Germans Open New Drive On Picardy Line
Paris dispatch reports a fresh German offensive along a 15 to 18 mile front from Montdidier to Noyon with heavy bombardment and fierce French resistance. Americans and British also engaged. Paris and Amiens targets cited. Official notes confirm continued assaults and gains in central sectors with prisoners taken.
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Paris
Noyon
Montdidier
Amiens
Teutons
Aisne
Montdidier-Noyon
Haig
Villers Bretonneux
Albert
Flanders
Givenchy
Robecq
Reuter
Chateau Thierry
Marne Front
War Office
Ardre River
Denitaie
Berlin
Woman examiner for Trade Commission among early female appointees
Miss Marion L. Davies of Wisconsin, a former reporter who captured 80 prisoners, is one of the first women appointed examiner under the federal trade commission. She does research in the congressional library on manufacturing facts and has two years of secretarial experience with the commission. Nearby, German and Allied actions yield prisoners and modest gains on the front, with American forces holding firm north of Chateau Thierry as the conflict continues.
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Marion L. Davies
University of Wisconsin
Federal Trade Commission
Congressional Library
Commission
French Left Wing Holds Germans with Frightful Cost
In the Noyon sector French forces repelled repeated Huns blows with heavy casualties on the left wing. center near Ressons Sur Mat z shows slight German progress amid fierce resistance as Crown Prince fields 205 000 troops. A Belfast steamship torpedoed by a U boat reached an Irish port with three dead aboard.
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Paris
Noyon
Ressons-Surmatz
Belfast
England
Noble assigned 16000 physicians to government medical service
Brig. Gen. Robert E. Noble, chief of the personnel division of the army medical department, has passed on the qualification of and assigned to duty all the 16,000 physicians who have joined the ranks of the government as medical officers. He is also director of the hospitals on this side of the Atlantic. It is generally expected that if General Gorgas retires as surgeon general when he reaches retirement age next October, General Noble will be named as his successor.
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Robert E. Noble
Army Medical Department
Atlantic
Gorgas
General Noble
U-Boat Sinkings Cost U S Sugar Supplies
Washington reports more than 24 million pounds of Cuban sugar lost to submarine sinkings along the Atlantic coast this week. Food Administrator Hoover says further sugar cuts will be needed to compensate. soft drinks likely to be hit hard.
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Washington
Cuba
Atlantic
Hoover
Plan to Draft Doctors in Chicago for Army Service
Chicago June 10 plans to conscript doctors via the Volunteer Medical Service corps formed during the American Medical association convention. The home guard will badge members, and nonconforming doctors may be identified as unwilling to serve. States report strong backing, with deserters to be smoked out to prevent civilian neglect.
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Chicago
Army
Navy
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
American Medical Association
Uncle Sam
National Council of Defense
Corps
Paris Is Warned of Peril
In the Matin Frederic Brunet socialist deputy warns that another German drive on Paris could bring long range guns to bear and permanent fire. He argues the government must resist despite the cost to noncombatants and munition output.
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Paris
Matin
Paris Committee of Defense
Frederic Brunet
Bombardments and Air Raids Reported Along Piave Front
Rome reports increased reciprocal artillery fire along the Piave and near the coast. Our aviators bombed aviation camps between the Piave and the Livenza and at Caldonazzo railway station. Ten enemy airplanes were shot down in action.
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Emmanuel
Rome
Piave
War Office
Livenza
Caldonazzo
Melted U S Dollars Converted to Indian Rupees for War Use
Washington reports 62 million American silver dollars melted into bullion under the Silver bill. The bullion is shipped to India to provide rupee credit for importers to pay debts in India. This action transfers U S dollars into Indian rupees and other smaller coins for Indian soldiers' payments.
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Washington
United States
India
Treasury
Mahogany Tender for President Wilson Planned Launch
A fast mahogany tender for President Wilson will be launched next week at Watervliet Boat Building company in Troy. The design mirrors boats the firm built for wealthy yachtsmen and will serve as a tender to the presidential yacht Mayflower.
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Troy
N. Y
Wilson
Watervliet Boat Building Company
Mrs Gould-Shepard III Stricken With Appendicitis
Mrs Finley J. Shepard formerly Miss Helen Gould is seriously ill at her Fifth Avenue home with appendicitis. Attending physicians report the condition is satisfactory and it is hoped an operation may be avoided.
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New York
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
Fifth Avenue
League Baseball Sunday's Results Report
National League had no games scheduled. American League games featured Chicago defeating Philadelphia 2 to 1 and Washington beating Cleveland 2 to 0. New York won 4 to 0 over St. Louis in 12 innings.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Cleveland
Boston
New York
St. Coe
Perch
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Boston Seerae
Brooklyn
Edsassheaiae
Biomcom
Weashington O
Philadelphia O
Arabs Raid British Stations in Egypt
An official communication reports an Arab column of 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 while the permanent way was seriously damaged over about fifteen kilometers.
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London
Shereef Feisal
Fl Hasa
Farafieh
Egypt
Baker eclipse observed with notable results in Oregon
In Baker Oregon on June 10 the solar eclipse caused twilight darkness across a 50 mile strip. Birds hid in nests and roosts as daylight vanished, then returned within minutes of totality. Navy Observatory team led by J G Hammond reported fine results despite thin clouds.
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Baker
Ore
United States Naval Observatory
J. G. Hammond
Naval Observatory
Paris Shelled Again by German Long-Range Guns
Paris reports bombardment by long range guns with casualties tallied by Le Matin. The June 10 dispatch notes victims in the city as German fire targets the outskirts and central districts.
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Paris
The
Matin
Meadoos Daughter Weds Clayton Platt in Whitemarsh
Mrs Harriet Adoo Martin daughter of Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo married Clayton Platt in St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church Whitemarsh conducted by Rev John Chapman rector of St Pauls church Whitemarsh suburb Philadelphia June 10.
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Harriet Martin
Clayton Platt
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
Whitemarsh
Philadelphia
HarrietAdoo Martin
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. Me. Adoo
St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church
John Chapman
St. Paul’s Church
U Boat Sighting and War Zone Shipping Moves
Navy reports the American steamer Piner del Rio was sunk by a submarine on June 6 about 75 miles off Maryland. Sixteen men landed on the Virginia coast while 18 others are unaccounted for. British and Atlantic Port dispatches describe U boat actions near U S shores and a destroyer-like ram of a German sub by a British transport. Secretary Daniels says American naval power remains open to move troops and supplies to Europe despite submarine activity offshore.
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Britis
U. S
Washington
Navy Department
Maryland
Virginia
American and Cuban Steamship Line
Department
Atlantic
New York Times
the Times
New England
London
Europe
Daniels
France
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