Thirteen Austrian U Boats Sunk by Italians in Adriatic
Advices to the Italian Embassy report thirteen Austrian submarines sunk in the Adriatic by Italian patrols in recent weeks. Italian destroyers under Lieutenants Paganelli and Berardinelli penetrated Barazzo four times in a year, sinking four transports. other destroyers entered Pola Parenzo and Pirano.
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Adriatic
Barazzo
Paganelli
Berardinelli
Pola
Pirano
Parenzo
Reichstag
Germany
State Department
Tiger
Spain
North Hinder
Flemish
New York
Thomas Robins
Naval Consulting Board
Three Boys Missing After Lake Outing Near Annapolis
The empty canoe found far below Annapolis confirms three Severn Preparatory School students John Avery of Colorado Springs Stanley Robinson of Hillsboro C Edwin L Goos of Davenport Ia set out for Chesapeake Bay trip. Search began after they failed to return last night as a heavy gale swept the lake.
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John Avery
Colorado Springs
Stanley Robinson
Hillsboro
Edwin L. Goos
Davenport
Chesapeake Bay
Severn Preparatory School
Naval Academy
Huge Securities Theft Charged Against Insurance Clerk
Special Dispatch reports in Harrisburg Pa May 11 Jesse Williamson II was arrested in Philadelphia on charges of a massive securities theft. Over seven years he allegedly stole about 750000 dollars in securities from the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance of Lives and Granting Annuities where he served as Assistant Secretary and Clerk of the company.
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Harrisburg
Jesse Williamson II
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Laffarty
Williamson
Pennsylvania Company
Two Japanese Training Ships Arrive in California Port
Special Dispatch reports two Japanese training ships reaching a California port. Officers and cadets will be entertained in San Francisco with an elaborate reception planned for tomorrow by the California Development Board and the Board of Harbor Commissioners.
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California
California Development Board
Board of Harbor Commissioners
Weather Summary for Ohio and Surrounding States
Regional forecast notes fair and warmer conditions for Ohio Western Pennsylvania Lower Michigan and Western New York. Indiana Kentucky Tennessee and West Virginia see fair skies and rising temperatures. Station data lists highs and rainfall figures with multiple city readings and historical temperature comparisons for May 1917.
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Display Flags of Allies Along With Old Glory
In Washington buildings and automobiles are decorated with flags of the four allies English French Italian and American but more frequently with flags of England France and the United States Cincinnati should do likewise. T. C. Powell asks readers to display allied and American flags in public spaces.
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France
United States
Cincinnati
T. C. Powell
Notice to Reserve Recruits Report at Ft Benjamin Harrison
A Cincinnati group reports a notice from Ft Benjamin Harrison officials that names of officers reserve corps recruits may miss mailing. A published list will tell who must report Sunday morning, with no reporting before then. Dispatches note Colonel Glenn withholding successful applicant lists and potential room for Ohio Indiana entrants if others fail to meet quotas.
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Albert H. Morrill
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Indianapolis
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Kentucky
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Ohio
Briton halts German advance south of Souchez River
British lines fronting the Souchez River held after a German attack. A later British counter‑attack reclaimed positions with heavy German casualties. Entente forces pressed in Macedonia near Cerna and Vardar while Zeebrugge and the Belgian coast faced aerial and torpedo boat actions.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Souchez River
Haig
Arras
British War Office
Macedonia
Toggeemaport
Cerna
Vardar
Zeebrigge
Good Morning Judge and the Patriot's Drunken Alibi
A humorous court exchange features a defendant excuse claiming patriotic intoxication after considering allied nations' drinks. The judge prompts the officer's report as the culprit blames his inebriation on wartime solidarity. The gag hinges on national drinks per ally and a muddled excuse.
Secret glasses breakthrough aids U S military needs
Washington May 11 The Bureau of Standards reports a discovery of a method to produce optical glasses for field glasses range finders and periscopes domestically, reducing Germany reliance. Secretary Redfield calls it essential to the nation’s military services.
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Washington
Germany
Bureau of Standards
Redfield
Root to Serve as Special Ambassador to Russia
Washington announces Elihu Root will head a special American commission to Russia as ambassador. His party will depart the United States soon for the mission. Officials say the food embargo plans against Germany will succeed with shipments monitored to consumption. A labor conference in Washington will seek to mobilize workers nationwide. Chicago papers adopt a two cent basis beginning Monday. The Hague chamber denounces the government for the 1918 sandstorm call.
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Elihu Root
Russia
Special American Commission
Germany
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Ilihu Root
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Army
James H. Glennon
Charles R. Crane
Illinois
John R. Mott
New York
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel R. Bertron
James Duncan
Massachusetts
Charles Edward Russell
Lansing
Baker
General Scott
General Bliss
Lake crews starve on ice bound freighter Munising
Marquette Mich May 11 members of the crew of the freighter Munising stranded five days in an ice floe on Lake Superior seven miles off shore report starving efforts to land food have failed. Fear grows for crews of four steamers Grand Island Ishpeming Bartow Peter White after a vain rescue. The relief tug Thompson returned blocked by a twenty foot thick ice drift and six feet depth.
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Munising
Lake Superior
Grand Island
Ishpeming
Bartow
Peter White
Thompson
Marquette
Frank Ashton Marries Hazel Wilson in Louisville
Frank Ashton president of the Nunner and Ashton Company wed Hazel Wilson of the East End. The ceremony took place in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 30.
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Frank Ashton
Nunner & Ashton Company
Hazel Wilson
East End
Louisville
Trading halt on May wheat by Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago May 11 trading in May wheat was ordered discontinued by the Board of Directors. Existing contracts will be settled by delivery or at a selling price set by a committee led by James A. Patten, to meet tomorrow morning.
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Chicago
Board of Directors
Chicago Board of Trade
James A. Patten
Gore Seeks First Administration Food Bill in Senate
Senator Gore introduced the first administration food measure in the Senate. The bill calls for a nationwide food supply survey, standard grades and classifications by the Agriculture Department, power to regulate pure food laws to allow cereal mixing, penalties for hoarding, and a $1.5 million appropriation. A price fixing measure is expected later, likely to trigger a lengthy floor fight.
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Washington
Gore
Senate
Administration
Department of Agriculture
Department of Agri
Lobbyists Target Food Controls In Wartime Criticism
Assistant Secretary Vrooman denounces food gamblers, cornerers and speculators in Washington as unpatriotic influences aiming to defeat administration food control bills. He cites wealth disparities and promises future legislation to curb such practices. (Continued on Second Page.)
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Washington
Vrooman
Department of Agriculture
America
Heintz Plans Shift to Roosevelt Expedition if Approved
Congressman Victor Heintz of Ohio’s Second District reveals he will resign to serve with American troops in the proposed Rooseve lt France expedition if Congress grants permission. Heintz would join Col Roosevelt as Regimental Adjutant, with option to return to the First Regiment if needed. He urged Galbraith to focus range training on 60 to 200 yard shots. Separate training at Ohio Mechanics Institute saw Captain Mattice and Lieutenants Farson and Wunders drill 200 students. forty chosen as noncommissioned officers for four days of intensive infantry instruction.
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Ohio
Roosevelt
France
Heintz
Washington
F. W. Galbraith
Galbraith
House
Pointblank
Camp Procter
Royal Mattice
Wilbur Farson
George Wunders
Ohio Mechanics Institute
Coal Miners Halt Strike Endeavor Reaches Tentative Pact
A tentative agreement to avert a coal strike in central Pennsylvania was reached in Washington with Secretary Wilson mediating. About 75,000 miners had voted to strike on May 15, amid federal pressure to end the dispute.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Labor Department
America to Aid Russia in Reestablishing Rail System
President Wilson told the American Engineering Commission, led by John F. Stevens, to depart for Russia to help rebuild the railway network. The group will supply rolling stock and materials, with members including George Gibbs Stanley Washburn John E. Greiner Henry Miller and N L Darling.
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American Engineering Commission
Russia
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Commission of Engineers
White House
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George Gibbs
Stanley Washburn
John E. Greiner
The
Baltimore & Co
Henry Miller
Wabash
N. L. Darling
Northern Pacific
War Tax Bill Draws Kicks From Merchants
Washington reports Senate Finance Committee hearing fierce protests from manufacturers, distillers, brewers, soda interests, and tobacco firms over the $1.8 billion war tax plan. Fordney defends the measure as equitable, while critics warn of ruin and calls to spread the tax over decades. House debate centers on income tax boosts and postal rate changes.
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Penate Committee
Neary
Pordney
Michigan
Kitchin
Senate
Fordney
Mann
Senate Committee
Rey
Tax Idea Raises Laugh in Washington Meeting
An unnamed constituent claimed a new tax would bring eight million dollars yearly. House Majority Leader Kitchin responded telling him to tell the janitor, illustrating the unwieldy scale officials consider for taxation.
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House
Kitchin
North
Carolina
Congress
Mr. Kitchin
Cuban plotter plan to kill U S minister exposed
U S officials say Cuban President Menocal planned to assassinate American Minister Gonzales as part of a wider scheme. The plot, known for twenty days, aimed to deliver a device to a conspirator in the palace and trigger it at 9 30 p m when Menocal met with Gonzales.
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Menocal
Gonzales
Serbia seeks $50 million loan for postwar recovery
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune reports on May 11 that Serbia, led by Minister Michaelovitch, opened negotiations with Secretary McAdoo at the Treasury for a $50,000,000 loan to aid in restoring the destroyed nation.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Serbia
United States
Michaelovitch
McAdoo
Treasury Department
International loan control eyed by single man commission
May 11 dispatches describe a proposed international agreement to place the purchasing power of allied loaned funds in a small commission, possibly one man, to maximize efficiency and value. Drafts rest with Secretary McAdoo as Britain France and Italy signal interest.
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Washington
McAdoo
Great Britain
France
Italy
Commission
Christendom
Hungarian Independence Party Calls for Universal Secret Suffrage
The Hungarian Independence party led by Count Michael Karolyi, after a Budapest conference, appeals to suffrage reformers to pursue universal secret voting and peace propaganda. It declares war on the Hungarian government with all available means.
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Amsterdam
Hungarian Independence Party
Michael Karolyi
Budapest
Frankfurter Zeitung
Dependence Party
Peace Conference Appeal From Russian Socialists
Petrograd May 11 The Executive Committee of the Council of Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates adopted a resolution to publish an appeal to world peoples for a peace conference in a neutral country The committee will send a delegation to Stockholm to contact Socialist delegates and to neutral and allied nations to promote the peace movement A conference of the Socialist Internationale will be called and representatives from all parties agreeing with the council's appeal will be invited.
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Petrograd
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Council of Workmen's and
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England
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Council of Soldiers and Workmen
Council
Stockholm
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Socialist Internationale
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