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NewboId koyes

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States became a belligerent in 1917,
he was appointed to the second
Officers Training Camp at Fort
Myer, Va
On November %, 1917, he was
commissioned first lieutenant and
assigned TO the Intelligence Branch
OF the general staff of the 80th
Division as an aide to Maj. Gen.
Adelbert Cronkhite, with whom he
sailed for France in the Leviathan,
May %, 1918. His first participation
in battle occurred while temporarily
brigaded with British troops in the
Argonne sector. Later, he studied
at the line academy for officers and
at the staff college at Langres,
graduating from the second of these
schools in December, 1918, shortly
after the Armistice. Transferring
to the 26th Division, he returned to
America on the staff of Maj. Gen.
Clarence r. Edwards, and was
honorably discharged at Hoboken,
N. j., March 7, 1919, with the rank
OF captain of infantry. In France
he was awarded the Croix de
Guerre.
Resuming his work on The Star,
in the spring of 1919, Mr.. Noyes con-
centrated his attention upon civic
problems peculiar to the Nations
Capital. He was particularly con-
cerned with preventable poverty
and distress in the Federal City and
threw himself with an ardent and
purposeful enthusiasm into the en-
terprises of the Washington Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies and the
Washington Community Chest,
which he helped to organize. He be-
came eventually president of both
bodies, serving the latter also as a
team captain in the Special Gifts
Unit In 1929, chairman of the Spe-
cial Gifts Division in 1880 and 1881
and campaign chairman in 1882
His Welfare Work.
During the depression crises OF
1882 and 1887, he aided in drives
for work for Jobless employ
ables He was active in the Associ-
ated Charities, the Child Welfare
Society and other philanthropic Or
ganizations. Among the voluntary
positions he held were those of
secretary and director of the Wash
ington Criminal Justice Association,
trustee of the National Training
School for Boys, director of the
Washington Boys Club and the
Police Boys Club, director of the
Washington Urban League, member
of the Advisory Board of the Saliva
tion Army Each Christmas over a
number of years he sponsored
drive for funds for the National
Probation Association. He had
charge of raising money needed for
the erection of the District War
Memorial and was the leader OF the
first $l,000,000 campaign to build
Washington Cathedral on Mount St
Alban in 1928 and 1924. Similarly
he aided the National Symphony
Orchestra, the Town Hall of Wash
ington and the Washington Civic
Theater.
Included in the range of subjects
upon which Mr.. Moves wrote were
such widely divergent themes as:
Political and fiscal equity for the
people of Washington, national de-
fense, Anglo American affairs, peace
problems in the Near East. trans
Atlantic aviation, pam -AmericaniSm,
disarmament agitation, arbitration
of industrial disputes, racial rela-
tions. development of public recrea-
tional facilities, housing projects,
farm relief, imitation, etc.
Helped Organize MANA.
In the field of business, Mr.. Moves
represented The Sunday Star in the
membership of the Associated Press
and helped to organize the North
American Newspaper Alliance, of
which latter he was elected presi-
dent in 1898. He served as vice presi-
dent Of The Evening Star Broadcast
ing Co, owner of Station WMAL,
was a director of The Evening Star
Newspaper Co and a member of
its Executive Committee, and a
director of the American Security
& Trust Co. For many years, he
held membership in the Washington
Board OF Trade and various other
commercial and industrial societies.
Mr.. Moves also was affiliated with
the Academy of Political and Social
Science, the Sons of the American
Revolution, Alpha Delta Phi, the
Metropolitan. Chevy Chase. Racquet,
University. Yale, Elihu and Mont
gomery Clubs of Washington; the
Monday Evening Club and the 1925
F Street Club: the Yale. Lotus Club
and The Brook" of New York: the
Washington Philatelic Society and
the Columbia Historical Society