Lansing Says Feed Foe To Save World In Allied Victory
Paris report records Secretary of State Lansing urging that Germany be fed and allowed to sell goods abroad to prevent Bolshevism, arguing famine and disorder threaten Europe. He lauds Allied victory, warns against vengeance, and calls for a peace treaty enabling food imports and industrial restoration to avert chaos.
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Interallied Press Club
Germany
France
United States
Russia
America
Earl Curzon Warns Against Vengeance and Demands Peace
Earl Curzon cautions that revenge would warp judgment and warns against feeding Germany. He argues for peace through common sense, stressing dangers if reason is ignored and urging a restrained, principled approach over punitive retribution.
Plot to brand I W W as Bolsheviks targets U S trial
Wichita March 13 evidence will be offered by federal prosecutor Fred Robertson at the trial of 32 I W W members for espionage act violations. He intends to prove a vast plan to upend government and spark a world revolution linking the Soviet regime to the I W W in America, with a route from Seattle to Oklahoma and the Atlantic seaboard, using strikes and sabotage.
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Wichita
Kan
Fred Robertson
Robertson
America
Russia
Trotzky
United States
Seattle
Kansas
Oklahoma
Atlantic Seaboard
New Men for Merit Board Appointed by Wilson
Washington March 13 Martin A Morrison of Indiana and George R Wales of Vermont were named to the civil service commission by President Wilson to replace John A McTihenny and Hermon W Craven who resigned. Morrison a Democrat served in the House from 1909 to 1917 and hails from Frankfort Indiana Wales a Republican has been with the commission since 1891 and was chief examiner for nine years.
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Martin A. Morrison
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George R. Wales
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Civil Service Commission
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Hermon W. Craven
White House
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House of Representatives
Frankfort
Wales
End Double Cable Censoring Abolished in Pact
Washington reports that double censorship of cablegrams is abolished under a treaty between the United States and Great Britain. The agreement, made public, ends the practice and signals a change in wartime or diplomatic communications policy.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Berlin Spartacists Surrender as Reds Roil Europe
Berlin reports say the Spartacists unconditionally surrendered to the government with arms handed in after days of fighting. Elsewhere in the Ruhr and Silesia 20,000 miners idle, Spartacan bands clash with troops, and martial law is proclaimed in parts of West Prussia amid growing revolts. Women carried severed heads in Berlin streets as violence surged.
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Rhine
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Samburg
Lichtenberg
Russia
Frankfort
Anzeiger
Beuthen
Silesia
Reubhen
Graudenz
Briesen
Kulm
Thorn
Strassburg
West Prussia
Auto Bandits Fail in Chicago Bank Holdup
Chicago March 13 four automobile bandits tried a daring hold up at Metropolitan Bank but were repulsed after a revolver battle. The bank opened for business as the attempt began. Bank employees fired, two armed men entered and ordered hands up, many thousands were being removed from the vaults, and cashier Wm Bigel and an unidentified woman were wounded.
Railroad shopmen press wage increase claim
Spokesmen for about 500000 railroad shop employees urged the railway w ages and working conditions board to raise the basic rate from 68 cents to 85 cents per hour. They noted shipyards pay 85 cents to machinists and other shop workers and that top workers were drawn from railroad shops despite generally last year’s increases.
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Washington
Board of Railway
Jack Johnson alleges Willard fight was fixed
In Havana on March 13 Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, signed a statement claiming his 1915 defeat to Jess Willard was a staged affair. He says the bout was pre arranged to let Willard win.
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Willard
Havana
Cuba
Jess Willard
Johnson
U. S. Soldier Weds Countess in War Romance
Sergeant James Leroy Carson of Chicago married Countess Madeline de Bessirard de la Touche in Paris after meeting during his convalescence from a gas attack. The couple wed February 1 and returned to the United States aboard the ship home.
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New York
Rostance
Serget
James Leroy Carson
Kenwood Avenue
Chicago
France
Madeline de Bessirard de la Touche
Sergeant Carson
Paris
Carson
United States
New 194 Gun Outclasses 155 mm in Power
Troy March 12 United States government orders two 194 caliber guns from Watervliet arsenal to supersede the 155 millimeter. The eight inch diameter gun weighs 12 tons, is 21 feet 6 inches long, fires a 175 pound projectile, and has a ten mile range. It is described as the most powerful weapon of its size.
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Troy
N. Y
United States
Wuaterviier Arsenal
Uncle Sam Umpires Europe in Diplomatic League
Paris March 13. Odium falls on Uncle Sam as he calls strikes and balls in the Peace Makers league’s European chess match over Fiume Dalmatia Banat Temesyar and other hotspots. Roumanians Poles Belgians French and Serbians critique his calls while he guards lunch counters banana stands and peanut privileges amid tense protests.
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Peace Makers’ League
Sam
Italy
Fiume
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Banat of
Temesyar
Samuel
Danube
Serbia
Belgrade
Dansig
Belgium
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Scheldt
France
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Rhine
Vatty
Bild
Homeward Hope of 300 Troops Cited in Halifax Row
Halifax reports threats by 300 British army enlistments in the United States to sink the transport Toloa unless towed to land and sent to the United States by rail. The Tolon, after landing Canadian troops, sailed for New York but was ordered back to coal for the voyage to England as a harbor strike in New York paused the trip. Captain Jackson said he had no guns and was at the mercy of the soldiers. Ottawa refused to fund transport to U.S. homes. those with funds could land under migration rules.
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Jackson
New York
England
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Canada
US Solves Rail Tangle With Federal Warrants Plan
Washington reports that the railroad administration may issue federal warrants as collateral for loans to railroads due to Congress not enacting the railroad appropriation. Director General Hines discussed the plan after talks with railroad executives and officials. An estimated 701,697,602 dollars would be needed by June 30, 1919.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Congress
Hines
Kantor Held for Fraud in Federal Grand Jury
John Martin Kantor, longtime political lieutenant of Mayor Thompson and former city real estate expert, was held to the federal grand jury in $380,000 bond by Judge Landis on charges of perjury and using the mails to defraud. He served as Consumers' Packing stock sales manager amid an ongoing probe.
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Chicago
John Martin Kantor
Thompson
Landis
Consumers’ Packing Company
Kantor
Unemployed Decline Reported Across Nation
Washington on March 12 the United States employment service announced a drop in unemployed numbers the first since the armistice. About 856 560 were out of work a reduction of 8 880 from the previous week. Conditions improved fastest in the Middle West as labor markets moved toward normal.
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Washington
United States Employment Service
Middle West
Troop laden Nansemond reaches Newport News port
The transport Nansemond arrived from St Nazaire with 5,500 troops aboard. Among the units were the Fifty-sixth engineers formed to detect night air raids, the Seventy-fourth engineers, Fifty-third coast artillery and the Fifty-fifth ammunition train.
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Nansemond
St. Nazaire
Fifty-sixth Engineers
Seventy-fourth Engineers
Fifty-third Coast Artillery
Fifty-fifth
Wives Appeal From Vladivostok Zemstvo Arrests
Wives and relatives of leading zemstvo members arrested on orders from Omsk appeal to American army headquarters in Vladivostok. They fear for prisoners' safety amid rumors of possible Bolshevik disturbance. Charges cite activity against the government. Arrests made by Colonel Sutenko under General Ivanoff-Rinoff in the Kolchak government forces in the Far East.
Dirigible to Try Ocean Trip From Newfoundland
Albert J. Perry naval aviator announced in Spokane that he has orders to report at Cape May as chief engineer of a dirigible balloon. The craft is planned to attempt an Atlantic crossing under government direction, starting from Newfoundland next month to reach Queens town after endurances tests showed feasibility.
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Wash
Albert J. Perry
Cape May
N. J
Atlantic Ocean
Tle
Perry
Newfoundland
Queenstown
Resolution Seeks U S Supreme Court Ruling on Prohibition Amendment
Providence March 13 A resolution in the general assembly asks the U S Supreme Court to quickly decide the constitutionality of the federal prohibition amendment The measure notes two Rhode Island legislatures refused to ratify and urges the attorney general to seek a final determination on Congress action proposing the amendment to the status.
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Supreme Court of the United States
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