Berg Done in Both Houses
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports actions in Washington with the Senate and House in session at noon. The foreign relations committee set a Tuesday hearing for the women’s peace party while Major General Scott explained the army bill to the military committee. Rear Admiral Stanford testified on yards and docks before the naval committee.
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Foreign Relations Committee
House
Scott
Army
Stanford
Lawmakers tackle naval report, suffrage progress, and mining reform
Saturday action includes an adopted Lodge resolution urging Admiral Fletcher's naval war game report from last summer. Woman suffrage committee reports favorable on the amendment. A bill creates a commission to codify and propose changes to general mining laws. Representative Rainey delivers Jackson Day address as Garrison testifies and water power bill discussions resume.
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Senate
Daniels
Admiral Fletcher
House
Representative Rainey
Illinois
Garrison
Law Changes Overman Bill Shielding National Secrets
Senator Overman introduces a bill to prevent disclosures of national defense secrets. Senator Hitchcock submits a resolution seeking Postmaster General investigations into censorship affecting American mail. Foreign relations committee meets with no action on submarine issues or Fletcher’s ambassador nomination.
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Senate
Senator Overman
Hitchcock
Postmaster General
Foreign Relations Committee
H. P. Fletcher
Broussards
House
Stanford
Niagara Falls
Gardner
Kent
National Park Service
Interior Department
Resolution on Army Posts Consolidation and Relief Day
The document notes adoption of a resolution asking the war department whether to abolish or consolidate army posts. Senator McCumber called for investigation of alleged price increases on binding twine. A resolution urged a Jewish relief day. Secretary Garrison summarized army increases to the military commission. Representative Hensley sought probe of preparedness propaganda. Navy committee continued hearings on the naval bill.
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Senate
War Department
McCumber
House
Garrison
Hensley
Navy
Labor Leader Threatens to Resign
London Arthur Henderson president of the board of education and Labour leader in the house of commons served notice on the labor congress that if it decided he should oppose the governments compulsory bill he would refuse to accept such decision resign his seat and ask constituents whether they endorsed his action.
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London
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
Labor Party
House of Commons
Labor Congress
Asquith Bill Defines Conscription Scope in Commons
The compulsory military service bill would draft all single or widowed men aged 18 to 41 with no dependent children, while excluding Ireland. The measure was introduced in the house of commons by Premier Asquith.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Ireland
Funeral of General Grenville M Dodge
Funeral for General Grenville M Dodge held at his residence with full military honors. Nine companies of Iowa and Nebraska militia formed the escort. Clergymen Rev A G A Buxton and Rev J T Jones led services. Schools courts and offices closed as thousands followed to the tomb.
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General Dodge
Council Bluffs
Grenville M. Dodge
Iowa
Nebraska
A. G. A. Buxton
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
J. T. Jones
First Congregational Church
Government ownership sinking of ship and radio control plan
Officials discuss a comprehensive pledge from Germany and allies to honor safety guarantees for American lives at sea amid submarine controversy. President Wilson is urged to seek assurances that unarmed ships with Americans aboard won’t be attacked until passengers reach safety, though no decision has been made.
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Union News Service
Washington
Germany
Austria
United States
Wilson
Germany Proposes Indemnity in Lusitania Case
Germany offers to pay indemnity for Americans lost in the Lusitania disaster and promises non combatant ships in the Mediterranean will not be attacked without warning. The proposal is made with no admission of wrong doing and acceptance is not officially confirmed.
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Union News Service
Washington
von Bernstorff
Lansing
Lusitania
Mediterranean
Germany
Villa Soldiers Surrender to Carranza and Cooperate
General Scott told the house military committee that universal service may include six months training for 18 to 21 year olds as a substitute for volunteers. He warned the United States would need an army near 2,000,000 in war. About 4,000,000 men are 18 to 21, with 700,000 more turning eighteen each year.
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Union News Service
Washington
United States
House Military Committee
Scott
Cooperation Urged to Pressure Germany After Peace
In the house of commons debate, members urged the government to press Germany and to prevent trade warfare against the entente after peace. A resolution called for immediate consultations with dominion governments to unite imperial power with the allies against the enemy.
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London
House of Commons
Germany
Villa soldiers surrender near Quiriego Sonora
Three thousand Villa soldiers and Mayo Indians surrendered to Carranza forces under General Madragal near Quiriego Sonora. They were attempting to join Yaqui bands when intercepted by Carranzaistas. The Mayo Indians, near starvation, were led by Chief Bachomo. Villa forces by General Banderas.
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Guaymas
Mex
Villa
Carranza
Madragal
Quiriego
Sonora
Winslow
Bachomo
Banderas
Secretary Daniels Calls for Government Ownership of Radio
Secretary Daniels of the navy urged government ownership and strict control of all radio stations in the United States and the Americas. Speaking to delegates at the Pan American Scientific Congress, he presented a plan that drew near unanimous support and will be forwarded to participating governments for consideration.
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Daniels
Washington
United States
South
Central America
Secretary Daniels
Navy
pan-American Scientific Congress
State Department
Riots Follow Mill Strike in East Youngstown
Nineteen people were shot with four believed fatally, many injured, and ten buildings burned in steel mill riots in East Youngstown. The fire threat reached Youngstown’s East End business district as Sheriff Umstead telegraphed Governor Willis for state militia, declaring lives being lost and seeking urgent help. East Youngstown lies in the factory district near Youngstown.
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Youngstown, O
East Youngstown
J. F. Umsteads
Willis
Propose Prosperity Day in United States
Lincoln area readers note a national push to observe an extra day February 28 as Prosperity Day. Proposals include saving the extra day’s income, holding prosperity meetings, public explanations of U S advantages, and prosperity sales by stores.
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Lincoln, Neb
United States
Milk crisis in Germany prompts push for aid
New York reports Dr. Edmund von Mach, chair of the citizens' committee on food shipments, declaring Germany faces a critical food shortage. He cites milk for babies as vital and says he has asked Washington for permission to ship large quantities, noting ambassador Bernstorff would have halted efforts if not urgent.
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New York
Germany
Edmund von Mach
Citizens’ Committee
Dr. von Mach
America
Washington
von Bernstorff
Typhus risk on border eyed as gasoline bath used on suspects
In Laredo and across the border in Mexico a gasoline bath is used to deter typhus infection, but only for suspects deemed unusually untidy. Federal health officials say a border epidemic is unlikely if proper precautions are followed.
Reorganization Talks In Queretaro With Carranza Aides
General Carranza convenes a conference at Queretaro inviting Generals Obregon and Gonzales his top military chiefs several civil officers and Juan Sanchez Azcona former private secretary to President Madero to plan the official family reshuffle.
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Washington
Carranza
Querataro
Obregon and
Gonzales
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Madero
Evacuation of Gallipoli Peninsula Declared Complete
London reports the Gallipoli evacuation is successful with only one British injury and no French casualties. All guns were saved except seventeen worn out ones blown up. General Sir Charles Monro confirms the operation's completion and the preservation of arms.
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London
Gallipoli
Charles Monro
Ford listed on Michigan GOP presidential primary ballot
Henry Ford, recently back from his European peace mission, appears on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Michigan.
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Lansing
Mich
Henry Ford
Michigan
Ford Peace Delegation Reaches The Hague
Five weeks after leaving New York the Ford peace expedition arrived in The Hague on Saturday. The group plans immediate work to spread peace propaganda as it travels by special train from Copenhagen through Germany. At key stations they passed marching soldiers and Red Cross nurses. in one town a German lieutenant saluted the mission.
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Ford
Hague
Hageue
New York
Copenhagen
Lubeck
Hamburg
Bremen
Red Cross
Germany
Mexican War Lede Upheld by El Paso General Fleeing to Mountains
El Paso reports General Rosario Hernandez once allied with Generals Trevino and Herrera and who accepted amnesty has fled with a small force into the San Roliano district mountains during the advance on Chihuahua city last month.
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el Paso
Tex
Rosario Hernandez
Villa
Trevino
Herrera
Chihuhaua City
San Roliano
Hyde’s Fourth Trial Delayed to April Term
The fourth trial of Dr. B Clark Hyde charged with murdering Colonel Thomas H Swope a Kansas City philanthropist has been postponed to the April term of the circuit court in Kansas City Kansas.
Prohibition Convention Moves to St. Paul Auditorium
The national prohibition convention will be held at the St. Paul auditorium on June 19, not Minneapolis as earlier planned by the national executive committee in Chicago.
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St. Paul St. Paul
Minn
Minneapolis
National Executive Committee
Chicago
Revolutionaries Loot Canton Customs House in Kowloon Raid
One hundred armed men attacked the Chinese customs house on the Kowloon boundary looting the facility. The marauders posted proclamations claiming they are revolutionaries.
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Customs House
Canton
China
Kowloon
Nebraska Equal Suffrage Board Seeks Statewide Organization
Lincoln plans to build a substantial foundation of equal suffrage groups in Nebraska this year. The new board held its first meeting at Mrs. W. E. Barkley Jr.'s home and ordered immediate precinct level organizing with district conventions and officer appointments across districts.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Equal Suffrage Board
W. E. Barkley, Jr
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