Austro Hungarians Press Offensive As War Expands
Dispatches report Austria Hungary concentrating along the Italian front and launching synchronized offensives with Germany and France. German offensive into the American sector near Toul faces repulse. Luftwaffe planes fail to hit key targets as US artillery and infantry hold. Russian resistance around Narva strengthens, while Baltic and western fronts show shifting troop dispositions amid ongoing artillery actions. Weather forecasts for New York and New England anticipate fair but unsettled conditions with rain or snow in various regions.
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Italin
Switzerland
Germany
France
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Italy
New York
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Colorado
Norward
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Io Valley
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Dally Almanac
Gil Yn Seth
Thirty Thousand Letters Lost On Antania
The post office department announced that 30 000 letters written by American soldiers in France were lost when the steamship Antania sank off the Ireland coast in late January. Letters dated January 15 to 20 were among those lost, with a small quantity of parcel post also missing.
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Washington
Soliers
France
Antania
Ireland
Post Office Department
Suspended Guards After Auburn Prison Break
Four guards at Auburn prison have been suspended following the escape of Reynolds Forsbrey, described by officials as the state’s most dangerous criminal. State Prison Supt. James M. Carter traveled to Auburn to investigate, while authorities issue a statewide alert as Forsbrey remains at large amid prior escapes and a murder record.
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Albany
Auburn Prison
Reynolds Forsbrey
State Prison Department
James M
Carter
Auburn
New York
Reynolds Forsbyey
Auburh
Farabrey
Margaret Ryan
Forsbrey
Intern Two Suspects as Hun Spies
Charles Scragly and Thomas Larboska, both German aliens living in Stamford, Conn., were arrested by U S Marshal Gallagher and held without bail for federal authorities. They are laborers born in Germany with about five years in the United States and no naturalization papers. They will be brought before D O J Agent Lane for disposition, likely internment for the war's duration.
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Thomas Larboska
Stamford
Can
Department of Justice
United States
Gallagher
Scragey
Larboska
Conn
Germany
C. W. Lane
Charles Lane
Palmer urges sale of German owned industries in the United States
Senate hearing in Washington heard A Mitchell Palmer propose letting bidders buy German owned U S properties including Stollwerck chocolate in Stamford Connecticut Hamburg American and North German Lloyd docks in Hoboken New Jersey and other plants across the country Palmer argued these assets form part of a German empire profiteering network and should be permanently taken from enemy ownership after the war. Stamford manager Max Kettwinkel defended continuing American control of the local plant while noting some stock is German owned.
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Connecticut
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Florida
Porto Rico
Hawaii
A. Mitchell Palmer
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Washington
United States
Stamford
Palmer
Stollwerck Bros, Inc
Homer 8. Cummings
Stollwerck Corporation
Stollwerck Bros
Cummings
Max Kettwinkel
Staniford
Stollwer
N. J
Theerman Shipping Lines
Mr. Palmer
America
American
Flag Signals First Ship Rib Laid at Stratford Yard
Report from Bridgeport to New Haven describes a flag signaling the first rib of the initial ship under construction at Housatonic Shipbuilding in Stratford. The carpenters' signal marked the saving of the first vin as three keels are laid and work proceeds on six vessels in near-simultaneous fashion.
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New Haven
Yesterdag
Housatonic Shipbuilding Corporation
Stratford
Honsptonic
Gen Goethals Takes Place In The War Council
Washington March 8 Reorganization of the War council announced by the War Department with Major General March acting chief of staff in place of General Bliss Major General Goethals acting quartermaster general and Edward B R Miller surveyor of purchases added to the personnel
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Gen. Goethals
WAR Council
Washington
War Department
March
Bliss
Goethis
Edward BR
Hoover Is Bitterly Assailed In Senate Attack
In Washington a tense Senate session focused on government price fixing and food administration activity. Led by Senator Reed, Democrats and Republicans charged that price controls on farm products were being extended beyond the food control law. Reed and Borah criticized the licensing provision as enabling an unauthorized program, while Reed attacked the fuel administration and Garfield’s handling of the four day order, calling it a lockout on eastern industry. A resolution asking the food administration for its authority was adopted. continued on page 17.
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Food Administration
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Borah
Fuel Administration
Garfield
Hoover
Laulishbury
Delaware
The
Two New Hampshire Girls Reported Missing
Mahye complaints of runaways prompt detective bureau notes. Two girls missing weeks return to Concord while two more girls, Hazel and Basel Gardner, are found in Concord after leaving home weeks earlier. Parents located them in Canecord, N I, then brought them home. ongoing searches for other missing youths continue.
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Detective Bureau
Concord
N. H
Janette Langton
Washington Avenue
Elvira Biair
First
Molee
Muth Richardson
Prospect Street
Basel Gardner
Long Till
Canecord
N. I
Trig
Hazel Gardner
Providence
Donnie Beceile
Hamilton ‘Street
U. S. Cuts Coal 30 Cents a Ton
The fuel administration announced an average 30 cent cut in the retail price of all anthracite coal for domestic use from April 1 to September 1. New rules aim to prevent hoarding and ensure winter supplies, with strict delivery limits and potential prosecution under the Lever Act for false statements. Bituminous coal prices at mines were revised in several western states, with Iowa prices nearing completion as part of a planned nationwide revision before April 1.
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The
Fuel Administration
Bert
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Iowa
U S Jumps Rate of Interest on Loans to Allies
The United States raised interest on loans to allied nations from 4.5 to 5 percent after an earlier rise in certificate rates from 4 to 4.5 percent. Secretary McAdoo said the higher rate reflects higher government borrowing costs and covers fund-raising expenses and tax losses from tax-free certificates. The measure yields little or no profit to the U S, but funds allied lending.
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Washington
McAdoo
United States
Bill Gives Government Control of All the Wires
Washington March 8 Senator Sheppard of Texas introduced a bill to permit the President to seize and operate all marine cables radio systems telegraph and telephone networks under railroad style control to safeguard military and governmental communications from spies. The measure was referred to Military Affairs and would extend current government control of foreign communications to the domestic telegraph and telephone systems.
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Washington
Mar
Sheppard
Texas
United States
Rings Stolen From Adams Express Safe
William S. Nash an 18 year old clerk at Adams Express offices near the railroad station is accused of opening the safe on October 24 1917 and taking two diamond rings worth about 360. Nash was arrested by Detective Seery and jailed in 1000 bonds after attempting to pawn one ring.
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Adams Express Company
William S. Nash
Morehouse Street
Seery
Nash
Express Company
Americans List Teutons at Devens as Citizens
Selectives in this cantonment of German birth are to be listed as American citizens and there will be nothing on their service records to reveal their Teutonic extraction. This action will be taken by company commanders in accordance with Washington instructions to avoid friction with France while preserving capable soldiers.
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Jamiie Devens
Mass
Mar. S
Washington
War Department
Atlantic
National Guard
Porcerne
United States
Bridgeport Drafts 50 for Aviation and Coast Artillery
Local draft boards move to draft the remaining required Bridgeport men for the Aviation Section after only about 15 volunteers were accepted. Registrants are being processed for call to Fort Sill and Fort Slocum, with several draftees already en route. The War Department reclassifies registrants under a new ruling, affecting class one individuals.
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Bridgeport
United States Army
United States Coast Artillerymen
Coast Artillery
Fort Slocum
War Department
Boy Scouts Lick Kaiser Captive Tale From Cos Cob
Cos Cob police halted two Bronx boys, John and James Mackey, ages 14 and 11, carrying a heavy suitcase along railroad tracks. The boys declared they planned to lick the Kaiser and send a message to the Crown Prince. Their father arrived after the episode, the boys had been traveling since Wednesday, with about $25 in a small bank.
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Cos
New York
Cos Cob
War Savings Stamps Investment Appeal
An wartime appeal urges buying War Savings Stamps as Government Baby Bonds to fund the war effort and provide for old age, urging readers to buy now, serve and save.
Connecticut 102nd Regiment Marines in Toul Battle Front
Waterbury relatives learn Corporal Coyle and Private Melon of Company A, 102nd Regiment, wounded in action on March 2 during the first Toul drive. The 102nd, camped at Steeplechase Island last summer, earned a frontline baptism of war, praised for courage and steadfastness as they moved from training to combat with the Nutmeg State’s veterans.
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102Nd
Steeplechase Island
Ameri
Toul
102Nd Regiment
France
America
G Hand
I! Guard
Escor
Waterbury
Corper Coyle
Mary C. Coyle
Russell School
Guar
M Coyle
Fran Coyle
McCain
Adjt
Coyle
Teutons May Move to Take Russ Across Asia
A Wolff bureau dispatch claims Germany may advance via Russia through Persia and Afghanistan, potentially opening routes to the Black Sea and Turkey. The report notes Brest-Litovsk terms shifted Russian districts in the Caucasus, with speculative paths through Iran and Sin Kiang area near Afghanistan.
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