Wilson Creates Experts Embargo Council To Regulate Exports
President Wilson by executive order forms a four member experts embargo council to oversee exports of foodstuffs to neutral nations. The panel includes Secretary Lansing, Secretary Redfield, Secretary Houston, and Herbert C Hoover as food administrator, directing licensing rather than prohibitions to feed allies while preserving U.S. supply. The policy aims to be advisory, ensuring needs at home and for allied armies are met with minimal disruption to normal trade.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Lansing
Commerce
Redfield
Agriculture
Houston
Herbert C. Hoover
Congress
Food Administration Bureau
MISS KATHERINE STINSON Chicago Aviatrice Honored
Chicago aviatrix Katherine Stinson is highlighted for her Red Cross service. The article discusses the role of a wartime food license system and a council’s plan to ration scarce supplies among the United States, allies, and hungry neutrals abroad.
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United States
Council
U S Registry Shows 95.9 Percent of Census Estimate
Washington reports returns from all states indicate 9,659 382 registrants under the conscription law, about 95.9 percent of the Census Bureau estimate. Exemptions reflect youths in military service, while exemptions balance state variances.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Rogers
War Department
Military
Naval Service
Germany
Taft Discusses Red Cross Plans With Wilson
Former President Taft as Red Cross central committee chair met with President Wilson to discuss potential changes in the executive committee and closer cooperation with the war council. The effort seeks full-time commitment from selected members.
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Washington
Taft
Red Cross Central Committee
Wilson
War Council
Red Cross
Trooper Dies in Hospital During Dispatch
Byron F. Dunne of Gorin Missouri a member of Company B Eighteenth United States Infantry died in a Rock Island Illinois hospital after being taken ill on a troop train while en route to the east two weeks earlier
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Rock Island, Ill
Byron F. Dunne
Gorin
Eighteenth United States Infantry
Rock Island
Brother Kills Brother Accident in Indiana Home
Wendell Phillips Reid, seventeen, son of L. S. Reid, was accidentally shot and killed by his thirteen year old brother Hubert at their Elkhart home on June 25. The tragedy occurred while handling a firearm.
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Elkhart
Ind
Wendell Phillips Reid
Ll. S. Reid
Hubert
Canadians Gain Ground Around Lens In Key Night Assault
London reports Canadians push 400 yards into a German trench on the Lens front as British raids meet success along a 120 mile frontline. Allied forces press to encircle Lens while Berlin claims German defense held.
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London
Lens
Queen City
France
Dominion
Berlin
Miss Grace Strachan Weds Timothy Forsythe in Vermont
Miss Grace C Strachan president of the Interboro Association of Women Teachers married Timothy J Forsythe in Fair Haven Vermont on April six. The couple planned a quiet ceremony but news leaked. Forsythe previously acted as her publicity manager during campaigning for the teachers pension bill.
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Grace C. Strachan
Interboro Association of Women Teachers
Timothy J. Forsythe
Fairhaven
Miss Strachan
Forsythe
Indict 3 in Antidraft Case at Rockford Rally
Indictments against 134 alleged antidraft demonstrators were returned before Judge Landis. Three ringleaders Clyde Howe Emil Schrom and Earl Cully charged with conspiracy to thwart the registration law. Others charged with violating the law. Bonds set at 25,000 for leaders and 1,000 for others.
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Freeport
Ill
Rockford
Landis
Federal Court
Clyde Howe
Emil Schrom
Earl Cully
Wreck German Factories Amid Munition Plant Fires
Paris reports from a Zurich correspondent that several German munition plants have suffered disasters. Spandau hand grenade arsenal exploded on June 16 and seven Marienhall ammunition shops burned on June 18. Nuremberg factories also burned, per authority.
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Paris
Germany
Zurich
Mafin
Spandau
Marienhall
Nuremberg
Whiting butcher loses thumb and two fingers in accident
George Reseka, a Whiting butcher, accidentally severed his thumb with a cleaver. A friend offered condolences as he demonstrated the mishap, showing he intended to strike but instead cut off two fingers.
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Indiana
Whiting
Ind
George Reseka
Reseka
Brother catches license in fatal Lafayette auto incident
Mary Smith five is killed crossing near Lafayette and brother John Smith, 15, reports license B-2370 after driver fails to stop. Auto traced to Elmer Haggerty of Brookston and he is arrested. In broader dispatch, Austrian explosive factory disaster reported with nearly 1000 casualties or missing.
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Lafayette
Ind
Mary
Guy Smith
John Smith
Elmer Haggerty
Brookston
U.S. Gunners Defeat U-Boat Off Irish Coast
American naval gunners repelled a German submarine attacking an American passenger liner off Ireland. A torpedo missed by less than twenty feet as gunners fired from the forward guns and stern. The U-boat was later sunk amidships by a British steamer’s shell, its ends sinking separately.
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Ireland
Atlantic
Tay Pay OConnor Arrives in New York From Europe
Thomas P. O Connor known as Tay Pay arrives at an Atlantic port aboard a British steamer. He travels to Washington to address Irish race issues and the aims of greater Ireland within the U S democracy. He says the conflict in Britain has hardened unity and that armed rebellion is less favored than constitutional progress.
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New York
Thomas P. O’connor
Atlantic
Richard H#ton
Northalway
Washington
Mr. O’connor
Friends of Ireland
Ireland
Democratic
Republic of America
Britain
Pershing Names Palmer to Intelligence Staff
Major General Pershing appoints Frederick Palmer of New York to his staff in the intelligence department with the rank of major. He joins from Paris where the announcement came from American army headquarters on June 25.
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Paris
Pershing
Frederick Palmer
New York
Intelligence Department
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ST. Quentin
John J. Pershing
General Pershing
Marshal Joffre
Navy Department and Shipping Board
President Wilson
Trooper
T. P
Tay Pay
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Ress Association
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Amsterdam
Bloeweg
Vienna
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