Wilson at Work on All Military Budget and Ship Orders
President Wilson and aides prepare for a broad military budget aimed at arming the nation. The Navy awards 24 destroyer contracts and steel firms meet to speed construction as War and Navy departments push preparations. Officials stress uncertainty of policy while Congress debates emergency funding and censorship rules for newspapers.
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Borren
Council of Navnal Defense
Peanmeimie Resourceas
Navy Department
Toungeesa
Governmentat Department
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Fore River Ship Building Company
Quincy
Mags
Wili
Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia
Congress
Council of National Defense
Advisory Committee
Wilson and Wife Visit War and Navy Heads in Routine Calls
President Woodrow Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, visited both Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy offices. The War visit was described as routine, the Navy meeting as purely social, with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt present at the Navy conference. It marked the first such presidential accompaniment in years.
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Wilson
War
Navy
Haker
Daniels
Roosevelt
Navy “Conference
Vast U S Funds Ready Without Congress Bond Issue Discussed
The McAdoo case notes 828 million dollars immediately available in the U S Treasury for public purposes without new authorization. It lists allocations for Mexican disturbance, Danish West Indies and an armor plant, Panama Canal bonds, and emergency naval construction. Cabinet members consider a bond issue and possible loans to allies pending Congress action.
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United States Treasury
Danish West Indies
Shipping Board
Treasury
McAdoo
Riot at Madison Square Garden over peace meeting
Thousands gathered at Madison Square Garden for an emergency peace committee meeting. Fights erupted as hecklers challenged speakers including Milholland and Jordan. Pro peace speakers praised Wilson while some called for harsh measures against war supporters amid strong protests.
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Madison Square Garden
John EB. Milholland
Milholland
U. S. Airman McConnell Killed by Three German Planes
Paris reports Sergt. J. R. McConnell of the American aviators with the French army was found dead in the wreckage of his plane after a fight with three German aeroplanes near Jussy along the Crozat Canal. He was killed by gunfire before his craft fell. A cavalry party will retrieve the body for burial if not already interred.
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Sergt
J. R. McConnell
McConnell
Jussy
Crozat Canal
Ham
la Fere
Edmhund Genet
Citizen Genet
Genet
Lafayette Escadrille
Berlin Treaty Refusal Details German Spy Plot in Chicago
The United States rejects modernizing the Prussian American treaties of 1799 and 1828 and refuses to extend exemptions to enemy ships in port. The State Department warns of internment plans for German nationals and notes unresolved status of one and a quarter million German citizens in the U.S. A major espionage plot allegedly linked to Cuba and Mexico is uncovered in Chicago with Hinton G. Clabaugh coordinating and a suspect in an exclusive club and brokerage milieu.
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United States
Germany
State Department
Paul Ritter
International News Service
Chicago
Cuba
Mexico
Departtment of Justice
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Department of Justice
Washington
New Orleans
East River Blast Kills 4 Workmen Near Blackwells Island
A premature dynamite blast in a new subway under the East River near Blackwells Island killed four workmen and seriously injured eleven. Sixty men were in the tunnel at 145 feet below the river bed as the explosion toppled into panic, with victims removed via a shaft to surface hospitals on the island. Civil authorities and hospitals reported the incident and the area near Queensborough Bridge.
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New York
East River
Blackwells Island
Queensborough
Vera
Army to Be Ready If Congress Calls
Washington report notes criticism of War Department for inactivity in war preparations as tensions with Germany rise. Secretary Baker says department is pressing purchases to equip an army if Congress or the President orders mobilization, while policy awaits legislative action.
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Baker
Uien
Terse
Ar Department
Department
Everabody
Congress
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York Tribune
Germany
Newton D. Baker
Tragic Boulder Murder Suicides Wife Kills Three Children
Mrs Wil lam A Nelson, wife of a ranchman near Boulder Colorado, killed three of her six children Beulah aged 5 Ralph aged 2 and Margaret aged ? then shot herself through the heart. Nelson returning home found the bodies upon entering the house.
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Boulder
Colo
Willam A. Nelson
Here
Beulah
Ralph
Margaret
Nelson
American Embassy Takes Charge of Bucharest Legation
A Sofia telegram reports the American embassy in Constantinople has assumed control of the legation in Bucharest, which had been conducted in connection with the Sofia legation. The Bulgarian capital's legation arrangement changes reflect shifting diplomatic ties during this period.
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Berlin
Sofia
Constantinople
Bucharest
Army formed to oust Carranza stages in Mexico
Galveston Tex March 24 that an army between 156000 and 200000 men is forming to seize control of the Mexican government and confiscate American and British property. German agents in the area confirm enlistment efforts and a plan to join the strongest Mexican faction. Up to 1000 Germans have crossed into Mexico from the United States in a week, mainly via Laredo, with parallel exodus from South American points.
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Tex
Mexico
Carranza, Villa
Diaz
United States
Laredo
France
Associated Press
Beauvais
St. Quentin Canal
Simon C Long Dies on Philadelphia Train
Simon C Long, general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, collapsed and died on a passenger train en route to his Merion home shortly after midnight. He was born near Harrisburg in 1857 and joined the railroad in 1831, with the body removed at Fifty-second Street station.
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Philadelphia
Simon C. Long
Pennsylvania Railroad
Merion
Fifty-second Street
Mr. Long
Harrisburg
Belgians in peril as U S withdraws aid staff
The State Department declares German violations of wartime pledges to protect relief work in Belgium. Minister Brand Whitlock leaves Brussels for Havre while Dutch citizens take over relief duties from outside bases to aid 10,000,000 Belgians. Hoover-led relief continues via Netherlands with Dutch volunteers.
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State Department
Brand Whitlock
Brussels
American Commission For Relief
Whitlock
Havre
Lansing
Wilson
Netherlands
Commission
Rootterdam
United States
Belgian Relief Commission
France
Ioover
New York
Europe
America
French Advance Across Oise River Front Near La Fere
Paris reports French forces captured two advance forts at La Fere and crossed the Oise west bank up to Vendeuil, driving German rear guards and taking villages along the Ailette east bank. British and German notes confirm heavy fighting along Somme and Oise fronts with notable progress by Allied troops and persistent German resistance.
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Hindenburg Line
LA Fere
Oise
Nivelle
Ailette
Teutons
Savy
Paris
Hindenburg
Vendeuil
War Office
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Gibercourt
Coury
Soissons
Margival
London
Roisel
France
Peronne
Baeau- metz-Lez-Cambrai
Helsel
Berlin
Wireleas
Sayville
Adulette
Neuvile
Champagne
Americans May Be Moewe Prisoners
Copenhagen reports the German raider Moewe returning to port with about 600 seamen from captured merchant ships. Some Americans serving on armed merchant ships may have been taken and could be treated as prisoners of war under German rules. London notes Berlin-claimed reports that Count von Dohna Schiedien is appointed aide to the Emperor.
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Moewe
Germany
Demeterton
Otak
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London
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Berlin
Count von Dohna-Schiedien
William
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