Roosevelt’s Defense Shows Platt Ties And Albany Tactics
Theodore Roosevelt testifies regarding why he consulted Senator Thomas Platt on key matters while governor and later. He recalls threatening Platt before the 1900 Philadelphia convention to secure the New York governorship renomination and explains how Platt’s influence shaped legislative action in Albany. The testimony covers correspondence about taxes, appointments, and breakfast meetings, with Roosevelt noting Platt’s experienced guidance and the need to act where power lay.
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Paracuse
Theodore Roosevelt
William Barnes
Ibel
United States
Thomas ©. Platt
Platt
Philadelphia
New York
Republcan
State Senate
Senator Platt
Barren Island
Trowbridge
Hughes
Barnes
Confesses In Court Miss Biddle A Bride
Philip T White a Brooklyn paint company manager and James F Clinnin trainer of highwaymen pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn Supreme Court trial for leading a payroll robbery. White tearfully confessed betraying his wife employers and friends claiming two lives one decent and one criminal and asked for strength to serve his term and restitution to the firms and to a discharged employee. He surrendered Shriner membership and faced a week’s postponement of sentence with his wife supporting him in court.
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Philip T. White
New York
Philip T White
Masury Paint Company
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Aspinwall
John W. Majors & Sons
Arthur Barlow
White
James F Clinnin
Hackett & Wilhelm Company
Clinnim
Clinnin
Masury Company
Arm
Robert S Roberts
Elizabeth
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Crescent
Elks Clubs
Colored Slayer Lynched Near Somerville Tenn
Tom Brooks, a colored slayer of EK Lee Day and Pleas Hawkins, was taken from deputy sheriffs while being brought from Memphis for a preliminary trial and hanged from a railroad trestle. Brooks killed the two men and wounded a deputy when officers went to his cabin to serve a warrant a week earlier.
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Tenn
Tom Brooks
Lee Day
Hawkins
Memphis
Brooks
Here
New Step for Defense Zeppelins Base Raided
Secretary Garrison directs coast defense districts to review fortifications and submit upgrade recommendations. Reports will feed the general board of defenses and inform a proposed permanent national military policy with War College input and congressional recommendations. Allies raid Zeppelins base reports cite six aircraft over Friedrichshafen and multiple German targets hit, including Bollweiler and Chambley, with several German aircraft losses. Nancy bombed. three killed, others injured. Public excursion notices included.
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General Board of Defenses
Scott
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The
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War Department
Congress
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Paris
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Brimont
Champagne
Ancre
Muizan
Rheims
Bollweiler
Muthausen
Cham Dley
Arnaville
Lorcaine
Chambley
Thiaucourt
Tells Why He Saw Platt Confesses Guilt in Court
The item reports that T speaks on why he saw Platt and confesses guilt during the court session. It notes related cases and collateral details from today’s front page index.
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Taft Backers Push 1916 Return Prospects
Special to The Washington Tour reports the National Young Men's Republican Club circulating a Taft for 1916 circular in Chicago April 28. While some urge a comeback, many politicians doubt serious consideration will occur as Taft favors Yale professorship over a national campaign. The club grew from the National Young Men's Taft Club after the last election.
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Chicago
William Howard Taft
National
Young Men's Republican Club
Taft
Yale
Young Men’s Republican Club
Young Men's
Taft Club
North Sea fight sighted as wreckage drifts ashore
Swedish Captain witnesses Kaiser's fleet reported off Bergen Norway as cannonading flares and searchlights illuminate the sea. German ships drift ashore at Kvitsjostrand with wreckage and a life buoy found. A British fleet may have engaged them and dispersed the foe. Paraguay to attend Pan American financial conference with Hector Velazquez as minister.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Lars Lea
Bergen
Norway
Moster
Manger
Vikso
Flora
Marstein
Iceland
Neutrality Guard
Norwegian
Kvits Jostrand
London
Canot Scott
North Sea
Scott
Paraguay
Hector Velazquez
United States
Left Wing of Allied Army Surrenders at Dardanelles Turks Claim
Berlin reports 12 000 Allied troops captured as left wing of Gallipoli landing force allegedly surrenders to Turkish forces under Liman von Sanders. Telegraphs cite Constantinople and Berlin dispatches detailing captured numbers and claims of defeats on multiple fronts including Ypres Argonne and Uzack Pass as wars shift across fronts.
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Urumiah
Woo S. Vanneman
Salem
Presbyterian Mission Hospital
Vanneman
Dardanelles
Berlin
Gallipoli
Liman von Sanders
Halil Bey
Constantinople
Fifth Army Corps
Liman von Sanders Pasha
London
Galli- Per Peninaula
Norheast
Esaki Hisarlik
m= siream
Sarl Bair
Aea
Gallipeli
Liardanelles
Nicaragua seeks loan to build Managua railway
Negotiations for a loan of between 10.6 and 15 million dollars have begun in the United States. Adolfo Diaz, president, aims to repay debts and construct a railroad from Managua to the Atlantic coast. Gen. Carman Diaz, Nicaragua’s consul general, said passage of the Nicaragua treaty by Congress is expected to be favorable in the Senate.
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Washington Post
New York
United States
Adolfo Diaz
Nicaragua
J. Carman Diaz
Managua
Atlantic
Doctor and aviator fly 11 mile emergency in six minutes
Dr Pearl K Somers of Grinnell made an 11 mile emergency flight with aviator W C Robinson. The trip, at 119 mph outbound and 90 mph return, cut auto preparation time and marked the fastest air transfer of its kind in Iowa.
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Iowa
Washington Post
Marshalltown
Pearl K. Somers
Grinnell
W C Robinson
Des Moines
Chicago
200 Mills Making Shells In Canada During War
Ottawa April reports that 90 Dominion factories are engaged in shell production. Orders through a central committee total 175.6 million dollars. Sydney Nova Scotia and Sault Ste Marie set up refineries for copper zinc and brass, shifting from United States supplies.
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Ontoria
Canada
Hughes
Dominion
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Sault Ste Marie
United States
Astor says he does not know Madeleine Force Astor engagement
Vincent Astor declined comment on a New York dispatch claiming his stepmother Madeleine Force Astor, widow of John Jacob Astor, is engaged to Clarence H Mackay. He said he has not seen her in weeks and does not know if the engagement is probable, noting only that they are reportedly just friends.
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Tony Biddie
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Clarence H Mackay
Astor
New York
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