Haig reports decisive Allied gains on Western Front
British forces regain La Clytte Voorme sector and Bouche on the three mile front after heavy fighting. Germans deploy about 25000 troops, launch renewed center assaults, but are driven back with persistent Allied counterattacks. Australians and French advance on Somme fronts toward Morlancourt and Grivesnes, with French recapturing Grivesnes park and Amiens area stabilizing.
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Amiens
Somme
Morlancourt
Albert
Somtee
Sailly-le-See
Grivesnes Park
London
Montdidier
Wie Park
Cantighy
Tha. Garmine
Ferther
Ls Bt
Somma
Delma Radcliffe
Planders
Storm Toll Rises Across Illinois and Iowa
A Chicago report lists 17 deaths from storms across Iowa and Illinois with extensive blackout damage. Data show dozens of communities hit as wires and telegraph lines fail, with insured losses around 180 and property damage near 1 million dollars.
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Chicago
Illinois
Towa
Ilinois
Amang
Nashua
Plainfield
New Hampton
Calmor
Ton
Franklin
Almaira
Gouthern
Borglum Accused in Airplane Deal Investigation
Washington authorities reveal government files linking Gutzon Borglum the sculptor to talks about a new aircraft producing corporation where he would be a silent partner. Negotiations involved Hugo Gibson and Kenyon Mix of Dodge Manufacturing. Mix withdrew after suspicions arose and reported to Howard Goffin.
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Washington
Taale Uvulighe
Gutzin Borglum
Borgium
Hugo Gibson
United States
Kenyon Mix
Dodge Manufacturing Company
Wisconsin
Mix
Borghim
Activites
Howard Goffin
Aircraft Production Board
War Department
Borgluma
Wilson
Henry Harrison Suplee
Englnver
Borglum
Corporation
Ona AD Harris
Wilken
Suptee
Bourd
Supleé
Winter Wheat Crop Forecast Sets New Highs in U S
Washington on May 9 reports the department of agriculture projects one of the three largest winter wheat crops in U S history. The May 1 conditions yield 572,520,000 bushels with 86,302,000 acres to harvest and 96.4 percent normal conditions. State figures include Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska. pasture conditions 88.1 percent, spring plowing 77.5 percent complete and spring planting 58 percent.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Eleven Killed on U S Ship Tyler Sunk Off French Coast
The American steamship Tyler, once the Dominilan Mine freighter, was torpedoed and sunk off the French coast. In moving circles here, eleven crew members were reported drowned or missing. The ship was built in 1918 and registered as a year 928 vessel.
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New ‘York
Tyler
Rail wage commission report on vast railroad pay increases
The wage commission's exhaustive analysis proposes increases from one to eighty four dollars monthly for railroad workers, targeting living costs and mileage based pay while noting a $260 million net railroad cost and a possible $900 million government deficit. McAdoo plans to implement January first date. rates may rise further for passengers and freight.
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Washington
Brothers Hods
Railway Employeer
McAdoo
Munch
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Charles C. McChord
J. Harry Covington
William R. Willcox
Hoover orders drive to curb high prices on substitutes
Chicago reports Food Administrator Hoover orders a drive against inflated prices for corn meal barley flour and other substitutes for wheat flour. He says prices are extortion and there is no justification for charging more than wheat. A telegram to State Food Administrator Wheeler directs sellers to price 10 to 16 percent below wheat. Washington notes Hoover says cornmeal ostmess should be 20 percent below wheat and corn flour 20 percent, barley flour 10 percent. Wholesalers to halt supplying retailers who overcharge.
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Chicago
Hoover
Harry A. Wheeler
Washington
British Blockade Ends Ostend U-Boat Base
The British navy says Ostend on the Belgian coast is blocked by sinking the obsolete cruiser Vindictive across the harbor entrance with concrete. British forces report one motorboat lost and several casualties in the raid.
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London
Ostend
Admiralty
Submarine Sunk by U S Ship in Atlantic Sailors Receive Extra Furlough
Officers report the sinking of a German submarine by a United States warship off the Atlantic port on May 10. The U boat was lifted completely out of the water and broken in two. Beckage and the crew were granted ten additional days of furlough.
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Warahp Cuta
Atlantic
Over 500000 U S Troops Now In France
Washington reports more than half a million American soldiers have been sent to France. Secretary Baker confirmed his January forecast that 600,000 troops would be dispatched early this year and said the tally has surpassed that figure. He noted no shortage of small arms or machine guns in France or America after a recent production review.
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Washington
France
Baker
Congress
Baier
Senate
Gland
Cvcretary
America
U S Guns Smash Hun Lines In Pleardy Front Action
Americans bombard Cantigny and Fontaine Sous Montdidier fronts with 75mm artillery. Cantigny church used for enemy observation, bombardment lasts all night. German attack attempts repulsed. two infantry companies receive French war crosses.
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Cantigny
Fontaine- Sous-Montdidier
Courtemanche
Mesnil-St. Georges
St. Michiel
Big U S Gun Plant at Gary to Lead World
Chicago May 11 The $75,000 United States ordnance plant will be built for the Chicago steel district, surpassing Krupp shop at Essen as the world’s largest gun factory. Surveyors are laying out the site on Lake Michigan’s Gary waterfront. Land negotiations were completed in Chicago Friday. Judge Gary, chairman of the board, said the corporation undertook the project at the secretary of war’s request, with no compensation for the acrylacas, and the plant to be inland.
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Chicago
United States Ordnance
Krupp
Basen
America
Doar of Directors
Way
Gary
Brief items from war front and court news
Fragmented report notes arrests near Montrngtadd and an American flyer credited with downing seven German planes in two months. Disloyalty cases address Charles S. Weinsberg in St Louis, Chaplain Fran C. Elner appeals, and Sen Robert Lodge faces a $20,000 suit over a pacifism dispute. Casualties at Camp Jackson include five killed and several wounded after a passenger coach derailment.
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Wis Suik
Aioonheed
Congress
Marashall
Clark
Frank L.'Rhylles
New
Bedford
Maks
Washington
Charles 8
Weinsberg
Missouri
German-American Alliance
United ‘States District’ Court
St. Lois
Frana‘c
Elnler
France
Pershing
Hawaii
Wrt
United’ States
Heney
Lodge
Alexander Banhwart
Boston
Banhwart
Turt
Goldiers
Santry
Camp Jackson
Gregory Starts Air Quiz In Washington May 8
Attorney General acting under President Wilson began the investigation of the 640 million dollar aircraft appropriation. The probe aims to uncover any dishonesty or malversation and will move swiftly with Assistant Attorney General William G. Pherson in charge. Senate military committee chair Chamberlain pledges a thorough inquiry with no whitewashing. Secretary Baker urges secrecy and a new billion dollar bill, citing pro-German influence and military secrecy.
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Washington
Gregory
Wilson
Chamberlain
Senate
Imilitary Committee
Baker
House Military Committee
Market Prices And Grain And Livestock Report
The United States flour standards list prices for barrel quantity flour and various grades. Wheat, rye, and special brands show mixed values, with Timothy and clover feeds priced per unit. Cattle, hogs, and sheep sections provide ranges for good to choice and heavy weights, reflecting a broad agricultural market snapshot.
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United States Administration
Timothy
Clover
Ile
Trata
Haag
Colorado
Premier Lloyd George Angers Asquith in War Debate
In a heated Commons session Premier Lloyd George defends figures cited from the War Office against General Maurice while urging an end to cabinet sniping. Asquith urges a nonpartisan review. labor leader C. B. Stanton interrupts, calling for action to continue the war.
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Londoh
Smith
Ehi Agaliat
Lloyd-George
Anquitt
Maurice
War' Office
Batten
Egypt
Ile
Versailles
Gough
France
Douglas Hair
Lloyd-George Wald
War Cabinet
Liloyd-George Aaid
Dally Newa
Quakers
Premier A
Audi
Ia Gry
Asquith
House
Flyer Missing After Fight With American Army In France
May flight Captain James Noruitta Hall, a noted American aviator, is missing after a battle near the Toul sector in Germany. The clash involved three American planes and four German machines from the Flying Uroorn. German aircraft also crashed. Hall hails from Colfax, Ta, and authored Kitchener's Nip.
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France
May
James Nor Uitta Hall
Germany
Toul
Hell
Colfax
Wilson appeals to aid Red Cross campaign drive
President Wilson called on the American people to support the Red Cross fundraising drive. The second campaign seeks 100 million dollars and runs from May 20 through the week, with the period designated as Red Cross Week.
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Washington
Wilson
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