Army travel fund shortage and officer transfers eyeing Texas border
The War Department faces annual travel fund shortfalls as Congress provides no extra mileage appropriation. Increased service with militia and on the Mexican border raises costs for transport to service schools and station transfers, with about $50,000 yearly in mileage impacts and July 1 budget delays. Officers’ retirements and activations shift promotions, while canvas water bags and shelter tents spark supply debates.
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War Department
Congress
Texas
Philippines
Secretary of War
Army
William J. Lassiere
Medical Corps
Army Reserve
Navy to restore officers to active list under new law
The Navy sent the President seven or eight line officers names for restoration to active duty under a new law, including Captains John H. Gibbons Frank K. Hill and Armistead Rust. No recommendations were added as the department only alerted the President to the statute and the names and will await the President on whether to order board examinations. The President has already directed exams for retired Marine Lt Col Perkins and may similarly act on Navy officers once he decides. Continued on twelfth page.
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War Department
Congress
Herave
White House
Secretary of the Navy
John H. Gibbons
Frank K. Hill
Armistead Rust
Navy Department
Home Club Chess Scene Features Interbureau Rivalry
The Home Club at 14 Jackson Place hosts Friday chess nights with top Interior Department players. A six week interbureau tournament pitted land office, reclamation, patent, and mines bureaus for first, while upcoming matches pit Interior against Agriculture on May 25. Knapp defeats Lovell in a queen's gambit duel. reports cover ongoing district and masters tournaments with notes from Adriens Jones and Captain J A Roberts.
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Hess
Interior
Interior Department
Jackson Place
Chasal
Land Office
Re-Clamation Service
Patent Office
Fundi
Bureau of Mines
H. V. Bronier, Jr
L. B. Zapoleon
Lovell
Knapp
Lane
Calssa
Ryan
Reclamation Service
Adriens A. Jones
Dhe
Agriculture
iInterior
J. A. Roberts
F. B. Walker
Busy Sunday for Biddle in Washington event
A. J. Drexel Biddle arrives in Washington for a full Sunday program with Drexel-Biddle Bible classes. He will address Vaughn class at Calvary Baptist, speak at Bethany Baptist, join the David and Jonathan Brotherhood ceremony, pose for a team photograph, then attend tea at Takoma Park and speak at Vermont Avenue Christian Church.
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A. J. Drexel Biddle
Washington
J. Dewitt Jobborn
Philadelphia
Meld
Calvary Baptist Sunday
Biddie
Vaughn
George B. Bryan
Bethany Baptist Church
Biddle
E. C. Rice
Sixteenth Street
David and Jonathan Brotherhood
Eighth
H. C. McNeil
F. T. Chapman
Louis D. Biss
Fras. Bliss
Takoma Park
Vermont Avenue Christian Church
A Washington drummer’s poker tale in a Southern club
A Washington star drummer recounts a high stakes poker night in a Southern club. Around a green baize table six players add to their stakes with witty banter while the narrator rides a hot run to a final, nerve wracking hand. He bets the last of his cash and a bob-tail straight flush appears to be topped by his opponent’s full house, leaving him furious and defeated.
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W. L
L. Capablanca
Marshall
M. Schroeder
Michelsen
Bernstein
Greenberg
Prante
Hodges
Washington Mercantile
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ponce de Leon
Aad
Southern
Sam
Bob
Shorty
Joe
Jesus
Dixie
Gayety
Merrilyn
Washington
Kansas girls form first cadet militia corps in state
Special to The Washington Poet reports Kansas girls led by Miss Vera Snyder form a cadet corps in Walnut Grove aiming to join the Kansas National Guard through the U S War Department. They plan military drills, camp craft, and khaki uniforms, promoting a feminine militia model.
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Kansas
Washington
Wichita
Kan
Kansas National Guard
Walnut Grove
Vera Snyder
U. K
United States War Department
Walnut Grays
Armitar Corps
France
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United States Army
Col. Maus
L L. Mervin Maus
Medical Ecorpa
Eastern Department
Governors Inland
N.Y
Maryland
Leonard Wood
Terial
Infantry Equipment Board
Fort Totten
Signal Corps
Bureau of Fisheries
Department of Commerce
Alaska
Bureau
Copper Center
Quartermaster General
Quartermaster Corps
Corps of Engineers
Pat
United States Navy
MR. Knapp
New York
Edward Lasker
Oscar Chajes
Capablanca
Falinue
Paach
Roberts
Paech
Flack
Uivally Plano
Pata Roberta
Pascha Binck
Kyeh
Roborts
Giueco Planissimo
Pomeia
Nina Roberts
Pasch
White
Vienna
Jonin
Peter Caruso
M. G. Daavid
Alexandria
D. W
Riverdale
Col
P. F. Harvey
Black
Glen Urquhart
Copenhagen
Arlington Mills
Palm Beach
Joker
Middle South
Deuce
Trais
Spa
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