24 Mar 1916
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1916
Page
1
Edward Hill, sporting editor of The Star, reports daily on happenings of vital interest to baseball fans at the annual Northwestern league meeting in Seattle. Read his hope in The Pink.
The Hay bill advances in Congress aiming to raise the regular army from 100000 to 140000 with a War College recommendation for 280000 and 380000 in reserve. It passes the House 402 to 2 and heads to the Senate to merge with the Chamberlain army bill.
Bremerton March 24. C Panthorpe 30 a junior aboard the cruiser Saratoga shot himself in his bunk at 9 this morning. Capt Coontz commandant at the navy yard has ordered a board of inquest to investigate the tragedy. He recently returned from six years at the China station and was an unmarried graduate of the Naval Academy in 1910. The commandant called the death shocking and inexplicable.
Washington reports Sen. Stone accusing sinister forces of stirring war between the United States and Mexico after telegrams described border turmoil. President Wilson and his cabinet decide no militia mobilization yet, while Carranza forces and Pershing led pursuit trap Villa near Namiquipa with reports of battles and captures.
A U S soldier known as Sims loses his cash at a Juarez keno hall and clubs with gunmen in a back room. A Mexican gambling crew, two uniforms and a flashy gunslinger lure him with a payoff plan. Sims enslaves the room, locks the door, and threatens the group after snatching 500 pesos for a weapons fix, then escapes into the alley.
Socially prominent names plan to attend the Willard Moran ten round bout at Madison Square Garden with opera glasses. Geraldine Farrar Mary Pickford David Belasco's daughter Lindley Garrison John McCormack Jim Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons expected among ringside guests. In Amsterdam an Ostend Westende shelling report echoes as flash dispatches note heavy firing in the English Channel.
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