Defense spending proposals seek 364 million in new appropriation
Washington dispatch outlines Congress asked for 364 million dollars for defense covering army and navy expansions. The plan includes increased pay, equipment, ordnance, ammunition, and new ships plus fortifications and coast defense upgrades. Highlights involve hulls and machinery for multiple vessels, armor, reserve ammo, and an experimental lab to aid the advisory board.
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Ashington
Congress
War Department
Army
Enginer Corps
Theilitary Academy
Naval
Navy Devt
Hospital Sons
Res
Theso Advisory Board
Chief of Ordnance
Armament Costs for Forts Rise From Last Year
The plan estimates the total fort armament at 12,567,500 dollars, up from 3,390,000 last year. Provisions include 3,000,000 for ammunition modernization plus 3,500,000 extra and 490,000 for sub-caliber seacoast artillery practice.
Congress Seeks Record Expenditure for Military Prep
The 1916 bill proposes a total outlay of 1.286 billion dollars, up 170 million from last year, driven mainly by military preparedness. Increases cover the army and navy, coast defenses, and related services, with substantial rises across departments including State and Treasury to fund clerical work, diplomacy, and tax collection.
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Washington
Navills
Panama
Postal Service
Awaines
Treasury
Congress
Europe
State Department
Treasury Department
Cotton Slump Strikes New York Exchange
Cotton prices plummeted on the New York market with no warning as selling from the south pushed prices down 36 to 42 points or $2 a bale from Friday's close. Light buying limited support, but the market closed unsettled, still 15 to 19 points above the day’s low.
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New York
New York Exchange
New Orleans
Milk Shortage Threatens New York Babies
The New York health department warns a milk shortage could endanger thousands of infants as allied armies demand condensed milk. Daily shortfall may reach forty thousand quarts with relief not expected until mid January when winter cows begin production.
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New York
Atlantic
New York Health Department
Unwritten Law Saves Woman From Gallows in Canada
Mrs Jennie Hawkes dodges the scaffold after Ottawa commutes her death sentence to ten years imprisonment following petitions from about forty thousand women. She killed Mrs Rosell Storey in a tormented marriage. authorities cited abuse and threats as factors.
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M’leod
Alberta
Canadian Northwest
Jennie Hawkes
Rosell Stoley
Dominion
Ottawa
Wetaskawin
Hawkes
Explosion at Du Pont Repauno plant shocks Gibbstown
A blast at the Du Pont Repauno plant in Gibbstown, New Jersey, near the Delaware River, caused a frame cap magazine building to blow apart but left no injuries. Hundreds of workers felt the shock as debris and fear spread. officials deny espionage though suspicious characters have been seen nearby.
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Gibbstown
German Consulate Agents Targeted in Bomb Plot Indictments
San Francisco December 11. Baron George Wilhelm von Bricken and C. C. Crowley, agents of the German consulate, are to be indicted Monday by the federal grand jury as alleged bomb plotters. Franz Bopp, the German consul general, may also face government action amid speculation. Bopp accuses mail tampering, while officials hint at a frame up to discredit them.
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San Francisco
George Wilhelm von Bricken
C. C. Crowley
Franz Bobb
Bopp
Vilna A Valuable Prize 10 Germans
Vilna, a Russian city on the Courland to Poland line, fell to German forces after a September retreat. The Germans kept administration, issued curbs and disease controls, and noted food shortages amid rising prices as locals feared famine. A visiting reporter described life under occupation, bread lines, and scarce goods while noting German efforts to reopen rail supplies and the curious exchange rate between Russian and German money.
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United Press
Vilna
Russia
Berlin
New York
Kovno
Courland
Poland
Petrograd
von Hindenburg
Vil
Germany
America
Belgium
Pratt Coal Co Sale Talks Stir Birmingham Business Circles
In Birmingham Alabama negotiations are under way for Morris Adler & Co to buy Pratt Consolidated Coal Company in a multi million deal. Otto Marx of Otto Marx & Co assists and will return next week for full deal details. The Pratt firm operates western Jefferson County mines and Walker County fields with coke ovens a Warrior River barge line and stores. Principal owners include George B. McCormack Erskine Ramsay and H E McCormack.
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Brimingham
Ala
Pratt
Consolidated Coal Company
Morris Adler & Company
Morris
Edgar Adler
Otto Marx
Otto Marx & Co
New York
Pratt Consolidated Coal Company
South
Jefferson County
Walker
Warrior River
George B. McCormack
Erskine Ramsay
H. E. McCormack
Mrs Bundy Wins World Tennis Title in Decisive Match
In Long Beach on December 11 Mrs Thomas Bundy formerly Miss May Sutton defeated Miss Molla Bjurdstedt to claim the world women's tennis championship. A second item notes Mobile Council No 66 Knights of Columbus will initiate a large class on December 19 with Nashville hosts conducting degree work. Candidates are young men and will receive three TM degrees. Visitors from Biloxi Meridian Pass Christian Pensacola Pascagoula and Montgomery are expected.
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Mobile Council No. 66
Knights of Columbus
Nashville
Tenn
Biloxi
Meridian
Pass Christian
Pensacola
Pascagoula
Montgomery
Steamship Co to Run One Ship Monthly from Mobile
Dr. Harry T. Inge of the Caribbean and Southern Steamship Co says future operations will deploy one vessel per month from Mobile to Central and South American ports. The firm has a contract to move 300000 bales of sisal from Progresso, Mexico to New Orleans, a yearlong job needing three steamers. Principal business will be centered in New York and New Orleans with offices kept in Mobile.
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Harry T. Inge
Caribbean and Southern Steamship Company
Mobile
Progresso
Mexico
New Orleans
Inge
New York
St Kilda Wreck Off St Pierre Island
One cabin boy died and thirty four crew members were rescued when the British steamship St Kilda ran ashore on St Pierre Island. The vessel, sailing from Sydney to Lewisport with coal, may become a total wreck.
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John
N. F
St. Kilda
St. Pierre Island
Sydney
S. B
Lewisport
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