Navy Hesitated to Send Fleet Over Warned by Admiral
Admiral Sims testified before a senate committee that the Navy delayed sending all available ships to European waters early in the war to preserve the main fleet. He cited a July cable stating small vessels were only then realizing a broader war required action, with policy tying cooperation to US defense and postwar position.
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Washington
Navy Department
Senate
Department
United States
Sims
Quick Action by Wife Saves Home From Fire
Mrs. H. C. Poole of 1007 East Green Street avoided disaster when hot ashes in a wooden box on her porch ignited a blaze. She hurried to fetch water after discovering flames at the back door and extinguished the fire without an alarm. She urged others to never place hot ashes in wooden boxes again.
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H. C. Poole
East Green Street
Police Seek Tire Thieves Linked to Garage Robbery
High Point police aided by investigators seek suspects after the Wilson Motor Company garage in Randleman was entered last night. The thieves took a large number of automobile tires and supplies. A speeding car was chased through the city at 1:30 am with gunfire reported but no hits. Chief Welch suspects the theft crew occupied the getaway vehicle.
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High Point
Wilson Motor Company
Randleman
Welch
Cotton Futures Open Firm On March Growth Outlook
New York cotton prices rallied in early trading with March at 39.64, May 36.63, July 33.80, October 31.45, and December 30.68. Firmer tones reflected unfavourable weather and strong demand from trade and commission houses as new crop months drew support. Liverpool futures opened lower on sterling strength but turned firmer before local opening, with early prices up 5 to 32 points.
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New York
Trade and Commission House
Mrs Wilson Acknowledged As First Lady Of The Land
Washington reports Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president, as the real private secretary and buffer for the chief executive. She dictated, screened visitors, and handled messages, easing the president’s burden during illness and national duties, with Ta policy and public duties pursued through her aid.
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William Philip Simms
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Wilson
Admiral Grayson
White House
Mrs. Wilson
John Barton Payne
Interior
Benson
Payne
Shipping Board
Joe
League of Nations
Boy Exonerated in Fatal Defense in Georgia
Rising Fawn Georgia March 11 Green Evans seventeen killed Jay G Cantrell when Cantrell attacked his mother intoxicated Evans fired a pistol striking Cantrell the shooting occurred as the boy’s father aided his wife with pneumonia in bed nearby The case ruled exonerated under defense of family claim
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Rising Fawn
Green Evans
Jay G. Cantrell
Evans
Cantrell
Boys As Robbers In Louisville Heist Ring
Louisville police say 10 young boys captured are believed to be the perpetrators of more than 300 robberies in the city over recent weeks. The arrests mark a major breakthrough in a spree that challenged local crime prevention efforts.
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Louisville
Bond issue warning from Secretary Houston
Secretary Houston warned the house Ways and Means Committee that a 2.5 billion dollar bond issue to pay adjusted compensation to former service members could bring disaster. He urged higher taxes as the least harmful aid, but said such expenditures would face a serious challenge amid an not critical economy.
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Washington
Houston
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Labor names men to railroad wage board selections
Labor nominations to the railroad labor board were submitted. The board will include three from unions, three from railroad executives, and three to represent the public. The shop crafts group named two men A. O. Whrvyan and B. M. Jewell though names were not publicly released.
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Washington
Railroad Labor Board
Wage Board of Appeal
Shop Crafts
A. O. Whrvyan
Labor Employes Department
American Federation of Labor
B. M. Jewell
Negro Slayer Executed in Eddyville for Geneva Hardman Killing
Petre Timbrough alias Will Lockett was executed in the electric chair in Eddyville for the slaying of Geneva Hardman and confessed to killing four other women. Two Hardman relatives witnessed the execution. he remained silent as he was taken from his cell. He prayed and sang hymns during the night and said he was ready to die and prayed for the little girl he killed.
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Eddyville
Petre Timbrough
Will Lockett
Geneva Hardman
Hardman
Kress Store at Twin City Burns
Winston Salem March 11 An estimated loss of 145000 dollars was entailed by the burning of the two story brick building occupied by 38 H Kress and company here today Losses sustained by other merchants will total 15000 dollars
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Winston-Salem
H. Kress and Company
Cellars of Country Estates Stocked Before Ruling Lenox
Berkshire's Lenox residents keep well stocked cellars in the millionaire belt despite an Internal Revenue Bureau ruling against moving liquor from city to country homes. A New York man reportedly stored about 30000 dollars worth in Stockbridge. The carload consignment arrived before January 17, 1920. No drought has marred the era of brilliant dinners here.
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Lenox
Mass
Internal Revenue Bureau
Berkshire
New York
Stockbridge
Berkshires
Express
Villa kidnaps Americans to converse with bandits
Washington reports Villa promises safe, respectful treatment to American kidnap victims as he seeks conversational exchanges with represented Americans aboard his trail. The note says guests will be treated with consideration, returned unharmed, and that others may be brought in, urging no fear of ransom or injury.
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Villa
Washington
Veneer Plant Fire Wipes Out Baltimore Warehouse
Fire of undetermined origin early today destroyed the Williamson Veneer Co. warehouse at 400 Tomlinson street, Baltimore, with an estimated loss of 50 000 and insured value undetermined. A carload of goods from Union Furniture stored there also perished, valued at 10 000. The frame building, worth 5 000, burned completely, with 36 000 in stored caners and the firm planning to operate at Alma Furniture plant until reconstruction.
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Williamson Veneer Company
Baltimore
Union Furniture Company
Tomlinson Street
Alma Furniture
Coal famine threatens South Carolina industry
Columbia March 11. South Carolina faces a serious coal shortage with a large local industry already forced to close. railroads are shipping coal through Columbia to Charleston for export, and export contracts are reportedly given priority.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Charleston
Millionaire Farmers Plan To Do Less Farming
Berkshire millionaires including Charles S. Mellen plan to cut farming activity this year. John Alden Speer orders Blythewood Farms to halt flower gardens and reduce vegetable acreage by two thirds. Speers expect Alaska summer. Postwar labor scarcity leads to fewer employees on estates including those of Mrs Williams Sloane Mrs Raymond T Baker and others.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Charles S. Mellen
Berkshire
John Alden Speer
Chicago
John Bucklen
Blythewood Farms
Alaska
Girl Survives Three-Story Snowpile Drop
Fourteen year-old Marie Risoldi fell twenty-five feet from a third-floor window into a snowpile. She escaped with only scratches and contusions and spent the rest of the afternoon in a front room cot smiling and joking.
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Boston
Marie Risoldi
Marie
Osage Indians Receive $1000 Monthly Allotments
Paull Pawhuska Oklahoma notices February payments totaling $1,000 for each of 2,225 Osage on the roll. January allotments were also $1,000. The funds come from bonuses on Osage land gas and oil leases.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Osages
Rail payroll cut hits 1420 as railroads return to private control
Washington march 11 four teen hundred and twenty employees were dropped from the government payroll when the railroads were turned back to private ownership. Director General Hines announced another major cut will follow when conditions permit.
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Washington
Hines
Decrease of Taxes Declared Impossible by Treasury
Secretary Houston told the House Ways and Means Committee that immediate tax cuts are impossible. He cited McAdoo’s bond plan and warned European spending by credit worsened costs, calling for retracing steps to lower living expenses.
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Washington
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Houston
House Wars and Means Committee
Treasury
Fordney
Recruiter orders one year enlistments in quartermaster unit
Corporal B A Richards in charge of the local army recruiting station received war department orders to accept recruits for one year enlistments in the quartermaster construction department. He notes three service branches offer one year terms including the engineering corps and field artillery. He expects to sign up many High Pointers before transfer.
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B. A. Richards
War Department
Quartermaster Construction Department
Richards
Engieering Corps
Field Artillery
Koenigsdorfs Eggs Start Panic in Court
In Kansas City on March 11 Horace Johnson, complainant, against RB Koenigsdorf, grocer, tested a witness by attempting to break an eye. A miniature panic erupted as a bailiff removed eggs. Koenigsdorf fined $100 after Johnson bought a dozen eggs and found eight bad. Koenigsdorf refused refund and was arrested.
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Koenigsdorf
Kansas City
Horace Johnson
RB. K. Koenigsdorf
South Municipal Court
Johnson
Jumps 25 Feet: Teenager Escapes Detention Home
Paul Brown sixteen staged a successful break for liberty from the Greene County Detention Home in Joplin Missouri. He crawled through a second floor window and jumped to the ground suffering no injuries and fled after being held in connection with a drug store robbery.
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Joplin
Paul Brown
Brown
Liberty
Greene County
Centenarian Seeks to See Presidential Election
Geneseo Kansas resident Mrs. J W Porter who turns 102 this year hopes to live to see the next U S president elected. If she reaches the milestone she will have witnessed every U S president from James Madison onward.
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Geneseo
Kan
J. W. Porter
Porter
United States
Madison
Hoover to Testify Before Senate Navy Inquiry
Washington March 11 Herbert Hoover will be summoned to testify in the senate investigation of the navy’s conduct of the war. Rear Admiral Sims stated Hoover had intimate knowledge of the European situation when America entered the war and urged he appear.
Legislature to Adjourn After Suffrage Amendment
Charleston March 11 Preparations were made to adjourn the extra session today after the suffrage amendment was ratified. The remaining task is enacting legislation to allow women to vote in West Virginia.
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Chareston
Legislaure
West Virginia
Senate orders probe of United States Grain Corporation
The Senate ordered an investigation into the United States grain corporation in Washington on March 11. The action seeks to examine operations and possible irregularities within the agency.
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Investigate Grain Corporation
Washington
United States Grain Corporation
Senate
Miners Expected 25 Percent Wage Boost in Report
The majority report on the coal strike recommends a 25 percent wage increase for bituminous coal miners, with John T. White proposing a higher raise in a minority view. The proposed rise would absorb last November's 14 percent, yielding an actual 11 percent increase over current wages, and the check off system for union dues would be retained.
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Washington
John T. White
Influenza Fears Prompt Brazil Quarantine Actions
Brazil reports no current influenza in Rio de Janeiro as of March 11. Authorities maintain strict quarantine for ships from infected ports and have converted school buildings into makeshift hospitals to isolate patients and stamp out the disease early.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
North America
Girl shoots and kills sister in alleged self defense
Marie Cotti, 20, an Italian girl, walked into Atlantic City jail and said she killed her sister Mrs Angelina Conti on Monday. Police learned a detective was sent to bring her to New York and she claimed the shooting was in self defense.
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New York
Marie Cotti
Atlantic City
Angelina Conti
New Jersey
Six Tank Steamers to be Built in Harriman Yard
Philadelphia reports six 12 500 ton tank steamers will be built at Harriman Pa this year. Contracts signed and work to start within months. The yard will be fully used to complete all six ships on schedule.
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Philadelphia
Harrintian
Crown Jewels Moved to Bank for Cleaning
Britain's crown jewels have been secretly removed from the Tower of London and placed in the Bank of England for initial cleaning. The locking and vaulting operation aims to safeguard the regalia while routine maintenance proceeds.
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Britain
Bank OF England
London
Tower of London
Farmers More Apt To Get Pneumonia In City And Farm
Atchison Kansas March 1 records in the health officer office show a larger proportion of farmers contract pneumonia than town people. This is thought to be due to farmers leaving after influenza while city residents recover fully before venturing out.
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Atchison, Kan
Barricade Road Stops Car Heading for United States
Canadian revenue officers set up barriers on the border road at Sumas to intercept a car bound for the United States. A license plate or tag was seized, but the two occupants escaped in a following car.
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Barricade
Liouok
U. 5
Vancouver
B. C
Sumas
United States
Ligageor
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