Second Draft 10 Call 899000 Men For Nation War Effort
Provost Marshal General Crowder outlines plan for the second draft to begin once Congress amends the basis of apportionment to class 1 registrants. About 800000 to be considered for computation, with calls in small groups through the year to avoid disrupting industry and agriculture. Calls depend on labor needs, with deferments for essential farm work and measures to protect farm labor and industrial output.
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Washington
Crowder
Congress
Secretary of War
Quartermaster’s Department
Lovett Named Chief of New Railroad War Board
Robert S. Lovett, former Union Pacific chairman and War Industries Board priorities director, is installed by Director General McAdoo as head of a new division for railroads. The provost marshal general calls for 10 000 skilled artisans and 10 000 grammar school graduates to begin training before April in technical and other schools nationwide.
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New Railroad War Board
Robert S. Lovett
Union Pacific
War Indutries Board
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
States
United States
Bolshevik Changes and German Occupation Tactics Reported
Petrograd reports the bolshevik government forming a united resistance, facing Germany and Japan. The communist party replaces the social democratic label. A Finnish pact with the Red Guards is signed as Germany tightens control across Finland. German suppression intensifies in occupied regions with arrests, executions in Estonia, and pressure on Riga Smolensk and Orsha fronts as Germans redeploy from Homel toward Novozikoff.
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Petrograd
Moscow
Germany
Japan
Bolshevik Congress
Communist Party
Philip Scheidemann
Jeader
Reichstag
Riga
Smolensk
Homel
Novozikoff
Orsha
Americans Smash German Lines Near Toul Sector
United States guns hammered German trenches in a new night attack south of Richecourt on the Toul front. The fighting was the hottest yet. five groups of gas projectors were obliterated and ten American troops advanced to the second line, finding only German dead.
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United States
Richecourt
Toul
Five Ottumwa Soldiers Slightly Injured in Action
Ottumwa reports Company G of the 168th regiment has seen actual warfare. Five men including Captain Edward Steller and Privates James M. Burns Clinton A. Rhoades George C. Mattox Morris Proctor and William C. Lindsay were slightly injured on March 8 during action.
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Ottumwa
168Th Regiment of
Edward Steller
James M. Burns
Clinton A. Rhoades
George C. Mattox
Morris Proctor
William C. Lindsay
Courthouse Burns in Clark County Fire ruins building
Springfield Ohio March 13 Clark county's courthouse is in ruins after a fire that started around one and burned until four in the morning. Replacement cost is estimated at 500000 with origin of the blaze undetermined.
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Springfield
Clark County
Eight Socialist Soldiers Convicted at Camp Dodge
A general court martial at Camp Dodge Iowa convicting eight National Army men from St Paul, all professed Socialists, for refusing to obey orders. A. S. Brams received 20 years while the others were sentenced to 25 years.
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Camp Dodge
National Army
St. Paul
A. S. Brams
Baker Visits France for War Effort and Inspection
Paris report says Newton D. Baker met Gen. Pershing and Gen. Bliss to review American expeditionary forces and supply lines. He traveled with 10 000 troops aboard a cruiser convoy amid submarine alarms and air defenses, then inspected transportation at Versailles before leaving for a French seaport.
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Paris
Newton D. Baker
France
General Pershing
America
Baker
Tasker H. Bliss
Mr. Baker
General Bliss
William M. Black
Air raid reports and casualties across London and Germany
London reports a Thursday air raid on London causing 20 deaths and 45 injuries. An official statement notes hostile airships attacked the Yorkshire coast. A separate telegram from Frankfurt claims British raids on Mainz killed three soldiers four women and a child with many injured. British aviators dropped bombs on Coblenz, claims official communication.
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London
Yorkshire
Lord French
Home Defense Forces
Amsterdam
L Frankfort
Coblenz
Rhine Province
Prussia
Jack Pickford Joins Air Corps in Los Angeles
Movie star Jack Pickford heads to the aviation service in Los Angeles California drawing a sendoff by hundreds of picture actors including his wife Olive Thomas and sister Mary Pickford.
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Jack Pickford
Air Corps
Los Angeles
Cal
Aviation Service
Olive Thomas
Mary
Willfred W. Lufkin Succeeds Gardner in Congress
Willfred W. Lufkin, after 15 years as secretary to the late Representative Augustus D P Gardner, becomes the successor in Congress. He is identified as a Republican and the first member of congress to join the colors.
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Willfred W. Lufkin
Augustus DP
Gardner
Congress
The
Colors
Major Gardner
Four Airplanes Shot Down In German Raid On Paris
Paris and suburbs report 34 killed and 79 injured as crowds surge into a Metropolitan railway entrance seeking refuge from German bombers. Twenty killed and fifty injured in Paris, five killed and twenty nine injured in the suburbs. Germans lose four planes. a Gotha down near Chateau Thierry. Berlin says Paris was copiously bombed in retaliation.
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Paris
Mareh
Gotha
Chateau Thierry
Soissons
War Office
Foe
Berlin
Varis
Stuttgart
Essiingen
Unterturkheim
U S 10 RUSH ARMY TO FRENCH FRONT
News from Washington reports orders to speed American troop deployment to France as ships become available. Seven generals are relieved amid a broad command shakeup to ensure only fit officers are sent abroad. Allies urge faster troop movements and the War Department plans vast depots and a 376 million dollar budget boost to support preparations for a larger war effort.
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Washington
France
Europe
General Pershing
Thomas H. Barry
Camp Grant
Central Department
Chicago
W. H. Carter
Edward IL. Plummer
Camp Dodge
Richard W. Blatchford
Panna
Edwin St. J. Greble
Camp Bowie
Tex
Charles C. Morton
Camp McCclellan
Ala
William H. Sage
Camp Shelby
Miss
William A. Mann
New York
Barry
Morton
Leonard Wood
National Army
Marek
Shipping Board
War Department
Atlantic
Alleghenies
Congress
Senate
House approves rent profiteering bill in Washington
The House passed a measure to cap rent increases at more than ten percent over 1916 levels in Washington. The bill moves to the Senate for action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roads Lose $40 Million Suit
Washington March 12 The railroads failed to recover 40 000 000 from the government over space compensation for mail transport. The Court of Claims reaffirmed a prior ruling in favor of the government indicating the government will retain the funds.
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Washington
Court of Claims
Governor calls special session on franchise for soldiers
Governor Norbeck ordered a special South Dakota legislature session in Pierre to meet Monday March 18 to consider granting franchise to soldiers serving in Europe.
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Pierre
S. D
Norbeck
South Dakota
Eurepe
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