Spy Crusade Across Nation Taks Federal War Measures
United States Attorney Charles F. Clyne urged citizen involvement in the war effort exposing loyalty risks among Teutonic descent and potential saboteurs. Authorities round up “the big sixty” and many others in Chicago New York and other cities amid plots to poison meat supplies and derail wartime operations.
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New York
Chicago
United States
Charles F. Clyne
Mr. Clyne
R. W. Kiessling
Otto TH. Kiensle
Stockbridge
Mass
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Arthur FB Bielkowsky
Karl George Frank
Sayvill
Gary
Ind
Gustav H Jacobsen
North
Hermitage Avenue
Franz Bopp
San Francisco
Canada
St. Helena
Cal
Favors Rule by People Push for Parliamentary System in Russia
The Constitutional Democratic Party meeting in Petrograd on Sunday backed establishing a democratic parliamentary government and a republic. Prince Dolgorouki, head of the party’s central committee, urged continuing the war and honoring allied treaties until victory.
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Russian Democratic Party
Petrograd
Constitutional Democratic Party
Dolgo Rouki
Russia
Five Drown In Flood When Boat Capsized On Missouri River
Five men drowned and a sixth was dying after a boat capsized in Missouri River floodwaters at Bismarck North Dakota. The victims include Ed Massey Mandan NC and Harry Barwind Bismarck SD, J A Vale Minneapolis, A A Von Tagen Minneapolis, Ned Prentice Minneapolis, M H Lang Mandan. Roy Frost rescued the survivor who was in serious condition after the accident.
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Bismarck
N. C
Missouri River
Ed Massey
Mandan
Harry Barwind
Gowan, Lenning & Brown
Duluth
J. A. Vale
Minneapolis
A. A. von Tagen
Ned Prentice
Minneapolis Drum
Lloyd George's Son Weds in Bath England
Major Richard Lloyd George, eldest son of Prime Minister Lloyd George, married Roberta McAlpine daughter of Robert McAlpine a prominent contractor of Totteridge Hertfordshire in Bath England on April 9.
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Lloyd George
Bath
England
Major Richard Lloyd George
Premier Lloyd George
Roberta McAlpine
Robert McAlpine
Totteridge, Herts
Republics Fighting for Rights of Man
President Wilson replies to President Poinecare praising France for joining the Allied effort. He calls the alliance a defense of democratic aims and human rights and salutes France and its leaders for their role in the struggle against imperial Germany.
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Washington
Poinecare
United States
Wilson
Germany
France
Brazil Demands Break With Germany Over Parana Attack
Rio de Janeiro reports the Brazilian press calls for severing ties after a telegram from the Parana captain says the Brazilian ship was torpedoed and shelled by a German submarine off Cherbourg. The German legation plans to depart for Montevideo as a rupture seems inevitable. German archives will go to the Spanish legation to represent German interests.
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Rio Janeiro
Germany
Parana
Cherbourg
Montevideo
Brazi
German cruiser Cormoran blown up in Guam harbor
The interned German cruiser Cormoran exploded and was destroyed by its crew as U S Marines prepared to seize it at Guam. Two crewmen are confirmed dead, the first American war casualties reported in the conflict.
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Washington
Cormoran
Guam
United States
Germany
Wilson Thanks Minnesota Endorsement Promises Loyalty
President Wilson thanks Minnesota for the recent endorsement of his policies and pledges of loyalty. The message was conveyed in a letter received by Oscar Arnesen, chief clerk of the Minnesota house.
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Wilson
Minnesota
St. Paul
Minnesota House
Oscar Arnesen
Local Land Owner Dies by His Own Hand in Keokuk
Keokuk Iowa April 9 William Davis a large land owner based in Memphis Missouri near here shot himself in a personal crisis The Nal conditions were cited as the cause according to reports Davis financial worries were a factor in the act and the tragedy occurred on his property near Keokuk
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Keokuk
William Davis
Memphis
Missouri
Here
Arrest Gary Man as Spy Suspect Held by Police
Gary Indiana April 9 authorities detained Joseph Kezil a German national after his arrest by Gary police on suspicion of espionage with charges not specified.
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Gary Man
Gary
Ind
Joseph Kezilman
Mysterious ocean raider sighted near Nantucket shoals reported
British vessel relays radio warning of a 10,000 ton commerce raider seen south of Nantucket. Naval attaches offer cautious notes on whether the same ship was sighted the next day. Rumors claim trawlers Tide and Swell sunk by a German raider 100 miles off Boston.
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Nantucket
Europe
Nantucket Shoals
Newport
U.S
Rumer
Boston
British Forces Advance Near Louvevais and Ypres
British troops report progress along a 3000 yard front north of Louvevais on the Bapaume Cambrai road. Prisoners captured near Ypres and several air bombing missions are noted with hangars destroyed.
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Capaume
Cambrai Road
London
Bapaume Cambrai Road
Louvevais
Ypres
Austria Recalls Ambassador Tarnowsky and Demands Passports
Vienna recalls Count Tarnowsky as ambassador to Washington who was never received by the United States. Geneva reports American Ambassador Penfield has demanded his passports at Vienna in a delayed dispatch.
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Berlin
Austria-Hungary
Count Tarnowsky
Washington
United States
Geneva
Penfield
Vienna
Grace Lockwood to wed Archie Roosevelt in spring
Announcement from Mr and Mrs Thomas Lockwood of 111 Bay State Road Boston states their daughter Grace Lockwood will marry Archie Roosevelt Harvard 1917 son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt The couple plan to wed in the spring with the engagement officially announced.
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Archie Roosevelt
Boston
Thomas
John Lockwood
Bay State Road
Grace
Lockwood
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt
Indiana farms to aid war in statewide production drive
Indiana farmers from Marion county across the state held 92 conferences to boost crop output and food conservation. Governor Goodrich urged conservation and production expansion, with rallies across county seats showing strong support for cooperative agricultural effort to secure a larger food supply.
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State
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indiana
Goodrich
Mystery surrounds Shively body shipping to Brookville
South Bend report notes a reel box said to hold Senator Benjamin Shively's disinterred body moved toward Brookville Pennsylvania. The cemetery sexton says he had no orders to remove the body. Mrs Shively, widow, had returned to Brookville after her husband’s death. Authorities were reportedly asked for removal permission.
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South Bend
Ind
United States
Benjamin Shively
Brookville
Child Hangs German Flag. Crowd Explained Ignorance
In Boonville Indiana on April 9 a thirteen year old girl hung a flag from a window after seeing neighbors do so. The flag turned out to be a German flag her father had brought years ago and a menacing crowd gathered demanding an explanation. The crowd was told the act was due to ignorance and did not escalate.
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Boonville
Ind
Fred Birch
Germany
Must Salute Flag Despite Remarks in Freeport
Freeport guardsmen jailed Thomas Fahey for comments about tin soldiers. He accepted a sentence to salute the flag, saying he would comply though he questioned soldiers' sense of humor.
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Freeport
Il1
Thomas Fahey
Fahey
Robber Steals $600 From Diagonal Bank Vault
Police search for a robber who entered the First National Bank at Diagonal Iowa forced the cashier and his wife into the vault and fled with more than $600. He overlooked $600 in another drawer.
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Creston
First National Bank
Diagonal
United States Plans Massive War Financing and Labor Pledges
The United States pledges full support for government war aims with labor vows to avoid strikes. A new 5 billion dollar bond issue will be supplemented by tax boosts to fund Entente aid. A council of defense forms a board of economists and bankers to manage financing and wartime expenditures.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Council of National Defense
Advisory Commission
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Congress
General Leonard Wood to Remain in East Command
Washington reports General Leonard Wood will not be transferred from the Department of the East with headquarters in New York to Charleston. Orders issued earlier will not take effect, and Wood will stay in command of the army's most important division, with demotion to a less critical post if ever moved. The decision signals political considerations not guiding war department operations.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
War Department
Department of the East
New York
Charleston
Department
Wood
Nugurs
Freer Prussia Ordered to End Class Ring Elections
Emperor William orders direct and secret elections of deputies in Prussia after the war directing reforms to the Prussian electoral law. He states there is no room for elections by the classes in view of the people’s gigantic deeds.
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Amsterdam
Prussia
William
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Twenty One Men Sentenced in Northern Minnesota Liquor Case
Twenty one men charged with selling liquor in northern Minnesota Indian treaty territory were sentenced to terms ranging from ninety days in jail to one year in the federal prison at Leavenworth.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota Indian Treaty Territory
Leavenworth
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