Big Frauds Alleged Indict Two Men Involved
Washington counters fraud and graft at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as Edwin M. Van Dyck and Victor G. Bloede are indicted for conspiracy to defraud. The case alleges Van Dyck favored Bloede for hard black color bids, yielding about 70 to 75 thousand dollars in commissions and substandard testing to steer contracts from 1901 to 1905. Bail set at 10 thousand dollars each. defense calls the indictments technical and claims the government saved money.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Federal Grand Jury
Edwin M. van Dyck
Victor G. Bloede
Victor G. Bloede Company
Baltimore
van Dyck
Bloede
Bioede
Bureau of Encreving and Printing
Baltimore Company
Bilcede
Bureau
Bicedse
Bureau of Engraving
Bloede Company
Immell
New York
Justice Stafford
Congress reconvenes as House adjourns for Mallory tribute
Washington January 6 The House completes organization and reconvenes with Speaker Cannon presiding. Slemp of Virginia takes oath as the chamber fills galleries. After a brief session the House adjourns out of respect for Senator Mallory of Florida. The Senate meets briefly and adjourns after adopting resolutions honoring Mallory.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Cannon
Slemp
Virginia
House
Mallory
Florida
Senate
Taliaferro
Navy Chief Resigns Over Controversy At Navy Bureau
Admiral Willard H Brownson resigns as chief of the Bureau of Navigation after stating a medical officer in command of a hospital ship contradicts naval practice and sows doubt about confidence and military spirit. President Roosevelt accepts the resignation effective immediately and directs transfer of duties to Captain Winslow. Brownson served over forty six years.
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Washington
Admiral Brownson
Navigation Bureau
Navy Department
Department of the Navy
Bureau of Navigation
D. C
Army
Navy
Willard H Brownson
Breau
White House
Winslow
Theodore Roosevelt
Willard H. Brownson
Roosevelt urges competitive exams for census staff
President Roosevelt told the House that four thousand new census workers should be appointed only after competitive Civil Service exams. He condemned patronage and non competitive tests used in prior censuses as a cloak for spoils system abuses and warned they hinder efficiency and public trust.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
Pearson Takes Control of The Times in London
London Jan 6 Arthur Pearson gains active management of The Times as a new company forms with Pearson as managing director The Walter family will see Arthur F Walter become chairman while the paper retains an editorial stance independent of party politics The move awaits court sanction and follows years of rivalry and tariff reform speculation with Pearson already running The Standard and The Daily Express The Times long relation with the Walter family spans 123 years from its 1785 founding under John Walter and later leaders who built its journalistic stature
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London
London “Times
Walter
C. Arthur Pearson
Mr. Pearson
Arthur F. Walter
Pearson
the Times
New School of Journalism
T’he Times
The
Times
Hooper
Lord Northcliffe
Alexander Henderson
Manchester Ship Canal
London Times
John Walter
London Universal Register
Arthur Fraser Walter
Walters
Father and Son
John Stoddart
Thomas Barnes
Edward Sterling
John Thaddeus Delane
Thomas Chenery
George Earle Buckle
Steamer Housatonic Wrecked Off Antrim Coast
The British tank steamer Housatonic, Captain Henry, sailing from Barrow to New York, wrecked on Maiden Rock near Portmuck County Antrim Ireland early Sunday. The vessel sank after a rapid list and men fled in boats. Two crew members drowned. Thirty-two survivors reached a nearby lighthouse. Built at Barrow in 1893 and owned by Anglo-American Oil Company of London, formerly named the Northern Light.
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London
Henry
Barrow
New York
Maiden Rock
Portmuck
County Antrim
Ireland
The
Anglo-American Oil Company of London
Northern Light
Taft Urges Higher Army Pay and Expanded Posts
Secretary Taft's annual report argues for increased enlisted pay and better noncommissioned officer inducement to aid recruitment. He supports a naval-style pay system, creation of a general service corps, and a Baguio post in the Philippines with expanded Fort McKinley reservations. He cites high turnover, recruiting difficulties, and the need for health care staffing, plus large coast defense and insular spending, and requests a statue for Edward Stanton in Washington.
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Washington
Taft
Regular Army
Coast Artillery
Baguio
Philippines
Fort McKinley Reservation
Manila
Camp Overton
Mindanao
Camp Keithley
Lake Lanao
Adirondacks
Congress
Military Department
Subig Bay
Insular
National Coast Defence Board
United States
Union
Edward M. Stanton
Secretary Stanton
Brownsville Brownsville bullets contradict defense in Brownsville case
Washington reports show bullets from the 25th Infantry carried 2 percent antimony, matching missiles found in Brownsville streets. Union Metallic Cartridge Company made most bullets used, challenging prior defense claims and prompting a Military Affairs Committee review. Former Gov Knott suffers stroke and rests at home.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Jan
Brownsville
25Th Infantry
23Rd Infantry
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
Committee On Military Affairs
Senate
Japanese deny pulling reserves from United States
Washington reports Mr Miyaoka the chargé of the Japanese Embassy in Washington denies a Vancouver rumor that Japan is recalling army reserve men in the United States. He says such action would require embassy knowledge and no mobilization order has been issued in Japan.
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Washington
Miyaoka
Vancouver
B. C
Japan
United States
Anxiety in Vancouver sparks Japanese crisis stance
Vancouver police refuse the Asiatic Exclusion League request to search the Oriental quarter for weapons. Two of four Japanese in custody are released on $4,900 bonds, two remain jailed. Japanese business leaders send roses and $100 to injured firemen, but the chief declines the gift, saying the firemen did not deserve such gifts.
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Portland
Ore
Oregonian
Vancouver
B. C
Asiatic Exclusion League
R S& Minturn
Treas
EB 22d
France Expects Peace Amid Diplomacy Over Pacific Open Door
Paris reports deny rumors of France seeking war between Japan and the United States. France reiterates friendship with both nations and offers good offices to ease immigration disputes. Diplomatic voices warn over commercial supremacy in the Pacific and the Open Door policy.
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Paris
France
Japan
United States
Panama Canal
Associated Press
Great Britain
America
California
Pacific
Corea
Manchuria
China
Far East
Cotton Mills to Close Over Federation Demands
Manchester January 6 Indications of a national lockout threaten 150 000 employed in cotton mills owned by 500 Federation of Master Spinners members as firms signalled mill closures if wage demands persist Fifty percent plus of spindles already operate with firms ready to shut by January 25 with penalties for continued operation and no backpay.
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Manchester
Federation of Master Spinners
Lemieux Returns From Japan Mission To Vancouver
Rudolphe Lemieux Canada’s Labour Minister and envoy to Japan arrives in Vancouver with private secretary Captain Verrel. No firm emigration restrictions yet. talks with Count Hayashi yield a verbal promise to seek limits by Japanese government. British Foreign Office notes no treaty amendment needed. Mshii urged limits to Canada and United States.
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Victoria
B. C
Rudolphe Lemieux
Japan
Verrel
Lemieux
Ottawa
Canada
Count Hayashi
Wilfrid Laurier
Foreign Office
Mshii
Ripper Case Reported in Berlin Suburb Charlottenburg
A four year old girl enticed into a house hallway in Charlottenburg last night was stabbed in the abdomen and is expected to die. No trace of the assailant has been found.
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Berlin
Charlottenburg
Bill to shrink regular army to thirty five thousand men
Washington January 6 A bill introduced in the House by Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi calls for reducing the regular army after December 1 198 to 35 000 men with 10 000 to form an artillery coast defence force. The current standing army exceeds 80 000 officers and men.
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Washington
John Sharp Wiliams
Mississippi
Druce perjury case collapses amid exhumation findings
In London on January 6 the perjury charge against Herbert Druce by his nephew George Hollamby Druce collapsed after evidence from the December 30 exhumation of Thomas Charles Druce. The civil suit to recover the Duke of Portland estates will continue. witnesses identified the body as T. C. Druce.
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London
Herbert Druce
George Hollamby Druce
Duke of Portland
Atherley-Jones
Thomas Charles Druce
Augustus J. Pepper
University of London
Pepper
T.C. D
Athelney-Jones
Plowden
George Hollamby
Druce
Caldwell Hearing Postponed In Perjury Indictment Case
Robert C. Caldwell under indictment for perjury in England connected to the T. C. Cruce affair will not appear today before United States Commissioner Alexander. Dr Charles E. Pearson reports Caldwell’s condition improving and says he may be able to attend court within ten days.
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Robert C. Caldwell
England
T. C. Cruce
United States
Alexander
Charles E. Pearson
Staten Island
Caldwell
Canal Zone Government Bill Introduced for Panama Canal
A bill introduced by Representative Mann proposes a Panama Canal Zone government extending five miles each side of the canal and three marine miles from the mouths of the waterway. It envisions a lock canal, new harbors, defense provisions, and President appointed officials including a chief engineer, chief counsel, and governor. The Isthmian Canal Commission would cease July 1, 198 and a new zone government would take effect.
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Washington
Panama Canal Zone
Mann
Ilinois
Wateway
Panama
Senate
Congress
Supreme Court of
Canal Zone
Supreme Court of the United States
Isthmian Canal Commission
Building Loans Pile Up Across City
Theodore Wentz sends to Emil Ginsburger 12608 on a plot at the northwest corner of ISGd st and Beaumont ave for borrow 89500. Moorehead Realty and Construction Company secures a loan of 6700 on a 000 feet parcel on the south side of 149th st 264 feet west of St Ann's ave. Pincus Lowenfeld and William Prager lend 10006 5 to Charles I Weinstein at No 605 East 12th st and No 196 to 26 Avenue B and 10000 on the parcel 90111 1S feet at the southeast corner of 143 st and 7th ave. All are building loans.
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Theodore Wentz
Emil Ginsburger
Isgd
Avenue B
Tth Ave
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RAVEN
Elijah
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Great London Paper
Standard
Knott
Louisville
J. Proctor Knott
Lebanon
MR. Lemieux
Williams
R. Fulton Cutting
Pres. N. Y. Association For Improving
Jens &Gonger
Ween West
Canal Zone Government
Mr. Mann
Vichy
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