Draft rule: all registrants must work or fight after July 1
General Crowder announced amending selective service regula tions to compel men not in useful occupations to seek work or face induction. The policy targets idlers and includes service, labor, and various occupations in public settings, with boards empowered to assign new employment or draft the individual.
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Selective Service
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Army
War Department
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Department of Labor
Provost Marshal Generals Office
United States
Chicago
New York
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YANKS HURL GAS AT ENEMY IN FRANCE
American artillery northwest of Toul launched a sudden local gas attack on German positions in the Gerechamp wood early in the morning. The woods were drenched with a large quantity of polygen, inflicting severe punishment on the enemy. Early patrol actions east of Luneville saw German parties twice defeated by the Americans, with prisoners captured.
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France
Toul
Gerechamp Wood
Luneville
Woman Flies 783 Miles
Miss Katherine Stinson began a Chicago to New York trial flight and covered 783 miles before a landing mishap near Binghamton. Her plane overturned on approach, damaging a wing and propeller but she was uninjured. The attempt aimed for a nonstop record of 678 miles to Garden City New York.
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Katherine Stinson
Binghamton
Chicago
New York
U S Men to Fight in Italy with Italian Forces
Secretary of War Baker announced in New York on May 25 that American infantry machine gun units and artillery will fight shoulder to shoulder with Italian troops on the front in Italy, signaling coordinated Allied actions.
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Baker
New York
Italy
Aveluy Wood
Hebuterne
Haig
Basilent
Locre
Ayre
Amiens
Kemmel
Berlin
Shipyards Break Record in May With New Output High
Washington reports steel ship output for May surpassing all prior months in Shipping Board history. Through May 24, total output reached 20 vessels totaling 174,001 tons. Four steamships, about 28,200 tons, were delivered Thursday.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Battles in the Great War Reach Frenzied Fronts
London report details hospital casualties as British, French, Italian and American air units bombard Mannheim Metz and Ghent while German forces strike Paris suburbs. British claims 37 enemy planes destroyed, 16 by air battles. Paris reports heavy raids with civilian casualties and hospital losses.
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London
Fleeta
Paris
Mannheim
Rhine
Metz
Thionville
Lorraine
Ghent
Tournai
Artmentieres
Bapaume
Bray
Liege
Mnea
Mde
May Raise Enlistment Age in Army
Washington reports Secretary Baker sent Congress a bill draft to raise voluntary enlistment age from forty to fifty five. All men over forty would be assigned to noncombatant service. The government estimates 7,600,000 men aged forty to forty five potential volunteers have already signaled willingness to serve.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
Department
All Rail Presidents Ousted by McAdoo
Washington May 22 All railroad presidents in the United States were relieved from active duty as executive managers by Director General McAdoo He will appoint a federal director for each road responsible only to the railroad administration The move aims to preserve railroad identity while centralizing control under federal managers reporting to regional directors
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Washington
Evary _ tailroad
United States
McAdoo
Railroad
Congress
Ita
Wilson delays tax bill decision amid data review
Washington May 25. After leaving the White House Seng tot Shamons said the president had not yet decided to ask immediate tax legislation. He asked a senator to submit data on legislation status revenue appropriations and congressional attitude while awaiting information before final decision. Congressional leaders say they would pass a bill if necessary despite opposing legislation now.
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Washington
Sengtot’ Shamons
White House
Congress
Congressional
Jenilors
McAdoo
U S Flyer Dies Fighting Seven Enemy Planes
Ensign Stephen Potter of the United States Naval Reserve died in action over the North Sea on April 25 while engaging seven enemy single seat planes. He had previously shot down a German seaplane in Helgoland Bight, as reported by the London representative of the Committee on Public Information.
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Washington
Stephen Potter
United States Naval Reserves
North Sea
London
Committee On Public Information
Ensign Potter
Helgoland Bight
Coal price cut by ten cents a ton announced
May 25 Washington announces a ten cent per ton reduction in the government fixed price for bituminous coal. The cut follows an agreement requiring railroads to pay the fixed price and to drop the practice of giving preferential railroad fuel mines faster service.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Railronda
War era notices and incidents from 1917 1919 era mix
Fragmentary notes recount various war related items including police and jail yard arrests in Dallas, a 1917 assault case, a hangman protest with a suicide, aviation fatalities at Gerstner field, a German prisoner of war in France, and war risk insurance and fisheries commission updates. Names and places include Culver Indiana Dallas Texas Lake Charles Louisiana Cabool Missouri Buffalo New York City Philadelphia Atlantic City and Washington.
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War Department
Leonard Dood
Walter. Stevenson
Dallas
Tex
Dodd
Lathan Polk
New York City
Spencer Charles Williams
Buffalo
Gerstner Field
Lake Challes
Louis “M. Hdens
Medical Corps
France
Cabool
Done
Red Cross
Burest
Washington
Flaheries Commission
Record Troop Movement Reveals U.S. Strength in War
Washington reports in the house record that during the first ten days of May 90,000 American soldiers were sent abroad. Rep Caldwell notes one year after first arrival, the U S would have 1,000,000 men in France equipped with arms and supplies. He projects 4 to 5 million by next fiscal year and a potential 20 million fighting age by seven years.
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France
Caldwell
Washington
House
New York
Military Committee
United States
America
Ships to launch nine vessels on July 4 in San Francisco
Washington officials ordered all shipyards to accelerate work for a landmark July 4 launch day. Commissioner Colby and Director General Charles A Schwab will travel to San Francisco to oversee the launching of nine ships.
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Washington
Oolby
Charles A. Schwab
San Francisco
The Markets Reported Grain and Livestock Prices
Market listings show prices for flour hay poultry cattle hogs and lambs with ranges across several grades and brands. Includes figures for barley corn flour rye spring and hard winter wheats timothy clover and other feeds along with live poultry cattle hogs and lamb values across standard prices and grade categories.
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United States Administration
Bion WB
Colorado
British Moldavia torpedoed with 500 Americans aboard
In a British admiralty bulletin the armed mercantile cruiser Moldavia was torpedoed and sunk Thursday morning in the English channel. More than 500 Americans were aboard, with no confirmed casualties. many were rescued, dressed, and supplied as destroyers formed a rescue screen in a heavy crosswind under a bright moon.
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London
Moldavia
The-Ags Tuiralty
Admiralty
Thurslay
Moldavi
Tal Steam
Jong
Deatroyera
Eruleera Rescus
Washington
Storm across three states leaves hundreds injured
A violent storm system swept through Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa on Tuesday killing nineteen people in Town and nine in Wisconsin with one in Iowa. Over a hundred injured in each state and widespread property and crop damage. In Wisconsin Lone Rock suffered the heaviest loss as half the village of 700 was razed. Total property damage estimated above 1 million dollars in Town and near 1 million in Wisconsin.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Chicago
Iijnais
Stora
Boone
Newton
Denison
Lone Rock
Richmoad
Sauk
Dana
Baker for Unlimited Army Draft Power Granted
Washington May 24 The house military affairs committee granted unlimited draft power to the secretary of war under the selective service act. The panel adopted an amendment to the military bill allowing presidents to take any number under the pre draft law while enforcing certain orders.
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Washington
Selective Service
Nct
Baker
House Military Affair Committee
Count Minotte Interned in Chicago Fort Sheridan Capture
Count Minotte was registered as a dangerous enemy alien in Chicago on May 25. His photograph was taken for government use and he was taken to Fort Sheridan military camp, where he will be kept until appeal is heard.
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Minotte
Chicago
Fort Sheridan
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