Wisconsin Tornado Leaves Towns in Ruin and Death
A destructive Wisconsin tornado hit Richland Sauk and Dane counties killing seven people and injuring many more. Lone Rock suffered the worst damage with half the village razed and seven deaths reported. other losses spread to Plain Prairie du Sac Spring Green Blue Mounds and Baraboo with extensive farm and church damage.
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Madison
Wis
Iowa
Richland
Sauk
Dane
Lone Rock
Lower
P. C. Pitkin
Trin-County Review
Ferdinand Buelow
Honey Creek
Cank County
Martin Yanker
William Wright
Lara Hattery
Donald Hattery
John Beck
Troy
Prairie du Sac
Sauk City
Tri-County Review
Lone Rock Bank
Wisconsin
G. 4
Gunderson
Big Hollow
Village of Plain
Farme
Plain
Irish Valley
Denver
Leland
Spring Green
Pla
St. Luke’s Catholic
Sauk County
Alois Beck
Blue Mounds
Springdale
George Parmon
Baraboo
Poynelte
Poymette
Mt. Horeb
Dodgeville
Iowa County
Appleton Carpenters Strike Shuts Local Shops
Appleton sees a major carpenters strike with about 110 workers demanding 1.00 more per hour and an eight hour day. Contractors refused, unions earned 0.45 hourly and nine hours. entrants offered 0.50. The valley feels impact while Green Bay Oshkosh and Fond du Lac contractors accept the demands.
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Appleton
Curious Observer Quotes on Soldier's Knees in Battle
The Observer muses on whether a bowlegged soldier becomes knock kneed when facing the enemy for the first time. He frames the question as a light reflection on nerves and combat readiness.
Kindly Dispensation in Ohio State Journal style
Fragmentary note from a historical Ohio State Journal column reflects on happiness and personal improvement. The fragment hints at providence and dispensation ideas as sources of contentment and selfworth.
Sunk Moldavia claims 36 U.S. servicemen dead
British reports say the Moldavia torpedoed in the English Channel carried more than 500 American troops. Destroyers rescued survivors as officials tally unknown casualty figures and confirm American troops faced death with discipline and calm.
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Moldavia
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Greenock
English
English Channel
Washington
Wilson Delays Tax Bill
Senator Summons returned from the White House with no decision on immediate tax legislation. The president asked for a status report on legislation revenue and appropriations and House and Senate attitudes before making a final choice. McAdoo informed leaders that new revenue legislation is imperative, though Congress would pass a bill only if deemed necessary.
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Willington
Summons
White House
Congress
McAdoo
Coal price cut by ten cents a ton in fixed price plan
Washington reports a ten cent per ton reduction in government fixed prices for bituminous coal. The move, announced Friday by the fuel administration, follows an agreement in which railroads will pay the fixed price and end preferential war service favors to mines supplying the rally coal.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
U S Men to Fight in Italy Frontline Ties Strengthen
Secretary Baker announced after Italy Day that American infantry machine gun units and artillery would soon join Italian forces on the front in Italy. The statement emphasizes joint offensive efforts and closer Allied cooperation.
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U. S
Italy
Baker
New York
Zeppelin Shot Down at Sea Reported Near Esbjerg
Fishermen report a Zeppelin downed in the North Sea after arriving at Esbjerg. The German airship crew was rescued by a British destroyer.
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Zep
Tendon
Bhava
Esbjerg
North Sea
Two Hanged for Assault in Dallas Jail Yard
Leonard Dood and Walter Stevenson were hanged in the Dallas county jail yard for assault on a young woman in June 1927. Dood attempted to dodge execution by taking poison in a final effort to defeat the hangman.
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Dallas
Tex
Leonard Dood
Walter Stevenson
Dood
Foil Sinn Fein German Plot Tied to U Boats
Washington reports an inquiry found evidence of Sinn Fein leaders and German agents conspiring to spark rebellion in Ireland. The probe also links German money to agitation among African Americans Finns Lithuanians and others in the United States. Chicago New York and Boston Irishmen are named in the conspiracy and possible arrests as traitors. Washington adds estimates of U S manpower and ordnance needs for a potential seven year war with projections of up to 20 million fighting age Americans and large naval and training-car allocations.
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Washington
United States
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Russia
Chicago
New York
Boston
Ensign Stephen Potter Dies in North Sea Air Battle
Ensign Stephen Potter of the United States naval reserves was killed while fighting seven single seated enemy planes in the North Sea on April 25. Potter was second pilot to a British flying force captain and had earlier shot down a German seaplane in the Foeligoland Bight. The final encounter left Potter last seen amid flames and smoke, with wreckage not visible after the enemy broke away.
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Washington
Stephen Potter
North Sea
London
Committee On Public Information
Rosign Potter
Foeligoland Bight
Potter
May Move To Raise Enlistment Age in Army
Washington reports Secretary Baker sent to Congress a bill to raise the voluntary enlistment age from forty to fifty five. All men over forty would serve in noncombatant roles. An estimated 7.5 million men fall in the forty to fifty five bracket, with many already applying to serve.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
Germans to quit U boat bases Zee Brugge and Ostend
German naval authorities plan to abandon Zee Brugge and Ostend U boat bases due to the British blockade and persistent bombing by British aircraft, according to Berlin reports. Fish Commissions Agree in Washington on May 27. the Joint American Canadian fisheries commission reaches substantial agreement with only operating details remaining.
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London
Moldavia
Admiralty
Berne
Zeebrugge
Ostend Av
Berlin
Fish Commissions
Washington
Lieutenant Fleet Killed in Action in May
London report says Lieutenant Wil Vam Alexander Fleet of the Grenadier Guards was killed in action May 18. He was the son of the late Colonel A. F. Fleet of Oulover, Indiana, and Mrs Fleet of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Fleet
Indiana
London
Wil Vam
Alexander Fleet
The
Grenadier Guards
Col
AF. Fleet
Oulover, Ind
Mre. Fleet
Atlant, Gee
Hughes Demands Unhindered Aircraft Inquiry
In a forceful letter to the Senate Military Affairs Committee on May 24, Charles E. Hughes insists the Justice Department aircraft investigation must not be impeded by a parallel committee inquiry. He signals rejection of the president's wishes.
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Tela Senate Committee
Department ‘F Justice
Washington
Senate Military Affair Committee
Charles E. Hughes
Department of Justice Mst
Hughes
Steel ships set May record at Washington yard output
Steel ships completed in May exceed any prior month for the Shipping Board. Through May 29 the total reached 29 vessels totaling 174,681 tons, with four steamers delivering Thursday amounting to 29,200 tons.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Tota
LAUNCH SHIPS JULY 4 IN HISTORY HOPES
Washington reports shipyard urged to speed up for a record July 4 launch day. Commissioner Colby and Director General Charles M Schwab plan to go to San Francisco for the ceremonies. In other news a German prison camp prisoner is named as Lt Louis Y Edens of the medical corps. The War Department orders 8000 trucks for the army to supplement 10000 trucks already being delivered.
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Washington
Hivery Shipyard
Colby
Dirator
Charles M. Schwabet
San Francisco
Gabool
Zieut. Louis. Y. Edens
Medical Corps
France
Ra. Edens
Red Cross
Army
War Department
Baker Seeks Unlimited Draft Power for War Effort
Washington May 25 unlimited power to draft men within the year is granted to the president by the house military affairs committee. Secretary Baker urged the measure saying it shows the nation mortgaged to the successful prosecution of the war. The bill totals over 12 billion dollars with provisions for the signal corps and aircraft. The plan would call 2 700 000 men into service in the next draft.
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Washington
Selective Service
House
Signal Corps
Baker
America
Congress
Wilson
Mrs Stokes Found Guilty In Espionage Case
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes was found guilty by a federal jury on all three counts of the indictment for violation of the espionage act. Judge Van Valkenburgh set June 1 for hearing motions and pending sentencing.
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Kansas City
Rose Pastor Stokes
Francis M. Wilson
United States District Attorney
Seymour Stedman
Chicago
Stokes
Orban
van Valkenburgh
Woman Flies 783 Miles In Flight Ends in Mishap
Miss Katherine Stinson, flying from Chicago to New York, covered 783 miles before her craft overturned on landing in Binghamton at 6 40 p m. She was injured. Earlier she left Chicago at 7 34 a m aiming for Garden City New York, seeking a nonstop record of 678 miles with a mail packet weighing under a pound.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Katherine Stinson
Miss Stinson
Chicago
Garden City S. 1
Count Minotto Deemed Alien Enemy In Chicago Case
In Chicago on May 26 Count James Minotte, son in law of Louis F Swift, was ruled an alien enemy and ordered interned in a government camp. Judge Carpenter ended the habeas corpus action as attorneys closed arguments noting Minotte is a native of Germany and subject to the president s warrant.
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Chicago
James Minette
Louis F. Swift
Packer
Carpenter
Minotto
Germany
Two Boys in Auto Killed at Crossing in Boone Indiana
Arthur Johnson aged fifteen and his brother were killed when a car struck a stranded auto on a crossing in Boone Indiana. The father Guy Johnson and another son were fatally hurt in the crash.
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Boone
Arthur Johnson
Gua Johnson
Shipping Board Cuts Charter Rate on Requisitioned Ships
Washington reports the Shipping Board will reduce charter rates by 50 cents a ton on requisitioned American ships operating on a bare boat charter, effective June 1. The move aims to lower operating costs for maritime assets during the period.
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Washington
Bnell
Shipping Board
U S Captives Reported as Germans Press Near Amiens
Berlin reports claim American patrols west of Montdidier suffered heavy losses after a failed advance. The British and French fronts see intense German shelling around Amiens and Montdidier while British raids yield prisoners and machine guns.
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London
Villers- Bretonneaux
Haig
Hinges
Manders
Bailleul
Amien
Lys Salient
Flanders
War Office
Vilers-Bretonneaux
Lne
Amiens
Hangard
Hangins Wood
Avre
French War Office
Orvillers-Sore
Montdillier
Jassieny
Champagne
Vosgesweg-en
Montdidier
Red Cross War Fund Surpasses One Hundred Million
Washington reports the Red Cross drive has reached the 100 million dollar mark with Saturday subscriptions pushing total contributions past 97 million as regional tallies show strong support. The campaign continues to final reports tonight with Chicago under its quota and the drive extended to next Saturday night.
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Washington
Red Cross
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Greater
New York
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New England
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Pacific
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Potomac
Southern
I.ees
Chicago
Twenty Four Austrian Planes Destroyed on Italian Front
London reports that twenty four enemy airplanes were destroyed by British forces on the Italian front since May 18. No British aircraft were lost in this period.
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London
Italy
Oil Leasing Bill Moves to Conference
Washington May 27 The administration oil leasing bill clearing more than 6 000 000 acres of public lands in the West would open vast tracts for development to support the navy and other needs It has passed the House and now goes to conference.
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Washington
Administration
Noa
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