Sunday Law Fight Aims to Close Theaters in District
A mass meeting at Calvary Baptist Church launched a drive to pressure Congress for a Sunday law to close news and motion picture houses on Sundays and end Sunday baseball. The campaign, backed by the Pastors Federation, raised over $1000 and plans a broad, organized push with subcommittees in each denomination.
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Calvary Baptist & Church
Congress
Calvary Baptist Church
Pastors’ Federation
KH W D Tillington
Ommites
Capal
Wallace Radcliffe
New York Avenue
Saidry Bowlby
Dr Edwards
Washington
Secular League Head Attacks Sunday Law Campaign
A secular league leader denounces pastors alleged push for a Sunday law seeking to monopolize observance. He criticized the mass meeting and warned against compromising civil freedoms and church-state separation.
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Secular League
Explains Christian Science Aims and Methods
Virgil O Strickler of the Boston mother church lectured to a large audience at Poll's Theater, stating Christian Science destroys false beliefs by replacing them with truth and by cultivating love, unselfishness, honesty, and obedience to Christ. The talk asserted sickness and sin are mental, healing comes without drugs, and Jesus’ teachings suffice.
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Christian Science
Poll
Virgil O Strickler
CSB
Mother Church
Boston
Christian Science Sims
Christ
Jesus
War work cuts high school entrants to about 740
Assistant Superintendent Stephen E Kramer reported yesterday that war work reduced high school entrants from grades to about 740 in February. Previously 800 to 850 students entered. Many left school for war work and have not returned despite board appeals. The board urges parents to persuade children back to school, noting that schooling yields long term business benefits outweighing small immediate earnings.
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Stephen E Kramer
Board of Education
Seek More Pay For Women Meeting In Washington
A Thursday gathering at Typographical Temple 423 G Street NW aims to push higher wages for women. Jointly sponsored by the Women s Trade Union League Women's Bandery Union Allied Printing Trades Council and Centre Labor Union. Officials cite Washington women earning as low as 9 and 6 dollars weekly while living costs reach 16 dollars per week per US Labor Department data. Jeanette Rankin and Edward Keating are listed as speakers.
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G Street Northwest
Women’s Trade Union League
Womens Bandery Union
Allied Printing Trades Council
Centre Labor
Washington
United States Department of Labor
Jeannette Rankin
Edward Keating
Rediscovery of America at First Baptist Church
Dr Benny Allen Tupper and Dr R H Augustine spoke on Americas transformation and providential guidance at Sixteenth and O streets church last night. Tupper welcomed many new members at the morning service.
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First Baptist Church
Sixteenth and
O Streets
Benny Allen Tupper
R H Augustine
War and Navy Departments Commissiona
America
América
Tupper
Story of the Dardanelles told by Australian sergeant
Sergeant Alexander T Conbrough of the Australian army recounted the Dardanelles campaign yesterday at three Washington picture houses under the American Committee of the Relief in the Near East for twenty million dollars. Conbrough, a member of the famed Australian Sixth Battalion, spoke throughout the famous campaign and will lecture this afternoon at Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman’s Edgemoor home.
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Sergt
Alexander T Conbrough
Dardanelles
Colored man snatches purse near Sixteenth and Euclid
A colored man robbed Miss Katheryn Hood at the corner of Sixteenth and Euclid streets northwest taking a purse with a small amount of cash and change. The report to police described the suspect as about 20 years old, wearing a long overcoat and a checked cap.
Escaped Patient Sought After At St Elizabeths Hospital
Police seek J Bush an escaped patient from St Elizabeths Hospital described as eager to propose to every woman he meets He was last seen in a soldier's uniform walking in the area seeking arrest or recapture by authorities.
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J Bush
St Elizabeth's Hospital
Rumors Tie Trotzky as Possible Czar Amid Petrograd Unrest
A London Paris Warsaw dispatch reports refugees from Russia speculating that Leon Trotzky could crown himself emperor if outside interference ends. Evacuation rumors of Petrograd are unconfirmed while entente occupation expectations and mourning actions greet the upheaval.
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Preas
Warsaw
Leon Trotzky
War and Marine
Minsk
Petrograd
Moscow
Merchants Meet Tonight On Business Relations and Wage Law
Francia J. Heney special FTC counsel discusses big versus little business. Jease C. Adkins outlines the minimum wage law and its enforcement. Commissioner Louis Brownlow gives an address. Robert E. H. Cowle of the American Railway Express speaks. Association reports by President M. A. Loose and Secretary Charles J. Columbus, with new section chairmen announced.
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Francia J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Rauscher’s
Jease C. Adkins
Louis Brownlow
Robert E. H. Cowle
American Railway
W Express Company
M. A. Loose
Charles J. Columbus
Association
Protests Over Dismissal Of Union Station Women
About thirty women who worked as checkers in Union Station parcel rooms claim they were dismissed without notice and replaced by boys under 17. They say uniforms costing 14 dollars were withheld from pay, and protest the move as unjust. The Washington committee of the National Women's Trade Union League filed charges with Director General Hines, who ordered wartime rail job reductions. The league argues workers must be seen as living wage earners and opposes using men as replacements.
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Union Station
National Women’s Trade Union League
Washington Committee
League
Hines
Railroad Administration
Red Cross Work Highlighted by Rabbi Simon at Church
Rabbi Abram Simon spoke on Red Cross service at First Congregational Church, recounting work in France with soldiers, aiding in locating missing servicemen, writing letters for the wounded, and tracing those reported missing. Dr James Gordon led the morning service. evening program featured "Satome, or Theatrical Interpretations of Scripture." Mrs Nicolas Campanolo, soprano, sang.
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Abram Simon
First Congregational Church
France
James Gordon
Simon
Red Cross
Mall
Gordon
Nicholas Campanoli
Public Utilities Hearing Resumes on DC Valuation
The public utilities commission will resume hearings on the valuation of utilities in the District of Columbia after a two month intermission. Valuations of Potomac Electric Power, Washington Gas Light, and Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone are completed, with street railway companies to be heard next. The session begins at 10 o'clock with visitation of properties in the Washington Railway and Electric system.
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Public Utilities Commission
District of Columbia
Potomac Electric Power Company
Washington Gea Light Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Washington Railway and Electric System
Ine
Preacher Links Lincoln to Moral Leadership Sermon
The Rev James Shera Montgomery preached at Calvary Methodist Church on Abraham Lincoln the Great asserting government improves with better men. He quoted Lincoln’s eternal struggle between right and wrong and urged the nation to follow Lincoln’s higher moral example.
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James Shera
Montgomery
Abraham Lincoln the Great
Calvary Methodist Church
Lincoln
City Briefs From Local Clubs And Associations
Feb meeting notes various groups meet today with times from 2 to 5 PM at club rooms and schools. Members from Tenrk ere' Club W C A and Park View Citizens discuss officers, programs, and local civic affairs in Washington area venues and schools.
Powell Community Center Evening Activities Seated
Powell Community Center opens at 7 30 pm for singing social dancing and general use The Hed Cross Club meets at the same hour French classes for children run at 3 15 pm Monday and Thursday Two new courses at Wilson Normal Community Center led by the librarian include The Technical Methode of Library Science and Literature for Children designed for librarians parents teachers social workers and writers for children
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Powell Community Center
Hed Cross Club
Wilson Normal Community Center
Community meetings and events at Wilson Normal and area centers
Tonight at 8 o clock the Motet Choral Society meets and a dance for young people begins at 8. The Criterion Club gathers at Thomson Community Center, and home economics classes start at 7 30 at Wilson Normal. The Little Players open tonight for war workers and young women. Children at Wilson Normal Center can use the gym from 3 15 to 5 20 this afternoon. Johnson-Powell group students entertain parents tomorrow night with a France lecture. Reverend Randolph denounces sects in church unity talk at Foundry M E Church.
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Jagies
Criterion Club
Thomson Community Center
Wilson Normal Community Center
Isc
Motet Choral Society
Little Players
The
Wilson Normal School
Johnson-Powell
Powell School
France
Parker to testify before special congressional committee
A. B. Parker the Democratic candidate for president in 1804 will testify tomorrow before the special congressional committee probing the National Security League of which he is honorary vice president. Gen Isaac H. Sherwood Civil War veteran and Ninth Ohio district representative will describe the league tactics used to try to defeat him today. Representative Car Van Dyke of Minnesota has asked to share his views and will likely be heard this afternoon.
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Alton Parker
Theadoe Roosevelt
Tomoron
National Security League
Isaac H. Sherwood
Ohio
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