Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-03 | Page 3 | Woman Tries to Sell Child

WOMAN TRIES TO SELL CHILD Asks $1.75 in American Coin For Lad With Hearty Appetite. By NORMAN H. MAT.SON Copyright. 1022. by The Stnndard-Examlm Stnndard-Examlm r VIENNA, Dec, 2 The strike of tho "exchange grafters," and British and American mlllionairea against the hotels, ho-tels, ahopa md transportation companies compan-ies ol Vienna baa borne an unexpected effect, Proclaimed two montha ago lit was expected to force reduction of ; prices so that the money brokers could snap up aa bargains the rich stocks of the various stores while hying In the most extreme luxury in the hot la ln- stOi'.d the hotels and shops 1ih- maintained main-tained their prices. Tho former are I open, today, but have no gUOSta and I the atorea are barren of customers, bur their shelves still are well stocked. The strike followed the general In-creaso In-creaso of prices to 9000 times the normal nor-mal amount charged. The exchango graftors, who control the money situation, situa-tion, demanded that the Increase bo cut to five thousand times the normal nor-mal amount Refusal was followed by a general exodus which surprised anu shock. .1 the incorrigibly optimistic Viennese. i ill v (.o TO GERM v The foreigner and the dealer In exchange ex-change Went to Germany. A few departed de-parted for Budapest, where prices are now one third those charged here, but tho vast majority headed tor Berlin. NoW Viennese lil l. es sPi'in i ..rhiln to drop. Business has been strangled and the hotel management says ll tin municipality mu-nicipality will reduce Its tax they will pass It on to possible guests. At present pres-ent they complain they have to pay 6o kronen of every 100 they take In for the upkeep of the city. The situation throughout Austria and Hungary is desperate. The people peo-ple are starving. unly yesterday a little old woman led a ragged boy of three into the market pluco of Budapest, Buda-pest, Finding a clear space between an applecart and a second hand clothing cloth-ing stall, she Bought to sell the child He was a good boy. she said, and perfectly healthy. Her grievance was his appetite which sho simply could not supply and sho loved him too i lUCh to see him hungry. She would s. II for an amount what in the pre-j iiling rate of exchange would be $1"5 In American money. She Herself Her-self looked 50 but she said she was owlv 26 and was starving herself.' The message, telling of the transaction says she found nobody to buy the boy. STRANGE ( Ask OP LAZAR Developments In the strange case of Anderw Bazar arc attracting attention atten-tion throughout all of central Europe Lizar, a degraded ofrirer of the Hungarian Hun-garian army, by desperate courage re-ir re-ir 'n.cj his rank at the front. After hostilities ended he Jolnea the terrorist terror-ist group of Czerny, the sailor. Entrusted En-trusted with two counter revolutionary revolution-ary prisoners, the Hollan brothers, mi mbera of the nobility, he murdered them and threw their bodies Into the Danube. For this he was arrested but escaped and fled to Kovno. 11. i.e. ime active" for the spy group of Baron Marschall and when attempting to arrange ar-range an escape for the latter following follow-ing his arrest. Bazar himself was apprehended. ap-prehended. He was condemned to bo shot, but he and Moksi hall finally were exchanged for Hungarian officers offi-cers held by the Russians. La7.ar again got Into difficulties and the soviet police arrested him when they found him living with a Russian bishop in the wing of the International Interna-tional hospital in Moscow. He was en-gOffed en-gOffed to the daughter of the bishop, and was arrested on what was to have been their wedding day. Bazar's defense beiore the Red tribunal tri-bunal was very Interesting. He admitted ad-mitted that he had worked an a spy. but he pointed out that he had murdered mur-dered the Hollan brothers and urged that this deed should be considered In his favor. It wasn't. He was condemned con-demned to several years at hard labor In an Internment camp of Perm, In the Urals. The point of the story Is sharpened when ono remembers that tho murder of the Hollan brothers loomed larger than any other detail of the present Hungarian government's Indictment of the Bela Run regime. Nevertheless that government has formally asked :th- society government to exchange Lazar for ono of the Reds still Interned I in Hungary.