The Washington times., 1921-11-18
IN
A s UMP'
SPEECH AS
PROPOSAL
Show Girl Draws Up Love Balm
Papers-Admits Interest in
Oil Wells.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Miss
Anna Elizabeth Niebel, eighteen
year-oid Washington girl and one
Of the magnetic Follies, coughed
delicately this afternoon and drew
the = bedclothes close about her
neck.
Pink silk pajamas vanished be-
meath the thick white coverlets.
Only Dainty Arms Exposed.
There remained exposed only the
graceful arms which helped lovely
Miss Niebel to win honors in last
summers beauty contest in Washing
ton-lovely arms which also. prob
ably, featured in the romance al
legged in Miss Niebel's $4,000 suit
just begun against Congressman
Manuel Herrick, Oklahoma's 100 per
cent pure legislator.
Don't let the draught in, dearies."
Anna was hardly eighteen when
tween the twin beds in the tiny bed
chamber of the tiny apartment at 155
West Forty-sixth street, as The
Washington Times correspondent
breezed in.
You know" she confided to the
reporter, "she has to be very care
full, with such a terrible cold"
"Of course, mother dear" said
Anna sweetly, and then the re-
porter
"As 1 was saying before was
interrupted, my suit against Con-
gresham Herrick is entirely the re-
suit of his own cruelty and neglect
after teaching me to believe he loved
me and intended to make me his
wife"
Ann awas hardly eighteen when
Congressman Herrick won her prom
Use to become his wife," Mrs. Niebel
interjected.
"The Congressman first approach
ed me by letter" went on Anna,
looking at her mother.
He said he had been attracted
to be by my pictures published In
the newspaper carrying on tho
beauty contest. He asked IL 1 cared
to meet a gentleman caller
Last August he called for the
first time" Miss Niebel did not make
clear whether this visit was on Jnvi-
tation or initiative.
Stump Speech Proposal.
On this occasion, Miss Michel said.
Congressman Herrick proposed to her
in a stump speech two hours long.
Two hours to make the proposal
and two weeks to forget 1t, that was
his record, she declared.
The proposal, according to Miss
Niebel, came as the climax to the
campaign waged by Congressman Her
rick last summer to find true and
loving wife for q man 100 per cent
pure and 9S per cent handsome"
In his campaign the Congressman
sent out to fifty Washington beau
ties missionaries to discover IL any
girls qualification fitted her to be-
come the wife of Congressman.
"He had told me he had Just piles
Of money and oil wells"
1t was only lately that she learned
that he wanted his proposal con-
sidered part OF his investigation into
beauty contests, to prevent which he
introduced a bill in the House later.
Miss Niebel had her mother appointed
guardian ad litem so that she might
obtain balm for her bruised heart.
Complaint Is Drawn Up.
Papers in the suit against Con-
gressman Herrick by Miss Niebel.
were drawn up yesterday by Oscar
Meyerson and signed by the youth
| full actress.
Miss Niebel, accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Niebcl, q
widow, visited the lawyers office yes
terday afternoon, and the young
actress told her story, all of which IL
embodied in the complaint.
The story told by Miss Niebel is
| the same as the one she gave out
Wednesday, after her mother Rad
been appointed her guardian al Item
| by the Supreme Court, in preparn.
tion Of contemplated action against
| the Congressman.
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