Wilson criticizes those who "rock the boat" at Methodist meeting
President Wilson addresses the Southern Methodist Conference at Mount Vernon Place Church. He warns that wars end only when men abandon hate and jealousy and embrace mankind as a bond that fosters justice. He likens moral forces to stabilizers guiding a plane and asks for prayers and confidence from the audience.
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New York
Washington
Southern Methodist Conference
Wilson
Mankind
Mount Vernon Place
William J. Chambers
Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Secretary of the Navy
Candler
Judge Chambers
Board of Missions
Jesus
Mesal Apeece
Bisho Candler
Daniels
Praise for Wilson and Bryan at New York Methodist meeting
The New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened its second day at Park Avenue Church praising President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The morning session featured a high tribute to the Wilson Administration in Washington.
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New York
Woman Kidnapper Had Stryker Boy
Special to The New York Times from Waynesboro Georgia reports a middle aged woman calling herself Mrs Janet Redd arrested for kidnapping four year old John Allen Stryker son of Emma Richter of Brooklyn. The kidnapper had previously posed with a child in public. The boy was found about forty miles away and is safe.
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New York Times
Wayneasboro
Janet Redd
John Allen Stryker
Emma Richter
Brooklyn
Waynesboro
Macon
St. Petersborg
Fla
Toeir
Richter
Stryker
Greenwood
8. C
Griffin
Willam H. Richter
Macdonough Street
Emma Stryker
Georgia
South
Richters
Charles E. Brown
St. Petersburg
Alabama
Shuw
Rockefeller lakes vanish at Pocantico Hills estate
John D. Rockefeller has spent about 200000 dollars to create a lake on his Pocantico Hills estate in Tarrytown New York but the basin keeps leaking and vanishes overnight. Workmen found quicksand at the bottom and repairs continue daily to hold water.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Buttermilk Hill
Pocantlco Hilla
Rockefeller
Daniels Secures Major Cost Saving in Battleship Contracts
Secretary Daniels announced a saving of 1,013,766 in contracts for structural material for the battleships California and Arizona, achieved through competition and redesigned steel. The California contract at New York Navy Yard cuts costs by 375,261 while Arizona saves 35,508 with the overall material cost reduced to 425,774 from a no competition estimate of 1,261,79.
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New York Times
Washington
Daniels
Arizona
California
Mantels
Daniele
New York Navy Yard
Department
New York
Sky lights fatally trap spectator at Madison Square Garden
A 21 year old man watching the Cross-White fight at Madison Square Garden was crushed when skylights began to close. Richard Fagin shut the sky lights from the main roof and the man’s head was caught between the movable sashes. He was unconscious and taken to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured skull. The victim wore a dark suit and carried shoemaker tools and a note book with the name Livid W Driscoll of All River Massachusetts.
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Madison Square Garden
Richard Fagin
Fagin
Eugene McCaffey
Samuel Sadner
Bellevue Hospital
Livid W Driscoll
Bedford Street
Il'all River
Mase
Alibi by Osborne Reported in Court Action
Rae Tanner held alibi by Osborne, with two attorneys present. A girl is held on a $5,000 bail on mail fraud charges amid claims of persecution by counsel. Marshall discusses a possible plot.
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Osborne
Rae Tanner
United States
Houghton
James W. Osborne
H. Snowden Marshall
Miss Tanner
Rae Tanzer
Marshall
Maxwell Slade
Slade & Slade
Tanzer
Convent Avenue
Slade
Miss Tanzer
Oliver Osborne
Oliver
Plainfield
Federal
Ree Tanzer
Rose
Dora
Hose Tanger
Brayton Ives Will Contest Planned by widow and daughter
The will of General Brayton Ives leaving a 1.1 million estate to Yale University faces a contest by Mrs Eleanor Ives and daughter Winifred. Executors indicate detailed bequests to relatives and restricted gifts, with Yale as residuary beneficiary after specific legacies and an art collection valued around 250,000. The contested provisions include the absence of spousal and daughter shares and a plan to auction real estate within 18 months.
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Brayton Ives
Eleanor B. Ives
Miss Winifred
West Forty-ninth Street
Yale University
New York Times
Times
Winifred
Frances
Parbobs
Closson
Mofivanus
William Street
Walter E. Maynard
Ives
Charles E. Holt
East Fifty-eighth Street
Eunice Maspugeter
East Fortieth Street
Walter FB. Maynard
Walter E., Jr
Audrey
Charles B. Holt
Dorsey Ives Holt
Charles B. Price
West Fifty-sixth Street
Mary Hoare
East Thirty-ninth Street
Thomas Dwyer
Ossining
N. Y
Hubert R. Ives
Luan de Forest
New Haven
Conn
Antoinette Ives Bell
Oxford
England
Walter T. Ives
Marion Ives
Elsie Ives
Hubert Douglas Ives
Montreal
Canada
Jean Ives
Hubert
Frances Ives
Adeline Latham
East Fiftyeighth Street
Fillen Holt
Herbert Parsons
Submarine F-4 Sinks Off Honolulu With 25 Aboard
The F-4 submarine submerged near Honolulu Harbor at 9 15 A M and was later found at 120 fathoms. Officials fear tanks burst or suffocation from fumes though air systems may keep the crew alive a week. Commander Lieut Alfred I Ede 27 a Nevada native and Annapolis graduate led the vessel.
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Honolulu
Honolulu Harbor
Charles B. Moore
Pacific Fleet
British Admit Suspected Sinking of U-29 After Action
British Admiralty reports it has good reason to believe the German submarine U-29 has been sunk with all hands. In separate news the U-25 torpedoed the Dutch steamer Medea Amsterdam, sunk off Beachy Head after giving crew 15 minutes to abandon ship. The crew were rescued by a destroyer, and a trawler was attacked by another submarine.
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London
Dover
Admiralty
Amsterdam
Salonica
Beachy Head
Alprecht
Bristol Channel
Selby Islands
Aboukir
Cressy
Hogue
Germany
Thordis
Schwab Stricken With Neuritis Goes Abroad For Health
Charles M. Schwab head of Bethlehem Steel Works diagnosed with neuritis. He will rest and depart to Florida with Mrs. Schwab after attending White Sulphur Springs. They plan to visit Cuba and possibly the Panama Exposition in San Francisco before returning home. He orders rush on the new fridge shop at Saucon plant to finish in a month. He expects high demand for bridge material in Europe after the war.
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New York Times
Bethlehem
Penn
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Works
White Sulphur Springs
San Francisco
Schwab
Saucon
Mr. Schwab
Europe
Will Left 75000 to Nurse Married at Hospital
Elizabeth New Jersey March 25 Special to The New York Times William N Hourigan 52 died today at the Alexian Brothers Hospital and left a 75000 estate in a will he set to be bequeathed to three local hospitals after his widow Mary Dunn a 27 year old nurse of West Brighton New York was named in the will as his spouse whom he married at the hospital days before his death
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New York Times
Elizabeth
N. J
William N. Hourigan
Alexian Brothers
Mary Dunn
West Brighton
Hourigan
Miss Dunn
Grip Epidemic Disrupts Washington Social and Government
Washington reports a grip fever disrupting social functions and delaying government business. In six weeks 210 deaths, well above last year, with Attorney General Gregory the only cabinet member struck so far. Health officials warn common greetings spread the illness.
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New York Times
Washington
Gregory
Johnl. Norris
Fall of Przemysl Impresses Austrian Court
A high rank diplomat with Vienna sources reports the fall of Przemysl left the Austrian Emperor deeply impressed. Court circles discuss possible move toward separate peace negotiations.
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Przemysl
New York
Copenhagen
London Daily Telegraph
Vienna
Sinking of U-29 Ends Captain Weddigen's Career
British naval experts report the loss of the German submarine U-29 and the death of Capt. Lieut. Otto Weddigen, famed commander of U-9 and later U-20, with claims he torpedoed the Aboukir Hogue and Creasy in September and damaged or sank several ships near the Scilly Islands, while noting uncertainty about postloss details.
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NEW York Times
London
The
Daily News
Germany
Otto Weddigen
Aboukir
Scilly Islands
Admiralty
Badger
Desclaux Convicted and Sentenced in Paris
Colonel Desclaux ex-Paymaster General of the French Army is found guilty of stealing military stores and is sentenced to seven years' solitary confinement and military degradation. Mme Bechoff is jailed two years. soldier Verges gets one year. Court notes prominent political connections and finds others not guilty.
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Paris
Frangeis Desclaux
Legion of Honor
Mme. Pechoff
Verges
Charles Philippe
Bechoff
France
Briechotf
M. Philippe
Mme. Bechoff
Maitre Demange
Colonel Desclaux
Desclaux
M. Demange
Joseph Cailllaux
M. Caillaux
Vesclaux
Mme. Hechoff
United States Seeks Consular Presence at Kirkwall Denied
The British Government refused the U S request to station an American consular officer at Kirkwall Scotland to report on detained cargo ships. Officials in Washington expressed surprise noting no formal notification and saying they will not press the issue.
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London
United States
Kirkwall
Scotland
Orkneys
Whirlwall
Washington
State Department
Laer
Skinner
Dundee
Liebknecht Mustered In Landsturm For Alsace Duty
Dr Karl Liebknecht the renowned Socialist Reichstag member has been drafted into the German Landsturm and ordered to serve in Alsace He faces military law restrictions and may not attend political meetings beyond Reichstag duties The Roichstag and press discuss alleged breach of discipline over his vote against the budget and his wartime stance away from the conflict The note mentions his past antiwar efforts and earlier disavowal by party peers.
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Berilin
London
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Landsturm
Alsace
Copenhagen
Politiken
Dr. Liebknecht
The
Liebknecht
Landtas Berlin
Amsterdam
Socialist Party
Roichstag
Herr Kueble
Germany
Russians Win Major Victory in Carpathian Battle
London dispatch reports decisive Russian success in the Carpathians near Lupkow Pass with 160 officers and 600 men captured, guns seized, and heavy fighting continuing in Bukovina and southern Poland as Russians push toward the Sereth River and press the Austrian forces along Czernowicz and East Prussian fronts.
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Hungary
Petrograd
Carpathians
Bartfeld
Uzsok
Lupkow
Beskid
Bucharest
Rome
Bukowina
Ussok Pasa
Sereth River
Czernowicz
Pilica River
Poland
Hungary Fears The Worst As Przemysl Falls In War
A Hungarian correspondent reports the Winter Carpathian campaign as uniquely brutal with rugged terrain and modern siege forces. The fall of Przemysl, 170,000 Hungarian troops lost or vanish into snow and Siberia, signaling a likely turning point and chilling many Hungarians.
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Ture
NEW York Time
London
Morning Post
Carpathians
Przemysl
Siberia
Vienna
Russian Column Presses Frontiers in Polish Theater
A dispatch from Petrograd reports a strong Russian column crossing into North Poland as German forces try to resurge along the Narew after a week of counterattacks near Przemysl. Russian progress is aided by light cavalry raids and riverine assaults amid the waterlogged campaign.
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New York Time
Petrograd
London Daily News
Przemysl
Poland
Masurian
Narew
Kor
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Queens County
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Mr. Osborne
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