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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03
Domestic

Six alleged boOtleggers were arrest
ed at New York, following a revolver
fight with police in a launch in the
East river. More than fifty shots were
fired. Three hundred bottles of rum
were seized.
A jury to try Arthur G. Burch, ac-
cused Of the murder of J. Bolton Ken
nedy, has been completed at Los An
geles, Cal 1t is composed of ten wom-
en- and two men.
Eight were killed, forty hurt and
seven are missing, following the col
lapse of the American theater, being
built in Brooklyn. All were wire
fathers working on scaffolds.
The steel and concrete bridge over
the Saint Francis river near Marked
Tree, Ark, was dynamited shortly
after midnight, according to Informal
ton received by the Frisco system
railroad officials at Memphis.
E. A. Kelly was acquitted at San
Antonio, Tex, of receiving deposits
| while the army bank conducted by
him at Fort Sam Houston was in
| solvent. Deposits were about $780,
900, mostly by enlisted men.
An order expelling Alexander Howat
and his followers in the Kansas min
ers' union for refusal to obey the or
ders of the international union was is
| sued by that organization at Pittsburg.
Kan.
| Lord George Riddell. who has been
acting as liaison officer between the
| press and the British delegation at
| Washington will sail for home on the
Aquitania, December 3, on urgent
| private business.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Major were
killed and Parker Major, father OF
Edwin, was seriously injured at De
catur, H., when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
an Illinois Central passenger train.
|
The Rialto, a moving picture thea
ter at New Haven, Conn, was burned
| At least four persons were killed and
more than eighty received hospital
| treatment.
| Henry Cade, q negro, was 1yncheC
in the forest near Sour Lake, Tex, by
300 men. He was accused of attack
ing Cleo Golfer, aged eight
|
New England was glazed over AM
its transportation and wire services
were interrupted after a two-da,
storm of sleet, snow and rain.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03
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IN SHORT FORM
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DOWN TO LIMIT.
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Washington

A presidential proclamation issued
at Washington designates next week
as Education week. in the United
States.
Commodity rates on wool and mOhair
from Texas to Boston and Duluth,
Mimi, were held by the Interstate
commission at Washington to be high
er than justified and the railroads
ordered to reduce rates.
The railroads will be given from
December II to p to justify in hear
ings the present level of transportation
charges, the interstate commerce com
mission at Washington announced in
making public a QUESTIONABLE.
Japan has not formally asked the
conference at Washington to alter the
SOB capital ship ratio. Following
statement that insistence on her part of
a revision upward of her share of
capital ships tonnage would wreck the
conference, Japanese delegates denied
any such intention.
Ships of four nations carried 80 per
cent Of the 100000 tons of cargo
which moved through the Panama
canal during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1921. American vessels led
all. others with a total of D, 163,OOO
tons, according to Washington reports.
Woman postal employees hereafter
will not suffer a change of status or
lose any rights in the service by mar
riage, Postmaster General Hays an
| nOunced at Washington.
Senator Borah has taken up arms at
Washington against President Har-
| ding's proposed association of nations
which, he says, is League Of Nations
| under different name.
Approval of 50 advances for agri-
| cultural and live stock purposes, ag
gregating $3,147 900, was announced
| by the War Finance corporation al
| Washington.
There is to be no reprimand fol
| the marine who, while guarding mails
kills hobo. He will be backed III
to the limit said Col. E. III. Shaugh
messy, second assistant postmaster
| general at Washington.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03

Fire in the business district of Fitz-
gerald Ga, wiped out several estah-
lishments and resulted in damage eSti-
small part OF. which is covered by in
surance.
Gus Saunders, alias Watts. of Chi
cagO, was sentenced to 80 years in
the state prison at Waupun in District
court at Eau Claire, Wis. when he
pleaded guilty to robbing the Augusta
State bank
Asserting she is the daughter of
Christine Nilsson the singer, who
died recently, Mrs. George F. Murray
of Worcester, Mass, has started suit
for the singers entire fortune, esti-
mated at about $15,000,0OO.
Following an attack on a seventeen
year-old girl-the third attack in as
many weeks-citiZens of the south
west section of Chicago are forming
vigilance committees to deal with the
epidemic of moron outrages.
Charles Hoffman. Wichita, Kan, de-
tective, who was shot through the alb
domen in gun fight with Eddie
Adams, desperate, there Tuesday, in
which Adams was killed, died of his
injuries.
Robbers looted Pennsylvania
railway express car carrying valuable
furs at Charlottesville, Ind The ship
ment was from New York to st. Louis.
Diplomas have been awarded to 500
prisoners of the penitentiary by Penn
sylvania State college, Warden Robert
E. McKenty announced at Philadel-
phia.
November records We're broken at
Salina, Kan, with a temperature of 8
above zero.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03

The Italian destroyer CentraurO
has gone down in the Mediterranean
off the port of Adalia during a storm,
according to a dispatch from Brindisi
Four persons We're killed and ten
others injured in a passenger train
collision at Duffel, near Antwerp.
Many families were made homeless
by fire that destroyed 30 fiat houses ON
Tenth avenue, Rosemount, q suburb of
Montreal.
The weekly statement of the I'm
perial Bank of Germany at Berlin, as
of November % shows a further in
crease of 1,277,772, 900 marks in note
circulation, the total being 96,463, $685.
900 marks.
DR.. Alfredo Caturegli. newly ap-
pointed Mexican minister to Germany,
has arrived at Berlin. His predecessor,
Balbino Davalos, has been transferred
to Stockholm.
Premier Lloyd George has pur-
chased from Lord Ashcombe a pOr-
ton of the Churt estate, which lies
about five miles from London. 1t is
situated in the midst of a heavily
wooded district.
Anti-Bolshevik forces have sur
rounded Kieff, where desperate fight
ing is in progress, according to a dis
patch to the Berlinski Tidens al
Copenhagen. Kieff is the capital OF
Ukrania.
Peruvian newspapers just received
in BuenOs Aires announce that Presi
dent Leguia's troops have been de.
feated by the revolutionists, who re
took Yurimaguas.
In addition to politics. signs are not
wanting that unemployment, with its
consequent poverty, is likely to cause
suffering in Ireland during the winter
according to Thomas Johnston Of
| Dublin.
Canada is to pay her tribute to hel
| unknown war dead. The body of al
unknown soldier from the Dominion
| will be brought from the western from
and buried beneath the Victory tower
| at Ottawa.
Japan won a victory at Washington
| in the attitude of approach to the Man
| churian question. An amendment t.
| the Root resolutions of principles, of
fered by Baron Kato, was adopted
| that directs the status quo in Man
] churia will be maintained.
| The career of Count Gregory, wh'
| is also known as Baron Greenebaum
| bogus nobleman, who was at one tim
| the pet of New York and Newpor
| society circles. came to an abrupt en-
| at Berlin when he dropped dead Il
| Moabit prison of heart failure.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03
Personal

Charles G. Patton, one of the best
known hOrticulturists in Iowa, died at
his home at Charles City. He was
eighty-nine years old
Gilbert Cox. father of former Gov
James NJ. Cox, died at his home in
Camden, o., after a protracted illness.
He was eighty -eight years Old
Frank D. Currier former congress
man, and author of the present fed
eral copyright law. died at his home
at Canaan, n. H., after lingering i'll
ness.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03
Sporting

Babe" Ruth has asked the owners
of the New York Yankees to pay him
a salary of 100000 next season. And
more than this, it is said that Colonies
Huston and Rupert look favorably
on the demand.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03

The career of Count Gregory, who
is also known as Baron Greenebaum,
bogus nobleman, who was at one time
the pet of New York and Newport
society circles. came TO an abrupt end
at Berlin when he dropped dead In
N!oabit prison of heart failure.
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
E1ERRICK BILL CALLED
REFLECTION ON CITY
Women Here More Ambitious Than Men; Talk
ing About Short Skirts, Not Legislation,
Says Rudolph de Zapp.

~ HE great majority of those who
attend lectures and other edu-
cational facilities in the even
ing are women and girls, according
to Rudolph de Zapp, president of the
Washington Salon and United Arts
Society. which conducts a free
French school attended by over 800
students, the men, with some excep-
tons, lettering on f street or spend.
ing their time on the movies or in
near-beer saloons.
II have long ago become con-
vinced," said Mr., de zapp, that
women and girls, generally speaking,
are more ANXIOUS anu aiuDluUuS 20
improve their minds than men.
am speaking from experience, hav-
ing superintended the Salons French
school for the last five years, and
having had under my direct charge
about 1900 students, the great ma
jority of whom were women"
The above opinion formed the in
troductory to an observation on the
part of Mr.. de Zapp on a bill intro.
duced in Congress by Congressman
Manuel Horrick of Oklahoma to
prevent newspapers from publishing
the addresses of those young women
whose pictures appear in the papers.
Mr.. de Zapp, who also is an
artist, said IT would he good thing
II some of the wise men on the
hill" would pay little more atten.
ton to their personal appearance
than always to pick on the women
and girls.
"It would he unfair TO say that
these young beauties had nothing
on their minds than their personal
looks" said Mr.. de Zapp. THE
great majority of them have APP
piled for admission to our French
school, which is known for it's
strict dlsciplin. and where they are
ohligaf ~ a''~ni - 'h0'r s'r''ics
The Washington times., 1921-08-28

or suffer the disgrace of an igno-
minious dismissal. This alone
proves conclusively to my mind
that these young ladies whom Mr..
Herrick would stigmatize by his bill
as weakminded nonentities have a
most commendable ambition to inn
prove their mind and acquire edu-
ca ton and culture"
Congressman Herrick's measure
is a reflection on the good name of
Washington: on it's fathers and
mothers and daughters, according
to Mr.. de Zapp, because II carries
rhe inference that they can't take
care of themselves and their own
THE sooner the gentlemen on the
hill realize that morals cannot be
legislated into the people the better
for the whole country. Morals are
n matter of education, not legisla-
ton" according to Mr.. de Zapp.
eff Mr. Merrick introduced a bill
in Congress having for it's purpose
the best school system available for
this city, the best paid teachers and
enough of them. he would be doing
something constructive.
ITO talk so about girls whether
they bob their hair, whether they
wear long or short skirts or powder
their moses, may be statesmanship
in the opinion of some, but 1 think
it's meddling."
That folly and foolishness is not
confined to the young is Mr.. de
Zapp's opinion, who said that
neither the young nor the old have
a monopoly on that human weak
ness. In fact, cour, records disclose
the somewhat disconcerting infor.
nation that wise old owls fall for
the alluremcnts Of the world as
much and often as the young. Too
much fault finding with woman's
personal appearance and apparel has
been INDUCED in by lawmakers
everywhere
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
HERRICK EPIGRAMS
IN ISLOVE CONTEST

SAYINGS of the wooing Oklahoma Congressman:
= I'm the onesomest man in town.
"Sure I'd be glad to meet the old lady"
my only love was that for my lost darling, Graciew
moral Ethelna-she's my adopted sister,"
"Tve got female Hawkshaws all over Washingtonv'
I'm one of the guys the Hill that runs this little
nation!"
watch out for my political enemesw
We'll have Lincoln towerabout,' won't we kid?"
For breakfast cereal-I.like pork and beansw
I'm a moral man"
"But want cornpanionshipw
'Tm the prize for my beauty contest"
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
Frocks by Bridegroom

PARIS. Aug. 27.-ft rarely hap.
pens that a bride has her wedding
dress and trousseau designed by her
future husband. This. however, will
he the privilege OF Miss Muriel Dams.
muir, whose engagement to Captain
Molyneux. the young English Paris
dress designer. has Just boon an.
nounced. The wedding will take
rIace ,hl. summer.
The Washington times., 1921-08-28

contests and one was for the stabi.
liking OF national credit. and would
place Liberty bonds at par. He
showed her copies of them. explain
ing how the first would have to
be ratified by three fourths of the
States.
He started on his "love contest"
once more. shouting: Il am the sole
judge Of beauty in my contest. and
you're In the lead. kid. 1t in
puerile and foolish to suggest any,
one else. am surprised, after
looking at some of the girls. that
they had the gall to answer.
Il am just trifle hard Of hear
ing. 80 ycu'll have o talk louder
when you speak to me-" he said to
my mother.
The Western Congressman wa,
very much hurt and shocked when
he learned of my stage career. He
told me up and down he didn't ap-
prove of the stage, and was sorry
i had been on it. He inquired
whether my mother had always ac-
companied me. and when told him
yes, he said he was glad
He spoke of a snake and bird.
The snake" he SAID, lis the stage,
and the bird hovers arcu.d. = ~ner
or later the snake eats ihu lirG. I'm
glad you haven't been stuns. You
are very young. kid, but If We are
satisfied with each other l can wait
for you. Don't ever go on the stage
again"
My mother kept on asking Con-
gresham Herrick about his contest.
and ne finally answered; My con.
test is Just his: If -. I young
lady thai suits M, Nh . ia lnarry
her. Ii shJ .oves me, "a. az prize,
with all that belongs to me. That
is It,"
The Washington times., 1921-08-28

the Congressman had been talking
to me the way he did.
The very next day after his first
visit Congressman Herrick called
me on the phone. He wanted to
make a date" he said. to take me
to an entertainment. I told him I
was very sorry, but had another ap.
pointment.
He called again last Monday night.
AS soon as Congressman Herrick sat
down in my parlor he started again
to tell line Of his contest for love-"
He said to me: you nave never
lost your head in the contest. Only
two Of the four girls at the top press
you close.
MY idea is to marry a girl ana
to protect her from all unwholesome
influences. l have great pressure
and influence. II YOU ever marry
me, you'll never have to go to work.
because have plenty Of money.
You and your mother would be
Hdppy tItI1, Wouiuh yod, hio.
TOLD ARDENTLY OF
HIS wOOING.
II called you up one night last
week. The House had adjourned at
81 minutes past s. | walked one
block south and one block east down
the Hill, into the east corridor OF
the House office building and called
you up about seven minutes later.
You weren't home.
II have gotten the Names OF a
good many Washington girls for my
contest My bill in Congress will
save them from decrepit million
aires. moral wolves, panderers. stage
and movie men. This bill will put
them out of business.
IF my contest hadn't been
nearly blowed up several days ago.
it's end might be sooner. Two Of
the girls turned over one OF my
letters to the postofrice inspector,
and they went to see the man
who had my postoffice oox.
threatened 70 have the postal in.
spector canned SO everything is
all right now.
II even had those two girls eat
ing out of my hand before / got
through. They called at my Of
flee and saw me. They begged to
be allowed to remain in the con-
test, but ] was firm. | said to
them, Run along girls, / am work
ing on a bill now To get rid
of them I gave them a quarter
apiece, told them to run across
the street and get some ice cream,
and latchcd my door behind them.
Wasn't that clever. They never
came back I didn't like their
looks anyway.
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
WANTED HER TO LIVE
IN THE COUNTRY.

Two people went down the hall
after he said this, and he ceased
talking until they got out Of ear.
shot. He continued: You wouldn't
mind living in the country, would
your"
answered that | could never live
in the country.
what" he shouted, When you
signed that QUESTIONABLE you said
you would leave Washington in case
OF political revcrses"'
explained nervously that | want
ed TO live in the city.
But we would so down on our
ranch 1. ~ Political en- mics ever
revers, IA ,tt.d ne h said.
And : ...l a.. Vii. a lincoln
towel ., n ga that i,, ran, /. {.
we'd iuppy!'
New IA IS. insisted that I
would ncN 40 to the country. He
said H. hop q I'd change my mind,
and that wei srtIl, that .ator, her
we found out if we sIitcd apch gther.
Then he start VI to tell ny
mother his love story.
II was he story & is one low
that ha Ia II n, IN his a. Z
visit. II | To-, long To put 10 ~
here. with q. exception that
clone had N.pel OUT som" of c
gresham II tricks property
said Fnl he girl h; MARI
"the other man" He ha" "amail
single ever since. but longs -
companionship. That is The CO.
partnership his wife is supposed
afford him.
II am the lonesomest man la
town" ne told me, I'm choking
voice. Il long for companionsh''}.
and am to get me a wife. ! ha'"
only my adopted sister. Distr'"i
woman, and two clerks for Close
friends. Won't We he happy. kid"
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
TOLD or HIS RANCH
AND OH We Is.

Congressman Herrick told me 80
his oil we'll ~ ranch I'm Oklu-
homa. He gHii many people owed
him money. Some paid II hack on
the Hill recently he told me. He
was very considerable. and asked
me repeatedly whether or not his
political enemies had been annoying
me.
He said he would he glad 10
come to see me often. and wanted
to know when he could come again
7 told him I was gsing to New
YORK.
zone girl asked me for 500 for
sending her such letter. the
Oklahoman told me. but put
her in her place. She couldn't
hlackmail me-
~','"''rg II The many other girls
- Q been "'s""d by this
= I funS' I u hest Ia
ciish & II NJ for lOS
b, : dg WHIT Ia IT, "" " ..
lis .tt,L., e. o.. VIE.
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
by ANNA ELIZABETH NIEBEL.
Eighteen-year-old Former Central
High School Girl.

Hlgn SCHOOL Ulrt.
TS M the lonesomest man in
town. Congressman Manuel
Herrick told me one evening
last week. when he called to tell me
that i was in the lead in the "con.
test for love" which he has been
running.
IF / suit you and you suit me,
when we thrash this matter out,
We'll be married." he continued.
was so surprised ] did not know
what to do. for I had seen the Con-
gresham but once before. 1t was
only upon special urging that / let
him come a second time.
When the article came out in The
Times that he had been running his
own beauty contest, he called to see
me again. ! was not home. That
evening he telephoned and said:
You haven't double-crossed me,
have you, kid?"
I told him had nothing to do
with the article. and he continued:
We'll, I'm glad you didn't double
cross me, kid, because I'm beginning
to love you"
Before i could stop him he went
on: There is just one more ques-
ton, do you think you could ever
love me?"
1 told the farmer gentleman that
/ would tell him later. did not
have the heart TO tell him what /
thought.
NE evening about three weeks
ago this whole affair started
A middle aged woman called at my
house with the letter, which Con.
gresham Herrick told me later he
had sent TO many District girls.
read the letter, thought the matter
a joke and signed the QUESTIONABLE.
Little did I think I'd hear more Of it,
Well, two or three evenings later
the Congressman called me on the
phone and said / was in the lead OF
the contest. / was slightly pleased,
and when he asked if he could come
to see me remembered some OF the
letter saying the writer was hand
some, and told him TO come up Sun
day afternoon, August IA. He did
and | was very disappointed.
He sat in the parlor with his legs
crossed and looking firS, at me and
then at the ceiling-telling me Of all
his past life, how he had once loved.
Of his power and influence. He said
he had visited other girls
ALWAYS ACTED AS
A GENTLEMAN.
l want to say right here that ex-
cept for his ill-advised methods of
referring to people. such as calling
my mother the old lady" Mr.. Her
rick acted thoroughly the gentle
man. He did not try to spoon with
me, or anything Of that sort.
At last he went away, and Mr..
Joseph w. Wells, a roomer at my
home. 1870 Harvard street north
west, who had ushered him in, asked
me who the man was who had been
talking so loud. l told him 1t was
Congressman Herrick and showed
him the card. No one would believe
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
WENT TO SEE THOSE
WHO SENT NAMES.


That matter, until l talked to
Mr.. Postal Inspector, was like the
House. The contest had to stop
because we didn't have a quorum.
You know how II is, when we have
no quorum we can do no business,
so for want Of quorum my con-
test was blowed up.
II got forty.nine letters out.
though. And now everything Is
going smooth. l got eight replies
properly filled out, seven without
signatures, one party not found,
one rejected, one blank, and the
rest failed to make returns"
GLAD TO MEET
THE "OLD LADY"
II was then / asked Congress
man HerriCk to meet my mother.
She had been listening to what
he had TO say, and wanted to see
what kind of a man he was.
told him I wanted her to come
down and he said. Sure, I'd be
glad to meet the old lady"
felt like showing that man the
door then, but l didn't. When my
mother came down he said:
"Oh, by golly. I'm glad to meet
all the folks. Your daughter IL In
the lead In my contest. you know.
She tells me your husband died
year or so ago. 1t Is too bad you
didn't know me then. ] would
have saved him. because | was
doctor once. He had dropsy7. Well,
never dropped case of dropsy.
Course, you know, might have
failed, but I think | would have
saved him"
Then tho oklahoma Congressman
started to tell my mother OF his
three bills. He spoke Of them a
lot. saying one was Constitutional
amendment, one prohibited Jca ~
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
BEAUTY TELLS HOW IONELY" CONGRESSMAN
CONDUCTED UNIQUE CONTEST FOR "WEOLESOUL LOVE

I'll Ann the Lonesome Man i'm Town. Mr. Herik Told Hehe Con-
gresham Was Perfect Gentleman Except for Some Adsd Re-
MARKS Such as Calling Mother 1.-THE Old Didn't Try to Spoon
But Was Ardent WOOer Just the Same.
The Washington times., 1921-08-28
Started His Contest, With Himself AS Prize, to
Save Girls FEOm Being Lared Away From Their
Homes, Says Member of the House From
Oklahoma.

EEKING to obtain evidence that the Turing away from
- home of girls whose names and pictures have been
published in newspapers is comparatively easy,
Congressman Manuel Herrck of Oklahoma started
private beauty contest
He sent letters to forty mine District Beauties in
which he stated the winner would have for her prize
"the whole heart and whole SOUL love and hand in mar
rage of handsome, wealthy influential scion of noble
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-10-13
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