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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
1
Washington reports factory output of five hundred machine guns daily for the army with growth expected in the next two to three months. The Browning standard is resuming production after engineering delays and the Lewis gun for airplanes is being well produced. About two hundred heavy Brownings have been completed so far.
Washington officials report President Wilson's expansion plan rests on about 1,750,000 physically fit men in Class 1, with 225,000 lost to recent call. An additional 700,000 will join by next month’s registration, lifting reserves toward 2.5 million. Exact class figures are incomplete but near 1.2 million in Class 1 questionnaires. Mobilization through June 1 totals about 575,000.
Amsterdam May 7 The German press declares the resumption of the west front offensive will be aided by a huge offensive on the Italian front with the combined effort expected to bring the longed-for German success. It recalls the west front offensive was forecast by German papers.
A fire at the Union Stock Yards in St Louis destroyed an elevator with 300000 dollars of grain for allies and caused 500000 dollars in damage to stock yards property. Firemen rescued two thousand animals from the pens as hay and grain spread the flames originating in an unoccupied warehouse. Authorities call the blaze incendiary and continue investigations into the cause.
Miss Helen Taft, niece of the ex president, climbed a tall fire ladder to spur New York spectators to buy Liberty Loan bonds. Each rung completed triggered a new bond purchase, with $3,500 required to reach the top as subscriptions climbed.
Milwaukee native James Jorman reports meeting old friends and riding the same locomotive he once fired in Milwaukee, now operating behind the lines in France. He writes that he is running the "same old leak" as before, a nod to past duties and memories.
Gutzon Borglum accuses Col. Deeds of steering some 50 million dollars in air contract favors to unqualified men. He claims a conspiracy by higher ups obstructed his volunteer investigation after President Wilson exposed his role.
A public letter assigns 350 000 Boy Scouts of America to locate black walnut timber for war work. The wood is used by the army ordnance department for gun stocks and by the signal corps for aircraft propellers. Owners are urged to aid the government and report data and prices to scouts.
Service Director J. H. Morgan told council that operating expenses could be dramatically reduced once the water works plant is finished. He cited a $1500 saving from one item and other cuts possible, noting the pumping station's six month appropriation is exhausted and a $2,000 shortfall in the operating fund. He proposed funds from water consumers, with 2200 users paying $1 each.
The body of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago's first lady, was returning to Chicago from Sarasota, Florida. The funeral will be from the Palmer mansion on Lake Shore Drive next Friday with Rev. James B. Stone officiating. Interment will be in the Greek Mausoleum at Graceland Cemetery. Accompanying the remains are sister Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant brother Adrian Honore sons Honore and Potter Palmer Jr. and niece Princess Cantacuzene. The estate is valued at about 15 million dollars.
A French escapee recounts American prisoners in Hemelin and Hamelin subjected to extreme abuse. Prisoners endured minimal rations of thin soup and fish, beatings with rifle butts and bayonets, confinement in a steam heated dark hall, bread and water, then exposure to snow. Deaths from such torture were frequent.
New York paused to honor the 115 Americans who died when the Lusitania was sunk. Memorial services were held at Trinity Church, with survivors in attendance and a rally planned at Carnegie Hall led by Colonel Roosevelt as the principal speaker.
Miss Betty Minner a student at Muskingum College spent the weekend as the guest of Miss Parry on North Eleventh Street in Muskingum.
Washington May 7 report final house action was to be sought today on the conference report on the espionage or sedition bill passed last week by the senate.
Rome reports the Vossische Zeitung declares the German drive on the west has failed and calls for abandoning the march on Paris. May 7. The article frames the shift as a German population rethink after the setback.
Guernsey county exceeded the weekly War Saving Stamp quota last week pushing total sales to 145159 dollars. County Chairman A J Bennett received a congratulatory telegram from Ohio War Savings Committee Secretary Dittmer praising the effort.
New York May 7 Eleven members of the crew of the American steam ship Tyler were killed when the vessel was torpedoed and sunk off the French coast on May 3. The Tyler, formerly an Old Dominion line freighter, was 3928 tons and built in 1913.
A notice calls a meeting of business men and representative citizens in the council rooms Friday at 7.50 pm to discuss plans for the Cambridge water works system. Mayor Longsworth emphasizes the need for citizen attendance to complete the plant.
Camp Sherman May 7 officers and men ordered to maintain utmost secrecy about troop movements from Ohio cantonment. They must not mention departure or arrival in letters. postcards saying I have arrived safely will be sent from embarkation port. 140 artillery officer candidates from the third officers training school to depart for Jackson South Carolina to replace officers killed or wounded in France.
Pro vost Marshal General Crowder issued a call for 4 060 men to fill vacancies in the civil engineers ordnance and quartermaster corps. Recruits will be drawn from all states except Arizona Delaware and Vermont and entrain May 20. Amsterdam May 7 The Roumania central powers peace treaty has been signed according to Bucharest dispatch.
United Press reports on May 7 that 18 fresh or re formed German divisions totaling about 218000 men are identified on the Amiens front. The move signals a resumed German offensive while showing replacement units have suffered total losses at least 50000. Prisoners note heavy French artillery losses before Amiens.
London reports German war office said American prisoners were captured in fore-field engagements southwest of Blamont. Blamont lies east of Lynneville near the border, with Ancerville nearby where Americans fought recently. Haig noted Australian advances around Morlancourt and 200 prisoners taken.
With the Americans in Picardy the rear German organizations have been bathed in gas in retaliation for gas attacks on American areas. The guns roared all night as Allied forces reported heavy shelling. More than 15 000 Yperite mustard gas shells were thrown by the Bocies.
War expert J. W. T. Mason reports that Hindenburg's move to break trench stalemate has collapsed into extended lines. American troops arrive in large numbers in France to replace losses and man key sectors, leaving Germany with no reserves for a bold mobile campaign.
Paris dispatch notes continued American troop arrivals and asserts the entente bloc, including the United States, will solidify militarily and economically through and after the war despite late German offensives.
Washington May 7 Today s casualty list records 41 names with four deaths in action five died of disease two from wounds one from other causes one missing 15 severely wounded and 13 slightly wounded reflects ongoing war tolls and medical reporting
From a Franco American briefing in Lorraine on May 7 the enemy displays nervous activity at night with bright lights heavy artillery and air operations along the Meuse left bank and near Leideprey northwest of Toul. Patrols report sparse German lines across American sectors suggesting troops are diverted to Picardy.
British armies in France report a strangely quiet west front and German disorganization. The Somme and Flemish actions show patching is needed before further offensive attempts. Of 206 divisions totaling about 2.47 million men, over 140 have fought without clear gains, with varying degrees of losses.
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