Persons May Enlist Voluntarily After Registration Day
Adjutant General Stewart announced a Washington militia bureau message stating that individuals who register next Tuesday may still enlist voluntarily in the army navy marine corps or National Guard until they are drafted under the selective service law. After Tuesday only those within the age limit who present for enlistment must show a registration certificate. National Guard members on June 5 are not required to register.
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Stewart
Militia Bureau
Washington
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
National Guard
Guard Reserve
Naval
Schedule of Legislative Pay Signed by Governor
Governor Brumbaugh signed bills changing legislator salaries for this session. Under the new plan members receive 300 dollars a month for the first four months, 200 dollars for the following month if the session lasts, and the balance on final adjournment. The reform makes 200 dollars available immediately and 100 at session end. The governor also approved raising Pittston poor district relief from 12,600 to 30,000 dollars.
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Brumbaugh
Pittston
County inmates to work on farms after bill signing
Altoona workers to begin as Governor Brumbaugh signs the measure authorizing county officials to assign prisoners to county farms and the insane hospital grounds. More than sixty inmates from the local jail will be put to work immediately to raise crops on the county owned farm.
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Altoona
Brumbaugh
Denmark Orders Complete Probe of Naval Hospital Ships
A civilian commission led by Abraham Flexner, Dr. William H. Welsh, and Nathan Strauss will inspect the naval hospital ship Solace and related vessels at Secretary Daniels request. The aim is a full study of medical or sanitary precautions in the navy as Admiral Mayo and Surgeon General Bralsted conduct separate inquiries into alleged mistreatment of Solace patients. The panel met with Daniels before touring naval hospitals near the rendezvous.
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Associated Press
Washington
Abraham Flexner
New York
William H. Welsh
Baltimore
Nathan Strauss
Naval Hospital
Solace
Daniels
Navy
Dantels
Naval Service
Bralsted
Nationwide anti draft agitation tied to treason fear
The government brands anticonscription activity as treason while tracing a nationwide plot to defeat conscription. Columbus hosts planning HQs. Kansas City Court upholds draft law. Emma Goldman tied Philly meeting to anarchists and detectives. Ports from Florida to Seattle watched. arrests reported in Detroit and New York.
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Columbus
Ohio
Qth
Kansas City
Emma Goldman
Philadelphia
Florida
California
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Lakes
San Francisco
Mexico
World Peace Association
Minnesota
Seattle
Detroit
Clevelan
Columbia
Barnard
New York
War Department details on conscription exemptions and abroad enlistment
The War Department announced that registrants would not have to answer exemption questions unless called before an exemption board later. Officials at seaports and border posts were ordered to detain men attempting to leave the country to evade regulation. The department is also considering enrolling Americans living abroad.
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War Department
United States
College Students Face Treason Conspiracy Charge
Miss Eleanor Wilson Parker Barnard College senior Owen Cattell Columbia University senior and Charles Francis Phillips former Columbia student were arrested on charges of conspiring to violate the selective service act. They were to be arraigned for a preliminary hearing with bonds set at 1500 each. The trio, members of the Collegiate Antimilitarist League, allegedly circulated a document said to be authorized by the group.
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Associated Press
New York
Eleanor Wilson Parker
Barnard College
Owen Cattell
Columbia University
Charles Francis Phillips
Columbia
United States
Hitchcock
Liberty
Collegiate Antimilitarist League
A. B. Samuels
Phillips
Miss Parker
Edwin E. Parker
Asbury Park
N. J
More Arrests Looked For in Big Ohio Plot
Columbus, June 1. State and Federal officials seek further arrests tied to an anticonscription propaganda plot. A print shop raid yielded three men charged with treason, Harry E. Townsley Ammon H. Hennacy and Cecil Bailey, held on 25000 bonds. John Willis Hammond is arrested in Marietta for distributing anticonscription literature.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
Johnson
Harry E. Townsley
Ammon H. Hennacy
Cecil Bailey
John Willis Hammond
Marietta
Y M C A War Fund Dinner With Judge Buffington
Judge Joseph Buffington of the U S Circuit Court in Pittsburgh will speak at a Harrisburg Club dinner tonight on The World War and Our Consequent Responsibility. The event supports the Y M C A war fund of 3 million dollars aiding American troops home and abroad. Buffington has a son at the front and has foregone vacation to lead Pennsylvania’s drive. Meanwhile in California Frederick W Fay, of San Francisco, was seized fifty miles off the coast aboard a Pacific Mail liner by federal agents for suspected draft evasion, after previously living in Germany.
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Joseph Buffington
United States Circuit Court
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Los Angeles
Cal
Frederick W. Fay
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
San Juaan
California
Selectiv
United States
Mexico
Fay
United States Coast Guard
Germany
Harvard Plans Normal Classes Despite War Rumors
Cambridge June 1 President Lowell of Harvard University announced that courses will continue next year as usual despite wartime rumors. The statement refutes any suspension of regular sessions. Dr Samuel E Bruner of Camp Hill hosted a dinner and card gathering with Duffy Coshey Greensburg P 3 Miller Greene Joseph Johnson Lancaster Joan T Passmore Chadas Ford C J Marshall Philadelphia Guy Bruner Gettysburg T BE Munce land R M Staley
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Lowell
Harvard University
Bruner
Samuel E. Bruner
Camp Hill
Duffy Coshey
Greensburg
Capitol Park Extension work turns over records to boards
The Capitol Park Extension Commission completed its task and handed over records to the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings. Governors Brumbaugh, Kephart, and Snyder lead the board, planning street realignments and park expansion east of the Capitol.Plans include streets crossing the new park, a wide plaza, and potential subway routing along Fourth Street fringe. Regrading and planting will begin, with widened Third and Walnut streets and new terrace walks. The railroad tracks will be redesigned in cooperation with the Pennsylvan ia Railroad, state, and city for a long term solution. In other news, Britain reports cereal ship losses at six percent with adjustments for a two and a half percent allowance. In Washington, the War Department explains reducing cantons to sixteen by tenting unprovided troops due to labor, material, and transport shortages.
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Capitol Park Extension Commission
Board of Public Grounds and Buildings
Capitol
State Park
Brumbaugh
Kephart
Snyder
City Planning Commission
Park
Aberdeen Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Boston Park District
Fourth Street
Board of Public Grounds
Capitol Park
Third
Walnut Streets
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Russian Workers Plan 120 Petrograd Factory Strikes
London dispatch reports workers in over 120 large Petrograd war plants will strike or throttle output after conciliation failure. Each factory names timing and form locally with some already striking. Demands include a six hour day and a monthly minimum wage for women of 150 rubles, per Novaya Zhizn.
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London
Petrograd
Reuter
Conciliation Board
Novala Zhizn
Maxim Gorky
Funeral for Dr D D Lowery Draws Many Ministers
Funeral services for Rev Dr D D Lowery superintendent of the east Pennsylvania Conference United Brethren Church were held at 2 pm at Derry Street United Brethren Church Rev J A Lyter officiated assisted by Dr Batdorf of Lancaster and Rev S C Enck of Philadelphia Pallbearers included Rev H M Miller Rev M L Linebach Rev E A G Bossler Rev Joseph Daugherty Rev S Edwin Rupp and Rev A K Weir Burial followed at Enola Cemetery Survived by widow a son Ira a daughter Mrs Robert Tilford a sister Mrs Shott and a brother John Lowery Also notice Augustus K Elschied 44 died at sister Mrs Otto Foxs home 1120 Green Street Funeral 9 am from St Patrick Cathedral burial Mount Calvary Cemetery Survived by sister brother John and daughter Rebecca
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D. D. Lowery
East Pennsylvania
The
United Brethren Church
Derry Street
J. A. Lyter
Batdorf
Lancaster
C. Enck
Philadelphia
H. M. Miller
M. L. Linebach
E. A. G. Bossler
Joseph Daugherty
Edwin Rupp
A. K. Weir
Enola Cemetery
Mr. Lowery
Ira
Robert Tilford
Shott
Middletown
John Lowery
A. K. Elschted
Augustus K. Elschied
Otto Fox
Green Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
P. S. Huegel
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Mr. Elschied
John
Rebecca
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Commonwealth Hotel
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Great Britain
Associated Press Today
Kennedy Jones
Food Economy
Washington, D. C
Dr. Lowery
McNeil
Burns’ Phonograph Club
Brunswick Phonograph
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