Tests at Girls Camp First to Take Place Today
Roosevelt sends regrets for not inspecting the camp and endorses the project. Lectures draw crowds with talks on youth, industrial preparedness, and women in film movements. May exams planned for first aid and hygiene courses. schedules adjusted for a holiday week at Chevy Chase National Service School camp.
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Roosevelt
Charles Bonaparte
Miss Fox
Serv Ie
Chevy Chase
Histruct Ta
Yaster Ay
Prog O Ffenson
Mra Archibaledt Wopkins
Womans Section
National Civic Federation
Charles Loniparte
Ass Mot
Gasoline Pumps and the Push for Accurate Measurement
F J Schlink of the Bureau of Standards reports at the weights and measures conference that patent gas pumps often misregister and deliver more fuel than shown. A suggestion is to meter fuel into standard containers to ensure accuracy. The four day gathering opened with remarks by Secretary Redfield and drew 175 delegates, with a metric system adoption report expected Friday.
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Chat
Theaa
Redfield
Department of Commorose Wa
Avoru
United States
CANDIDATES IN FIST FIGHT AT STATE CAPITOL lawn
In Baton Rouge on May 24, Adjt ren joawall and Maj A D Stewart, both candidates to succeed McSees, fought on the capitol lawn while Hiram Baker acted as referee. Legislators watched from the capitol windows as the two men exchanged blows and were badly cut. McNesse weighed 145 pounds, Stewart 200, and both were later charged with fighting.
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Washington
Ben Baton Rouge
Ren Joawall
McNepse
Maj A. D Stewart
Mc Sees
State Capitol
Hiram Baker
Stewart
Alany Legislatora
McNesse
Four Miners Burn to Death in Virginia City Mine Fire
Four Chinese miners perished in a blaze at the Yellow Jacket mine near Gold Hill Virginia City. The fire erupted at the 400 foot level in the old Belcher workings causing heavy damage and a frantic rescue effort.
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Henan Nav
Belcher
Yellow Jacket
Gold Hy
Virginia City
Waite Passion Trial Details In New York Court
Mrs Waite and a studio friend testified about their relationship with the dentist and examined Waite’s behavior in the weeks before his arrest for arsenic death. Witnesses described Waite as gentlemanly and kind while interactions in the studio and with Mrs Horton were probed as prosecutors test the defendant’s mental state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Muller
Waite
Walte
Bellevue Hospital
New York Presbytery Cleared On Doctrinal Charge
Atlantic City May 24 The general assembly approved the New York Presbytery report on doctrinal standards. It warned all presbyteries to withhold licenses for candidates not clearly aligned with the 1910 deliverance until their stance is clarified by the presbytery. The action follows a broader directive to enforce fundamentals before ordination. The naval appropriations bill proposes higher Marine Band pay but bars outside earnings, with allowances for touring and leadership pay adjustments, detailing monthly rates for top ranks and a larger band roster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In
United States
New York
Marine Band
Marine Corps
Enlarges Navy Yard Shops With 600000 Dollar Extension
An addition to the gun shop at the Washington navy yards is provided for in the naval appropriation bill reported to the House. The improvements will cost 600000 dollars, with 200000 already appropriated. The project adds cranes auxiliary equipment and railroad tracks to the shop. Under present conditions the shop can complete guns for one and one half dreadnoughts a year on a 24 hour basis. None of the 14 or 12 inch guns have been returned for refining yet but are expected back in a year or two and will reduce capacity for new guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Navy Yards
Cottonseed Oil Market Prices Reported in New York
New York May 24. Prime crude cottonseed oil trades at 9 63 to 9 60 for prime summer yellow spot and May 10.90 to 11.75 for various delivery months. Prices listed for June July August September October November and December with prime winter and white summer readings.
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New York
Philadelphia Markets May 24 Butter Unchanged Eggs Firm
Philadelphia report notes butter unchanged and eggs firm. Wheat quiet and weak, corn steady. Date-lower, pea white 19% storage, No 2 white 47 48 cents.
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Philadelphia
Shaw attacks clergy and the New Testament in Shaw preface
London reports Bernard Shaw the dramatist writes a preface to Androcles and the Lion that provokes commotion in theological circles. He questions Jesus and the Gospels with Shaw's characteristic satirical style and chastises clergy for turning churches into recruiting stations and munition workshops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Shaw
International News Service
London
Shaw
Jesus
Mars
Mara
Christ
The Belasco Theater Reopens With Luggage and Lively Stars
The Belasco Theater begins a week of entertainment with Somebody's Luggage a comedy starring James T Powers in a music free play return and a premiere of The End of the Rainbow a 125 child cast musical at Belasco with the authors appearing in the final scene. Washington Oratorio Society to perform Mendelssohn St Paul at First Congregational Church with 215 voices under Sydney Wrightson.
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Belasco Theater
Mark Swan
James T. Powers
Rv. Powers
New Haven
Belasco
Washington
Howard Leslie Holt
Mendelssohn
St. Paul
First Congregational Church
Washington Oratorio Society
Sydney Lloyd Wrightson
T. Arthur Smith
G Street
Thousand Dollar Husband at the Columbia
Blanche Sweet stars in The Thousand Dollar Husband at the Columbia showing Sunday through Wednesday. The film follows Misa Sweet as a Swedish maid in a college boarding house as the plot unfolds.
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Blanche Sweet
Columbia
Misa Sweet
Well Known Lady Praises Dreco For Constipation Relief
Mrs Daisy Jones of 429 Sixth Street NW reports Dreco cured long standing constipation and liver kidney troubles. She describes relief from back pain nervous tension coated tongue and bad breath with improved appetite and digestion. Dreco sold at O Donnell Drug Stores Bury’s Anacostia Allen’s Alexandria price 100.
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Daisy Jones
Sixth Street Northwest
New Bill Features at Cosmo Tonight with Variety Acts
Catherine Crawford and Fashion Girlie lead a dainty program at Cosmo today with masqueradelike dancing and impersonation. Carr ie Lily sings while George Martin the tramp comedian performs wire acrobatics and Hunter and Davenport offer quaint comedy. Next week’s Ragtime Revelry promises ten sprightly girls in ragtime and comedy. Six Walker benefit tickets go on sale for June 4 at Poli’a Theater under A H Van Buren. Belasco wired a message.
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Catherine Crawford
the Cosmos
Monde
Salle
Carrie Lily
George Martin
Hunter
Davenport
Walker
A. H. van Buren
Poli'a
David Belasco
Madame Butterfly Tour to Capital Benefit Feature
New York production of Madame Butterfly heads to the Capital for a benefit presentation thanks to generosity. Nazimova lends War Brides to Mary Alden who supports war protest theater and appears with Poll Stock Company. Mr and Mrs Howard Leslie Holt present a dancing man and Lewis Thompson offers a tenor solo.
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New York
Mme. Nazimova
Mary Alden
Miss Alden
Poll Stock Company
Nazimova
Howard Leslie Holts
Pse
Lewis Thompson
Salo
Nesbit Thaw and John Clifford wed in Baltimore
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and her dancing partner John Clifford married in Baltimore after traveling from New York. They returned to New York the same day. Harry Thaw, recently divorced, remains in the city and is said to still be involved with Evelyn. The couple have been active in vaudeville tours and now seek to consolidate their professional and personal life. A Methodist Episcopal Church conference approved a plan to appoint department superintendents for evangelism in cities, rural areas, and church extension, with Bishop Earl Cranston presiding in his final year. A resolution urged a Sunday rest law for the District of Columbia.
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Washington Post
New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
John Clifford
Baltimore
Harry KE. Thaw
Saratoga Springs
Cliffords
Methoodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Earl Cranston
Washington
Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Williams gifts total 4.5 million in Chicago trust and properties
Hobart Williams, a 70 year old bachelor, announced gifts totaling about 4.5 million dollars. He established a 2 million dollar trust for ten Illinois institutions and deeded the Williams building in Chicago to the University of Chicago valued at about 2.5 million. He also donated property to St. Luke's Hospital and to M C A valued at 200 600 and 100 000 respectively. Williams has lived in Cheshire Connecticut for 25 years.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Hobart Williams
University of Chicago
Williams
Cheshire
Conn
Szechuen Declares Independence Amid Military Split
Gen. Chen Yi, governor of Szechuen, proclaimed the province independent at Chengtu. A May 7 Shanghai dispatch noted Chengtu’s move without a formal declaration, and reported Chen Yi with five divisions against Trao Kun at Chungking with three. A clash between the factions was possible.
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Szechuen
Shanghai
Chen Yi
Chengtu
Chen ¥i
Trao-Kun
Chungking
Sir George Dunbar Weds Miss Sophie Kennedy
Special cable from London reports Sir George Drum mond Dunbar of the Black Watch marrying Miss Sophie Kennedy daughter of Mr and Mrs James Benson Kennedy of New York and Inverness House Portchester terrace St James Sussex Gardens Kennedy gave his daughter in marriage.
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Washington Post
London
George Drummond Dunbar
The
Black Watch
Sophie Kennedy
James Benson Kennedy
New York
Inverness House
Portchester Terrace
St James
Sussex Gardens
Kennedy
Lenient With Texas Militia Recruits On Border Duty
Six Texas National Guard members who missed duty summons may gain another chance as a new army reorganization bill pending presidential signature repeals provisions allowing court martial. Secretary Baker plans to delay action until law passes, automatically mustering them into Federal service with court martial risk if they fail again.
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Texas National Guard
Baker
Colored Soldiers Honored At National Memorial Meeting
Senator Moses E I Clapp and Representatives Campbell and Sherwood spoke at a National Memorial Association event at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church urging a monument to Black soldiers and sailors. They pressed congressional action for site and erection funding and praised colored troops for valor alongside other nationalities.
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Moses E.i Clapp
Minnesota
Philip P Campbell
Kansas
Tssac R. Sherwood
Ohio
National Memorial Association
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church
Nineteenth and I Streets
Clapp
Congress
Europe
Campbell
Sherwood
Thia
Ferdinand D Lee
Association
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Col. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Regulara
Tr Wilson
Dr Frear
Misa Georgia Schofield
Nancy Moore
Dorothy Levering Lloyd
Pauline Pollitt
L. 5
Bureau
Louisiana
Trea
Resinol
Baltumom
Percy Peck
John FB. Peck
Peck
John EH
K. Adams
K Adams
John E Peck
Adama
Misa Elizabeth C. Hardwick
Cornell
Watte
Bedi
Dential
Horton
John E. Peck
Mr. Peck
General Assembly
Naval
Navy Yard
Drama League Players of
McKinley High School
Bertram Bloch
Glenna Smith Tinnin
Mr. Bloch
Spein
Alice Brown
Keith
Belle
Poll
W. H Post
William Collier
Nat C. Goodwin
Mr. van Buren
Miss Gilbert
Magdalen
Fannie Ward
Etrand
James Curwood
Strand
Neil Shipman
William Duncan
George Holt
Edgar Kellar
Gallagher
Marguerite Snow
William Nigh
Mr. Jack
Frank Daniels
Norma Talmadge
Crandall
William Farnum
Crandall’s
Fate
Molita King
Robert Mantell
Genevieve Hamper
Robert Warwick
Alice Brady
Savoy
the Supreme Temptation
Casino
Flm
Charles Rann Kennedy
Tyrone Power
Glen Echo Park
Potomac River
Soldiers
Chevy Chase Lake
Meyer Davis
Willard Hotel
Lyceuum
the High Steppers
Lyceum Theater
Lyceum Stock Company
la Belle
Clio Specialtlea
Dreco
Madame Butterfly
Teman
Fisk
Fisk Rubber Company
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Washington Branch
New York Ave.n. W
Evelyn Thaw
Methodist General Conference
Dr. Wedderspoon
Chicago University
Yuan
George Dunbar
Texas
Clapp, Campbell and Sherwood
Douglas
ACE
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
W. L. Do
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