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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
10
Western Newspaper Union reports diverse fronts in motion as German forces seize Sebastopol in Crimea and Italy sees heavy fighting from the Adriatic to the Giudicarie valley. British losses mount with April tallies and a Swiss estimate of German casualties surpassing 900,000 since March.
Austria is reported to offer peace to Italy with a new peace after May 19. The pope names Patrick Hayes auxiliary bishop of New York as bishop of the American army front. May 12 Mothers Day urged for soldier letters home. Victoria Cross awarded to Lieut. Allen Gerrard and Alan Arnet McLeod amid RAF exploits. Austria faces revolt and food shortages while Zeebrugge channel remains blocked by wrecks. Vienna dispatch notes northern Tyrol and Bohemia provisioning linked to Bavaria and Saxony.
Provost Marshal General Crowder orders Colorado to send 150 draft registrants of grammar school age on May 28 to Colorado College in Colorado Springs for technical training. Under a new call for 233,000 men, Colorado allocates 2,079 to Camp Cody New Mexico 1,784 to Camp Cody Nebraska 1,573 to Camp Dodge Iowa Kansas 4,871 to Camp Furston Kansas New Mexico 985 to Camp Cody Wyoming 167 to Camp Lewis Washington Utah 808 to Camp Lewis.
Unofficial reports show the $3,000,000,000 Liberty Loan allotment oversubscribed by at least one billion dollars. The Senate supports increasing the wheat price guarantee to $2.50 while the House rejected the proposal. About thirty million silver dollars have been melted or mutilated under the new silver act, with negotiations underway with Britain and other allies to export the metal for coinage.
Princeton defeated Columbia 66 to 41 in a dual track meet at Princeton New Jersey. Pennsylvania won the Child's cup crew race on Carnegie Lake with Columbia second and Princeton third. Pennsylvania also defeated Princeton in the freshman race. Colorado College lost to Colorado in baseball 6 to 4 at Colorado Springs, Holt hitting a homer in the eighth.
Provost Marshal Secretary Baker calls for 8 985 more draftees as cost of the immediate war program is placed at fifteen billion dollars. Crowder orders a nationwide roundup of draft registrants evading military service. Pope Benedict warns the Vatican will not join a peace offensive. Mrs Katherine Fratt dies. her heir Miss Margaret Morrisey receives a share of a 1 million dollar estate in Billings.
Treasury reports show about 17 million Americans bought bonds in the Third Liberty Loan with subscriptions totaling $3.316 billion and a possible final total near $4 billion. Secretary McAdoo lauds nationwide support and urges investors to hold bonds through wartime. Colorado reached 37 percent oversubscription with $27.77 million raised, Kansas City district exceeded its quota at 131 percent, and district counties across Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and New Mexico collectively surpassed targets.
Chicago reports that one third of all passenger trains between Chicago and the Pacific coast will be eliminated after June 1 to save about 12 million dollars annually and reduce 11 728 000 miles of train haul as advised from Washington by railway officials.
President Wilson pardoned two AEF soldiers condemned to death by a French court martial for sleeping on sentry duty and commuted two others from death for disobeying orders. Army officials saw this as approval of Secretary Baker's stance against the army death penalty except in special cases.
A broad Arizona section notes revived interest in Jerome Portland and highlights from mining in Oatman Higgens and Caprite districts. It mentions new alfalfa shipments from Salt River valley, tax law booklets, captures of escapees, desert mining plans at Dry Lake and Cunningham pass, and a large World War I training camp turnout.
Foreign Secretary Balfour told the House of Commons no recent peace offers had been made by the enemy. The Dutch intermediary Colyn reportedly proposed eight points including German withdrawal in the west and restoration of Belgium, with colonies and Asia Minor to be settled by international talks.
London reports British artillery prevented enemy movement on the front in Flanders for three days while French forces repelled an anticipated attack. Australian troops west and southwest of Morlancourt pushed the line 500 yards, after an earlier 700 yard gain. Canadians appear in the Arras sector defending Neuville Vitasse Mercantel Boisseaux St Marc amid ongoing heavy fighting since March 21.
Reports from London indicate rising mutiny in the Austrian Slovene districts with German Slovene clashes and killings. Emperor Charles has left Vienna for the front as liberals oppose his dismissal of Parliament and Bohemian governance shifts attract pan German press claims. Three Austrian cabinet members resign amid turmoil.
Ottawa reports Canada has reduced the compulsory military service registration age from 20 to 19 years. The change narrows eligibility for conscription and may affect draftees and volunteers nationwide.
Mrs Potter Palmer of Chicago dies at her winter home in Sarasota Florida from pneumonia. Widow of Potter Palmer she was born in Louisville and a Chicago social leader. The body will be taken to Chicago for burial. She presided over the board of women managers during the World’s Columbian exposition and visited Europe to interest foreign governments.
A 19th century style advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood and nerve tonic to fortify a man for war and work. It praises the tonic’s ingredients and claims it boosts vigor, plus promotes a weekly cleansing with Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets to “clear the twenty five feet of intestines.”
A police sergeant shows a scratch on his face from an incident at home linked to a common pet term. He explains he called his wife Hello honey but shortened it to Hun, prompting her to remind she is not a Hun and he vows to use the full word going forward.
The Navy Department commends Matthew McCabe, water tender, for gallantry in leaping overboard from the steamship Pocahontas to rescue a fireman who had fallen or jumped into the sea. McCabe, who enlisted in August 1916 in New York, grasped a line and hauled the swimmer to safety.
A compact moral aphorism notes that small misdeeds can lead to larger troubles, framing everyday faults as seeds of future distress. The statement emphasizes caution and personal responsibility in daily choices.
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