Germans Abandon Effort to Retake Cantigny Front
Allied and German reports indicate the German attempt to retake Cantigny has paused after several repulses. Pershing's daily communique notes a quiet day with one hostile aircraft down. In London, Lady Randolph Churchill wed Montague Porch at the Registry Office. Churchill attended.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cantigny
Pershing
War Department
London
Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie Jerome
New York
Winston Spencer Churchill
Montague Porch
Mr. Churchill
Nigeria
Lady Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
George Cornwallis West
Long Range German Shelling Aided Roche Blow Says Gen March
General March told the Senate Military Committee that long range fire with gas shells helped the German thrust toward the Marne and that French positions were drenched with toxic shells forcing withdrawals. He noted rapid American troop movements to France and promised an official Baker statement soon.
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ROCHE
March
Soissons
Marne
War Department
France
Baker
German Offense Drives Toward Paris From Marne to Oise
German forces mass near 750000 strong push westward to break allied lines along the Marne and Oise. French positions at Chaudun Chovy Neuilly st Front resist as Rheims remains in allied hands and American troops join the battle area amid a sharpening Austrian offensive outlook.
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Associated Press
Marne
Noyon
Soissons
Paris
Souissons
Crown Prince
Oise
Chateau -Thierry
Charteres
Chateau’ Thierry
Rheims
Dormans-Rheims
Italy
German Fleet Stirring and Allied Front Battles Reported
June 1 dispatches note unusual German warcraft gathering in Helgoland Bight and reconnaissance activity along the Jutland coast. Paris reports heavy German attacks on a broad front from the Oise to the Marne with French resistance and territorial withdrawals amid strong enemy numbers. Aerial engagements yield 23 German planes down, 14 damaged, and 6 enemy balloons destroyed. Bulgarian counterattack repulsed with prisoners and trench-clearance by Serbian detachments.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
North Sea
Stifts-Tidende
Helgoland Bight
Jutland
Ft. Pompelle
Americans Active on Flanders Front and French Press Caution
British reports say American troops participated in small attacks on the Flanders front with excellent results. In France, air activity continues with several combats and a downed German plane claimed, though not confirmed. Paris notes German aversion to the word Americans in Cantigny coverage drawing French sympathy.
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London
British Admiralty
Flanders
Berthey
Associated Press
Paris
Cantigny
America
Sailor Drowns During Swim Off Mercy
Horace R. Canner, hospital apprentice aboard the U S S Mercy, drowned while swimming on May 26. The Navy Department announced the death. his home is in Murray Utah.
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Washington
Horace R. Canner
U. S. S. Mercy
Navy Department
Murray
Utah
Ohio Indiana Weather Summary and June 1 Record
A terse weather bulletin notes scattered thunder showers, cooler air, and fair conditions to follow for parts of Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia. It lists temperatures from St Louis and Cincinnati with a June 1, 1918 record ending 7 pm and compares with 1916 1915. Cloudy and clear in the day’s observations with wind from the southwest and light rain at some stations.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
St. Louis
Cincinnati
S.w
Belgians Reported Shot at Vieux Deux Fortress
A cable gram to the Belgian Legation said eighteen Belgians confined in the fortress of Vieux Deux had been shot. It also reports the deportation of Abbe Englebert rector of Comblain au Pont and Alderman Stauss of Antwary to Germany.
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Vieux Deux
Abbe Englebert
Comblain
Au Pont
Stauss
Two Direct Rail Links Proposed Between Ukraine and Central Europe
A Bucharest official newspaper quoted reports that two new direct railway lines are under consideration connecting Ukraine with Southern Germany and Austria. One line would run from Munich to Odessa via Moldova, while the other would terminate in Mohilev in the east.
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Associated Press
Amstead
Zeitung Am Lan” Ofers
Bucharest
Ukrainia
Germany
Austria
Moldavia
Munich
Odessa
Mohilev
Brews Face New Curtailment Talks in Washington
The Fuel Administration announced that brewery officials will be invited to Washington for a conference on beer production for the year starting June 30. A 30 percent cut began April 1 under a voluntary deal expiring June 30, with officials citing coal savings and a potential larger reduction.
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Washington
Fuel Administration
Americans Prove Vital War Factors in France Fight
General Bridges of a British mission says American troops are a vital factor in the battles in France and could decide the outcome between defeat and victory. He outlines German aims toward Amiens and Paris, noting a protracted struggle and the need to husband Allied manpower.
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Associated Press
Washington
France
Bridges
United States
A. Ee Apne
Amiens
Paris
Salient
Amiens Salient
Marne
Stokes
Russia
Eleven Men Acquitted in Lynchings of Enemy Alien Prager
In Edwardsville, June 1, a jury acquitted eleven men charged with murder in the lynching of Robert Paul Prager, an enemy alien. After forty-five minutes of deliberation, the defendants were found not guilty amid cheers from relatives. The trial featured defense remarks about an unwritten wartime law and emphasized the case involved a prisoner murdered while in custody.
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Associated Press
Edwardsville, II
Robert Paul Prager
Thomas Williamson
Gerard
Prager
Bernreuter
Joseph Riegel
Wesley Beaver
Charles Cranmere
Calvin Gilmore
Richard Dukes, Jr
Enid Elmore
William Brockmeier
Cecil Larremort
James
Stars and Stripes Made in Scotland Placed in Museum
An American flag sewn by Scottish volunteers and carried at Islay during the burial of USS Tucania victims from the torpedoing has been sent to President Wilson and deposited in the National Museum. The artifact honors fallen soldiers and was arranged for display by Smithsonian officials after being a gift from Islay House locals and Frank Morrison of the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Washington
Islay
Scotland
Wilson
National Museum
Frank M. Morrison
London
Tuscania
Smithsonian Institution
Hugh Morrison
Islay House
IWW recall policy on jailed organizers surfaced at trial
Correspondence between David Ingar and William D. Haywood showed an unwritten IWW rule that jailed organizers should disavow any link to the union. Haywood, the General Secretary Treasurer, urged ignoring illegal suggestions and offering only constructive, careful advice to jailed members.
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Chicago
Industrial Workers of the World
David Ingar
William D. Haywood
Haywood
Government to Inspect Coal Bosses Profits Across States
Twenty-five trained accountants dispatched by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper will audit coal operators in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to assess accuracy of returns and potential adjustments. The probe, not alleging fraud, aims to safeguard revenue and extend soon to wool and cotton manufacturers, mining, munition, and oil sectors. An intensive tax dodger campaign begins July 1.
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Associated Press
Washington
Internal Revenue
Roper
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Internal Revenue Bureau
Rose Stokes Convicted In Espionage Case Faces Appeal
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes wife of New York socialist J G Pheps Stokes was sentenced to ten years in the Missouri State Penitentiary on three counts of espionage with sentences to run concurrently. Attorneys will file a bill of exceptions and appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Rose Pastor Stokes
J. G. Pheps Stokes
New York
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Miss Stinson Makes Trip After Stop at Sheepshead
Miss Katharine Stinson, aviatrix, landed at Sheepshead Bay as the Harkness Handicap race ran and then resumed toward Mineola on the final lap of her interrupted Chicago to New York flight.
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Mineola
L. I
Chicago
Negroes Fire on Posse in Huntsville Texas Death Toll Mounts
In Huntsville Texas on June 1 a confrontation between the Cabiness family and a posse left Mrs. Sarah Cabiness and five of her sons dead while her daughter Bessie was fatally wounded. George Cabiness had been killed earlier when resisting arrest for threatening A P Allen and evading draft service. A shootout inside the Cabiness home led to a house blaze and a long volley of gunfire from the Cabiness group, with about 200 shots fired. no white casualties were reported.
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Huntsville
Tex
Sarah
Cabiness
Negress
George
Pete
Cate
Tenola
Thomas
Bessie
George Cabiness
A. P. W. Allen
Allen
American destroyer sinks two U boats off French coast
Atlantic port report states an American destroyer destroyed two submarines within thirty minutes near the French coast. The U boats were said to have been near shore when sunk as the destroyer arrived from the war zone.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
France
Heavier Resistance Admitted by Berlin
Associated Press reports from Berlin via London that German headquarters admit stronger Allied resistance south of the Oise, specifically southwest of Chauny, in a new official report dated June 11.
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Associated Press
New York
Miss Kath
Berlin
London
The
Oise
Chauny
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