Strong Lobby For Buying of Postal Tubes
A heated House debate over whether the government should spend 10 to 11 million dollars over ten years to buy 56 miles of pneumatic tubes from Milholland and stockholders or abandon the service and rely on motor trucks. The piece details a strong lobby, propaganda, and viewpoints of postal experts, with figures for costs and potential street traffic impact.
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the Tribune
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
John E. Milholland
Pontoffics Department
Congress
PaostoMce Department
Milholland
Germanic Museum May Be War Memorial
Cambridge, Mass June 12 The $2,000,000 Germanic Museum at Harvard may be converted into a war memorial. The Harvard Illustrated argues the building should house a university war collection with war letters honor rolls and portraits of fallen heroes, preserving German art in a new form.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvid
Harvard Illustrated
College
Harvard War Memorial
Harvard
Germany
Save-the-Babies Campaign Opens Nationwide Health Drive
The Save-the-Babies movement kicks off with a government backed drive to examine every child aged six months to six years. In New York City, Lenox Hill and the Diet Kitchen Association report mixed results with malnutrition and tonsil issues found among examined infants. Dr. Josephine Baker leads the health department efforts to provide targeted treatment and follow up care.
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Greater New York
Lenox Hill
East Sixty-ninth Street
New York Diet Kitchen Association
West Forty-first Street
Josephine Baker
Health Department
McAdoo to Spend $482,417,000 for R. R. Equipment
Washington June 12 Railroad Administration outlines a liberal capital program for 1918. Expenditures total 482,417,000 for equipment and 445,089,000 for improvements, with freight cars locomotives and passenger cars receiving the largest shares. Most spending targets lines east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Mississippi
Ohio
McAdoo
Congress
Leister Smith
South Carolina
Oberenar
Interstate Commerce Onmittes
German-Americans Pass Resolutions Attacking Kaiser
German-Americans at Giederkranz Hall on East Fifty-eighth Street adopted resolutions denouncing the German government and Kaiser while pledging support for the Mayor's Committee on National Defence. The group aimed to ensure full participation of loyal German-Americans in the Independence Day loyalty parade and to present a united American stance, with leaders noting protection for demonstrators and officials hoping for large turnout.
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Giederkrang Hall
East Fifty-eighth Street
Mayor
Committee On National Defence
William Forster
United States
Frank Sigel
Friends of German Qiemoern
Sigel
Oliver Cromwell Field
American Relief Legion
McCurtty
Washington
Julius Jaeger
Red Cross Seizes Swiss Palace in Geneva
The American Red Cross has taken over the Palais Eynard in Geneva, loaned by local authorities, to care for sick and wounded. The Geneva American committee, led by Stephen MacPadden, Dr Charles Guniston, and Rev C Belden, will help repatriated Allied soldiers and Swiss citizens.
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Geneva
American Red Cross
Stephen MacPadden
Charles Guniston
C. Belden
Draft Here Is Almost Exhausted for New York Class 1A
New York City faces a depleted Class 1A pool with 27 000 men remaining after large drafts to National Army camps. Martin Conboy, draft director for New York, reports 75 000 of 680 810 registrants inducted, over 24 000 enlisted. New registrants will answer questionnaires once Washington draws order numbers, with limited single inductions and no Navy or Marine enlistment ban.
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National Army
New York City
Martin Conboy
New York
Washington
Cowboy Amid
Navy
Marine Corps
British Inspectors Aid U S Spy Hunt On Dutch Steamer
An Atlantic port page reports Britain's 40 customs inspectors from Halifax joined US and Allied intelligence on a Holland America Line liner with 603 passengers. The ship was quarantined, searches used acid tests for invisible writing and confiscations to prevent germ spread. Women passengers aided by the Women’s Motor Corps, and the pier was under Army Navy Intelligence control as guards tightened.
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Atlantic
Halifax
Army
Navy
Searehing
Customs Intelligence Bureau
Women's Motor Corps of America
Rotterdam
Forty Australian Soldiers Flee From Transport
Forty Australian soldiers from an Anti podes contingent aboard an Australian transport at an Atlantic port fled ashore to sightsee. One, Leslie Worthington, age eighteen, reportedly drowned after leaping into the river while wandering the pier. Police and officers issued a general alarm as some men reappeared with escorts, but about fifteen remained unaccounted for late at night. Six hundred men were aboard the ship, with shore leave granted to all except the forty who fled.
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Leslie Worthington
Robert Stephens
Worthington
Soldiers' Bus Line Appeals for Funds
The Order of William G. McAdoo withdraws excursion rate privileges, pushing Camp Upton distances and straining families of National Army men. The American Automobile Association plans free transport but fare hikes to 4.16 on Sundays boost demand for buses. James A. Homstrent seeks contributions to hire buses. William Guggenheim supports war aid contributions via the American Defence Society. Contributions to James A. Homstrent at 601 Fifth Avenue.
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William G. McAdoo
Camp Upton
National Army
American Automobile Association
James A. Hemetred
Mr. Homstreet
William Guggenheim
American Defence Society
Timelf
James A. Homstrent
Fifth Avenue
Murray Hill
Demands Reason for Keeping Wood Home
Senator Johnson of California urged the Administration to explain why Major General Leonard Wood remains at home instead of being sent to France with his division. He cited editorials from diverse papers demanding clarity, arguing the government must justify the move to the people.
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Washington
Johnson
California
Leonard Wood
France
Fee
Pap
Hoover Sets Beef Rations For Nation
The food administration urged Americans to limit beef to one and a quarter pounds per person weekly until September 15. Hotels and restaurants were asked to cap boiled beef, beefsteak, and roast beef servings. Substitutes of pork products were promoted to aid army and Allied populations. Prices for prunes and raisins were set to stabilize markets with future determinations on margins.
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Washington
France
Great Britain
Italy
Food Administration
Armiea
Advane
California
Government Seeks Tightened Grip on Shipbuilding
Washington reports that the Shipping Board urged a law restricting new plants and expansions to licensed cases to curb speculation, stabilize labor and material markets, and gain control of foreign contracts. Hurley warned that 1910 tonnage is unlikely but outlined plans for 3 million tons this year and up to 15,518,000 in peak production, noting longer construction times for transports.
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Washington
Relgan Tert
The
Shipping Board
Hurley
Alexander
House Merchant Marine
United States
May Launch 70 Ships July 4 Says Schwab
Philadelphia June 12 Charles M Schwab head of the Emergenant Corporation urged rapid ship launches at a patriotic Willow Grove Park rally. He cited telegrams predicting 50 to 70 ships could be launched nationwide on Independence Day and said many ships are under Emergency Fleet Corporation supervision in the Philadelphia district.
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Philadelphia
Charles M. Schwab
The
Emergenant Corporation
Willow Grove Park
En Reency Fleet Corporation
New York Men Win Army Commissions
Eighteen New Yorkers were commissioned today by the Air Department in the reserve corps and National Army branches. The list names captains and lieutenants in signal, aviation, and other sections with addresses in New York City Yonkers Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island.
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Permi Pupaitch
Tribune
Washington
Air Department
Reserve Corps
National Army
Acrview
Tollows
Ordnance Reserve Corp
Marshall G. Bnesn
Nassautreet
Onina
Humphrey
Reserve Corp
John Vincent Costello
George Good Nan
West Ninetieth
Wall Street
Patrick Jovenh
Siveat
Seinhauser
Hremilyn
Secon
Aviation Aectiin
Namal Reserve
Thoman Shirley Hinchanan
McLean Avenue
Yonkers
Heutanent
Sac
George Westey Beatty
Hancock Street
Wrenlyn
Iotaphna
Jagob Berkenstein
Lincoln Hosnital
Binney
Nathaniel Samen Cari
Vermont Avenue
Brooklyn
Stan Theodore Fortinie
Seecatie
Tax Exemption Appeals Anger House Members
Washington June 12 Members of the House Ways and Means Committee voiced growing impatience over witnesses urging exemptions from war taxes as debate on new revenue laws continued. Testifiers from the auto industry and life insurance groups argued against excess profits taxes and sought exemptions or different tax treatment, while representatives pressed for higher revenue and resisted reductions.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Albert H. Reeves
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Kitchin
Moors
Pennsylvania
Longworth
Ohio
Reeves
Job E. Hedges
Ofew York
Frederick G. Dunhanmerly
New York
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Treasury
E. M. Nation
Ottawa
Thomas W. Blackburn
Omaha
Senate Gets New Draft Treaty With Britain
Washington June 12 The redrafted British American draft treaty signed June 8 was sent to the Senate with a Foreign Relations Committee meeting called for tomorrow to consider it All committee changes have been met The principal change exempts citizens from both countries who are exempt from draft in their own nations The agreement sets American draftees in British territory between 21 and 31 and British or Canadian subjects between 18 and 45 may be drafted by the US The U S will likely not draft British citizens over 31 aligned with American limits
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Milholland
New England
Massachusetts
Arthur B. Rouge
Kentucky
Rouse
Tibet
House
Senate
New York
Hitchcock Washington
Lansing
Foreign Relations Committee
Hitchcock
United States
Hitchcok
Ship Board Insults Service Flag Charges By McArthur
Representative McArthur of Oregon charged the Shipping Board with prostituting the service flag by distributing to shipyard workers flags resembling military badges. He said small print on the flags states United States Shipping Board and that they are free to workers displaying them in windows. He argued the flags insult soldiers and called for rescinding the practice and recalling the flags.
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McArthur
The
Tribune
Washington
Shipping Board
Oregon
House of Representatives
Army
Navy
United States Shipping Board
Uncle Sam
Pping Board
Labor Seeks Aid Of President To Evade Decisions
Labor delegates at the American Federation of Labor convention in St Paul push for executive action to side step court rulings on child labor and other issues. Resolutions urge Wilson to act on Mooney case and call for nationalizing telegraph lines and banks while seeking postwar labor distribution and war work training. Tense session ends with Schlesinger’s protest and withdrawal over a vote.
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Tribune ST
Supreme Court
McAdoo
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Mooney
Wilson
Free Bohemia
Auc
Free
Ireland
Executive Council
Gmood
Federation
Gompers
Benjamin Schlesinger
New York
Ity
Frank Dutty
Carpenters’ Union
Schlesinger
Indox
Europe
International Ladies’ Garment Workers
Mail Flier Sets a Record At Belmont Park
Lieutenant Culver piloting a Liberty engine mail plane broke the Philadelphia to New York flight record, leaving Philadelphia at 2:30 p m and arriving Belmont Park at 5:12 pm, covering eighty seven miles at roughly 127 mph. He overtook a thunderstorm near Trenton and reached the park ahead of it by about half an hour.
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Long Island
Culver
Philadelphia
New York
Trenton
the Park
British Organize To Entertain U. S. Troops in England
London reports a British committee led by Major Sir Randolf Littlehales Baker will arrange public and private hospitality for American soldiers in England. Private stays of three days or more in English homes will be organized with local and national groups including Red Cross and YMCA backing. Names of U S and British organizers and noble patrons are listed. Commons hospitality committee to host weekly tea on the terrace overlooking the Thames.
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London
Randolf Littlehales Baker
United States
Great Britein
British Isles
Randolf
American Red Cross
Young Men's Christian Association
Army
Navy
England
Sir Bardolf
Froctor
United States Army
Morrow
Aviation Service
Blakesls
Whitelaw Reid
Red Cross
American Officers’ Club
Lords Donoughmore and Fairfax
Countess Northbrook
Lady Swaythling
House of Commons
Ding
Thames
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