May Transfer German Prisoners to U S
A Senate resolution proposes sending German war prisoners from England and France to the United States to relieve their food needs, with an appropriation of 1 million dollars. Debate centers on food shortages and potential embargo rights, while a house move aims to seize German ships.
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Estern
Union News Service
Washington
England
France
Hale
Maine
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Congress
House
Mann
Chile Breaks With Germany Over Passport Demand
The Chilean minister to Germany has demanded his passports and declared a rupture of relations, triggering political unease in South America. Chilean citizens are to be treated as enemy nationals and it may be impossible for the Chilean legation to depart Germany.
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Berlin
London
Germany
Amsterdam
Chile
Argentina
South America
Work stops across Austro-Hungary on May Day
Wireless dispatches from Berne report stoppages in all Austro-Hungarian industries on May Day. Vienna munition plants idle as workers meet to demand peace, no annexations, and no indemnities. Resolutions urge immediate peace and praise the Russian Revolution, calling on Russian socialists to end the war with Germany and Austria.
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London
Austro-Hungary
Berne
Vienna
Russia
Lincoln Recruiting Breaks Records at Lincoln Stations
Lincoln Neb all recruiting records were shattered as fifty one men were accepted within twelve hours. The intake included university students and Ed Albrecht a Lincoln high school football star expected to excel with the Husker eleven joined the artillery corps.
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Lincoln
Neb
Albrecht
Artillery Corps
Pinchot Warns South on Food Front in England Aid
Gifford Pinchot spoke to Atlanta chamber of commerce warning that England could starve if submarines cut supply lines, potentially allowing Germany to attack the U.S. coast with 200000 troops. He urged the South to help feed England and the allies, predicting allied victory within a year.
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Atlanta
Gifford Pinchot
South
Dutch Delegation Calls for Peace Terms at Stockholm Conference
A Stockholm dispatch reports the Dutch delegation at the international socialist conference appealed to socialists worldwide for support. They say labor has begun under great difficulties and urge action for peace, noting that continued war deepens suffering, hecatombs, and national debt.
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London
Stockholm
International Socialist Conference
China Considers War Entry After Military Conference
The special commission for international affairs advised that China return to war. Parliament will decide soon. American minister Dr Paul Reinsch hosted twenty provisional military governors at the legation. They received full honors and were welcomed by Reinsch and prominent Americans.
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Peking
Special Commission For International Affairs
China
Paul Reins
Legation
Reinsch
Appeal to German People in Amsterdam Newspaper
The Nord deutscher Allgemeine Zeitung urges Germans not to surrender for a mouthful of bread and to hold out a little longer. It claims America joined the war to protect munition profits and questions whether Germany should let America reap those profits. It warns that all is at stake.
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Amsterdam
Norddeutscher Allgemeine Zeitung
America
England
Nebraska National Guard Ready for Federal Service
The Nebraska contingent is ordered to be ready for federalized service by May 5. Three new companies have formed in Alliance Aurora and Pawnee City to complete the organization. The central department at Chicago and Adjutant General Hall decide whether the units join the Fourth or Fifth regiments. The adjutant general staff has been on duty in the past two weeks.
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Adjutant General’s Office
Otto Spilman
Claonia
Verein
Beatrice
Hebron
James Chambers
Fairbury
American Red Cross
Kearney
Minden
Curt Alexander
Trastings
T. J. Majors
Nebraska
Lincoln
Carl Krueger
Will Carlson
Hooper
Cheyenne County
Elgin Farmers’ Union
Edward Harrell
Doniphan
Ogallala
Omaha
West
Home Guards
Cambridge
Alliance
Citizens’ State Bank
Seward
Wymore
West Point Council
C. M. Linn
Sterling
National Red Cross Society
Oakland
Randolph
Navy
Aviation Corps
Lyons
Beatrice Workmen
Grand Island
Washington to Register 7,000,000 Men for Military Service
The war department will complete registration within fifteen days after its machinery is activated. State election systems under federal supervision will record men by voting precincts. Census bureau has distributed registration cards to mayors. remote areas will receive cards before the registration day set by a presidential proclamation.
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Washington
War Department
Census Bureau
Army bill conferees approve training camp pay plan
Washington conferees on the army bill settle a provision to pay men in training camps one hundred dollars monthly as they seek qualification for the officers reserve corps.
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Washington
Army
American draft law and liberty loan praised by papers
London editorials hail the selective draft and liberty loan as an astonishing revelation of American intervention. The Daily Telegraph lauds Wilson for inspiring Congress to move quickly, while The Times praises rapid action not seen in Britain for two years of fighting.
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London
American Congress
Daily Telegraph
Times
Wilson
Congress
Argentina Adopts Neutrality in Socialist Congress
In Buenos Ayres the national congress of socialists debated Argentina's wartime stance. The session featured fist fights as the assembly rejected the executive committee resolution by 4 210 to 3 557, which urged arming ships over Germany submarine methods. The body then adopted a declaration supporting absolute neutrality.
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Buenos Ayres
National Congress of Socialists
Executive Committee
Germany
Congress
Volunteers Arrive for American Ambulance Service in Paris
A detachment of seventy four volunteers for the American ambulance field service has arrived in Paris with men from Chicago Sanford and other universities. Two more sections will depart for the front next week and three shortly after. Women lace workers of Velay have created a lace flag in US colors to present to the first American regiment in France. General Lafayette recently came from the Velay region.
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Paris
American Ambulance Field Service
Chicago
Sanford
Velay
United States
General Lafayette
Plans to Supply 2 000 000 Workers for Farms
Secretary of Labor Wilson announced plans to mobilize 2,000,000 workers for the nation's farms. The labor department's employment service will search nationwide for laborers after a preliminary census indicated a need for about 32,000,000 workers to till the soil and expand planting with assured supply.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Department
Break Does Not Mean War Around Diplomatic Tensions
Washington reports from Constantinople say some American embassy staff will depart soon while others await Ambassador Elkus who is convalescing from typhus and could travel in about a month. The Turkish government asserts that breaking relations with the United States is not a state of war and promises normal treatment for American citizens and institutions.
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Washington
Constantinople
Elkus
United States
Turkey
Submarine destroyer sinks American tanker Vacuum
Washington reports first official word of the Vacuum sinking by a submarine. Consul General Skinner in London confirms the loss of Lieutenant Thames and several crewmen, with Captain Harris and others missing and probably lost.
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Washington
Skinner
London
Thames
Harris
Central division navy recruit totals rise across cities
Chicago and Minneapolis led the central division last week with 433 recruits. Kansas City heads the overall count since March 31 with 1,082 signed for the first line of defense. Des Moines signed 465 of 400 expected, and Omaha reached 484 of 800. The division totals 10,200 recruits.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Navy
Kansas City
Des Moines
Omaha
Nebraska Boy Claims Local Sailor Sank German Sub
Fremont resident and former mayor R. M. Herree received a letter from his nephew in O'Neill asserting that the naval gunner who fired the fatal shot from the Teddy Roosevelt battery that sunk a German submarine is an O'Neill youth.
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Fremont, Neb
R. M. Herree
O’neill
Teddy Roosevelt
O'Neill
Allies press for immediate US troops to aid western front
Requests from France and England draw strong interest at Lincoln recruitment offices. Marshal Joffre urges militia units in federal service join the western front. General Hall has no orders yet to remove Nebraska guardsmen though the Fourth is in service and the Fifth may be called soon. A dispatch says militiamen could be in trenches within six weeks if allies’ suggestions are followed, an idea guard officers doubt.
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France
England
United States
Western Front
Lincoln
Marshal Joffre
Hall
Nebraska
Reformist manifesto calls for diplomatic rupture with Germany
The reformist party publishes a manifesto signed by Melquidez Alvarez Azcarate and 100 officials demanding a break with Germany as essential to national dignity. It warns of grave consequences for neutrality kept without honor and lauds Count Ramanones for clarifying the international question to King Alfonso.
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Madrid
Reformist
Melquidez Alvarez Azcarate
Germany
Ramanones
Alfonso
Fireworks Permits Revoked To Conserve Munitions
Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson revoked permits to sell fireworks for use inside or outside the city and sent appeals to all mayors in U S cities over 10 000 population to follow suit to conserve munitions and keep supplies from enemies.
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New York
United States
Robert Adamson
Protests Over Hospital Ship Torpedo Attacks
The Red Cross protests to Germany against the torpedoing of English hospital ships. It has sent a list to Washington of American citizens taken from vessels sunk in the Atlantic who remain interned in Germany. Names include men removed from the Voltaire Mount Temple Georgic Esmeralda Bulgarian and zersk.
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Geneva
Switzerland
International Committee of the Red Cross
Washington
Atlantic
Germany
Voltaire
Mount Temple
Georgic
Zersk
Flour Mills Seized by Food Controller April 30 in UK
London report states Baron Devonport the food controller ordered the takeover of all flour mills in the United Kingdom effective April 30. It is believed mills will continue to operate under existing owners.
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London
Berlin Conference Urges Abolition of Citizenship Inequalities
The national committee of the Social Democratic Party adopted a resolution demanding the end of German bureaucracy and equal citizenship rights. The unanimous line called for sweeping reforms to abolish unequal treatment tied to bureaucratic status.
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Berlin
Social Democratic Party
Rockefeller Foundation to Spend Half Million on Medical Research
Petrograd reports the council of workmen and sailors' delegates accepted the government's May day vote by 34 to 19 and closed the incident. A massive pro-government rally followed anti-government demonstrations with minor clashes and growing street activity as troops and civilians moved through the city.
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Union News Service
Petrograd
Council of Workmen’s and Sailors
Power to Regulate Production House bill seeks wartime controls
Congress would grant the president absolute authority under the war clause to fix prices and regulate production distribution and exchange of food clothing fuel and other necessities during national emergencies. The measure aims to requisition factories regulate railroads priority shipments levy import duties curb grain use in liquor and ensure equitable distribution.
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Washington
Congress
Lever
House Agricultural Committee
Rockefeller Foundation Allocates Millions for War Aid
The Rockefeller Foundation allocates 475000 dollars for U S medical research and humanitarian relief in the war with Germany. An additional 400000 dollars will support abroad relief. A further 200000 is set for Young Men's Christian Association training camps for the army and navy as part of a wider 3 million dollar national war work push.
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New York
Rockefeller Foundation
United States
Germany
Army
Navy
National War Work Council
International Committee of the
May Take Over Food Supply Plans Considered by U S Government
District Attorney C F Clyne said officials from the Mississippi valley held talks in Chicago on seizing part of the nations food supply. He noted that further information must come from Washington and that the government is examining options to control the food system.
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Chicago. Il
United States
C. F. Clyne
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Washington
Millionaire to Serve as Private in Marine Guard
Salt Lake City Henry Pabst the nephew of a Milwaukee brewer and said to be a millionaire was accepted by the local recruiting office of the marine guard. Pabst will serve as a private in the force.
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Salt Lake City
Henry Pabst
Milwaukee
Marine Guard
Pabst
Earthquakes Hit Monterchi District Again
Fresh earthquakes are reported at Monterchi the same district that was struck last week. The king led a subscription list for sufferers with a ten thousand dollar contribution.
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Rome
Monterchi
Speculation Cited in High Chicago Food Prices
New York food investigator H A Emerson says speculation causes high prices in Chicago and accuses local butter and egg dealers of profiteering. He notes thirteen poultry price fixers were imprisoned in New York and argues similar action could put thirty Chicago dealers behind bars.
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Chicago
New York
H. A. Emerson
German munitions strike spreads near Krupp works
Wires from The Hague report that in the Rhine provinces more than half the munitions workers planned a May Day strike. Essen and Krupp are isolated to prevent information leakage as strikes grow in towns near the Dutch border.
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London
Rhine
Hague
The
Exchange Telegraph Co
Essen
Krupp
Germany
Nebraska in Brief Dates for Coming Events
A roundup of upcoming events across Nebraska lists meetings and tournaments from May through June. Highlights include the State High School Track Meet in Lincoln, the Nebraska G A I encampment in Columbus, the Sportsmen's Association tournament in Fremont, and the State Golf Tournament in Lincoln, among others.
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Lincoln
Nebraska G. A. I
Ladies of the
Women’s Relief Corps
Omaha
State
Association of Postmasters
Nebraska
International Ass’n. of Railway
Lima Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Mrs Jenniz Moyer of 342 East North Street Lima Ohio says she recovered after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash. She reports relief from displacement weakness irregularities nervousness backache and bearing-down pains after doctors doubted her recovery. She served seven years as a midwife and recommends the remedies to other women.
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Lima
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jenniz Moyer
North St. Lima
Lydia Erinkham
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