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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
Fire mt Madison

At ESQ Wednesday morning the
Madison Fire department responded to
a call for a fire in the basement Of the
Western Avenue school building
Within an hour the flames were sub
dued with little damage to the build
ing.
School, OF course. had not opened
and altho it is not exactly known how
the fire originated 1t was supposedly
due to defective chimney. At one
time indications pointed to a disas-
trous conflagration, flames having
gained access between the partitions
A member of the Madison school
board in discussing the matter stated
that very little damage resulted end
that the school session commenced a
the regular hour Wednesday morning
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
important
Notice to
Auto Owners

Commencing Jan. 1st, 1918 We
shall put onr garage business
on a STRICTLY CASH BASIS.
We have heeN &c sidering this
change for some time, and be
lieve that cor3,tions at the
present time warrant us in
doing so, and that our patrons
will welcome the change
when once established
AS our bookkeeping meth
DDS will be changed entirely
and our present hooks closed
Jan. LIST, all bills not settled
by the above date will be left
with an attorney.
IVY = = -
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13

Dolls and Teddy Bears at Curtis Hat
Shop, 60 Water Street. 2w50
Christmas shoppers-Your problem
solved at s. Russakoff's. Come early.
Gifts for everybody at reasonable
prices in Jewelry. Diamonds, Watches,
Ivory Sets at S. Russakoffs.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank those who so
kindly assisted during the illness and
death of our beloved wife and sister
To Rev. Mr. Fletcher and to those who
so kindly sent flowers as tokens of
love and respect
Mr. Geo. e. Noyes
Mrs Alex Easier
Mr. and Mrs Herman Smith
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
Sample Copies of the Fort Fairfield
Review

We shall be pleased to furnish, en-
tirely without charge, the Fort Fair
field Review, for one month, to any OF
our subscribers. Drop us a postal
II you want 1t.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
ApDreciative and Enduring Gifts

wear 25c to $780, Canes Ladies and Gents Umbrellas Sus
penders Belts Bouse and Shirts Paamas, Underwear Auf
hers, knit and silk House Goats Ladies and Mems Fur Caps,
Handkerchiefs Wool Gloves, 25c 35c Coo Good Driving
Cloves Ladies' and Mems Fur Gloves and Mens BOYS Leg
gins, SOC 75c; Work Glove and Nens 35c SIC 60c
75c 81 90; Fur Caps Ladies' and Mems Hathaway Shirts
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-12-13
Khaki Yarn

Khaki Yarn, 80 cents a skein, Miss
Iva NJ Holway, Rest Rooms. Dodge
Blocks
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
LODGE CroRT.

a-#e n .E"HaU IT|ETt |0TU -Tlsl
phone H. Sga ring
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
LOAN BONDS ARE
STILL FOR SALE
Local Banks Buy Up Extra Blocks 70
fare Of Belated Purchases Of
Small Investors.
FULL QUoTA TAKEN UP HERE
BequIsition Made Yesterday Was for
An Even Million Results Graft
flying to Committee

Subscriptions Of small denomina-
tions for Liberty bonds are still COM
ing In to the local banks. j. L. Yer
non. chairman OF the bankers com
mittee, announced today.
The local banks each took an extra
block Of bonds for the purpose Of &C
comodating tha small investors who
might be late in making purchases
and the amounts were included tH the
reqUisition Of yesterday. Rock Island
subscribed its full quota the reauiEf-
tion being sent into Chicago for an
even million.
Local people who desire to. can
still buy these bonds Of small denom-
nations. The government set the
dead line for buying at noon yester-
day. but in many cases the banks took
out extra blocks Of bonds for the pur
pose Of holding them for sale. So ths
acquisitions for the city are IN, but
the banks here are still selling.
TO Issue Bonds Soon.
The government will issue the
bonds purchased IS quickly as the
sales are checked up. This Is an enor-
nous task and may require several
weeks 70 is understood that all Of
the bonds, Or at least most or them
have been printed. The bonds will be
distributed through the federal re-
serve districts. which means that the
bonds to the local buyers viii come
from Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
~atgee OF Final settlement.

Albert Huber attornss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
% 80 Bonds soon.

Etna-ize with ]. A Moran, sos
Safety building, phone r. l. 299. Ev-
srythIug in the line Of insurance and
surety bonds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE prepared or
continued TO date covering any real
estate tn the county Prompt and ac-
curace service at reasonable rates.
va RccN Island Title s. Abstract com
paay5 J. j. Ingram. president. w. =.
Sweenag. secretary; 203-aI2 Central
Trust ana Savings bank building
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16
ZOE sAI.F-cIrY pRnpERrE.


p owner. two new modern bungalows
tEeECa aEeaue. CALI r.. l. az 4u5s lIEe
1e-s Eoarteeath street
COTTAGE, ave roeaa. modern also SIX
room modern house both so nll4 aisE
trlct. Phone h. / 587
FOUR cottages on tenth street 81. SIS,
e4ot a1I5 cheap Il taken az once Ia
41-Ls ISL E-z sll-sll51 matt akea-5
HONE strictly modern SIX rooms
Of car Lae, garden spot. 1ra4T trees.
grape afD9rs waking distance ~
ewaeE. K4oae L. 4. 4sse-A
HOUSES IL ROOM modern also SIX
room modern. 1aoas Il. l. S411.
90 &14 are l1oHluE fer q bargain p
tFF1-slary modern house. era 1ilt. -a44
Is -41> luytnE evening
LOTS. easy terms Pardon Bros.
s04A stoE8ss marty -a&La street aaa
Eighteenth avenue ana Tuirty eighth
street, Nineteenth avenue. 1leck Irom
car. FAoae y ]. Ie3& OF z las,
LOTS ia south Heights, south ot Aiken
skt1 6-s DSlss cen A1FaALL- ana seven
JsenEh streets, ou easy terms Sz5
down. balance ia I'VE years Is. S.
robinson 44a@ Richmond agesI
E19ne =. ]. ssgs-A
LOTS, between Twenuy-ulnth and Iblr-
Iy-GrsL avenues ON Eleventh street.
inquire for terms, bred a 0asso.
1-aone < / z14s-
LOTS Fourteenth to EIEh4eenth ave-
nue. EarLn TO Seventh street, terms.
= Y. scheaerman. Zoe s1AEn street
ONE oL lhe anesr aud best located eight
room residences In ROCK lEi&EI at
tD47 twenty second street F. "a,
EtHoa1ss 100 Robinson building Phone
Eoek island s..
ONE o. two desIrab Ia lots north of
Eighteenth avenue, en- twenty eagh nth
stlee[s level east front. price reason
cole. Phone r. I lzgI after 6 2. "a.
oak Knoll. lots $500 M with water
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-16

as Rock Island Bridge &
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
DODGE ENCLISHMAN' SEVEN
minute walk IN LONDON

BY The United iress.
LONDON, Aug iO.-,By MALL
American. unless possessed Of a sood
constitution and an afternoon to spare,
should ever attempt a "seven-miuute'
walk" in London.
Your Englishman may be slow in
some ways. but-when It comes to
walking theoretically. that isl he's
the fastest little Jockey that ever rode
shank's Mare.
The other end OF an average British
er's conception OF a seven-minute's
walk is as Tar away as prohibition In
Milwaukee, or the actual retirement Of
Hans Wagner. A six-inch shell, or q
wireless message might set there in
seven minutes. but they'd have 20
hurry.
Five and ten minute walks, as WE'LL
are proportionately distant. It's easy
TO see why Messrs. Fielding and Gould
had such a cinch over In Stockholm
back in 1912.
II the unsuspoctlng American asks
/ how FAR away such-and-such a place
Is. and is told it's "about seven
minute walk" he's IN for n pleasant
time.
Afier he's walked 95 minutes. des
palrlngly hoped on bus and riddeI
| for forty more, and wound up witt
another jaunt OF thirty minutes or 50
lheIl probably find himself somowherl
in the vicinity Of his destination.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
nrnoRnTH VISITORS.

sDecial 20 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
REHOBOTH BEACH, sept. W
Nvinslow and family Of Wilmington are
summering at the Ross cottage-Air.
and Mrs. b. F. Shaw and Mrs. Miller
shaw and son OF Wilmington, who have
been summering here returned home
mis- Week.-Mrs. Violet Thompson OF
panlsboro. n j., Is visiting her sister
Mrs richard Beebe-Nilss Mabel Hopes
of Wilmington. will build a cottage on
olive Manufacturing a heavy electrical
storm on Wednesday morning light
ming struck the Bell cottage on Mary
land avenue. also two other cottages
In the vlcinity.-No damage was done.
Mrs. Charles ". Horn Of Wilmington
ls spendlng week with her son
charles &. Horn-Nirs. J. NJ. Horn or
Wilmington, Is visiting Mrs. W. Capa-
Ian on surf decentralization Grier OF
Milford. has bought two surf avenue
lots, and will build a home thsre-Mr.
and Mrs. William OFT and friends OF
Trenton, motored from Trenton TO
ypend September at their cottage-Wal-
Ter Layneld and family returned TO
Wilmington on Thursday after spend
Ing the month at the Hoffman cottage
Samuel MarOney and Chandler Hen
derson OF Wilmington, are spending
She week at the Henlopen HOTEL
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
CUBAN AVIATION Unit
WILL Be OFFERED TO France

Nv The United Press.
HAVANA. Cuba, Sept. col. Maiiu pc
Coronado. member Of the CUBAN sen
NO and editor Of the newspaper ~, la
n MS has organized an aviation
unit which viii be offered TO france,
with complete equipment, In the near
sninro The "Escadrille Cubdne' as a.,
t6e owing unit will be called, VIII
nrohably be the first body OF lighting
men from Cuba to serve on FRENCH
soil. ..o,t.,,,,ss
~ Inc best families OF Cuba nave
volunteered TO take the prescribed aVl-
zion course and individually TO pear
Inc expense Of their airplanes ana
eruipment. Senator Coronado mas JUS
returnrd from New York, wnere nc
conferred with officials OF the Aero
Clnb Of America and airplane manu-
facturers over the details OF the e.
cadrille's organization.
Colonel Coronado has asked tho NAVY
Department IN Washington Tor an ar
rangement by which tho Cuban avla'
tors may undergo their prenminar,
training at the Navy aviation sclioo
at Pensacola, Fla.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
LEWEs PERSONALS.

Snccial 20 THE EN fNING JOURNAL
LEWES, Sept. Ethel NJ. LO1and,
aged 81 years, wife Of Charles A. LOf-
land, died at her home, on South
ltreet, Monday. after a long Illness.
The Rev. o. p. Jones and family left
today for two weeks vacatlgn-l'ro-
fessor Robert Kelly. Of Philadelphia is
spending a few days with Charles +.
Marshall, at the Cape Henlopcn Light
house.
James n. Chambers, Of the u. 5. Avi-
alton Corps, Is visiting friends hera
before sailing to France.
Capt. and Mrs. Harry c. Maui, who
have been spending several weeks al
Ocean Grove. n. j.. have returned
home-Nflss Sadie snyder, Of Allen
town, Pa. Is visiting Miss Isabella
Ross-Wilbur A. Lank, OF Bridgeport
Conn. who has been visiting his par
snts, has returned TO- his home.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
POSIMISTRESS IS
named FOR DACSBORO
Sussex Farmers Complain OF
Thieves Damaging Their
Watermelon Patches
SELBYVILLE HOUSE
HIT BY LIGHTNING
Epeclal % NE EvENINa JOuRNAL.

Epeeial 70 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGErOwN, Sept. !. while
at work in the plant used by the
Snyder Company in making catsup
Yesterday, Asa J. Smith was severely
scalded about the arms and body.
Many farmers throughout the
western and lower sections OF the
county are complaining OF people en-
tering their watermelon and canta-
loupe patches at night and pulling
on green melons
Mrs. Kat HELM has been selected
as postnlistress at Dagsboro 10 sue
eeed Edward +. Reynolds, whose
term expired and who has been elect
ed principal Of the Dagsboro public
school. Mrs Helm assumed her
duties today.
While bathing at Bethany Beach a
Few DAYS ago. Miss Myrtle Hall came
near being drowned when she went
beyond her depth. She was rescued
BY william James.
Miss Elsie King has been elected
q teacher IN tho Milton school.
The Board OF Education Of the
selbvville school has elected the fol-
lowing teachers for this term Princi-
nal ID. A. Petri. Of Ohio; assistants
Miss Nellie Collins, Berlin, Mo. :
Misses Martha Rogers and Lille =.
Long and Mrs. Joshua Murray, OF
selbyville.
lightning a few nights ago struck
~, -oetdonoo Of Allie McCabe, Selby-
Vile. stunned him and set hre "a
tho building, burning i 70 tne
ground. The loss was about Sl'4UV
Miss Katharine Joseph. daughter OF
A L. Joseph. Is suffering from
fractured arm. as the result Of az
tempting to crank her fathers auto
In attempting 10 pass a team OF
he road from Careys Church e
Nillsboro Charles Lingo. Jr.. raI
Into tho abutment OF bridge an'
badiv damaged his car and threw
Clifford Lingo. OF Angola through
me windshield and cut his lips Sc
ferely. The other occupants or I'M
rar were also hurt but not seriously
Six stitches we're required TO CLOS
= wound inflicted in the leg. o
THOMAS williams, IT.. near Chap
ioin's Chanel. between Georgetown
ana Brldveviile. when he started Z
20 into a corncrib and tripped oNe
a scythe striking the edge OF III
blade. ,,..
Commencing today residents G
Delmar will have free mail deliver
twice each day.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
HERES ANOTHER WAR RUMoR,

Newspaper offices receive all KINDS OF
queries these days. Everyone who hears
any kind of rumors calls a newspaper
ON the telephone 20 ask questions about
It.
Yesterday afternoon the newspapers
we're besieged by people who wanted 10
know (which Of the American battlesnips
had Just been sunk with all hands
As no such information had been re-
oeived by the newspapers Of this city
each # the inquirers vas told tnat
nothing was known Of any such loes.
The Government may Ne depended upon
70 issue prompe .statemsnis In such
cases.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
PRINrINo LIeERTY BONDS.

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Money
by the million IS rolling into the
treasury and It's branches .today--the
final installment on the first liberty
loan OF S2.OO0,OO000O The s4l5000,-
600 represented will not be rounded
up completely for several days.
Meantime government engravers
are Fastening the task OF finishing
the fancy bonds which will replace
the interim certificates now held by
purchasers.
The vast sum represented by the
loan has gone TO domestic war uses
and into foreign loans. About $50,
600 600 is involved in navy war work
Congress has appropriated 100000,
600 for aeropiane work and an add
tional 100000 Is sought.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
CANADAs NEW loan.

BY The United Press.
OTTAWA. Sept IA fourth war
loan Of siOOOOO,OOO or si50,O0OO0O prob
ably will be floated IN Canada Ia Oc-
tOber.
Terms have been discussed by Sir
Thomas White and representatives OF
the Canadian Bond Dealers Ass0cia-
ton. Three war loans aggregatina
$3.50 10000 already have been taken
I'D In the Dominion.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
snOMERs sTOPPED GUNNERs.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
EDGE MOOR, Sept. i.-There was
very little shooting for "reedles" In the
marshes early this morning on account
pf heavy showers.
George Garden is visiting his brother
John Garden. at Central Falls. n. I.
Mrs. Adam Moses Of Philadelphia. Is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas II. Dor
man.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01

Modern concrete house. Richardson Park,
10 rooms, bath, not water and electric. near
trolley. Possessions saAso.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
GATnERs pORr sTATIsTIcs.

II. IT. Richardson, the harbor expert
employed by the Board Of Harbor Com
missioners, Is at work gathering data
from manufacturers here relative. TO
the shipments received and sent by
them through this port. This data will
form part Of the report Of the Harbor
Commissioners.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
RRAL ESTATR FOR SALE.

EOR SALE-DEsIRABLE SENEN-ROoM
house. good neighborhood. $1,000.
Call 35a7-W. augl3-u.
7 ARGE BUNGALOW or WASHINGTON
- avenue, ~ Roselle, Del Faces trolley.
Phone 8O96-W. aug25-m.w-s-dt.
NEW JERSEY ACREAGE BARGAIN; So
~ cash, 81 monthly, buys two acres fine
landi fun price S8s lonly $40 per acre -.
Vel. laso Broadway, New York City.
TOR sALE-HoUsE. 10 ROOMS. BATH.
two porchea. gas and electric fSturts.
Al condition; bargain 90 quick buyer. Pos.
session July IS. Apply 1914 Washington
street. juneie -aod.tf
DLANrATfON HEART VIRGINIA APPLE
n belt. Growing community. On good
ROAD depot and town three miles. Good
neighhQrs. delightful climate. Tract cuu'
elsts % Il 200 acres. Will sell tracts 90 suit .
Owner Box 4, shlpman, Va. Ecpti-1t.
EOR SALE AT sACRIFICE-LAROI
Il lake and bungalow: fno ashing end
cunning place. bungalow j. furnished. cnlj
2 miles from Frederick. Del; excellent wei
o. water, garage and boats; acres o
cleared and wood land. Ideal place for sum
mer home or club. Gall 90 place or writ
Harry M. Andrews, Andrews' Lake. Fred
erica Del. aug2p-tt.
Evening journal., 1917-09-01
DIAMOND mrs JEWELS on MARKEI

By The United Press.
NEW YORK, sept Thirty complete
lcis Of jewels the entire collection Of
he late Diamond jim Brady. aside
from those bequeathed IN his will,
IRE on the market today. Bids are he
ing received from jewellers throughout
Me country.
The collection includes 1900 dia-
ronds. The gems are valued al more
han s750.0o0. II required nearly three
luu newspapers columns 10 List them.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
PURIM FESTIVITIES.
Hebrew Young People Give Ball and
Minstrel Show.

given under the auspices of the Young
Mems Hebrew Association and the
Young Women's Hebrew Association
last evening in old Masonic Temple. AL
Shefferman acted as interlocutor. while
Alex and Edward Rosenblaum were the
end men.
The male chorus was composed of Ben
Offenburg, Morris Weinburg. Sol Rubin,
Louis Goldberg, Chauncey GoldStein, c.
l.. Engle and NJ. Collegeman.
The feminine contingent of minStrelS
comprised Miss Teresa Shefferman, Miss
Goldye Goldstein, Miss Selma Steiner.
Miss Florence Pittle. Miss Belle Tarshes.
Miss Celia Shefferman. Miss Anna Wolf
and Miss |. Myerowitz.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
National President Honored.

A banquet. followed by a reception,
was given by the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians in
honor of Mrs. NJ. T. McWhorter ma
tional president. at the New Ebbitt
House last evening. Rev G. A. Dough-
erty. vice rector of Catholic University.
delivered an address on Our Order.
Rev. Lewis J. o. Hern, G.. S. P, spoke on
why We Propose Monument to the
Nuns of the Battlefield" Miss Julia Col
lins gave toast, Our Order" and Mrs
NJ. T. OLeary gave one on our Ma
tional President" to which Mrs. Nc
Whorter responded. Miss Margaret
Brosnahan was toastmistress.
Evening star., 1917-03-09

The Crucible Steel Company was low
bidder both in price and time, Offering
to begin delivery in ninety days at
s2S5 per shell. Other bidders were
Midvale Steel Company. s325 per shell.
455 days; Washington Steel ani Ord
nance Company, $500. 365 days; f. W.
Bliss Company, s475, months; Bethle-
hem Steel Company. $3.50. IA months.
and American Clay Machinery Com
pany, Bucyrus. Ohio, S294.S5, S months.
Evening star., 1917-03-09

it's officials point out, persons contem-
plating the purchase of a timepiece to
cost from $50 to 500 or even more.
may well expend an additional s5 to
have it thoroughly tested by the bu-
reau.
The next of the four yearly testing
periods of the bureau. which lasts
some fifty days each, and which are
taken advantage of by individuals.
jewellers. watchmakers and inventors
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Duty to Make People Safe.

Large and increasing numbers of
people naturally and properly come to
the National Capital to see the Presi
dent take the oath of office. and their
safety must be provided for. Mr.. Mac
farland argued. They want to be pres
ent at the time of the official Inaugural
ton, and would not come later for d
mere celebration of the actual inaugu-
ration. Therefore Inauguration day
must be made safe by changing it to
the last Thursday in April, when the
weather, as the weather bureau rec
ords for many years show, would not
be dangerous-the day on which George
W Washington was first inaugurated, the
day which would prevent conflict with
Sunday. On the Taft Inauguration day
the capital was isolated from the rest
of the country by a blizzard, and while
the underground telephone cables from
Washington to Boston, laid on that
account would preserve telephone com
munication with the rest of the coun-
try, railroad connection could be in
terrupted, and in a national crisis this
might be dangerous.
Evening star., 1917-03-09

watches. Is scheduled to begin April
TO- Any one may submit a watch If
willing to pay the necessary fee. Full
details of the complicated and delicate
methods of test, the regulations under
which such tests are made and the nee
essary application blanks may be OBJ
tained free of charge from the bureau
by those contemplating submitting
their watches.
1t frequently happens, it is said. that
the results of the trials of even high
Evening star., 1917-03-09
ONE WATCH IN TWO ACCURATE.
Bureau Of Standard Experts So Find
From Tests.

According to the bureau of standards
about one watch in two passes the re-
qulrements necessary for 4 certificate
OF excellence from that branch of the
Evening star., 1917-03-09

grade watches indicates some material
defect, which easily can be remedied
at once. before the timepiece is dam
aged by non-uniform wear of its parts.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Six Companies Bid On Projectiles.

The Navy Department has received
bids from six companies for 14-inch
projectiles. the amount
of the contract not being made public.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Urge Forward Plan of Action.

Charles J. Bell, former inaugural COM
mittee chairman, who was in New York
for the day. wrote to indorse a forward
plan of action. So did William Corcoran
Eustis. former inaugural committee chair
man. who had to go to Virginia.
Chairman Macfarland briefly re-
hearsed the history of the movement
during the last sixteen years, since the
creation of the committee in 1901. in
Guiding the passage by the Senate three
times of the resolution/ advocated by
the national committed changing the
day to the last Thursda ay in April and
the fact that in 1910 the resolution al
most received the necessary two-thirds
vote in the House. He said the dan
gerous weather of March and This
year emphasized the necessity for the
change for safety from death and dis
ease. He recalled the death of Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison from ex-
posure on inauguration day and of 9TH
er prominent men who had died under
similar circumstances, and said that
each of the inauguration days when
dangerous weather prevailed left long
trail of death and illness among pri-
vate citizens.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Suggests Vice Craftsmanship.

Mr.. Macfarland said that, having borne
the burden of the craftsmanship for six
teen years and not being able, on ac-
count of professional and other engage
suggested the creation of the office of vice
chairman and the appointment of Oliver
+. Newman, president of the board of
Commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia, whom he had consulted. and who
was heartily in favor of the proposed
change of inauguration day, and had
promised his cooperation in whatever
way it might be desired.
Chairman Macfarland also suggested
the addition to the committee OF Com
missioners Brownlow and kutz and
Robert n. Harper, chairman of the pres
ent inaugural committee, the president of
the president of the Chamber of Com
merce. A Leftwich Sinclair. and the
president of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, Charles S. Shreve. S. w.
Woodward was elected secretary of the
committee.
The fact was emphasized that the
committee is not committed to any
proposition except the change of in
auguration day from March to the last
Thursday of April. Provisions for change
for the time of meeting of Congress and
respecting other matters have been added
by Senators and Representatives in bills
and resolutions. but the national COM
mittee is not committed to any one of
them 1t advocates simply change from
March to the last Thursday in April.