Further Plans Made For Armenian Relief

Local Workers Meet and Draw Up Plans for Putting Drive Across: Committees Named

A meeting of the chairmen of committees for the coming Armenian drive was held last night at 7:30 o’clock at the Y. M. C. A. building. The meeting was more or less of an organization meeting, plans being drawn up for the prosecution of the campaign.

To facilitate the work, and much the drive, the city has been divided up into districts, or wards. There will be a chairman for each ward, and each chairman has selected his lieutenants.

Following is the list of chairmen and their aides: First ward: J. E. Boyce, chairman; Fred T. Rucker, Tom Gadberry, Pinchback Tayor, C. H. Moore Sr., John R. Sanders.

Second ward: W. F. Coleman, chairman; W. W. Taylor, Ray McIntyre, H. H. Knox, J. A. McCloud, T. J. Collier Jr., E. T. Miller.

Third ward: Garland Brewster, chairman; J. W. Crawford, Joe Clements; John Reap, H. B. Strange, J. M. Sanders.

Fourth ward: V. O. Alexander, chairman; Joe Hankins, Lawrence Dixon. Tracy Mills, Frank Franey, Harold Bluthenthal

Mrs.Jack Pernhardt, chairman of the womans department of the Armenian Relief drive has made the following appointments: Mesdames Walter Hudson, Sam Taylor, A. W. Troupe, W. D. Jones, J. W. Burleson, Will Nichol.

There was much enthusiasm at a meeting last night, according to Judge W. B. Sorrells who is county chairman. “There is a limited number of days in which the required amount of money must be raised, and every effort must be directed to the work to put it over,” he said.

Details of Massacres

The condition of the Armenians is but vaguely known, hardly realized.

In giving details of the Armenian massacres in Turkey in the last five years, the Constantinople correspondents say that at one time 100,000 Armenians were concentrated at Dorgor, Arabia. The Turkish authorities in Constantinople thought the number was too high and gave orders that 80,000 of the Armenians be put out of the way.

In the Mush Valley, the Kurds robbed 2,000 Armenian women. Later, suspecting that the women had swallowed their jewels, the Kurds killed them in a horrible manner and burned the bodies. The next day, the correspondent said these monsters quietly sifted the ashes, seeking the jewels.

The correspondent reports that in the same region 7,000 children between and 10 years of age died of starvation, and 100 women were burned alive in trenches which the Turks first forced them to dig.