Registration Rules For New Draft Law Publicized
The War Department issues instructions for nationwide draft registration. Governors lead registration in each state with sheriffs and mayors appointing precinct registrars. Registrars are sworn, and 1 per 170 people registered. Absentees and the sick may register by mail or proxy. colleges and institutions receive guidance from county or city clerks.
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National Army
Ander
Prestd
Hielal
Proclamation Urges Volunteer Registration Officials
The proclamation instructs jail wardens and officials to seek guidance from county or city clerks. Five days after the president’s proclamation, regulations reach sheriffs and public officers. The plan relies on citizens to serve as registrars, with volunteers urged to contact the appropriate official immediately.
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Elles of
Banks Urged to Cooperate in Government Loan Drive
Secretary McAdoo urged 27 018 banks and trust companies to receive subscriptions for the 2 000 000 000 loan offering and telegraph rough estimates of the bonus they could take. He praised banks for aiding the government and the Federal Reserve Bank in meeting wartime needs. Subscriptions rolled in nationwide, with most sent by wire to the Treasury. Italy credit talks continued as the first 10 000 000 loan to France was prepared for delivery to Ambassador Jusser while funds were expected to be allocated within days.
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McAdoo
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Eleniig House
Italy
Count di Cellere
Treasury
France
Jusserand
Washington Center Calls for Allied Central Purchasing Board
Sir Hardman Lover of the British war mission predicts a central buying committee in Washington to supply all Allied governments. He asserts J P Morgan & Co. will be superseded and argues Germany will face practical bankruptcy in postwar credit markets. Allies financed the war by gold sales and American securities, placing them in good shape despite large debts.
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Washington
United States
Hardman Lover
Morgan & Co
Germany
Congress
Shipping Board
Tay
Honda
Agreement on Pay for Men in Training Camps
The War Department agreed on paying 100 dollars for four months to men in training camps seeking commissions in the officers reserve corps. About 40,000 men may enroll when camps open May 18, with 2,500 applicants per camp, and room for more qualified recruits. Chicago mobilizes naval resources with Capt Moffett rounding up power boats to convert into submarine chasers for rapid deployment to the seaboard.
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Washington
Army
MMM
War Department
Department
Chicago
Navy Department
W. A. Moffett
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Moffett
Seaboard
Control of Food Supplies Bill Seeks Federal Oversight
Washington The proposed Lever bill would place all agencies tied to the food supply under presidential control. It aims to stimulate production, curb waste, regulate distribution, ban hoarding and speculation, and direct shipments to short markets while authorizing factory and mine requisitions to stabilize supplies.
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Washington
Lever
Build big fleet to beat divers 18 take over steel mine
A bold plan aims to assemble a large fleet to defeat divers 18 and seize a steel mine. The initiative seeks to add 5,000,000 tons of capacity within two years, signaling a major industrial push and strategic resource expansion.
Teutons Take Fresnoy In Fierce Arras Front Fighting
A Zu rich dispatch reports William narrowly escaped an assassin's bullet while traveling to Berlin. German forces recaptured Fresnoy and its wood after fierce assaults, breaching Canadian lines and pushing Dominion troops back. London confirms heavy losses on both sides as fighting continues near Bullecourt and Herry-au-Rae with harsh artillery exchanges.
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Soissons
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Craonne
Ailette
Champagne
France
Othe
Mont Carniltet
Havrincourt Wood
Queant
Aisne
Russia
Petrograd
Council of Workmen's
Lvoft
Milukoff
Wheat Poorest Since 1888 Predicted May Wheat Prices Soar
May wheat in Chicago rose to a record high as reports show the 1917 winter wheat crop in poor condition not seen since 1888, with an expected yield around 346 million bushels. Government forecasts also project 481 million bushels for 1916, while total planted and harvested acreages show substantial declines from last year. Other items include a $100 million France loan and New Mexico's $750,000 defense fund. U-boats surpass the one million ton monthly target for four weeks ending May 5.
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Washington
First Army of 528,659 to France with artillery units
The article reports the planned mobilization of an 18,538 officer and 528,659 enlisted strength, including sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery with large cal iber howitzers. It outlines officer training districts, infantry divisions, cavalry divisions, air and support units, and projected total force approaching 700,000 active troops with 250,000 more in recruit battalions.
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Union News Service
Washington
Department
Minnesota
Iowa
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National Guard
U.S. To Send Railway Engineer Regiments To France
Nine new regiments of army engineers will be volunteers from the nine great railway centers. Each regiment will be led by a regular army engineer colonel with railway officers as other leaders. The force totals 11 000 to 12 000 men and operates two battalions of three companies each.
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Washington
Army Engineers
France
War Department
Snes
Birthday Telegram to Crown Prince Amid Warfare
A message from the fatherland to the crown prince notes his birthday falls in a serious time. It expresses grateful confidence and regards battle fronts as resisting attacks, hoping for a full victory and a peace filled with blessings in the new year.
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Amswrumn
Ioe Veruen
Songerot
Fatherland
Grain traders urged against price speculation in May wheat
May Wheat Sold at 2.85 on the Chicago Board of Trade with an unprecedented price. Three thousand bushels of No 1 hard spring cash wheat traded at 3.24. Board governors urged traders not to take actions that could drive prices up and asked customers not to speculate in grain.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Labor Urges Quick Irish Settlement Urges Lloyd George Action
Labor representatives plan to press Premier Lloyd George and the war cabinet for an urgent settlement of the Irish question. The Pall Mall Gazette reports senior government members may reconsider their positions if no satisfactory agreement is reached soon.
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London
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War Cabinet
Pall Mall Gazette
Sebior
War mission welcomed in St. Louis during parade
The St. Louis war mission led by former Premier Viviani and Marshal Joffre received a hearty welcome at the city Coliseum and an ensuing parade. The crowd marked May 7 as the Lusitania sinking’s second anniversary, hailing the tribute as fitting for the victims of the submarine attack.
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St. Louis
Viviani
Marshal Joffre
Income taxes for war raise heavy new levy plan
Washington reports a broad tax overhaul for wartime funding. Incomes over 1000 for singles and 2000 for married face new rates. high earners above 500,000 taxed 33 percent plus existing surcharges, with total rates reaching 45 to 50 percent. Old law exempted under 3000 dollars, now increasing duties. Villa near U S border. Danish Isles shipping pact shields German ships. 1916 Louisiana sugar crop nearly double 1915. Duma to convene in extraordinary session. Dutch official foresees postwar agricultural prosperity.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mainz Shops Looted as Troops Fire on Rioters in Germany
A Western Newspaper Union report from Amsterdam states 1600 demonstrators looted shops in Mainz amid severe food shortages. Troops shot at crowds, eight killed, five hundred arrested. Separately, Munich dispatch notes Bavaria’s food crisis worsening with minister of the interior warning of hunger and possible shifts in livestock supply.
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Amsterdam
Mainz
Germany
Telestaaf
Adda
Basel
Switzerland
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Bavaria
Herr Brettrech
Popular Assembly
Boston Socialites Train as Ambulance Drivers
Miss Gertrude Fiske of Boston joins other girls in training for ambulance driving in anticipation of government service if needed.
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Gertrude Fiske
Boston
United States Plans New Allied Loan Transfers
The government approves a May loan package to Britain totaling 100 million dollars with an additional 25 million transferred to the British embassy. The move aligns with estimates of up to 400 million a month in allied financing and signals potential further aid to Russia Belgium and Serbia, aiming toward a near one billion dollar total before the Liberty loan proceeds begin.
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United States
Great Britain
Washington
Joan
France
Italy
Russia
Belgium
Serbia
Battles Rage Near Bullecourt and Frontline Shifts
Military dispatches describe heavy fighting around Bullecourt between Arras and Cambrai with British and French forces gaining ground while German counterattacks are repulsed. Reports from Paris, Petrograd, and Copenhagen detail French advances near Soissons Laon Craonne and the Ailette, plus Norwegian submarine activity and a rise in flour prices in Minneapolis.
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Union News Service
Londo
Bullecourt
Arras
Cambrai
Roeux
Fontaine
Reincourt
Noeux
Lens
Souchex River
Berlin
Winterbury
Paris
Soissons
War Office
Chemin-des-Dames
Wilson Breaks A Precedent In Supreme Gallery Visit
President Wilson occupied a seat in the executive gallery of the House as British Foreign Minister Balfour and the British mission were received on the floor. Historians note it is the first recorded appearance of a U S president in the galleries. Martial Law Declared claimed throughout Bohemia.
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Washington
Balfour
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