Wilson warns rafts shirkers face prison in draft push
Attorney General Gregory appeals to all Americans to aid in enforcing the draft law. Wilson proclaims severe penalties for those evading registration and outlines a nationwide effort to root out anti registration propaganda. Volunteers and patriotic organizations are urged to help compile registrant records and ensure compliance ahead of registration day.
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White House
Department of Justice
Department
United States of America
United States
Government Plans $4000 Life Insurance for All U S Soldiers
Washington reports a proposal to insure every American soldier and sailor for $4000 with no premiums, funded by a government bureau. The plan includes disability coverage and allows higher amounts via paid premiums, aiming to boost morale and ensure dependents are cared for in case of death.
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Council of National Defense
Sweet
Cogamerce Department
France
Defense Council
Department of Commerce
Riots after meeting protest in East St. Louis
Riots injure three white men and three black residents after a meeting opposing widespread importation of black labor. National Guardsmen patrol. saloons close. black districts dark. Hundreds arrested as crowds form at bridges. One Black man found with eight pistols and 800 rounds. Police report about 1500 Black residents leave the city for suburbs or across the river. White workers struck. about 8000 Black workers said to have been brought in from the South to replace them.
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East St. Louis
Iilindte National
St. Louis
British May Losses and Captures Reported
British casualties for May total 114 4 officers killed wounded and missing with counts for killed wounded and missing across officers and men. May actions in France saw 3412 Germans captured along with a field gun 80 machine guns and 21 trench mortars. Bombing by British aircraft targeted Ostend Zeebrugge and Bruges.
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Ostend
Zeebrugge
Bruges
Mays
Gued
British War Department
United States Outlines War Aims to Russia Delegation
The American mission to Russia led by Elihu Root arrived at a Russian port. A State Department message drafted by President Wilson outlines war aims to the de facto Russian government, including crushing militarism, freedom of the seas, limits on land warfare, protection of small nations, and support for a Jewish Palestine.
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Washington
Russia
Elihu Root
Daniels
Root
Petrograd
Rusela
A. S
United States
State Department
Wilson
America
Aldana
U. S
Belgium
Serbia
Palestine
Nine Die in Illinois Coal Mine Gas Explosion
Nine workers died and two were seriously burned when a gas explosion hit No. 2 mine of the W. P. Read Coal and Coke Co north of Herrin Illinois. Authorities list the deceased as Tia Sanders Otis Reynolda Amos Mesa Guy Vickery Roy Weathers Chariea Rice John Gossage I B Good and Esra Adams. Injured, Tom Cox and W A Brewer, were hospitalized in serious condition. Workers reportedly left the mine into an abandoned section where gas had accumulated.
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Herrin
Ill
W. P. Read Coal and Coke Company
Here
Tia Sanders
Otis Reynolda
Amos Mesa
Guy Vickery
Roy Weathers
Chariea Rice
John Gossage
Good
Esra Adams
Tom Cox
W. A. Brewer
British Offensive On Arras Front Reported
London reports the British on the offensive along the Arras front with the attack south of the Souches river making good progress. Paris notes five German attacks on the Californie and Vanciere plateaus repulsed with heavy losses. German surprises in Champagne and Vosges also occured.
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Arras
Souches River
Paris
Californie
Vanciere
War Office
Champagne
Vosges
Verdun war hero Captain Tinkham led first American corps
Capt Edward J Tinkham winner of the war cross at Verdun head ed the first American fighting corps mainly of young college men on the Aisene battlefield He is son of Mr and Mrs Julian A R Tinkham of Montclair New Jersey He entered Cornell university returning to Cornell last winter to complete his studies and went back to France with the Cornell contingent He is only twenty two years old
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Edward J. Tinkham
Verdun
Alene
Tinkham le
Julian AR. Tinkham
Montclair
N. J
Cornell University
Cornell
France
Italy Opened Offensive Cost Austria 300000 Men
Rome reports that Italy’s advance has cost Austria 300000 men killed wounded or missing. Allies degrade Austrian positions with strong counterattacks as Italians reinforce and prepare further assaults aiming at Trieste with limited destruction.
Food pirates blamed by senator at Irish Fellowship luncheon
Senator James Hamilton Lewis told the Irish Fellowship club at the Hotel Sherman that President Wilson may seize food or fuel monopolized for speculation and distribute them through government agencies at a just price. He warned treason laws would apply to anyone starving soldiers or harming citizens.
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Chicago
Wilson
America
Ua Sons
James Hamilton Lewis
Irish Fellowship Club
Sherman
Congress
Italian General Killed in Rome Assault
Rome reports Maj. Gen. Ricordi died while leading a bold attack on the Corso. The official notice confirms his death during the action.
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Ricordi
Corso
Court Upholds Conscription Law As Valid
Kansas City Mo June 1 Judge Deniel Hird denied injunction to stop draft registration next Tuesday ruling the conscription act valid and court lacked jurisdiction to halt its enforcement. Petitioners Sullivan and Moore pledge appeal and potential mandamus to block Missouri enforcement. Arrests reported for drafting evasion and treason charges filed in Ohio. Chicago indictments expected soon against eight alleged conspirators.
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Deniel Hird
Bird
Thomas Sullivan
Raymond L Mooroe
J. D. Showalter
Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Miscouri
Republic
Ames
Congress
U. & Court
Raymond L Moore
Secret Service
Treacon
Columbus
L—Sormer
Ohio
Nen
Ammon Henne Ey
Harry E. Townsley
Cecil W. Bailey
Chicago
Federal
Clyne
Prisoner Falls to Death in Burr Oak Raid
Chicago reports Samuel Harris, proprietor of the Burr Oak Inn, died after attempting to lower himself by rope from a window in the criminal court building during a raid that took 90 prisoners. The death interrupts the probe into Burr Oak Inn’s criminal links and disappearances in the village. Authorities hold names and addresses of beaten and missing residents as part of the investigation.
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Chicago
Samuel Harris
Burr Oak Inn
Hoyne
Passavant Hospital
Criminal Court
Burr Oak
World News in Brief on Fronts and Looming Political Moves
Troops faced Teutons on the Moldavian front with Berlin reporting repulsed attacks. A U S gunboat halted the San Juan and evacuated F W Fay, said to be son of a San Francisco merchant, now in Germany. Washington announces record Army enlistments as 2 967 join. Enlistments since April 1 total 92 686. John Philip Sousa joins Naval Reserve training at Great Lakes for a station band. Georges Guynemer earns leave after downing four planes in a day. Kronstadt warned as outlaw if it defies the provisional government. Portland and Seattle clashes leave two Chinese dead and seven wounded. The Tong peace pact is shattered by recent violence. Senate reserve prompts 587 steel ships and 167 wooden vessels authorized.
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United States
Pacific
San Juan
F. W. Fay
San Francisco
Germany
Washington
Legions Society of Friends
New York
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Georges Guynemer
Paris
Kronstadt
Petrograd
Perevieseff
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Senate
Three U S Boats Sunk In Sudden Attack
London reports an American vessel attacked without warning as three U S boats were sunk. Third mate Fenney is killed, with drowning noted during lifeboat launches. The British admiralty released a statement Friday about the incident and subsequent ransacking by the submarine crew.
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Fenney
Bode
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