Smooth confidence men arrested in Midwest case
Three men living in Youngstown’s exclusive district linked to millionaire steel circles are jailed over a nation wide confidence scheme that netted about half a million dollars. Victims included bankers in the Midwest. suspects used aliases and posed as stock brokers connected to established firms.
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Union News Service
Youngstown
Middle West
Charles Schwab
John D. Archbold
J. B. White
Ed McCoombs
Boston
Mass
W. T. Keeley
Chicago
Ill
Joseph Weil
Yellow Kid
James R. Wilson
White
E. T. McNeelis
E. L. Harmon
McCoombs
R. R. Redfield
Thos. Osborne
Rollin Hahn
James G. Hartwell
Chicago Grand Jury
Kokomo
Youngstown Sheet Tube Co
War Trade Board cites deliberate plan to starve neutrals
Washington reports the War Trade Board attributes a ruthless campaign to cut off North European neutrals from American and Allied food supplies. The plan aims to starve nations into political and economic dependence on German warlords, with no reference to U S or Britain termination. The board notes Dutch ships may be seized in American and allied ports unless the Netherlands accepts an economic agreement.
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Washington
Germany
War Trade Board
United States
Great Britain
Netherlands
Expose Hun Prisoners to Air Attacks
German prisoners of war are to be distributed over areas subjected to air raids by Allied aircraft, the Evening News reports. The paper says this is being done because the Allied Governments have learned that German held prisoners of various nationalities are already placed in towns likely to be attacked.
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London
Evening News
Protection gear for American aviators devised in Washington
The aviation section of the United States Signal Corps has devised flame proof mask shoes helmet gloves and suit for aviators. The equipment will be combined with an electrically heated thermos suit to protect flyers from fire and to keep them warm at high altitudes.
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Washington
Aviation
United States Signal Corps
Parcel Post Curtailment Sought to Ease War Mail Load
Friends overseas send parcels to American soldiers in France filling ships and railways. authorities warn drastic cuts in parcel post may be needed unless the public reduces this mail volume.
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France
German Leaders Clash Over War Aims In London
Two interviews from von Hindenburg and von Ludendorff arrive in London and clash over peace terms and German strength. Hindenburg accuses Entente of ignoring Germany’s peace aims while Ludendorff boasts Germany’s superiority in manpower morale air power and tanks.
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Hindenburg
London
von Hindenburg
von Ludendorff
Marshal von Hindenburg
Germany
Liberty motors power first U.S. fighting seaplanes
Washington reports America's first fighting seaplane with Liberty motors has been tried and accepted and will bolster naval air service. The Bristol army fighter is in production with several models, including a two seater, and large output is expected before July for delivery to France and foreign use.
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Washington
America
Naval Air Service
Aircraft Board
Liberty Motors
France
Governor Cox petitions PUC over gas meter pressure readings
Columbus Ohio Governor Cox reports numerous complaints that gas meters register the same at four ounces per inch and at one fourth of an ounce per inch. He asks the State Public Utilities Commission to investigate the discrepancy.
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Columbus
Cox
State Public Utilities Commission
Open Aviation School in Washington DC
The War Department has authorized an army aviation school at Charleston in the District of Columbia. Plans were approved recently and the school will open as soon as possible.
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Washington
Charleston
D. C
War Department
Train Derailment Injures Soldier Near Schell City
A troop train carrying New York and Pennsylvania units derailed five miles south of Schell City Missouri due to a defective switch. Chas Hutt of Taroy Pennsylvania, a soldier aboard, was the only injury reported.
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Schell City
Chas. Hutt
Taroy
New York
Pennsylvania
Here
Mud Rains From Sky in Ohio Tornado Sweep
Weather forecaster W. H. Alexander attributes mud rain in Columbus and Franklin County to a tornado in Northwestern Ohio. Dust and dirt were lifted high by strong winds, circulated above cloud layers, then settled back through the atmosphere to ground.
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Columbus
Franklin County
United States
W. H. Alexander
Landslide Wrecks Express Train No 19 Near Elizabethtown
A landslide toppled three sleeping cars from Train No 19 the Cincinnati Cleveland and Chicago express as it passed a cut west of Harrisburg Elizabethtown. Between ten and twenty people were killed and more than forty injured. The wreck halted traffic on four tracks and a relief train with nurses and physicians arrived from Harrisburg. The Masonic Home near the scene was turned into a hospital.
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Philadelphia
Elizabethtown
Harrisburg
Masonic Home
Shoe Prices Hold Tight in Face of Hide Slump
St Louis reports a drop in raw hide values, blamed on winter stock losses. Officials say the decline may raise shoe costs by about five cents per pair if it persists, with no clear sign that prices will fall long term.
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St. Louis
Losses Hit Omaha Hides as Prices Fall
R C Howe general manager of the Omaha Armour plant says hides in storage number in the thousands and losses average about five dollars per hide. Branded cowhides recently bring 16 to 18 cents versus 28 to 30 cents earlier.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
R. C. Howe
Armour & Co
Balloon crash near Killeen injures seven men
Temple, Texas. Captain B. H. Four nier of San Antonio suffered a severe scalp wound. Cadet W. Adams broke a leg and Cadet EK. M. Hawley sprained his back when a balloon they were testing from San Antonio fell from 3200 feet near Killeen. Six other men in the basket were also injured.
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Temple
Texas
B. H. Fournier
San Antonio
W. Adams
EK. M. Hawley
Killeen
Bread Riots Tear Gratz as Shops Are Looted
In Gratz the capital of Styria, bread riots erupt after a deputation complains of scarce, poor quality bread. A mob smashes windows and robs shops while police fail to halt the disorders, with the property damage reported as serious.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Gratz
Styria
Siberian violence claims 15 Japanese in Blagoveshchensk
London reports that maximalists in Siberia fatally harmed 15 Japanese at Blagoveshchensk, capital of Amur Province, per Hochi Shimbun via Reuters.
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London
Siberia
Blagoviestchensk
Amur Province
Hochi Shimbun
Reuters, Limited
Prohibition Closes 166 Salons in St Louis County
One hundred sixty six saloons in St Louis County closed after the September election. Duluth joined the prohibition cities last July.
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St. Louis
Duluth
War Committees Meet With War Council In United Action
Washington reports the Senate Military Committee met with the War Council at the War Department for about two hours and will hold weekly sessions. House committees will also meet the council, with a joint session likely later. The arrangement aims to give Congress real time insight into war preparations and European front developments.
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Washington
Congress
Europe
Crowell
Senate Military Committee
War Department
War Council
House Committee
Senate
Wilson
House Passes Daylight Saving Bill Seeks Senate Action
Washington reports the house approved a daylight saving measure that would move clocks forward in spring and back in fall. It previously passed the senate last June and requires senate action again before reaching the President. The plan sets changes on the last Sundays of April and September.
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Washington
House
Senate
Banker James Stillman Dies In New York
James Stillman banker died at his New York home from heart disease at age sixty eight. He had been in poor health for months and was stricken at his residence with no further information available at the time.
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New York
James Stillman
Stillman
Ratify Peace Pact Votes Reported In Moscow
Russian delegates at the All Russian Congress of Soviets in Moscow reportedly backed the Brest Litovsk peace treaty by a 453 to 80 margin in a Bolshevik caucus, though details remain unclear. The vote outcome signals strong support for the German-dictated agreement.
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London
Russia
Congress of Soviets
Moscow
Germany
Brest Litovak
Ten Thousand Men Women and Children Demonstrate Pro-German Protest
In Covington Kentucky ten thousand patriots protest German propaganda amid the massacre of 600 army horses bound for France. A crowd looks on as investigators report hundreds of horses killed in transit from Camp Grant and across the Covington stockyards. Medical examiners test for poisoning vs disease while officials guard stockyards and await lab results.
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Union News Service
Covington
France
Camp Grant
Rockford
Ill
Atlantic
C. S. Weakley
Department of Justice
Blume
Cincinnati
Frank Lillie
Dr. Blume
A. W. Ziebold
C. BE. Johnson
Sixteenth
Russell Streets
Kentucky
Alexandria
Independence
Williamstown
Lexington
New Schools For Training Officers In War Plans
War Department considers three new reserve officer training schools. One may be at Ft. Riley Kansas and another at Ft. Leavenworth. A third site is undecided. Each school would specialize in a service branch, producing artillery, cavalry, and infantry officers.
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Washington
War Department
Ft. Riley
Kan
Ft. Leavenworth
Kidnapping of Young Boy Feared in Kendallville
Frania Shaffer, two and a half, son of Mr and Mrs T W Shaffer of Kendallville Indiana, vanished from home. Police conducted all night search with bloodhounds and creek draggings over a mile, no clue found. Authorities fear kidnapping by gypsies and possible ransom demand.
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Kendallville
Ind
Francia
T. W. Shaffer
Shaffer
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