Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-27

me Establishment OF professor snip
fund Of 100000 at Smith College by Mr..
and Mrs. David B. Gamble Of Cincinnati.
Ohio. and Pasadena, Cal has been an
nounced by President Marion I. Burton
Of the college. The fund Is given in the
name Of Miss Mary Gamble, daughter Of
the donors.
W. L. Stanley. general claim agent OF
the Seaboard Air Line railway. has been
appointed assistant to the president OF
that system. W. Clarke Moore. who has
been Mr.. Stanley's chief clerk. has been
promoted to freight claim agent of the
Seaboard.
A call for q special session Of the Min
nesota legislature to consider legislation
that would enable Minnesota. guards zen
now on the Mexican border to vote No
venber has been issued by Gov Burn
tquist.
The Peruvian congress has adjourned
for the season The chamber action on
the proposed new petroleum tax meas
ure was postponed.
A greater Canada. industrtally and po-
nt,caily. when peace is declared was pre-
dicted by Baron Shaughnessy. president
Of the Canadian Pacific railway. Just be
fore he sailed for Europe wednesday
from New York.
The annual convention Of the national
t5adss e. S ss an Ss en
It IS expected that fully 1000 important
financial, commercial and manufacturing
interests will be represented.
Tho Dominion government will permit
the building Of merchant ships in Can
ada for Norway. according to telegram
from Ottawa. Contracts for three We sells
valued at $3.500.000 have already been
s;u.nr6 with Vancouver shipbuilderS
The China Mail Steamship Company
which began transpacif1c operations a
wear ago with the liner China, pur-
chased from the Pacific Mail ompany,
has bought two big ocean steamers I'M
der construction at the Wallace SHIP
yard, Vancouver, B. c.
Preparations have been started at
Fort Sam Houston for the construction
Of a garage which. 1t is said. will be
the largest ever erected. The structure
Is to house for the winter more than
500 Of the big army motor trucks which
have been in use on the border.
Declaring there Is shortage Of nc
less than 5000 coal cars from the nor
Coal Operators Association has sent a
petition to the general officers Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad praying
for relief.
German aeroplanes on the Somme
front made more than 500 raids on the
lAnglo-French positions october %. says
the Overseas News Agency. There were
20s aerial flights this day and. 1t is
stated. that in the Somme sector alone
more than sixteen entente aeroplanes
were shot down.
/ A report given out at western repub.
| lican national headquarters in Chicago
states that the Hughes National Col.
| lege League now has $4,000 members
which includes 10000 progressives ant
1000 democratic
Thirty-two military aeroplanes, in.
GLIDING every type of battle plane. pur.
suit. bombarding and training ma.
chimes. are to be delivered at the Sig
nal Corps. training schools at Sar
Diego. Cal. before the first of the year
according to an announcement made b,
an officer Of the military aerodrome.
Charles G. Bryant. chairman Of thu
Duluth board Of grain appeals. com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself re-
| Gently. in his Office in the Board Of
Trade building. The motive is un
known.