Wilson Aims to Expand American Foreign Trade Through Cooperation
Washington May 28. Secretaries Bryan and Redfield told the National Foreign Trade convention that the Wilson administration seeks to broaden American enterprise abroad and at home. They linked tariff reduction and a new currency law to boosting trade while urging unity among government, bankers, merchants, and manufacturers to promote foreign loans, investments, and arbitration.
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Washington, D. C
Bryan
Redfield
Wilson
United States
America
Mobile
Ala
Willard Straight
New York
American Asiatic Association
China
Central
South America
Straight
Uder
Caribbean
Department of Tate
Congress
Govnent
Examiners Probe Morgan Books Tied to New Haven Rail Pact
Interstate Commerce Commission investigators prepared to open a books examination of J. P. Morgan & Company in relation to transactions involving the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. The probe, supervised by David E B Brown, with aides K K Gartner 8 S Hanson and Francis C McAdams, was agreed after a conference with IOC counsel Joseph W Folk and Morgan attorney Francis Lynde Stetson. Secrecy was urged until the commission releases its report.
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New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. P. Morgan & Company
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Morgan
Joseph W. Folk
Francis Lynde Stetson
David EB. Brown
K. K. Gartner
8. C. Hanson
Francis C. McAdams
Folk
Prohibition Plan Aims Speaker Selection in Texas Legislature
In Dallas on May 28 the Democratic prohibitionist committee outlined a plan to back prohibition candidates for the Texas Legislature. Candidates would pledge to join a caucus on convening, then choose a speaker candidate. Reportedly several pro speaker contenders have agreed to the plan.
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Dallas
Tex
Democratic Prohibition Executive and Legislative Committee
Substitute movie operator burned in Fort Worth fire
Earl Eaton a 14 year old substitute moving picture show operator lies near death after a film burst into flames last night. He saved others by pulling the burning film from the machine, but a blaze in his box sent him into the audience below causing a panic with many narrow escapes reported. His injuries may be fatal.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Earl Eaton
Burns
Eaton
Charlton Declared Indigent in Italian Case
Giovanni Por zio and Emilio Catapano, counsel for Porter Charlton, report a sworn declaration from Charlton's father that the son is indigent. Italian law requires more for state-funded defense, so Charlton must either accept U S witness interrogations or cover witness expenses if witnesses travel to Como.
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Charlton
Napl's
Giovanni Porzio
Imilio Catapano
Porter Charlton
Chariton
United States
Como
Weather forecast for San Antonio area heats up
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with chances of thunderstorms and showers. Highs and lows not specified in the fragment.
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San Antonio
Climate snapshot across major cities this Friday
Observations at 8 a m list temperatures and winds for St Louis Kansas City Chicago Milwaukee St Paul New York Boston Washington. Readings show clear or partly cloudy skies with southerly to westerly winds and varying low temperatures in the 60s to 70s across nine markets.
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Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Milwaukee
Paul
New York
Boston
Washington
TEARS AGAIN WRESTLES WITH FLOOD AND TRAIN DISRUPTION
Rains swollen Texas rivers flood banks and delay rail service. Brownsville and other lines detoured as trains struggle in low lands. Potatoes and crops suffer with farmers abandoning hopes of saving Irish potato crop. Two U S cavalry soldiers, John Repke and Fred Wuesthoff, die in Donna Texas flood.
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Houston
Tex
South Texas
Trinity
Colorado
Brazos
Brownsville
Southern Pacific
Katy
Santa Fe
Aransas Pass
Rio Grande
Rio Grande Valley
John Repke
Fred Wuesthoff
Twelfth
United States Cavalry
Donna
Heavy rainfall reported across North and East Texas
Rain totals within 24 hours include 5.92 inches at Pierce and 2.52 at Waco with several towns squeezing over a half inch. San Antonio saw only 0.02 inch as forecasts call for unsettled skies, possible showers, and a thunderstorm Thursday night into Friday, per Major Buell.
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Houston
North
East Texas
Pierce
Waco
Greenville
Dallas
Columbus
Clarendon
Corsicana
Eastland
Huntsville
Longview
Paris
San Marcos
Temple
Waxahachie
Weatherford
Valley Junction
Taylor
Palestine
San Antonio
Texas
Buell
Nueces River Flood Swells Across Corpus Christi Region
The Nueces river at Oakville has risen two feet ten inches with floods from Lagarto to Oakville covering twenty five miles. Crops suffer heavy damage to cotton and corn while Bluntzer to San Patricio sees three to five feet of water. About thirty families, mostly Mexicans, lose homes and several rescues occur by boat. Corpus Christi gauge at Calallen hits fifteen feet, the highest in thirty years.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Nueces
Oakville
Lagarto
Mathis
Odem
Bluntzer
San Patricio
Calallen
Leased Wire Day Report Highlights AP World News Reach
The Antonio Light notes its dedication to the Associated Press Leased Wire Day report, emphasizing AP as a premier general news service. It mentions AP delivering about 20,000 words daily and the newspaper's own extensive special news coverage complementing the wire service.
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An Antonio
Associated Press
Light
Colombian Senate Approves Panama Canal Treaty
The Colombian Senate voted 23 to 8 to approve the second reading of the Colombia United States Panama Canal treaty. The accord grants free passage for Colombian troops, war materiel, and ships, sets exemptions for Colombian goods and mail, and calls for a future U S payment of 25 million gold within six months of ratification.
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Bogota
Colombia
United States
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Ancon
Cristobal
Atlantic
Pacific
Courtmartial Turns To New Lines Of Inquiry In Ludlow case
Denver May 28 The Colorado National Guard court martial hearing the Ludlow battle case saw witnesses John F. Lawson of the United Mine Workers and Alma V. Lafferty of the Women’s Peace League testify. Ten officers and twelve NCOs and privates have been tried since May 11. Lieutenant Karl E. Linderfelt faces added charges of assault and battery and assault with a deadly weapon over the head of strike leader Louis Tikas.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado National Guard
Ludlow
John F. Lawson
United Mine Workers of America
Alma V. Lafferty
Women's Peace League
State Rifle Range
Golden
Patrick J. Hamrock
Karl E. Linderfelt
Linderfelt
Louis Tikas
Memorial for Hero Keithley Commemorated in Capitol
The United States will place a bronze tablet in the Washington Capitol to honor Fernando Keithley an Ozark boy and World War I era hero who died in the Philippines on November 14 1903. Keithley of Company H Twenty eighth Infantry killed twenty Moros after his comrades fell during an outpost attack at Camp Marohut Camp Keithley in the Philippines was named in his honor.
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Verona
Fernando Keithley
Ozark
United States
Capitol
Washington
Harris
War Department
Keithley
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Camp Marohut
Philippines
Claims Report Denies Ludlow Massacre Details
Edward J Boughton testifying before the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations refuted Ludlow massacre claims. He stated no massacre occurred and only a small child was killed by own carelessness, not state troops. A French suffragette, arrested for smashing National Gallery windows, shouted and refused to provide a name at Bow Street.
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New York
Edward J. Boughton
Military District of
Colorado
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
Ludlow
London
National Gallery
Bow Street
Women denied hearing at police chiefs convention
About 25 women from the Women's Club and Women's League waited in Fort Worth as the Texas City Marshals and Police Chiefs Union adjourned without allowing any female speakers. Will S. Knight, newly elected president, stated the women would not be allowed to address the convention. Fort Worth was chosen to host next year’s gathering.
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Women’s Club
Union of Texas
Women's Club
W. L. Dunne
J. I. Sprague
Woman's Club
Maria B. Fenwick
Leroy Bates
Dan Leary
M. Eleanor Brackenridge
W. A. Daniel
J. T. Smith
Women's League
James M. Young
Clara Graham
Sarah M. Weatherer
Fort Worth
George 8. Smith
Dallas
Galveston
Bob Barker
Will
Knight
Corsicana
J. E. Whitely
Honey Grove
George A. Smith
O. L. Montgomery
Charles W. Newby
San Antonio
J. W. Ryan
Philip Cook
Fred H. Lancaster
J. Dinsmore
Houston
Julia Campbell
Charles Erwin
Bonham
F. C. Voight
G. A. Catlin
W. L. Escavailles
Burnett
J. H. Kirkpatrick
Clinton G. Brown
Fisher Crayton
Italy
L. H. Dillard
John W. Vann
G. C. Campbell
James Carruthers
T. B. White
Ben Davison
Resolutions
Phillip Cook
Lancaster
John W. Tobin
Gunter Hotel
Automobile Club
Morris Block
Turner Hall
Milt Mooney
G. A. Smith
Transportation Committee
Arthur Forrest
D. L. Wardlaw
Quanah
C. E. Williams
W. L. Sallis
Willy S. Knight
North Loop
Hermann Song Hall
Ruling Extends Homestead Exemption to Solvent Estates
The Texas Supreme Court affirms a San Antonio appellate ruling in Hoefling v Hoefling that when a husband dies intestate the homestead passes to surviving heirs including the widow and is exempt from general creditor claims whether the estate is solvent or insolvent. Mrs Dorothea Hoefling prevails and creditor claims cannot be paid from the estate.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
Court of Civil Appeals
San Antonio
Mary Hoefling
Dorothea Hoefling
Bexar County
William Hoefling
Texas
American Bonding Company of
Baltimore
Logan
Dallas
D. Sullivan
Court Dismisses Case Over Sunday Theater Ticket Sale
The case against G R Wright for keeping a theater open on Sunday was dismissed after witnesses failed to prove tickets were sold for May 10. Justice Neil Campbell presided. Other cases from the Sunday Law Enforcement League campaign were reset for June 12.
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League
G. R. Wright
Neil Campbell
Sunday Law Enforcement League
Passage Way Cleared for Clayton Anti-Trust Bill
The House resumed debate on the Clayton omnibus anti-trust bill under the five minute rule with a labor provision compromise in place. Rep Webb of North Carolina chairs the judiciary panel to steer the measure. railroad stock control legislation to follow once it clears.
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Washington, D. C
House
Webb
North Carolina
Judiciary Committee
Gorgas Urges Sanitation for Tropic Settlement
Surgeon General William C. Gorgas told Alabama medical alumni that sanitation paves the way for Anglo-Saxon settlement in the tropics. He noted science has advanced, making it safe for whites to live there if sanitarians’ advice is followed and spoke as the commencement orator on Sanitation in Panama.
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Mobile
Ala
Tropics
William C. Gorgas
United States Army
University of Alabama Medical Department
Gorgas
University School of Medicine
Panama
Slingsby suit over Yorkshire estate to begin in June
Lieutenant Charles Reynaud Slingsby of San Francisco sues for his child’s share of the Yorkshire estate left by his father the Rev. Charles Slingsby who died in 1912 after a hunting field accident. The estate is valued for income around 50 000 dollars a year with most going to Slingsby. the remainder contested by his younger brother over legitimacy.
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London
Charles Reynaud Slingsby
San Francisco
Yorkshire
Slingsby
Charles Slingsby
Singsby
Knight in Jail on Fraud Charge Over Exposition Stock
C. H. Knight, accused of defrauding workers by selling stock in a fictitious amusement building outside the Panama Pacific Exposition grounds in San Francisco, is jailed in Los Angeles in default of bail. Two stockholders testified he showed them pictures of a corkscrew shaped, hundreds of feet tall project.
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Los Angeles
Cal
San Francisco
H. Knight
Knight
Mediation plan for Mexico includes provisional government and U.S. troop withdrawal
Niagara Falls Ontario May 28 Mediators report progress toward a plan to pacify Mexico. A five member neutral commission would govern temporarily, oversee elections, and be backed by U S recognition. Troop withdrawal would follow once the provisional government is installed.
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Niagara Falls
Ontario
Mexico
Mexico City
Victoriano Huerta
Congress
United States
Peace prospects at Niagara Falls amid Mexican crisis
Washington reports differing predictions on a protocol signing with Huerta and American delegates at Niagara Falls within a week. Mexico City confirms Hamburg American cargoes delivering munitions to Huerta via Tehuantepec, with Bavaria shipments and two large munition consignments noted. Officials weigh Huerta’s explanation for troop movements as optimistic Niagara Falls dispatches say resolutions are progressing.
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Washington, D. C
Huerta
Niagara Falls
Ypiranga
Puerto Mexico
Vera Cruz
Huyerta
Tehantepec
Tampico
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