Washington Automotive Trade Association Names Committees
At a Washington Automotive Trade Association meeting at 1128 Connecticut Avenue plans moved to stage an automotive week in early March and possibly an automotive show this spring. A show committee led by C R Hough and others will name a week and a publicity committee seeks a slogan and insignia while captains E J Murphy and W Pierce Raynor pick membership teams with rivalries over dinners. A lunch committee will arrange daily meetings and an honorary member was elected, with traffic law reform also to be pursued through a dedicated committee.
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Washington Automotive Trade Association
Connecticut Avenue
C. R. Hough
E. J. Quinn
A. B. Cumner
J. A. Bartram
E. J. Murphy
W. Pierce Raynor
C. H. Warrington
H. B. Leary, Jr
Edward Neumeyer
Frost
William Rheips Eno
Washington
Frad A. Swindell
Is A. Laudick
3. A. Luttrell
J. Bo Trew
Piez May Quit Office Amid War Fleet Plans
Charles Piez chief of the Emergency Fleet Corporation is reported to retire after Edward Hurley returns from Europe. Hurley’s return to America is awaited in New York as Piez contemplates leaving to resume private business. Piez heads Link-Belt Company Chicago and is a leading industrial figure, with duties tied to building the merchant fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Piez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Edward N. Hurley
Shipping Board
America
Prez
Hurley
New York
Parla
Link-Belt Company
Chicago
Plez
Gas Cut Off Asks $10,000 Damages
Ida B. Smith sues Sarah E. Evans in District Supreme Court for $10,000 claiming August 22 gas was turned off and bathroom door locked at 1810 New Jersey Avenue Northwest. Smith says Evans left town, causing distress and medical costs of $50 after vacating August 23. attorney Michael C. O'Brien represents Smith.
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Ida B. Smith
District Supreme Court
Sarah E. Evans
New Jersey Avenue
Michael C. O'Brien
Snake Found On Street Near Fourteenth Street And F Street
A five foot moccasinlike snake was found in a gutter after a laundry bag from a hotel was picked up by a policeman on the east side of Fourteenth Street between F and Pennsylvania Avenue. The snake froze as night wore on while police sought the owner to reclaim the property before risks to pedestrians and sanitation crews.
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Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Baltimore
Miss Mosel Boardman To Speak At George Washington Dinner
Miss Mosel Boardman of the American Red Cross will be principal speaker at George Washington University dinner on February 2 at the Wardman Park Hotel. Her topic is International Responsibilities During the New Era. A 7 to 7:30 reception for Dr. William Miller Collier will precede his brief address. Invitees should notify Dr. Howard L. Hodgkins, treasurer, at 2093 G Street NW.
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Mosel Boardman
American Red Cross
George Washington University
Wardman Park
William Miller Collier
Collier
Howard L. Hodgkins
G Street
Women Dismissed From Railroad Posts in Uproar
A disputed order from the United States railroad administration led to the removal of women workers described as unfit for manual labor. The Galen Station case and a nationwide inquiry followed as men protested the dismissal amid government scrutiny and a demand for formal justification.
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Prade Oion League
Public utilities panel fixes rail company reproduction value
The public utilities commission finished cross examination of Edwin Almert consulting engineer for Washington Railway and Electric in valuing the company property. Frank T. Nelson will be the next witness to present cost-based figures. hearings target February 4 in Portia. Conrad Syme attacked Almert's basis, noting July 1 1916 as abnormal for reproduction prices. Almert defended a normal-basis approach. Reproduction cost for the company and two subsidiaries was set at 29 656 268 62 dollars using July 1 1916 as the date.
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Public Utilities Commission
Hart Almert
Washington Railway and Pilectric Company
Almert
Frank T. Nelson
Eifferts
Plortia
Conrad Syme
Com
Lebear Ami
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Witnans
City Briefs From a Washington Era Public Notices
Public notices and society items chronicle events across Washington. Banquet for the Department of the Potomac G A R at the Ebbitt on February 19 with Commander in Chief Clarendon W Adame as guest of honor. Lectures and meetings announced at Ganzage College, Cyamea Chile, Stoneleigh Court, St. Augustine's Church, and other venues. Community groups including the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Mount Pleasant W C T U, and Washington Camp No 306 Confederate Veterans hold meetings. Bishop Rhinelander’s sermon, George Washington University term dates, a Valentine dance at Woodward & Lothrop, and a W C A gathering highlight local civic and cultural life. The Public Library hosts Colonial Beach Society, with service improvements urged for steamboats.
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Department of the Potomac
Ebbitt
Clarendon W. Adame
Gwent
Community Center Notes and Events
Community Center notes describe weekly activities at Central High School gymnasium and clubroom for young women including apparatus work and reading. It mentions a Tuesday dance for enlisted men and war workers and a home management course at Eastern High School for beginners and experienced women. Funeral notice for Miss Bara Ludwell Lee preserves local burial details in Alexandria.
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Central High School
Eastern High School
Eneral Wacre- Seay
Gormamaniis
West Washington
Phillips School
Mise Sere
Transportation at cost plan gains rail union support
A. H. Garretson of the Order of Railway Conductors backs a government cost plan for railways as four railroad brotherhoods push for Senate Interstate Commerce Committee action. Garretson argues for return to value regulation if government operation ends while Cottrell warns Southern business leaders face bankruptcy under freight rate revisions.
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G&on
A. H. Garretson
Order of Allway
Senate
Inter State Commerce
Glenn
Warren
Charles E. Cottrell
Atlanta, Ga
Southern Traffic ‘League
Privaite
Phied Reilroad
Jackson Indicted On Murder Count In DC Case
James Henry Jackson, colored, nicknamed the maniac, indicted by the grand jury for first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Lillian Hood, a war worker, on January 24. Hood died six days later after an ant emortem statement described a pistol at her bedside and the assailant tumbling through a ground floor window. Additional indictments include multiple robbery and assault offenses against several named individuals.
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James Henry Jackson
Lillian Hood
United States
Miss Hood
L Street
Hood
Jackson
Bessie Potter
Rose Green
Cora Brown
George W. Johnson
James W. Handy
Frederick Casson
Marshal Lyles
Dora Davis
Bertha Mantey
William Murphy
Faerrice Beasley
Wa Hil
John B. Welsmiller
James Brown
Williams. Lester
Walter Gayden
Iseault
William H. Smith
Chamber Meeting Tonight At Reuscher’s
The Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at Reuscher's to announce standing committees and discuss representation of several nations trade policies District of Columbia Congress representation building problem Washington a States exhibit for 1920 and a report from the executive committee on new chambers quarters.
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Chamber of Commerce
Reuscher's
Congress
District of Columbia
Washington
Chamber
Wife sues army officer for divorce and alimony
Mrs. Harriet M. Wickersham filed for absolute divorce and alimony from Lieut. Morgan W. Wickersham A. S. A. alleging misconduct. They wed January 1 1914 in Germantown Pennsylvania and have one child Elizabeth Hope born July 2 1915. Custody requested. Mrs. Wickersham claims desertion began May 28 1917 after he moved to an apartment with another woman. She notes rent of 585 since then and a 50 monthly allotment from his government salary. Attorneys Harry K. Hickey and Jesse C. Adking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet M. Wickersham
Morgan W. Wickersham
Germantown
Elizabeth Hope Wickersham
Wickersham
Cables Open for Overseas Service Amid War Censorship
Commercial messages may be accepted for places in Alsace Lorraine and Palestine and Mesopotamia. Messages for Beyrout Damascus and other Syria locations served by allied troops. Domestic messages may be sent for races in Luxembourg under censorship. Plain language in English or French permitted.
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Alsace Lorraine
France
Palestine
Mesopotamia
Beyrout
Damascus
Basl- Pec
Homs
Aleppo
Bagche
Syria
Gexembourg
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Piez May
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Sarah E. “Evans
Hapro
W.r&e
Colins
Wice
Thomas I. Gaswen
Delver
Christian Science
Ganzage College
Cal
A. HM. White
Chemical Society of
Cyamea
Chile
National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
Bro
John J. Myers
Stoneleigh Court
Holy Name Society of
St. Augustine’s Church
J. N. Cru
Wayne B. Wheeler
Friends’ Church
Thirteenth Land
Irving Streets
Mount Pleasant
Song of Confederate Veterinn
Washington Camp
Confederate Memorial Home
Vermont Avenue
Northevest
Touteht
Jeutn FF
Pest
Cosintaet
St. Mark's Pariah
Gelock
Amd
putHe
Philip M. Rhinelander
Pennsylvania
Greorge Washington University
Amplexeu
Wootward & Lothrop
Woodward & Lothrop
The
Stern
Ick
Atere
Elizabeth Somers
Helen
Colonial Beath Society
Community Center Notes
Bara Ludiwell Lee Wa
Iiss Sap
Brotherhood
A. B. Garrsteen
Opler of
Ratteway
Glen E. Plumb
H. M. Wickersham
California
Old Virginia
Victory
Rumford
Michigan
Satish
Gur Millbrook Fresh Eggs
Florida Stock
Derrydale
Louisiana Ave
Louisiana Ave. Ltd
E Sts. S.E
H St. NE
Hi St
Nle
St. Iw
14Th
Kenyon Sts
N.W
St. Alexzendria
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