Government takes aim at war contract bribe schemes
DoJ pursues contingent fee agents over war contracts with arrests in New York. Lieut. Jas C G Staley, a reserve officer, charged with accepting payment from Traefit Raincoat firm for contracts. Investigation broadens to contractors and officials in Washington and New York as more arrests may follow. Staley faces court martial after confession.
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New York
Jas. CG. Staley
Traefit Raincoat Company of
Department of Justice
Raincoat Company
Joshua Rosenthal
Louis Wenner
Staley
Fort Snelling
St. Paul
Quartermaster’s School
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Quartermaster’s Department
Stafey
Boston
Congress
Army
Warfare and political notes from the era of Wilson and war
A House military committee approves a resolution urging President Wilson to report the number of draft-eligible men employed by agencies created by executive order and exempt from service. Grace Lusk is found sane after a second-degree murder conviction, while a separate case reports 81 Americans held in German camps. The War Department notes new prisoner parades in Rhine towns. Pacific coast set to receive vocational rehab funds in Congress.
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Madder
Illinois
Wilson
Grace Lusk
Waukesha
Wis
Mary Newman Roberts
Des Diavie Roberts
Alartin Lueck
Red Cross
War’ Department
Uershing
United States Employment Service
Department of Inbornt
Congress
Weeks Claims US Navy Sunk 28 Submarines This Year
Senator John W. Weeks told a Pemberton laundry owners association that since January 1 the US Navy has sunk 28 submarines and that sailors deserve the credit for the tally.
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Pemberton
Mass
United States
John W. Weeks
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Laundry Owners Association
Hearings Set on War Prohibition Proposal in Senate
Washington June 15 The senate agricultural committee will hold hearings on Senator Jones Washington proposal for national prohibition during the war. The committee kept its earlier action removing the Randall prohibition amendment from the emergency agricultural bill.
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Senate Agricultural Committee
Jones
U S Troop Surge Into France Boosts Allied War Efforts
Washington reports American forces rushing to France as transport limits allow. More than 800000 troops overseas, nearing 1 million by July, with General March outlining a campaign from Rheims to the sea and a wedge expanding allied lines 66 miles from Rheims to Ypres.
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Washington
France
Peyton C. March
March
Rheims
Ypres
Theaise
Baker
Three Million Americans Under Arms by August 1
Washington reports Provost Marshal General Crowder told the senate military committee that about 3,000,000 Americans will be under arms by August 1. He cited 1,847,000 of 2,428,000 Class 1 men already called and projected 600,000 more from late registrants and reclassifications.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
General Crowder
Crowder
France
Maryland
United Mine Workers Warn of Fuel Famine
In St Paul on June 15 representatives of the United Mine Workers of America warn the coal shortage could hit hardest this coming winter. The claim follows a resolution urging the federation to help secure coal for the New England district at the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor.
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United Mine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
New England
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