Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1921, Page 10

19 THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 9, 1921—PART 1. - COMMITTEETOPAS §pecia| Board Announced by D. C. Heads to Probe All Organizations Asking Aid. A new charity indorsement com- mitteo for Washington, to pass upon the worthiness of organizations which appeal to the public for aid, was an- nounced last night by the Commis- sioners. S The following orgaaizations are represented: Chamber of Commerce—James T. Lioyd and Charles W. Darr. Merchants’ and Manufacturers As- sociation—M. A. Leese and Charles J. Columbus. Board of Trade—Ralph W. Lee and Edward Stafford. Rotary Club—C. C. Aspinwall and F. R. Jelleff. City Club—E. C. Charles T. Clagett. Kiw:anis Crub—George H. Jow and John C. Wineman. Federation of Citizens' Associations —Allan Davis and L. A. Simon. Board of Commissioners—Miss Mabel ‘T. Boardman. Members at large—Rev. Dr. William J. Kerby, Mrs. Seaton Schroeder and Henry Franc, Jr. Officers and Committees. The following have been chosen officers: M. A. Leese, chairman: James T. Lloyd, vice chairman; Edward Stafford, secretary, and Ralph W. Lee, treasurer. An executive committee to outline the work of indorsement and to rais necessary funds was appointed as fo lows: James T. Lloyd, Charles J. Co- lumbus and E. C. Graham. A committee on constitution and by-laws was appointed: Edward Staf- ford, C. C. Aspinwall and Dr. Kerby It has been decided to name repre- sentatives from the Women's City Club, Twentieth Century Club and the metropolitan police department. Important Work Planned. ‘The committee will investigate all welfare organizations in the city that appeal to the public for funds. It also will endeavor to raise the stand. ards of societies or groups of chari- table workers, who are doing worthy work, but whose methods of relief could be improved, in the opinion of the committee. REGIMENTS AT CAMP LEE TO GO TO PHILIPPINES Graham and "‘Wins- Troops First Will Be Transferred to Meade and Assigned to Va- cancies in 7th Division. In connection with the abandonment of Camp Lee, near Petersburg, Va., the War Department has ordered that all the enlisted men of the 43d and 62d Regiments of Infantry be trans- ferred to Camp Meade, Md., and as- signed to vacancies in the 7th Di- vision at that camp. The 43d and 62d Infantry, consisting of such commis- sioned officers of those regiments, concerning whom no other orders are received, will proceed at the earliest practicable date to the Philippine de- partment for station. Those regiments will take to the Philippine department their national and regimental colors, regimental and company records, regimental fund, regimental fund property and band instruments. All animals, vehicles and organizational equipment, and, in ad- dition, all other supplies and equip- ment, which the commanding general of the 3d corps area does not desire to be moved to Camp Meade with the enlisted men of these regiments will be turned into the supply branches of the Army issuing such equipment for disposition by the chief of each sup- ply branch concerned. The chiefs,of all services concerned at Camp have been directed to ar- range for the prompt disposal of all sur- plus supplies and equipment pertaining to. their respective services, which will not be needed for the maintenance of caretaking troops. The quartermaster general is in- structed to cause the salvage of buildings and imporvements at that camp. He will transfer such quarter- master supplies and equipment as may be needed at other stations or for reserves to such stations or such depots as he may designate, and will report the remaining supplies, equip- ment and buildings to the director of sales as surplus and available for nl’. OAK<SAMP HAS ELECTION. Woodmen of the World Name Ben- jamin Harding as Leader. BENJAMIN HARDING. Benjamin Harding was elected con- #ul commander of Oak Camp, No. 4. Woodmen of the World, at a meeting of that organization last Thursday night at Northeast Masonic Temple, h and®F strects northeast. Other offf cers elected ar E. Ball, adviser- lieutenant; W. J. Kerns, banker; A. B. ‘Wood, escort E. Thompson, cler! Benjamin Williams, assistant cler] Joseph Knight, watchman; and Harry Saunders, sentry. The camp physi- vian is Dr. G._H. Rawson. and the managers, A. D. Malone, Dr. G. R. Rawson and Carl A. Col The new commander has been iden- tifled with the Woodmen of the World r eleven years and pre sly served r several terms as assistant clerk of ©Oak Camp. He is thirty-two years of e and resides at 1000 9th street north- , cast. Following the installation of offi- cers an entertainment and vaudeville show was given, followed by refresh- d dancing. . W. Thayer, an official of the Waodmen of ‘the World, was orator of .the evening. Hi§ address was zlong fraternal lines, explaining to the audience the aims and objects of the organization and the benefits de- rived from membership. ST. JOHNS BACK, REPAIRED. he steamer St. Johns reached here from Baltimore Friday, having been 1horoughly overhauled ‘and improved. A new “forged shaft replaces the one which was damaged the lat ter part of August, making it neces- sary to withdraw the ste the Colonial Beach trip. The engine and wheels were torn down, over- hauled and lined up, the work to the craft costing approximately $30,000. A summer coat of paint will put the Rteamer in readiness to open the Co- lonial Beach scason May 29 ONCHARTY NEDS ., TRAVELS FAR TO SEE MOTHER, FINDS HER AND KIDDIES DEAD hington Woman Goes to Hungary, Hoping for Glad Reunion, Learns Tragedy of Rumanian Occupation. and said that we were safter there than in any part of Europe, with the possible exception of England and France. “We finally reacheq Hungary, and I must say we were treated better there than in any other country in Europe that we ted. All we had to say was that we were Americans, and they could not do enough for us. My first act on reaching Budapest was to search for my family. I found that l! haq gone out to their farm at ir-Yula near the Rumanian border Many pitiful tragedies have come to light recently as a result of the world war and the subsequent sweep of bol- shevism over Europe, but the axperi- ence of an American woman, Mrs. Charles D. Chapin, who lives here at the Somerset House apartments, 1801 16th street- northwest, and has just returned from abroad. sounds the| depths of pain, sorrow and disappoint- ment. 1 Mrs. Chapin is the wife of a Chi-|in the province of Szaboles. cago business man. who came _to Children Teg for Bread. % to offer! ., = Washington durlng the War 40 o t6! “They had been forced by the bol- shevists to give up the town house, 1{who had robbed them of everything. ¢-| We started at once for the Rumanian companfed his wife on her recent trip | frontier, ang the train took-all day to overseas and shared with her the de-|get there. 1 remember when I was a privations and horrors of the journey {child I often made the trip with my that carried them thousands of miles|mother in three and one-half to four only to end in bitter grief. hours. I became so tired on the train, When the war broke out Mrs. Cha-|riding all_day with nothing to eat pin’s mother and sister were in Buda- T S e e pest, Hungary. She last saw them the | took so long. He replieq that the best vear before, 1913, and thus it was nat- es and cars had been taken ural when the peace terms were rati- | by the Rumanians, who had come to fied and ocean travel was made safe | Hungary to drive out the bolshevists. for Americans that she evinced h we were riding longing to see her relative had almost fallen to pieces. and in “SWhen we reached Paris last Sep-!place of windows haq wooden bars tember,” said Mrs. Chapin in her home | nailed across the openings. It also had sesterday, “we were advised o go to|Wooden benches for rests. At ench sta- Hungary by way of Czechoslovakia,|tion we stopped we saw hundreds of S0 we made our first stop at Carlsbad. {0ld freight cars in which families were Inquiries of conditions in Hungary (living. They were the only homes among the people of Carlsbad were | they “had, had to cook of imports, War Trade Board. and as . encouragingly. We | well as to slecp in them. o T oTay we must not think of | “From a Hungarian officer, who e '%idit because men and women |learned I was an American woman, I S peing Milled iIn the streets of | found that these people were from the Budapest, and were even thrown alive i Banat territory where. according to into the Danube. Notwithstanding | the peace treaty, the inhabitants are e therifying reports. 1 was dying | to take a vote in ten years to decide o o e andistater: wether it shall helong to Hungary At or to Serbia. The Serbians had driven them out of their homes, and had «Additional Incentive was the ab-|taken over the houses for their own solute lack of any word regarding |people, he said. There were also their existence or situation in all that | refugees from other territories that time. Accordingly, my husband and!had been a part of Hungary, but were I left Karisbad and went to Vienna.|now given to Czechoslovakia or Ru- There was at once apparent a great|mani deal of unrest. The whole city was d as this sight, at every step a crowded—in fact, it was so crowded sadder one was the groupg of from that it was with difficulty that we a fifty to ty little children, who were able to get a place in which to;would come down to the railroad sleep. After driving around from < depot and silently put their hands hotel to hotel, we finally found a togeth room outside of the city. One of thela piece of black bread. causes of the congestion was theilittle things were nothing but skin presence in the city of thousands of and bones, and few had any clothes Flungarian bolshevist Jews, who were |If you saw these people and their driven out of their own country and | children you would know that they were being protected in Vienna. {were not of the ordinaw, common “There were thousands of other | class, but they could nvt do anything refugees there, also, particularly from ! else, as they had lost everything. If Poland. It was impossible to buy|a man accidentally got something to bread, sugar or milk. They gave v paid 10 kronen a us saccharine to sweeten our coffee. B S106€ o breaaFcontorto “While in Vienna I learned from EWment'l wasihere hatate a native lady and gentleman that|of exchange was 465 kronen to one What had been told me about Buda-! American dollar, and today it is 700 pest was bolshevist paganda. But|kronen to the dollar. The men were even in the Austrain capital they |a out of work. alked in the same alarming man- ANt at Karlsbad. I was desperate o U dEears ofiTragedy: and the following morning Mr. Chapin “When we arrived at the largest and myself started for Budapest. Ou|town, Nyir-Bator, rest to my the train we met three Hungarian|mothers farm. we decided to go to a gentlemen, who shared our compart- | hotel first and surprise her after- Tent. They spoke ewellent Eng-|ward. There was no hotel that could lish, which put my husband and my- | accommodate us; there was no house self at ease. They laughed at our|that would take us in. We drove all fears regarding conditions in Hun-|about the city, but it was useless. These poor NZZ ed of. sizes s if in prayer, and beg for | MEN'’S SHIRTS (Three for $3.00) MEN’S SHIRTS (Three for $6.00) MEN’S SHIRTS (Three for $9.00) MEN’S SHIRTS (Three for $15.00) 1 600 Pairs of Men’s Shoes A special shipment just received of fine black and brown shoes, made to rgtail' at $12.50 to $14.00. Shown in cordovan, vici kid, kangaroo and calfskins. "All MEYER’S SHOPS TELLS OF TRAGEDY IN EUROPE i | MRS. CHARLES D. CHAPIN, A Washington woman, who traveled thoukands of miles to find her mother a vietim of the bolshevists, her sister’s children burned alive through soldiers’ drunken orgies, and then returned here to meet a cablegram announcing the death of her sister, the only surviving member of the family. (Photo by Harris & Ewing). little children to bed. she took" the baby, six months old. and silently stole away. During her absence the soldlers began drinking to excess and in their drunken orgies they set fire, probably by half-burned cigarettes, to | the house, one of tho finest in that | scction of the country, and the three “It was there that I learned my Sis- | children were burned to death. Shel ter lived ten miles awa; £Ot a|told me this story with tears stream- messenger and sent word to her that | ing down ker beautiful face and said was at the station, and that we|she was so sorry that she could not could not come to see her as our|take care of us. as she living in coachman had left us and we could|a stable, in the part that formerly not walk that ;:;r in ‘rfiy !l:ed~tx;ndll-llwas a manure pit. tion. 1 had had nothing to eat al . day and was exhausted. =3 her Siater I icsrater. < “At 3 o'clock the next morning my | ‘That was the end of my long jour- sister, Mrs. Julia Petits, arrived un- |ney, but not the end of mv misery. We expectedly at the station. She was|left Nijur-Bator (the little town we so sick she could hardly talk. She|were in) the next day and went to told me that our mother had died|Vienna. ~Arriving there that night, we one and a half vears ago from suf-|managed to get into a hotel, and while fering. The house was taken away |dining tkat evening, I happened to see from my sister by the Rumanians|a man at one of the adjoining tables and she was forced to_ sleep in the | with a piece of bread on his plate. I attic. They forced hef to cook for |had not eaten bread in days and I and wait upon them. guess he must have sensed my long- “One night she felt so miserable | ing for it, for he gallantly asked me that she decided to visit a friend in|if I would have some. He was a the nearby village. Putting her three| Hungarian nobleman and his valet [ They were all in the same fix—they woull be very glad to give us shel- ter, but they had nothing left. No bed linen, no silver. no table linen, nothing, the Rumanians had taken everything, so we were forced to re- turn to the railroad station. “:,. . VI (0 \ ) 4| ment made by Assessors George S. Clofl , had smuggled half a loaf across the border from Hungary. He gave yme two slices. Never in my life bread tasted better. “We returned to Paris and as soon as I got there I went to the Hun- garian consul and told him to arrange to bring my sister and her baby there. He secured a Hungarian woman as messenger for me, but she returned some_time later saying the baby died ten days after we left and that my sister was in_a sanitarium and coul not be moved. i “I left word with the consul that no expense should be spared in having | my sister given the best treatment and attention at the hospital, and he promised to see that my wishes were carried out. “Then we returned to Washington. and the first thing that met my ey as I walked in the door of our apart- ment here was a cablegram announc- ing the death of my sister. Throughout her recital Mrs. Chapin with difficulty stified her emotions and when the climax came she broke down and_wept bitterly. ered she continued: “I have been reading for the past two weeks of the work that Mr. children of central and eastern Eu- rope. I know what a great work it is because 1 have seen the great need . for it and 1 am going, to do all I car to help him and them. s ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 8 (Spe- clal).—The case of 126 prcperty own- ers whose assessment on their real estate has been increased by the local board of tax review over the assess- French and Frank J. Pollard are slated to be heard, beginning at 1t o'clock, Monday morning in the cor poration court, Judge Robinson Mon- cure presiding. Many of these pieces of property already had been i creased by the assessors, aithoug: the tax board thought it insufficien and accordingly made the increase. 1t is th;ughl that a number of prop- erty owners will not contest the in- crease. The total increase made by the board is approximately $100,000. | ‘The newly elected officers of Alex- andria Council, No. 5, Order nf Fra- ternal Americans, were installed last night. Following the installation a banquet was served at the Hotel Rammel. Addresses were made by When she recov-| Hoovers doing among the starving | ! to Thomas Prather a house and lot near the intersection of Pitt and Gib- bon streets, and to Joseph Prather a house and lot nearby. The first annual meeting of the Dreadnaught Athletic Club will be held at 8 o'clock Monday night at its | hall at King and Washington streets. | A meeting of the board of directors ! of the chamber of commerce will be The Woman's Auxiliary to at 8 o'cl Monday night in iness in Japan in vast numbers. Make Your Spare Moments . Brighter With a Lexington Player-Piano FTER a hard day at work, you feel as though you could enjoy some sort of amusement that would not necessitate your getting dressed up to go out in public. 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Archer of Yale Univer- sity will deliver an illustrated lecture Thursday nightein the Young People’s building, under the auspices of Section B of Paul's Episcopal Church, Woman's Auxiliary. His lecture is en- titled “Bagdad and the Near East.” Proceeds will be for the Near East Relief fund. The third degree will be conferred by Fitzgerald Council, No. 459, Knights of Columbus, tomorrow after- noon at 2:30 o’clock, in the Elks’ Hall, instead of St. Mary's Hall, as origi- nally planned. This change was made because about 300 members of the order from Washington ar> expected. A class of about 100 candidates will receive the degree. Lewis H. Machen, formerly of this city but now of Richinond, inspector in the Richmond \distri=t of prohibi- tion diréctor for Virginia. it is stated has been recommended for tne place made vacant by the death of-Director S. R. Donohoe, John J. 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