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west and the Union Station housing
booths,
All calls for Shrine locals win be
handled free OF charge as the con-
tribution Of the telephone company
to the success Of the convention.
Erection OF a dining pavilion at
the Benning Pullman Park site,
where 80 Pullmans will be parked,
- being completed today. This
pavilion will take care OF the $500
visitors who win live at this park
Prize Steer Donated.
4 thoroughbred two-year-oId steer
Of the choicest stock, today was
donated for the Imperial Council
banquet by Andrew Loffer. The
steer, q pure black Polled Angus, Of
the prize bull, Black Poll, weighs
1546O pounds on the hoof. It has
been fattened on the Prince Georges
county farm Of Sam Frazier and will
be slaughtered tomorrow Each steak
will be cut to suit the taste OF the
Individual diner, according to the
plans.
An interesting incident attendant
upon the opening of the Shrine Hotel
and housing committee booths in the
Union Station was reported to the
police today. A furious Greek mer-
chant descended upon one Of the
booths today and ordered everybody
to leave. He told the police he had
purchased the booth, which is in an
ideal location, with the intention of
installing q fruit stand. He refused
to name the figure he had paid.
The Model Home. south of the
Treasury Department, has been sold
and rented several times.
One Of the most prominent Shrin-
ers in the nation Is to be dragged
from an airplane at a height of about
500 feet over Boiling Field in one Of
the spectacular parachute jumps
which will feature the army air
service exhibition and aerial circus
during Shrine week.
Orders were today issued to con-
ttnue the army air circus through
the five main days Of the session, In
stead of giving it on Wednesday af-
ternoon alone as had been originally
planned.
Fears Wife, Not Life.
Under the new arrangements the
circus win be given from June
to 8, inclusive A ground ex-
thibit OF a1rplanes, motors, guns,
bombs, equipment, maps . and
trophies win be held from sac a.
M, to 5 p. m, daily at Boiling
Field. with an aerial circus from
10 q. m, to noon, each Of the
The leap Of the prominent Shrfner,
who is to be featured as q masked
marvel" will come a. the culmina-
tlon OF an attack by a pursuit
plane upon an infantry liaison
plane. The identity Of the Shriner,
who iS declared by army officers
20 be a bone fide Shriner and
nigh in the order. is being with
held. it is said, for fear his wife
Win refuse him permission to make
the Jump.
( Drop In Parachute.
!. He will make the drop by throw.
ing out his parachute, which will
drag him from his seat as it !
opens.
/ A series Of spectacular live bomb
attacks on q specially constructed
model village will be a feature of
the circus.
! Among the other events will be
. radio telephone formation flight.
airplane acrobacy exhibits, dropping
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panels, formation bombing, and air
plane races.
The army air service will demon.
etrate during Shrine week the rapid.
1ty with which the manufacturing
industry can be conducted through
the medium Of the airplane.
Z Raw Cotton To Aprons.
: 1t is proposed to send two Martin
bombing airplanes from the Aber-
deem Proving Grounds, Nd, each
carrying crew of two air service
orflcers and a mechanic, to Augusta,
where they will receive from the
Augusta board of commerce two
bales Of cotton for delivery to the
Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford,
Mass. Each bale Of cotton will
weigh 500 pounds, and will be
guper-compressed into a size ap-
proximately 2 feet by feet, by 4
feet, which will enable them to he
conveniently carried in the air.
plane.
This raw material will be faJri-
Gated, and when the two bombers
leave New Bedford they will have
an entirely different cargo consist
ing Of several thousand completed
Masonic aprons. When the planes
reach Boiling Field the aprons will
be distributed to the visiting Shrin-
ers. The history of this unique
event will be printed In the manu-
facture of this fabric, and the re.
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