New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 18

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NE 17, 1924, GLOBE CLTHIN_GHOUSE A REA MAY BE SONSTOLEN TWENTY YEARS AGD Birmingham Mother Hopes That Stranger Is Long Lost Boy Birmingham, Ala, June 17.—"T am known as Reuben Johnson,” a man of about 22 told Chiet Fred McDuff 88 he walked into the Birmingham police station and asked the aid of the police department and the Birm- ingham newspapers in establishing his identity and the whereahouts of his unknown parents “From my earliest reeollcction, I have been known as Reuben John- #oon,” the young man told the police, “l was reared by a woman wom 1 bad been taught to beliey my mother I had been told by her that my father died some years ago Our home was in Los Angeles, “On June 7 the woman died. Just before her death she told me ghe was not my mother fhe said that a number of years ago she and her hus- band lived in Birmingham, Ala, They were childless and wanted a son One day she saw me playing in Birmingham and she kidnapped me, That night she and her husband left for California, taking me with them That was twenty years age he told me, and she thought 1 was absut two years old at that time “ghe tried 1o tell me the name of my parents but disd before she sould dn no" The Birmingham police department has ne record of kidnapp Birmingham about twenty Howeaver, Mre. Fula ¥, J liavas Johnson i8 her son, kidnapped twenty years ago at the age of five Bhe has taken the yonng man inte her home to try ta sstablish his 1den tity. A blood test is being considered a8 ome means of astablishing fden tity, Mea, Jackson said “I am not positive the young man is my son, but T am willing to take him inta my heme and we are mak Ing every effort to establich his fden iy," Mra Jackesn told a newspaper man Johneon's sanity was questioned by dstectives, but expert ave pro pounced him rane Johnson told the p in Birmingham with obtained from s father's sawmill i that over half of the #tolen from him buried the other poon After the 1 able 15 1o R eating = officials an effert ts abtain more light Johnson's identit Mystery THE PRIPPS ACT Fresident Adyises Farmers to Con strue Uiherally Rill Which Wil Save Them From Failure This Sea son. Washington, Juna 17.—Aeting on authority of the president, Secre Work hes ordered the superintend n projects ta constrie , recently er of all reclama iberally the Ph acted to relieve the western settlers by further deferring charges due the government. Failure of congress to nact legisiation recommended by | Secretary Work's fact-finding com {mission, which provided for the writ- ing off of more than 000 owed tthe government by reclamation farm- ers and for a more sclentifie method of repayment dictated the action, It {s believed that it will protect all set- tlers against foreclosure during the coming season pending the passage of permanent legislation, Regulations covering the deferment on e o8 under the Phipps bilY, al ready « heen issued by the Bureau of Reclamation in which simplified rules of pro re for obtaining re- f by sott as water users ione and asse nabling them to pay all or part of their obligat 1 be ex. pected to do so, while those not able [to pay but who give every Intention of carrying ont their contracts by work on the projacts will be treated sympathetically O TRIAL, FOR MURDER William Monahan, A Youth of 21, Ae ensed of Part in RKillings in Fight Retween Tilly Restdents and Ru Kilux Rian Ehenghurgh, Pa. Juns 17— Willlam Monahan, a youth of 21, 18 on tria for murder in eonnectior with the leath of th young men of Lilly Pa, on A 5 when a fight broke out between Lilly residents and alleg- | ed members 6f the Ku Kiux Kian who marehed dhro Monahan 18 the first resident of Lilly te be tried on the murder fndict " Evans, Kiansma ttad last week. Thirty ather men, igh the town an members and 13 Lilly resi- missed was overruled and the se aken up. 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