German air raids breach Vatican Corpus Christi Day truce
May 31 reports say German airmen bombed a British hospital behind the lines on Corpus Christi Day killing women nurses doctors and parents and setting the hospital ablaze. Paris endured shelling on Corpus Christi Day with one church struck and an attempted air raid repelled by anti aircraft fire. No detailed casualties released.
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United Pres
William Phillip Simms
France
Corpus Christi
Paris
Mohicans Class of the Presbyterian Church Marks Sixth Fathers and Sons Dinner
The Mohicans class of the Presbyterian Church, led by Geoffrey F. Morgan, celebrates its fourth year with 54 members and active church involvement. The group, open to boys 13 and older, features strong attendance, a service flag with 18 stars, and will host its sixth Fathers and Sons dinner this evening in the church basement at six.
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Mohicans
Presbyterian Church
Geoffrey F. Morgan
Joe Basom
Harold Liggett
Harold Addicott
Llewellyn Evans
Paul Conner
Fred Link
Charles Mason
Altho
James Hawkins
Harold Wise
German air raid hits three hospitals in Picardy
Fred S. Ferguson reports German aviators bombed three American rear hospitals in Corpus Christieve on Corpus Christi Day. They also strafed hospital tents with machine gun fire while American aviators planned a Memorial Day tribute with flowers for graves, promising retaliation. French women and children led Memorial Day observances with Salvation Army placing flags on graves in a village cemetery behind the lines.
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Picardy
Corpus Christieve
Vatican
Cologne
Salvation Army
Pan Germans Demand Broad Territorial Peace Terms
Official reports show Pan Germans calling for permanent retention of Poland Lithuania Courland Livonia Estonia and Baltic provinces from Russia Belgium to remain German and overseas colonies to be returned. They also demand a vast war indemnity and that France cede Longwy and Briey ore basins.
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Washington
Poland
Lithuania
Courland
Livonia
Esthemia
Baltic
Russia
Belgium
France
Longwy
Ad Briey
Oil supply could halt pleasure car use in near future
Columbus reports a government warning that crude oil output must rise as gasoline and oil consumption outpace production. If not corrected, oil power for automobiles may be discontinued. Also note social visit by Mr and Mrs W E Stevens and daughters Ernie and Griselda to Columbus hosts.
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Columbus
Ohio
W. E. Stevens
Ernie and
Griselda
W. N. Herron
P. G. Dowler
Athens county to supply 125 men for limited service in war effort
The Athens county draft board reports about 125 men with minor defects held for limited military service will join war work. Two hundred thousand draftees nationwide will be employed in producing or handling army equipment under Crowder's plan to free frontline troops.
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Athens County Draft Board
Athens County
Alrdeay
Crowder
Washington
General Crowder
Army Staff Corps
Signal Corps
Army bands expand to fifty players at Camp Sheridan
Camp Sheridan Alabama May 31 Musicians may join the Ohio Division bands as the War Department enlarges bands to fifty pieces. Eligible are men 18 to 21 and 31 to 45 with draft age possible by application to regimental commanders. Pay ranges from 40.80 to 96 for leaders. Bandmaster Alfred Hartzell seeks twenty recruits with solid band skill for his unit.
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Camp Sheridan
Ala
Ohio Division
War Department
Sheridan
Alfred Hartzell
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery
Civil Ife
Germans Renew Wide Front Assault Near Courcy Le Chateau
Paris dispatch reports German forces have extended attacks along the Allette river corridor between Courcy Le Chateau and the Oise, consolidating fronts in Aisne and Picardy. French withdrawals occurred at Bierancourt and Epagny while fighting persisted, with center actions pushing toward the Marne and a counterattack reclaiming Phillers near Rheims.
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Preas
Biencancourt
Epagny
Noyon
Marne
Soissons
Phillers
Rheims
Shooting in Lorraine Highlights American Marksmanship
American officers reported in the Lorraine sector that German bodies show head or heart shots after the Luneville engagement. Prisoners say the aim was to seize prisoners for information and harass U S forces to draw reinforcements from Picardy. No Americans were captured. About seventy Germans were killed or wounded.
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Frank J. Taylor
Lorraine
Luneville
Picardy
Columbus Boy Sets Ten-Flight Hour Record in Air
In Lorraine on May 31 an American air squadron logged ten flights in one hour. Lieuts Eddy Rickenbacher of Columbus Ohio and Jimmy Meissner of Brooklyn played key roles. Rickenbacher credited with saving Meissner twice. Americans downed at least four enemy planes while one Allied plane was destroyed and its pilot captured.
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Frank J. Taylor
Lorraine
Eddy Rickenbacher
Columbus
Ohio
Jimmy Meissner
Brooklyn
Meissner
Injured Worker Hurt at Athens Brick Plant
J. W. Graves sustained injuries at the Athens Brick Company plant when a green brick car crushed through his body. He was taken home by Baughman ambulance from 15 Mill Street, and Dr. Biddle was summoned. Doctors expect a several day assessment to determine seriousness.
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J. W. Graves
Athens Brick Company
Mill Street
Baughman
Biddle
Senator Deaton Dies in Toledo at 61
Grant Deaton 61 former state senator from Lucas County died in Toledo from appendicitis.
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Toledo
Grant Deaton
Lucas County
Draft to mobilize 200000 men to 22 camps in late June
War Department reports 200000 men to be inducted and sent to 22 camps during a five day period starting June 24. About 12000 will go to Camp Zachary Taylor and 12000 to Camp Sherman. No details yet on states or cantonment allocations. The Clarks Chapel Ladies Aid Society approved purchasing 50 dollars in War Savings Stamps at a Wednesday meeting.
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Louisville
War Department
Zachary Taylor
Sherman
Washington
Clarks Chapel
Camp Sherman Reports Surge of Morally Troubled Women
Military authorities at Camp Sherman Chillicothe say they were ordered to watch for a wave of immoral and diseased women tied to German propaganda plans to undermine the Eighty third Division. Welfare workers report over 60 girls encountered near the camp this month with four imprisoned.
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Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Sherman
Eighty-third Division
National Army
New Wickless Stove Ad Promises Low Cost Gas or Kerosene burn
The Wheaton & Crooks Hardware Co advertises a wickless gas oil stove that runs on gasoline or kerosene. It claims no wicks to buy and half the operating cost with a guarantee and a call to become a customer.
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Wheaton & Crooks Hardware Co
Minor Scraps Reported by Gen Haig on Northern Front
British operations on the northern battle front produced limited actions. Southeast of Arras a party seized a German post and took prisoners. northeast of Ypres patrol fights yielded prisoners and machine guns. Raids near Robecq. some missing. Shelling near Villers Bretonneux Albert Festubert and Clarence river.
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London
Haig
Arras
Ypres
Robecq
Villers- Bretonneux
Albert
Festubert
Clarence River
Still at Sheridan Letter From Private Briggs Says Camp Sheridan Stay
Private Dallas Briggs, first gunner in the 136th Field Artillery Battery A, informs his mother he remains at Camp Sheridan. There was speculation the unit might be moved to an eastern camp like the machine gun boys, but that does not appear to be the case.
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Dallas Briggs
136Th Field Artillery
Camp Sheridan
Company L
Foch Holds German Advance On West Front At Pathed Salients
General Foch maintains a defensive stance against a German push on both flanks with Hindenburg advancing center. French fronts around Rheims and Soissons are crucial as the Germans seek to secure Soissons and Rheims to stabilize lines. Foch can deter by using reserves, but doing so would cede the initiative to Hindenburg.
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New York
Foch
Hindenburg
Rheims
Soissons
Piegne
Compiegne
Aisne
Oise
Seine
Paris
Solesons
Blerancourt- Epagny
Picardy-Flanders
France
Refugees stream from battle front as retreating French flee Hun advance
Refugees pour from the Rheims Soissons front fleeing into central France. Camps form along roads as families, livestock, and wrecked belongings move under night skies toward an uncertain destination. Local observers describe a biblical Exodus atmosphere.
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Rheims
Soissons
France
Knows-Where
Israel
Egypt
Newark Man Among Marines Wounded in Action
In Washington May 31 General Pershing reports sixty American casualties. Among the wounded is Sergeant George from Newark Ohio. Others killed or missing include eleven killed in accident four from disease and fifteen wounded.
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United Pre
Washington
Pershing
George
Newark
Ohio
Ohio Biology Instructor Joins Gas Defense Service
Robert Burton Poling, biology instructor at Ohio University, leaves for Washington D C to join the Gas Defense service of the Sanitary Corps in a voluntary induction.
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Robert Burton Poling
Department of Biology
Ohioversity
Washinton
D. C
Gas Defense Service
Sanitary Corps
Ice Cream Packager Pay Offer Grows Townwide
Cline offers five cents per small ice cream packer returned to the factory tomorrow. The local program aims to collect as many items as possible for processing. Residents are urged to bring the packs to the plant before closing time.
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Cline
Public Library Drops Hearst Papers After War Entry
Cincinnati Ohio May 31 trustees of the Cincinnati Public Library discontinue subscription to all Hearst newspapers and order removal of all copies of the New American and Chicago Herald as Examiner issued since the United States entered the war.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Public Library
Hearst
New American
Chicago Herald
Examiner
United States
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