The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-04-03
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marked Holy Week ceremonies at the
| Royal Palace today. Escohted to the
palace chapel by a guard attired in
gala uniform, King Alfonso, Queen
Victoria and Queen Mother Marie
Christine attended mass at which
| there was large congregation OF titled
personages, army officers and gran
| dees of Spain. The men were in full
regalia of the various orders of knight
| hood, while all the ladies wore white
!mantillas.
| Later the king washed the feet OF
twelve blind men, while the queen per-
| beggar women, who, after the sover-
eigns had broken bread with them,
left the palace bearing baskets Of food.
Paris, April 2.-Major Vuillemin and
Lieutenant Chalus, two French avia-
| tors, have arrived at Dakar. having
| flown across the Sahara desert,
| distance of $500 miles.
4 They left Villa Coubelay, near Paris,
on January IS for Algiers on the first
stage of their journey and after
short wait at Algiers, flew to Tama-
rasset, half way across the desert
reaching there on February IT. At that
place their airplane was damag ed
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that they left Tamarasset for Segou
on the Niger river. They remained at
Segou for 4S hours and then proceeded
to Goa, thence to Bourem and from
there to Dakar.
l. Washington, April 2.-Prevailing
fashions in wornen's gowns were Wig
Iorously assailed in a sermon recently
by Rev. Bernard Vaughn, the widely
known Jesuit Father, whose essays
and sermons on morality and home life
have for the past twenty years at
tracted great attention throughout the
world.
In days gone by ladies dressed for
dinner, now they undress for it,, he
declared. 'Women's clothing ought to
serve the three purposes of decency
of warmth and ornament Woman in
their mad craze for what is known as
| emotional gowns sin against every
canon of good taste. Such dresses are
iimmodest. unhealthy and as ugly as
lthey are expensive. Girls who follow
the up-to-date fashions are running
their own and their neighbors' souls
as well as their own bodies. Design
ers of fashion seem to be devoid as
much of taste as of principle
- d.
the keel of which was laid at the Nit
subishi docks at Nagasaki recently will
be the largest of its kind in the Japa-
lnese navy. She will be of 10000 tons
displacement and is 700 feet long.
She will carry ten 16-inch guns.
The Tosa is a sister ship of the
Nagato which was launched at Yoko-
shuka. The Tosa will be launched
in 1922 and will embody all the latest
innovations of naval warfare brought
about by the experience of the great
war.
Lima, Peru, April 2-Major General
William c. Gorgas, former surgeon
general of the United States army
lsailed today on the way to New York,
Belgium and West Africa after having
accepted a five year contract with the
Peruvian government to direct an ex-
ltensive sanitation program here. The
retaining fee to be paid General Cor
gas will be $4,000 a year.
General Gorgas will return to Peru
lin January next, his assistant Colonel
Wrightson remaining in charge during
Ibis absence.
Washington, April 2.-The army's
Ishoe bill next year will be $500, 100
lat the present level of prices, Major
]. J. r. Hannay, of the quartermaster
lcorps told the House Military Com
mittee today at hearings on the an
lnual army appropria ton bill.
I Bids are higher every time we ad-
vertise for them" he said. He esti-
mated that the army would use $4,000
pairs of shoes during the year. and
placed the average cost at $3.50 a
pair.
COLL u MOT GLAND SIRAIGLH