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Show RED CROSS MARBLE 1 HOME IS DEDICATED r Wilson, Taft and Baker Attend At-tend Exercises at Open. -ing of Building. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. May II. With the ceremonies participated in ' by the president, former President Taft. Mec-rotary Mec-rotary nf War Baker and other dignitaries, digni-taries, th beautiful new marble heait-quartera heait-quartera of the Red Truss wera dedicated dedi-cated here this afternoon. The exercises exer-cises were toned by the somber touch of air that made It doubly impressive. The P. A. H. Continental Memorial hall was the scene of the dedication because of It greater aeatlng capacity, and at th close of the exercises looo women members of the women's volunteer vol-unteer aid corps of th Red Cross, commanded by Mrs. Hugh L. Scott, wife of th chief of staff of the army, passed In review before the president. 'Henator John Hharp Williams of Mississippi and Rev. H. Percy Hllver. chaplain of the l.'nlted Rtalea Military academy, were the orators, speskiiiit respectively for the women of the Mouth and of the North. The building waa dedicated a "a memorial built by tha government of th t'nited States and patriotic eltlsene to the women of the North and the women of the Mouth, held in lovtng memory by a now united country, that their labors in mitigate the sufferings of the sick and aouiidrd In war may be perpetuated." |