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The Washington times., 1919-07-08
oSTE0PATH SAYS DOCTORS
TO BLAME IN FLU DEATHS

CHICAGO, July S.-Osteopaths here
laid at the feet Of medical politics
and bigotry" the responsibility for
the death Of thousands in the recent
influenza epidemic.
DR.. George w. Riley. New York,
challenged former officers Of the
American Medical Association. includ-
ing Surreon General GorGas, to de-
fend themselves. if possible. He said
"a per cent of soldiers treated by
medical men died. while Of 100, 769
civilians treated by osteopaths there
were only 25T deaths.
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
COL. HOUSES SECRETARY
MARRIES ENGLISH GIRL

NEW YORK. July s.-News OF the
marriage in London of Lieut. Clifford
Nickels Carver, former private secre-
tary to Col Z. NJ House, and the
late Ambassador Page, and Miss
Helena Philae Maxwell, daughter of
Gen. Sir John and Lady Maxwell, was
received here today by friends OF the
bridegroom, who now is in the United
States navy.
The ceremony was performed at St
Paurs, Knightsbridge, July !, and
Lieutenant and Mrs. Carver sailed at
once for the United States.
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
LOVELY "C0OTIES" HELP
MAN SEAL L0cUSTS' DOOM

CADILLAC, Mich. July s.-wexford
grasshoppers have Coolies" This is
the opinion Of the county agricul-
turist who examined several weak
looking hoppers and found them
covered with scores Of infinite small
lice or red mites, as they are called.
1t is stated by entomologists that the
lice will eventually kill the grass
hoppers.
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
DC. WOMAN SLAYER
IS PLACED ON TRIAL

CHICAGO. July s.-Mrs. Vera Ire
pasnisr. sixty years old. Of Washing
ton. was placed on trial here today
for the murder Of Paul Frederick
Volland, . commercial art dealer.
last May 8.
Mrs. TrspaguieF charged that Vol
land attempted to defraud OF her roy
altieS on . miniature Of George wash
ington which she had produced, and
that she had shot him after he had
settlement Friends Of Volland de-
clare he had paid the woman more
money than was due her under their
agreement
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
SEVEN o. s. AIRMEN CITED.

PARIS, July S.-The Journal OficieI
prints citations of seven American
aviators for their work in the Lafay-
cite escadrille. Those cited are Will
liam Thaw, OF Pittsburgh; Kitten
Rockwell. deceased. of Atlanta, Ga.
Robert SoubirAn, Of South Boston,
Mass; Julian Biddle, deceased; Paul
+. Baer, Of Mobile. Ala; George e
Turnure, OF New York and James
Norman Hall. Of Colfax, Iowa
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
LOCAL HERO GETS MEDAL
FROM FRANCE BY MAIL

Ssrgt. John T. Grant, OF 437 First
street southwest, has just received by
registered mail the Decoration Mill
tGPie," awarded him by the Belgium
government for bravery displayed in
fighting In Belgium.
Sergeant Grant took q prominent
part In the battle At Grand Rue and
in the VosgeS. he returned to this
country only recently.
IL e. to your best interest to put
yOuF Liberty Bond interest in W. s. 8.
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
'CANNIBAL' LOVE
CAUSES DIVORCE
"a Gould Eat YOU" Hubby
Wrote Girl, and Wife
Finds Letter.

CHICAGO, July s.-'You're so pretty
could eat you"
That's what Charles II. Bertrand
wrote to one Lucille" while he was
in q naval training station.
BE careful, I might bite you hrst."
Lucille wrote back to him from EScA-
nadG, Mich.
Mrs. Bertrand found Lucille's let
ter. She didn't want to take any
chances with a couple of "cAnnibAls,"
so she showed the letter in divorce
court. told her story, and the judge
agreed with her.
The Washington times., 1919-07-08
Doctors Recommend
Bon.0 Optic ioF The Eve

Physicians and eye specialists pre-
scribe Bon-Opto as safe hoEne remedy
IN the treatment Of eve troubles and 70
strengthen eyesight. Sold under money
refund guarantees by all druggista
The sun., 1919-10-19
All About Asbestos

senting an irregular filameutous
structure like wool. Other varieties
are popularity called rock cork noun.
tain leather, fossil paper and fossil
lax
Asbestos in modern times has come
to be very extensively manufactured
into incombustible cloth, gloves. foltr
paper and other articles of common use,
and is much used as a covering ~
steam boilers and pipes. in the manu-
facture of gas stoves, and, mixed with
metallic pigments, it is employed ns
n paint for wooden structures, roofs,
partitions and the like to render them
fireproof or fire-resistant.
1t is found in most parts of the
world chiefly in connection with ser.
pentine. Scientifically il is described
as highly useful mineral. a fibrous
variety Of several members of the
hornblende family, composed of sepa-
rable filaments with a silky lustre
The fbers sometimes being delicate
flexible and elastic and at other timet
stiff and brittle.
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SORTING ARMY BAGGAGE

stepping upon the children lying there,
trying TO sleep, huddled together for
warmth" Miss Hetty Goldman, an
other relief worker, said.
Typhus Epidemic lis Ringing.
Hospitals must be opened in large
numbers. An epidemic of typhus. a
disease which is caused by filth and
which is inevitable among n people
who have had TO wear the same
clothing for years, is raging in eastern
Europe and further East By the Red
Cross computation there are 100000
cases of this dread malady in Siberia
alone. There is a great lack OF all
sorts of medical supplies in the hos
pitfalls. as we'll as Of linen and OF bed
ding. Even in the operating rooms
bandages made by piecing together
hundreds Of scraps of cloth are used
The linen In eastern Europe has all
been used up.
Shelter for the winter must he found
for such Jews as are now living in
houses entirely open to the elements.
or in fields. or in holes dug in the
ground. This includes the greater part
OF the population In hundreds of towns
in Poland and Lithuania. Jacob Bill
kopf. one of the best known Jewish re-
lee workers OF tho United States, tells
octa leld Just outside Of wilma, in
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lear Jewish relief agencies, this sum
is not nearly sufficient for the needs
OF 100000 destitute persons, thou
sands OF them sick. This sum makes
possible the expenditure of a dollar
month as the entire outlay for every
three penniless persons. Obviously
this is not enough ITO support life in
them.
The chief thing that the relief
workers have been able to do thus
far has been to concern themselves
with the immediate need for food OF
these starving people, the daily cup
OF soup for the elders, the mug of
milk for the hungry children. Even
then they have been compelled by
lack of funds to see thousands turned
away unfed. The coming of winter
will compel them to go into the prob
lem more deeply. Scores of orphan
nges must be opened and hundreds of
private homes to take in the little
Jewish orphans who will otherwise
be left OH the street all winter.
at was no uncommon thing for q
child TO be found dead on the streets"
Miss Rose Klombers, relief worker
recently back from Palestine, reported
upon her return.
"In Constantinople you could not
step outside the doors Of even the best
theatres AID hotels without almost
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ERRIBLE as conditions have

~ ERRIBLE as conditions have
been for the past five years
l. among the destitute Jews Of
eastern Europe, they nave never be-
fore been so appalling as they are at
the present moment. With the COM
ing OF the winter. the climax OF
tragedy has been reached. according
to the latest reports from American
Jewish relief workers in every part of
these stricken countries.
To sum up the situation OF these
starving Jews sounds like a summary
of all human woe. Six million Jews
out of the $1,000, 900 in the world, or
considerably more than third of the
entire Jewish race. are to-day stand
ing in bread lines or getting the soup
on which they live from the soup
kitchens Of the Joint Distribution
Committee of American Funds for
Jewish War Sufferersl
Thousands OF them are sick, hun
dreds OF thousands are without homes,
all are destitute. A hundred thou
sand Jewish orphans. many OF whom
are sleeping and living on the streets,
look forward with tqsror TO the com
fng of the winter. Mt 10 impossible
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age are not larger than babies of a
few months. They cannot walk or
even stand because OF weakness in
duced by starvation.
DIR. Nathan Krass, rabbi of the
Central Synagogue, Lexington avenue
and Fifty-fifth street. New York,
who has just returned from several
months Of relief work in eastern
Europe, confirmed the report that eS-
isterce through the winter was i'm
possible for hundreds of thousands OF
Jews. men. women and children. with
out immediate aid.
"Only the promptest action on the
part OF the people OF the United States
can gave them from freezing to death
and from starvation during the COM
ing winter" he said. "If these unfor-
tunate men, women and children are
TO be kept alive scores of additional
soup kitchens must be opened, and
large shipments OF shoes and clothing
and bedding must he sent 10 Europe
Immediately"
s2.OOO,OOO Monthly Not Enough.
Although more than $4,000 900 is
now being spent every month In east
ern Europe by the Joint Distribution
Committee from sums donated In tn,
United States 10 the American Jew
ish Relief COms-7ttse and other Amer
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to compute the number of mothers
who have gone insane as they watched
their children starve, or the number
Of typhus patients who are praying
for death. as they lie sick, without
hospitals or medicines or sufficient
food.
Weakened by Malnutrition.
One year more OF malnutrition has
so weakened these poverty stricken
Jews that they will not be able TO
endure the rlgors OF the winter even
as we'll as they did last year, when
thousands OF them died from cold and
hunger. The number OF refugees has
been greatly increased also by the
Bolsheyiki fighting and innumerable
homes have been destroyed within the
last ~ months.
Hundreds OF thousands of Jews are
living to-day In open fields or on I'M
rooted platforms. 10 families TO plat
form, in broken houses, in stalls of old
stables or in holes in the ground
They are clad. for the most part. in
the rags they have worn for the past
five years, with strips Of cloth bound
10 their feet, or bits of bark tied to
their soles 10 serve as shoes.
There are thousands of children In
the number who at s or 10 years OF
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which carried American jewish re-
lief supplies worth more than Sl250,'
900 to Poland this summer. where theI
were distributed without regard &C.,
creed to starving Jews and GentileA
The Caroile, which carried rather
smaller cargo, is known TO the puhlia
also, But perhaps the average Amer
lean does not know that ships regu-
larly sail for eastern Europe with
supplies for these needy people. Great
as the amount being spent in this Nay
is al present it must be more than
trebled II 1t is to save the lives ~
these people.
\ crisis is n thing that must ne
met promptly, If at al. only immedl-
ate shipments of food and clothing
and prompt donations Of money FOR
further aid can prevent the cXterm'-
nation OF the Jewish race in eastern
Europe this winter. Surely the people
OF the United States will not permit a
people To be wiped ont for lack OF the
aid they can so easily give,
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Poland, where he came upon II hun
bred Jewish refugees, all sick with
typhus, living without any care what
ever, with a soup made of grass and
water as their only food.
There is no corner OF Poland. Lithu-
ania, Rumania, Czecho- Slovakia or
Palestine 30 remote that the joint
distribution committee of American
Funds for Jewish War Sufferers has
not penetrated to II with some sup
plies for the unfortunate populace,
either Jews or Gentiles or both. a
relief train OF forty-four cars recently
carried food and old clothing and bed
ding to number Of towns in Siberia.
Eight motor trucks laden with
crackers and condensed milk even now
are following upon the trail Of the
Bolshevlki in Poland as they retreat
in order to save the people still left
alive from death by starvation. All
this work must be continued.
Almost every one in the United
States has hesis of the Westward Ho
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these laborers work over them and
locked up h1 separate part of one of
the piers. each article of course hav-
ing its storage place recorded.
After all is done to get these dam
aged things back TO their rightful
owners there will remain Il vast
amount of baggage that nobody
claims. What is to become OF il?
Capt Walker was asked if the Gov
crnment would sell the leftovers at
auction. all efforts to trace owners
having failed. but he preferred not TO
commit himself to an opinion on this
subject
There will be time enough for
some scheme to develop" said he,
when we have tried every means TO
get the stuff out. Our success has
beon remarkable so far when you
consider what we have to overcome.
and often owners turn up uneXpect-
cdly. able to prove their claims after
We have sent baggage to what we
call the last dump. Therefore the
Government will not he in hurry
to announce an auction Of lost bag
gage"
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ARMY OFFICERS SOLVING
LOST LUGGAGE PUZZLE
Three Great Piers Eoboken Overlooking With Soldiers
Belongings That Were Dropped Somewhere in France
Staff of Nearly 500 Sorting Property and Seeking Owners

clean and are not to be considered as
part Of the lost luggage, but the rolls
and barrack bags fall within this
definition. They belonged to the first
soldiers sent over and were taken
from the men on their arrival in
France as being superfuous baggage.
Pathetic Trinkets in the Bags.
In these rolls were many things
that the young soldiers judged to be
necessary for their comfort but which
their superior officers marked at once
overweight" Rather pathetic are
some of the things that still remain
In these bags. souvenirs of home. pic
lures and little articles that wife and
mother packed in them so that their
boys could call back home scenes. A
coffee making outfit, rubber bathtub.
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a sword (the family sword descended
from some military ancestorl are a
few Of the articles that figured among
the rejected impedimenta and which
were left in some French storehouse
to be called for.
All unmarked baggage Is picked
over carefully to find Government
property, which is sent at once 10 an
other pier, and the remainder put back
in bag or trunk as carefully as pos
sible under circumstances which do
not lend to care. Gangs OF "pickers"
are at work. on this process of selec-
ton under the eye of an officer, and
these men resemble in the dust and
dirt that have naturally accumulated
the famous chiffoniers Of Paris.
There's Lingerie, Too.
The strangest things are found in
this search, things that nobody would
ina CINE a soldier would burden him
self with. Ostrich feathers, women's
hats, boxes Of hairpins, powder, rouge
and many things unmentionable. 1t
is not possible to be sure that these
singular articles to be found in a
soldiers baggage started with him
from this side, and 1t is very likely
that many of them were picked up in
France with the idea that the wife
or the. sweetheart would find them
useful when their soldiers brought
them back to America.
Every musical instrument except d
piano has been found and always with
out a mark of Identification. Dozens
OF drums of all kinds and sizes, violins,
flutes, comets are plied up in the sec
lions of the piers that can be locked
away from the light fingered gentry
who somehow get in here to lift a
trifie now and then. Then the swords
golf Sticks, golf bags fully equipped
for a game on the links OF Europe.
collapsible bathtubs, blankets and
comfortables are here almost without
number. In fact, there is no article
farthest removed from a necessity Of
war that has not turned up to await
its owner. A gun carriage weighing
several tons figures among the stranR'.
things that have been returned as lost
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LTHOCGH Canada is the great
\ producer and exporter of as

A LTHOUGH Canada is the great
n producer and exporter of as
bestos, that article, which is
yearly coming into wider use, is
found in many parts of the United
States There are deposits in Mary
land and Virginia within a few miles
of Washington, and many of the de-
posits of this country are worked on
n commercial scale Despite this, how
ever, the American industries depend
ent on asbestos rely on the Canadian
mines or the Canadian quarries for
their supply.
Asbestos is a curious substance that
has been known for many centuries.
Many Of the peoples of ancient times
used II, and II was sometimes wrought
into soft and flexible cloth, which was
used as a shroud for the dead. There
are many varieties. and a large num-
Der of common and descriptive names
have been applied to these varieties,
Ligniform asbestos. popularity called
mountain wood" is variety pre-
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baggage. A complete machine gun Of
German origin is its companion piece.
As was expected. great deal of this
baggage is utterly worthless. but much
d II also has real value and this part
existing in small compass ought not to
have been abandoned. silk UNDER
garments. suit after suit OF them. are
IN the latter list. also watches. among
which is valuable woman's watch in
platinum, and jewelry of all kinds.
The BaEgage smashers' Work.
Baggage smashing that used TO be
a perennial subject for the comic
papers before the days of the inde-
structible trunk would seem to have
come back to its own again in Europe
during the war, for surely never in
the history of travel did baggage suf-
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fer as this soldier stun has. Suit
casos crushed out of all semblaHce
TO themselves or their kind, lockers
of metal squeezed practically nat are
seen in the melee by thousands. SO
great is the damage to these boxes
and bags that force of coopers has
been employed to try to restore them
to degree OF usefulness. They do
what they can to make a locked
trunk resemble itself before it with
stood the clash of war, but in most
cases they are obliged to crate them
before it would be possible to ship.
AS soon as the mended boxes and
the Grated trunks are ready they are
removed from the bulkheads where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
DISTHLERY MENPLAN
TOFIGHT PROHIBITION

CHICAGO January Counsel for
States have begun preparations for
carrying on legal fight against pro-
hibition to the highest court of the
land. Not only will the fight against
prohibition be waged in every state
in the Union. but a concerted attack
on the constitutionality of the ma
tional prohibition amendment will be
started as soon as the preliminaries
can be drafted
At a meeting here Tuesday of
three hundred distillers, at which the
decision for open warfare on prohibit
was appointed with full power to
carry on the fight. This committee.
formal statement says. shall have
the power to- take any and all meas
ures deemed necessary to provide
ways and means and to retain coun
sci and to incur necessary and rea-
sonable expenses"
George C. Dempsey, Boston, julius
Kessier, New York: II. NJ. Naylon,
Rochester, n. Y; George F. Dieterle
Cincinnati; Samuel Woolner, Peoria, Ill. !;
George Benz, St. Paul, MINI, and Ma
rion Taylor, Louisville.
1t is pointed out THAT there are five
hundred distlleries in the United
plants and their products at least
1000, 100000 The act of Congress
prohibiting manufacture of liquor
after July l next is declared in the
statement to be not only conflscatory
but unconstitutional.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
RED CROSS WORKERS
TO GET CERTIFICATES
Those in Service at National Head
quarters for Months to Be
Rewarded.

Members of the national headquar-
tiers force of the American Red Cross
who have been connected with the or
ganization for six months or more are
to be awarded certificates of service
this afternoon at a ceremony to be
held at Memorial Continental Hall.
Eliot Wadsworth. acting chairman of
the Red Cross war council. will make
the awards. which will consist of
pendant badges for woman employees
and volunteers and service buttons to
the men.
The women's insignia is a small
enamel on bronze badge attached to a
blue ribbon. This badge is mainly
bas-relief red cross on white, with
the legend in gold. "Service-Ameri-
can Red Cross A white stripe for
each six months of service above the
minimum period of six months will
appear on this ribbon. For the men
the same design in button form will
be awarded. but no provision will be
made for indicating length of serv-
Ice. The button will mean a service
in war time of at least six months
The national committee on awards
is composed of Douglas Stewart,
chairman; Mrs. August Belmont. Mrs
William K. Draper and Willoughhy
Walling. The committee managing
the national headquarters awards is
Dr. Stockton Arson. chairman; Mrs
John ]. Moorhead. Douglas Stewart
and James G.. Blaine, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
FOR INTERNATIONAL COURT.
Sons of Revolution Will Ask Pres,
ident to Present Plan.

President Wilson will in the near
future be urged by a committee of
five prominent officers of the Sons of
the Revolution to present to the
peace conference a resolution recent
ly adopted by the organization in
Washington. recommending creation
of an international court to try per-
sons responsible for the war and the
atrocities in connection with it,
The committee is now in Paris. and
1t is expected that meeting will be
arranged with President Wilson for
some day next week. The resolution
demanding the arrest and trial of
those deemed to be guilty of bring
ing on the war was presented by
Rev. Randolph H. McKm and adopt
ed unanimously.
Brig. Gen. William w. Harris is
chairman Of the committee that will
confer with the President. He will
be accompanied by Maj Davis B.
Wills and Lawrence v. Benet, who
will represent the Washington So
ciety, and by Lieut.. Col. Thurber and
Lieut.. George Peabody Montgomery.
who will act for. the New York So
ciety. All have been authorized to
represent the national organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
Parents, Read This
How a Father Has Learned to
Save Shoe Bills.
You will get
IL !;Il|lEa

"My son is very hard on shoes, so
keeping him properly shod has been
quite an expense to me-" writes MIR.
J. Allison Alien, of Amity, Arkan-
sas.
"But since started to buy NeoIin-
sofed shoes for him | have found
that it costs only about a third as
much to keep him in shoes"
This is because Neolin SoIes are
so tough and durable that they wear
very long time. Shoe bills are
kept down because you don't need
so many pairs.
Tou can get NeoIin-soled shoes at
almost any good shoe store. They
come in ali styles and for al! menu
beTs OF the family. NeoIin SoIes
are also available everywhere for
RESIDING. They are produced by a
scientific process to be what soIes
ought 20 be: comfortable, water.
proof and loHg=wearing. They are
made by The Goodyear Tire & RUB
Der Company, Akron, Ohio, who
also make Wingfoot Heels, guaran-
iced TO outwear any other heels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
1924 U. S. MEN SERVE
IN RUSSIA AND SIBERIA


American forces operating in Siberia
and northern Russia total 1884
officers and men. according to War
Department bulletin. In Siberia are
255 officers and 1887 men and in
northern Russia are 5,419 men.
The units in the Arehangel region
are the 339th Infantry, list Battalion
of the 310th Engineers, the 331th
Field Hospital and the 331th Ambu-
lance Company.
In Siberia are the eth and 31st
Infantry. Company D of the SID Tele-
graph Battalion. Field Hospital Com
pany No. 1, evacuation hospital No.
II, medical supply depot No Z, 146th
Ordnance Depot Company, Ambulance
Company No. 4, four staff officers,
Quartermast Corps detachment.
comprising two officers and twenty
seven men; medical detachment of
twelve officers and sixty men
and small detachment of ordnance,
Signal Corps, engineers, cavalry, in
telligence, Philippine Scouts and
photograph sections.