Grand Jury to Reopen Graft Case Racket Amid Secrets
United States Attorney expects the grand jury to hear part of the hush money graft probe this week. Indictments against Raymond Kleindienst and Warren Grimes loom as the Stout case migrates toward possible new charges. Witnesses clash in the attorney general’s office over the discredited testimony and potential remedies are discussed as city political graft investigations continue.
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Tomorow
United States
Me Comas Hewkens
Joan Ho Laskey
Raymond W Fullman
Metropolitan Police Force
L Sa
Grand Jury
Hanken
John E Laskey
Mr Laskey
Tamora
Xiao
Raymond Kleindienst
Warren Grimes Formel
Margaret Stout
Aguinar Membare
Occoquan
District Court of Appears
Hondyman
Stout
Baltimore
Canada
Hawken
Force W
District Attorney 5
Inj
Inider
Krink Helan
Neithar
Peace Council Leader Resigns Over Fund Misuse
Milton Snellings, labor leader and former vice president of the Lauors National Peace Council, said he resigned after delegates were funded from league money. He cited the group's admitted aim at the Washington meeting to block munitions exports to the Allies as a key reason for leaving.
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Milton Snellings
Lauors National Peace Council
League
Washington
al Way
Jewelers Win Baggage Ruling Overhaul Freight Rules
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that sample baggage is for commercial travelers not for sale or free distribution. Railroads must cease broad restrictions by Oct 18 and replace with a uniform standard defining samples and catalogue models carried in trunks or containers. The order, lasting at least two years, leaves unresolved claims about uniformity but finds progress on baggage rules.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Pir
Scotty the Brave War Dog Returns to Help War Cats
In wartime trenches a remarkable relief effort unfolds as dogs and cats aid soldiers. Scotty, famed for accompanying Captain Scott to the South Pole, joins the army dogs to guide humane treatment of enemies. Three donkeys killed in a misattributed vandalism mystery. Scotty blamed on defenders’ records.
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Cata
Flanders
Tommy Atking
Atkins
Anymala
India
Scotty
Antarctic
Scott
South Pole
Ieliet
Keith Jones
Surgeons to Hold Twenty Fourth Annual Meeting in September
The Association of the Military Surgeons of the United States will meet in September to inspect Walter Reed Army Hospital, the Naval Hospital, and Hygienic Laboratory. The event, September 13 to 15, is expected to draw a large attendance with lectures by top officials and leading medical figures.
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Association of the Military Surgeons of the
United States
Tts
Army
Medical Reserve Corps of Thearmy and Navy
Board of Commissioners
Medical Society of
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Naval Hospital
Marine Hospital Service
J R Kean
U SA
Rupert Hive
Henry Allers
A Tung
Carr
J C Castner
H 'Garrison
D Gatewood
U S'N
HL Gilchrist
U S A Lient
BD Slennan
C_T Grayson
LT Hess
IM Heller
JV R Hoff
RC Holcomb
U S
J W Kerr
Frank Leech
Medical Society
Mai
Luca DC
McCullocher
FS Nash
S N
May R_A Patterson
CW Richardson
AMRC
Sure
WC Rucker
GM Rumbaugh
GM Sternberg
GT Vaughan
ROC
Hebrew War Relief Move Aids European Jews After War
Delegates from Hebrew societies nationwide plan a Washington meeting on October 4 to discuss relief for suffering European Jews and postwar conditions. The gathering may back restoration of Palestine as a Jewish national home and draw about 150 delegates. Also noted is the Pan American Scientists Congress planned for Washington December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916, with U S leaders guiding the event.
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America
Washington
Waya
Europe
Fouls Marshal
New York
Palestine
The
Jewa
pan-American Scientific Congress
Wll
United States
Latin America
pan-America
William Phillips
John Barrett
Glen Levin Swiggett
Rev J D Bloodgood Dead Civil War Veteran Pastor
The Rev John D Bloodgood formerly commander of the Department of the Potomac GAR and a pension bureau employee died Friday at his home after a heart disease illness He served three years in the Civil War in the 115th Pennsylvania Infantry and took part in Fredericksburg Chancellorsville and Gettysburg He was a Methodist Episcopal minister for 23 years and is survived by his wife and three daughters Funeral services will be held at the Brookland MFE Church with interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
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John D .Broadgood
Department of the Potomac
Gar
Pension Bureau
Irving Street
Brookland Mfe
King David Lodge
Lincoln Post
Glenwood Cemetery
Bloodgood
Iflat
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsvile
Gettysburg
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wyoming Pa
Bradford County
Thomas L Smith
Benjamin H Smart
Josephine Theodora Bloodgood
Curious Marriage License Office Shenanigans Endanger Clerk
Col William A Kroll, marriage license clerk at city hall, faces bizarre inquiries. A folded paper revealed a spoof Bureau of Matrimony form with obscene questions about a supposed groom, prompting Kroll to add it to his collection of odd marriage-themed curios.
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William A Kroll
City Hall
Uncle Sam
Civil Service
Bureau of Matrimony
Department of Injustice
Col Kroll
Winslow to Command Pacific Fleet
Rear Admiral Winslow yesterday assigned to command the Pacific fleet in succession to Admiral Howard who resumes rear admiral rank and comes to Washington ahead of retirement in a few months.
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Winslow
Pacific Fleet
Howard
Washington
Sunday lid hits Washington theaters as burlesque plans loom
Police chief Maj. W Pullman and officials announced a Sunday ban on most public entertainments in Washington after today. Sunday concerts may continue within the letter of the rule, but vaudeville and burlesque faces tighter enforcement. Motion picture venues are unaffected, while theater managers expect some shows to be altered rather than stopped.
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Washington
Pull‘man
Brownlow
Syme
Roddy
Ponce
Poice
Ninth Street
Audh
Midshipmen urged to settle disputes by fighting
A Naval Academy graduate urges the Navy to allow midshipmen to use fists to resolve personal disputes. He asks the Secretary of the Navy to authorize and expect fighting as a method under rules to be set by the Academy Superintendent.
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Daniels
Siata
United States Navy
Naval Academy
Secretary of the Navy
United States Naval Academy
Detained New Jersey Mother Arrested for Abandoning Baby
Union Station detective sergeant returns from Atlantic City with Mrs Rudolph D Page, 22, arrested on abandoning her one month old daughter Tuesday night. She claims the child was placed in St Anns Orphan Asylum, others say the baby is dead. She is at the house of detention.
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Central Office
Serge Robert Howlett
Union Station
Washington
Atlantic City
Rudolph D Page
Seashore
Atlant
E City
St Anns Orphan Asylum
Retreat for Catholic women at Immaculate Seminary
A four day Catholic lay women retreat begins September 7 at the Immaculate Seminary. Rev Oliver A Hill J of Fordham University will lead sessions on philosophy and ethics. Most participants are urged to stay on site, with provisions for daily commutes for non residents. Mass and meals will be provided, ending with Benediction.
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Immaculate Seminary
Wolees
Catholic Women's Aay
Immaculate Beningrs
Oliver A Hil
Fordham University
New York
Baen
Dérmit
Navy invites aero motor bids for 88 engines
In June the Navy Department issued proposals for bids to be opened September 14 on 88 aeroplane motors from 100 horsepower up. Experts set general specifications while allowing modifications as experiments proceed. Navy and Army aviation need stronger American motors to catch up with Europe. engineers will collaborate with private manufacturers to maximize private expertise.
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Navy Department Yeaterdaly
United States
Navy
Swimming prizes awarded at Keith's Theater event
Prizes were awarded at the close of the last performance at Keith's Theater for the amateur swimming and diving contest. Twelve prizes were given to men and women contestants donated by Washington merchants. Finalists included Everett Ansley Andrew Crawford Carrick R O Hlinson W J Fineran H F Aimon and Carolyn Nelson Mary May Marietta George Mary Crockett Elizabeth Fuse Nattie Wood.
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Keith’s
Washington Merchants
Prises
Everett Ansley
Andrew Crawford
Carrick
R O Hlinson
W J Finer
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Rate Change Questioned
The Delaware Commission reviews a revised rate sheet from Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company alleging improper local service restrictions and rate changes without proper hearings. The commission approves a rate decrease for certain instruments but insists hearings are required for any future increases and questions the legality of reduced telegraph wire service rates.
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Chesapeake and Fotomac Telephone Company
Public Utilities Commission
Commission
City News In Brief On rebuilding steamer and church services
Rebuilding work on the steamer Ita congregation damage from recent fire began yesterday under the new ministry at Kendall Church near the foot of Eighth Street. The vessel flames were confined to the upper deck. interior and machinery damage are slight. The Volunteer Choir will lead morning and evening services, with powerboat transport and Frank M Phillips chartered for Sundays during Dr Muir's absence.
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Ita
Oren Tha Harments
Kendall
Eighth Street
Calvary Baptist Church
Paul Clark
Price
Hill Baptist Church
Cincinnati
Temple Baptist Church
Frank M Phillips
Love Laughs At Holiday In Virginia Wedding Tale
Virginians find courthouse closed yet obtain license and wed. Paul Bouton and Nalley Towneley, aided by John Stewart, secure license, hire Willam Kroll, and marry the couple at Rev J Henning Nelms Church of the Ascension. Also notes citizen status debate and Adventist events, plus a missing boy alert for Donald Martech.
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Charlottesville
Paul Bouton
Nalley Towneley
John Stewart
Raleigh
Love
Willam Kroll
Takoma
J Henning Nelms
Church of the Ascension
Thomas Addison
Daniela
United States
Abeen Tan
United States plans effort to share in China's vast resources
A State Department and Commerce Department push to build an American vested interest in China aims to secure the United States a fair share of its foreign trade. Paul Reinsch and Julian Arnold lead the plan, targeting mining, cotton mills, dyes, tanning, rug making, and rail equipment with a proposed American bank as a first major outcome.
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China
State Department
Department of Commerce
United States
Reinach
Paul Reinsch
Julian H. Arnold
Peking
EB EF Pratt
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Reinsth
Washington
Arnold
Pratt
Lansing
Japan
Hunan
Kalzan
Tientsin
Kankow
Ching
Bt & Atand
More Join Daniels Board Names from Inventors Nominated
Scientific societies proposed four prominent inventors to Secretary Daniels raising the advisory panel to over half of its anticipated sixteen to eighteen members. Nominations include Spencer Miller New York and William DeRoy Emmet Schenectady for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Howard E Coffin and Andrew L Riker from the Society of Automobile Engineers. Hudson Maxim and Matthew B Sellers named by the Aeronautical Society of America. Other groups such as the American Society of Civil Engineers Inventors Guild and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers suggested additional figures. Thomas A Haipon to chair the board.
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Daniels
Mr Daniels
American Society of Mechanical
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Thomas A. Haipon
WO RIDES ON HEROIC TICKETS IN CITY COMMISSION RULING
The Public Utilities Commission counsel, Conrad H Syme, says defunct Metropolitan Coach Company tickets cannot be honored by street railways. The court notes reciprocal arrangements with railways, relieving them of obligation after the coach firm’s collapse. Ticket holders may seek reimbursement from the receiver.
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Rules Utilities Board
Syme
Veterans to march 50 000 at grand review in capital
President Wilson and cabinet will review 50 000 Grand Army of the Republic veterans as they march down Pennsylvania Avenue September 29 for the fiftieth anniversary grand review in Washington. Regulars will perform exhibition drills at Fort Myer with medical corps displays and a wigwag signal contest between Civil War and modern Army experts.
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Wilson
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania Avenue
National Capital
Garrison
Wood
United States
Fort Myer
United States Medical Corp
Signal Corps
United States Army
Georgi
Richmond
Capitol
Treasury
Daniels
United States Marine Band
Sixth Corps
Grand Army Hall
John M Kline
Northwest
Lernel W Stone
Fourth Corps
Twelfth Street
A Johnson
Third Corps
G AB
Relief work in Haiti led by American naval forces
In Port au Prince and Cape Haitien famine relief is organized by the U S naval forces under Lieut E B G Oberlin of the cruiser Washington, aided by Haitians. Admiral Caperton has about 1200 Marines ashore and Col L W T Waller, arriving with the Tennessee detachment, has taken command ashore.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Ebg Oberlin
Washington
Admiral Caperton
Cape Haitien
L W T Waller
Tennessee
Indianapolis Banker John Wobher Dies by Suicide in Office Basement
Indianapolis banker John Wobher, 58, vice president at Aetna Truet and Bevings Company, shot and killed himself in the basement of a downtown Indianapolis office building today after months of poor health.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Wobher
Aetna ,Truet and Bevings Company
Washington Kindergartener Beads International Union President
Catherine R. Watkins superintendent of public kindergartens of Washington has been elected president of the International Kindergarten Union at the convention in San Francisco. The Treasury bought 260000 fine ounces of silver at 875 cents per ounce and 357000 ounces at 48 and a half cents per ounce to be delivered to Philadelphia.
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Bied
Washington
Kindergartner
Mies
Catherine R. Watkins
Public Kindergartens of
International Kindergarten Union
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Ila
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Labor
Interstate Commission
Capt
Scomy
Miltary Association
Walter Reed Naval and Hygienic Laboratory
Hebrew War Relief
J. D. Bloodgood
G AR
Mason
Kroll
Lid
Pullman
Aero Motor
Navy Department
Keith's
Halts Phone Company
Utilities Board
City News
Arthur Brock
Louisville Courier- Journal
Courier- Journal
Louisville Times
Krock
National Press Club
Congressional Press Galleries
Vicomte de Sibour
Countess de Sibour
Henri de Sibour
Medaille Militatren
Argonne
North Carolina
Louis Randall
Rhode Island Avenue M. P
Westminster College
Elkton, Md
Lord
Walter
Dunlap
Ott
Kendall Baptist Church
Wil
First Baptist Church
of City
R. P Andrews
Retail Merchants’ Association
Auto Trade Boosting Committee
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Harold A. Long
Office of Public Roads
United State Military Academy
West Paint
George White
National Metropolitan Bank
Cunon Rudolph
Second National Bank
American Bankers’ Association
Saiitls
Bankers’ Association of
Holiday
Edison
Evangéliat
R. BE Harter
A Hansen
Order of Bibernians
Order
Chesagenke Beach
Donald Martech
Hill Home
Third Street Southeast
U. S. State and Commerce
Aniiater
Federal
Huregn
Commerce Bureau
New England
Au Parvision
Park View Citizens
Ank
Park View School
Park View Citizens’ Association
Congress
New Hampshire Avenue
Park Road
Georgia Avenue
Wardar
Newton Street
Rock Creek Church Road
Kenyon Street
Columbia
Georgia
Georgian Avenue
Park Place
Lamont Street
Bixth Street
Lieut
Oberlin
Suinde
Rei
Tyree
Vivaudou
Washington Store
N. W
D. J
Connell
Pe. Ave
Paul Carus
Open Court Monthly
Open Court Publishing Company
Chicago
National Hotel
L Street
L. L. Perk
States Fidelity
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