Germans Halted Drive Near Paris With American Help
Berlin reports a halted third German offensive in the West as American, French, and British forces countered near Neuilly woods and the Marne. Pershing notes the action as expected, while French commanders praise the bold counterattack that drove the enemy back and destroyed a crossing bridge.
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Neuilly Woods
Chateau Thierry
Marne
Pershing
Neuilly
Jaulgonne
Picardy
Lorraine
Neuilly Wood
Paris
Ainse
Ourcq
Pernant
Weather summaries across Ohio and surrounding states
A midweek forecast covers Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia with fair weather Wednesday and Thursday and notable temperature changes. Station readings list highs around 78 to 84 degrees with light rainfall at some sites and clear conditions noted at 7 a.m noon and 7 p.m across multiple cities including Cincinnati Chicago Seattle Portland and St. Louis. A June 4 1918 record from Cincinnati shows high 87 and low 63 with light winds and no rain, compared to prior years.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Jacksonville
Denver
Pittsburg
Spokane
Chattanooga
Seattle
Chicago
Portland
St. Louis
San Francisco
Omaha
Cincinnati
Supreme War Council backs Allied victory with US aid
The Supreme War Council, in its sixth session, expresses full confidence in the war’s outcome with American support. It praises General Foch and President Wilson for troop transportation and brigading. It warns that Germany, after eastern front relief, will press in the west and seeks a decisive, costly assault before US strength fully arrives.
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Associated Press
London
Supreme War Council
Foch
Wilson
Alliance of Free Peoples
Europe
United States
Not Guilty In Libel Trial Of Noel Pemberton Billing
London reports Noel Pemberton Billing was acquitted in a libel case brought by Maude Allan and J. T. Gein. The trial featured interruptions by Billing in court, confrontations with witnesses Captain Harold Sherwin Spencer and Lord Alfred Douglas, and a dispute over an allegation about Maud Allan.
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Associated Press
London
Noel Pemberton- Billing
Harold Sherwin Spencer
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Douglas
Captain Spencer
Pemberton-Billing
Maud Allan
Darling
Aviation Instruction Camps Report Several Tragedies
Civilian Instructor Stanley Coyle 27 of Coudersport PA was killed and Flying Cadet Elwyn Chapman 26 of Brookline MA badly injured when two airplanes collided about 200 feet above Rockwell Field North Island. Coyle’s plane crashed. the other glided to safety. Chapman suffered multiple fractures and burns and was treated at Ft. Rosecrans hospital. Cadet Mills, mother Mrs. G O Mills of Jersey City, had been at Taylor Field two months.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Stanley Coyle
Coudersport
Elwyn Chapman
Brookline
Mass
Rockwell Field
North Island
Coyle
Cadet Mills
G. O. Mills
Jersey City
Taylor Field
Aviation Cadet Mills Killed Near Taylor Field
Montgomery report says Aviation Cadet George O. Mills of Jersey City New Jersey died when his plane caught fire and fell 2000 feet near Taylor Field after taking off briefly from the nearby field. Mills was two miles from the aviation field at the time of the accident.
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Montgomery
Ala
George O. Mills
Jersey City
N. J
Taylor Field
Mills
Plane crash at Ellington Field claims Private Barner
Private John Barner of Philadelphia was killed and Lieutenant Elmer May was slightly injured when their aircraft became unmanageable in flight and crashed to the ground at Ellington Field on June 4.
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
John Barner
Philadelphia
Elmer May
Ellington Field
Lieutenant John J. O Malley Dies In Airplane Tailspin
Sec ond Lieutenant John J. O Malley aged 26 from Albany Missouri was killed instantly when his airplane went into a tailspin near San Antonio Texas. A second crewman survived without injury.
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San Antonio
Tex
John J. O'Malley
Albany
Warship Mistakenly Fires on Own Target, Killing Sailor
The Navy announced that a warship in hazy conditions fired a shell at the battleship Louisiana by mistake during target practice, killing Fireman Moses L. Morgan of Gulf Point, Florida. No other details were released.
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Washington
Louisiana
Moses L. Morgan
Gulf Point
Fla
Navy
Million Youths Will Register as War Mobilization Grows
Washington June 4 Machinery for the registration tomorrow of nearly a million youths who have reached 21 since June 5 last is ready for operation Provost Marshal General Crowder announced in a message to the 1918 class of registrants He recalls the first national registration a year ago and urges all Americans to do their duty at home as the nation fights for its existence.
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Associated Press
Washington
General Crowder
Morrow
France
Indictment in rail car theft ring targets eighty nine
A federal grand jury in Toledo Ohio indicted eighty nine persons including James J Corbett a yardmaster under the Railroad Administration in a nationwide car robbery ring spanning years. The crackdown targets rail car thefts costing railroads and shippers over ten million dollars annually and linked to multiple murders of railroad watchmen with arrests also in Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh Detroit Jersey City and other locations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Toledo
James J. Corbett
Railroad Administration
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Detroit
Jersey City
Submarine threat near Delaware Capes confirmed
Philadelphia reports that enemy submarines have lurked a few miles offshore since May 21, with the Cheyenne’s captain first alerting Delaware breakwater. The later absence of a raider led to initial skepticism about the warning.
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Philadelphia
Delaware Capes
Delaware
Phiadelphia
Death of former Vice President Charles Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks former Vice President and Indiana Senator died at his Indianapolis home at 8 55 pm after a long illness interstitial nephritis. Family members including Major Richard Fairbanks in France were with him. He had health problems for years with relapses after a May illness.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Charles Warren Fairbanks
United States
Indiana
Richard Fairbanks
France
Fairbanks
American Tanks Captured By Germans Near Fereen Tardenois
Berlin war correspondent Scheuermann reports three American tanks attacked German forces. one was captured undamaged and used against the enemy, while the other two were disabled. He notes vast American supply carts and wagons near Fere en Tardenois and says Pershing denied German claims of Franco American depots in that region.
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Herr Scheuermann
Berlin
Wolff Bureau
Fere En Tardenois
Fereen Tardenois
General Pershing
Washington
Survivors of the Carolina tell of sinking by German submarine
Nineteen survivors landed at Lewes Delaware recount the sinking of the steamship Carolina by U 37 after a severe Sunday night storm. They describe orderly lifeboat abandonment, rescue by a British vessel, and the later detention of a German crew member.
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Associated Press
Lewes
Del
Carolina
Delaware Capes
Cape Henlopen
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