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(ABOVE) PROPOSED COLORED Y.M.C.A. BUILDING AT ST. LOUIS, MO., BEING ERECTED AT A COST OF $180,000
(BELOW) INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS BANK AT ELEVENTH AND YOU STREETS, WASHINGTON, D.C. JOHN W. LEWIS, PRESIDENT; W.A. BOWIE, CASHIER
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a call." Mrs. Jones is making her own Service Flag. Her husband, John B. Jones, was a lighthouse keeper at Old Point Comfort, Va. He died a few years ago.

Campaigns for the Y. M. C. A. War Work has resulted in ten thousand dollars from forty Negro colleges and secondary schools. Hampton and Virginia Institutes gave one thousand dollars each.

Major General Doyle and Public Service Commissioners Straus and Whitney reviewed the Fifteenth Colored Infantry, under Colonel William Haywood, in Central Park, New York City.

Brigadier General C. C. Ballou of the National Army, who was commandant of the Training Camp of Colored Officers at Fort Des Moines, will command the Ninety-second Division of the National Army, composed entirely of colored men. This decision will probably be mobilized at Camp Funston, Kan. The command of the division will carry advancement to the grade of Major General. The various units of this division will consist of infantry regiments from Illinois, Iowa, New York, and Maryland, under Colonels Caldwell, Bush, Moss, and Jackson. Three field artillery regiments from New Jersey and Maryland will be commanded by Colonels More and Austin. One regiment of engineers will come from Ohio under Colonel Brown and divisional trained troops from Kansas under Colonel Jenks. All the company officers from Captain down will be filled by colored men.

The Twenty-fifth Infantry, stationed in Hawaii, led all the other Army units there in contributions to the Liberty Loan, contributing $174,600.

The Union League Club, New York City, had among its guests Thanksgiving Day one hundred and fifty Negro soldiers.

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus, at their home on Thanksgiving Day, in New York City, dined with fifty Negro soldiers from Camp Upton.

Governor Hugh Dorsey received as his guests a party of Georgia's colored officers from Fort Des Moines, including one Captain and ten Lieutenants.

Negroes all over the United States helped generously in the Liberty Bond Loans. Colored soldiers subscribed as follows: Twenty-fourth Regiment, $100,000; 1,290 men at Fort Huachua, $130,350; Eighth Illinois, $133,200; 536 men at Bisbee, Ariz., $47,400; Camp Pike, Ark., $70,000; Boy Scouts in Philadelphia, Pa., Troop 109, sold $3,000 worth; through the Maryland Council of Defense, $11,000 in Baltimore; laborers in Kansas City, Mo., $107,800; employees of the Empire, Ala., Coal Company, $1,550; thirteen employees of the United States Arsenal, St. Louis, Mo., $1,500; the Mutual Savings Bank, Portsmouth, Va., passed the $25,000 mark; The Reynolds Colored School, Philadelphia, Pa., $3,700; Anthony Richardson, a farmer in Sumter County, S. C., $1,000; Solomon Young, of the A.M.E. Zion Church, Rochester, N.Y., $5,000; a colored washerwoman in Philadelphia, Pa., $250; Kansas City, Mo., through a special committee headed by Dr. W. J. Thompkins, colored citizens purchased $120,000 worth; American Woodmen, Denver, Colo., $10,000; and commissioned officers from Fort Des Moines, $75,000.

A Rally Concert was given in New York City, November 25, for the American Circle for Negro War Relief, Mrs. Emilie Hapgood, president. Among the participants were H. T. Burleigh, Burr McIntosh, and Dean William Pickens; Bryce and King, Grace LaRue, and Abbie Mitchell. A United Colored Choir of one hundred and fifty voices, under the direction of J. Rosamond Johnson, and the Southern Harmony Quartet of the Music School Settlement gave numbers. The Circle for Negro War Relief has headquarters at 489 Fifth Avenue, where offices have been leased for a year. Co-operation with the Red Cross is being arranged. Miss Caroline Bond is organizer.

V. W. Tandy has been commissioned as Major in the New York National Guard, and appointed mustering officer.

The school for colored medical officers at Fort Des Moines, Ia., has been closed and nearly one hundred physicians and dentists have received their commissions. Six were sent to Camp Upton, six to Camp Dix, three to Camp Meade, three to Chillicothe, Ohio; four to Camp Grant, three to Camp Dodge, and forty-four to Camp Funston.

The following staff has been appointed by the War Work Council of the Y. W. C. A.: Miss Eva D. Bowles, Special Representative for all Colored War Work; Misses Josephine V. Pinyon, Special Field Worker; Mary E. Jackson, Special Industrial Worker; May B. Belcher, Special