Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 18

UNCLAIMED FUNDS i | ! I Leads Nurses in Exams REST N NEW YORK Banks Are Unable to Find Traces of Depositors—The Bowery Holds $100,000. By the Assoriated Press. NEW YORK, January fortune in unclaimed savings the vaults of New York banks await- ing trace of depositor: $o pennies of ~fi over, from diver sources and in Varying amounts, add to the total which, in ore bank alone, has climbed | to_six figures Bundreds of depositors have visited | hanks never to return. They have Jeft their savings and gone. possibly to death, without leaving a record of their moves. Heirs Hard to Find. Owners and heirs to this fortu ere hard to find, Herbert Twitchell, president of the \r'amsn! Ba=X for Savings, which, in 100 years | of business, has 6 dormant ac-| counts totaling $296,935.67. The task. | however, is a never ending one and | through a department, instituted for the purpose constant search is made and every possibility of a claimant ex hausted The Seaman’s bank is one of man in New York all of which have simila accounts whose depositors have not heen heard of in 20 years or more After this lapse the accounts become | “legally dormant.” interest no longer | is pald and the banks have use of the money, but not for individual gaim. | 8.—A neat lies in ters” the world Accounts From the Bowery. Up the winding Bowery, in the twi- 1ight of the elevated. wander ageless Chinese, men of hearded styles less foreign women, pale, oldfaced children. Such is the clientele of the | Bowery Savings Bank, where the dor- mant accounts total $100,000, Once in this parnde, said a bank official, was Mary Ellin, a quaint old charwoman, 70 vears old. She had forgotten some of her accounts and wag found to have $12,000 deposite with the bank under four different | names, | CHARGES SUPPORTERS VIOLATE BLUE LAWS| Arrest of Preachers, Choir Singers and Others Suggested by Mary- land Public Official. BALTIMORE, January 8 (Special). —Suggesting that the best way to repeal blue laws wouid be to arrest every paid preacher and choir singer in Baltimore some Sunday, Willis Jones, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, told the Civitan Club that the laws were upheld almost solely by those who violate them. “The Rev. G. W. Crabbe, head of the Anti-Saloon League, violates the law when he makes law enforcement Speeches on Sunday,” he sald. “The Y. M.'C. A. violates the law when it | opens a_theater for a Sunday after- noon. The paid choir singers. in the Baltimore churches violate the law and the preacher himself does his chiet work on Sunda: 28 ALOGEROPOULOS DIES AFTER POLITICAL FAME Former Premier Expires in Athens. Held Greek Helm During and After World War. ly the Associated Pres: THENS, Greece, January 8.— Nikolas Kalogeropoulos, veteran Greek and former premier, is dead. M. Kalogeropoulos was premier, war fninister and finance minister in the cabinet which succeeded the Zaimis ministry in September, 1916, during the World War. He announced that the country would maintain *“benevo. lent neutrality.” Subsequent pressure from the entente allies for Greece to enter the lists against the central powers, which she later did under Venizelos, was held to have caused the downfall of his cabinet within a month. After the war he formed another ministry, which he termed pro-entente, It was during this administration that the disastrous Greek mftitary campaign for enforcement of the mational claims in Asia Minor was carried on, GETS $30,000 VERDICT. Fireman Injured Fighting Blaze in Wealthy Woman's Garage. NEW YORK, January 8 ().—Suit by a city fireman for $150,000 damages from Miss Alice De Lamar, heiress to a $29,000,000 estate, for injuries re- ceived in fire fighting on her property was settled for $30,000 Thursday. Thomas Murtagh, former battalion fire chief, answered an algrm in 1924 for a fire in a-garage owned by Miss De Lamar on E: ortieth street. As he opened the door gasoline exploded d he was seriously burned. After being discharged from the hospital he was retired on pension. KISS SENTENCE T0O MUCH. TYouth Appeals 14-Year Term ‘for| Stolen Embrace. CHICA January 8 (®).—Sen- tenced to 14 years imprisonment for stealing a kiss {s too much punish- ment, Julius Kessler decided vester- day and appealed to-the State Su- preme Court for a rehearing of the case which was brought &y Miss Josephine Ruley. She claims against her will. Kessler Kkissed her Republican Awarded Seat. . Va., January 8 Court de MA acnibetaat i a four-vote majority Demo- he con of the ..pm itigation since the had been FIREPROOF STORAGE For Automobiles Can Store Up to 1,000 Cars Extremely Low Rate Call Central Storage and Transfer Co. 59 M St. N.E. | Austin A, @ |of the A. A. | 1919 and ine R.| health will be paid its employes, IS8 MARTHA K, HE Hospital, | JOWANS FINED $10,000 ON TAX FRAUD CHARGES | Cosper Brothers Were Accused of Evading Payment of Income and Excess Profits Levies. By the Associated Pess DUBUQUE, lowa, January and William F. fined $10,000 each special session of Federal convened “to permit them to suilty to one count of an indictment charging them with defraudin Government hy evasion of incon excess profits taxes. The plea came while preparations were being made to retry the Coopers after a verdict returned in 1923 hold- N Cooper at a Court, were | ing them guilty had heen reversed by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Proceedings began in 1922, when the Federal Government ed suit for $194,300 against_the Cooper hrothers and Thomas E. Rafferty, stockholders Cooper Wagon & Buggy and A. A. Cooper, Inc., a holding corneration In their tax returns for 1916, 1918, 1920 the defendants had reported operating losses of $226.336, but the Government charged that they had profited by $506,425 and sued to recover taxes and penmhia: gErL: BONUSES FOR EXERCISE. National S:fety Cuuuul in Chi- eago Announces Plans. CHICAGO, January 8 (#).—Weekly bonuees for taking one hour's exer- a day for the sake of their the National Safety Council, with head- quarters here, announced. The employes may choose a straight walk for an hour, skating or any other form of exercise they like. “I am confident that cash pald for this purpose will pay big dividends to our organization in in ased ef- ficiency on the part of the staff,” de- clared W. H. Cameron, managing di- “Healthy workers are happy During India’s recent pooja holiday season, which corresponds to some ex- tent to our Christmas season, there was less*gift glving thanfor several years previously. Main 9205 plead | | | | j Highest Rating in Examination | | | | gency | tied THE SUNDAY STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 9, 1927—PART T. MISS M. E. HENSLEY WINNER OF HONOR Emergency Hospital' Nurse Given Held Recently by Board. Miss Martha E. Hensley of FEmer- Hospital recelved the highest rating in the esxamination of the nurses’ examining board of the Dis trict of Columbia which was taken by nurses of the Washington hospitais and training schools November 2 and 3, according to an - announcement made recently by the beard. Miss Laura Wood of the Army hool of D Miss Genevieve \\ son of Hospital and Joseph Walsh of Providence Hospital for second place in the final rating. he institutions whose nurses passed the board's test included the Army Training School of Nurses. the Children’s Hospital, the Emergency Hospital, Freedman's Hospital, Gal linger Hospital, Garfield Hospital George Washington University Hos. pital, Georgetown University Hospital, National Homeopathic Hospital, Sib- ley Memorfal Hospital and the St. “lizabeth's Hospital Others who passed the examination s, M. Blackwelder, Estelle Dorothy Donier Melissa ster Dor- wura C ie Benlow, Bernard, therine Ban nnie RBatson, Dovls M. Coolidge - Canfleld . Collyer, Anne Dunlop, Dorothy ald W. Dearholt. Mild Sllis, Ruth Felker, Fliza beth Fitch, Martha Gregg, Camille | Graber, Pauline Gary, Leona Glad felter, Margaret E. Griffith, Symbeline Hammill, Elizabeth Helvey W. Hall, Gladys M. Hott, Hodgkins, Helen K. Hoffer, Hermion, Hollis, Martha E. Hensley, H. Honeycutt, Mar Beulah Johnson, Ruth Johnson. Cecile King, Dorothy Kur nette Kolb, Marjorie Kibler Kenner, Emily Lysinger, Florence Luppert, Dorothy Lament, Cora Lan- caster, Mirian McBeth, Lottie £, Mur- ray, Amy E. McGown, Lois E. Mon roe. Mary E. Major, Vivian Murphy, Helen A. Mosher, Mary L. MclIntyre, Barbara Miller, Edna McGoey, Zenobia Mason, Gladys M. McDonald, Permilla Moore, Zelia Nowlin. Rosa_E. Patat, Ruth H. Philbrick, Clara Perry, Hortense Price, Marian Rutcher, Chamberlain, Mary Consu rthy Crump, Dunn, Berth Dodge, Regi a « Luella ohnson Jean- Helen Mayme Robin- ouisa Swartz v F. Schwartz, Thelma Stomp Edna Speilman. Luey Sheppard, Augusta Short, Alice ~ Seel Augusta Sorgenfriu Margaret Margaret Sherwood, Grace Sanford, “Harriet Thorp, Edith Townsend, Mary Taylor, Bessie T Ree, Alice L. Trainor, Adeline Van Ostraw, Genevieve Wilson, Dousheka P. Tillman, Karl Strauss, Inez Turner, ith Wilson, Lucille Wright, Dor Wood, Mildred Wright, Alice Joseph Walsh, Minnie Watson, Laura Wood and Isobel Young. Aids Man Whu Rohbed Him. NEW YORXK, January 8 (#).—Ray Malone, who said he came from Chi. cago, will go to work in a fruit store in which he was arrested for stealing 75 cents’ worth of nuts and dates to n, the estate to two sons and | ter. lic. stave off starvation. Instead of pressing the charge, the proprietor gave him a job. MARYLAND U. STUDENTS DISCUSS TRAFFIC ISSUES Eldridge Present at Mock Hearing to Consider Various Phases of Situation. I University of Maryland students turned their attention toward the so. lution of traffic problems, particularly in the District, at-an engineering sem- inar, held Friday under the auspices nf the department of public speaking, - v\'n attended by Traffic Di un tor M. Eldridge. The Mmilmr took the form mock hearing, with students acti representatives of civic hodjes appear. ing before the traffic directo and stating various phases of the traffic situation. Prof. R. M. Watkins of the de tment of public speaking at the university, conducred the program Safety provisions, remedial traffic legislation and arterial highway plans were discussed by Mr. Eldridge, \Wade Elgin, H. F. Garber, W. B. Bewley and W. F. Korff, 1 wiDow GETS $1,000,000. Quaker Outs Tren:msr Leaves Es- tate of $4.000,000. CHICAGO, January § (#).—Robert Stuart, former treasurer of the Quaker Oats Co., left an estate val ued at more than $4,000,000, the in filed yesterday, showed . Stuart, who died January 26 1926, left a trust fund of ‘lnnnnna‘ to provide for his widow, M Ma garet Stuart, and the remainder of v daugh- | J of a g J ol th b KAHN on Esta blinhad 31 Years of Woods, the trespassing. there's not couple. Gen. to try his aim. shake that ¥ fought with you in the Sioux Indian campaig, the PERSHING'S POTATO PEELER LETS HIM GUN ndian Veteran Orders Hunting Party Off, but Reconsiders for “Black Jack.” By the Aseociated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., Janua ohn J. Pershing has taken v 8. “‘orders” from a former private. The story has just been told here. While hunting at Red Deer ranch, herry county, Nebr., this Fall .as the uest of Mark W. and George J. Lincoln capitalists, “Black ack” Pershing saw a flock of ducks n some land nearby. The owner df nd protested against the party's ‘T want those ducks for myself and many o' them,” the man asserted we just wanted to sald Mark Woods. 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