Villa death rumors swirl as wires fail. Lopez theory revived
El Paso April 18 A Carranza general says telegraph lines near Juarez and Chihuahua were blown down cutting news on Francisco Villa’s fate. Consul Letcher reports no knowledge of a body find. Rumors persist that the dead brigand is Pablo Lopez, the Santa Ysabel butcher, while typhus epidemics threaten northern Mexico amid sanitations failures and fleeing doctors.
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EL Paso
Texas
Gavira
Carranza
Juarez
Chihuahua
Pearson
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua City
Associated Press
Letcher
Pablo Lopez
Santa Ysabel
Villa
Guerrera
Cusihuiriachic
Mexico
Letcher Wires
Army Aviation Corps Shakeup Foretold By Baker
Washington April 18 Secretary Baker forecast creation of a separate aviation corps distinct from the signal corps as part of a broader shakeup in the flying branch following an aviation service inquiry. Measures also censured Col. Goodier and Gen. Scriven and relieved Lieut. Col. Reber as the aviation section reorganized under secretary Baker’s direction.
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Washington
Army Corps
Signal Corps
Baker
Army
War Department
Lewis E. Goodier
Western Department
Col. Goodier
Wilson
George P. Scriven
Aviation Corps
Samuel Reber
Female Help Withdrawn at Liverpool Dock
Liverpool officials withdraw all female helpers employed by the Dock commission after members of the Dockers union refuse to work with women. The move follows ongoing labor tensions and affects staffing at the docks.
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Liverpool
Dockers’ Union
Liverpool Dock Commission
French Fire Sweeps Back German Line At Verdun Front
German infantry attacks along the Meuse at Douaumont were repulsed by French artillery and fire with only a small foothold gained in Chauffeur wood. Heavy shelling struck hill 304 northwest of Verdun and French air force bombed numerous German positions as British and German bombardments continue across Belgium and France. Russians shelling Dvina line, Austro Italian front sees repulses, while Russians advance near Trebizond in Asiatic Turkey.
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Meuse
Douaumont
Verdun
Kers
Belgium
France
St. Elai
Ypres- Comines Canal
Dvina
Ikskull
Dvinsk
Lake
Galicia
Stripa River
Teutons
Petrograd
Lugana
Sarganza Torrent
Mont Cello
Asiatic
Turkey
Black Sea
Surmeneh
Arsen Kelessi
Trebizond
Funston's Staff Plans Campaign in Punitive Expedition
San Antonio April 18 Gen Funston and his staff pressed the punitive expedition campaign amid uncertain reports on Francisco Villa's death. Pershing withheld any statement on a possible Villa body finding while Mexican and American sources offered only unconfirmed or fragmentary details from Parral. The Parral invitation story centers on a Parral captain who invited American troops and rode with them to Parral, with Major Tompkins sending a courier in advance. his fate remains unknown.
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San Antonio
Texas
Francisco Villa
Funston
Pershing
Villa
Garcia
Parral
Ile
Tompkins
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Baker
Carranza
Merrico
Washington
Norse Steamer Repelera Sunk in Baltic Sinkings
LONDON April 17 The Norwegian steamer Repelera has been sunk. Her crew was rescued.
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London
Repelera
Death of Villa Still Not Confirmed From Capital
Washington reports lack confirmation on Francisco Villa's death as of Monday night with only a Mexico dispatch suggesting he and followers fled toward San Barja near Parral. Six raiders captured for Columbus trial and troops well supplied aside from horse shoes and clothing.
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Washington
Francisco Villa
State
War Departments
Mexico
Howze
11Th Cavalry
Parral
San Barja
War Department
Columbus
N. M
Villa
Chihuahua City
America 10 Fight Only for Humanity
President Wilson on April 18 addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington. He said the United States may use force only to defend humanity, not for self gain, arguing the republic exists to serve the world and will forget its tradition if it fights solely for itself. The audience cheered as he spoke.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Wilson
America
Republic
William Cumming Story
Organization
Wood Pulp Plants Close in Sweden
Stockholm dispatch reports many northern Sweden wood pulp factories forced to shut due to scarce tonnage and prohibitively high freight rates.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Fire Marshal Bennett orders shelters and extinguishers across Springfield
State Fire Marshal Walter H. Bennett required 19 public buildings in Springfield to install additional fire escapes and extinguishers after a city inspector found conditions disgraceful. The order, issued last week, targets the courthouse, city hall, and sixteen schools with possible prosecutions for noncompliance.
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Springfield
Walter H. Bennett
Bennett
Court House
City Hall
Iowa Voters to Decide Woman Suffrage in June Primary
Des Moines Iowa April 18 Gov Clark issues proclamation to submit constitutional amendment for woman suffrage to voters at the June 5 1916 primary. Attorney general holds action necessary since amendment is to be voted on at a primary not a regular election.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Parral Snipers Wound Tompkins And Five of 13th
Report from Parral describes casualties in a skirmish with the 13th Cavalry. Dead Sergt Joe Ridgley and Private Herbert Leford after action. Wounded Major Frank Tompkins Lieut James B Ord Corporal Benjamin McGillel Corporal W E Willingham Corporal Richard Taunous Private I M Shecler. Private Charles Eichenberger missing. Taunous injury listed as serious.
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Joe Ridgley
Herbert Leford
Frank Tompkins
James B. Ord
Benjamin McGillel
W. E. Willingham
Richard Taunous
I. M. Shecler
Charles Eichenberger
Lieut
Ord
Sixth Infantry
13Th Cavalry
Taunous
Efforts to Amend Army Bill Are Defeated in Senate
Washington April 18 Efforts to amend the army reorganization bill were defeated in rapid succession in the Senate on the eve of passage. Debate over the National Guard drew sharp exchanges as Senator Borah defended his charges of waste and embezzlement while Reed and Pomerone backed the guard.
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Washington
Senate
Guard
Senator Borah
National Guard
Reed
Pomerone
Borah
Man Falls Forty Feet and Lives in Illinois
W A Mergenthaler of Chicago, an employee of Cusack Advertising, fell forty feet Sunday from a hotel roof in Springfield. He suffered seven broken ribs a broken pelvis and spine injury but has a fair chance to live. He previously recounts a similar forty foot fall in New York years ago with leg injuries, while inspecting firm signs.
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Springfield
Ill
W. A. Morganthaler
Chicago
Cusack Advertising Company
Mergenthaler
New York
Advances in coal prices forecast by Chicago official
N H Kendall commissioner of the Chicago Coal Merchants association said coal prices will rise this year by ten to fifty cents per ton. He attributed higher production costs to wage increases in soft coal regions unsettled anthracite conditions and higher costs for explosives and supplies. The winter price schedule will continue during wage scale negotiations.
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Chicago
N. H. Kendall
Chicago Coal Merchants’ Association
Kendall
Sullivan Granted 90 Day Respite in Insurance Swindle Case
President Wilson has granted a 90 day respite to Percy B. Sullivan of Springfield HL who was sentenced to three years imprisonment for using the mails to defraud in an alleged insurance swindle. The government will investigate newly discovered evidence in the case.
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Washington
Wilson
Percy B. Sullivan
Springfield
Gilt Edge Express Telescopes Local Train Crash at Bedford
April 18 reports from Bedford Rhode Island say the Gilt Edge Express Boston to New York rear ended train 623 Boston to New London at Bedford. Early word cited 50 killed with cars burning, several bodies recovered and many injured. New Haven railroad officials later reported one death, and other estimates ranged up to three dead and twelve injured.
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Providence
R. L
Boston
New York
New London
Bedford
Westerly
R. 1
R. I
New Haven
New Haven Railroad
P. C. Litchfield
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Express Crash Kills Seven In Bradford Station
A fogbound New Haven line express crashed into a stopped local at Bradford Rhode Island. Seven in the rear coach died instantly, one more passenger Oscar Martell of South Bridge Mass died later, with thirty five injured. Dead identified as Thomas Bordman Westerly Jeanette Clark Marguerite Bliss and J F Barbour Westerly. Investigators cite wrong signals or misread signals as the probable cause.
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Bradford
R. I
New York New Haven and Hartford
Oscar Martell
South Bridge
Mass
New London
Thomas Bordman
Westerly
Jeanette Clark
William Clark
American Thread Company
Marguerite Bliss
J. F. Barbour
Fire from wreckage spreads to station in Bradford
A New Haven railroad wreck at Bradford Rhode Island killed or burned to death over 30 people in a rear coach of a Boston to New London local. The Gilt Edge Express collided, setting cars and station ablaze and hampering rescue efforts. Officials later capped fatalities at no more than three.
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New York
Whaler
New Haven Railroad
Bradford
R. T
Norwegian government buys three motor steamers
COPENHAGEN Special The Norwegian government has purchased three motor steamers the Bandon Champen and Pangan from the East Asiatic company of Copenhagen for 9 000 000 kroner 2 500 000. The ships will be exclusively for the service of the Norwegian State Supply commission.
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Copenhagen
Norwegian Goverment
Bandon
Champen
Pangan
East Asiatic Company of
State Supply Commission
Enormous Dividend Declared by Ferm Shipping
STOCKHOLM Special report The Ferm Shipping company led by minister of marine M Brostrum has declared a dividend of 216 percent for 96 The dividend three years ago stood at 20 percent.
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Stockholm
Ferm Shipping Company
M. Brostrum
French Capture Submarine Crew After Sussex Torpedoing
London dispatch reports the Daily Mail stating the French have captured the submarine that torpedoed the Sussex and taken prisoner its captain and crew. The note reflects allied wartime claims and includes unnamed specifics.
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London
Sussex
The
Daily Mail
Dock Workers Organized in England Battalion
A transport workers battalion is being formed from dock workers enlisted in army units to relieve congestion at the docks. The battalion will be mobile and personnel will be moved to locations as required.
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London
England
Army
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Army Aviation Corps
Thirteenth Cavalry
Caranza
Gen. Pershing
Capital
State Department
United States
Can Ranza
Iran Rader
Express
Czad
Sullivan
New York, New Haven and Hartford
M. H. Scanlon
Janet Clark
W. M. Barber
Bay Motor Steamers
Sineer
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