Navy deterioration warned by former secretary at defense conference
New York June 15 former Navy Secretary George von L Meyer and former War Secretary Luke Wright urged prompt action on national defense at a National Security League meeting. Meyer cited missing battle cruisers airships and trained personnel with a deteriorating fleet and inadequate policy, calling for a congressional defense plan and a strong naval reserve to prevent war embarrassment.
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Curley
Boston
Wilson
Congress
National Security League
George von L. Meyer
Luke ‘Bb. Wright
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Navy
Taft
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Navy Yards
Mexico
Navy Department
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Roosevelt
National Council of Defense
General Board of the Navy
Investigation urged to reveal military reform needs
The speaker argues that large funding alone cannot secure reforms or efficiency. Only a real inquiry into current conditions and demanded changes can force reforms via Congress, driven by informed public sentiment. The public has been denied this knowledge by current party leaders.
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Congress
Chicago street railway strike tests city transit
Chicago on June 15 faced a second day of the street railway employees strike. Elevated lines operated sporadically with few passengers and irregular stops while occasional violence occurred. Federal action loomed as Judge Kohlsatt ordered Samuel Insull to resume operations and report on unlawful interference.
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Chicago Street Railway
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Chicago and Northwestern
London Is Practically Unfortified Says British Note
Washington reports Berlin air raids on London were presented by British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring Rice to Secretary Lansing. The note states London is practically unfortified, especially residential areas, and notes the presence of Americans and other foreigners. It claims German attacks have harmed non combatants and private property but not military defences.
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London
Cecil Spring Rice
Germany
State Department
Lansing
England
Claim of American exporters to be paid
Washington date line June 15 British embassy announced authority granted for settlement and payment of claims by it and at the New York consulate general for American exporters. Claims arise from detentions and appropriation of cotton as part of the British order against commerce with Germany and Austria. The move will affect many shippers whose cargoes to neutral countries were seized and should ease settlements in these cases.
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Washington
New York
Germany
Austria
Boundary Line Change Hearing at Calais on St Croix River
International Joint Boundary Commission, with Canadian and U S representatives, held a hearing in Calais Maine on June 15 to consider diverting the St Croix River between Maine and New Brunswick. Proponents urged altering the river bed to redefine the boundary line.
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International Joint Boundary Commission
St. Croix Hiver
Maine
New Brunswick
Canada
United States
Lusitania Inquiry Opens in London
The Lusitania inquiry opened in London this morning. The British admiralty will withhold public details of the torpedoing, but testimony on the steamer’s actions after the torpedo attack will be allowed.
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Cunard Line
Admiralty
International Relations Conference Opens at Cornell
Ithaca N Y June 15 The Conference on International Relations opened at Cornell University under the World Peace Foundation of Boston. Prominent authorities on war and diplomacy will be heard as part of the gathering amid discussions on global peace efforts.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
World Peace Foundation of Boston
Austro German Renew Rush Threatens Lemberg Front
Allied dispatch reports renewed Austro German push along the Galicia front threatening Lemberg. Mosciska east of Przemysl captured, Russians reportedly yielding along the Przemysl Lamberg rail line while Teutons gain toward Bessarabia. Fighting intensifies along the Austro Italian frontier as Germany plans pressure into Italy amid uncertain Greek neutrality. Allied air raid damages Karlsruhe. Italian heavy artillery bombs Malborghetto and Parviz junctions as eastern fronts heat up.
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Berlin
Vienna
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Przemysl
Lamberg
Bessarabia
Italy
Germany
Poland
Belgium
France
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Viter
England
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Greece
Karlsruhe
Malborgeth
Carmi Alps
Isonzo
Parvish
Wilson Denies Peace Party Reports
President Wilson stated that reports of the United States declining to be a peace party in neutral countries are untrue. He said the Washington government has done everything possible to encourage any peace movement and that Colonel House, who studied European peace prospects, was not sent by him yet is expected to be seen soon. House is currently visiting Massachusetts.
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Washington
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Massachusetts
Lusitania’s Captain Principal Witness Opens Inquiry
London June 15 Fifty Lusitania survivors with relatives and lawyers attended the board of trade inquiry into the May 7 sinking by a German submarine. Captain Turner, the ships master, was the principal witness. He said passengers were not helping after the explosion, though they did the best they could.
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Board of Trade
Admiralty
Baron Mercy
Turner
Lusitania
Butler Aspinall
Cunard Line
Weather forecast for West Virginia and Virginia
Fair weather is expected Wednesday and Thursday across West Virginia and Virginia. Warmer conditions will arrive Thursday. Highs reach seasonal levels with light winds and no significant precipitation anticipated.
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West Virginia
Chain of American Hospitals In Chicago
New York reports the Rockefeller Foundation announced plans to spread American hospital systems into China by purchasing Union Medical College at Pekin. About three eminent physicians will sail from San Francisco in August to take over the institution and expand the work.
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New York
China
Rockefeller Foundation
Union Medical College
Pekin
San Francisco
Bryan delays war essay split into three parts
Washington June 15 Former Secretary Bryan did not issue his promised statement on the cause of war and its lessons. He said he would publish the work in three parts starting tomorrow with War as it is and injury to neutral nations. The second part would cover the war's origin and influences, the third and final section would discuss pathways to lasting peace. President Wilson declined to discuss the note changes in Germany or Bryan's resignation.
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Washington
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Wilson
Ryan
Germany
Austria Indirectly Encouraging Serbia Over Albania Plan
Rome reports to the Italian general staff that Austria is indirectly backing Serbia in its Albanian strategy. Serbian troops recently entered Albania while Serbia and Greece reportedly agreed on partition terms, awaiting ratification by the peace conference.
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Rome
Austria
Serbia
Greece
Albania
Denial Issued On Reported Agamemon Sinking
Official denial released today refutes claims that the British battleship Agamemon was sunk in the Dardanelles by a German submarine.
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London
Agamemon
Dardanelles
Taft Sees Path to Permanent Peace at Wellesley
Former President Taft spoke at the Wellesley College commencement on June 15 about prospects for permanent peace. He highlighted a Philadelphia peace meeting next week aimed at making war less profitable, not to end the current war, but to discuss an international treaty to be made after hostilities end.
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Wellesley
Mass
Taft
Wellesley College
Philadelphia
Turkey Reported Ready to Seek Separate Peace
Rom, June 15. The Idea Nazionale says Turkey has sent an emissary to Berlin to obtain Germanys consent for a separate peace with the Allies, citing food famine and scarcity of munitions as the motive.
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Berlin
Germany
Rom
Idea Nazionale
Turkey
Villa and Zapata Leaders Open to Tagle Presidency
Villa and Zapata leaders show willingness to accept Tagle as provisional president if a deal with Carranza is possible. Wilson views the situation as shaping up but keeps plans undisclosed as Carranza refuses peace talks and governments brace for possible transfer of power in Mexico City. Red Cross reports food shipments from Piedras Negras to Monclova await Villa’s guidance.
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Wilson
Plains
Washington
Vasquez Tagle
Madero
Huerta
Wis
Villa-Zapata
Carranza
Tagie
Mexico
United States
Tagle
Thberta
Villa
Vera Cruz
Charles A. Douglas
Gonzales
Gonziales
Zapata
General Carranza
General Villa
American Red Cross
Piedras Negras
Monclova
Hernandez
Red Cross
Model Civil Service Law For All States
Los Angeles reports on a National Assembly of Civil Service Commissioners where a committee drafted a model merit system law for all states. The draft emphasizes government by the people, universal access to nonpolitical public offices, effective civil service, and fair treatment of workers.
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Los Angeles
Calif
National Assembly of Civil Service
Composition of a Merit Based Civil Service Commission
The text argues for a service commission composed of experts in employment science with jurisdiction from position creation to abolition or pensioning. It advocates that civil service commissions be answerable to the people, removable for cause like other civil servants, and independent of political control.
Temporary center of world finance in New York
New York reports a sharp dip in English and French exchange rates. Demand sterling falls to 4.76 3-8 while Paris checks sell at 5.45 3-4, signaling the pound and franc near fifty-year lows as American credits surge from war orders. Canada's gold influx brings year total to 75 million dollars.
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Paris
London
Canada
Gloucester man Drew Hopkins faces murder hearing
Gloucester Mass June 15 Drew Hopkins charged with killing his fisherman father Charles F Hopkins received a hearing today. At arraignment ten days earlier he pleaded not guilty and showed little concern after visiting the autopsy site. The father’s body was found June 3 in a West Gloucester grave. Initial bullet wound theory gave way to beating as the cause of death.
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Gloucester
Mass
Drew Hopkins
Charles FF. Hopkins
West Gloucester
Hopking
Militarism's Overthrow Result of War
New York June 15 H S Perris executive director of the British committee told American peace centenary members that the war will end and bring the overthrow of Caesarism and militarism. He urged united Anglo American effort to lay foundations for a new, safer pacific European civilization and a lasting settlement.
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New York
H. S. Perris
London
England
Europe
Arrest on Steps of American Consulate in Udine
Udine Italy June 15 Signor Canova in charge of the Italian consulate at Trieste when war with Austria Hungary began has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Although told by Triest governor and Austrian authorities he would be safe he sought refuge inside the American consulate and was seized when he stepped outside.
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Signor Canova
Triest
Udine
Italy
German American understanding urged by Vorwaerts director
Berlin via London reports Eugene Zimmerman, general director of the Lokal Anzeiger, argues for German American understanding. The Vorwaerts republishes his articles and endorses the call, saying the piece clearly states what many reasonable Germans have long wished to say.
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Berlin
London
Vorwaeits
Eugene Zimmerman
Lokal Anzeiger
French War Office Report From June Six Queenevieres Action
Paris June 15 The war office released that there is nothing new to add to last night’s notice An attack on trenches at Queenevieres June 6 was repulsed A long range German gun fired two shells into Compiegne no injuries or damage occurred.
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Paris
War Office
Queenevieres
Compeigne
President Wilson Joins Local Journeymen Stone Masons Union
President Wilson becomes an honorary member of the local union of Journeymen Stone Masons in Washington. Representatives presented him a board for honorary membership after he laid the corner stone of the American Red Cross memorial building.
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Wilson
Washington
Union of
Journeymen
American Red Cross Memorial
Genoa Doctors Claim Tuberculosis Vaccination Breakthrough
Dr. Wario Castelli and colleagues of the University of Genoa announce a serum diagnosis method and large scale tuberculosis vaccination. They predict immunity similar to smallpox within fifty years, citing immunized milk, pregnant animals, and infant vaccination as key steps. They urge widespread serum use, baby vaccination under six months, and farms supplying immunized milk.
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Wash
Wari¢o Castelli
Facultry of Medicine
Genoa
Italy
United States
National Association For the
University of
Maragliano
Faculty of
Jenner
Boards of Health
Isis
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