Socialist Party in the United States Torn by War Rift
The New York report outlines deep splits within the U S Socialist Party amid World War I. factions clash over war stance and pro German accusations. Stokes and Hillquit trade charges while leaders urge anti war unity and condemn conscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Party
United States
Countries
New York
Germany
Philip Scheidemann
Lieb- Lnecht
Rosa Luxembourg
Ledebour
Russia
Petrograd
Congress
National Executive Committee
Hillquit
J. Gvhelps Stokes
Morris Hilquit
Mr. Stokes
St. Louis
Making Bread at Home Reduces Food Costs, Say Experts
Federal agriculture specialists say home bread baking can cut household food expenditures. The article details several methods including straight dough, short and overnight sponge processes, and variations with graham and whole wheat flours. It outlines measurements, rising times, and temperatures to yield loafs with guidance on yeast types and substitutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Enrile Known Editor Faces Arrest in Havana
Gonzalo C. Enrile, long noted editor, reportedly arrested in Havana on charges tied to German intrigues in Central America. Former San Antonio resident, once surveilled by federal agents over support for Emilio Vasquez Gomez, linked to Huerta era plots with Orozco and Diaz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gonzalo C. Enrile
Havana
Cuba
Central America
San Antonio
Emilio Vasquez Gomez
Mexico
Don Emilio
Juarez
Enrile
Orozco
Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Madero
Chihuahua
Vasquez Gomez
Cientifico Party
Huerta
Germany
Constitutionalist Party
Felix Diaz
General Escudero Dies at 63 in San Antonio
General Manual Gordillo Escudero 63 died at his home 338 Johnson Street at 9 o clock Saturday night. A native of Mexico he lived in San Antonio two years and served in the Mexican army under Porfirio Diaz and Huerta. He is survived by his widow and one son David Escudero. Funeral from the home at 5 this afternoon with interment in San Fernando cemetery. Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Manual Gordillo Escudero
Johnson Street
Mexico
San Antonio
Porfirio Diaz
Huerta
David Escudero
San Fernando
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Belgian Worker Relates Deportation and German Labor Camps
Jean Anton Daniels a Belgian laborer who escaped and arrived in London recalls his wartime ordeal. He describes capture at Liege confinement in a Haspe camp near Hagen where he refused to work and endured months of starvation and brutal beatings before eventual forced labor in Siemens Martin smelting works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jean Anton Daniels
Germany
Liege
Commandator
Westphalia
Hagen
Cologne
Haspe
Siemens Martin
Uses of Tungsten
Tungsten is now drawn into uniform long filaments and finds wide use as a high melting point contact material for electrical apparatus and special furnaces. It serves as X ray tube targets and lamp filaments, with drawn tungsten wire yielding superior strength and resistance to acids and rust. Pure tungsten became commercially available after electric furnaces enabled production from ore.
Tardieu Named French High Commissioner to the United States
Andre Tardieu, a diplomat, journalist, soldier, legislator, teacher and author, is appointed High Commissioner of the French Republic to the United States. At 41 he rose from the army’s lower ranks to command a company of chausseurs and later served in the Chamber of Deputies. His wartime reports and articles urged Franco American coordination, leading to his selection two days after publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Paris
Monsieur Andre Tardieu
French Republic
United States
M. Tardieu
France
Morrcco
Algesiras
Prince Bulow
Agadir
Germany
Tardieu
Amer
Harvard
Ardennes
Fere-Champenoise
Ypres
Artois
Marne
Chamber of Deputies
Hillquit and Berger Seen as Socialist Conference Delegates
Victor A Berger of Milwaukee and Morris Hillquit of New York are likely to be chosen by the American Socialist party to attend the Stockholm internationalist conference in June. Adolph Germer secretary of the party announced this evening as a wire vote from the Socialist national committee flows in indicating Hillquit and Berger are selected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Meyer London
Congress
M. Kerensky
Petrograd
Stokes
Hillquit
Kerensky
Socialist Party
St. Louis
St- Louis
Socialist Party In America
Algernon Lee
Maynard Shipley
Job Harriman
Kate Richards O'Hare
Elihu Root
Messrs. Stokes
Walling
Mr. Walling
Mr. Hillquit
Stockholm
Messrs. Walling
Russell
Poole
Chicago
Victor A. Berger
Milwaukee
Morris Hillquit
New York
American Socialist Party
Adolph Germer
Socialist National Committee
Berger
Prisoner Shum’s Wife Letter Drop Noted From German Flight
London May 19. Just after Lt. C. A. R. Shum of the Royal British Flying Corps was captured, a hostile aeroplane ascended and dropped a letter to his wife into British lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detter
London
C. A. R. Shum
Royal British Flying Corps
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Order
United States Commission
Victor L. Berger
Charles Edward Russell
William English Walling
Upton Sinclair
W. J. Ghent
Earnest Poole
Council of Workmen's
International Socialist Movement
Bardens
Americas
Victor Berger
J. G. Phelps Stokes
William English Wall
Ing
Messrs
Hillquhit
Lee
Hartiman
Queen Theater
Sitia “Islemon Castle
PATHE
Escudero
Diaz and Huerta
New Braunfels
Moore Grocery Co
San Marcos
Texas
Geo. L. Kennedy
INTE
Fraser Brick Company Mae
Pply CO
Thes. Co
Austin Nallie & CO
East Sixth Street
H. M. Abernathy
Gibbs
Travis
U.S
Chausfeurs
Hillquit and
Painless Matthews
E. Houston St
Gas Co
Crockett
Houston
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