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The New York herald., 1922-04-07

OF her friends present whispered that
she really is nearly 20.
She dances this way for an hour
every day to keep the waist slim,
strengthen the arches, reduce the hips.
make the muscles or the neck firm and
the body supple. and all the time she
feels buoyant and happy. She ended
the demonstration after the Health
Commissioner had left by standing on
her head, which she says is good for
the nerves.
She rarely eats meat and never beef.
prefers nuts ard uncooked prunes soaked
for twenty-four hours in water, eats
fifteen olives day and drinks q quart
of milk and quantities of water. you
will never have stiff knees if you eat
olives and drink lots of water" Mrs.
Blair said between dances.
''How's your heart beating?" inquired
the Commissioner. Then he listened to
its humping and pronounced 1t fine.
TN pass you.' he said. IF people
would only live right and eat the right
kind Of food the doctors would be ar
rested for vagrancy. There isn't a
woman in the world 80 years old who
couldn't do just what Mrs. Blair has
beer, doing If she would"
Mrs. Blair, who says she can reduce
ten pounds in a week, has offered to
help the Commissioner with his anti-fat
squad. She expects to give two free
demonstrations here. probably Saturday
at the Waldorf. after which she will re-
turn to her home in Los Angeles.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
TAMMANY DEFERS
ITS AUTUMN SLATE
Murphy Hears Smith Prefers
His Truck Horses to
Public Office.

These things developed at Demo-
cratic pow WOW at Tammany Hall yes
terday afternoon, the first "at home
held by Charles Francis Murphy. the
boss" in three weeks:
Former Governor Alfred e. Smith
took himself out Of the situation as a
candidate for Governor next autumn.
He made special trip to Fourteenth
street to notify &C. F." his present In
tention was not to run for Governor.
nor was he anxious to go to the United
States Senate.
The district leaders were unanimous
so far as could be learned--in declaring
that Smith was the one man to stave
off the impending reelection OF Gov.
Miller.
At the same time they declared Il
would be fatal to put William Randolph
Hearst on the ticket either for Gov
ernor or United States Senator.
Thomas f. Foley, veteran leader and
foe of Mr.. Hearst, reiterated his un-
swerving opposition to the editor.
1t was plain his mind had been much
relieved of the pressure OF the Hearst
menace after his talk with the boss. =
The former Governor reminded Mr..
Murphy of his well known antipathy to
the editor.
Mr.. Hearst was rapidly fading out
OF the picture, according to talkativo
braves.
The Tammany chief, as usual. lis
tened and kept his own counsel.
September Is time enough to pick our
candidates." he said in effect to all.
Word was received that Bird $. Coler
Commissioner of Public Welfare. would
ha a candidate for Governor IL Smith
would not accept Mr.. Coler gave Ben
jamin B. Odell close race In 1902.
Herbert c. Pell of Tuxedo Park, State
chairman, waited an hour for a private
audience with Mr.. Murphy. He de-
clared the committee was practically
broke"
stephen A. Nugent OF the Bronx
sought some sort Of working agree
ment with Tammany in city affairs. II
was said.
A terrific contest has set In for the
five new Assistant District Attorney
ships created by the last legislature
two at $1,000 each. one at $4,000 and
two at $500. Almost every district
leader has a candidate.
Cant you tell US something about
what position you are going to take In
politics in the coming campaign" Elk
Gov. Smith was asked.
IL am going to remain in the truck
ing business"
"Of course. you may be drafted"
well. I'm not putting myself up as
regulating the affairs of the party OF
the nation" was the reply. I'm doing
neither. but land the words were clear
and crisp) I can regulate the affairs oil
AL Smith. Now I've got to run along
and put the horses tn bed"
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
SHORT WEIGHT CHARGED
TO LOFT CANDY co.
Charges of Misbranding Mer.
chandise Denied.

Loft, Incorporated, the candy manu-
facturers, were named yesterday in an
information filed in the United States
District Court charging misbranding Of
merchandise in violation OF the Inter-
sfate Commerce Commission regulations.
Tic information was filed by Assistant
United States Attorney william Berg be-
fore Judge Mack.
Mr.. Berg said many complaints have
tten received regarding short weight
practices. srecifc charge was made
that on March "a Loft, Inc had shipped
to the Attleboro Manufacturing Company
at Attleboro. Mass. chocolates OF less
weight than the amount marked Plead
ing on the information was set for next
Tuesday.
At the Loft factory It was stated that
the allegation would be contested and
that the company had no knowledge OF
any misbranding 1t was said that a
mistake might have been made because
Of the difference between the State and
interstate regulations regarding brand
ing of shipments. II was suggested that
n shipping clerk might have omitted the
Government stamp from the Massachu-
setts shipment end substituted the State
stamp in error. thus accounting for the
difference.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
To-day's Radio Program
(Tune to 500 Mcters)

Conducted by the Rev. Y. u. r. Phil
lips. st. Peters Church. St Louis.
1880 p. M.-"Bedtime Stories bv How
ard Garis. author and originator OF
Uncle Wiggily" To be given from
Pittburgh Post Studio.
$500 p. MA Good Dream Gone
Wrong" by George r. Wallace. To
be given from the Pittsburgh Post
Studio.
$3.50 p. M.--Entertainment by SaIana
Gularski, soprano; l.. G. West. bass
Agnes McGurrin, pianist.
Station WIZ, Springfield. Mass
(Westinghouse).
s 100 p. M.--Musical program by Inter-
national Y. NJ. c. A.
station wGI, Medford Hillside,
(Amrad).
7:4b p. M.-Late news flashes.
8 100 p. M.--Boston police reports.
Amateur night code practice. An
nouncement OF amateur activities.
Dance music by Jsnkinss C.iffondale
Orchestra.
station wvP, Signal Corps, U.s.A.,
Fort wood, New York city.
tTune 70 1850 meters).
$3.50 r. M.--Talk on n radio topic OF
general interest.
. 100 r. M.--Concert under direction of
Charles ID. Isaacson.
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TWO LINERS AGROUND
IN EAST RIVER FOG

A double strandlng OF two Sound
liners within ships biscuit toss OF each
other In the East River, near Sunken
Meadows. Off East f31st street, was the
result Of a pea coup fog early yesterday.
THE Colonial liner Concord. from Provf-
oence with 100 passengers, mostly
women. creeping through the obscura-
ton. brought UP suddenly on the mud.
'rhe freighter City OF Brockton OF the
New England Steamship feet, from New
Haven. came TO grief less than n hun
dred feet from tho Concord. but the
skipper OF neither ship knew they were
80 close together until the sun dispersed
the mists.
The Concord tool. the mud with only
Yittle Jar and her passengers were not
startled. The City OF Brockton, having
no passengers, was not so much con-
cerncd, her skipper knowing that she
would work Off at high tide in the after
noon. That Ia what she did Two police
launches Of tile marine division and a
tug OF the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad responded TO the dis
tress whistles Of the Concord and landed
fhe passengers nj the foot OF 132d street
Tht Concord also foated al high water
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
STRAIGHT SUIT IN COURT.

Antonio Sporti. street cleaner. who
is suing Mrs. Willard Straight of 1876
Fifth avenue for $4,000 for injuries
suffered when he was hit by her automo-
bile at Fifth avenue and Ninety-fourth
street on January IL. hobbled on
crutches yesterday into the Supreme
Court. The Bronx. SPORT said he was
sboveling snow when Mrs. Straight
automobile hit him. He asked that his
case be put ahead on the calendar be-
cause Of his inability to maintain him
self and his family.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
AUXILIARY FTREMEN
OF WAR REORGANIZED
Corps of $500 to Be Ready
for Emergency Work.

The Auxiliary Corps. composed of
$500 men who served the city as emer-
gency firemen curing the war, has been
reorganized TO hold together the mem
bsfs and promote their social welfare.
\ charter has been granted and meet
ings will be held twice monthly in the
Municipal Building. The organization
also plans to form reserve units of fire
fighters which would be available to the
city on short notice should an emergency
al ise.
In the war, when the regular city fire.
men we're taxed &c their capacity, Aux
iliary Corps units responded to fire
alarms and gave what assistance they
could under the direction OF the regular
forces. They disbanded after being dis
charged from the service of the city.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07

CSC Ribbons, 4Sc yard
Street Floor, Old Building
Gold-mounted Silk
Handbags, $3.50
Main Aisle,
Street Floor, Old Building
Wool Motor Robes, $6.65
Best comparison in town
priced $3.50.
Street Floor, New Building
$3.95 Habutai Silk
Pillows, $2.95
First Floor, Old Building
Buttons, 3 cards, 25c
First Floor, Old Building
Mems $3.50 to $40
Raincoats for $3.50
Sizes 81 to 46.
Street Floor, New Building
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
DRYDEN RETURNING;
RESIGNATION RUMORED
Prudential President Is Due
Back Next Week.

Word was received In Newark yes
terday that Forest #. Dryden, presi-
dent of the Prudential Insurance Com
pany was to return to his Office the
latter part OF next week.
Mr.. Dryden has been In Bermuda
and the West Indies since February 81,
when II was announced that he was
ging away on a six rnonths' leave of
absence. There have been many ru-
mors that MIR. Dryden was to resign
his position, and his early return is
taken TO mean that he will take this
action.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
HOUSE ADOPTS REPORT
ON NAVAL RADIO BILL
Extends Use of Wireless BY
Press and Business.

WASHINGTON. April 6.--The conference
report on the navy radio bill which
would extend until 1925 tho time in
which the Government lines would be
permitted to handle press and CONNER
cial messages. was agreed TO to-day by
the House.
After Its adoption by tho Senate it
will be ready for the Presidents ap-
proval.
The New York herald., 1922-04-07
Station WIZ, Newark.
(Westinghouse) }

(Westinghouse).
Musical program every hour from
IL A. NJ. TO p. NJ. on the hour.
Weather forecast. IL A. NJ, 12 NJ, 8
and 10 :01 p. VI. sharp.
Shipping news. 2:05 p. NJ.
Official Arlington time, 9:52 p. M.
Agricultural reports. IL M.
Program will be announced daily by
radiophone at 7:45 r. NJ.
r. M.-"Man In the Moon" stories for
children (C). Newark Sunday Call.
Z 40 p. M.--"Crime Wave" by Francis
NJ. Hugo. vice-president National
Surety Company
p. M.-Concert by the Hexamer Drum.
Fife and Bugle Corps OF Newark, who
are the Eastern States champions
and winners Of 3s first prizes Major
j. ]. Morrison. director. The pro-
gram: "Regimental Pride" tmarch)
"Repasz Band March," Emblem Of
Peace" (march)., George A. Reeg.
Jr. Tenth Regimental March," u. b.
Hall: 'Invercargill" (march). Ma
tionai Spirit" Cmarch). Greeting to
Bangor (march), u. r. Hall '---ho
New Colonial March, .. u. Hall;
"Haymaker" (march), Drum Major
william Martin. National Airs"
$50 p. M.--Recltal by Miss Mabel Leg
gett, soprano; Marguerite Baillie,
pianiste.
station wGy. schenectady.
90 r. M-Program will be given by
artists of Albany; "Automne." op. 35,
No. 2. piano solo. Mrs. Ralph q,
winslow: My Heart Is Singing
mezzo-contralto. Mrs. Burt r.. Rick
ards THE Old Refrain" violin solo,
Thomas r. O'Neili 'Tnvictus." barry
tone solo, Ralph @. Winslow: Ara
besque." piano solo, Mrs. winslow !;
ITO You" mezzo-contralto. Mrs. Rick
ards; "Mazurka do Concert" violin
solo, Thomas O'Neill: The Birds
Courting." barytone solo. Ralph @.
winslow: Autumn" opus SO. No. 4.
piano duet, Mrs. winslow and Mrs.
Richards "Conto Amoroso." violin
solo, Thomas r. O'Ncill.
station KDKA, Pittsburgh.
tWestlnghouse)
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tWestinghouse).
40 p. M.--fent - services from Trim
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The New York herald., 1922-04-07

Bulged raised top, 3-ply
veneer Of Eastwood, round
edges, covered and lined
with fibre, 5 drawers with
lock rod, shoe pocket and
laundry bag.
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that the storekeepers have closed their
shops and have disappeared with what
ever they could smuggle across the border.
Blanca and her committee hold court
daily in the Governors palace. What
ever DEGREES the committee issues are
first signed by Blanca and then put into
effect. Later they are signed by the Gov
ernor and filed away with the State ar
chives. The remarkable thing is that
the Governor has not yet persuaded BIZ
anca to marry him. Cynical visitors to
Merida declare this is easily understood,
since, by her own decree, he could divorce
her Immediately II he became wearied OF
The New York herald., 1922-06-04

Because Yucatan has, according to news
advices, gone "loco," as is said in Texas.
All OF which Is attributable to
woman. rather young and comely
woman, who not so very long ago was
noted as far as Yucatan is wide for the
circumstance of her being the most gentle
feminine peon on the estate Of rich land
owner in the neighborhood of Merida. the
capital of the State of Yucatan. And
thereby hangs romance which remains
a romance despite the rather unpleasant
situation which has arisen to embellisb II
Yucatan has turned completely. thor
oughly "Communistic." The term is more
definite than mere "Bolshevistic." Ignor.
ing wholly the Central Government at
dexico city. the State has given itself over
to committee of ten ortwenty-six ex-peons
headed normally by the civil Governor ap-
pointed from the capital, but actually
headed and inspired and completely domi.
mated by the young woman mentioned
above, who is Blanca Carbenno 90 years
old, Of antecedents so unaccountable that
nothing whatever is known of them be.
yond the fact that she was until she took
into her own hands the reins of Yucatans
Government little more than slave girl
on the estate of the rich landowner.
The new Governor of Yucatan. ap-
pointed by President obregon a few
months ago, is Felipe GARLIC Puerto. He
was the protege of Plutarco Elias Gales
the Secretary of State and Minister of the
Interior. He is not an especially pre-
possessing person in appearance, nor had
his political career been marked by any
startling events bringing about him en-
during fame. Yet these limitations did
not prevent Blanca Carbenno from glanc-
ing at him with favor showing in her
dark, luminous eyes, as he rode through
the fields of her masters plantation on
his way to pay formal call at the ha-
cienda.
And the new Governor, noticing per-
haps the light of favor shining in those
dark eyes of the comely peon girl. at work
In the fields with the men poems, was not
The New York herald., 1922-06-04

plantation owner, nor of what and
where was the next meeting between
the peon girl and the high official.
1t is only known that she appeared
shortly after in the streets of Merida,
beautiful and then prosperous Mex
lean city, larger certainly than any
city Blanca Carbenno ever dreamed
of as really existing, and with shop
windows which perhaps not COM
petently rivaling those of Paris, were
nevertheless marvellous visions to the
unurban peon girl.
Seen also in the streets of Merida,
shortly after, were others of the peon
class-men and women who came
from Bianca's former neighborhood,
and who met in strange little build
ings and talked over certain plans
with Blanca, who was their acknowl-
edged leader. From these meetings
Blanca would go to the palace of the Gov
ernor. And from the palace Of the Governor
she would return to the meetings. 1t was
understood that the Governor had asked
Blanca to marry him, or something of
the sort, and that she had gained thereby
certain influence over him which was
being guided by the poems who were in
her confidence and who had decided, in
conspiracy with her, perhaps. to take full
advantage of their opportunity to reach
the ears of the Governor.
without warning, one night, there was
a quiet uprising in Merida Several hun
dreds of excited men and women-sev-
eral hundreds are many in any outlying
Mexican capital-paraded the streets
with weird torchlights, proclaiming what
ever the local dialect term for a Soviet
government may be. The crowd con-
verged upon the palace. from the front
steps of which It announced, through
the shrill voice of Blanca herself, that
there was now no more of such thing as
government except as the people" ex-
pressed it--or however It was put. The
pronunciamento was 10 the effect, It soon
seemed. that Communism was announced.
The New York herald., 1922-06-04
Takes Possession Of Governor Palace
and First Order Is That Divorces
Are Free and No Questions
Asked courts Forced to
Obey Her Dictates

Ofeltd Lorid, at the sole request of the
husband, ioho gdue no grounds as the
basis OF his complaint. The decree
severed the bonds of mdtrimony, abso-
luteIy of the marriage contracted be- !
ttoeen the parties on the 18th day OF 4
September, 1919. The child, Rafael
Rodriguez Lortd, shall remain in the
custody of his mother until he has
completed his sirtb year and so long
as she shall HUe discreetIy and shall
contract no other marriage. Both
parties resume their legal capacity and
may freely remarry, except that the
aoomdn may not formally remarry until
three hundred days after the provisional
separation. Both parties must contribute
proportiondtely to the maintenance and
education of their son until he shall hare
attained his majority.
Marcial Rodriguez was not resident
of the State of Yucatan. He lived In an
adjoining State, where the civil courts
had refused to grant him a divorce de-
spite frequent pleas, it being apparent to
uiS uOnc JuuSeS IHdI ne WISHED a divorce
only that he might marry the principal
dancing girl attached to the Banda Poll
cia of his own capital city. The judges
dominated by Blanca had no scruples
whatever as to the dancing girl They
were powerless otherwise than to grant
the divorce for the simple asking. Many
residents of other States, some coming
even from Mexico city itself, appear be-
fore the Yucatan judges with similar lack
of reasons for wishing separation from
their husbands or their wives. There is
a case Of record in which the complain
ing wife did put forth a reason for her
desire to have freedom. She said in her
formal document that she wanted to
marry her next door neighbor, who owned
a phonograph.
1t is not at all improbable that many a
husband may remark to his wife just after
breakfast, my dear, would you mind
The New York herald., 1922-06-04

The industry is dead now.
The former poems own the
land and rejoice greatly
thereat, but there are no
seeds and no means Of
repairing the implements
which have broken down
un d Ter handling without
skilled direction. Blanca
has many formulas for the
remedy Of this , situation.
While she waits for these to
be brewed into materializa-
tion she intrigues her people
with her new matrimonial
provisions and such man.
dates as her latest-"that
all storekeepers must give
credit to whatever customer
may ask It." The conse-
quence of this last order is
The New York herald., 1922-06-04

meeting me at the Palace of Justice at
10 o'clock? I'm going to stop in there
on my way home for the noon siesta to
get divorce"
Recently a convention Of the former
owners Of the land in Yucatan, some OF them
descendants Of families which had owned
the great plantations since long before
the time of Diaz. was held in Progreso,
the Yucatan seaport. A committee was
appointed to wait upon Blanca, It being
realized that appeals to the Governor
were useless. There representatives of
the established aristocracy of Mexico
pleaded with the young woman to think
The New York herald., 1922-06-04

1t was discovered, when the business
interests Of the CITY, and the representa-
tives of the plantation owners protested,
that the Governor himself was in the
power of Blanca, who had become over
night willful, autocratic dictator, abso-
lutte master Of the committee" formed
to revise governmental affairs, and that
it was her word, and not that OF the
Governor, which had become the law.
1t is difficult to picture the upheaval
or it's circumstances. The machinery of
legal government was not elaborate, but
there were courts, jails, tax collectors
and bureaus which kept the records of
property ownership and upheld lawful
deeds and proprietary rights. The bu-
reaus promptly were taken in charge by
Blanca whose committee" appointed
new officials for them, or supervisors
with power to direct the acts of the es-
tablished officials.
Judges of the law courts were sum-
moned to the palace, where they were
received by the Governor, who issued to
them orders which were, in effect, new
laws. All statutes hitherto made and
provided, as would be said in the States,
we're ruthlessly abrogated. The judges
were instructed to make DEGREES and de-
cisions on all matters In compliance with
the wishes of the COMMITTEE" And
when the judges waited upon this COM
mittee, which it found sitting in another
room Of the Governors palace, they found
1t a silent body except for its
chosen voice-the voice of Blanca,
the former peon girl.
The first two orders issued to
the judges by Blanca were:
take the land away from the
present owners and distribute it
IA among the poems
IA equal share to all.
II the landowners
object, shoot them.
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her. but to these it might be said she !
could do the same. Therefore it remains
somewhat mysterious-that she should,
having so completely taken to her.
self the Governors power, refuse to listen
to his plea of marriage.
For her own residence she has taken
over the town house Of one of the for
merly rich residents, and here she has
made room for the other women members
of her committee. The Governor re-
mains at the palace, and observes all the
rules Of state etiquette and it's pomp. But
the peon girl is the actual head of the
State.
The personnel of Biancas Soviet com.
mittee is extremely interesting. Each
member of the committee has been ap-
pointed by her. They include Indian
women from plantations far in the inte-
rior of Yucatan and miles from any rail
road. One of these women worked on
the same plantation with Blanca herself.
She Is one of the lower Indian types,
without intelligence, and virtually no
knowledge whatever of any sort of life
other than the restricted social life at the
hacienda. 1t is said that she was nursed
by the same foster mother who nursed
Blanca. This, of course. Is only gossip.
although It might very well be trua She
is typical OF one section of the committee.
Then there are adventurers from
other Mexican States, some from Panama,
and some even fugitives from South
America. Whoever appears in Merida
without being able to tell much in detail
Of where he came from is welcomed by
the new Dictator, provided the stranger
Is revolutionary.
On the committee, for example, there is
an itinerant photographer. who, It is said,
found Havana extremely uncomfortable
for him. He has been given complete
Jurisdiction over the public and parochial
school system in the State. Because he
could take a photograph and develop It
The New York herald., 1922-06-04
d, there are few places

where a wife may be legally
separated from her husband
early Tuesday morning be-
cause late Monday night she
decided in a huff she didn't
like him. One Of these few
places-and, in fact, the
only place definitely known
offs Yucatan. According
to the majority of geog-
raphers, Yucatan is a State
of Mexico. Those who have
a more comprehensive
knowledge than geograph-
ers will add that Yucatan
also is Just now a state of
mind. A state of mental
exuberance wherein no man
need live with a wife, or
support her. or, in fact, pay
any attention to her at all il
he doesn't want to-and IL
ho Innxx tt.o T,,I-z