Patrick persisted
Don't you know what time lock is:'
ITS 9 o'clock now, and yor ought
to have /, open. You had better open
i, damned quick or III kill YOU"
I. was soon after that shooting be-
gan TO Be heard al through Stroud''
streets. News OF the hold.up had
spread through the little town. Paul
Curry. 2O-year-old boy, ran through
the streets seeking a revolver to at
tack the bandits, and at last found a
weapon in a meat market. q niurderous
short-barrclcd rife that carried big,
snuh-nosed lead bullet It was Used by
the butcher to kill hogs
Starr could have shot the boy down
as he approached, but instead he kept
peekinE away at one of his old enemies.
a deputy sheriff, farther down the
street The boz fred. and Starr crum-
pied up with bullet in his hip. Louis
Est {. Stars aide and leader OF the
attack on the other hand, also fell with
hulle, in tn, hip The other bandits
took alarm and fed
Starr was carried to doctors office
above the bank he had robbed.
What did the Kid shoot me with 2"
the bandi, asked He was told. "Ahog
sun-and kid. too" he laughed, dc
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21
AIRSHIP MOORIyG.

The lack Of means of holding dir
igible in a high wind when no hangar
for the airship is available. heretofore
one Of the FreFtcst obstacles to the ex-
tcnsiyc use of lightcr-than-air aircraft.
has been filled efficiently and econoui-
ieslly BY the development OF a folding
steel moorinF mast, says Popular Me-
ehanies The newly developed mootirE
mast changes all this b. providing the
means whereby any aviation field NAV.
for nominal sum, equip it-elt for re-
ecivirE this tyrc Of aircraft regardless
of wind conditions,
The rrr7r;rr mast IS made entirely
OF steel with tho exception Of the con-
crete base by which it is anchored m
tho e5tth. and with practically no al
tcr7tion whatever. can accommodate ary
sirship from a pony blimp to the lars-
est Zeppelin
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21

Finally pursuit became so warm for
the bandit that, in company with a pal
called "Stumpy," he set out for New
Mexico, blazing 4 trail of hold-ups as
they went. In June, 1908, the two held
Up a bank at Au,ity. Col. and after
making a rich haul, struck for the Mex
lean border. They kept on the move
in the Southwest until May, 1909, when,
through the treachery of close friend,
Starr was arrested at mining camp
in Arizona near the Mexican border
and returned to Colorado.
In November of that year he was sen
fenced to from seven to 25 years in the
Canon City penitentiary. In the Colo
rado prison, as in the others in which
he had been confined, he was a model
prisoner and was pardoned after scrv-
ing less than five years of his sentence.
But he did not keep his promise to be
good. Instead he returned to Oklsho-
ma and organized gang never equslcd
in daring in the wild Southwest.
A Sensational Robbery.
The Stroud bank robbery, probably
the most sensational of all his career,
followed in March. 1915.
Starr and two other men walked into
the Stroud National Bank. at Stroud,
Okla. and called: Hands up" while
four other bandits of the gang invad-
cd the First National Bank. just a
block down the street, with the same
command.
Dangling in the from. door of the
Stroud National Bank was a bis
placard, signed by the governor of
Oklahoma. saying:
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21
TALKING OVER THE SCENARIO

President Roosevelt pardoned Starr
in 1902 'lf / let YOU ou, will you go
straight" Mr.. Roosevelt asked him
Yes the bandit promised-and he
did-for a long time.
Grateful that he should be given an
other chance Starr returned to the
Cherokee Nation. where he engaged in
the real estate business. He prospcred
for lie had hundreds OF friends who
still believed in him
A year after his release he married
Miss Ollie G. Griffin, a part Cherokee
and a girl of refinement and culture
She had been teaching in the schools,
of the Territory. Later child was
born to them, and Starr. mindful of hi,
gratitude 10 the President, named the
boy Theodore Roosevelt Starr. He
gathered his relatives around him and
through his efforts his mother, his SIS
ter and wife were able to file on allo,-
rrcnts OF land. He was proud Of his
record. for he was living an honest, up
righ; life-proud Of his home and fam
ily and interested in all things pertain
ing to the welfare Of his state and
country.
But when rumors reached his ears
that the governor Of Arkansas had
made rcquisi,ion to the governor OF
Oklahoma for him for the Bcrtouvillc
bank robbery lJ years before, he turned
again to crime. not knowing that infu-
ential friends of his had persuaded
Governor Haskell, OF Oklahoma. to re-
fuse to honor the Arkansas rcquisition.
Before word reached the outlaw that
he was safe from the old charge he
was a frEitivc because of recently
committed crimes.
The Lone Horsemon.
During the Winter of 1907 and 1905
he stayed under cover in Oklahoma.
Banks were robbed in Kansas. Nilsson
ri. Oklahoma-sl in the daytime and
within few days of each other In
each case a lone hofseman bore down
swiftly upon an ursuspcotiur town,
robbed quickly and fed to the silent
hills Of the OssFc country. Perhaps
Starr was not tic rider in all these
cases. but he got tho blame for it,
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spite his injuries. Il wouldn't have
minded if it had been a man"
You're Henry Starr, aren', you'"
someone asked who was vaguely IA
miliar with the bandits appearance
'Yes, I'm Start" he admitted. The
jigs up now"
For this robbery Starr was sentenced
to serve 25 years i. the Oklahoma Peni-
tcntiay, bu, in four years he was out
again.
Parolcd by Governor Robinson from
his sentence for the Stroud hold-up,
Starr spent the latter half of 1919
around Tulsa, where he made his
home. His wife dying, he married
again in February, 1920.
Although he had learned the trades
of glovcmaker and baker during his
long prison terms. he did not follow
them. He next made his "upliit" movie
OF his bandit days. but it was not the
financial success he had anticipated
and he gave it Up in December OF last
year.
He disappeared from Kansas City
and nothing more was seen Of him in
his accustomed haunts Then came
bank robbery in selirman. No. in
which old-timcrs could read the hand
writing of Henry Starr. It was done
in his accustomed style. except that
notorear had been substituted for the
horses.
His Time Arrives.
Some days after ,ha, rnotorear con-
tainins four men driving south stopped
in front of the Peoples National Bank
Of Harrison. Three got cut and went
inside. One remained at the wheel of
the car. Inside the bank the trio drew
rcvolvers and covered the bank off
eials and several customers. w J.
Mvcr'. q former president ~ the bank
present at the tire, together with the
othcss. was backed into the steel vault
by the swarthy man. while the other
robbers began qg.etiy to pick up the
money behind the counter.
Inside the vault was a rife that had
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21

Starr took no notice of 1t, or a com
,arion iodger, which read;
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-21

last leader OF the old-tirnc
outlaw gangs is dead Henry
Starr died with his boots on
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

more. III we must pay you dollars"
one manufacturer remarked to me "our
whole industry becomes a mere exchange
speculation. dependent upon mark huc-
tuations. II ! choose to speculate | can
do so with much less loss of time direct
~ or the Stock Exchange"
Indeed the successful cotton manufac-
turers in Germany to-day are those
who know how to handle the financial
rather than the manufacturing side OF
their business. Many OF them only buy
cotton when they have found a buyer
for the finished goods. In order to
cover a possible exchange loss they buy
their cotton closing for sale after long
distance telephone at the same time
The prosperity of the German textile
Industry and with this the capacity of
the Germans to buy American cotton IS
linked with rhe larger problem of Ger
aan sclvabilty Production is bound TO
be limited as long as markets remain as
restricted rs they are at present. Until
a stable medium of exchange is found
in which the German manufacturer can
sell his goods as we'll as buy them, he is
bound to remain conservative and only
buy TO meet his most urgent needs
At the same time If the American cot
ton grower now sells his cotton at Il
pilcN-M Mitlch VIII permit tue beriidn iidH-
ufacturer 70 put 1t within reach OF his
buying public at home he must do so at
price which would hardly pay for pick
ing the cotton.
This Is a dilemma which has nothing
to do with the method followed In closing
4 deal and is one which no amount of
negotiations can evade 7 have followed
the course Of some six different attempts
Of important American groups to dispose
of Gotten here in Germany Prelminaries
were oftentimes completed only to be
blocked by the bobbing Up of one of
these obstacles.
German textile production and export,
dependent as 1t Is on the outside
world for everything except refinement.
can only thrive again when the wheels
of international trade begin 10 turn
smoothly.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

rings attached 10 the under brim instead
Of 10 the ears Black or colored beads
often hang down from the brim in rows.
sometimes falling to the waistline.
Parisians are commencing TO wear
hats In the evening again. Hats were
not worn AZ the June fetes with the
exception of the Pavlova fete al Baga-
telle, when the most gorgeous Russian
headdresses we're worn partly because
the affair was 50 entirely Russian and
partly because the evening was so very
chilly At the Pre- Catalan and Chateau
DE- Madrid gala dinners during June and
the first week in July no evening hats
whatever were worn. The lace and
tulle hats loaded down with paradise
that were So extensively worn ia-i sum-
mer had disappeared altogether. But
only within tho last week Paris seems
70 be dining in hats again This Is
probably due 70 the fact that the res
taurants are overcrowded with tourists
who have been sightseeing all dav and
go 20 the restaurants for dinner TO see
something OF the Partisan night life and
do not 20 in full evening dress.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
SHOE HORN SKIRTS
VYING With HOOPS
Tickle Dame Fashion Knows
Only That She Wants
Longer Dresses.
TO GET RID OF BLACK
Paris Dressmakers Attract
Tourists by Showing Their
Autupn Models.
TO GET RID OF BLACK

Special Correspondence 10 THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. bv THE NEW YORK HEaALp
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. July 81. !
The few Parisians and the many
tourists that are left in Paris have
turned their attention almost entirely
to the dressmakers and milliners, since
there are no more fetes and grand balls
to occupy them. and the dressmakins
esta plishments are swarming with
American buyers. who are apparently
preparing for an unusual winter sea-
son despite the cry of poor business in
America. Some of the dressmakers
are already showing their autumn
models, though the big fashion shows
will not take place until August. They
say that there are so many more
buyers here than they expected that
they have been forced to have a few
autumn models ready TO show early 70
keep the buyers from being dis
couraged and becoming impatient.
According to these first autumn
shows these same mixture and con-
trast Of styles that were seen at the
races in June are to be the dominant
features of the coming season. Those
who admire the beauty of the Empress
Eugene can wear her full hooped
skirts sweeping the ground and be the
smartest of the smart, and the next
day skirt that requires shoe horn
for adjustment can be worn with equal
assurance of being in the top notch Of
fashion
The situation is curious. Dame
Fashion has never been so tickle and
uncertain in her taste. She seems 10
be cropping in the dark and does not
know which way to turn. She knows
that she wants her skirts longer and
she wants 10 get rid of so much black,
but beyond those two points she IS
lost
As 10 the length of the skirt. which
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

DAYS. He undoubtedly was thinking of
trade in certain lines Of luxuries, be-
cause German manufacturers generally
agree that the buying capacity OF the
German public Is reduced to about 30 to
35 per cent OF what 1t was before the
war.
This means that the textile manu-
facturer now is obliged 10 look abroad
for his markets But surrounding
neutrals are putting up customs barriers
against dumping. Whether this was
actual dumping or dumping resulting
from slump in the mark. the effect on
their home markets is just the same,
ana they propose to protect themselves
against IT,
Mr.. LLOYD George made 1t clear that
the British propose to protect their home
Industry by maintaining a large import
tax on German goods. This was obviously
the real motive behind British insistence
upon the 30 per cent. import tax as a
sanction. II was introduced at a time
when unemployment was spreading and
cheap German goods were cutting the
market 1t could hardly have been for
revenue because in one month it netted
only $50 900. Indeed, South America.
South Africa. Spain and the hope OF
getting new markets in the East is the
total of the German textiles,export hori-
zon in the near future.
FewsBuyers From America.
At present there are few American
textiles buyers in Germany. They find
most socalled staples cheaper at home
than here. German cotton goods. much
OF it. is now OF too inferior quality to
find place on the American market,
Ready made clothing is also not adapted
for export. A German maker statrs that
it would cost him $35 to put a suit Of
clothes on the New York market, duties
paid. There@is, however. q limited ex
port OF gloves, underwear and hosiery.
Americans are now buying chamoisette
and lace
Restr icted at home and abroad means
that manufa cturers will continue to 20
slowly in buying American cotton. With
the exception Of q $1,000. 900 credit deal
which is Just nearing completion there
have been no big cotton deals made
with Germany. and under present con-
dtions are not likely to be. The manu-
facturer goes to Bremen where there
are now $50. 900 bales of American cot
ton in band and buys a bale or two
much as he would buy thread German
maximum consumption during the next
few years. experts tell THE NEW YORK
HERALD correspondent. is limited to
roo 900 bales annually.
The willingness Of American cotton
growers to give the German manufac-
turers dollar credit for six months OF
six years is much greater than the
eagerness Of the Germans to accept II
! They want mark credit and now that
the mark has dropped again to rs or
the dollar. they are buving practically
no cotton AT all banker who handles
much Of this business tells me that he
has not transacted a sale since the
mark began TO depreciate a week ago
Such slumps are what the German
manufacturer fears when he enters into
dollar credit transaction A drop r
the mark at the time Of paying his deb'
| might eat up his entire profits and
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
WILFRED SEVEN BLUNT
SAID TO BE VERY ILL
Has Had Hectic Career, SerU-
ing Time for Speech.

Special Gable 10 THE NEW YORK HrnAIp
Copyright, 1921, bv THE NEW YoaK HFRAtr
New York Herald Bureau
London, Aug. g.
Wilfred Seven Blunt, one OF the pict-
uresque figures of the Victorian age. Is
seriously III at his Sussex home. Mar
got" CNlrs. Asquith) referred to him in
her book as one Of the most handsome
men OF her earlier days in society.
Blunt has had a hectic career. Be-
sides writing verses. being imprisoned
fer a. speech made in Ireland. publishing
diaries revealing intimate, verbatim and
embarrassing conversations OF Winston
Churchill. now Colonial Secretary, he
has travelled extensively and keeps a
stud of Arab horses. 1t has been his
custom TO dress in Arabian costume
when with his horses.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

Special Correspondence 10 THE NEW York
HERALD.
Copyright, 1927. bv THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
GERMAN STUDENTS EAGER
FOR AMERICAN ATHLETICS
Want U. S. Director to Introduce Games and Methods
See Value in Scheme as an Antdote for
Former Mitarstic Poison

moral antidote needed to save German
youth from further moral ruin now
that the military service has been
abandoned"
The Worlds Student Christian
Federation reports having received
requests for funds for athletic equip
ment from various sources, including
the request for funds for athletics for
professors. and it intends 10 do all
in its power to further the movement
Efforts will be made TO obtain the
services of the present director of
athletics for the American Army OF
Occupation as soon as the occupation
comes TO an end
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
WOMEN OF ALSACE
ASK TREATY CHANGE
Mass Meeting Called to Aid
Their Standardization.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Aug. &,

Special Cable to THE NEW YoaK HEaALD.
Copyright 1921. bv THE New YORK Hg7ALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Paris, Aug. 9.
a mass meeting at Strasbourg dis
cussed how 70 revive the treaty Of Yer
sailles so as 70 enable the wives OF one
time German residents OF Alsace-Lor-
raine TO obtain the French nationality
which was automatically accorded 10
their husbands.
Thousands of women are reported TO
have suffered as result OF the latest
flaw discovered In the treaty. which pro-
vides that applications for the reinstate-
ment Of French citizenship must be fled
before January, 1921. Women who gave
up their French nationality when they
married Alsatians naturally thought that
the restoration Of their husbands French
voting rights carried with IL their own
standardization. but the courts have de-
cided otherwise
II is held here that the only solution
OF the problem possible Is to add a new
protocol to the treaty which must be
signed by Germany and the Allied and
Associated Powers
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

Special Gable to THE NEw YoEK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. bD THE NEW Iosk HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin, Aug. Q. !
American athletics have been hailed
as substitute for army training by
the German student body and the
National Conference of German Y. NJ
c. A. secretaries has decided to OBJ
tain the services of an American ath-
letic director to introduce American
games and methods.
The change in the attitude of Ger
man students Is characterized by a
resolution adopted by a student club
in Hanover stating that sport was "a
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Turning Away Americans.

Turning away "A americans.
For that reason when she Il not bring-
ing another dressmaker into court for
copying her models she is turning away
American BUYERS saying that she does
not care 10 sell 10 commissionaries. The
consequence Is that the Americans are
falling all over themselves 10 get her
| models by fair means or foul. But some
| day She will turn away one too many
and the whole army viii then turn
against her
Only last week when a fashionable
American woman entered her shop on
the recommendation OF a friend she was
asked for her credentials and her Place
Of abode She gave the name OF the
hotel at which she was stopping and the
dressmaker sent Immediately 10 inquire
about her. 1t seems that new hotel
clerk was at the desk and did not take
the trouble TO look the lady up. but
merely said that he did not know her
The next day the dressmaker refused 10
show her the models. The woman ex-
planned about the new clerk but the
dressmaker was almost insulting. After
a second visit TO the hotel the dress
maker realized the error and seut an
apology, inviting the woman to the shop
She returned just long enough to say
that she would not take the dress at any
price that the dressmaker should learn
70 discern the difference between a lady
and a commissionare.
The miliners seem to be havng q
hard time TO produce anything new or
startling. There are dozens Of American
milliners here purchasing models for
the autumn. but they all complain that
tho French modistes are not at their
best They are producing the same
the last four years. Some of the Amer
lean buyers, who have been watching
the tendency to Spanish effects. were
thrifty enough to go to Spain and buy
the headgear of the different types Of
bull fighters and turn them over to the
French modistes TO give them some
IDEAS The consequence is that they
have worked out many shapes along
these Spanish lines.
Ermine Hat I'm July.
Mrs. Gurnee Mum appeared at lunch
con at the Ritz yesterday. the very hot
test day Of the summer. in a huge ermina
hat which attracted no end Of attention.
An ermine hat In July was queer at
best and with the thermometer at ninety
In the shade it was belond reason, but
the hat WAS becoming, so she was for
given, The crown was entirely of
ermine with bunch Of tails at one
side. And the huge faring brim OF
white georgette was outlined by a band
Of errnne. II suggested snow TO such
an extent in its pure whiteness that the
fact Of its being fur in July might have
been lost sight Of II there had been
only one cool breath Of air.
White felt hats continue to be very
smart. They are huge in size and are
trimmed only with a tie of crepe around
the crown There are not nearly so
many black velvet hats as one usually
sees worn in Paris in July
One novel idea seems 70 be the wear
ing Of necklaces round the hat instead
Of round the neck and huge jet ear