Grants Pass daily courier., March 13, 1920, Page 2, Image 2

GRANT* PARS DAILY tXH'KIKR
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GIRL RESCUED
FROM SLAVERY
AMONG TURKS
London, Mar. 13.—Liberia is tru­
ly a hermit republic, writes Alan
Bourchier Letherbridge. author and
traveler, in the Daily Telegraph. Armenian Reaches New York
The country, he adds, has no roads,
After Frightful Experiences.
no railways, no telegraphs, no steam­
boats on her rivers nor any prac­
tical exploitation of her wealth.
Lodgings in Monrovia, the capital,
virtually do not exist with the excep­
tion of one place which is conduct­ Mother and Sister Fell by Wayside
ed by the mayor. This man i; an
and Died in Turkish Deportation
enterprising negro of North Caro­
Four Years Ago—Suffering Has Left
lina who besides attending Xo the
Her in Pitiful State of Nervousness
duties of the mayoralty and conduct­
—Must Be Taught to Smile and
ing his hotel, operated an ice plant
Eat—One of Most Pathetic of All the
and an ice-cream parlor which for­
Thousands of Refugee Experiences.
mally were German property. Front
these latter his profits are said to be
The first slave to arrive in this coun­
gigantic. He also has “something to try since the Turkish deportations ot
do with the postofflce" and is a po­ 1915-T6, when thousands ot Armenian
and Syrian women were driven from
lice court magistrate.
•'In fact.’’ says Mr. I^ethbridge. their homes to Aleppo on the edge of
“this remarkable ntan, starting from Mesopotamia, ts Vartanousch Kara­
nothing, has made himself a Rocke­ gheusian, an Armenian girl, twenty
years old. She has just reached New
feller of (Liberia."
York, accompanied by Marshall Ingalls
In Monrovia, says the traveler,
Mays, Near East relief worker, of To­
there are no horses, motors, rick­
peka. Kan., says the New York Tribune.
shaws or other wheel vehicles, no
An Arab slave mark, tattooed in in­
street lighting, no drinking water delible ink at the base of her right
and not infrequently food supplies hand thumb, furnished proof that the
for the European colony run out and girl bail been a slave of the Mahom­
strl«.*t rationing is enforced until the etans. She was met at the dock by
her brother, John N. Karagheusian.
ship arrives.
Unless the 23 members of congress wealthy dealer in Oriental rugs, who
appear at parliament houses properly lives in Minneapolis. He said he had
attired in a black frock coat, patent pot seen his sister in twelve years.
“She does not realize she is in New
leather shoes, white waist coat and
York," he said; "she thinks she is in
top hat, they are liable to a fine of
heaven."
$5. The thermometer sometimes
Theaters Fail to Cheer.
registers 110 in the shade.
Theaters, automobile rides, pretty
clothes and all the comfort and luxury
of one of the city's leading hotels have
CAPTURED MANY GUNS
failed to bring a smile of pleasure to
the girl's lips. The suffering she ha«
Took Enough German Weapons to Sup­
undergone has left her in a pitiful state
ply Every County in U. S.
of nervousness. When she met her
So many cannon and heavy machine
brother she broke into a tit of hysteri­
guns were captured by the American
cal weeping, and since, despite hi*
army that congressmen could distrib­
efforts to amuse nnd entertain her. the
ute one to each county. Representative
Kahn, California, chairman of the veil of sadness remains.
She will have to be taught not onh
house military committee, says.
“The army captured 1.300 cannon to smile, but to eat as well, for month«
and 4.000 heavy machine guns," Kahn | of starvation, during which her only
said, “and there are only 4,000 coun­ food was roots and grass picked from
the roadside, have left her digestive
ties in the country.”
organs seriously Impaired, and her diet
consists wholly of liquid food with
MAKE BILLIONS OF PINS
small bits of bread.
Mr. Mays, who brought Miss Kara-
Factories Each Year Turn Out "Crop” ! gheuslan to this country after she ha«l
Valued at $13,000.000.
' served some time as a relief worker,
American factories each year pro­ following her rescue from th«» Turks,
duce 14.000.000.000 ordinary toilet pins. said lier case was one of the most pa­
Safety pins totaling 720.000.(100 are thetic of all the thousands of refugee
purchased by American mothers every experiences chronicle«! nt the Ameri­
year. The yearly crop of metal hair­ can relief stations. There are scores
pins Is 1.250,000.000. Needles of all of houses for refugees maintained
kinds aggregate 235,000.000 every 12 throughout Armenia by Near East Re­
mouths.
lief, of 1 Madison avenue, for the care
The value of this pin and needle of women and girls who escape or are
crop Is $13,000,000 nt the factory. rescued from bondage, It is known
Forty-nine factories are encaged in
that at the present time more than
the manufacture of the nrticles.
100,000 women an«l girls are held in
harems, but they are being freed as
Offers Church-Goers Free Ride.
rapidly as facilities for their care can
As an inducement for attending serv­ be provided.
ices. Rev. F. A. Leak, pastor of the
One of Big Migration.
Hemet (Cal.) Methodist church, of­
With her mother, sister, aunt, uncle
fers to the people a free ride in a and two little cousins, Miss Kara-
motor bus to the house of worship gheusian was a member of the big mi­
every Sunday.
gration the Turk« forced In 1915. From
July until October the captives were
Candidate cards—-Courier offr e.
on the road in charge of brutal Turkish
guards. No food or water was Issued,
ami their only means of sustenance
consisted in picking the little vegeta­
tion to lie found in the field« and stop­
ping a moment at a stream for a drink.
One by one the refugees dropped out
of the line to perish of starvation by
the roadside. Vartanousch's mother
was one of the first to go. She died in
the girl's arm«. A few «lays later her
sister gave up of weariness. She could
not stagger on. After beating her and
We admit that we're aspir­
urging her forward, the Turks kicked
ing.
her off to one side and left her to die
Vartanousch was lashed In
To be called to do your
alone.
answer to her appeals to be allowed to
wiring.
j remain with her sister.
Her uncle was massacred en route to
As expert electricians we're
Aleppo; her aunt nn«l baby cousins
elected by the general public.
perished, an«J the girl was the
They have found out that we
only remaining member of the family
know all about this vital labor
. left when they reached their destina­
saving, comforting illuminating
tion. Out of several thousand captive
force. We will give you an es­
i Armenians who had started In July on
the march under their Turkish cap-
timate as to what the wiring
survived in October.
j tlves, only
and the fixtures will cost you.
Served as Military Interpreter.
As Vartanousch spoke Turkish and
Syrian, as well a« Armenian, she was
used as a military Interpreter for a
time. Later, to escape the horrors of
living with the army, she sought work
HARPER'S ELECTRIC STOPE hi a Turkish hospital, ami there found
a girl friend from her home town, dis­
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES ii
guised an«l serving as a nurse. The,
friend was able to get her In, and for
many months she nursed wounded
Turks nt the Zahleh base.
FOUND BY BROTHER'S FRIEND
N VI I RDI), M MU II 13, HMM.
When the British captured Jerusa- i
lem she made her escape to tlie Brit­
ish lines and was sent by them to the I
American relief station at Beirut. From
then on her story reads like a chapter,
from some fairy tale.
tine day, while doling out soup to
the refugees, she became engaged In
conversation with an Armenian who I
New York, Mar. 13. The first
hud been In America and w ho was serv­ memorial here to American fighi Ing
ing with the French army. He askiM airmen killed in France is a room in
her name.
the club house of the Ymerlcan Fly ¡
“Vartanousch Karagheusian," she re­
Ing I'lub set aside in honor of ten I
plied.
aviators
of the 22nd pursuit squad |
Hears of Brother Here.
"1 know John Karagheusian. who roti of the American expeil It tonar)
A tablet in the room >bears
lives in America." he said. "Arc you force.
related to hl ml”
the names of the following airmen
• lie Is my brother." said the girl.
who were killed in action:
First
Th«» Armenian soldier lu the Kreuch Lieutenants Philip E. Hasslnger, Ar
uniform immediately communicated thur C. Kimber. Henry B. Hudson,
I
with the rug dealer.
John lì. Agar Jr., James H. BiKKB.
And here Is where the brother’s story James D. Beane, Remington DeB
started.
Vernato. and Howard IB. Clapp and
“When 1 received his letter," he
Second lieutenants Vaughn M. Mc-
said, "I telegraphed the Near East Re­
lief In New York and asked If they Corntick and Edward B. Gibson Jr.
would cable funds to my sister for me. Members of other squadrons are
They replied at once that they would, planning to dedicate similar rooms
at the club building in honor of com­
and 1 caiue to New York.
“The money was sent, and 1 heard rades kilbsl in action.
from my sister in June that she hud
received it. 1 then asked tlie comuiit-
tee If they could have her brought to
America, and we have been all this
time trying to get her here."
Evidently Mr. Karagheusian did not
approve of the Paris frock and coal
his sister wore, for the first thing he Master Crooks Believed to Be
did was to take her to a Fifth avenue
Operating Sort of Interna­
department store and order a full
wardrobe.
tional Organization.
"This time next year I will brin*; her
back to New York, and you won't know
Wholesale looting of merchandise in
she's an Armenian girl," he said. "She's transit upon the railroads of the
going to school at St. Margaret’s Acad­ United States caused a loss of approx­
emy in Minneapolis."
imately $45.000,000 during 1919, ac­
RAILWAY THIEVES
INCREASE ACTIVITY
cording to United States railroad ad­
ministration statistics. This Is esti­
mated as more than double th«» total
of any previous year, but It Is pointed
out that tlie increased cost of com­
modities must be taken Into consld-
eratlon. Nevertheless, there is said to
have lieen a steady Increase In the
uumtier of packages stolon.
Organizations
combat Ing
these
thieves have been calle«l upon «luring
the past year to meet an Increased In­
genuity exercised lu diverting goods
from their owners, Thefts now are
planned and carried out u|>on about
tlie same basis In tlie United States,
France. England, Italy ami Argentina,
indli'atlug that master crooks are <>|e
erating a sort of “international or­
ganization.”
Substitution Is th«* usual method fol­
lowed by tlie robbers.
Sometimes
boxes supposed to contain velvet are
found t<> contain calico un«l other
cheaper grades of doth, but ns a rule
waste paper Is found. Til«—«- thefts
are extremely difficult to trace.
Silk, because of Its great vulue. Is
a favorite prey for thieve.« The theft«
have mounted to such a total that tlie
rnllroa«! administration lia« even con­
sidered excluding raw silk from
freight shipment. Jewelry also Is a
for thieves. However, virtually
conini«»lity shlppe«! appears In
losses tabulated by the ruilrond
iidnilnistratlon.
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SHOWN HIS OWN GRAVE
He Lies Buried
France.
The war department Is stoppiti
nothing to convince Nathan C. Cooper­
man of Philadelphia that lie Is not
nlive and working ns a coppersmith at
Bog Island, but is really dead an«)
buried In an American cemetery In
France.
Cooperman, who served with Com­
pany H. Thirty-eighth Infantry, of the
Third division, enjoyed the unique sen­
sation of looking at a photograph of
his own grave, with his name and de­
scription of bls outfit carved on a
wooden cross above a fresh mound of
dirt.
Cooperman arrived In France May
1, 1918, with the Third division and
was wounded in July near Bellenn
wood, He believes that the mistake
was made through the finding of one
of three sets of Identification cards
he lost during bls stay In France.
Veteran
Told
WEEK
Kitchen First
« time to equip your home with a
modern electric range.
SPOTTED FEVER IN EUROPE
Ravages in Baltic States Reach Alarm­
ing Stage.
Ravage« brought about by spotted
fever in the Baltic states and Poland
have reached an alarming stage, ac­
cording to Investigations made by the
Swedish medical board nt th«» request
of tlie foreign office.
The situation
Is considered grave for Sweden and
the rest of Europe.
The Swedish Red Cross lias decid­
ed to send n number of ambulances to
Poland am) Esthonln, where hospitals,
doctors and medical supplies ar«- lock­
ing. Appeals will bo made to other
countries for contribution« to fight the
disease.
Report« from the Swedish consul nt
Revnl say fli<i" are 4,GOO «uses of
spotted fever among Russian soldiers
lit Narva. I!.5« hi ea «•« nt W«■ • nherg
nnd 2.IKMI at Zi< golkoppel.
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Brine is forced Into these peanuts
by compressed air. using n newly pat­
ented machine they are then baked
In the ordinary way. These peanuts
stay fresh Indefinitely.
ALASKA HAS SEAL CENSUS
Count Shows That the Herd Is ln-
creasing Rapidly.
The herd of seals, controlling
supply of «< nlsklns for garments,
doubled since 1911, when the United
Stntos government nssiimcd control of i
tin- soul fisheries in Alaska. The seals
continue io increase nt n rale which
promise« Hint In n few years seals
will bo restored ns the distinctive j
American fur of general use.
"The Inst relisus «bowed 525,(MN)
soul«.'' said Dr. II. M. Smith, United'
States commissioner of fisheries. "It
was taken In 1919 just after we tm«l
killed t’l.iKMi of th«» nnlmals. The herd
Is 111, i e:i«Illg nt the rule of from 111
to 12 per cent n year. A« ft stands
t ow it would l.e < :i|iit:illz«'d commer­
cially nt about S'«?' IHHl
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California-Oregon Power Co.
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