President Digs into Ship Plan
President Hurley outlines war era shipbuilding and import reductions. Shipping board aims to boost yard work, cut imports from South America and the Orient, and pressure neutral and Allied ships into service. Harris criticizes Fleet Corporation practices, citing rapid, improvised organization and lack of private-sector business methods.
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Huriecy
Shipping Board
South America
Orient
Trade Board
Versailles War Council
Senaté
Harris
J. W. Powell
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Br. Harris
Fleet Corporation
Hurley
War Bureau Seeks Bridgeport Budget Increase to 15080
Bridgeport's War Bureau requests 15080 for next year, citing its city‑wide wartime duties under the Connecticut State Council of Defense. The request includes 7140 for salaries and 2500 for a general secretary, with private funding previously covering wartime aid.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut State Council of Defense
George W. Wheeler
War Bureau
Wheeter
Tigher
Howard I. Smith
Uncle Sam
Board of Appraisal
Northwest
T. C. of
L. Hits Charities
Hillside Home
Board of Charities
Board of Apportsonment
Charities
A. P. Thorne
Charities Department
Allies and Huns Show Activity in Europe War
Reports from the front allege heavy fighting in the Aisne and Verdun areas with German units pushing near Beaucourt while French and British forces claim repulses and raids. Air combat intensifies as French, British, and Italian fliers down dozens of enemy planes. Diplomatically, Brest-Litovsk talks pause amid high level meetings in Berlin and a crown council, while Norway rejects breaking with a belligerent to avoid jeopardizing its trade.
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Aisne
Verdun
Auntont
French War Office
Germs War Office
Beaucourt
Baden
Armentic
Flanders
Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
France
Czernin
American War Trade Board
United States
Norway
Germany
Cold Weather Halts Pennsylvania A. R. Traffic
Severe February cold disrupted railroad traffic across Pennsylvania and hindered coal mining. Reports of paralyzed service, coal shortages, and water scarcity came from many areas. Philadelphia saw minus two degrees as the coldest spell this winter. A grocer faces egg storage issues in a crowded safe.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Rail unions clash with railroad bosses over wages and eight hour law
Hearing before the Wage Commission reveals union leaders accusing railroad management of delaying trains and inflating costs to discredit government operation under the Adamson law. They demand higher wages, especially time and a half for overtime, citing increased living costs and prewar negotiations.
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Lee
Garretson
New York
Lane
DB D. W. Helt
Brotherhood of
Railway Signalmen
Wage Commission
New Haven
Hartford
Les
Garrison
E. H. Morton
Order of
Brotherhood of Railway
Wormer
J. Coyle
Adamson In
Punish Huns for Ship Plot continues from page two
A wartime conspiracy case in Atlanta handed two years and six months to the main defendant for planning strikes on munition plants. Capt Otto Wolpert, former Atlas Line superintendent, was also convicted after wartime arrest on suspected enemy alien status. Other defendants include Karl Von Kleist, Dr Walter Scheele missing, Ernest Braker, Frederick Wilhelm Karbado and several co conspirators linked to bomb plots aboard ships Friedrich der Grosse and related targets. Additional defendants named but not convicted included Captain Eno Bode and Drs Kurl Schimmel and Walter P Scheele. Karl Sehight was found not guilty by the jury.
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Atlanta
Otto Wolpert
Atlas Line
Trumburg America Steamship Company
United States
Germany
Karl von Kleist
Walter P. Scheele
Hoboken
N. J
Scheele
von Kleist
Georges Pradel
Thriedrich der Grosse
Eugene Reister
Labor Lyceum
Rooklyn
Carl Schimmel
Walter Uhde
Ranford Boniface
Joseph Peffert
Eno Bode
Kurl Schimmel
Gustav Steinberg
Karl Sehight
Gggirt
Woman Leads Raid on Petrograd Brewery for Potatoes
In Petrograd 5000 Red Guards block warehouses terminals and docks sparking food price drops. Potatoes fall from 0.5 ruble to 0.7 kopeks per pound and bread ration rises to 0.5 pound daily. A mob led by a woman assaults a potato brewery, breaches cellars, and resists dispersal as workers are wounded.
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Petrograd
Fines Totals 861 in Common Pleas Court
Judge John J. Walsh imposed 861 in fines and costs in the February term of common pleas court. Mary Mantz Mollis Bruno and Annie Bergemin were fined 100 each for keeping disorderly houses, Edward K Varrett was fined 50 and given 30 days jail but suspended. A nervous traveler quip follows.
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Pines
John J. Walsh
Criminal Common Pleas Court
Compa Inn
Mary Mantz
Mollis Bruno
Annie Bergemin
Edward K. Varrett
Hold Two After Battle with Police
Thomas Spink aged 25 of 362 East Main street and John Carrol aged 37 of 31 Wakeley street were arrested on Water street near the Atlantic hotel after a late night street fight. Sergeant Poland intervened, force used to restrain them, both charged with breach of the peace and assault. They were booked at police headquarters and arraigned in City Court this forenoon.
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Poland
Waterstreet
Atlantic Hotel
Thomas Spink
East Main Street
John Carrol
Wakeley Street
Water Street
Man Reflects On World Wanderings And Morning Sleep
A man who has roamed worldwide for around fifty years notes the peculiar wisdom of sleeping in while the world calls him to rise. He reflects on the irony of waking only when his body says so, pondering time and routine.
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