Praise to American industry in ordnance program
Washington March 1 Major General Clarence Williams chief of ordnance credits American industry science and engineers with creating and sustaining the wartime American ordnance program. He praises civilian life officers and 5,000 private plants for producing 190,000 components in 6,900 plants, arguing this collaboration secured ultimate victory and must continue to keep the nation prepared for future war.
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Washington
Ordnance Corps
Regular Army
Clarence ©. Williams
Ordnance
Mfe
Ordnance Department
Army Ordnance Department
Resulir
Ing
Department
Williams
Germany
Bart
Florida crops damaged by heavy rains wipe out tomatoes
Damaged Florida crops reported March 19 as heavy rains across Brevard and Polk counties practically wiped out the water tomato crop. The text notes extensive agricultural losses and mentions related rates and offers in a separate, unclear segment.
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Florida
Damare
Rainea
Tale
Breward
Test Suit Challenges Wartime Prohibition Rules
New York news reports a stockholders suit filed in federal court by Joseph I. Everard challenging the emergency wartime prohibition as unconstitutional. The plaintiff seeks to halt May 1 production suspensions and July 1 sales, arguing no emergency justifies restricting beer and near beer. The complaint, with Elihu Root as counsel, attacks treasury and regulatory limits and asserts the action harms the Everard brewery’s profit and control.
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New York
James Everard
Joseph I. Everard
Elihu Root
Wilson
Congress
Internal Revenue Department
Compress
Autherttus
Residus Am
Everard Breweres
Tle
Pi Hej
Report on kidnapping and execution reaches governor
Douglas Ariz March 15 County attorney Robert N French says he sent to Governor Campbell a report on the investigation of the alleged kidnapping from Douglas and the December 16 execution in Agua Prieta Sonora of Adolf Leyvas an American citizen Jingiee with Dro Enrique De Huerta a Spaniard and Tranquilnio sil a Mexican involved in the murder of a Mexican collector and theft of funds belonging to the Mexican government
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Douglas
Ariz
Robert N. French
Thomas E. Campbell
Agua Prieta
Sonora
Mexico
Adolf Leyvas
Dro Enrique de Huerta
Tranquilnio Sil
Vernent
Brinds
Levvas
Huerta
Sova
Dioughis
Trotzky Narrow Escape From Assassin Reveals Attack
Dispatch to the Daily Mail reports Leon Trotzky escaped an assassination as he traveled from Petrograd toward the Riga front aboard a train. At a small station three Bed Guard members fired on him as he left a sleeping car. One staff member was killed and another wounded. A separate note cites vast wartime publications and monetary value sent to troops.
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Leon Trotekey
Sena Dav
Daily Mail
Foona
Petroyad
Red Army
Riga
McCormick Calls Censorship a Coup Against Will of People
Senator elect Medill McCormick, Illinois Republican, denounces censorship of news to Europe as blocking American opinion and the Senate stance on the League of Nations. He cites Knox Lodge resolution supporters and says the peace conference should first make peace with Germany and invite Lodge Knox Hitchcock to craft a League plan.
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Washington
Medill McCormick
Illinois
America
Great Britain
France
League of Nations
Europe
Wilson
Hughes
Bryan
Taft
McCormick
Germany
Lodge
Knox
Hitchcock
Senate
Public Service Railway Strike Talks Continue In New Jersey
Representatives of about 4500 striking workers met with company and corporation officials to prepare for Monday hearings by the full board in Washington. The strike has disrupted traction service in North New Jersey for three days and prompted another day of sporadic rioting. Three car crews were dragged into the street amid the unrest.
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Public Service Railway Company
Washington
North New Jersey
Scattered Rioting on Newark Streets
Newark reports scattered unrest as street scenes erupt in violence and property damage. Charton Ogburn, national war labor board conciliator, is named to help mediate amid clashes and rising tensions.
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Newark
N. J
Charton Ogburn
National War Labor Board
Minne man kills wife then slashes self in folly
In Duluth on March 15 Aaron Lindstrom, 65, killed his wife with a flat iron and then slashed his throat with a razor in a recent fit of insanity. Lindstrom had been released from Fergus Falls state asylum. His clothing is described as warmer than street wear.
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Selly
Dulutie Minn
Aaron Lindstrom
Lindstrom
Fergus Patras
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American Mineral Production CO
Fort Madison Handle CO
Lyro Company
Fort Madison
Majestic Building
Cormick
Hasbach Schroeder
Charles the Second
Adam and
William and Mary
Grand Rapids
Pullman
Beauty
R. Wallace
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H. S. Co
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