Religious and Other Objectors to Go to Fort Leavenworth
Draft boards will segregate conscientious objectors to military service found sincere by army authorities to Fort Leavenworth Kansas under Baker orders. Those deemed insincere face furloughs and farm labor as pay. the board will judge acquittal or trial outcome and may lead to further punishment under wartime law.
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Washington
Wilson
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
Baker
Mack
Chicago
Dean Stone
Columbia Law School
Richard Stoddard
Advocate General's Office
Ander
Othe
Dubieriead Uasmerica
Friends’ Reconstruction Unit
France
Red Cross
Retail Credit Men Plan Big Meeting in Boston
Boston hosts the National Convention of the Retail Credit Men Association from August 20 to 23 at the Copley Plaza Hotel. About five hundred delegates from across the United States will attend as wartime credit issues raise the event’s importance.
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Boston
Credt Mens
Copley: Ww
United States
Gas masks for every Army horse and mule
Washington May 31 Every horse and mule in the American expeditionary forces will be equipped with a new type of gas mask declared to make them impervious to gas attacks. Tanks are coming from a factory at 5,000 a day and headed rapidly to France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
France
Thirty Years for Rose Stokes
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes was sentenced to thirty years in the Missouri state penitentiary for three espionage act convictions. The sentences run concurrently, reducing actual time to ten years.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Rose Pastor Stokes
Missouri State Penitentiary
Carp Industry Promised for Walker Lake Banks
John H. Mill and Alva Miller plan a carp smoking plant on Walker Lake west bank. They envision a fleet for seining carp weighing 20 to 30 pounds, with a new summer resort hotel and two large fishing ponds. Public funds from Mineral, Lyon, Douglas, Esmeralda counties and national matches aim to stimulate tourism and local economy.
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Tonopah
John H. Mill Vroof Mina
Walker Lake
John Ho Miller
Alva Miller
Finn Haddie
Miller Brothers
State Highway Commission
Mineral County
Lyon
Douglas
Esmeralda
Miller
San Francisco
Seattle & Supply
Onepal
Goldfield
Women Prisoners Knit for Red Cross at Colorado Penitentiary
In Lanon City Colorado ten inmates spend eight hours daily knitting. They produce box and sleeve items for the Red Cross, averaging about twelve pairs per day. Notables include Mary Angeline Geramount serving life and May Lamb with a twenty one year term. Other inmates also participate in the wartime relief effort.
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Lanon City
Colo
Red Cross
Tere
Mary Angeline Gerramont
May Lamb
Ted Croan
Battlefront Situation From War Front Updates
German attempts to cross the Marne meet stiff Allied resistance and fail as American forces push toward battle zones. Paris air raids are blocked, while French and American troops tighten positions near the Marne and along the Soissons to Chateau-Thierry front. German Crown Prince shifts west aiming to split Paris from the north, with French counterattacks gaining ground. American detachments destroy enemy dugouts and a bridge, and California pilot Douglas Campbell becomes the army’s first ace in France following a victory near Pont a Mousson.
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Marne
France
Associated Press
River
Paris
Amiens
Soissens
Chateu-Thierry
Serail
Soissone
Chaudon- Vierzy
Chateau Thierry
Y Vernuil
Doormans
Rheims
Washington
Mareh
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Annates
Montdidier Salient
Soidsons
Chateau-Thierry
Pershing
California
America
Associated Preas
Douglas Campbell
Campbell
Pont A Mousson
California Observes Food Conservation Sunday Tomorrow
California declares tomorrow a Food Conservation Sunday with all clergy to preach on saving and exporting wheat for allies and soldiers. About 6,000 letters from Herbert Hoover define church roles in the campaign as Ralph Merritt’s effort aids the state.
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San Francisco
California
Sunda
Klein
Herbert Hoover
D. Charles Gardner
Stanford University
Ralph P. Merritt
Tina
Old timer, 98, settles down in Pittsburgh after roaming
William M Davie aged ninety eight declares he will spend the rest of his days in Pittsburgh after crossing the continent twenty times He recalls New York when it had 300000 residents and was lit by gas He remembers folk keeping fowls in backyards and drawing water from block pumps in the old days.
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Pittsburgh
William M. Davie
Mr. Davie
New York
Tampa
Mexico Plans Large Wheat Harvest In 24 Million Bushel Yield
Laredo, June 1. A prominent Mexican business man visiting from Torreon says Mexico will soon begin harvesting one of its greatest wheat crops. He estimates the yield at about 24,000,000 bushels as the crop matures across the country.
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Laredo
Tex
Mexico
Torreon
Wife of Deputy State Controller Dies at Home
Mrs O Leary wife of Deputy State Controller hiam O Leary died suddenly at the family home on Sophia Street after long heart disease and dropsy. She was about 45, a Virginia native, daughter of Abraham and Sarah Wall. Survived by three children and husband, funeral planned from the Catholic church with interment at Lone Mountain cemetery.
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Carlhiam
Pullman Company Raises Night Rate
Washington June 1 the Pullman company increases passenger fares to three cents per mile and will raise the minimum overnight rate from 150 to 2 dollars. Other Pullman rates remain largely unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Associated Press
Pullman Company
Not Guilty Plea Entered By Wood in San Francisco Case
James A. Wood former state food administration official in Reno pleaded not guilty before Judge M T Dooling in San Francisco. He was released on 1500 bail, reduced from 5000 after he could not raise 25000, following a May 9 arrest and federal indictment for taking a 100 dollar bribe from Elko Milling.
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James A. Wood
State Food Administration
San Francisco
Federal Grand Jury
Elko Milling Company
M. T. Dooling
Wood
Reno Gazette
Dry West Virginia Holds High Prohibition Measure
Wheeling, June 1 A WV prohibition official says the state is the driest in the nation. J Walter Beem notes limited pocket selling and a retail liquor price of 14 a quart, illustrating strong prohibition effects across the state.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
United States
J. Walter Beem
New Head of Textile Division Is Appointed
John W. Scott of Chicago has been named chief of the newly created textile division of the War Industries Board. Malcolm Donald of Boston becomes acting chief of the Army Quartermaster clothing and equipment division, relieving Albert L. Scott who retired to obtain a rest.
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Washington
Associated Press
John W. Scott
Chicago
The
War Industries Board
Malcolm Donald
Boston
Army
Quartermaster’s Corps
Albert L. Scott
Duquoin trio hurled by train remains uninjured
Duquoin Illinois June 1 three men Harry Jackson J B Bullard and Jesse Webb all of Duquoin were stalled by an automobile and struck by a Central passenger train traveling sixty miles an hour. They were hurled about 100 feet but escaped with only minor bruises while the machine was demolished.
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Duquoin, HL
Wi Hols Central
Harry Jackson
J. B. Bullard
Jesse Webb
Duquoin
Labor Shortage Stalls Planting in Eastern Washington
Seattle June 1 Farm ers in Yakima and eastern Washington hesitate to plant full crops fearing insufficient farm labor to harvest them They urge every capable man and woman to work with farming implements to meet the labor need according to ranchers and local officials.
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Seattle
Wash
Yakima
Washington
Era
Robbery on roadside ends with forced ride and loss
A man from Washington state inviting two strangers to ride in his car on a lonely road was ambushed by gunmen who held him up and robbed him of all his money during a June incident reported in the local paper.
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Snaron
Tague
Washington
No Children Allowed Rule Placed Under Ban
Seattle officials urge landlords to remove No Children Allowed signs as the city faces a housing shortage due to war work demand. J W Spangler of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce appeals to rooming house proprietors hotel men and rental property owners to ease restrictions amid the growing need for quarters for shipyard workers and others involved in war work.
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Seattle
Wash
J. W. Spangler
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Drafted Men Called for Special Training
Washington June 1 A call has been sent by General Crowder for twenty four thousand six hundred seventy four draft registrants with grammar school educations to be sent to special training schools. The men are to be taken from thirty six states.
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Washington
General Crowder
No Suspicion Falls on Steel Production United States
Elbert H. Gary president of the American Iron and Steel Institute told the convention that the government and steel producers are now in complete harmony and understanding with all suspicion toward the industry dissipated, in New York today.
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New York
Elbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
United States
Fifty Seven American Names On Casualty List
The casualty list records fifty seven United States soldiers who died or are missing. Three killed in action, six died of wounds, ten due to disease, one in a plane accident, seventeen wounded, eleven slightly, and nine missing in action.
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Washington
Associated Press
United States
Oregon's Day Ends Use Champagne in Christening Ships
June 1 report from Coos Bay notes no champagne available to christen ships due to strict prohibition and federal inspections. Shipyard launches at Coos Bay Shipbuilding Co proceed without bubbly, Marines lowering vessels into water with an American flag unfurled.
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Oregon
Makshmba
Coos Bay
California
Coox Bay Shipbuilding Company
House approves largest army bill in history
Washington June 1 The House passed the largest annual army appropriation bill in history totaling 12 041 682 000 and authorizing the president to call into service all men who can be trained. It provides for an army of 3 000 000 and includes 6 315 136 000 for quartermaster corps 396 000 00 for ordnance 1 028 000 000 for engineers 990 250 0812 for aviation and 267 000 000 for the medical corps. A stop watch ban on speed devices in funded plants was adopted 63 59 and an amendment forbidding cost plus contracts except emergencies was approved. Longworth condemned over optimistic statements about American forces in Europe.
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Washington
House
Senate
France
Quartermaster Corps
Ordnance
Engineers
Alng
Anthony
Kansas
Wouldn't It Frost You When You Con Track a Man
A reader laments agreeing to a man’s contract for a task, completing it, sending the bill, and having the other party forget the arrangement, expressing frustration at the breach of obligation.
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