Call for Warships No Reply From Huerta
President Wilson weighs aggressive options as foreign powers may press Mexico over Huerta’s dictatorship. Diplomats from Britain France Spain Cuba Guatemala and Norway urge warships for legation guards while Mexico contemplates elections and deputies remain jailed. Officials debate military show of force or strong demands to compel a constitutional return.
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Mexico City
Great Britain
France
Spain
Cuba
Guatemala
Norway
Mexico
Washington
Huerta
Federico Gamboa
Manuel Calero
Wilson
Bryan
United States
Plot to Kill Felix Diaz in Habana Arrangements Tightened
Habana reports a Mexican conspiracy to assassinate Gen Felix Diaz on arrival from Europe. Authorities warn of danger and order strict precautions as Diaz, a Mexican presidential contender, is due on the Corcovado, with secret police hoping to arrest the conspirators. Diaz may stay in Habana amid events in Mexico City.
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Habana
Felix Diaz
Europe
Mexico
Drax
Corcovado
Gen. Diaz
Mexico City
Rebels Enter Guaymas in Street Fighting Push
Nogales Arizona October 1 Sonora state troops forced into Guaymas late today after several months of siege by the constitutionalists. Desperate street fighting was reported as federal gunboats kept up harbor fire and Huerta loyalists resisted in the key Gulf of California port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Guaymas
Dia
Gulf of California
Huerta
Mexico
Outakirta
Federal
Mrs Mackay Denies Alienation Claim in Blake Suit
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay replying in the $1,000,000 alienation suit filed by Mrs. Joseph A. Blake accuses Blake of estrangement since 1895 and says Blake sought to sever ties with her since 1904. Mackay characterizes Blake’s wife as jealous and ungovernable, while denying any improper relations with Dr Blake and asking dismissal of the suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Blake
Plaintiff
Doctor
Joseph A. Blake
Clarence H. Mackay
Supreme Court
Noted Georgia Doctor Released After Poison Probe
Dr Carey A Barron of McDonough Ga was freed from custody after an Atlanta chemist found no poison in Mrs Sallie L Barrons stomach. W R S Mann the doctor’s father in law who filed charges withdrew them. Also listed is a Baltimore and Ohio rail fare page with a Harpers Ferry Charlestown Winchester return itinerary for Sun Oct 19.
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McDonough
Carey A. Barron
Sallie L. Barron
Atlanta
Barren
W. R. S. Mann
Harpers Ferry
Charlestown
Winchester
Baltimore and
Ohio
Washington
New Tariff Board Plan for Commercial Envoys
President Wilson approves reorganizing the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce with a $760000 budget to study industrial costs abroad and promote U S trade. Fourteen commercial attaches to be accredited to legations reporting to the Secretary of Commerce, exempt from civil service exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Bureau of Foreign Relations
State Department
Department of Commerce
Wilson
Commerce
Redfield
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Underwood
Tariff Board
Democratic Party
Secretary of Commerce
United States
Panama Canal
United States Chamber of Commerce
Bureau
Redfield Seeks Probe May Change Tariff Rates
Secretary of Commerce Redfield after a White House conference with President Wilson estimated tariff changes for next year. He proposed reduced rates for rail travel to Indianapolis and return at $2775 with tickets on sale October 74-27.
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Redfield
Secretary of Commerce
Wilson
Ohio
Rvto
Indianapolis
Government to study national and foreign industries for policy help
The plan uses $50,000 from the urgent deficiency bill plus additional funds to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Experts will study raw material costs, manufacturing, and selling. The administration seeks appropriate tariff levels and may push rate increases if investigations show current protections are too low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Slit skirt costs her job in New Jersey school
Plainfield, New Jersey, Oct. 15 special to The Washington Post reports Florence Kirk, a 21 year old Plainfield public school teacher, resigned after mothers complained about her slit skirt. Principal S Dana Townsend, though liberal minded, asked for her resignation. Kirk left at month end, defending the garment as her own choice.
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Plainfield
N. J
Washington Post
Scotch Plains
Florence Kirk
S. Dana Townsend
Miss Kirk
Favors Fever Banks Inclines to British System
Senator James A. O'Gorman argues currency reform should expand central bank features with government supervision. He backs a single government bank with branches and questions reducing regional reserve banks from twelve to five, citing the Bank of England as a model for efficient metallic reserves. The piece notes the discussion continues on the fourth page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. O'Gorman
New York
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
United & Government
Bank of England
Reichsbank
Democratic Party
Senate
Jackson
Aldrich
Militant suffragettes jailed for arson in Glasgow and Cambridge
In Glasgow two suffragettes Margaret Morrison an artist and Mrs Smith a physician were jailed eight months for attempting to burn the late Sir John Muir residence. In Cambridge Miss Miriam Pratt a militant school teacher was sentenced eighteen months penal servitude for setting fire to a house damaging a university laboratory.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Margaret Morrison
Smith
John Muir
Lord Salvesen
Cambridge
England
Miriam Pratt
Norwich
Marquard Settles Suit Over World Series Money
Special to The Washington Post New York Oct 15 Rube Marquard did not hold his $2 200 share of world series money long A notice of discontinuance was filed in a $50 000 suit by Joseph Kane a theatrical manager for alienating Kane's former wife Blossom Seeley Kane had divorced his wife as he sued the Giants pitcher for winning her affections Marquard later married her He agreed to turn over his share of the money to settle the case
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Rube Marquard
Marquard
Joseph Kane
Kane
Blossom Seeley
Giants
Two Airmen Injured After Fall While Searching for Missing Aviator
New York aviators J H Hall and Tony Jannus crash in a bi-plane at Oakwood Heights Staten Island while attempting to locate missing Albert J Jewell. They had risen to 300 feet when something failed. Hall and Jannus suffered injuries, the craft burned. Jewell’s fate remains unresolved with sea theories favored.
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New York
J. H. Hall
Tony” Jannus
Aviation
Oakwood Heights
Staten Island
New Jersey
Jamaica, Bay
Albert J Jewell
Jannus
Pela
Frick Gives $14 Million for Bridal Gift
Reports from Baltimore claim Henry Clay Frick bestowed $14,000,000 on the marriage of his son Childs Frick to Miss Frances Shoemaker Dixon. Before the ceremony Frick settled $12,000,000 on his son and, after the vows, handed the bride a $2,000,000 check.
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H. C. Frick
Baltimore
Qct
Henry Clay Frick
Pittsburgh
New York
Childs Frick
Frances Shoemaker Dixon
Isaac H. Dixon
Mr. Frick
Divorce Granted to Mrs Virginia Evans Sewall in Maine
In Ellsworth Maine a Supreme Court decree granted Virginia Sims Evans Sewall wife of Boston magnate Herold I Sewall a divorce for cruel and abusive treatment. The couple wed in Tokyo in 1902 and have wintered in Washington and Porto Rico with Bar Harbor as a summer home.
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Washington Post
Ellsworth
Supreme Court
Virginia Sims Evans Sewall
Herold I. Sewall
Boston
Sewall
Tokyo
Japan
Bishop McKim
Acadia
Bar Harbor
Charlotte T. Evans
Admiral Evans
Maine
Evana
Indiana Avenue
Frank Evans
Marsh
C. C. Marsh
Volturno Disaster Sparks Heroic Rescue Accounts
Survivors recount a fire sparked by a chemical drum aboard the Volturno as officers and crew heroically fought flames and kept lifeboats aloft. Second Officer Lloyd and crew saved 21 men from a damaged boat, while Captain Inch and others performed daring acts amid the heavy seas. Passengers describe women and babies trampled as panic spread before more lifeboats arrived.
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New York
Staphle
Volturno
Dyen
Waldron Disselman
Cuba
Tr Dante
Biaselmap
yRanktine
Inch
Volturmo
Omber Lioya
Inch W
Lloyd
von Carlsberg
Grosser Kurfverst
Soon & Light
Carmania
The
New Tariff Board and Political Battles Across Nations
Pare 1 outlines drama from powers in Mexico to Mrs Mackay accusing Mrs Blake while reports on O Gorman advocating fewer banks and a burning ship heroism. Other items preview Sulzer verdict soon and pleas to save Giria amid harvest feasts.
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Mexico
Mackay
Blake
Yariff Board
Bear Bites Off Man's Nose At Zoo
A 76 year old Bronx man, Alphone Volke, was maimed at a New York zoological park when Ivan the Terrible, a Russian bear, protruded a snout from his cage and bit Volke's nose off. He was treated at Fordham Hospital and sent home after bandaging.
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New Yorker
New York
Alphone Volke
Prospect Avenue
Bronx
Zoological Park
Ivan the Terrible
Volke
Fordham Hospital
Sulzer Verdict Near as Court Considers Peck Testimony
Albany Oct 15 A division cloud hangs over Gov Sulzer as the New York impeachment court adjourned with an open session likely tomorrow to vote on article four. The Peck testimony was admitted as a basis for a substantive charge and Morgenthau’s was not. Final results hinge on two thirds and the fate of the governor appears to rest on the open session.
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Albany
Sulzer
High Court of Impeachment
Duncan W. Peck
Henry L. Morgenthau
Peck
Cullen
Morgenthau
William Sulzer
Plea to Save Girls 120000 Victims Urges Prohibition
A large Washington assembly opens the thirty-second annual convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church with leaders praising the society's nationwide outreach from Northwest Indians to Southern colored communities and to island possessions. Bishop Earl Cranston and Mrs. D B Street address delegates representing about 200000 members while President Wilson and Secretary Bryans plan to speak to the group. The convention, at Foundry M E Church, emphasizes wealth as not supreme and calls for continued support of missions and schools, with a program including a 50 year jubilee and hospital visits.
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Methodist Organization
Earl Cranston
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Foundry M. E. Church
Home Missionary Society
Washington
W.F. Swartzell
Methodist Union of Washington
Baltimore
W. L. McDowell
Lucy Webb Heyes National Training School
WH. Wyler
Tve
Lucy Webb Hayes School
Woman's the Missionary Society
Dr. Wilder
New England
W. R Wedderspoon
Foundry Church
D B. Street
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Baal
Street
George O. Robinson
Jane Bancroft
Robinson
Streat
National Society
Board of Managers
Wilson
Bryania
A. E. Griffith
Des Moines
Iens
W. P. Thirkield
New Orleans
Lucy Webbd Hayes Training School
Burt
Morning Watch
A C. Peck
Denver
John A Neff
Department of Young People
George
Detroit
Dom
Seuerus
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Foreign Office
Onty
Gen. Huerta
Medeno
Mrs. Blake
Dr Blake
Mrs. Barron
Husband
NEW Tariff Board
Indorses Redfield
Cousis
South
Central
South America
Germany
O’gorman
Lena Abarbanell
Red Canary
Columbia Theater
Mrs, Sewall
von Calaberg
Kurfurat
Kurfurst
Alfred Pinoch
Pinoch
Bear
Lick Springs
St Louis Limited
Union Station
Penna Ave
Mrs. G. C. Robinson
Cline
Bishop Cranston
Shlond
Niewspapre Brerive
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