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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1918
Page
4
Babylon reports Major Belmont leases Nursery Farm for military use. A field for training fifty cadets will be built immediately on acres two miles from town. The Department signed yesterday and pays a yearly rent of one dollar. Pupil training to start soon on the property featuring a one mile horse race course.
Mrs Challis wife of the American opera singer returns from Berlin after eight years and voices confidence in Germany's ultimate triumph. She notes reports of Prince Eitel Friedrich's death, describes wartime shortages and control, and comments on civic life and fear of famine. She contrasts rural and city conditions and observes German morale.
The Atlantic Division of the Red Cross will lead a ten day recruitment drive beginning tomorrow to fill Navy and naval hospital staffing needs in Europe and at home. Rear Admiral William C. Braisted urges all trained nurses to enroll or work part time in hospitals, clinics, or military support roles to ensure naval medical capacity. Graduates and students are urged to prepare for war service, with the drive aiming to free nurses for frontline duties.
Government departments receive a strict appeal to cut paper waste due to shortages and rising costs. Advice covers using plain paper, writing single spaced, using both sides, shrinking margins, making copies only of important letters, and reusing envelopes. It also notes a Defense of the Realm act link and mentions flapper behavior in offices.
About 600 conscientious objectors are reported to have proceeded to the inquiry stage with 1 800 000 men to be examined. The process involves hearings and possible changes of mind as the inquiry continues to determine eligibility for exemption or service.
Federal agents arrest Hans Lents a former German naval officer and Hamburg America Line engineer in New Jersey as investigations reveal his registrations duplications in the selective draft and ties to ships torpedoed off. Other cases include Heller Anderson alleged war regulation violations and loyalty committee actions in New York City.
King George, visiting woolens towns in Central England, ordered a brown standard cloth to be made into a 57 shilling suit for country wear. The monarch had previously resolved against new clothes during the war but changed his mind after inspecting factories supplying civilian uniforms.
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