Flivvers Proposed to Evade U Boat Blockade
New York authorities report American Line passenger liners will sail for Europe as guns arrive. Franklin says once Navy arms are supplied, liners will resume regular schedules, held in port amid submarine warfare. Fiske endorses 185 foot wooden flivvers of 1000 ton capacity with two guns, 14 knot speed. Clark claims 1000 such ships could be built annually to outpace German subs.
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Europe
Pr. S
Admiral Fiske
Clark
Thelma Cudlipp Wins Poster Contest at Flower Show
Thelma Cudlipp wins a 600 prize in the International Flower Show poster contest at Grand Central Palace New York March 15 22. She is the youngest American girl to win a Royal Academy scholarship in 1913 and will have a rose named in her honor Thelma Cudlipp will be exhibited at the show.
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Thelma Cudlipp
Grand Central Palace
New York
Miss Cudlipp
America
Royal Academy
London
Richmond
New York City
President Signs Call for Congress to Convene in Special Session
Washington reports President ill in bed signs call for an extra session of Congress starting April 16. The Sixty-fifth Congress will address armed neutrality and arming American merchant ships, with Navy plans to arm vessels upon demand and a policy to withhold sailing details from the press.
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Congress
Wipp
Champ ‘Clark
Washington
Germany
Navy Department
Daniels
White House
United States of America
Tumulty
House of
British transport Mendi sinks after collision off Isle of Wight
The Mendi, a 4230 ton British steamer carrying South African laborers, was sunk February 21 after a collision off the Isle of Wight. General Louis Botha announced 625 lives lost, including ten Europeans. The ship, built in 1905 in Glasgow, was owned by British and African Steam Navigation Company.
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London
Louis Botha
Isle of Wight
Mead
Glasgow
British and African Steam Navigation Company, Ltd
Liverpool
Pt. Natal
Dar- Us-Salaam
Pomerene Named Senate Chair as Ohio Delegation Assigned
Washington March 9 Senator Pomerene lands the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections succeeding Senator Kern. The Ohio delegation receives full committee assignments across Privileges and Elections Banking and Currency District of Columbia Foreign Relations Indian Depreciations Interstate Commerce Manufacturers Claims Coast Defenses Commerce Expenditures in the Treasury Department Investigate Trespasses Upon Indian Lands Territories Transportation and Sale of Meat Products. Senator James of Kentucky joins Rules and Privileges and Elections committees. Beckham adds Public Buildings and Grounds to his prior posts.
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Washington
Pomerene
Senate Committee On
Kern
Ohio
Senate
District of Columba
Treasury Department
James
Kentucky
Beckham
Weather outlook across states this weekend
Ohio and West Virginia show partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with rain possible Sunday. Tennessee and Kentucky expect fair, warmer days with rain possible Sunday night or Sunday. Indiana forecasts increasing cloudiness and warmer temps with rain likely Sunday. Readings accompany current temperatures and precipitation across stations.
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Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Parties line up for House control as Heintz opposes Mann
Washington reports both Democratic and Republican leaders optimistic about 218 votes for their parties as they plan for an April 16 special session. A NY vacancy may trigger a 215-215 tie, prompting deals with independents. Illness among several representatives raises concern over Speaker choice and possible coalition before April 16.
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Heintz
Washington
Congress
Wilson
House
Clark
Representative Woods
Iowa
Republican Congressional Committee
New York
Whitman
Representative Mann
Hill
Connecticut
Sulloway
New Hampshire
Graham
Pennsylvania
Cincinnati
Allen
Mann
Bulgaria to seek separate peace, London reports
London dispatch says Bulgaria told Germany it cannot continue the war and will seek a separate peace if hostilities do not end this summer. Premier Radoslavoff spoke to Bulgarian deputies. Reports also note Paris claims a Champagne attack destroyed German positions near Maisons de Champagne, while Berlin cites trench gains and German success on the Romanian front between the Trotus and Uzul Valleys.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Bulgaria
Germany
Rome
Daily Telégraph
Radoslavoff
Paris
Maisons de Champagne
Berlin
Roumanian West Front
Trotus
Uzul
Supreme Court weighs United States Steel dissolution case
Washington March 9 The Supreme Court began considering the federal dissolution suit against United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries. Assistant Attorney General Todd called the firm a colossal overcapitalized super combination producing about half the nation's steel output. The defense argued the Sherman law targets more than size and power and cited reduced market share and rising competition.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Todd
German Prisoner Sits In Jail Over $20000 Bail Bid
In Charleston harbor eight officers and crew of the German freighter Liebenfels were found guilty of sinking the vessel in a navigable stream by a U S district court jury. In Los Angeles miss Bungenier a 22 year old French girl disclosed to federal agents information of value about bomb plots connected to Captain Alfred Fritzen a German naval officer. Fritzen complained of jail conditions and of a $20000 bail for his release and claimed he would not discuss business with women.
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Florence
S. C
Hansa Line
Charleston Harbor
United States District Court
Los Angeles
Madeline Bungenier
Alfred Fritzen
United States
Miss Bungenier
Fritzen
Elsinore
France
Lemars
Federal
Grand Detroit Grain Elevator Fire Prompts U S Probe
United States District Attorney John I E Kinnane opened a probe into the cause of the Detroit Elevator Company blaze that destroyed a million bushel grain elevator and threatened Grand Trunk yards. Officials cited rumors of espionage to test neutrality violations. loss estimated over 1 million dollars. Wheat corn and rye bound for export were stored by Commercial Milling, Caughey Jossman and Swift Grain, with partial insurance coverage.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit Elevator Company
United States
John I E. Kinnane
Kinnane
Grand Trunk
Commercial Milling Company
Caughey- Jossman Company
Swift Grain Company
Capt Fritzen Arrested in Canal Plot Probe
Captain Alfred Fritzen is arrested in Washington on charges of complicity in a plot to blow up the Welland Canal. He is named with Captain Franz von Papen and Wolf von Igel along with Captain Hans Tauscher in the detention and investigation. A six months’ search led to the arrest.
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Washington
Alfred Fritzen
Franz von Papen
Wolf von Igel
Hans Tauscher
Fritzen
Welland Canal
Daniels dies at Cove Point lighthouse in Maryland
Baltimore dispatch reports Richard S. Daniels aged 72, uncle of Secretary Josephus Daniels, died of heart disease at Cove Point lighthouse while speaking with Captain T. J. Miles of the Maple. Columbus briefs note libel suits seeking 240000 dollars against five local breweries and officials.
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Baltimore
Richard S. Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels
Cove Point
T. J. Miles
Columbus
Common Pleas Court
Harry Cohen
Arthur Goldberg
Ohio Bottle and Metal Company
Harry
Isaac Goldberg
France and Allies Face Wheat Shortage Warning
Paris March 9 Victor Boret head of the Agricultural Committee reports that France and allied neutral nations must economize or substitute cereals for 34 to 38 percent of their wheat needs this year according to chamber estimates.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Victor Boret
Agricultural Committee
Riot Erupts in Cuzco. Several Die in Street Unrest
In Lima the report describes a serious riot breaking out in Cuzco, capital of the ancient Inca empire, early today with multiple fatalities amid street clashes.
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Lima
Peru
Cuzco
State Department says Yarrowdale prisoners to be released soon
Washington reports an official dispatch dated March 7 indicating the Yarrowdale prisoners are to be released soon, as the long controversy over their status moves toward a satisfactory conclusion.
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Washington
Altho
State Department
Yarrowdale
Subway Bomb Conspiracy Conviction Tied to Strike Leader
Michael Herlihy, Financial Secretary of a local Amalgamated Association chapter, was convicted as one of the men who set off the bomb that wrecked an uptown subway station during last fall’s traction strike in New York.
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New York
Michael Herlihy
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America
Tragedy at Deerfield Pulp: Three Dead from Chlorine Gas
At Mountain Mills Vermont three workers died and four others were seriously injured after inhaling chlorine gas at the Deerfield Pulp Company plant. Dr William L Jeffers of Wilmington Delaware died at the plant along with Donald Cook and Newton Carpenter of Mountain Mills who went to assist.
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Mountain Mills
Deerfield Pulp Company
William L.jeffers
Wilmington
Del
Donald Cook
Newton Carpenter
Travel salesman found dead in Lancaster hotel
Charles Hammack aged 63, a Grover Fertilizer Company salesman from Cincinnati and resident of Lancaster, was found dead in bed at his hotel this morning after reporting illness the previous day and telling friends his race was about run.
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Lancaster, O
Charles Hammack
Grover Fertilizer Company of
Cincinnati
Ohio Assembly Debates Smith Law in City Relief Bill
Republicans in the Ohio House backed an amendment to the Terrell bill proposed by Governor Cox to allow local districts to exceed the Smith 1 percent tax cap to pay old debts. Freiner called the Smith law hypocritical and said it would bankrupt cities, with support from Muskingum and other representatives. The House also passed a wage hours bill reducing work to fifty hours weekly and sent related measures to the Senate for action. The Senate amended workmen compensation rules and debated securities regulation. Christian Science practitioners’ fees were defeated in the House, while Beaty’s bill to bar The Birth of a Nation received unanimous passage.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Cox
Senate
Freiner
Vinton County
Graham
Muskingum County
Guthery
Merion ‘County
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House
Thomas ‘ Reynolds
Cleveland
Industrial Commission
Hall
Blue Sky” Bureau
State Banking Department
Terrell Senate
Late
Beaty
English Exchanges Fix Maximum Prices on Certain Foods
London reports the Produce Exchanges with Food Controller approval set maximum prices for bacon butter cheese and lard across English cities. Baron Devonport will later revise the list. Prices include Bacon English 150 shillings per hundredweight Irish 140. Butter Australian 218 Argentine 214 Danish 214. Cheese English 165 Canadian 162 American 160 Dutch 140. Lord American in pairs 141 boxed 140.
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London
Baron Devonport
British Ban On Women Entering War Zone
The British Government issues an order forbidding women subjects of Great Britain to embark on ships headed for war zones except in extreme necessity. The exception includes nurses going abroad for war duty, State Department missions, and women who can prove imperative reasons.
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New York
Great Britain
State Department
Girl Stands By Lover And Is Found Guilty
Hazel Meyers, a nurse, was found guilty in a Chicago court for participating in a highway robbery with George Maynard alias Harold Scott. She rejected a plea and chose to face trial, with jurors deliberating two minutes and recommending mercy despite convicting her.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Hazel
Meyer
George Maynard
Harold Scott
Winnipeg Elevator Burns in Major Fire
The terminal elevator of the Northern Elevator Company in Winnipeg was destroyed by fire tonight. It had a capacity of 40 000 bushels and was reportedly full of wheat. The loss was estimated at 159000 dollars.
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Winnipeg
Northern Elevator Company
Britain negotiates purchase of Canada's 1917 wheat crop
Ottawa report states the British Government is negotiating to buy all of Canada's 1917 wheat crop. Britain previously bought Australia’s crop but will source from Canada to conserve shipping tonnage for Britain France and Italy.
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Ottawa
Canada
Great Britain
Australia
Dominion
France
Italy
Pacifist Postcard Barred From Mails In New York
A postcard headed American University Bulletin was barred from the mails in New York by the Postoffice Department under criminal code sections. The card was said to incite arson murderarchy or assassination and bear inscriptions detrimental to any person. American University officials in Washington argued it was not issued by the university.
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Washington
American University Bulletin
New York
Postoffice Department
Criminal ‘ Code
American University
West Virginia coal tariffs seek transport increases coast to lakes
Kanawha and Michigan Railway officials announce a new tariff filing with the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15 cent per ton rise on coal moved from West Virginia fields to the Great Lakes. The plan covers loading at Toledo and would take effect April 16 if approved. Separately, Chesapeake and Ohio Virginian and Norfolk and Western Railroads seek a 10 cent per ton rise for coal from West Virginia mines to tidewater.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company
Interstate Commercce Commission
West Virginia
Great Lakes
Toledo
Tidewater
Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian
Norfolk & Western Railroads
War Department to seize Philadelphia Aviation School
The War Department decided to take over the Philadelphia School of Aviation at Essington near the Navy Yard to organize an air squadron. telegram from General George Q. Squier to Robert Glendenning, school president, reported from Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
War Department
Washington
Philadelphia School of Aviation
Essington
Philadelphia Navy Yard
George QO. Squier
Robert Glendenning
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