McAdoo Rates Raise Freight and Passenger Fares
Washington reports Director General McAdoo issued a rate order lifting passenger fares to three cents a mile and increasing freight rates by about 25 percent with no intrastate exceptions. The Interstate Commerce Commission endorsed the move, though state boards cannot alter rates, while readjustments and protests from shippers are expected.
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Associated Press
Washington
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce. Commission
General Leonard Wood to command Western Department in San Francisco
Major General Leonard Wood is detached from the Eighty ninth National Army Division and will not lead it to France. He is slated to command the Western Department headquarters at San Francisco after a day of consultations at the War Department. The change drew no official statement from Secretary Baker, who noted it is not the department’s practice to explain orders to officers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Leonard Wood
Regular Army
Eighty Ninth National Army Division
France
Western Department
San Francisco
War Department
Baker
West
Wood
Roosevelt
Pershing
Germany
Edwards
Joseph Burdall
Milwaukee
I. W. Ws
Red Cross War Fund Surpasses Goals Across Nation
The Salvation Army reports a war fund of 2.26 million dollars raised in New York and nationwide shows a total near 135 million for the Red Cross drive. Greater New York alone contributed about 27 million, while Illinois and other states fell short of several quotas. Final tallies were expected to rise as districts filed late results.
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Associated Press
New York
Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
Washington
Germany
American Red Cross
Red Cross
France
Central
Union
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Michigan
Greater
Revenue drive urged as Congress urged to vote tax plan
President Wilson addressed a joint session urging Congress to pass new revenue legislation to fund war costs. He pressed for bipartisan action and hinted most new taxes would fall on incomes, excess profits, and luxuries. House leaders plan early June hearings with a July bill presentation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Senate
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Kitchin
Ways and Means
Treasury
Clark
Gillett
Military Authorities See Attempt to Weaken Western Front
German forces reportedly renewed a desperate offensive to break through Allied lines before American troops arrive in France. President Wilson sought Congress funds for the war as he attended briefings with Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Daniels after a morning at the Capitol. Pershing’s communique noted infantry thrusts penetrating American lines in Picardy were repelled and a Weevre raid was checked.
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White House
Capitol
West Front
Western Front
Pershing
First Day Drive Fails at American Front in Picardy
May 27 report describes three German raids on American lines at Picardy repulsed with heavy enemy losses and prisoners taken. Separate dispatch from Locre Voormezeelen front notes German dawn offensive failing to achieve objectives with French forces restoring most of the line and capturing prisoners. The piece hints larger operations and notes German setbacks on Lys front and staff failures.
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Picardy
Associated Press
France
Locre-Voormezeelen
Dickebusch Lake
Bruloose
Flanders
Lys
Weather summary for Ohio Indiana Kentucky and surrounding regions
The bulletin notes showers and cooler air across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky with Tuesday precipitation and Wednesday improving to partly cloudy conditions. West Virginia shows partial cloud cover and evening showers with cooler temperatures. Temperatures and precipitation readings are listed for multiple cities including Philadelphia Denver Jacksonville Spokane Chicago Seattle Portland Cincinnati and Omaha along with historical May 27 1918 data and wind and humidity details.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Philadelphia
Denver
Jacksonville
Spokane
Pittsburg
Gaeta
Chattanooga
Portland
Chicago
Francisco
Omaha
Cincinnati
Governor Burnquist Protested War Dept Order
Governor Burnquist prepared to travel to Washington to protest a War Department order placing Northwestern State National Guard units on replacement in Federal service. He sent messages to Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota governors asking for their support.
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ST. Paul
Minn
War Department
Burnquist
Washington
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Mexico Cuba break no rupture says Cuban official
Havana reports a Cuban State Department cablegram clarifies that Cuba and Mexico have not broken diplomatic ties. The Mexican government asked that Cuban Charge dAffaires Senor Santa Maria remain in Mexico City to participate in talks on unsettled questions between the two nations.
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Associated Press
Havana
Cuban State Department
Cuba
Mexico
Guillermo Patterson
Mexico City
Senor Santamaria
Move Camp Taylor Boys To Chillicothe
Announcement by Major General Harry C. Hale says the eighty fourth Division will move from Camp Zachary Taylor to Camp Sherman in Chillicothe Ohio except artillery regiments which stay at West Point Kentucky. About 25 000 men are affected with no set move date and 20 000 Ohio and Pennsylvania selects expected to reach Camp Sherman late June or early July.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Harry C. Hale
Eighty-Fourth Division
National Army
Camp Zachary Taylor
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
West Point
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Camp
Sherman
Ohio draftees in transit to camps after May 25 call
Camp Sherman Ohio reports 1357 draft registrants on May 25 during the first day of the call. Recruits were placed in detention for ten days before transfer to various units, most from Ohio and a few from other states.
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Camp Sherman
Chilicothe
Army
Ohio
Army division transfer rumor from Taylor to Sherman
Private advices from Louisville say the Eighty-fourth National Army Division may move from Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville to Camp Sherman Ohio. Adjutant General McCann denied knowledge of any such movement.
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the Commercial Tribune
Washington
Louisville
Eighty-fourth National Army
Camp Zachary Taylor
Camp Sherman
Ohio
McCann
James Joseph Jennie Receives Medical Reserve Corps Commission
James Joseph Jennie of 853 Windham Avenue Cincinnati is named First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. The award marks a steppingstone in his military medical career.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
James
Joseph Jennie
Windham Avenue
Cincinnati
Medical Reserve Corps
U-Boat Near America Reported By British Captain
The master of a British steamer, which docked last Wednesday in Newport News, reported firing five shots at a submarine about 150 miles off the Virginia Capes, according to Associated Press dispatches on May 27.
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Associated Press
Newport News
No Kid Glove Justice for German Mutineers
Two divisions of German troops in the Dvinsk region refused orders to move to the French front. Prince Leopold of Bavaria arrived to investigate and many mutineers were hanged while dozens condemned to life hard labor.
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Dvyinsk
Leopold of
Bavaria
Nonpartisan League Hinted as IWW Gain Planned in North Dakota
Government evidence in the 112 in Omaha IWW trial shows IWW officers proposed amalgamation with the Nonpartisan League to give IWW control over North Dakota harvests. Letters from Minneapolis officials indicate late April 1917 notices of possible joint action, later withdrawn.
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Olis, Minn
The
North
League
North Dakota
Narcotic problem in army camps calls for action
Dr Charles A Rosewater urged federal control of narcotics after surveying Southern States for health boards. He cited a 200 ounce cocaine export and widespread use of caffeine drinks with cocaine-like substances, plus reckless prescription practices and extensive alcohol based remedies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Baker
Charles A. Rosewater
Newark
N. J
Alabama
Georgia Boards of Health
Rosewater
Kola
Jury chosen to try eleven for Prager murder
Edwardsville Illinois May 27 The jury to try eleven defendants for the murder of Robert H Prager enemy alien was selected late today.
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Edwardsville, Ill
Robert H. Prager
Flanders Drive Seeks Hilltop Positions In Front Lines
London May 27 Germany opens a long awaited offensive in France at Rheims Soissons and in Flanders aiming for hill positions west of Kemmel to trap the British in the Ypres salient. The Rheims sector offensive seeks to break the French and threaten British forces as General Foch coordinates Allied response.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
France
Rheims
Soissons
Flanders
Kemmel
Ypres
Rheims-Soissons
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