Treason plots alleged by National Army troops at Camp Lewis
Four National Army soldiers held at Camp Lewis Tacoma Wash await a presidential warrant to internment as enemy aliens. They allegedly planned to shoot officers in action in Europe and deliver soldiers to the German army. Names withheld pending Washington advices. Washington says treason charges could lead to military court martial and death if convicted. About two hundred from Ninety First Division weeded out. 34 discharged today.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
National Army
Washington
Europe
Camp Lewis Tg
Cers
Judge Advocate General's Office
Soldiers Leave for Camp from Bonham Train Load Seventy Nine Drafted
Bonham witnessed the largest crowd yet as seventy nine draftees boarded the train for Camp Travis San Antonio. An automobile parade circled the square to the T and P station where Dr E W Alderson spoke to the departing troops. Exemption board members and local citizens attended as lunches were provided and each man received a New Testament from the Baptist church.
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Travis
San Antonio
H. L. Rodgers
E. W. Alddarson
Methodist Church
Pr. Alderson
Court House
Jefferson Davis
Alderson
T. A. Newman
Uncle Sam
Board of Trade
Woodman Circle
Baptist Church
Petrograd Considers Retreat to Save City in War
United Press reports in Petrograd that Peoples Commissaries favor Russian armies retreating to allow a stand before Petrograd. Workers representatives back the plan, warning Ukraine evacuation risks Northern Russia starvation. Lettish riflemen vow to join front for Lithuania and Estonia freedom as Bourgeois in Petrograd await German arrival.
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United Press
Petrograd
Ukraiia
Russia
Lithuania
Esthenia
Women Offer for Army as Russians Rally Behind Revolution
United Press reports from Petrograd on February 23 that men women and prisoners of war rally to defend the revolution. About a thousand women volunteer for the army and fifty thousand workers line up for the battle. One thousand prisoners, mainly Austro-Hungarian and Slav, with some Germans, await joining the defense. Bolsheviks receive telegrams from Soviets across Russia urging a fight to the finish.
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Ty United Press
Petrograd
Moscow
Bolsheviks
Russia
Defense Council Formed in Petrograd Amid Martial Law
Petrograd reports a high Defense Council formed with Lenine, Trotsky, Etalin, Prohian, and Karelan as members. Martial law grips the city while the Petrograd Soviet and Pan Soviet executive council back the People's Commissaries policy on peace. Workmen rush to arm, soldiers hesitate, and defense preparations proceed amid confusion and desperation.
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United Press
Petrograd
Lenine
Trotsky
Etalin
Petrograd Soviet
Pan Soviet Executive Council
Peoples Commissaries
Keithly Dead After Long Illness at West Eighth Home
Keithly died a few minutes before 5 this morning at his West Eighth Street home after a long illness. He was 44 next Tuesday and survived by two brothers Ree of Oregon and Will of this city, a sister Mrs Jeff Fincher of Oklahoma, and Miss Allie Keithly of this city. Funeral services will be conducted at the home tomorrow at 2:30 by Rev F W O Malley, with interment at Willow Wild cemetery. The Masonic lodge will handle funeral duties after the religious exercises. he was a longtime railroad worker and locomotive engineer and a Christian listed as a faithful member for many years.
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ConDney
O'Cloc
West Eighth Street
F. W. O'Malley
Willow Wild
Masonic Lodge
Dic Keithly
Tuesaday
M Keithly
Ree Keithly
Oregon
Will Keithly
Jeff Fincher
Oklahoma
Alle Keithly
Christian Eer Eee
Iwnell J
Meningitis Quarantine Placed on California Field Squadron
Wichita Falls Tex Feb 23 One squadron in Cali Field has been placed under quarantine awaiting developments on a doubtful case of spinal meningitis.
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United Press
Wichita Falls
Tex
Cali Field
American consul departs Rio to join regiment
Alfred M. Gottachalk the American consul in Rio de Janeiro has departed for the United States to enlist with his regiment. He leaves amid ongoing mobilization and war preparations.
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United Press
Rio de Janeiro
Alfred M. Gottachalk
United States
Miners Killed in Illinois Coal Mine Explosion
Springfield reports four miners died and several were seriously injured in a Citizens coal mine explosion in the city on Feb 28.
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United Press
Springfield, Il
Citizens Coal
Austria Declines to Participate in Brest-Litovsk Talks
Amsterdam blackout dispatch notes Austria will not join negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk next Monday. Reichpost claims Trotsky wants to deal only with the government whose armies are invading Russia.
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United Press
Amsterdam
Austria
Trotsky
Brest-Litovsk
Reichpost
Russia
Supplies plentiful now for American army in France
Washington February 23. Secretary Baker announces that the army is now well equipped with rifles and cartridges. Production has reached a level that guarantees ample fighting materials for the American forces in France.
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United Press
Washington
Baker
France
Socialists to See Wilson in Washington
London reports a delegation of Allied Socialists plans to travel to Washington to confer with President Wilson regarding peace and postwar policy. The move signals coordinated labor and political pressures from allied socialist groups on the U S administration.
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Wilson
United Press
London
Washington
Ambassadors 10 Leave Petrograd amid German advance
Official U P dispatches from Petrograd say Russians will resist the German invasion and that Allied ambassadors are ready to quit Petrograd if the crisis worsens. Ambassador Frenes reports the Soviet vow to defend Petrograd and notes the Allied reps would depart if Germans reach the city, location unspecified.
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Washington
United Press
Petrograd
State Department
Frenes
May Train Women at Farm Camps
Washington Feb 21 Plans for training women workers for farms during the war include camps for instruction The women's committee of the council of national defense will oversee recruiting education and welfare work It will cooperate with the department of agriculture and the US employment service Women workers will receive testing before farm placement Also a help wanted notice seeks a settled couple to live in a farm house with wage payment and references Miss Celisa Purdy asks for applicants four and a half miles south of town.
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Washington
Council of National Defence
Women's Committee
Department of Agriculture
Women's Division
United States Employment Service
Celisa Purdy
Russian Front HQ Shifts Near Smoversk Amid Push
Petrograd reports a hasty move of the Russian western front military headquarters to Smoversk, fifty miles east of Vitebsk, losing touch with the separate armies. German forces in Livonia seize a hundred railway engines and a thousand cars. An unrelated classified note advertises two 1917 Fords for sale at Everybodys Garage.
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United Press
Petrograd
Western Front
Smoversk
Vitebsk
Livonia
Labor Peace Now Terms Fixed by Allied Conference
London February 23 Arthur Henderson British labor leader says the Inter Allied Labor conference has practically adopted the peace terms union labor adopted last December as an irreducible minimum An international conference must be arranged but Allied representatives must not deal with enemy labor until it is proven they seek a similar peace.
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United Press
London
Arthur Henderson
Inter-Allied Labor Conference
McAdoo vows no new high salaried railroad officials
Washington on February 23. Secretary McAdoo announced that no additional high salaried railroad officials will be created while the government continues to control the railroads. The statement signals a stance on executive compensation during wartime administration.
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United Press
Washington
McAdoo
Second big draft planned for June says Provost Marshal
Washington February 23 The second big draft will be held next June according to plans from authoritative sources at the Provost Marshal General s office.
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United Press
Washington
Hatleys Visit McKinney After Funeral of Duke
J Hatley and wife of Bonham attended H Z Dukes funeral in Dallas Sunday afternoon. They spent Sunday night with Mr and Mrs M T Jones in McKinney before returning to Bonham Monday. Hatley manages the Duke and Ayers store there after leaving Durant Okla a year ago. He renewed his Daily Courier Gazette subscription, showing continued interest in McKinney and its citizenship.
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J. Hatley
Bonham
H. Z. Duke
Dallas
McKinney
McKinney Courier-Gazette
Five Room Bungalow and Vacant Lots for Sale
New bungalow of five rooms and hall with front porch sits across building with cow shed and nice lot at East 11th. Also a five-room bungalow with two screened porches bath sewerage trunk closet fireplace brick flue on corner half acre lot. Cheaper than building costs plus lot. Pretty vacant lot for sale on West Sixth street. Ashley Evans Land Co office in Favorite building.
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East 11Th
Piked Street
West Sixth Street
Ashley Evans Land CO
Germans Control Air Over American Lines
Reports from the front describe German air control over the American sector in France. Enemy planes fly at high altitude, observe, photograph, and return safely while American anti aircraft fire often fails to deter them. Officers’ names are not to be published.
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France
Ftort
Scotts Take Prisoners In Raid Near Monte le Preux
London dispatch reports Scottish troops took prisoners in a raid in the Monte le Preux area. Additional captives were seized west of Wytschaete as part of the operation.
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United Press
London
Monte le Preux
Wytschaete
Constitu ent Assembly to Convene in Petrograd
Petrograd reports the Constituent Assembly has decided to convene as soon as possible. The decision signals a push to establish parliamentary proceedings amid the ongoing political transition.
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Constituent Assembly
United Press
Petrograd
Pershing Reports Three Soliders Wounded
General Pershing announced that in an action on February 19 one American soldier was severely wounded and two were slightly wounded. Private Fred Kopanski of Chicago suffered the severest wound, while Corporals William B. Bowers of Westville Oklahoma and William Riley of Switzer Kentucky sustained lesser injuries.
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Pershing
Washington
Fred Kopanski
Chicago
William B. Bowers
Westville
Okla
William Riley
Switzer
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