Wilson orders justice probe of aircraft graft charges
President Wilson orders a Department of Justice investigation into graft allegations in aircraft production. Howard Coffin urged the probe to protect innocent officials while Borglum’s inquiry is reviewed and Snowden Marshall to head a new commission.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Gutzon Borglum
Wilson
Senate
Howard Coffin
Aircraft Board
Snowden Marshall
Borglum
White House
Borgham
Thomas
Colorado
Extra Shift Printers Working On Liberty Bonds
Washington reports extra shifts of printers are at work by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to supply Liberty bonds promptly. About eighteen million bonds have been printed and over ten million distributed nationwide. Secretary McAdoo to allot all subscriptions in full as the Treasury tabulates nearly 8.5 billion dollars and anticipates reporting almost a half billion more after next Monday.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury
McAdoo
Treasury Department
Launch 16 ships and finish 12 in week ending May 4
Washington reports ten steel ships totaling 57 695 tons and six wooden ships of 21 500 tons were launched by American builders in the week ending May 4. Twelve steel ships totaling 96 100 tons were delivered complete in the same period.
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Washington
Army Budget Estimates Submitted to House Military Committee
Secretary Baker and aides presented detailed army budget needs to the house military committee in an executive session. Immediate war program estimates total about 15 million dollars, with main increases in the ordnance bureau and the quartermaster general's department.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Baker
Military Committee
Ordnance Bureau
Quartermaster General’s Department
Five Million Men Sent Across This Year
Washington May 4 Five million men must be sent on the battle front by the United States within a year. Senator McCumber of North Dakota declares in the senate that Americas first war year produced little results. He criticizes the shiping board and 640 million for aircraft as wasted and urges enabling 5 million troops on the line or face colossal blunders. He contrasts Emergency Fleet plans with boat losses and stresses sustaining allies by feeding and sending munitions if armies cannot be on the front.
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Washington
United States
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate
America
Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Billion Dollar Airship Production Request Seen
The War Department asked Congress for a one billion dollar appropriation to boost aircraft production, supplementing the existing 640 million spent. Major General March presented the estimate to the House Military Committee along with other needs in the 15 billion dollar army budget, including 5.78 billion for the quartermaster and 3.38 billion for ordnance for heavy guns and fortifications.
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Washington
Congress
War Department
House Military Committee
March
Quartermaster's Department
Ordnance Department
Canadian steamer sinks U boat first shot
An Atlantic port report says the first Canadian merchant ship to sink a submarine arrived after engaging a 300 foot U boat about 700 miles from the British Isles. The vessel fired a single shot amidships as the U boat surfaced and disappeared after an explosion.
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Atlantic
British Isles
Sea Shipping Curtailment Claims Stir Conference
Washington May 4. Charges against Lake Carriers' association members allege steamship lines are hindering war efforts by reducing Atlantic coal shipping as mariners quit the ocean. The shipping labor conference heard these claims from Vie.
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Lake Companies
Washington
Lake Carriers’ Association
Shipping Labor Conference
Vie
Rankin Addresses Federated Women's Clubs
Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana spoke at Hot Springs on the fourteenth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She urged support for women workers, fair pay, and fair treatment as their national responsibility grows.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
General Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Women Workers of America
World War I Notes and Birth of Draft Deadline Extension
A condensed World War I update notes Miss Anna Held’s blood transfusion aid and Ernest Lane’s voluntary donation. It reports a Senate-House agreement to extend the selective draft to youths 21, with Hall of Iowa amendment retained. Also cites air aces Baylies and a French press summary, a Moscow consul general death, Joan of Arc’s anniversary observances, and related military and diplomatic items. It includes Great Lakes ship movements, New York training law tightening for 16 to 18 year olds, and Col Edward Henry Young’s death.
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Anna Held
New York
Ernest Lane
Senate
House
Representative Hall
Iowa
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France
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Cal
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New Bedford
Mass
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Paris Matin
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Moscow
State Department
Summers
Joan of Arc
Orleans
Germany
Great Lakes
Atlantic Seaboard
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Edward Henry Young
Charleston
Robt. E. Lee
Smoot
Tribune Classified
Beaverhead County
Tribune
W. J. Howell
Montana Mercantile Company
John Deere
J. H. . Brundage
Monida
Dillon
E. V. Bennett
Miles City
Buick
T. D. Moran
Western Auto Supply Company
Klein’s
Beaverhead
J. H. Selway
Long Beach
California
Frank Hazelbaker
Hub Clothing Company
Butte
Osteopath
George Brownback
South Washington Street
Holcomb
D. T. Rettig
Keysville
Hazelbaker
Royal Cafe
H. F. Best
Johnson & Boone’s
R. R. Rathbone
Hughes and McCaleb
J. E. Morse
Aken
Tribune‘ Book Store
Alva, Garr
Dell
Mont
Clarence Waugh
Argenta
the Tribune
Sheep Creek Basin
Ummed Danisonsabels
Tribune Book Store
Dillon, Montana
Harold Baldwin
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