Help for the War Mothers Next Problem
Washington May 1 Government may help war mothers with maternity protection in wartime. Children’s Bureau studies a program: rural nursing in county seats, accessible maternal and infant welfare center, information for mothers, and paid maternity care for all. Government duty seen as protecting soldiers’ families. amendment adopted to defuse postwar issues.
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Washington
Congress
Soichers
Kenyan Wait
Childrens Bureau
The
Duspertrent of Labor
Eweh
Nieitere
Emmaty
George Emmet Rees Dies After Illness Near Walla Walla
George Emmet Rees, prominent farmer born April 1880 in Lavenday Tran e, died last night at a cannitorium near Walla Walla where he had been for treatment. He worked as a machine operator, a government Indian schools engineer, and later farmed near Melis before his death. Survived by wife Nadene Raymond, children, and several siblings. funeral arrangements pending.
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Thorme Ermmet Hees
Hele
Walla Wallan
Sterling
Lavenday
Trane
Helix
Idaho
Government Indian
Melis
Mie Hewde Nadene Raymond
Mra. BH. Raymond
Thin Oly
J. Fo
Ant LO Rees
Bate
Ben Annodneel
Wheat price report from Portland market
July options rise 11 cents with wheat price ranges noted by Portland exchange observers. The report lists figures for May and July trades and references specific bids and offers amid Oregon market activity.
Missing in wreck of sailing ship near Cape Constantine
San Francisco May 18 A boatload of thirty are missing and may have perished after the cannery ship Standard wrecked on the shoals of Cape Constantine. Witness messages to the naval station at Goat Stand say the missing men were airlifted in lifeboats launched when the ship struck May 14. Twenty men were rescued. the exact location of the missing is unknown.
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Standard
Alaskan
San Francisco
Cape Constantine
US Destroyers Rescued Ship in the Adriatic
London press reports that U S destroyers repelled a submarine attacking the White Star liner Adringe in the Adriatic Sea. Destroyers pursued the submarine across the Adriatic part way toward the Atlantic.
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London
the Chronicle
Unites State
Adriatic
Athweptie
Directors Consider Rice and Thompson for Pendleton School Board
G M Stiee and WL Thompson, heads of Pendleton Banks, are being discussed as candidates for the Pendleton school directory to succeed Chairman J T Brown and Judge G W Phelps. Brown’s five year term expires in June, Phelps’ term ends later.
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G. M. Stiee
WL Thompson
Prindieton
Péodleton School
J. T. Brown
G. W. Phelps
Brown
Phelps
Fermun
Chew
Pheine
Vortland
Jade
Phelpe
Menere Itive
Thompem
Belnee
Tahe City
Fifty Delegates Attending Sunday School Convention
About sixty delegates from county Sunday schools gathered at Chicatinga church for the Umatilla County Sunday School convention opening this morning. Judge J. W. Maloney presided as county president. Noon registrations included thirty four delegates and eight ministers, with more expected in the afternoon as the state convention prepares to take over this evening.
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Umatilla County
Chicatinga
Juder J. W. Maloney
Ecight
Ber
Woodworth
A Lowell
Umatilla
Second "Strategic Retreat" of Teutons on West Front Believed Under Way
May 8 report says German forces prepare for a strategic retreat as Allied pressure mounts on the Hindenburg line. British and French fronts show heavy fighting with rumors of troop transfers and village evacuations. General Cadorna reports Italian advance near Trieste as Austrian detachments move. Russia’s internal issues appear resolved. Allies anticipate Russia’s continued participation in the global offensive.
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Cadorna
Trieste
Alian
Russia
Germany
Draven
Weetetia
Kuselan
Liv Terenel
U S Army Medical Unit Arrives in England
The first contingent of the United States army medical unit landed in England on May 18. Commanding officer says the men are eager to join action on the French front. They were welcomed on deck by a British general and the American consul as both flags flew aboard. British papers praised the Harvard men’s firm appearance.
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London
United States Army
England
Harvard
Summer fuel and food curb urged by Freight Agent
H C Oliver traveling freight agent for OWBR urges readers to stockpile fuel and vegetables this summer amid expected shortages next winter. He cites labor and coal transport limits, warns canneries in California closing due to cattle shortages, and advises families to grow vegetables and avoid buying establishment crops to ease supply pressures.
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California
H.C Oliver
Olver
Wir
Japanese Gunboats Arrive at France to Fight U Boats
Reports from Washington Paris and New York cite a contingent of Japanese gunboats landing at Marseilles to join submarine warfare efforts. Widespread official notices indicate a major shift in Japan’s warfront participation with plans to cooperate against Allied naval forces.
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France
National Guard Called to Federal Service July 25
Washington May 18 Idaho Washington and Oregon national guards will be called into federal service in three groups July 6 and August. The War Department authorized recruiting to war strength 449,000 and ordered reports on the signed date. Guard units will be sent to training camps for intensive instruction in modern warfare and then likely sent to Europe. The Pendleton cavalry troop may be included.
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War Department
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
UN de Parament
National Guard
Coard
Unite
Selective Service Army
Europe
Pendleton
Lealand timer Colonial ships with armaments in 1917 report
XTRA BOSTON May 18 reports the Le land timer Colonial likely embarked in the Faatlish war, sailing from Howton May 3S with arms and munitions. She was due to arrive yesterday, with sixty men in the crew. Leland fine of Medale admitted they had not confirmed the report.
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Boston
Leland Timer
Calonial
Howton
Leland Fine
Medale
US must strike hard and swift to end the war says peer
London May 4 quotes Lord Derby urging rapid American action in the war. He argues the conflict won’t end until America fights as if it faces Germany alone. He says the stronger the blow America delivers the sooner the war ends and calls for immediate American recruitment and deployment.
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Lodon
America
Germany
Lord Derby
Troop of Cavalry to be Organized in Pendleton
Pendleton will host the organization of Troop FB of the Oregon National Guard Cavalry after officials review sentiment and consult with Captain Charles F. Gjedsted of Portland. Prospective members sign agreements to join, with 40 of 74 men pledged within days as recruiting starts. The unit will drill weekly and may mobilize soon, with non married men enlisted and officers to be named locally.
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Oregon National Guard
Mizteedih Lh
Bebotral Cavalry
Charles FE Gjedsted
Portland
White
Secund
Aml
John
del Bienen
cHarmpien
Che
Frank
Formur
Pion Byvlidagwer
Champlin
Ane
Cut Airiman
Seoaep Barte
Newgate
Kere
Mancett Amd Caldwell
Ettieme
Gjedeted
Tbey
Alam
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Taw Chow
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