Open Diplomacy Debate Rises Over Treaty Disclosure
In a Senate clash sparked by the Borah amendment, supporters push for open discussion of treaties as a test of wartime diplomacy. Leaders argue over open doors versus secret negotiations with decisive votes expected on the Underwood rule and related measures.
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Creel Defends Public Information Payroll Request
George Creel appeared before the House Appropriations Committee to explain a $2,008,000 request for government publicity funding for the next fiscal year. Creel said the Public Information Bureau has spent via a special $100,000,000 fund and that salary lists would be published later. Creel will testify again tomorrow as the committee weighs potential extravagances and continued propaganda work.
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Navy Bill Dispute Persists as House Refuses Senate Amendments
Washington June 11 House conferees refuse to agree to several Senate amendments to the 1.61 billion Naval Appropriation bill. The House accepts most Senate increases totaling about 225.06 million but rejects raises in personnel, bonuses and rank changes. Also denied were provisions for naval nitrate plants and specific station funding. some Army and Navy yard allocations were approved while new Marine Corps and training land purchases cleared for consideration.
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Wilson urges labor to press war work and unity
President Wilson telegraphed to the American Federation of Labor and the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy urging renewed labor support for the war. He warned that delays and class conflict could cost victory and praised workers in factories shipyards and workshops. He also addressed antiwar critics and urged use of government instruments to settle disputes without harming national defense.
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Stabilize Dollar Urged by NY Expert Before Senate
Franklin Escher of New York told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that immediate steps are needed to stabilize the dollar abroad. He opposed the dollar trading at a discount in Spain and said higher foreign bank rates could help maintain the dollar’s value during hearings on Senator Owen’s bill for a foreign exchange bank under Federal Reserve Board supervision.
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Fifth Rescue From Ice Towed To Safety In Bering Sea
The Star of Chile, a large sailing vessel from the Alaskan fleet, was towed to safety by the Government steamer Roosevelt in the Bering Sea. Survivors of the Tacoma, sunk earlier, are being landed at Bristol Bay canneries. No lives are reported lost.
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Baker Names Assistant To Secretary Of War
Secretary Baker announces Ernest M. Hopkins as Assistant to the Secretary of War in charge of industrial relations Hopkins a Dartmouth graduate of 1901 and former college president also worked with Bell Telephone Curtis Publishing and Filene’s Sons before returning to Dartmouth in 1916 and later leading industrial relations for the Quartermaster Department under Goethals and General W.
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Army Hospital Expansions Reach $25 Million Mark
Government has spent $25,173,417 in six months on Army hospital additions and improvements at camps and cantonments. New buildings include hospitals, convalescent barracks, infirmaries and nurses quarters with beds and wards added at Camp Gordon, Camp Dodge, Camp Merritt, Fox Hills and others. Numerous dental and ENT clinics are erected. total projected cost over 9 million dollars for barracks and infirmaries, with facilities for nurses and female staff.
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Socialists Quelled at AFL Convention Demonstration
In St Paul the Socialist delegates were drowned by cheers for Allied troops as the AFL adopted a Mission to Europe resolution criticizing ties between unions and Socialists. Four Socialists opposed the vote which signaled a test of Socialist strength at the gathering.
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Imperial War Cabinet opens with Lloyd George luncheon welcome
London reports the first meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet of 1918 began at noon with Premier Lloyd George greeting delegates. Walter Hume Long will preside over the Imperial Conference first meets on Wednesday.
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Press Asked to Aid in War Information Effort
Boston June 11 George E Kelleher Division Superintendent of the Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation for Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire urged newspapers to publish and keep at the head of their columns a message calling for reports of disloyal acts seditious utterances and any information about attempts to hinder the United States during the war to the U S Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation 45 Milk Street Boston.
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Germans Work Potatoes for Camp Devens Under Guard
About 100 German sailors from the Kronprinz Wilhelm, under armed infantry and at Camp Devens, farm five leased lands near the cantonment to produce potato crops for American troops. They were moved from Fort McPherson and have completed their first week of labor. The prisoners sleep in a double wire stockade illuminated at night.
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