Ask Aid For Removal of Turks' Slave Marks

1920

Armenian Girl Captives Are Disgraced by Tattooed Faces

PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 1. — Many Armenian women and girls who were stolen by Turks, Kurds and Tartars were tattooed by their abductors on their cheeks and foreheads. These unhappy women must bear the signs of their disgrace to their graves unless a scientific method of removing the tattoo marks is furnished.

Dr. Wilfred M. Post, of Princeton, N. J., returned recently from Asia Minor, where he served with the Near East Relief. He says many of the women were driven into rivers to drown, the most beautiful girls were reserved for Turkish harems, from which some escaped and some were rescued.

The officials of the Near East Relief have asked physicians who specialize in affections of the skin to inform them of a safe way of removing tattoo marks. Several prominent scientists have offered their services, among them Dr. George H. Washburn of Harvard, who served in the Medical corps of the United States Army.


Weight Straightens His Neck

1920

Then Sight Is Restored to Youth Injured at Football

NORMAN, Okla., Jan. 1. — John H. Merkle, a student in the University of Oklahoma, is rapidly recovering from injury received in a football game here, which dislocated his cervical vertebra and temporarily blinded him, by carrying a 10-pound weight around his neck. Merkle's vision returned as soon as his neck became straightened by the weight. Merkle, who is now in a Shawnee hospital, lives at Maud, Oklahoma.