Forces Prepare for Conscription as War Deepens
Handwriting on wall signals draft expansion as America enters conflict. All parties except reactionaries call for democratic regime basis. Public demand for upheaval grows amid looming military service.
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1917
Page
1
German reform push grows as America joins war effort
The German reform movement gains momentum with calls to modernize the Prussian constitution and adopt a democratic government. The Vorwaerts argues Germany must align reforms with modern Europe, seek peace without annexation, and recognize America as a key peace-making force essential for postwar economic recovery.
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Ica
Germany
Vorwaerts
Associated Press
United States
America
Reforn
Russia
Wilson Proclaims War and Duties for Citizens
President Wilson declares a state of war with Germany and warns aliens that acts against the United States will be met with harsh action. The proclamation also outlines duties for citizens and authority to restrain and remove alien enemies within the United States.
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America
Wilson
United States
Dras
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
Wilson Calls for Volunteers Then Selective Conscription
President Wilson announced a call for volunteers to boost army and navy to war strength and endorsed War Department plans for selective conscription. The program would raise 500 000 additional forces immediately with later increments, enlisting 19 to 25 year olds by draft and aligning enlistment periods across regular army national guard and additional forces.
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Washington
Wilson
Army
Navy
General Staff Army
Regular Army
National Guard
White House
Senate
House
War Department
National Army
Capitol
Helen Woodrow
Bones
Hoover
Rudolph Forster
Marine Corps
United States Enters World War As Wilson Signs War Resolution
President Wilson signed the war resolution at 1:13 PM triggering a nationwide mobilization. A call for volunteers went out, ships and military posts received wireless alerts, and a global message network notified nations of the action. Congress prepared a vast war fund and financing steps for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Congress
Germany
Berlin
United States
Wireless plant found near Mt Hood in Oregon raid abandoned
Government secret service officials discovered a fully equipped wireless plant capable of sending messages 5 000 miles near Mt Hood in the Cascade Mountains Oregon. The outfit appears abandoned with no arrests reported.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Portland
Ore
Mt. Hood
Cascade Mountains
Oregon
Outfit
Weather Summary For Ohio Kentucky And Nearby States
A May thirteenth style forecast notes fair and warmer conditions across Ohio and West Virginia with chances of showers in the night and Sunday. Kentucky and Tennessee expected overcast and warmer Saturday with showers likely Saturday night or Sunday and cooler Sunday. Indiana also overcast and warmer with rain possible at night and Sunday, followed by cooler conditions Sunday. Data shows regional temperatures and wind, with historic April records for Cincinnati ending at 7 pm on April sixteenth, including highs, lows and precipitation.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
U.S. Seizes Over Hundred German Ships in Move to War Effort
Following a wartime cabinet session the United States seized more than a hundred German merchant vessels in U.S. ports, declaring them government property to be paid for after the war. Crews face immigration detention as aliens, with many ships to be repaired and pressed into transatlantic supply and troop service for the Allies.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Germany
Vaterland
New York
George Washington
Kaiser Wilhelm II
President Lincoln
President Grant
Pennsylvania
Grosser Kurfurst
Barbarossa
Prinzess Irene
Friedrich der Grosse
Hamburg
Koenig Wilhelm II
Bohemia
Armenia
Adamstrom
Pisa
Prinz Joachim
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Cincinnati
Koln
Wittekind
Ockenfels
New London
Willehad
Baltimore
Bulgaria
Rhein
Neckar
Philadelphia
Rhaetia
Prinz Oskar
Newport News
Arcadia
Wilmington
N. C
Kiel
Nicaria
Savannah
Hohenfelde
Charleston
Liebenfels
Pensacola
Rudolph Blumberg
Zamboanga
Borneo
Marudt
Darvel
Cebu
Prinzess Alice
Tsintau
Wiegand
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic
United States Navy
Kingston
Jamaica
Pneumonia Ends Career of Attorney T. J. Cogan
Thomas J. Cogan of Cincinnati died at his home in Price Hill at 6 PM after a week of pneumonia. A prominent lawyer and civic figure, he served in the Ohio Legislature in 1884 1885 and chaired the Democratic State Central Committee four years. He held key posts in the Elks and Eagles and was a candidate for Grand Exalted Ruler. He was 62 and a New York born Cincinnati resident.
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Thomas J. Cogan
Elberon Avenue
Price Hill
Cincinnati
Altho
Ohio
Hamilton County
Democratic State Central Committee
Chicago
Cogan
The
Elks and the Eagles
Cincinnati Lodge of Elks
Grand Forum of Elks
Cincinnati Eagles
Duckworth Club
Thomas F. Shay
New York
Cuba asks Congress declare war on Germany in message
President Menocal sent a formal note to Congress requesting a state of war with Germany. He cites Germanys submarine warfare and Cuba's protests as justification and notes Senate and House committees will review the message. In Rio de Janeiro, anti German sentiment rises after the Paraná is sunk by a submarine.
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Congress of the
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
War and Navy Departments
Martin
Senate Appropriations Committee
Fitzgerald
House Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Baker
Daniels
McAdoo
Cal
Cuba
Germany
Menocal
Department of State
Buenos Aires
Rio Janeiro
Parana
Sixty German ringleaders imprisoned in wartime crackdown
Attorney General Gregory ordered the arrest of sixty German ringleaders in plots and conspiracies in the United States after President Wilson signed the war resolution. All are German citizens, barred from bail, and jailed for the war's duration. The group includes convicted, indicted, and surveilled individuals, with arrests bypassing courts under 1798 wartime authority.
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United States
Gregory
Wilson
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Department’s
Bureau of Investigation
Irish Lady Lectures on Distressing Irish Conditions
Mrs Sheely Skeffington widow of a slain Irish rebel leader will speak at Music Hall on Wednesday evening. The lecture, organized by the Associated Irish Societies of Cincinnati, supports starving Irish patriots with funds overseen by Archbishop Walsh of Dublin.
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Sheely Skeffington
Music Hall
Emerald Isle
Associated Irish Societies of Cincinnati
Archbishop Walsh
Dublin
Naturalization Test Case on War Time Policy
German-born Jonas Meyer was granted final naturalization papers in New York as a test case to decide if a German can become a naturalized American during wartime. Federal Judge Mayer indicated the question requires uniform ruling and should go to the Circuit Court of Appeals promptly. other applications will be held until then.
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New York
Jonas Meyer
Mayer
Circuit Court of Appeals
Port of New York Closed at Night and U-Boat Threat
The port of New York will be closed to all ships at 6 p.m. nightly. Reports from Europe support fears of German submarines in Mexican waters waiting to target U.S. interests. Consul Frost cites a flagrant attack on the Canadian and describes American sailors' peril aboard the Argo, a Portuguese bark shelled in a gale.
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Washington
New York
Custom House
Gulf of Mexico
United States
Europe
Mexican
Frost
Queenstown
Ferrel
Argo
Lowrie
Lisbon
New Orleans
London
German Plot To Incite Negroes To Revolt Bared, Riot at Newport News
The report from Columbia Tenn says Andrew J Armstrong a prominent local negro is in custody on rebellion and treason charges. Bond set at 3500 then raised to 20000 as federal agents charge Bible salesmen and ministers urged migration to Mexico and trains would take them April 15. A separate federal arrest at Birmingham Station accuses a negro speaker of urging denouncement of the government in favor of Germany.
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Newport News
Nashville
Tenn
Columbia, Tenn
Andrew J. Armstrong
Columbia
United States
Mexico
Birmingam
Germany
Federal agents curb suspected German agitation in the South
Federal authorities report arrest of a white man and a Black man in Birmingham and reveal evidence of a German spy network aiming to incite African Americans across Alabama Mississippi Georgia the Carolinas and Louisiana. The suspects allegedly posed as local organizers to foment unrest.
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Birmingham
Ala
South
Alabama
Louisiana
Georgia
Carolinas
Mississippi
Rioting at Newport News Shipyard Leaves Two Shot
Two Black workers were shot during a riot at the Newport News Shipyard Company plant in Virginia. Police and guardsmen were deployed. rioters briefly overpowered the guard before order was restored.
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Newport News
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