President Wilson Ready to Speak War Message
President Wilson appears set to reveal a hard line against peace talks with the German Austro Hungarian bloc. Officials say the address will stress actions over words and urge a strong war drive, targeting peace propaganda and consolidating support amid Russia Japan policy questions. Continuous pressure from diplomats and Allied officials backs a tough front as Czernin and Berlin push conciliatory moves, with Romania as a focal point.
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Presen
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Czernin
Rumania
Japan
State Department
America
Germany
Morale of Allies Hinges on This Year’s Crop
Washington reports the Allied morale and war effort depend on a record grain yield amid a gravely serious wheat shortage. Officials urge Americans to sow war gardens and boost crops, with calls for seeds funding and volunteer labor to avert starvation in England, France, and Italy.
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United States
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France
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Ukraine
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Italy
America
United Press
Europe
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Department of Agriculture
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Brazil
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Agriculture Department
North American
Food Administration
Russia Exits War as Bolshevik Congress Ratifies Brest Litovsk
Petrograd reports that Russia officially leaves the war after the Pan-Soviet Congress in Moscow adopts the Brest-Litovsk peace terms. Bolshevik leadership led by Lenin pushes ratification amid cabinet resignations and calls to form a socialist government. The assembly also voices sympathy for Wilson’s peace speech and urges a world shift from capitalism.
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Justice
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Germany
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Armed Steamer Fires On Guard Vessel Killing Seaman
An American liner mistook a United States destroyer for a submarine in fog on January 16, firing on the convoy guard. One seaman, William Lusso, was killed and four wounded. a court of inquiry ordered by Admiral Sims is investigating. Lusso’s mother, Barbara Lusso of Kansas City, Missouri, is named.
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Navy Department
United Press
Sims
Wm. Lusso
Barbara Lusso
North 27Th St
Kansas City
United States
Lusso
New York to Form Aerial Police Corps
March 16 New York plans a new aerial police unit. Commissioner Enright aims to add flyers to the police reserve forming a nucleus of about one hundred men to protect New York or act as messengers if communications fail during disaster.
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York
New York
Missioner
Enright
Army Defense
Sandards
Sixty Three Flyers Die in Texas Flying Fields Toll
Dallas dispatch reports 63 American Canadian and British flyers killed in Texas fields. Two deaths today at Taliaferro field near Fort Worth: Lt Harold A. Andre and Cadet Joseph Lanagan. Taliaferro totals reach 38 with 24 Royal Flying Corps men and 14 Americans among fatalities.
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Texas
United Press
Taliaferro Field
Fort Worth
Harold A. Andre
West 39Th St
New York
Joseph Lanagan
Oakland St
Syracuse
N. Y
Benbrook
Hicks
Jury verdict against Mrs M H Hirsch in extortion case
In Atlanta on March 16 the jury found Mrs M H Hirsch guilty of attempting to extort 500000 from Mayor Asa G Candler by blackmail. The court set a 3000 dollar bond pending a new trial motion with 12 months prison and a 1000 dollar fine as the suggested penalty. The trial drew dramatic testimony and heated exchanges between counsel, with Hirsch crying as she faced sentence.
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M. H. Hirsch
Asa G. Candler
Georgia
Fulton
Ben. H. Hill
Rueben Arnold
Mrs. Hirsch
Mr. Candler
Candler
Arnold
John R. Cooper
Workmen Protest Petrograd Peace Policy
In a city wide conference today eighty workmen from every factory received a declaration from 40 000 workers protesting the Bolsheviki peace policy.
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Petrograd
Navy strength to double if needed says Daniels
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told a Madison Square Garden audience that the American navy now exceeds 400000 and could be increased to twice its size if necessary to win the war. He praised naval action against German submarines and credited women and mothers as the first line of defense. He spoke again on the Catholic war fund drive at a New York theatre.
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New York
Daniels
Madison Square Garden
Germany
New York Catholic War Fund
Prisoners of Winslow Crew Held in Kiel Germany
Captain Isaac Trudgett and two crewmen from the schooner Winslow are prisoners in Kiel Germany. The Winslow was destroyed by the German raider Wolf, according to a Washington telegram received by the vessel owners.
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San Francisco
Cal
Isaac Trudgett
Winslow
Germany
Washington
West Front Opens 1918 Campaign Feints Ahead
Western front armies mass and feint for advantage as weather improves and artillery blazes. American troops hold first trench line in Lunéville sector while Belgian and Bulgarian actions signal broader activity. British front correspondent William Simms notes the public must wait to see how the feints unfold.
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Luneville
Amsterdam
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Monastir
Corfu
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Teutonic
Ukraine
Armenia
William Phillip Simms
United Press
Secretary Baker Studies French War Prepor tions at Great Port
Secretary Baker, with Generals Pershing Atebury and Black, inspects a major French port and surrounding war works. He tours warehouses, rail heads, and telegraph lines proving America’s logistics network, and questions capacity and fastest supply routes. He praises the vast scale and says his inspection deepens understanding of the project.
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France
Baker
Europe
Ica
Baltimore & Ohio
America
General Pershing
Cme
Brer
Twenty Die In Lumber Camp Fire At Alvin Siding
A. A. Sutherland’s lumber camp at Alvin Siding near Riverdale Nova Scotia burned today. Twenty persons perished including a woman and five or six children. the rest were lumbermen.
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Truro
N. S
A. A. Sutherland
Alvin Siding
Riverdale
Norfolk Woman Choked to Death in Crowded House
Christiana Brown, a white woman, was killed by an unknown man at 1101 East Main Street Norfolk late tonight. She was strangled with her waist and the shirtwaist stuffed down her throat. jewelry and money were undisturbed, robbery not motive, no suspect yet.
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Christiana Brown
East Main Street
Norfolk
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