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Daily News from New York, New York • 64

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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64
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is SUNDAY NEWS, AUGUST 27, 1922. DOROTHY HUGHES, ROCKAWAY GIRL, CHOSEN QUEEN OF NEW YORK BEACHES Thousands See DAILY NEWS Beauty Jury Pick Fairest of the Fair Dorothv Hughes, Rockaway Beach, Queen of the Beach for 19221 The Queen is crowned! Despite lowering clouds and a wretched rain, a crowd of several thousand stood close to the barriers at Brighton Beach Baths yesterday and watched the "judges pick Miss Hughes as the loveliest girl of all New York's beaches. 4 '1 A -V I' I If I -) i i I A lir i A "A 'il i)-V Hotel Owner Reports Missing After Raid. Long Branch, Aug. 26.

Following a raid by Federal agents, John Da vies, owner of the 0Mal-ley Hotel, one of the sixteen places visited, told the police $210 was missing from his Lilyan Harnach of Lon Beach won second place. Mary Hlavka oft South Beach won third place and it lit Andrea of Brighton Beach; took fourth honors. These four girls will go to Atlantic City September 5 to stay a week during the great annual pag-j eant, when they will- compete in several rational beauty contests. I They were selected from a group of twenty-two girls, winners at It preliminary pageants held at the 1 four beaches participating. three-diamond drop lavalliere; a Kain and gray clouds tried hard i string of pearls, to diminish the splendor of yester-! During the coming week the four day's affair at Brighton.

The Iucky Ss must prepare diligently management of the Brighton foT the great trip to Atlantic City. Beach Baths had gone to great! "I'm so happy I just haven't any- JLUl lengths to make the day a 10 sav at aIJ. sau Ilss tacular carnival and the several Hughes. "It all seems lite a fairy dream and everybody is so won derful to me. All six of the win ners thanked the judges prettily and stepped up on the stand to re ceive the cheers of the great crowd, Movie cameras clicked and there (NEWS photo) A judge, Miss New York and her rival beauties: Left to right.

Miss Pearl White, Dorothy Hughes, Lilyan Harnach, Mary Hlavka, Ruth Andrea and victoria Merritt. was a scene of joyful happiness. Yesterday's event was the final affair in the Queen of the Beach Contest until the winners arrive JOHN A. STEWART, 100 YEARS YOUNG, DECLARES IT'S EASY at Atlantic City. (Other picture on page 43) John A.

Stewart, patriarch of as president for more than a quar- ter of a century. Girls Charged With Grand Larceny Freed thousand people who were brave enough to defy the weather were amply rewarded for their hardihood. Judges Puzzled. The judges worked hard and con-ulted at length before they finally made their selections. Miss Neysa McMein, famous artist; Miss Pearl White, moving picture star; Henry Clive, artist and illustrator, and Michel Jacobs, sculptor and designer, made up the jury.

They dropped important work to make- the selections' for THE NEWS, and declared that they 'were glad they had come out that it pleased their eyes to look upon eo much loveliness at one time. Miss McMein and Mr. Clive weie high in their praise of the winders, particularly Miss Hughes. Winning Curls. "Her long, beautiful curls turned the trick, said Miss McMein, and Mr.

Clive agreed with her. "And she did not have any artificial coloring," continued the famous woman artist. "That always When Accuser Defaults Miss Gertrude Gordon, former actress; Miss Mae Byrne, manicurist, and Lois Rubenstein are RADIO PICKS UP SPIRIT MOANINGS, SAYS THURSTON Whitestone Landing, N. Aug. 26.

Foundation for belief that spirits of the dead inhabit the planets has been discovered by Howard Thurston, investigator of so-called spirit deceptions and heretofore a Ekeptic, he announced today. In the last few days he has been able to pick up murmurs as of Hindu music and unintelligible voices, things which seem like human sounds far removed. He says he has been forced to conclude if they are mot communications from spirits, they must be messages from other planets. free today because Samuel Ober Wall Street, today starts the second century of his life. Looking back upon a life that included friendships with John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, William H.

Macy, Abraham Lincoln and a host of other famous characters in American history, the Grand Old Man" yesterday celebrated the climax of the great "trek from 1822 to 1922 in the intimacy of his family circle, still vigorous and active. For many years he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the United States Trust Company, a banking institution which he himself organized almost seventy years ago and which he served "I do not live differently from other people," he has told friends, "but 1 eat and drink carefully. Tne oiuy rule I have is moderation in everything. Eating too much is just as bad as drinking too much. I haven't used tobacco since I was twenty." Stewart was born August 26, 1822, in a house that stood at Fulton and Front Streets, just a year after the death of Napoleon Bonaparte.

During the Civil War he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and was one of Abraham Lincoln's most trusted financial advisers. "It's easy to live a century," is the way he sums up his life. lander, of Charleston, S. doesn't want publicity. Charged with crand larceny, they were dis charged in West Side Court yes terday.

"I discharge them regretfully," said Magistrate Mcueehan. "It is too bad no accusing witness has appeared." Oberlander. who alleged the Woman, an Accidental Republican, ants to Re-Enroll as Democrat Mrs. Mollie Nussbaum, 2029 counts tneir favor. Any one of the six can have a job with me acy time she wants it!" The six winning girls were given their beautiful prizes by Miss McMein.

The six prizes were, respectively, platinum and diamond bar pin, set with five diamonds; platinum and gold ring, set with five diamonds; platinum dinner ring, set with thirteen diamonds; bar pin, st with five diamonds; a girls conducted an expensive apartment for the purpose of cheating men iured there by Rubenstein, has left the city. Women's Crimes Decrease Reduction of incoming prisoners at the State Reformatory in the past four weeks indicates the crime wave among women in Greater New York has abated. Surf Avenue, Coney Island, today applied to Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May for an order chang- ing her enrolment from that of Republican to Democrat. In her application she said she had been a lifelong Democrat, but in the last primary through error had enrolled as a Republican. The mistake was not noticed, she said, until too late to eorrect the records.

Justice May held he did not have the power to order the change and added that Mrs. Nussbaum could enroll protjerly in the fall. Death Paroles Convict Death cut short the prison term of Christopher Stevens, thirty, in Sing Sing yesterday after he had been ill more than ten months, finally developing tuberculosis. Bald Men Grow Hair Surprising" reports are cominjr from men who were bald or losing hair and who acquired a new. vigorous growth by cinr? a peculiar compound that wakens life in dormant hair roots.

'Tour inches of hair have growrl over what was a bald spot." is the report of G. W. Mitchell, had a larsre bald spot and real, healthy hair has developed all over my head." writes C. F. Heiser.

Imagine the enthusiasm of Albert H. Plary when he reported; "My head was as bare as the bottom of my feet and now I have a pood growth of hair." Geo. M. Schwank reports that even with a second applica-Hon of the compound his hair stopped failing-; then a new growth started. Anyone who is losing hair or is bald may obtain a proof box of this compound free of -ot and postpaid, merely by writing to Katalko Offices.

BD-55. Station X. New York. Adv. Notice-to Pedestrians fjv 7- i 1 1 1 l-fii I 1 Get -HF GYPSY TOOT RELIEF if you want to feel the awful pains from sore, burning feet callouses, corns, bunions.

and swollen tender, Bching -f ectr Apply it in a minute no fus, no bother Then put on your shoes and walk, dance, work or stay on your feet as long as you like! Gypsy Foot Rel.et is a wonderful secret from the desert. Successful results guaranteed in every case or you ret back the little it cotsl It is sold in Uu3 cil by ail good tirmrffistd ladudius Lipffett tin ited Chem ists. Kal ish Pharmacy Uhnei stores)), Gimbel's, Hethenng-tong. Brooklyn Abraham St Straus. Jersey City Gold's.

Union Hill Teitsen's. Weefaawken Weehawken Drug" Company. Hoboken Standard Drug Company, Charles H. Schmidt. Newark Petty Fireman' Pharmacy land all busy drug: stores) Ajiv (XEWS photo) Left to ritht, Henry Clive, Neysa McMein and Michel Jacobs.

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