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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
2
New York bankers Lee Higginson & Co arrange a $25,000,000 one year note loan for Italy to fund war needs and stabilize exchange. Public offering planned with small denominations to encourage broad participation by citizens of Italian descent. Proceeds to buy foodstuffs coal and clothing and to be paid in gold in the United States.
Secretary Daniels ordered a court martial for Rear Admiral William N Little retired inspector at Fore River Works Quincy Mass alleging neglectful methods in duty. He is accused of knowing K-2 submarine was defective and arranging with company officials to pass the vessel with fixes to storage batteries postponed.
Wytheville residents plan a wedding present for Mrs. Norman Galt. Post Office maps first aeroplane mail routes to begin deliveries soon. Great Britain needs 3 000 000 more men by spring according to Sir Eric Swayne. Folsom State Prison inmates enroll in UC correspondence teacher course. A new US military force for college age men is proposed by Secretary Garrison. Pennsylvania Steel Co. to pass to Schwab interests for 49 533 000. Salvador earthquake toll exceeds two hundred in seven weeks. Emperor Franz Josef's condition reportedly worsens. Dr Scott Nearing to assume Toledo's arts and sciences dean post.
General Goethals said he would stay on the Isthmus six months or longer if needed as slides in Gaillard Cut force a canal closure. He advised ship commanders to use alternative routes and noted progress on opening the channel is slow while he prepares a full report for Washington.
General Thomas Ornelas, Juarez villa commander, escaped to the American side in disguise amid reports of a Juarez mutiny. He signed a State Department pledge not to return, while Villa officials move goods to El Paso. A demand of 50 000 gold from Corralitos Cattle Company has spurred efforts to prevent cattle slaughter and a lead bullion seizure marked the first Villa territory export confiscation.
Heavy rains and high winds struck north Texas and south Oklahoma over two days causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Railroad traffic halted from Denison Texas to Atoka Oklahoma with bridges reported washed away at Bridgeport Texas and Chickasha Oklahoma.
Miss Katharine Dahlgren daughter of Mrs Drexel Dahlgren of New York has had her Massachusetts automobile license suspended by the Highway Commission for improper operation of her car. She was tried three times on related charges.
Allied forces launch offensives across multiple fronts attacking Bulgaria and the Belgrade area while French and British troops push on in the west. Zeppelins raid London killing 55 and injuring over 100 as ground fighting intensifies in Serbia and along the Aegean and Danube fronts.
Paris report says a captured German officer carried a secret divisional order urging infantry to abandon a defensive stance and maintain offensive spirit. The document directed brigade and regiment commanders to push troops to fight without overreliance on artillery.
Sofia reports that General Radko Dimitrieff and other reserve officers who have not returned to Bulgaria will be treated as deserters. Minister M Majaroff, once Bulgarian envoy to Russia, has been dismissed and will face prosecution for criticizing the government action.
Allied troop movements toward Salonica and France declaring war on Bulgaria are noted. Russian offensives press in Dvinsk and Galicia while Serbs resist in Balkans and on western fronts. Beillon trenches retaken as Lorraine fighting continues with heavy artillery and bayonet charges.
British forces claim a major success on a 30 mile front in northern France by taking the Hohenzollern redoubt near Hulluch. Russian Allied cooperation in the Balkans is promised as Italy pledges full participation. Bulgarian irregulars threaten Greek Macedonia as a Zeppelin raid kills fifty five in London. Greek Premier Zaimis vows neutrality while Romania signals allied cooperation in due course.
Supreme Court hears challenges to the withholding clause of the federal income tax law amid expectations of unconstitutionality. Commander J T Tompkins to command the new Nevada battleship at 96.2 percent completion. Wilson lays corner stone of $750000 memorial amphitheatre at Arlington. McAdoo and Mrs McAdoo depart Washington for Indianapolis. Lord Reading meets Wilson at the White House. Lansing discusses Mexican affairs with Eliseo Arredondo Carranza envoy. Administration Navy plans unclear for Congress and the Army. Federal Reserve Board rejects joint Central and South American agency idea.
The article notes each Boston Red Sox player received 3 779 98 as their World Series share from club president Lannin. It also covers various other dated items including the Franklin frigate decommissioning, a Matson Navigation steamer order, an open Brewers convention, Joe Hillstrom’s death sentence and poem, Villa mining seizures near Chihuahua, and a Braves trade sending Moran Whaling to the Venice club for Wilhelit.
A round of varied events includes a Chicago Board of Trade member ship sale for 2950, Swiss authorities noting a pardon for C A Doerflinger, and Judge Lindsey’s ouster from Denver’s criminal division. Other items: a gulf search for tilefish by a US Fisheries schooner, a fatal deer-hunting shooting in New Jersey, pardons in Peru for Gody bankers, Orville Wright’s retirement, powder shipments halted at El Paso, and baseball tour plans for the Red Sox and Phillies. Also: Greek steamer recalled, Rhode Island labor talks, Lexington match race results, Rockefeller Jr.’s Colorado visit, silk convention in Paterson, the Liberty Bell tour, a Missouri ouster suit dismissal, New London fire damage, Prince Frederic’s death report, State Attorney’s resignation, New Jersey carriage shop fire, Baltimore schoolgirls visiting the White House, Zeppelins in Bulgaria, Vassar College’s fiftieth anniversary, and a Connecticut turkey disease probe.
Louisville rider Carl Ganz died from injuries after being thrown at Latonia track. The Boston Red Sox claimed the World Series title by winning four of five against Philadelphia. Archie Reid secured his tenth John Reid medal at St Andrews Golf Club. Billy Gibson, new Show Corporation manager, negotiates a match between Jess Willard and Moran Coffey winner for Madison Square Garden boxing events.
Foreign officials report Japan has withdrawn recognition of the Mexican consul general at Yokohama who represented Huerta and is poised to recognize the Carranza government.
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