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The Washington times., 1924-01-03
SOLDIERS KIN
FOUND FTER
Sd YEARS
Packages Left by 10000 900
Men, Killed in Service, Are
Held by Government.
By WILLIAM PICKETT HELM.

The secrets of nearly 100000
American soldiers killed or wounded
in battle back to the days OF the
Mexican war are in the keeping Of
John w. Robbins of the Comptrol-
Ter Generals office at Washington,
d. c. These secrets are in the form
of packages containing the belong
ings of soldiers and Robbins task
is to find surviving relatives and
restore the packages to them.
He has just found, after a search
of nearly sixty years, the relatlVes
of private Thomas Binks OF the
Union army, killed in Grants ao-
vance on Richmond in 1865, and has
restored to them the private's watch
and some photographs which had
been in Uncle Sans possession Tor
nearly two generations. The watch
is now on it's way to England, an
heirloom that had been handed
down for generations before 1t came
into Binks' possession.
Binks, in reality, was Tnomas
Benson. of Harcourt, England.
After he was killed his watch ana
some photographs, found In
pocket of his uniform, were sent
to the War Department in Washlng-
ton. Last week the Benson FAMILY
in England proved that Blnks was
in fact the Thomas Benson VINO
disappeared in 1861 with the family
watch.
copyright. 1924, William Pickett Heinz
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
K. Of c. COUNCIL
IN CLARENDON
INITIATES
Rigid Regulation of Traffic
Goes Into Effect in Airing
ton County.

CLARENDON, Va, Jan. 3-More
than one hundred members Of Ed.
ward Douglas White Council,
Knights Of Columbus, OF Clarendon,
attended a special meeting Of the
council held in the auditorium of
st. Charles School last night to
witness the comforting of the first
degree on class of twenty-five
candidates.
Following the initiation, the
knights were served a banquet by
the refreshment committee, Of
which Walter Won Herbulis is chair
man.
Traffic regulations on the roads
of Arlington county will be rigidly
enforced, according to an announce
ment at the office of the sheriff
of Arlington county. Beginning to-
day Traffic Officers Bruce Emoot
and George Burke will be stationed
in Clarendon. No double parking
will be allowed on Wilson boule-
ward There also will be officers
stationed at all the schools to see
that the law regarding speeding 10
enforced.
Rumors circulated throughout
Arlington county today to the ef-
feet that George E. Garrett, county
engineer, and DR.. J. w. Cox, health
officer, had been re-appointed by
the board of supervisors at their
meeting Tuesday is without founda-
ton, according to a statement from
William ]. Ingram, supervisor from
Arlington district.
Ingram said that as Garrett has
started a piece of work that is
nearly finished, at the request of
the board he has agreed to con-
tinue as engineer until the work is
complete. AS to DIR. Cox, he has
been requested by the State Board
of Health to remain in Arlington
county until such time as q new
man is appointed, which viii be
ing to Ingram.
The board of supervisors will
hold a special meeting at the
Arlington county court house at s
o'clock Monday night, January z,
when they will meet the members
of the board of health of the county
in an effort to appoint a new
health officer.
Former Deputy Sheriff James d.
East was yesterday appointed q
special constable by Judge Samuel
G. Brent.
Charged with attempting to steal
an automobile, said to belong to a
man by the name Of j. II. jenkins.
of Park Lane, Shorty Poston. a
hacker of Georgetown, was arrested
yesterday and locked up in the
Arlington county jail.
There will be a special meeting Of
the Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge
No. 1915 of Clarendon, tonight in
the Clarendon Community hall at
s O'Clock, at which time the degree
team Of the lodge will confer the
degrees upon a large class Of candi.
dates
Following the comforting Of the
degrees the lodge will hold social
session.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
Wide
World.

Continued from First Page)
co yields are promised from the
discovery that silver nitrate is
q seed immunizer; and a rem
edy against the peach leaf
fungus is already in laboratory
tubes.
But doctors haven't the faint
est notion how to combat the
gruesome fungus spreading
through the body of a japanese
laborer being treated at San
Francisco. Pathology wasn't
aware of It's existence before
1900. One presumably con-
tracts the infection from jack
rabbits.
Why do human beings devote
so much energy devising means
of mutual annihilation while
such potential wipers-out of the
race are omnipresent?
Plans for greater and more
horrible wars are being pushed
on all sides. No sooner do we
produce twenty-three-mile can
mons than France boasts of a
rifle to shoot 120 miles and
Great Britain lets loose infor-
nation of ordnance reaching
from Ramsgate to Ostend.
When shall civilization attain
the age Of reason?
6copyrlght. ie3t. King Features synai
cate. Inc. and Herbert kaufman.l
The Washington times., 1924-01-03

polemics and in an all too theoretic,
academic manner. No such union
was brought about--not even a pla-
tonic one.
Yet the public rapprochement had
this important result: The COM
munistic press began thenceforward
to follow an editorial policy Of
''interlocking" nationalism and COM
munism as really aiming at the
same goal, using only different
methods.
Unlike Other Leaders.
Radek's role in this clever change
about was, and is. dubious. Unlike
munistic comrades, he unQuestion-
ably adheres to the idea of merely
exploiting the plan of national
own WorldrevOlutionary purposes
in tactical, propaganda way.
However, the whole discussion
has helped the Communists but lit.
tie. The important psychological
factor was, nevertheless, that the
Communists showed themselves ca
pable of confessing certain ma
tional sentiment which hitherto
lHey Ildu Sb6duli5 ucHiCu anu COih'
batted.
This factor is a result OF a
growing rebellion among the Ger
man Communists against the Mos
COW Third Internationale. They
want to break away from it, Yet
they will hardly succeed, because
, their movement in its present form
must die as soon as the Third In
I L. 70.
an actual union between the Ger
movements-that is, union which
would be more than merely a ges.
ture which the Muscovites could
use for their propaganda purposes
would. never be tolerated by the
Third Internationale.
Struggle for Leadership.
| This whole struggle between the
German and Russian leadership OF
the Communists in Germany Will
not be really decided until the
party once attains the governing
power of the nation.
An important fact in this con
nection is that the German Com
| munists do not consider a couI
or any action of that sort neces
Sary at present. On the con
trary, their policy now is to keeI
rather in the background, to work
secretly and to wait watchfully
Meanwhile they argue that the
ever-growing misery and want are
driving innumerable fresh recruit.
into the ranks Of their party.
Upon the accuracy or inaccuracS
of that speculation depends the
certain: 1t will prove accurate
If the leaders of the other parties
fail to unite the nation solidlS
on a constructive basis. Then un
doubtedly the German masses will
flock to the revolutionary CAM
of the Communists. This will hap
pen in spite Of the apparent pros
pect Of a Swing to the right
In the internal policy.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
442 MARRIAGES
|SROCKv|LLE
RECORD
School Children at Takoma
Park Move Into New
Building.

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. S-Tbe
incomes of the pastors Of the vari'
GUS Rockville churches are consider
ably augmented each year by fees
received for performing the cere'
monies for the numerous couples
that visit the town on marrOminial
missions.
1t has become a habit with the
Rev. P. Rowland Wagner, pastor of
the Baptist Church, to lead all the
other ministers of the town in the
number of ceremonies performed,
and the year just closed was no
exception to that rule. During the
twelve months, he tied III nuptial
knots:
The Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, 81,
pastor of the Methodist Churcn, was
a good second with 1923 to his credit;
the Rev. S. J. Goode, pastor of the
Christian church. officiated on
sixty-eight occasions, and the Rev.
Willard +. Minnick, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church, pronounced the
words which made fifty couples
one. The Rev. John T. Coolahdn,
pastor of st. Mary's Catholic
Church, and the Rev. John r.
Henderson, retired Presbyterian
minister, performed eighteen and
twelve ceremonies, respectively.
The public school children of
Takoma Park have at lest come
into their own and are today
occupying for the first time a new
brick building just completed.
Yesterday was devoted to moving
from the old quarters the school
has occupied for number Of years
Mrs. Stella Thomas is principal
of the school and the assistants are
Miss Estelle Ricketts,, Miss Ravenel
Monred, Mrs. Gillette and Miss
Grace Baker, the last named having
Just been added to the faculty.
Judge Henry J. Hunt, of the
Orphans Court for this county
who is also connected with the
engineering department of the Dis
trict OF Columbia government. en-,
tertained about fifty Montgomery
county and Washington friends al
his home near Bethesda In celebra.
ton Of his birthday anniversary.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
new CANPAIG
STARTED ON
DRUGS
Federal Officials Plan Great
Drive-WiII Stop Mexican
Border influx.

BY ROBERT s. THORNBURGH,
International News Service.


United States customs officials
and the Federal Narcotic Con-
troll Board prepared today to
launch a 1924 campaign against
drug smuggling and illegal traf-
fic in dope that will surpass last
years concentrations to wipe out
this evil.
Among the first moves neces-
sary to plug up the American
borders against narcotic runners
is a good working agreement
with the Mexican government,
providing for registration OF
known international dope snug
glers and cooperation in border
protection, Col. L. G. Mutt, secre-
tary of the Narcotic Control
Board, announced.
More For Conference.
That a conference with Mexican
authorities, similar to that with thu
1
at Buffalo, will be arranged wa
the expectation at the treasury.
Secretary Of state Hughes, Score
tary of the Treasury Mellon AMI
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover, ar,
members. of the narcotic contro
board and their cooperation in tn,
1924 dope campaign Is anticipated.
/ Colonel Mutt declared that TN
| Mexican border now presents TIN
most difficult problem to customs
officials.
A great quantity of dope is com
ing into the United States iron
Mexico, having been imported L
that country from Spain, Germany
Switzerland and England, as in
dicated by labels that have fallel
into government hands.
Some dope is struggled that orig
mated In the Far East. The extern
of the Chinese dope to reach thi
country is not as great as is popu
larly supposed. according to Col
onel Mutt.
Conditions Are Improved.
Conditions throughout the United
States improved during the pas
i
illegal traffic in narcotics was re
duced," Colonel Mutt declared.
1.-THE new year, will see a mucE
greater improvement than wa.
noted in 1923. A more determined
concentration against the evil i.
to be launched by the Government.
With the customs service operat
ing at ocean and lake ports anC
on international borders, agents Of
the narcotic bureau will make q
further effort to clean up condi
tions within the United States.
The creation of dope addicts by
encouraging the use of narcotics II
boys and girls of high school age
a crime alleged to be widely prac
ticed by dope rings. will get tn,
especial attention of the narcotic
bureau, it was learned.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
POLICEMAN SAYS MAN
WAS FRAMED" WITH RUM

NORFOLK. Va, Jan. S.-Charged
with having planted" evidence
against Bert Chavers, a negro whose
soft drink establishment was raided
by police, Patrolman G. /. Williams
is out on a $500 bond for his an.
pearance in police court tomorrow
The charges were made by another
policeman, w. l.. Ruddick.
Ruddick swore that he had seen
Williams place a soft drink bottle
filled with whiskey on a window
sill in order, he alleges, to frame"
the negro. The bottle was taken
in the raid as evidence" Williams
vigorously denies the charge.
other officers participating in the
raid testified they saw no plant
ing" Of evidence BY williAmA
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
PR|NCEGEORGES
PLANS SCHOOL
BONDS
Board of Education to Meet
Tuesday to Discuss items
of Measure.

EVANSVILLE. Md. Jan. g.
The items and amount of bonds
for new schools in Prince Georges
county, to be embraced in the bill
to be laid before the legislature
for approval is expected to be set
tied upon at a meeting Of the
county board of education 10 be
held in Upper Marlboro Tuesday
Attention also may be given &c the
preliminary work incident to prep
aratIon of the 1924-25 county school
budget.
Inc county schools reopened yes
terday, following the Christmas va
cation. The next holiday will be
Easter, George Washington's birth
day no longer being a holiday in the
Maryland public schools.
These teachers have recently re-
signed from the county schools:
Miss Alice Stringer, assistant at the
Forestville school; Miss Margaret
Duvall, teacher at the Woodville
school, and Persis Jennings, as
sistant in the Bowie colored school.
Miss Duvalls successor has been
chosen and the other two vacancies
are expected to be filled within a
few days. The vacancy which ex-
listed for some time at the Fort
| Washington school has been filled
through appointment of Miss Mary
Short, formerly a member of the
faculty of Brandywine High School.
Invitations to attend the annual
State meeting of superintendent
and county boards of education, to
be held in Baltimore, January 1925,
have been extended Prof. Nicholas
Orem, county superintendent of
schools and members of the board
of education for this county.
Excepting the heating plant, the
four-room addition to the Brandy
wine High School has been COM
pleted.
Heating is expected to be in.
stalled and the building ready for
occupancy by February l The ad
dition is Of concrete bricks and cost
about $4,000. 1t is planned TO no.
model two of the rooms in the old
building into an auditorium. Within
six weeks or two months the Berwyn
elementary school, the only other
school project now building in the
county, is expected to be completed
Exterior work on the structure Is
finished.
Through courtesy Of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
the Baraca class of the Hyattsville
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
will present motion picture film
in the church Friday night at s
o'clock There will be no admission
charge.
Charles r. Glass has been elected
president of the Hyattsville Horti-
cultural Society for a year. Other
officers chosen are T. D. farrell,
vice president, and Mrs. Reinohl,
Riverdale, secretary-treasurer
Members of the Cottage City fire
department will gather in the
temporary school Monday night at
s o'clock to elect officers for the
ensuing year. 7. Weston Scott is
the present chief of the department
which has membership of forty.
the maximum allowed by the orra =.
izatfon's constitution. The depart.
ment always has waiting list of
prospective members, Chief Scott
states.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
MISSING COLLEGE YOUTH
BELIEVED IN WASHINGTON

James H. Hayes. eighteen, of
Enid. Oklahoma. is in WASHINGTON
dead broke" and in need of as.
sistance, having left the University
Of Michigan, the Salvation Army
headquarters were notified by a
letter from his parents.
The youth is five feet eight inches
tall and weights 100 pounds. He
has been reading great deal Of
philosophy and sociology his par.
ents state.
In a letter to his parents with.
out date or address on 1t, the boy
stated that he was going to get
work on Washington newspaper
and submit some of his work.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
NeuU Years Resolutions
On Ice

Whereas the window sill ice
box subjected to constant
changes of temperature is not
a safe place for food, and
aOkereGS the one and only
safe, healthful place is an i'm
maculate refrigerator kept at
an even temperature; Be it
then Resolved to "take" pure
clean American Ice as regu-
larly in winter as in summer.
And please remember that Amer
lean Ice costs but a fraction Of a
cent a pound delivered regularly
to your refrigerator.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
$50 DEER, ~ BEAR
SHOT IN ONE COUNTY

MIDDLETOWN. N. Y. Jan. g.
The largest number of foxes have
been killed in Sullivan county this
season in many years. Raccoons
are also very plentiful, one man
having killed sixty Of the animals.
Hunting in Pike county, Pa, has
been exceptionally good for deer
and bear. More than $50 deer have
been shot in the county and twenty.
seven bears have been slain! The
largest bear weighed 633 pounds
and measured feet inches from
tip to tip.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
ENGLAND ASKS THAT U. S.
EXPLAIN ToMoKA SEIZURE

LONDON, Jan. S.-The British
foreign office having definitely es-
tablished the Canadian registry Of
the ship Tomoka, which was re-
Gently seized by the American au-
thorities on suspicion she was a
whiskey .smuggler, has addressed an
inquiry to Washington requesting
an explanation why the seizure was
made outside the three-mile limit, 1t
was learned this afternoon:
The ,Tomoka was seized off the
New Jersey coast.
The Anglo-American treaty con-
ceding the right to the United States
to search suspected whiskey snug
Cling ships beyond the three.mile
limit and to make seizures where
culpability is shown, is not yet ef-
fectiVe.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
RUG CLEANER SEEKING
$4,000 FROM PARTNER

The District Supreme Court was
asked yesterday by s. Ichilian. 60.
partner with Morris Parks in a rug
cleaning establishment at 1929
Twentieth street northwest, to ap.
point a receiver for the business
Ichilian, represented by Attorney
Nicholson also asks $4,000 damages
from Parks for alleged violation u
the partnership agreement
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
Gallery Gets Old Bronze.

A Chinese bronze vessel, which
dates, probably, from the Sixth
century has been purchased by the
Freer Gallery. The vessel is from
the period known in Chinese his.
tory as that OF the six dynasties.
The article In in excellent preser-
walton. except for considerable sur
face corrosion. II has been placed
on exhibition In the east corridor
OF the gallery.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
BRITISH WAR THREAT
SENT TO AFCHANISTAN

RANGooN, British India, Jan. 8.
There is a persistent rumor that
the British government has sent
an ultimatum to Afghanistan re-
garding its alleged connivance in
the recent border outrages and it's
harboring of the persons participant
ing in the raids. No official state
ment has been made.
Mohammet Ali, president Of the
Indian national congress. denies n
report that the Mohammedans NJ
India are planning 70 help the
Afghans
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS
FREIGHT RATES TO COAST

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Members
of the Atlantic Far East conference
will leave New York January 8 Tor
Vancouver, where they will attend
a Joint meeting of the East and
West Coast Conference members to
discuss freight rates for the latter
part of, the year 1924.
1t is understood that there Will be
an increase in the freight tariffs
between New York and the Far
East as a result of the confer
ence. The conference will open
January is.
The Washington times., 1924-01-03
REDS. GAIN
POWER IN
CHAOS
Corruption and Misrule Said
to Dominate All officiaIdom.
People Disheartened.

The subjoined article, giving a
lucid analysis of the reasons for
che grO1Uth of communism IN Ger
many, is especially 1sotesOortky be-
cause Sts author Is a member of the
younger set of the German Grist9c.
rGcy 1Oh0 is a close student of po-
liticGl events and 10ho speciGliSes IN
the study of the Eastern inVG-
siOn." Like many of the more lib
erGl members of has cGste-for-
4teYLy supreme IN social and pOliti-
cat prestige-he qOorks hard eight
hours a day as clerk IN an office,
1OhiIe IN has ..'leisMre" hours he
reads, studies and qVrites. He be-
longs to one of the oldest noble
families; has father, tOhO sOGs killed
IN the aVGr, aOGs a famous military
race rider. HGvissg progressed Nth
the times, he cares for neither
titles nor tea parties, bat sees has
main mission IN 40Grning the reoc-
tionGYN "die hGrds" thGt unless
they close their ranks and face the
facts they and the whoEe structure
Of their country 1OiN be sOept Gw0y
BY the red tide.
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-16


Beginning at Cor. No /, identical
with the original S. E. Cor. Cor.
No. of the Allie Claim and
Cor. No. 3 of the Reindeer
Fraction, both of this survey. IA
fir post AKA IT. long scribed
1873 NJ. 2-1373 r and 4-1373
A: whence U. S. L. NJ. No. 1-C
bears S. 40 deg. 10 min. W.
20S6.SO it. distant: thence N.
10 deg. O2 MN. f. $4,000 IT..
to Cor. No. ., previously de-
scribed; thence n. 10 deg. At
min. f. 1110.50 IT. to Cor. No.
3, previously described; thence
s. 81 deg. 4s min. W. $1,000
IT. to Cor No. 4. identical with
original corner. Cor. No. / of
Lonesome placer, this survey,
Cor. No. of the Skookum pla-
Ger. Cor. No. 6 Raymond and
Cor. No. l Sioux placer. Sur.
No. 1142, a fir post 4x4x4 IT,.
long scribed 4-1373 NJ. 1-1373
l.. 6-1-3-1142 S. thence S. S
deg. % min. w. 1312OO it. to
Cor. No. 5 previously described:
thence S. so deg. 81 min. E.
$500 it. to Cor. No. l and
place of beginning; containing
an area of $3.50 acres.
LONESOME PLACER:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with the original corner and
Cor No. 3 of the Skookum pla-
Ger. Cor. No. s of Raymond
placer and Cor No. l of the
Sioux placer. all of Sur. No.
1142. and Cor. No. of the
Mayflower of this survey: a fir
post AKA It. long, scribed l.
1873 L. 4-1373 NJ. 3-6-1-1142;
whence U. 8. L. NJ. No. &c bears
S. 20 deg. 80 min. As sec. W.
3354.70 #. distant; thence n.
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-16
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To CONRAD JOHNSON. yonr
heirs. administrators. successors
and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned as CO.
partner therein has expended the
sum of One Hundred Dollars
(S1O0.0O) during the year ending
December 81, 1920. and One Hun
dred Dollars for the year ending
July LIST. 1924 for labor and i'm
provements upon and for the bene-
fit of the NUMBER 4 BENCH OP-
POSITE CREEK CLAIM NUMBER
3. being Bench On the Right Limit
of PELUK CREEK. and being a
placer mining. claim. in the Cape
Nome Recording District and Pre-
cinct. Territory Of Alaska; the or
iSinal location notice OF which claim
is recorded in Vol. 1879. at Page
1871, of the Records of Locations. in
the Office of the Recorder Of said
Precinct.
That said labor was performed
and improvements were made in
development OF said claim. and in
the performance of the Annual La
Dor required by Section 1924. Re-
vised Statutes of the United States
and legislation supplemental there
to, in order to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are here
by required to contribute to the
undersigned co-owner your proper
tionate share OF such expenditure.
according to your interest in said
claim. within ninety days after the
service Of this notice upon You by
publication thereof. or your interest
in said mining claim will become
forfeited to and vest in the UNDER
signed co-owner who has made such
expenditure.
Dated at Nome. Alaska. this 18th.
day of July, 1924.
H. j. HALDORSEN.
Co-owner.
Publish July ~. 10. IS. Aug. 2. ..
16, 90. 80. Sept. 6, 10, 20. 81. Oct.
I, 1924.