Submarine Threats Shape New American Dreadnoughts
Navy tests in Chesapeake Bay will simulate torpedo hits on a caisson resembling a battleship section to guide new dreadnought design. Navy Secretary Daniels and Naval Attaches await European lessons as Battleships 43 and 44 are refined with layered armor and triple-bottom questions under study.
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New York Times
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Navy Yard
Norfolk
Navy Department
Tsat
Congress
California
Idaho
Mississippi
Europe
Daniels
North Sea
Pennsylvania
Arizona
War capitals visit and recovering airman return to Washington
Nelson O Shaughnessy returned from Vienna aboard the Cunarder Orduna and heads to Washington after visiting Budapest Berlin Paris and London where publics see optimism for military success. Captain Abe of the Japanese Navy aboard the Orduna back to Japan notes Allied satisfaction. Harvard's N H Read who fell 500 feet in May on Salisbury Plain returns nursing a spine fracture and a broken arm with a British Army commission and hopes for recovery before war ends.
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Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Vienna
State Department
Washington
Budapest
Berlin
Paris
London
Baron Abe
Orduna
Japan
N. H. Read
Harvard
British Aviation Corps
Salisbury Plain
Suit Over Fatal Collision Seeks 100 000 Damages
Mrs. Alice F. O Connell of Brooklyn sues Prince Ludovia Pignatelli of Merrick for 100000 damages claiming his negligence caused the death of Edward V. O Connell in a July 23 1914 crash on Merrick Road near Wantagh Long Island. The trial before Justice Webser A Jaycox opened with testimony alleging Pignatelli drove at 55 mph and was intoxicated. A defense witness said he saw Pignatelli at 40 mph twenty minutes before the collision.
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O'Connell
Prince Pignatelli
Pignatelli
Percy Smith
Carman
Poison Plot Aimed at East Side Elderly Woman
Detectives from the First Branch received a tip that two men planned to poison an elderly saver who hid $400 in her bedroom. Lieutenant Hennessy and detectives Wachner and Rampony watched the area and seized two suspicious men, later locking them up. One carried a bottle of charcoal. Suspects named as Louis Rudner 36 a tailor of 816 Fifth Street and Stanley Kowlsky 10 a laborer of 347 East Thirty-third Street. Further inquiry pending.
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Hennessy
Wachner
Rampony
Louis Rudner
Fifth Street
Stanley Kowlsky
East Thirty-third Street
Government troops seize Milot and Sainte Suzanne in Haitian revolt
Cape Haitian reports government forces occupy Milot and Sainte Suzanne while Grande Riviere troops fall back to Lacombe. Fighting continues near Cape Haitien as gunboat Lord Alexis bombards Fort Picolet. Early days of revolution led by Dr. Bobo aim to oust President Guillaume with no clear outcome yet.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Milot
Sainte Suzanne
Grande Riviere
Lacombe
Alexis
Fort Picolet
Bobo
Guillaume
Becker appeals reargument argued in Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals considered ex police lieutenant Charles Becker's bid for a reargument of his appeal. Assistant District Attorney Taylor condemned Manton's motion as an desperate attempt to rehear facts, urged clemency to the lieutenant governor, and stressed impartial review. The brief noted no oral argument and set the decision for June 18.
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Charles Becker
Court of Appeals
Taylor
Martin T. Manton
Becker
Schoeneck
Whitman
West
Manton
New York
Mr.Taylor
Mr. Manton
Rose
Rosenthal
Justice Seabury
Court of Appea
New York Times
Albany
N. Y
Woman's Annoyer Caught After Harassment Incident
Mrs. Blanche K Norris wife of James Norris Polyclinic Hospital superintendent was brushed against by a man who called her nice and plump A police officer identified the man Alexander Burkhardt of 451 West Fifty third Street He admitted brushing against her but denied remarks The West Side Court found him guilty and held him for sentence noting Mrs Norris's role in the arrest
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Blanche K. Norris
James Norris
Polyclinic Hospital
Fiftieth Street
Ninth Avenue
West Forty-seventh Street
Alexander Burkhardt
West Fiftythird Street
West Side
Seagate Steamer Towed After Steering Gear Failure
The Seagate, a 100 passenger steamer traveling from Sea Gate to the Battery, lost steering in fog off Owl's Head Bay Ridge and was towed by Theresa of the Maritime Fumigation Co. to a pare where Gratitude, owned by Seagate's operators, assisted. Passengers were transferred to Gratitude and landed at the Battery. Seagate entered drydock.
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Seagate
Battery
Owl's Head
Bay Ridge
Theresa
Maritime Fumigating Company
Pare
Gratitude
New York Young Democratic Club Forms at National Club
About thirty young Democrats gathered at the National Democratic Club to form the New York Young Democratic Club. R. C. Patterson Jr. presides with George McAneny’s brother Leonard W. McAneny as treasurer and William Osborn offering the state committee headquarters. The group aims to influence municipal politics and uphold democratic ideals while avoiding factional strife. Morgan J. O'Brien was elected a Governor of the National Democratic Club.
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National Democratic Club
Fifth Avenue
New York Young Democratic Club
Woodrow Wilson College Men's Club
Democratic Party
K. Patterson, Jr
Columbia
Andrew C. Troy
Leonard W. MecAneny
George McAneny
Paul Cooksey
James 5. Finegan
J. J. Goldstein
Walter R. Herrick
Maurice Wertheim
Joseph H. Truesdale
Isaac F. Cohen
J. R. Sloane
T. H. Marshall
Harry Crone
John Godfrey Saxe
Morgan J. O'Brien
Board of
Alexander Konta
Palmists Truth Revealed as Ada McMahon Marries Dark Stranger
Detective Ada McMahon, later Ada Brady, marries a dark handsome man amid palm reading prophecies. The switch in name and social status occurred June 4. Brady remains with the 156th Precinct, while Mrs. Brady works with the Costigan squad at Police Headquarters. A separate incident reports five year old Harry Dorfman killed by a car owned by Joseph Steinberg. Steinberg held on homicide charges after the boy’s father aided in placing him in the vehicle.
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Ada McMahon
Palmist
Inspector Dwyer
Dwyer
Stephen Brady
Detective Bureau
Police Department
Ada Brady
Palmists
Brady
156Th
Brooklyn
Costigan
Harry Derfman
East Third Street
Avenue D
Third Street
Joseph Steinberg
Seventh Avenue
Jacob Dorfman
Steinberg
Hiarry
Bellevue Hospital
Wis
Union Market Station
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Oklahoma
Newport News
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Camden
Newport
B. Altman & Co
Seabury’s
Ernor
Jenene
Young Democrats
Wilson College
R. C. Patterson, Jr
Osborn
Broadway
Palm Beach
Shepherd’s
Cheviot
Bolienne
Taffeta
Army
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