Arkansas Sugar Pledges to Boost Fruit Preserving
Arkansas food administrator Hamp Williams assures ample sugar for fruit canning statewide. Grocery stores will issue pledges to supply sugar for fruit preservation, with surplus sugar to be returned. The program aims to mobilize club members and farm wives for a busy canning season across the state.
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Little Rock
Fap
Arkansas
Hamp Williames
University of Arkansas, Tust
Food Administration
Taxes to Raise 8 Billion as War Costs Grow
Secretary McAdoo urged a revenue bill to raise 8 billion dollars through taxation for the 1919 fiscal year and keep the tax ratio at about one third of expenditures. He proposed a real war profit tax, higher tax on unearned incomes, and substantial levies on luxury spending.
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Washington
McAdoo
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means
Allied Guns Rain Fire at Marne Front Chateau Thierry
French authorities estimate American machine gunners killed at least a thousand Germans in Chateau Thierry during the Marne operations. Dutch streets reportedly filled with German bodies as Franco American forces repel attacks at Jaulgonne and destroy the bridge.
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Marne
Chateau Thierry
Jaulgonne
Taft urges U S to send army to Russia after war
Former President William H Taft told a Cedar Rapids audience under Red Cross auspices that the United States must deploy an army to the western front and also to Russia to hinder Germany from mobilizing Russsian manpower and resources for the war He spoke at Corn College graduation.
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United States
William H. Taft
Russia
Taft
Red Cross
Corn College
Germany
Americans Lose and Win With the American Armies in France
Official reports show the American unit near the Ourcq and the Marne repelled three German assaults before a fourth thrust drove the force from Neuilly. The Americans counter-attacked, forcing the enemy back about 1.5 miles and inflicting heavy losses. In a separate incident a target misfire on the battleship Louisiana killed one sailor.
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Ourcq
Marne
Neuilly
Benjamin Chapin Dead New York Actor Lincoln Lookalike
Benjamin Cheater Chapin, famed moving picture actor and scene writer, known for his Lincoln likeness, died Sunday in a Liberty New York sanatorium.
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Benjamin Chapin
New York
Benjamin Cheater Chapin
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
N.Y
Confidence in Allied Victory Expressed by Supreme War Council
London report cites the Supreme War Council pledging final victory, praising Gen Foch and Wilson, and noting unity of command. It warns Germany will press western offensives while American forces mobilize to prevent defeat of allied nations.
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Supreme War Council
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Wilson
United States
Alliance of Free Peoples
Europe
Ito
Ber- Ain
Two Hour Day Demanded by IWW Leaders in Arizona Mines
Government witnesses testifying at the trial of IWW leaders before Federal Judge Landis say the movement seeks a two hour workday with six dollars per day. Ranger Francis L. Kirby testified that IWW leaders pressed for a six hour day and six dollar pay, with plans to reduce hours further after achieving the wage. Grover H. Perry stated the IWW would continue until a two hour day with six dollars was obtained.
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K. M. Landis
Francis L. Kirby
United States Forestry Service
Miami
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Arizona
TW. W
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IWW
Mooney Pardon Urged by Wilson in California Case
President Wilson sends a second letter to California Governor Stephens urging clemency for Thomas J. Mooney. In Washington Maurice Francis Egan, U.S. minister to Denmark, resigns due to ill health submitted to the State Department.
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Washington
Wilson
Gov. Stephens
California
Thomas J. Mooney
Egan
Maurice Francis Egan
United States
Denmark
State Department
Il Health
Doctor Roberts Arrested in Milwaukee Case
Dr. David Roberts, accused in a murder linked to his wife Grace Lusk, was found guilty on May 29 in Waukesha and arrested in Milwaukee on charges of illicit relations with his wife’s killer. He was brought to Milwaukee for further proceedings.
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Milwaukee
Wise
David Roberts
Miss Grace Lusk
Waukesha
Germans Call End to Velvet Glove in Peace Terms
The Munich Abendzeitung urges Germany to shed tenderness toward foreigners and adopt a tougher approach in diplomacy. It argues true export strength requires a realist stance, warning that leniency would invite contempt and harm in future peace deals.
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Amsterdam
Munich Abendzeitung
Germany
Hoover Opposes Food Ban on Beer and Wine
Washington report notes Hoover and Food Administrator oppose a House amendment to halt beer and wine manufacture while whisky sales continue. It argues liquor production bans offer minimal food savings and could produce greater social harm. Senators plan to overturn the amendment in the emergency agricultural bill. Liberty Motors deliveries to the government set for Sept. 1, 1919. A House subcommittee announces a hearing on Rep. Dyer’s bill to make lynching a federal offense.
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Washington —Administration
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Sheppard
Senate
Dyer
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
St. Louis
Rail line for Sidell Olney denied by Public Service Commission
A petition by Sidell and Olney Railroad to abandon its Sidell Olney line was denied by the Public Service Commission, which said the company was losing money. Chicago meat shipments to allies run at 16,000 pounds per minute, totaling 9,000,000 pounds daily over a 10 hour day.
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Springfeld, DL
Sidell & Olney
Sidell and
Olney
Germans Press In France Yet Allied Line Holds Strong
In the French front between Montdidier and the Oise the German assault faces stiff resistance. Allied troops repulse the enemy with heavy machine gun and artillery fire as German divisions attempt to breach the lines and threaten the Oise banks near Noyon.
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Preparing For Trade War Steps In At Rome Post
Washington reports a shift toward active U S involvement in postwar trade by appointing an economic representative of the State Department to join the American embassy in Rome. The envoy is said to be ready to proceed to his post.
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United States
Germany
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Rome
Submarine Issue Sparks Senate Debate Over Navy Policy
In Washington the Senate clashed over Navy Department policy allowing submarines to sink American ships off the Motatame coast. Senator Lewis of Illinois charged that some lawmakers inflamed the attacks with hostile rhetoric.
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Washington
Navy Department
United States
Semestor Lewis
Illnois
Washington Cadets Taught In Military Training In Washington
Aviation officials who completed courses at Camp Dick were ordered back to duty to instruct new pilots. A separate report notes a naval incident as the battleship Loulalana engaged Washington and a shell explosion caused one casualty amid bad weather. Congress considers government seizure of all wire installations in a bill by Florida's Fisher.
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Camp Dick
United States
Fisteher
Florida
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