CABINET WOMEN DO THEIR OWN MARKETING
DESTITUTE SEEKING RELIEF IN JERUSALEM
Forced hy the ever-IncreiiKtug cost of living, members of Washington's official family are doing their own mar­
keting. Photograph shows left to right: Mrs. David Houston, w ife of the secretary o f the treasury; Mrs. Robbins,
wife of the former United States minister to Chile, and Mrs. Cary N. Grayson, w ife o f the president's physician,
Admiral Grayson, purchasing meat for their tables at a stall In the Central market, Washington, D. C.
NOTED RUSSIANS
SLAIN ON YACHT
Finding of Bodies Reveals One of
Most Mysterious Tragedies
of Black Sea.
FLED FROM THE BOLSHEVIK!
On Board the Yacht Were Found 14r
000,000 Rubles In Gold, Paper and
Jewels— King of Roumania Is
Pushing Investigation.
Bucharest.— The discovery on the
yacht Ostrara, stranded at Sulinn In
one of the mouths of the Danube, of
the bodies o f 11 noted Russian men
and women, each shot through the
head, and not a living persou on
board, has preseeted to the Roumani­
an authorities one o f the most mys­
terious tragedies In the Black sea.
The bodies have been identified as
those of members of the noted Rus­
sian families of Falzfeln and Skadow-
ski. The Falzfeins were descendants
o f German Mennonlte colonists who
settled in the province of Kherson at
the invitation o f the Russian govern­
ment.
W ater in the Cabin.
The discovery was made by soldiers,
who, when they went aboard the help­
less yacht, found the cabin half filled
with water and the 11 bodies floating
around. On board the yacht were 14,-
000.000 rubles in gold and paper, and
jewels.
Some money and valuables
were found to be missing when rec­
ords of the victims were checked up,
but the amount was apparently small
compared to the funds and valuables
left aboard.
The elder Felzfein still grasped a
pistol in Ids hand when his body wns
found, and whetlrer the party commit­
ted suicide or were murdered is a
question that remains unanswered,
and it Is believed that the solution of
how the families met their death may
never be known.
An Investigation Is being made by
the Roumanian authorities, aided by
Russian friends of the two families.
All that Is known is that the two fam­
ilies fled their estates to Odessa, and
when the bolshevik! arrived there In
February put their belongings on
board the yacht, which wns then towed
by a Russian steamer bound for Con-
stanza.
The tow ropes broke several times,
owing to severe storms, and finally
the steamer lost the yacht altogether
and proceeded to Constanza.
Drifts at Mercy of Storm.
It is believed that later, while the
yacht drifted at the mercy o f the
storm, the refugees, six men and five
women, became exhausted from the
cold waves breaking over the vessel
und from lack of food.
Unable to manage the yacht, the
party made a despairing effort to put
It ashore on the desolate beach near
Suliun. There they succeeded In
launching small boats, but Roumanian
guards, under strict orders to permit
no landing through fear o f the bolshe-
vikl, ordered them to return to the
vessel.
It appears thnt some coast fishermen
offered a rescue when the vessel began
settling, owing to the consequent
pounding of the heavy seas, but sol­
diers prevented. That wns the last
known o f the vessel until it stranded.
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of
Roumania have taken a great interest
In the Investigation, especially because
when the royal family was driven Into
exile and the capital removed to Jassy,
the king and queen were offered the
magnificent home o f the Felzfelns,
across the Bessarabian border.
• Black Caskets Now
Reported Out of Style
San Francisco.— To be buried
in a blnck coffin isn’t stylish.
Pule pink, cerise, old rose,
blue, lavender, purple and white
— these colors are most in de­
mand nowadays, says W. H.
Vincent, casket manufacturer
here for 30 years. N ot more
than one person in twenty pre­
fers the somber black, according
to Vincent.
“ Sometimes we get an order
for a striped coffin, or a green
one,’’ Vincent asserted. “ The
color usually Is In accordance
with the last wish o f the de­
ceased.”
Almost every variety o f coffin
now sells fo r five times the price
o f a few years ngo, Vincent said.
The strictly modern hermetical­
ly sealed bronze casket brings
$2,000 wholesale.
Vincent has a caller now and
then who choses his own coffin.
“ Usually it is an old man who
thinks his relatives won't prop­
erly look after his burial,” said
Vincent.
COLLECT RELICS
OF LOST RACE
Interesting Material Unearthed
in Ruins Near Aztec,
New Mexico.
centuries, are sandals woven o f yucca
leaf, yucca fiber and cotton, and here
the very pattern boards over which
the sandals were made. Here, prac­
tically untouched by time, are orna
ments o f shell cut Into disks, and
beads of turquoise and o f shell. There
are arrow points o f Jasper, bone awls
and needles and fragments o f painted
Customs of Prehistoric People Are wood— ceremonial boards, doubtless.
The basketry is o f two types— colled
Learned From the Various Ob­
and twilled— some o f it In an excellent
jects Discovered— Ornaments
state of preservation. Then there are
Practically Untouched by
cylindrical netted disks pndded with
Time.
corn husks. These are a puzzle to the
museum's Investigators. Some one ad­
New York.— Temporarily displayed
vanced the theory that they might
in the west corridor o f the American
have been used ns snow shoes, but the
Museum o f Natural History, on the
small size and unsuitable shape of
first floor, can be seen some Interest­
some o f the specimens seem to refute
ing relics o f a lost race— the prehis­
that supposition.
A wooden cradle-
toric people who built and lived in the
board with its curiously placed head-
great community dwelling, now In
piece accounts for the flattened skulls
ruins, near Aztec, N. M., which Mr.
typical o f nil the skeletons o f this an
Earl H. Morris has for the past three
cient civilization which hnve been re­
years been exploring and restoring for
covered. A pillow o f matting stuffed
the American museum. Mr. Morris
with corn husks, and some human re­
has gathered a great deal o f material
mains wrapped in matting nnd show
which w ill in time be placed on per­
ing the method o f burial complete the
manent exhibition. But the six shelves
miscellaneous portion o f the collec­
In the corridor give an idea o f the na­
tion.
ture o f the objects which have been
Specimens of Pottery.
found and o f the customs to which
The
rest
o f the exhibit Is given over
they testify.
Here, outlasting their wearers by to pottery. The specimens are o f white,
red and black, and Include cooking
and eating utensils. The designs— not
us advanced In conception ns some
other of our antique southwestern pot­
tery, are, however, frequently skill­
fully executed.
For the most part
painted In black, or, less often, In red,
they are sometimes clearly taker, from
textile designs, sometimes innde up of
free-hund curved lines such ns would
not have been practicable In textiles,
I or, occasionally consist o f crude anl-
; mal representations.
An Interesting
‘ broken mug shows a hollow bottom In
| which little pellets o f clay had been
I placed so ns to produce a rattle. The
cross-markings on the edges o f the
bowls nnd drinking vessels are very
characteristic o f the pottery taken
from this vicinity. Most Interesting
among these relics is the colled pot­
tery— made by rolling long strips of
clay nnd winding them round and
round In the desired slinpe, as Is done
In coiled basketry. In the pottery of
this sort the mark o f the shaping
thumb can be plainly seen, nnd was
frequently used to produce n wave
pattern which often attained to a very
pleasing development.
LIVED IN COMMUNITY HOUSE
REVOLUTION RAGES IN GUATEMALA
j
Revolutionists in Guatemala have formed a new government with Carlos
Herrera as president. The picture shows the American consulate In Guate­
mala City, and the U. S. S. Tacoma which has gone to Guatemala to protect
American Interests. The latest reports received In Washington are that Pres­
ident Estrada Cabrera and his army have surrendered to the Unionist forces.
The provisional government has given pledges to secure the safety of the for­
mer president. Order Is being maintained In the city.
»
Travels 2,705,500 Miles.
Jamaica, L. I.— A fter a continuous
service o f M years on the Long Island
railroad James D. Rushmore. n con­
ductor, retired, lie traveler! 2,750,500
miles, never missed a train and re­
ported fo r duty on 10,970 mornings
during his career.
Mohammedan women and Christians, ull hungry, ragged; children and beggurs, gathered at the relief headquar­
ters opposite David's tower In Jerusalem, to receive food and clothing.
emergency, must be maintained at
over peace-time strength. The Eighth
Infantry, stationed nt Coblenz und on
the right bank o f the Rhine, has 115
officers and 2,950 men. The Fiftieth
Infnntry, also In Germany, has 75 offi­
cers nnd 2,330 men. Just back from
Siberia, the Thlrty-flrst Infuntry hus
89 officers nnd 3,100 men. The Twen­
ty-fourth Infuntry, nlong the border
At Present Rate of Enlistment portunities nsblo from fatigue duty, in New Mexico, has 52 officers and
drill, guard duty nnd “ bunk fatigue.”
3,485 men.
the 254,000 Personnel Will
In the “ new nrnty” men In all branches
With the Infnntry only nt 75 per
o f the service not in the field have op­
Soon Be Filled.
cent o f authorized strength, nnd the
portunity to learn trades o f their own
necessity o f maintaining n number of
selection.
regiments above n peace time basis,
Following
demobilization,
when
many regiments are far below the
thousands o f men chose to remain In
nverage strength, particularly the reg­
the service, few recfults were obtained
iments back from France and made
by recruiting depots. The recruiting
up when they returned, of cnsuals,
Military Organization Becoming Vast
service overlapped to some extent, par­
o f replacements und men enlisted only
Trade School— “ Earn While You
ties sent out by regiments nnd divi­
for the emergency. The fnmous First
Learn” Is Popular— New Re­
sions allocated to certain states com­
division, now at Cantp Taylor, K y „
cruiting Policy.
peting with established recruiting sta­
has only 5,000 officers nnd men. The
tions. Then the new system of voca­
men o f all the itifantry regiments of
Washington.— Surmounting the In­ tional training wns instituted, followed
this division wear the French four-
roads o f demobilization, the recruiting by a drive fo r recruits beginning the
ragere looped over the left shoulder.
campaign begun early this year has middle o f last January, nnd the re­
The present strengths o f these regi­
brought the total strength of the reg­ cruiting service was properly co-ordi­
ments nre as follow s: Sixteenth infnn­
ular army to within 35,000 o f the 254,- nated.
try. 35 officers 042 m en; Eighteenth
000 personnel aut orized under the na­
Enlistments rose from 1,800 for the Infnntry, 37 officers, 080 men; Twen­
tional defense act o f 1910, according week ending January 24 to 2,800 ac­
ty-sixth Infantry, 33 officers, 649 mer ;
to latest war department figures. I f ceptances weekly the latter part of
Twenty-eighth Infantry, 34 officers,
the present rnte o f enlistment Is main­ March. A t preeent one-third of the
020 men.
tained throughout the year, nnd nearly nrnty may be enlisted for one year,
Some W ar Divisions.
3,000 men are being accepted week­ about 85,000 men. Add to this 55,000
Down at Cnmp Travis, Texns, Is the
ly, it will more than balance losses three-yenr enlistments expiring annu­
through expired enlistments, furlough ally and the total number o f men leav­ Second division, which lind the heav­
iest cnsunlties o f any division In
to the reserve and other causes.
ing the service annunlly Is 140,000, fig­
France, nnd took one-qnnrter o f the
Most o f these enlistments, recruiting uring on the authorized strength of
prisoners nnd artillery captured by
officers report, are by men anxious to 254.000 under the natlonnl defense act.
the A. E. F.
The marine brigade is
take ndvnntnge of the army’s voca­ T h e present rnte o f enlistment should
no longer with this organization, nnd
tional education, an “ earn while you yield 145,000 annunlly, n surplus o f
no Infnntry ffrlgnde has yet been as­
learn” system, to fit a soldier for n 5.000 over expiring enlistments.
signed to Its place. The total strength
trade by the time he leaves the army.
“ The enmpnign begun January 19 of of the Second division Is 211 officers
Last year 75,000 men were accepted this year has been successful In every
and 2,050 enlisted men. Like the First
who never before had been In the respect," said Mnj. Samuel A. Green-
division, the Infnntry regiments o f the
service. Nearly half o f the enlisted well o f the recruiting publicity bureau,
Second nre proud wearers of the
men are going to school, nnd the army which sends out recruiting leaflets to
fourrngere. The Ninth Infnntry, which
Is becoming not a "university In kha­ all army recruiting stations.
‘T h e fought In China atid took the vlllnge
ki,” but a vast mllltnry trade school.
persona' contact work of the general o f Vaux In n brilliant attack In the
Much o f the Instruction In technical recruiting service and the parties sent Chateau Thierry sector, has 8 offi­
subjects Is given not by officers, hut out by allocated organizations followed cers nnd 372 men. The Twenty-third
by civilian teachers, lent to the army the same Instructions. They did not infantry, which fought alongside of
In many cases by corporations desir­ beg fo r recruits, they did not offer to the Ninth in 1812, In the Civil war and
ous o f employing trained men at the send men around the world on a Cook’s In France, has 39 officers and 337
expiration o f their enlistment. The tour, and they did not tell prospective
men.
war department has received communi­ recruits they would he fought for by
The Third division, which fought nt
cations from concerns who hnve sent eager employers offering fabulous sal­ the Marne, St. Mlhlel and the Argonne-
untrained applicants fo r employment aries. They received Imperative or­ Meuse, has 113 officers nnd 2,795 en­
to the army fo r n year's enlistment ders that under no clrcumstanees must listed men nt Cnmp I ’lke, Ark. The
nnd trade Instruction with promises of they ‘oversell’ the army's attractions Thirty-eighth infnntry, which repulsed
to obtain a recru it; they were told thnt six German regiments and took 000
Jobs at the end of their service.
Farmers, musicians, stenographers, the nrmy wanted a very high class o f prisoners at the Mnrne In July, 1018,
masons, bookkeepers, pharmacists, me­ young men, men who would appreci­ has 80 officers and 312 men. The Thir­
chanics o f all kinds, wireless nnd tele­ ate and take advantage of the training tieth Infantry, which stormed Hill 204,
graph operators, printers, gns engine nnd at the same time make the kind west o f Chateau Thierry, has 47 offi­
experts, even emhnlmers, are nmong o f soldiers that should represent our cers and 228 men.
O f the other in­
the vocations taught. In large canton­ country.
fantry regiments o f the Third division,
“ A t the beginning of the enmpnign the Fourth has 39 officers and 352 men,
ments barracks are being transformed
Into machine shops, laboratories and many civilian organizations offered and the Seventh 34 officers and 278
Chambers o f com­ men.
school rooms. A t Camp Dodge, In., their assistance.
where the Fourth division Is stationed, merce, Rotary clubs, American Legion
The Fourth division, thrust Into ac­
there Is a 200-acre farm where army posts. Veterans o f Foreign Wars, min­ tion fo r the first time near Chntenu
students do practical work In agricul­ isters’ associations nnd others did val­ Thierry, Is stationed nt Cnmp Dodge,
ture and stock raising tinder the di­ uable work In arranging meetings Iowa, with 245 officers nnd 1,577 en­
rection o f Doan C. B. Waldron o f the where their own members and officers listed men. Strengths of Its Infantry
o f the recruiting service oxplnlned the regiments are; Thirty-ninth, 31 offi­
North Dnkotn agricultural college.
A committee from the Chicago plans fo r the new nrmy. Governors cers, 130 men; Forty-seventh, 33 offi­
Uhurch federation visited Camp Grant, nnd mayors Issued proclamations call­ cers, 133 men; Fifty-eighth, 31 officers,
Illinois, the home o f the Sixth divi­ ing attention to army activities In their 120 m en; Fifty-ninth, 31 officers, 133
sion— the "Sightseeing Sixth,” ns Its stntes nnd cities, and In many cases men.
members In France called their divi­ set aside special dates ns "Arm y
In battle for the first time nt St.
sion, which hiked from one sector to weeks.’ ”
Mlhlel, the Fifth division Is nt Cnmp
another without getting Into action.
Many branches o f the service are Gordon, Georgia, with 200 officers nnd
The committee Inspected (he division's over their authorized strength, pend­ 2,180 enlisted men. The Sixth divi­
schools nnd returned to Chicago, re­ ing possible Increase hy congressional j sion, which boasts o f having done
porting, “ the aim o f those who hnve action.
The motor transport corps, l more hiking Ilian any other A. E. F.
this work In charge Is to train men the need o f which wns demonstrated j division, Is now nt Cnmp Grant, with
so effectively thnt nt the end o f their In the war, Is 100 per cent above au­ 277 officers nnd 8,227 enlisted men.
three years In the army they cannot thorized strength. Chemical warfare The Seventh division, which nrrlved
afford to re-enllst.”
122 per cent, medical department 150 In Franco In time to hold tlie left
per rent, quartermaster corps 112 hank o f the Moselle river until tha
Teaching Pharmacy to Men.
At Cnmp I ’lke, Ark., the home per cent, and signal corps 120 per cent. armistice, Is at Cnmp Funston, Knnsns,
station o f the Third division, which Offseltlng this surplus, the Infantry Is numbering 243 officers nnd 2,240 men.
The totnl strength of the seven tac­
won Its spurs nt the Marne, n building hut 75 per cent o f authorized strength,
has been erected to house (he school envnlry 81 jier cent, field artillery 71 tical divisions now stationed In this
of chemistry. Training In the dispens­ per cent nnd const artillery 52 per country, ench of which would have a
wartime strength of 28,000, Is 20,770
ing nnd manufacture o f drugs will be cent.
Strength of Combat Units.
officers and men.
given, also Instruction In the use o f
Restoration o f the army to n peace
the microscope for the detection o f Im­
Gives T ill It Hurt*.
purities In dfugs. Students who show time basis shows many apparent d if­
New Castle, K y .—A case of raro
the necessary proficiency will he giv­ ferences In the strength o f combat
en special tutoring for the examina­ units such ns Infantry regiments. The 1 unselfishness hns been brought to light
natlonnl defense net provides for 65 In­ here. When the families o f Noah Pet­
tions o f the Arkansas state board.
Formerly, to learn a trade In the fantry regiments, Including the Porto | tit nnd Dnve Roberts, near Flat Rock,
army, a man had to he assigned to Rican regiment, totaling 88,000 men, were 111 and no help came, their food
the ordnance or signal corps, the air an average of 1,350 to the regiment, i gnve out. Qtilnlls Razos, himself poor,
service or motor transport corps. Sol­ During the wnr an Infantry regiment , supplied Ihelr lnrder until his, too,
diers In such combat branches of the numbered over 3,000 men, nnd some j was hare, nnd he himself faced starv­
service as the infantry had few op- ' Infantry regiments, because o f ’ the ation.
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