Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 16

16 PIRATES DRAG MEN INTO CRUEL LABOR i Vjptims Lured to Frigid Fish- iing Grounds by Tales of ¢ Gold and Left to Die. . . BY E. W DGGER. Correspondence of The Sar . Daily News —*Blood continue POKIO, duly 1 thunder” tales Tokio from the less populated. w er and more frigid northern area of the empire. Following the re- cent account of atrocities committed and to reacn and the Chicazo | 0IL SOUGHT IN GUIANA. Dutch Government Gives Permis- sign for Explorations. AMSTERDAM, July 17.—#ccording to a statement in De West, a news- paper published at Paramaribo, the ‘uupllal of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, | tie board of ‘administration of Suri- nam has adopted a project for grant- ing permission to a certain syndi- cate there to make inquiries in search of oil in Surinam. Mr. Koker, an official of the syndicate, has declared that a British consortium is pre- pared to place at its disposal several millions of florins for making the preliminary inquiries In the event of success the syn ate would have the right of cxploiting some of the oil wells. During hav been there for part Mr. the last few years other investigations oil in Surinam, notably on the of a combinaiion headed by a Goede, and the Governor of Surinam has met his case by declaring that if the present plans are carried out Mr. Goede's claims will be considered. 1f there are any moral obligations on against Russizns in Siberia by band of Japanese pirates comes story of wholesale kidnaping an selling of Japanese men mto prac tical slavery—and final death According to reports in the ver nacular press, the harbor police Hakadote, nrincip: vt ot northern Island of Hokkaido, their suspicions cive toward a small steamer named the Kory Maru As the was weighing anchor, prepared to sail for K they e vessel | the part of Mr. Koker in favor of Mr. Goede, the governor will use his in- fluence in the lalter's interests. It expected that Mr. Koker will start work immediately REMAINS ‘OF ROYALTY SMUGGLED IN VALISE | boarded her and found thar | sixty men imprisoned below. ‘rhe | thrée men in charge of the vessei were arrested and taken with their prison:ic to the Hakodate police | headquarters for inv iz | Lafic in Men Found. The investigation is alleged 1o have aisclose! a trafic In men to operate the fisherie: in the cold wa arounc ameh and along Sea of Ohkotsk Mo of the Japa- nese living in the Hokkal nd ctner northern part2 of Japan know of the rigorous climate and great privation there undergone and cannot be pre vailed upon to accept work tnere. | Hence there said 1o have sprung up the practice of UNSCrUpUlOus em- ployment agencies inveigling men i | Tokio and other southern cities to | join parties departing for the north ern arecas with the alleged purpose of reaping huge profits in gol! and other treasures. Muny men. Kknow- ing little of the situation there, are | casily persuaded to aceept the ofte d on by the accounts of easily attained Once arrived in horthern ports. they find it impossible to free them- selves from the men with whom they have contracted wealth. On reaching their destination they find only the hardships and sufferings of fishing in the cold northern waters #nd living amidst bleak surround- ings. Refusal to accept their unex- pected fate or to give Satisf service is said to bring severe ishment and even deatd Left to Shift The worst phase 15 reported the havin undergone dur the fishing s on, e victims of this b deception and criminal reatment are not afforded return passage but are left to work out| their own ation on the desolate northern Few of those ab- ducted life o practical slavery have ever re turned starving or freez to death being murdered to prevent their telling the authoritics of what had happened later The police are now investigating he wase. basing their actions on the disclosures following the Koryu Maru | 2 . | RAILROAD TO ENTER | CAVERNS IN ITALY | morc pun- Selves. the situation fact that. after | these hardships of to be shores into thi are said to Tive. those Famous Grotto Will Be Scene of | Elaborate Choral Concert | { This Year. | i ROME, July includes | within her northe: famous stalactite caverns of the Town of Adeisberg, which has been rechristened Posthumia. The largest and mo: magnificent forma- | tions of the k in Europe, they ex- tend in the heart of the earth for a dictance of more than twelve miles. of which only about half has yet been explored. The Italian government is making the grottoes more accessible to the public by the installation a small railway line, which runs from | the entrance to the so-called “Mount | of Cavalry.” passing through all |h~-1 variegated beaut of the glittering | stalactites. Boats will soon ply on certain parts of the mysterious un- derground river, the Piucs which flows through the caverns at a great depth. Every ¥ . at Whitsuntide, A¢Rreat popular festival and ball is helg in the largest caver which medsures 665 feet by 630 feel and is 100 feet high 1t is thronged by the inhabitants of all neighboring dis- iricts in their national costumes. and it would difficult _to imagine’ a more fantastic and fairylike scene than this brilliantly illuminated. va: scintillating ballroom. This vear there is to be a A great choral co ert will be a circular cavern with a dome. roof, known as the 1y which has been giscovered to po: considerable aco properti quite recently a xmall grotto has b found. of which the walls seem made of jewels in rainbow hues When Carmen Silva, the Queen of Rumania. visited the Grottoes of Posthumia she wrote in the visitors’ book: riry tales are still real—un- derground.” 01& Canadian Families. * From the Canadian News-Letter. The Arts, Science and Letters So- ciety recently sent a questionnaire to the various parishes of Quebec and Montmorency, seeking informa- tion about old families. The results received were quite interesting. One family, that of Ismael Bedard, re- mained on the same land at Charles- bourg since 1629; the family of Hec- tor Laliberte of St. Jean, Island of Orleans, is the largest in Montmor: ency County, isting of twenty children, all living. Joseph Gagnon of St. Pierre, Island of Orleans, has the Jargest number of living descendants, with 210. Special diplomas will be for- Warded to these families by the so- ciety. —Italy’ now n frontier the | lit- | ste Trifles make perfection, but perfec- tlon_is no_trifle. e ————— As EBONITE “Strings" to a Stick, Sodt Winds Around the Gears Don't Use Grease It has no lubricating value, because instead of flowing freely and covering the gears, the gears simply cut channels through it, and + the entire gears suffer from lack of lubrication. Try EBONITE — TODAY. 1¢'s all oil. ! Ks ‘rich adhesive mass eashions the gears, takes _away grind and“noise, and lubricates thoroughl At dealer’s in five pound cans, and at serv- ice stations from the Checker-board pump, only. $ [N EBONITE (ITS SHREDDED oIL) FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND DIFFERENTIALS | of the Russian imperial family, who | down on them | with of | g | 000 members who pa Fragments . of Slain Romanoff's Bodies Were Recovered ; From Mine. PARIS, July 17.—A deeply ing narrative by M. Andre Salmon is :d in the Matin revealing the manner in which the mortal remuins interest- pub’ murdered at Ekaterinburg, were smuggled out of Russia by the French Gen. Janin, who in 1920 had the duty of insuring the retreat of the Czecho- <lovak and other allied troops from western Siberia to Vladivostick. After the massacre of the imperial family their mutilated bodies were thrown into a disused mine. A number of the other princes and princesses of the imperial blood, who were arrested by the Reds in the same region, were thrown alive into the same mine, and heavy beams and planks were thrown and also grenades The story of how the remains of the Romanoffs were recovered from the mine which was their temporary sepulehre has already been told. A list of these farmless relics. which s drawn up with extreme care af- ter their removal from the mine, con-s sisted of no fewer than 311 items. which included not only charred mor- | sels of human bodies.” but pieces of | jewelry and scraps of clothing. These | inclosed in a case, which | in an _ordinary valise. | case.” said G “was | for many weeks the sepulchre of the Russian imperial family. It was i possible to identify any of the hum: relics recovered from the mine. Other velics were some caleined jewelry, scraps of burnt clothing, a badge. some uniform bugtons and some sacred objec Wm.g several port- able ikons. “The valise and the case c tained was intrusted to me. Janin eontinues. “at Kharbin on May 21, 1920, together with three other Valises by Gen. Diderichs, to forward the former Russian Rome. in accordance wer THE EVENING Golf Lures 300,000 to Public Links of Capital Showing Huge Gains in Popularity in One Year & s, e o $45,000 Paid Alone for Privilege of Playing. First Aid Given by Congress to Sport Ten Years Ago. Golf front ranks of Goor sports in in fact, vear just endc sons spent apy has so. the privilege of playing on Washing-|and | public links This game of the Scots, a few vears ago was generally looked | beauty of R a recreation rich and a means of limbering-up ton’s upon as the to M. de Giers, ambassador in the wish expressed Ly the Grand Duke Nicholas.” From Kharbin, Gen. Janin proceed- ed to Peking and Shanghai, where he embarked on May 28 for Marsailles There being representative of the Grand Duke Nicholas to meet him on arrival at the French port. the gen- eral took the relics to his own house | at Grenoble, where they remained until October 16, 1920, when they were handed over to M. de Giers. FLEET SALVAGE STARTED. Enter Ruins of German Ships in Scapa Flow. SCAPA FLOW. July 17.—At Flow a serious commencement been' made on the salvage of German fleet One of the divers states that some of the sunkcn ships are covered with | growths 20 feet long, and record-| d barnacles and mussels. The | divers found the Hindenburg, at one time the pride of the German navy, with ensines and interior intact Champagne bottles and glasses were found in the officers’ quarters, and bunks undisturbed. The Hindenburg | lies in eleven fathoms of water and. if she proves seaworthy, she may be | towed for dismantling to Queens- | borough. A curious fact is the entire | absence of fish in Scapa Flow. Crabs and lobsters are as thick as trees a forest, said a diver, but other | of fish must have been scared Divers Scapa has the —_— German Socialists Strong. BERLIN, July 15.—Figures made public at the recent annual conven- tion of the Socialist party of Ger- many show that the party has 1,260,- dues. of whom The party now women. 130,000 are s apers. 169 new: LLLLAALL Come-in And See Demonstration Of Simplex and Forget Hot-Water Worry ‘Enables you from bathroom or kitchen to turn gas hot-water heater on or off. CONVENIENT, SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL It automa tieally- turns off gas should you forget. Rudolph & West Co. 1332 New York Ave. Main 4870 taken a position the most po Washingten d mearly proximately and the pular out- . £0 much in that during the fiscal which only hobby of for the aged and corpulent, has dur- ing the past few hounds. leaps and Its vears increased by devotees are not confined to those of residents of affluence, hut ail clas: of their position or their means That this game has assumed a po- sition of such lovers of the letics _is prov during the fis prominenc among the | there was a n 300,000 per- | hOLoMar Bar | $45.000 for | commenced | other arge | sides these there i putdoors and of ath- | n by the fact t al vear ended June 30, the several goif courses in the parks exclusive of the various private golf | The actual | their management is’let out by the office buildings and grounds The concesion req clubs in and a To be by the office o Men's Suits and Topcoats bout the city public buil exact. the fizures furnished dings and STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924.- Upper—Open, sweeping fairway of East Potomac course. nxet—Typleal public links form. on Rock Creek course, where many golfers come to grief. Lower—N\ grounds, which has constructed these upervision were has De which 285,629 1< playin courses during the past was an inorease of 3 preceding year and more over the year ended and more than Lefore that Previous to that aken hold of the ton public. F courses,” and over them, recorded the ple meant nothing to them. to spread soon_ found facilities h @ vear a in wits increase the Last Ma lie course w Park and fn West Potoma four-h t Potoma: a_six-hole course upon June 200,000 over the ons the publ vear 000, over than 30, same had not cailed Washin then kr ark courses are in E: Park for begir the extreme in k But the sport popula necessary the third pub- id the wooded two st Potomac The Park cour: rs West Potomac 1'ark for colored play This latter was opened June the popularity of golf 2 that, although these park ferred to as public places, by Congress, participation care of these of public commissionnaire d it 7. and in the meantime nearly a thousand colored regardless | men and women have us What some look upon as one of the | amazing features of this rapid growth in g the people of the District of Columbia is the fact ou . P nd the money Jast, nearly 300.000 persons. patronized | for thelr construction was appropriated is not courses s are This vea | the | holes. and | end of | free. and to that throy the sible they keep ary upon by the of grounds, which cording to the diys upon forth stance Charges and Regulations. In East Potomac Park, which is con- superior according to figures, is the most the Rock ( rge is 15 cents for nine holes, or cighteen lock on Saturdays a arge s for eighte Potomac cents straighl and 10 cent Saturdays, ceded which popular, and on to be the s for In West noons of days. The player is a monthly the month for good for every Figuring o s2, the who public Washington the various than $45. knickers \ golf However, naire makes a of public golf link: Fourteenth St. at New York Ave. GOODMAN & SUSS- ROCHESTER TAILORED CLOTHES ; Semi-Annual Sale Alterations at Cost Every SHIRT Reduced ! $2:50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 $5.00 $7.0 Grade. Grade. Grade. Grade. Grade. Grade. $10.9 Grade. .$1.65 .$1.95 .$225 5295 (Tropical Clothing Excepted) 15 Off $35.00 Suits and Topcoats. $40-90 Suits and Topcoats. $50-90 Suits and Topcoats. $60-90 Suits and Topcoats. $659 Suits and Topcoats. ' Every traw Hat 156 Price $3400 - - Grade.. ‘Grade. . Grade. . Grade. . Grade. . $1:50 $2.00 $2:50 $3.00 .$17.50 .$20-0 .$25.00 .$30.0 .$3250 - None Charged the the year, varies permitted although links that in they in played holes Park the in spent the LREISRR G Rt Four-in-Hand Nec kwear Reduced! $1.9 Grade .... 79¢ $1.50 Grade $2.90 Grade $2.50 Grade $3.90 Grade ...51.15 .$135 .$185 .$215 condition fyrnish labor ‘to make this pos- - and to furnish a_certa service to the players. They are permit- ted to charge “a nominal fee.” agreed « of public buildings and amounts number of holes played, which d the links played upon 0 personal and ¥or in- course, ek course After undays and 25 ents for nine n holes. fee is 5 on the after- Sundays and holi- to purchase ticket good for every day In and a season ticket day in the year for $2 basis of last patronage this means that re indulged links 00 for the privilege aside from the amount spent for balls, clubs, bags, nd caddies and all the other things that go toward making up a mod dents of golf commission- t profit qut of patrons. it is not as hu; T L L A T iy L e T e T T T T L W c 9 ~ would be imagined from a glance at the total number of patrons and by doing a little multiplication. Figuring that the largest crowds are on the links on Satur- days and Sundays and holidays, when ly estimated that the commissionnaire’s 8TOBS income is about $45,000. This amount, it 8 explained, is considerably reduced by the cost of maintenance and service and the furnishing of dust and grass and other necessities for the im- provement of the greens dnd other sec-- tions of the courses. Lockers and towels are furnished aiso. It was just tdh years ago that Con- gress made an appropriation of $50,600 to build the first public golf course. But 48 the game has grown in popularity the courées have been increased in size and numbers to meet the demand. national government has spent more | than $225.000, but Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of pubiic buildings and. grounds, and who i recognized as being one of the principal fuctors in promot- ing this game in Washington, does not consider "this extravagant when the amount of pleasure and good it has brought to 80 many of the Capital’s citi- zens is realized. The RACE MEET DISRUPTED | BY SWARM OF LOCUSTS Jockeys Injured When Horses Fall on Living Carpet of Insects. By the Associated Press, JOHANNESBURG, July 17.—Lo- custs have appeared in such swarms in various parts of the dominion that they have interfered with the out- door life which features the spring months here. The races at Sp the Ascot of South Africa, were dis rupted when a huge cloud of locusts descended on the course and stands while the races were in progre | Panic seized the fashionable crowd, | nd with the bookmakers and attend- | ants they ran for shelter. The horses were enveloped in locusts as they ran, and could not be identified. When the animals stepped on the living carpet many of them slipped and fell heavily, injuring their A Quick Cure. From the Royal Magazine. Two Scotsmen were taking a wal and were hot and tired. ¢ ToE ‘Hae ye got any food nO‘uEHI? asked one. A've a bottle of whusky hae you, Angus?” s “Dried tongue.” “Guid! Then we'll gae halves wi 0or proveesions The whisky was duly divided and drunk. Angus wiped his Iips. “Noo for yver dried tongue, Dougal.” Wi ye, What | uncomfortable for him. | spection “Mon.” said Dougal, “it's ne dry the noo®” are: fresh every day. Cantaloupes, each. . 10c Lemons, dozen. . . .20c Kale,Ib......... 7c Cooking Apples, Ib.. 7c Lettuce, head. . ... 9¢ Potatoes HEINZ . COOKED SPAGHETTI With Tomato Sauce and Cheese Small can..............1ec 10-0z. Glass.. . ... SPINACH No. 2 Cans Each, 18¢c; 3 for 50c Hams 7 to 9 Ib. size Ib., 22¢ - utter “soet Gold” “Brookfield,” 888 Strictly Fresh r mouth fuil, e T L L] IIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllIIIII|||I||!|l|:||I|I|IIIIIlIlIIIIlIlIII(|||IIl|IllT!IlllIllIII||IH|II|I||III|I|I\||I' Budweiser Beer, bot., 15¢; Carton (one dozen). . ..$1.75 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, Bottle, 121c; Case (24) .$3.25 Swansdown Graham Flour . . 30c White House Apply Jelly, Fancy Creamery doz., 38¢c|Bacon " Ib. TVsc Best Cane Granulated STYRIAN DOCTOR CURES BY UNIQUE METHODS Remarkable Cases of Diagnosis Re- ported Performed by Village Miracle Man. NA, July 17 ome time ago the Maharaj of Dharampul arrived here with a I¥rge suite, and, as was stated, seventy heavy chests. The other day the ailing Maharajah left Vienna for the littlc place of Stainz, near Graz, the capital of Styri in or- der to consult there the doktor,” Johann Reinbacher, popular- 1y called “Hollerhans!." He inhabits a eottage and receives his patients or their emissaries in @ consulting room which serv as waiting room as well, where he diagnoscs his visitor's ill- ness from secretions. He is described as w meager peasant, with sharp fea- tures, who works in @ blue apron and with a hat on his head, assisted by his “secretary,” boy of sixteen or scventeen, who writes out the pre- scriptions. As a rule his medicines are simple, consisting mostly of herbs Immense crowds flock to his place, who wait for many hours, sometimes even a whole night and part of the following day, until their turn comes, 50 that frequently he starts work at 4 a.m., pausing only for short inter- vals of meals Owing to his lack of he is unable tc answer the num- s letters of inquiry that reach Being a very religious he does not receive patients on Sundays. He built a chapel and a large church at Stainz. His popularity is so wide through- out Styria that the doctors have, os tracized him as a most dangerous competitor, and from time to time the authorities attempt to make things His earnings are declared to be enormous. There are any number of dotes about him. A fat visitor came to him, but the miracle doctor. atter the usual in- sald: "My dear fellow, 1 won't give you any medicine, for in two hours you wili be a corpse.” The fat visitor Jaughed, went to an inn at Stainz, drank half a liter of wine— and exactly two hours after that dic tum had been pronounced fell dead, struck by apoplexy And That Was Why. From London Answers. A country schoolmaster was one day crossing some fields when he came to a stile which he had to climb over. It looked as if he would have consider- able difficulty in doing o because, on the top bar of the stile sat a small boy eating a very large slab of cake Being rather short-sighted, he failed t0 note the fact that the lad was of his own pupils, and, as he wa noyed at the Jboy's lack of manner in not moving. he said somewhat sharply “Well, my boy, it seems that you are | better fed than taught.” “Ess, zur.” replied the boy with his I feeds meself, but you The leading requirements when the housewife goes marketing Quality Merchandise at Low Prices IN CLEAN STORES Piggly Wiggly Stores meet these requirements FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES The best diet in warm weather; our stock is complete and Beets, bunch. ... . Carrots, bunch. . . Turnips, bunch. .. Squash, Ib. . . . .. Cymblings, Ib . . . . .4c .4c .5¢ (] .Tc wReisu']5 [bs, 29c| PEACHES Fog reesor® 5, WATERMELON Red Ripe HEINZ COOKED MACARONI ‘With Cheese and Mushroom Sauce Smal can. wsenlle 2c ASPARAGUS White tips—No. 1 square Can, 40c; 2 for 75¢ - SMOKED MEATS Special sugar cure, hickory smoked, sure to please. Shoulders 3 to 5 Ib. size Ib., 14¢c Ib., 45¢| Cheese Wunder- | Georgia’s Extra Large FEMININE TALK BLAMED FOR POOR PHONE SERVICE Tokio Company Declares Women's Conversation Is Idle and Unnecessary. By the Associated Press. TOKI?, Japan, July 17.—Feminine garrulity is one reason for the ineffi- ciency of the Tokio telephone sery- Lo ASeording to an apologia issued ecently by the municipal # e bureau. PR The statement says that a proportion of all calls are by to women, and moreover when two women are talking much of their conversation ix idle. To prove fts point the telephone bureau issued detailed statistics, the manner of compiling which if does not explain to show how much time is wasted in various classes of felephone conver- sations. > When a large women oman s talking to a woman, it is claimed, 26.4 per cent of the talk is idle and unnecessary when a woman calls a man, the waste is 13.8 per cent; when a man calls.a woman, it is only 9.7 per cent; when two men talk, 10.6 per cent PACKERS ESTABLISH FELLOWSHIPS IN MEAT Each Worth $2,700—Research to Be Made in Columbia and Rochester. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, July 17.—Two fellow- ships of $2,400 each, with an eddi- tional $200 for expenses, have been established by the Live Stock and Meat Board for the purpose of scien- tific research into the subject of meat. Columbia University and the University of Rochester reckive the fellowships, in whose laboratories the investigations will be made The work will be launched this month, according to an announce- ment by the board here, which repre- sents live stock producers. ¢ mis sion men, pack and retailers. Th board will function in this projec through the National Research Coun- cil at Washington. tration of the fellowships has been placed in the hands of Dr B. Forbes, Dr. C. Robert Moulton and Dr. H. C. Sherman of the coun: cil's committee on food nutritiol said the announcement. “Subjects investigation are the comparison meat with «lh:;r foods for hln/vt’i re- eneration and the comparison « fin:fl with other high protein lnn;‘l in reproduction and iactation, to b {ctudicd by adding the high protein foods 1o the basal mixed diet com- posed of ordinary foods OO %IHIHIHIIHI Sour Cherries, box..124¢ Bananas, dozen. . . . 30c Cucumbers, each... 5c Radishes, bunch ... . 4c New Cabbage,lb. . . 3c each, 39¢ HEINZ PURE CIDER VINEGAR Pint Bottle ... ... 18 Quart Bottle ......,...28c TR TR OO0 Za Rex, all flavors, bottle. . .35¢ Sunsweet Prunes, 2-lb. pkg..25¢ Fab, small, Blue Ribbon Rice, 1-Ib. pkg..10c Mueller’s Macaroni, pkg....10c Octagon Soap, 4 cakes. . ...25¢c Wilkins’ Breakfast Coffee, 1b.30c DEL MONTE SPECIALS JHIT 10¢; large. . . . . .22¢ TR DILL PICKLES No. 2, Can Each: -\ .......20¢ Bacon Strips, 6 to 8 lbs. Whole or half strips Ib., 17¢ Full Cream |b., 28¢ Sliced “’-, 3c 101bs. 73¢ A T T