Defense Test Aid of Citizens Requested by Commissioners
District voters are urged to back National Defence Test Day in a proclamation by the board of commissioners. Organized reserves units prepare for the program with officers to contact within ten miles of Washington. A Willard Hotel dinner Friday will feature Majr Frank Belling nest and other leaders from patriotic groups in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citisens
Board of Commissioners
Washington
Lisut
John Scott
Graham
16Th
3Rdth Field Artillery Ordnance Coast Artillery
Distrer
Womens Organizators
National Committee
Memorial Continental
Amos A Friea
Edmund J Deeds
American War Mothers
Mamie Palmer Dorney
Elizabeth D Shaw
Womens Relief Corps
Leon Arnold
American Legion Auxiliary
T He Willard Hotel
Majr
Franklin Belling
Nest
Gtreat
Cal John McElroy
A RR
James A Drain
American Legion
Virging White Speel
General Federation of Women‘s Clubs
Amos Fries
Isabel Worral
Ball
National Tribune
Grapherh
Shaw
M P Balmer
Womens Relief Corp
Amerian War Mothers of the District
C Richards
U Smc
General Sons of the Revolution
Frank Peckham
American Legion of the District
Leroy Herron
Defense Test to Mirror War Pulse Says Scott
Scott of the Washington reserve explains a defense test day on September 12 will mirror the nation’s reaction to the first day of war. In a District meeting, Stuart Walcott post members hear assurances of accord and adequate representation in the demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Seaur Co
John Scott
T SA
Washington Reserve
Stuart Walcott Post
American Legion
Charles Reamer
Radio Signal Film Deepens Mars Mystery in Washington Exhibit
The Mars signal mystery grows as C Francis Jenkins records a 30 foot long film of radio patterns and a face image using a 6000 meter wavelength. Dr David Todd and William Friedman study the film while Jenkins seeks bureau analysis to decipher the strange records of signals possibly unrelated to Mars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
C. Francis Jenkins
Connecticut Avenue Northwest
Mr. Jenkins
David Todd
Amherst Col
Marconi
Todd
William F. Friedman
Army
Friedman
Jenkins
J. H. Dellinger
Bureau of Standards
Taft
Earth
Bank Wins 5000 Suit Against Ball Bank
The Citizens Bank of Weston, West ia, sued Senator L Heisler Ball of Delaware and others for 5000 on promissory notes. Justice Siddons in circuit court awarded default judgment against Ball. Defendants were connected to stock purchases in a car and coke company and note settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Bank of
Weston
Westoa
Justice Siddons
L. Heisler Ball
Delaware
Senator Ball
68Th Congress
Penfield Coal and Coke Company
James F Oyster
James T Lloyd
Missouri
Board of Education
Albert Schulters
Samuel R. Harris
Henry W Morgen
Gqq
XOR
Savertine
Washington Post
Baby to Be Made Heir to 75000 Fortune
Justice Siddons will hear Attorney OShea request to make 70 month old Jack Gill heir to 75000 in Frederick Ribnitzki real estate. Adoption by Pearl Ribnitzki of the Ribnitzki family would rename the child Frederick W Ribnitzki. The Ribnitzkis claim sufficient income to raise him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L Siddons
Equity Court
James O'Shea
Jack Gill
Vivian Gill
Frederick Ribnitsk
K Street Northwest
Jack
Pearl I Ribnitzki
Frederick W Ribnitsk
Ribnitzki
Hibnitzkis
Frederick W
Rtbnitzki
Court 5 petitions to restore clothes of wife of captain
A stream of divorce suits filled the docket as Mrs Marguerite S Harvin was granted temporary alimony and a cross action with Capt Arthur Kingston, while she sought return of a trunk of gowns and two pet parrots from the Portsmouth navy yard. The cases show multiple corespondents and amended bills, with alimony awards and temporary orders throughout Equity court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blance Kingston
Arthur Kingston
United States Marine Corps
Portsmouth
Navy Yard
District Supreme Court
Alexander M. Brémer
Kingston
Siddona
Capt. Kingston
Marine
Albert F Olverson
Anna M Olverson
Hawken & Havell
Olverson
William C Heflin
Olverton
Heflin
Bil
Olveraon
G Foerlttoon
Marguerite S Harvin
Arthur L. Harvin
Medical Science
Emall
Siddone
Equity
Stovall and Coombe
Harvin
Caleb C Clark
Edith W Clark
Siddons
John E. Lynch
War Department
Myrtle &. Janey
Guy 8. Micaliszi
Mary C. Micalizzi
Frank J Micalizzi
Harry A. Grant
John J. Koch
Treasury Department
Lydia Koch
Attorneya Quigley & Goldstein
Koch
Emma J Tull
Emory R Tull
Tull
Raymond Neudecker
Harpe
Autumn Days Film Ad Encourages Cameras and Films
An advertisement urges readers to capture autumn beauty using their cameras with fresh films and supplies. It promises pleasing results and accurate reproduction.
Straight Rows Deplored For Park Cherry Trees
Admirers of the Japanese cherry trees in Potomac park express regret that in transplanting them the office of Public buildings and grounds places them in straight rows rather than small clumps. As the speedway widens, 90 of the 1,000 trees are strung along the drive in single file. Several hundred more have been transplanted and others will be. many are planted singly rather than in clusters, some 20 to 30 feet apart, due to space limits ordered by Lieut. Col. Sherill’s office for uniform along the drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admfirera
Potomac Park
Office
Shervill
Imbrie's Body Leaves Persia Amid Salutes
Vice Consul Robert I. Imbrie's body was sent from Teheran to the United States aboard the cruiser Trenton after elaborate Persian and British honors. A line of salutes marked the journey from August 17, with eleven gun salutes at Bushire Basra and at sea, returned by the Trenton with American colors flying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bushire
Robert Il. Umbrie
Trenton
United States
State Department
Teheran
Iraq
Royal Air Force
Basra
Crocus
Public hearing set on proposed street widening plan
District commissioners propose widening E Street from 14th to 16th, Tenth Street from F Street to Massachusetts Avenue, M Street from 29th to 35th, Eleventh Street from E to G, and Bladensburg Road NE to end of asphalt. A public hearing in the District Building is scheduled for September 16 at 4 p.m. for property owners motorists and others to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Franken Bell
E Street
Fourteenth
Sixteenth
Tenth Street
F Street
Massachusetts Avenue
M Street
Twenty-ninth
Thirty Fifth Street
Eleventh Street
Bladensburg Road
Hoover Says High Prices Aid Farmers Amid Drought
Secretary Hoover reported during his two month European tour that high prices would mainly aid farmers as drought worsened production. He noted business in the U S is comfortable and predicted Dawes plan driven European recovery would boost American industry, expand markets, stabilize currencies abroad, and reduce foreign gold reserves, potentially raising U S interest rates and curbing inflation risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
United States
Phone and Electric Rates May Be Less
Reduced rates for telephone service and electric current appear likely as Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company and Potomac Electric Power Company earn over seven percent return, per Harry Fisher of the public utilities commission. No rate cuts in telephone for nearly two years, over two years for electric. The commission will meet tomorrow with hearings likely ordered on both cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Potomac Electric Power Company
Harry Fisher
Public Utilities Commission
Fraternal Society Leader Warns Against Old Line Firms
President W R Shirley of the National Fraternal Congress of America urged a public campaign to defend fraternal orders against aggressive old line insurance firms. He cited near universal resources backing anti-fraternal legislation and warned of decadence as membership rose to millions and volumes grew. Dr Robert Orville Matthews touted Appalachian Highlanders as a prime field for fraternalism due to high illiteracy and isolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Shirley
Natonal Fraternal Congress of America
Raleigh
Chicago
Shirley
JF. Adams
Theodore Redésavolt
John Barton Payne
W S Power
American Red Cross Society
The
Brotherhood of Yaomen
Chesapeake Beach
Apartment Fire Causes $300 Damage at Yavette Apts
Firefighters battled a blaze at 103 Fairmont Street in the Yavette apartments yesterday morning causing about 200 to 300 dollars in damage. The Arc of unknown origin started in the apartment of W J Rosenthal while family were away, smoke drew neighbors who raised the alarm, and Battalion Chief Davis led the extinguishing effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W J Rosenthal
Yavette Apartments
Fairmont Street
Davis
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Reral
Lege
MR. and
Mrs. Erlebacher
Erlebacher
Jefilelbbach
Her
Blanche Kingston
Marguerite S. Harvin
Eastman Kodaks
Potomac Photo Supply
G Street
N. W
Imbrie
Persia
U. S
Fraternal Society
Robt B. Hollander
Froducta Co
West
William G. Car
Wisconsin Arcane
RB Nase
Amt
Potomac Rubber Co., Inc
Bond Bldg
14Th & N. Y. Ave
Eiseman
Arthur H. Kimball
Edmonston & CO
St. N.W
Kuppenheimer & Gresner
Grosners
London
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