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Show I RECOGNIZES SON IN j NAVAL MOVIE PICTURE j f Charleston, W. Va When R. ? i E. Washington, a hotel man J I here, went into a moving pic- f f ture theater he learned the J I whereabouts of his twenty-year- i old son Lawrence, who dlsap- J j peered from his home two years j I ago. i The film showed a picture of j f the dreadnaught Pennsylvania J i In target practice in the Hamp- j f ton Roads proving grounds, i f with Lawrence Washington j ! manning one of the guns. The t father recognized his son in-' stantly. f f The picture showed honors be- I .ing conferred on the young man, f who made three hits without a i ! miss, as a result of which he was promoted from ordinary I seaman to chief gun pointer, j t with an increase of $8 In his i i monthly stipend. j t The youth Is a direct descen- ? dant of George Washington's ; brother Charles, for whom 4 i Charlestown, W. Va., was t named. i i : I |