Deadly Eddystone Ammunition Plant Blast
Chester Pa April reports list 112 bodies recovered after the Eddystone Ammunition plant blast. Most victims were women and girls employed in shell finishing. A second explosion wrecked storage and offices as fires raged two hours. Authorities suspect an inside plot.
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Chester
Grear
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation
Eddystone
White
Philadelphia
Fifth Regiment
Minneapolis
Secret Service
Roosevelt Sees Wilson Over Plan To Raise Division
Colonel Roosevelt met with President Wilson at the White House to present a plan to raise a foreign service division. He was accompanied by his daughter Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Roosevelt said the meeting lasted about half an hour, with Wilson listening attentively but not committing to the plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wilson
White House
Executive Mansion
Nicholas Longworth
United States
Senate
Gallinger
Canada
Fire destroys school in Gillespie area
The Benid public school in Gillespie Illinois was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage reaches 25000 dollars with 18000 dollars coverage by insurance.
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Gillespie, Ill
Benid
Evansville Opens $225000 Coliseum Dedication
Evansville Indiana dedicated its Soldiers and Sailors coliseum built for more than 225000 dollars. The ceremonies marked the opening of the new facility serving the city and region.
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Evansville
Ind
Soldiers and Sailors
Aztec Torpedo Sinks Ship With 28 Lost and 12 Survivors
Ambassador Sharp reports from Paris that twenty eight lives were lost when the American steamship Aztec was torpedoed. Eopolucci, a U S Navy guard member, is among the deceased. The remaining twelve guardsmen are among nineteen survivors.
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U.S
Washington
Ambassador Sharp
Paris
State Department
Bootewain
Eopolucci
United States Naval Guard
Guard
Conscription Plan Opposed in House
Washington April 10. Opposition within the House military affairs committee blocks swift action on a general conscription bill. Chairman Dent warned the President that no form could reach a vote soon and that any law would be a war measure, not permanent. Texas joined resistance via Governor Ferguson demanding Lone Star officers for Texas boys.
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Washington
Bert
Army
Navy
Dent
Committee On Military Affairs of
The
House
Wilson
Texas
Ferguson
Garner
Lone Star
Military Affairs Committee
Appleton Parade Draws Over 12 000 Residents
More than 12 000 Appleton residents joined a city parade on April 19 marching along principal streets. The crowd included all school children and members of local lodges and fraternities.
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Appleton
Wis
Supreme Court ruling may free Indiana officials
Terre Haute April 11 reports that a federal election fraud prosecution ruling is expected to free Mayor Donn Roberts and Sheriff Denny Shea with City Judge Tommy Smith and three other city officials still serving sentences in Leavenworth prison for varying terms.
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Roberts
Terre Haute
Ind
Supreme Court
Donn Roberts
Denny Shea
Tommy” Smith
Leavenworth
May Wheat Dips After Opening Rally On CBOT
May wheat on the Chicago board of trade fell from an initial $2.0614 to $2.02 a bushel, then recovered to $2.0514 at midday. The price was 114 cents under Monday’s record close as nerves rose over federal control of foodstuffs and cautiousness by commission houses.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Commission
Seizure Of Elaborate Private Wireless Station In Iowa
Davenport officials seized a highly elaborate private wireless station that linked with New York and San Francisco. Government authorities called it one of the most advanced wireless outfits found.
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Davenport
New York
San Francisco
Eighteen Missouri Infantry Deserters Face Court Martial
Eighteen members of the First Missouri infantry who have not reported for duty will be dropped from the muster rolls and classed as deserters. If captured they face court-martial and imprisonment.
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St. Louis
First Missouri Infantry
War Bridegroom List Obtained By Federal Agents
Chicago April 11 Acting under orders from United States District Attorney Clyne federal agents under Hinton G Clabaugh in charge of the bureau of investigation secured the names of nearly 2000 applicants for marriage licenses issued since war was declared with Germany The government action on war marriages was not disclosed County Clerk Robert M Sweitzer withdrew extra clerks causing long waits for hundreds of applicants at the license bureau
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Chicago
United States
Clyne
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Bureau of Investigation
Germany
Robert M. Sweitzer
Former Indiana Man Dead in Illinois
James P. Green, seventy six years old, of Danville Illinois, long engaged in omnibus and transfer work, died after weeks of illness. A Parke County Indiana native, he made and lost fortunes. predated streetcars, served in Civil War era buying horses and mules for the U S Army, earlier ran a livery in Crawfordsville and later Bates House and transfer business in Indianapolis.
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Danville
Ill
James P. Green
Green
Parke County
Indiana
Rossville
United States Army
Crawfordsville
Bates House
Indianapolis
War Credit Plans Move to Finance Allies
United States committees on ways and means plan seven billion dollars in national securities as the first war credit. Proposals call for 5 billion in twenty year gold bonds and 2 billion in short certificates drawn from revenues to fund allied loans, with France to receive the largest share and Russia and Italy also to be aided.
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Washington
United States
House of Representatives
One Great American
Kitelin
Pris
Federal
Treasury
France
Russia
Maly
Great Britain
Kitchin
Wilson
Claude Kitchin
Ways and Means Committee
Guatemala Declares Martial Law Over Frontier Disturbances
Guatemala City reports martial law proclaimed amid unrest on the Mexican and Salvadorean frontiers. Authorities cite disturbances blamed on German influence and foreign meddling as the reason for the extraordinary measure.
Rush of Applicants for War Loan
Applications for allotments of the proposed five billion bond issue have reached the treasury department in such numbers that the administration believes the success of the issue is already assured.
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Washington
Treasury Department
British Take Station North of Baghdad
London reports a further British advance north of Baghdad with capture of Blad station on the Baghdad Samarahi railway and the town of Herbe. The War Office notes these gains as part of ongoing operations in the region.
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London
Bagdad
War Office
Blad
Bagdad-Samarahi
Herbe
President calls Mrs Bass for war role discussion
Chisago woman Mrs George Ita to confer with President Wilaan in Washington on women’s part in war. She plans to discuss organizing women to aid the United States in wartime, noting women already active in the Red Cross and preparing for broader duties.
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Chisago
Chcearo
Wilaan
George Ita
Washington
United States
Red Cross
New York Liner Strikes Mine Off Liverpool Safe
The American liner New York struck a mine at 7 40 PM five miles off the Liverpool bar but proceeded to Liverpool. The ship sailed from New York March 29 with 58 passengers and mail and a crew of 234. Aboard were 144 Americans. The Minnesota, another American liner, arrived safely at a British port with a 24 000 ton cargo.
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Washington
New York
Liverpool Bar
Liverpool
State Department
American Line
Minnesota
Diver flees liner s guns after torpedo threat
Report from New York says crew of a German torpedo boat abandoned their attack when a 6 inch gun on the Cunarder Ansonia trained on them. The Ansonia later witnessed an unidentified freighter suffer a fate similar to the liner s escape.
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New York
Ansonia
U. S. Move to Seize Railroads in Mobilization
Washington on April 11 reports strong official intimations that the government plans to take over certain railroads to support mobilization efforts.
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U. S
Washington
British Flyer Robinson Reported Missing
London April 11 reports Lieutenant Willi Leefe Robinson the first aviator to bring down a Zeppelin in England is missing.
German Line in France Periled as British Push Ahead
British forces push five miles east of Arras toward Monchy le Preux amid heavy snow and German resistance. More than 12,000 prisoners and about 100 guns reported. Canadians at Vimy Ridge helped enable the major advance as Haig presses for a decisive breakthrough.
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Haig
Arras
Berlin
Thut
London
Trines
Monchy-le-Prex
Vimy Ridge
Pritish
Lens Hne
Hindenburg
German War Office
Doulas Haig
Fritz Kolb Convicted in Hoboken Bomb Case
In Jersey City on April 11 a jury found Fritz Kolb guilty of keeping bombs in his Hoboken hotel room. Hans Schwartz was unable to reach a verdict, while Jean Humbert was not charged as a participant. The state alleged a planned A SECO explosion on Black Tom Island. Humbert will be tried later.
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Jersey City
N. J
Fritz Kolb
Hoboken
Kolb
Hans Schwartz
Black Tom Island
Jean Humbert
Humbert
Provisional Government Warns of German Strike at Russia
Petrograd reports the provisional government releasing a proclamation urging all Russian forces to concentrate for a decisive defeat of the German threat. It blames the old regime for disarray in finance food supply transport and munitions and says the state is in danger.
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Petrograd
Russia
Pacifists in Britain Urge Peace Conference Action
Leeds England April 11 pacifist wing of the Independent Labour Party supports revolution呼 urging allies to open negotiations for a just and honorable peace.
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Britain
Leeds
England
Independent Labor Party
Labor Party
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Eddystone Works
Louis Feuerstein
National
Iowa
Richard Olney
Cleveland
Guatemala
Guatemala City
George Bass
Mrs. Bass
Diver
Cunarder
Tiritons
Teutons
Tena Town
Ft. Quentin
Teuton Wall
Russ
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