NEEDS BIG NAVY FIRST URGES ARMY OF 200000
Louisiana Senator, member of the National Defense League, calls for a strong national defense. He endorses four new battleships annually and a regular US army of 200000 and notes the canal’s security as essential. He urges rapid naval strength and a volunteer force trained within a year.
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National Defense League
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Tor John R. Thornton
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Tor
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
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United States
Canal Zone
Unite States
Naval funding clash over battleship numbers debated in bill
The quoted remarks show tensions in allocating funds for naval ships. Advocates urge adding four battleships if feasible by revenue, while opponents favor cutting other spending. The exchange questions if parity with other nations guarantees defense against superior forces.
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Secretary of the Navy
House
Army
Navy
United States
King Signs Large Italian Loan
King Victor Emmanuel signed a decree authorizing a national loan of 200 million dollars. The measure ends Italy’s cabinet dispute and clears financial obstacles for military preparation, signaling readiness to enter the war if desired.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Plans Fight On Bland for Missouri United States Marshal
Plans to fight over federal appointments continue as E C Bland faces a Senate hearing for the Western District of Missouri nomination. Senator Reed may move to reject Bland while President Truman backs all contested picks despite Democratic opposition. The nominees, all recess appointments, would hold until March 4, with efforts to ease Senate differences to protect the administration’s legislative program.
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Senate
E. C. Bland
United States
Missouri
Reed
Bland
New York
George Hampton
New Jersey
Martine
Stone
Drift of German Mines Across the North Sea
The New York Tribune outlines how German naval mines drift with the Gulf Stream toward England, affecting British ships and neutrals alike. It explains currents, dead-water zones, and how tides move mine fields toward the British Isles, with warnings to enter the North Sea via the English Channel to avoid drifting mines.
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North Sea
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New York Harbor
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Helgoland
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Strait of Dover
English Channel
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Belgium
Holland
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Atlantic Ocean
British Warning on North Sea Mines and Neutral Protests
The August 23 bulletin from the British Admiralty says North Sea mines violate The Hague convention by not harmlessly receding. Ambassadors of Triple Entente powers inform neutrals they may retaliate in self defense despite treaty objections. Neutral protests grow as drifting mines threaten ships and shorelines, while Britain warns that countermining offers little remedy.
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Triple Entente
Hague
Kiel
Unemployed Invade St John’s Church in St Louis
Several score of jobless men entered St John’s Methodist Episcopal Church in St Louis before services. Pastor Alice refused police ejectment and distributed the visitors among the congregation. The minister spoke on social adjustment as unemployed leader spoke briefly. Tags were sold after services with generous congregation support. No disturbance occurred.
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St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church
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Miss Fillmore Attacks Administration On Suffrage Block
Miss Alice Fillmore a New Jersey lawyer at a tea hosted by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage condemned the Democratic administration for blocking the Federal amendment. She argued equal suffrage must apply nationwide and that the Constitution does not grant women the vote, making it violated whenever women vote under state laws. Also speaking were Miss Margaret Whittemore of Detroit Colonel Ida Craft of New York and Mrs Ida May Waters of New York, with Rosalie Jones’ march noted.
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Alice Fillmore
New Jersey
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Misa Fillmore
United States
Margaret Whittemore
Detroit
Mich
Washington
Hilson Gardner
Dry defeat substitute measure waits in Senate session
Senator Sheppard of Texas is expected to press a vote later in the session on a substitute resolution to the Hobson measure for national prohibition. In Congress this week the House aims to take up the rule to consider the Hobson resolution tomorrow with debate anticipated to be spirited. Efforts to vote on Lever’s cotton warehouses bill persist in the House while immigration bills linger in the Senate. Amendments to the literacy test debate are likely before the recess, and ratification debates on the safety at sea treaty continue in the Senate with reconsideration planned. The House naval and army bills move slowly toward postholiday completion.
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Texas
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Willame
Stone
State Department
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Navy
Army and Fortifications
Straw Vote Responses Point to 1916 Presidential Picks
Response from 9 000 letters shows Franklin K Lane and Woodrow Wilson as leading Democrats with Champ Clark and dear Enderwood also named. Republican picks include Hughes and Mann with Borah favored for VP. John Callan Loughlin awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph by the Austrian emperor for Christmas relief efforts.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
Franklin K. Lane
California
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Champ Clark
Missouri
Dear Enderwood
Alabama
George Gray
Delaware
O'Loughlin
John Callan’Loughlin
Jason
Furope
Frans Joseph
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