Altitude Records Set For War Workers In Senate Move
War workers set altitude records at Kelly Field and elsewhere as Senate measures authorize dry zones around key plants. Lieut Lowell Smith reached 19 060 feet in a heavy training plane with a Vispano Suiza engine, while Lieut Shaffer logged 12 consecutive somersaults. Maj Burwell previously held the field record at 17 065 feet. Fraternities convert houses to barracks for the Students Army Training Corps as colleges join training efforts. Senate debated prohibition zones around war plants while efforts to adjust the agricultural appropriation bill continued.
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Kelly Field
Lowell IF. Smith
William TI. Shaffer
Ft U.S. Burwell
Barwell
Gientannut Smith
Washington, D
Senate
Kellope
Minnesota
Miller
Dent
Alabama
New York
Federal Trade Comcission
Echampio
Bankhead
Senator King
Utah
King
Sheppard
Texas
Program at Kelly Field Opens Cooks and Bakers School
An entertainment event at Kelly Field marks the opening of the enlarged school for cooks and bakers near Kelly No. 1 headquarters. The program includes dancing music and vaudeville, with the Kelly Wiel Amusement Unit and Glee Club performing under Cap. James S. Crosson and lieutenants G M Gorrie Nicholas Drew and John K Riodan in charge.
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Kelly Field
Kelly Wiel Glee Club
Entou Iaiament
James 8. Crosson
G. M. Gorrie
Nicholas Drew
Jolu IK
Itiodan
Plan 500000 Fund Aiding Drought Victims in Western Texas
Austin leaders organize an aggressive effort to raise about 500000 for drought relief in western Texas. Colonel W W Seley heads the committee with HQ in the governor's reception room capitol. First meeting Thursday included A C Goer HL Johnson and Colonel LC Downs. Governor has received 40000 in contributions so far.
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Austin
Tex
W. W. Seley
Waco
Seley
Capitol
A.C. Goer
Do HL Johnson
Wichita
British Gains Seen in War Effort and Strategy
London dispatch reports that Britain achieved a strategic offensive victory with minimal sacrifice, gaining grip on German positions near Lille and Cambrai while warning against overconfidence. Evacuations at Leng suggest no immediate counteroffensive, as Germany may pivot to political peace strategies. Three killed in Fort Worth crash. local notes mix with war analysis.
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Herbert Sidebotham
London Times
San Antonio
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The
Public Ledger Gc
London
Somme
Douai
Cambrai
Menen
Meeh
Marlborough
Aubers Ridge
Douné Plain
Lilla
Neuve-Chapelle
Eoos
Overcon
Fidenes
Leng
Searne
France
Germany
Snoodsine
Austria
Traly
Italy
Tate
Fort “Worth
Tex
Ned Caimer
Lexas
Frank Wortenberry
Oll
Greenwood
Oxas
JC. Smith
Port Worth
J.T Mankin
Notable Vaudeville and Film Week at The Royal
Ford and Goodrich star in U Cant Believe Them at the Royal Theaters. Aerial Latts and Bob Zeno performers deliver bright acts. The Notorious Delphine and Tl lirtation headline, with May Allison in A Successful Adventure and Mutual War Weekly plus a Goldwyn comedy on the program. The Silver Fountain at Princess The ater along with five vaudeville acts and a strong feature slate, including Madane Petrova in Daughter of De Sonne on anal oy and Theda Bara in A Wool There Was at the Grand. Also The Allied Official War Review and Pars of Fate at other venues, with Chaplin and Keubrian, and The Seven Keys to Baldpate at the Towell. Stella Maris with Mary Pickford shown Saturday.
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Ford
Goodrich
the Royal
Royal ‘Theater
Delphine
May Allison
Mutual War Weekly
Goldwyn
Sta Madane Petrova
de Sonne
Analoy
Miss Bara
Berlin
Cure Catarrh with S S S, Atlanta ad promises relief
Old advertisement urges Catarrh is a constitutional blood disease not a mere head cold. It warns of deafness, breath odor, stomach and kidney effects, and lung risk. Promotes vegetable tonic S S S as the cure with a free medical consultation from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
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S. S
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Georgia
Captain Brooks Killed by Shell Near Vesle France
Captain Belvedire Brooks, former Western Union executive, was killed August 22 near Fismes, France, by a shell during a German attack. He stood at an entrance to a large cave south of the Vesle when struck, as allied forces faced artillery fire.
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Brooks
France
Belvedire Brooks
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fismes
Vesle
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Corn Wall
Singer
Sulat
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Jeve
Charlie Chaplin
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Baldpate
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Mary Pickford
Stella Maris
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