Great Billion Dollar Fleet Plan Aims to End Submarine Menace
Washington May 8 Congress will be asked to appropriate five to six million tons bonds for a great American fleet to overcome the submarine menace. The Shipping Board plans diverting steel mill products to government use and canceling private contracts with damages if needed. Steel and wooden vessels worth about one billion dollars may be built by the government over the next two years. Only steel for national defense will be exempt. Bisfer has introduced measures to start shipbuilding within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Congress
Shipping Board
German ship owners win in case over Kronprinzessin Cecilie damages
The U S Supreme Court, in a decision by Justice Holmes with Justices Pitney and Clark dissenting, held that German ship owners could claim damages for ships that abandoned voyages mid ocean. The ruling affects similar claims against other German vessels in American ports. In Congress the House backed using enemy ships in American ports. Five Americans were aboard the Uruguayan ship Gorizia, sunk by a German submarine in April.
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Cecilie
Supreme Court
America
Holmes
Pitney and
Clark
Washington
May
Gorizia
State Department
Red Cross Chapter Forms in Jefferson County
A large meeting at the High School Auditorium organized the Jefferson County Chapter of the American Red Cross. The group starts with 155 members, including one life and one patron member, funded in part by the Junior Class whose play raised 125.90 dollars, with 100 dollars used for a patron membership and 25 dollars for a life membership for Miss Cora Porter.
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Jefferson County
American Red Cross Society
Cora Porter
J. S. McKemey
Unkrich
R. H. Polly
McKemey
Burlington
Leipziger
Red Cross
John Bartlett
A. S. Harue
Rav
Mersey
Keesey
McKenney
Walnut Township
M. H. Corey
Adam Sinn
Penn Township
F. A. Apt. F
Eck
Blackhawk Township
C. R. Spencer
Irl Woolums
Polk Township
James R. Peters
Kk. A. Romack
Locust Grove
McDowell
Liberty Township
S. K. Davis
W. Riggs
Des Mines
Charles 8. Fresconi
John T. Pollock
Fairfield City
William Louden
R. . Wilson
J. P. Starr
J. Ll
Raney
J. S. McKenney
Charles Carter
Crane
Frank Fourt
Frank Boies
Ruth Leggett
Frank Droz
Elizabeth Whitney
Court House
Antarctic explorer plans return after war service
An early New York arrival quoted an Antarctic explorer asking how conscription was doing in Washington. He supported conscription and noted his plan to complete military service in France before visiting the Antarctic again after the war.
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New York
Washington
San Francisco
France
Antarctic
Incomes Tax Plan Targets High Earners in Revenue Bill
Washington May 8 The Ways and Means Committee reports a revenue bill setting taxes on single earners over 1000 and married earners over 2000 to fund 1.8 million dollars in taxes. The draft includes a 33 percent levy on incomes of 500000 or more, bringing total tax burden to roughly 45 to 50 percent with normal and surtaxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Soldier and Bride Marry by Affidavit in Separation
A marriage return filed in Anderson Indiana shows United States soldier Don W. McKinney Knotts stationed in Mexico and Dorothy Barlow of Elwood wed by affidavit while 2000 miles apart last September. Knotts swore vows before a Texas magistrate and Barlow before Justice Parker in Elwood.
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Mall. Anderson
Ind
Don W. McKinney Knotts
United States
Mexico
Dorothy Barlow
Elwood
Knotts
Texas
Justice Parker
Secret proviso in US Danish treaty over Virgin Islands
Washington May 8 Representatives Alexander disclosed a secret provision in the US Danish treaty transferring the Virgin Islands. He said an arrangement to not seize German ships in Virgin Islands ports exists, revealed by Attorney General Gregory and not in the published treaty. In Minnesota, most of the First Minnesota field artillery will be withdrawn from guard duty per a supplemental order from Governor Burnquist.
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Washington
Virgin Islands
Danish West Indies
Alexander
Virgin Island
Gregory
St. Paul, May
Minnesota Field Artillery
Burnquist
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the Daily Journal
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Wean Taylor
W. Taylor
Mae
Bae
Washington, May
Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Boston
England
U.S
Senate
Snap
J. W
Sir Ernest Shackleton
American Press Association
Yeoman Hall
South B Street
Sadie Goehner
Fifth Street
Stone Street
South Depot
A. J. Devd
John Overholser
Frank Begardus
Luther Munger
C. C. Bell
Bowen Circle
Order of the Hastern Stern
Mt. Pleasant
Ottumwa
The
Ladies Improvement Association
Agassiz
C. W. Wade
the Fair Store
West Adams Street
C. G. Bush
Ruth Young
N. N. E. Club
J. T. Rogers
South Main Street
Margaret Pollock
Elks’ Club
Clark and
Ellwood Hadley
Richland
Ralph Brown
Paul Lamson
Basin, Wyo
Roth & CO
Nottingham
Brussels Net
C. E. Anderson
J. C. Bradshaw Furniture CO
Herrick Refrigerator
Lamberson's
Pattern Hat Shop
Phoenix
SILK
Paul Jones
Foster
Pure Life
National Life Assn
Des Moines, Ia
W. B. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
Fairfield, Ia
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