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The Washington times., 1919-12-26
MOTHER HIDES DWARFED
CHILDREN FOR 20 YEARS

PORTSMOUTH, England. Dec. 25.-
Because she feared they would be
taken from her. a woman living in
this city has kept hidden her three
dwarfed children, from the time Of
their birth.
No one knew of their existence un-
I'll few days ago, when a former
soldier took il into his head to climb
over wal! into the woman's garden
from an adjoining house.
The children are male dwarf
twenty years ole, and two dwarfed
girls, eighteen and fifteen years old,
reEpectiYely.
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
FAVORS ENDING OF
INDUSTRY CONTROL
Newly Appointed Secretary of
Commerce Says Time
Is Ripe.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-"With peace
at hand, it is wholly undesirable
that there should be further Govern
ment control of industry. as control
was understood and exercised during
the war, Joshua Alexander, newly
appointed Secretary of Commerce
says in an article written by him for
tomorrow's issue of the Independent
'Decisions for business will no
longer be made in Washington; they
must be made by the individual busi-
ness men fo- themselves. Their need
OF information is, therefore, far
greater than it has ever been before.
supplying this information will be the
principal business Of the Department
of Commerce,
The one thing we need more than
ANYTHING else to assist us in the So
ution OF our present problems. foreign
ana domestic, is accurate information.
our mistakes of the past have been
due in large part to a lack of data
upon which to base correct decisions.
III we had rightly understood con-
ditions abroad. as they have been re-
ported by our most competent OBJ
servers, 1T would have seemed to us
very desirable to ratify the peace
treaty at once. in the hope that world
conditions would be stabilized and
peace and unity between nations
follow.
In our own interest, for the sake
OF our foreign trade and our war
losses, II for no other reason, we must
safeguard Europe against a break
down of credit. exchange and COM
merce and the danger of going Boil
shevik. We must understand that IL
Europe sinks. We, too, will be dragged
n ON A.
into the quagmire of war,
Our first duty toward Europe is to
help to give her peace. Then we
must turn our attention to the re-
habilitation of her industry and
finances. The duty seems to rest with
the United States. No other nation
can do 1t. Looking at it from a purely
selfish standpoint, Europe's present
condition should give US deep con-
Germ"
Clip your Liberty Bond coupons and
exchange them for w. s. s., thereby
aiding yourself and your country.
The Washington times., 1919-12-26

Clip your Liberty Bond coupons and
cxchnnEe them for w. s. s.. thereby
aiding yourself and your country.
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
CRIPPLED SHUT IN
HAS MERRY XMAS
Prospect of Freedom From
Wheel Chair Gives
Father Hope.

In a dilapidated brick building on
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Frank
Jones. cripple, welcomed the Christ
mas Day with a smile and hope
The smile was the answer to the
sparkling eyes of two toddling chill
dren who romped on the floor among
few colorful toys; the hope was
that he would once again regain his
strength so that he might do a
fathers duty by his children on the
Christmas days of the future.
Jones had hope, too, that another
Yuletide season would not find him
helpless invalid, confined to a wheel
The Washington times., 1919-12-26

phone and telegraph Company. snS
Dr. Edward q. Acheson. scieutist.
IL was estimated that unused v.t~,
power facilities In the country have q
p al y oduct OF 100 900 600 nor, =
power yearly, valued at %. coo 600 o.
The discussion WAS en- outrrowth ef
the recent meeting Of the nswsp~p .
publishers, at which the nswsprirst
shortage caused grave concern.
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
PLAN TO
DEVELOP WATER POWER

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-steps have
been taken to form an association to
work for the development OF the
water power facilities of the United
states. The plan was discussed at a
luncheon that was attended by L y.
Palmer, manager of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association:
George Foster Peabody, Charles IL.
InGersoll. manufacturer; T.. X. Hall
vice president of the American Teie-
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
ANNUAL MOTOR NUMBER-152 PAGES

Millions of men and women who make up the
Motor Public will read the advertisements in
and Motor Accessories know that throughout
the year every issue of The Digest carries
The Washington times., 1919-12-26

number of Motor-product advertisers announce
ments and this issue is particularly interesting in
this respect. Read the advertising pages and
know what these manufacturers are doing to
meet the tremendous public demand
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
200 ANIMALS CHILLED,

NEW YORK, Dec. GG-Tha hippo-
potamus tank leaked, the water put
out tho furnace hre, and the elephants
u nd other tropical animals narrowly
escaped frecZinH in tho Bronx ZOO
The Washington times., 1919-12-26
NIGHT STUDENT CLASSES.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. "a
Glasses in citizenship and susrNs.
been opened for night stpdsns !.
here
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Plan to Erect
Homes in BrOoklvn
Purchases of Lots at Hyde Park
Indicate That Active Building
Will Be Begun

Sales at Hyde Park continue to in
crease in volume at William E. Harmon
& Co., Inc, property. One visitor last
week to this property said it remindee
him of old times to see the peopis
visiting property and eager to absor,
real estate bargains. Buyers are no;
waiting for Saturday and Sunday, but
go out in the early evening and every
day in the week, and in suah numbers
as TO make it difficult for statesmen to
give them the information they want
The gross sales on this property now
aggregate almost 100000.
Under adverse conditions of labor
and material cost, building is struggl-
ing to get a start and meet the needs
for homes. But the people are realiz-
ing that land is the first necessity for
a home and they are making their start
toward homes by securing the land
on which to build. The indications of
this sale at Hyde Park are that Will
lam E. Harmon & Co. Inc, will repeat
their successes of some years ago,
which did so much toward the great
development of BROOKLYN as a home
owning Borough
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Skipper Peterson
And Sons Guilty
OF Abusing Grew
Three Face Sentences of
Five Years in Prison
on Conviction of NAL
treating Ships Seamen

A jury in Judge Zachs Federal Dis
ttrict Court, after deliberatng for an
hour and half yesterday, brought in
a verdict Of guilty in the case of
Adolph Cornelius Peterson. of the
American barkentine Puako, and his
two sons, Adolph Eric, jr., and Leonard
Roy Peterson, mates on the ship, who
were tried on an indictment charging
mIaltreatment and Imprisonment Of
tne crew without Just cause. The trial
has been going on for three weeks.
Captain Peterson and his son. Eric
were acquitted in the same court last
May, when they were tried on an in
dlctment charging murder on the high
seas. The defendants will be sentenced
by Judge lack on next Thursday They
face possible tive-year term in prison.
or fine of $1,000, or both
The indictments grew out of the
tragic voyage Of the Pauko from Vic
toria. B. c., to Cape Town. which last
ed from April 81 to August 2S, 1917.
The brutal treatment of the crew, ac-
cording to the evidence presented by
Lawrence Miller, Assistant United
States Attorney, covered almost the
four months of the voyage. On arrival
In South Africa, Captain Peterson ac-
cused the complaining members of the
crew of mutiny, piracy and being Ger
man spies.
After a full investigation by George
II. Murphy, Consul General, the charges
against the crew we're dismissed and
Mr.. Murphy ordered the arrest of the
Pedersons for the alleged murder on
the high seas of Axel Hansen, and the
maltreatment of the members of the
crew. Hansen, seaman, leaped over
board in mid ocean. 1t was the con-
tention of the prosecution at the mur-
der trial that brutal treatment had
crazed theman and forced him to seek
means of escape.
Consul General Murphy was brought
from Cape Town by the government to
testify and describe the condition of
the crew at the time they made their
charges. Members of the crew also tes-
tilted.
The defendants sought to prove that
the crew were in league to sink. the
ship, and that they were in the pay of
Germany as spies.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
400, 900 at Mardi Cras
Final Day Brings Total for the
Week to More Than 1000. 900

Four hundred thousand men, women
and children took part in the final day
of Coney Islands sixteenth annual
mardi gras yesterday and last night
b. K. T. trains and surface cars and
hundreds of auto trucks transformed
into buses were taxed to their capacity
to carry the crowd to and from the
island.
1t is estimated that more than 2,O0o,-
600 visited the island during mardi
gras week. This was a blessing to
business men of the resort who, with
prohibition. car strikes and a rainy
summer TO combat. had had rather a
poor season.
be in operation to-day. a few of them
VIII keep open until October l.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
P'eace-Tin& Army
Plan for France
Cuts Force a Half
Doumer Report to Senate
Provides $4,000 Men
and Reduction of Military
Service From 3 to 2 Years

% PARIS, Sept. 20 (By The Associated
Press.-A peacetime army Of $4,000
men and reduction of the term of mill
tary service from three years to one
are recommended by the military COM
mittee of the Senate in report sub
mitted yesterday by Paul Doumer, its
president, former Minister Of State.
Under his plan 100000 men would be
called to the colors annually by con-
scrlptlon and 100000 others recruited
through voluntary enlistment.
The peace esta blshment of the
French army in 1914 comprised 818, ,532
metropolitan troops and 27,656 colonial
troops in France, total of 846,188
sents 49 per cent reduction of ef-
fectives.
Asked to prepare report with rec
ndations, NJ. Doumer's reply was
that after the ratification of the peace
treaty it will be safe for France to
take two years off the term of obliga-
tory service. This would reduce the
effective strength of the army below
the point of prudence, he said, but the
difference could easily be made up, in
his opinion, by voluntary enlistments
This system would make the French
army on war footing total 100000
men, divided into an active army of
100000 men, 100000 reservists and
100000 territorials
M. Doumer would maintain the pres
ent military divisions of France, trans
ferring only the 21st Corps from Epi-
nal, capital of the Department of
Vosges, to Strasbourg. Northern Af-
rica would have two corps, instead of
one, the Second having headquarters
at Rabat, Morocco. Each corps would
be reduced to one division, instead of
two, excepting three corps on the
frontier and the African Corps, each
of which would detach division for
service on the Rhone River.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
EX-kaiser's Field Kitchen
Is Coming to America
Smithsonian Institution Gets
Trophy That Never Took a
Chance During the War

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2O-To the col
lection Of war trophies, which the
Smithsonian Institute is now gathering,
viii be added shortly the field kitchen
of William -lIohenzolern, late kaiser
cf'Germany.
German prisoners of war this week
located the kitchen which is said to b.
q most elaborate affair of the kind
aboard transport at St. Nazaire,
France, and il is on its way to Wash
ington with large collection of war
material of different kinds. The kitchen
followed the kaiser all over Europe
while the war was on to all Of the tight
ing fronts which he visited, but shows
no signs Of damage, which is taken to
indicate that it kept as far to the rear
as did is imperial owner
The institution, among other tro-
phies, has been given the great war
map on which General Pershing and his
staff worked put the strategical prob
lens which the American armies car
ried through.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Union Drug Clerks Dropped
Men Active as Organizers Are
Said to Have Been DISCHARGED

Drug clerks who were active in
formation of the Drugs Clerks Union
were discharged yesterday by one of
the large drug concerns, according
to an announcement made at the union
headquarters. So Park Row. S. NJ.
Sorowitz, president of the organiza-
ton, said that in several of the stores
the entire force Of clerks walked out
in sympathy with the discharged
pharmacists.
H. J. Conway, secretary of the Re
tail Clerks international Protective
Association, is expected to arrive in
this city some time to-day. He will
take charge Of the situation, and it
is expected the date Of a general walk
out of the drug clerks will be an
nounced soon after his arrival
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Turks Renew Massacres.
Says Armenian Appeal
Allied and Neutral Nations
Begged to Save New Repub-
lie From Annii1iEation

LYONS, Sept. 20 (French Wireless
service) The parliament Of the re-
public of Armenia, sitting in Trans
Caucasia, has addressed an appeal for
aid against the Turks to tho parlia-
ments of fifteen Allied and neutral ma
tions. including the United States.
Great Britain, France, Italy. Japan,
Belgium, Greece, Rumania, China,
Spain, Norway, Sweden. Holland. Por-
tugal and Persia
The appeal asserts that the Arme-
mans faced the Turks through the was.
despite almost complete annihilatiou.
in the belief that the Allies would hb-
crate them from Ottoman oppression
Encouraged, however, by the clement
proceedings of the Allies, says the
appeal the Turks have resumed their
policy Of massacre and are now attack
ing the frontiers Of the Armenian re
public. The message pleads danger Of
final annlhilation unless the Turks are
suppressed
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Real Estate
Old Madison Avenue Church
About to Close Its Doors
First Reformed Episcopal Edifce, at Fifty-Gftl
Street Corner, To Be Replaced With Seven
teen. Story Apartment Hotel for Bachelor

Ihe last religious services to be
conducted in the First Reformed Epis-
copal Church, at the northeast corner
of Fiftytifth Street and Madison Ave
nue., will be held the first Sunday in
November. Soon afterward the build
ing will be razed, and on the site will
be erected by the Alerton House Com
pany, seventcen-story apartment
hotel for bachelors.
The site, which is 100 feet deep,
with frontage of seventy-fve feet in
Madison Avenue, was purchased by the
church in 1874 for $45 900 1t is un-
derstood the price at which it was sold
to the Allerton House Company, of
which James S. Cushman is president
and William H. Silk is treasurer, was
about $325,00 Based upon this valua-
tlon this corner plot shows an appre-
citation of $280,G00 in forty-fve years
Edward c. Best. senior warden and
chairman of the board Of trustees,
said yesterday that the church has an
endowment fund, but he expects that
Sl50,000 of the amount obtained from
the sale of the church property will be
set aside as an addition to the origi-
nal endowment fund, which the church
Will be able to use for any emergency
that may arise.
The passing of this old religious
structure is due to the removal of old
residents to the middle and upper West
Side apartment houses and also to
the encroachment Of business which
has affected the district as private
residence territory.
Had Noted Rectors
Bishop Sabine, who for many years
was identified with the Church Of the
ansfiguration, better known as the
Little. Church Around the Corner"
was rector Of First Church for twenty
nine years: During the past nine years
the Rev. William DuBoise Stevens was
rector. Soon after the United States
entered the war Dr.. Stevens went to
France as a chaplain in the Red Cross
organization. He died on August 29,
1918, in Paris.
The board of trustees has not yet
decided where they win erect their
new church. although it probably will
be in Washington Heights, where a
majority of the congregation now live.
Pending construction of the new
church. services will be held in a hall.
Demolition of the church building
Will be started the day after the last
services are held. The new building
VIII be planned along the same lines
as the present Alerton Thirty-ninth
Street House 1t will contain SEQ
rooms. The plans are by Arthur
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
New Britain Midshipman
Heads Annapolis Regiment

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 0.-Midshipman
Paul VI. Phil, Of New Britain, Conn.
has been appointed commander of the
regiment of midshipmen at the Naval
Academy This appointment. the high
est commission for midshipmen, was
based on efficiency tests, including
grade marks during the summer cruise
jusr ended.
or the four lieutenant commanders
next highest in rank to the reSimental
commander are Midshpmen Carr -.
Sundbcrg. Weehawken, n. j., and How
ard Clark. White Plains, n "
Among the company commanders are
Kenneth J. Noble, Cromwell, Conn;
Robert c. Sprague, Sharon. Conn, and
Frederick G. Clay, Plainheld, n. j.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Two Soldiers Sentenced for
E!ugging Girls Against Will

OTISVlLLE. \. Y, Sept 20 -Emmet
Osgood and Arthur Baker, army hos
pital patients here, were arraigned to-
day charged with having embraced
Hazel and Florence Smith, two Goshen
girls, against their will.
Tie father Of the girls obtained a
warrant for the men. but they fed TO
Niddletown where they were arrested.
Zach was sentenced to thirty days, but
police appeared to take them back to
the hospital.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

YOUNG MAN. %. desires opportunity to
learn business o trade. J. Sternin.
West il4th ST.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Dry" Leader Going to
Europe to Aid Campaign
T IN prn

The Pres byterian Board of Temper
ance and Moral Welfare. which recent
" set aside $50 ,00d to assist the cam
pagn for prohibition in foreign coun-
tries, announced yesterday that the
Rev. John Steele. associate secretary
Of the organlzatIon, would be sent
abroad next month TO make sixty
day campaign in England. Scotland and
Ireland He viii work under the aus
pices OF the World Prohibition Fedora
ton
Mi Steele will remain a month in
SEQ land. a week in Ireland and three
weeks in England.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Corea Files Claims to
independence With Senate

WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-A long
statement setting forth Corean claims
to independence was filed to-day with
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee by Fred A. Dolf, counsel for the
Republic Of Corea.' 1t deals with
the history OF Corea, pointing to the
treaty Of 1891 in which Japan guaran-
teed Coreaa independence and pictures
Japan as the Germany of the Far East
because of violation of that pact and
other acts. The document pleads for
the moral support of the United States
in the struggle for liberty.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

GARDENER-Married Wife excellent
laundress five years splendid reference.
Mss Shaughnessys Agency. SEQ 6th av.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

So 5,50o--Piot. house. oufbuildinss Church
Street Pleasantviie, n. y Mrs Bethany
Lyon, SO Cummings St. lrvington, N j.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Clarke G. Daley to Advise
In Realty Selling Campaign

The United States Realty and I'M
provement Company, which last week
sold the Everett Building in Fourth
Avenue, is about TO proceed in dispos-
ing of its other vast realty holdings, as
already announced.
The company is one of the largest
real estate owners in this city 1t has
engaged the services of Clarke G..
Daley, president OF the Alliance
Realty Company, to act in an advis-
ory capacity in connection with the
selling campaign the improvement
company has begun.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Poles Will Send Mission to
Cultivate Friendship of Lett

WARSAW, Sept 20 (French Wireless
Service) ).-The Polish government has
decided to send special mission to
Lettland to bring about friendly rela-
tions between the two countries.
The idea is spreading among the
Poles that the states situated on the
western frontier of Russia must form
close political union to prevent them
from becoming bridge between
Russia and Germany.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

CARDENER- FARMER Working super
in,endent very capable. responsible. de-
srsble Eng g.ishuaI tmarried) long,
,vlendid references most desirable Ma
Na's Agency l3l Vest 42d 81. bryant $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
New Jersey Prison Guards
Are to Get Salary Bonus

TRENTON, N. j., Sept 2o.-The
State Board of Control of Institutions
and Agencies has recommended 25
per cent bonus be granted eighty
keepers at the state prison. The
keepers had requested the bonus to off
set the high cost Of living.
with the state house commission
PROPOSAL to grant salary increases to
employees 10 all public institutions.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Boy Killed by Falling Pine

Lawrence Justo, nine years old Of
372 Columbia Street. Brooklyn, was
killed last night by an iron pipe that
fell on him while he was playing I'M
Delevan Street, Brooklyn. The pipe
was leaning against the wall of fac
tory at rs DeleYan Street and toppled
just as the boy darted under it,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
POSITION WANTED AS
WITT D r,I L>-rL,D

up PERlNTENDENT wishes position. first
class, large elevator apartment. In y. Y.
lood mechanic. best references. Emil
SohrIrger. 1915 Linden St, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

NEW JERSEY
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Man Killed hv Subway Train

for Coney Island last night killed q
man who fell from the platform Of the
station at Pacific Street, Brooklyn.
The man is believed from papers found
in his pockets to have been Ole Ander-
son of Duluth. coal passcr on ship
The accident caused excitement among
the crowd in the station and several
women tainted
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Going On To-day
DAY

DAY
American Museum of National History
admission free.
American Museum of Safety; admission
free.
metropolitan Museum of Art; admission
free.
Van Cortlandt Museum; admission free.
The Aquarium; admission free. = r.
Dedication of new building by Five Points
Mission; addresses by the Revs. Willard
I. Robinson and John Ernest Parker
Bishop Luther b wilson presiding, SO
Madison Street, 10 a.
En- terta ainment and dance by Beavers Of
Beth David Hospital Hotel McAlpin. 2
p. m
Observation-Disclosures Of Women Physi-
clans, room 1906, Waldorf Astoria
Exhibit of mosaic and paintings by Mr.
NJ De Palo. room 10 Waldorf AstOr ria.
American National Exhibition, room 1917
Waldorf Astoria.
Field Day. Friends OF Irish Freedom,
Ebbets Field, > p. m.
NIGHT
Address, "American Legion" Or. s. Ed
ward Young, at Bedford Presbyterian
Church, Nostrand Avenue and Dean
Street Brooklyn, 7:45 p.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

-oomis Harmon. The facade will be
red brick, with sparing use OF stone.
The new building Will contain
principal features roof garden, gym
nasium, cafeteria and music room. !
Is estimated to cost $S50,000 and to be
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN
Autumn and Winter Ho,,se

Modern conveniences. moderate
rental Highly restricted suburb
= H. WILLIAMS SALES Agency -
oor' Vest S4th St Cali, don't write.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

,,aurN AND MEN NEEDED
FRAMED CORRESPONDENTS
A. letter EXECUTIVES
uliI SALES DIRECTORS
.T IL see TO $4,000 YEARLY
handle all special correspondence
~ ,w. collections. sales adjustments.
trca.s salaries running from
seh SIS TO 500 WEEKLY
.,,,,,s women and men can train. by
lrs.n,ous lrss.,vous CASE METHOD, in q few OF
tss ~ is,sure hours at home. to NIL these
nv .a1sat ant positions.
T5s..;,s. telephone or call for personal
"' interview,
MANCHESTER, REGISTRAR,
~ West 42d St. New York.
Telephone Bryant $500.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

~.~rn--r,vs bright. capable ladies to
NANIt Acmonstrate and sell dealers:
trasei.x liza rer week railroad fares paid
IS 70 ~ once, Goodrich Drug Co. Dept.
" omaha Nsh
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
BOROUGH OF THE BRONX

EEDFoRD PARK SECTION. BRONX
Wo family detached hous. fine cond,
don. all improvements. electric ltgbts M.
Vate porches. metal ceilings 3l5s pa
oaiur ave, between 2O4th and 2o5th s,s
near Webster ave LINK ~'