The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
TITLES PROVIDED AT so MUCH PER
 BY BERLIN HOUSE.
Hailed Into Court, Scheme
 Of Frau And Herr Is Nipped

BERLIN, June 14.-(By Associated Press. )-Titles of nobility to order was the chief stock in trade of Von Hohendorf, Von Hausler and company, the principals of which were recently haled into a Berlin court. The com pany, in the words of the judge who tried the principals, were responsible for operating "the most successful wholesale factory for turning out aris. tocratic marriages ever undertaken by sharpers in Germany"
 Alfred Von Hausler was accused of having married in less than a year Il ambitious young women. all of whom it appeared were eager for handles to their names and willing to pay lib- erally for the privilege. One of the victims was a moving picture actress who admitted title would be worth a great deal to her in business, especially in America. These women paid from $1 to $3,000 each.
 By ingenious schemes and numerous forged and faked papers giving him fraudulent titles, Won Hausler satis- fled their desires to become short term brought about by suspicious persons
  pany quickly went into bankruptcy.
 The head of the concern was Frau Anna Won Hohendorf who, it was reported in court, collapsed and ex- pired when 1t became known the police were after her. It was Anna, accord ing to the police, who conceived the scheme of making princesses to order and it was she who engineered the plots kA kL She paid Won Hausler a percentage on each marriage.
 Won Hausler's trial was postponed pending further investigation. The police said he had several confederates who had not been captured.
 Furthermore, the police expect to find half dozen more women who have been victims of the marriage factory.
 Scissors Industry Increased
 The bobbed-hair craze which has ex- tended pretty well all over Europe as well as America has brought a boom to the German scissor industry, accord ing to recent trade reports, but at the same time it has placed manufacturers of hair pins in the doldrums. A num- Der of wire, bone, ivory, tortoise shell and celluloid comb factories are re- ported to have greatly reduced their forces and in several cases to have shut down altogether owing to a lack of demand for ornaments used to support the hair or to keep the headdress in place.
 A staid old trade report says: "Manu- lecturers of scissors are working full time at Solingen and other parts of Germany. Orders are recorded from all parts of the world and prices for stock goods vary from to 12 marks per dozen pair which corresponds to a price increase of approximately 50 per cent as against the prices before the war;
 Some of the hairpin, comb and orna- ment manufacturers are considering taking up manufacture of scissors or something which bobbed hair wearers or other faddists will not be able to do without.
 Countess BrandstrOm's Relief
 Jane Addams, who has been sus- Sested for the next Nobel peace prize, has a rival for the honor in the Countess Elsa Brandstrom of Stockholm, whose name is given wide publicity in Ger man, Swedish, Russian and Baltic states newspapers which publish long accounts of the results of her relief work among prisoners of war and tell of what she has accomplished this year.
 The countess is still devoting all of her time to the aid of mankind, it is pointed out, and is writing book, the proceeds of which will go to aid those who lost their homes and health through the war. It is estimated that more than 100000 prisoners have been benefited by her efforts, as representative of the Swedish Red Cross, to tighten the hard ships of the soldiers during the war and afterward.
 Countess Brandstrom, at the out break of the war, was living with her father who was Swedish ambassador in St. Petersburg. From 1914 until 1920 she made numerous trips to Siberia, where there were many thousands of prisoners. She also frequently spent weeks at a time at Russia's western front virtually within the lightning lines, and became known for her bravery to most of the officers all along the line.
 The countess has a staff of clerks and secretaries and is Continuing her relief work in virtually all parts of Europe.
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