U S Troops Close In On Villa Bandits In Mexican Highlands
American forces encircle Villa's outlaw band northeast of Guerrero as Pershing reports 500 fighters at the scene and snow hampers operations. Funston cautions Villa’s presence unconfirmed while engineering crews push roads from Columbus to Casas Grandes and planes face engine limits.
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Villa
Guerrero
Dodd
Funston
Pershing
General Pershing
Columbus
Casas Grandes
Blankettship
Minaca
Cobb
el Paso
Blankenburg
Uhr Elected Fire and Police Commissioner in San Antonio
Robert F. Uhr won the special city election by 369 votes over Fire Chief Phil Wright with 11 784 total ballots. Uhr vows cooperation with Mayor Brown, declines radical changes, and succeeds Albert Steves Sr. as commissioner, amid a broader challenge to the Brown machine in Bexar County politics.
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Robert F. Uhr
Phil Wright
Brown
Uhr
Albert Steves Sr
Light
Ahr
Wright
W. G. Tobin
San Antonio
Citizens’ League
Callaghan
Bexar
Steves
Fred Fries
Fries
Major Schley Departs for San Francisco to Hawaii
Major Thomas F. Schley, son of the late Admiral Schley and former commander of the Twentieth Infantry, leaves Columbus New Mexico for San Francisco en route to Honolulu. Fitting ceremonies mark his departure.
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Schley
Columbus
N. M
Thomas F. Schley
Admiral Schley
San Francisco
Weather forecast for East and West Texas and major cities
The forecast calls Sunday fair in East and West Texas with Monday mostly cloudy. Regional readings include St Louis 46 cloudy NE wind 8 mph, Chicago 50 clear NW wind 6 mph, Milwaukee 40 clear SW wind 6 mph, Kansas City 50 partly cloudy NW wind 6 mph, New York 50 cloudy S wind 30 mph with rain, Washington 68 cloudy S wind half mile, Boston 64 cloudy SW wind 14 mph with probable rain.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Boston
German airship raid sinks after capture and deaths widen
London April 1. The L 15 Zeppelin, towed to Chatham after surrender, broke up and sank. A junior officer, left on board, is said to have blown the craft, while five raiders dropped 74 bombs in a raid over England causing 28 deaths and injuries to 44. Seventeen crew were captured, the commander wore the Iron Cross, and bombs reached suburbs of London as crowds watched from masked streets and lights out.
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London
Chatham
War Office
Eastern Counties
South St Kent
England
Army neglect charged in Dallas telegram over lieutenant’s death
Senator Culberson forwarded to President Wilson a Dallas telegram from John W. Allison claiming his son Lieutenant Joseph P. Allison of the Thirteenth Cavalry died of pneumonia contracted in Mexico due to heartless and criminal neglect. Culberson will take no further action to avoid handicapping the administration.
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Washington, D. C
Senator Culberson
Wilson
John W. Allison
Dallas
Joseph P. Allison
Thirteenth Cavalry
Mexico
Culberson
Canadian Captain Killed in Action at Front
Captain Fred Shaughnessy of the Sixth Canadian Regiment, second son of Baron Shaughnessy, was killed while leading his company at the front yesterday. News reached his parents by cable from Colonel Gascoign this afternoon in Montreal.
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Montreal
Que
Fred Shaughnessy
Sixth
Canadian Regiment
Baron Shaughnessy
Gascoign
Shaughnessy
Texas Exposition Aid Motion Emerges From Hearing
Representative James C. Cantrell of Kentucky, chairman of the House industrial arts and ex positions committee, orders 1000 copies of last Tuesday’s hearings on the Texas Bicentennial and Pan American Exposition. The report will cover San Antonio and its plans, with action delayed until printing. A resolution to invite Latin American nations is expected to be reported without amendment, along with proposed government funding for participation and entertainment of visitors. Representative Davis lauds the expo as vital for fraternal ties across the Americas and promoting the Monroe Doctrine.
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Washington, D. C
James C. Cantrell
Kentucky
San Antonio
Davis
North
South America
Aviator McGordon Sets Cross-Country Flight Record
Steve McGordon, flying from Newport News to Washington and back with passengers, established a new cross-country record. He flew 7,000 to 10,000 feet, maintained a 20 mile headwind, used two eight-cylinder model R motors, and arrived back in Newport News at 3:20 p m after departing at 10:25 a m. The previous record was 244.18 miles set by Lt. T F Dodd in 1914.
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New York
Newport News
Washington
Steve McGordon
McGordon
Aero Club of America
Glenn H. Curtiss
T. F. Dodd
United States Army
San Diego
Cal
May Get Hospital In San Antonio For Red Cross Base
San Antonio may be chosen as the Red Cross base hospital site on the Mexican border due to its strategic value. Colonel Jefferson R. Keen directs the plan, with approval from Secretary Baker, establishing base hospitals in U S cities including New York and Baltimore and likely adjoining Fort Sam Houston.
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Washington, D. C
San Antonio
American Red Cross
United States
Red Cross
Jefferson R. Keen
Medical Corps of the Army
Army
Baker
Military Relief
The
Kean
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Cleveland
Rochester
N. Y
Fort Sam Houston
Wanamaker to Build Giant Airship America for Atlantic Flight
Rodman Wanamaker authorizes construction of a colossal airship ten times larger than the old America. The craft, to be named the America, aims to cross the Atlantic and follows earlier wartime plans interrupted by conflict.
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New York
Rodman Wanamaker
Atlantic
America
Crown Prince Leads Fresh Push Toward Vaux
German forces mounted a night assault across the Meuse toward Vaux Haudromont, breaching the Ravine Douaumont Vaux before being repulsed. In a fierce hand to hand battle, Germans briefly reached the village outskirts but French machine gun fire and barriers held most positions as west of the Meuse the area remained quiet.
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London
Meuse
Verdun
Vaux-Haudremont
Douaumont
Vaux
Paris
Malancourt
Russians Try Breakthrough as Berlin Reports No Harm Done
Berlin reports the Russian assault along the German northeast front under von Hindenburg continues with heavy losses on the Russian side. Estimates place Russian dead in tens of thousands and casualties climbing as rail access concentrates at Postary while German lines hold.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Jacobstadt
Talut
Dunaberg
Dvinsk
Postary
Bills to Aid Paris Urge Post Office and Shelter Rebuild
The Senate passed a Culberson bill for $200,000 to reconstruct Paris post office and federal building destroyed by fire. A House counterpart is pending. An urgency appropriation of $60,000 to buy tents and supplies for Paris was reported by the House military affairs committee, with Senator Sheppard seeking quick Senate action.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Today
Culberson
Paris
Public Buildings Committee
Representative Black
House
Sheppard
House Military Affairs Committee
Secretary of War
Senate
Salvation Army Commander Evangeline Booth Ill in Hartedale
Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army has been seriously ill at her Hartedale home for three weeks with acute gastritis. Dr. Ernest Schmidt of White Plains says she is recovering and hopes she will be out in two or three weeks.
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New York
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Hartedale
Miss Booth
Ernest Schmidt
White Plains
Rains Bring Broad Texas Relief After Drought
Reports to the Texas agriculture department say rains in the last 48 hours were widespread across North Northeast Southwest West Texas and the plains. Commissioner Davis notes many crops may be saved and farmers can use land for feed stuffs as Austin sees about two inches of rain ending a drought.
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Austin
Tex
Department of Agriculture
Davis
Texas
Plains Country
Suffrage Tour to Cover 15000 Miles in Auto
Mrs Alice Burke and Miss Nell Richardson begin a 15000 mile journey from New York under the National American Woman Suffrage Association to promote plans for demands at Democratic and Republican conventions in St Louis and Chicago. They will be the first women to circle the United States by car, with routes south along the Atlantic, to New Orleans, Galveston, the Texas border, California, Seattle, and back through the Midwest to New York.
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New York
Alice Burke
Nell Richardson
National American Women Suffrage Association
St. Louis
Chicago
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
New Orleans
Galveston
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
San Francisco
Oregon
Washington
Seattle
South Dakota
Iowa
Illinois
York
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Hgr
Allison
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Ghawn
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Douaumont and
Commander Booth
Robert Fuhr
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