British Drive Again in Arras Sector as Haig Signs Off on Victory Claim
London reports Sir Douglas Haig rejects Kaiser’s verdict that the Spring drive is over and says British forces near Lens have made progress. Despite heavy losses, British gains include footholds on the Lens front and successful raids in the Ypres bend while German counterattacks, led by the Kaiser’s eldest son, fail to break French positions.
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Douglas Haig
France
Hindenburg
Lens
Couchez
Cherisy
Teuton
Ypres
Shefield
Leon
Paris
Servian Scientist Michael Pupin Predicts U-Boat Menace End
Serbian American physicist Michael Pupin asserts the United States will end the U-boat threat soon through new Allied strategies and technological advances. He cautions Americans to prepare for continued naval warfare in the near term.
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Pupin
Columbia University
New York Academy of Science
Germany
Kronstadt May Be Put Out of Russia
Petrograd reports that Kronstadt could be morally boycotted outlawed and cut off from imperial connections unless it yields to the provisional government. Justice Minister Pereveizeff says ministers support firm action after recent talks with local extremists and an attempt to free an imprisoned officer. Deputy visits to the fortress underscore the demand for restraint and loyalty to central authority.
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Petrograd
Kronstadt
Empire
Pereveizeff
Council of Ministers
Indictment in Chicago Egg Price Boost Case
Federal case targets Chicago Butter and Egg board members and South Water Street dealers. Sixteen individuals and nine companies face Sherman Act charges for boosting butter and egg prices, with ongoing inquiry and a pledge to keep goods on track or in warehouses to calm market unrest.
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Chicago
United States
Charles F. Clyne
Chicago Butter and Egg Board
South Water Street
Butter and Egg Board
Ruth Law Aids Bond Sales Across Midwest Tour
Ruth Law aviatress will launch a cross country flying tour from Cleveland to rally Liberty Loan subscriptions. She will drop paper bombs with messages urging support as Secretary McAdoo says the plan envisages the most strenuous cross country flight by an American aviator. The route heads through northern Ohio, the Missouri valley, Oklahoma oil fields, ending from St. Louis to Chicago.
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Washington
Ruth Law
Aviatress
Liberty Loan
Cleveland
Miss Law
Middle West
Southwest
McAdoo
Ohio
Missouri Valley
Oklahoma Oil Field
St. Louis
Chicago
Russians Defeat Turks Take Three Heights in Sakiz Frontier
Russian troops gain victory over Turkish forces in Sakiz region on the Mesopotamian frontier seizing three strategic heights. Kurdish attack repelled southeast of Erzingan in Armenia according to the war office.
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Petrograd
Sakiz
Mesopotamian
War Office
Erzingan
Armenia
Rowe Nominated Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Rowe of Philadelphia was nominated by President Wilson to be assistant secretary of the treasury.
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Washington
Rowe
Philadelphia
Wilson
Treasury
Root and Party Late in Russia Aims for Binding Proposals
Washington reports Elihu Root leads a U S mission to Petrograd to negotiate with Russia s new government as disarray and royalist plots loom. President Wilson typed a war aims statement addressed to Russia and prepared a registration day proclamation. The aims include crushing militarism freedom of the seas and protection of small nations with possible Palestine Zionist outcomes.
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Washington
Russia
Elihu Root
Daniels
Root
Petrograd
Ether
Fussia
Mr. Root
United States
State Department
Wilson
America
Peace Commission. Org
Belgium
Serbia
Palestine
House committee moves to repeal Mexican immigration provision
Washington on June 4 the house committee on naturalization and immigration acts to repeal the section of the law that allows Mexican laborers to enter the United States opposing Secretary Wilson's policy.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Wilson
House Committee On
Leak in Office Lets Out State Secrets
A leak in the San Francisco post office building admitted by United States district attorney John W. Preston allowed government secrets to reach outside sources. The incident concerns state secrets exposure in the federal office.
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San Francisco
Cal
John W. Preston
United States
Mine Explosion Kills Nine at Herrin No. 2 Mine
Nine men died and two were seriously burned after a gas explosion at the W. P. Read Coal and Coke No. 2 mine north of Herrin Illinois. Victims named include Ira Sanders Otis Reynolds Amos Meza Guy Vickery Roy Weathers Charles Rice John Gossage I S Good and Ezra Adams. Two workers Tom Cox and W A Brewer were hospitalised with serious injuries. Authorities say workers likely walked into an abandoned section where gas had accumulated.
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Herrin
Ill
W. P. Read Coal and Coke Company
Here
Ira Sanders
Otis Reynolds
Amos Meza
Guy Vickery
Roy Weathers
Charles Rice
John Gossage
I.S. Good
Ezra Adams
Tom Cox
W. A. Brewer
McAdoo Opens East Tour to Promote Liberty Bonds
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo launches a nine city, seven day speech tour to boost support for liberty loan bonds. He speaks at Carnegie Hall in New York after a New York reception and plans stops in Boston Detroit St Louis New Orleans Birmingham Louisville Cincinnati and Pittsburgh before returning June 18. W P G Harding joins the trip.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
New York
Liberty Loan Committee
New York Federal Reserve District
Carnegie Hall
Boston
Detroit
St. Louis
New Orleans
Birmingham
Louisville
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Militant pacifists warned on draft evasion penalties
Government officials announce that draft absentees and those avoiding registration will be imprisoned and later forced into military service. Prison terms, court martials, and assignment to Leavenworth are expected, with no exemption for those who delay registration. Regular registrants face far lower odds in September’s draft draw.
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Chicago
Hinton C. Clabaugh
United States Bureau of Investigation
Clabaugh
Leavenworth
Washington
Gregory
Army
Anthrax Inoculation Plan Tied to Island Food Supply Plot
In Honolulu on June 4, Dr. Victor Norgaard reports twenty six dairy herd deaths from anthrax, deemed a deliberate inoculation. Dr. Donald Currie confirms a plot to curb island food supply. Federal authorities seek two men seen near the infected herd.
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Honolulu
Victor Norgaard
Donald Currie
Mexico Seeks U S Outline of Attitude Toward Mexico
El Universal calls on United States Ambassador Fletcher to declare Washingtons stance toward Mexico. The Mexican paper accuses the U S of still treating Mexico as an enemy despite its neutral position and cites the embargo on arts as evidence.
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Mexico City
el Universal
United States
Fletcher
Mexico
Washington
Artas
Bombs Dropped on Belgian Towns by British Aircraft
London reports official British war department statement that many tons bombs were dropped on Os tead Zeebrugge and Bruges by Prit's aircraft. Baseball results.
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Prit
Ostead
Zeebrugge
Bruges
British War Department
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