Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-08
400 j. s, CITIZENS
SEEK TO GET HOME
Caught in Berlin When Break
in Diplomatic ReIa-
tions Occurs.
MOST ARE NATURALIZED


| ruary s, 5:45 a.m.-The breach of dipio-
| matte relations between the United States
| and Germany has discovered the fact that
| there are some 400 native or naturalzed
| Americans in Berlin, a large majority oil
| whom have applied to the United States
embassy for passports or alterations per-
| mitting them to leave Germany tAr Switz-
erland or Scandinavia. About one-fourth
of the total are Americans temporarily in
Germany on business or to study. The
other three-fourths are either naturalized
citizens or the children of such. who
rushed to the embassy at the eleventh
| hour to secure papers establishing theiI
| status after the departure of the Ameri-
| can representatives.
The list of native Americans who have
| applied for permission to leave Ger
| many on the earliest opportunity includes
| Edward and Fred Lawrence of Chicago
Mrs. Olga Manse. San Francisco: Alfred
Dellmann California Miss Mary Ethel
McAuley. Pittsburgh Miss Margery Win
newisser, Miss Blanche Slocum. Oak
Park, ILL.,: Arthur Henry Veneweyll, Mil
| waukee: Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick w. King
| Chicago; DIR. Selmar Isaacson. San Fran
cisco; Mrs. Blandn a. Beck and son.
Tiffen. Ohio Mrs. Harriet Pope. Chicago
John W. Fallows. New York: Arthur w
Babies and family. Mrs. Ella Lehman and
three children, Cleveland Dr.. jacques
Brokwitz, Philadelphia DR.. ]. Henry
Phillips. wife and children. San Fran
cisco: Mr.. and Mrs. Jacques Mayer and
| three children, New York; Mr.. and Mrs
| Frederick W. Warren. Houston. Tex: MIR
and Mrs William Peck. Litchfield. Conn.
| Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Devisen. Indiana
! Joseph Turn. Scranton. Pa. Mrs. Henry
kusthis and mother. Mrs. Sawyer and
sister, Meyer Max Lindeman. Philadel-
phiat Louis Luntz, New York: Oscar
Plug. Alabama; Carl S. Elliott, Philadel-
phia; Freement Higgins, New York
To Remain in Neutral Countries.
Those who plan to remain in neutral
European countries are Mr.. and Mrs.
Wallinford Rigger, Alabama. Il. Den
| mark: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marcus of
New York. Mrs. Amelia Decourcey and
Miss Geraldine Decourcey of Seattle,
in Bern; Charles 81. Dyer of Cambridge.
Mass. in Stockholm: DR.. Lewis II.
| Marks of New Orleans, Switzerland.
| The list of those who have announced
their intention to remain in Germany
for the time being includes Miss Agnes
Schneider. Shamokin. Pa; Miss Sadie
Walker and Miss Sarah Mckeen, Cleve-
land; Miss Marian Walker, Miss Fran
ces Mcintosh, Wisconsin; Mrs. c. Peer,
Tennessee: Miss Margery Murphy and
mothsr. Ohio Miss Marian Meeker, In
diana: Miss Edna Goodal. Yonkers. N.
y; Vivian Butler Burke. New York:
niss non' Ass ssn lnYFssa YFaasssa ess,esfBs. aa
Arthur Davis. DR.. and Mrs. C. Decker,
New York, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Witzleteu
and daughter. Philadelphia; Mary Hal
New York; Miss. Clara willenbucher
and five sisters, Washington: Mrs. Mary
Schneider and Miss Clara Schneider,
Albany; John Dudley. Washington
George S. Atwood and family. Massa- :
chusetts: Dorothy Isenberg. Honolulu;
Miss Elizabeth King. Baltimore; Mrs.
David Welsh and daughter Irene, Prov
idence, R. l.; DR.. l.. E. Mayer, Ala bama
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Biden. ST Louis;
Conrad Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Sarah
Fischer and daughter; William r.
Steinway. New York; Carl Won Witz-
leden. Nat Mock and Mrs. Foltenhauser
of Indiana.
The American newspaper correspond
ents are still lingering in Berlin.
though the following applications have
been made to leave on Ambassador
Gerard's train: Carl W. Ackerman and
family, Indiana: William c. Breher and
family. South Carolina; oscar King
Davis and family. New York: Philip
NJ Powers and wife, Boston; Raymond
l.. Swing, Chicago; Herbert Mencken,
Baltimore.
Other correspondents. including S. B.
! Conger and Cyril Brown of New York
James O'Donnen Bennett. Chicago: Os-
wald Schuette and sister of Chicago
plan to remain for the time being and
| leave later for Copenhagen and Swift
Zerland.
Long List of Applications.
| Secretary Grew of the United States
embassy has presented to the foreign
office a long list of other Americans
| who have applied for permission to
/ leave with Ambassador Gerard and
whose applications have been approved
| by the ambassador. The applications
must, however, be passed upon by the
German state department.
Other Americans who plan to stay ir
Germany include S. Boyer and Mrs. Viii.
liam Alton Derrick. Chicago: Arthur
Dunning. Bath. Me-; Albert Eckstein
DR.. O. p. Jacob, New York; DIR. George
Martin, California: A. L. Peters, agen'
| of the Eolland-America line: August
Spannuth, journalist: DR.. George H
Webster, dentist: Alice Norfolk o
| Cleveland. and DR.. George Kennedy
dentist, of Kent, Ohio.
| Among those who are already on theil
way to America or in neutral coun
! tries, and who until recently were mem
bers of the American colony In Berlin
are w. A. Kugelman of the Nationa
cash Register Company. Chicago
George H. Watson. Lyons, N. Y: Pau
| Konine, Dr. George Kubeler, F. N. Nc
Fadden. Edward Mosthauder, Mrs. Moco
WITT, Otto Pruessman, Ludwig Zeisler
MIR. and Mrs. Paul We'll, Dr. Oscal
Krone. Louisiana: Durant, Phila
delphia; l. Duttlinger. st. Louis; Jacol
| ]. Hertz, Ohio; Miss Helen Corane
! Newark; Miss Meta Kester. San Fran
cisco: Mr. and Mrs. John o. Osborne
Brooklyn; Raymond Gloetzner. Wash
! ington: Charles Archibald, jockey. VIII,
NAV go to Switzerland; Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Feinger, New York; Mis-
Mamie Roberts. Mississippi; Leande
Cleveland; Miss Augusta Eisenheyner
| Washington state: Fern Andrews. Hi
nois. and Elsie Baker, Philadelphia
Other Americans Involved.
heen working in prison camps as sec.
retaries of the Young Mems Christian
| Associations war prisoners aid, plar
+o leave Germany: l. n. Dunn. Mrs Nina
Holmes Dunn. L. Z. Welfberg. l. S
kennard, Carl T. Michel. Ernest Jacob
! Alfred Lewry and wife, all of New
York. Mrs. Conrad Easton White, Madi.
SON. Wis; Arthur Siebers. Iowa; J
! Wehner, Massachusetts; Miss Elsie
Houle.
main for a time. John B. Jackson
| former United States minister to the
| balkan states, who has been attached
to the American embassy here. anC
| Mrs. Jackson, expect to go to Switzer
land with former Ambassador Gerard
but have made no further plans.
| The following Americans have no,
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