Governor appoints board to examine Arkansas National Guard
Governor Brough appoints a board to test guard members for aviation service training. The panel will meet April 10 at 1 p.m. to select officers and men for six months of government aviation school training. Eligible only from the guard, the effort aims to form an Arkansas aviation corps if enough pilots and support personnel pass the tests. The aviation unit would man four aircraft with a captain, lieutenants, and enlisted staff, requiring pay from rank for training and travel.
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Arkansas National Guard
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Aero Company
Centent
Wells drill roams test near Ozark to 750 feet
Drilling resumed after a one week pause at a test well two miles west of Ozark. The hole reached 750 feet and the crew remains optimistic about prospects. Springdale plans to ship 40 to 80 carloads of peaches this year if no further cold weather hits. A $60,000 federal farm loan association formed at Earle with Ho Crum as president and A Hor j fer secretary.
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Ozark
Springdale
Federal Farm Loan Association
Earle
Ho Crum
A. Hor
French Continue Advance Across Somme Front War Report
British and French forces report strong air and ground actions along the Somme and Oise fronts. German assaults north of the Somme were repulsed. progress claimed near Vireigny and Basee Forest. Lagnicourt village captured with prisoners and machine guns. Georgia legislature opens with immediate committee action on bills.
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Chennai
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Viregny
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la Feuil
Soissons
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Oiee
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Two Kansas Women Apply for Navy Enlistment in Salina
Two vine women in Salina Kansas applied for enlistment in the United States naval forces after Secretary Daniels announced women would be allowed to enlist. Veterans Invite Wilson. President Wilson has been invited to address the Confederate reunion in June, per Col Robert Harper, chairman of the reunion committee.
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Kansas
Salina
Kan
Unite States Naval Forces
Daniels
Navy
Wilson
Washington
Robert Harper
Supreme Court Recess and Colorado Prohibition Bill Halted
Supreme Court recess announced in Washington with decisions next Monday and until April 9. In Denver the Colorado house killed the bone dry prohibition bill pending since early in the session.
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Washington
Antil
White
Denver
Col
Colorado House
Print Paper Price Fix Proposed By Manufacturers
The Federal Trade Commission accepted a proposal by news print paper manufacturers to fix a price for their product and named 2.50 dollars per hundred pounds as a reasonable charge.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
News Print
Wife Divorces M Combs New York
A divorce has been granted to Mrs WF McCombs from her husband, the former chairman of the Democratic national committee, in New York. The action ends their marriage after a period of separation.
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M'Combs
New York
WF McCombs
Democratic National Committee
German cruiser Moewe sails home after Atlantic raid
Berlin reports the auxiliary cruiser Moewe returned to a home navy port from its second Atlantic voyage. It claimed 22 steamships and five sailing ships totaling 125,100 tons. The release clarifies the raider identity linked to recent South Atlantic captures and sinks. Washington calls for mass manpower as Navy seeks 74,500 volunteers. Army awaiting congressional action. Destroyer Mids to be opened Saturday ahead of schedule.
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Germany
Moewe
Yarrowsdale
Via
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C
Navy
Army
Congress
Secretary of Navy
Daniels
Free to depart if war with Germany begins ship status outlined
Washington learns that hundreds of thousands of tons of German merchant shipping in American harbors could sail home under international law if the United States enters a war. Ships must show clean intent, and would have nine months after a war declaration to reequip damaged engines. The navy department notes the government would seize them only if fully paid.
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Washington, DC
United States
Germany
Navy Department
First to Recognize Russia in Petrograd
United States becomes the first nation to recognize the new Russian government. Ambassador Francis called on Foreign Minister Milukov after Washington issued formal instructions. A Sunday monster demonstration in Petrograd urged women suffrage ahead of elections for a constitutional assembly. Dye Stocks Soar Amid War Profits in London. British dye firms report shares leaping from two to forty three thousand dollars since the war began.
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Russia
United
Francis
Milukof
State Department
Washington
London
French Ship Losses Rise in War
The French ship owners association reports about 400000 tons of shipping or roughly 17 percent of merchant marine destroyed by submarines since the war began.
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Berlin
French Ship Owners’ Association
Smallpox Invasion Report Sparks German Turmoil
In Washington the Germany smallpox outbreak is described as widespread with about thirty thousand cases and rapid spread. A Hoffman speech accuses the wealthy of hoarding wealth while the poor suffer, and claims vaccination efforts are failing. The report hints at conditions ripe for revolution amid rising distress. Also noted are a Hunter Bank heist, a “WWF” anti-enlistment group in Galena, and the discovery of a missing Temple girl Emma Staley whose feet were bound.
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Germany
Fie Heing
Hoffman
State Department
Temple
Tex
Misa Emma Staley
Leon River
Prohibition Resolution Urged in Preparedness Plan
Columbus quote signals war timing pushing national prohibition resolutions as part of preparedness program. Aniamee League headquarters issued the statement urging prohibition measures amid conflict context.
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The
Aniwee League
Sinking of Healdton in Dutch waters shocks US
The American steamer Healdton was torpedoed off Ter Scheling Holland with 20 crew drowned and no warning given. The unarmed vessel sailed from Philadelphia to Rotterdam and was struck 21 miles north of Ter Scheling. A US consul reported 20 dead, another injured, and preparations for a formal response ahead of Congress action.
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Amerferti
Mz. Kin
Amsterdam
State Department
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Terseholsing
Holland
Melaage
Mealdton
Philadelphia
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Terscheb Ing
Healdtan
Gertying
Comeres
Wilson
NO SEPARATE PEACE WANTED Pars Brance The Japoneee am to Francs
The text discusses Allied plans and questions the possibility of a separate peace with Japan. It cites 1944 context, London discussions, and mentions Japan's position and assurances of alliance, questioning betraying allies and the future of victory with Japan’s continued cooperation.
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London
Pance
Jhpou
Aredia
Japan
New World
PLOTTERS TO GET TWO YEARS
New York figures Albert Q Sunder and Carl N Wannenberg were sentenced to two years in federal prison and $2500 fines each after pleading guilty to charges of sending spies to England The pleas followed revelations from George Vaux Racgn an American newspaper man brought from England The case described how invisible jam was used to transmit valuable information in seemingly harmless communications before the grand jury.
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New York
Albert Q. Sunder
Carl N. Wannenberg
Federal Penitentiary
England
George Vaux Racgn
Roosevelt Plans Army of 100000 Men for Expedition
New York announces Col Theodore Roosevelt intends to raise an army of 100000 men awaiting War Department commission before action. Transport risks in the U S and England are noted. In Kansas City a loyalty meeting is set for Saturday to discuss readiness to defend the flag.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
War Department
England
France
Kansas City
Pacis Elected in Germany Defies War Stirs London
Sir Frana Mehring, described as a pacifist, is reported to have been elected to the Prussian chamber replacing Dr Karl Liebknecht in Berlin. Dispatches from Amsterdam confirm the seating outcome, signaling a notable pacifist presence in the lower house.
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Germany
London
Frana Mehring
Karl Liebknechat
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