Defense report on national defense and Pacific threat
Gen Wood urged stronger national defense and a second reserve from discharged troops. Officials warned of a possible Pacific land attack by 20,000 troops in days, with worst case costs of a billion dollars. The Hobson bill aims for a national defense council while a confidential War Department report caused a House document mixup and was returned to Secretary Dickinson for handling.
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Orient
Wood
Fen
Congress
Japan
China
McLachlen
California
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Oregon
Washington
United States
Hobson
National Council For Defense
Taft
Dickinson
War Department
Lerk
spMce
House
Humphrey
Pacific
Russia
Philppines
Hawaii
Japan Rules Pacific Banquet Concludes Seventh Steamboat Lines Convention
The Association of Passenger Steamboat Lines held its seventh annual convention at the New Wizard after an all day session. Over 75 delegates from coast to coast and Canada attended the banquet where Senator Theodore Burton and Representatives Greene Olcott Humphrey spoke. President G. A. White served as toastmaster and emphasized urgent needs for a larger merchant marine and immediate ship subsidy legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association of Passenger Steamboat Lines
United States
Canada
Great Lakes
Theodore &. Burton
Ohio
Greene
Massachussetts
J. van Vechten Olcott
New York
W. E. Humphrey
Washington
A.A. Schantz
G. A. White
Association
Mr. White
Marine Representative Greens
Fire in Armstrong School Lab Causes Damage
A fire in the physics and electrical laboratory at Armstrong Manual Training School, a technical school for negroes, damaged a filing case and a wooden partition wall. Water damage affected other apparatus. total losses around 300. Principal Arthur C. Newman reported the cost. Night school staff and a student helped extinguish before firefighters arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armatrong Manual Training School
Jeina
Arthur C. Newman
Newman
Robert Beverly
J. D. Baltimore
Herbert Stevens
Carnegie Donates 10 Million to Peace Trustees
Carnegie gives 10 million dollars to a peace fund and refuses a board seat while Senator Elihu Root is named chairman to map work. He proposes a vast program to avert future wars through negotiation, though no method is fixed. The donor asserts Britain and the United States can prevent future conflicts.
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Great Britain
United States
Canned Aald
Senate
Joseph H. Choate
John L. Cadwalader
New York
Kilhy Root
James Barry Scott
State Department
Board of Trustees
Carnegie's Gift For Universal Peace Fund
Andrew Carnegie transferred ten million of 6 percent mortgage bonds to trustees to fund universal peace by abolishing war. The board, including Elthn Root and Nicholas Murray Butler, will guide the fund’s use, aiming to back judicial settlement of international disputes and further scientific inquiry into war causes.
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Carnegie Peace Fund
Climlea
Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Carnegie
United States
Great Britain
Carnegie
Board of Trustees
American Society For the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes
Knox
Asia
Fund Commission
American Society
Taft Liicewise
Taft
James Brown Scott
Society
Joseph H. Choate
Andrew J. Montague
Virgina
New Peace Fund
Carnegin
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
Washington
Caeanenea Aan Nn
Weather Conditions Report from Washington Weather Bureau
There is a broad drop in air pressure across the nation with no precipitation except light snow in western and northern New York and northern New England and rains in Texas. Temperatures are moderately above normal, with fair weather expected elsewhere. Storm warnings extend from Sandy Hook to Port Jefferson. winds along coasts are brisk to high southwest. Local readings show varied temperatures through the night and day, and Potomac and Shenandoah rivers near Harpers Ferry are clear and frozen.
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Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington
Lawrance Valley
Lake
New York
New England
Atlantic
Gulf States
Mississippi River
West Gulf States
Michigan
Sandy Hook
Fastport
Middle’ Atlantic
South
Auantic
Florida
East
Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
European
Grand Banks
Armstrong Faces Court Over Conduct Unbecoming Officer
Police officer George H. Armstrong faces a Senate and district inquiry into alleged cruelty to a boy shielding a suspect, a police court charge for assaulting his wife, and possible appearance before a police trial board. His attorney claims oppression and vows a jury trial while awaiting further actions.
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Senate
George H. Armstrong
Armstrong
William Weaver
Michael F. Mangen
Bound and Gagged Blackmailer Plot Unfolds in Cairo Case
Henry Rosenthal, owner of Rosen thal and Levy, was lured to the Cairo apartment by Mia Hnedt and confronted by James Knott and accomplices. Knott bound Rosenthal, forced a $5,000 note, then settled for $2,000 after threats. Police arrested Knott, his wife, Benjamin Knott, and Alton Armstrong. Photographs of Rosenthal and the women were shown to prove the scheme.
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Cairo
Henry Rosenthal
Dentor Memb Ber
Sporting Goode
Rosenthal & Levy
D Street
Baur
Cornwell
James’ B. Knott
Rosenthal
James B. Knott
Takoma Park
Knott
Detetiiva Baur
Benjamin
Alton A. Armstrong
South Dakota
First Precinct
Benjamin Knott
Firat
Mia Hnedt
Thesrd-Troth
Armstrong
Rozenthal
Knott i
Washington
Blackmailer Armstrong Tied to Knott Case
Police linked Armstrong to a knife point blackmail scheme after Rosenthal and Levy reported threats. Knott and wife were arrested at Cairo and Takoma Park stops while detective Baur shadowed the trio. Confessions suggest Armstrong boasted of similar crimes in Richmond and Chicago.
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Knott
Cornwell
Baur
Chicago
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Armstrong School
Physica
Senator Elihu Root
Elthn Root
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Henry R. Pretchett
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Albert K. Smiley
Lake Mohonk
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
John W. Foster
Virginia
William M. Howard
Lexington
Thomas Burke
Seattle
Wash
James L. Slaydon
San Antonio
Tex
Andrew D. White
Germany
Robert
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
L. Taylor
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
George W. Perkins
Robert 8. Woodward
Cleveland Wi
Rathfal
Harpers Ferry
Potomac
Shenandoah
Portland
Salt Lake Fitz
Uteh
AL Paul Laut
San Francisco
Cal
Tacoma
Triedo
Vickaburg
A. Om
Ena
Pea
Trial Board
Daring Trio
Husband
Pistel’s Point
Enthal
Lansburgh & Bro
8Th Street
Phoenix
Dresden
Droop's Music House
Steinway Pianos
Victor Victrolas
Central Office
Rosenthal-Levy
Westing
Chatham
Probey Carriage CO
N. W
Sultana Raisins
John H. Magruder
Conn. Avenue
K St
John F. Ellis & Co
Penna Avenue
M. T. Pollock
Conn
Ave
Georges & Son, Inc
Kwong Wah Hing CO
St. H.W
Pedro Domocq
Christian Xander
Security Storage Company
Fifteenth Street
Washington, D. C
Charles P. Ravenburg
Pleasent
Frank E. Chapin
J. Jay Gould
J. Naramore
Gallantine
Shoemaker Co
Motion Pictures
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