Four Die in Explosion at Republic Iron and Steel Plant
An explosion at noon in the power plant of Republic Iron and Steel in Youngstown Ohio killed four men and injured eleven others. Authorities opened an investigation and ruled out war plots despite the plant's large war contracts.
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Youngstown
Republic Iron and Steel Company
David L. Davis
William Bartman
Thomas Kennedy
Louis Bostkrom
John Killian
John J. Thomas
D. J. Dearman
Ennonsburg
George Hughes
Samuel Booth
P. J. Gordon
Altho the
Swedish Steamers Sunk by German Submarines Anger Stockholm
News from Stockholm reports the sinking of the Swedish steamers Vesterland Aspen and Viken by German submarines. Crew losses include several aboard the Viken and two on the Vesterland. Newspapers condemn Germany while noting England’s delayed departures. All vessels were Gothenburg owned.
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Stockholm
Vesterland
Aspen
Viken
England
Bothnian Gulf
Marine Bostroom
Transatlantic
Gothenburg
Tidningen
Sweden
Dagens Nyheter
Germany
Nyheter
Stockholm Dagblad
Svenska Dagbladet
Dagbladet
Savannah
Lerwick
Sunderland
Philadelphia
Kirkwall
Fifty-One Drowned as French Liner Colbert Sunk by U Boat
Paris reports the French steam ship Colbert torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by a Teuton submarine. Fifty-one persons died, including Auxiliary Naval Lieutenant Commelin, who commanded the vessel and had been awarded the Legion of Honor. The 5394 ton Colbert measured 770 feet long with a 47 foot beam.
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Paris
Colbert
Mediterranean
Teuton
Admiralty
Commelin
Legion of Honor
French Torpedo Boats Engage German Destroyers Off France
Paris May 20. Four French torpedo boats met a German destroyer flotilla early this morning. After a brief duel the enemy withdrew toward its base and all French boats returned to port. one French vessel sustained damage.
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Norwegians Lose Four Steamers to Submarine Attacks
Copenhagen cable dispatch quotes the Norwegian Legation in Berlin reporting that four Norwegian steamers Laly Najaden C Sundt and Garant were torpedoed by German submarines. Crew members aboard each ship were killed.
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London
Berlin
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Laly
Najaden
C. Sundt
Garant
Roosevelt absolves adherents from WOW in volunteer army
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that volunteers in France are absolved from further connection with the WOW movement. He says they should join the military or serve civil life, disputes President’s claim of independent command and denies any political motive or personal gratification in the plan.
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Oyster Bay
WW. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
France
Roosevelt
Secretary of War
Wood
Pershing
Barry
Kuhn
Weather Outlook Across States With Showers
Ohio stays cloudy with possible thunderstorms Monday night into Tuesday. Indiana expects showers and thunderstorms Monday and likely Tuesday with cooler Tuesday. Kentucky and Tennessee see showers in the west Monday and east Monday night, then cooler Tuesday. Temperatures and highs listed for multiple stations.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Weizmann Discusses Zionist State in Palestine
At a London Zionist Federation conference Dr. Weizmann called American plans for a Jewish republic premature until a Jewish majority exists. He urged gradual steps and said Britain and its allies would back moves toward a Zionist state in Palestine.
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London
Federation of London Today
Dr. Weizmann
Amer @ ican Zionists
Palestine
Great Britain
Zion
German plan to conquer United States outlined by Gerard
Ambassador James W. Gerard contends Junker leaders in Germany long planned to seize the United States after winning in Europe. He cites naval, Cuba and Canada seizures and a coordinated attack with Mexican forces, with possible installation of a Kaiser aide as ruler, as the war aims if the U.S. joins the conflict.
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Gerard
Berlin
Junker
Germany
France
Italy
Junkers
State Department
Washington
England
Cuba
Canada
Stranc
Kaiser
America
Western Hemisphere
German peace moves hide imperial war aims, historians say
Returning diplomats reveal a Pan German plan to fuse North Sea to Mediterranean under a Prussian world empire. The program targets economic control, Dardanelles, Aegean and Baltic regions, with gashed peace talks used as a cover for expansion.
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Washington
Germany
North Sea
Mediterranean
Europe
Dardanelles
Aegean
Baltic
Bismarck
France
Belgium
Russia
Path to a Greater Germany Drives Early Propaganda and War
The article traces Pan-German League efforts from 1911 to spread a plan for a vast empire from Hamburg to Constantinople. It notes government tacit support, German campaigns within the empire, and Bismarckian strategy of uniting southern German states. It cites Emperor William and the Franco-Prussian war as preludes to aggressive expansion.
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Pan-German League
Germany
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Constantinople
Turkey
Austro-Hungary
Bulgaria
Altho
Bismarck
Baden
Bavaria
Wurtemburg
German Empire
William
War Financing Feasibility by Savings Officials
New York May 20 Significant war finance estimates by Milton W Harrison head of the savings bank division of the American Bankers Association. He argues Americans could raise seventy five billion dollars for war by matching British resolve and urges universal cutbacks to free capital. He outlines the sources and limits of bank credit savings deposits and per capita wealth versus national needs.
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New York
Milton W. Harrison
Savings Bank Section
American Bankers’ Association
United States
Germany
Harrison
Mr. Harrison
New England
Middle Western
Pacific States
Pension case and war front highlights from May
The Board of Pension Appeals weighed Mary Lake of Johnstown Ohio for a possible pension on her first husband a Civil War soldier. Italian forces under General Cadorna extended on Hill 652 near Gorizia repulsing Austro Hungarian attacks and capturing weapons and 254 prisoners.
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Rome
Cadorna
Julian
Gorizia
Government outlines aviation expansion and training plan
Washington May 20 formal announcement from the Council of National Defense details aircraft production aims beyond Zeppelins. Aims include 3 500 training and battle planes first year, 6 000 trained, doubling capacity second year, plus nine aviation fields with two squadrons each at $1 000 000 per field. Yale’s Prof Hiram Bingham will lead cadet instruction for 3 600 aviators by July 1 with early classes started May 10.
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Council of National Defense
Howard E. Coffin
Council
Advisory Commission
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Squier
Army
Taylor
Navy
8S. D. Walden
Packard Motor Car Company
E. A. Deeds
National Cash Register Company
R. L. Montgomery
Philadelphia
Army and Navy Board
Army-Navy
Admiral Taylor
B. D. Foulois
Army Aviation Corps
War Department
American Colleges
Hiram Bingham
Yale University
Rintelin and Pals Convicted in Arms Trade Plot
Captain Franz Rintelin of the German navy David Lamar and Henry B. Martin were found guilty in New York by a Federal Court jury of conspiring in 1915 to disrupt the munitions traffic between the United States and the Entente. Four defendants were acquitted. Sentencing to follow with a possible year jail term and $5,000 fine under the Sherman antitrust law.
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New York
Franz Rintelin
David Lamar
Henry B. Martin
Cushman
Rintelin
Lamar
Martin
Labor
National Peace Council
Russian War Report Details Front Line Repulses and Fatal Aerial Loss
German troops attacked Russian positions on the northern western front near Kalacem and east of Koverka but were repulsed. A Turkish Kurdish assault north of Bitlis was repelled. An Albatross aircraft collided west of Dvinsk, killing pilot Ensign Lintoff and observer Staff Captain Stepanoko.
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Vodice
Trentino
Feltre
Petrograd
Kalacem
Russian War Department
Teuton
Koverka
Mitau
Bystritza
Bitlis
Dvinsk
Lintoff
Stepanoko
Germans Repulse British Attacks on Arras Front
Berlin reports British assaults along the fifteen mile Arras front between Acheville Queant and south of the Scarpe were repulsed after daybreak artillery and heavy fighting. Monchy actions and increased firing near Arras are noted with eight enemy aircraft downed and repulsed hill assaults near Kravica on the Macedonian front.
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Arras
Acheville
Queant
Scarpe
German War Office
Monchy
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Crown ‘Prince
Aisne
Champagne
Braye
Kravica
Cerna
Germans puzzled by Haig's moves in France
A May 20 AP report from British HQ in France notes the fall of Bullecourt the capture of the chemical works and Roeux as the first phase of the British offensive winds down. Infantry activity has paused for four days and artillery is reduced across sectors.
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Associated Press
France
London
Bullecourt
Roeux
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