Powers Hold Back Russia in Peace Conference Efforts
Germany desires U S action on disarmament but State Department shows delicacy. A second Hague conference date remains unresolved as major powers hesitate to initiate. U S leadership shifted to Russia. domestic limits cited for proposing a general arms reduction program. Britain favors binding warfare regulations and arbitration over broad disarmament ambitions.
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United_States
State Department
the Hague
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
United States
Great Britain
Russla
Roosevelt
Zar
Russia
Hague
Hasing
States Department
Root
America
Europe
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District Men Preferred
Anacostia Citizens Association meeting proposes opposing local office patronage and condemns the board of education actions including dismissals and the district race trip. The resolution was referred to the committee on school after stormy debate.
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Anacostia Citizens’ Association
Committeeum Schoote
James Watson
Board of Education
Chancellor
District of Columbia
Watson
Committee On School
D A R Admits 469 Members at National Headquarters
The D A R board met at the National headquarters in Washington and admitted 469 new members. A new chapter Emnily Nelson was approved to be organized tomorrow with Mrs. George L. Marlin as regent. President General Donald McLean presided. funds totaling about 9 000 for current and 52 000 for permanent are set for Continental Hall.
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the Nations Board of Management
Washington Loan and Trust
Emnily Nelson
George L. Marlin
Donald McLean
Continental Hall
McLean Wi
W. F. Dailey
Charlotte Emerson
Maine
George W. Nichols
South Carolina
Franklin BE. Brooks
Colorado
Richard Jackson Barker
Rhode Island
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Wiliam D. Kearfoot
New Jerse
Clara Lee Bowman
Connecticut
Tennis S. Hamlin
District of Columbia
Elizabeth F. Pierce
J. Stewart Jamieson
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Virginia Miller
M. E. S. Davis
Mary S. Lockwood
Ellen Spencer Massey
Howard L. Hodgkins
Rowena Edson Stevens
Iowa
Helen Shaw
J. Pembroke Thom
Maryland
Eleanor Murdock Johnson
Ellen Mecum
New Jersey
Baldwin Day Spilman
West Virginia
Frank W. Mondell
Wyoming
Continental Hall Committee
Society
Names of Distinguished Scientists Now Under Consideration
The Smithsonian board of regents plans to elect a new secretary after the January 28 meeting. At least a dozen scientists have been formally or informally presented, with Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn the only active tender. Expected candidates include David Starr Jordan and Sir William Ramsay, though officials deem Ramsay unlikely and Jordan not seeking the post. The board aims to choose a man of unquestioned fitness and will advance cautiously to avoid misperception.
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Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
William Langley
Regenta
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Museum of Natural History
New York
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Sir William Ramsay
Alexander Graham Felt
Osborn
William Ramsay
Washington
Jordan
Ender
May View Italy Treasures Free Museum Permits
The Bureau of Inification reports Italian regulations grant free museum and antiquities permits to certain Americans. Eligible include artists, art history students, professors in archaeology and art sciences, university and school staff, engineers’ faculties, and officials in fine arts administration. A limited number of copies are available. Officers of the Woman's League of the National Junior Republic will elect directors tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the Arlington. Current officers listed. directors include many prominent Washington women.
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Bureau of Inification
Department of State
Woman's League of the National Junior Republic
Arlington
Charles W. Fairbanks
Mary 5. Lockwood
H. B. Sperry
Henry Gannett
J. E. Gilbert
Washington
Fullerton Estate to Legal Heirs
The will of David L. Fullerton dated January 7 1907 names Rev J Q A Fullerton as executor. It directs access to the estate papers in the Union Trust and Savings Bank safe deposit box and states the estate should be divided among legal heirs after provision for the wife.
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Fullerton
David L. Fullerton
J. Q. A. Fullerton
Union Trust and Savings Bank
Endowment Granted for Penn Chemistry Chair
Announcement says the chemistry chair at the University of Pennsylvania, currently held by Dr. Edgar Smith, has been endowed with one hundred thousand dollars. University authorities refuse to disclose the donor’s name.
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Pilladelpha
Van
University of Pennsylvania
Edgar #. Smith
Funds Needed for Poor. Charities Name Yearly Helpers
The Associated Charities board reviewed finances for 1906 07 reporting $5 720 27 raised from July 1 1906 to January 8 1907 toward over 716 000 needed for the year leaving about 1 000 still sought. Committees were appointed by Prof B T Janney with Archibald Hopkins as finance chair to oversee contributions, provident plans, organization, auditing and executive matters. December activities included Christmas baskets trees gifts dinners coats clothing and school attendance efforts benefiting 1 061 families served this month and 18 426 case records on file.
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Board of Managers
Gol. Archibald Hopkins
Col. Hopkins
Siance
B. T. Janney
Fallowa
B. T. Snnney
George Trundell
George 8. Wilson
William H. Baldwin
Cuno H. Rudolph
George M. Rober
Seman
Archibald Hepkins
Frederic L. Moore
W. Woodward
Dana H. Rudolph
George Truesdell
Provident
George M. Kober
George Wilson
Mien
Helen Nicolay
Sofle A. Nordboft-Jung
Dtvioton
Mills Florence Spofford
Cheirmen
Salvation Army
Saks
Saka & Co
Social Gossip Notes on Rives Sheriff and European Ambassadors
The column surveys political shifts in a county seat with Sheriff Chanier’s disputes and the fate of public orders, plus high society dispatches from Paris and Rome. It details McCormick ambassadorship turmoil, Mrs White’s receptions, and marriage rumors involving Dr Jerome Landfield and German society circles.
Cures for Consumption Meeting at St Pauls Church
The committee on the prevention of Consumption held a talk at St Pauls Catholic Church on Tuesday evening. Speakers Dr. B M Randolph William F Downey and Wallace Hatch urged abstaining from patent medicines and pursuing hygienic living. Downey warned on alcohol and nicotine while Hatch showed carcinogenic insanitary conditions through stereoscopic pictures and stressed overcrowding as a disease source with progress noted in municipal and private efforts to combat it.
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Committee On the
St. Paul's Catholic Church
B. M. Randolph
Wiliam F. Downey
Wallace Hatch
Randolph
Downey
Hatch
Washington
Navy Yard Meeting and Veterans Elect Officers
The National League of Employes of Navy Yards met at the Manhattan Hotel and framed a constitution. They urged Roosevelt and Congress on measures like the Tability bill and a Saturday half holiday. Masonic Veterans elect officers. banquet set for January 23. A lecture on Sicily at George Washington University and an annuity case in San Francisco are also noted.
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National League of Employes of Navy Yards
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Congress
League
Navy Yards
Atlantic Seaboard
Washington Navy Yard
Taft
Metcalf
Masonic Veterans
Masonic Veterans’ Assocation
Scottish Rite Cathedral
George Gibson
George B. Corgan
George W. Balloch
Albert H. van Deusen
James B. Lamble
James A. Sample
G. Yorkert Lee
Frank H. Thomas
Daniel McFarlan
Jacob
Society Notes on Fashionable Ladies and Couture
The piece reviews Countess Koni de Cantellant and Mme Gould, praising their jewels and gowns while noting a yellow silk and ermine ensemble and a debut in Paris. It highlights Alice Marquand's artful gowns, her marriage in Westminster, and Mme du Gast’s eccentric attire and Morocco sojourns.
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Koni de Cantellant
Mme. Gould
George" Ponder
Faubourg St. Germaine
Jay Gould
Castellanea
Paris
Mme. du Gast
Morocco
Rassouli
Onty
Mme, du Gast
Mrs Blaine 800N to wed in Philadelphia soon
A marriage license was issued in Philadelphia to Paul Pearsall Pearats of New York to wed Martha Hichborn Blaine, recently divorced from James G. Blaine Jr. The couple may marry at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel with reports indicating a January 18 ceremony. Berlin dispatch notes Carl von Schubert to serve as German embassy attache in Washington. Ambassador and Mrs. McCormick hosted a dinner in honor of Premier Clemenceau at the American Embassy.
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Pearnatl Yeaterday
Philadelphia
Churth
Paul Stanford Pearaat
New York
Martha Hichborn Blaine
James G. Blaine, Jr
Sioux Falls
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
Berlin
Carl von Schubert
Baron von Stumm
Iron King
Cherbourg
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Washington
Isaac Edward Clark Dead Chronology of a Literary Col
Col Isaac Huwaruwerk a noted literary figure and Cosings Club charter member died suddenly from heart failure at his home on Oregon Avenue. His son Judge John Proctor Clark of New York will bury the body in Northampton Massachusetts. He was born in Old Deerfield Massachusetts, Yale graduate, practiced law in New York, wrote for the Times and Tribune, edited Yonkers Statesman and New Haven College Courant, and served in varied educational and literary roles. He celebrated his golden wedding in 1905, survived by wife Edna Proctor Clark Hayes and son John Proctor Clark.
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Isaac Huwaruwerk
Cosings Club
Oregon Avenue
John FP. Clark
New York
Northampton
Mass
Col. Clark
Old Deerfield
Yale University
Europe
Provisional Court of
Louisiana
United States
New York City
Henry J. Raymond
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Tribune
Yonkera Statesman
New Haven College Courant
Commissioner of Education
Congress
Literary Society of
Washington
Sona of the Revolution
Edna Proctor Clark Hayes
Harrison School
John Proctor Clark
Supreme Court of New York
Judge Vale Buried After Long Career in Law and Real Estate
Judge J W Vale a former county judge of Louisa County Ohio and later Washington editor and real estate developer is buried after funeral services at his residence. Born Columbiana County he moved to Louisa County before the Civil War and later helped build Washington through real estate and editorial work at the Chronicle. His widow and children receive community sympathy for his genial nature.
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Kaitor
Lewis Walker Vale
Judge Vale
Columbiana County
Ohio
Laws
Louisa County
Washington
The
Chronicle
Doctor Simon Groot Dies at 87 in City
Dr. Simon I Groot eighty seven year old well known homeopathic physician died Tuesday afternoon of pneumonia. Born in New York in 1820 he came to Washington over fifty years ago and practiced for more than thirty years. He retired and lived with his son William C Groot at 24 F street northwest. He was prominent in Masonic circles. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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William Hoffmann
West Eighty-first Street
New York
Oscar Tauter
Metropolitan Riding Club
West Fifty-sixth Street
Bristol
West Forty-ni Nth
Mr. Ehret
St. Ignatius Loyolla
Eighty-fourth Street
Park Avenue
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Mr. Hanter
Boboken
Simon J. Groot
Dr. Groot
Washington
William C. Groot
Etreet
Oak Hill Cometet
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