Baker Begins Inquiry Into Guard Food Shortages
Ohio Governor Willis and Iowa Governor Clarke probe reports of unfit bread decayed beans and spoiled milk supplied to National Guard troops. Military officials defend that stores were issued before federal service while recruits face shortages and questionable rations during border duty amid high spirits and training gaps.
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Willis
Moines
Clarke
Iowa
Michigan Regiment
St. Louis
60Th
Colo Tel Heery
Sternberger
Olétre
General Staff Unmoved by Complaints About Rations
Fermange are Werhlegton July 15 Officers of the General staff are unmoved by reports that mulitis en route to the border are adequately rationed. Inquiry of department commanders reveals ten Gaya rations provided for every man before he started South. The Guardsmen have to learn to take care of themselves, the staff said. Government has provided rations the lay allowed, and shortages are blamed on troops’ own actions. Transport issues limited day couches, but border troops remain to meet emergencies. Secretary Paxer will file a report after War Department review and Congress response to transportation and Quartermaster matters. Baker will act on individual cases until then.
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Werhlegton
Staf
Paxer
War Department
Ford
Transportation Care
Deteen
Baker
Men of 69th Deny They Were Without Food for 36 Hours
A letter from the 69th New York Infantry to The Associated Press refutes claims that soldiers went thirty six hours without food before travel. The unit says commissary under Lieutenant Reidy provided meals for nearly 50 men, plus 300 others from the 14th and 1st Cavalry, amid cramped, overheated boxcars.
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Sir Lous
69Th New York Infantry
Cleveland
Sravel
Commissary Department
Reidy
New York Infantry
Brooklyn
1St Cavalry
Allen
N.Y
T Reidy
James Foley
Jefferson Street
Riverdale Avenue
Yonkers
Main Street
Warburton Avenue
Brutus
Olman Thomas May
Thirsty horse dashes into saloon window column 8
A thirsty horse causes a commotion at a saloon when it dashed through a window near column 8, startling patrons. Local bystanders reported the incident and the animal was restrained without injuries. Police or owner may follow up for care and restitution.
Dr Cesare Battisti Executed as Traitor
Berlin reports from Innsbruck that Cesare Battisti former socialist member of the Austrian Parliament from Trent has been put to death for treason. Battisti served as an officer in the Italian army during the Tyrol offensive and was sentenced by a court martial. He helped lead the Trent and Trieste union movement with Italy and fled to Italy before the war, later condemned by Austrian authorities last year while absent.
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Berlin
Innsbruck
Cesare Battisti
Trent
Brescia
Dr. Battisti
Former N Y cashier arrested in Cuba
Santiago Cuba July 15 Hano Vega former assistant cashier of the New York City branch of the National Bank of Cuba 1 Wall Street has been arrested here charged with falsifying accounts and embezzling 10000 The United States government has forwarded extradition papers but the Cuban government is expected to refuse extradition Vega claims Cuban citizenship
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Cuba
Hano Vega
New York City
The
National Bank of Cuba
Wall Street
United States
Vega
SHARKE IN TOWN, IS CAUGHT BY PHONE
A puzzled Hotel Majestic operator heard a caller insist he wished to speak to a shark. The desk found Mr A Sharke of Hamlin Ohio in a room, suggesting a mix up with a joke or prank rather than a real shark contact.
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A. Sharke
Majestic
Jersey
Sin
Central, Park
Inquirer
Hami
Ohio
Wife Beating Husband Fined After Court Appearance
In Passaic City Court Mrs Poler testified of a whipping at home by Polet after he found no dinner. Police observed injuries on her back, and Judge Costello fined Polet four dollars and twenty five cents. He was jailed when unable to pay, while she pleaded for mercy. The couple left together.
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Orpet
James O'Shea
Donnelly
Birthday Play Child Injured In Street Incident
Frances, five, had a birthday party at 515 East Fourteenth Street. During a hide-and-seek game she ran onto Fourteenth Street and was struck by a vehicle named Avenue Bear. Attendants at the scene and Dr Sweeney of Bellevue Hospital performed an amputation of her left leg. prognosis suggests possible recovery.
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East Fourteenth Street
Joe
Fourteenth Street
Monsignor Murphy
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Dr. Sweeney
Bellevue Hospital
Plague Picket Lines to Keep Disease in City
New York faces an escalating infantile paralysis outbreak with 159 cases in New Jersey and over 100 outside the city. Mayor Mitchel accepts a $50,000 Rockefeller gift to fund watch of contacts, while US Public Health Service surgeons will man every railroad terminal to examine departing children.
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Rockefeller Foundation
United States Public Health Service
New York
New Datsey
New Yok
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Richmond
Bronx
Simon Flexner
Emerson
Walter B. James
Glentworth R. Butler
Health Department
Alvah H. Doty
Cnarios & Nanns
United States Public Health Servic
Washington
Cr. Lavinder
Government Service
C.H. Gardner
Bufalo
BR. W. Brown
Boston
Hotel Maritinique
Banks
Emerton
Loftice
Kaiser Sought War, Churchill Charges
London July 15 For The Tribune Winston Churchill argues that Kaiser Wilhelm sought war and that a decisive preemptive act could have altered history. He compares the moment to launching a ship, where a single strand can trigger an irreversible disaster for nations and lives.
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Churchill
Simonds
Winston Churchill
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Patrolman dies saving children from runaway horses
A New York patrolman leaped into a covered wagon on Convent Avenue near West 137th Street to free children in danger as a team bolted. He forced the rear gates, climbed to the driver’s seat, and was crushed when the horses dashed away. He later died at Knickerbocker Hospital.
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Convent Avenue
Rogers
Weat 125Th Street
Knickerbocker Hospital
Hollweg Goes to See Kaiser in Wartime Tension
London reports the German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg adjourned Reichstag talks to meet Emperor William. Aims include peace policy clarity or resignation amid pressure for renewed submarine warfare. Analysts note internal rivals push tougher sea policy and possible move toward a separate peace with France or Austria.
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von Rethmann-Hollweg
Amsterdam
William
Germany
Eddie Halloran Back, Hears That He's Dead
A stranger in Flushing visits a hotel and learns Eddie Halloran may be dead. The man, later revealed as Halloran, explains his repeated misreports of death across the West and Mexico after leaving Flushing twenty years ago.
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Eddie Halleran
Halloran
Flushing
Edward Halloran
Eddie
San
Sir Edward Grey Sees Victory as He Becomes Lord
Berwick, England July 15 Sir Edward Grey secretary for foreign affairs newly created an earl by King George writes to his constituents before joining the House of Lords. He says the war demands energy and sacrifice to secure a lasting peace while noting Allied progress and waning enemy confidence.
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England
Edward Grey
Foreign Affairs
George
House of Lords
Cavalry Aids British Drive On Western Front
British and Indian cavalry rode into German positions near High Wood and Delville Wood after breaching the second line. The charge impaled a German on a horse, yielded over thirty prisoners, and a British aviator strafed from 300 feet. One division suffered a single casualty in a capture front section.
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France
High Wood
Delville Wood
Infantry Fighting Renewed in Balkans Front
Berlin reports renewed infantry activity on the Balkan front. An enemy detachment attacked a Bulgarian post near Gievgeli and was repulsed. Shelling at Gulemenii northeast of Luxe Doirin killed seven Greek civilians, including four children.
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London
Balkan
Berlin
Gievgeli
Gulemenii
Luxe Doirin
Quarantine Bar Blocks John D's Grandchild Visit
A quarantine order blocks John D's grandchild from visiting today at the Greenburg border requiring a signed health certificate. Roads into the township from other directions are guarded and a barrier blocks access toward New York City at Tarrytown. Infantile paralysis concerns prompt restricted passage.
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Een Vonna
British Push To Pozieres Threatens Bapaume
London dispatch reports Haig’s forces driving through the third German line near Pozieres and Martinpuich in Picardy. About 2,000 British prisoners taken in the last 24 hours raise total to 10,000 as the offensive widens toward Bapaume. Germans resist but retreat appears likely.
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London
Haig
Picardy
Bapaume
High Wood
Colville Wood
Bazentin-Longueville
Bois de Faureaux
Pozieres
Martinpuich
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