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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1915
Page
1
Commerce Secretary advocates creation or strengthening of a shipping regulatory body. The move aims to oversee maritime policy, logistics, and international trade, signaling a push for structured oversight in shipping operations.
Secretary Redfield proposes a shipping board to regulate and build merchant ships in government yards, with private operation and public stock. The plan would allow government to organize corporations, subscribe to stock, and lease or sell vessels to private firms for foreign trade, with naval auxiliaries in war. He cites Britain and Germany, urges about 900 ships for US fleet, notes postwar registry questions.
Detectives tracing a pair of discolored eyes linked to Mrs Ida May Mathers led to the arrest of her husband in St Louis. He was wanted at North Chillicothe Illinois for blowing a post office safe and in Springfield Illinois for breaking jail. He confessed and showed wounds from a posse shootout after a jail escape on January 31, 1915.
State Auditor Brady announced two bank permits in Springfield on December 15. The Commercial Trust and Savings Bank of Decatur is organized by J. H. Howard A. E. Hanson and C. W. Mitchell with $100 000 capital. The Farmers Exchange State Bank of Woodstock lists George M. Hoy Fremont Hoy John M. Hoy and William P. Hoy as organizers.
In New York on December 15 the Anglo French five percent external war loan of 500 million dollars saw 280 million withdrawn for investment at 26 1 2 and 40 million sold at 98 with 180 million unpaid to be distributed among syndicate members this week. The issue was praised as a landmark foreign flotation by American bankers and influenced other bond markets as about 2.4 million in par value bonds traded. Major buyers included Bethlehem Steel Du Pont Powder United States Steel and other industrials. German and Austrian bonds traded lower as German mark depreciation continued with the unit value drifting to a fraction above 18 cents.
Rep Tavenner of Illinois urged government manufacture of all war materials in a House speech. He charged four firms have had a wartime monopoly since 1886 and profited from munitions sales, with potential 20 to 60 percent savings if produced by arsenals or naval yards. He linked powder contracts with German dealers to Senator Du Pont’s past interests, provoking a sharp response from Rep Miller.
Montana faculty athletic committee approved a football game with Syracuse University to be played in Syracuse New York. The announcement notes a prior Missoula meeting where Montana, lighter by about fifteen pounds per man, held Syracuse to a six to six tie and excelled in line plunging and offensive play.
Italian destroyer Intrepida and transport Re Umberto were sunk in the Adriatic by drifting mines. All crew members were saved except forty aboard the transport and three on the destroyer.
The Austrian reply to the U.S. note on the Ancona incident has been delivered to U. S. ambassador Frederick C. Penfield in Vienna. It states willingness to exchange views with Washington and leaves to the cabinet the task of defining the commander of the sinking to meet the alleged legal maximum, while expressing sympathy for American victims.
Vienna reports Austro-Hungarian admiralty fully approves the submarine commander who sank the Italian steamer Ancona. It says he acted to prevent escape and within instructions, despite American protests over loss of life. A U.S. note reply is expected soon with a likely pessimistic tone.
Washington December 15 Dr Anna Howard Shaw retiring president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association declares the United States cannot mediate between warring nations because it denies justice to its own women. She blasts American justice and questions constitutional rights used to argue nations’ obligations. The convention named her honorary president for life and discussed Carrie Chapman Catt’s possible presidency as officers to be nominated. A proposal to unite with the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to push a federal suffrage amendment was circulated but deferred.
General Frank McIntyre told the Senate Philippines committee that polygamy cannot be prevented in the islands without bloodshed. He urged removing a paragraph banning plural marriages to grant Filipinos greater self-government and proposed independence when it serves U S interests instead of a fixed pledge. He noted Moros practice and opposition to creating a bureau to oversee non Christian tribes.
The Times reports that Henry Ford's peace party will not be allowed to land at Kirkwall where the steamer Oscar N. arrived on Wednesday.
In Mexico City a telegram reports Gen Juan Hernandez, a Diaz ally and Puebla governor, beheaded as a tactic by the constitutionalist forces. The head was sent to Gen Pablo Gonzales amid claims of advancing peace and victory over reactionaries.
Three University of Illinois students were dismissed and three others placed on probation today for scalping tickets to the Chicago-Illinois football game. Names are withheld by university officials. Dismissed students may return next semester but lose all credit for work done so far this year.
New York December 15 Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago spoke at the Bankers' club to claim near unanimity in the middle west for preparedness. He led a Chicago business delegation seeking support for securing Chicago as the site of the Republican national convention, guests of Henry Clews.
The duke of Manchester was adjudged bankrupt. A plan to settle his affairs, promised last week for creditors, was not submitted and his attorney asked for a six week extension to adjust the case.
Venice describes a city turned war zone as Allied forces and Italian defenses guard a strategic canal system. Grand canal hosts warships and a towering dirigible while sandbagged Campanile and armored Doges Palace illustrate the city’s siege posture. Fortifications protect artworks relocated to Florence and other safe locales from aerial threats.
Reports from Durango describe Dec 12 street fighting in San Juan Del Rio with hand to hand combat. Villa forces suffered heavy casualties and prisoners as Carranza troops captured material. Gen Gala vis killed and Gen Porfirio Martinez wounded. further skirmishes reported near San Luis Potosi as 6 brigades under Gen Jacinto Treviño move toward Jiminez for a Chihuahua campaign.
President Wilson's defense program was outlined and supported in addresses delivered here today before the Southern Commercial congress by Secretary Daniels of the Navy Henry C Breckenridge assistant secretary of war and Representative L P Padgett chairman of the house naval committee. The day’s program devoted entirely to national defense closed with a military and naval parade by state troops and warships in Charleston harbor.
The 1915 harvest set records in value and production due to World War I. The Agriculture Department estimated total crop value at 5.57 billion dollars, with corn and wheat leading gains. Acreage across principal crops reached a record high, and yields topped previous records in oats, rice, hay, and potatoes, though potatoes output lagged despite vast plantings.
Decatur man Mueller of Decatur Illinois was elected captain of Cornell’s 1916 football squad at the annual banquet. He is a junior and was a substitute fullback last year, starting fullback this season, and leads the champion squad.
The day in Congress opened at noon with miscellaneous business discussed. The Ways and Means Committee submitted a majority report urging a one year extension of the emergency revenue law. The session adjourned at 2 13 p m until noon Thursday. The Senate was not in session.
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