Aviation inquiry tensions ease as Hughes sets scope
Senate agrees to limit wartime aviation probes while Justice investigates aircraft production. Hughes urges a full history of production since the war began with public results, leaving past matters to the Department of Justice. Subcommittee to visit plants and assess current conditions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Military Committee
Wilson
Department of Justice
Charles E. Hughes
Congress
Chamberlain
Gregory
Mr. Hughes
Wilson’s Request Would Be Embarrassed By A Parallel Inquiry. Mr. Hughes
Department
Senate ‘Military Committee
Serf&ce
Hughes
Thomas
Colorado
Reed
Missouri
Smith
Georgia
New
Indiana
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Weather forecast and May 22 1918 climate report
Ohio and Indiana show cooler Thursday with Friday turning fair and warmer Kentucky expects thundershowers Thursday, clearing to fair Friday West Virginia: thundershowers, cooler Thursday then fair Friday Jacksonville and Cincinnati record May 22 1918 data show highs around 85 and 83 with lows near 54 to 57 and mixed precipitation readings Wind speeds vary from light to 20 mph No notable storms but a mix of cloudy and fair conditions across stations
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Red Cross War Fund Near Half Subscribed
Washington May 22 Nearly half of the 100 million dollar war relief fund for the American Red Cross had been subscribed by the end of the third campaign day. Subscriptions from twelve districts totaled 44 070 555 dollars though figures were incomplete. Henry P Davison urged continued efforts as campaigns pause only at close of next Monday night.
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Washington
American Red Cross
War Fund
Henry P. Davison
Red Cross War Council
Davison
Picardy
Flanders
Red Cross
Railroads Seek Federal Directors to Lead 200 Lines
Washington May 22. The Railroad Administration began selecting operating officers from 200 government controlled roads to become Federal Directors and replace Presidents as chief executives for operations. Salaries expected to be lower than current heads, with adequacy and variation by ability and duties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Altho
Boy Drowns While Fishing at Canton Lake
Three year old Richard Skotnicky son of Mr and Mrs Anton Skotnicky fell into an artificial lake at Canton Ohio May 22 and drowned before aid could reach him.
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Associated Press
Canton
Richard
Anton Skotnicky
Troops Sent Abroad At 9000 A Day Reported
Washington May 22 An official statement in the House Record quotes Representative Caldwell stating that in the first ten days of May 90 000 American soldiers were sent abroad and that within a year after the first shipment U S forces in France would total about 1 000 000 with arms and supplies. He adds that critics argued a small expeditionary force could not ship 50 000 to 100 000 men in the first year of the war.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Record
Caldwell
New York
Military Committee
United States
France
President to Decide on Tax Legislation Though Congress Deadlocked
President Wilson faces a conference with congressional leaders over a possible revenue law this session. McAdoo urged enactment by fall, warning that by December or January the government needs more revenue. If agreed, hearings would begin and the House could take about two months to pass a bill with about 75 percent of the new taxes from incomes and excess profits.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Wilson
McAdoo
Senate
House
Martin
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Kitchin
Ways and Means Committee
Sherley
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Garner
House and Means Committee
Wave of Camp Marriages Clears Path for Quick Licenses
At Camp Sherman in Chillicothe Ohio May 22 a flood of marriages by soldiers of the Eighty third Division and their fiances moved ahead after division leaders issued licenses to the first four couples. Dozens more couples wed amid chaplains busy with ceremonies as fear of impending overseas orders spurred rapid unions.
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Associated Press
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Eighty-third Division
E. F. Glenn
Ross County
Charles E. Capple
Alleyne C. Howell
J. H. Steinbrunner
Knights of Columbus
Food relief for Belgium and France approved by Wilson
President Wilson approved arrangements to restore the fleet of relief ships to full strength and dispatch 90 000 tons of foodstuffs in ninety days. Hoover said Britain, France and the United States will share shipping to feed ten million people in German occupied Belgium and western France. Ships from allied food trade lanes will be reassigned and the Cuban sugar trade cut by fifty tons to aid the effort.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Belgium
France
Herbert C. Hoover
Commission For Relief
Hoover
Bohemia under martial law amid popular excesses
May 22 report from The Slovenski Parod notes martial law in Bohemia with imprisonment of many. Outbreaks at Pilsen Nachod and other towns. Prince Furstenburg estates looted and burned. Dr von Seydler summons Czech Deputy Stanek who declines and warns against violence. Premier extends food distribution control to workers.
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Associated Press
London
Bohemia
Slovenski
Pilsen
Nachod
Prince Furstenburg
von Seydler
Stanek
Galicia
Breslau
Volkswacht
Copenhagen
Daily Mail
Prague
Charles
Electric Railways files notice of higher tariff
The Dayton and Troy Electric Company filed with the State Utilities Commission a tariff to raise passenger rates from 2 to 2.5 cents per mile, effective June 15. A hearing is scheduled for June 7. Northwestern Ohio Railway and Power Company also filed a tariff increase for short haul trips out of Toledo, seeking 10 cents from 5 cents, with a hearing set for June 7.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Dayton and Troy Electric Company
State Utilities Commission
Northwestern Ohio Railway and Power Company
Toledo
State Guard Deployed After Valdosta Shooting
Governor Dorsey ordered 120 State Guard to Valdosta to preserve order if Sidney Johnson the suspect in farmer Hampton Smiths murder and wife Mrs Smith is captured. Four lynchings had occurred nearby and Johnson was later shot dead in a police clash near Valdosta wounding three whites including Police Chief Dampier.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Dorsey
State Guard
Valdosta
Sidney Johnson
Hampton Smith
Brooks County
Dampier
Irish factions divided after Sinn Fein arrests in Dublin
Dublin dispatch outlines sharp splits among Irish factions after Sinn Fein leaders were arrested. Nationalists press constitutional methods while Sinn Fein pushes revolutionary aims. John Dillon condemns Sinn Fein hostility, and The Evening Telegraph signals possible repudiation if leaders ally with Prussian powers.
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Dublin
Sinn
Sinn Fein
John Dillon
Associated Press
Telegraph
Army Bill Passes House Unanimously for Eleven Billion Dollar Budget
The House Military Committee unanimously approved an $11,000,000,000 army appropriation for the next fiscal year and will report it to the House. A fortifications bill requesting $3.3 billion is under consideration, while Secretary Baker seeks $1.5 billion more for ordnance with up to $7.12 billion for related spending. The package includes armored cars, automatic rifles, arms manufacture, and ammunition programs totaling several billions.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Military Committee
House
Dent
House Appropriations Committee
Baker
War Department
Department
Millions for Housing and War Needs Proposed
Washington on May 22 60 million dollars for housing transportation and other war needs was requested by the Department of Labor to Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Department ,of Labor
Count Minotto Files 51 Page Defense Against Internment
In Chicago May 22 the defense for Count James Minotto son in law of Louis F Swift presented 51 typewritten pages detailing reasons he should not be interned as an alien enemy. Federal Judge Carpenter postponed argument to a later time.
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Associated Press
Chicago
James Minotto
Louis F. Swift
Packer
Carpenter
Tornado Toll Rising Across Central Iowa
Nearly two score people are dead and about 150 injured after a series of tornadoes swept Central Iowa. Dispatches list deaths in Boone six and Newton one with additional fatalities near Denison Eldora Chelsea Harcourt Walker Jefferson Carroll and Dubuque. Property damage is estimated above $1.5 million, Boone suffering the heftiest loss around $500,000.
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Iowa
Boone
Newton
Denison
Eldora
Chelsea
Harcourt
Walker
Jefferson
Carroll
Dubuque
Cox Asks Ohio Men to Camp Sherman for Training
Governor Cox urged War Department head Baker to send Ohio drafted soldiers to Camp Sherman during training. He noted 20 000 men would be allocated to three camps Gordon Zachary Taylor and Sherman and argued savings and morale would improve if all Ohio troops were stationed at the local camp. Counties listed for the next call include Ashtabula Lake Cuyahoga Trumbull Portage Jefferson Harrison Tuscarawas Summit Stark Mahoning Columbiana Geauga.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Camp Gordon
Zachary Taylor
Camp
Sherman
Ohio
Ashtabula
Lake
Cuyahoga
Trumbull
Portage
Jefferson
Harrison
Tuscarawas
Summit
Stark
Mahoning
Columbiana
Geauga
Allies' Sudden Blows Hamper Hun Plans In France
London dispatch notes extraordinary air activity by Allied squadrons in France and beyond. American aviators in Luneville Toul and defense of London praised for fighting capacity. Germans hampered as Allied raids and night gas attack near Toul disrupt German lines. French gains in Somme and redistributions along the front cited, with British raiding He Buterne and Mesnil.
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London
France
Rhine
Paris
Luneville
Toul
Pershing
Somme
Mesnil
Britain
Royal Flying Corps
Flanders
Villers-Bretonneux
Grivesnes
Mailly
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St. Louis
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Cincinnati
Peage
Ermans
America
Freeman’s Journal
Ireland
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Des Moines, In
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Hun
Albert
Avre
French War Office
Plemont
Noyon
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