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up at Chemists Club. Told to [[red underline]] Pupin [[/red underline]] we are [[red underline]] willing to furnish [[/red underline]] him with any help [[red underline]] (Thru Naval Consulting Board) [[/red underline]] which may expedite his work on location of [[red underline]] submarines [[/red underline]] Later on meeting of Trustees of Chemists Club. Hendrick presiding. That light - headed [[red underline]] Klotz [[/red underline]] proposes [[red underline]] Captain Fay of U. S. [[/red underline]] Army as [[red underline]] Perkin - Medal [[/red underline]] candidate as inventor of the [[red underline]] "depth [[strikethrough]] char [[/strikethrough]] bomb" and the "Barnacle Bomb". [[/red underline]] After I showed them how improbable this claim is, he immediately retracted. I was appointed [[red underline]] chairman [[/red underline]] of a committee consisting of [[red underline]] Baskerville, Herty [[/red underline]] and Alexander to present a report on this question at
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next meeting. When trying to motor home I find that [[red underline]] my car (six - cylinder [[/red underline]] Oldsmobile) [[red underline]] has been stolen while it stood unguarded before the entrance of the Club between 9 P.M and 10:40 P.M. [[/red underline]] There seems to be an organized [[red underline]] band in New York for stealing motor - cars. [[/red underline]] Called up police station to notify [[red underline]] them. [[/red underline]]
Oct 19. Beautiful day. More good news of the [[red underline]] debacle [[/red underline]] of [[red underline]] the Central Powers. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Celine brings news [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] brings news home of the [[red underline]] death [[/red underline]] of Allen [[red underline]] Waite [[/red underline]] who was an officer in the U.S. army in France. [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] We think so much the more of [[red underline]] George. [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] our sympathy flies to the parents who lost the son they loved most. [[/red underline]]