Apprehension Mounts Over NC-3 Crew Lost at Sea
News wires report Commander Towers and four crew members aboard seaplane NC-3 missing for over 40 hours after deviation off Fayal Azores. NC-4 and NC-1 crews aboard NC-4 at Horta and Columbia, with battleships Florida and Texas patrolling Azores approaches. Rescue efforts, weather grim, winds easing expected to aid search by dawn.
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Towers
Fayal
Azores
Jackson
U.S. 8
Melville
Ponta Delgada
Horta
Columbia
Florida
Texas
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Hines
H. ¢. Richardson
Lieut
D. McCullough
R.A. Lavender
LR. Moore
Austrian treaty delay delays presentation at Paris
Paris May 17 the Austrian peace treaty will not be ready for presentation until late next week amid delays from Hungarian delegation issues. Inter Allied talks continue on reviving Vienna structures while Austrian officials acclimate to St Germain and credentials exchanges set for Monday.
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Associated Press
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St. Germain
Vienna
Austria
Henry IV
Tules Cambon
Interailled Commission On
Chanseurs
Chans
Ellor Renner
Tualy
Verification of Austrian peace delegation at St Germain
Paris May 18 Verification of the credentials of the Austrian peace delegation will occur tomorrow in the room where Louis XI was born. The ceremony will take place at Saint Germain in the presence of officials and diplomats.
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Associated Press
Paris
St. Germain
Louis XI
Bon
Positively No to Winnipeg Strike Declared by Trainmen
In Columbus Ohio May 18 officials of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen stated they will not support a local strike or any sympathetic action with the Winnipeg dispute. The convention gathered eighty five delegates from Canada and fifteen thousand members. The headquarter reply set a firm stance against strikes.
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Brotherhood of Railroad
Winnipeg
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Canada
Brotherhood
Pos
Conditions Improve for NC-4 Transatlantic Flight
London May 18 The air ministry reports favorable conditions to continue the NC-4 seaplane flight from the Azores to Lisbon. The official statement notes generally favorable weather, falling barometric pressure at Azores, mist at Ponta Delgada, and light westerly winds though direct Atlantic route conditions are improving.
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Azores
Lisbon
Air Ministry
Ponta Delgada
Atlantic
TOWING DAMAGED PLANE TO PORT Ponta Delgada May 18
The cruiser Columbia at Horta reports intercepting messages suggesting the missing seaplane NC-3 was forced to land between stations 17 and 18. It was last heard at 9:15 Greenwich Time. Destroyers search for the seaplane’s flagship as NC-4 arrives safely at port. weather at Horta is noted.
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Associated Press
Ponta Delgada
Cruer Columbia
Horta
Payal
Columbia
Congress to Convene Amid Wide War and Domestic Action
Washington May 18 Congress will convene in an extraordinary session called by President Wilson. The Sixty sixth Congress will organize with Republicans in control and tackle the peace treaty, military pacts for France, revenue, railroad, shipping, woman suffrage, and prohibition. Versailles dispatch notes German delegate Count von Brockdorff Rantzau may be replaced as talks shift to Spa and back to Paris.
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Spa
Berlin
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Count von Brockdorff-Rantzatt
Counter Proposal Delivers German Peace Delegations Report
On Saturday May 17 Berlin officials disclosed that both the German government and peace delegates Giesberts and Landsberg are pressing to finalize counter proposals for submission to the victorious powers. The delegates claim Germans were shabbily treated at Versailles and note Austrian cordial reception as implying entente pressure. A later note to Premier Clemenceau concerns German religious missions abroad.
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Austria
Germany
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Noth
Boiled Down Europe News With Brief Mont Forecast
Brief European news roundup notes sharp differences in peace treaty support and political alignment. Mentions Count Beantean and Brocka with references to socialist setbacks. Foreast for Montana predicts a partly cloudy Monday with possible high in the southwest.
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Germans Prepare Preface to Answer at Versailles
Berlin dispatch says the German preface is ready and sent to the cabinet for approval. The plan for a chapter by chapter counter that would rebut Allied terms is said to be altered, with officials citing heavy editorial labor and uncertain timing for state papers and President Wilson’s remarks.
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Versailles
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Entente
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Cardinal Isues
Federal Land Banks Growing in Favor in April Loans
Minneapolis area partners borrowed $25,564,700 from the government on long-time first mortgages through the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul for April, per the Farm Loan Board report. The St. Paul bank ranks sixth among federal land banks in loans closed that month, while Omaha leads with $3,007,200, Houston $1,500,040, and Spokane $1,390,600.
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Northwest
Federal Land Bank of
Spokane
Japanese court suspends Mowry sentence for sheltering Koreans
In Korea May 18 the Japanese appeal court ordered the Rev Eli M Mowry of Manse 4 Presbyterian missionary sentenced to one month's penal servitude for sheltering Korean agitators and suspended the sentence for two years. Mowry appealed, claiming he did not know the Koreans in his home were wanted by police.
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Korea
Eli M. Mowry
Manse
Mowry
Treasury announces two new indefinite certificates issued
Washington on May 18 announces two new sites of treasury certificates of indefinite amount bearing 43 percent interest. They mature Sept 18 and Dec 15 respectively with dates of tax installment payments.
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Washington
Treasury
Intrepid youth takes off for transatlantic flight
St John s Newfoundland May 19 Up to 2 am no word from Harry G Hawker since he began his hopeful nonstop transatlantic attempt to beat rivals for a 50 000 prize. His Australian navigator Grieve accompanies him aboard a Sopwith biplane as weather improves though hazards loom over the Atlantic.
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Newfoundland
Harry G. Hawker
Atlantic
Associated Press
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MacKenzie Grieve
Greenwich
New York
Yankees
London Daily Mail
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Hawker
Charles W. F. Morgan
Grieve
Raynham
Quidmidt
Morgan
Rayn
Soviet Hungary leader cites errors and seeks Paris talks
The Soviet representative in Hungary, Bolgar, says Bolshevism waning and the Germans may sign a peace treaty. He urges Soviet delegates in Budapest be allowed to travel to Paris and asks allies to find a solution for Hungary, noting self government and lack of money will challenge any new regime. He prefers American involvement and warns about disorder if troops aren’t present.
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Alexis Holgar
Smuts
Budapest
Red Republic
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Silies Nnat
Uneme
Karolyi
Hungary
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Bolgar
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