Extra session possible March 14 under Harding push
Washington reports indicate President Harding may call an extra session on March 14 to advance the administration’s plan to work more closely with Congress. Key leaders Lodge and Mondell discussed dates, with a decision expected today as parties weigh delaying or accelerating the session. The conference also touched on ratifying the Colombian treaty and expediting Latin American commercial pacts. A budget bill revision is planned to implement the new system after July.
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Washington
Army
Congress
Harding
Senator Lodge
Representative Monde
Lavige
Muodell
Lodge
Ec Ofater
Senate
Linige
Fhles
Foreign Relations Committee
France
Frances
Lanige
State Department
White House
Wilson
Theouse
Representative Good
Barrymore and Colt Separated as Divorce Papers Filed
Ethel Barrymore and husband Russell Griswold Colt have drawn up legal separation papers amid a definite parting of the ways. The step may be a preliminary to a final severance of marriage.
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Ethel Barrymore
New York
America
Russell Griswold Colt
Watrimo
Barrymore Declines Comment on Matrimonial Affairs
Miss Barrymore remains hospitalized at Flower Hospital convalescing from an operation. It is reported she faces a definite parting though it will not be a divorce due to her devout Roman Catholic beliefs.
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Nial
Mise Herrymore
Miss Barrymore
Ebert to Name New Cabinet Discussed in Berlin
London report says President Ebert summoned all party leaders to discuss cabinet reconstruction in Berlin. Dispatch not confirmed by authorities.
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Ebert
German Republic
London
Berlin
Fire at Connors Point Triggers Dockside Collapse in Superior
About 5,000 tons of bituminous coal slipped into Superior Bay as a fire began in a coal pile at Connors Point and spread through wooden floors of the Reevex docks. Fire crews fought the blaze as officials investigated the incident and its damage.
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Superior Cocke
Superior
Wis
Superior Bay
Connors Point
Reevex Docks
Sub Chaser Intervenes in Cable Work Off Miami
In Miami Florida on March 7 a U S sub chaser 154 halted the Western Union cable ship Robert Clowry four miles offshore near a Miami Beach buoy. The sub chaser opened fire and seized the crew, arresting the cableship crew. The incident follows a prior British cable from last summer.
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Miami
Fla
Robert ©. Clowry
Miami Beach
Staten
Barbadoes
Colvuia
Daring Dresses At Paris Opera Ball After War
In Paris a first postwar opera ball featured risky outfits with a woman in a short skirt and no corsage while others wore bare upper dresses reduced to bead strings. Most guests wore wraps until the high officials departed.
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Paris
France
Two Men Die in Gas-Filled Room at Canal Street
Chicago officials report Henry Hube twenty seven and August Bulle forty six found dead in a gas filled room at 1025 South Canal Street. Maxwell Street police investigate possible suicide pact.
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Chicago
Henry Hube
August Bulle
South Canal Street
Maxwell Street
American Gunboat Sacramento Clears Doubt on Panama Crisis
In Panama City officials say the arrival of the American gunboat Sacramento demonstrates Washington’s demand to end hostilities with Costa Rica. Costa Rican consul detained while Costa Rican prisoners are kept in custody. internment planned on Tuboga Island as frontier calm returns.
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Costa Rica
United States
Almirante
Sacramento
Panawa
America
Republic
Coto
Bocas del Toro
Tuboga Island
Panama Bay
Insurgent Sailors Seize Kronstadt as Red Cabinet Rebels
Berlin reports sensational uprisings in Russia as sailors take Kronstadt citadel near Petrograd. Dispatches claim revolutionary committee controls fleet and call on non communist troops to join the revolt. Petrograd officials named hostages and key leaders reportedly flee. Moscow reportedly bombarded with casualties.
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Russia
Lenin
Trotzky
Kronstadt
Helsingfors
Petrograd
Kalinit
Ninkvief
Uranienbaum
Moscow
Krotstadt
Kozlowski
Red
Vivian coming to America to urge the VA stand beside allies
Former French premier visits the United States to press the administration to strengthen Allied efforts. He argues for closer cooperation with the United States and its partners, stressing united front and renewed political support.
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France
Viviani to Visit US as French Envoy on Peace Plea
France plans to send former premier M. Viviani as special envoy to the United States to plead France’s case before the administration and the American people. The mission, his second trip to the U.S., aims to explain France's position toward America and the impact of a separate peace between Washington and Bertin. He previously visited with Marshal Joffre after U.S. entry into World War I and is expected to depart in about three weeks for a week in Washington and a week in New York before returning.
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Vivian
United States
France
America
Burdalip
Wathington
Bertin
Frances
Marshal Joffre
M. Viviani
Sbort
Washington
New York
Hoover Hints Commerce Department Probe Into Jobs
Herbert Hoover sworn in as secretary of commerce pledges the department will aid job seekers and asserts the office is non political. He tells a gathering of bureau chiefs that the jet hunters will not find gains here and promises substantial benefits for Americans from the department.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Independence Bid Grows As Philippine Independence Gains Support
In Washington March 7 the Harding administration faces renewed calls to grant independence to the Philippines. Philippine commissioner Issauro Gabaldon argues independence is the nation’s ideal and faith from the U.S. must endure, saying gratitude will increase a thousandfold if America remains true. He notes Congress once weighed over thirty Irish questions and questions whether America should extend freedom to others beyond Ireland Poland and Czecho Slovakia.
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Washington
Harding
Philippines
United States
Issauro Gabaldon
America
Congress
Germany Proposes Third Share Plan in Industries
London dispatch reports German Reichstag members see new counter proposals offering a one third share in all German industrial companies. The plan, deemed unsatisfactory by allies, follows a Downing Street meeting where Lloyd George and allied premiers weighed the German terms. Army actions hinge on Allied reply as broader settlement efforts stall.
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London
Germany
London Daily Express
Berlin
Reichstag
Lloyd George
Downing Street
Walter Simons
P. Abernon
Lencaster House
German Export Levy Debate Shapes Allied Finance Plan
The German foreign minister seeks to join Britains offer while a 12 percent export levy appears dropped. Briand leans toward Lloyd George on tax exports, and a 50 percent rate is discussed. A compromise favors 0 percent direct payments to allied exchequers with pooling later, encouraging higher German taxes to cover exporters.
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Attnch
Germany
Briand
Lioyd George
Prince of Wales Leads St Bartholomew’s Visit
The Queen and the Prince of Wales visited St Bartholomew's hospital with Lord Sandhurst. The Prince invited women to go first and then raced down the stairs, meeting the Queen and the matron on the floor below.
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London
Prince of Wales
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Lord Sandhurst
Swedish party seeks Debs release campaign
The executive committee of a Swedish sectarian party began agitation to free Eugene V. Debs and other imprisoned in the United States. The committee urges the International socialist bureau to launch an international campaign in aid of the movement.
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Stockholm
Eugene V. Debs
Stolen Still Case Lands Three in Jail in Huntington
Maren T. Thomas Luces and Thomas Gardner are jailed in Huntington charged with making liquor in a gallon whisky still they allegedly stole from prohibition enforcement headquarters in a raid that highlights crackdowns on illegal distilling.
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Huntington
W. Va
Maren T
Thomas Luces
Thomas Gardner
Prohibition Enforcement
Sinn Feiners Kill First Brigade Commander in Cork Ambush
In North County Cork 500 Sinn Fein rebels fired on an English convoy near Clonbennin killing Brigadier General H. B. Cumming and two other officers and two privates. Cumming, commander of the Kerry infantry, is the first British brigade commander slain in the Irish conflict. The ambush forced the convoy to halt, with one armored car and a tender taking cover as the general was fatally shot.
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London
County Cork
H. B. Cumming
East Lancashire Regiment
Cumming
Kerry Infantry
Rathmere
Buattevant
Clonbennin
Gorse
Yamato Shim Urges U S Japan Cooperation for World Peace
Tokio dispatch notes Yamato Shim's welcome to President Harding. It urges the United States to share responsibility for education and to pursue harmony with Japan. The paper argues both nations should play important roles in international politics and cooperate for global peace.
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Tokio
Warding
United States
Harding
Japan
Mrs Steindel Dies By Suicide In Lake Tragedy
The body of Mrs Mathilda Steindel noted pianist and wife of cellist Bruno Steindel was recovered from the lake at the foot of Farwell Avenue Rocere Park. Relatives say she suffered a nervous collapse caused by wartime charges she and her husband sympathized with the enemy.
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Chicago
Mareh T
Mathilda Steindel
Bruno Steindel
Farwell Avenue
Rocere Park
Theater Crowd Flees as Man Slashes Woman in Columbus Circle
A crowded theater in Columbus Circle saw an unidentified man seize a young woman from a doorway and slash her face and throat with a razor. The woman escaped. the attacker, described as Adams, was seen around cigar stands and a cabaret before fleeing.
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New York
Cowmbus Circle
Mans Adams
Graves to surrender in Des Moines after grand jury slaying case
Indicted Fort Dodge engineer Alex B Graves who faced a Polk County grand jury for the May 5 death of Clarence de Vault in Des Moines plans to surrender in Des Moines next Friday. Graves's father, a Fort Dodge resident, disclosed the impending surrender.
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Fort Dodge
Alex RB. Graves
Pol’ County
Clarence de Vault
Des Molines
Des Moines
Graves
Harvard Anatomy Professor Mark Retires After Four Decades
Cambridge March 7 Professor Mark of Harvard retires after 44 years as a teacher of anatomy at Harvard University. He is named Hersey professor of anatomy. Washington March 7 President Harding works on his first Sunday in the White House. He plans church attendance blocked by duties. Mrs. Harding hosts guests. Vice President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge attend Congregational church service.
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Mark
Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
None L. A
Harvard University
Hersey
Seritus
Harding
Washington
White House
Will Defend Train Crew In Indiana Crossing Crash
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen backs William Long and George Block, Michigan Central engine crew, amid a death crossing crash probe. They sent 100000 to Valparaiso where the inquest occurred. bonds of 3000 and 8500 were demanded for Long and Bleck, who face involuntary manslaughter charges.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
William Long
George Block
Michigan Central
Valparaise
Ind
Long
Bleck
Popeter
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