Navy Bill in Danger of Defeat
Washington march 3 final enactment of the naval bill was seriously threatened Friday night by the house refusal to accept the senate amendment authorizing a 159 million bond issue. The house adopted a Kitchin resolution declaring the senate action unconstitutional. The debate centered on continuing the shipbuilding program and funding for submarines and naval yards.
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Senate
Kitchin
Swanson
Padgett
Louse Naval Committee
Guns Ready at Navy Yards for U S Ships
Navy yards have guns mounts and ammunition ready to arm American merchant ships once orders are issued by President Wilson. Equipping each ship may take three to five days, depending on hull strength and magazine installation, with crews selected from former Navy gunners or yard personnel. Machine guns and aircraft ammo advances may be added as needed to counter submarines and Zeppelins.
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Washington
Navy Yards
Wilson
Navy
Atlantic Coast Navy Yard
Department
Aio
Great Britain
Arming of American ships moves toward congressional approval
In Washington on March od the Senate debated the President's armament bill and use of other instrumentalities to defend American rights. A $100 million bond plan was under discussion as leaders expected swift passage. The House may adopt the Senate version allowing broader defense tools. The cabinet met to review the crisis with no public outcome, while news noted Germany would free Yarrowdale prisoners on March 7 after a typhus quarantine incident.
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March
Econgress
Wilson
Navy Department
Senate
House
Federal Risk Bureau
Congress
Germany
Yarrowdale
Methodist Pension Fund Reaches One Million Milestone
Dr Joseph B Hlingeley announces receipt of 300000 from Mrs Willis James New York completing a 1 000 000 gift to the Methodist Episcopal church pension fund for preachers widows and orphans of deceased ministers in Chicago on March 3.
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Joseph B Hlingeley
Board of Conference Claimants
Willis James
New York
Methodist Episcopal Church
China Seeks Guarantee to Enter World War War
Washington reports China negotiates with entente powers for entry into the war against the central powers. Beijing seeks guarantees including remission of Boxer Indemnities, permission to raise import duties, and assurances on subsidies as laborers already head to France and other fronts. Potential severance of relations with Germany looms as talks progress.
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China
Peking
Germany
Austria
Entente
Tientsin
France
Belgium
Athos
First Chief Refuses to See Cailers
GUADALAJARA March 3 Gen Carranza kept his cabinet secretive and refused to see interviewers about a note from German foreign minister Alfred Zummermann proposing an alliance with Japan and Mexico to attack the United States. Officials doubted the plan was presented or that it was accepted.
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Carranza
Alfred Zummermann
Japan
Mexico
United States
Death of Conry Cuts House Vote Balance
Representative Michael F. Conry of New York City died at 47 after a long kidney illness. His death may affect control of the next house with 215 Democrats and 215 Republicans, plus five independents. A November election would restore even balance before the December session as Conry represented a safety Democratic district.
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Washington
Michael F. Conry
New York City
New York
Conry
Tammany
Taxicab Driver Shot By His Fare in Connecticut
Charles A Taft a Hartford taxicab driver was murdered while driving toward Berlin Connecticut. His body was found slumped over the steering wheel with a bullet wound in the back of the head. Gasoline and a spark had not been shut off and the engine ran until fuel exhausted, the car jammed against an obstruction. Taft's clothing was searched his valuables taken and private papers examined at the radiator and headlights before being discarded.
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New Britain
Conn
Charles A. Taft
Hartford
Berlin
Taft
Adoptions of Adults Declared Illegal by Court
Supreme court of Alnois rules that adoptions of adults are illegal in the case of Mrs. Lillian E. Davis. The decision, handed down two weeks ago, reverses Cook County circuit court, with Justice Duncan dissenting. The ruling jeopardizes inheritance rights to millions in property associated with the adult adoption.
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British advance and German withdrawal on the Somme fronts
British troops pushed north of Warlencourt and Faucourt and northwest of Puisieux au Mont as German retirement on the Arras Somme sectors appears near complete. In the Ancre region German attacks were repulsed, 128 prisoners, three machine guns and four trench mortars taken. The weather turned harsh with thawing mud and dense fog challenging movement.
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Faucourt
Puisieux-Au- Mont
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Ancre
Priess
Brupish
France
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Essarts
Achiet-Le- Petit
Bapaume
Loupart Wood
Nu Man's
Somme
Gennans
Senate Assents To Bone Dry Bill
Washington March 3 Approval of the conference report in the 350 million postoffice appropriation bid with its bone dry amendment for bidding the shipment of liquor into prohibition states was voted by the senate without a roll call. It was agreed to by the house and now goes to the President for his signature. President Wilson is expected by advisers to sign the measure. Some fear a veto and petitions to the White House. The appropriation covers the fiscal year beginning July and the bone dry amendment becomes effective immediately upon the President's signature.
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Senate
House
Wilson
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White House
Whig Want Ads Serve All Purposes In Town
Classified ads fill needs from sales to services as residents post notices. Listings cover jobs, rentals, items for sale, and personal notices, reflecting a bustling marketplace where buyers and sellers connect daily through brief entries.
Senate recess delays armed neutrality bill vote
In Washington on March 30 after eight hours of debate the senate recessed until 10 a m without a vote time for the armed neutrality bill. Sen Labollette withdrew opposition to a house pass and a senate substitute was discussed as conference looms. Senate leaders expect the house to accept the senate measure in conference amid calls to move quickly.
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Labollette
House
Stone
Tritchcock
Foreign Relations Committee
Elaborate spy plot uncovered in federal indictments
New York indictments charge Albert A. Sander Carl W. Wannenberg and George Vaux Bace with organizing a spy ring that used invisible ink to pass military and civil conditions of England to Germany. Bacon allegedly traveled to England as a supposed newspaper correspondent aided by the others with lists of Holland and Denmark contacts and 1000 dollars for the journey. The case alleges they set in motion a military enterprise aimed at sending intelligence against a nation at peace with the United States.
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Great Britain
Germany
England
Albert A. Sander
Carl W. Wannenberg
George Vaux Bace
Federal Grand Jury
Bacon
Sander and Wannenberg
Holland
Denmark
Germain
Hidden portions of Zimmermann note stir cautious talk
Washington reports intense speculation over a verbatim Zimmermann note sent through Ambassador von Bernstorff. Officials reportedly withheld key sections from publication, prompting guesses about how the document reached the United States and which sources held it. Possible paths include domestic agents, British officials in Mexico City, or a neutral intermediary.
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Mexico City
Carranza
War Pact Denied by Jap Envoy Torio
Viscount Motono, Japan's foreign minister, told the Associated Press that Japan has received no formal or informal proposal from Mexico or Germany to join a potential war against the United States. He called such a notion ridiculous and suggested Mexico would not pass along any proposal. A separate Mexican official, Garcia, said only a few German-named soldiers existed in the Mexican army, that conditions are improving, and gold and silver money circulate freely in Mexico City while the de facto government maintains control.
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Congress
Germany
United States
Hitchcock
Senator Lodge
Torio
Japan
Mexico
Viscount Morono
Associated Press
Viscount Motono
Paso Pesas
Mexico ix
Anedres Garcia
Amiexis van Colsulates
Mexico City
Gareia
el Paso
Zapata
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Cvnion
Wols
Creede Wilson
G Mins
2Noudmann
British forces press retreat toward Aziziyah in Mesopotamia
Turkish retreating troops reached Aziziyah about 40 miles southwest of Baghdad as British forces under General Maude pursued and reported 4300 prisoners and captured guns. The second day of the German unrestricted submarine campaign brought no vessel sinkings reported.
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Kut-El-Amara
Aziziyah
Bagdad
Musa
London
Kut
Maude
Legislat ors Scrap: One in the Hospital
Chicago report states M F Maher state representative from the 2st district is hospitalized after a reportedly violent incident with Joseph A G Trandel state representative from the Utah district aboard a Chicago and Alton train last Tuesday. Police officer Derrig arrested Maher and had him treated. Municipal court case postponed to March 24.
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Chicago
M. F. Maher
Joseph A. G. Trandel
Utah
Chicago and Alton
Trandel
Charles Derrig
Maher
Mexican Envoy in Paris Denounces German Propaganda
The Mexican envoy to France denounces German propaganda and declares Mexicans largely favor the Entente. He praises the French language and culture in Mexico, notes widespread anti German sentiment, and comments on Zimmermann notes as deceptive. He warns of German methods to sway opinion and outlines Mexico’s alignment with allied powers. He references U.S. relations and German aims regarding the United States.
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Mestee
Zimmermann Ag
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