Trampled Stars and Stripes Mark May Day Socialist Riot
Immense crowd joins May Day parade in Manhattan as Italian Socialist Federation and IWW clash with Socialist Party banners. A lone policeman is overwhelmed while Bernard Lowy clings to the flag amid a storm of shouts and pushing. several leaders confront the mob and the platform is scrambled for order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Party and Trades Unions
Lower Manhattan
Union Square
Italianst Federation
Inustrial Workers of the World
United States
Fourth Avenue
Socialist Party
District of
New York
Stars and Stripes
Bernard Lowy
Julius Gerbert
Lowy
Marie Meonald
Caroline Dexter
Jacob Panken
Algernon S. Crapsey
Rochester
Episcopal
Europe
Raimondo Fagio
Italian Socialist Federation
Taxi Bandit Robs Woman In Transit Near 177th Street
Mr and Mrs Frank F Schubert and their son Albert reported a thief seized Mrs Schubert s handbag containing about 48 dollars after leaving the Rockwell Real Estate office. A taxi sped off with the bag, a pursuit followed over several avenues and streets, but detectives had not found the cab by nightfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank F. Schubert
West 177Th Street
Albert
Rockwell Real Estate Company
178Th Street
Wadsworth Avenue
Schubert
St Nicholas Avenue
178Th
179Th Streets
West 152d Street
Bronx Driver Noted in Fatal Run-Over Case
Harry Cleveland of the Bronx says his car struck Freddie Drolle Jr. as the boy crawled from in front of his Park Avenue home. Despite cries of a fatality, examination by Dr. Schaeffer found no injuries on the child who was held under the front axle for three blocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Cleveland
Washington Avenue
Bronx
Park Avenue
Freddie
Cleveland
Frederick Drolle, Jr
Schaeffer
Fordham Hospital
Taft Senate message curbs Magdalena Bay intrigue
The President's reply to Congress says no Japanese move to seize Magdalena Bay and no Japanese company involved. Senator Lodge warns that foreign corporate colonization could threaten U S interests and urges a Monroe Doctrine expansion to cover corporate actions. Knox notes no evidence of land acquisition by Japan. American syndicate sought sale to a Japanese group but was discouraged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News York Times
Washington
Senate
Magnificent
Magdalena Bay
Lower
California
Secretary of
Knox
Lodge
Massachusetts
Committee On Foreign Relations
Bacon
Georgia
United States
Brazil
Japan
Great Britain
Monroe
Taft
Department of State
Mexico
Dalena Bay
Motor bandits cornered near Paris in siege plan
Paris reports say Garnier Vallet and others from the motor bandits gang hid in a pavilion near the Eastern Railway. They are said to be armed with Winchester carbines Browning pistols and bombs. Police plan a siege to avoid bloodshed. In Nancy police arrest a carpenter and wife who sheltered Dieudonné and others. Medals awarded to detectives and officers involved in the siege of the bandits’ garage at Choisy le Roi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petit Parisien
Garnier, Vallet
Paris
Tion
Winchester
Nancy
Remnert
Dieudonné
Bonnot
Legion of Honor
Choisy-le-Roi
Lepine
M. Guichard
Fores
Paul Guichard
Eugene Stantoine
Arion
Agolé Miedal
Lieut
Fortan
Republican Guard
Columbia Commons Diner Strike Threat Follows Head Waiter Dismissal
Students at Columbia Commons threaten to dine elsewhere after Carl, the head waiter, and the captain of the waiters were removed. The Spectator noted declining patronage and questioned the staffing change as the university runs the eatery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Commons
Carl
the Spectator
the Commons
University
Staf
Bonnot the Tiger Bandit Looms Over France
The article previews a secret history of a vast criminal organization led by Bonnot and describes Arsene Lupin as writer for The New York Times. It promises a sensational true story of master coups, with actual facts making fiction seem commonplace and will be serialized across two pages next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Arsene Lupin
M.maurice le Blanc
NEW York Times
London Papers Call Reciprocity a Plot Against Canada
London papers react to Taft and Roosevelt reciprocity talks as a plotted threat to Canada. The Daily Mail calls it an amazing revelation and fears Canada’s absorption by the United States. The Morning Post urges tariff reform and criticizes Asquith, Bryce, and Liberalism amid empire concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph
New York Times
London
Taft
Mr. Roosevelt
Canada
Daily Mail
Mr. Taft
The
Dominion
United States
Morning Post
Roosevelt
Asquith
England
Bryce
Ireland
Boston License Commission Tightens Hotels and Cafés
The Boston License Commission issued strict rules to lift the city moral tone. Hotels and cafés were notified of measures restricting liquor service in rooms and barring women from certain areas, with plans to segregate seating by gender in some establishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Mass
License Commission
Beng House
Board
Arbitration for Trade Disputes in Paris Trade Chamber
Paris May 1 The Aeereee Chamber of Commerce in Paris has a new arbitration committee to settle trade disputes between members The move aims to speed resolutions and reduce court involvement for commercial disagreements among Paris firms
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Aeereee Chamber of Commerce
New Rules for Wireless at London Conference Urged
US delegates at the London wireless conference will push longer distress wave lengths to curb Titanic era confusion. Delegates from Austria Japan and Britain back emergency free messages while debate over wave length and naval control of radio rages. The State Department lists Admiral Edwards and scientists among the US team. Austria Japan and others propose ship to ship communication standards and universal distress procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
United States
Senate
State Department
Navy Department
John R. Edwards
David W. Todd
Louis W. Astin
Department of Commerce
John S. Waterbury
New York City
Arthur G. Webster
Seis Nainsas’'Ven
Now Vate Tind
Yale Scientific Behoo
William D. Terrell
Com
War Department
Salor L Jer
Chadeh-Meke Saitama
Bigual ‘Db
Forth Department of Agriculture
Wife Score
Weather Bureau
Austria
Dependencies
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Sun spot warns of May weather and June outlook
Father Picard at Santa Clara College observes the sun spot group reappearing near the eastern limb and forecasts May disturbances on the coast with several date ranges. He references reports from Washington and France suggesting a major solar manifestation could define June weather.
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San Jose
Cal
Picard
Santa Clara College Observatory
Lmb
W. T. Foster
Washington
Nodson
France
Theatres Lose Licenses In Citywide Revocation
Police report Commissioner Waldo revoked thirty theatre licenses in Manhattan the Bronx and Brooklyn on renewal day including The Metropolitan Opera House Bijou Theatre Eden Musee Lipzin Theatre and Hotel Astor. Most revocations were for motion picture theatres amid cited missed applications and safety or production concerns.
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Waldo
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Metropolitan Opera House
Broadway
Thirty-ninth Street
Bijou Theatre
Thirtieth Street
Eden Musee American Co
West Twenty-third Street
Lipzin Theatre
Bowery
Hotel Astor
Forty-fourth Street
University and Society
Three Boroughs
Man seeks name change to William Firestone in City Court
Wilmos Katz of 819 Second Avenue petitions City Court to change his name to William Firestone. He cites inconvenience from jokes about Katz meaning cat in German and his association with the animal kingdom.
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Wilmos Kats
Second Avenue
William Firestone
Katz
Animal Kingdom
Cat
Major General Roe Retires From New York National Guard
Albany May 1 Major General Charles Roe who led the New York National Guard for years retires under a 64 year age rule. Brigadier General C John F O Ryan of New York succeeds Roe by appointment from Governor Dix as head of the guard.
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Albany
Charles ¥. Roe
New York National Guard
National Guard
C. John F. O'Ryan
New York
Gen. Roe
Dix
Dying nod could settle $70,000 security dispute
In Chicago on May 1, Mrs. Mary Smith of New York seeks $70,000 in securities left by her sister Augusta Fitzsimmons. Key testimony from nurse Mabel H. McClanahan and Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, citing a dying nod and prior statements, shapes the court battle before Judge Cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mary Smith
New York
Augusta Fitzsimmons
Charles Fitzsimmons
Oil barge explodes killing five men in Cleveland
Five Great Lakes Towing Company workers died when Standard Oil Barge 88 exploded at the Jefferson Avenue Docks on the Cuyahoga River. Leaking gasoline ignited, causing a massive blast that also damaged four other boats and docks. Loss estimated at 450000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Standard Oil
Louis Gale
Frank Gale
Felix Doucher
Nelson le Vere
Albert Marquise
Great Lakes Towing Company
Jefferson Avenue
Cuyahoga River
Wisconsin
Annie A. Martin
Pennsylvania
St Oll Company
Grassell Chemical Company
Great Lakes
Standard Oil Company
Poor Students In Majority At University Of Cincinnati
Statistics from University of Cincinnati President Charles W. Dabney show most students come from moderate means. Only five percent from wealthy families, seventy five percent from under $2500 income, and ten percent fatherless with widowed mothers supporting tuition. Sixty percent of families own homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Charles W. Dabney
University of Cincinnati
University
Colonel's 8 Taft votes spark vow to vote free
At the Chicago Convention a colonel declares eight votes for Taft while signaling some officers may refuse to obey party guidance. He urges men to vote as they wish, highlighting independence within the delegation.
Taft Majority Narrow in Massachusetts Primary
Complete returns from Massachusetts presidential primaries show Taft with a 3,655 vote lead over Roosevelt, eight Roosevelt delegates at large elected by a wide margin, and Taft carrying nine of fourteen districts. Delegates at large were to vote independently after a Roosevelt request, with recounts being considered to verify voter intent.
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New York Times
Boston
Taft
Roosevelt
Matthew Hall
Roosevelt State Committee
Col. Roosevelt
Col
Gosnold
la Follette
Frank Sieberlich
Sieberlich
Gen. Champlin
Taft League
Crane
Charles 8. Baxter
Medford
Arthur L. Nason
Haverhill
George W. Coleman
James P. Magenis
Thomas P. Riley
Democratic State Committee
Riley
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W. Firestone
Roe
Cincinnati University
State
Ypongeesecey
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Frederick Fosdick
Fitchburg
A. B. Hart
Cambridge
O. A. la Riviere
James P. Maof
Arthur Lason
Alvin & Weeks
Fall River
C. C. Chesney
Pittsfield
E. B. Blake
Greenee
E. P. Clark
Springfield
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Feiker
Mattthew J. Whitehall
Worcester
Lawrence P. Fourth
Oxford
Jobh -M, Keyes
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