Port Alessio rail link not opposed by Italy says press
The Associated Press reports that Italy does not object to Jugoslav Slavic rail shipments to Port Alessio. President Wilson works on a note to Britain and France over the Adriatic crisis while Nitti signals potential settlement. Telegraph lines are reportedly disrupted as the press debates the position of the Italian government amid Allied discussions.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
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Secr Polk
Rome
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Fragmentary plea on Adriatic policy and Wilson handling
The snippet voices a sentiment that England has yielded rights in the Adriatic, urges unity and voicing opposition, and calls for Mr. Wilson to extricate from a false position. It reflects wartime diplomacy rhetoric and calls for collective stance.
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National Guard Camp Plans Near July Hold Proposed
Washington D C March 1 Fifteen days field training and not we exceed our days special instructors for officers and selected enlisted men are provided in this year's national guard training program announced today by Maj Gen Carter chief militia bureau. Gen Carter recommended encampments be held before July 1 but funds probably would be available to hold them after that date.
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Washington, D. C
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Militia Bureau
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Tixtions
Bulgars Show Profiteers in Chains on Streets
From Berne reports dated March 1, authorities in Bulgarian cities placard and march usurers, black market profiteers, and profiteers in chains through streets and markets. The public spectacle is described as recalling medieval fairs, with some signs of impact on prices and public sentiment.
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Associated Press
Berne
Railway express wage demands shock Chicago workers
Chicago express employees including about 400 in the city demand a flat wage increase. Robert E Shepherd, general chairman of the Chicago and western lakes division of the international union, announced the drive amid infest revolt against lodge officers. Stedman of American Railways Express said rumors had circulated but no definite action was known.
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Kansas City
Bledo
Robert EF
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Chicago-and- Western -Lakes
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Ebiete
Shepherd
Stedman
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Moreins
White collar workers switch to higher pay in Cleveland
Cleveland March 1 Many hundreds of white collar men are abandoning office work for labor in the spring. Common labor pays 65 to 80 cents an hour, with a planned May 1 raise to 1 dollar. Union leaders estimate about 5,000 men left offices for common labor or trades in the past six months.
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Protests Rise Over Plan to Pay Ex-Emperor William
Berlin March 1 The Socialist party meeting in the Berlin district passed unanimous resolutions opposing compensation for former Emperor William and calling for expropriation of crown estates. The dispute centers on the Prussian diet proposal to compensate the exiled monarch, with government figures present at the gathering.
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Berlin
William
Socialist Party
Science Church Case Report Denied Time Extension at Boston
In Boston on March 1 the supreme court denied a motion to reopen the case for further evidence and refused extending the master's report filing from today to March 15. The master’s report by former Judge Fred Judge, detailing findings on the issues in the Christian Science church governance dispute, was completed days earlier.
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Christian Science Church
Crosby
Supreme Court
Fred Judge
Asquith Plans Return to Commons Amid Noted Reception
London reports March 1 mark the ex-premier Asquith returning to active parliamentary service after winning Paisley. The Times sketches a triumphal procession from Cavendish Square to the House of Commons with Asquith at center. Dailies anticipate a strong opposition presence in Parliament. In Vienna a famine of births with 3,803 deaths, mostly children, and eight births were recorded Feb 8–14.
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Railroads return to private control under new law
Washington March 1 railroads return from government to private control as the interstate commerce commission gains broader powers over rates classifications and labor disputes. The transfer of operations from the USRA is quiet and most pre today changes in rates will stand while new rules outline compensation funds and enhanced regulatory authority.
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Washington
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Noig Central
Tax on Match Buyer Proposed in Bill for Raising
A bill introduced by Representative Ackerman Republican New Jersey proposes a tax of one cent on each hundred matches paid by purchasers to fund the soldiers bonus campaign. Officials say the burden falls on smokers and firemen. The report also notes the French imperial prince will study in France at St Cyr for two years starting April.
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Washington, D. C
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Federal Law Is Placed Second Fiddle in Wisconsin
Milwaukee March 1. Federal Judge Geiger upheld state Mulberger laws by ruling 2.5 beer manufacture and sale legal under state prohibition, setting precedent that state laws supersede federal regulation. Hughes seeks Supreme Court permission to brief for 21 states supporting dismissing Rhode Island’s challenge to federal prohibition amendment. Bullitt requests early hearing on Kentucky warehouse challenges to federal decrees upholding prohibition amendment.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Geiger
Manitowoc Products Company
Mulberger
Washington, D. C
Charles BE. Hughes
Supreme Court
Rhode Island
W. M. Bullitt
Louisville
Kentucky
Steamship with 184 lives aboard strikes on ledge
Aboard the Northern Pacific carried 41 crew from the wrecked West Aleta, after the vessel struck a ledge off Terschelling. The West Aleta had been wrecked last month in the North Sea. Halifax reports note 63 passengers on the Bohemian from Boston to Liverpool, with 120 crew remaining onboard.
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Associated Press
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N. S
Burden
Peasers
Snowstorn
Liverpool
Boston
Mass
Leyland Lines
Vogelsang Heads Interior Office Pending Payne Arrival
Vogelsang, assistant secretary, became acting head of the interior department after Frank K. Lave’s retirement. He will serve until John Barton Payne, the new secretary, assumes office. Payne will remain head of the Shipping Board until Senate confirmation of Rear Admiral William Benson to the board, with Benson likely to be elected chairman.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Vogelsang
Interior Department
Frank K. Lave
John Barton Payne
Volunteers Offer Rail Service During French Strike
Paris reports five thousand volunteers join France railroads amid the strike with two hundred drivers aiding the public works ministry and students manning posts for practical instruction. Premier Millerand calls conditions satisfactory as strike leaders are arrested for interference and provoking disturbance.
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Havas
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Alsace-Lorraine
Millerand
Wood and Poindexter to Debate Jointly in Pierre
Gen Leonard Wood and Sen Miles Poindexter agreed to a joint debate at Pierre South Dakota on March 30, three days before the South Dakota primary. Wood plans a six day tour of the state from March 18 to March 20 and will not seek the fourteenth presidential nomination in North Dakota.
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Poindexter
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Chicago
Leonard Wood
Miles Poindexter
Pisrre
South Dakola
Fond
Doctor and Woman Found Guilty in Clugston Murder
Dr. George Alverson and Mrs. Alice Clugston were convicted of murdering Lawrence Clugston with arsenic in Bushnell last July. Alverson received life imprisonment, Clugston 14 years. Jury deliberated under two hours. attorneys moved for a new trial. Judge Grier set March 11 for argument.
Hines Takes Charge of Inland Waterways Transport
Congress delegation from the Mississippi Valley visits Secretary Baker in Washington to push for maintained and extended inland waterway facilities. Brig. Gen. Hines assumes control of the waterway systems under War Department and Railroad Administration, with no immediate organizational changes. Senators urge civilian board or chief engineer oversight while Baker states Hines bears responsibility.
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Hines
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Inland Waterways Transportation Systems
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Railroads Administration
Mississippi Fey
Iengineers
Gen. Hines
Battering Ram Fluid Item Seized By Federal Agents
Two carloads of patent medicines containing 55 percent alcohol were seized by federal authorities in Chicago on warrants from U S District Attorney Charles Re. The shipments, shipped from Detroit, were sold for beverage use.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United Ioyees
Charles yRe
Detroit
Census of manufacturers and mines under way in U S
Washington March 1 The field work for the government census of manufacturers mines quarries and gas wells for forestry and forest products began. Director Rogers estimates more than six months to complete field work and two additional months to tabulate and publish general statistics.
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Washington, D.C
Rogers
Socialist Congress Rejects Lenine Led Third Internationale
Strasbourg Socialist congress votes to quit the Third Internationale led by Nikolai Lenine and to withdraw from the Second Internationale. It calls for an international meeting at Geneva soon, with Jean Longnet proposing the plan as governmental aid for children grows.
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Socialist Congress
Strasbourg
Third Internationale
Nikolai Lenine
Second Internationale
Jean Longnet
Geneva
Fuure
Miliaon Tots
Associated Presa
Save the Children” Congress
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New York Income Tax Law Struck Down for Nonresident Exemptions
The Supreme Court ruled New York State income tax exemptions granted to residents of other states unconstitutional. Federal decrees declaring the law discriminatory and enjoining enforcement against non-residents were upheld. The decision cited conflicts with Article IV and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Opposition within American Legion to $2 billion soldiers bonus
Washington March 1 reports the first opposition to the looming $2 billion soldiers and sailors bonus. Senator Nelson of Minnesota submitted a resolution adopted by St Cloud American Legion post opposing the bonus, arguing it would burden the public and unjustly leverage veterans politically.
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American Legion Post
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American Legion
United States
Wallace Chute
Turks massacre 16 000 at Marash after French leave
London based on an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens reporting that after the French evacuated Marash in Cilicia, Turkish forces massacred about 16 000 inhabitants. Earlier advices did not confirm earlier claims of thousands of Armenian slaughter victims, though massacres were acknowledged.
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London
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Marash
Cilicia
Marash Altho
Last Night's News in Brief Recap of Global Events
Warsaw reports an American named Harris killed amid the Lithuanian army revolt at Kovno. New York bishops protest against Turkish retention in Constantinople and Armenian spoliation. Fiume siege and blockade disrupts commodities including foodstuffs. Paso, Texas reports a Mexican killed and another wounded in clashes with American border guards and smugglers. Washington requests a $50 million food credit for central Europe. Burleson seeks rail mail rate reconsideration. Typhus death toll drops after new serum adoption in Ekaterinodar Russian Kuban district.
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Kovno
Lithuania
New York
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York
Constantinople
Armenia
Fiume
Paso
Tex
Congress
JL. Kent
American Bankers’ Association
Whisky price ruling keeps liquor at high levels in Illinois
The Fair Price Commission met on March 1 in Chicago and decided whisky will sell for 24 dollars per gallon. Maj. Jinghes stated whisky is a luxury and not a necessity, opposing its inclusion in the essential goods list.
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Cuicago
Ilinois
Jinghes
Supreme Court Upholds Steel Trust Ruling
New York March 1 steel shares rise after the Supreme Court upholds the United States Steel Corporation decision. The court affirmed formation of the steel trust and refused to dissolve the combine, ordering dismissal without prejudice and allowing future action if illegal practices resume. Justices McKenna Brandeis McReynolds dissented.
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New York
Steels and Allied
New York Stock Exchange
United States Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Washington, D. C
Marehi
Supreme Court
United States
Iron and Steel
Eee
Gleel Trust
S. Sherman
Oracle
New Jersey
Supreme ‘Court
Lrada
Aid
Agein
McKenna
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McReynolds
Pitney
Clark
Day
Steel Corporation
Grant
McKeana
Tobacco
Standard Oil Company
Sites Corporation
Doctors Reject Liquor Prescriptions in Fort Madison
Fort Madison physicians voted to ban prescribing whisky, saying it is not needed for illness and pledging to reject future government offers to authorize liquor prescriptions. The Fort Madison Medical Association includes nearly all local surgeons. Oklahoma 1915 Act Upheld. The Supreme Court sustained the 1915 Oklahoma income tax act, allowing taxation of nonresidents’ oil income, in Shaffer v. Chicago. Monroe Doctrine Explained. A State Department reply to El Salvador mirrors Wilson’s 1916 interpretation given in San Francisco.
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Fort Madison Medical Association
He Medical Society
Oklahoma
Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Supreme Court
Charlies B. Shaffer
Chicago
Shaffer
Washington
D. C
Republic of Salvador
Wilson
San Franciscco
Wise administration eyed in Cummins-Esch measure
The Waterloo Cedar Falls era freight officials report the Cummins-Esch plan could ease railroad costs and rate disputes. They caution relief depends on federal handling and executive action within weeks. The move aims to boost efficiency and curb rising operating expenses amid changing interstate commerce rules.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Toads wi executive offices changes are to
Executives plan changes at the waterfowl association offices as current leadership prepares for a reorganization. Details remain unclear, but internal shifts aim to streamline operations and bolster member services.
Oklahoma City Suffrage Resolution Passes In House
A disputed suffrage resolution passed the Oklahoma House by a vote of 76 to 4 amid a mayhem of unclear wording and absentee opposition. The measure seeks to refer the question to the people while anti suffrage senators abstained from voting.
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