National Committee Plans April Inaugural Date Change
The National Committee on inaugural date change met in Henry B. F. Macfarland's offices and announced aims to amend the U S Constitution to move inauguration to the last Thursday in April. New officers Oliver Newman and S W Woodward were elected, with several additional delegates named as supporters of the proposal, while weather and disease concerns are cited as rationale. Return of inaugural fund is expected to top about 70 percent of prior subscriptions, with final figures due in about two weeks.
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National Committee
Henry B. F. Macfarland
Hadrn
United States
Senate
Arlane
Wearington
Macfarland
Congress
Nelson A. Miles
Mr. Woodward
Hartes
Hover
John Jay Ldgon
Theodore W. Noyes
Fidward JJ. Stellwigen
William Pr Ude
Alvin O. Belt
Missing Girls Alarm Washington Area Nine Still Unaccounted
A wave of missing persons reports sweeps Washington with 21 found and nine still listed as missing. Notable cases include Marion Ashby, 21, last seen March 1 at 304 Massachusetts avenue northeast, slender with black hair and fox fur. Mary Teron, 16, linked to the Panama Legation. and Edward Gibson, 16, son of Howard Gibson, chief engineer of the Congressional Library, believed aboard a ship to England. Authorities, aided by families, pursue leads as the city adapts to the unsettling disappearances amid tense wartime conditions.
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Edward Gibson
Kengineer
England
Iss Feron
Panama
Marion Emily Ashby
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast
Michael Harold O'Neil
Western Union Telegraph Company
G Street
New York
Benning
Gibson
Allies
New Hampshire Avenue
Howard Gibson
Congressional Library
Mary Teron
Legation
Elsie Brooks
Washington Missionary College
Takoma Park
Samuel Gowich
Thirty-fifth Street
Max Thompson
Sixth Street
Russians Accuse Foes Of Atrocities In War Claims
The Russian office accuses Germany Austria and Turkey of brutal acts and violations including use of plosive bullets gas wells poisoning and Red Cross abuses. A special committee verified claims and cites the sinking of the hospital ship Portugal in the Black Sea and other warfare misconduct. Meanwhile a Winchester express collision near South Junction Maryland injured three people, with one piano player from Philadelphia among the injured.
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Marci
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Red Cross
Portugal
Agerstown
Winchester
Cumberland Valley
South Junction
J, C. Gar
Philadelphia
Hawtin Loop
Elmira
Harry PF. Fockler
Countess of Warwick Urges Larger Families to Strengthen Labor
London March 8 The Countess of Warwick argues that the poor should have larger families to bolster labor power. She challenges Malthus and contends a fair division of wealth is possible with united action by working women and unions. She asserts democracy rises with worker strength and warns against complacency among the rich.
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Countess OF Warwick
London
Navy bids on 14 inch shells set by six firms
The Navy Department received bids from six companies for 14 inch high explosive projectiles. The Crucible Steel Company was low bidder at 285 dollars per shell with delivery in 90 days. Other bids ranged from 294.85 to 829 dollars per shell with times from 8 to 455 days. The projectiles were formerly known as common shells and can be converted to high explosive use for land fortifications and coastal craft defense. New Orleans March 8. The Orleans American suspended publication and will be auctioned next Thursday after a law enforcement campaign. the paper began in 1514 after a printers strike. Sheriff seized the plant.
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Navy Department
Crucible Steel Company
Shell
Midvale Steel Company
Washington Steel and Ordnance Company
BE. W. Bliss Company
Hethlehem Steel Company
American Clay Machinery Company
Bucyrus
Ohio
Navy Ordnance Bureau
New Orleans
The
Orleans American
Hugh A. O'Donnell
American
Typographical Union
Spain Plans Food Distribution Measures
Madrid March 8 the cabinet studies actions to improve food distribution across Spain. Authorities will prioritize self sufficiency and restrict nonessential items to secure food for the nation.
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Spain
Madrid
British forces near Bagdad push toward city eight miles away
British cavalry have advanced within eight miles of Bagdad after passing Ctesiphon and bivouacking near Bawil. Turks offered little resistance since the fall of Kut-el-Amara, with British troops advancing nearly 100 miles in a short campaign as Russana in Persia gain ground and seize Kangaver.
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London
Bagdad
Associated Press
F. B. Mauries
mHitary
War Office
Maurice
Ctesiphon
Maude
Bawil
Thklah
Diaiah River
Tigris
Petrograd
Russana
Persia
Turkey
Hamadan
Asadabad
Kangaver
Hagdad
British War Office
Kut-el-Amara
Panama files law to raise force for wartime duty
Panama City reports a new law signed to raise a military force in Panama to cooperate with the United States Army in the event of war with any European nation. The measure, approved Tuesday, marks Panama’s formal readiness amid tension with European powers.
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Panama
United States
Panama City
Big Car Strike Looms With New Wage Scale
The company outlines a multi year wage scale refusing 35 cent an hour demands while offering raises up to 30 6 cents over ten years plus potential bonuses and profit sharing tied to fare increases. Arbitration by the public utilities commission is planned and a strike threat looms as union leaders hope for presidential mediation.
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Mr. King
Wilson
Will Mobilize All France Government Bill Advances in Senate
Paris March 8 The mobilization plan for the civil population proposed by Etienne Clementel minister of commerce and agriculture has been amended in senate committee with Berenger’s suggestions. The bill envisions voluntary enrollment for allied neutral and French citizens ages 17 to 60. Non responders may be invited or enrolled by the government and assigned to suitable work under departmental prefects who will lead the district organization.
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Paris
Sénate
Etienne Clementel
Commerce and Agriculture
Senate
Henry Berenger
Guadeloupe
France
Prof Ryan to Represent Alexandria Teachers at Orange Meeting
Prof Ryan of Alexandria High School will represent the Alexandria City Teachers Association at the Eighth Congressional District Teachers Association meeting in Orange, on March 16. A fund of 500 dollars is being raised by local colored citizens to furnish the hospital wards for colored persons in the new Alexandria Hospital, with Dr Albert Johnson as president and Rev J F Mitchell as treasurer.
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Herndon High School
Alexandria High School
William A. Wilbur
George Washington University
Willard Rice
Washington
M C
E. B. Jackson
D. D
Firet Baptist Church
This City
George A. Wilpurt
Car Men's Union
Edward McMorrow
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
Wilson
District of Columbia
C&t. Ryan
Alexandria
Alexandria City Teachers Association
Eighth Congressional District Teachers' Association
Orange
New
Alexandria Hospital
Albert Johnson
J. F. Mitchell
Mitchell Rebuffs Court in Newark Will Hearing
Mrs. Elizabeth E Mitchell of New York denounced lawyers as bums and accused the judge of bias during cross examination in a contested will case involving her as a beneficiary. The incident occurred while questioning Rev Matthias A Thimmel about the dying man John Wenzel and the last rites. Hearing adjourned to May.
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New York
Elizabeth E. Mitchell
British Regs Bar Papers for Travelers Under Defense of Realm Act
British Ambassador Spring-Rice delivered new UK regulations to the State Department. The rules warn that travelers leaving Britain with any documents beyond identity papers may be detained at embarkation for examination. Do not carry written or printed matter unless essential for the voyage.
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Spring - Rice
State Department
Polk
United Kingdom
John Gaven Duffy Dies in Australia
John Gavan Duffy prominent Australian barrister and publicist dies in Melbourne. Born in Dublin in 1844, he was long active in public affairs and served in several ministries. In 1897 he represented the Australian colonies at the Universal Postal Union Congress in Washington.
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John Gaven Duffy
Australia
Melbourne
London
John Gavan Duffy
Universal Postal Union Congress
Washington
Dublin
Pictures Taken in Their Babyhood Stir Up Thomson School Pupils
Thomson Home and School Association held a picture night in the school assembly hall. More than 200 members and guests watched displays of pupils in babyhood with captions. A lecture on the Grand Canyon and Mount Lassen followed, with entertainment by Alice Driscoll, Anunciata Curtig, and singers Miss Elizabeth Woodward and Miss Creda Bromley, accompanied by A. W. Harned.
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Thomson School
Thomson Home and School Association
N. H. Dartin
Diler
Geological Survey
Mount Lassen
Alice Drevil
A. Driscoll
Anunciata Curtig
Elizabeth Woodward
Creda Bromley
A. W. Harned
S Singing Society
Gompers Answers Scott in AFL Magazine Retort
In the American Federationist Samuel Gompers replies to International Typographical Union head Scott who attacked him over the New York streetcar strike. Gompers says his sympathy lay with the workers but he opposed a general sympathy strike that would harm streetcar men and damage other unions. He cites jurisdiction disputes and the need to avoid embroiling the labor movement in a broader, ill advised action.
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American Federationist
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Scott
International Typographical Union
Gompers
Atrike
New York Street
New York
Washington Men Sued for Divorce
In Rockville Maryland March 8 Beulah L Jett sues for limited divorce from Jesse Jett alleging desertion one day after their February 18 1915 Alexandria Virginia marriage The bill lists Rev J W Duffey as the officiant Also Alice Gertrude Hough of Cabin John files for absolute divorce from John Edgar Waugh of Washington alleging desertion in September 1902 and seeks custody of their 13 year old daughter Vera Marie Hough with John A Garrett of Rockville representing the plaintiff.
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Rockville
Beulah L. Jett
Jesse Jett
Washington
John A. Garrett
Alexandria
J. W. Duffey
Alice Gertrude Hough
Cabin John
John Edgar Waugh
Vera Marie Hough
Argentina plans to end war with South American unity
Argentina seeks a coordinated Latin American push for neutrality and peace in Europe. Chile Brazil and Peru reportedly approved the plan per the Razon. An early Latins American conference is expected to declare South America’s stance, excluding the United States, amid President Wilson’s wartime policies.
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Buenos Aire
Europe
Inc Eurances
Taitin America
Chile
Bragil
Peru
Razon
Foreign Ministry
Argentina
South America
United States
Society Women To Knit For Navy League Event
Society women gather at 2 pm at 607 Fourteenth Street NW to knit comfort garments for sailors and Marines as part of the Navy League of the United States effort. Committee chairs include Mrs. James Carroll Frazer and Mrs. Sidney Ballou, with many society members assisting and plans long underway. In Huntington a 34 year old mother of twelve, wife of a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad worker, welcomes a newborn girl, her twelfth child, while the family expands with a new home purchase amid high living costs.
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Navy League of the United States
United States
Fourteenth Street Northwest
James Carroll Frazer
Sidney Ballou
Joan Callan Laughlin
Franklin Roosevelt
Thomas F. Bayard
H. Harlow
Larmz Anderson
Julian James
R. M Thompson
William Moedelt and Ritter
Sherrill
Blaine Beale
P. Tell
Charles Fowler
William Morton Innell
William Littauer
Seaton Lehrorder
I. F. Dimeck
Jones
Parker
Johnn W. Weeks
Edith Benham
Misa Sophie Johnson
Samuel Spencer
Huntington
W. Va
March
Fred Hayes
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Italians Repel Austrians in St Pellegrino Valley Fight
Rome war office reports a heavy Austro Austrian assault on Monday at St Pellegrino valley was repulsed by Italian forces who also recaptured cannon. An Austrian attack near Vertuba was likewise repelled.
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Rome
St. Pellegrino
War Office
Vertuiba
Musterole Ad Promises Quick Relief for Neuralgia and Pain
An old Musterole advertisement touts fast relief for neuralgia and head pains. It claims the white mustard oil ointment reduces inflammation without blistering and is recommended by many doctors for throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, and other pains.
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Hunt
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Sweenes
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Dy State Board
WV Product Co
Sarah Lukens
Jaanda Perit
Ashington Post Bureau
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William H. Sweeney
State Board of Education
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Capt
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Ite
Kosciusceo Kemyer
Capt. Sweeney
M. D. Hall
Fairfax County
E. G. Coe
Fruit Company
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Virginia Fruit Product Company, Incorporated
G. Washington Lewis
J. Randall Caton
Wheatley's
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Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia
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Malthus
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Prof. Ryan
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Walterson
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Washington Deckpin League
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Si Ng Pillin
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Ulat
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Ablett Bo
Brazil
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