Show I Stories of Love Are Hidden in Packages Left by Dead Fight Fighters Fighters' rs Iii J s V u i 1 John W. W Robin ni at work the war department story packages Uy fly r lm I I MV I xit Service TIter I 1 WASHINGTON N Sept l. l Tu ked I awa away in the war departments department's lockers lock lockers ers are 1000 stories stories Tories orles wrapped up in packages I containing the unclaimed belongings of men who died in the service The stories are of adventure love devotion romance affection Many of Ul them m never will be told They are buried burled with the men who once carried the contorts of ot th the pack packages packages pack pack- ages away to war war and and n never ver re returned re- re turned Other stories are known They have been brought to light by Johnw John JohnJ W W. Robins kc keeper per of the story package package pack pack- ag age collection lI S Open p the packages s. s c cOne j One contains only a great family Bible bo bound nd with brass Its owner had hart no other othe earthly possessions contains a quantity of keys small coins studs stud s and the picture of a white haired woman with sad lad tired e eyes es In another nother there Is a locket t in the I locket locket- the picture of or a b blue c eyed ed baby girl There are arc rings hundreds of I them and watches These are Just a rew samples As to the stories I A mother lor ion lort h r. r son son In the World war vai All efforts to tov locate I his his- body failed I The mother had but one clue The boy she he told Robins had worn worna a ring a ring of strange I des design She Sha described It in de de- de tall tail i Four Four years ears passed Then Robins I received a consignment ent of rings taken from the fingers of men menI killed at the front With I h the mothers mother's af w description i tion pon in hand he lie made a careful j check The ring worn by bj the boy West of oJ who had gone gode was was- one the number The Tile boys boy's body was as traced to a nameless grave In France brought back reburIed day a sorority pin was brought to Robins Robins' office a office a pin j found on the unidentified li body bod of af a ayoung young young- lieutenant killed oV l as With only the name ot or tim soror ity to work on oli Robins started his I search Months later by malting making in inquiries inquiries In- In quirles of oJ c colleges throughout lout the country U he ho found the e girl waiting waiting- sr Vi i f fK In vain f for e dead e soldier soldier lover They rhey had planned 1 to be married when the war Was as over ver Some of ot the tile articles are very cry t valuable says sats Robins Costly diamonds Liberty bonds sums of S n I Others t ers are trinkets ts of oJ no Intrinsic intrinsic sic sia value whatsoever in ever every case we e do our I best to find the nearest of kin cf ot o-J the worthless I Some apparently S S are priceless to the moth moth- 1 ers tra f f fathers nad children o oF oi F those thO who gave ga e for their country We Ve tra traced ed one woman through tour four st states tes and finally to Paris to togie I e gie her a military medal awarded to to- her son killed In aviation serving with the Lafayette esca- esca dr She told us us that hat to co o tier nero It was worth 9 a million dollars A father Cather said the same thing of ot otan an old battered watch carried by his son In the trenches 1 When sending out articles we wo al always wa s 's use registered mall maU co cc o protect protect protect pro pro- both bOUl ourselves and the I ers And before approving an claims we alwa always s 's make male a a. careful careful careful care care- ful check of ot the claimants claimant's identity iden Iden- Some sonie of the pack packages date back sixty years or more Not long ago we re received elved a request for a family ring worn warn by a soldier in the CivilI Civil war And Anti we were able to send I it tj for we still had the v veterans veteran teran's s eff effects sare safely y filed lied away Va |