Mass Meeting and Red Cross War Fund Drive Planned
A Friday night mass meeting in Oklahoma City will feature George W. Simmons of St Louis as the principal speaker for the Red Cross drive aiming at 125000. A Wednesday night demonstration, including machine gun fire and a Red Cross hospital corps, will illustrate relief work. About 150 volunteers gathered at the Kirvin hotel to marshal forces and set four installment payment plans with July 1 and October 1 deadlines.
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Debate Opens on Food Control Bill in Congress
Washington June 18 debate on the administration food control bill began in Congress today. Leaders pushed early passage of the measure amid a partisan clash over price controls and rationing.
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Any Scout Heroism Cited After Belle Isle Rescue
Randall Hadley ages 11 and a Boy Scout led a lifesaving act at Belle Isle yesterday, saving Wallace Carter aged 7 from drowning. Photographers captured the moment as the crowd pressed for quotes. Hadley downplays the feat saying Any scout would have done it.
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Food Control Bill Aims To Bring Crooks Into Light
Washington June 18 The agricultural committee chairman Lever opened debate on a food control bill seeking to expose food crooks without harming honest business men He predicted broad House support by week’s end Opponents led by Haugen Moore prepared to attack arguing against extraordinary powers for the president Lever warned against authorizing autocratic powers and urged swift wartime measures to seize control of supplies within days after war was declared
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Piesylvania
Chicago stores offer 105 for Liberty Bonds
Advertisements by Chicago merchants in morning papers offer up to 105 for Liberty bonds in exchange for merchandise. An even purchase of 100 dollars in merchandise could be paid with a 100 dollar Liberty bond, the buyer receiving 5 dollars in cash change. The offer applied to both larger and smaller bonds.
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Pershing Begins Hard Work In Paris Office
General Pershing starts a demanding week in Paris after completing a round of social functions tied to his arrival. He focuses on organizing the American troops and preparing for their forthcoming operations as officers, staff, and units move into readiness.
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Scarred Rheims Cathedral to be war heroes monument
Washington dispatch reports the French government plans to convert the scarred Rheims cathedral into a pantheon for unknown dead of all Allied armies in France. After the war, the structure will not be restored. representatives will place battle flags inside what's left and dedicate it as a monument to heroic dead.
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Fair and Warmer Weather Forecast Card
Local forecast calls for fair weather tonight with a likely rise in temperatures. Tuesday is expected to be slightly warmer, with Toni fair in the morning and no major precipitation anticipated.
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Portuguese Forces Earn Baptism of Fire on Western Front
June 18 report says Portuguese troops, now fully organized after progressive training, have received their baptism of fire on the western front and proved their worth in the early clashes. The Mafin remarks on their modern warfare proficiency and readiness.
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Paris
Railroads Ordered Cut by Villa
El Paso dispatch says Francisco Villa ordered all railroads linking Chihuahua City to be cut this week to isolate the state capital and Tor Freon as a prelude to a possible attack. A courier from Villa's Santa Gertrudis headquarters reports agents at the ranch are carrying out the order.
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British Airman Destroys Four Planes In Row
June 18 report from the British front in France describes a pilot. He hovered over a German airdrome and shot down four enemy planes in sequence. The feat came amid large air battles with 70 to 80 aircraft involved on both sides.
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Associated Press
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Submarine Toll Hits 1.745 Million Tons In Four Months
Washington reports British official figures show submarine losses since February 17 amount to about 1.745 million tons for four months. The tally suggests roughly 290000 tons less than the world’s 1916 annual shipping output, with estimates based on vessel tonnage averages and period totals.
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Oklahoma Women Asked to Aid Hoover Food Plan
State Defense Council urges Oklahoma women to back Herbert Hoover’s food plan with a pledge form prepared by M Aydelotte. Pledges clipped from newspapers go to Washington and officials predict community conservation plans will follow, sparking housewife led efforts to save food and curb waste.
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Women's Food Control Pledge Form Readied for Erie
A fragmented item shows a pledge promoting food conservation in Erie with prompts for household details. It includes questions on family size, employment of a cook, presence of a garden, and head of household occupation, plus a mailing instruction to send a cut coupon to the Food Administrator in Washington.
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Washington, D. C
Jump In Cotton Prices Again Hits Highs Today
In New York on June 18 the cotton market opened with renewed activity and higher prices. Demand grew from seasonal strength in Liverpool and weak private crop reports, pushing October around 25,405 cents per pound, about $50 above Saturday’s close. In Madrid the day noted a political reform wave gaining supporters across parties, with discontent over existing methods rising and calls for organization and determination to press demands.
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Ageres
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Correspondencia de Espana
Goethals Orders 34 More Steamers for War Effort
Major General Goethals announced contracts for ten steel merchant ships and 24 wooden hulls to be built for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The steel ships will be completed in 191K and the wooden hulls to follow, with deliveries scheduled to boost wartime shipping capacity.
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Graesels
Union Jack Waves Over Bunker Hill Parade
Boston June 1 British Union Jack raised at Bunker Hill in a commemorative parade marking the historic clash between Minute Men and Redcoats. The New Brunswick and Canadian regiments led a pipe band in a two week recruiting tour ending before returning home.
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Charlestown
New Brunswick
Seth
Canadian Overseas Regiment
Bullet Disliked Name For War May Have to Go Anyway
HICAGO June 1 Adam Bul lett did not think his name is a particularly good one for a soldier and though two years old, he did not register but two prosaic detectives did not agree with Adam and so there will probably be one or more Bullet We struggle as he be frees to register.
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Barracks Completion Slips Past September First
Washington reports that barracks for the new army will not be finished by September 1 as planned. Officials say no fixed opening date exists though September 1 was targeted, with training possibly delayed six weeks. Contracts allow a contractor to charge government with a capped maximum and profit from cost differences, under direct war department supervision.
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Aes
Gorky Leads Broad Movement for Uplift of Russia
Petrograd June 18 Maxim Gorky author joins a wide drive for political and economic reconstruction based on scientific application to daily life. He helps found and edit New Life, and plans an association for the development and dissemination of the positive sciences. After heavy work and strain he says he will abandon politics to devote himself to culture.
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Parts. June 18 Paris h Benny Woodworth nessee chief of the frat
A fragmentary report notes Benny Woodworth, Tennessee born chief of the fraternity American Ammunition Pit, in New York City, was killed and a pilot in Fayette Squadron was wounded in an unclear incident.
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London wireless denial over marines sinking of the L ship
London report says authorities deny claim of wireless digithet marine sinking the L vessel. Details remain unclear as officials with limited information assess the incident and potential causes.
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