Mithien Diary Exposes War Roots and Krupp Role
In Berne, May 6, Dr. Wilhelm Mithien former Krupp director now in Switzerland argues Germany bears primary responsibility for the war. He cites his diary covering August 1914 with notes on Austria Turkey and German actions, while Krupp executives sought his return as chairman.
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Berne
Lichnowsky
Wilhelm Mithien
Krupp Works
Essen
Mithien
Switzerland
Reichstag
Mihlen
Miihion
Switzer
Kru
Bly
Mihion
Yihion
Krupps
Chien
Mihbion
Eyem Gore
Geryearus
Potsdam
Dr Mishion
Dr. Mishion
Pea Seral
Ee Sr
Lesicel
Anera
Mills
Austria
Arte
Germany
Turkeys
Black Sea
Trebisond
Armenia
Caucasus
Persia
Sweer
Rumania
Bulgaria
Don
Belgium
Apps
Boy rescued after hours trapped under city pier
A fourteen year old boy was imprisoned beneath the Charities Department pier at Mast Fifty-first Street. Police fire and rivermen cut through a floor beam after two and a half hours of effort to reach him as the tide threatened to flood the space. Five young men including George gearnel and his brother Peter joined the rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charities Department
Mast Fifty-first Street
George Gearnel
East Forty-eighth Street
Peter
Charities Pier
Thomas M. Muiry
Allen Point Boat Club
George Cas
Democratic England described by Frank Dilnot at Christ Church
Frank Dilnot of The Daily Chronicle spoke at Christ Church detailing England s democratic spirit and the labor movement s rise. He noted the Commons dominance, labor influence in Parliament, and government control of railways coal mines and factories. He also defended the King s role and praised returning American soldiers for their reception in England.
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England
Frank Dilnot
Daily Chronicle
Christ Church
Seventy-fivet Street
Broadway
Dilnot
Commons
House of Lords
le Roy le Veult
Corld
Diinot
America
Europe
Armour & Co to Issue 60 Million Gold Debenture Bonds
Armour & Co plans a 60 million dollar issue of 66 percent gold debenture bonds to fund debt reduction and war orders. The notes will be issued June 15 1918, mature in six annual installments, and be convertible into preferred stock at par. Lead underwriter is Chicago Mandera with a syndicate of major banks.
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New York Times
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Chicago Maandera
New York
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
Fit National Bank
First Trust and ‘Avin Bank
Ilinois Trust and Saving Bank
Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company
Stuart & Co
Two Men Shot Placed in New York Hospital
A touring car brought two gunshot victims to New York Hospital after 9 pm on Hudson Street. Charles Mongolli, 23, clerk, suffered a stomach wound. Charles Madden, 26, of 622 East 136th Street, was shot in the left elbow. The chauffeur was questioned as detectives investigated the ambush.
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New York Hospital
Hudson Street
Perry Street
Hos
Ita
Charles Mongolli
Treet
Charles Madden
East 136Th Street
Mongolli
Adden
Doctors Unite for Service at AMA Meeting
Chicago June 0 At the American Medical Association convention a plan to form the Volunteer Medical Service Corps was outlined to expand aid for the army and navy. The corps will include doctors and nurses ineligible for active service and will be badge-designated by the National Council of Defense.
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Chicago
Army
Navy
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
American Medical Association
National Council of Defense
Georgia
Devil Dogs in Training Camp at Rivoli Exhibit
Rivoli screens Marine Corps training footage titled Devil Dogs in training camp, shot by Lt. L. Roth apfel after tours of South camps. The program includes Greek Evans singing The Americans Come and George M. Cohan in Hit-the-Trail Holliday highlighting flag and prohibition themes, with mixed reviews.
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George M. Cohan
Europe
United States
Rivoli
L. Rothapfel
Rialto
Marine Corps Reserve
South
Rivoll
France
Evans
Fay Foster
Village Boss Halts Soldiers Benefit at Palace Theatre
Dr. FE Agate Foster president of the Village Board of Trustees halted a soldiers benefit show at the Palace Theatre after trustees refused permission claiming the act violated village ordinances and public wishes. Manager Nathan Goldstein said proceeds were to go to a tobacco fund for a South Infantry company as patrons left after the clash.
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Patchogle
FE Agate Foster
Village Board of Trustee
Palace Theatre
Nathan Goldstein
South Infantry
City Briefs From The Capital City
The Volunteer Firemen's Association begins its twenty third annual convention in Canarsie with a parade on Thursday. Mt Barnabas Guild for Nurses holds its opening session at St Stephen's Church on Sixty ninth Street east of Broadway with services Tuesday morning and a Wednesday breakfast for delegates and guests. Today two thousand kindergarten children gather at Loneadow Park for a play festival accompanied by the Commercial High School. Fordham University opens a free sociology and building course to train welfare workers for social conditions arising from the war. The School of Social Service and Woolworth offer a free course for soldiers sailors nurses and others registered for service as part of the effort.
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Mae Marah
Strand
Susan Sweeney
Susan
Mirla Strong
Austin Strong
Strong
Miriam
Flare Ferguson
Rialto
Maurice Tourneur
Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen
St. Croix
Sevening
Virgin Islands
Herbert Rawlinson
Broadway
Firemen's Association
Canarsie
National Guaild
St. Barnabas For Nurses
St. Stephen's Arch
Sixty-ninth Street
Mt. Barnabes Guild
Protestant Episcopal Church
Loneadow
Aspect Park
Schoo Nd
Fordham University
School of Social Service
Woolworth
All American College
Fordham and
University School of For Service
Salvation Army Leader to Sail for France to Inspect War Work
After a national conference, Evangeline Booth Commander of Salvation Army America will sail for France to inspect equipment and assess needs of war workers. She will coordinate with Colonel William Barker and ensure accounting of all war work funds. The party includes officers, professionals, and volunteers from multiple states.
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United States
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
America
France
William Barker
Booth
Emer Pee
George H. Davia
Territorial Training Colleges
Chicago
Charles T. Wheeler
FP. H. Howard
St. Louis
Envoy S. P. van Sant
Sterning, All
Jessie Wintera
Houston
Texas
Misa A. Swenson
Marionette
Wis
Salvaion Army
Mies Cecil Burdick
Mass Draft Slackers Nabbed by Four Precincts
Police in four downtown stations arrested 101 men of draft age for dodging registration and failing to answer the questionnaire. Seventy one were seized by Fifth Street Station with others at Elizabeth Clinton and Mercer Street. Each deserter faces up to a year in prison. Rewards of 50 dollars per arrest funded by wages or future earnings. police pension and a deputy's 750 dollars owed by the government noted. About a percent claimed Polish nationality. one man worked three years as a machinist and dodged the law for pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Street
Elizabeth
Clinton
Mercer Street
Mable
Polly With a Past 2 and A Tailor Made Man at Belasco and Cohan Harris
Soldiers and officers from American and allied forces were entertained at Belasco Theatre by Polly With a Past 2 and at Cohan Harris by A Tailor Made Man. Helasco show supported by Stage Women's War Relief with Grace George as hostess. Hosts welcomed Camp Upton personnel. uniforms granted entry and many passes used.
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Polly
Belasco Theatre
Cohan & I Harria
Helasco
Btage Women's War Relief
Grace George
Cohan & Harris
Camp Upton
Campanini Plans More Opera Here In New York
Cleofonte Campanini announces extended New York visit for Chicago Opera next season with Galli Curci Raisa Garden and Muratore star casts. He envisions ten weeks in New York, twenty eight performances at the Lexington, and tours to Milwaukee St Paul Omaha and others before Chicago season.
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Cleofonte Campanini
Chicago Opera Association
Western Stars
New York
John Brown
Lexington
Mr. Campanini
Chicago
Metropolitan
Chicago Opera
Mme. Galli-Curci
Donizetti
Patti
Crisino E la Comare
Ricci
Wich Tetraszini
Hammerstein
Rosa Raisa
Bellini
Norma
Muratore
Verdi
Otello
Mary Garden
Mascagni
Isabeau
Miss Lazzari
Mr. Straccart
Linda
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Omaha
Denver
Oklahoma City
Fort Wort
Houston
Kanane City
St. Joseph
Boston
Journet
Maguenat
Dufrann
Egsit
Louis Hasselmans
Varta
Opera Comique
Manhattan
Italo Campenin
New Yar
Sturani
Charlier
National music dealers and publishers hold annual conventions
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers and the Sheet Music Publishers hold their conventions at the Hotel McAlpin today and tomorrow. The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind hosts its annual commencement tomorrow in its hall on Thirty fourth Street and Ninth Avenue with New York participants. a summer concert series by Julius Hopp and Ke stemine will be staged at Delaware Water Gap.
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Century Theatre
Actors’ Fund of America
Avery Peeerees
Helwyn & Co
Stage Women's War Relief
Sipnline
36 Avenue
Ameliane Grace Leigh
Claire Cassel
Augusta Ge Patricia Henshaw
Mahele Adams
Leo Carrillo
Pacific Coast
National Marines
Frank Hammond
Strand
May's Landing
N. J
Dethlehem Steel
Kix Brown Brothers
Whiting
Burt
Song Sayers
Muriel de Forest
John Cert
Catherine Chishelm Cushing
Eleanor Painter
Lartors
National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
That of
Sheet Music Publishers
McAlpin
New York Institute For the Education of the Blind
Thirty-fou Street
Ninth Avenue
John Bland
Clara Pasvotsky
Sara Gurowitech
Delaware Water Gap
Julius Hopp
Kestemine
Juiv
Morality of Allied Troops Praised by Canadian Pastor
Captain W. A. Cameron of Montreal urged at First Baptist Church that front line soldiers show the cleanest manhood and Christ like unselfishness. He said the soldiers’ religious life in the trenches reveals true religion as self sacrifice amid death.
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W. A. Cameron
Bloor Street Baptist Church
Montreal
Canada
First Baptist Church
Broadway
Seventy-eighth Street
Cameron
An Lee
War relief agencies urged merged into city unit
The Mayor's Committee on National Defense proposes unifying over 1000 local war relief groups into one city body led by an Executive Committee of up to fifteen. Ex officio members would include leaders from the Board of Aldermen, City Chamberlain, Board of Education, and key city committees. A meeting at City Hall is set for 3 PM to discuss forming a single official organization.
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Committee On National Defense
Board of Aldermen
Board of Education
Wilson
City Hall
Bus and trolley crash injures twenty in street collision
A Fifth Avenue Coach bus and a New York Railways trolley collided at laid Street and Macomb's Place last night injuring twenty. The trolley Motorman Joseph Mendiuano and bus chauffeur Adolph Inner were injured, with Mendiuano later found to have a broken left leg and Mrs. Mary Delahanty severely injured with a skull fracture.
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Fifth Avenue Coach Company
New York Railways Company
Laid Street
Macomb’s Place
Joseph Mendiuano
Bua
Adolph Inner
Mendiusno
Reacy
Mary Delahanty
Fo. East Booth Street
Stefansson Recedes Typhoid Illness, Now Healed
Vilhjalmur Stefansson the arctic explorer has fully recovered from typhoid fever contracted on Herschel Island last April. A telegram from Port Yukon reports he was brought in by dog sled several weeks ago and is well again.
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Stefansson
Dawson
Y. T
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Herschel Island
Port Yukon
Senate subcommittee reports improving aircraft production at plants
Washington reports the Senate Military Sub-Committee returning from inspections at Buffalo Detroit Indianapolis and Dayton saying plant progress toward quantity production is rapid and Liberty motor tests were satisfactory. The group led by Senators Thomas Reed Smith New and Frelinghuysen expects a marked improvement and soon plans further visits this week to New Jersey plants.
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Washington
Senate Military
Planta
Buffalo
Detroit
Indianapolis
Dayton
Thomas
Colorado
Reed
Missouri
Smith
Georgia
New
Indiana
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
War industry meeting targets war material production
State manufacturers from Pennsylvania New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts and Delaware meet in Atlantic City under the New Jersey Manufacturers' Council with officials from Washington and representatives of Britain France and Italy. Louis Tracy will describe Britain's coastal defense measures. Captain Rose and Captain Guardabassi discuss roles for women and material regulation. Senator Frelinghuysen and Dr. Wah Demarest outline aircraft investigations and training programs for women to fill men’s war work roles.
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Thia State
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Delaware
New Jersey Manufacturers’ Council
Atlantic City
Washington
Great Britain
France
Italy
Warren
King
Ecouncl
Louis Tracy
N. A. Rose
Francesco Mario Guardabassi
United States
Frelinghuysen
Wa Ht. S Demarest
Matsers College
Columbia appoints Dr Walter James as new trustee
President Nicholas Murray Butler announced the selection of Dr Walter B R James as a new Columbia University trustee representing the alumni. His term runs to June 1924 and he holds degrees from Yale and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Columbia. He serves on the College of Physicians and Surgeons faculty and works at Newark Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He joins Joseph P Race, elected to a life term last week.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Walter BR. James
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York Academy of Medicine
James
Yale
Columbia
Newark Hospital
Manhattan
New York County Medical Association
Joseph Prace
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