Work-or-fight rules may pull players into service
Washington reports General Crowder’s new work-or-fight regulations could force professional baseball players jockeys golfers and other athletes to choose a useful occupation or join the army effective July 1. He will issue rulings only after local boards review cases. The secretary of war exempted theatrical performers from the draft, hoping to preserve amusement during war.
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Washington
General Crowder
Baker
Government orders all draft-age men to work or fight after July first
Washington dispatch reports Provost Marshal General Crowder announcing an amendment to selective service. After July 1 any registrant found idle or in a nonuseful occupation may be deemed a habitual idler and directed to choose a new employment or enter the army. boards may reclassify and call men to service as needed, with limited hardship exceptions.
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Washington
Crowder
Selective Service
United States
Chicago
New York
Regulation Defines Who May Seek Relief Under New Law
General Crowder outlines a wartime regulation classifying workers in public venues, clubs, hotels, stores, and domestic service as potentially idle if not employed effectively. The plan ties exemptions to industrial usefulness and urges all draft-age men to work or fight, stressing a national shift to maximize productive labor and curb idleness.
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General Crowder
Germany
Curious World Facts From an Earlier Era
A collection of historical miscellany covers diverse topics such as Bell Island oil finds in Newfoundland, a soap-making tree in Ecuador, Dutch New York’s early population, and inventions from pump rods to ozone purifiers. It notes a paring of office elevator signals, self locking rail danger signals, an ozone purification apparatus for breweries, and a gas reclaiming oven. It also traces cherry origins to Cerasos on the Black Sea and details a film projecting camera using broad film, plus rubber seeds from Maya regions and the world’s largest and smallest watches.
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Bell Island
Newfoundland
Ecuador
South America
New York City
New Amsterdam
Indiana
Cerasos
Black Sea
Europe
Maya States
Unlimited Army Powers Granted To Draft Masses
Secretary Baker won approval from the house military affairs committee to grant unlimited draft power under the selective service act. The measure, with total funding around 12.03 billion dollars, envisions an army of 2.7 million by adding those already in service to those to be drafted. Baker framed the move as a pledge of national commitment to Wilson's war aims.
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Washington
Baker
House Military Affairs Committee
Signal Corps
America
Congress
Wilson
Mrs Stokes Found Guilty of Espionage Act Violations
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes was found guilty by a federal jury on all three counts of the espionage indictment in Kansas City Missouri. Judge Van Valkenburgh deferred sentence pending a motion for a new trial set for June 1 with prosecutors and defense counsel in attendance.
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Kansas City
Rose Pastor Stokes
Francis M. Wilson
United States District Attorney
Seymour Stedman
Chicago
Stokes
Orban
van Valkenburgh
Stinson Flight to Chicago Ends in Crash Landing
Miss Katherine Stinson, flying from Chicago to New York with 61 mail pieces, completed 788 of an intended 978 mile nonstop route before her plane overturned on landing near Binghamton. She escaped injury.
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Katherine Stinson
Binghamton
Chicago
New York
N. Y
Miss Stinson
Garden City
L. L
Count Minotto Held as Alien Enemy in Chicago
In Chicago on May 25 Count James Minotto, son in law of Louis F Swift, was ordered interned in a government camp as an alien enemy by Judge Carpenter. The habeas corpus case ended abruptly as Minotto’s attorney finished arguments and the judge declined to hear the government, declaring Minotto native to Germany and subject to the president's warrant.
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Chicago
James Minnotto
Louis F. Swift
Packer
Carpenter
Minotto
Germany
Two Boys in Auto Killed in Indiana Crossing Crash
In Boone Indiana on May 25 Arthur Johnson, 15, and his brother died when a car struck a stranded auto on a crossing. Their father Gus Johnson and another son were fatally hurt.
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Boone
Arthur Johnson
Gus Johnson
Rate Cut Announced for Requisitioned U.S. Ships
The Shipping Board announced a 50 cent per ton reduction in the charter rate for requisitioned American ships operating on a bare boat basis. The change takes effect June 1.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Cyclops List Grows With 18 Added Names
The navy department received an expanded Cyclops loss list spelling 18 more men likely aboard the naval collier Cyclops. The new names were said to have been transferred from other ships to Cyclops.
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Washington
Navy Department
U. S. Acts in Car Strike
The Philadelphia street car strike was taken up by the national war labor board with representatives from the transportation company its employees and the emergency fleet corporation in attendance.
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Washington
Philadelphia
National War Labor Board
The
Transportation Company
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Lufbery Shot Down in Battle Over France
Maj. Raoul Lufbery, famed American ace with 18 victories, was shot down Sunday morning by a German triplane and leaped from his flaming aircraft 800 yards above ground. He was buried in France with full honors, his home listed as Wallingford Connecticut.
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Paris
Raoul Lufbery
France
Lufbery
Wallingford
Conn
Luneville
New Air Production Board Formed By Wilson
Washington May 22 President Wilson used a new law to reorganize agencies creating the air production board headed by John D Ryan. The army signal corps is reduced to a separate unit with Cols Walden Montgomery and Deeds reassigned to assist the attorney general in the aircraft investigation.
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Washington
Wilson
Army Signal Corps
Air-Production Board
John D. Ryan
New York
Signal Corps
Army
Cols. &. D. Walden
R. L. Montgomery
Edward A. Deeds
British blockade drives German U boat bases from Zee Brugge Ostend
Berne May 24 German naval authorities plan to abandon Zee Brugge and Ostend as U boat bases due to the new British blockade and ongoing harassing air raids.
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Zeebrugge
Ostend
Berne
Berlin
Ships to Launch Nine Vessels on July Fourth
Washington reports every shipyard urged to speed up for the big day July 4. Commissioner Colby and Director General Charles M Schwab will travel to San Francisco to launch nine ships, marking a historic hull celebration.
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Washington
Colby
Charles M. Schwab
San Francisco
Auto Plunges into River. Two Drown in Manitowoc Area
In Manitowoc Wisconsin on May 24 Miss Gretna Fetzer a schoolteacher and daughter of Henry Fetzer a Sturgeon Bay banker and Raymond Napledinski of Manitowoc drowned when their automobile slid into the river.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Gretna Fetzer
Henry Fetzer
Sturgeon Bay
Raymond Napledinski
Plane crash at Gerstner field claims two lives
Lake Charles May 24 Lieuts. Lathan Polk of New York City and Spencer Charles Williams of Buffalo were killed when two airplanes collided at 4000 feet over Gerstner field. The announcement confirmed the fatalities from the crash.
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Lake Charles
Lathan Polk
New York City
Spencer Charles Willams
Buffalo
Gerstner Field
Train wreck in Garland injures many. one missing
Texarkana Arkansas report says a north bound St Louis Southwestern train derailed near Garland. One soldier is missing and 18 people are injured. Engineer A J McAllister was killed.
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Texarkana
Ark
A. J. McAllister
St. Louis
Garland
New World Riveting Record Set at Oakland by Lom Horn
Tom is Some Riveter records a new world riveting mark of 5,629 in nine hours announced by the Shipping Board. The record surpasses the former 4,875 and was set in Oakland.
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Tom
Washington
Shipping Board
Oakland
Fal
Lom Horn
Foil Sinn Fein Plot Said To Reach US Irish Links With Germans
The United States authorities report evidence of Sinn Fein leaders colluding with German agents to incite rebellion in Ireland. German money is claimed to fund agitation among African Americans and other nationalists in the United States, with Americans connected to these groups paid from a hidden German source. Chicago, New York and Boston Irishmen are named in the conspiracy, with arrests and traitor prosecutions anticipated.
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Washington
United States
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Russia
Chicago
New York
Boston
Ensign Stephen Potter Dies Fending Seven Enemy Planes
News from London reports Ensign Stephen Potter of the U S naval reserves died in action over the North sea on April 25 while engaging seven single engine German planes. Potter was second pilot to a British captain and had recently downed a German seaplane near Helgoland bight before the final mission. The encounter ended with Potter seen amid flames and smoke as the enemy closed in, leaving only wreckage after the battle.
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Washington
Stephen Potter
United States Naval
North Sea
London
Committee On Public Information
Mnsign Potter
Helgoland Bight
Potter
Wilson Nominates Three Generals for High Commands
President Wilson named three generals on Monday. Maj. Gen. Peyton March is named chief of staff with the rank of general. Gen. Biss is nominated brevet general and appointed permanent representative on the Interallied War Council at Versailles. Gen. John J. Pershing is promoted to full general.
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Washington
Wilson
Peyton
March
Biss
Versailles
John J. Pershing
New Draft Eligibles Ordered to Register June 5
President Wilson proclaimed June 5 as the date for the next group of men turning twenty one to appear before local boards under the army draft law. The order applies to those who were twenty one since the first registration on June 5, 1917.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Barnes Told to Report for Camp by Local Draft Board
St Louis May 25 Jess Barnes catcher on the New York Nationals was notified by his local draft board in Holton Kansas to report Sunday prepared to depart for camp. Barnes is twenty three years old.
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St. Louis
Jess Barnes
New York Nationals
Holton
Kan
Barnes
Presbyterians Select St. Louis for 1919 Assembly
Columbus news desk reports the general assembly of the Presbyterian church chose St. Louis to host the 1919 convention. Philadelphia and Atlantic City were the other main contenders.
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St. Louis
Columbus
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
US Airplanes Destroyed in San Francisco Fire
Fifty government aircraft under construction at six Fowler Aircraft buildings in San Francisco were burned. Authorities say no enemy plot is suspected as the blaze destroyed the planes and facilities.
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U. S
San Francisco
Fowler Airplane Corporation
Captain Hall Alive After Wounding Behind German Lines
Captain James Norman Hall of Colfax Indiana is reported alive in a German hospital after being brought down behind enemy lines in Lorraine France. He is wounded but in stable condition according to Allied reports.
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Hail
Lorraine
France
James Norman Hall
Colfax
Army manpower and war supply requests spark calendar-year projections
Washington May 24 Representative Caldwell of New York told the House that in early May about 2,000,000 American troops were active and 600,000 already shipped to France with another million trained for overseas service. He predicted 4 to 6 million more men before the next fiscal year and a potential 20,000,000 fighting age in a seven-year war. Baker submitted $1.5 billion for ordnance and $7.118 billion for discretionary war department spending, while Daniels asked Congress for $80.1 million in naval appropriations for training camps and shells.
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Washington
House
Caldwell
New York
United States
France
America
Baker
War Department
Congress
Daniels
Storms Kill Nineteen In Town Wisconsin And Illinois
A Tuesday storm across Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa leaves nineteen dead with over a hundred injured. Lone Rock Wisconsin reports the heaviest loss as half the village of 700 is razed. Town Richland Sauk and Dane counties suffer wide damage with property and crops likely exceeding 1 million dollars in Town and around 1 million in Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Iown
Boong
Newton
Denison
Lone Rock
Town
Richland
Sauk
Dane
Hughes seeks clear field for aircraft inquiry
In a strong letter to the senate military affairs committee Charles I Hughes says the justice department probe must not be hampered by a parallel committee inquiry. He indicates the president supports this stance and the committee may defer its own inquiry to let Hughes proceed along his proposed path.
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Tella
Senate Committee
Department of Justice
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Charles I. Hughes
Hughes
German Women to Register in United States
German women in the United States must register with chiefs of police or postmasters from June 17 to 26 under Justice Department regulations issued on Tuesday.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Soldiers' Checks Ready for April Allotments
Washington on May 25 reports the war risk insurance bureau will mail all April allotment checks for soldiers and sailors and government allowances by Saturday in response to family inquiries.
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Washington
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Mob hangs woman's slayer near Cordele
A mob seized James Cobb from the Cordele jail shortly after midnight and carried him to the scene seven miles east of Cordele where he killed Mrs. Roy Simmons before being hanged.
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Cordele
James Cobb
Roy Simmons
Forty-Four Die in London Raid Casualties
A supplemental statement reports 44 killed and 17 injured from Sunday night’s air raid. The king and queen visited the bombed area on Tuesday.
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London
Iowa House Election Committee Backs Scott Over Steele
Washington May 24 The house election committee reports George C. Scott properly elected in the Eleventh Iowa district contest with T J Steele.
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Iowa
Scott
Washington
House
T. J. Steele
George C. Scott
Moldavia Sinking Kills Dozens Of Americans In Channel
London reports the Moldavia torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel with about 600 Americans aboard. Destroyers rescued survivors and supplied aid as the crew suffered no casualties while many troops were unaccounted for and presumed dead.
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London
Moldavia
Admiralty
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Greenock
English Channel
Washington
Olielal
Wilson delays tax bill debate amid White House review
Senator Simmons reported the president has not decided on an immediate tax registration and asked for data on legislation status revenue and appropriations. McAdoo told congressional leaders new revenue laws are imperative though leaders oppose current bills.
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Washington
Simmons
White House
Congress
McAdoo
Coal price cut under railroad fuel pact announced
Washington May 27 the fuel administration announced a ten cent per ton reduction in government fixed prices for bituminous coal. The cut follows an agreement in which railroads will pay the fixed price and drop preferential car service to mines supplying railroad fuel.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
U S Men to Fight in Italy
Secretary of War Baker announced in New York on Italy day that American infantry machine gunners and artillery units will soon join Italian forces on the front.
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Baker
New York
Wil Baker
Italy
Physician Is War Prisoner In German Camp
Lieut Louis M Edens of the medical corps with American forces in France is reported a prisoner in a German prison camp by a telegram to Mrs Edens from the Red Cross dated May 27 at Cahool Missouri.
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Cahool
Louis M. Edens
Medical Corps
France
Army Orders 8000 Trucks for National Defense
Washington May 27. The war department announced orders for 8000 three to five-ton trucks placed with 15 automobile makers. This adds to the 10000 similar trucks already under delivery.
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Army
Washington
War Department
Fisheries Commission Reaches Substantial Agreement
Washington May 27 Members of the joint American Canadian fisheries commission report substantial agreement on all questions with only operating details remaining to be settled.
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Fish Commissions
Washington
Joint
Grenadier Guards Lieutenant William Fleet Killed in Action
Lieut. William Alexander Meet of the Grenadier Guards was killed in action May 18. He was the son of the late Col. A. F. Fleet of Culver Indiana and Mrs. Fleet of Atlanta Georgia.
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Fleet
Indiana
London
William Alexander Meet
Grenadier Guards
Col
A. F. Fleet
Culver
Ind
Atlanta
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Americas
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Aviation and Signal Corps
HMS
Erin
U. S. Flyer
Pershing
Bliss
Grant
U.S
Rep. Caldwell
Orfe
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