Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-11 | Page 17 | Rumanian Queen Will Not Bow to Profiteers

RUMANIAN OUEEN WILL NOT BOW TO PROFITEERS BUCHAREST, Juiy ".Queen Mnry served notice on all llumanlan merchants mer-chants today that she was not a war -profiteer and would refuse to pay the prevailing prices for rood and clothing, The queen made known her altitude when she returned t o u local establishment estab-lishment an afternoon dress which she had selected and for which they demanded de-manded the equivalent of about j6o. Writing the store proprietor a pro-tcst pro-tcst in her own hand, she declared , slo- was not one "f those whom the "War had enriched and she desired all I Rumanian shopkeepers to know that !she would refuse to pay the present I extravagant prices. The shopkeeper then offered to cut the price in half but the queen declined to accept the di ess at any pi Ice