THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 20. 1921.
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Bcaitiful 'Lure'
Of Holdups Savs
All .Men Are 'Ev'
Girls Cook in School, Mothers Kick
Woman Who Vamped 50 of
'Km ato t4Stclalps, " Hand?,
Sajs They Fall Hard for
Country Las.
"bit I rUoe-OHUik Br llvd Hire.
Chicago, Jan. 19. A!1 my life
Krn hixt been following me and I
liMe.been running away irorn them.
1 tnow it's the easiest thi:: hi the
vorid Jo make a man follow me. My
i.ght i always Jo keep away from
J hem."
Cleopatra McCroary Brow a
Uurtziiian. lie beautiful "lure used
liy her husband, Kurt Kurtimann
ar.d Joe Brown, lo entice men to
lonely flats, where thry would be
rooWd, thus explains her part in the
jy.iem.
"The "vamp with jhe malseup may
appeal to i few," said Cleopatra,
"but the tna.'oruy of Chicago's male
population falls hardest for the,
toumry pirl with the appealing eyes,
tVif startled lopk and the 'comc-hither-acd-protct-rne'
appearance."
Lures Fifty Men. -
Cleopatra should know. She is 23
yars eld and in the last three
monilrx she has ied more than 50
rr-ea to isolated spots where her hus
band and Brown could get action on
I rem.
"I hry're all the same- these men."
ae ajd, wearily. "They will go
any place blindly if they think they
are with a girl who docs not know
r;uch. W ell. rnore than 50 of them
j laved rae for a 1oob and later
ioend themselves trussed wp. de
spoiled of their money, jewelry and
clothing and left to think it orer in
y-jvnc vacant flat or other building.
'Srmt of thcra were real nice nien.
tow. These 1 invariably kissed just
btiore we left them. They looked
o forlorn.
Beats Up Victim.
think it hurt the men worse to
raliie ihey had been fooled bv a
country girl than it did to lose their
property. . Von see. they had fallen
jrto their own trap. They had a lot
time to think this out when we
left thcra tied up and shivering in
various strar.ge places.
"1 lost iny nerve after my husband
f-ad bestlea Richard J. Jaker of Oak
Park so terribly. Jaker resisted
when they started to rob him and I
taught Kurt had killed him. That
sickened me of the whole scheme
and I am glad it is over.
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Wealthy motnert of Wilmene and Winetka, two 01 'cnicago exciusrre suburbs, object to their caugit
ten cooking and washing dihn in tchool on the grounds that it is hardly the proper education lor a young
woman about to 'make her debut. But the girls don't teem to be kicking at all. and, according to thera. it is
the only thing worth while. The girls above-are from the New Trier High school; from left to right, Caro
lyn Everett, Jessie Shurtieff, Kathryn Hiyi and Ruth Wilson.
Cable Cannot Be 'Twelve Men Arrested
ttmate oa the amouct t the loot,
t except to say that it probably would
'CD LL f II C j be low. in the rocantune tne officials
T 1 1 aTII ' Or KObberV Ot U. J. feancial bonsrs were checking
I janUfMl St Vlianil i w -it I rl on tipraents an effort to find
i Mail Truck in Chicago y
Tetern Union Restrained by j Chicago. Jan. 19. City detective
Trmnorarv Iniunrtion bv ! ai d feral postal wspecioss arrested
Jederal Judge.
! Husband Who Shoots Wife '
I And Another JIan Is Held
connect i Galveston, Tex., Jan. 19. Mrv
Edna Broun cd M. S. Settle, both;
of Galveston and aged about 35,1
f fl
onemoon niKers
Must Reach Omaha in
50 Days to Win Bet
Holon. Mas Jan. 19. (Special
Telegram.) "'Conjc and gone." are
the few word necessary to tell of
iht arrival in Boston and departure
't.lerday afternoon of the hone-
nikT. as t-ren au jvjenaras
ar.d lii petite bride, Janae M- Rich-e-4s
of Long Beach. CaL, have been
j.iaytully dubbed for their adven
lo'ous enterprise cf walking from
Lrs Angeles tl Boston and return
xi a wager made list October.
With the !irt half of the wager,
giving them $2,000, won easily, they
siarted today on their return trip
with the determination of pulling
down the remaining bet of reaching
Omaha, in 50 days. Oa their way
west they must make the trip without
begging, borrowing or stealing. They
most work their way. yet may ac
cept donations. The couple left here
carrying 58-pound packs, with the
weather near rero. They hope to
i reach Omaha in tine 'to allow -jhern
a day or two rest beiore starting,
the last lap to Los Angeles. i
Prohibition Appears to .
Come Slow in New York ,
New York. n. 19. The numberJ
of persons arrested tor intoxication j
in New York in the first year of pro-i
bibhion enforcement was 13 great-!
er than the year before, a comparison j
of statistics, made Public at the mag-i
Pirate's court, disclosed Toesdax.j
From June to December, 1920. the
monthly scale of arraignments has j
increased steadily. '" i
Total arrests for 1920 were 5.S13.
while in 1919 they w ere 5.tk7.
Score of Mexicans
Lose Lives When Big
. Electrical Dam Breaks
j" , , : ; :
j Mexico City". Jai.; 19. A score'-of
j persons aTe known to have been
I drowned and ,30 to. have been -in-ijurcd
yesterday when, trie darn
I supplying Pachuca,. biggest minwg
J.town in Mexico, broke and flooded
the city. .The property damage has
not besn estimated. ,
Pachuca, capital of Hidalgo, lies
5 miles northeast of Mexico City
and has a population of about 40,003.
In that vicinity are rich silver mines.
The town lies at an altitude oi
about 8500-feet It is one oi the
oldest mining towns in Mexico:- The
electrical power of Mexico City is
obtained from the isnpoundicg dam
at Pachnca. .. ." ,
HEARST'S MAGAZINE A LIBERAL EDUCATION
! il men in 2 5&ooa in
5 r.ith the theft of 12 fcVs of maH ,
. ew kork, Jan. jy.-heacrai :.e shot lo dti,h here vlx today.
Judge A Hand today issned aj "yber the federal authorities cor ! Frances Brow-n. husband of the dead
temporary injunction, returnable j the city police would place an es-'woman surrendered to officers.
next Friday, restraining the Western
LUnion. Telegraph company, from
landing the Brrtish-Braail-Barbadoes
cable at Miami. Fla.
The injunction also restrains the
company from using the three cables
between Key West and Havana in
connection with messages between
the United States and Brazil, and
front splicing thevIine from the Ear
badoes to Cuba. J
The governments allegations in
cluded that the Western Union's
contemplated connection with the
Braril-Barbadoes cabhr-is monopo
listic, as the British company holds
an exclusive franchise -which pro
rides trial no other concern may
connect by Submarine cable any two
of the points in Brazil touched by it.
Conferences of
Master Minds"
Are Completed
President-Elect to Start oa
Southern Trip Thursday
Two Veeks House Boat-:
ing Trip Planned.
Marion. O, Jan. 39. President
elect Harding has completed his con
ferences on the policies f fcis ad
I ministration and will leave Thursday
'"night for St. Augustine, Fla where
Jhe will arrive Saturday to spend
: raost of the time before his tnau
I guration.
i A two weeks house boat trip in
t riorida waters as to follow hi ar
j rival Virtually all of February he
1 will spend at a Su Augustine hotel,
'mixing golf and relaxation with the
i work of final preparation for the
S presidency.
During the horse boat expedition,
I which is to be devoted mostly to
! fishing, the president-elect will be
the guest ot Senator J. rreur.g
huysen of Xew Jersey. Several ether
senators and friends are Jo be in
the party. -
The trip will carry the president
elect as far as Palm Beach or Miami,
Fla, with several stops to try the
various golf links. The trips ashore
will be brief and far between, how
ever, and daring most of the voy
age Mr. Harding expects to cut him
self off as completely as possible
from the ordinary currents of ra
tional life. -
- At Sl Augustine be will receive
some callers but will give most of
his working hours to consideration
of the first acts of his administra
tion. Whether he will return to Marion
has not been definitely indicated.
Heretofore he had intended to go
direct from St. Augustine to Wash
ington to take the oath, but the peo
ple of his home town wast to send
him to the capitol witk a farwell
j Mrs. Harding will not accompany
her husband to Florida but will go
to St. AngTistine later, yrobabjy aU
er the houseboat trip it finished.
$1,000,000 Loss in Town
Spotted by Night Fires
Worcester? Mass, Jan. 39. This
city was spotted by fiTes early today
wiih a loss" that ran upwards of
$3000.000.
Two business buildings on" Main)
street were burned and roof blaiesj
damaged a score of tenement '-c- j
zero temperatniw of the streets.
While this epidemic of flames, en
gaged all the city's apparatus, an-
oihrr firry rot dcttlcptd several I -b'otks
nonhcakt f c.'iy hill at ' I
Xorth Fcier acd U)M strcrt
herethe wood working j3ant of
the M. K. Snutb corporatjon wa
bcrr.td with a loss of $ICHM0fl.
The origin of the priucitul fires
wa not definitely determined.
The police said they . were not
prepared to charge .incendiamm.
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Brooklyn Zoo Lioness
Undergoes Pleasures
Of Modern Dentistry
Assets of Shoe Company
- Stolen by Chicago Woman
Findlar. O lan.- 19. Of the as
sets of the bankrupt shoe firm of !
Baker & Kohler, $4,409 was stole 1
by two Chicago women' names un
known when the women entertain
ed the shoe men at their sumptuous
iparrcnent This developed at a heaf
ii g before Referee H. D.- Grindle
of Lima. .
New: York, Jan. 39. Seven years
ago under an African, sun. Q'jcrme
wobbled unsteadily through the
jungle- a cub", lioness, born to wild
liie in an untamed land.
Yesterday in the Brooklyn zoo she
gasped in-agony . while a dentist,
aided .by keepers oroke o-jt a black
ened tusk which had given her a
toothach.". . .
. Her teeth, had succumbed to the
white man s crvUizalion.
A hiH hour rf uproar and tie
lioness was made fast. A side of
he cage was opened and her head
dragged cut. Then the park depart
ment veterinary began tns work
while Queenie slraiaed at the ropes
which bound her. Keepers, witi a
rope abost her bead, held k dnwn
as gently as posible and placed a
crow- bar between her jaws. t
When Queerfie w as relcat-ed. she
roared and tried to leap to her feet,
but she- was too weak. -
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The
Woman
God
Changed! By Don Bjnu
m
m
COLDLY in a moment of drunken pique a .
chorus sirl had shot and killed a gentleman.
' But is this prisoner at the. dock, Anna Janssen, the
' woman of Broadway? "This superb beauty cast in the
form and figure of a Norse goddess? Impossible! In
the heart of everyone rose the cry,' ''This is not the
same woman." But on went the sordid trial of Anna
Janssen for murder . . t V Donn Byrne, in the most
dramatic story he has ever written, proves a woman
can come back ! In Hearst's for February.
Where Women Fail
By Arnold Bennett
What is the trouble with our social life? We seek socia
bility, we must have it, yet the result is often discom
fort and boredom. Whose is the responsibility?- Is it
Woman's? Wherein lies the remedy? Bead Arnold
Bennett's ill am ina ting discus km of the whole problem.
In ihe Fesbcaet Eeassts
The Story of a Hungry Millionaire .
By Gorge$ Qemmeea
Bow much does the man who enjoys great riches really
owe to the poor? Haa he toe right to withhold his
bounty, if he wishea or must he give, in pity, out of
his abundance? .Yet, by withholding, a certain hungry
millionaire here finds the secret of life.
In the Febbcabt Eeaksts
Must We Shoot Our Fat Men?
By IT. A'Jrton du Pay
A fat man of three score years and ten is almost as
rare as a white blackbird. The man who allows himself
to get fat cats 10 years off his. life perhaps 20. The
accumulation of flesh is suicide. Should fat people be
punished? Shall we declare corpulence a crime? . '
1 lb Fkbrca&t Hearsts
Hie High Cost of Lying ?
By Albert Payton Trrhutu -
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
ByH. G'.-WeE " -
When the Rising Sun Went Down
' 'By-WOm. R. StevaH
Rosalie and the Emotional Appeal
By Sawip&m Raphael
The One That Lost
By Bruno Letting
Wasting The World
By Sir Leo Ckiaxca Money
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Are we using up the forces of Nature too recklessly ?
What will happen when we bum cp the world's supply
of coal and oil, denude forests, exhaust mines? Should
raw materials be regulated? Bead what this eminent
British economist says of the pooling of world resources.
9m tkt Fxskcabt Hzassts
The Interception
By Arikmr Stringer
If Three Should Play
ByF.R Raily
. " 1 The little Red Foot
By Robert W. Chamber
How I Escaped Cousin Hiram
By Waii Jfason
And eleven other Features
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