Congress to Fight Higher Tax Proposals in Heated Debate
United Press reports a looming clash as Secretary McAdoo pushes a new tax bill. House and Senate leaders warn adjournment could slip to autumn. Opposition cites morale, business disruption, and delayed collections. The current revenue law and Liberty loan boost expected to widen the gap by about 2 billion dollars.
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Martin
United Press
Washington, D.C
McAdoo
Congress
House
Senate
Treasury
French Enabled to Conduct Quick Raid and Take Prisoners
American artillery northwest of Tool outguessed the Germans avoiding a planned gas projector attack. A French raid on the German trenches followed, yielding more than twenty prisoners. American patrols clashed with a German force on the right wing before withdrawing.
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Frank 4. Taye
United Pres
Lonraine
Tool
Gay
Toulage
Aulet
Four Vancouver Firemen Die In Streetcar Crash
Four city firemen were killed and one injured in Vancouver RB May 14 when a hose wagon speeds to a fire strike a street car. The tragedy occurred during the response to a blaze, authorities said.
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Kivaard
Commision
Vancouver
RB. C
British Casualties Published for Last Week
British authorities list 40,004 casualties for the past week. Officers 978 killed 1630 wounded 368 missing. Other ranks 58 killed 20669 wounded 4901 missing.
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London
French maritime tolls show drop in April losses
Official French stats received in Washington indicate allied and neutral ship losses fell to about half in April compared with 1947. April losses totaled 81,651 gross tons versus 643,685 in the previous April. Submarine attacks now costlier for the enemy as torpedoes replace gunfire due to merchant ships being armed.
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Washington, D. C
France
Wilson names labor director to shape war labor policy
President Wilson assigns Felix Frankfurter the task of forming a national war labor policy. Frankfurter becomes labor administrator under Secretary Wilson, coordinating the government’s labor adjustment bodies and steering liberal elements in the labor movement.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Felix Frankfurter
New York
Washington
Prankfurter
Frankfurter
Mooney
War showing wisdom of Wilsons Mexican policy
The Chicago Tribune argues Congress should select America’s peace conference representatives, challenging President Wilson. It recalls past advisers and warns against overreaching by the president, urging Congress to act now to guide wartime diplomacy and border policy.
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HY N. Sooowran
Washington, D. C
Chicago Tribune
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Congresa
America
Tribune
Wilson
Doubtious the Tribune
Wilgom
Tovaslon
Pepice
Wyomings draft exempts 12 counties as quotas filled
Twelve of Wyoming's twenty one counties are exempt from the draft as quotas for 181 fighters bound for entrainment between May 20 and 30 were filled by prior enlistment. Remaining counties receive specified allocations including Albany Carbon Converse Gowhen Lincoln Niobrara Sweetwater Ulota and others.
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Wyoming
Albany
Carbon
Ae Conversa
Promont
Gowhen
Lincoln
Niobraray
Sweetwater
Ulota
Yellowstone
Germany Demands Russian Armistice and Col ny Threat
Reports from Moscow and London detail Count von Mirbach issuing an ultimatum to the Bolshevik government demanding disarmament and swift settlement of prisoner repatriation. Rostov recaptured by Russians reportedly follows Berlin’s claim. The dispatch notes peace talks with Ukraine and a Russian defensive posture along frontiers.
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United Press
Moscow
Count von Mirbach
Russia
Rostov
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Council of the People’s Commissaries
Monctov
Great Russia
Ukraine
Veroneah
Karak
Briangk
Fronta
Kuselan
Trotaky
Laon Troteky
Bolacevik
Sasprishat
Kradne
Ban Conmmokm
Ise
Banda Shee
Kua
Mothers Day Letters From Picardy Sent To U S Mothers
May 11 in Picardy hundreds of letters will leave for American mothers as soldiers in dugouts and on improvised tables write in spare moments. Some troops fear their mothers have died since arriving in France and wonder if they can write to them.
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Picardy
France
Explosion Kills Eight at Craft Creek Plant
An explosion at the Loulke Coal company nitroglycerine plant in Craft Creek, Wellsburg district, May 11, is believed to have killed eight workers. Rescue and investigation efforts are underway as authorities confirm the fatalities.
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Wellsburg
Loulke Coal Company
Craft Creek
Plane Crash Kills Two In Practice Flight
A plane burst into flames near Pensacola yesterday during a practice flight. Richard McCalla of Toledo and George Eacheats Pawtucket were fatally injured in the crash.
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Unitedress
Pensacola
Banta Musa
Richard McCalla
Toledo
George
Lack of Steel Delays Shipyard Output at Hog Island
At Hog Island shipyards twenty of twenty five wartime ships remain idle due to a steel shortage. United States Steel, Bethlehem mills and other majors fail to supply required steel. Charles M Schwab faces a delay as only three keels are laid in two weeks vs plans for five. Labor is plentiful with federal and state workers assisting. 25,000 workers hope Schwab can secure steel.
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Walted Press
Philadelphia
Hog Island
Eagon
United States Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Mills
Charles M. Schwab
Schwab
Federal Employment Bureau
Hox Island
Ohio
Hox ‘Island
American International Stipe Building Company
Weather outlook for Cheyenne and Vicinity
Paice and slightly warmer to night Sunday fair and warmer. Generally fair tonight and Sunday with nightly warmth, warmer in the south portion Sunday. Shippers forecast warns of shipment protection against temperatures from 24 to 64 degrees north and west and 64 to 40 south and cant.
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Cheyenne
Paice
Karl Expects Peace Negotiations Soon
Amsterdam dispatch cites Foreign Minister Taron Borla declaring hope for general peace talks to follow Romania's peace accord. He claimed many efforts have exploited every opportunity for peace, with Budapest reporting the latest remarks.
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Karl
Amsterdam
Taron Borla
Avaiolungerian
Budapest
Ate
Min
American Artillery Bombards German Positions in Picardy Front
American heavy artillery shelled German reserve positions near Parc de Vesnes Framicourt and other fronts in the American sector Thursday night. Fires were seen in Montdidier and an ammunition plant burned in Cantleny. reports from Paris and London mention French advances northeast of Lo and Haig acknowledging raids and prisoner captures.
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Fred &. Ferguson
United Press
Picardy
Parc-de-ilvesnes
Framicourt
Montdidier
Cantleny
London
Loere
Haig
Merville
Ypres
Austrians Prepare Major Offensive in West Front
Reports from the Italian front indicate a reorganization of Austrian forces with two large groups under separate commands. Reinforcements and increased artillery aim to restore combat efficacy as raids and reconnaissance hint at an imminent offensive, possibly against Italy or the Franco-British line.
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United Press
Traliana
Italy
Roosevelt accuses Hearst papers of aiding Kaiser
Theodore Roosevelt declares in a public statement that major newspapers and magazines including the New York Tribune Collier's Weekly and the Metropolitan magazine plus Hearst owned papers have aided Germany. He cites government criticism of publications under the espionage act and accuses editor George Creel and others of failing to uphold the war effort.
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New York
Committee On Public Information
Germany
Hearst Iron
William R. Hearst
opApare
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the Tribune
Collier's Metropolitan
Five U.S. Officers Captured by Huns
Report from Washington outlines capture of American officers by German forces. General Permiins Theft lists sixty nine names, with four dead of wounds and four dead of disease, seven lost at sea, thirty four wounded, and other incidents noted.
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United Brows
Washington, D. Oh
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