President Signs Draft Measure and Orders June Registration
President Wilson signed the conscription bill setting June 6 as the registration day for all men aged 21 to 31. He rejected Roosevelt volunteer divisions but ordered a division of regular troops to France under Major General Pershing, with training to precede deployment.
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Atlanta Fire Destroys 100 Blocks in Negro and Warehouse District
A massive blaze in Atlanta on Monday destroyed air structures over more than 100 blocks, leveling Ponce de Leon's wealthy district. Wind-driven flames overwhelmed fire crews. thousands became homeless, aided by citizens and the Red Cross. Despite dynamite efforts and aid from multiple cities and Fort McPherson, the fire raged with minimal injuries and one confirmed death.
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Citizens’ Committee
Atlanta Red Cross
Attiinks
Edgewood Avenue
Fort Street
Hese
Bessie Hodges
Vedo
Demtr Street
Hillard Street
Ikewood
Prospect Place
Owipina
Draft Registration Protocols Ahead of June Fourth Deadline
Washington reports Judge Advocate General Crowder leads the draft registration process under the Selective Draft Act. The routine focuses on enforcement details before the June 4 deadline. Exemptions consider agricultural status and financial dependence of families. Married men with dependent spouses and children may face different rules.
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Crowder
Jarshal
Phils
Hoover Named U.S. Food Controller in War Effort
President Wilson asks Herbert Hoover, famed Belgian relief organizer, to head the emergency food administration with no pay. Hoover accepts if serving without compensation. Legislation pending in Congress would authorize the appointment and set up an independent board to run food control to avoid a permanent bureaucracy.
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House Committee On Agriculture
Food Administration
Shell kills two U S nurses in sea firing accident
In an accident during practice firing aboard an armed American freighter bound for Europe, two Red Cross nurses from Chicago died and a third was wounded. The killed were Mrs Edith Ayres and Miss Theden Burnett Wood. the wounded nurse was Miss Kinin Matzen. The ship returned to New York with the bodies and the injured nurse, as authorities withheld full cause details.
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Edith Ayres
Tieden Burnett Wood
Kinin Matzen
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France
New York Navy Yard
Poulathe
Navy
Sata
No Do
Three plotters sent to prison in New Jersey case
New York May 21 reports three men convicted in federal court of conspiracy to interfere with shipments to the Entente. Aude Cosham directed the plot. the convicts face state prison terms. Bail set at 5 000 for two former congressmen, Frank Buelaumina and H Robert Powter, who were tried but jurors disagreed on their actions.
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H. Robert Powter
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Herman Schaltebs
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American Troops Ordered to France by the President
President Wilson announced that about a division of regular U S troops under Maj Gen John J Pershing will sail to France as soon as possible. Pershing and staff will precede the division to arrange training at Chalons and join the front. A regiment of U S Marines, 2600 strong under Cpl Charles A Doyen, will also go to Europe at the earliest practicable moment.
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Belgium
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Marine Corps Examining and Retiring Board
General Pershing
French Break German Line in May Offensive Gains
French forces attacked the Moronvilers area driving Germans from strong positions and taking hundreds of prisoners. British artillery claims heavy German losses along the Hin-dhenborg line while German defenses on the Arras front retreated from several trenches. official dispatches note French progress and moves on Mount Carnil and Mount Rel.
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U. S. May Fix Coal Prices Report Says
A federal commission report cites a bid to adjust coal prices to avert shortages. It states producers bear responsibility for price stability, noting no scarcity of coal at the source and that current and future demand can be met.
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Washington
Federal Ride Commission
War-Weary Era Headlines From The News Briefly Told
Yale men enlist for Fort Meyer and a string of incidents across the country include a ranch raid in Texas thefts, bread shortages and riots in Lisbon, US aviation training for the war, a fatal train collision near Mansfield, Ohio and a turbine explosion at Youngstown plant. Northern Pacific back pay missing in Spokane, Minnesota forest fires flare along three iron ranges, Belgian death sentences reprieved by the Kaiser, and legal defeat for Arthur P. Heinze in copper antitrust case.
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Youngstown
American Hospital
London
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Spokane
Wash
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Minnesota
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Benedict
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Rome
Thorum
Norway
Arthur P. Heinze
Heinze Copper
Supreme Court
Washington
Amalgamated Copper Company
Montana
Heinze
Food administration urged to manage wartime grain supply
Washington May 19. After a conference between Herbert C Noover and a grain exchange committee the groups issued a statement calling for a food administration with wartime powers to conserve and allocate grain. They say elimination of waste will ensure ample domestic and allied supplies during the war.
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Herbert C. Noover
Council of Grain Exchanges
Western Grain Exchange
Baroness Kadar Murdered on Hungarian Estate
Baroness Genza Duke von Kadar was killed by an employee on her estate near Temesvar Hungary. The attack occurred May 21 and authorities are investigating the case as a homicide.
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Temesvar
Hungary
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