The Washington times., 1922-06-05
GETS SICK
Of MONKEY:
BUSINESS
Lonely Manuel" Says Show
Girl Wants Him to Be
$4,000 "AngeI."

Congressman Manuel Herrick,
bashful bachelor from Oklahoma
and self-advertised "arial dare
devil" sat in his office today,
oblivious to affairs of state. Sc.
riously contemplating the insti-
tuition Of e suit for libel against
Miss Anna Neibel. former Fol,
lies beauty.
Sick Of Monkey Business"
Lonely" Manuel expressed him.
self as fed up on what he terms
long-eared monkey business" al.
legged to have been engineered by the
fair damsel and her advisers. which
eliminated last night when she
called on him and suggested that
be act as angel" for . new show
ID which she is to Star, Paradise
Alley, to the amount OF 10000.
would cease to press a suit she AYERS
she has entered in the New York
courts against Herrick for $50, 900.
Not only does the flying legisla.
tor emphatically refuse to donate
the twenty "grands" but he says he
10 In no fear of legal action by the
chorus star with whom his name
has been linked for months by q
romance-loving public.
The fact is, Lonely Manuel has af-
Nrmed in an affidavit, no suit has
been started against him. n there
is to be anything Of that sort, the
activities will be started hY him and
his attorney, Robert 8. Cairns.
No Love Involved.
Marriage is not for him so far as
Miss Niebel Is concerned. he made Il
clear.
II told her when she came here
last night that she didn't want to
marry me any more than that trash
basket"-pointing to a receptacle
which he said he had viciously kick.
ed to lend point to his statement
''and she admitted she didn't as far
as love Is concerned"
Manuel also resents being taken
for a "hick Congressman" He ex'
hibited a sworn transcript OF a
conversation said to have been held
between him and Miss Niebel and
her mother in his office on the
night Of April IS. when he had
cleverly parked the son Of a Con.
gressman from Ohio behind q book
case to take notes on all that was
said. He concluded the interview,
ACCORDING to the solemn record. by
declaring:
Claims No Suit Filed.
"As a cold matter of fact. you
have not filed a suit. I went last
Tuesday to New York city to see
II you had filed a suit and, after
ruking over all the court records,
find that no suit has in fact been
filed: no cover suit was filed to
cover your tracks. can now turn
the tables on you and II I choose
I can raise the hair on your head
by proceeding against you for libel
and slander.
Furthermore. I want to inform
you that you thought you could
slander a hick Congressman with
impunity just because he hap.
pened to be a farmer. but IL nee
essary will teach you that I am
not a hick Congressman after all
and that I know New York about
as we'll as you do. | have been
there and retained not a Bowery
lawyer, but Messrs. Ulman and
Hunting and will fur;hermoor r
inform you that I know more
about your past that you have
any idea. l know enough about
YOU to raise the hair on your head
as you are in the habit Of say
ing, but I will be guided by cir.
cumstances. 1t will be according
be whether you stop this monkey
business or not"
The monkey business" according
TO Herrick, was continued in the
talk last evening and he is cogi.
tatinE as to whether he should have
recourse to the law.
Manued Sees Coercion.
Since beholding some Of his say.
ings in the public press, Lonely
Manuel has grown skittish of in
formal interrogations. He now pre-
fers the medium of the authorized
and carbon-copied statement. Such
was the one he issued last night fGr
Miss Niebel had departed from
room 169, House Office Building
bearing the shattered bits OF
romance and the Congressman def