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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
1
Early war registrations show about half of those listed as exempt due to marriage or official positions, while millions signed up without exemption. Secretary Baker praises the effort and Crowder’s leadership, noting expected regulations on exemptions remain forthcoming and that the process aims to minimize disruption to normal life.
City officials publish registration figures and note free options for those who delay filing. The item outlines deadlines, eligibility criteria, and potential penalties for late registrations, citing local offices and contact points for assistance.
Washington date June 7 Carl Vrooman Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agriculture says the million backyard gardens campaign is greatly over-subscribed and must be quadrupled or tripled next year. He praises home gardeners as fighting Kaiserin and notes reports show 2,000,000 gardens may be producing food and that interest in canning and drying foods is high. The department is supplying information and funding ideas as it hopes to aid the nation’s food effort and potentially shorten the war.
Madrid june 7 the cabinet met this afternoon to discuss the political situation and it is the unanimous opinion in political circles that it will announce its resignation tomorrow at a meeting presided over by King Alfonso. The cabinet was formed to preserve neutrality but the sinking of spanish ships and the German reply to spanish notes have created a tense situation with rising calls for Spain's entry into the war.
Washington dispatch reports General Goethals faced criticism for favoring steel ships over wooden ones in WWI emergency fleet planning. F Huntington Clark and F A Eustis, wooden-ship advocates, claim the program hinges on wooden hulls and warn of delays in steel construction, while Denman and Goethals defend expedient tonnage production amid submarine threats.
Paris notes American warships anchor off the coast and a large transport carrying wheat for U S troops reaches a French port. Le Matin says provisioning is underway with bases and camps prepared for infantry artillery and aviation. The Ministry of Marine says the French navy greets these Allied forces, and no American officers bring families.
Secretary Daniels announced the Jupiter, one of the navy s largest colliers and the first electrically propelled steamer, has arrived at a French port after sailing from an American port without advance notice. It carried 10500 tons of wheat and other supplies and prompted electric drive adoption in new warships.
A Rio de Janeiro dispatch reports the British vessel Demerara returning to Lisbon after sighting a submarine near Carenes Island that had torpedoed a cargo ship to France. Four days out, the Demerara allegedly met a squadron of five American battleships with troops aboard.
London June 7 Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill accepts the chairmanship of the British Air Board succeeding Viscount Cowdray. George H Roberts MP becomes Minister of Pensions, taking over from George Nicoll Barnes.
London reports the Wytschaete mine blast that opened a renewed British offensive on the Belgian front. Premier Lloyd George waited at Walton Heath as a million pounds of explosives shattered German trenches and German defenders retreated from the 9 mile front. The blast echoed across four states and was heard hundreds of miles away, likened to the Black Tom and other major explosions.
British armies in Belgium launched a massive six front attack on a nine mile front between Ypres and Armentieres. The operation featured a million pounds of high explosives, breached Wytschaete and Messines defenses, captured over 5 000 German prisoners and taken several villages, with gains threatening Lille and northern French industrial centers. The assault followed two years of preparatory work and marked a dramatic advance across a broad sector.
Washington reports on Lord Northcliffe's mission to the United States to critique Congress for slow action on food legislation. The British envoy is expected to press for frank public disclosure of Allied needs, including French manpower and fuel shortages, to spur wartime effort. The piece notes domestic resistance to foreign calls for faster action and assigns blame across multiple U.S. branches.
Samuel Hopkins Adams argues in the upcoming Sunday Tribune that the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Los Angeles once cleaned up local advertising but now needs one eyed optimists led by a blind man. Adams exposes dubious honesty in Los Angeles and promises the full story in The Sunday Tribune for June 10.
London dispatch reports Lord Northcliffe travels to the United States to establish an office in downtown New York. He says the visit is business oriented, not a speechmaking tour, and aims to coordinate British and Allied interests while sharing insights from wartime experience. He expects American innovation to yield practical lessons and ideas.
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