Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-22 | Page 2 | Good Care is Taken of Alien Property

GOOD CARE IS TAKEN ' OF ALIEN PROPERTY By PARK E BROWN. fChieaco Tribune Cable, Copyright.) UKi;.I N, Dec. 21. Americans now visiting in Berlin, who had lived here before be-fore the war. are telling today how pleased they aro to find all the furnishings furnish-ings of their apartments intact and in good condition and to get such high prices when their goods are sold. A hearer of one of these men inter-runted inter-runted with a question whether or not lie had n.it tiled with the United States government gov-ernment a claim to payment for his property prop-erty as lost. With a start of recollection he "admitted he had. This man may or may not wi thdraw Ills claim, but probably there are hundreds hun-dreds of similar cases In which, unless there is a careful investigation, payment may oe made for property here awaiting the" American owners' claim. In manv instances the furniture is still In the apartments where left, and one of the biggest sources of pride of responsible G. Titian ofheiais has been the care taken of such alien property. German citizens intrus'.e'i with the custody of these a!ien effects have been held strictly to account.