Allies Advance in Macedonia Front
A June dispatch notes British retreat east of the Struma and allied reconnoiter along the Vardar in Macedonia as plans for a Vardar valley offensive emerge. Reports also flag Haig’s northern France drive, Italian offensive prep, and German pressure on French positions east of Vaux with later Russian front actions and an Allied fleet command shift to Admiral Simms.
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Simms
Irish
Admiral Simms
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Riga
German Press Confident of Victory Through Submarines
German press reports no American troops have yet reached Europe and none likely before 1918. A French offensive is in preparation while British action is probable. Germany asserts position is secure and victory certain due to the relentless submarine campaign.
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Beal
Europe
Germany
War Is Just Beginning, Northcliffe Says
Boston June 21 Lord Northcliffe declares the war is just beginning based on front experience. The statement came in a communication read at a Red Cross meeting. He cited extensive wartime experience to support his view.
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Boston
Lord Northcliffe
Northcliffe
Resignation of Councillor Hailed With Satisfaction
Paris reports hail the resignation of M Hoffman from the Swiss federated council as marking the end of long peace efforts. French newspapers note the move brings irruption into allied countries and ends a protracted period of Swiss diplomacy.
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Paris
M. Hoffman
Swiss Federated Council
Woman Suffrage Victory in Commons
London June 20 The House of Commons adopted the principle of woman suffrage by an overwhelming vote. The action follows tensions over wartime policy as calls for voting rights for women gain parliamentary support amid ongoing national debate.
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London
House of Commons
Robbery on Alameda Victim From Portland
On the Alameda arriving from the North Frank Vodacks Alaska operator and Portland resident was robbed of 220 dollars on board. In New York the Kennecott Copper Corp. claims German spies instigated Alaska strikes involving five hundred workers to disrupt military control and management. Governor Strong in Seattle was briefed as the strike situation at Kennecott mines gains federal attention and authorities monitor the northward German movement.
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Frank Vodacks
Alaska
Portland
Alameda
New York
Kennecott Copper Corporations
Kennecott
Governor Strong
Washington
Republican movement gains strength in Madrid area
Advices from Madrid report the republican movement is gaining strength by leaps and bounds as the conflict in Spain intensifies.
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London
Maat
Republican Movement
Say Tin
American Aviator Killed in France Accident
Benny Woodworth of San Francisco, chief of the first section of the American Ambulance Field Services, was killed in an air accident in France. The veteran aviator served with the American relief effort and his death is reported in dispatches from the front.
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France
Benny Woodworth
Ancisco
American Ambulance Field Services
American Ship Rams U-Boat in Baltic Action
June reports describe an American destroyer ramming and sinking a German U-boat after sighting it at sea. The attack occurred on a calm day as the submarine began submerging. the destroyer closed in so closely that U-boat guns could not be used. Survivors from the American vessel indicated a violent collision and the crew felt the impact on deck as the submarine disappeared.
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Great Britain
United Hasbetes
Bluejacket
Industrial Workers Held as Slackers in Seattle Clash
Seattle June 18 Soldiers and sailors dispersed a street meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World. Speakers and crowd retreated to a barricaded hall. Six shots fired through windows left a soldier wounded in the leg. Many industrialists arrested with twenty held as slackers. others released for lack of evidence.
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Industrial Workers of the World
German boozy ink plot aims to sap Russian will
Petrograd reports German use of liquor and ink to spread notes from trenches to undermine the Russian army. Amid calls for peace, authorities announce measures against traitorous propaganda while Russians vow duty. American railway commission says Russian rail traffic could triple with reforms.
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Petrograd
Germany
Roosevelt condemns anti British sentiment in New York address
Former President Theodore Roosevelt published a forceful New York address urging that men who hate England more than they love the United States be expelled from the country. He framed the stance as a vigorous plan to defend national unity and patriotic loyalty.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
England
United States
Tarnowsky to Lead New Polish Government
Vienna reports Count Tarnowsky, formerly US ambassador candidate, named first premier of the new kingdom of Poland. He is in Warsaw. Also, Vienna cabinet resigns as Poles refuse budget and rumors say Poles sever ties with Austria.
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Vienna
United States
Wilson
Germany
Kingdom of
Poland
Tarnowsky
Warsaw
Amsterdam
Red Cross Subscriptions Start With Immense Sum
Washington June 19 More than three million dollars were subscribed on the first day of the National Red Cross campaign for funds. Henry Morgenthau and Felix Frankfurter from the war department will go to Egypt to aid the two thousand Americans still marooned in Palestine.
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Washington
National Red Cross
Henry Morgenthau
Felix Frankfurter
War Department
Egypt
Palestine
Mechanic Kills Wife Then Ends Own Life Near Seattle
Seattle June 21 A mechanic named J P Booth driven apart from his wife lured her for a ride on the Sunset highway and shot her before taking his own life. The bodies were recovered in the woods near North Bend.
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Seattle
J. P. Booth
North Bend
Calls for Volunteers to Fill Regular Army Next Week
President Wilson proclaims June 23 to 30 as recruiting week for the regular army urging unmarried men without dependents to enroll. National Guard may be sent to France without planned intensive Southern camp training and large city guard mobilization in armories awaits orders. New national army estimated at 650,000. cantonments not ready by September. Wyoming returns push total enrollment to 9,612,000 from June 18.
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Washington
Wilson
National Guard
France
Militia Bureau
Ships Contracts Awarded and German Vessels Reassigned
The Inter Ocean Commerce Commission through Judge Clements contracted for ten steel merchant ships and General Goethals announced twenty four more wooden ships to be delivered next year. Secretary Daniels orders vast fuel and oil supplies for the navy with costs to be fixed later by the FTC and the President. A number of seized German ships are being allocated to Russia to transport U S supplies.
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Washington
Interdate Commerce Commission
Judge Clements
General Goethals
Daniels
Federal Trade Commission
United States
New Chinese Parliament May Bring About Peace
Washington reports Peking says rebellious southern provinces notified central government they favor a peaceful settlement of differences. President Li has raised an election for a new parliament.
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Washington
Peking
Democrats oppose Strong in Alaska governorship race
The Iditarod Pioneer reports Democrats in the district unanimously oppose J Strong s reappointment and back Thomas Riggs for governor and Sommers for surveyor general. A Juneau Democratic Club meeting endorsed the Riggs ticket, signaling a organized push against the governor amid regional railroad policy tensions.
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Alaska
Pioneer
Strong
Thomas Riggs
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Interior Department
Territory
Alaska Daily Empire of
Juneau
Iditarod
Democratic Club
Sommers
Surveyor General
Empire
Franklin K. Lane
Washington, D. C
Riggs
Colonel Richardson Heads North for Alaska Road Work
Col Richardson, son of the Alaska road commission, arrived here today en route to the North, as officials proceed with planned road projects and inspections.
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Tattle
Colonel Richardson
The
Alaska Road Commission
Prized Chair Cost Howard Smith His Life
Seattle June 20 Howard Smith a gardener died while trying to save his favorite armchair from a fire at his home last night.
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Seattle
Howard Smith
IS STILL CHAMPION NEW YORK
Leon ard defended his title by knocking out Johnny Ni in the third round of a ten round bout held last night in New York. The knockout secures ard continued glory as the reigning champion with no challenge imminent.
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Leonard
Johnny Ni
Socialists of Germany Offer Peace to Russia
Stockholm June 16 The Social Democrats of Germany make a peace offer to Russia via Swiss federal council members.
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Council of the Empire
Russia
Ion
Duma
Germany
Stockholm
Juen
Social Democrates of
Rusia
Federal Council
Urgent Food Control Bill Debated in House
Washington reports June 21 indicates the food control bill was introduced in the house by Chairman Lever of the agriculture committee. He argues the bill will protect honest business while stopping crooks and speculators. Hoover testified before a senate committee about wartime food prices and wheat shortages and warned of danger to supplies if action is delayed. An amendment to seize liquor for munition and scientific uses was announced by Representative Webb.
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House
Lever
Committee On
Garend Smith Arosn
Herbert Hoover
Senate
Hood
United States
Wilson
Congress
Webb
North Carolina
Federal plan urged to pool coal and transport control
Washington reports the Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to place production and distribution of coal and the operation of railway and water transportation facilities under a government agency to avert a looming coal famine next winter. The recommendation calls for pooling resources across energy and transit sectors to ensure steady fuel supply.
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Federal Trade Commission
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Congress
Romance Reignites in Seattle Jewish Circles
Seattle June 21 Joseph Gottstein son of the late Mike Gottstein, a Seattle businessman, returns with his wife formerly Helen Elaine Mi from whom he was divorced and re married. After a prior marriage eight months earlier the father compelled a divorce due to the wife being Gentile. Two weeks later they wed secretly in New York. The father then died leaving a quarter million dollars to Joseph who joined his wife in Los Angeles and announced his remarriage.
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Joseph Gottstein
Mike Gottstein
Helen Elaine Mi
Joseph
New York
Los Angeles
Veterans in Session Open in Seattle at Grand Army Encampment
The twenty fifth encampment of the Department of Washington and Alaska of the Grand Army of the Republic opened in Seattle today. Spanish American War veterans are also meeting in annual session.
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Seattle
Department of Washington
Alaska
Grand Army of the Republic
Will Fight No More Abnormal Price of Wheat
Australian prizefighter Les Darcy died in Memphis on May 25 after two weeks of pneumonia. The report notes abnormal wheat prices in Chicago around May 1 as a contrasting market detail.
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Les Darcy
Memphis
Chicago
Army Berths for Alaskans Offer Reserve Corps Training
A June 1917 telegram announced Alaska will send twenty candidates to the second officers' reserve corps training camp at the Presidio San Francisco starting August 27. Applicants from Alaska receive $100 monthly during training, plus transportation. Further notices listed examination offices in Anchorage Valhier Fort William H. Seward Fort Gibbon Fort St Michael and Fort Lisium with final selection by August 1 to report to San Francisco.
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D. C
Aditarad
Iditarad
Alashe
Alaska
Earilly Oy
Presidio
San Francisco
Cal
Army
United States
NISC
Chas. A. Sulzer
Sulzer
Washington, D. C
Pioneer
Iditarod
Office of
Anchorage
Vahier
Fort William
Pershing Meets Joffre in Paris on Allied Armies Work
General Pershing, head of the American army, conferred with General Joffre in Paris on coordinating American divisions with French forces. Pershing opened his army headquarters and began operations, dining with General Petain, the French commander in chief, during June in Paris.
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Petrograd
Roberson
Brusilloff
Rus
Sia
Paris
Pershing
Joffre
Chicago Mayor's unpatriotic image grows over bond refusal
Chicago June 16 Mayor Thompson's caution in inviting General Joffre offended Germans and now his refusal to purchase any Liberty Loan bonds deepens his unpatriotic reputation.
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Thompson
Joffre
Ple
Bond buyers of modest means oversubscribe large loan
Washington June 16 The liberty loan of 863090000 has been oversubscribed with bonds purchased by persons of small means. Bonds are being printed and loan organizations will be maintained in preparation for another bond issue next autumn.
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Washington
Liberty
Reprisals Planned for English Air Raids
London June 18 cabinet told the house of commons that reprisals would be made against Germany for air raids on England and that steps would be taken to prevent further raids. A member of the ...
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House of Commons
Germany
England
The
Suffragette banners torn from pickets at White House
Washington June 21 banners of offensive to President Wilson were torn from the hands of women pickets at the White House today in renewed protest actions by suffragettes.
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Wilson
White House
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