DUNTEREES AT WORK DEEKING MEXICO PLAN
New London report on the American Mexican joint commission session. discussions on cooperative patrols and information exchange to curb bandit raids along the border. Mexican and American members weighed plans that might require Pershing’s withdrawal and touched on Villa’s status and railroad restoration costs near twenty five million dollars.
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New London
Conn
General Pershing
Mexico
New York
Luis Cabrera
Alberto Pani
Carranza
John R. Mott
American Commission
Lane
Gray
State
War Department
Villa
Chihuahua
Diaz
Mr. Pani
Republic of Railways
Pershing Says U S Forces in Mexico in Excellent Shape
Not confirmed reports of Villa moving through Santa Clara to Laguna. Gen J J Pershing announces he has returned to field headquarters after inspecting American camps in Mexico. He says troops are in pink of condition with equipment morale ordnance transport and communications satisfactory. A war game in Casas Grandes valley is expected to engage expeditionary leaders next.
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Mexico
Villa
Santa Clara Yon
Laguna
J. J. Pershing
General Pershing
Casas Grandes Valley
Belief of War Fears Rise in Border News
Reports from El Paso outline discontent over continued paper money payments to soldiers while merchants may use silver. Carranza officers reportedly expect U.S. punitive action to prolong and risk conflict. A skirmish at Fabens, across the Rio Grande, saw Mexican prisoner escape under fire with no American injuries. Mexican raiders, about Villa followers, looted an engineers camp and escaped with a mule.
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EL Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
United States
Mexico
Carranza
Villa
Rio Grande
Fabens
Here
J. B. Swift
Will Sans
Robert Carr
Battes
FE Paso
Villa forces arrive near El Valle rumor of clash with regulars
Expeditionary force arriving from Mexico via Columbus New Mexico was reported last Wednesday on a remote camp area at Ojo Federico. Authorities in El Paso confirmed Villa presence in the Santa Clara canyon and linked the incident to rumors of a clash with Fifth Cavalry and Sixteenth Infantry south of El Valle Chihuahua.
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Mexico
Columbus
N. M
Ojo Federico
Fifth Cavalry
Sixteenth Infantry
Villa
el Valle
Chihuahua
el Paso
Santa Clara Canyon
Pursuit of Villa Continues Near American Lines
General Pershing reports scouts unable to locate Villa in territory near American troops. Mexican bandit force is believed to be in the Santa Clara canyon area about 45 to 50 miles south of El Valle. The message notes no confirmation of the engineers camp attack and places Villa beyond immediate proximity to U S forces.
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Villa
Department
General Pershing
Ojo Federico
Santa Clara Canyon
el Valle
Pershing
Missouri girl missing sparks St Louis mystery
The case of Martha McCormick a 24 year old Farmington Missouri heiress vanished last Monday stirs a Dorothy Arnold like mystery in St Louis Two brothers and a brother in law joined Odile her sister in the search Theories include kidnapping or elopement with no suitor evident and she left all clothing behind at the boarding house
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ST. Louis
Dorothy Arnold
New York
Martha McCormick
Farmington
Odile
Deserted Washington As Congress Vacations
Washington on September 9 appeared a deserted capital with Congress at home and Wilson at Shadow Lawn. Most diplomats remained away for the summer and officials were on leave while Senate and House clerks pressed to clear post adjournment work.
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Washington
D. C
Congress
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
White House
Senate
House
Burleson Orders Postal Reinstatement After Guard Muster
Postmaster General Burleson urges postmasters to reinstate postal employees in the same positions and salaries they held before leaving to join 12 National Guard regiments slated to be mustered out of federal service. The War Department’s order prompts the action.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Burleson
No Miners Agreement Reached as Talks Continue in Kansas City
Conferees on the coal miners working contract in Kansas City Missouri on September 9 discussed counter-proposals from operators. Twenty-one Oklahoma operators withdrew, attempting to form individual contracts while Oklahoma miners remain in negotiations.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity
San Antonio and nearby areas expect fair conditions tonight and Sunday with no significant precipitation or storms. Mostly clear skies, light winds, and mild temperatures likely.
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San Antonio and Vicinity
Weather outlook for multiple cities from The Light
The forecast lists St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington with updated temperatures ranging from 58 to niveaux and clear to cloudy skies. Winds vary from northeast to north at 6 to 14 miles per hour.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Falkenhayn Urged Germans to Retire
London dispatch reports from Berne that General Erich Von Falkenhayn urged Germany to abandon the war plan, shorten eastern lines, evacuate occupied French territory, and switch to a defensive campaign. Emperor William rejected the idea and dismissed Falkenhayn after Von Hindenburg denounced it as cowardly and unworthy.
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London
Germany
Berne
Erich von Falkenhayn
William
von Falkenhayn
France
von Hindenburg
Union leaders brace for possible 24 hour city tie up
National and state labor chiefs were summoned to New York as local strike organizers said a conference would be held within 24 hours to decide on a possible 24 hour shutdown of all city industries over the transit dispute.
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New York City
New York
Wilson heads to Shadow Lawn after suffrage talk
President Wilson left Atlantic City by motor for Long Branch to stay at Shadow Lawn his summer home as a large crowd cheered along the boardwalk. Delegates to the suffrage convention were in the crowd and officials expected the president and Mrs. Wilson to arrive before 1 pm. The route ran along the oceanfront with favorable weather in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wilson
National Woman Suffrage Association
Long Branch
Shadow Lawn
Ocean Front
Asbury Park
Fleet Target Practice Breaks Range Record at Sea
The Pennsylvan ia and Oklahoma returned to Hampton Roads from Tangier Sound after trials when reports said they fired hits at 20 000 yards the longest range yet by any American ship. Wyoming Minnesota and Michigan also posted strong records as the fleet prepares for war condition drills and combined maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Hampton Roads
Tangier Sound
Chesapeake Bay
Wyoming
Minnesota
Michigan
Less Fake Aspirin and Adulterated Drugs Dwindle
In Austin Texas on September 9, Pure Food and Drug Commissioner Hoffman reports fewer fake aspirin and adulterated drugs on the market. The department analyzed a large batch from across the state and continues sampling from druggists and supply houses to stop adulterated goods. The anti fake aspirin campaign led to destruction of hundreds of pounds of powdered aspirin and thousands of tablets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Pure Food and Drug
Hoffman
Aviator Art Smith Severely Hurt in Japan Crash
Chicago dated Sept 9 report states aviator Art Smith who claims the first night flight in an illuminated plane is in a hospital with a broken leg after a recent Japan crash. He may never fly publicly again and plans to return to Japan for a business venture once healed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Art Smith
Japan
Pope appoints Michael O'Doherty Manila Archbishop
Rome Sept 9 Pope Benedict names Rt Rev Michael O'Doherty bishop of Zamboanga as archbishop of Manila in a formal church appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Rome
Benedict
Michael O'Doherty
Zamboanga
British Mail Censorship Expanded For Tariff Strategy
Washington reports Lloyd George stated British censorship data may be shared with other departments for public and national purposes. Lansing declined comment while noting official concern. The issue centers on neutral mails and Britain's plan to shield a new industry by tariff against imports.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Great Britain
David Lloyd George
Lloyd George
House of Commons
United States
Lansing
State Department
Department
War Office
High Seas
England
Robert Cecil
Purely A War Measure Defends British Trade Policy
Lord Robert tells Associated Press Britain will not pursue trade warfare against the United States. He says the blacklist is a war measure and safeguards are in place to limit hardship for innocent traders. He argues the Paris conference goal is misunderstood in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robert
Associated Press
Great Britain
United States
Lord Robert
Full honors planned for Negro Boston fireman at Arlington
James H. Townsend of this city, the Negro fireman of the armored cruiser Memphis who fell at his post when the ship was overwhelmed by a tidal wave in San Domingo harbor, will be buried in Arlington cemetery with full honors. Only one other new member of the army or navy is buried there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
James H. Townsend
Memphis
San Domingo Harbor
Arlington Cemetery
Army
Navy
Mexicans Release an Austrian From Prison
E Leonartz an Austrian subject and representative of a Canadian firm controlling utilities in Monterey Mexico has been released from three months imprisonment. Advices from Monterey say General Carranza issued the release order after Leonartz refused to accept certain issues of government currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Tex
E. Leonartz
Monterey
Mexico
Carranza
Leonartz
Justice Harper Tests Bias Claim In Teague Killing Case
In Waco Texas Justice A J Harper presiding at the habeas corpus hearing of T R Watson charged in Teague with killing John Patterson testified after witnesses accused him of conversations suggesting prejudice. Harper said no disqualifying conversations occurred and would seek review by other justices if needed, with trial resuming Monday morning.
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Waco
Tex
A. J. Harper
Court of Criminal Appeals
T. R. Watson
John
Co. C. McDonald
T. L. Coplin
Court Criminal Appeals
E. Tobin
G. W. Kent
Austin
Harper
Prendergast
Davidson
McKinnon
Two Boers On Trial For Planning Revolt In South Africa
Capetown reports two South African Nationals Van Der Merwe and Schonken stand trial for high treason accused of soliciting Boer leaders including General De Wet to back a revolt with alleged access to rifles. De Wet testified he warned them and the hearing adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capetown
London
South Africa
van der Merwe
Schonken
de Wet
General de Wet
Governor commutes three death sentences to life in Arkansas
Three inmates receive clemency from Governor George W. Hays in Little Rock. Henry Woods of Lake City Ark escapes to Canada after killing his wife and is now sentenced to life. Joe McCown of DeWitt and Gillespie Glover of Little Rock are also commuted from death to life imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Henry Woods
Lake City
Canada
George W. Hays
Hays
Joe McCown
Dewitt
Gillespie Glover
Rigdon To Be Tried In Deming For Bigamy
Lieutenant J B Rigdon an Arkansas militiaman will be sent tonight to Deming New Mexico to stand trial on charges of bigamy committed on a government reservation escaping arrest and absenting himself without leave Capt N M Cartmel U S A reports. Rigdon twice disappeared from Deming and returned to the state. His first wife resides in Carbondale Illinois. He married the second Mrs Rigdon just before the Arkansas troops left for the border.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. B. Rigdon
Arkansas
Deming
N. M
N. M. Cartmel
Rigdon
Carbondale
Border
Robisch confesses to killing Oklahoma Indian in Pine Bluff
Otto Robisch of Little Rock confessed to killing George Pambogo an Oklahoma Indian who had come to visit his sweetheart. Pambogo's body was recovered from the Arkansas River Friday noon. Robisch was arrested in Little Rock Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Bluff
Ark
Otto Robisch
George Pambogo
Arkansas River
Robisch
Little Rock
British Win Trench in High Wood on Somme Front
London reports British forces captured a German trench in High Wood after a sharp night battle on the Somme. German attacks were repulsed in several sectors as the front remained active with artillery and infantry actions near Pozieres Mouquet Farm Arras and the Hohenzollern redoubt.
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High Wood
Verdun
London
Somme
Highwood
Pozieres
Mouquet Farm
Courcelette
Arras
Hohenzollern
Nueve Chappelle
Germans Admit Defeat in Carpathians
Berlin reports central powers forces in the Carpathian mountains northwest of Kapul yielded yesterday under pressure from Russian forces.
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Berlin
London
Carpathian Mountains
Kapul
French Gain on Somme and Serbian Offensive in Macedonia
French forces renewed their assault on the Somme front and captured a small wooded area. German attacks in the Verdun sector were repulsed. Serbian troops pushed the offensive on the Macedonian front near Lake Ostrovo and seized a height west of the lake after a violent engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparis
Somme
War Office
Verdun
Lake Ostrovo
Fifty Miles In Roumania Reported By Invasion Forces
Berlin dispatch says Bulgarian and German forces pushing along the Black Sea coast have advanced about fifty miles beyond the frontier. An Austrian official statement dated September 6 notes renewed Russian attacks in the Carpathians, with Russians failing to gain significant ground.
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Berlin
Sayville
Roumania
Black Sea
Carpathians
Fighting in Galicia as Russians Repel Counterattack
Russian war department reports heavy combat in Galicia on the Naraluvka near Halicz with German Turkish forces pushing Russians back in places while Russians storm heights in the Carpathians south of Baranoff. The note says 500 prisoners were taken and a mountain battery captured. Russian torpedo boats bombarded Baltjik sinking 21 barges used by Bulgarians shipping bread.
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Petrograd
London
Galicia
Naraluvka
Halicz
Russian War Department
Carpathians
Baranoff
Baltjik
Black Sea
Food aid plan for French POWs includes monthly parcels
Paris September 9 The appropriation committee of the Chamber of Deputies votes to recommend that the government supply bread to all French prisoners in Germany and also send each man a monthly food parcel valued at five francs with minister of war backing the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Commute Death Sentence Sought for Axe Murderer Krupa
In Chicago on September 9 a request to commute the death penalty for George Krupa, sentenced for wife murder with an axe, was expected to be filed with Governor Dunne. The case, tried in one day, set a new Illinois legal record as Krupa’s 12-year-old son traveled to Springfield to testify before the governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Krupa
Dunne
Illinois
Krupa
Springfield
Plattsburgs Fall Training Camp Opens
Plattsburg New York September camp opens with about 1000 rookies arriving by special train. Major Halstead Dorey is camp commander under Major General Wood while Major Harrison Hall commands the regular troops. Coast artillery units are assigned to Fort Williams Fort Strong Fort Preble Fort Andrews Fort Monroe with several detachments remaining for duty.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Halstead Dorey
Infantry
Wood
Harrison Hall
Coast Artillery
Fort Williams
Fort Strong
Fort Preble
Fort Andrews
Fort Monroe
Second Cavalry
Missionaries Sought as Soldiers Deployed to Corpus Christi
Large sign on a troop train into Corpus Christi proclaims South Texas needs missionaries not soldiers. Over 2000 troops already stationed in the city, with 1000 more expected in 24 hours, placing the Second and Third Texas regiments under General John A. Hulen except for machine gun squads at Harlingen for target practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Tex
Tax Commissioner Claims WV Prohibition Cut Crime
Fred C. Blue of the state tax commission says West Virginia saw a 50 percent drop in crime and a 75 percent drop in drunkenness since prohibition began. Arrests fell from 19 657 the year before to 9 956 in the first year and 3 357 in the second year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Fred C. Blue
West Virginia
U S Steel Hits New High On Stock Exchange
United States Steel rose to 102 on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, an overnight gain of over two points and topping its prior record by nearly a point. Other industrials were strong as copper and rail shares advanced, while grain graders lagged after yesterday’s crop report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel
Stock Exchange
Escape of General Korniloff Reaches Bucharest
General Korniloff former commander of the Forty-eighth Russian division who was captured in Galicia in May 1915 escaped an Austrian German prison camp and arrived in Bucharest after a month of perilous travel through Hungary walking at night and starving by day.
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Petrograd
London
Korniloff
Galicia
Austria
Bucharest
Roumania
Hungary
Thurston Getting Well in Pharr After Illness
Colonel N. B. Thurston of the Seventy-fourth New York Regiment is recovering at Major Jamerson's temporary home in Pharr Texas after a three day illness. Major Jamerson says Thurston should be well enough to return home to New York soon and dismisses reports of his death as unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pharr
Tex
N. B. Thurston
Seventy-fourth New York Regiment
Jamerson
Twenty-eighth United States Infantry
Thurston
New York
Reveals Name of Dead Raider Captain Schramm Identified
ESBJERG Denmark Sept 9 The Courier of Hanover says the airship commander killed in England during last week’s raid was Captain Schramm a native of Hameln Prussia He held the iron cross first class for raids over Nancy Dunkirk and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esbjerg
Denmark
London
Hanover
Germany
England
Schramm
Hameln
Prussia
Nancy
Dunkirk
Bread price probe as bakers push six cent loaf
Federal inquiry opens into National Association of Master Bakers plan to raise small loaf price to six cents. United States district attorney says plan to coordinate price increases may violate anti trust law. Bakers favor a ten cent loaf for standardization and efficiency amid rising ingredient and delivery costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Association of Master Bakers
Charles G. Clin
United States District Attorney
United States
National Association Master Bakers
Salt Lake City
Price of bread set at ten cents in Birmingham
Beginning September 11 the city of Birmingham will sell a loaf of bread for ten cents. The announcement from the total Association states the loaf will weigh ounces, replacing the present ten cent loaf.
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Birmingham
Ala
Japan pushes police power in Manchuria and Mongolia
Government circles report Tokyo seeks police authority in south Manchuria and inner Mongolia and to place Japanese instructors in Chinese military schools. Chinese press warns such demands would erode sovereignty in inner Mongolia and south Manchuria. Beijing fears reliance on Japanese money may force acquiescence if no external aid is found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Manchuria
Inner Mongolia
Cheng Chiatun
Mongolia
Japan
China
French gold arrives in New York amid allied support signals
A gold shipment of about 2.5 million dollars was deposited at the assay office by J. P. Morgan & Co. The Canadian origin and halifax arrivals suggest coordinated shipments from British imports. This batch raises total gold received since May to 28 million dollars, reinforcing Allied support in the U.S. financing effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. P. M & Company
Canada
Halifax
Morgan & Company
Bank of Bagland Bank of France
Bartlett Wins Oil Land Title In Oklahoma Appeal
In Denver the U S Court of Appeals affirmed the eastern district of Oklahoma ruling that U B Bartlett holds title to a Creek land tract. The dispute traced back to land inheritance by Jack Gouge from his Creek wife and subsequent deeds tied to the Oklahoma Oil Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
United States Court For
Eastern District of Oklahoma
U. B. Bartlett
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Oklahoma Company
Bartlett
Jack Gouge
China
Bart
Oklahoma Oil C
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