Germans Open New Drive on Picardy Line
Paris reports a dawn Sunday German offensive along a 15 to 18 mile Montdidier Noyon front with heavy bombardment. French and American forces resisted with tenacious defense as Paris Haig and Reuters notes describe heavy shelling and local gains by the French and American units.
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Noyon
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Amiens
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Aisne
Montdidier-Noyon
Haig
Villers Bretonneux
Albert
Flanders
Givenchy
Rebecq
Reuter
Chateau Thierry
Marne Front
War Office
Ardre River
Berlin
Women Examiner for Trade Commission among early hires
Miss Marion L. Davies graduate of the University of Wisconsin is among the first women appointed examiner under the federal trade commission. She researches in the congressional library on factory production and brings two years of secretarial experience with the commission along with prior experience as a reporter.
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Marion L. Davies
University of Wisconsin
Federal Trade Commission
Congressional Library
Commission
U-Boat Sinkings Cost U S Sugar Losses
Washington reports more than 24 000 000 pounds of Cuban sugar lost to submarine attacks along the Atlantic coast this week. Food Administrator Hoover says further sugar cuts are necessary to make up the shortage. Soft drinks may be affected.
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Washington
Cuba
Atlantic
Hoover
Artillery Fire Increases Along Piave Front
Rome reports intensified reciprocal artillery fire along the Piave and near the coast. Our aviators bombed aviation camps between the Piave and Livenza and the Caldonazzo railway station. ten hostile aircraft were shot down.
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Emmanuel
Rome
Piave
War Office
Livenza
Caldonazzo
Mrs Gould-Shepard III Seriously Ill in New York
Mrs Finley J Shepard formerly Miss Helen Gould is seriously ill with appendicitis at her Fifth Avenue home. Attending physicians report the condition satisfactory and hope an operation may be avoided.
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New York
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
Fifth Avenue
Paris Bombardment Strikes Paris Again
Paris reports another bombardment by long range guns on the city with casualties cited by the Matin. The June 10 dispatch notes damage in the Paris district and confirms some victims.
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The
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French Left Wing Holds Germans at Frightful Cost
Paris reports repeated blows by the Huns on the French left wing in the Noyon sector have been completely broken up. The enemy has made slight progress in the center near Ressons Surmatz, sacrificed heavily. The Crown Prince is deploying 205000 troops in this drive.
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Paris
Noyon
Ressons-Surmatz
Plan to Draft Doctors For Army and Navy in Chicago
The Volunteer Medical Service corps will draft doctors for army and navy service, acting as a home guard of physicians. Members will wear a national council of defense badge to prove willingness to serve, while laggards will be weeded out and desertion of civilian patients discouraged nationwide.
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Chicago
Army
Navy
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
American Medical Association
Uncle Sam
Home Guard
National Council of Defense
Corps
Paris Is Warned of Peril
Paris reports in the Matin that socialist deputy Frederic Brunet warns of a second German drive toward Paris. He says if German forces approach closely they could shell the city with long range guns and impose permanent fire endangering industrial life and munition output.
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Matin
Paris Committee of Defense
Frederic Brunet
Melting Dollars Converts Silver to Rupees for Indian Payments
Washington reports 62 million American silver dollars melted into bullion under the Silver bill. The bullion is shipped to India to create rupee credit for importers paying debts in India.
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Washington
India
United States
Treasury
Mahogany Tender Planned for President Wilson’s Use
A fast mahogany tender for President Wilson will be launched next week at Watervliet Boat Building Company. The vessel, similar in design and power to boats built for wealthy yachtsmen, will serve as a tender to the presidential yacht Mayflower.
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Wilson
Watervilet Boat Building Company
Arabs Raid British Stations in Egypt
An official communication reports an Arab column from Shereef Feisal's army raided the Hasa and Farafieh railway stations in Egypt on May 25. Both stations were temporarily occupied and the station buildings wrecked with the permanent way seriously damaged over about 15 kilometers.
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London
Shereef Feisal
Fl Hasa
Farafieh
Egypt
Baker Eclipse Observed by Naval Observatory Team
In Baker Oregon June 10 a total solar eclipse darkened the strip 650 miles wide causing birds to roost and chickens to seek cover. The US Naval Observatory party reported fine results with minimal cloud interference and daylight returning within minutes.
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Ore
Juen
United States Naval Observatory
J. C. Hammond
Naval Observatory
McAdoo Daughter Weds Clayton Platt at Whitemarsh Church
Mrs Harriet Adoo Martin, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury William G McAdoo, married Clayton Platt at St Thomas Episcopal Church Whitemarsh Pa. The ceremony was conducted by Rev John Chapman rector of St Pauls.
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Clayton Platt
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
Whitemarsh
Philadelphia
HarrietAdoo Martin
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. Mc. Adoo
St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church
John Chapman
St. Paul's Church
Transport sinks two submarines in war zone reports
Navy reports the American steamer Piner del Rio sunk on June 6 about 75 miles off Maryland coast with 16 men landing on Virginia shore and 17 men missing. British transport sinks two U boats after ram, with crew testimony of sinking amidships. Fleet to stay in war zone to keep Atlantic supply routes open.
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the Times
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Europe
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The
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