Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1920 — Page 13

SPIRITS LURE HEIRS TO SEEK ” NOE S FORTUNE Descendants Part With sls Per to Get Look-in on Loot. WILL ‘FENCE IT IN’ XTSVV YORK, Feb. 26.—Joseph A. Lurii of Leonin, N. J., at one time hired as an investigator by members of the KoffmanPozmanSk! families, who believed that a fortune of $90,000,000 awaited them from the estate of n George A. Hoffman of South Africa, has anew Job. This time Mr. Lurla is evincing more than a passing interest in the descend ants of an early settler who answered to the name of Pierre Noe. Mr. Noe reached these shores from France somewhere hack In the year 1603. According to Mr. I, Mr. Noe was of thrifty Huguenot #*toc!t. He took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and embarked in the real estate business. When he died, again we Quote Mr. Litriau. his estate embraced “valuable lands in New Jersey, Manhattan and Staten Island." All this and lots more Mr. Luria explained to fifty trusting and expectant descendants of old man Noe. foregathered in a poorly ventilated mid-section of Miss McHugh's dancing studio, at 24 Park place. Newark. ONLY 550 Oil* XOT RESPOND. A chandelier in the mid section was tastefully draped with watercress, with pendant red pasteboard hearts. Behind a desk on an improvised platform sat Mr. I.uria himself, clad In brown checked trousers, gray jacket and gates ajar collar. Mr. Luria wore a carnation in the lapel of the gray jacket and ever and anon he lowered his nose for the purpose of inhaling the rich fragrance of the little flower. The fifty wide eyed descendants of old Pierre Noe sat with a strangle hold on their purses awaiting the un folding of Mr. Lucia's tale. Mr. Luria began by admitting that he was disappointed at the small showing of Noe descendants. He had sent out 600 invitations, he said. Where were the other 550 descendants? The fifty descendants present looked at each other qnestloningly. One man from Metuchen, N. .T-. stooped down and peered under nis chair. He had dropped his handkerchief. For the benefit of descendants who had not been able to put In an appearance at a former meeting which Mr. Luria called at Miss McHugh's dancing studio, he explained that he hod founded what is known as she ' ''Noe -Trftnble Family Association of America." Any descendant of old man Noe. one of whose •daughters married into the Trimble family, who wanted to become a member of tbe association would have to step up to Mr. Eurla’s desk and plunk down a s•'< initiation fee and. aftr re reiving a receipt for that, would further obiige by an additional $lO. comprising tbe first year's dues. Having separated themselves from MS apiece, Mr. Luria explained, the de scendants would be in line for a share of old man Noes property, tracts of which. Mr. Luria intimated, are scattered over New York and New Jersey with the wild profusion of holes in a porous piaster. NO ONE INJURED IN RUSH. No one was injured in the rush which followed *o pay the initiation fee and the first year's dues. The descendants crowded c-aeh other a bit and stepped on eucb other's toes and politely elbo .el each other in their zeal to part with their money. Each of the descendants g<t a little rectangular receipt, pink as a pelican’s tongue. When the receipts had been tucked away in breast or breech's, according to the sox of the descendant, Mi> Luria ' Introduced the association's counsel. \V J. Woodbead. Jr., who said he “occupied offices in tbe Prudential building. New ark.'' "There's land, valuable land, in Jersey that this association Is going to fence In." explained Mr. Woodbead. "It's Noe property to which none of the Noe heira have records enforceable because the records have been outlawed. We arc going to fence this land In. as I "aid, claiming it uot ss Noe heirs, but as members of the Noe 'i-lmb> Family association “Then after we've established title we'il sell the land we've fenced in and every one who has paid his dues in this association will come in for his share of the profits. If there are only fifty members In the association each member will receive one-fiftieth of the profits." - Mr. Woodward was asked where this vast and valuable tract of Nne land was situated. This be coyly refused to dl vulge.

••If I told you where it was situ nted." he said, “others might go In and got iK first. But 1 will say this: The land is there. Your royal trustees in this association went down there on that, land a couple of Sundays ago. You remember that cold Sunday? Well, we went down there in that zero weather and looked the ground oyer for you and I can tell you the land is ‘here. ’ One of' the descendants wanted to know whether Mr. Luria bad succeeded in locating anything tangible in the way of personal properly of the late lamented Pierre Noe. Speaking for Mr. Luria, Mr. Woodhead said that the quest, as yet In Its Infancy, had revealed personal property amounting to something like $3 50. Gloom descended upon the descend ants at this intelligence, whereupon Mr. Luria introduced Mrs. Louise Anderson of Mount Vernon. Mrs. Anderson Is a widow. She said so. She is also a spiritnallst. She admitted that, too. Mrs. Anderson even went further, cams right out and said she was a medium. SOME AT IYAI.I, AND BROAD. “If this thing is done right we are all going to get something out of it,” said Mrs. Anderson breezily and cheerily and confidently. She vpoke with assurance. The descendants perked up and one of them, a male descendant from South Jersey. got so excited he lit a cheroot. „. “Let me tell you something.'' said Mrs. .Vnderson. “Do you know that some of the property left by old Pierre Noe was situated at Wall and Broad streets In New York, where the Stock Exchange is located? If that property Is sold, ought not the descendants of Pierre Noe get a share In it? I might as well be frank with you. I’m a spiritualist. I was drawn to this meeting by the spirit world. I can tell you that something big is going to come of this!” Mrs. Anderson slmiligly vouchsafed the iuformation that she is a widow, and turning to Mr. Luria she said : “And you know he's a widower.'* The forty female descendants present laughed and applauded appreciatively, not to say evpenctantly. “And now if at any time I can help any of you men and women out in m.v line of business don.'t hesitate to call on me." •• . . Then Mrs. Anderaon, the Mt. Vernon spiritualist, sat'down and Mr. Luria got up and said that while he was in no way connected with the Noe family, he dearly lored to aid his fellow man. Aiding his fellow man, he said, was a noble thing. “It's not the money that I'm after,” lie explained in broken accents and ESngUsh —Mr. Luria speaks with a V foreign accent—“it’s not the 1 don’t care for money. I just i help the descendants of old koe.” the descendants ali got up ami cpsudlng Mr. Luria hastened rccu Miss McHugh's dancing ■ iter asked Mr. Luria to explain

| AT HORSE RACES IN FRANCE \ The Duke of Connaught and I>ady Worthington were among interested spectators at the horse races in France.

certain features of the scheme to reclaim and fence in Noe-land, which the reporter was frank enough to admit he did not Quite understand. “You should have told me when yon came in you were a reporter," said Mr. Luria. who, in the press of receiving, carrier in tbe afternoon, had mistaken the reporter for a descendant. Asked how his former st*f*.o<>o,noo scheme was progressing, Mr. Luria shook his finger at the reporter and said the newspapers had been unfair *o him. Asked what Ills regular business is, outside of discovering descendants. Mr. Luria explained that he holds down a job in a New York business college, where he makes plain the intricacies of tbe Spanish language. “Weil," said the reporter, “I'll see you some more.'' “Yes. you will,” said Mr Luria. A certain idiosyncrasy of inflection ,n Mr. Lurin's last three words filled the mind o< the reporter with a vague feeling of apprehension lest perhaps when next he and Mr. Luria meet, Mr. Luria sees the reporter first. ENGLISH WOMEN STILL CHATTEL Wife'B Status Held Different From Husband's. LONDON. Feb. 26 F.nclish women strongly resent the recent decision of Justice McAndle in the divorce court that women are still legal chattels of their husbands, who are entitled to financial compensation If their wives leave them for other men. Under the law, husbands should be compensated for such tu injury to their feelings, for the blow to their martial honor and for the se riousness of the hurt to their matrimonial family life, Justice McArdie declared. The value of a wife, he asserted, depends upon whether she is a helpmate In business or as a housewife, but he said he did not think a wife could claim compensation if her husband went off with another woman. Mrs. C. 8. Pee!, a well known jour naiist and novelist, declares this decision would make a comic opera plot but “it shows how necessary it is that changes should be made io tbe law." Dr. Elizabeth Chesser, a prominent woman physician, said “The time has come for women to be "Judges. Reform of the divorce law is long overdue." “Votes for women was but the first step toward feminine emancipation." said Miss Florence Underwood, secretory of the Women's-Freedom league, and she added: “We are directing our whole movement toward fuller Independence." Lady Asquith, leader In many social reform movements, Is also for equal divorce lawß for men and wopien, saying: “I think It very unfair if Justice McArdle'g view is correct, that womnn hus not the same rights of ownership in her husband ns he has In his wife.” ALBERTA BEAVER PESTERS FARM Open Season Declared Until Late in Spring. EDMONTON. Alberta, Feb. 26. -The beaver, once threatened with extinction, has “come back" under protective laws to such an extent In Alberta that the provincial government has proclaimed an open trapping season, lasting until April 30, in all the country south of tbe fiftyfifth parallel of latitude. Beavers may be said to have been the architects of Edmonton's early fortunes. The Hudson Bay Company s pioneer fur post founded on the city’s site In 1795 flourished on its trade In beaver pelts. Every prairie stream was full of beavers, and the 3,000,000 acres of land dotted through every township of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, south of the North Saskatchewan river, which the company has now thrown open to farm settlement, was once Included In the richest beaver country In Canada. When the settlers began swarming in upon the prairies in the last quarter of the last century the prairies were swept almost clean of beavers. Laws for Its protection gave the animal peace from its humsn enemies, and it is now again plentiful in many districts. Numerous complaints have been made of damage by heavers in Alberta in the last year. Tbeir numerous dams have caused streams to inundate farm lands, and many cattle and horses bare been drowned recently in attempting to cross these swollen streams on thin ice. The animals also have destroyed much brush and small timber alone tbe stream which the farmers needed for shelter for stock.

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LONDON’S FOGS BARRED HOOVER Waxes Humorous Over ‘British Citizenship’. NEW YORK. Feb. 26—Herbert Hoover flatly denies he las made application for British citizenship. In a letter to a classmate in Stanford university lie declares his Quaker ancestors would turn over In their graves to learn that such a thing were true. Writing to Casper \V. Hodgson of Yonkers, who for some time had been urging him to make reply to the varied and repeated attacks, the former! food administrator shows a sense of humor softietime.* lacking in public men. Pleading "guilty to the criminal charge” of pursuing his profession abroad. Mr. Hoover siys he feels his accent was disinfected from foreign taint by presence in the United States for a part of each year, except three. After repeatedly writing to Mr. Hoover Mr. Hodgsoi said lie ilnallv sent him Jlie following t"legram to Washington“ln view of the continued attacks upon your citizenship, etc., 1 believe 1 voice the sentiment of your old friends, in saying that it Is about time you should come out of your shell and make reply, if only for (he sake of your family." , FOOD DIRECTOR WAXES HUMOROUS. Here is Mr. Hoover s reply : “1 have noted your feeling that t should answer some of the solemn dig courses on my private life and crimes. I do scent to get Into tbe way of politically minded folks even when trying to keep out of politics. k “Some things that have been said ct me cause me n sense of financial oversight. For Instance, I have made quite careful inquiries and I regret that so far 1 can not find “(at Tile SiO.OiO.OOO I am said !•. have mad* In my earlj youth, or even middle age or el together, or any respectable part of it. “(b) The investments that I am Supposed to have in tlreak Britain. “Like the negro porter who was askert to change $lO, I am grateful for thcompliment. I am sorry that these sums do not exist, for they would be useful for children’s relief. "I have also given deep consideration to the other Rents mentioned. “(a> Ain Ia British subject? Did 1 over apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations of persecuted Quaker am-fsto-s would rise In their graves at such a dis-mery. They remain qul-d, however, for no Californian could live three monLbs in London climate and be come a British citizen If he knew It. one thing that ronasures m- that thin did not hap|>eii without ray knowledge is that the Brjit*h refused to allow me to come into their island .during the war without an American passport. Also, I feel tha( my accent wa disinfected of any English. French, Chinese. It<twsion or other tains by my p reen "e In the United States a portion of every alendar year of my life, except three even Including the five in which the United State* has exercised its right to Iraft my s.-rvlces, a good portion abroad sKEK DAMPENED V HDD It OI YOI TH. ”rb) Did f ever rent a ‘residence' abroad? 1 plead guilty of this rrlme. hut in mitigation I do appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies arid children. “(c) What about the political Inn*-h where l was supposed to uc entered upon a dreadful eonsp'rr- $ .a I net the weal of the American peopo- - My real distress in this matter is not !o prove an alibi or even to complain that mv nsim was not even mentioned, as the gties*s ;seert. but It Is that I was not even lp-

vited, and therefore lost an excellent lunch. “(d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this new: doctrine of criminality will do? deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring .something home and pay taxes on it. “(e) I gather also that it is mora. turpitude on my part to have managed large enterprises. The hope to rise rrom tile ranks of labor to the ranks of management will, however, probably not he crushed from his hearts of the American boy even by this onslaught." Ruling’s Tightened on Whisky Permits WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—The “lid" was put down tight today to pregent illegal diversion of whisky through permits issued for non-beverage buyers. Prohibition Commissioner Kr. ier Issued to all his subordinates explicit instructions to require of all purcharers of non beverage alcohol or ntoxicants, ample proof showing that liquor supplies arc used for the uses prescribed by the law. Why New York Is Stuck oiv Ice Cream NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The "blue sundae" Is the laest peril to public health In New York, the board of health an noimces. “Ice cream " sold in sodas snd sundaes Is so full of gelatine that it will not melt in tbe sun. experts declared. Taylor Quits Rail Administrate n Post WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 he resign# tion of W. II Taylor as general assistant to the director general of railroad* was announced today by Walker D. Hines. Taylor will retire on M . h 15 to heroine vice president of the railroad, with headquarters at New 1 rg City. Brice Ctaggett. assistant to Mi Mine*, will assume the duties of Mr. Ts ;• lor.

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LOST AS BABY; SEEKS KINFOLKS Woman, Taken by Circus Performer, Shows Up. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Twenty-two years ago a 3-year-old girl was stolen from her mother in New York by a woman from a circus, who reared her without telling her the circumstance* of her birth. Last month thp girl, now grown and married, learned her Ilf* story. In the hope of finding her parents_ she wrote this letter, which was turned over to Capt. John Ayers of the bureau of missing persons at police headquarters: "Dear Sir—l am writing you for a little help in trying to loca'-e my brother and sister. I will give you a little of n*y story, and perhaps you can do something for me. 1 am the missing person, and it was around about 1893 I was taken away from my! mother by a circus woman. I was 3 years old then. “f have never seen my mother, brother or sister from that day to t.hfs. If they have advertised for me, I did not know of it, as I have only just learned about myself through the girl who took care of me, but she can’t remember if my name is Wright or Knight. Do you think ypu could help me? “Noy, if you cau locate Charles Knight, or Wright, who has a missing sister. Susie, he ought to know. I had a sister. Pauline, also. I was known on the stage ns Zella Earl up to five years ago, then I married.” The letter is signed by Mrs. William T. Pickard. 76 Franklin street, Tonawanda. N. X.

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