Peru protests US bid for apology over McAdoo visit
Peru formal foreign office dispatch reports an alleged affront by Secretary McAdoo during the U S delegation visit to Lima. It highlights plans for elaborate entertainment that ended abruptly and calls for official cognizance and possible apology. The exchange includes a formal message from McAdoo expressing thanks and disappointment at limited stay. The editorial wave in South America denounces the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tma
Peru
Foreign Affairs Today
McAdoo
International High Commission
United States
Great Exphanse
Calice
Wilson
WeAdoo Party
Hile
Hiletn Preas Joina
Feruoin
Reply of Minister Aguero to the United States
Minister Aguero responds to Secretary McAdoo and the U S Treasury on board the 3 Ten-Noheee vessel. He thanks the United States for its appreciation of Peru and its government and expresses regret that medical ship issues disrupted a friendly Lima reception. He reiterates enduring friendship and shared political ideals between Peru and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
McAdoo
Treasury
Cequast
Republic
Cablneat
Peru
Lima
Aad
Riva Aglero
Lalt
Meat animal prices rise nationwide per crop reports
Prices paid to producers in the United States for meat animals including hogs cattle and sheep rose 43 percent from March 15 to April 15, near the six year high. The April level was about 191 percent higher than a prewar period and 4 percent above the seven year average, with April 1 showing 6 percent higher than two years ago. The figures are averages from the Bureau of Crop Estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoss
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Chicago Grain News Reflects Wheat Demand Shifts and Futures
Market update shows wheat rising on sowing and seed concerns with May futures near 114 percent. Corn and oats fluctuated. rye and other grains mixed as traders weigh adverse conditions for spring crops against price signals.
Philadelphia Markets News Notable Butter Cheese Prices
Philadelphia markets report mixed dairy commodity moves with butter steadier and cheese holding. Prices for No 2 red and No 2 Southern red corn futures appear unchanged amid early April trading, while April settlement figures show marginal gains across nearby prints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Wertertt Ciaamery
New York
Crauma
Elaborate Society Wedding Ceremony Details and Trip
Society notes describe a wedding with a tulle veil and orange blossoms for the bride. Attendants included Mrs Thomas Robson Hay as matron of honor and Mr Hay as best man. The bridal party wore white satin, green, and pink accents with maid of honor Katherine Drain and bridesmaids listed. Ushers included army officers. After dinner the couple left for a wedding trip then to Indianapolis to reside. Marie Peary hosted an informal dance in Wyoming Avenue last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Robson Hay
Mr. Hay
Ellen Fillebrown
Emily Chase
Marie Peary
Lydia Clark
Marlon Drain
Gertrude Drain
Alfred Harding
Harry Semmes
Edwin Stafford
Monroe C. Keith
Johny
C. Ernest Smith
Society Notes From Washington and Nearby Rooms
Mrs Gardner travels to Boston for ten days with Mr Gardner in tow. Hosts at Chevy Chase Club dinners honor Capt and Mrs Henry B Clark and Col and Mrs George Duncan with guests Draper and Daingerfield. Lawrence Addicks of Elizabeth NJ, head of the American Electrochemical Society, hosts directors at the Willard dinner. Other gatherings include Mrs Edmund Pendleton’s dinner and auction bridges, Gen and Mrs George Barnett visiting Philadelphia, Mrs Marsh entertaining guests with luncheon and bridge for Mrs John W Thomson of New York, and a May themed card party for brides to be May d Alton Power and Hanna Taylor. Mrs John C Brown and son visit the Willard, Army and Navy Club dances shift to La Fayette Hotel. Navy League National Service School events planned at Chevy Chase. Mrs Leon Smith hosts Kansas City guest at Congress Hall. Julia Bronson of Oakland visiting Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner
Augustus P. Gardner
Boston
Reeve Lewis
Chevy Chase Club
Capt
Henry B Clark
Israel Putnam
N Street
Col
George Duncan
Duncan Draper
Algernon Daingerfield
Lawrence Addicks
Elizabeth
American Electrochemical Society
Society
Willard
Mr Addicks
Addicks
Edmund Pendleton
Stoneleigh Court
Marsh
Frederick Marsh
Bridge
John W Thomson
New York
Dorothy Taylor
May d'Alton Power
Hanna Taylor
David W .Taylor
Hostege
Graham Holly
Short Hills
National Service School Committee
Woman's Section
Navy League
National Service School
Chevy Chase
Leon Smith
Kansas City
Dorsey Shackleford
Congress Hall
W Scott Fita
Goldsborough
Washington
Shersham
J G, Clephane
Clephane
Englewood
N. J
Donald W. Brown
Glen L. Martin
Los Angeles
Thomas Whittemora
London
Reception for Mrs. Odenhimer by DC Daughters of the Confederacy
The District of Columbia Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a reception at the Washington Club in tribute to Mrs. Odenhimer, the society president general. Guests included Mrs. Maud Howell Smith and Mrs. Claude Swanson at the punch bowl, with many district chapter presidents and officers assisting in a green and white decor. The event drew members from every state and was described as one of the week’s largest receptions, with plans announced for a Monday hostess follow up for Mrs. Agnes Heywood Bartram, featuring numerous society names and roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District of Columbia
Daughters of the Confederacy
Washington Club
Society
Odenhimer
Maud Howell Smith
Claude Swanson
Josephus Daniels
James Slayden
Texas
Montague
Virginia
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
Cone Johnson
Drury Conway Ludlow
W. F. Hutton
A. H. Mitchell
William Oscar Roome
Lawton Morgan
Jennie Monroe
William Wayne
Nell Rose Baggett
Frank Elmore
Bell C. Riley
Milas Alice Theobold
Hattie Bowie
Ida Hal Bowie
Roberta van H. Volland
Wallace Streater
Gustavus ‘Worber
James Balin
Israel Sinclair
Virginia Griffith
Stephen Ford
Dieffenderfer
William H. Dieffenderfer
Agnes Heywood Bartram
Chester Everglade
Pasadena
Del
George Metcalf
J. M. Heywood
Harry B. Denham
Philip Walker
Franklin Little
William F. Hancock
Robert Patterson
Clarence McKay
James B. Horgan
Alice Griffith
Migz Sylvia Metcalf
May Littles
Dorothy Denham
Edwin Almon
Representative Almon
Dance for Miss Hear Leads Grass Lands Event
Representative and Mrs. Gillett host a small dance at Grass lands on Tuesday May 16 to honor Miss Frances Hear. Guests include Mrs Lorimer Graham and Miss Hilda Portner visiting at the Shoreham, and Mrs John SB Earle departing to Portsmouth to join Lieut Earle aboard the San Francisco. The Bachelors' Club held a decorated dance on Fourteenth Street chaperoned by Mrs Whittingham Hammett and Miss Gertrude Lynch, with 12 members, and plans a final season dance at Dyer's Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorimer Graham
Hilda Portner
Flood
Shoreham
John SB Earle
Admiral
Zene
Lieut Earle
Portsmouth
N. H
Lieut Earle Ip
San Francisco
Bachelors’ Club
Benefit Box Holders List for Christ Child Society
Box holders for a Pell's Monday afternoon performance by the Paint and Powder Club of Baltimore, benefiting the Christ Child Society, include Dr and Mrs Dudley Morgan and many other society guests. The piece notes visiting dignitaries, hosts at tea, a musical benefit at Rauscher's, and gatherings at the Grafton, Shoreham, and Willard hotels with various social attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pell's
Paint and Powder Club of
Baltimore
Christ Child Society
Dudley Morgan
Emile Montgomery
Loring Johnson
O. Perry Johnson
Spottiswood Mackin
Vaudevilla Ten Postponed By District Event Conflicts
Vaudevilla ten show postponed to May 12 from 3 to 7 30 PM due to home show and other events. Tea will be held in Raleigh ballrooms as planned. Edward Doerkin and wife hosted at Shoreham with guests including Mr and Mrs Kraemer. Daerkin celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary with silver fern table decor and American beauty centerpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meg & the Vaudeville
District of Columbia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Raleigh
Edward Doerkin
Shoreham
Kraemer
Daerkin
World Mission Rally Opens Behind War’s Call for Action
Delegates from across the globe gather in Continental Memorial Hall with President Wilson attending as John R. Mott urges America to take up missionary work tied to wartime needs. The opening session features a standing ovation for Wilson and plans for a broad campaign aligning church and laypeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Continental Memorial Hall
National Missionary Congress
Brooklyn
Wilson
James M. Spears
John R. Mott
America
Europe
Poland
Russia
Asia
William B. Millar
Sumner R. Vinton
John M Moore
John W. Wood
Charles A. Rowland
A. ©. Cory
J. L. Clark
George Heber Jones
W. P Schell Wilson
Ite House
James L. Barton
John P. Jones
S Harrington Littell
Francis J. McConnell
Cumner R. Vinton
W 5. Oldham
George Sherwood Eddy
Continental Hall
Suspects Claim Coerced Sussex Torpedo Testimony
Geneva reports German papers say two Swiss passengers Cenoni and Niederamt sworn affidavits at the American legation in Berne and American consulate in Zurich assert they were forced to say they saw a torpedo near the Sussex. German outlets allege French and British authorities coerced them under passport seizure threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
Gasette de Lausanne
Berne
Zurich
Sussex
Cenoni
Niederamt
Credit Men At Banquet in Washington With Guests
Prominent Washington men attended the Washington Association of Credit Men banquet at the Ebbitt last night. C C Mueller served as toastmaster. Rep H T Rainey of Atho is guest of honor as discussions centered on tariff reform and a nonpartisan tariff commission board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Rainey
Athois
Washington Association of Credit Men
Ebbitt
Rainey
Tariff Commission Board
Congress
Halney
Germany
United States
Washington Association of Credit Mem
Eb, Adams
W. T. Galither
James S. McKee
M. F. Horton
C. Redman
B. F Fuller
H. A. Horatman
Col R.N Harper
Cornelius Eckhardt
J S Smyth
S W Pitts
HL Wilkins Carl C Mueller
R. P Shealey
Miss Laura Chanler to Wed Lawrence White
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports the engagement of Miss Laura Chanler, artist and daughter of Winthrop Chanler of Washington, to Lawrence G. White, son of the late Stanford White. Chanler, a sculptor with a Fortieth Street studio, has works purchased by Mrs. E. H. Harriman. White graduated from Harvard in 1908 and followed architecture as his profession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Laura Chanter
Winthrop Chanter
Miga Margaret Terry
Washington, D.C
Lawrence G. White
Stanford White
E. H. Harriman
Luther Terry
Gonn Winthrop Chanler
White
Harvard
Elizabeth Smith
Smithtown
Long Island
106 Killed in Kent Munitions Factory Explosion
An official statement reports 106 people killed and 66 injured in the recent Kent county munitions factory blast. No women were among the victims.
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London
Omclfal
Kent County
Germans Penetrate French Lines in Vosges Mountains
Paris dispatch reports heavy fighting on the Meuse and Vosges fronts. German forces penetrated French lines in the Vosges with small detachments entering third-line trenches and blowing shelters, while French artillery and counterattacks yielded prisoners and guns. Overall German losses were cited at about 1,000 in the La Chapelotte action, with 158 French captives reported by night.
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Vosges Mountains
Vauquois Heights
Avecourt
Dead Man Hill
Courettes Wood
Meuse
Celles
Vosges
Paris
War Office
The
Aisne
Bois Des Buttes
Champagne
Dormoise
Argonne
Vauquois
Esnes
Montrevilla
le Bfort Homme
Lorraine
Varangeville
Luneville
Senones
la Chapelotte
District Republicans Hold May 5 Primary For Delegates
District Republicans will vote Friday May 5 in a primary to elect two delegates and two alternates to attend the Republican national convention in Chicago June 7. The election board announced the date and district to be divided into 22 precincts with judges and counters presiding. Hours polls open have not yet been announced. There are twelve candidates for delegates and alternates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles Linkins
Charles H Bauman
Jeaze H Foster
Root and Lansing to Speak at International Law Meeting
The tenth annual meeting of the American Society of International Law opens at Shoreham at 3 p.m. with President Elihu Root delivering the opening address. Lansing and Oscar Straus among others will speak on war problems and international law. Special topics include armaments neutrals, submarine conduct, and war zones on the high seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Society of International Law
Shoreham
Elihu Root
David Jayne Hill
Germany
High Seas
American Journal of International Law
Roct
Lansing
Oscar
Gregory
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GASE
Mi Adoo
Tva
Hhe
Fasor
Aguero
Chicago Grain
Mrs. Gardner
George Barnett
John C. Brown
Nashville, Tenn
Army and Navy Cotlilion Club
Hotel Lafayette
Nessee
Beech Villa
Julia
Bronson
Oakland, Cal
F. R. Bronson
Miss Hear
Nicaragua
Mme Chamorro
Robert Strange
Wilmington
Bishop Strange
North Carolina
5. W. Travers
Richmond
P. B. Manning
Ashton
R Street
Walter Ebbs
South
Grafton
Elmer H. Paine
Margaret Raymond Paine
Francia
Mary Mill
Akron
Ohio
F. Carl Smith
Kathleen Green
George Ramasy
Janet F. Lawrence
Edna Cooper
Misa Marion Ayre
Eileen Carland
Edith Maddux
Dorothy Paine
Misa Janet Paine
Misa Valerie Emerson
Rochester
Wny
Misa M. Grace Storms
Fontanet Courts
Misa Marie
Misa Patricia. Galvin
Trinity College
Charles D. Barnes
Glenwood Springs
Calo
Misa Elizabeth Malotte Barnes
Rauscher
George H Wilson
Cleveland
James D Colt
Pittsfield
Mass
John M Glenn
William Jefferson Judd
Otia Swift Brauer
J B. Withers
Army and Navy Club
A. B. Quinton
Topeka
Kaw
P P. Claxton
Vaudevilla
Horlick
World Mission Rally
Mott
White House
England
Publica
U. S
Legation
C. C. Mueller
Laura Chanler
American Security and Trust Co
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Charles J. Bell
Givenchy-en-Cachelle
Vailly
Craonns
Ville-au-Bois
Railroad World
Great Continental Divide
St. Paul
Missouri River
Puget Sound
Rockies
Cascades
Pacific North Coast
Milwaukee & St.Paul Railway
Percey
Tesora
Reees
Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
G. J. Lincoln
Chestnut St
Root
Lon
Zaroha
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