Embargo Lifting Eases Arms Shipping to Mexico
United States raises embargo on arms crossing the border enabling both Huerta and Constitutionalists to ship through regular ports. Border patrol may relax vigilance but must prevent armed bands from crossing. Provisions affect shipments via Brownsville Mata moros Presidio El Paso Juarez and Nogales and may require state department permits in some cases. The move does not alter prosecutions under Taft's order.
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Congress
United States
Nuevo Laredo
Piedras Negras
Jury Completes Hearings in Copper Strike Case
In Houghton Michigan a jury was completed this morning in the Seeberville murder case. Of the 119 veniremen examined most reside in the lower end of Houghton County near the copper workers. The panel will weigh evidence against five deputy sheriffs charged with second degree murder in the killing of a walker.
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Houghton, Mich
Seeberville
Houghton County
Veniremen
Mask Dropped by Mr Wilson in Mexican War News
The El Pais seven column headline reports that President Wilson dropped the Puritan mask and became friend to the rebels. It argues his neutrality claim hid commercial aims, noting European and Japanese war material makers shipped to Mexico and U S factories pressured Washington to end the embargo.
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Mexico City
Wilson
el Pais
United States
Washington
No Arrests Ordered in Prosecution of Taft Act Violations
McReynolds ruled that prosecutions for Taft proclamation violations will occur where arrests have already been made, with no further action on indictments to date. Chief Bielaski ordered agents on the Mexican border to avoid arrests for arms export while guarding against other neutrality law breaches. El Paso reports customs awaiting orders to lift embargo on arms to Mexico. dealers seek rebel leaders in Juarez as Villa’s advisers send a legal representative to secure river crossings for arms and ammunition. Elsewhere Genoa notes halted torpedo boat work thought to be Mexican government orders, funded by a European source.
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United States
War Department
Bliss
Garrison
Gen. Bliss
Wilson
Taft
Gener
al McReynolds
Bielaski
Department
Bureau of Investigation
EL Paso
Tex
Mexico
Juarez
Zer
Cobb
Francisco Villa
Hugh L. Scott
Genoa
Italy
Ansaldo-Armstrong
Women Register to Vote in Chicago for First Time
Chicago reports 153,897 women registered yesterday under the new Illinois suffrage law with about 450,000 eligible women in the city. Officials expect another surge by March 17 and predict the total registered voters will reach over 676,000 including men. Women served as election judges and clerks with over 700 women in such roles, improving turnout at precincts.
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Chicago
Illinois
New York City
Medill McCormick
Congressional Committee
National Women Suffrage Association
Burt family to return to Iowa after Los Angeles visit
Austin Burt his wife and daughter expect to return tonight from an extended stay in Los Angeles. They endured severe storms and bad weather during the trip. Mrs. Burt quoted preferring Iowa’s ice and snow to the cold rains they faced.
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Austin Burt
Los Angeles
Cal
Suffragists Fire Arson Strikes Scottish Estates
In Glasgow on February 4 two arson fires blamed on suffragists damaged large properties near Perthshireville in Comrie. A drawing room at Abernhill Castle with valuable pictures and antiques burned, servants extinguished the blaze. Soon after the unoccupied House of Ross caught fire and was destroyed. Evidence at Abernhill Castle ties the blazes to suffragist groups.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Abernhhill Castle
Oelwein Judge Convicted of Intoxication in Iowa Case
Weat Union, Ia., Feb. 4. Judge B J O Connor of the Oelwein superior court was convicted in district court of intoxication at Oelwein on Dec 2. The trial moved from Oelwein to this court on appeal after a 15 hour jury deliberation. He faces three more indictments for misconduct in office to be tried later in Winneshick county.
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Weat Union
B. J. O'Connor
Oelwein
O'Connor
Oficn
Winneshick
Ulster Wins in Home Rule Law
Glasgow Feb 4 The Glasgow Herald reports concessions to Ulster in home rule for Ireland. The plan reportedly covers nearly all aspects except full exclusion, to be outlined by Premier Asquith when Parliament reconvenes.
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Ulster
Glasgow
Scotland
Ireland
Glasgow Herald
Asquith
President Wilson backs Davenport candidate in Second Iowa district
Washington February 4 President Wilson telegraphed to Henry Vollmer of Davenport Iowa candidate for congress in the Second district that he hoped the administration would be sustained in the elections He added I sincerely hope the people of your district will show their confidence in you and in the administration by electing you
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Henry Vollmer
Davenport
Congress
Democratic Party Goes On Record On Woman Suffrage
Washington February 4 The Democratic party formally went on record opposed to national legislation conferring suffrage on women as stated by Majority Leader Underwood on the House floor.
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Democratic Party
Washington, D. C
Underwood
House
Aked Faces Unorthodox Inquiry As San Francisco Federation Split Grows
The Rev Charles F Aked, set to chair the San Francisco Church Federation February 13, faces a demand from the Presbyterian Ministers Association for his resignation over unorthodox pulpit utterances. Aked questioned the miraculous conception and argued divinity lies in humanity while favoring Christ's divinity as a greater measure. The federation’s executive committee may urge his retirement. if not, Presbyterians may withdraw from federation ties. The note was signed by several pastors amid other local church concerns including a reported improvement in Donald Rausch after illness.
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San Francisco
Cal
Chas. F. Aled
Fifth Ave. Baptist Church
New York
Church Federation of
Federation
Presbyterian Ministers’ Association of San Francisco Hay Edities
First Congregational Church
Abed
Christ
Mark
Joln
James
Paul
Jesus
Aked
Presbyterian Association
God
C. F. Abed
Evangelical Churches of
Church Federation
Iowa shippers protest higher tariffs on freight rates
Iowa merchants and manufacturers told the interstate commerce commission that a proposed 5 percent rise in eastern railroad freight rates would cost Iowa industry more than 14 cents extra per ton of soft coal. Officials for Iowa businesses urged rejection of the increase. A separate Senate proposal would amend the federal constitution to prohibit absolute divorce nationwide, with uniform marriage laws and limited remarriage rights.
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Iowa
U.S
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. H. Henderson
Commerce
State of
Mississippi
W. B.barton
Dubuque Shippers’ Association
M. A. Smiley
Clinton Shippers & Manufacturers’ Association
E. E. Egan
Burlington Industries
United States
Senate
Ransdell
Louisiana
Union
Christendom
South Carolinas
Maly
Spain
Austria-Hungary
Mexico
Arey
Aviator Brunelanger Sets World Endurance Record
Johannisthal reports aviator Brunelanger flew 14 hours and 7 minutes to break the world endurance record. The prior mark belonged to French aviator Fourny with 13 hours 18 minutes and 625 miles flown in September 1922 at Etampes.
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Johannisthal
Brunelanger
Fourny
Etampes
Peru President Seized in Military Revolt
The president of Peru Guillermo Th Ninguesr was captured during a dawn assault on the palace led by Cal Benavides. Gen Marique Varela was killed. the capital Lima saw gunfire, alarms, and stores burned as rebels seized power and moved the president toward exile.
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Una
Pemiblie
Peru
Guillermo TH Ninguesr
Cal. Benavides
Marique Varela
Aveusta Durand
Stig
Lima
San Pedro
Thie
Hillinghurst
Callao
National banks flock to join Federal Reserve system
Washington February 4 601 national banks in the United States had applied for membership in the new federal reserve system as the treasury department opened today.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Federal Reserve System
Treasury Department
Mexican lawyer Sandoval arrives in New Orleans from San Antonio
Jose Bonilas Sandoval, a Mexico City lawyer, reported sent on a Havana secret mission by Gen. Felix Diaz to urge Gen. Francisco Villa to renounce Carranza and back Diaz. He arrived in New Orleans from San Antonio and plans to depart for Havana. He did not meet Villa and denied links to Guzman's Juarez trip.
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New Orleans
Jose Bonilas Sandoval
Mexico City
Havana
Cuba
Felix Diaz
Francisco Villa
Carranza
Diaz
San Antonio Tex
Sandoval
Villa
Francisco Guzmen
Juarez
Guzman
Juareg
Loyal Waterloo paper reader sent in by Dunkerton resident
A. W. Steely of Dunkerton, Iowa, reports he has read the Waterloo Evening Courier for over thirty one years and has never subscribed to any other Waterloo newspaper, noting he takes it with every mail delivery.
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Publishers Courier
Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo
A. W. Steely
Senators win support for hog cholera eradication funds
A Washington dispatch reports Senators Kenyon and Pomerene won backing for hog cholera eradication. They testified before the agriculture committee, which approved a fifty thousand dollar appropriation to inspect serum factories as part of the Iowa cholera fight.
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Des Moines
Washington
Kenyon
Pomerene
Agriculture Committee
Iowa
Jr. Melan
Bureau of Industry
Will Investigate Printers Union
A federal grand jury opened an inquiry into the Allied Printing Trades council and the Typothetae, unions and employers in printing, with focus on illegal union label use and possible Sherman anti trust law violations. The probe involves five international cantons including Typographers and Pressmen, and proceeds under tight secrecy.
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New York
Allied Printing Trades Council
Typothetae
Federal Grand Jury
Protests Over Firearms in Labor Disputes Urged
Secretary Wilson in his first annual labor report urges Congress to regulate firearms and armed guards in labor disputes. He notes coal strike violence in Colorado and Michigan incidents, stresses collective bargaining and mediation as preferred paths, and calls for defining the department of labor's role and funding for mediation to maintain public peace.
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Wilson
Department of Labor
Washington, D
W. B. Wilson
Congress
Colorado
Pere Marquette
Michigan
Grand Rapids
United States
Calumet
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