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NEW YORK, July 31. – Flo Ziegfeld has given out his specifications for the 1926 model girl of the chorus.
She will not be a blonde.
She’ll not be so thin as the 1925 girl and she’ll have, therefore, a curve or two, and dimples.
She may be a little taller.
VICTORIOUS IN INTERESTING GAME OF BASEBALL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT ARMY BARRACKS
One of the most exciting baseball games of the season was witnessed yesterday afternoon on the Army barracks diamond, when the Coast Guard aggregation won over the Liberties, a local civilian team, in a close score of 3 to 2.
“Things Not So Good,” Says Virginia Officer on Trail of Marylanders.
NORFOLK Va., July 24.—Investigation will be begun Monday by Capt. A. B. Hudgins, commanding the gunboat Commodore Maury, flagship of the Virginia oyster navy, into the firing by alleged Maryland crab poachers upon the Virginia patrol boat Marguerite, in Tangier Sound, which was reported by Capt. Anderton of the Marguerite to Commissioner of Fisheries Harry, R. Houston yesterday.
Commissioner Houston, at Hampton, late today, received from Onancock, Va., the following cryptic message signed by Capt. Hudgins: “Found things not so good. Will stay several days and start investigation Monday.”
Thorough check-up of all parts of the Egyptian collection and similar collections in the New National Museum is being made today under direction of Dr. I. B. Casanowicz, curator in charge, to determine the
extent of recent operations of the “Museum Raffles.”
CHICAGO, July 19.—Upward of a dozen persons died today from the record-smashing heat wave which overspread the middle west yesterday and brought the mercury to new high levels today.
The middle west and northwest probably will have another hot day tomorrow, weather bureau officials indicated tonight. Some hope for relief was held out with the prediction of possible thunder showers for some of the sweltering states.