Mare Island Navy yard to launch destroyer amid wartime drive
U S Navy officials announced a rapid wartime shipbuilding push on the Pacific coast. Sixteen vessels will go to sea on July 4 including destroyers and merchant craft as shipyards race to boost tonnage and thwart submarines. Officials cited fast construction, with wards and sections pre assembled, as proof of record performance.
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University of Misteigton
Russian Plot To Overthrow Soviet Bared
Stockholm telegram reports Finland’s neutralization negated by German controls on imports. M Tehitcherin accuses General Krasnof, once Kerensky ally, of dictatorship in the Don region. Krasnof seeks foreign aid to establish a sovereign Don district while opposing the Soviet republic.
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May buy food for Russia in Japan proposal under review
The United States and Entente governments consider extending economic aid to Russia by purchasing and assembling food supplies in Siberia for distribution to European Russia and Japan for Russia while evaluating feasibility amid uncertain prospects.
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Japan
United States
Siberia
Graphington
Piam Dkely
Russian Upper Classes Enslaved by Peasants
A Russian woman writer in exile describes dire upheaval after the March revolution. She recalls confiscations, breakdown of courts and police, the rise of people’s courts, and widespread chaos in Petrograd. She warns of hunger, lawlessness, and the collapse of private property as she seeks aid to save her daughter and herself in America.
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British Fliers Shoot Down 25 German Planes
London June 2 The aviation communique reports fine weather Saturday with twenty one German machines destroyed and four disabled. Four enemy observation balloons also fell. Our side lost four aircraft. Twenty tons of bombs were dropped in attacks on the Zeebrugge mole and railways at Amentieres Rozieres Boesinghe and Vieres. Railways at Karthava and Metz Sablons station were heavily bombarded by long distance machines, one failing to return.
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Vieres
Karthava
Metz-Sablons
Four U S Aviators Fight Six Germans in France
Four U S aviators engaged six German planes north of Toul during a June 2 air clash. One American pilot shot down an enemy biplane while another American plane was struck by an incendiary bullet, bursting into flames and crashing inside enemy lines. After brief combat, the forces separated with little additional aerial action reported.
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Associated Press
France
Toul
U S Flier Killed On First Day Of Drive
Paris reports aviator Carter Landtam Ovington of Louisville Kentucky and another pilot died on the first day of the offensive. Ovington was patrolling with three others when his wing touched a sergeant’s machine, both aircraft plunged 1800 metres. He, nineteen, joined the Lafayette Flying Corps before transferring to the American army as a first lieutenant. His mother is Mrs Georgia Ovington, and he had served as secretary of the Lafayette Corps for three years.
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Louisville
Ovington
Lafayette Facadrille
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Lafayette Corps
Crisis of War Reaches Great Battle On Chemin des Dames
The Crown Prince massed forces before Chemin des Dames as German shelling began at midnight. Within two hours a massive Allied assault broke the line, seven divisions facing overwhelming numbers, with Soissons and Rheims in play and rapid progress across the front.
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King George Elevates Rhondda to Viscount in Honors List
London June 2 The King's birthday honors include the elevation of Baron Rhondda to viscount for conspicuous public services as Food Controller. New peers include Sir Matthew Arthur and Sir William Tatem, with four teen new baronets and forty three knighthoods. Civil, military, naval, Indian and colonial promotions appear, along with two new aging force decorations.
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John M. le Sage
Liverpool Post
London Daily Telegraph
Woman builds warplanes sworn to avenge kin
Christine E. Sloss, a Melbourne nurse aboard a steamship home, declares that fear of Germans drove her to help construct aircraft in England. She joined The Women's Legion of Britain and said thousands of English women share her resolve to produce engines and weapons for the front, despite risk to themselves. She trained after arriving in England and worked in a major plant employing about six thousand, mostly women, on round-the-clock shifts.
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French War Zone Bans Liquor Sales and Use
A decree by French army authorities bans selling and consuming alcoholic drinks in the war zone. Violations will be strictly punished.
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Paris
Army Casualty List Reveals 85 Names Across Statuses
The June 2 casualty ledger lists 85 names from action, wounds, disease, and missing. Included are soldiers from Nashville Tennessee to Boston Massachusetts, with many privately noted residences and ranks such as sergeant, corporal, captain, and lieutenant. The mix covers killed in action, died of wounds, accident, disease, severely wounded, slightly wounded, and missing in action, with several later noted as prisoner or previously reported statuses.
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Maison
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Kirk
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Medford
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38 Americans Cited for Valor By Army Commanders
France June 2 Thirty eight officers and men of the American expeditionary forces were cited by their divisional commanders for gallantry. Names include Conroy Gantry Ogden Utah Tyle A G George and multiple sergeants and corporals across marines infantry artillery and machine guns with honors listed by unit and hometowns across the United States.
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George Gantry
Ogden
Utah
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Marines
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Mothers Day Letter Precedes Bad News for Hooke Family
The mother of Charley Hooke, a 25 year old purchasing agent drafted last December, was notified that he is missing in action. Hooke served in a machine gun company from Camp Upton and lived on Bainbridge Street in Brooklyn. His brother Charles, 27, drafted last October, is in France. Leonard, the youngest at 19, died last summer before the unit was mustered into Federal service.
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