Wilson urges immediate war tax action in joint session
President Wilson personally took charge of war tax legislation and addressed Congress urging immediate passage. He warned against delaying taxation, emphasized funding for treasuries, and urged fair, broad-based levies on profits, incomes, and luxuries to sustain the war effort. The speech framed duty over politics and called for unity and sacrifice.
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Wilson
America
Washington
Congress
Wrestlent
Warne
Joana
Naval Heroes Honor Medals For Florence Hi Rescue
The Navy Department commends 57 officers and men for heroism after Florence Hi, a munitions ship, was sunk and set ablaze on April 17. Gunner's Mate F M Upton of Denver and Anthony Shadows of Denver are among those cited for saving 34 crew members. Also note: former Grand Duke Nicholas escapes from German guards per Koelnische Volkszeitung in Basle.
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Washington
Navy Department
F. M. Upton
Dunkeld Place
Denver
Anthony Shadows
Lawrence Mreet
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Basle
Switzerland
Russia
Koelnische Volksreltung
Woman Files With V 3 Mall for Repairs Delaying Flight
Miss Katherine Stinson faces delays as repairs to her mail carrying aircraft hinder a planned Chicago to New York flight. The issue stems from issues at the mall in Binghamton New York affecting the schedule.
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V. 3
Mall
Binghamton, N. Y
Katherine Stinson
Chicago
New York
Germans Cross Aisne As Allies Fall Back In Flanders
Paris May 29 Allied lines resist German pressure along the Aisne front where Germans advance in waves with machine guns tanks and gas. British and French forces retreat in good order preserving supplies as air forces and Allied counterattacks seek to blunt the assault near Berry au Bac Vailly and the Veste valley.
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Aisne
Vailly
Berry-au-Bac
Veste
Foch
Al-Med
Hutson
Ypres
Dickebusch Inke
Ine
Troops Capture Cantigny in France in Fast Assault
American forces near Montdidier fought through German defenses to seize Cantigny and took 140 prisoners in about 45 minutes across a two kilometer front. The action followed a successful repulse of a German assault in the same region. In Washington, four Union express firms merge into a Federal Express Company with over 30 million dollars capital, to be led by George C. Taylor.
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France
Montdidier
Cantigny
Washington
Union Express
United States
McAdoo
Adame
American
Wells-Fargo
Southern Express
Federal Express Company
George C. Taylor
The
Santa Fe Sees Third Earthquake Since 1874
A quake hit Santa Fe New Mexico at 5 30 am Tuesday lasting about five seconds with a rumble. No damage reported though plaster shook from walls. Nearby towns reported similar strength and duration.
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Santa Fé
Increase rail rates raise passenger fares to 3 cents per mile
West Washington reports rates approved by President Wilson and McAdoo raise passenger fares to 3 cents per mile effective June 10 and freight rates about 25 percent effective June 25. Over 850 million dollars in increased operating costs for 1918 are expected to be offset. One hundred ninety railroads and all steamships under federal control are affected.
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Washington
Wilson
William G. McAdoo
Railway Administration
McAdoo
Newspape Union News Servier
De Weese Death Row Note and War News Echo
The report cites the May 24 execution of Howard De Weese for murdering his wife Fannie Misher De Weese, with his final words protesting innocence. The page also compiles war dispatches from Europe including Pershing’s communique, American actions in France, and captions on Italy day, drafts, and other World War I updates from New York and Chicago.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Howard de Weese
Fannie Misher de Weese
Henry W. Fisher
New York
de Weese
Reno
Dal de Weese
Gaton City
Colo
Smithsonian Institut
Italy
Baker
Allies Gain In Ships and Submarine Outlook
London reports Lloyd George warns of a great German attack as the United States rushes troops to France. He cites April shipping gains and an Irish conspiracy, praising the alliance’s strength while condemning Prussian despotism.
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Lloyd George
United States
France
Russia
Ireland
Belgium
Admiralty
Mutiny of German troops in the East erupts
Washington reports a German division at Dyinsk revolted on May 17 as ordered westward. Sixty soldiers were shot and over 1,000 jailed awaiting court martial while others protested the war. The Fifty sixth infantry at Wesenburg and other regiments held meetings to oppose the continued fighting.
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Washington
State Department
Dyinsk
West Trone
Wesenburg
Rockefeller Visits Colorado Mines During Colorado Trip
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. Rockefeller arrived in Trinidad Colorado on Monday and may visit Denver later as part of a tour to inspect coal mining camps owned or controlled by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. He offered no further comment on the visit then. Field Marshal von Hindenburg remains critically ill in Strassburg hospital May 27, with reports denying his death.
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Rockefeller
Colorado
Trinidad
Colo
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Denver
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Hindenburg
Geneva
Switzerland
Mexico-Cuba break seen as U.S. grievance trigger
Western Union News Service reports Mexico's sudden break in diplomatic ties with Cuba seen as an indirect U.S. action and a possible foreshadowing of disrupted US-Mexico intercourse. The incident involved Mexican Minister to Argentina Ysidro Fabela delayed in Havana with papers reportedly seized by a Cuban inspector.
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Treasury
Bani
Rnion
Washington
Mexico
Cuba
United State
United States
Argentina
Sefsor Ysidro Fabela
Havana
Sehor Fabela
Cubs
Flanders Dash Fails as Germans Strike Front Broad
Western Newspaper Union report from May 28 details a renewed German offensive along a forty mile front from Vauxallon to Brimont and toward Pont Arcy. Franco British forces retreated methodically, with heavy losses for the attacker, while British and American troops participate in the fighting on multiple sectors including Flanders, Artois, Picardy, and the Aisne.
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Oulon Newa Eryles
Paris
Platens
Vauxallon
Outekiris
Brimont
Helms
War Office
Pont Arcy
Germany
Picardy
Flanders
Voormer Aevle
Locre
Ypres
Pinon
Soissons
Rheims
Ale
Aisne
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
Supreme Up Command
Princ Rupprecht
Bavaria
Artois
Face Garda
Monticello Pass
Presena
Monte Zigolon
Lagarina
Italy
Red Cross War Fund Surges Past Milestone in U.S.
Washington reports the American Red Cross second war fund topped 14 million dollars as states report large may quotas met or exceeded. Arizona far surpassed its goal with about 400 thousand dollars in contributions. railroad wage hikes also announced for nearly two million employees.
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Red Cross
Washington
Germany
Western Front
Diatricta
Minos
Ari- Oda
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Montana
McAdoo
Railroad
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Washington Solels
White House
Millera
American Corn Millers’ Federation
Aisne Valley
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Youle
Aisne Rive
U. 8
WM. G. McAdoo
Pleardy
Pershing
War Department
Woevre
Lorraine
No Man's Land
T No
Craddock
Anna Held
Donald McCaskey
Packer Morine
Nelson Morris
Packer
National Army
Texas
Fort Worth
Tex
Denton, Cooke and Wise Counies
Britain
London
California
Basel
Mannheim
Tonale
Knempf
Reichstag Divs Berlin
Johannes Kaempf
Retchatag
Union News
Herston
Edinburgh
Mindenburg
Mr. Lloyd George
Lean
Odessa
Crimea
Amsterdam
Times
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Duma
Sosta
Mexico City
Constantinople
Vienna
Sofia
East
U.s.-Mexico
Carranza
Island
Minstar
Moldavia
Prague
Bohemia
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Ie Base
U. S
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