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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
2
Aboard a torpedoed vessel in a large convoy, 250 aboard were saved except three crew members. An officer praised the Americans for exemplary discipline and conduct while lifeboats were launched and rescuers moved in quickly.
The British 5436 ton steamship Orissa was torpedoed in English waters carrying 57 YMCA workers. It sailed from an Atlantic port April 12 and arrived in New York today. Among those aboard were J Edward Mathes of Bellingham Washington and Donald J Wright of St Helens Oregon.
The Senate approved the Overman bill granting the president broad power to coordinate and reorganize government departments and agencies during the war. Administration leaders supported the measure, refusing amendments that would limit presidential authority.
Washington April 30 with the approval and cooperation of the American government the legations of Switzerland and Sweden representing German and Austro Hungarian interests have undertaken to direct relief work among indigent enemy aliens throughout the United States. Relief will be extended to needy families of interned aliens direct from the legation funds while to aid law abiding enemy aliens who have suffered on account of their status a national committee of Americans to be organized to cooperate with the legations and their consular offices.
Washington May 1 The post office authorities require that mail addressed to members of the expeditionary force in France bear the word American written in full so the address reads American E F The order aims to distinguish American mail from that addressed to expeditionary forces of other nations
Contracts in Washington authorize 3.5 million pairs of metallic field shoes at about 7.75 dollars each and 2 million pairs of field welt shoes at 6.50 dollars. Bulgaria agrees to cede Adrianople station and riverbank lands to Turkey, per a French dispatch. Serious food riots erupt in Cracow. A port, terminal and harbor improvement commission is created to speed overseas shipments and reduce port delays.
American forces under French command occupy frontline positions near Paris and Amiens. Artillery and infantry dig in amid heavy but intermittent fire as patrols operate at night. Refugees stream by as U S troops share rations with nearby French families.
The War Department report says American units fought east of Amiens and acquitted themselves well. It stresses the urgent need for fresh replacement troops to sustain the French front amid the German onslaught and notes the Leicheprey attack near Toul on April 20.
The federal trade commission filed formal complaints accusing twenty three tea and coffee firms of using coupons or certificates to win patronage. Among named firms are Sioux Falls Coffee and Spice Company of Sioux Falls South Dakota and J Allen and Company.
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