Passports Issued for Ford Peace Expedition
Seventy five passports were issued by the State Department for Ford peace expedition members, valid only in neutral countries. Several were refused for faulty applications or noncitizenship. Officials say the party carries no credentials from the government and will be treated as tourists. Britain indicated landing without proper forms would be forbidden.
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Washington
State Department
Ford
Peace
United States
Peace Party
Henry Ford
Lansing
Wilson
Lansing Shas
Deen
Pssports
Department
Linda
Great Britain
Central committee to organize farmers’ co operatives planned
Plan County Societies Chicago reports a National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits adopts resolutions creating a central committee to organize the farmers of America. The plan forms a permanent agricultural organization with educational work and finance. Prominent sponsors include Hinchot Plunkett Tousley and McVey.
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Chicago
Thle Farmers ‘of America
UWILO
National Conference On Marketing and Farm Credits
Frank L. McVey
University of North Dakota
Gifford Hinchot
Philadelphia
Sir Horace
Plunkett
Ireland
Harris’ Weinstock
San Francisco
BE. M. Tousléy
Minneapolis
Right Relationship League
John Lice Coulter
James Caldwell
Lake City
Minn
Clarence Ousley
Agricultural College of Texas
Fred W. Davis
Texas
Charles ‘W. Dillon
Kansas
Low, Sweet
Denver
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Johnor Common
University of Wisconsin
Gy, R Hitt
Idalia
Edwood Mead
University of California
Hector McPherson
University of Oregon
States
Agricultural Organization Society
America
Iso
Willard to Meet Fulton for Heavyweight Title
New Orleans officials announce Jess Willard will fight Fred Fulton of Rochester Minnesota in a twenty round bout on March 4 for the world heavyweight title. Willard had signed to meet any suitable opponent by December 10 and Moran declined an elimination bout. Fulton’s contract stipulates a $32,500 prize regardless of outcome.
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New Orleans
Jess Willard
Fred Fulton
Rochester
Minn
Ans
Willard
Fulton
Frank Moran
Pittsburgh
Moran
Minnesota
Handwriting Expert Identifies Suspect in Times Bomb Case
Herbert D. Wood a head teller testified that Mathew A Schmidt currently on trial for murder of Charles Hagerty is the man who wrote the order for the high explosive used by James B McNamara to blow up the building.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Herbert D. Wood
Dianapalig Bank
Mathew A. Schmidt
Charles Hagerty
James B. McNamara
Italian Troops Land in Albania Reported by Dispatches
Paris dispatches report detachments of Italian troops landed at Aviona Albania on Tuesday. The Temps cites a Greek capital source indicating the landings were confirmed by a reliable report from Athens.
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Paris
Aviona
Albania
Athens
Repulse of British on Mesopotamia Front Report
Wireless dispatch from Berlin cites Turkish headquarters on December 2 reporting Turkish forces pursuing a retreating British army in Irak front. British losses from November 23 to 26 exceed 4,000. 2,900 wounded were carried off, including Sir Komel, political agent at British HQ. Turks captured Azizi, stores, and 100 camel clinging to British, while British rear guards and war material were left behind. Turkish patrols and a night attack south of Azizi forced further withdrawal toward Kubel Amara near Baghdad. Four British aeroplanes repaired for use, enemy cruiser on Dardanelles front engaged by Turkish torpedo boats and forced to withdraw, hospital shelled, several killed and wounded.
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Berlin
Sayville
Over Seas
Mesopotamia
Irak
Sir Komel
Azizi
Kubel Amara
Bagdad
Tigris
Dardanles
Bahr
Conference on shipping bill reviewed by Wilson advisers
Washington evening conference on the shipping bill brought together Secretaries McAdoo and Redfield Senator Fletcher and Representative Alexander Solicitor Thurman and Coast Guard commander Bertholf to explain differences from last year’s defeated measure and plan another gathering next week McAdoo to brief the President tomorrow on an outline of the new bill
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Washington
McAdoo
Redfield
Fletcher
Alexander Solicitor
Thurman
Department of Commerce
Bertholf
Coast Guard
Alexander
Senate
Wilson
Douglas men fear execution of captured attorney John Cunningham
In Douglas Arizona December 2 friends fear that John W. Cunningham wealth attorney of Tulsa Oklahoma who was reported captured by Villa forces has been executed. Cunningham and two other Americans Gus Hendrickson and I G Stutherd were last seen Monday when leaving Fronteras for Laeja mine 15 miles north of Naeovari.
Two Candidates Nominated for Villa Presidency in Juarez
El Paso Dec 2 reporters say adherents of Gen Emiliano Zapata and Gen Francisco Villa will be nominated as candidates for the presidency of the Villa government at the delegates meeting in Juarez Miguel Diag Lombardo Villa foreign relations minister confirms word reaches us from the convention plans brief note on possible race in northern Mexico politics
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EL Paso
Tex
Emiliano Zapata
Francisco Villa
Villa
Juares
Miguel
Diag Lombardo
Exports Rise for Oil to Holland
London adjourned session hears undersecretary Lord Robert Cecil confirm a large increase in England oil exports to Holland while insisting no linseed oil has been exported since the coalition government formed.
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London
Robert Cecil
Foreign Affairs
Houses of Commons
England
Holland
Democrats Fail To Agree In Senate Conference Over Limits
Washington December 2 Democrats of the senate failed in conference to reach an agreement on a proposal to limit debate. They will resume discussion tomorrow but signals pointed to no cloture pact and a rules fight likely on the floor when Congress convenes next Monday. Administrations readers expect some agreement on rules by Monday as Owens Williams and Walsh support the proposed change. The draft would let the majority push a vote within two days, later revised to cap speaking time at one hour after filibustering is suspected. Senator Pomerenes Ohio and Senator Clarke Arkansas contend for president pro tempore as absences in Illinois New Jersey Tennessee Texas influence the balance.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Owen
Owens
Williams
Walsh
Pomérene
Ohio
James P. Clarke
Arkansas
Lewis
Ilinois
Martine
New Jersey
Lea
Tennessee
Culberson
Texas
Lone bandit robs Wabash agent in Springfield Illinois
A lone armed bandit robbed Ticket Agent Bruno Adams of the Wabash railroad at 5 o'clock tonight in Springfield Illinois. He demanded the till and escaped with $53 after forcing Adams against the wall. One drawer held $35 more that the thief overlooked.
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Springfield
Bruno Adams
Wabash Railroad
Adams
The Panama Pacific Exposition toast by Wilson
The text records President Woodrow Wilson offering a toast at the adjournment of the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco on December 4 1915 at noon. It praises American artistic taste and practical genius shown by the event and envisions a new spirit uniting East and West for world progress and humanity.
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Woodrow Wilson
Panama- Pacific
San Francisco
White House
Washington, D. C
Americas
United States
Press deemed public necessity for Sunday papers
Missouri Supreme Court upheld contracts for Sunday advertising by the Pulitzer Publishing company in St. Louis Post Dispatch. It ruled that publication on Sunday serves public necessity, informing health morals safety and government, and that press is a greater public necessity than railroads or telephones.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court Today
Bar
Pulitzer Publishing Company
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Henry J. McNichols
McNichols
St. Louis Court of Appeals
Post Dispatch
Supreme Court
Christendom
The
Dispatch
Six waiters deny seeing John Halpin in cafe
Chicago December reports state’s six waiter witnesses testifying that John J Halpin former detective chief was not seen with Bart Bertsche or with the Ryan brothers. They covered 1911 to 1913 employment terms at a downtown cafe and did not observe Halpin with suspects. The Ryans and Bertsche claimed Halpin took bribes to shield their clairvoyant parlors swindles.
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Chicago
John Jhalpin
Halpin
Frank Ryan
Ryans
Bertsche
Belmont Club Seeks 1916 Women’s Championship Host
Boston dispatch reports Belmont Spring Country Club has applied to the United States Golf Association to host the 1916 I women’s national championship. The U S G A meeting will be in Chicago in January 1916. Belmont is the only eastern club known to apply for the women’s events, last held in the Boston area at Essex County in 1912.
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Boston
Belmont Spring Country Club
United States Golf Association
Chicago
Belmont
Essex’ County
Jitneys Popular on Coast Sees Bus Fares Rise
In annual reports to the state public service commission, Seattle Tacoma and Bellingham jitneys carried 11,350,000 fares with 9,000,000 diverted in Seattle. The Jitney competition caused a $801,000 drop in Puget Sound Traction Light and Power net railway revenues.
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Olympia
Wash
Seattle
Tacoma
Bellingham
State Public Service Commission
Puget Sound, Traction, Light and Power Company
Exchange of invalids aids Franco German repatriation
BERNE via Paris Dec 2 370 wounded and invalid French soldiers arrived by hospital train from Constance marking a new exchange of incapacitated men between France and Germany. Repatriation of 25000 French civilians evacuated north France will begin.
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Berne
Paris
Constance
Germany
France
Sion
Kitchener reports on Near East and Rome trip shown
London dispatch notes Earl Kitchener’s war council meeting and a cabinet briefing on his travels to the Near East, Rome, and Paris. Italy joins London treaty pledging no separate peace and offering aid to Serbia, with Greek rail and waters negotiations ongoing. Front reports cite Russian movements, Balkan struggles, and heavy artillery in Flanders as the next offensive looms, amid Austrian-German political signals and press peace chatter.
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London
Earl Kitchener
Near East
Rome
Paris
Italy
Baron Sorinino
Balkans
Greece
Constantine
Great Britain
France
Russia
Monastir
Albania
Bulgaria
Rumania
Bessarabia
Galicia
Flanders
Germany
Twelve Hamburg American line men found guilty in fraud case
In New York on December 2 the jury in U S district court found four Hamburg American Line officials guilty of conspiracy to deceive and defraud the United States by obtaining clearances for relief ships carrying coal and supplies to German cruisers. Sentences not set, judge to hear motions to set aside verdict. appeal expected. Defendants include Dr Karl Buenz George Kotter Adolph Hachmeister and Joseph Poppinghaus. A fifth defendant Felix Seffner was not tried and remains a Canadian detainee awaiting.
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New York
United States District Court
United States
Atlantic
Howe
Stomory Row
Federal
Karl Buenz
Buenz
Kotter
Hachmeister
Poppinghaus
Hamburg
Dee Side
Cateer
Loreen
William Rand
Alleged accomplice in ship supply conspiracy cited
Lewis J. Shieh, accused with Charles C Crawley of conspiring to destroy vessels carrying supplies to the alles, told federal officers he had nothing more to say. Don Rathbun of the Justice Department said Shieh arrived from Detroit for winter surveillance but a warrant remains unserved. He appeared before the federal grand jury today.
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San Francisco
Lewis J. Shieh
Charles C Crawley
Alles
Don Rathbun
Department ‘of Justice
Smith
Detroit
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Championship of World
Maay Halt Organization
Lone Bandit
Wabash
Road
Oye
Missouri
John Ralpin
Kitchener
Gabinet Meeting
TALY
Bal‘kan
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