Ravalli Burned En Route to Alaska After Inlet Fire
The Pacific Steamship Company's Ravalli caught fire in Greenville channel and was beached then burned to the water’s edge. Forty-nine passengers and forty crew survived. cargo and baggage partly saved. The Venture arrived with Ravalli’s passengers and crew. cause of the blaze unknown. Captain Nystrom nearly suffocated while fighting the flames.
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Pacific
Pacific Steamship Company
Ravalli
Greenville Channel
Alaska
Thomas Nystrom
Y. M
Seattle
Port Althorp
Marriage Not A Ground For Draft Exemption Warned
Provost Marshal General Crowder rules that marriage since the draft act is not an exemption reason, except for men who reached majority after June 5 last year and married before January 15 last. Local exemption boards must reclassify all such marriage cases under the new regulation.
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Washington
General Crowder
Submarines Active Again Off Virginia Cape
Ships held in port after reports of a German submarine operating eighteen miles off the Virginia capes. A British steamship reported her sinking after a submarine attack, while another Keemun passed through the capes apparently undamaged. A British captain described an all day fight with a raider off the coast and camouflaged subs observed near the American coast. A Swedish vessel Dora was sunk with nine missing, and a British vessel was sunk with seven missing in June.
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Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Keemun
Manila
Keemum
Virginia
Bratland
Vinland
George Aitkin
London
Dora
U-151 Captain Once Gunner in U S Navy
The commander of the German submarine U-151 has been identified as C Neustid. He formerly served five years as a gunner's mate in the United States Navy, according to affidavits from American ship survivors held aboard the submarine for eight days off the U S coast.
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New York
United States
C. Neustid
Taft Predicts War Last Three Years
Former President Taft spoke in Rock Island predicting the war would be won within three years of U S entry. He said the U S might need two or three years to mobilize before victory, with a final year to seal the outcome, barring interference from other nations.
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Rock Island
Taft
United States
Allied forces stall German drive on Aisne and await next strike
AP war summary notes Allied tenacity checkmating Germany on the Aisne front as the German drive shifts toward Picardy and channels ports. It cites heavy German losses, limited gains, and expected operations near Arras and Paris with Allied counterattacks and American and French actions across the western front.
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Associated Press
Picardy
Western Front
Association Press
Paris
Noyon
Soissons
Aisne
Channel
Haig
Arras
Eight Hundred Thousand American Troops Abroad
Washington June 16 Chief of the General Staff March announced more than eight hundred thousand American troops have been sent to France. He said shipments continue and are limited only by ships capacity. March flagged Paris and channel ports as German objectives. Marek predicted about a million Americans in France by July 1. He described the allies’ situation as more favorable than for months.
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Washington
March
France
Paris
Channel
Great Britain
Marek
Flag Day Observed Across United States Amid War Effort
Washington June 15. With seven hundred thousand men in France Flag day was observed yesterday throughout the nation with a greater display of patriotism than ever before. General C G Williams acting chief of the ordnance bureau called ordnance plant workers the soldiers resource and reliance.
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Washington
France
C. G. Williams
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Ordnance Plant Workers
Work or Fight Statutes Urged by President
President Wilson endorses nationwide compulsory work movement and supports Maryland's 'work or fight' law. He urges other states to adopt similar measures applying the rule to men aged 18 to 50 and cites Provost Crowder's regulations.
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Washington
Wilson
Crowder
Harrington
Maryland
Presidents Exchange Felicitations mark Allied Anniversary
President Wilson told France that America will keep sending men and material until force inequality ends. Poincare Clemenceau and Generals Foch and Petain sent Pershing congratulatory messages on the U S troops arrival anniversary. American air actions report Allied exchanges and bombing runs over German lines with several losses and a missing pilot. De Blythe arrived from China to spend Pine Day in town.
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Washington
Wilson
Poincare
France
America
Clemenceau
Foch
Petain
General Pershing
United States
Henry Ford Accepts Democratic Senate Nomination
Washington June 15 Henry Ford prominent industrialist will accept the Democratic nomination for senator from Michigan after urging from President Wilson. Davis and wife arrived from Port Wells in a launch to visit Cordova friends for a couple of days.
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Hery Ford
Washington
Henry Ford
Michigan
Wilson
Davis
Wife
Port Wells
Cordova
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