Senate Accepts Deficiency Bill as Goethals Controversy Flare
The Senate approved the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill by a unanimous vote, sending the $3.34 billion measure, including $750 million for the merchant marine, to the President. Debates touched Goethals status and a renewed dispute over the Shipping Board and wooden ships. A new bill to curb wartime alcohol production and empower requisition of spirits was ordered reported.
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Lodge
Panama Canal
Congress
Goethals
Underwood
General Goethals
Lode
Shipping Corporation
Smith
Michigan
William Denman
the Herth
Martin
Fleet Corporation
House
General Coethals
Senator Lodre
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sir Herbert Plummer British General Who Won Messines Ridge
British General Sir Herbert Plummer played a pivotal role in the victory at Messines Ridge during World War I, earning recognition for his leadership and strategic success in the offensive.
Baseball Scores and Draft Evader Prison Sentence
Baseball results show Philadelphia Cincinnati Pittsburgh and New York games with exact scores and lineups. A separate item reports Herman P. Levine a Brooklyn school teacher and college graduate receiving eleven months and twenty nine days in federal prison for draft registration failure.
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New York
Chatfield
Federal
Brooklyn
Herman P. Levine
London Air Raid Leaves Destruction Across Dense East End
London suffers a daylight air raid by fifteen German aircraft over the east end lasting fifteen minutes. At least 49 are dead and 200 wounded while Londoners seek shelter as bombs strike tenements and docks in the city’s poorest districts.
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London
England
East End
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Naval Aid Service
Frag
Bomb hits school and tracks killing and injuring many
A bomb crash caused a school roof to collapse into classrooms killing ten children and injuring fifty. Explosions also set several warehouses ablaze and a train hit by a second bomb left seven dead and seventeen wounded.
Venizelos May Aid Greek Return to Power
An official dispatch from Saloniki states King Constantine’s abdication is public in Athens and order remains. Venizelos supporters expect his recall to power to aid unity and harmony with the new king.
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Saloniki
Constantine
Athens
Venizelos
United
Cece
Thousands Forsake Homes After El Salvador Quake
Washington report states that at least 20,000 people sleep in streets and parks of San Salvador after a devastating earthquake and volcanic eruption. Rainy season intensifies hardship as shelters and food run scarce.
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Washington
San Salvador
Pershing to Decide American Expedition Position
Washington reports General Pershing will decide where the American expeditionary force will be placed after meeting with French army heads. His recommendations, effectively final, are to be approved at the war department amid rumors of coordination with General Petain rather than Field Marshal Haig. Pershing remains an independent commander while cooperating with the French on French soil.
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Washington
Pershing
War Department
Pershine
General Petain
Field Marshal Haig
Marshall Haig
Northwest crops seen as record making this year
Chicago reports the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad crop data indicating expected record breaking grain crops across the northwest. The survey notes larger acreage and rapid progression toward maturity.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Northwest
Wisconsin Guard to Move South for Temporary Duty
Wisconsin national guard troops, after a temporary mobilization, will be moved south to Texas and Washington on June 14 for further duty.
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Badger” Guard
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin National Guard
Pershing Arrives in France to Great Ovation
General John J. Pershing arrives in France amid a warm reception from Allied leaders and troops. The career commander tours key fronts and signals U.S. commitment as American forces prepare for extended involvement in the war.
Rantoul Illinois Builds Army Aviation Training Field Grows Town
Rantoul Illinois races to become a town overnight as more than 1,200 workers erect 59 buildings on the new army aviation training field. By July 20 population may rise from 4,630 to about 6,000. The site is one of eight for reserve corps pilots, near Urbana where student aviators study at the University of Illinois.
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Rantoul
Ill
Army Aviation
Reserve Corps
Aviation Section
Army
Urbana
University of Illinois
U S Steamer Sinks German Sub Hailed As Sinking News
At Atlantic Port June 14 the American steamship Kroonland reportedly rammed and sank a German submarine after being attacked by two underwater boats. The Anglian torpedoed and sunk with five missing crew members reported. two Americans aboard. U-Boat toll to heavier with numerous British merchantmen sunk.
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Kroonland
United States
Boston
Anglian
Liverpool
Leyland Line
Lawrenson
James P. King
John Tannon
London
The
Admiralty
Auto crash near South Bend leaves one dead
A car ran off an embankment on Edwardsburg road six miles northeast of South Bend. Marie Smith, twenty two, died of internal injuries and breast bruising. Ella Rogers, twenty four, badly burned with head injuries. Ray Cowell, thirty, head and shoulder injuries. Clayton Penrose, Joseph Biffle, and Barney Rabinovich escaped with minor injuries.
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Ind
Edwardsburg Road
Marie Smith
Ella Rogers
Ray Cowell
Joseph Biffle
Clayton Penrose
Barney Rabinovich
Illinois recruits to join Texas camp for reserve corps
Chicago informs that applications open July 15 for a second officers' reserve corps training camp for Illinois recruits to be held at Leon Springs Texas from August 27 to November 26. Texas Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma contingents will also participate.
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Officers’ Reserve Corps
Illinois
Leon Springs
Tex
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
State Seeks Laboratory Helpers for Institutions
The state civil service commission announced an experiment to provide laboratory helpers for the State Psychopathic Institution at Kankakee and for the bacteriological laboratory of the Springfield board of health.
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Springfield
Ill
State Civil Service Commission
State Psychopathic
Kankakee
The
Board of Health
Soldier Leaps To Rescue Fails As Boy Drowns In Ohio River
In New Albany Indiana on a June 14 incident Private Glenn Vore of the Second regiment Indiana national guard saved no time unfastening his side arms and nearly perished in the water as he tried to rescue ten year old Robert Minor Jr. who drowned in the Ohio river after Vore’s valiant effort.
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Muncie
Ind
Lydia
Karl A. Oesterle
Delaware County National Bank
Dora Guild
Oesterle House
New Albany
Ohio River
Robert Minor, Jr
Glenn Vore
Indiana National Guard
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