Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1922, Page 19

L : : - THE EVENING S8TAR, W 1| 15,000 Rubles Bring Appeal ~ From StamingRyssiqn Mother dure that misery, cold and starvation. The price of food is getting still higher and higher. One pound of rye bread costs 25,000 rubles, white bread 30,000 rubles, and orie pud (about 32 iba.) costs one million and a half ru- ‘les, and we cannot afford to buy an: Qur'bodies are naked and feet wra; ped in rags. If you could only see your mother all wrapped up In_ rags you would be terrified at the sight. « “Please, dear children, do help us in whatever way you possibly can and don't let us die of starvation. I can- not belleve that you have forgotten us. I don’t mind myself at all, for, if 1 shall dte, T am an old woman after all, but your brothers—why should they die of starvation, an_ untimely death in the bloom of their lives? “Best regards to you and your fam- illes from me and your brothers. “Your loving mother, LEAH.” Says He Has Sent Food. Romanov says he has repeatedly An envelope bearing an its back stamps valued at 15,000 rubles, now worth & total of about 27 cents; has arrived from Elisavetgrad, Russla, bringing to Abraham Romanov, 619 9th street, & letter from, his mother, telling a pititul story of starvation and suffering. 5 The letter was posted :February 6 and arrived in. Washington March 29, the stamps, sixty in number, not only covering the entire back of the envelope, but extending on both sides and the bottom in size as large again as the envelope itself. The Russian ruble formerly worth about 48 cents, has declined in value untll | it takes 15,000 of them to bring a letter here. f Mother's Pathetic Message. The message from the suffering mother in Russia to her son reads as follows: “My dear children:|gent food and cfothing to his mother, Thank God, we are all allve, but|pyt has never had word of its arriv. great misfortune has befallen us with | jjo' has written frequently, he Ba: the death of your father about two|ana advised her not to pay tho eno , | |3ears ago. since nis death we are |mous cost In rubles for postage, as he | starving. We are eating only once & | gould pay It at this end of the line, old to work and the two children are | tions in Russia and usually affixin foo young. lsaac is 11l since he re- | fi Sgtampe: One. letter o “which g turned from the army, and there's | gtampe had been afxed took & year to ASHINGTON, D. Guardidn to Order Enables Girl to Get Operation “Requires $3,210,724 King Christian’s Sister to Mai Her Wedding Permit % veiRecelpts in 1921, UNCLE SAM POOR HOST | ~ outsmte Boyal Famils. b o PHURSDAY, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. twventy-on#; Davis coul lcense. to of thelr rescue by making appli- cation in the corporation court to be named ms her gusrdiam. When this was he 7 the young womi LYNCHBURG, Va., March 30. “When Miss Stell Ia K. !i’ltu- C. nd at the eclerk’s e corporation court _here for a marriage license, the ‘woman caused ld not issue But there was a way eircumvent statute, and b T the Virginia Percy Shelton, a this state, we! MARCH 30, 1922. CAN:ADA‘LO_SES ON SHIPS. OTTAWA, Ont., March 30—The Ca- nadian: government' lost $2,210,724 in operzting its merchant marine im 1921, excluding depreclation and in- terest charges. Interest owed the government for 1921 was $3.357,833. Depreciation was figured at $4,158,775 'for the year. This information was given to the house of commons- in answers to quentions by two members. Average costs for the smallest or 2,800-to; type vessels, while not in operation was given as $163.12 a day, while the average was placed at $572.87 for the largest or 10,500-ton type. ————————— LEAVES U. S. ARMY. By direction of the President, First Lieut. Kramer Martin Gilbert, Medleal Corps, United States Army, has been honorably discharged. from tae service of the United States, for the convenience of the government. This officer has never been on active duty. 40 TIN-CAN TOURISTS REACH POTOMAC PARK; Forty tin-can tourists already are in the tourist camp at Last Poto- mac Park, and they are comiug in as fast as the spring robins, ac- cording to present indications. And there are no funds avail- able for Uncle Sam to act as host to them. Five thousand dollars is provided in an appropriation jtem 7w 'in_conference up on Capito} Hill At present the tin _canners are being furnished with water and sanitary facilities in East Poto- mac Park, but Col:'C. O. Sherrill is awaiting financial developments on Capitol Hill before giving or- ders tp put the 1822 camp in ship-shape condition for the four- 15ts. COL. SMITH RESUMES DUTY. Col. Harry A. Smith, infantry. who has been ynder treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital, has been re- stored to duty. . 19 PRINCESS THYRA TO WE By tie Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, March 30—t is un- derstood that the Princess Thyra, sis< ter of King Christian, is soon to marry an officer of the guards, not ef-— the nobility. They are said te have fallen in love with each other several years ago, but the king had steadfastly refused to consent to their marriage. The mar- riage of Princess Mary of England to Viscount Lascelles, a commoner, how- ever, is reported to have brought Ebglll the change in the king's atti- tude. Princess Thyra was born March 11, 1880. She was the second daughter of King Frederick, who died in 1912, ASSIGNED TO WALTE RREED. Maj. Brown S. McClintle, Mediggl Corps, attached to the 5th Infantry, &t Fort McKinley, Me., has been ordefied to this city for duty at the Wal Reed General Hospital. 4 day, making a meal of old, dry pleces | gt ghe has written at great inter- of bread boiled in water. I am too|vals, always teling of terrible condi- Fifth Av 11t Avenue . IS this new City Club Shop of ours. A beautiful stgre—exclusive foot- wear modes for men and women—and the Service to go with it. In addition, the same fair prices you, * always find at all Hahn stores. Some finer shoes are shown here only. = But practically all the Store News of our other advertisements is in effect here, too. 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NEW YORK, March 30.—To dgvelop vocles for its chorus, the Metropolitan Opera Company is offering twelve months of free choral training to young man and woman singers of promise. The company announced today that its chorus school would be conducte throughout the spring and summer this year, instead of waiting until fall to begin. Voice trials started this week. Mana- ger Gatti-Casazza emphasized that any { Young woman or man wita a *“normally good singing .voice and personal pres- ence, plus a fair ablility at reading music,” was_eligible for the year of schooling. Those in the training school will appear with the Metropolitan chorus during the next opera season, he said. Edoardo petri will direct the choral classes. —_— NURSED VIRGINIA RAPP. Witness Claims to Have Had Such Patient in Chicago in 1808. SAN FRANCISCO. March 30.—Mrs. Virginia Warren, Chicago nurse, re sumed the stand at the start of to- day’'s session in the third trial of Roscoe ‘Arbuckle. She testifled ves- terday that she had attended patient named Virginia Rapp, suffer- ing from an abdominal complaint, in Chicago, in 1908. _Defense counsel, in her further testimony, hope to show that the death of Miss Virginia Rappe was due to an old allment rather than to an attack the prosecu- tion alleges Arbuckle made upon her. STUDENTS’ MORALS HIGH. Rev. Warren F. Sheldon Tells of Investigation’s Result. P;:FTUCKET. R. I, March 30.— Moralty among students is higher than in any other group of corre- sponding numbers, Rev. Warren F. Sheldon of New York, secretary of the New England ence of the church. the Methodist Educational board, told southern confer- ‘His conclusion was reached, ha sald, after an extensfve investigation of moral conditions in more than a hundred private and state universi- ties. FOUND DEAD IN FREIGHT CAR. TRENTON, Mo. March 30.—Three young men were found asphyxiated in a freight car here. One of the bodies was identified as George | Cooke, twenty-five years old, and a letter in his pocket indicated that he was en route to Toronto, Canada, be- cause of the death there of his sister and the illness of his mother. Another man carried a card inscribed George Joseph Robert Hummuel, twenty-two, born in Cambridge, Mass. The third body, that of a youth about. twenty, was unidentified. 2 A. A. ADEE BACK AT DESK. Alvey A. Adee, thé veteran second assistant secretary of state, who spent several weeks in Florida re- cuperating from a severe cold, re- sumed his official duties at the State Department yesterday. He received a cordial welcome from his official as- scciates and said pretty well considering his age. . BTATEMENT “ol; '{nB!E CONDITION GrainDealers’ National MutualFire Insurance Co. of Indianapolis,Ind. 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