20 Mar 1917
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
1
Nimmo faces suspension after refusing to resign from the safety director’s office. The action follows reports of upheaval and a disputed resignation, with officials citing governance concerns and safety oversight questions.
Cincinnati Detective Chief William L Nimmo is suspended after Chief Copelan filed charges of disrespect and unbecoming conduct. Nimmo allegedly tore up a resignation, handed in earlier, and accused Friedlander of pressuring him while Friedlander denies comments beyond accepting the resignation offer.
The Franco-Belgian front sees Germans retreat along about 100 miles as Allies push toward Arras and the Somme. Allies report capturing Nesle and roughly seventy towns while British and French forces advance and press counterattacks on the Somme and Meuse fronts.
Partly cloudy and warmer in Ohio and Tennessee on Tuesday with Wednesday fair. Kentucky and West Virginia show similar trends with warmer Tuesday and Wednesday, colder at times. Temperature readings from numerous stations listed. Cincinnati March 19 1917 record shows clear conditions and temperature ranges from 22 to 45 degrees, with no precipitation.
A submarine shelled a boat carrying the first, second and third mates and five seamen of the Dutch steamer Selien chartered by the Belgian Relief Commission. All eight aboard were killed, according to a Reuter dispatch from Stavanger in London.
Nationwide rail conflict ends after courts uphold the Adamson act. Railroads concede to an eight hour basic day with pro rata overtime pay retroactive to January 1. Brotherhood leaders say they seek long term peace while evaluating back pay estimates of 12 to 13 million dollars.
New York reports a drive to reach 8,000,000 Scout age boys. Field Secretaries will visit cities and towns to expand organization work. In 1916 245,073 people were registered as Scouts and officials, up from 181,522 in 1915. Fifteen educational institutions provide scout training and rural troops exceed one third of the 9,720 total troops.
Paris reports Alexandre Ribot has formed a cabinet with premier and foreign affairs, justice by Rene Viviani, war by Paul Painleve, marine by Lacaze, munitions by Albert Thomas, finance by Joseph Thierry, interior by Louis Malvy, public instruction Jules Steeg, public works Georges Desplas, commerce Etienne Clementel, agriculture Fernand David, subsistence Maurice Viollette, labor Leon Bourgeois, colonies Andre Maginot, and under secretary of aviation Dan Vincent.
Twenty six mail bags addressed to Washington and the British Embassy were found rifled on board the Cunard liner Saxonia as she arrived in New York.
Special Cable reports London dispatch predicting the provisional government will seize most of Nicholas II personal wealth. The Romanoff holdings include about 680000 acres in Russia, foreign stocks and bonds, and up to 500 million dollars in cash abroad. The czar reportedly owns 50 million in Pennsylvania Railroad stock. confiscation could bolster Russian war credit and jeopardize land and other assets.
Petrograd reports a new government will rule until a 600-member assembly elects Russia’s future form. Miliukoff’s message vows no separate peace and unity in fighting the war. Czar and family retreat to Crimea as reforms erase autocracy symbols. Gorky-led Arts Committee forms to guard palaces and property.
Seven sailors from the Kronprinz Wilhelm I and Prinz Eitel Friedrich interned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard tried to escape under cover of darkness. Marines and police captured all seven after shots were fired, with four swimmers surrendering and three slipping into meadows but eventually detained. A Salem cruiser searchlight swept the area during the pursuit.
The War Department reports that paying postmasters five dollars for each recruit has yielded 865 new soldiers in six months. Atlanta tops cities with 94 recruits, followed by Portland 69 and Indianapolis 62. February adds 358 recruits versus 30 in September. Leading offices include Ft Wayne 281 and San Francisco 238 among others.
In Parliament A Bonar Law announced heavy war costs. England faces about ten and a half billion dollars for the war through March. Daily wartime expenditures reach around 30 million dollars as ships are funded.
President Wilson is expected to indicate within forty eight hours that a de facto state of war exists between the United States and Germany. News from Plymouth reports fifteen men drowned when the American merchantman Vigilancia was sunk by a German submarine, underscoring the grave view after the losses of the Illinois and the City of Memphis.
Washington dispatch reports a tin plate shortage endangering food canning nationwide. Government officials Redfield and Houston press War and Navy Departments to safeguard steel and tin plate flows to can makers, canners, and food packers as the season runs from now to fall. The Transportation Committee urges railways to treat tin plate as a foodstuff in embargoes, and ICC is urged to speed material to plants.
In Columbus Ohio March 19 after two ten day recess the Ohio General Assembly finished touches on the session with a bill to severely punish reckless automobile drivers. Gov Cox supports the measure amid numerous fatal accidents.
Patriotic Central High students in Washington tore down a Kaiser portrait and replaced it with a Wil son photograph amid protests led by Harry Roper and Miss Marie Siebert. Cadet corps officers and other students joined the action during recess as authorities opened an investigation.
Reports of fighting in Berlin spread through the Chicago Board of Trade as wheat futures rose sharply. Officials in Washington declared Germany’s submarine policy dangerous, with President Wilson authorizing $150 million to speed naval construction and Navy Yard orders for sixty submarine chasers. The Navy set graduation dates for new officers, and Wilson-Lansing talks underscored the gravity of the crisis.
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