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Show FORMER RESIDENTS ORGANIZE SOCIETY BfPARKE BROWN. (Chicago "Tribune Cable, Copyright.) BERLIN, Dec. 21. About twenty American states had representatives at a meeting for the formation of an association asso-ciation of Germans who arc former residents resi-dents of the United States. Several had been Interned at Fort Oglethorpe, but the predicted protest against their treatment there lias not developed. "We had absolutely no complaint of our treatment after we readied the hands of the army," said Otto Schaefer of New York, who was jailed for three months at Trenton ?nd elected provisional chairman chair-man of the association. Tho vice chairman is Pr. K. O. Bert-ling, Bert-ling, who has a master's degree from Harvard. Others present were Dr. Kun-waldt. Kun-waldt. former director of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra; Dr. Rhoda Krdman, woman professor of zoology at Yale, interned in-terned because of poison plot rumors. The discussion centered on German property in the United States, and several sev-eral speakers were hopeful that congress would vote to return the confiscated goods following the establishment of peace. |