Luck Changes On Number 13 By Commander Holden C Richardson
Lieutenant Commander Holden C Richardson describes the NC-3 mission from Trepassey to Ponta Delgada failing after sighting destroyers numbered up to 13. Bad visibility, heavy clouds, and six hours of rain and fog forced a降drop to sea to fix position. The sea voyage lasted 15 hours, the wing abeam structure failed, and the craft moored to prevent capsizing. they received a warm welcome at Horta and at port.
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Ponta Delgada
Azores
Trepassey
Destroyer No. 20
Horta
War funding battle shapes pace of Wilson return
In Congress Democrats win a rules suspension to pass a wartime appropriation bill as President Wilson’s return from France is awaited. The measure authorizes 39.6 million for soldier households, 3 million for Civil War pensions, and 2.43 million for the war risk bureau administration, with no dissent recorded. Mondell and Clark led the debate as Republicans predicted tax burdens and Democratic accountability for war costs.
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Champ Clark
President Wilson
Wilson
Roosevelt
White House
Germany
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Mondell
Clark
Will Organize House Military Affairs Committee Today
Representative Kahn of California, returning from Europe after a two month investigation of conditions in the American expeditionary force, will convene a House military affairs committee meeting on arrival tomorrow. The session will finish committee organization and plan redrafting the army appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. He is expected to present definite plans on universal military training and troop levels for the peace time army, topics before the committee this session.
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Washington
Kahn
California
Europe
House
Boston Immigrant Station Bill Seeks Three Story Facility
Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Boston introduced a bill in Congress to authorize a three story immigration station in Boston replacing the planned one story facility. The act would raise the current $875,000 limit to $700,000 to provide adequate accommodations for the port of Boston immigration business.
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Washington
George Holden Tinkham
Boston
Lell
Tinkham
Emerson seeks War Dept inquiry into soldier purchases in France
A resolution was introduced by Representative Emerson of Ohio asking the War Department to determine to what extent American soldiers were overcharged for articles bought in France. The move queries wartime procurement practices and their financial impact on servicemen.
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Washington
War Department
France
Emerson
Ohio
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Thayer McNeil Company
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N. ¥. Evening Post
D. W. Griffith
Colonial Theatre
Shetland
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Shepard
Tremont Street
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Winter St
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Royal Linen
Hurd
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the Secury Shop
Trousseau
Windsor
Hamburg
Weats
Imburg
Victor
Columbia Records
Temple Place
Oxford
Dorothy Dodd
Gand
Nvomen’s Kid Oxford
Shepar
Winter Stree
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