Concentration of Army Urged by Secretary of War
Secretary Stimson backs a plan to abandon at least sixteen U.S. army posts and concentrate forces at eight strategic points. Retained sites include Fort Porter Buffalo, Fort Oglethorpe, Fort McPherson Atlanta, Fort Sam Houston Texas, Fort Lawton Seattle, Vancouver Barracks Washington, and the San Francisco Presidio. Other posts would be withdrawn with costs totaling millions to date. Fort Bliss would be kept.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
General Staff
Stimson
United States
Fort Porter
Buffalo
N. Y
Albany
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Fort Lawton
Seattle
Wash
Vancouver Barracks
Portland
Presidio
San Francisco
Monterey
Cal
California
Apache
Ariz
Boise
Barracks
Idaho
Brady
Michigan
Clark
George Wright
Washington
Jay
New York
Lincoln
Neb
Logan H. Roots
Ark
McIntosh
Mackenzie
Wisconsin
Madison Barracks
Meade
South Dakota
Niagara
Ontario
Wayne
Whipple Barracks
Arizona
William Henry Harrison
Montana
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Ethan Allen
Vermont
Plattsburg Barracks
Robinson
Missoula
Logan
Colorado
Douglas
Utah
D. A. Russell
Fort Bliss
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Fort
Four posts recommended for retention across western states
Secretary Stimson recommends keeping Fort Sill Fort Bliss Huachuca and Fort Myer as key posts. The report answers a House resolution by Rep Bulkely noting 30 million dollars spent on useless posts in the last decade and argues against abandonment.
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Sheridan
Illinois
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Crook
Nebraska
Omaha
Leavenworth
Kansas
Riley
Snelling
Minnesota
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Bliss
Texas
Huachuca
Arizona
Fort Myer
Virginia
Normal Instructors Named for Corpus Christi Summer Normal
Corpus Christi Texas January 29. At a meeting of the normal leaders the board of instructors for the summer normal was named. Professor Hallmark city superintendent Brownsville was named conductor. Faculty includes W T Loffland Corpus Christi High school Thomas M Colston Kingsville public schools and Osier of Alice. The normal opens June 1 and runs nine weeks with more than 300 teachers expected.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Hallmark
Brownsville
W. T. Loffland
Corpus Christi High School
Thomas M. Colston
Kingsville Public Schools
Osier
Alice
Yoakum Invited to Corpus for Club Address
A special Commercial Club board meeting approved inviting B F Yoakum Frisco system chairman to Corpus to deliver an address to members and citizens. Col Yoakum is in the region and is expected to accept, with a date to be set soon.
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Yoakum
Corpus
Lise Cutiocaas
Eddies
Esas
Corpus Christi
Tex
Commercial Club
Roy Miller
Railroad Committee
B. F. Yoakum
Burnet Williamson Counties Nominate Waterloo Teacher for Legislature
E M Watson formerly of Burnet county and now Waterloo school teacher near Taylor announced in Taylor on Saturday his candidacy for representative to the next Texas legislature from Burnet and Williamson counties.
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Taylor
Tex
E. M. Watson
Burnet County
Waterloo
Burnet
Williamson
Personal equation center of Christian faith preached by Bishop Hendrix
Bishop E R Hendrix of Kansas City preached at Travis Park Methodist Church about Christianity as the religion of a person not a dogma. He contrasted Christian personality with other faiths and hailed Christ as the permanent and central figure whose birth changed history, warning against religions that destroy personality. The overflow crowd heard him defend Christ’s teachings prior to the Gospels and the Epistle to Colossians.
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Hendrix
Travis Park Church
Travis Park Methodist Church
E. R. Hendrix
Kansas City
Christ
Ings
Barron Works With Corpus Bizmen On Local Compress
T. J. Barron of Vicksburg Mississippi met with Corpus Christi business leaders to discuss establishing and operating a compress in Corpus. Barron is an experienced compress man and optimistic about the project’s prospects.
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Corpus Hristi
Tex
T. J. Barron
Vicksburg
Miss
Corpus
Barron
Young Morgan Home Burglarized for Jewelry and Gold
Thieves entered J. P. Morgan Jr.s New York residence last Thursday night and left valuables including jewelry foreign gold money and bank notes. Police lists for January show over 100000 in stolen jewelry. They search for a gold pendant bearing the insignia of the Order of the Garter linked to the Morgan loot. its existence is not confirmed by police.
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Associated Press
New York
J. P. Morgan Jr
Morgan
Rder
Garter
England
Prince of Wales
J. P. Morgan
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