Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — RECOGNIZES SON IN NAVAL MOVIE PICTURE [ARTICLE]

RECOGNIZES SON IN NAVAL MOVIE PICTURE

Charleston. W. Va.—When R. E. Washington, a hotel man here, went into a moving picture theater he learned the whereabouts of his twenty-year-old son Lawrence, who disap-' peared from his home two years ago. The film showed a picture of the dreadnaught Pennsylvania in target practice in the Hampton Roads' proving grounds, with Washington manning one of the guns. The father recognized his son Im. stantly. The picture showed honors being conferred on the young man, who made three hits without a was promoted from ordinary seaman to chief gun pointer, with an increase of $8- in his monthly stipend. The youth is a direct descend.mt of George Washington's brother Charles, for whom Charlestown, W. Va., was named. '