Senate approves 3.34 billion deficiency bill with Goethals controversy
The Senate, without dissent, backs the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill totaling 3.34 billion dollars, including 750 million for the merchant marine, sending it to the President for signature. The session revisits General Goethals’ status amid renewed Fire on the Panama Canal builder and shipboard power struggles. A new measure seeks to curb foodstuff-to-liquor production during the war, empowering the President to requisition supplies for alcohol and food conservation.
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Washington
Senate
Panama Canal
Congress
General Goethals
Ank
Underwood
Shipping Corporation
Martin
Shipping Board
Senate Agriculture Committee
Venizelos May Aid Prince In United Greece Return
An official dispatch from Saloniki via Venizelist quarters in London says King Constantine has abdicated and order prevails in Athens. Venizelos supporters expect his recall to power to work with the new king for a united Greece.
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London
Saloniki
Constantine
Athens
Venizelos
United
Earthquake Leaves San Salvador Shrouded in Despair
Washington reports at least twenty thousand people sleep in streets and parks of San Salvador after a powerful earthquake and volcanic eruption. Rainy season has begun worsening conditions with no food or shelter.
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Washington
San Salvador
Baseball scores and a draft evasion sentence
Baseball results from Cincinnati Pittsburgh New York Boston Washington and Philadelphia games with scores and key pitchers listed. A Brooklyn federal court sentenced Herman P Levine to eleven months and twenty nine days for draft registration evasion.
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New York
Chatfield
Federal
Brooklyn
Herman P. Levine
London Raid Hits East End as Ten Children Die
London suffered a daylight raid by fifteen German aircraft over the east end lasting fifteen minutes. At least 49 people were dead and 200 wounded, with ten children among the dead after a bomb hit a school. Fire and debris engulfed tenements and warehouses while Royal Air Force units defended the city.
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London
East End
Ingland
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Naval Aid Service
Frag
Pershing to Decide Placement of American Expedition
Washington dispatch reports General Pershing will determine where the American expeditionary force is placed in concert with French army heads. The War Department denied plans for Pershing to operate under General Petain and said Pershing will be an independent commander like Marshal Haig, cooperating with the French on French soil.
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Bill
Goethals
General Goethals
Senator Lodge
Underwood
Washington
Pershing
War Department
General Pershing
General Petain
Field Marshal Haig
Marshall Haig
Bumper crops predicted by railroad experts
Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad officials released a crop report stating indications point to record grain crops across the northwest. Acreage is larger than in former years and crops are advancing toward maturity with surprising rapidity.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Io
Northwest
Wisconsin Guard Units Mobilize for Texas and Washington
Wisconsin national guard troops, after temporary mobilization at home, will be moved south to Texas and Washington on June 14.
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Badger” Guard
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin National Guard
Arrives in France Pershing Receives Great Ovation
General John J. Pershing arrives in France to a widespread welcome as Allied forces greet the American Supreme Commander. Crowds cheer and officials salute the visiting commander during the first moments of his European mission.
Army aviation training field rises at Rantoul town site
Rantoul Illinois races to build a new army aviation training field as 1,200 workers erect 59 buildings. By July 20 the town population is expected to rise from 4,690 to about 6,000, with eight training sites planned for reserve corps pilots.
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Rantoul
Ill
Army Aviation
Reserve Corps
Aviation Section
Army
Urbana
University of Illinois
American Steamer Sinks U Boat and Anglian Torpedoed
At Atlantic port June 14 reports say the American steamship Kroonland rammed and sank a German submarine after two torpedo attacks. The Anglian, ex Megantic, sails from Boston May 23 to Liverpool, torpedoed and sunk with several crew missing. U Boat toll grows as British merchant ships suffer losses.
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Atlantic
Kroonland
United States
Boston
Leviand Hner Anglian
Liverpool
Leyland Line
Anglian
Lawrenson
James P. King
John Tannon
Bos4 Ten
London
The
Admiralty
Kidnap Bid Ends In Fatal Crash Near South Bend
A car crash northeast of South Bend killed Mrs Marie Smith and injured two others, while three more received minor injuries. In Muncie detectives close in on a two oesterle bank execs baby kidnapping attempt, hoping arrests soon.
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South Bend
Ind
Edwardsburg Road
Marie Smith
Ella Rogers
Ray Cowell
Joseph Biffle
Clayton Penrose
Barney Rabinovich
Illinois recruits to join second officers reserve camp in Texas
Texas camp for Illinois Chicago announces applications from July 15 in Chicago for a training camp at Leon Springs Texas starting August 27. The program runs through November 26 and will also include recruits from Texas Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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Chicago
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Illinois
Leon Springs
Tex
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
State Seeks Laboratory Helpers for Institutions
The state civil service commission announces an experiment to provide laboratory helpers at the State Psychopathic Institution in Kankakee and at the bacteriological laboratory of the Springfield board of health. The notice specifies location and purpose of the program.
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State
Springfield
Ill
State Civil Service Commission
State Psychopathic
Kankakee
The
Board of Health
Soldier Leaps to Rescue as Boy Drowns in Ohio River
In New Albany Indiana on June 14 Private Glenn Vore of the Second regiment Indiana national guard plunged into the Ohio river to save ten year old Robert Minor Jr. He failed to free his side arms and heavy soaked clothing nearly overwhelmed him. The boy drowned despite the rescue attempt.
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New Albany
Ind
Ohio River
Robert Minor, Jr
Glenn Vore
Indiana National Guard
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