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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
1
National City Bank of New York sues for damages in a libel action connected to a voyage from New York to Bar Harbor. The case concerns a ship and cargo including gold, contested by the bank as to breach and liability amid threats of hostile warships.
A US Bureau of Education official says truants officers are shifting from enforcement to addressing underlying home conditions. Many are graduates or social workers, with a focus on family life, marriage laws, and parental support. Proposals include probation for parents, state supervision of dependent children, health checks, better training, and a $100 monthly salary for officers. A permanent city census bureau is urged.
C Tr Isai of Canton China assistant director of the Peking Kalgan Railway died at a local sanitarium after an extended illness. He arrived recently for health and had been in America as China’s railroad official advising on conditions and modernization. He was thirty one.
Great mass meetings were held across Italy today to call attention to rising unemployment and food prices. Resolutions urged relief and recommended large public works. Committees were named to confer with the Cabinet.
New York on December 18 reports two Supreme Court suits by Florence Weissbred and Lonetta Hollander, grandchildren of Frank Leslie, contesting a $1,000,000 bequest to the suffrage cause. They seek $400,000 each from the estate and argue that $200,000 should go to Frank Leslie III and Arthur Leslie. The will left the remainder to Carrie Chapman Catt with a wish the funds advance woman suffrage.
Reports say troops entered Grybow Gorlice and Zmiegrad while the enemy evacuated Zemplin country. In the Carpathians the enemy offered no ground, and Bukowina passes along the Suczawa Valley were held. North of Lowicz allies struck 4 times. fighting continued in Poland with no decisive result. Germans claim success at the Russian center, while Grand Duke cards report captures of prisoners and guns. Russians report losses near Putane.
In Phoenix the governor granted clemency to six condemned men after Arizona voters on November 1 approved abolishing capital punishment. Two sentences were commuted just before the governor prepared election proclamations, while three cases were sent to the attorney general for review.
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