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Show 'KITCHENS SAVING YOUTHFUL LIS I "Uncle From America" Is Feeding Thousands in I Lettish Town. i By ARTHUR E. MANN. tC:.:c;iuo TrII-un Cart'.e CupyriKiU. t RIGA. Sept. ", v!a London, Sept. $. "L'rcle From A merlca." T:. words in I.-eitlsh an Russia:-. half en'. h.; -f e"tafi, and w holly Hke a prayer of tl.aaks -.vi-rt t.i!.en up hy the f irat children 't met and teheed and reeehoed as we proceeded. For I vas vlsiliiip one of the kitchens where the American relief children's fund ts feeding the children oi" RlgcL The cry of welcome way for Captain Cap-tain Thomas J. Orbison of Philadelphia and Io? Anseles, who is ch.Ief of the relief re-lief fund In Let via., with Ms headquarters I here in IHku. . I "Uncle from America" Is the r.ame the ' children ha'.e Riven him. Just as in the! Lilian kitchens they call the chief woman director "Auntie Soup." Today 1 visited four kitchens with Captain Cap-tain OrhJson caring for a total of about 3000 children, from some v. ho have to be carried hy their mothers to tho.se 7 years old. I saw them sitting at clean wooden tables ta-bles joyously spooning up rice or bean soup or cocoa, according to what the bill I of fare was that day, with a bis hunk of bread clasped in their little hands. The food is grood and the Lettish women who manage each kitchen dipped for me bowls full from the metal and stone cauldrons i to taste. Despite the fact that I had just had a btp lunch, I liked the food as well ; as the kids. ! There Is no doubt that the American relief re-lief has saved literally thousands of children chil-dren from starving- to death. During- and after the Bolshevik rule of Ripra, food was almost unobtainable at any price. Then came the Americans, first to Lilian on June f, when they bean feeding 013 children. Today they have three kitchens in Li-bau, Li-bau, one for the Jewish children and the other two for Russian and Lettish, taking care of over t'.OOO In Courland. one of the provinces of I.etvia. The Americans Amer-icans will soon be feeding from If?, 000 to IS. 000 children. Hero in Ritra 22. 0M are being cared for at twenty-seven kitchens. By FARMER MURPHY. (Chirapro Tribune Cable Copyright. ) VTEJvNA, via Paris, f-'ept. S. A note concealed In an apple pie sent to a rtol-sht-vllt leader, who Is under detention, created quite a sensation .when discovered by the police. The man to whom the confection was Kent was TOrnst Ttettleheirn. an agitator, once slated for Bolshevik dictator of Vienna. Vi-enna. A corner of the pie when broken revealed re-vealed a tiny piece of paner on which was written In Hungarian: "Pear tiirnst Por will not irive me the money, although Roemisch and T need It. Tell him he must l?lve me a larscr amount from 2.J.00U to 30,000. (SlRnedl "Sais." Pais in a well-known Bolshevik asitator. Por was secretary to Bela Kun and head of the propnpranda work. Por now Is Interned In-terned with Kun. In the belief that Bolshevik Bol-shevik aeritation was oontinuinc:, Pais hoped through Bettleheim to tret money from Por. Sais and the woman who sent the pie to Bettleheim were arresled, together to-gether with the woman's hus'oand. |