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Died. Major General George Herbert Harries (retired), 74; of pneumonia; in Waverly, Md. He was Wartime Commander of the port of Brest, France, through which passed most U. S. War supplies. As chief of the U. S. Military Mission to Germany he was the first U. S. officer to enter Berlin after the Armistice...
Walter S. Baird--to be Assistant in Electrical Engineering for one year from Sept. 1, 1934. A.B. St. John's College Md...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...last week Professor Roscoe Raymond Hyde of Johns Hopkins heard that Puerto Rico is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (10,000 cases; no deaths). Next day he heard that the region around Hagerstown, Md. also is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (1,000 cases; no deaths). Those epidemics Professor Hyde feared might denote the beginning of a pandemic such as devastated the U. S. in 1918. Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble. When Professor Hyde expresses fear, wise men take heed...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Ethel McCormack McAdoo Keith, 39, stepdaughter of the late Isaac Edward Emerson (Bromo-Seltzer), onetime wife of Francis McAdoo, eldest son of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; from Walter Winchester Keith, Baltimore socialite; in Towson, Md...