Wilsons war talk noted at Maryland church conference
President Wilson addressed the Maryland Methodist Protestant Church annual conference at Rhode Island Avenue Church. He cautioned no man is wise enough to judge the European war yet urged readiness to accept truth as the outcome of the struggle is revealed. Bryan spoke on liquor, urging religion as vital to national welfare, and urged harmony between human and divine reward.
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Maryland
Methodist Protestant Church
Rhode Laland Avenue
W 1Eon
Europe
Aathers
Edo
Arian
Goa
Bryan
United States
J S Bowers
Sultan of Egypt Fired At as native’s shot goes wild
London reports an assassination attempt on Hussein Kemal the Sultan of Egypt at Abdin palace as a native fired but missed. The shooter was immediately seized.
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Egypt
London
Hussein Kemal
Reuter
Cairo
Abdin Palace
Warlike siege on Prince Elias estate spurs French police inquiry
Paris reports a near state of war on the Chambord estate of Prince Elias of Bourbon. Fifteen thousand tenants line one side, Monti de Reze the other, amid feudal management claims and evictions. A park fire scorched 300 acres as authorities probe disturbances surrounding the prince and his Austrian-connected circle.
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Prince Elias
Paris
Chambord
Prince Elias of Bourbon
Farma
Zita
Charles Francis
Matin Eblois
Monti de Reze
France
Loire
Franciz I
Rexze
Matin
Princia Elina
Drink Clash Delays War Policy Debate In Parliament
London April 3. Chancellor Lloyd George rejects Hardie’s accusation of insulting workmen and insists the drinking issue targets a minority whose excess harms war output. Parliament will not settle the matter until next week. potential prohibition of spirits is under discussion with cross party support and church pledges boosting abstinence.
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London
David Lloyd George
James Keir Hardie
Independent Labor Party
Norwich
Lioyd George
A J H Balfour
Andrew Bonar Law
Great Britain
Russia
Scotland
England
Ireland
Sailor Piepenbring Released amid World War I Tensions
The United States states the release of Piepenbring, a Windber steward born in Germany who declared American citizenship in Seattle in 1910, was a success for international law. Britain and France agreed to release him after contention over his status, with the State Department citing his vessel allegiance and declared citizenship as justification under U.S. law and the Trent precedent.
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Britain
France
Mason
Piepenbring
Seattle
Wash
Conde
Piepenbrink
Kingston
Jamaica
State Department
United States
Department
Trent
Mason and
Sudell
Great Britain
Final Trip for Eitel Crew and German Internment
The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, in US custody since last midnight, will be moved to Norfolk Navy Yard for internment with commander Thierschens requesting to remain for Seaman Prel’s funeral. Sailors face parole release and shore leave while officers are to be released under parole after removal of guns, engines, and other equipment.
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Newport News
Prinz Hitel Friedrich
United States
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Hampton Roads
Huel
Thierichena
Prel
Tsingtao
China
Thierschens
Hamilton
Blames Bollera
Beatty
Thierichens
Navy Department
Austrian Army Cut By Russian Advance
Russian forces push across Dukla Lupkow and Hos tok passes and pour into Vlack Pass region as major battles unfold. Austrian lines retreat in eastern front while Bukowinca sees limited engagement as Russians defend positions. Weathered rivers and marshes complic hindered movements in West Galicia and Poland.
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Dukla
Lupkow
Hostock
Vlack Pass
Bukowinca
Carpathians
Galicia
Poland
Defects noted in sunken submarine F-4
In Los Angeles Mrs EI ele Nelson widow of William 83 Nelson a submarine engineer said her husband told the flotilla commander the F-4 submarine’s motor had suffered a blowout and would never be the same again He said the vessel had only four days of air supply instead of the two weeks required by regulations Mia Nelson has just returned from Honolulu.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Eiele Nelson
William 83 Nelson
Motora
Mia Nelson
Honolulu
Mount Rainier Bonds Blocked by Court Ruling
A Maryland Court of Appeals decision stops the mayor and council of Mount Rainier from issuing water and sewer bonds. Judge Thomas affirmed Judge Beall’s circuit-court injunction, preventing the town from borrowing for the proposed system. The ruling follows a prior injunction and reflects ongoing legal limits on municipal finance.
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Washington Post
Hyattaville
Court of Appenala
Maryland
Mount Rainier
Thomas
Fillmore Beall
Efrcuit Court
Prince Georges
British Attache and Bryan Work Out Plan to Expedite Ships
Sir Richard Crawford, commercial attaché at the British embassy, conferred with Chandler Anderson at the State Department on handling American ships under the British order in council. Britain aims to facilitate American cargoes not hindering coalitions with the Allies, while reducing unnecessary ship detentions and clarifying ship ownership and insurance dates. The London Foreign Office plans new transit rules aligned with State Department suggestions.
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Bryan
Sir Richard Crawford
Bbritish
State Department
Chandler Anderson
Germany
Austria
Richard
Mr. Anderson
2,951 on British Casualty Lists Issued Within the Last Few Days
London April. The latest casualty lists from Neuve Chapelle include 1,108 names with 84 wounded and the rest wounded. The previous list added 1,843 names with 448 killed and 1,107 wounded and 87 missing. Totals over two days reach 9,965 killed, 1,869 wounded, 87 missing. The lists document losses from the recent sanguinary fighting and the capture of Neuve Chapelle.
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London
Neuve Chapelle
Iista
French Drive Back German Wedge In Terrific Fighting
Paris reports a week of intense fighting between the Meuse and Moselle with French gains across multiple fronts. Occupied villages include Gusaainville and Yromezey as the Meuse front advances and many German dead are counted, while Berlin notes heavy French losses amid fierce clashes near Montmare and Eparges.
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Paris
Meuse
Moselle
France
Cambrea
Elly Wood
Eparges
Verdunes
Orne
Gusaainville
Yromezey
Combres
St Mihiel
Ailly Wood
Woevre
Montmare
le Pretre
Fey-an-Hays
Regnileville
Berlin
Menas
St Mintel
Etain
Pont-a-Mougson
St Mthiel
U S NOTE AND BRITISH BLOCKADE COMMENTARY
Berlin notes the American protest over Britain's blockade is seen as vague and purely judicial, with President Wilson warned that there will be no tangible deeds if American rights are trod underfoot. Reports also discuss the sinking of a Grimsby trawler Zarina and the death of Captain Otto Weddigen, amid suspicions of reprehensible British methods.
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Britain
Rhenish
Westfaelische Zeitung
Berlin
Great Britain
Germany
Wilson
America
Great Republic
United States
England
London
Aeroplanes for Russia Arrive in Tacoma Shipment Ready
About 150 aeroplanes and fifteen cars for the Russian army arrived in Tacoma last night for shipment to Vladivostok on the Hakushira Maru. The aircraft total around 160 machines valued from three thousand to four thousand nine hundred dollars each.
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Tacoma
Wash
Vladivostok
Cassidy ousted as receiver in Cleveland case
Federal Judge John H. Clarke removed former Representative James H Cassidy as receiver for the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Coal Company and appointed Attorney Carl D Fiiebolin. The court ordered an audit of the books and an inventory of the property. Cassidy was said to be out of town, traveling in the South, according to his wife.
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Cleveland
Ohio
John H. Clarke
Heen
James H Cassidy
Cleveland and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Carl D Fiieboalin
Cassidy
Powder Co Salaries Up at DuPont Powder Company
Delaware report states that all regular salaried employees of the DuPont Powder Company in Wilmington, prior to April 1, will receive a 20 percent raise. Earlier, the firm granted a similar increase to all hourly and daily workers across its plants.
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Wilmington
Del
DuPont de Nemours Powder Company
New Slide Closes Panama Canal Ships Tied Up
A fresh movement of the old Culebra Cut slide on the canal’s bank occurred today at Panama, closing the canal and tying up several vessels including the Kenkon Maru, the first Japanese ship to use the waterway bound for Newport News. The slide was not unexpected and the canal will be cleared and reopened tomorrow.
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Panama
Qulebra
Newport News
Former Russian Attache Dead
News from the Russian embassy reports the death of Col Baton ds Bode a former military attaché. He commanded a sector on the southwestern front and died of wounds received in action.
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Col Baton Ds Bode
Big Spy Kuepferle Arrests Stir London Spy Network
A London Sun cable reports the arrest and nearing treason trial of Anton Kuepferle, a New York naturalized German American, who wed in Brooklyn. He allegedly built an elaborate espionage web from the United States to England, with codes, plans, and instructions aimed at aiding Germany.
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Anton Kuepferie
New York
Waa
England
Washington Post
London
The
Sun
Anton Kuepferle
Brooklyn
Kuepferle
Continent
Kuepferie
Kuepferies
Neva
United States
Stegier
Germans blame Pinchot case on Theodore Roosevelt circle
Paris reports that German officials resent Gifford Pinchot due to his closeness with Col Theodore Roosevelt, interpreting it as Col Roosevelt's influence on American relief in occupied Belgium. Pinchot, expelled from Belgium, arrived in London and will stay with Lady Johnstone for a week while awaiting State Department guidance.
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Washington
Gifford Pinchnot
Germany
Theodore Roosevelt
Col Roosevelt
London
Apr
Gifford Pinchot
Belgium
United States
Tie
Hague
Finchot
Johnstone
State Department
Schooner and crew Lost in Atlantic Storm Incident
A New York report states the schooner Hdna M Smith was lost with her mate and four crew. The Norwegian steamer Petra, arriving from Guantanamo, Cuba, rescued eight survivors from an open boat. Captain Farrell and others described four days without food after leaving Gulf Port, Mississippi on March 16 bound for Portishead, England, and meeting a hurricane on April 2.
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Hdna M Smith
Petra
Guantanamo
Cuba
Farrell
Smith
Cay Farrell
Gulfport
Miss
Portishead
England
May Police Forces Superseded in Panama Disturbance
Gen Leonard Wood departed aboard the Abangarer from Colon with Col John L. Chamberlain and Capt Gordon Johnston to report to Secretary of War Garrison on the April disturbance in which an American soldier was killed by Panama police. Wood recommends American policing of Panama and Colon after reviewing troops and conditions.
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Colon
Leonard Wood
New Orleans
John L. Chamberlain
Gordon Johnston
Wood
Panama Polis
Americana
Panama
Delays Cash Register Case Allows High Court Review
Cincinnati dispatch reports United States District Attorney Sherman McPherson plans to file a motion with the United States Court of Appeals to stay the mandate ordering the lower court to retry the antitrust suit against John Patterson Lana and 26 other ex NCR officials. The delay aims to permit a certiorari petition to the Supreme Court, with the mandate to be filed April 12.
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Cancinnati
United States District
Sherman McPherson
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
John If Patterson Lana
National Cash Register Company
Supreme Court of the United States
President Wieon invited to Confederate veterans encampment
President Wieon tentatively accepted an invitation from a large Virginian delegation to attend the United Confederate Veterans encampment in Richmond on June 1 to 2. Lieut Gov J Taylor Ellyson presented the invitation. The President said he would be delighted if public business permits. He recently accepted an invitation to the G A R anniversary reunion in Washington in September.
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Wieon
Virginiana
United Confederate Veterans
Richmond
J Taylor Ellyson
Virginia
Washington
Cabinet Members Named to Grand Army Honorary Committee
Secretary McAdoo has agreed to join the honorary encampment committee for the forty ninth annual Grand Army of the Republic in Washington next September. Vice President Marshall’s acceptance is not yet definite. full cabinet slated to serve. William F. Jude, chairman, will convene the committee for a meeting at the Willard to review finances and contributions.
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Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Wilson
Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
William F. Jude
Citizens’ Committee
Marshall
Gude
Thomas Grant
Citizens
Robert No Huaiper
Will Stand On Head Daily From Election Bet
Phil Schmidt a 210 pound Democrat will stand on his head each day for a month as punishment after an election bet with Arthur Bennett of Grand Crossing. His maiden attempt today failed several times, dropping pencils and watch, but he kept trying with sand in his hands, aiming to master the stance by month end.
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Chicago
Phil Schmidt
Sweltzer
Arthur Bennett
Grand Crossing
Thompson Schmidt
Kia
Hia
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