Potash Bill Passes to End Imports from Germany
Senate approves a potash exploration and development bill enabling U S Interior control of deposits, notably Lake Searles California, with potential leasing or government operation and royalty provisions. The measure aims to reduce reliance on German imports, bolster fertilizer and munition production, and is pushed for quick House action.
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Bureau of Mines
Secretary of Interior
House
Senate
Germany
Lake Searles
Cal
Senator Pittman
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Pittman
Illinois Crime Rates Reveal Harsh Penalties
Chicago report from the Illinois bureau of criminal statistics shows 5 percent of the state population arrested annually and 2 percent convicted. About 37,000 people enter penal institutions yearly, and 83,000 pay fines or go on probation. Arrest and prisoner care cost 12 million dollars annually with Cairo at 15 percent arrested and Chicago at 5 percent arrested, 2 percent convicted. One in 5,400 sent to prison.
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Chicago
Tnmnois
Illnois Bureau of Criminal Statistica
Cairo
Capital Athlete Called to Flag
William Corcoran of Washington, a noted rider and mechanic at the Navy Yard, has been summoned by the Fort Myer examining board to the colors in the second reserve training camp. He will leave his post at The Post to serve in the artillery arm, leveraging his sport achievements and technical knowledge.
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Fort Myer
William Corcoran
Washington
Corcoran
Warrenton
Middleburg
Othem
Virginia
Navy Yard
Refugee Steamer Cincinnati Renamed Covington
The former German refugee steamer Cincinnati, now under the American flag, has been renamed Covington by the Navy Department to avoid confusion with the US cruiser Cincinnati.
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Boston
Cincinnati
Covington
Navy Department
Slacker Women Denounced by Call in New York
New York on August 10 Carrie Chapman Call leader of the American suffragists declared that no drafted man should receive a dependency examination if his wife is childless and able to work. She said there is no room in America for the slacker woman nor the slacker man and no woman today is justified in being supported in idleness by any man.
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New York
Carrie Chapman Call
America
Mexico Is Haven Now for Castro
Vera Cruz Mexico Aug 16 Gen Cipriano Castro ex president of Venezuela arrived from Havana aboard a Spanish line steamer. He said he enjoyed being in Mexico and that he could now enjoy a life free from American secret service surveillance. He warned that after the war the United States would have many accounts to settle with smaller nations and would be very weak.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Havana
Castro
United States
Teutons Cause Border Sniping Across Rio Grande
Special to The Washington Post reports German subjects on the border have spurred Mexicans to fire on American patrols. Several patrols were shot at by night from the Mexican side with two German subjects involved. U S troops under Maj Gen George Bell Jr will return fire if fired upon and Carranza commanders have been notified. Mexicans flee draft pressure, pursued by Americans, while Germans are blamed for stirring escape across the border.
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Washington Post
el Pago
Rio Grande
George Bell, Jr
United States
Carranza
Mexico
Berger
France
New Public Playground to Open in District
Mrs Susie Root Rhodes district playgrounds supervisor announced a new playground will open soon, bringing total to 16. It will be on WV street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth northwest, on former St Pauls Catholic Church site, featuring merry go rounds swings climbing ladders horizontal bars and a basketball court. Two tennis courts are planned for the site.
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Susie Root Rhodes
WV Street
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
St. Paul's Catholic Chrurehe
Rhodes
Miners Strike Looms as 25000 Walkout Planned in South
Lexington reports 25 000 coal miners in Kentucky and Tennessee scheduled to strike at 4 o clock tomorrow. It would be the largest strike in the South. Large mines resisted demands while smaller operators signed eight hour day higher pay and union recognition agreements.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Tennessee
South
Starved likely factor in Vermont child homicide case
St Johnsbury Vermont August 10 an intimation that eight year old Alice Bradshaw found dead near a swamp may have been starved before she was killed Attorney General Herbert G Barber announced autopsy results indicating withheld food and water parts of the body sent to Burlington for further study officials say the body may have been buried then exhumed and relocated to the discovery site First degree murder charges were filed against Miss Emma May Hicks Mrs Alvin Kenniston and John Kerwin all detained without formal charges
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St. Johnsbury
Alice Bradshaw
Herbert G. Barber
Burlington
Emma May Hicks
Alvin Kenniston
John Kerwin
New French Naval Chief Appointed Minister of Marine
Paris August 10 Charles Chaumet deputy chairman of the naval committee of the chamber of deputies has been named minister of marine succeeding Admiral Lacaze who resigned on August 2 An under secretaryship of marine was held by Louvis Dumensmith on recommendation in M Uhamet
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Paris
Charles Chaumet
Naval Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Marine
Lacaze
Louvis Dumesnitha Pead
M. Uhaumet
Roosevelt calls suppression of German press and deportation
New York reports Col. Roosevelt denounces German language media and mixed nationality Americans as war foes. He urges immediate laws banning German or opponent languages during the war, declares Americans must be all German or all American, and advocates deporting those half-German. He emphasizes fierce unity to defeat Germany.
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Congress
Germany
Cman
Flanders
Russia
Mr. Balfour
Belgium
Roumania
Michaelis
Count Czernin
Austria-Hungary
Austria
Kaiser's Emissaries Busy in Mexico Long Before Zimmermann Note
New York Aug 10 John T Flynn former German embassy representative at Cedarhurst Long Island says German agents left the U S to stir sentiment in Mexico eight months before the Zimmermann note was public He alleges German dynamiters were paid off in Wall Street offices Albert financed munitions factory bombings Hamburg America line ran a spy system and a German publicity bureau financed pro German newspapers He cites Baron von Schoen as commercial attaché who influenced Mexico after arriving last November.
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New York
John T. Flynn
Cedarhurst
J. I
Mexico
United States
America
Flynn
Lower Wall Street
Dr.Albert
Kaiser
Hamburg-American’ Steamship Line
Broadway
Carranza
Baron von Schoen
Woman says De Saulles warned of no baby now or ever
New York August story of the murder of John De Saulles at The Box details the maid Suzanne Monteau testimony. Blanca Vergara De Saulles told the taxi driver to hurry to retrieve the baby before De Saulles returned. The wife shot him after he allegedly refused access to the child, then waited for police as the maid described the dramatic scene.
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de Saulles
Yorks
Tack de Saulles
Suzanne Monteau
Ian
de ‘Saulles
Henry .A. Uterhart
Misa’ Monteasu
Uterhart
Jack
Meadowbrook Clule
DC Coal Prices Fixed Today Meeting Of FTC
Coal dealers in Washington are summoned to a Federal Trade Commission meeting this morning at 10 o'clock to fix coal prices for District residents. The commission holds data showing about 90 percent of local dealers, and the price set is expected to be well below current charges. Dealers may present statements and questions before the decision. The meeting follows the food bill and the Pomerene amendment applying to fuels.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Band Concert Today by United States Marine Band
The United States Marine Band performs this evening at 6 p.m. on the Ellipse led by H. Santehiann. Program includes marches and overtures such as Staunch and True Teike Overture Hosamende Schubert Legends and Dvorak selections. Ends with Czardas and The Star Spangled Banner.
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United States Marine Band
Will“H. Santehiann
Dvorak
Granada
Chapin
Federal AIDS IN VICE RAIDS IN PHILADELPHIA
Federal agents conducted a city raid on a tenderloin district house in Philadelphia arresting twelve women and six men without police consultation. Secretary of the Navy Daniels had urged city authorities to clean up the area to protect hundreds of sailors stationed here.
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Philadelphia
Department of Justice
Loin
Secretary of the Navy
Daniele
Roosevelt Denies Saying Germans Entitled to Indemnities
New York Aug 10 Roosevelt says he was mis quoted by Dr Kuno Meyer Berlin professor in dispatches from Amsterdam He states Meyer was guilty of gross impropriety in attributing to him that Austro German victory would entitle Germany to compensation and indemnities He clarifies he did not say a victors would grant such terms but warned Germany would seek all possible indemnities regardless of war.
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New York
Col
Theimdore Roosevelt
Huno Meyer
Berlin
Amasterdam
Meyer
Germany
United States
Bmaia
Amsterdam
Kuno Meyer
Harvard University
Taeglische Rundachau
America
England
France
Russia
Dr. Meyer
Roosevelt
White House
Fle
Amer
Belgium
Poland
Mediation fails as Lima strikers, company clash
In Lima Ohio on August 10 Safety Director Edward W Hiner failed to mediate between striking carmen and Ohio Electric Railway Co after two talks The company offered a written proposition granting all strikers demands except union recognition which was refused No service tomorrow but cars to run Monday with armed guards Mayor Simpson says saloons remain closed until order is restored
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Lima
Ohio
Edward W. Hiner
Carmen
Ohio Electric Railway Company
Ohio Electric Company
B. Fi. Simpson
Fort Myer Officers Stage Merry Night Skit Show
Fort Myer officers and 2000 spectators enjoyed a theatrical variety night ending a three month drill period. Lieut Col Charles W Fenton and Maj Sid ney Haight joined in the fun with the Haighted Horseless Cavalry skit as Capt Haight trained cavalry without horses. Five thousand visitors witnessed the final retreat drill across infantry cavalry and artillery units. Distr Commissioner Oliver P Newman received praise on his promotion to major in the coast artillery and may resign his district post to join service or return to duties if not ordered immediately.
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Fort Myer
Charles W. Fenton
Sidney Haight
Distr
Oliver P. Newman
Newman
Will Command French Port Baltimore Major in Army Ordnance
R A Jamme of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has been commissioned a major in the United States Army Ordnance Department. He will direct port operations in France, oversee troop entrainment and headquarter setups, and coordinate debarkation of supplies. A. P. Sve will assist in the work.
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R. A. Jamme
Oe Kaocomare
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United States Army
France
United States
A. PA Sve
Mexico to Send U S Vessels
Mexico City reports Mexican vessels will not be released for war traffic between the United States and Europe. Government investigators say ships cannot be transferred to another flag under Mexican law, which seeks to preserve the small merchant fleet. American firms had hoped to buy Mexican ships for war use, but efforts are blocked.
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Mexico City
United States
Europe
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