Evening star., 1953-12-23
Friends, Re|ativesAid
Stockholders Search.
Mail Flood Results
By DonoId B. HodIey

Eighty of the 103 missing
stockholders, last known to be in
this area, have been found and
they or their heirs will collect
around $4,000, it was learned
today.
Tracers Co. of America. which
supplied a list of the missing
holders for a story in The Star
last Monday, has received leads
on another IS names on the list
and more are expected.
The New York firm estimates
that around IL more persons or
their heirs will be found before
the search is ended and raise
the total to around SIS, 500.
The Star story listing the 1903
persons with about $65, 900 COM
ing to them from securities for
gotten by them or their heirs,
brought an avalanche Of more
than 5000 letters to the Tracers
Co. offices in New York.
Some of the names listed were
responsible for 20 or 80 pieces
of mail. One listing brought 200
pieces.
Christmas Reunions.
One by-product of the search
was in keeping with Christmas.
Members of about 20 families
who had lost touch with each
other were reunited. Old friends
and classmates were brought to-
gether.
Among the prominent names
not overlooked was that of the
late S. w. Woodward, one of the
founders of Woodward & Lotha
rop. Andrew Parker, his grand
son and now president of the
Washington department store,
was contacted.
Cora M. Kiplinger was another
of the deceased stockholders.
The executor of her estate is
W. M. Kiplinger of the Kiplin-
ger Washington Agency. Still
another was Nellie Parker. Her
daughter, Mrs. Parker Dove lives
here.
A former resident, Ellen K.
Loeb. now lives at Saranac
Lake, N. Y. Many of her Wash
ington friends wrote to her.
Florence M. Sluskie. deceased, is
survived by a sister, Mrs. Philip
Cowen of, Newton Center, Mass.
Lulu E. Poehler may be found
through her brother in Mime
apolis.
'a Others Found.
Others located and still living
In this area include: Philip E.
Ref. Helen Cox Flynn, Lucille
Trout, Robert Carter Cooke,
jeanette Neuman, Rose r.
Cohen. Stella E. Arnstead, Mil
dred B. Smith, Ida E. Rudolph
and Elizabeth K. Wilson.
The following also were re-
ported deceased and their heirs
found: Samuel F. Riley, Ellen
K. Grape, A. M. Trivett and
Richard r. Bowie.
George M. Harrington is i'll in
a Maryland hospital and his
brother-in-law, L. E. Adams of
Germantown, Md, has written
to Tracers.
Alma w. Beale has been 10
Gated with the Suez Canal Co.
at Port Said. Egypt.
Among the 5000 letters were
5000 inquiring about old and
dormant stocks. The task of re-
searching these old securities will
not be completed for four or five
months, but Tracers officials
believe that at least Is per cent
of them will pay off in dividends
and value to the tune Of nearly
100000.
Dan Eisenberg. president of
Tracers Co., reported that as a
direct result of stories in The
Star early in April and again last
Monday. other newspapers and
radio and television stations
have become interested in con-
Quoting similar searches.
"I want to thank The Star"
he stated. Without it's co-opera-.
ton, this job could never have
been accomplished. Well be as
sembling more lists of missing
stockholders and I hope some
day we can join again in another
great search" z