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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06
THE COURTS.
COURT OF APPEALS.

Special calendar:
No. 2. Sanselo agt. United States; at
torneys, Baker-Laskey.
No. 3. Hard agt. Splain: attorneys,
O'Shea, Day-Laskey.
No. 4. Hutchins agt. Hutchins: at
torneys. Hoehling, Peelle & Ogilby-
Cohen. Johnson, Cuttings & Chamberlin.
No. o. Fulton agt. United States; at
torneys. David, Lambert-Laskey.
No. S. Suter agt. Lockwood Dental
Company: attorneys. David, Weiner-
Brandenburg & Brandenburg.
Regular call:
No. 1863. American Security and Trust
Company agt. Ferrero; attorneys,
Hoehlins, Peele & Ogilby--Wolf, We'll
Ter.
No. 2s7o Heisken agt Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company; at
No. 2S11. Lennon agt. Kirkland; at
torneys Tobriner-Barnard, johnson,
Williams.
No. 1872. Randolph agt. Columbia
Graphophone Company: attorneys, Sterl-
ing-Rhodes & Cromelin.
Nos. 1913 and 1874. Master agt. Hart
man and Hartman agt. Masters; attor-
neys, Lambert, Davis-Gardiner.
CRIMINAL DIVISION Chief JUS
tice Covington.
United States agt. James Craig and
William Dodson.
United States aSt. Frank Matthews
Edward Payne and Cornelius Jordan.
CRIMINAL DIVISION 2-Justice Sid
donS
No. "a. Cliffo agt. Byrnes; attorneys,
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WORST PICTURES OF PRIVATION
FAIL TO SHOW POLES CONDITION
Rockefeller Agent and American Relief
Commissioners Say No Food Is Left Except
Potatoes and Small Quantity of Flour.

BERLIN, via London, February s.
The darkest pictures drawn of priva-
ton and pestilence in Poland have
failed to portray the extent of misery
of the war sufferers there. it was said
today by two Americans who have
made a personal investigation. They
are Frederick C. Walcott, European
representative of the Rockefeller
foundation and Caspar Whitney of the
American commission for relief in
Belgium. These men have just return
ed from a fortnight's trip through Po-
land for investigation of the need of
relief.
Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Walcott say
there is virtually no food left except
potatoes and small amount of flour.
Little fuel remains. Typhus and other
diseases prevail. Thousands of per-
sons whose homes were destroyed dur
ing the Russian retreat are without
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shelter. Thlrty per cent OF the popuia :
ton is absolutely dependent on re-
lief
The trip included visits to Warsaw,
Wilma, Koyno and points eastward up to
the fighting line. Everywhere was en-
countered the urgent need for relief.
though in varying intensity.
The urban population suffers particu-
larly from lack of fuel. and the in
habitants of rural districts from lack
of shelter. Countless villages were
burned by the Russians and their home
less inhabitants in many cases are liv-
ing in dugouts. Forty thousand persons
who sifted back through the Russian
lines are in concentration camps For
tunately the winter thus far has been
exceptionally mild. Little live stock
is left. and accordingly there is no
meat or fat food for the people. The
fact that they are living almost exclus-
lively on potatoes has resulted in
stomach diseases.
Black typhus has broken out. There
are now thirty cases daily in Warsaw.
The general death rate in Poland has
risen from nineteen to thirty per 1000.
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MCNEIL Il EVans-Minor, ScheHhe! TX
Flannery.
No. 800. Kettner agt. District OF Co
lumbia; attorneys. Easily Smith. RE
harty-Syme, Whiteford.
No. 322. Weeks agt. Woodward at
torneys. Mather, Downey-featman.
No 324 Gregory agt Birtwell: attor-
neys. Cuttings & Chamberlin, Mattins-
tly-Baker, Osterman.
No. 1926. Brooks agt. r.. b. q W. hah-
road Company: attorneys. Stearman-
McKenney & Flannery.
No. $500 Iris Realty Company ast.
| District 81 Columbia; attorneys, Gardi-
ner. Hamby-Syme. Whiteford;
| EQUITY DIVISION. Justice Anderson.
No. 221. Credit Clearing House ast.
United States Credit Clearing House,
No. POI. RowZee agt. Rowzee' at
ltorneys. Gies-Diggs. Garrett
EQUITY DIVISION Justice Mccoy.
| No. 2S2. Murphy agt. Murphy; at
torneys. James-Easby-Sm Smith.
No. Tender agt. Tender at
torneys. De Lacy-Moriarty.
No. 100 Fowler agt. Altman; attor-
neys. Gies-Hamilton.
No. 100. Kantz agt. Kantz: attorney.
lRidout-Pope. Jackson.
| No. ais. Pollard agt. Pollard: 49,
\ torneys. Gray. Block-Collins.
| No. In re estate of Albert G.
Keen: attorneys, Darr. Peyser, koenigs-
lberger-Linkins Brown.
| No. 144. Seidenberg agt. Seidenberg:
lattorneys, Hickey-Fague.
| No oa3. Brakhagen agt Commercial
National Bank: attorneys, MILAN d
iSmith-Baker. Swindell.
| No. 372. Williamson agt. Hoover; at
torney, Hoover.
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stationed across the Danube in the Ru-
manian town of Giurgevo.
"Rustchuk is headquarters for Bull
garia's river commerce. 1t is also an
important railway center and point
of departure for almost anywhere in
the Balkan peninsula. 1t is the ter
minus for the railways from the Bull
garian capital, Sofia, and the seaport,
Varna. and it is connected with the
Rumanian railroad system. Bulgaria's
naval fotilla on the Danube and one
of the country's military divisions are
administered from this city. Some
thriving industries have grown up
here. cigar and cigarette factories, soap
works. dye works, tanneries,. saw
mills. breweries. brick and tile works.
There is pottery there that has
earned itself an international reputa-
ton. Established as a stronghold on
the Roman frontier along the line of
the Danube, Rustchuk has been to each
succeeding possessor merely STRAIT
egic point and war city; it is only in
most recent times that it has been able
to acquire some position as city Of
industry and peace
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Asks for 500, 900, 900.

Not long ago the President received a
peremptory demand for s100,0O0,000, in
return for which the writer promised
to disclose plan, which could not
fail for ending the European war. The
writer of this letter came to Washing
ton, and within two hours after his ar
rival found himself in ward al Wash
ington Asylum Hospital, detained for
observation as to his mental condition.
as it is expressed in official formula.
Other writer's of the financial type of
crank letters want money in large
amounts simply because they want it.
Theirs not to give reasons why. as 1t
were. They simply conceive in their
disordered minds the idea that the
President of the United States, being
the official head of the government, is
in possession of all of the governments
funds, and they demand that he give
them a share. Writers of such com
munications are usually traced at once
by secret service operatives, their mem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06
JOHN II. FAHEN,
President.

~ That service is essentially the key
mote of the relations between the De-
partment of Commerce and American
business is emphasized again by the
fact that this branch of the federal
Government has installed an unusual
Commercial exhibit in connection with
the fourth annual meeting of the
chamber of Commerce of the United
States, TO be held in Washington this
week
- This exhibit graphically depicts and
demonstrates important phases of the
work the department is doing to
further the business progress of the
!. country, and will be viewed by bust
ness men from all parts of the United
States.
. The setting is the small ballroom of
main meeting room The bureaus of the
department represented are: Standards
lighthouses, coast and geodetic survey,
census, fisheries. navigation, steam
boat inspection and foreign and domes-
tic commerce, and facts concerning
matters ranging from foreign imports
and exports to the conservation of the
lobster supply of coast waters will be
presented for assimilation and future
use.
= Shows Changes in Tonnage.
= The bureau of navigation shows a
Chart depicting the' increase and de-
crease in steam and sail tonnage from
the year 1910 until the present time.
and another showing the steamers Of
1the maritime nations of the world by
decades in millions of gross tons.
Other features are instruments FOR
measuring wave lengths of radio sta
Z tions and giving the code test to ap-
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MUSICAL HORNS ON U. S. TRUCKS
is SCHEME OF DES MONIES MAN
Gimme your A, Bill"

Gimme your A. Bill.
This IS the sort of remark driver of of Uncle
Sans big mail trucks ,;U be making the pilot Of
the adjoining veh;c1e PREPARATORY the first morning
provided Pet scheme Of J. A. Whalen Of Des
MONIES. Iowa. gets gong. For Mr.. Wha|en
wants these trucks equipped w'th musical horns
,Dh;ch ;U play ne1odous1y the vehc1es bedes-
TRANS bv a hairs breadth, or sometimes. don't
them
Mr. Wha1en has addressed letter to Miss Mar
garet Wilson commenting on the fact that the Amer
C'u'c Association, recent session Of noch
she PRESIDED recently record being favor
of the bn1ent of all automobiles th musical horns
and saying, in PART
May I be barloned for asking you to use your
influence haze the Post Office DEPARTMENT take the
'n't,at've by fitting its mail trucks If its
standard of efficiency be maintained 1t ,Oou1d ab
fear that considerable number of persons oU haze
give their Ines every year beneath the hee1s Of
the veh,c1es IN question. second assistant
postmaster general an attorney for the de- BART
ment. REPORTED hau;ng said that he did
slider excessive death of t,Oe1ve from this
IN Ne,o York a1one
Mr. Wha1en continues IN a sarcastic ve;u, POINTING
hoo much easanter their barture from life could
be made for the by havng the trucks eqbbed
1o,th var-toned horns ,ohch could blend into such
melodies as "One S,oeet1y Solemn Thought, instead
of the and d,scordant no1o so common
He mentions several selections APPROPRIATE for such
horns but overlook title that seems alb
so7ute1y cut out for the PURPOSE:
Suing Lou, Sweet Chariot Coming for to Garry
Me Home.
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Officers of Wood Garrison.

Gen. Leonard Wood Garrison, No S..
Army and Navy Union, has elected Of
fcers as follows: Commander r. F.
Finucane: senior vice commander, Alex
G. Fortier; adjutant. Harry S. Young,
and quartermaster, Charles +. Rougeou.
At recent meeting the officers were
installed by National Commander Oden
Lake.
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scheduled to begin at IL o'clock Tues
day morning. the first address being
one from the chair by John II. Fahey,
president of the organization. The
second session of the day convenes at ;
pm, and the delegates will have sub
mitted to them the important reports
of the committees on the following
subjects: Tariff commission. seamens
act, merchant marine labor exchanges,
commerce and arbitration with Argen-
tina.
At s o'clock in the evening the cham
Der will gather to hear Secretary Red
field speak on Vocational Education
President Nichols of Dartmouth Col
lege discuss Employment Managers.
and Howard Elliott of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railway on
The Railway Situation
Chinese Minister to Speak.
Foreign trade is the general topic up
for discussion at the morning session
at 10 o'clock Wednesday. The Chinese
minister. Dr. Wellington koo, will de-
liver an address on the commercial re-
lations between the United States and
China; Senator Fletcher of Florida will
speak on the work of the international
high commission and +. A. Filene will
take as his theme "A Business View of
the Peace to Come" The afternoon
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plicants for licenses as radio operators.
Z The coast and geodetic survey shows
Topographic and relief maps. charts Of
changes in shore line. and screens ex-
'planatory Of what the survey has done
and is doing. The census bureau dis
grease IN production, quantity and
value Of explosives petroleum refn-
Ing, beet sugar, sugar refining, auto
mobiles, cotton production and con-
sumption. manufactures and steam
1aundries. together with maps of sta
sIstics Of cities and vital statistics.
The bureau of lighthouses shows "A
modern revolving lens made in Ameri-
ca. graphic diagrams, charts and maps
having 10 do with coast lines. light
houses and buoys together With
photographs Of vessels and stations.
n Besides photographs and charts, the
bureau Of standards exhibits new in
dustrial materials. the testing of ma
terials. sound and faulty steel ingots.
defective rails AMI their study speci :
mems showing destructive effects of un-
foreground electric currents textiles
samples OF plain and quick hardening
cement and wireless apparatus. and for
est products
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
The Bureau OF foreign and domestic
.1ng az glance our exports and imports
hIlu tii' '@s''9S VI 'sIofls, tEe present Or
%RaniZatiOn Of the bureau and its proposed
organization. a feature is two collections
OF hardware. one being samples of the
70 kinds sold Dy Germany in England and
the other composed Of samples of hard
ware sold in the countries of Latin
America.
The lobster industry OF New England
It's effects and abuses and the means en-
pioyed To sonserve IT. is shown by the
bureau of fisheries also the pearl indus
try of the Mississippi valley. sponge cuI-
ture IN Florida, diamond-back terrapir
culture on the south Atlantic coast and
the successful Introduction OF Pacific coas
salmon on the Maine coast
/. The steamboat inspection service dis
plays models of a steamship made 10
scale. lfeboat with disenxaxipg ar.
paratus, life float and daVt with boat al.
tached. a drag for lifeboat. together with
standard and condemned Ele preseryer,
Zone OF the latter of which contains iror
TO make up the necessary weight OF cork
Instruments used on shipboard for safe
navigation. boiler parts and gauges
Pan-American Union Exhibit.
Z, The Pan-American Upion also has ar
exhibit. displaying two large maps Of the
p American republics, each 10x15 feet
Thsse are In striking colors and show
area. population and value of exports and
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imports of the different countries. The
National Chamber displays a chart show
ing its plan of organization. a member.
photographs of headquarters. All dele
gates to the meeting are confronted by
these exhibits at the time they register.
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States is to last for three days and is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

DIR. William Alexander Marbury, sew
enty-five, formerly of Woodville, Prince
Georges county, died at the home of his
sisters at Laurel. Md. He was the eldest
son of the late Rev. Alexander Magru-
der Marbury and Sophia Ogle Marbury
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06
Appeals for Clemency.

Letters appealing for aid in many
other ways form a large part of the
Presidents mail. though such com
munications cannot generally be class
ed as crank letters. Often these ap-
peals are for executive clemency, and
it is Il noteworthy fact that no such
appeal ever remains unheeded. AS soon
as a letter reaches the White House
asking for executive clemency in the
case of a federal offender, the proper
machinery is set in motion and the re-
quest is Investigated.
An interesting and important feature
in connection with letters, crank and
otherwise, addressed to the President
and always marked conspicuously
"Personal'-is this, however: The
President never sees such letters I'M
less, after they have been read by the
clerk charged with opening the White
House mail, and again read by secre-
taries clear up to the Presidents own
secretary, they are approved and pass
ed on. otherwise they are answered
by White House clerk-or by IA secret
service man, who usually insists on the
letter writer taking up board and
rent free apartment in the psyche
pathic ward of some hospital.
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ONE IS KILLED IN FEUD
Three Others Are Badly Wounded in
Battle Over Land in Ken
lucky Mountains.

LEXINGTON. KY. February 5.-A
general battle over the possession Of
land in the Kentucky mountains. in
which one man was killed and three
others badly wounded. was reported here
today from Floyd county. Ance Miller
was killed: Louis Miller. Harrison Miller
and Alfred Miller were badly wounded.
John Meadows and Walter Osborne,
members of the opposing faction, were
arrested and are reported to be in Jail
at Prestonsburg.
The Millers drove Walter Osborne and
his family from their home and they
then took refuge at the Meadows home.
where they barricaded the house. the
Milers lighting from behind trees. ac-
cording to the report received. 1t was
said that the house was bullet riddled
when the battle was over The Millers
claimed that they owned the ground
where osborne's and Meadows homes
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Captured Many Times.

Rustchuk has been captured in every
war that the Russians have waged
against the Ottoman during the past
century The fall of this city before
Russian arms. as a matter of fact, reg
.ularly closed the first act of the Russo
Turkish wars of the nineteenth CEN
fury, and marked the beginning of the
real. intense struggle. Russian army
corps swept over it in 1910, left the
fields around it sown with their dead
and the river bobbing full with hum
dreds of victims, and. passing in pur-
suit of the Turks. destroyed all of the
Notifications. Russian troops retook
the town in the campaigns against
Turkey of 1889, 1S53-54 and 1S77-7S.
Each time the place suffered heavily,
especially in 1877, when it was almost
obliterated by the Russian artillery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06
Excitement Has Died Down.

PREsTONSBURG, Ky, February g.
Excitement in Floyd county over last
weeks battle between members of the
Miller and Osborne Meadows factions, in
which Ance Miller was killed and Louis
Harrison and Alfred Miller were wound
ed. apparently has subsidized. and no
further trouble is feared. according to
county authorities.
The trouble is said to have arisen over
possession of a small piece of property
along Rough and Tough creek, near
here, where the battle occurred. The
three Millers injured are reported re-
covering from their wounds. All in
volved are residents of Floyd county.
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RUSTCHUK CAPTURED
MANY TIMES IN WARS
Rejuvenated Town Is Headquarters
for Bulgaria's River Commerce.
Has Many Industries.

THE three surest signs of the reju-
venation of the Balkans were the cities
of Bucharest, Sofia and Rustchuk. OF
these Bucharest, the Rumanian capital,
the gayest city east of Vienna and one
of the most expensive cities outside of
New York. is the brightest bit of the
comfort-loving west in southeastern
Europe. Rustchuk, while the least of
these three cities, is just as modern,
just as filled with the spirit of the
times, and it deserves the additional
credit of having renewed itself from
foundation to gable in shorter period
than either of the other two. Twenty
years ago it was collection of novels,
set off by muddy lanes and approached
by highways that were hardly more
than sheaves of footpaths. Today 1t is
a fine city of 10000 inha bitants, rail-
way center. Il busting river port and a
Balkan market full of western push.
Thus begins a description just pre-
pared by the National Geographic So
ciety at Washington of the Balkan
frontier city which has been men
toned frequently in recent dispatches
from the war zone as the possible OBJ
iective of an invading Russian army.
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Bombarded With Letters.

Other cranks are of the opinion that
the President. if he will. can right
some wrong, fancied or real. The idea
becomes an obsession: the President is
bombarded with letters, which, if un-
answered, or if the replies are the
usual stereotyped form" letters to the
effect that yours of blank date is at
hand and contents noted" often de-
veloD threatening tone. Then the
secret service gets into the game, the
crank is traced. detained and his let
tiers thereafter get no further than the
office of the sanitarium, hospital or
asylum which has become the crank's
abiding place.
Appeals for financial aid are most
often the basis for the crank letters
addressed to the President. A classic
of this type of crank letter was one
received at the White House a few
years ago. The letter. mailed in a small
middle western town. read:
Dear President: AS you have plenty
of money and ! am a poor man, please
grant this request. l would like to
have dollar. If you are short, though,
six bits will do Please let me have it
as soon as possible.
From this modest request the de-
mands mount into the millions.
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Pan-American Union Exhibit.

= The Pan-American Upion also has an
exhibit. displaying two large maps Of the
American republics, each 10x15 feet
Thsse are In striking colors and show
area. population and value of exports and
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UNCLE SAM, ESQ.
What ''Cranks" Write to
Presidents.
By Oliver Owen Kuhn.
Copyright. 1850

The crank" is not distinctly
American institution, though the gene
ric name is purely American. Rulers
of other countries doubtless are the
targets at which the genus crank aims
its epistolary output; but the Presi-
dent of the United States, perhaps, re-
ceives more such mail in a month than
does the head of any other patton in
five years.
No scheme pable of being conceiv-
ed in the widest ina gination is too
crack Drained, visionary or cratic to
become the subject of letter or a
series of communications to the Presi-
dent. Some individual mildly insane
formulates an idea for anchoring hum
dreds of thousands of empty barrels
somewhere off the coast and develop
ing untold horsepower from the rise
and fall of the barrels with the tides.
Straightway he writes to the Presi-
dent. detailing the scheme and modest
ly asking for a few millions of dollars
with which to develop it and put it in
operation. This is a sample of the
mildesr most harmlessly amusing
form of crank letter.
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Lovelorn Swain Asks Aid.

Aside from the appeals for financial
assistance, for contributions to more
or less visionary causes, for loans or
gifts-aside from all the letters design
ed to extract money from the chief
eNecutive-the President is the ad-
dressee of scores of letters on every
imaginable topic. Many of these let
ters are no crank epistles, but are
written by persons perfectly sane and
serious, but of whom one might rea-
sonably expect a better understanding
of affairs. lovelorn swain, for ex-
ample. not many years ago appealed by
mail to the then President to aid him
in overcoming parental objections to
said SWANS marriage. The girls
father. it appeared, would not tolerate
the young man as a son-in-law. Hard
hearted father being of the same polit-
zeal faith as the President. the young
man conceived the idea that letter
from the President would overcome all
obstacles in his path to the altar with
the girl of his choice The desired let
ter was not written, but not many
months later the White House was ap-
prised of the marriage of the young
man to his girl: probably another in
stance of the power of faith, the young
man evidently being of the belief that
the President had complied with his
request.