Women to Get Place on Board of League to Enforce Peace
First women named to the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace include Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Mrs Eva Perry Moore Mrs Thomas J Preston and Miss M Carey Thomas. They join to campaign against a premature peace and to promote a postwar League of Nations with Taft presiding at Yale Club meeting attended by notable reformers.
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New York
League To Enforce
Anna Howard Shaw
Council of National Defence
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Eva Perry Moore
National Council of Women
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Thomas J. Preston
Princeton
Grover Cleveland
M. Carey Thomas
Bryn Mawr College
League
League of Nations
William H. Taft
Shaw
United States
Germany
Yale Club
Oscar 8
Straus
John Bates Clark
Alton B. Parker
Hamilton Holt
William H. Wadhams
Yierbert
Houston
Talcott Williams
Charles Stewart Davidson
Edward A. Filene
Glenn Frank
Boston
Bolton Smith
Memphis
Theodore Marburg
Baltimore
Zionist Leaders Launch $150000 New England Campaign
Two hundred Zionist leaders from New England gathered at the West End Y M H A in Boston to begin a drive aiming to raise 150000 as New England’s share of a national million dollar fund for reestablishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The kickoff saw pledges above 5000, with Louis E. Kirstein chairing the finance committee and speakers including Dr H M Bichler A H Frontensen Dr Harry Alsberg and several rabbis and civic figures.
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Zionist Organizations of
New England
West End
Mt. Vernon Street
United States
Palestine
Holy Land
Louis E. Kirstein
Max Mitchell
M. M. Eichler
Kirstein
America
Peter M. Leavitt
H. M. Bichler
A. H. Fromenson
Harry Alsberg
New York
Louis E. Feingold
Worcester
P. Israeli
J. J. Jurman
East Boston
Borochoff
Malden
H. H. Levenson
Family and race ties spur women to enlist as operators abroad
Miss Elsie Hunter of Medford and Miss Sara Fecteau of White River Junction volunteer for overseas service as 100 telephone operators are called. Hunter is sister to Sergeant R. J. Hunter killed in action with the first Canadian Expeditionary Force, and five of her first cousins serve in British trenches.
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Elsie Hunter
Otis Street
Medford
Sara Fecteau
White River Junction
Hunter
R. J. Hunter
First
French girls join 100 woman trench operation corps
Miss Fecteau and Miss Hunter train for service in France as part of a 100 phone operators unit. They prepare in khaki uniforms with short skirts and puttees and will sail soon to join the war effort. Miss Hunter has six years in Melrose exchange and four as supervisor, Miss Fecteau four years in White River Junction exchange.
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Miss Fecteau
France
Trench
Miss Hunter
Melrose Exchange
White River Junction Exchange
Hip Broken in Rush to Board City Car
William Trahey of 48 Stone Avenue Somerville employed at Charlestown Navy Yard was crushed in a rush at the Sullivan Square terminal and suffered a broken hip. He was taken to Haymarket Relief Hospital.
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Sullivan Square
William Trahey
Stone Avenue
Somerville
Charlestown Navy Yard
Haymarket Relief Hospital
General Sir Beau Duff Found Dead in West Indies Club
General Sir Beau champ Duff former commander in chief of British forces in India from 1913 to 1916 was found dead in his bed at a West Indies club. He had a long army career with key posts at the War Office and in India and testified before a Mesopotamian expedition commission. The 53-year-old officer was succeeded by General Monro in 1916.
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London
Sir Beauchamp Duff
India
West Ind
Duff
War Office
Monro
Great Britain
Townshend
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Big Loon Post
Theodore
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Gude
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