02 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
1
Reports say border talks reach a deadlock with key player MASYTORENA refusing to sign a final agreement to proposed plans. Officials from involved nations urge a rapid resolution as regional tensions rise.
Friction between Villa and Zapata factions over executions delays the Naco Agua Prieta plan and may defer the convention. Maytorena’s withdrawal and border neutrality are under discussion while Zapata opposes Guierrrez’s reelection and news from Veracruz reports executions in progress in Vera Cruz and Mexico City.
Kansas will join Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and the Dakotas in opposing increased freight rates on grain. The move follows a decision by western railroads and support from the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Unemployed men and women led an outdoor demonstration that ended in a clash with police as banners declared Homeless Men Revolt. In Pasadena the Tournament of Roses drew forty cities with a $100,000 spectacle. Oklahoma official Kate Barnard, announcing the end of her term, reflects on prison reform and education law innovations.
A British report on shipping notes the public mood is described as entirely princely in tone. The document analyzes how maritime policy and national conduct influence perception abroad and at home.
Ambassador Page received a London report describing broad British attitudes toward the U S protest note. The officials said a reply would come in a few days and praised press criticism as reasonable. Some British publics viewed the note as partly for home consumption as Congress pressed steps to protect trade.
Spiller filed in the U S District Court in Kansas City alleging ten delivering railroad lines conspired to advance freight rates in violation of anti trust laws. The suit seeks 150 008 damages treble ICC award and questions jurisdiction in Northern Texas federal court while noting Supreme Court rulings on traffic associations and rate fixing.
A Yorkshire Light Infantry officer writes home about shelling near Scarborough. He recounts pink fright before the blast, a silent rise of the house, a fountain of pink dust, black smoke, flying debris, and trenches less damaged than masonry walls, noting the shells’ brutal impact on buildings.
In Jerusalem and Jaffa the number of Palestine Jews aided by charity rises toward 90,000 as war shortages bite. Bread and soup are given daily in major centers but funds dry up. The Jerusalem Jaffa railway halt, operated by a French concern, worsens the crisis. Feeding the Jews, deemed alien enemies by the Turks, may cost about 3000 dollars daily until the crisis ends.
Paris dispatch reports Belgian refugees will receive a public Christmas present valued at about 1.1 million dollars as of today. The grant includes 346 thousand in cash from sources earlier this month and is tied to relief measures for Belgian refugees.
In TLCBON Arizona a temporary injunction was issued in U S District Court by Judge W H Swatelle restraining enforcement of the Arizona anti alien labor statute in the case of Austrian cook Mike Riach until a federal tribunal in San Francisco rules on the labor law.
Norton of Los Angeles won a decision over Tor McMahon of Pittsburgh in a ten pound bout this afternoon. Norton showed the strongest form in the first five rounds, but McMahon recovered only to fall short. Both fighters were heavyweights delivering a tough, evenly matched contest.
Washington January 1 Congress convenes with the immigration bill as the major issue pending in the Senate The patience of supporters is evident though the literacy test amendment remains open to change and further discussion
Hammonton New Jersey town clerk Richard Seely won his battle over a raise to 4500 dollars a year. Despite support from Republicans Democrats and other groups who formed a committee to raise his pay Seely invoked an old statute prohibiting the increase.
Washington January notes the formal White House New Year reception was abandoned due to the death of Mrs Wilson. The president received no callers, played golf in the forenoon, and enjoyed an auto ride in the afternoon as foreign diplomats and officials left greetings cards.
Report describes a clash at the Koyvel mine near Aguilar where a worker named Ortig was shot and another man injured. Authorities note factional trouble and a Mexican labor dispute as possible motives. Intratown tension cited as the incident’s backdrop.
In Memphis Tennessee this January the National Convention of Ginners began annual sessions. Attendees plan to push for rating up every gin in the country after half as many bales of cotton have been ginned as last year. Ginners from across the South are present seeking changes for meeting emergencies.
A letter from Secretary J. Bryan advocating total abstinence is read at the closing session of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association. The ceremony aired in a meeting led by the organization’s officers.
Readable forecast notes indicate Saturday fair in Washington and West Texas with possible rain or snow and Sunday fair. Early morning temperature reports are unclear but suggest mild conditions across regions.
A British battleship was sunk by a submarine in the English Channel according to a wartime report. The loss underscores ongoing naval hazards faced by Allied forces amid operations in the channel.
AP reports London notes the loss of the British battleship Formidable in the English Channel with about six hundred sailors dead. Submarine or mine caused the disaster as German U boats press coastal action while major battles unfold on Western fronts with stationary lines and halted river crossings in Poland.
London reports 141 known survivors from the battleship Formidable sunk this morning by a mine or submarine in the English Channel. The vessel carried 700 men. The Torbay trawler Providence landed seventy men picked up during a violent storm.
An official Vienna communiqué states fighting continues in the Carpathians and Bukowina with the situation unchanged. Enemy attacks at Diola and South Tarnow in Galicia are repulsed as our forces inflict heavy losses and take two thousand prisoners. North of the Vistula operations hindered but progress is noted.
Army general staff dispatch reports fierce fighting 35 miles southwest of Kars with Wehar halting Turkish offensive toward Olts. Frontier situation unchanged. Also notes Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph in good health but sadder during Christmas. London reports Formidable torpedoed and sunk shortly after dawn. Poincare forecasts end of war this year. Danish authorities seize copper cargo smuggling attempt from German American.
A torpedo boat reports the Norwegian steamer Odene Ence struck a reef in the North Sea near Rotterdam on Friday and is likely a total loss. The crew of forty two were saved.
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