Horrors of Huai floods spark bid for $5 million loan
State Department dispatch details eleven bodies found bound together, children sacrificing themselves in hopes of rescue, and widespread destitution after the Huai River floods. China pleads for a $5,000,000 loan to fund a reclamation project that officials say will create jobs, lift wages, and avert famine for over a million sufferers.
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State Department
Tella
China
American Red Cross
Huai River
Chinese Conservation Bureau
Washington Chapter Holds Architecture Course Discussion
The December Washington Chapter meeting at the Alibi Club hosted Admiral Stockton George Washington University Dean Hodgkins and other leaders. They endorsed sustaining and expanding the architecture program noting community need and gallery support from Corcoran. Bedford Brown highlighted beaux arts problems and showcased student design and draftsmanship.
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Washington
American Institute of A Architecta
A. J. Parsons
Alibi Club
Charles H. Stockton
George Washington University
Howard £. Hodgkins
College of Engineering
The
University
Herbert Putnam
Congress
Trof. R. A. Rice
Prints Division
Library of Congress
I. C. Messer
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Department of Architecture
Department of Architectuure
Admiral Stockton
Board of Regents
Ean Hodgkins
Messer
Bedford Brown
Belgians urged as Mme Vandervelde to speak in DC
Mme Lala Vandervelde wife of Belgium’s minister of state arrives in Washington to address a relief meeting at First Congregational Church at Tenth and streets northwest. The event hosted by the Twentieth Century Club aims to raise funds for Belgian hunger relief with donations spent in the city on food supplies.
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Mme
Lala Vandervelde
Belgium
Washington
Emanuel Havenith
Mme. Havenith
First Congregational Church
Tenth and
Streets
Mme. Vandervelds
Twentieth Century Club
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Business High School
Mme. Vandervelde
Wilson
Havre
France
Card Sale to Aid Belgians in War Relief Drive
Five to ten thousand Christmas cards were sold in Washington stores to raise funds for Belgian war widows and orphans. The Belgian relief committee, led by Mrs Margaret M Berry, sold the 5 cent cards at locations including 5 Eleventh Street NW. Washington school children donated condensed milk to the relief effort yesterday. The campaign pauses for Christmas but will resume in the Real Estate Trust Building at Fourteenth and H streets NW in January.
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Helalum
Washington
Belgian Relief Committee
Eleventh Street
Margaret M. Berry
Relief Committee
Fourteenth
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