President to Act to End Atlantic Coast Shipyard Strikes
President Wilson prepared to intervene as shipyard strikes threaten to halt east coast shipbuilding. In New York district fewer than 1,100 on strike, with 60 percent of area workers involved, potential spread unless wage demands are met. Carpenters seek a Pacific coast like status and a minimum wage, proposing a memorandum to be presented to the president and labor board.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Atlantic Coast
East
Shipping Board
New York
United ’Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Brotherhood
T. M. Guerin
Atlantic
Guerin
Navy Yard
Pacific Coast
Daniels
Roosevelt
Carpenters’ Union
Washington
Willian
Hutcheson
Hurley
Labor Adjustment Board
Maltimore
500000 Testaments for Soldier Boys
New York Feb 16 Five hundred thousand more new testaments have been ordered for soldiers by the supply department of the national war council of the Y M C A This brings the total to 1700000 testaments purchased by the association for army men in recent months Most requests come from Texas with many destined for the aviation camp at Kelly Field San Antonio Texas.
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New York
Supply Department
National War Council
Association For Army Men
Texas
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Littell Quits as Cantonment Builder in Army Shakeup
Washington reports Brig. Gen. Isaac Littell, cantonment builder, asked to be relieved after a clash with Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals. Littell retires under army rules. Gen. Marshall named temporary head of cantonment construction amid War Department staff reorganization and anticipated staff cuts led by Maj. Gen. Peyton March.
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Washington, D. C
Gol.r. F. Marshall, Jr
I. W. Littell
Littell
Goethals
Washington, D
Baker
General Staff
March
Peyton March
France
Policeman's Slayer Must Hang Decree From Missouri Court
Missouri supreme court affirms death sentence for Ora Lewis in the 1916 murder of St. Louis Policeman John McKenna. The ruling notes capital punishment abolition law cannot apply retroactively to the crime and upholds the April 1918 circuit court verdict.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Ora Lewis
John McKenna
St. Louis
Roy
W. A. Dilton
Supreme Court
Circuit
Wage Adjustment Board Raises Pay For Delaware Yard Workers
The Wage Adjustment Board approved higher wages and improved conditions including overtime pay for fall shipyard workers in the Delaware yards on the Atlantic coast. Carpenters on strike are not included, though many may accept the award. New York strikers have not yet, but are hoped to. The scale, while not Pacific or New York levels, is seen as a model for South Atlantic and Gulf coast settlements.
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Washington,d. C
Shipping Board
Pacific Coast
New ‘York
South Atlantic
Gulf Coasts
Act Jing
Roosevelt
Navy
Hurley
Plez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Chicago Sees Ten-Year Low Crime Day
Chicago police report yesterday had 19 larcenies totaling 2500 dollars and one holdup robbery, the lowest daily crime record in a decade. Typically 50 larcenies with about 6000 dollars loss and around five holdup robberies occur daily. El Tovar Broadieaf Havana de Cigar.
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Chicago
el Tovar Broadieaf
Havana de Cigar
Yankee gas bombardment slows Allied lines in fierce front fight
Allied and German artillery and air forces clash along the western front as American gunners strike back at German rear lines while two hours of gas shell bombardment leave no casualties. British and French reports note quieter day with limited raids and pockets of artillery activity. London reports a Lancashire raid near Ypres Staden rail line with eleven prisoners. French press records a raid near Vauquois and German reconnaissance countered near Cham pagne and upper Alsace with bombs dropped near Nancy.
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St. Michiel
Arras-Cambrai
Chaume Wood
Verdun
Woevre
Vosges
Paris
Vauqguois
Champagne
Upper
Alsace
Nancy
French Government Seizes All French Shipping
Paris February 16 decree in the Journal Officiel orders requisitioning of the entire French merchant marine on March 10. Government commissioners will confer with shipowners on terms for the transfer of vessels to state control.
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Paris
Officiel
France
Farmers Confident to Meet 1918 Difficulties in Food Aid
Washington February 16 Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture predicted that farmers will overcome this year the labor and other difficulties, and will strive to equal or exceed last year’s record. He warned wheat supplies remain short and demand from war and population will stay strong, with meats and livestock also in high demand. Cooperating with government agencies, farmers can meet these challenges by improved organization and labor assistance programs.
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Washington, D. C
Houston
Docarent of Agriculture
Europe
Departments of Agriculture and Labor
Commander of Battleship Dies From Injury
Commander Robert O. Bausch, 53, died in the naval hospital at Norfolk Virginia from a fractured skull after a fall through an open hatch on the battleship Utah. Navy officials confirmed there was no explosion aboard the Utah. He left a widow in Dallas Texas.
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Washington, C
Med
Light
Robert O. Bausch
Naval Hospital
Norfolk
Utah
Navy
Bausch
Dallas
Tex
Russians Fear No Attack From German Armies
Washington reports an unconfirmed note that Gen Kaledines, a Ukrainian Cossack leader who resisted the Bolsheviki, may be dead. Bolshevik Russia withdraws from war alliances, leaving little fear of invasion. Central committees approve peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. Bolsheviks censor reports from Petrograd. German commissions face difficulties in Petrograd as Lenine and Trotzky shift focus.
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Washington
Tiflis
Kaledines
Ukraine
Bill
Russia
Workmen’s, and Soldiers! Councils
Hrest Litovsk
Germany
Austria
Petrograd
London
Gerlin
Berlin
Redguard
Amsterdam
Lenine
Trot
Throng Barred From Seeing Castle's Body
Fort Worth Texas February 16 hundreds of persons mainly women gathered at the undertaker chapel to view the body of Captain Vernon Castle but were barred by the royal flying corps. The body will be sent to New York this afternoon for burial with brief religious services before the military funeral procession to the train.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Vernon Castle
Royal Flying Corps
New York
Leaders Urge Early Passage of Bail Bill
Washington leaders call for prompt enactment of the administration railroad bill as wartime needs, warning against delay. Senator Robinson argues early action ends uncertainty, aids finance through liberty loans, and fixes government control of railroads to prevent public disruption and costly delays.
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Washington, D. C
Administration
Senate
Martin
Smith
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bly Cummins
Cummins
Antil
Lea
Seneheet
Kellogg
Minnesota
Wilson
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania
Teading
Jersey Central
Lackawanna
Michigan Central
Cahout
Robinson
Treasury
Parkersburg Store Painted Yellow After Fuel Board Refusal
In Parkersburg Ja Feb 16 citizens painted the Co D Rottmeyer store yellow after he refused to close per fuel board rules. He allegedly resisted closing until sharply rebuked by county fuel board reps, and resented food regulations that limit his business.
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Parkersburg
Co. D. Rottmeyer
Rottmeyer
County Fuel Board
Bacon or Bonds Is Asked of Farmers
Washington, D. C. report notes a Missouri movement urging farmers to donate bacon to government treasury bonds. Sparker ark reports a speaker received a lector from HP Warden urging advocacy of the cause.
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Washington, D. C
Missouri
Sparker Ark
Warden Pot Moexten
Wage probe targets Armour and Morris chiefs
In Chicago Feb 16 counsel for stockyards wage arbitration workers asked Judge Samuel Alschuler to compel J Ogden Armour president of Armour and Co and Nelson Morris board chair of Morris and Co to testify. Packers men argued they could not add new facts. Organizer Timothy A McCreash testified about employers hiring more women at Kansas City and elsewhere to cut costs with wages in Kansas City St Joseph and other western plants lower than Chicago. He said women earned 20 to 22 ½ cents an hour while men earned 27 ½ to 31 cents for similar work. He urged fair wages to end benevolent programs.
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Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Nelson Morris
Morris & Co
Samuel Alschuler
Frank P. Walsh
Timothy A. McCreash
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Oklahoma Farmers Feed Wheat to Hogs
Washington D C February 16 stock raisers in Oklahoma are sending wheat to hogs due to corn shortages. John A Simpson of Weatherford testifies before the senate agricultural committee that wheat at 32 per bushel should be provided to protect farmers. He notes many Oklahoma corn crops failed and says women must work on farms to raise production. Farmers previously received up to 2 85 per bushel before the government set wheat at 2 20.
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Washington, D. C
Oklahoma
Senate Agricultural Committee
John A. Simpson
Weatherford
Okla
Mr. Simpson
Weather forecast for Washington week begins Sunday
Weather bureau predicts moderation Monday and Tuesday with local snow in the north and rain in the south portions Tuesday and Wednesday. No major temperature swings expected. the week overall should bring generally fair weather and higher temperatures.
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Washington
P. C
Weather Bureau
Snys
Upper Mississippi
Tower Missouri
Dover Shelling by Submarine Kills Child in Fog
German submarines bombarded Dover early today firing about 30 rounds. Casualties included one child killed and three men injured with three children among the wounded. Dover remains a key port facing Calais as German ships strike along the southeast coast.
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London
Dover
Dovela An
Yarmouth
England
Calais
Straits of Dover
France
Berlin
Admiralty Today
Heinecke
Cape Gris-Nez
Folkestone
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Morning Post
Sweden
Skagerrak
North Sea
Jutland
Strait of Dover
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