May Day Amid War Strikes Worldwide Telegraphed Reports
On May Day 1915 reports from The Hague and London indicate potential strikes by munition workers in Rhine provinces and Sweden amid World War I. Berlin bars news, while rumors of typhus and food shortages circulate. French and Balkan fronts show limited gains with scant details from official sources.
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WORLD
Hague
Netherlands
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reichstag
Berliner Tageblatt
London
Rhine
Exchange Telegraph Company
Lissen
Krupp Works
Germany
Combe
Switzerland
Austria
Sweden
Stockholm
Berlin
Daily Mail
Koelnische Volke
Weather report for Harrisburg and eastern Pennsylvania
Unsettled afternoon and night with light rain possible. Wednesday should be fair and cool with showers tonight and Wednesday. winds from south to west. Susquehanna River near stationary at about 4.3 feet Wednesday morning. Temperatures rise along the Atlantic states with current readings 72 in the west and 51 elsewhere.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River
Harrinburg
Snyder Auditor General closes office and orders resignations
At noon today CHAS. A. SNYDER, sworn in as Auditor General, closed the department and sent all clerks home with a request for immediate resignations. He announced two weeks vacation pay for those to be dropped and said he would notify those to be re-employed. His private office was filled upon arrival.
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Snyder
Bomb attack hits Dutch town as air raid terror spreads
A Dutch town in Zeeland, Zigrikzee, suffered bombing from an airplane Sunday night. Three people were killed and many homes damaged as the town lay in ruins under searchlight glare. The Telegraaf says over 100 houses were shattered, with panic widespread. The nationality of the aircraft is not established and reports note nearby Hasvengent saw two German planes.
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London
Zigrikzee
Zeeland
Reuter
Hague
The
Telegraaf
Amsterdam
Sluyskil
Hasvengent
Vacuum Oil Tanker Vacuum Sinks. Survivors Reported
Washington reports the American oil tanker Vacuum was destroyed with missing crew members and several rescued. Consul General Skinner confirms Lieut and Captain Harris among the missing, while Navy details remain with Rear Admiral Sims in Washington awaiting official affidavits from surviving crew.
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Associated Press
Washington
Skinner
London
Lieut
Thomas
Harris
Navy Department
Vacuum
Liverpool
Robert Williams
Oscar Gailes
W. Lundgren
A. Byl
Raymond Nunez
Sims
Race Against Time Seen By Britain and France
Washington May 1 British and French officials describe the war effort as a race against time with American authorities. They praise credit, the conscription bill, ship program, and food conservation while urging faster action. Joffre’s reported urging for immediate American troop dispatch was trimmed from the State Department version.
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Washington
America
Germany
Joffre
State Department
Marshal Joffre
France
State to buy historic Berks and Dauphin Turnpike
A bill introduced by Mr. Urich of Lebanon proposes state purchase of the Berks and Dauphin Turnpike Road from Hummelstown to near Wernersville with a $100,000 appropriation. The turnpike, created in 1805, would join the state highway system as part of the William Penn highway and toll abolition would yield a toll-free Pittsburgh to Philadelphia route. After purchase the State Highway Department would improve the road. Urich also seeks prisoner road labor and public school physical education measures.
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Berks and Dauphin
Hummelstown
Wernersville
Urich
Lebanon
Lebanon County
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
State Eighney Department
Highway Bill Seeks 18.9 Million For Roads
Chairman Woodward of the House Appropriations Committee introduced a new highway bill totaling 18 886 000 dollars. The plan allocates 12 000 000 to state highway construction 3 000 000 to state aid roads 2 000 000 to borough road work 500 000 to toll road acquisitions and 1 350 000 for township dirt roads.
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Woodward
House Appropriations Committee
Harrisburg Boy Scout Campaign Pushes Local Fund Drive
Harrisburg seizes on a $12 000 fundraiser to establish permanent Boy Scout troops with all money staying in the city. National organizer Lewis Buddy receives no share while the Harrisburg Rotary Club covers expenses. No military service or weapons are involved. Scouts will use hoes and rakes during the crisis.
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Boy Scout
Park Extension Bill Carrying Half Million
A bill to appropriate 500 000 for Capitol Park Extension improvement was introduced in the House by Representative Woodward and will be sent to a subcommittee for prompt action. The measure covers two years from June 1 and funds work per Arnold W Brunner plans including grading filling tunnels utilities and plantings in the park extension zone.
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Capitol Park
House
Representative Woodward
House Appropriations Committee
Woodward
Senate
Arnold W. Brunner
Board of Commissioners of Public
Germans Planned to Blow Up Morgan's Office to Frighten Market
In New York court Wolf Hirsch and George Meyringer, both Germans, confessed plans to bomb J. P. Morgan and Company to disrupt the stock market and profit from a market reversal. Hirsch said Meyringer urged him to speculate on Wall Street and spread false news of President Wilson's assassination. Each man was held on $10,000 bail.
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Associated Press
New York
Wolf Hirsch
George Meyringer
J. P. Morgan and Company
Hirsch
Morgan
Meyringer
Wall Street
Wilson
Meat and potato rations raised for London war period
A Rotterdam dispatch to the Daily News reports concessions in food supply due to strikes in German war industries. Meat ration up by a half pound weekly and potato ration increased to five pounds.
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London
Daily News
Rotterdam
U S Silent On Plan To Send Army Abroad
Washington May 1 The White House meeting between President Wilson and Rene Viviani the French war mission head stirs little new comment as to when U S troops would deploy. The general staff opposes sending troops before full training and equipment with only final touches possible near battle lines. No volunteer army for early service abroad is indicated. The Swartz decedents code and Crow nominating petition bills move forward in Congress, while employer tax deductions are clarified.
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Associated Press
Washington
France
White House
Wilson
Rene Viviani
United States Army
Marshal Joffre
Mr. Wilson
Administration
Baker
Army
Regular
National Guard
Roosevelt
War Department
Swartz
Senate
Scout Campaign Outlined for Harrisburg Budget Drive
Lewis C. Buddy, field commissioner of the Boy Scouts, explained a four day Harrisburg financial campaign May 9 to 12 to fund a local council. He outlined plans to organize the council and appoint a local leader after mapping Boy Scouts in the area.
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Harrisburg
Boy Scout Movement
Citizens Committee
Lewis C. Buddy
Boy Scouts
Buddy
Gross blocks ash relief survey funding delay
Hopes for city relief from the ash problem were dashed when Commissioner FE Z Gross refused to ask the Council for a contract without an appropriation. Two weeks earlier proposals for the survey and disposal system were presented but not funded.
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FE Z Gross
Steel workers in Steelton receive ten percent wage increase
Bethlehem Steel and Central Iron and Steel announce a ten percent pay raise effective today affecting about 7 000 workers at Steelton and Central Iron works. This follows an earlier ten percent increase on December 16 and comes amid other wage adjustments across trades as authorities seek amicable settlements.
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Steelton
Bethlehem Steel Company
Tronney Steel Company
Bethlexthem Steel Interests
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Central Iron and Steel Company
11 000 Ton Troop Ship Sunk by Submarine Saviors Rescued
The Ballarat, a 11 120 ton troop ship from Australia to England, was sunk by a German submarine. Soldiers were saved by British torpedo boat destroyers and trawlers. Reports praise troop conduct and recall Birkenhead heroism as ships went down. Berlin reports fear labor unrest after May Day.
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London
Peninsular and Oriental Line
Ballar
Ballarat
Dunkle Elected to City Commission in Harrisburg
Samuel F. Dunkle ex Sheriff of Dauphin County and head of Harrisburg Manufacturing and Boiler Company and Ferriday Paper Box Company was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Commissioner Harry Bowman. The vote favored Dunkle with Gorgas and Gross supporting him and Lynch backing Pavord. Dunkle said he would decide after official notice, noting council must act by May 6.
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Samuel FB. Dunkle
Dauphin County
Harrisburg Manufacturing and Boiler Company
Ferriday Paper Box Company
Harry F. Bowman
W. L. Gorgas
Gorgas
B. Gross
Dunkle
W. 11
Lynch
William Pavord
Harrisburg Shoe Manufacturing Company
Council
Mr. Dunkle
Norway Loses 23 Ships to German Submarines
A Christiania dispatch to the Daily Mail reports twenty three Norwegian ships totaling 36 000 tons sunk by submarines last week, a new record for Norwegian losses. An experiment with ferro concrete hulls for two ships is planned to test North Sea trade viability.
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London
Christiania
Daily Mail
French War Mission to Tour U S for Four Weeks
General Joffre and French Cabinet member Rene Viviani arrive in Harrisburg for a welcome planned by the Chamber of Commerce. The group, including Marshal Joffre, Admiral Chocheprat, Marquis de Chambrun, and Colonel Jear Fabry, will tour Washington Chicago Kansas City St Louis Philadelphia New York and Boston over four to ten days before returning to Washington.
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Joffre
Marne
Harrisburg
Aids
Rene Viviani
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Chicago
Kansas City
St Louis
Springfield
Ill
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Viviani
Marshal Joffre
Admiral Chocheprat
Marquis de Chambrun
General Lafayette
Unit States
Jear Fabry
Blue Devil
France
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Atlantic Coast
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Miippi
West Gulf
Staten
Chas. A. Snyder
Charles A. Snyder
Holland
Vacuum Oil Company
Cabel
Repoe
Ater
Dauphin
Lewis Buddy
Harrisburg Rotary Club
U.S
Aim
Gross
Bethlehem
Central Iron and Steel
Saml F. Dunkle
Bowman
John T. Brady
Mr. Umberger
Norway
Paris
U. S
Ing
Snyver
Department
Penn-Harris Company Chartered
Penn-Harris Company
Penn-Harris
Harrisburg Hotel Company
F. A. Dudley
Niagra
Charles A.carrigan
Newark
Spenser Gilbert Nauman
Brumbaugh
Committee of Safety
United States Senate
John William Mathias
Carrie Estelle Wagner
Damon Branch
Margaret de Vare
Indianapolin
Whomen Kitchereek
Carrie A
Russell tMroy Matchett
le Trrinbun
Harry Wilson Heaning
Steere
Bore Indus
Bonnie Matilda Wekeia
Charles Hoét
Laourait
Huston
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