Pressure grows to retain Edward Beam on Missouri Public Service Commission
Jefferson City reports say lawmakers from Southeast Missouri push to reappoint Edward J. Beam of JeSoto to the Public Service Commission after his vote against the 6 cent streetcar fare angered public utility interests. Senators Harrison and Mayes lead the drive, urging Beam’s return but signaling a fallback Southeast Missouri candidate if not.
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Jefferson City
Gardner
Edward J. Beam
JeSoto
Missouri Ublic Service Commission
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Bean
Haveeen
Dean
William G. Busby
Carrollton
Norman
Stodlard County
Keith
Tron County
Anderson
Scote County
Beane
Maves
Penisentt County
Tarrison
Dunklin County
Cuningham
Shannon County
Senate
Gove
Busby
Mair
Simpson
Noutheast
Flad
Mayes
Public Service Commission
Becamie
United Railways
Kansas City Railways
Sean
Ther
Southeast Missouri
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Democracy supper aids anti lynching effort in Quincy
The Quincy NAACP branch invites the public to a democracy supper at Elm Street Baptist Church on March 15 with a tabloid concert to follow. Proceeds fund the anti lynching campaign as NAACP statistics show lynching declines from 224 in 1917 to 64 in 1918, underscoring reform needs and national citizenship ideals. MARTHA R. MARTIN. Quincy, March Ef.
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Ibear
Quincy
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Elm Street Baptist Church
Antilynching Fund
E. L. Johnston
Shubuta
Miss
America
Martha R. Martin
Quincy, March
Poland approves universal military service law in Warsaw
The Potlah national assembly in Warsaw approves a unanimous law calling for compulsory service class 7 89 and 1296. The measure aims to build a 600,000 man army with left deputies strongly favoring the bill.
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Poland
Oalla
Var
Warsaw
Cossacks Demand Return of Troops Who Made Mutiny
At a conference at Khabarovsk the Ussuri Cossacks authorized protest to Washington over American interference after a group surrendered to U.S. forces. Col Morrow outlined the American stance while noting detachment self rule and disarmament. The dispute involves General Graves and Japanese officials over custody of mutinous Cossacks and arms.
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Associated Press
Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Washington
Col. Morrow
William S. Graves
U.S. A
Kalmikoff
Graves
Lodge and Lowell prepare talk on native covenant in Boston
Tickets for a March 19 discussion at Symphony Hall drew heavy demand as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Harvard president A Lawrence Lowell prepare a wide latitude talk on the covenant backed by President Wilson. Lodge to speak twice, Lowell once, with time balanced.
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Boston
Symphony Hall
Henry Cabot Lodge
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
League of Natives
Senator Lodge
Dr. Lowell
Dr Lowell
Wilson
Gas Masks Worthless To Firemen Miners
Washington dispatch reports the Bureau of Mines warns army gas masks are largely useless for firemen and miners. They are dangerous to use where gas is confined and cannot filter carbon monoxide. Civil use is limited to specific chemical and metallurgical settings including sulfur fumes chlorine and bleaching powder processes.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Manning
Photoplay Scene Is Restrained By Court
NEW YORK March 11 Justice Cohalan restrained for three days an exhibition of a banquet scene in a photoplay depicting Countess Von Bernstorff wife of the former German ambassador to the United States as an accessory to a murder plot hatched by her husband The photoplay company brief asked the judge to force Miss Pauline Lewis to reveal who commissioned the action claiming she acted for a next friend whose name was withheld
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New York
Countess von Bernstorff
United States
Cohalan
Supreme Court
Photoplay Corporation
Cohaalan
Pauline Lewis
Miss Lewis
Indictment Arguments In Townley Gilbert Case In Supreme Court
In St Paul Minnesota March 11 demurrers to the joint indictment against A C Townley president of the National Non Partisan League and Joseph Gilbert and the separate indictment against Gilbert on a disloyalty charge will be argued in the Minnesota Supreme Court. The defendants are accused of conspiring in late 1917 to teach and advocate in printed matter circulated in Jackson county that citizens should not enlist in the military or aid the government in prosecuting the war.
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ST. Paul, Minn
A. Co. Townley
National Non-Partisan League
Joseph Gilbert
Gilbert
Minnesota Supreme Court
Townley
Jackson County
Ansell Issues Reply In Crowder Military Justice Dispute
Washington March 12 Lieut Col Samuel T Ansell a former acting judge advocate general has submitted a statement to Acting Secre Crow ell in reply to Gen Enoch H Crowder on the controversy over military justice He blames the War Secretary and seeks publicity equal to Crowder though the reply was not made public Rep Gould charged the War Department punished Ansell for opposing a powerful department clique Crowder heads to Cuba for election law revisions Kreger designated acting JAG arrives New York General Chamberlains inquiry scope unclear and may cover criticisms of the military justice system rather than individuals The Ansell reply addresses Crowders charge that Ansell moved irregularly to gain his post.
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Washington
Samuel T. Ansell
Secre
Crowell
Enoch H. Crowder
Secretary Baker
Crowder
Col
Ansell
Col. Ansell
Representative Gould
New York
Baker
Gould
War Department
Edward A. Kreger
America
Fiis
Cuba
Chamberlain
General Crowder
Inspector General
Sold Fleet Of Planes To Bolsheviks
Lieut Porten, ex German aviation officer, was court martialed in connection with selling an entire park of airplanes at Vilna to the Bolsheviks for 2 000 000 marks. The planes were valued at 10 000 000 marks. Porten fled to Koenigsburg and led a conspiracy against the German garrison commander at Kovno before being arrested.
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London
Porten
Berlin
Copenhagen
Vilna
Koenigsburg
Kovno
Red Agitators Face Federal Court in Wichita
Arrangements were completed for federal court in Wichita to hear the cases of 32 alleged Industrial Workers of the World members. They are accused of involvement in a plot to overthrow the U S government and create a reign of terror akin to Russia. Arrests occurred across Kansas in fall 1917 on charges including espionage act violations, sabotage, strikes, and violence in oil and wheat fields, per District Attorney Robertson.
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Wichita
Kan
Industrial Workers of the World
United States
Russia
Kansas
Robertson
Carranza Orders Royalty Tax On Oil In Mexico
In Mexico City a decree demands immediate payment of royalty taxes on oil produced in January and February, reopening tensions with foreign oil firms. The move follows Carranza’s earlier decree that oil lands be state property and drew protests from the United States Britain France and the Netherlands amid a broader dispute over foreign involvement in Mexico’s oil industry.
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Carranza
Mexico
Washington
United States
Mexico City
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
von Eckhardt
Carranza presses tax payments after Congress adjourns
The leader holds enforcement of his decree in abeyance pending new law approval by Congress. With Congress adjourning without action, Carranza now seeks to compel payment of the taxes.
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Congress
Carranza
Boundary Decisions Framed for Quick Conference Action
Paris March 11 The boundary commissions report progress under supreme council instructions for rapid action. If unanimity fails they will present multiple viewpoints for council decision. American members are described as coldly judicial and nonpartisan, drawing partisan criticisms daily.
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Paris
Boundary Commissions
Peace Conference
Supreme Council
Safety Boxes in Demand Across Midwest Banks
Chicago March 12 Every safety deposit vault in the county is rented with waiting lists. Bank operation leaders from sixteen Midwest states note a year backlog in filling orders. Demand driven by wartime production limits and the heavy load of liberty bonds.
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Chicago
Middlewest
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