Hunger Strikes and Riots Shake Vienna and Austria
More than 100000 workers strike in Vienna at Vulcan Arsenal and Warschowski Works amid food shortages. Riots erupt in Favoriten Margerethen Ottakring and Brigittenau as Austrian Premier von Seydlers and German aid promises spark hope but rationing continues. Cavalry deployed, martial law may follow.
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Associated Press
London
Vulcan
Warschalowski
Vienna
Zurich
Exchange Telegraph
Favoriten
Margerethen
Ottakring
Brigittenau
Austria-Hungary
von Seydler
Austria
Hungary
Germany
Hofburg
Vienna Neue Freie Presse
Weiss-Kirchner
Fierce Struggle From Montello To Sea Goes On
The Italian front sees renewed action from Montello to the sea with Austrian forces repulsed along the Piave and Asiago sectors. French and Italian counter offensives reclaim Penhar Bertigo and Costalu while over 2000 Austrian prisoners are taken and multiple machine guns captured. Italian troops report enemy deception by Italian speaking Austrian soldiers dressed as Italians, who were executed after drumhead trials. The Montello to sea battle continues with reinforcements disrupted by collapsed bridges.
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Piave
Asiago
Pen
Har
Bertigo
Costalu
Astice
Vicenza
Venetian
Montello
Venice
Zenson Loop
Fosnalta
San Dona di Piave
Capo Sile
Conegliano
Bersaglieri
Italian War Office
Weather summary for Ohio Indiana and nearby regions
Local rains and thunder showers in Ohio and West Virginia on Friday with fair and warmer conditions on Saturday. Kentucky to see showers Friday and Saturday turning fair and warmer. Temperature readings and precipitation listed for stations including Chicago Cincinnati Denver Jacksonville Nashville San Francisco Winnipeg and others. Comparative highs and lows for June 20 1918 show higher temperatures than prior years with mostly cloudy conditions in the afternoon and clear at night.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Montreal
Omaha
Jacksonville
Denver
Pittsburg
Portland
Nashville
San Francisco
Chicago
Winnipeg
Cincinnati
Miss Lansing Sisters Survive Champagne Cellar Hardship
Misses Emma S. Lansing and Katharine E. Lansing sisters of Secretary Lansing and Red Cross volunteers in France were forced to shelter in a champagne cellar during German bombing near the front. They later were billeted in a neat home and expressed eagerness to hear news from home and learn of American actions on the Marne.
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Lansing
Associated Press
France
Emma S
Katharine E. Lansing
Red Cross
Misses Lansing
Marne
OLeary Defense Outline in Espionage Case in Federal Court
Jeremiah A. OLeary testifies in New York to his planned defense on charges of conspiring with German agents to commit treason. He says he fled after believing government agents aimed to imprison him and claims lack of competent advisers worsened his condition. He describes following Lyons to Reno for a divorce case and asserts no collusion with his brother John J. OLeary or Lyons.
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Associated Press
New York
John J. O'Leary
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
United States
Sinn Fein
Henry A. Wise
Sinn Feiner
Jeremiah O’leary
Arthur I. Lyons
St. Louis
O'Leary
Lyons
John
Newburgh
N. Y
Reno
New
Labor Pledges Full Share as AFL Concludes Session
At Paul Minnesota the American Federation of Labor adjourned after re electing most officers. Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and Daniel Tobin were renominated to new posts. James O Connell chose not to seek reelection. Gompers warned of the German military machine crumbling and victory for the Allied cause. The federation will meet next year in Atlantic City.
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IT. Paul, Minn
American Federation of Labor Convention
Atlantic City
N. J
Samuel Gompers
Washington
Frank Morrison
Daniel J. Tobin
Indianapolis
James O'Connell
Federation
Gompers
Morrison
Marines Demonstrate Trench Warfare For Congress At Quantico
At Quantico Virginia 7000 Marines staged a field day for Congress Navy officers and allied mission representatives. The demonstration featured camouflaged snipers trenches barbed wire mimic No Man's Land and a coordinated artillery and machine gun barrage to simulate frontline combat.
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Associated Press
Washington
Quantico
Congress
Navy
Daniels
Barnett
Mine Corps
Tennal Wall
No Man’s Land
Horrible Picture Drawn Of Effect of War Baiting
Amsterdam dispatch reports a socialist debate on June 18 about wartime social decay in Prussia. Braun cites mass rail thefts and juvenile crime, 487,725 food regulation convictions from 1916 to 1917, profiteering and extortion across classes, and bribery of clerks to buy clothing.
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Daimler
Eight Rutherford followers found guilty of espionage law
In New York on June 20 1920 Joseph F Rutherford and seven others were convicted by a federal court jury of conspiring to violate the espionage act. They faced counts of conspiracy insubordination disloyalty and resistance to the draft tied to Russell's "The Finished Mystery" and calls to obstruct recruiting. Sentencing planned for tomorrow with max forty years per defendant and potential concurrent or separate terms.
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Associated Press
New York
Joseph F. Rutherford
Russell
Howe
Rutherford
William E. van Amburgh
Robert J. Martin
Fred H Robinson
George H. Fisher
Clayton J. Woodworth
A. Hugh McMillan
Gioanni de Cecca
Elmwood Boy Hurt in Fall
Aberdeen Miss June 20 Lieutenant Leo M Hines Ellenwood Kan and Lieutenant Francis M Roberts Watertown NY are dead while Lieutenant Robert G Moore Elmwood Place Ohio may die after an airplane collision at Payne Field at about 1700 feet All three were in separate or joint flights with Hines and Moore in one plane Roberts in another The crashes left mangled bodies and severe injuries to Moore with both legs broken and a crushed torso
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Associated Press
Aberdeen
Miss
Leo M. Hines
Ellenwood
Kan
Francis M. Roberts
Watertown
N. Y
Robert G. Moore
Elmwood Place
Payne Field
Hines
Moore
Roberts
Airplane crash near Taylor Field claims two cadets
One dead and one injured when the plane fell from 800 feet during a training flight near Taylor Field in Montgomery. Second Lieutenant Halbert Clark of Washington, D. C. is reported killed, Cadet Aviator Erdman is painfully injured.
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Montgomery
Ala
Halbert Clark
Washington, D. C
Erdman
Taylor Field
Cadet McClanahan Killed in Park Field Plane Crash
Cadet H. W. McClan nahan of Lewisburg Tennessee lost control during landing at Park Field Millington Tennessee and fell several hundred feet to his death.
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Memphis
Tenn
H. W. McClannahan
Lewisburg
Park Field
Millington
Wardlow Escapes Reform School Doorstep But Captured Nearby
Belle Wardlow life prisoner and key witness in a Butler County first degree murder case slipped from the Woman's Reformatory near Marysville Ohio and was found hiding in a wheat field near Mechanicsburg. She had learned the trial start time and left just as the summons arrived.
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Associated Press
Marysville
Belle Wardlow
Butler County
Mechanicsburg
Reformatory
Cowdry Trial Opens Over 1917 Arsenic Poisoning Case
Special Dispatch reports from Hamilton Ohio that William Harrison Cowdry faced trial in Judge Murphy's Criminal Court for poisoning Loren Wardlow in February 1917 with arsenic in three forms. State witnesses and Wardlow's mother testified as the case began. Cowdry allegedly said Wardlow's wife Belle Wardlow offered $5,000 todispose of her husband.
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the Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
William Harrison Cowdry
Loren Wardlow
Pacifist MPs Push Peace by Agreement Debate
London June 20 Liberal MP Philip Morrell opened a pacifist bid for peace by agreement arguing for revising secret treaties to enable a democratic peace. The motion failed without a division as discussions continued. Socialist MP Philip Snowden supported the move while Foreign Secretary Balfour warned against peaceful efforts that could divide the allies.
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Associated Press
London
Philip Edward Morrell
Morreil
Germany
Philip Snowden
Balfour
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