Controversy Over Emergency Addresses in War Casualty Lists
War Department bans including emergency addresses in public casualty lists while Creel committee fights for full identifying details. General March orders censorship limits to names and ranks causing a clash with the press division. Pershing objected to revealing dates and wound details, with White House intervention possible.
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Washington
War Department
Committee On Public Information
George Crel
General March
Creel Committee
White House
Creel
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Pershing
Me‘Onin
Army
Administration Wins First Test Of Overman Bill In Senate
Washington March 8 The administration forces in the senate judiciary committee won a victory on the Overman bill granting the president power to reorganize the war government. By a 10 to 7 vote the committee rejected a motion to call cabinet members for statements of their views on the proposal.
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Washington
Overman
Senate Judiciary Committee
Pass Bill to Aid War Industry Fund Approved
Washington March 8 The administration bill to create a war finance corporation with a fund of 4.5 billion dollars to aid war industry was passed by the senate and now goes to the house.
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War Finance Corporation
Senate
Washington
Administration
House
Austria Sees Wilson Peace Plan as Possible Basis for Talks
New York report says Austrian and German papers discuss Wilson's fourteen peace conditions as a basis for negotiations. Austrian deputies warn against rejection of the proposals, noting a gap between political and military views. A Polish deputy argues Germany relied on Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey to stave off defeat.
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New York
Wilson
Congress
Austria-Hungary
Teuton
Germany
Austria
Mostrin
House of Deputies
Bulgaria
Turkey
Gun Factory Worker Arrested on Larceny Charge
Washington reports Oswald Robert Kuehne a gun division ordnance department checker arrested on larceny charges after secret war data and munition output charts were found in his belongings. District Attorney Laskey said he was in custody pending probe of enemy links. Kuehne born in Germany has worked for the war department since September.
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Washington
Oswald Robert Kuehne
Ordnance Department
War Department
Laskey
Kuehne
Philadelphia
Germany
Du Bois Nominated to U S Ordnance Board
Washington March 8 Fred Z Du Bois of Idaho was nominated by President Wilson to be civilian member of the board of ordnance and fortification.
Washington Officials Foresee Sea Victory by June
Officials in Washington say Allied and American forces destroyed more U boats in December than Germany built that month. They expect a steady decline in U boat numbers through spring as anti submarine efforts grow stronger and new destroyers and patrol vessels join the fleet. Officials caution no sudden drop in losses is due, with August viewed as the date when U boats are clearly overcome, maybe by May or June.
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Washington
Germany
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
Sr Erie
United States
Navy
Sims
America
U S May Condemn Sites For Muscle Shoals Plant
Land owners ask prices the government is unwilling to pay for the nitrate plant sites at Muscle Shoals. The Senate passed Senator Underwood's bill authorizing the government to buy the site at condemnation price and any other sites needed for military purposes.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
Senate
Underwood
Germans Renew Verdun Assaults and Allied Replies
Paris report states German raids on Verdun were repulsed by French forces with heavy artillery fighting near Cormicey Reims Avecourt wood and hill 844. Three German airplanes downed by French pilots and two by antiaircraft guns. British raids repulsed near Epehy and Bois Grenier Neuve Chapelle sector. Italian guns shell Teutons with reciprocal firing and Italian airship work noted. Major General Peyton March photographed after becoming assistant chief of staff in Washington.
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Paris
Verdun Front
War Office
Cormicey
Reims
Avecourt Wood
Avecourt
Douamont
Lorraine
Alsace
Lake Dolhan
Cernu Bend
Monastir
London
Epehy
Bois Grenier
Poelenpelle
Scarpe
Lens
Ypres
Neuve Chapelle
Teutons
Rome
Peyton
March
Washington
War Department
General Biddle
Geting
General Bliss
General March
U S to Make Rail Purchases Announced
Director General McAdoo announced that railroad purchases this year totaling between 81 billion and 2 billion dollars will be made through the railroad administration with a central advisory committee of three railway purchasing agents. Regional divisory committees will be created for the eastern western and southern districts.
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Washington, March & Railroad
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Eleven Dead as German Air Raid Strikes London
London reports eleven killed and 46 injured in a German air raid Thursday night. Seven or eight enemy planes reached the city, with bombs dropped in northwest, southwest and northern districts, demolishing several houses as defense forces repelled other raiders.
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London
French
Home Defense Forces
Thames
Essex
England
Senate approves sale of German property in United States
The Senate appropriations committee, at the administration’s request, voted to add a billion dollar urgent deficiency bill authorizing A. Mitchell Palmer custodian of alien Property to sell all German owned property under his jurisdiction to divorce German interests from U S ownership.
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Washington
March
Senate Appropriations Committee
United States
A. Mitchell Palmer
Speaker Clark Celebrates 68th Birthday in Washington
Speaker Clark turned sixty eight Thursday and received widespread birthday wishes. He attended a luncheon hosted by the Missouri delegation and other friends congratulated him.
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Missouri
Washington
Clark
Fire Rips Through Huntley Manufacturing Plant
A major fire destroyed the Huntley Manufacturing Company main building in Tillsonburg Ontario causing an estimated loss of several hundred thousand dollars. Machinery tools and elevator equipment were destroyed by the blaze.
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Tillsonburg
Ont
Mareh
Huntley Manufacturing Company
Liquid fire hits the U S line on the Lorraine front
American troops northwest of Toul in the St Mihiel sector repulsed a liquid fire attack and drove off a German patrol of 40 men. Lieutenant Joseph L Canby of Chicago risked his life to rescue a wounded German prisoner for interrogation, claiming prisoners were needed.
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Toul
London
St. Mihiel
Lorraine Front
France
Joseph L. Canby
His Avenue
Chicago
Clemenceau
Canby
Germans Hange 200 Russians in Yurief War atrocity
Report from Smolny Institute says 200 Russian refugees were shot and hanged by Germans at Yurief. Women and children’s bodies were thrown into a river. Trotsky urged German and Estonian officials to halt further hostilities and warned that Axis reprisals could target hostages near Pskoff.
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Petrograd
Yurief
Pathonia
Smolny Institute
Trotzky
Gerah
Pskoff
Food Riot in Christiania Reported by Telegraph
Rioting occurred in Christiania on Thursday with baker and butcher shops looted and crowds gathered before the meat building. Press dispatches reaching Copenhagen via the Exchange Telegraph note arrests were made.
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Tannvnen
Thurs
Christiania
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
War Contract Workers Strike at Lourie Plant in Springfield
Unorganized workers number 50 employed on war contracts walked off the Lourie Manufacturing plant in Springfield on March 8. They demanded higher wages and shorter hours.
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Springfield
Lourie Manufacturing Company
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Tuan
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