New Jersey Units Ready to Move Amid Equipment Delays
National Guard brigades in New Jersey prepared to deploy at short notice as 800 new recruits arrived though equipment lag persisted. Four units including medical corps and field batteries were set to move, with Washington officials blamed for the delay and Sen. Martine reporting admitted setbacks.
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New York Times
Fielder
Sea Girt
N. J
New Jersey
Jersey
New Jersey Medical Corps
Hospital and Ambulance Corps
Wiliam Gray Schauffler
Lakewood
National Guard
Henry D. Spyer
James E. Martine
Martine
Washington
Sadler
Ersey
Second
United States Army
Berry
Asbury Park
New York & Longs Ranch Railroad
Luxuries for Soldiers Funded by New York Dinner
Special to The New York Times from Port Washington details a fund called the “With the Boys Society” created at a dinner by the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Company. Jer C. Gallagher started the drive to aid soldiers in Mexico with donations from Bridgeport officials and Yonkers leaders. Major Edwin W. Moore spoke of luxuries soldiers miss, while Mrs. Frank M. Wilson agreed to distribute the funds. Attendees included Lieutenant Governor Clifford B. Wilson of Connecticut and Bridgeport and Yonkers officials.
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New York Times
Port Washington
L. L
Mexico
Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Company
Bridgeport
Sam Ol
Edwin W. Moore
New York
Frank M. Wilson
Modore
Larchmont
Captain French
Tenth Cavalry
Clifford B. Wilson
Connecticut
Frank E. Clark
Alecolm MacFayden
John F. BE
Naseeu County
Four More Guardsmen Wed As National Guard Mobilized
Four marriages occurred in Manhattan yesterday amid National Guard mobilization. Some applicants at the License Bureau refused to reveal their regiment, though in uniform. Among those marrying were Michael Miller of East Seventy-seventh Street and Agnes McDermott of West 116th Street, and Alexander Boldauf of West 171st Street and Anna Louise of Amster Avenue.
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Manhattan
National Guard
Michael Miller
East Seventy-seventh Street
Scully
Miller
Agnes McDermott
West 116Th Street
Alexander Howard Boldauf
West 171St Street
Herbert Balbraith Wellington
Mexican Volunteers Offer to Fight U S Forces
Mexican sources report up to one million Mexicans offering arms to defend Mexico amid tensions near Vera Cruz and the U S border. Consul officials note widespread public sentiment supporting the attack on U S troops, with many Mexicans registering at consulates to show loyalty.
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Juan T. Burns
New York
Carranza
Mexico City
United States
Broadway
Enitty
Trevino
Pershing
Cen
Huerta
Vera Cruz
Guanajuato
Mexico
Red Cross Nursing Aids Trained in Fifth Avenue Work
People gathered as a group of prospective nurses aides trained under the Fred Cross Military Relief Committee emerged from the Red Cross station at Fifth Avenue and Thirty seventh Street. Mrs. Leonard Wood, praised for weeks of assembling dressings and directing volunteers, led the effort. Rumors spoke of ship purchases to serve Atlantic and Pacific coast hospital needs. A new Bronx Red Cross HQ opened at 161 Fort Washington Avenue in the YMCA building, while stockrooms filled with sewing machines clothing and gifts. West Side Red Cross station on Seventy Sixth Street and Broadway buzzed with first aid classes and supply prep. The Red Cross window display drew a large crowd.
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Seventh Regiment
Fifth Avenue
Red Cross
Thirtyseventh Street
Fred Cross Military Relief Committee
Leonard Wood
National Guard
Atlantic Coast
Pacific
Bronx
Fort Washington Avenue
West Side
Seventy-sixth Street
Broadway
McCall Reviews Regiments at Framingham Camp
Governor McCall reviewed regiments assembled in Framingham Massachusetts for duty on the Mexican border. He congratulated officers and men on prompt mobilization and pledged care for soldiers' dependents. He noted a relief fund committee was formed and praised the speed of response to the call.
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Framingham
Mass
McCall
Adjt
Cole
Washington
No Trace of Bandit Invasion Near Brownsville
Investigation by Lieutenant A. D. Newman and a Third Cavalry detachment failed to confirm reports that twenty Mexican bandits crossed into Texas about fifteen miles west of Brownsville in the San Pedro District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Texas
A. D. Newman
Third Cavalry
San Pedro
Army officers aid industrial mobilization effort
Five Regular Army officers are assigned to the Naval Consulting Board’s Committee on Industrial Preparedness to help classify nationwide returns and guide munition plant conversion. Howard E. Coffin chairs the committee as War Department reports emphasize rapid, broad data collection and swift mobilization across the Southwest and the nation.
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War Department
United States Naval Consulting Board
Howard E. Coffin
Abiel L. Smith
Quartermaster Corps
William D. Connor
General Staff
Douglas MacArthur
Corps of Engineers
Richard H. Somers
Ordnance Department
Charles 8. Wallace
Signal Corps
Engineering Societies
West Thirty-ninth Street
General Committee
Army
Coffin
Engineerin Societies
New York
Ifford
Army of Engineers
America
Committee On
Baker
Refugees From Sonora Report Mexican Troops Near Border
A group including Harvey Eller and Dr. M. N. Wade arrived in Nogales Arizona from Magdalena with troops following. Wade says the northern Sonora area is alive with Mexican troops and hostility is high while guards threaten death to prevent incidents. Troops and goods move toward Magdalena.
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Sonora
Nogales
Ariz
Harvey Eller
A. F. Sprague
H. EB. Underwood
M. N. Wade
el Cajon
Boluda
Santa Ana
Magdalena
Dr. Wade
Magintene
Mexican Troop Concentration Near Nogales
About 10,000 Mexican troops were reported to be concentrated at Magdalena, 54 miles south of Nogales, with expectations to rise to 12,000 by tomorrow night. Nogales Sonora rail yards were stripped of rolling stock and streets were deserted except for soldiers. Ranchers detained two men suspected as spies for a band of about 25 bandits in the San Rafael Valley.
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Nogales
Ariz
Magdalena
Sonora
Tucson
San Rafael
Jobs For Soldiers Wives Boosted By Defense Society
A wide field of Summer work is under way for the Women s National Committee of the American Defense Society from publicity. Proceeds of the Casino at Narragansett Pier will benefit the women. New chapters planned in Long Beach and Lakeview. The group seeks donations and supplies at 304 Earth Avenue and lists necessities such as soap tobacco undergarments sewing kits and safety razors for soldiers.
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Women's National Committee
The
American Defense Society
Narragansett Pier
R. I
John H. Hanan
Catherine Collins
Trouville
Long Beach
E. J. McGrath
Lakeview
N. J
Fifth Avenue
Earth Avenue
Women Aid War Effort Through Donations and Jobs
Mrs. John Hays Hammond led a list of contributions totaling 100 dollars with 25 dollars from E. I. Horsman Company and 38 dollars in smaller gifts. A Broadway hotel notified the committee it can hire many women whose husbands are at the front as chambermaids and seamstresses, prioritizing needlewomen, with guaranteed vacancies via the Women’s National Committee. Hospital-supply work drew many volunteers, some taking work home and others for evening shifts. Several new members joined, including Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy.
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John Hays Hammond
E. I. Horsman Company
Broadway
Charles B. Goldsborough
Women's National Committee
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Four Burnses in Sixty Ninth Regiment Serve Nation
Mrs Zenas Burns of 5 Pinehurst Avenue, a patriotic mother in the city, has four sons in Company B of the Sixty Ninth Regiment. James S. D., Edwin J., Zenas T., and Coleman D. serve as corporal and sergeant ranks, with two younger brothers also in service, while the elder Burns pursued a dramatic military path in earlier years.
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Zenas Burns
Pinehurst Avenue
James S. D
Edwin J
Zenas T
Coleman D
Texas
Mexico
Burns
Tennessee
Americans Removed on Train by Mexican Officials
Seven Americans were taken from a passenger train arriving from Mexico City by Mexican officials in Laredo Texas. Reports say two were removed between Mexico City and Queretaro on Wednesday and five more were taken off at San Luis Potost yesterday.
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Laredo
Texas
Mexico City
Capital
Queretaro
San Luis Potost
Housewives League offers aid to war effort
The National Housewives' League sent a telegram to President Wilson and Secretary Baker placing its War Time Food Prices Committee at the War Department's service. The group aims to educate women on market conditions to curb inflation and equip households to regulate demand during war.
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National Housewives’ League
Wilson
Baker
War Department
League
Olent
United States War
Jennie Dewey Heath
Canadian Crops Show Strong Growth Across Provinces
Reports from the Saskatchewan government indicate excellent crop conditions across the province with wheat up to ten inches tall and oats to five inches. Flax is ahead of last year in most areas and barley is well grown. Southern Alberta also reports bright prospects for a record crop, with wheat reaching around ten inches in many fields.
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New York Times
Montreal
Saskatchewan
Lethbridge
Alberta
Plattsburg Men Forming Skeleton Division for Mexican Service
Major General Leonard Wood announces July August September Plattsburg camps with 13 000 enlistees will proceed. The plan forms a skeleton Plattsburg volunteer division from camp men, with regular officers in command and junior officers drawn from Plattsburg volunteers, aiming for rapid mobilization if called. Camp attendance remains open to those with lifting thresholds.
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Leonard Wood
Eastern Department of the Army
Plattsburg
Wood
War Department
United States
Platteburg
Plattsburgen
Plattsburg Camp Urges Men to Seek Army Officer Posts
At Plattsburg New York business leaders at the military training camp were urged to seek commissions as officers under a new bill promising to add 00 officers in five years. Colonel Glenn noted vacancies would rise from civilians, with good chances for Plattsburg men. Several regulars were offered militia commissions for service in Mexico, while others faced transfers or resignations. Sixty cavalrymen arrived to join the Second Cavalry, and a recruit, William L. Beam, faced administrative mix ups after learning his name had been dropped.
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New York Times
Plattsburg, N. Y
Army
Glenn
Wood
Plattsburg
Eastern Department
Germany
England
France
New York
Mexico
Waldron
West Virginia Guard
Wells
Idaho
Pennsylvania National Guard
Massachusetts Guard
Fort Ethan Allen
Ellis
National Guard
William L. Beam
Company L
Mr. Beam
Camp Oglethorpe
Georgia
Woman Attacks Officials Over Staten Island Garbage Plan
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lee a lawyer and lecturer for the Board of Education told the Women's Anti Garbage League of Staten Island at Curtin Lyceum in St George yesterday afternoon that no part of New York has faced a worse deal than Staten Island in the proposed garbage plant She called the city administration thieves and said the plan is a conspiracy to profit from the city’s bankruptcy.
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Mary Elizabeth Lee
Board of Education
Women's Anti-Garbage League of
Staten Island
Curtin Lyceum
St. George
New York
Defense Council Urged To Shape Unified National Policy
Rear Admiral A C Dillingham calls for a National Defense Council and a duly constituted General Staff to coordinate policy across civil and military branches. He proposes a council including key cabinet Secretaries, top army and navy leaders, and senior officers to present a balanced defense plan to Congress and the President.
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A. C. Dillingham
Frank J. Sprague
Navy Consulting Board
Tus New York Times
National Defense
Sprague
Congress
Admiral Dillingham
Oce
Dillingham
Secretary of State
Secretary of War
Munitions
Senate
House
Army
Army War College
Artillery
Ordnance
Engineers
Navy
Navy General Board
Naval War College
Atlantic Fleet
Pacific Fleet
Marine Corps
Form Federal Volunteers Meet to Organize Service
A Sunday meeting at 3 pm in the Merchants' Association rooms Woolworth Building will discuss forming the Federal Volunteers to answer a possible call by the President to serve against Mexico. Organizers say over 100 veterans back the effort. speakers include Major J F Bloom retired Brooklyn Commander Albert Morris retired Colonel S A Mildenberg and Maurice Simmons past commander Spanish War Veterans. Captain Lewis Landea of 233 Broadway issues the call.
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Federal Volunteers
Merchants’ Association
Woolworth
Mexico
J. F. Bloom
Brooklyn
Albert Morris
Ex-Sing Sing Warden Defends Death House Security
Thomas Mott Osborne challenged claims of laxity after Oreste Shillitont’s death house escape. He cited a 15 year old gun removal by order of a prior warden and downplayed the incident as not warranting alarm. George Gordon Battle urged Osborne’s quick return to the wardenship as intense local interest grew. Over 1,000 attended in Hennington Hall.
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Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing
Hennington Hall
East Second Street
Oreste Shillitont
Kirchwey
Osborne
Mutual Welfare League
George Gordon Battle
Westchester County
Battle
Westchester
Joseph Harendess
Board of Education
Shillitoni Victim Near Death in Sing Sing Escape
OSSINING N Y June 23 D J McCarthy guard shot by Oreste Shillitoni during the escape is near death. Hope of recovery is abandoned with a keeper posted before Shillitoni s cell to thwart self harm.
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Shillitoni
Ossining
N. Y
D. J. McCarthy
Sing Sing
Oreste Shillitoni
Shillitont
Call for mediation by Peace Union to prevent war with Mexico
The American Union Against Militarism urges an unofficial three American and three Mexican commission to reach El Paso and urge mediation and border relief to avert war. The plan names William J Bryan, David Starr Jordan, and Frank P Walsh among American members with Mexican editors and officials, and seeks ABC Powers support to press Mexico and General Carranza.
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William J. Bryan
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Frank P Walsh
Kansas City
American Union Against
el Paso
Otl
Accion Mondial
Mexico City
Luis Manuel Rojas
Biblioteca Nacional
Modesto ©. Holland
Yucatan
Sefior Rojas
Esterday
Pase
Rolland
Lillian Dr. Ward
Amos Pinchot
Lincoln Steffens
Oswald Garrison Villard
W. Slaughter
Philadelphia
Paul A. Kellogg
Sidney C. Gulick
John Haynes Holmes
Stephen Ss. Wilde
Max Eastman
Crystal Feastmen
Charles T Hallinan
Frank P. Walsh
Lillian D Ward
Mexico
Bryan
Charles Bryan
William J Hiryan
Independence
Arenes
Ryan
H Dr. Jordan
Texas
New York
Executive Committee of the Union
American Union
United States
Greatene
Eeting
Wilson
Fllaso
ABC
Washington
Carranza
Gibbons Hopes for Peace amid War Hints
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore on June 23 expressed gladness at reports of mediation between the United States and Mexico as Latin American republics urged settlement. He said he trusts war will be averted, but if conflict comes he predicted a short struggle with the United States as the victor.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Mexico
Republica
United States
Cardinal Speaks on Mexico Coup Risk and War
The Cardinal warns that neither country gains from the engrained contest. He says the Mexican coup has men, munitions, and financial means to wage war, and believes Mexico would be crushed in a short time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Financelal
Pope Benedict Seeks Peace Over U S Mexico Clash
Vatican informs that the pope is distressed by global fighting and hopes hostilities between the United States and Mexico can be averted through Spain's intervention, which is supported by the Holy See.
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Rome
Paris
Benedict
Vatican
United States
Mexico
Spain
Holy See
New Greek Cabinet Formed Ahead of Aug 7 Elections
Athens reports the new Greek cabinet with Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis as foreign affairs minister and a military line for Callaris as war and admiral. Elections are set for August 7, and the blockade will be raised tomorrow as a royal decree suspends the Chamber of Deputies. General satisfaction is noted over the Entente ultimatum to King Constantine. In London a Copenhagen telegram notes Prince George, king’s brother, met the German leadership in Berlin and then left for Switzerland.
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Alexander Zaimis
General Callarib
George Rallis
Phocian Neegria
Colonel Harlambis
Anthony Momperatos
Constantine Linot Ak Is
Chamber of Deputies
Constantine
Entente
London
Exchange
Copenhagen
Greece
Berlin
Switsernd
Constantine Sends Letter to Kaiser
A special messenger with an autograph letter from the King of Greece to the German Emperor traversed Lugano Switzerland on June 23 accompanied by two Greek officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Greece
Germany
Lugano
Switzerland
Venizelos commends allies in Athens unity call
Venizelos says Greece returns to legality after the blockade and the ex-Government’s shadow. He praises the protecting powers as parental and expects early elections in August. He vows to resume his parliamentary role and stand for his old seat in Athens.
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New York
Timea Athens
London Daily Mail
M. Venizelos
Greece
Price Zaimis
Athens
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