Bolshevik Leadership Faces Pressure Over Peace Terms
Reports from Petrograd and Moscow state Bolshevik leaders consider evacuation and a shift to interior strongholds as the All-Russian Congress of Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates nears. Lenine and Trotzky face pressure to resign if peace terms are rejected, with German offenses and Allied aid shaping the political crisis.
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Petrograd
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Europe
Asia
Congress of Workmen's and
Lenine
Trotzky
Bolsheviks
Germany
Congress
Tredwell
Raymond Robins
Permanent
Red Cross Commission
United States silent on Siberia action views via Britain
Washington reports no US written communication to Japan on Siberia action. The United States remains noncommittal, with Britain as intermediary relaying Japan’s views. Japan may seek Moscow input if action proceeds, as US weighs moral effects and necessity.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Siberia
Russia
Great Britain
Armenia Beached and Torpedoed Off British Coast
The American steamship Armenia, formerly a German merchantman, was torpedoed by a German submarine and beached along the British coast. Its crew arrived at a port today, confirming the February 9 attack and relating it followed Secretary Daniels publicizing a similar incident weeks earlier.
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Daniels
Honor Class Prisoners Hear Reform Lecturer
About 25 to 60 honor class prisoners at the North Carolina state penitentiary will be paroled for several hours tonight to hear Mrs Maude Ballington Booth of New York speak on Out of the Shadow at the North Carolina conference for social service in Raleigh. No guards will accompany them and they will return after the address in uniform.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State Penitentiary
Maude Ballington Booth
New York
North Carolina Conference For Social Service
City Auditorium
John R. Collie
Furniture makers agree to government work help city growth
In High Point the local furniture manufacturers approve taking government work, promising steady year round employment, six hour weeks, Saturday half days, and earlier plant starts to fit daylight saving. Workers welcome the move as it will attract labor, ease housing needs, and bolster business conditions, driven by patriotism over profits.
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High Point
Sear Roebuck Faces FTC Complaint Over Sugar Ads
Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the Sear Roebuck company of Chicago alleging unfair methods to suppress competition. It claims sugar was advertised at three to four cents a pound at a loss, conditioning on purchases of other groceries, and catalogs misrepresenting competitors' merchandise as inferior to gain monopoly power. A hearing is scheduled for April.
Merchants Campaign Prompts Faster Payments in War Time
A High Point merchant reports sharp gains in collections due to a merchants association drive urging credit customers to pay promptly. He says creditors face short terms and that no one will lose credit when the resolution takes effect on April 10, noting cooperation from the public.
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High Point
Merchants’ Association
Hog Raising and More Planting Club Formed in High Point
A mass meeting of negro citizens at Fairview Street School organized a Hog Raising and More Planting club. Rev Z Simmons C V Robinson and others spoke. Prof Ossie Davis elected president. The plan aims to cut living costs by home food production and aid allies by diverting surplus for troops.
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Fairview Street
Club
French theft charge ties to Franco contracts
Washington march 6 on a warrant sworn by Counsellor Bergeson of the French embassy Frank J Goldsall formerly a private in the French army was arrested here charged with larceny of three to six million dollars from the French government through truck and automobile contracts federal authorities were asked to return him to France
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Washington
Bergeson
Frank J. Goldsall
Legislature Deadlock Over Censoring Senator La Follette
Madison March 6. The Wisconsin lower house worked through the night without a vote on a resolution to censure Senator La Follette for his war stance. At 7:50 a.m. the deadlock remained, a breakfast pact failed, and members slept at their desks amid coffee and sandwiches. Later the same day the assembly passed a resolution condemning La Follette 52 to 32.
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la Follette
Madison, Wis
Lalollete
Donnelly
Madison
Wis
LeVollette
State Assembly
Prohibition Party Debates Merger Amid Heckling Noise
Chicago March 6 Frequent heckling interrupted the thirteenth national convention of the Prohibition party as delegates opened a special session to decide a merger with the new national party. Edwin Worrell Illinois led opposition while shifting positions and Samuel Gompers was invoked in remarks by George Harger and Baron Rockwood amid merger talk.
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National Party
Edwin Worrell
Illinois
Worrell
George Harger
New York
Samuel (Romper
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Gompers
Baron Rockwood
Michigan
Gomp
Concern Secures Larger Quarters in Baltimore Branch
C. E. Davenport manager of the Southern Rome company branch in Baltimore has leased the corner building at Fast Commerce street and Ashboro railroad, moving offices to the lower floor and show rooms to the second floor. J. W. Brown assists Davenport and plans most travel. In France and Italy, fighting fronts show little activity beyond artillery, with no further details of the Lorraine repulsion.
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Southern Rome Company
Baltimore
America
France
Italy
Lorraine
City Council Delays Paving Amid Bond Market Woes
Delegations push for paving on Parkway Steele Street Lindsay Street and West High but city manager cites bond constraints. Talks reveal High Point’s bonded debt around 4755,000 plus street costs depleting funds, delaying further paving until bonds are secured and Centennial Montley and West Broad complete. Williamson says Montley Avenue work can finish by mid April with terra cotta base and five year guarantee. Debt and government approval remain barriers to full program.
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High Point
Broad Street
Murphy
Monthew
Centennial
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Montley Avenue
A. R. Williamson
Lassiter Company
Williamson
Roeland Park Company
Brantley Circle
Ambulance man Riess hopes to return to front in France
Byron H. Riess of Mast Orange New Jersey, a former American Ambulance worker in France now with the American Red Cross in France, is on a short furlough in the United States and wants to return to the front to "act natural" again.
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Byron H. Riess
Mast Orange
N. J
American Ambulance
France
American Red Cross
Riess
States
Fosdick Commission Seeks Funds for Soldiers Camps
The Fosdick commission, led by W. T. Parker, launches a nationwide campaign to raise funds and recruit workers to improve camp surroundings and enforce liquor restrictions within five miles of training camps. High Point receives a 1500 dollar allotment to support canvassing with Parker naming assistants soon.
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Fosdick
Fosdick Iousas
High Point
W. T. Parker
Parker
Knights of Columbus
Salvation Army
France
Noted Irish Nationalist Leader Redmond Dies
London March 6 John Redmond Irish nationalist leader died this morning from heart failure after an operation. Born 1851 he led the Irish struggle for home rule for decades and steered the Irish party through Parnell's crisis. He sought unity and a constitutional path, influencing the formation of the Irish convention.
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John KE. Redmond
John J. Redmond
Ireland
Liberty
Trish
W. A. Redmond
Wexford
Tre
Jean FR. Redmond
New Ross
Redmond
House of Commons
North Wexford
Waterford
Submarine menace grows in Mediterranean say Japanese official
An Atlantic Port reports Captain Sato Yamamoto of the Japanese navy, newly attached to Japan’s Rome embassy, arrives in America from England aboard an American ship and warns the submarine warfare in the Mediterranean is far more serious than most realize.
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Mediterranean
Sato Yamamoto
Rome
England
Bandits Kill Two in Covington Saloon Robbery
Covington and Newport police joined Cincinnati officers in a riverfront search for a third member of a gang that held up a Covington Neight-Ward Building association meeting at J. B. Haack saloon. Two directors, Andrew Nerdmeyer and John Rehm, were killed. Chief Kleumper wounded one culprit before a bandit died. Suspect Pat Kearney and Edward Wellman were arrested after Vernon Corbin identified them. Corbin aided by a chauffeur, claiming the trio fled the scene.
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Covington
Kleumper
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Nordmeyer
Edward Wellman
Cincinnati
Vernon Corbin
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Corbin
J. B. Haack
Covietigton
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