Senate Prohibits Whisky Beer and Wine in Bone Dry Plan
Washington June 28 Prohibitionists cheer as the Senate agricultural committee votes bone dry prohibition extending to whisky beer and wine with President allowed to authorize wine production. The full committee rejects wine allowance but accepts the broader dry measure. An added amendment bars government contract participation by advisory officials.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Congress
Kenyon
Advisory Commission
Council of National Defense
Mr. Hoover
Agricultural Committee
Daylight Saving Bill Passes Senate En Route to House
The daylight saving bill passed the senate without discussion or a recorded vote and was sent to the house. It amends time by advancing clocks one hour from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September starting next year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Twenty Nine Draft Detainees Plead Guilty in Rockford Case
Freeport Illinois reports that 29 men who served time in Winnebago county jail for violating the draft registration law at Rockford on June 6 pleaded guilty. This adds to 103 cases resolved on Tuesday.
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Freeport
Ill
Winnebago County
Rockford
Great Lakes to share in shipyard plans for wartime fleet
Washington dispatch reports the emergency fleet corporation will establish Great Lakes shipyards to build merchant vessels after the war. Major General Goethals says surveys will pick a site through the Welland canal with a proposal process to follow. Senator James Hamilton Lewis pushed for yards at Chicago's southern and northern limits.
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Washington
Great Lakes
James Hamilton Lewis
George W. Goethals
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Lewis
Goethals
Welland Canal
General Goethals
Senator Lewis
Lakes
Chicago
American woodmen arrive to raze British woods
Ten units of American woodmen sent from New England to Britain have landed with full equipment including machinery and lubricants. They are prepared to establish sawmills and begin cutting forests at once, needing only raw food prepared by their own cooks.
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London
New England
United Kingdom
Submarine Toll Decreases In British Vessels Report
London June 28 The weekly admiralty statement shows U boats sank twenty one British ships over 1600 tons and seven under that tonnage in the last week No fishing vessels were listed The report notes a drop of six in larger vessels from the prior week Since mid April a total of 331 British ships have been sunk including 240 over 1600 tons
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London
Admiralty
Lawson Interfered with Registration Held by Federal Officials
Kokomo Indiana June 28 John Lawson is jailed awaiting action by federal authorities Lieutenant William E Kepner alleges Lawson interfered with registration.
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U. S
Kokomo
Ind
John Lawson
William E. Kepner Allees Lawson
American troops land in France as convoyed by sea
French seaport marks Second Contingent arrival amid cheers as efforts to reach the front accelerate. Major General Pershing arrives and troops transfer to a nearby camp under General Sibert. Washington notes epochal landing, with all forces regulars under Pershing preparing for front deployment.
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William L. Sibert
Pershing
Washington
France
Belgium
General Pershing
Wilson
Nearly four million subscribe to liberty loan total
Washington reports 3,960,000 subscribers totaling $3,035,226,850 with 99 percent of people pledging. John D Rockefeller among 21 donors $5,000 or more. New York leads oversubscription, Pacific coast cities exceed targets, while Minneapolis Kansas City and Atlanta miss minimums.
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Washington
Liberty Loan
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Department
John D Rockefeller
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Atlanta
San Francisco
St. Louis
New York
Great District
Metropolis
Buffalo
Syracuse
Rochester
WILL FORCE SHIPS TO SAIL
President Wilson met with Secretary Redfield at the commerce building to discuss enforcing the export control act and licensing system on bunker coal. He indicated an early move to put idle ships into transatlantic service amid submarine fears. Countries refusing to deploy their vessels may lose export licenses for certain commodities.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Commerce
Redfield
Denman
The
Shipping Board
House Passes Harbors Bill on Rivers Spend
Washington June 28 the rivers and harbors appropriation bill totaling 26 million dollars passed the house by a 205 to 132 vote.
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Washington
House
Drowns as Promotion Nears in Maryland
In Champaign Illinois June 28 a telegram announced that Fred C Hall a coast artillery private who was near promotion died by drowning at Fort Howard Maryland shortly after relatives learned he was in line for a rise.
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Champaign
Ill
Pesatum
Fred C. Hall
Coast Artillery
Fort Howard
German Gold Shrinks Indicate Drop in Imperial Bank Reserves
Amsterdam report cites Frankfurter Zeitung noting indications of a sizable decline in Germany’s imperial bank gold stock in the next returns. The story centers on the impact of bullion movements and currency policy on German reserves.
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Amsterdam
The
Frankfurter Zeitung
Imperial Bank of Germany
Thirty Lives Lost in Latest U Boat Raids
New York reports indicate six ships destroyed by mines or submarines with at least thirty total deaths. The Galena, Maggie, Gunhild, N Hadzikyriakos, King Haakon, and Mongolia were sunk or mined, with varied casualty outcomes and crew salvages.
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New York
Galena
King Haakon
Maggie
Gunhild
Hadzikyriakos
Mongolia
Bombay
Forsart Creita Tax War Effort and Finance Committee
A fragment notes a wartime tax effort focusing on profits tax es and partnerships. It mentions work toward completing a war tax bill and references a finance committee pushing the measure.
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Wasiou
Innhate Finance Committee
U S Will Cut Rail Luxuries in War Time Plan
Washington reports a sweeping coal and rail restructuring to aid Russia. Luxuries such as Pullman cars, cafe and library cars, barber shops and baths will be abandoned. many trains will be consolidated or canceled to free locomotives for war needs. Some services may be saved where possible.
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Washington
Russia
Ra‘ioad
War Board
Council of National Defense
Rueia
Percmit
Merey
Ing
Methodists Gather to Discuss Reunion in Traverse City
Clergymen and lay delegates representing several million members of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist church South opened a conference at Traverse City to consider the reunion of the seven long branches of Methodism.
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Traverse City
Mich
Methodist Episcopal Church
The
Methodist Church South
Russian scout action repelled in Galicia near Grakovce
Petrograd reports active reconnaissance between Russian and Austrian forces in Galicia. A Russian company dispersed an enemy party near Grakovce, while an Austrian unit broke through and forced a return to trenches with seven Serbian wounds to Lieutenant Muraucev.
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Petrograd
Galicia
War Office
Grakovce
Muraucev
Cantonment Site Chosen for Des Moines
Secretary Baker selects Des Moines Iowa as one of the national army cantonment sites after Major General Garry’s report on ground suitability. Ground inspection by the general confirmed its fitness for military use.
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Washington
Des Moines
Baker
Sxteen National Army
Garry
Central Department
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