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riiirtitiHtntiitrttrtiui fen 71 oostyi 13 SECTIONS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURGH I What to Call a Lady. A Very Little Question. 1 Make Your Name Important; Leave the Rest to Fate. A Pv 11 I mm THE PITTSBIMGH PRESS. If LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN 1 I Pittsburgh ESTABLISHED 1884.

PITTSBURGH, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1922. TEN CENTS 1 1 fTT7Fff fRTTTTTTTT IT3 TrTT TTTA T7TT flTT T7TTTT Fny? 77" ww vj in i By Arthur Brisbane. I ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft -ir ft ft i Mfft SOMETHING NEW, SO SHE C0fMCIf0F BEING ACCESSORIES FROLIC BEAUTY if 'MENACES TO H0RTES1DE CRIfvl By Gertrude Gordon. After four hours of deliberation, the iurv in the of Harrr and Margaret Brooks, charged with the complicity in the mur- aer ot James H. JNeal, official of Boggs Buhl store, who was killed last June, when bandits stole $44,000 from him, returned a verdict at 8:15 p.

m. yesterday. Harry Brooks was found "guilty of mtirder in the second degree, acces-; sory before the fact," and Margaret, his wife was found "guilty of voluntary manslaughter," accessory before the fact." About 100 persons were in the courtroom, despite the unusual hour, and the intense stillness of the great building, broken only by the noises coming up faintly from the streets below. WED, SAYS Special to THE PRESS. New York, March 18.

"I got married because it was something new and different for me to do. Now I am going to have my marriage annulled, If can, because it was too different to suit me." So said the pretty Geneva Mitchell of 'Sally" and the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic 4 Miss Mitchell is the 'young woman who married Robert Savage, student at Milford, Conn, and son of a millionaire, and then a week after their marriage gave her wedding ring: back to her young husband. She added: "I first saw Robert one night on the Ziegfeld Roof. I am one of the girls in the pogo stick race up there. That night my stick broke and I lagged way behind the other girls.

Robert stood up and tried to cheer me on. The next day I received a note from him asking me to meet him in a hotel lobby. "I met him. We went to a restaurant to take dinner. Over the dinner table he proposed to me that night, the first night I met him.

I did not say yes or no; I told him I was undecided. I saw him then on and off for a week. Then he went back to school. This all happened In December. "I di not hear from him then for more than two months.

He wrote that he would like to see me agal He came to see me on a Saturday and the next day we went to Milford and were married. "Did I love him? 1 do not know. I liked him, but getting married pealed to me as something and Jt 'wM- something which I had iie-cr uuiiq wiurc, i i aim. did It. Thr divs Jlf tr wa w.rA mmrriA I I realised that I had matte a big mis- "am too young to be tied to i I I mm GERTRUDE G0B00H' made the big room, in which for six days a legal battle had been waged for the lives of the accused, a mournfullv that It would be impossible for me toworld are getting into the cho-te be an ideal wife to oim and to follow x- s.

my own theatrical ambitions. And nisesof New York theatrical at- the present time i love the stage tractions, i nese men and wom-more than i couji possibly love any en are users of opium and other solemn place During the few minutes while the verdict was unswathed from the usual ponderous phraseology of the law. the calm prevailed, but when the prisoners had sat down again, it broke. MBS. XEAL WEEPS.

Mrs. rNeal. widow of the murdered man, bowed her head and wept a little. Harry Brooks leaned toward his wife and clasped her hand tightly. For the first time durng her trial, the i ron nerve of the accused woman broke.

Tears streamed down hr face, and althoneh she did not sob foot, Her husband quickly pat his arm around her. but the admonitory touch of the deputy sheriff on his shoulder reminded him that he dared not make any demonstration. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brooks, parents of Harry, leaned forward suddenly as heavy weights had been placed on their shoulders.

Their daughter -cried softly. Judre Bell made an unusually lengthy aid annreclative BDcseh tn tli 1n fn their close attention to the trial an 1 careful thought on the verdict. Th Judge also carefully explained to At- torney Henry P. Freeman of FlinV counsel for the defense, a Stranger to Pennsylvania law regula tions, now he should proceed in ess he wished to ask for a -new trial. 4 MWGLE THEIR TEARS.

Then the Jury filed out with hurried and relieved steps. and the crowd slowly melted out of the room. Am Mrs. Neal passed the parent of Brooks on her way out, she stopped, shook hands with, the elder lira. Brooks, and, her own Voice broken with tears, said: "I am sorry we ii uj mm nnfiF arcnmuniM hit these.

Too have my deep sympathy. Mrs. Brooks, too. broke down, and the two women, one bereaved of husband by death; one watching hen son as he began bis trip which litely will end in the penitentiary, wept to- A gether. 'oks' parents live Iq WtfburA such.

They will not start their i i jvurucy Bonn tor a tew aays. 444jfwwWif3fjf l1 any, man. I love the stage far: more same; because did it on an impulse are not taken to combat the in-than a home IKe. There was nothing of the moment. of tn have.im-i, Cot-ttei Pace man bo am tnrougn witn my nus- oa no.

Mother has put the entire matter in the hands of her attorney. and we are trying to annul the marriage. I oo noi want a cent i oz money irom my husband or married him I did not know he was wealthy, ijt he had been a. pauper 1 would have married him. Just the puises.

xnen i tnjngs ror wnica 41t.t. RAIDS F0LL017 IN NEW YORK CITY By TgaJtea lie. New "Tork. March IS. One hundred The other evening- many vouni Badies called "The stnn aeague" dined in New York and dis cussed this: "Shall women lose their names when they marry? experienced women will say, 'Young ladies, after you have been Parried awhile, you will know that omen lose so many things at mar riage that one more or less, such as a maiden name, doesn't matter." lwenty per cent lose their illu sions the first week, including their pituul belief in men and their per fection.

Eighty Der cent sustain that oss later. When the children come the mothers oee sleep, lose control of own lme. For women it is a losing game, md at 65, that maiden name question seems trivial. There are so many important things consider, such as making a gen uine, general successwhich it isn't yet that it seems, a waste of time consider minor details. What dif-erence in happiness does a name make? Who will care a hundred years from iow whether it was Mr.

and Mrs. smith or Mr. and Mrs. Jones-Smith Mr. Smith and Miss Jones (Married Smith) that went out to tea? No use worrying about a name un-ss it is important.

Make your name mportant. And marriage won't mother it. Bernhardt has grandchil dren but still is Sarah Bernhardt, as he was when she sang in the streets ft years ago. Duse is Dase. anl Jiachel is remembered as Rachel.

It didn't hurt Ella "Wheeler, poetess, change her name to Ella Wheeler Yilcox. She dragged her husband lilong with her and ho enjoyed it. When the man is ablo the woman ikes his name. You couldn't im-gine Mrs. Lloyd George insisting on her maiden name, whatever that may pe.

If the woman is abler. th man frill be known as "her husband." One of the Bronte sisters wo lines of an old poem: quotes the Deep of the night the children grat he mither under the mools heard that. That mother under the earth hear-ng. In -he nisht. the cries of her U-treated children had more im-ortant things than her maiden, name os think, about.

And there are mil oAs like her, unfortunately. Let he Stone young- ladies worry bout these mothers now and about heir maidc-n names afterwards. Princess Mary, who recently mar-ied out of royalty, makes the best it by having herIf called in th ourt circular "Princess Mary, Vis- ountess" Lascelles." th est thing would be when Lucy Stone larries Mr. Snooks to insist on being "Mrs. Lucv Stone Snonks" Tt hy bother about small things, when ine-tenths of the married eat thlr earts out because they can't give lieir children a good education, good octors, good food and change of air? fcettle the big things, decide about our later.

The Aneel Gahrloi ill identify you easily enough if ou do anything worth while. Lucy Stone, ladies and others hould remember that the object of larrlage is to make one worth-whila uman being out of two imperfect eings, not to have some foolish ttle female egotist get married and tien run around calling herself Hiaa." If she wants to be CALLED "Miss" hy not remain "Miss?" No individual by himself or herself complete. A woman, is only three- uarters or a human helno- a "o- ,11 a ii i one-quarter. Really united the Kvo make ONE human hoin Plato tells about it. and it sound lasonable.

Originally both mar. oman were united in one iidlvidual one body. It was a round ody with four legs, four arms. And moved by rolling over and opelled by the eight At last, grown bold, mortals r.ia- ed to roll up to the side of Oiv. uo, ana aiiacic the Naturally ie gods decided to destroy them all, ut a wise one suggested "Don't do "iat.

Cut them in two m-ir Hch one- They be able to roll ny more, -mere will be tWin A i I vx mem. niiu wr Knnii rm i many sacrifices. Each half cut will be so busy looking tnr- ther half that they won have time uumer us. So it was done. That is re each only part of a human being nd why, as everybdy well ir, fcich half rushes around lontin.

lie missing half. The tragic part is that too often ght hence the t- hieh have to do over: courts again the cut- Sng that the Pajran any. id orlgi- Instead of scneming to remain enarate or to sniTvn it oeparate with. bolish d.fference of after mar- BC men ana women should iake of marriage a real reation of a new. perfect br human being out of two lm-erl bet parts.

Mr Marriage is permanent, it i. last as long as men do. Llk- rnment and religion, it is imperfecta as the human hat practice it. Man is lonogamous, although he now it, and often doesn't act itl Woman is naturally self-effacine JVhen she shows man's foolish vanity is oniy imitation, xou, know the eal character of woman when you ee a mother displaying her. bahv tterly unconscious of herself, carinsr br nothing except what you think that wonderful baby; Woman conquered the right to vote lie other day.

That should Interest er more than a "miss or "Mrs. be lore her maiden name or that of her usband. The vote will do more for he world and women than the asa of i a It I -w is Is FOURTH AVE. FIR ISCAOS "PERFECT VENUS" A SUICIDE By nternatioual Neiw Service. Boston, March 18- Search was being made today for the four men, who police assert, witnessed the suicide of Pauline Virginia Clark, aged 23, divorcee, in her luxuriously furnished Newbury st.

apartment. While the police and medical examiner are convinced the young woman killed herself by drinking poison, they are anxious to learn if possible the reason for her act from Haldor Larsen, Massachusetts Institute Technology student; Bayard Wharton, Harvard student ana son of a Philadelphia banker; Robert Christie, a western businessman, and Joseph Tory, believed to be a resident of Worcester. Mass. These four, together with Miss Anne Cosskie, made up a party in the Clark apartment, it is charged. Miss Cosskie has been questioned by the police, but the other( four hava not been Ioojated.

4Vbengranted atlivorce from Lieut. Com. William I. Thomas of the LTjnited States navy. Miss Clark was given permission to resume ner maiu-cn name.

She is said to have brooded over the end of 'this romance, which began early in, the war. Miss Clark was decidedly attractive and she is said to have had many admirers. The naval officer-husband was member of a wealthy Florida family. He did not contest ills wife-s divorce action, which was brought on the grounds of cruelty. WAS PERFECT VESTCS." Miss Clark, at one time attracted pabrid -attention she was announced as the "perfect Venus." her measurements coinciding almost ex- actly with those attributed to the famous goddess.

After a brief stage career, begun at the age of 15, the young woman became a cloak model. was while thus occupied that a Harvard student, known as "Jimmy Davis, paid a $50 fine for her when she was found guilty of larceny. Conflicting stories are being told ot the tragic end of her career. One that shortly before the suicide she exhibited a vial of potson to her guests, saying she would use it when she was through with life. Another, that she and Larsen were alone together when she drank the potion.

At any rate, officials believe that she died In the presence of all her enests They are particularly anx ious to question wrren dtcjusc reported the poison was obtained by him In a college laboratory. He is said to have carried the empty vUI with him. EVEN BABES KICK London Infants Won't Wear Paris' Long Skirts, By United Press. London. March 18.

Like New Tork, London has revolted against the Paris 'riocree that skirts shall be longer. I mi. time. It is the babies who are I A I innilast in imir prowsio. jouica ui.

the "upper ten" 'at least are wearing hleher. Gone for London infanta are the days of lengthy silken swad dling clothes. Baby styles, shown today, ported: Soft silk and wool vest. Flannel petticoat. Small Jumper frock.

Legglns and knitted boots. FIRE CAUSES HUGE LOSS OF LUMBER. Live Oak. March 18. Fire, to day destroyed 10,000,000 feet of cy press lumber at the mill of the Stand ard Lumber jo near nere.

une estimated at 400,000. The origin unknown. THE WEATHER. TODAY'S FORECASTS The local forecast is: Rain or sleet and FOR the: week. Washington, March 18.

Weekly weather outlook Northern and Middle Atlantic states: Unsettled and warmer with rains first part of the week, followed by generally fair weather and normal temperature until Friday or Saturday when rains are again probable. Ohio Valley: Rain and warmer at beginning of the week, followed by generally fair weather and normal temperature until Thursday or. Friday when rains are again probable. Region of Great Lakes: Rain or snow and warmer first part of the-week, followed by generally fair weather and normal temperature until Thursday or Friday when rain or snow la again probable. BIG SENATORIAL FIGHT IN STATE L00KEDF0R NOW Pennsylvania politicians received no relief yesterday from their attack of political vertigo.

Nothing1 came from Senator Crow to remove any lingering doubt as to whether he plans to retire from the United States senate and the only information obtained from Major XVavld A. Reed was that he expects to reach a decision not later than tomorrow as to whether he will seek the seat now occupied by Senator Crow. Close friends of Major Reed were positive In declarations yesterday that he will be a. candidate but in talking with persons he met he was careful to say that he had not decided. REED AD BELL.

DIFFER. There Is a distinction between the attitude of Major Reed and that of John A. Bell. Mr. Reed's decision, it was made known, yesterday, will not be contingent on the action taken by Senator Crow.

He is considering the matter with-Conttnnetl en Page 4. -k-kk OBENGHAIN JURY HOPELESSLY TIED, IS INDICATION By Iatexmaflonal Hews Service. Los Angejes, March IS. Indications that the Jury in the case of Mad-alynne Obenehain, charged with murder, has hopelessly disagreed were seen this afternoon when several of the jurors made arrangements to spend another night at their bote! tinder guard of deputy sheriffs. The; jurors requested their families be notified they might not return to their, homes tonight.

1 The Jorr-. went lunch tinder charge of a deputy sheriff at 13 o'clock. They will return at, 2 p. m. and again undertake the task of trying to reach a verdict.

i FOUR DEAD, MANY HURT IN BELFAST DAY OF TERROR ITnited Press. Belfast, March 18. After one of the worst days of terror in Belfast's history, four, persons are and fully a score have been seriously wounded. Three are not expected to live. The crash of bombs in various parts of the city began with, day light and continued until late this evening.

Street fighting- lasted throughout the day. v- V- two perish theater; FIRE HI AUGUSTA, 6A. By IatpritatIoial News Service. Augusta, Ga, March 18. James Taint, aged 60, stage manager of the TmnA.1, 1 a.

Ai 1 Krl Lula, aged "43, were -burned: to In a fire" which early the Grand Theater building. The bodies were found some hours' after the firemen had succeeded bringing the flames under control. Taint 4 and his wife had lived the fourth floor of 5the building- for years. They were found 'An the hallway, rrearthe open door to apartment. Loss to the.

building Is estimated at ARBUGKLE CASE GOES OVER TO MONDAY FOR HEW VEIIIRE By International Kewe Service. San Francisco, March 18. The Jury venire called to secure a Jury to try Roscoe -Fatty' -Arbuckle the i "third? time for' manslaughter was exhausted shortly before noon today with only i one oi Liio necessary alternates selected. Adjournment was taken until Monday to select the fourteenth new jury panel, will be called then. Eleven talesmen were examined today.

Christian I. Wold was the thirteenth juror selected New British Debt Scheme. London, March 18. The Sunday Ob-V server stated today that the treasury, in trying finally to settle the vexatious question of Germanr: reparations, has evolved a scheme by which Great Britain would vbe satis-' fled with an amount from Germany, which -will meet her liabilities Incur-red to the United States in war Britain's obligations to the United States total some $800,000,0001 i F7 Hi nTHTMi Twice of and fifty federal prbhibition agents nipped in the bud by the vigilance of late today staged one of the biggest guards at the county jail who re-prohibition raids New York has seen. cently.

It la said, discovered a loaded Carrying search warrants the small revolver and a lot of cartridges In a army of enforcers drawn from the mattress on the cot of John P. Rush. n-hnt. TUT ll. CHORUSES By Edwin Carty Ranck.

fateraational Xetva Service Staff Carrnpoadent. New York, arch 18. Following a sensational raid upon a palatial opium den in Central park, west, Dr. Carleton Simon, special deputy police commissioner, stated today that the ew York underworld is usins fashionable sections of the citv rfor their operations and that nu-i merous other raids might be expected shortly. Dr.

Simon also declared that men and women of the under- narcotics and are contaminating .1 i memueTS Oi tne proiession. In this connection," he Said, "I migfht say that the scandals f-v-. jvaituaij which have shaken Hollywood, al trtlfU "trf Oflirusarl In al mvr eoKrvou XT 1 OrK, a-HCl Other Cities by even worse conditions if nromot stert c4kk-t4k J7 I in For Coghill Crime; Found WWBigGun -A daring attempt at escape or self-destruction Is believed to have been agea as. ot i jniry-nrtn -it- Rush had been confined In mar-derera row pending action by the grand jury on the recommendation of the coroner's Jury that Rush be held on a charge of murder In connection with the killing of Patrolman Joseph A. Coghill.

aged 27, of 540 Hallock st, who was slain last Christmas day in a battle with two robber suspects he had arrested and was taking to the Donnont lockup In the auto patroL RUSH IS GRILLED. The finding of the revolver and details Incident to it are steeped In the Coatlse4 Page 4. $20,000 FUR ROBBERY IN DOWNTOWN SHOP Thieves yesterday broke into the SUnwlx baildlnsr. Penn ave. and Stanwlx st tore out a part of the wall in a dental office and looted the L.

Kamlot Fur Shop of furs worth $20000 Entrance was gained by forcing a rear window on the second floor after the thieves had climbed a fire escape in the rear of -the building. Jimmying a door into the dental offices occupied by Dr. G. H. Hall and Dr.

j. B. Lyons the thieves tore away a wall into the fur shop. The robbery-, was discovered hy employes of the building who found all: doors open. they found windows- fading to the.

Are escapes on the second floor open and bits ot fur about the "window, ledge. When the dentists entered their office they discovered the door haa been jimmied open. Further gatlon showed the mutilated wall, The office was covered with dirt and bit of fur. Both the dentists office and the fur shop are on, the secona floor" facing Penn ave. i Officials of the tur snop saia ist night the thieves had stolen, every piece of valuable fur in the establish--ment.

BELLEFIELD CHURCH GETS NEW MINISTER. Official acceptance of the offer for the pastorate of thev First Baptist church. Belief eld and Bayard aves was Teceived today by that institution from Rev. C. Wallace Petty, now In the, 'Mt; Morris Baptist church.

New Tork. He wlll take up his new duties April 9. Rev. Petty is a lead ing member of the Baptist denomlna tion, and has served for about 12 years tn New Tork. i Fire which broke out twice in the building occupied by the Republic Casualty 232 Fourth yesterday, caused intense excitement and attracted throngs of Saturday afternoon shoppers and strollers to Pittsburgh's Wall st.

The first -alarm was sounded at 4 "-30 p. when an unknown woman informed Cornerman George Broeker that smoke was pouring from the basement of the building. The fire was quickly extinguished and. at O.p. m.

the firemen left and the alarm, "out" was rung. At 6:15 p. a second alarm was sounded when flames were discovered on the roof. The origin of the firs is supposed to have- been crossed wires. It is said there was no person in the ered issuing from behind closed doors' and windows.

The basement and first floor windows were protected hy heavily constructed iron cage-work, and the front "and rear doors ot the building were barred. The firemen experienced difficulty in prying the bars apart to make an through which to run hose lines, and were forced for a time to use ooal holes in the sidewalk for that purpose. Every room In the buUdlng was untenable on account of the dense smoke that filled the structure, and the firemen had some troubls in finding the In one part of the basement firemen said they found a large quantity of rubbish and paper burning. The damage was estimated at 94.000. Hundreds of people were delayed in'gettlng to their homes last night when street car traffic was paralysed at Fourth ave and Wood due to -hose being stretched across th over which Robert, and I "quarreled.

But little made, me realize P1CIFI TREATY 1 FOES jiEARTE BY GEDDES' TALK By Lawrence Martin. Varted IT ess Staff Correspond rat. Washington. March 18. A statement attributed to Sir 'Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, that' the four-power Pacific treaty averted an imminent war in the Pacific today put new life into', the opposition of four-' power.

pact; Senator Arkansas, that it Geddes was right." senators should vote against not only the four-power treaty 'but the. naval, limitation treaty. i "If it be true that at the time. this treaty was made Japan was preparing to' 'attack our Pacific possessions," says Robinson, "then instea of disarming we should call on America to arm. Under such circumstances it would be dangerous to scrap our battleships and "bind 'ourselves not to fortify Guam and "the Philippines "i i i The statement attributed to Geddes was said by Robinson to have been made yesterday in Los Angeles.

Senator Johnson, asked Robinson if Geddes was "In my state making speeches for the treaty BIKATED DEBATE EJISUKS. Heated debate followed Robinson's reference to Geddes. He cabled on Senators UnderWood and Lodge' for inf ot-mation; concerning Geddea al-' leged statement. Cenel Pse HAYS OUT OF POLITICS FOREVER, HE DECLARES By Interaatleaal Ifews Servlee. Chicago.

March 18. Will H. Hays, former postmaster general. declarea today that he Is out of politics forever i Tm out of politics completely," Hays who recently presl- dent of the Moving Picture Producers Exhibitors of America, Inc. I have Exhibitors of America, tried to-do my "bit and Xm glad to be in an activityj now where we are all on the same side of the Olays came to take to 'their home in Sullivan.

Mrs. Hays, who has been ill in a hospital here. COLLINS' ARTICLES RESUME NEXT SUNDAY. Michael Collins, head of the Irish Free State, was unable to write this week's Instalment ef his" story of Ireland's fight-' for freedom. He will continn his fascinating narrative In next Sunday's PRESS.

i building when the smoke was disoT- streets. AUTO SHOW IN MOTOR SQUARE GARDEN OPENS IN SPLENDOR wiru.imu uinnci suppea quietly Into Tonkers. arrested 12 per sens, seized several barrels of liquor and 12 gallons of wine. The raid. followed the arrival here of Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy.

Haynes. All those arrested were released on $500 bail after being taken to police, headquarters. They, will be arraigned before XI. S. Commissioner Hitchcock Monday.

The raid was taken as an indication that a new effort to -lessen the sup-y of bootleg liquor here has been put under way. s. Another indication of such a move-J ment was a warning; issued by.U. 8. District Attorney Wayward that more than 98 per cent of the.

liquor seized here has been shown by chemical analysis. to be poison. An attempt to organize "civic spirit behind prohibition enforcement in New Tork will be made Monday at a meeting to celebrate the birthday of Nsal Dow, known as the "father of prohibition." William J. Bryan will te one of the speakers. FIVE INCHES OF SFuE REFUSCED BY SHI'I B0I1E By Umlteti Press.

March 18. An unusual operaUon in which five inches of a hoy's- spine cut away and replaced by five-inches of his bone was performed 'here 'today tat the Osteopathic, hospital. The hoy, George Hawkinson. was brought here from Concord, by his parents. He is paralyzed from the hips down.

The operation took one hour and 20 minutes. Dr. D. S. Pennock, assisted by -Dr.

E. G. 'Drew, performed it. SCKOOL GIRL VIIO KILLED ALLE6ED BETRAYER FREED By Isterastlossl Hews Servlee. Waco, -March 18.

Marcie Matthews, aged IT. school girl, who killed her alleged betrayer in a courtroom here on Feb. '24. was free of all charges brought "against her1 today. grand i jury which has been considering her case adjourned without finding an Indictment- Miss Matthews shot and killed J.

H. Crosslin, aged 55, a former preacher and known business man. She had accused him of her ruin she was only 1ft rears old. OF INTEREST TO AUTOISTS Owners or prospective ewien of ante will wealth of ttssely aad tateTestlag tafermatlea tu three antomohUc aeetioasi of to. aya SUPfTJAY PRESS, eaveriac the entire ruge off ears mm mwt mobiles on display.

Along the side were rones made of black and whito cloth, while in the center the celling was hidden beneath huge gold drap-lngs that reflected the brlUianee of the myriad dotting the Interior. All types of oara big ones for the man seeking speed and- power, and more diminutive ones for milady-were on exhibition. Ninety-two makes of automobiles, om more than the number displayed last year, wers offered to the view. Dusted and ears J. By L.

Herbert Smith. AntosnoMle Editer. "In a blase of splendor, Pittsburgh's 1922 spring automobile show. the twenty-fourth held under the auspices of Automotive Associa tion. with John J.

Bell as gen- eral i manager opened -last night In Motor Square Garden. Thousands of gally-attlred automobile enthusiasts, eager to see the latest creatures of I the motor world in all their glory, I i thronged the big structure irom ena to end. i Aligned between banks of palms and ferns, with clusters of flowers here and there, the handsome cars stood in rows along the aisles like animate things, proud of the 1 beauty tha knew was theirs and challenging the close, even critical scrutiny of the admiring hosts that gathered about them. SCKJfB OF GRTSAT BKATTTT. The color scheme of the big bunding was ia black and white festoons of these colors hanging from the ceiling.

The poles were hid -beneath thin gold cloth, and the electric Ughts. partly concealed beneath. cast over a warm tines that aaaeo greauy to the wendarfml beauty of the aato- Coatlraetl Page S. i 'i 1.

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