Jewish Relief Commission Reports 19 Million Spent
The first post-war report shows 19 million dollars spent on Jewish relief across Poland Russia the Balkans Palestine Turkey France Belgium and Holland. Warburg notes large sums for Poland Lithuania Courland Telestine and Asia Minor and emphasizes immediate relief foods and clothing as the priority before reconstruction. He quotes a survivor urging aid to restore health and living conditions so people can work out their own problems.
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Poland
Russia
Balkans
Palestine
Turkey
France
Belgium
Holland
Jewish Relief Commission
Felix M. Warburg
Jet Distribution Committee
Lithuania
Courland
Telestine
Asia Minor
Siberia
Serbia
Bulgaria
Rumania
Greece
Czecho-Slovakia
Iowa
Scandinavia
Warburg
Mr. Warburg
Europe
Renova Unie Saeveiion
Wes Ward Ho
Danzig
Polishational Committee
Isidor Hershfield
Baruch Zuckerman
Mr. Hurwich
Brest-Litovsk
Pinsk
Water stream sparks old city nostalgia in underground tale
The piece recalls a hidden waterway flowing between uptown and downtown subways of the BRT, visible from platforms and linked to historic ponds. Engineers say it is the same water that once fed Collect Pond and Madison Square Pond while past residents recalled orchard thefts near the Battery. Taxpayers debate its sanitation and natural quality.
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BRT
BOR
Manhattan
Collect Pond
Madison Square Pond
Great Grandpa
Battery
Kewanee Boiler Company
Warburg Urges Aid to Polish Jewish Refugees in Desperate Conditions
In a stark report, Warburg describes starving Polish regions and displaced Jews stripped of clothing and shelter. He cites Major Davis's photos of starving children, argues for immediate relief and reconstruction aided by international loans, and calls for government promises to protect Jewish refugees alongside other citizens.
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Holland
Denmark
Russia
Mr. Warburg
Poland
Cornell Prepares Three Day Semi Centenary Celebration
Cornell University plans a three day semi centennial in Ithaca starting June 20 with a fifty on salute and speeches by Jacob Gould Schurman Charles E Hughes Governor Smith and Chief Justice Mincock. More than 6 000 alumni expected and an alumni convention will be held June 21 followed by a university dinner.
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Cornell University
Ithaca
Dollar Drive For Boy Scouts Opens Nationwide
The Dollar Drive to enlist 1,000,000 adult members launches with church leaders reading President Wilson's proclamation. In New York 800,000 Scouts will be enrolled via a week of campaigns, speeches, parades, and school and church demonstrations aiming to expand Boy Scout troops nationwide.
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Boy Scouts
Auxiliary Army
United States
Germany
Wilson
Boy Scouts of America
Scout Organization
Bil” Edwards
New York Citizens’ Committee
Edwards
Boy Scout Movement
Hoy Scouts
Boys Scouts of America
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Committee On Public Information
Hoy Scouts of America
America
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
Citizens’ Committee
American Boyhood
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
National Scout Committee
Sniniatora
War Honors Conferred On Salvation Army Leaders
Ensign Mrs. F C Burdick nicknamed Ma Burdick receives the Croix de Guerre from Paris for bravery aiding wounded under German fire. John Allen, long of the Salvation Army’s overseas force, is made a major in the U S Army after eight years with the Bowery mission. Burdick is 60, hailed from Houston Texas. Allen led chaplains in the 77th Division and aided fellow Salvation Army workers in France.
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Ma” Burdick
Allen
Salvation Army
Paris
F. C. Burdick
John Allen
Bawexy
United States
Tun Seetor
77Th
France
ALEPF
Bowery
Havana
Antiques on Show Before June Auction at Silo Galleries
A collection of antique art objects will be shown at Silo's Fifth Avenue galleries tomorrow ahead of an auction on June 1 6. Items include pieces from the Earl of Chesterfield Holme Lucy estate and Court Bleddyn Monmouthshire with modern paintings also offered next Friday. James P. Silo will conduct on site sales at Sherry's Fifth Avenue and Forty four street Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at 11 8m of furnishings from the establishment. A separate sale of Georgian and Renaissance furniture from England and Italy is set for Old Galleries 15 East Fifty ninth Street tomorrow prior to sales on June 3 7. Albert Eugene Gallatin of New York urges President Wilson to send American artists to Europe to paint battlefields and war life for posterity.
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Silo
Fifth Avenue
Earl of Chesterfield
Holme Lucy
Hertfordshire
England
Court Bleddyn
Llangibby
Monmouthshire
Exeter
James P. Silo
Sherry's
Forty-fourth Street
Italy
East Fiftyninth Street
America
Great Britain
Frince
Canada
Europe
Wilson
Albert Eugene Gallatin
New York
Gallatin
Rhine
Keppel Named Director of Red Cross Foreign Operations
Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, third assistant secretary of war and former Columbia dean, will become director of foreign operations for the American Red Cross on July 1. He handed in his resignation to Secretary Baker today after serving since April 17, 1918, and overseeing soldiers social and physical welfare for more than a year.
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Keppel
Foreign Service
Red Cross
Washington
Frederick P. Keppel
Columbia University
American Red Cross
Baker
de. Keppel
War Department
Stevens Adjudged Incompetent by Supreme Court Jury
John S. Stevens a Consolidated Stock Exchange member is placed under guardianship as incompetent to manage his chairs. He believes he owns 600 cents on the exchange, while Dr. William F. Dold from Rivercraft Sanitorium says the condition may be curable.
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Stevens
John S. Setvens
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Rivercraft
Supreme Court
Consolidated Exchange
William F. Dold
Rivererent Sanitorium
Stovonn
Millionaire says he was swindled in Volpi art sale
Jackson Johnson of St Louis a Chamber of Commerce president admits he cannot claim art expertise. He bought two canvases at the Volpi sale for 11 800 dollars, later learned to be copies worth about 200 dollars. He assigned his claim to Arthur Spence who pursued the suit. Johnson explains he avoided publicity and used a dummy plaintiff.
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Jackson Johnson
St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce
Supreme Court
Rubens
van Dyck
Jie
Johnson
Arthur C. Spence
Spence
Fince
Weeks
Mr. Tohnson
Dealera
Elia Volpi
Florence
Italy
Davanzanti Palace
Villa Pin
Joseph E. Widener
Otto H. Kahn
Henry ©. Frick
Volpi
Iselin and Miss Brown Wed in Elegant Pittsburgh Ceremony
C Oliver Iselin Jr of New York City and Elizabeth Sharpless Brown wed in the Brown home at 5 pm. Rev Wyatt Brown officiated beside an improvised altar of Japanese maples and hydrangeas. A reception followed with family from New York and friends from the East. The couple plan a Virginia shooting season and then a Long Island home after January 1.
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Roderick Tower
Carey Morgan
James E. Gowen
Iselin
Virginia
Long Island
Endowment Sought To Reopen Fordham Medical School
Fordham University may reopen its medical school if an endowment is raised. The school has operated at a loss for years and is currently closed while plans transfer students to other colleges with State Board of Education cooperation.
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Fordham
Fordham University
University
John T. Ryan
Ryan
State Board of Education
Columbia
Cornell
Fordham University School of Medicine
Adele Shoenhart Sues to Annul 1914 Marriage to George Stoddard
Adele Shoenhart files suit in the Supreme Court to annul her marriage to George F. E. Stoddard author of the musical Listen Lester. She states he already had a wife living in Oneida County New York when they wed in Chicago by Judge La Bay. She cites his West Coast meeting in 1914 and claims he represented himself as single. Stoddard runs with John Cort at 1472 Broadway and has an income of about 20000 a year.
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Oneida County
N.Y
Bride-to-be’s fiancé dies suddenly during talks of wedding
Ernest Reich a 44 year old machinist of 163 St Ann's Avenue The Bronx collapsed and died yesterday while in a discussion with Mrs Selma Herg of 411 East 137th Street about their planned marriage today.
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Ernest Reich
St. Ann's Avenue
The
Bronx
Selma Herg
East 137Th Street
Connecticut Girl Weds Captain of The 77th Marines
Captain Edwin Newell Lewin of the 77th Division marries Miss Mary Helena Hall at the bride’s home in New Britain Connecticut. The ceremony coincides with his mother’s 54th birthday. Lewin will receive a Columbia University degree in Journalism after the ceremony and they will reside at 709 West 170th Street New York. The couple honeymooned immediately.
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New Britain
Conn
Edwin Newell Lewin
308Th Infantry
France
Mary Helena Hall
Lewis
Burton W. Lewis
179
Lake Street
Henry W. Maier
First Congregational Church
Lucy Hall
West Main Street
Columbia Wednesay
West 170Th Street
New York
Tribune Star
United States
Plattsburg School
77Th
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