Brotherhoods Plan 10 Day Freight Strikes If Parley Fails
New York March 13 A national conference committee reports the four railway workers brotherhoods have laid out a progressive strike plan beginning 6 p m Saturday if the Thursday meeting fails to reach a satisfactory hour. The program calls out freight trainmen on major roads first then expands to other routes by March 21. A letter to President Wilson expresses hope for settlement but vows full support if war comes. A Washington investigation was begun, with officials noting little definite government action before the New York conference outcome.
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New York
National Conference Committee
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Erie
Atlantic Coastine
Southern Railway
Loninville & Nashville
Seaboard
Lehigh Valley
Lackawanna
Jersey
Chicago
Railroad Brotherhoods
Wilson
Brotherhood
Brotherhoods T
U.S
Washington, D. C
Department of Favor
Department of Ixbor
New
York
Brotherhoods
St. Louis
Four Brotherhoods
Southwestern Railways
Mysterious Trunk on Bernstorff Ship
London report details a trunk aboard the Frederick VIII that carried Count von Bernstorff from the United States to Copenhagen. Supposedly consigned to Stockholm with Swedish consulate seals, it was held at Halifax after seals broke and may be sent to England for inspection by British and Swedish officials.
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London
Frederick VIII
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Copenhagen
Stockholm
New York
Halifax
England
Express
Malifax
Count von Bernstortt
Wide plot to smuggle chronometers from interned raiders
Philadelphia reports add to the alleged plot involving six or more suspects tied to the Hamburg firm Schutte Hoerting as federal agents probe neutrality law violations. Chronometers said to be smuggled from German raiders Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Heitel Friedrich were sent to a clock expert to test tampering, and searches of the interned ships were expected to proceed. Authorities link the case to Albert A Fischer and his wife with ties to the Hamburg firm.
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Philadelphia
Kronpring Wilhelm
Prinz Hitel Wriedrich
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Ederal
Washington
Albert A. Fischer
Schutte & Hoerting Company
Fischer
Hamburg
Tramburg
Jenny Rokner
Rail unions discuss 8 hour day amid strike uncertainty
In St Louis and Boston reports say four railway brotherhoods plan a general conference to settle the 8 hour day dispute. Local leaders deny any strike orders and expect action only if railroads reject the demand, while the president is urged to prevent a nationwide walkout. The southeast groups meet to decide whether to call an immediate general railway strike if talks fail.
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Boston
Mass
Railroad Brotherhoods
Four Brotherhoods
S. J. Blake
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Boston and Maine
Washington, D. C
Southeast
Cunard Freighter Folio Sunk with American Survivor Rescued
A Cunard non passenger liner Folio sank off Waterford on March 10. Survivors landed at Dungarvon. The sole American aboard, boat’s surgeon W. Z. Core of Nashville Tennessee, was uninjured.
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Washington, D. C
Cunard
State Department
Consul Frost
Queenstown
Waterford
Dungarvon
W. Z. Core
Nashville
Tenn
German Troops Revolt Fill the Belgian Jails
Namur and Huy troops reportedly in open subordination in Belgium. Large numbers of soldiers jailed at Namur and Huy, prisons at four to five times capacity. Bar tan riots see chief of police wounded, police overwhelmed, troops unable to disperse rioters. A rioter cut a hose and received a decade prison term.
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Amsterdam
London
Namur
Huy
Telegraaf
Holland
Telegraat
Bartan
Germany Urges U S to Sign War Protocol
Washington March 13 German efforts to secure U S sign a protocol amending the 1798 Prussian American treaty to exempt German residents from arrest during war and grant safe conduct for German ships to home ports were renewed Swiss minister Dr Paul Ritter delivered the proposed amendment to the state department but could not see Secretary Lansing who was occupied.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
United States
Paul Ritter
State Department
Foreign Office
Lansing
Smoke El Tovar cigar advertisement notice
Advertisement for Smoke El Tovar cigars. Note instructs readers the paper should not be delivered due to carrier error and asks to phone BRR for a corrected copy to be sent after 6 20.
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el Tovar
Howe
Berlin Minimizes the Loss of Bagdad London March 13
The Koeniglich Volkszeitung via Central News Amsterdam describes the Bagdad occupation as a British success, noting Turks driven from the Sinai peninsula. It calls the event regrettable but secondary to the overall war, adding the loss is painful for the Turks.
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London
Koennische Volkszeitung
Central News
Amsterdam
Bagdad
Sinai Peninsula
Mesopotamia
Colombian Pact Approved by Senate Foreign Committee
Washington March 13 the senate foreign committee approved the treaty with Colombia by which the United States will pay two million dollars for the partition of Panama the measure now goes to the present senate session for action.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Foreign Committee
Colombia
United States
Republic
Senate
American lines short of sailors need 2000 men
New York reports preparations to send American merchant ships armed against submarines reveal a potential sailor shortage. The American line may require 2,000 men, with unions questioning rapid access and citizenship status. Six thousand union seamen expect Great Lakes postings next month.
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New York
Europe
Gustave A. Braun
Atlantic
International Seamen's Union of America
Brann
Braun
Great ‘Lakes
International Mercantile Marine
Americain Line
Union
Steamship Company
Talesmen Object to Hanging Woman in Denver Trial
In Denver on March 3 jurors debated the case of Mrs Stella Newton Moore Smith accused of murdering her husband John L Smith. Thirty five talesmen were examined with two excused ten passed for cause and others challenged for cause. The district attorney asked about conscientious scruples against capital punishment and one juror cited regional bias against hanging women. Scranton was excused for cause.
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Denver
Colo
Stella
Newton Moore Smith
John L. Smith
Talesmen
William F. Foley
John C. Serenton
South
Scranton
Stocks Wild On Rail Strike Talk
New York stock action opened unsettled as rail union talks unsettled markets. Union Pacific Northern Pacific Reading Chesapeake and Ohio and other leaders posted losses while United States Steel Crucible Steel Republic Iron edged lower before late rallies faded. Also: Zeppelin burial news from Rotterdam Stuttgart funeral held yesterday.
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New York
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Reading
Chesapeake and Ohio
United States Steel
Crucible Steel
Republic Iron
Labor Pledges in War or Peace by United Labor
Washington March 13 Organized labor of the United States will support the government in peace or war. The AFL executive council drafted a declaration pledging service in every field of activity and demanding workers rights, with representation on national defense agencies and equality of industrial and military service.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Deermine
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
International Trade Unions of America
Republic of the
United States of America
Uften
Labor
Samuel Gompers
Waterloo Eyes Bid for Government Munitions Plant
Delegations from Waterloo prepare to press for a central Midwest munitions plant site. A board will meet at the Jefferson Hotel in St Louis on the 26th to evaluate rival claims, with efforts to secure 50 delegates. Dubuque is eliminated for safety distance from Lake Michigan. other river cities face similar geographic constraints.
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Weet
Otal Jeferson
St. Loots
Pharradity
Waterloo
Rocky Mouynteins
Atlingheater
Great Salon
Waterloo Ix
Pmt
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Dons
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraskan
South Dakota
Neutral mail held on US oil tanker and Thaw found lunatic
In Halifax the British authorities detain the American flagged oil tanker John D Archbold for three days taking on Norw Danish and Swedish mail. Separately Harry K Thaw is adjudged a lunatic by Philadelphia common pleas court and ordered confined at St Marys hospital before transfer to a Pennsylvania asylum.
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New York
John D. Archbold
Halifax
Bergen
Norway
Atlantic
Denmark
Sweden
Kirkwall
Wock
Bergensfjord
Christianfafjorn
Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Common Pleas Court
Thaw
Frederick Gump
Kansas City
St. Mary's Hospital
Pennsylvania
Wheat Off 7 Cents on Rumor of Strike
The Chicago wheat market opened nervous amid strike rumors and fell another cent after yesterday's decline. May wheat opened between 1.7873 and 1.795, following a close yesterday of 1.5038 to 1.8018. In Pana Illinois, John Warmon, superintendent of Taylorville township high school, hanged himself at Taylorville. cause unknown.
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Chicago
Pana
Ill
John Warmon
Taylorville Township
Taylorville
Meet Raider Chaser off Azore Islands
New York reports an unidentified steamship likely an Entente vessel sighted near the Azores on February 24. Norwegian steamer Askild, arriving from Gibraltar, noted the stranger with four masts and two funnels and no interference after approaching to verify nationality. A tank ship last week had reported a suspected armed German merchant vessel north of the area.
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New York
Azore Islands
Gibraltar
Trade Body Finds No Basis for Coal Boost
The federal trade commission told top anthracite coal producers that spring price reductions cannot be spared by higher production costs. The notice from Washington outlines no justification for price boosts amid rising costs.
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Washington, D. C
The
Federal Trade Commission Today
American Soldier of Fortune Wins Legion of Honor
Paris reports Raoul Lat lathery an American aviator decorated with the Legion of Honor for service under the French flag. He has downed six German planes by Dec 27, 1916 and a seventh since, after earlier trials in life from New Haven to Bourges. Lat hery’s rise includes training with Marc Pourpe and flight as mechanician before earning pilot status.
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Paris
Raoul Lat?hery
Legion of Honor
New Haven
Conn
Bourges
France
Asia
Marc Pourpe
Pourpe
Luibery
Lufbery
Western Front Events Awaited in France with Confidence
Berlin quotes a statement saying Havas News agency reports events on the western front are awaited in France with the greatest confidence and that these events are looked for with strong confidence. The note was issued in Berlin via Amsterdam via London on March 12.
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Amsterdam
London
A_ Berlin
Havas
France
Navy Arming Merchant Ships To Avert War
Navy officials prepared precise orders for armed guards aboard American merchant vessels passing through German submarine zones. Secretary Lansing approved minor amendments and will issue copies to ship commanders only as ships sail. Public dissemination of the instructions is discouraged to prevent revealing armed ship details. Count von Bernstorff’s arrival in Europe sparks renewed Berlin discussion on the blockade and possible measures to avert war.
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Navy Department
Lansing
Navy
Naval Service
London
Europe
Count von Bernstorfft
United States
Berlin
Reuter
Christiania
Count von. Bernstorff
Germany
America
Illinois Debates Training for Boys in Public Schools
Illinois debates compulsory military training for boys in public schools before a subcommittee of the Illinois house military affairs committee. Fred A. Moore cites Australia and Japan as examples while Adjutant Gen. Dirksen and Col. Foreman support training for physical and mental discipline. Hamlin proposes amendments allowing working boys to enroll.
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Chicago
Ilingis
Illinois House Committee On Military Affairs
Representative Bleak
Hamlin
Fred A. Moore
Woman's Peace Party
Australia
Japan
France
Moore
Frauce
Frank
Dirksen
Cal
Milton J. Foreman
First
Ilinois Cavalry
Col. Foreman
President Wilson Sheltered Indoors As Cold Improves
President Wilson remained indoors at the White House due to a cold that troubled him for a week, but officials said his condition was steadily improving. The usual Tuesday cabinet meeting was canceled. In New York the freighter Navajo arrived after leaving Liverpool February 19, having run the German submarine blockade.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
White House
New York
Liverpool
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