03 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1916
Page
1
News summary reports growing tensions as relations strain over Britain's policy of seizing mails. Owedan Peevel and Tello Tit Entente of in Cawoting Notes shows concern and diplomatic friction amid ongoing Mail Service disputes and accusations of infringement.
Stockholm faces entente protests as Sweden tightens three mile limit in Baltic waters and plans to mine and defend channels. British notes challenge Sweden's select submarine policy and access routes while Stockholm defends loyalty and impartial neutrality amid belligerent shipping.
Sweden rejects claims of biased neutrality and states it cannot debate sincerity. The government says the accusation rests on fragmentary facts and maintains submarines used for commerce would be treated as war submarines if proven by common facts. Sweden defends its actions as necessary to safeguard neutrality.
William F. McCombs the Democratic candidate for U S senator from New York delivered an acceptance speech urging inviolate commerce and untrammeled trade worldwide. He pressed for practical Americanism and rejection of discrimination. Judge Samuel Seabury, Democratic nominee for governor, also gave an acceptance speech.
New York October 2 Charles Evans Hughes rested and reviewed accumulated correspondence from his speaking tour. He saw no callers and will stay in New York until Wednesday morning then travel to Montclair to rest for the end of the week before resuming another speaking tour next week.
Federal testimony described a large gambling network run through the General News bureau led by Mont Tennes with daily racing results reaching cigar stores and saloons. Police raided a baseball pool office and found elaborate betting cards and potential World Series wagers. Mayor Thompson ordered a thorough probe and offered cooperation to prosecutors as James A. Pugh pledged support.
Captain Burrage of the battleship Nebraska reports a rumor that a train from Vera Cruz to Mexico City was blown up by bandits. Earlier dispatches noted bandit activity but no positive information could be obtained.
The report notes Brigades of the New Jersey Signal Corps show disappointment as officers resign and officers in command face orders to remain. The unusual phrasing suggests a period piece detailing leadership shakeups within a military unit.
New Jersey signal corps officers draft resignations claiming six weeks on the border without instruction shows guard inefficiency. Telegrams to political figures urge rescinding orders as cavalry and artillery head home others plan resignations after mustering out. District of Columbia militia units arrive from Bisbee to camp at Camp Frederick Funston.
Efforts to organize a broad walkout by unionists in sympathy with street car workers have not succeeded. Leaders admit the movement has fallen short of its goals, with limited participation reported in New York.
Police report 408 workers joined the general strike call while over 160,000 United Hebrew Trades members and 8,100 brewery workers ended their three day holiday and returned to work. Labor leaders held a conference but offered no final plan to expand the action.
A Mexican and American joint commission heard fifty mining and smelting firms protest confiscatory decrees in Mexico and press for revert to prior taxation. William Loeb Jr led the delegation with figures showing metal output declines since 1912 and tax hikes on metals.
New York on October 2 reports less than 60 percent of the usual 2 500 000 quarts of milk available for residents due to a price dispute between dairymen and distributors. Heads of distributing concerns say supply to customers is about 50 percent of normal with hospitals and families with children given priority.
Fire at the Morris and Company packing plant destroyed the facility, with losses estimated at 750000 and covered by insurance. The blaze began in the sausage department and spread, sparing only the offices, fertilizer plant, and beef-killing dept as seven hundred workers aided firefighters. The incident started at 530 PM and the building was fully under control by midnight.
Berlin reports via Overseas News Agency that Germany sent 10,000 French prisoners of war into Russian occupied areas after French forces sent German POWs to Morocco Algeria and Tunis. The French order to repatriate their POWs prompted the German move and the 10,000 French captives are being moved back toward France.
Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York, visiting western Democratic headquarters, predicted Wilson would carry California Utah Wyoming and Nevada for the electoral votes. He said the message he carried indicated those states would back the President in the upcoming election.
More than 600 investment bankers gathered as the Investment Bankers association of America debated closer ties with foreign financial centers. A motion to join the Philadelphia Commercial Museum was approved for study to map foreign country relations. The convention also reviewed blue sky laws and tax measures while Mayor George Pucita welcomed delegates and Lewis J. Franklin spoke. Later, a boat cruise was held. Fort Myers Florida reports say bank robber James Tucker was found dead in Lopez River and co-defendant Alderman confessed.
Frank Hitchcock of the Republican National Advisory Committee reports Hughes and Garner will carry New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. He says New York outside NYC leans Hughes, NYC uncertain, with favorable signs from West Virginia. Hughes plans a final western tour starting October 9 through Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas.
Edward P R P Costigan former progressive candidate for governor announces support for the national democratic ticket in a Denver statement dated October 2. The move marks a political pivot as Costigan aligns with national Democrats.
The Department of Justice filed a brief in the Supreme Court in the Pacific coast terminals case. It seeks to enjoin enforcement of ICC orders denying inland California cities such as Sacramento San Jose Santa Clara and Stockton the same rates as San Francisco and other coast ports. Inland cities lost favored rates when the Panama Canal opened and water carriers stopped absorbing rail haul charges.
General Joffre, dated September 29, hails troops on the Somme for nearly three weeks of fighting. He notes Verdun relieved, towns recaptured, over 5000 prisoners taken, and 150 cannons seized, with lines broken ten kilometers deep. He urges continued tenacity and unity with allies toward decisive victory.
Denver millionaire mining man and banker Adolf J. Zang leaves his entire estate to his widow and five children. The will will be filed for probate tomorrow. The estate is estimated at 750000 pounds to 1500000 dollars.
President Wilson’s campaign program to election day nears completion after talks with Democratic leaders. Henry Ford and McAdoo discussed efforts. Ford offered support but declined campaign fund plans. The schedule includes four midwest visits ending with Cincinnati on October 26.
The American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers protested to the Department of Commerce as the Census report on dyestuffs was held up. Secretary Redfield said the delay protects privacy of dye importer transactions.
Amsterdam dispatch reports friends of Count Zeppelin feared an airship raid incident in England last night. The count planned to join the raid, but a late message from Germany says his family persuaded him to stay behind.
Reports from the Somme and Danube fronts describe continued fighting with no decisive gains. Romanian forces reportedly crossed the Danube toward Varna while German and Bulgarian troops hold lines. additional actions occur in Transylvania and Galicia with varying Turkish, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and German advances and setbacks.
From Petrograd via London the front line reports a Russian push on a sixty mile Galician front threatening Lemberg from Brody and Herzezany. The advance toward Krasne suggests substantial progress since Brody but official details remain vague and incomplete.
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