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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
7
News from Atlantic ports reports German submarines sank the Pomeranian and the Medora, both Canadian Pacific ships, with only one survivor from the Pomeranian. The Medora was later finished off by gunfire after nearly all crew abandoned ship.
At a Pittsburgh meeting on June 26 American Jews are urged to recruit for the Jewish Legion of Honor to serve with British forces in Palestine within ninety days. Major Hroo man White. Louis Lipsky and other leaders discuss forming a Jewish republic and a United States of the Near East with laws based on Hebrew tradition. Officers of the Intercollegiate Zionist Association are elected including Norman Weinstein and several Johns Hopkins and Yale scholars.
An Atlantic port reports two distress signals picked up in the mid Atlantic. The first came June 2 and the second June 23 from different steamships. Naval officials say no further attacks were heard of.
Two lifeboats from the British transport Dwinsk remain missing after a submarine attack. Sixty seven officers and men of the crew are unaccounted for. Westbound ships were warned to watch for them and eastbound vessels to search for the boats. Survivors say rescuers are likely at sea and word comes of Captain R Capper aboard Ausonia saved, but forty others adrift remain unaccounted.
Frederick A. Delano has offered to resign from the Federal Reserve Board to accept a commission in the Army Engineer Corps for railroad reconstruction and management work in France. The resignation is not yet accepted. He would join military railroad supervision in France, with a high-level appointment possible. Delano, born in Hongkong, has previous roles as president of the Wabash Railroad and the Chicago Indianapolis Louisville, and later led the Burlington system.
A State Department dispatch reports possible civilian or military prisoner status for Professor Minery held by Germany after incursions near Bari. The Prussian War Ministry had said he was in a Tuchel camp, prompting the inquiry.
The American Shipbuilding Company declared an extra quarterly dividend of 5 percent in addition to the regular 1 1 2 percent common dividend, payable August 1. The extra disbursement will be made in 3 6 percent Liberty Loan bonds.
Atlanta June 26 The Legislature today ratified the federal prohibition constitutional amendment Georgia becomes the twelfth state to approve the measure.
House Ways and Means hears conflicting proposals on excess profits tax methods. National and State Manufacturers urge a shift toward an English style or a mixed system with installment payments. Automobile dealers support higher sales taxes and a federal license, with a proposed scale and potential $100 million revenue.
Russell Hubley and actress Edna Clarke pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Hand to violating the select draft law. Hubley received a year and a day, to serve at Atlanta penal institution, while Clarke drew six months in Queens County women's prison. Clarke posed as Hubley’s wife. his real wife learned of the case in Scranton.
Supreme Court Justice Cropsey signed the order of discontinuance after Mayor John F. Hylan paid Howard Taylor the extra allowance of 2009 dollars and court costs. The payments covered the 2000 dollar extra fee tied to ending the 525000 libel suits against The New York World from the municipal campaign last Fall.
Dr. George S. Vincent announced the Rockefeller Foundation has discontinued its study of industrial relations begun in 1914. W. L. Mackenzie King will publish the findings personally, not as an official foundation publication, as global wartime shifts and reconstruction programs take precedence. The foundation will focus on medical education, public health demonstration, and war work cooperation.
The Aero Club of America urged Washington officials to invite Signor Caproni to bring a capable transatlantic flying machine to the United States. Lieut. Leopoldo Belloni and club president kt. Hawley cited the machine's potential for a successful crossing and repeated capability to fly the route many times. A London firm sought cost estimates to ship saccharine to London by air, while Sgt Pilot Harold Wright planned tentative plans for a hydro aircraft transatlantic attempt from Buffalo to Curtiss plant.
Alonso Sargent engineer on the Michigan Central equipment train faced a grand jury in Lake County Superior Court on involuntary manslaughter charges connected to last Saturday’s crash into the Hagenbeck Wallace circus train. Fireman Gustave Krauss also held on involuntary manslaughter charges with bonds set at 8000 and 5000 dollars respectively.
In a Senate debate, Senator Baker argues against changing the draft age now, urging a full investigation into numbers, shipping, and supplies before any extension. He notes war plans, shipping constraints, and potential August deadlines as factors shaping the expanded mobilization program.
Secretary Baker told the Senate Military Committee that an enlarged army program is being developed and would be presented within three months. The disclosure signals a major expansion plan affecting military needs and funding prospects.
Secretary Baker and War Department officials share the view that under the current mobilization schedule there will remain several hundred thousand men in Class 1 on January 1. Senator Chamberlain presented a May 1 1918 status table showing a gross total of 2 473 157 under questionnaires, with a net total of 1 172 544 after deductions for delinquents emergency fleet flat men limited service defectives and recent inductees.
A wartime order from Provost Marshal General Crowder summons 124 525 white and colored registrants for general military service in July. The plan splits entrainment by week and color, with 27 257 whites on July 5, and totals including 567 061 men for July across multiple calls and regional camps such as Fort Slocum Camel Wadsworth Camp Humphreys Meade and Dix and Dis in New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia and South Carolina.
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