Allies debate Red Cross work in war zones
A State Department statement outlines Red Cross service for German Austrian Turkish subjects in Allied lands. It describes commissions, identity certificates, and nonmilitary pay, with officials stressing conformity to Allied policy and Army supervision while allowing civilian Red Cross units to operate in France and other theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Ashington
Red Cross
England
France
State Department
Joan Red Cross
Department of Heats
Cork
Conco
United
Arey Medical Corps
Red Cross Organization
United States Army
Secretary of War
American National Red
War Council
Execu
Fragmentary Military Directorate Roster Reads Like War Bureau
A garbled list outlines civil and military ranks from Brigadier General to private. The text names roles such as Director Bureau Chief Recitative at Cross base hospitals and various facilities, plus adjutants clerks and hospital staff, all in a muddled listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross Ae Ee
Su Pos
Oeerasatin
Heaptin
Mara
Red Cross Drives Corporate Dividends for War Relief
New York Red Cross appeals to hundreds of corporations to declare special dividends for war relief funds and urges shareholders who helped to donate extra earnings. Major donors include Irving National Bank and Crocker-Wheeler Company with 70 percent participation, plus contributions from Western Electric and numerous stock exchange figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Committee of the Red Cross
New York
Irving National Bank
Crocker-Wheeler Company
Addi
Western Electric Company
H. G. S. Noble
A. C. Gurnell
Smith & Lewis
James R. Sheffield
Alfred W. Kiddle
Dorothy Bull
Tiam B. Thompson
Leon Larael & Brother
Wall Street
A. L. Newman
Fourth Avenue
Clarence
Ellen
John W. Mackay
Clarence Mackay
Rs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
M. Friedsam
Stern Brothers
Colonial Bank
Coordination progresses in war relief effort
Robert 8 Lovett chairman of the Union Pacific committee announced progress toward coordinating war relief work with Red Cross and numerous other organizations. After talks with representatives he expressed confidence a method of cooperation would be worked out with most groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Lovett
American Fund For c Wounded
Judge Lovetts
Red Cross
Committee On Co-operation
Amercan Fund
American Fund For
Robert 8. Lovett
Union Pacific Railroad
Lewis B. Stillwell
Coffin Seeks Truce With Barker On Aeronautical Debate
Frederick W. Barker president of the Aeronautical Society of America said a temporary truce has been declared with the Aircraft Production Board led by Howard Coffin. Barker spoke at the Engineering Building and discussed training, military use, and future aviation development while noting expert proposals about flight power and gyroscope use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick W. Barker
Aeronautical Society of America
Aircraft Production Board
Howard Coffin
Barker
Coffin
Washington
United States
J. Barker
Ine
Elife Barker
Leon Camimen
Orville Wright
Glenn Curtiss
Farewell to J. M. Sprague at Spuyten Duyvil School
Residents gathered at Public School No. 2 on Kridge Avenue in Spuyten Duyvil to honor Isaac M. Sprague retiring after fifty four years in public school work and a long life with the school. Speeches by Wilsey and Police Captain McKeon preceded Sprague’s reminiscences of half a century of teaching. Delegations from Home Defense Guards HKov Scouts Fife and Drum Corps and other neighborhood groups joined the ovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spuyten Duyvil
Kridge Avenue
Isaac M. Sprague
Gilbert M. Zon
Isaac G. Jonnson
Rank
Bb. Wilsey
Board of Education
Matthew McKeon
Sprague
Home Defense Guards
Hkov
Navy Sailor Douglas Murray Marries Miss Barbour Quietly
Douglas Murray leaves for navy service and weds Margaret Lemont Barbour at Grace Church with Rev Cedric C Bentely officiating. The small ceremony had only relatives and friends present and no bridal attendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Douglas Murray
Margaret Lemont Barbour
Otto Johannes Trausi
West End Avenues
Grace Church
Cedric Charles Bentley
Esther Jenkins to Wed Westmore Willcox Jr
Miss Esther Jenkins, daughter of Mr and Mrs John 8 Jenkins of Norfolk Virginia, to marry Westmore Willcox Jr a naval aviation officer and Harvard graduate of 1917. Willcox is nephew of the late Price Collier. No wedding date has been set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willcox
John 8. Jenkins
Norfolk
Esther Jenkins
Westmore Willcox, Jr
Corvine
Navy
Harvard
Price Collier
Schultz Mahnken Engagement Announced in New Jersey
Mr and Mrs William Schultz of West Hoboken New Jersey announce the engagement of their daughter Lulu May Schultz to Walter R Mahnken an architect of this city He attended Pratt Institute and is a member of the BA Club and Architectural Society The note mentions a forthcoming wedding planning details missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schultz-Mahnken
William Schultz
West Hoboken
N. J
Lulu May Schults
Walter R. Mahnken
Mahnken
Pratt Institute
T Penner Reee
BA Club
Weddings Shine in Hastein War Era Society
A flurry of weddings occurred yesterday across New York and nearby towns. Amy Warren wed Henry Bradley Plant at 825 St. Mark's Avenue with families present. George Plummer McNear Jr. married Elizabeth G. Mackenzie at Calvary Church. John Dixon and Frances Sprague tied the knot at St. Thomas's Church. Jessie Hopton wed Herbert Hall at Waldorf Astoria. James Lipser and Helen Rau wed at the Marseilles. Cora Lisso and Charles Aronstam married in Manhattan. Adelaide Gilley and Dr Arthur H. Judge wed in Laurelton. multiple attendees and ties to prominent families and institutions marked the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Warren
Charlies Edward Warren
Brooklyn
Henry Bradley Plant
Commodore Morton F. Plant
Eastern Point
Groton
Emma
Helen L. Warren
Octave Blake
Naval Reserve Ree
H. B. Plant
Plant Fortune
John Plant
George 1
Frances
Mackenzie
Kath. E. Sattler
Mary H. Kattharine C. Church
Harriet W. McKim
Carmelle
Georgia Mackenszie
Mr. Menenys
Eaman McNear
Walter G. Distier
George D. Kitt
W. Roy Manny
Joseph C. J. Stratham
Bherry
Mr. McNear
Cornell
John Watson Dixon
T. Tertius Noble
Annie Louise David
Florence Hardman
Dixon
William Way
Metropolitan Club
Jessie Elizabeth Hopton
Edward Franklin Hopton
Binghamton
N. Y
Waldorf-Astoria
Herbert William Hall
William T. Hall
Fort Myers
Hammond Ind
Astor Dining Room
Mrs Eal
Helen T. Rau
Charlies M. Rau
West 114Th Street
James S. Lipser
Marseilles
Broadway
1084 Street
Dr. Scherr
Zionist Groups Secede at Baltimore Convention
Representatives of three Zionist societies split from the Provisional Executive Committee during a constitutional convention in Baltimore. Justice Louis D. Brandeis watched as the factions formed, with the Sons of Zion briefly returning but declining to participate in legislation. The conservatives and radicals, led by Joseph Barondess and others, argued over representation and an administrative committee. Brandeis was named Honorary President of the Provisional Executive Committee. other officers were Wise, Friedenthal, Epstein, De Haas, and members including Mack, Szold, and Mrs. Fels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Provisional Executive Committee
General Zionist
Louis D. Brandeis
Order of the Sons of Zion
Joseph Barondess
New York
Ers
Miarachi
Poals Zion
J. Baroneess
Sons of Zion
Louis Lipsky
Sona of Zion
Stabbi Stephen
Wise
Provisional Committee
Lipsky
Rabbi Wise
Justice Brandeis
Conige
Henry Friedenwald
II Lewin Epstein
Jacob de Haas
Julian Mack
Chicago
Henrietta Szold
Joseph Fels
Philadelphia
O Connor Seeks Dialogue With Irish Americans
Mr. O Connor of the Irish Mission in America sought to bridge gaps between factions on Home Rule. He met with readers and reporters in shirt sleeves while coding interviews and explained con scription in Ireland was a dead issue. He favored the Irish Convention as the path to a compromise and planned talks with Mayor Mitchel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. P. O'Connor
America
Hell
Great Britain
Mr. O'Connor
O'Vonnes
O'Connor
India House
Mitchel
Ireland
England
Death of Theodore C. Eppig a Brooklyn business figure
Theodore C. Eppig a longtime Brooklyn business and political leader and former general manager of the Joseph Eppig Brewery died Wednesday at Nassau Hospital Mineola. Born in Brooklyn forty years ago he studied law before joining the brewery. He led the Assembly District Democratic Club and served as School Commissioner under Mayor McClellan and held posts at Ridgewood Bank and Hamburg Savings Bank. He lived on Linden Street Brooklyn and summered at Rockville Centre Long Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore C. Eppig
Brooklyn
Joseph Eppig
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
Mr. Eppig
Moffett & Kramer
Eppig
Kippig
Wentieth Assembly District Democratic Club
McClellan
Ridgewood Bank
Hamburg Savings Bank
Linden Street
Brooklys
Rockville Centre
Notable Deaths of Various Figures Across Cities
Obituaries recount deaths of Amherst football alum J Otis Averill Jr in Greenwich Connecticut at 27 28 as well as medical professionals Augustus A Hust and Minnie Cecilia Egan. Other deaths include Cari Behrens Silvia Haskins Hamilton Joseph Kunz Henry M Haone Gustave Von Schmoller W Howard Shaffer Louis Carver and Von Kaulmann with details on ages residences and affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Otis Averill, Jr
Amherst College
Greenwich
Conn
Augustus A. Hust Nblcom
Central Park West
Fulton N
Cornell Medical College
Minnie Cecilia D. Egan
Thomas F. Egan
New York Fire Department
Holy Family Hospital
Emerson Mince
Brooklyn
Cari
Behrens
Elmhurst
T. C
Silvia Haskins Hamilton
Will Henry Hamilton
United States Navy
Quincey Street
Joseph V. Kunz
Ant
Pelton Water Wheel Company
San Francisco
New York
Polhemus Prace
Montauk, Engineers
Henry JL. HA
Northwestern Leather Company
Boston
Gustave. von Schmoller
Harzburg
Germany
W Howard Shaffer
Asbury Park
John
Chicago
Post
Ban States District Court
West 120Th Street
Louis Carver
Poughquag
N. Y
Hudson River
Washington
U von Kualmann
Turkey
Constantinople
Menken Calls for War Council Superior to Cabinet
At a National Security League meeting S Stanwood Menken urged creating a powerful War Council to supersede the Cabinet. He outlined centralizing war powers, universal service, and a nationwide lecture system to educate the public on national security amid rising wartime concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Security League
Bankers Club
S. Stanwood Menken
Menken
The
Security League
Robert Bacon
France
Quartermaster General
General Pershing
Lome
America
Chautauqua
England
One Year for Threatening President
Adolph Swanner arrested in April at Woodbine New Jersey charged with threatening to kill President Wilson and convicted in May by Judge J W Davis. He was sentenced in Newark yesterday to one year and one day in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Swanner worked as a farm hand when arrested but appears well educated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Swanner
Woodbine
N. J
Wilson
J. W. Davis
Newark
Federal Penitentiary
Atlante
Swimer
James Monahan Dies at 110 in Watertown Mass
James Monahan of Watertown Massachusetts dies at 110. He immigrated from Ireland in 1848 at age 41 and spent the rest of his life in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Monahan
Watertown
Mass
Ireland
Marriage and death notices telephoned for NYT insertion
Notices include marriage and death items intended for The New York Times, to be telephoned to 1000 Bryant for placement. The service guidelines specify how such notices are submitted and processed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Bryant
Birth and Engagement Notices From Newark and Brooklyn
Birth announcements list a Newark birth on June 2 for a child of Dr. Weedl with initials and addresses garbled. An engagement is announced for Mildred, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dahn Xelsey of 455 Wartichet Avenue. she is to wed Henry Feake of Brooklyn. Additional notices name Minnie Bayer to Louisa Parson, Ethel Shaen to Harold Barron, and Helen Preston to Paul Smith in concise society items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dahn Xelsey Aeani
Cutfort Kelsey
Wartichet
Avenur
Lyn
Mildred
J. Menry Feake
Augveta
Brooklyn
Paporells
Minnie Bayer
Louisa Thiporeite
Parsons Shaen
Ethel Shaen
Harold
Barron
Smith
Helen ¥. Preston
Pmil W. Smith
Obituary notices from New York and New Jersey
June 1917 notices list numerous deaths and funeral details across Brooklyn Jersey City Newark Hoboken and surrounding towns. Names include Kerr Leggett Neugass Kunze Leake Plummer Ryan Siegel Taylor Teets Wiellets Garver Pine Gates Leverett Hover Littwitz Murray Overton Tostevin Smith Voigt Wisner Kirkus Baldauf Childs Gould Betsch Oren Tompkins Rehage Drew Logan Church Humphreys Bu mke McMahon Murray etc with residences and burial sites noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Haldauf Reeve
Dorothy M. Heeve
Harry
Baldauf
Childs
Bouche
Gertrude Houcher
Ensign Earle W. F. Childs
Gould-Scott
Alice Beott
Willard C. Gould
Haskell—Betsch
Gertrude Betsch
Wiliam P
HaskeLl Ossman
Tompkins
May Tompkins
Joinaman, Jr
Rehage
Simpson
Man
Obituaries and Funeral Notices From Local Papers
Died notices list Otis Averill of Greenwich aged 26 near 27 with funeral at Church of the Ascension on June 30 1917. Marie Antoinette Barre widow of William Barre and Samuel Baron funeral at different localities. Francesa E Bell of Fanwood widow of John Jay Bell and Henry Conboy engineer with funeral mass at St. Anton Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ehrhard
Brooklyn
Louis Eh
Rosa Ebrhard
Hockville Centre
L. I
St. Agnes's Church
Rockville
Holy Cross Cemetery
Kerr
West Stockholrt
Mass
James C. Kerr
Sedgwick Place
Stockbridge
Glasgow
KOREV
Ignatz
Koref
Francis Koref
K. Yrver
Adele K. Swartz
Kunze
Ehort Ilineas
J . W. Kunze
Janet Walker
Polhemus Place
Brooks
Selock
Greenwood Cemetery
San Francisco
Oaksand
Cal
Leake
South Bound Brook
N. J
Mary E
Pee Fenville
G. Leake
Neva
Flower
Leggett
Brevoort Place
Charles Fr. Leggett
Central Congrega Ene M Arch
Hancock St
Franklin and
Bedford Ava
Lindbay
Kate DD. Lindsay
Pacific Street
Fairchild
Lefferts Place
Neugass
Morris
Ida Neugass
South West End
Rockaway Park
Ahawath Chesed Cemetery
Linden Hill
A. Hill
Leais
Oth
Torrow
Hughes
Joseph
East Roth St
Manning
Patrick
Fant
Bali
Theoline
Bender
Barbara
Kingston Avenue Hospital
A. Campbell
Eben
Herkimer Court
FABER
Anna M. P
Quincy St
Hen
Lohmbeier
Mettra G
Greene St
McIntyre
Jane
Waverly Av
Nielsen
Anne M
11Th St
Prenden Louisa
Sterling Place
Poney
Quinn —Mary L
Prospect Ace
Reiss
Atkin
Martha E
Delavan
Newark
Barnes
Adelaide J
Boulevard
Jersey City
Bartley
John T
BAYES
Romie
Jackson Av
Crothers
William J
North St
Davison
Nancy
Manhattan
Michael
Arch St
Livingston
Mary M
Northth St
McClaey
Sarah
Bergen
Annie
Hoboken
McIerney
A. M. McVickers
Meyer
George J
Newton
George F
Lincoln St
Cedarhurst
L. L
Samuel
Malvina Baron
Max Ih
Straus
Henry & Albert, Hugo
Max D Hen
Leo A. Baron
Salem
Fields Chapel Bell
Fanwood
Francesa E. Bell
John Jay Bell
A. W. Morley, Jr
Conroy
Henry ©. Conboy
Ellen Glennon
Pany
Bt. J Council
K. of C
Tinton
St. Anthons Church
164Th St
Prospect Av
Iu A. M
Obituary Notices Predominant In New Jersey Area
Various individuals with addresses in Hoboken Jersey City Astoria Flushing Ridgewood Woodhaven and nearby areas are listed with June funeral dates and ages. Entries include Annie Stink Lottie Sutton Mary Barter and Victoria Peters among others with ages ranging from infants to seniors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orbilly
Peter
Park Av
Heveses
Ju Pierce
Euisabeth
Central
Ae Preisler
Mary A
Newark
Mary
Rosedale
Neral Tod
Connore
Lens Istand City
Rio Aelveiare
Astoria
Dee Eppig
Theodore
Rockville
Genue
Eubel
Emu
Ogee Gillott Samuel
Ridgewood
Saues P
Woodside
Louis
Flushing
Ca Kelly
A James
Pearson St
Long ‘Pana City
Kraus
Prederick Winfield
Urett James
Masreth
Amsm
Mt . McCleery
Murich Ai
SON
Robbert
Whitestone
Jeanette
Island City
Olivari
Anthony
Richmond Mill
Ogre
Rk Emil
Woodhaven
A Peters
Victoria
Corona
Pontobello
Giuseppe
Ua Raa En
Roesch
Maude No
Biscacer
Acne
Frank
Winfield My
Warren
Robert EI Jockoan
Pewoj-Fent
Hisadeth
Great Neck
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mandolins
Murray Hill
Chas. H. Ditson & Co
East 34Th
Aeronautical Society
Rit
J. M. Sprague
Citizens National Bank OF New York
Ambrosh & Adams Ghreve & Adams
Commission
Bacon
Wieer mm
Om Cotes
Caesar & Co
Commissiee
Laccate
Howard F. Clark Burtoe Brothers & Co
William
William 8
Darwin P. Kingsley
New York Life Company
Een Kingslay Meat Life Insurance Company
Augustus F. Libby
William Fellowes
Morgan Caairmes Directors
Chants Refrigeration Co
Charles Alizn Munn
Presnest
Mase & Co, Publishers
Scientife Ameriese
Frank Presbret
Frank Presbrey
Edwix
Schence
Hastein
Ensign
Naval’ Reserve
Com. M. F. Plant
Miss MacKenzie
G. P. McNear, Jr
Engineers’ Corps
Calvary Church
Dixon-Sprague
St. Thomas's Church
Hall—Hopton
J. S. Lipser
Charies S. Aronstam
Cora Lee Lisso
Paul Tisso
West Ninety-ninth Street
Alexandria
Charies
Aronstam
Supreme Court
Clarence J. Shearn
Progressive Party
Esses County
Canada
Beny
A. H. Judge
Miss Gilley
Adelaide M. Gilley
William E. Gilley
Laurelton, L. I
Arthur H. Judge
Laurelton
E.f.s.cloth Union
Born
Woolf
Newark, Nw. J
Dr. -Id Mra
U. MH. Weedl
Condict
Park Avenue
Sarah Frances
Stephen Hays
Orange
S. J
Sophia King
Rai
Cory
Rutherford
Francis G. Cory
Bedford
Henry Mason Day
Deutscher
William G
Dunham
I Place
Bronx
New York City
Lewis
Albert R
Mar
Ja Ane K
Garet Dunham
Terment
Wood
Glen Ridge N. J
John Ryan
Sacred Heart Church
Bloomfield
Calvary Cemetery
Automobile Cortee
Schueler
Richard B. Scheeler
124Th St
the Apostolic Church
West 114Th St
Siegel
George M
Theresa Siegel
Mount Judah
Cypress Hills
Taylor
Boonton
J. Taylor
Hedding Ridge
Joseph W. Teets
New York and New Jersey Cremation Company
North Bergen
Wiellets
Eixte
Dellenhalgch Goddard
Howard L. Thomas
Ridgefield
William L. Fullivan
Annie Celestine
Warren Norton Goddard
Frederick & Delienbaugh, Jr
Garver-Pine
St George's Chapel
Stuyvesant Square
Chauncey
Brewster
Alice
John B. Pine
Chauncey Brewster Garver
Gates Leverett
First Presbyterian Church
Binghamton, N
Theodore L. Leverett
Hew
J. J. Lawrence
Elizabeth
Jesis Leverett
Murray—Barbour Mies
Margaret le Mant Barbour
Otto Johannes Transil
West End Av
Greco Episcopal Church
Murray
Nary Overton—Tostevin
St. Bartholomew's Church
Charles Ackley
Ida Havard Tostevin
William Altenyvertonnich—Smith
Mira Elisabeth H. Smith
Getter c. Smith
Atlantic Highlands
Mra Piizaveta Hooper
Asbury Fark
George P. Rice, Jr
Bumke
Maelileth St
Birak
Flaherty
Thomas
West Iith
M. Gingras
Ernest
Ben
Gould
Hastiaa
A. M. Hahn
Solomon
W. Hammet
Edward
Earnests Bronx
Ektar
Rebecca
201
West
T. June
Goccio Joseph
East 25Th
Oper
Isv
Winterbottom Ram
America’s Burial Park
Fin Wastchester
Crty
Grand Views
Hiekensico c
Park AY Telephone Murrey
Oes
Russia
Cura
Dept. 6M
Cox
West 40Th St
Tate
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