The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1922, Page 6

S aeea Reena - ASHNTON FEARS ~—HERFIGHT FOR 0B SHE WILL TELL IN Head of Women Police, on — Trial, Knows Too Much to = Please Some People. fr (Special to The Evening World.) “WASHINGTON, March 29 (Copy+ Fight, 1922).—Washington soctety is M tiptoe eagerly awaiting the out- ome of a police trial, and official Washington is no less interested, The police officer called to the bar f@ none other than Mrs, Mina C. Van Winkle, who is said to know more of Qhat has gone on behind the drawn ®hades of Washington life in the last four years than many would care to Rave disclosed, Mrs. Van Winkle has asserted that @aring her long service as head of the Women's Bureau of the Police De- Partment there has been a determined @ffort to “get her.’ Now she is up on Skarges of conduct prejudicial to. the food order, “reputation and discipline Of the police fo and she is facing fight for her official life. But what society ts interested in is will Mrs. Van Winkle tell?" Mrs. Van Winkle—or Lieut, Van Winkle, as she is officially known— tg no ordinary “‘cop."" She is a woman of wealth and intellectual attainments, { She has lived at the Wardman Park Hotel, where one-half of the mem- bers of President Harding's Cabinet and which also is the home of ‘half a hundred diplomats and Govern- Ment officials who are not here for their meagre salaries but for the so- cial prestige of connection with the reigning Administration. She has surrounded herself in the Women's Bureau with policewomen Mo less attractive than herself. Many times and oft they have drawn flirta- ous youth, crestfallen and disil- Tasioned, to the ‘*hoose-gow."’ Wash- imgton's young men got so for a time that they were afraid to look at any Pretty girl, especially a girl who ®emed to half invite their attention, “)Mrs. Van Winkle has kept pretty lose tabs on some of the social events fm Wayhington. She has known of R rties which have kept up until je Wee small hours and of the ‘‘Jolly"’ 1s who attentled. She has not Made much of a fuss about these af- fairs and that is why some people Gre worried. The direct charges against Mrs, Van Winkle have grown out of a trivial ident. She is accused of failing to ease two runaway girls from Brook- ‘lm, N. Y., when ordered to do #o by r superior officers. Mrs. Van inkle contends she has no superiors when it comes to dealing with women prisoners, <> = = <> ————— “S — =) SSS TF —— Ge 7. x. ~~ = = ——— | i ) Ww @ ~ =~ BONWIT Lhe FIFTH AVENUE AT 38S line and the blouse. FIRE SO HOT POLICE LINES NOT NEEDED Spectacular Three-Alarm Blaze Lights Up Long Island City, Thousands of persons were drawn to Long Island City early to-day by a spectacular fire that destroyed the two- story structure of the Imperial Paint Company at No. 84 Tenth Street, near Vernon Avenue, ‘The blaze started on the ground floor and spread #0 rapidly because of the ofl-soaked floors that three alarms were sounded. Firemen devoted most of their efforts to saving nearby property. When the fire went through the roof it mounted”so high 1t could be seen for miles, Police lines tn the vicinity were unnecessary becaure of the Intense hont. Deputy Chief Martin the damage at $60,000, N. J. acE OF CONSENT LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Girl Eloper Cannot Sue for Annul- ment Until of Age. estimated Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins Lanning. sev enteen years old, may not apply for an annulment of her runaway marriage under the New Jersey age of consent Juw until she shall have become of legal Age, aecording to an opinion in the Court of Chancery by Chancellor Edwin Robert Walker at Trenton, He holds that the section of the law declaring illegal marriages of girls under eighteen years of age, contracted without the consent of parents, is unconstitutional The law, was passed over the veto of Gov. Edwards, Mrs. Lanning declared that she had never lived with her hus- band after thelr elopement and marriage in Red Bank, N. J. RISKED LIFE ON’ AUTO TO GET CAR NUMBER Magistrate Joseph Corrigan, who in his movements around town has had to do his share of sprinting and jump- ing from in front of charging auto- mobiles, belleved Harold Scharlin of No. 556 West 11st Street, the com- plainant, as against Joseph Weiss of No, 1540 54th Street, Brooklyn, the defendant, charged with reckless driv- ing in Yorkville Police Court to-day, Weins paid a fine of $50. Scharlin said that Weiss, driving a car down Second Avenue at 9 o'clock this morning, was going so fast that he could not stop to avoid a collision with trucks crossing 22d Street and turned west Into that thoroughfare to the imminent risk of the lives of pedes- trians. When he remonstrated, Scharlin sald, Welss punched him in the mouth and when he atterhpted to take the number of Welss’s car the Jatter started up so quickly that Scharlin had to jump on the hood and hang on there at the risk of his lite for five blocks until a policeman ar- reated Weiss. ‘The chauffeur maintained that Schar- lin was the aggressor but admitted he had to turn into East 22d Street to avold a collision, as Sparally Shop * The First American Fashion and the Last Word in American Fashions is THE TAILORED SUIT OF NAVY BLUE TWILL FABRICS In Dignified Versions that Typify Our Country’s Best Dressed Women 49.50 » 165.00 TELLER. CO TREET Dr. Robert G. Moores who lives at the Endicott Hotel, and in consulting the Norwegian Hospital . 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James L, Reed, arrested in Newark last Sunday with four others, was iden- tified as the third of the Capitol Theatre robbers by Detective Darrity of New York yesterday, More than $62,000 for the relief of Jew- ish war sufferers has been received tn the last few days from New York City contribute Joseph Pennell is to lecture on Whist- ler at the Plaza next Friday morning for the Authors’ League Fund for needy writers and dramatists, Miss Helen Churchill's wedding to John Stephen Burke will take place April 17 at the Church of St. Rose of Lima, 165th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Several million dollars’ worth of med- {cal supplies given to Russia will be shipped from Army Base Depot B, 58th Street, Brooklyn, with public ceremo- nies at 11 o'clock this morning. ‘The eagle cage in Central Park men- agerie became the home yesterday of a dark, almost black, American eagle fledgling two feet high. Testimony by Amelia Bingham, widow of Lloyd Bingham, nephew of Mrs, Elizabeth F. 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