U S Presses Mexican Rail Aid for Villa Pursuit
A State Department memorandum to General Carranza requests immediate permission to use Mexican railways to supply American troops pursuing Villa. The memo urges separate handling of the railroad issue while protocol talks continue. Federal officials plan depots and motorized convoys to sustain a 200 mile supply line as Pershing’s advance base operates near El Valle.
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Washington, D. C
Carranza
Villa
State Department
Queretaro
Rodgers
Mexico
Chihuahua
United States
War Department
Arizona
Funston
Scott
General Funston
General Pershing
el Valle
Railroads Key to Supplying Pancho Villa Pursuit
El Paso March 28 The advance against Pancho Villa could stall if Mexican railroads are not opened as the main American army corridor into Mexico now over 200 miles from the border. Military officers note Villa remains in rapid southward flight, with scant opposition. Each mile into the interior worsens the already thin American supply line, while motor trucks are being sent to Columbus New Mexico to support movement.
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EL Paso
Tex
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Villa
Columbus
N. M
Fire engulfs Baltimore wholesale hardware block
A blaze starting in a wholesale hardware firm spread through a block of major business houses in Baltimore. About two thousand workers from two nearby factories were evacuated as flames threatened the top floor of the Keidel building housing Moritz and Hultz importers.
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Baltimore
Keide
Moritz and Hultz
Allies in Accord at Paris Conference View Humanity First
A delegate at the entente allies conference in Paris describes the gathering as free of power politics. He says a higher purpose guides participants toward a shared aim of reducing the common enemy and urging unity and sacrifice for humanity.
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Paris
Cavalry Prepares to Capture Villa Near Front Lines
Field headquarters of Brigadier General J. J. Pershing reports rapid cavalry preparations to close in on Francisco Villa. A picked unit is withheld in reserve south of Namiquipa, ready to dash once Villa is located while bases shift 120 miles south toward Casas Grandes. No clashes reported along the line.
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American Expeditionary Force
Colonia Dublan
Chihuahua
Mexico
Columbus
N. M
Francisco Villa
J. J. Pershing
Namiquipa
Guerrero District
Villa
Casas Grandes
Pershing
Hundred Miners Feared Entombed After West Virginia Mine Explosion
An explosion at King Coal Company's Kimball mine in Bluefield West Virginia injured and trapped workers. Four dead have been recovered and about 100 miners are missing, with rescue crews racing to reach those buried behind debris as after damp chatter raises danger. The mine employs about 400 workers and spans two miles of workings.
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Bluefield
W. Va
King Coal Company
Kimball
Houston Chronicle Raises Street Price Amid Paper Shortage
Owing to scarce print paper and freight congestion in the East the Houston Chronicle raises street edition prices from two to five cents. The move aims to cut street sales by 20 to 30 percent to save a carload of paper in two weeks. Subscriptions to German Loan records show 10 667 000 000 marks entered for the fourth war loan.
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Houston
Tex
Houston Chronicle Today
Berlin
Sayville
Weather Outlook for San Antonio and Vicinity
The forecast says fair weather for tonight and Wednesday with warmer temperatures tonight.</analysis>
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San Antonio
Weather Forecasts From The Light Across Major Cities
Forecasts show St Louis cloudy and 40 with a NW wind and mid 30s to 40s overnight. Chicago expects rain and 26 with a north wind and a low around 24 and high near 36. Milwaukee 32 cloudy with a north wind and highs near 38. St Paul 26 clear with a north wind and highs around 34. Kansas City 46 clear with a northeast wind and highs about 62. New York 40 cloudy with northeast wind and rain and colder highs about 52. Washington 44 rain and east wind with colder 24 hours and high near 60.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Fincham withdraws from April 1 1916 race for commissioner
Charles T. Fincham formally withdraws as candidate for fire and police commissioner in the April 1, 1916 special election. He cites no specific reason but says he cannot ask friends to back a losing fight and risk their interests, given administration animosity and machine politics.
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Charles T. Fincham
Fire and Police
Fincham
Fred Fries
Mr. Fincham
Citizens’ League
Brown
Conditioni
Phil Wright
Fries
Wright
Finch
Terrell
Uhr
W. G. Tobin
Foreclosure Proceedings Involving St Louis Frisco Railroad
Foreclosure actions against the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, previously placed in receivership, were to be heard by Federal Judge Sanborn in St Louis. Gauge of outcomes included potential new reorganizational plan for Missouri public service commission, alternatives for bondholders, or an immediate foreclosure sale affecting old stockholders.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
Sanborn
Guaranty Trust Company
Bankers’ Trust Company of New York
Frisco
Missouri Public Service Commission
Cleveland Girl Confesses Fire Attack Kills Two
Miss Bessie Reimer told police a masked man bound her, set fire to her apartment building, killing two men and a woman and injuring about twenty others. Firefighters rescued her as the blaze trapped occupants. three men and one woman were detained, others linked to a white slave inquiry.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Bessie Reimers
Ethel Seaman
Miss Reimer
Reimer
Farrel
Federal support urged for Texas Bi Centennal Exposition
The House committee on industrial arts and expositions discussed Senator Sheppard’s Sheppard joint resolution to invite Latin American participation in the Texas Bi Centennarial and Pan American Exposition in San Antonio. Texas leaders urged federal aid and exhibits while pledging state support, with hearing adjourned for written statements outlining San Antonio’s resources and two hundredth birthday justification.
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Washington, D. C
San Antonio
Davis
Burgess
Texas
Slayden
Sheppard
Southwest
Isaac R. Sherwood
Ohio
Taylor
Colorado
Families of Americans Leave Tampico by Yacht Wild Duck
The yacht Wild Duck departed Tampico for Port Arthur carrying several families of Mexican Gulf Petroleum Company employees. Exact passenger count unknown. Tampico reportedly remains quiet but authorities decided to send women and children to the United States as a precaution.
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Tampico
Galveston
Tex
Wild Duck
Port Arthur
Mexican Gulf Petroleum Company
United States
Lively Battle Near St Eloi Amid World War I Action
News from the front reports lively fighting around mine craters near St Eloi south of Ypres as British mines yield trench gains. Russian attacks continue near Mokrayce, Verdun remains quiet, and Austro Italian clashes intensify with ground exchanges at Val Piccolo and surrounding trenches. British airmen raid Bir El Hassanah near the Suez Canal.
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London
St. Eloi
Ypres
Postavy
Mokrayce
Verdun
Vaux-Douaumont
Meuse
Malancourt
Avecourt Woods
Parroy
Lorraine
Paris
Val Piccolo
Rome
Vienna
Galacia
Planger
Bir-El-Hassanah
Suez Canal
Suez
Berlin Denies Slav Attack Vanguard Skirmishes Reported
Vienna war office dispatch dated March 26 says Latatche Dniester engagement were mere vanguard skirmishes. Russians made no concerted effort last week. Italian forces shelled Doberdo Heights Fella district and Tyrol front. Austro-Hungarian troops entered an Italian position east of Ploecken pass. Sugana valley attacks repulsed.
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Berlin
Sayville
War Office
Vienna
Latatche
Dniester
Pflanger
Doberdo Heights
Fella
Tyrol
Ploecken Pass
Sugana
Heavy fighting reported on Franco-Belgian front south of St Eloi
Berlin reports heavy combat on the Franco Belgian front south of St Eloi and along the adjacent line. A German flying squadron struck Saloniki yesterday dropping many bombs on the harbor depot and the entente camp north of the town.
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Berlin
London
St. Eloi
Saloniki
No Change at Verdun in French Front Report
Paris dispatch says Verdun region remained quiet overnight with calm east of the Meuse and some artillery firing west of the river. No significant movement reported in the central sector.
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Paris
Verdun
Meuse Aul
Austro Hungarians Press Italian Front Advances
The Austro Hungarian war office reports violent engagements on the Italian front with Austro Hungarian forces capturing 525 Italians near the Gorizia bridge head and taking an enemy position before Podogora Heights. In Ploecken the enemy failed to retake lost trenches, while Tyrolean fronts saw only artillery action. Elsewhere the situation is unchanged.
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Berlin
Tuckerton
N. J
Austro-Hungarian War Office
Gorizia
Podogora Heights
Ploecken
Cabinet weighs grave Sussex incident and Germany inquiry
Washington notes a cabinet meeting on the Sussex disaster with Secretary Lansing reporting the U S decision to inquiry Germany through Ambassador Gerard. Officials say evidence is not conclusive, a break with Germany not imminent, and reply will guide possible actions.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Germany
Gerard
Berlin
Sussex
Lansing
State Department
France
England
Two Americans Claim Torpedoed Ship Manchester Engineer
Arthur Mackenzie of Savannah and Tom Fifer of Delaware sworn affidavits at the American consul say the British steamer Manchester Engineer was torpedoed without notice. Source: Queenstown dispatch via Central News.
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London
Arthur Mackenzie
Savannah
Tom Fifer
Delaware
Manchester Engineer
Central
Queenstown
70 000 tons of shipping sunk by Germans in two weeks
The Daily Telegraph reports that since March 15 German actions have sunk about 70,000 tons of shipping in under a fortnight, with one third of the losses from neutral vessels. The British steamer Manchester Engineer, from Philadelphia, was sunk with crew rescued by a tug. The Empress of Midland also sunk, with Cromer arriving at Maassluis with the crew.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Manchester
Manchester Engineer
Philadelphia
Lloyds
Reuter
Amsterdam
Cromer
Maassluis
Holland
Empress of Midland
Sussex Dead Total 50 Believed Casualties Limit
London March 28 Brit sh agents for the Sussex line say total casualties not expected to exceed fifty. Paris March 28 Prince Bahram of Persia, a Sussex passenger, is still unaccounted for as his father Zilles Sultan, in Nice, has virtually lost hope for his son.
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London
Sussex
Paris
Prince Baheram
Persia
Zilles Sultan
Nice
House judiciary committee votes to postpone suffrage and prohibition
By a 10 to 9 vote the House judiciary committee moved to postpone indefinitely consideration of all suffrage and prohibition proposals currently before it. The action halts further debate and delays potential reform.
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Washington
de CG
Maren
House Judiciary Committee
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Outlaw
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M . Sree
Hingham
San Francisco
Bessie Reimer
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Wales
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