- Near the Verdun Front: Giant motor trains carry troops and provisions to the fighting lines. Peasant carts are also forced into service to supply the fighting lines with provisions. Chicago, Ill: A city diet squad is experimenting under the direction of Dr. John Dill Robertson, Health Commissioner, on the theory that a person can live on 39 cents a day, the idea being part of a plan of city officials to reduce the high cost of living. Philadelphia, Pa: The oil-tanker, William Rockefeller, is launched after being christened by Mrs. Emma Rockefeller McAlpin, daughter of the financier, whose name the new boat bears. Footlights and Fashions: Miss Regina Wallace, star of "Rich Man, Poor Man," 48th Street Theater, New York City, appears in gowns of her own design for the Hearst International News Pictorial. New Haven, Conn: Yale defeats Harvard 6 to 3 in their spectacular annual football contest. About 78,000 persons watched the game. Newport, R.I: In a heavy gale, the barge Newark is blown away from its escorting tug and goes upon the rocks near Davis Point, endangering the lives of four men. Santa Monica, Cal: Death hovers about the dangerous curves of the Santa Monica Motor Race Track, and while Johnny Aitken is winning the Grand Prix Race, four persons are killed in the wreck of a car driven off the track by Lewis Jackson. New York City: Many ships of the Atlantic battle fleet enter the Hudson River to give the officers and men an opportunity to attend the Army-Navy football game. Polo Grounds, N.Y: The Hearst International News Pictorial presents the only motion pictures of the 1916 football game between cadets of the West Point and Annapolis Academies. Ceremonies attending the game, and the most thrilling plays of the contest, were photographed expressly for the Hearst International News Pictorial by the International Film Service, official and exclusive photographers of the game. On the Western Front: Charles Francis Joseph, who succeeds the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, visits Kaiser Wilhelm near a battlefield where soldiers of the Central Powers are fighting the Allied Forces. (This section is included in all except New York prints.)—Moving Picture World synopsis
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