Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-18 | Page 3 | Mad Desire to Buy Portrait Involves Forces of Two Nations

Mad Desire to Buy Portrait Involves Forces of Two Nations of some famous artist. Perhaps It Is Junt a mother's keepsake. Mrs. biewart bought It for 300 three years o. Now fh refuses $3ct.0. Tlie painting shows s hnflPOm . Kr"- h a""y nifCf--ft .MiUy d'-a, T h-r. hv name. At tTif froni trT major fat e was badly riiefljrured nhrapnel Hursrsons rmnM.l It. Hnl the feature were not the san.e when the handsome offtcof irt fr the front. ' ... Thnt If why. It Is thought, his fam- the portrait' ownership desires to recover th painting Several efforts to gt Mrs. Btewsrt to part with It were made before John I Mcllhennv, Philadelphia multimillionaire, multimil-lionaire, entered the cae. He wanted It he esplslned, f;r the Iee Albers Jrtmily, pehlnd It snlmenal "afu jnolhef'K flertTrs trie hr (Mrtralt of her bov hefor his fsce i was remsde. Mra Btewart rsfused. ! But Wre ntewsrt friends declare fhe will be willing to relinquish her j cUlm If she can ascertain positively 1 tht hi Is the mother who wants the painting, and no some speculator. of break In "the Kr-nco-Belglan solltiarlty under British pressure. Th minister of finsnce announced last nlht aftsr a conferenc with the director of ths fteiglan national bank, that France hss Bgred In prlnclpl to a loan of 4oO.000.oOft francs to b rslsed In ths FTnch market for use in bolsterlni- up the Belgian franc. By MAURICE MENU. NEA aervlct Writer. ONCIN.VATI. ALg. II I.ov. money .and a passion for srt! All figure In a strange fight over a wartime painting now reposing in a hash esyll hsra. Myalerlous forces of two continents are involved in a determined attempt to wrest It from its present owner. Mrs. Charleii F. Stewart, wealthy Cincinnati Cin-cinnati society woman. But who they are. mj onfl seems to know. And very little Is known about the portrait .perhaps It Is from the bruh body to deny the application of transcontinental railroads to lower the rate to the Pacific coast on a long list of commodities, without nmkirtg any change In the rate tJ the intermountaln country. The filing of the application with the federal commission Is a reopening; re-opening; of the "long and short haul" question, on which the csr-riers csr-riers have already had a "tilt" with the intermountaln country. . At present the rate to the coast from eastern points Is the same as It is to Intermountaln points, and the requested reduction will again put tie two rates on the, basts they wer when the rate to the coast Vas lower thsn It waa to the interior in-terior territory.