Government War Risk Insurance Expands Aid to Soldiers
On October 6 1917 the war risk insurance act began and by April 1918 the program covered about 1.7 million service members with roughly 14 billion dollars in insurance and millions of checks for allowances. The system includes allotments, automatic life and disability insurance up to 10000, and rehabilitation, funded by the government to aid families and boost morale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Collins
Committee On Public Information
Sam
United States
Bureau
Military and Naval Insurance Act
Bureau of War-Risk Insurance
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Washington
Betty Ingraham
Third Street
Platt City
Ala
Osmond Kelly Ingraham
Ingraham
Bureau of War Ltisk Insurance
America
Army
Navy
McAdoo
Need Women as Craftsmen in Detroit
Detroit call to action urges universities and technical schools nationwide to provide special drafting and tracing courses for women students. The push, sparked by a Detroit joint session of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Detroit engineering society, argues women can fill skilled labor gaps after short training, mirroring gains in other belligerent nations. Employers are urged to partner with schools to develop a large, adaptable pool of skilled women workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
University of Michigan
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Detroit Engineering Society
Women Eager to Serve Country Alongside Brothers
A short passage highlights women ready to volunteer for national service, stressing equal resolve with their brothers. It emphasizes patriotism and the call to duty during a period of national effort.
Grocers in Perryopolis Agree Flour Ban Penalties
Two grocers who violated the administration flour order at a Perryopolis hearing agreed to forgo flour sales for 80 days and pledged to spend 100 dollars on Liberty bonds and donate 100 dollars each to the Red Cross, citing ignorance of the law as a defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Perryopolis
Red Cross
U S Sub Sinks Two Ships Off Virginia Coast
Two Norwegian steamships the Vindeggen and Henrik Lund were sunk by a German submarine about 200 miles east of Cape Charles Virginia on June 8 and June 10. Their crews totaling 68 were saved by a British steamer after being put into small boats. Copper ingots from the Vindeggen valued at about 36000 were seized by the U boat. A second vessel, the Edward Pierce, fled under fire after a three hour chase and shelled by German gunners but suffered no hits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vindeggen
Henrik Lund
Cape Charles
Norfolk
American Smelting and Refining Company
Edward Pierce
Pierce
Beef Ration Set for U S Population This Summer
Washington reports the food administration urges Americans to limit beef to one and a quarter pounds per person weekly, or one and a half pounds with bone, from now until September 15 to help supply the army, allied forces, and civilians in France Great Britain and Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
France
Great Britain
Italy
Food Administration
Austrian Warship Sunk By Italian Torpedo Boats
An Austrian dreadnaught was destroyed and a second damaged in a torpedo attack by Italian torpedo boats near the Dalmatian islands. The action occurred at dawn Monday, led by Commanders Rizzo and Luigi de Milazzo, using two small torpedo cars, per an Italian navy chief of staff report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Dalmatian Islands
Rizzo
Luigi de Milazzo
Marine Casualties List Names Four Privates Killed
Washington June 14 a second marine corps casualty list lists four privates killed and two officers wounded in action Col A W Catlin and Lieut A P Baston named among the injured officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marine Corps
Col
A. W. Catlin
Lieut
A. P. Baston
Huns to Quit Peace Talk Declares German Press
Berlin newspapers quote an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam stating Germany will not offer fresh peace terms in its forthcoming war aims statement. The report cites London being informed of no new proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Berlin
Amsterdam
Three U. S. Ships Destroyed
Twenty six members of the Mauban crew arrived on a freight steamer to report the sinking of the American steamer Mauban off the Italian coast in late May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
New York
Mauban
Italy
McAdoo's Daughter Weds Clayton Platt in Philadelphia
Harriet McAdoo Martin, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, married Clayton Platt at St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. The June 11 ceremony united the couple in a formal church wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Philadelphia
Harriet McAdoo Martin
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Clayton Platt
St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church
Labor Fights Kaiser as Gompers Urges Strikes
St Paul Minn June 12 President Samuel Gompers urged the American Federation of Labor to crush militarism and support a peace achieved by overthrowing the German military machine. He said democracy justice and freedom must triumph and that workers in war production are part of the fighting force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Republic of the United States
Germany
Gompers
Executive Council
Federation
France
America
Washington
Wilson
American Alliance of Labor and Democracy
Robert Maisel
The
Alliance For Labor and Democracy
American Alliance For Labor and Democracy
Cadet Party Urges Allied Expedition to Russia
The Russian embassy transmitted to the state department a message from the constitutional democrats asking the United States and the Allies to send an expeditionary force to Russia. They argue Brest-Litovsk worsened Russia’s position and only allied aid can halt the German advance and shape the war’s outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Russia
Central Committee
State Department
Constitutional Democrats
Brest-Litovsk
Socialist Gets Ten Years Sentenced in Espionage Case
A. L. Hitchcock, Socialist member of the Cleveland school board, was convicted of violating the espionage act and sentenced by Judge Killits to ten years in the Atlanta prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, CO
A. L. Hitchcock
Cleveland School Board
Killits
Atlanta
Finland assures limited Finnish advance on Murmansk coast
Copenhagen June 14 Finnish government says it does not intend to occupy the entire Murma coast only the portion promised to Finland. The assurance is given to the Russian soviets amid surrounding regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Murma
Finland
Call for 9000 Selective Service Men
Provost Marshal General Crowder issues a call for nine thousand Class I selective service men for limited military service. The selectees will be sent to the Northwest to harvest spruce for airplane construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crowder
Sub Sinks Swedish Ship in Atlantic Waters
The Swedish steamship New Sweden, a 5319 ton passenger and freight vessel of the Swedish-American-Mexico line, was sunk by a submarine on May 20 near an Atlantic port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
New Sweden
Swedish-American-Mexico Line
President Wilson urges labor unity during war effort
In a June telegram from Washington President Wilson cautions AFL and the Alliance for Labor and Democracy against strikes that could hinder the war. He praises workers in factories and shipyards and stresses unity over capital labor conflicts to defend the nation.
629 Ships Built for U S
Washington June 11 The steady growth of the American merchant marine is shown by commerce department data for the first five months of the year. A total of 629 vessels totaling 687,055 gross tons were built or officially numbered by the bureau of navigation. The U S merchant fleet now stands near 10,000,000 gross tons, second only to Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Navigation
United States
Great Britain
Submarine Fire Off Virginia Coast Reported
Crews of the steamers Walter D. Noyes and the Pajos say they were fired on by submarines Sunday night off the Virginia coast as they arrived in Norfolk on June 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Walter D. Noyes
Pajos
Virginia
Dartmouth President Hopkins Named War Industrial Aide
Secretary of War Baker announced Ernest M. Hopkins president of Dartmouth college will be assigned to the secretary of war to oversee industrial relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Washington
Ernest M. Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Eight Arkansas Draft Evaders Held
Federal and state officers captured eight of a gang of sixteen alleged draft resisters in a remote Saline county area about fifty miles southeast of Little Rock on June 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Saline County
Here
Mooney Charged as German Agent by Officials
San Francisco June 12 District Attorney Wickert filed a brief with Governor Stephens claiming Thomas J Mooney the preparedness parade bomb defendant was employed by the German government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooney
Navy Opens Enlistment To 1918 Draft Class
Washington June 12. Men of the 1918 draft class may enlist in the navy and marine corps under a ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder issued Monday. The move broadens recruiting for naval service amid wartime needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Washington
Marine Corps
Crowder
SINKING OF AMERICAN SHIP REPORTED OFF MARYLAND COAST
Washington reports the American steamer Pinar del Rio was sunk by an enemy submarine on June 8 about 75 miles off Maryland. Two lifeboats with the captain and crew were rescued. A British transport arrived at Atlantic Port with hull damage after a collision with a German submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Maryland
Cuban Steamship Line
Atlantic
New York Times
British Transport Ausonia Sunk by German Submarine
The British transport Ausonia of the Cunard line was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Ninety crewmen were landed on the Irish coast, with 180 officers and men unaccounted for as a search continues. The vessel had left a British port on May 26 and was hundreds of miles from shore when attacked. Survivors were picked up by an eastbound steamship.
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Ausonia
Atlantic
Irish
New York
Cunard Line
More Than Seven Hundred Thousand Yanks in France
Secretary Baker announced to French Blue Devils aiding the third Liberty loan that over 700,000 American soldiers have been sent to France. This figure exceeds his earlier claim of more than half a million deployed to the theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Blue Devils
Washington
France
Montgomery Airplane Plant Accepted After 48 Day Build
The large engine and airplane repair depot in Montgomery Alabama was inspected and accepted by the government. Construction started with ground breaking and took 48 days to complete. Total cost including installation of machinery is estimated at 2,000,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Austria Declared in State of Siege
A Rome dispatch reports practically all of Austria is under a state of siege with only a few regions excepted as of June 14. The declaration comes via Central News from Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
London
Rome
Passenger Train Derailment Near Salt Lake City
One man was killed and twelve passengers injured when four coaches of Denver and Rio Grande passenger train No. 1 left the rails and rolled into a ditch near Salt Lake City on June 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Here
Denver & Rio Grande
Ship Star of Chile Safe From Alaska Ice
The Star of Chile, an Alaskan fleet steamer stuck in the Bering Sea ice, has been towed to safety by the government steamer Roosevelt, according to reports received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star of Chile
Washington
Bering Sea
Roosevelt
U. S. Flyer Killed in East Greenwich Plane Crash
Jack McGee of Pawtucket, an aviator known for exhibition flights, died when his airplane exploded and fell at East Greenwich. The June 13 incident ended a long career in aviation exhibitions.
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U. S
East Greenwich
R. L
Jack McGee
Pawtucket
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War-Risk Insurance Bureau
Treasury Department
Congress
No Man's Land
Michigan
Louis Orr
Louvre
Paris
Kont Neuf
Luxembourg Museum
Orr
Reims
Grocers
Norway
JU. S
Marion
Davies
Marion L. Davies
University of Wisconsin
Federal Trade Commission
Congressional Library
Commission
Cause OF Freedom
RUSS
Allies
Executive
R. E. Noble
Reais
Robert E. Noble
Army Medical Department
Gorgas
General Noble
Pinar del Rio
British Transport
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