Soviet Forces Capture Towns Along Slutch River Front
Soviet forces push south of the Pripet marsh toward Mozir and Pinsk and seize several towns along the Slutch river amid Polish resistance. Bolshevik assaults direct at Olevsk as Polish lines hold with heavy artillery and air bombardment. A Bolshevik column was killed near Zaslavl with orders found to take the town at all costs.
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Ondon
Eng
Warsaw
Bromberg
Posen
Thorn
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Novorossisk
Russia
Denisine
Moscow
Poland
Pripet
Mozir
Pinsk
Slutch
Olevsk
Zaslav
Zaslavl
Oil Found In Abandoned Well Near Sierra Blanca
A 12 000 acre lease deal followed discovery 11 miles NW of Sierra Blanca near Hueco basin 100 miles SE of El Paso. Californians led by Thomas Muir and L Harry Blankinship inspected the old water well and expect two new wells within 60 days. Oil appeared thick and asphaltlike with gasoline and kerosene odors, likely from a nearby pool with a cap rock penetration. The well depth is about 300 feet and further drilling planned in limestone.
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Sierra Blanca
el Paso
L. E. Claypool
West Texas
Pecos
Hueco Basin
Sn R
California
Thomas K. Muir
L. Harry Blankinship
Mexico
Tampico
Blankinship
Muir Well
Paso del Norte
Muir
Allied and German forces clash around Wesel fortress
In a day of mixed fighting, working men’s forces regained ground near Wesel and recaptured Lippe castle after an hour of shelling. Government troops are described as strong enough to hold Wesel while Belgian authorities issue civilian passes to return. Snipers fire at reporters on Belgian river island. Dissension reported among workers’ troops and within government ranks as calls for enlistment ban cowards.
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Hussars
Uhlans
Wesel
Germany
Associated Press
Lippe Castle
Kabitach
Buderich
Here
Rhine
Lippe and
Hagen
Red Flag Flies From Old Castle Alkenstein
In Saxony workers seize control in lower Saxony towns but lack military strength to resist. In a valley town near Plauen, rumors of a soviet republic are denied as the burgomaster flees. One hundred workers under Hoelz kidnap city attorney Hubert in Plauen during the upheaval.
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Alkenstein
Saxony
Associated Press
Lower Saxony
Plauen
Max Hi
Germany
O. Ae
Hoelz
Hubert
Finnish Forces Burn Patchenka Monastery in Murmansk Area
Finnish troops at Patchenka in the Murmansk region burned the monastery and several other buildings before leaving to the Bolsheviks. Travelers arriving at Tromsoe reported the occupation by Soviet troops on March 22.
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Patchenka
Church Christiania
Norway
Murmansk
Tromsoe
Ukrainians Take Odessa Port in Black Sea Crisis
Paris reports that Odessa the major Russian port on the Black Sea has fallen to Ukrainian forces under Gen. Pavlenko. The Ukrainian mission in Paris says the city is occupied by the Ukrainian neotonal army, according to latest information.
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Odessa
Black Sea
Paris
France
Pavlenko
El Paso Herald Leads Circulation Among Papers
The El Paso Herald reports its proved circulation is nearly twice that of any other El Paso newspaper, underscoring its dominant market position.
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el Paso Herald
el Paso
Hoover Reiterates He Is Not Candidate In Reply To Rail Unions
Herbert Hoover answered a request about campaign expenditures from railroad unions weekly by stating that he has no campaign and no finances. He again said on March 8 that he is not a candidate for the presidency and is not seeking public office.
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Hoover
Ashington
D.C
Herbert Hoover
Lhaor
Peace and policy clash over league in Senate fight
The White House delays treaty action waiting to see Congress. A joint peace resolution may substitute for a treaty, but Republicans and Democrats fear delaying until elections. divisions split mild reservationists over league support while foes like Borah and Johnson oppose it. Debate likely delays action until after Chicago and San Francisco conventions. The president aims to use the league in the campaign.
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White House
Wilson
Senate
Congress
League of Nations
League
Borah
Johnson
United States
Chicago
San Francisco
Herald plans full national politics coverage with convention dispatches
The El Paso Herald pledges extensive national political reporting through May. David Lawrence and N. T. Jones will provide interpretative dispatches from Washington and Chicago with exclusive behind the scenes scoops. G A Martin joins to cover conventions from a southwestern perspective alongside Ring W Lardner's daily humorous dispatches.
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The
Herald
David Lawrence
N. T. Jones
Washington
G. A. Martin
National Capital
el Paso
Martin
Lawrence
Chicago
San Francisco
Associated Press
Ring W. Lardner
el Paso Herald
Headliners In Today's Theaters
Amusement ads list film banners with stars Tom Mix Norma Talmadge Wanda Hawley Wallace Reid May Allison and others. The Cyclone A Daughter of Two Worlds Double Speed The Walk Offs and a comedy bill headline the day.
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Tom Mix
Ellanay
Norma Talmadge
Alice Ance
Rialto
Wanda Hawley
Wallace Reid
Three Wells Race For Oil Lands At Pecos
ECOS Texas March 27 Three wells race to 650 foot level in Pecos Valley field. Bell Reeves spudding in Friday with day and night shifts. Citizens Oil & Gas spudded in Saturday Grogan well drilling for a week. Reeves is northwest of Bell about a mile Grogan three miles west and north Citizens three miles west along anticline apex.
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Ecos
Texas
Bell-Reeves
Pecos Valley
Citizens’ Oil & Gas Co
Grogan
Damaged American Ship Philadelphia Abandoned for Repairs
Southampton March 27 Two fires aboard the American liner Philadelphia damaged the vessel so badly that sailing was abandoned pending extensive repairs The manager of the line suspects incendiary origin after a similar blaze on the steamer New York recently broke out.
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Southampton
Eng
Associated Press
Philadelphia
New York
Oil shows in another well near Sierra Blanca
Sidney W. Moore owner of land north of the Muir well reports a 240 foot Moore well showing oil after being drilled as a water well. Drillers noted oil in the slush, Moore fears oil could spoil water, and his land is leased by the California syndicate that owns the Muir well. Early next week the well will be bailed to determine oil amount.
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Sierra Blanca
Sidney W. Moore
Mathers
Federal Judge Dismisses Red River Oil Land Case
In Oklahoma City on March 27 federal district court dismissed the writs of attachment against Texas claimants and arrest petitions in the Red River bed oil lands dispute. Judge R. L. Williams granted the motion, ending the case against the Oklahoma claimants.
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Klahoma City
Okla
Judsonia Developing Association
Oklahoma
Red River
Federal District Court
Texas
R. L. Williams
Ranger forces to guard Red River property dispute
Adjt. Gen. W. D. Cope arrived in Wichita Falls to assume command of ranger forces guarding property in the Red River bed, the center of a Texas Oklahoma controversy. The Texas Oklahoma border ranger force has been reinforced in recent days.
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Austin
Texas
W. D. Cope
Wichita Falls
Red River
Oklahoma
Adjutant General’s Department
Texas-Oklahoma
Posses Fail to Locate Slayer of Little Girl
Steubenville O March 27 In Adena near here the identity of the person or persons who killed 11 year old Frances South had not been established today despite armed posses scouring the area since the body was found Thursday afternoon.
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Steubenville, O
Frances South
Adena
Here
Pecos May Have Beet Sugar Factory Shortly
Pecos Texas March 27 development of the beet sugar industry in the Pecos and Toyah valleys and the probable construction of a sugar refinery here is the purpose of a visit by J S Lawson Milwaukee president of the United States Sugar company. The irrigated lands of the Pecos valley yield large beet crops but industry has not fully developed due to market distance.
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Ashington
D. C
White House
Capital Hill
Wilson
Pecos
Texas
Toyah
J. S. Lawson
Milwaukee
United States Sugar Company
Maret
Peace Treaty Rejected Cited as Plot Against Wilson
Mississippian senator John Sharp Williams told the state legislature the senate rejected the peace treaty due to a great conspiracy against President Wilson. He blamed Lodge, calling him the head of the poison squad, and argued conspirators opposed Versailles decisions as news arrived.
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Lodge
Kson
Miss
Senate
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Williams
League of Nations
United States
Council of Nations
Versailles
Senator Lodge
Night Riders Again Operate In Graves County Kentucky
Mayfield Ky March 27 tonight marks western Kentucky s first night riding outbreak in 12 years as 200 to 300 Graves County tobacco growers torch the Mayfield tobacco chute. The stir follows growers organizing to withhold sales in protest of falling prices and recent coercive actions by McCracken county farmers.
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Mayfield
Kentucky
Graves County
McCracken County
Paducah
Strike Expands in Rio Hotels as Cooks and Waiters Walk Out
In Rio de Janeiro March 26 striking hotel and restaurant workers joined a general walkout. Restaurants closed while troops were stationed at strategic points. Officials say radicals abroad are involved and report no serious disorders.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Cables Cut in Ireland Disrupt Communications
Paris reports several cables passing through Ireland have been cut, including some belonging to the Commercial Cable company.
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Ireland
Paris
France
U S Must Face It Squarely In European Peace Debate
In the Senate Versailles debate ends for now while a broader public discussion begins. The author argues the United States must choose among three paths: arbiter of world peace, backer of other nations plans, or strict isolation with limited intervention. He asserts U S strength gives leverage and cautions against coercive terms on allies. The piece weighs merits and faults of each option.
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Jashington
D.C
Senate
Ceron
United States
Europe
Wilson
Atlantic
Hoover
Pershing
Great Quantities of Arms Found in German Cities
Allied officers supervising the peace treaty report finding vast arm reserves in Germany. In Brandenburg and near Berlin, 2500 three inch field guns were discovered, signaling substantial stockpiles uncovered under postwar supervision.
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Paris
France
Ermany
Brandenburg
Berlin
German minister declines to form new cabinet
Paris reports Hermann Mueller foreign minister in Premier Bauer's cabinet has declined to take on the task of forming a new German ministry. The French foreign office conveyed the information today.
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Paris
France
Hermann Mueller
Bauer
2000 Grocers of South Quit Case Against Packers
The Southern wholesale Grocers association with over 2000 members withdrew from a National Wholesale Grocers case against the big five packers and several railroads. Swift & Co. counsel argued the plan to restrict refrigerator car shipments is economically unsound and would harm the public. The grocers were cocomplainants in the first hearing and say a pact grants relief to packers.
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Chicago
Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association
National Wholesale Grocer's Association
Big Five
R. D. Rynder
Swift & Co
Clyde D. Aitchison
Interstate Commerce Commission
Palmer
Rynder
Funds Allotted to Fort Bliss Construction Total Reaches 770000
The War Department has allotted 215000 for material to build warehouses and 67000 for concrete platforms at Fort Bliss. The latest award brings total Fort Bliss construction funding to 770000, 292000 above earlier projections. The allotment covers work to be done in the coming year as Fort Bliss grows as the strongest district in the southern department with over 10000 troops.
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War Department
Fort Bliss
K. M. Roberts
Chamber of Commerce
John Apper
Washington
Ft. Bliss
Texas Coal Miners Not to Strike on April 1
Fort Worth Texas March 27 Texas workers will remain in the coal mines even if miners elsewhere quit work April 1 when the present wage agreement expires Operators and miners have effected an agreement whereby the miners will remain on the job.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Hurry Along Your Pictures Get That Wanda Hawley Wrist Watch
The Herald urges readers to mail in photographs for the Similarity contest before the 6 o clock Thursday deadline. Judges will pick a winner on Friday. Include name and address on the back and ensure the photo is eligible.
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Wanda Hawley
Herald
Lookalike Contest Promises Gold Bracelet Prize
The Herald invites contestants to send a photo by April 5 to win a box party at Rialto and a solid gold bracelet watch. Wanda Hawley is cited as a relatable lookalike standard, with the winner to be chosen by friends at the event.
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Wanda Hawley
The
Herald
Rialto
W. T. Hixson Jewelry Company
El Paso Herald Sponsors Free Mountain Camp for Boys
The El Paso Herald offers two weeks at Mountain Park near Cloudcroft for 15 new one month subscriptions. Each subscription costs 70 cents in advance, covering meals lodging and transportation. Participants join Y M C A boys under Y M C A supervision and must be residents of Arizona New Mexico or west Texas.
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Mountain Park
Cloudcroft
el Paso Herald
Herald
el Paso Heerald
H. H. Fris
Arizona
New Mexico
West Texas
el Paso
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