Navy critique calls for stronger Panama canal defenses
An official Navy department critique from a Panama Canal study urges specific defenses. It highlights weaknesses in canal defenses, need for air and sea coordination, faster fleet speeds, scouting cruisers, destroyer leaders, and sustained 12 knot submarine and auxiliary speeds. It also recommends more maneuvers and studying bases within striking distance of the canal.
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Ashington
Panama
Panama Canal
Coast Defense Artillers
Miraflores
Trenties
Pacific Naval Shore Stations Drive Massive Base Plans
The Navy approves a Pacific focused shore station program led by Acting Secretary Roosevelt. It earmarks 111 million of 155 million total base funding for Honolulu, San Francisco, Puget Sound, Canal Zone, and San Diego with Pearl Harbor singled out for rapid development. Additional air station funds cover Hawaii with long term installments. Atlantic entries include New York and Boston bases. Great Lakes depot for personnel replacement authorized at 3 million.
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Pacific
Navy Department
Naval Board
Navy
Roosevelt
Department
Naval Base
Honolulu
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Canal Zone
San Diego
Philippines
Guam
Samoa
Bawaii
Pearl Harbor
Naval Air Stations
Atlantic
Gulf
Willard
New York
Chesapeake Bay
Boston
Key West
Darel Base
Charleston
9. C
Great Lakes
Strong-Voiced Senators Stir Debates in Northern Press
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that a new wave of powerful orators will join the Senate this December. It recalls historic firebrands like Joe Foraker and Hiram Jolson, noting the era of bold speaking may return with Magnavox Johnson and Widman Brookhart among the newcomers.
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Senate
Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dispatch
Joe Foraker
Ohio
Hiram Jolson
California
Magnavox Johnson
Minnesota
Widman" Brookhart
New Wave Senators Arrive With La Follette For New Deal
The Next December of Town and new allies join fighting Bob La Follette in Wisconsin as fresh senators enter the scene to rattle government procedure. Their aim is to stir dust in the senate and demand a bold new deal, challenging old order. The era shifts from the millionaire controlled senate to a more muscular, reform minded assembly.
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Bob” LaFollette
Wisconal
la Follette
Senate
Millionaires’ Club
Senate Known To Blareng Alonzo Hanna
Boles Penrose
Unpublished Washington Letter Found in Old Records
A long lost George Washington letter about Cornwallis’s surrender surfaced from old House records and was declassified by Secretary Weeks. Addressed to Robert W. Vareus, the missive from Mount Vernon dated November 19, 1781, discusses war policy, potential peace, and concerns over European influence, ending with Washington’s formal sign-off to Robert H. Darri.
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George Washington
Carn- Wallis
Weeks
House of
William Tyler Page
House
Robert W. Vareus
Miei
Washington
Mount Vernon
York
Philadelphia
Annapolis
Dod Draper
Portobacco West
Prisoner Knight Claims Jail Break Feat in Houston
In Houston Tom P. Knight alias Hirschel Long says no jail can hold him after escaping from the city's $150,000 jail. He describes a Houdini like escape from three doors and four-story descent, then criticizes the jail as unready for him. Knight denies help from others and defends his defiance of captivity.
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Houston
Tex
Tom P. Knight
Hirschel Long
Knight
Houdini
Knight claims jail escapes and lock picking skills
Knight declares he can walk out of any jail and describes opening three locks in four minutes. He taunts Houston police, says he will stay without legal counsel if denied, and wagers that his lock picking won’t free him again. Tom Goodson and officers challenge his boast.
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Knight
Fort Worth
Belleville
Tom Goodson
Houston
Man Loses Leg in Chase After Beggar on Train
Willis Preston of South Bend Indiana chased a beggar who stole twenty dollars from him. A hitchhiking hobo asked for change, Preston handed over a twenty dollar bill, then pursued the thief as they boarded a moving train. Preston fell and a wheel severed his right leg. the stranger escaped.
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Lin
Willis Preston
South Bend
Ind
Preston
Three Couples Abduct Bride in Chicago Vehicle Ride
Mrs Kush, a newlywed, was abducted by three men and three women after being invited for a theater ride with her husband. The trio and its partners forcibly removed Mr Kush from the car and fled, taking the bride and leaving the couple separated.
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Chicago
Caraling Kush
Leap to Coal Car Saves Two Near Fostorld
A man leaped toward a coal car and carried two companions from a crashing automobile after a train struck near here. Clyde Tyson and D R Dyer were aboard when the collision occurred. Tyson gripped Dyer with one arm, then pulled himself and his companion to the car step for safety.
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Fostorld
Coal Car
Clyde Tyson
D. R. Dyer
Tyson
Dyer
Back Broken Twice Boy Cheers Mother's Hope
New York. Benjamin Zareckl, a 15 year old with a double spinal fracture, has been patient at St Vincent's hospital for nine days. His mother, Polish and tearful, says doctors doubt recovery yet the boy clings to life to spare her grief. He dove into four feet of water at South Beach July 2. Dr. Daniel F. MacGuire warns diving in shallow water is preventable and cites sixty similar fatal cases in poor families.
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New York
Benjamin Zareckl
Vincent'a Hospital
West New Brighton
Benjamin
South Beach
Daniel F. MacGuire
Brooklyn Man Fined Ten Dollars For Rubber Plant Affection
In Bridge Plaza Hall of Justice George Martin was fined ten dollars and sentenced to ten days in jail for petit larceny after police removed a rubber plant he cherished from its owner Mrs Emma McSaveny of Brooklyn. She declined to prosecute, stating her plant had been returned. The case notes Martin's intoxication and ludicrous claims about his attachment, with humor highlighting his elastic heart and unusual romance.
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New York
Brooklyn
George Martin
Martin
Short
Bridge Plaza
Hall of Justice
Couple Survive Four Death-Defying Falls in Bronx Crash
Mr and Mrs Allen Wallace escaped a fatal sequence after their coupe was struck from behind by a water bus on a Grand Concourse bridge in the Bronx. The car plummeted 25 feet through an iron fence entangled in live trolley wires, amid flames, then landed on tracks as a trolley car neared. They emerged uninjured.
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New York
Allen Wallace
Grand Concourse
Bronx
Sommersack
Bus Square
Mrs. Wallace
Cincinnati Dog Terrorizes Then Drowns In Basin
A rabies suspected dog terrorized the Fairview Heights neighborhood before leaping into an open catch basin and drowning in six feet of water. Police log the incident as a suicide. Neighbors and pedestrians report near-bites as the dog roamed the area. Lieutenant Ringer searched the scene and found only air bubbles when the basin lid was removed.
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Cincinnati
Fairview Heights
Ringer
Farmer Killed by Passenger Train in Mobile Alabama
Wilkes D. De haza, a farmer, was killed near Mobile while en route to the railroad station to obtain medicine for his dying wife. He was struck by a passenger train. The incident occurred as he attempted to cross near the tracks, causing authorities to investigate the accident.
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Mobile
Ala
Wilkes D. De@haza
Dog Chase Costs 960000 In Glasgow Garage Fire
In Glasgow Scotland a dog chased a cat inciting a fire in a garage. The incident cost 960000 dollars, destroying 12 motor cars and much of the garage after the dog toppled a lamp.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Miss Louise Wella Re-elected Leader Of Women Overseas Service
Miss Louise Wella of Chicago was re elected president of the Women s Overseas Service league known as the Little sister of the American Legion to foster closer cooperation with the Legion. The league includes Army and Red Cross nurses Salvation Army ladies Y camp girls canteen workers librarians and entertainers who aided American troops in France. Many faced gas attacks wounds trench fever and influenza with over 150 dying. Wella entered service from Los Angeles and is daughter of Arthur G Wells vice president of the Santa Fe railroad. She served at Camp Upton and overseas in France as a canteen worker and entertainer.
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Louise Wella
Chicago
Women's Overseas Service League
Ametican Legion
Legion
Army
Red Cross
Salvation ‘Army
Y' Gila
Pignal Corps
Miss Wella
Los Angeles
Arthur G. Wells
Banta He
Camp Upton
Glenoble
Allevard-Les-Balnag
Lyon
League
Inter
Charles D. Dawes
France
John G. Emery
Grand Rapids
Mich
Memorial plans honor Herman Davis World War hero Arkansas
Arkansas American Legion members back plans for Herman Davis Memorial Foundation. They seek a monument at Manila and another at the State War Memorial building in Little Rock, plus a Herman Davis Scholarship at the University of Arkansas and a Herman Davis Memorial Highway through Mississippi County. Davis, fourth in Pershing’s list, was humble and returned home after serving.
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Arkansas
American Legion
Herman Davis
Manila
Ark
Little Rock
University of Arkansas
Mississippi County
Generil Pershing
Davin
Legion urged to establish post in Edmonda town
Frederick Graham, World War I and Spanish-American War veteran, urges Edmonda Washington to form a local American Legion post. He notes the town lacks a post due to few ex servicemen and says the Legion can aid disabled veterans. Graham cannot lead the effort due to his poor health and is receiving care from the veterans bureau.
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American Legion
Legion
Frederick Graham
Edmonda
Wash
Graham
The
Veteran’ Bureau
Nilsonne Hadeen
Mayor’s Surprising Bathing Pool Dedication in Grimsby
The mayor of Grimsby in England staged an unusual dedication for the new bathing pool. He removed his hat frock coat vest trousers skirt shoes and socks and swam in the pool, drawing cheers as he surfaced spluttering.
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English Town
Grimsby
Lincolnghira
Englnd
Unproductive Labor as Jud Tunking’s Hired Man Laments
A quirky note describes Jud Tunking’s hired man growing obsessed with politics, causing much of his work to become guesswork and unproductive.
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Senat
Sle
Cornwallis
Veltaln
Man
Mies Loujés
Welle
Chicagoite
Women's Service League
Miss Louise Walls
Arkansas Legion
Mothess
Lloyd Mig
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