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Died. General Tasker Howard Bliss, 76, wartime Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, chief U. S. member of the Supreme War Council, military adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference; of an intestinal ailment (despite efforts of five members of the National Free Public Blood Donors who flew to him in a Marine corps plane from Philadelphia); in Washington, D. C. A veteran of Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican campaigns, he served 48 years in the Army, was active until 1920 although he passed the statutory age of retirement...
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada stepped out of an airplane to a rickety platform, broke his leg, went as a patient to the Washington hospital whither he had been hurrying to visit his wife. Her ailment : a broken leg. She broke it while inspecting work on their new house in Washington. Reason for a new house: their old one caught fire twice last year...
...ground shots. The fourth set was the longest ever played in the final of a U. S. singles title match. Doeg won 16-14, bringing California her first singles championship since 1919 when small William Johnston, who three months ago entered a sanitarium to cure a lung ailment, beat William Tatem Tilden...
Warner, Fox. Weird among U. S. industries is the cinema business. Last week Warner Bros., until recently considered healthy and prosperous, suffered a new ailment and Fox Films, recently almost fatally ill, was shown to be practically cured...
...Warner ailment was a suit for receivership, brought by a 300-share Boston stockholder who alleged mismanagement and excessive prices paid for real estate and theatres. President Harry M. Warner immediately declared that the suit was solely for the purpose of driving the stock even lower than it has been...