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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1917
Page
6
Atlantic coast navy yards ready to arm merchant ships upon telepathia instructions from Washington. Navy officials say three to six weeks can equip vessels surveyed for submarine defense, with orders to fit guns and magazines safely on deck emplacements.
London reports Gen Frederick B Maurice says war could extend over another winter due to pure military factors. He asserts strategy is immutable and dominates conflicts, praising Robert E Lee as a master strategist whose principles persist into 2001.
Viscount Mutune, Japanese foreign minister, said Japan received no direct or indirect proposal from Mexico or Germany to join a war against the United States. Viscount Motono called any such idea ridiculous and insisted Japan would not abandon its allies. He warned Mexico against trusting the proposal.
Indictments returned by a federal grand jury name Albert A. Sanded Carl W. Waanenberg and George Vans Bacon in a case alleging a spy network posed as American newspaper correspondents to smuggle military and civil information to Germany. The report notes Dutch authorities consider potato flour for bread after wartime sinking of Dutch ships and Paris to start women mail carriers as an experiment.
The city of Los Beach California was held responsible for damages after the municipal pier superstructure collapsed during a May celebration, killing forty persons. The incident ended with the decisive ruling on Friday.
A Washington report highlights waves of recruitment and related grants amid ongoing Spanish conflict. The article notes Supreme Court involvement and potential timing for actions by major parties.
President Wilson reports to the Senate that the United States possesses evidence establishing the authenticity of the Zimmermann note sent January 19 1917. Secretary Lansing states the material was acquired this week and should not be disclosed further at this time.
Joseph H Choate, noted New Yorker, marked his 85th birthday with family but was confined to bed after a nurse refused to let him rise for congratulations. A new photograph of Choate was released with the report.
A report from Dayton describes a bank break in at a First National vault on a Tuesday morning. Suspect Gurgiare, Plau Robbera and Toy allegedly gained entry via a rear window and drilled a hole near the vault top, stealing about $15 000 and an unknown sum. Authorities pursue leads.
A man in Indianapolis killed his three children as they slept. He died later in a local hospital.
Congress, moved by Germany's plot to join Japan and Mexico against the United States, passed a bill to empower the president to arm merchant vessels and authorize a 100 million dollar bond issue. The measure, 403 to 13, leaves out broader "other instrumentalities" favored by the administration, while the Senate plans to mirror the action. The White House and both parties show cautious support amid heated debate and questions about German intrigue.
Labor leaders report the proposed strike of stevedores and marine transport workers was abandoned after wage increase concessions. Railway heads in Washington met Thursday with the council of regional defense to approve plans for government operation of critical transportation interests in wartime.
Mrs. Mathew Maury wife of the Woodrow Wilson’s sister Mrs. Wilson died in Roanoke Monday afternoon following an operation for peritonitis. She was 61 years old and had been ill only a few days.
Mysterious wartime incident claims two American lives as the Cunard liner Laconia, a vessel of 14100 gross tons, en route from New York to Liverpool, is sunk after a collision or attack in the Atlantic. Rescue and casualty details are developing.
Hailey Idaho February 26 a monster snowslide struck the Federal Mining and Smelter North Star mine bunkhouse trapping forty five men in bed and carrying them down the mountainside. Fifteen were killed with bodies recovered and fifteen more missing as rescuers battled wreckage of the two story bunkhouse and adjacent compressor and supply house.
The French minister and the Belgian chargé d affaires, representing the Entente, invite China to join the war. They offer remission of the Boxer indemnity and a revision of tariff commitments to persuade China to participate.
The war office reports British forces entered the village of Petit Mirau Mont south of the Ancre after advancing southeast of Miraumont. In Washington, Francis A. Connolly of Connally & Go, connected to Rob ert W. Galling, testified before the house rules committee in the Lamb inquiry.
Mexico City reports that Musica ambassador to the United States plans a Washington leave this week. He will be accompanied by Juan B. Bajo, Vieembanny secretary, as part of the Mexico envoy’s arrival.
The Associated Press reports Germany proposed a wartime alliance with Mexico and Japan to attack the United States if it remained neutral. The plan, dated January 1917, urged Mexico to reconquer lost territory and suggested Japan join the effort, with details kept by Berlin and conveyed via von Bernstorff.
Unnamed report asserts J Fred Emory and W W Price led a leak about President Wilsons peace note. Henry of the rules committee presented the claim to the house Tuesday. Also noted are Laconia sinking survivor William Ryan and a fatal courthouse fight in Nashville Tennessee resulting in multiple injuries.
Reports from the inland Northwest detail a trapper near Valley Springs and wool production declines in Oregon. Storage of potatoes in Seattle, local stock laws in Biko, and a forger captured in Billings are noted alongside survey misplacements near Indian Springs Nevada and the Winnemucca Indian school opening with nine pupils.
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