Congress Breaks War Bill Appropriations Record
The Senate appropriations committee reports a war assets bill totaling 3.39 billion dollars, plus 563 million added to the House bill, including 400 million for merchant marine purchases. Wilson moves to speed passage, urging food control, merchant ships, and the war tax bill. Roosevelt volunteers reach a key point in army plans, while battles over espionage and grain provisions shape late sessions.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
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Council of National Defense
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Denman
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Kaiser is Preparing Gigantic Offensive
United Press reports that U S and German officers expect a major fresh German offensive on the western front as Russia declines as a factor. Germany shifts plans eastward massing troops from the Franco British front to threaten Petrograd and bolster internal control.
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Washington
Germany
Keteer
Russia
Teutonines
United States
Petrograd
Hindenburg
Czardom
Governor vetoes Metcalf bill on personal property loans
Madison May 15 Governor Philipp sent a veto to the assembly nullifying a Metcalf measure that cut the loan on property or salary advances under 100 from seven to four percent. The veto argues the bill may force from business a firm aiding the needy and preventing usury. Other actions include postponement of pari mutuel pool bills and senate progress on campaign finance reform and education funding.
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Metcalf
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Assembly
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Slout Institute
Plattevilis Mining School
Supreme Court Rules on Bayfield Liquor License Case
Wisconsin Supreme Court voided a Bayfield liquor license decision requiring a majority vote of the common council. The ruling also affects Superior income taxes, with the court determining railroad and other rail property are taxable under the state income tax law. Chief Justice Winslow authored the opinion, noting interstate commerce burden and railroad property classification.
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Associated Press
Madison
Wis
Supreme Court Today
Bayfeld
Common Council
Superior
Wisconsin Supreme Court
City of Superior
Dowkins County
Nouez Bay Rock Company
Winslow
College Men Are Offwers
Preparations were made today at the marine recruiting depot for the May 21 examination of 39 college men recommended by presidents for commissions. The examination will draw candidates from institutions throughout this section.
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Chicago
Marine
Bethmann Hollweg Quietly Rejects Peace Talk In Reichstag
Berlin May 15 Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg told Reichstag peace interpellations that a public declaration would not serve Germany and urged an early satisfactory end to the war. Reports out of Copenhagen say a neutral peace conference plan may fail and Stockholm’s Socialist conference is postponed amid discontent. Petrograd notes outline talks among Soviet era workers and soldiers delegates about a foreign policy aiming at a rapid general peace without annexations. Continued Page 11.
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Petain Leads French Armies with Foch Top Staff
Paris May 15 General Petain was named commander of the French armies on the front with General Nivelle heading a group of armies and General Foch succeeding Petain as chief of staff. Foch’s wartime strategy halted German advance by reinforcing weak points and shifting forces to strong fronts.
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Verdun
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Send Men to Europe for Roosevelt Led Division
Hundreds of telegrams from Kansas City and other towns urge immediate dispatch of U S troops to France. Messages request that Theodore Roosevelt be allowed to lead a division, reflecting long standing Western support for Roosevelt’s overseas command and Kansas’s plan to supply much of the expeditionary force from Funston's Twentieth Kansas unit.
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Trading in Futures on Grain Suspended in Market Chaos
The report notes suspension of grain futures trading with wheat prices dropping across the board. Best flour grades fell eighty five cents a barrel in Minneapolis, with patents at 16.25. Chicago regulators extend restrictions after yesterday's curtailment, causing further declines in July wheat to 2.48 and September to 2.20. Corn and oats also weakened. Winnipeg futures opened lower, with October down ten cents and then another fifteen as traders awaited Chicago talks.
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Benjamin Stockman
Duluth
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Minneapoli
Griffin
Winnipeg
United Press
Racine Bankers Sentenced in Bank Failure Case
Racine bankers B. Hinrichs and Charles R. Carpenter were sentenced after pleading guilty to irregularities linked to the September 1914 failure of the Commercial and Savings Bank of Racine. Hinrichs received a $300 fine and costs, Carpenter two years and six months in the house of correction. Former bank president Winthichs admitted taking a deposit knowing insolvency. Judge A. C. Backus presided after a venue change.
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Wisconsin Senate backs federal food and fuel regulation plan
A resolution presented in Madison seeks a federal act to create a president appointed commission with power to regulate production distribution and prices of food and fuel. The Wisconsin Senate acted after the upper house but the lower house sped the measure under suspension of rules, awaiting action beyond Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Madison
Wis
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Wisconsin
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Tan, Clair
State Council of Defense
Senate
Central Powers Agree On Allied Harmony Acknowledged
Report from Amsterdam via London May 13 says Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Austrian Foreign Minister Saint Ceerain reached a complete understanding among the central powers. Viennese Neue Freie Presse notes the chancellor’s reply to Reichstag interpellations shows harmony among the allies.
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Surgeons urged to help nave recruits in midwest
A U S Navy training school chief called on physicians and surgeons across the central west to perform operations to rehabilitate men rejected as naval recruits for minor physical flaws. Citizens recruiting committees should cover hospital costs for the treated men. Captain Moffett estimated thousands could be made available, with 7,900 in training as the center reached a peak population.
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Great Lakes
Middle West
W. A.stoffett
United States Naval
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Central States
Scenes at Fort Sheridan First Day Program
Fort Sheridan crowds welcome recruits as they arrive by train and car. A military intake covers credentials, barracks assignment, uniforms, and typhoid inoculations. Recruits settle into a campus like camp, with officers efficiently guiding them, promising a lively three month training period.
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Farmer Fires On Army Balloon Near Fort Crook
Ernest Doty, a Nebraska farmer, shot at an army balloon en route from Fort Crook to Junction City Kansas. He fired a bullet through the gas bag causing it to descend for repairs. Federal officials weigh action but Doty gives no motive.
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Ay United. Press
Ernest Doty
Fort Crook
Junctson City
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Doty
Prince Edward to wed Princess Maud of Fife report says
Prince Edward of Wales reportedly plans to marry Princess Maud of Fife, first cousin and youngest daughter of the Princess Royal. Maud is fourteen months younger than Edward, who is twenty two. Maud's life has been spent largely in retirement with her mother, the Duchess of Fife.
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Abossa Sinking Claims Ninety Lives April 24
News dispatches from New York report the British liner Abossa, 7,247 tons, torpedoed off Fastnet on April 24 with 90 lives lost, 46 passengers and crew perishing. Survivors include Louis De Bouse and Thomas W. Cooper, with accounts detailing lifeboat entanglements and a perilous century-long struggle before rescue near Liverpool.
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Death in Oshkosh man found in second floor room
Edwand O'Brien aged forty one was found dead in his room on the second floor of 43 Ceape survey this morning about 10:20. The physician attributed the death to alcoholism after a night of drinking and a possible fatal seizure. A passerby heard a fall, and the door was broken in by his sister Mrs Elwarnd Martin when she became anxious about his whereabouts. He was unmarried and had run a draying land transfer business. He was born September 11, 1873, in Oshkosh and leaves a sister and four brothers. Funeral planned from Mrs Martin residence on Thursday.
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Ceape Street
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Frank JO Brien
Oshkosh
Henry O'Brien
St. Louis
United States abandons steel nets against U boats
Washington May 15 United States officials announce the abandonment of steel anti submarine nets on warships. Senators Lodge Swanson McCumber discuss parallel efforts to boost torpedo effectiveness and defense against submarines as debates over naval policy continue. Reports from naval men challenge dire predictions, noting ongoing progress and new anti submarine inventions under test.
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Washington, D. C
United States
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Lodge
France
Germany
Swanson
Senate Naval Affairs
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McCumber
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America
Navy Department
Wadsworth
Poiydexter
Local Office Not Hit By Futures Trading Actions
The Oshkosh Thomson & McKinnon office in Old National Bank remains open and operating as usual. Local manager Ralph St. Hartley says little trading in grains by Oshkosh customers, most business in stocks, with no appreciable change. The new order allows selling through tonight. May wheat trading has been discouraged for safety and extended to other futures.
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Thomson & McKinnon
National Bank
Oshkosh
Ralph St. Hartley
British Nets Report Capture of Nearly a Hundred Submarines
London May 15 The war office says substantial progress in the Piave and northern fronts. German crown prince gains noted in the Aisne region. Italy reports operation milestones while Britain and France repel German counter attacks on the Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt and Chemin des Dames with losses and prisoner captures.
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Former Assemblyman Berner Dies in Milwaukee
Edward J. Berner former state assemblyman of Milwaukee died here today of rheumatism. He had served for some time in public service and was a noted local figure. The death was reported by United Press with brief biographical notes on his tenure.
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Milwaukee
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