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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1917
Page
8
The Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense in Washington urges eliminating wasteful service in retail trades as in other businesses. It stresses patriotic economy requires the United States to marshal every ounce of manpower, machinery, wealth and resources.
Representative Jeanette Rankin seeks a congressional probe into working conditions at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Ralph directs a June report showing about 1,100 women averaging 12 to 16 hours daily. Hearings may be held behind closed doors to protect witnesses. Miss Rankin will attend when possible and push her resolution this week in the House.
Encouraging responses flowed to the Red Cross finance committee as it hopes to equal last week's $25,000 total. The committee will continue urging Washington residents, urging contributions of any size, to aid soldiers sailors and marines and relieve suffering in France Belgium and allied regions through the summer months.
More than 3,000 attended the flag raising at the Fourth Presbyterian Church corner on Thirteenth and Fairmont streets northwest yesterday afternoon. Miss Dorothy McElwee presented the flag for the Ladies of the Church. Rev Joseph T Kelley accepted on behalf of the community. Lieut Clarence N Exley raised the colors as Charles Drexidus struck the bugle. Virginia Billett, Alton B Carty, and A B Kelley performed and spoke. James A MacElwee directed music with Marjorie J Clinton Hiatt assisting. Columbia Heights Citizens Association and education committee representatives attended.
Society notes announce Marta Baker Cleveland of New Orleans to Capt Charles Longstreet Poor US Naval Volunteer of New York. Details cover family prominence, social ties, and related marriages, with mentions of current and former naval officers and Washington society connections.
President Wilson's niece Mrs Annie Howe Cothran to wed Frank Compton, a Chicago publisher, with plans for a New York autumn wedding and a stay on Long Island. Senor Dominici, minister’s sister, joins in New York before heading to Caracas for autumn. Florida and northeast coast summer travel noted among a roster of society events and relocations.
Mrs George J Newgarden has closed her home at 1633 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest and joined her husband Major George J Newgarden U S A at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia where he serves as surgeon at the war prison barracks. Mr and Mrs Charles F Jancon and family from Detroit are at the Grafton Hotel. Mr and Mrs D W Eilia of Ogden Utah have taken an apartment at the Hroyden for the summer. They all remain here until autumn. Mr Bilis, a former Washingtonian, was born here. Mr and Mrs R H H Bristow Draper of Hopedale Massachusetts are at the Grafton.
Congress plans broad wartime powers to confiscate patents owned by Germans or allies. The act permits the president to control such patents and require licenses from anyone dealing with enemy patents. Five percent of gross patent receipts go to the U S Treasury.
Mrs Mary J Whitney observed her ninety six birthday at the Somerville Home for the Aged after finishing repairs on a large number of flags. A native of Hallowell Maine she comes from a family with revolutionary and Civil War fame and is in good health.
Col Edward Howland Robinson Green, heir to Hetty Green, was reportedly engaged to be married in Chicago with a ceremony planned for Tuesday. He would return to New York with his bride, details of the fiancée remaining undisclosed.
District wide campaign announces twenty seven simultaneous meetings in prominent school buildings with speeches by noted men and women. Attendance urged for both sexes to support food conservation policies and methods.
A decree issued by President Carranza bans manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor in Chihuahua effective today. The order, described as a war measure, aims to curb banditry and revolution in the border state, the largest in the region.
The Chamber of Commerce plan seeks simpler, less ornate women fashions as garments and footwear join a national effort to standardize attire for 1918. The bulletin argues gradual reforms save costs and prevent unsold stock, noting wartime precedents in other countries and the goal of easy future adjustments.
Boston report recalls Mrs M J Carter lamenting her daughter Laura Garfield Gould’s assertion she was an orphan while seeking a license to wed George J Gould Jr. The Swedish born widow recounts a hard life, denial by Laura, and plans to visit Laura in New York while questioning Gould social circles.
In a fragmentary exchange, the interrogator asks if the visit occurred at a home and whether Mrs Carter was present last fall. The respondent shows limited knowledge about Mr Carter's activities, stating she does not know his business and that she knows very little about him before bidding good night.
The second American conference for democracy and terms of peace held at Auditorium recital hall opened amid disorder. Ella J Abeel relinquished the chair. Rev Irvin St John Tucker struggled to control the crowd. Louis P Lochner spoke on planning a People's Council and delegates adopted resolutions urging immediate democratic peace without annexations or punitive indemnities and calling for clear war aims, free press, abolition of secret diplomacy, and equal pay for women replacing men’s wages.
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