Wrecked Syracuse Semet Solvay plant kills and injures many
A massive explosion at the Semet Solvay Company plant in Split Rock near Syracuse, New York, followed a fire and released two blasts from trinitrotoluene. At least sixteen workers were killed and about 200 injured as buildings collapsed and debris blocked the area. Rescue efforts faced water shortages and chaotic scenes as residents fled and firemen fought the blaze.
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Semet Solvay Company
Split Rock
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Adapp
James Russo
Arthur Co. Goodfellow
Over a Million U S Troops in France
The United States now has 1,019,115 troops overseas as of July 1 in a record movement toward France. Secretary Baker reports March to May sailings boosted departures by 637,929 in three months, six months ahead of schedule, with about thirty divisions in France ready to respond to any German action.
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Liggett
Weather Summary for Ohio and Surrounding States
Fair and warmer Wednesday with partly cloudy conditions Thursday in the east. West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee forecast warmer days as well. Temperatures listed for stations across the Midwest and South, including Cincinnati, Kansas City, Chicago, and New Orleans, with highs near 80s and 90s and modest precipitation in some areas.
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Government to seize telegraph wires and radio under wartime plan
Washington July 2. Congress advances legislation to empower the President to take over telegraph, telephone, cable and radio systems during the war. Cabinet officials Baker Daniels Burleson support strong government control. Baker seeks wartime power, Daniels and Burleson urge permanent ownership, while opposition to broad power remains. Members question feasibility and timing amid war needs and a looming Western Union strike.
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Wilson
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Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
House Committee
Baker
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Larleson
Representative
Louisiana
Burleson
France
Wild Beast at Large. Bonar Law Denounces Llandovery Castle Sinking
London reports Andrew Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, condemns the sinking of the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle as an unprovoked outrage. He warns that talks are useless and asserts the allies must destroy the German threat.
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Search of Sea For Survivors Is Fruitless
London July 2 A shore search near the spot where the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle was sunk by a German submarine found no further survivors. The Admiralty said 24 of 258 aboard may have been saved and the area between the sinking site and the southwest Irish coast was heavily searched with little wreckage found. Major T Lyon Canadian Medical Corps, rescued from the Captain's boat, was brought to a London hospital and told of German treatment of Allied airmen.
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Lysander
Llandovery Castle
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Associated’ Press
Pershing Says Ship Record Is Defiant Answer to HMS
General Pershing cabled that U S shipyards will launch nearly 100 merchant ships on July 4 to back American forces in France. He praised shipyard workers and urged continued speed to supply men, food, and munitions for the expeditionary forces.
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Long Rows of New American Made Howitzers Near Ready for War
American built 155 millimeter howitzers move to France to augment General Pershing's troops. One factory, new to ordnance, produces ten guns daily on a 36 000 acre Aberdeen Maryland site. The guns are French design heavy barrage weapons aiding infantry in trench warfare.
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Avy Ashington
France
General Pershing
America
Washton
Aberdeen
W. A. Phillips
United States
Mobile
Massacre of 300 Serbs near Prizrend reported
The Serbian government and press bureau in Washington announced a massacre near Prizrend. Refugees recount two months of occupation by Austrians and Bulgarians inciting killings of Serbs, including 300 wounded and refugees killed near the Monastery of St Nicholas and later tribulations in Surdoulitza.
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Finns Start Campaign in Archangel
German Finnish forces begin operations against the Murmansk region in Northern Russia. Troops concentrate on the Finnish Russian border and have crossed into Russian territory at several points to fire upon Soviet forces, according to a Helsingfors dispatch via Nya Dagligt Allehanda and Exchange Telegraph.
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Russia
Helsingfors
Nya Dagligt Allehandra
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Pile of Work Delays Congress Recess Plan in July
Associated Press reports Congress faced delays in approving key measures as plans for a late week recess before July Fourth were up in the air. The army bill and wartime price supports, plus a plan to let the President take over telegraph and telephone lines, hung on postponed actions and emergency funding. leaders warned recess could slip into August if votes fail.
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Germans’ Counter Attack on Marne Front Is Annihilated
Associated Press reports that a German counter attack west of Chateau Thierry failed completely as American forces held every objective on July 2. About 500 Germans, including seven officers, were captured and many more slain or wounded.
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Hill 204
Hospitale
Vaux
French Says Attacks Fail West of Chateau Thierry
Paris July 2 German counter attacks west of Chateau Thierry failed to dislodge American positions. The War Office announced the village of St Pierre Ais is again in French hands and that between the Oise and the Aisne the defense holds firm.
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