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Show PAINTING MISTAKEN FOB 1PLM MOTOR Story of Wealthy American Who Employed Artist on Wife's Portrait. Ey HENRY O. WALES, Staff Correspondent of the International Interna-tional News Service. PARIS, Dee. IS. (By mail.) A wealthy American who lives in i3pain had his wife 's portrait painted by a celebrated futurist painter in Paris. Then lie started back to Madrid with his wife and the painting. At Trim, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, fron-tier, the LrBrjge of the American was carefully examined by the custouts officers of-ficers aud the military police. Tn the top of one of the trunks the officials fouud the futurist picture of the beautiful wife of the rich American. Ameri-can. They scanned it. they studied itf they tried to fathom it. Finally the French official in charge said to the American: "We cannot tell whether you are trying to smuggle through a map of the fortress of Verclun or the plans of our new aeroplane motqr, but, in any case, we must confiscate this and arrest you. w Despite his protests the American and his wife were arrested and the futurist picture was seized aud handed over to expert French engineers to decipher. de-cipher. The next day, however, the customs officers returned the picture and freed the American and his wife. "it's all right, you can have this and you can go." he said. "The engineers engi-neers say it's an aeroplane motor all right, but it will never work." Ml BIMOCULARS PRESfMDIO W Some of Glasses Sent In in Response to Appeal of Historic Value. By International News Service. AVAfc? Ml NCTON", Jan. 6. A pair of binoculars, once 'the property of Captain j William T. Turner, com ma ml er of the Lusitania on her last fatal voyage, wfll be used by an officer of the United States navy to spot a German periscope and perhaps send her crew to the same fate as was meted out to the women and children chil-dren in Germany's first demonstration of frish tf ulness. This is one of the results of the navy's appeal for marine glasses. The busi-tania busi-tania glasses were sent to Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of the Navy Roosevelt by Louis Str.rnberfjer of Pynchon & Co.. New York City, a personal friend of Captain Turner, Tur-ner, to whom the captain presented the , binoculars. . One mother sends a pair of glasses lie- i cause her son is a recruit in the United j .Stales army and will soon have to cross; the seas. W. N. G. Clark sends a tele- j .scope used on one of the old "hlacUrwill" packets which ran between New York and Liverpool a generation auro. Rev. Kdwin G. Wit herill, commander of a ! G. A. It. post at' Spring-field, Mass., sends1 , a pair he carried through the Civil war. A woman who signs herself "A poor litile i old maid teacher" of Albright. W. Va., I 1 makes the glasses her only possible con-1 con-1 tribution to the war. A pair of plasscs taken 'rTf the U. S. S. Pawnee when she was captured by t he Thh ty-seond Georgia regiment in a river back of Charleston during Die Civil war was sent in by a Confederate veteran. There is a pair thai went through tliej Kra T'o-Prussian war; one that an Kim- j lish officer carried through the Crimea : a pair from Frankfort-on-thr-Main. and j a i.descupe from Kenneth McDonald, a j 12-year-old boy from Keyser. W. Va. I |