President Wilson presses fast action on food legislation
President Wilson and his cabinet move to speed passage of food measures amid congressional delay. Labor leaders and lawmakers plan a campaign to urge quick support by July 1, citing harvests and grain flow as reasons. The budget bill and naval base at Hampton Roads gain attention, while delays threaten contractor payments and risk bankruptcies.
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Congress
Wilson
Herbert GC. Hoover
Grant Hamilton
Legislative Committee
American Federation of Labor
Hamilton
Texas
Padgett
House Naval Committee
Daniels
Hampton Roads
House
Naval Station
Senate
War Department
War Army
British Break Through Near Messines in Fresh Gains
British forces struck east and northeast of Messines, Belgium, storming nearly two miles of German trenches and capturing the village of Gaspard. German and French artillery remained active along the Chesmes and Champagne fronts as Italian efforts in Trentino were checked after penetrating some Austro Hungarian trenches before counterattacks drove them back.
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Missines
London
Sir Douglas Haig
Messines
Belgium
Ypres
Chesmin-des-Dames
Cham
Asiago
Brent
President Granted Control Over Exports Amid Espionage Bill
The senate approved the administration espionage bill with an export embargo clause, sending the measure to the president for signature. It gives the executive power to halt supplies entering Germany via neutral nations and could reduce reliance on the British blockade while expanding authority to regulate Allied and neutral shipping. The act envisions licenses for export cargoes and assigns admin duties to the Commerce Department with input from state, war, navy, and food administrations. It removes the newspaper censorship provision and emphasizes food export controls as essential to food administration.
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Washington
Senate
Germany
United States
America
Department of Commerce
State, War, Navy and Commerce Departments
Food Administration
State Department
Second officers training camp at Fort Harrison opens soon
Fort Harrison Indiana prepares for a second officers training camp beginning after the current course ends. June 15 to July 15 are the application windows with entries from Indiana Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia. Applicants must be endorsed by three residents and those rejected from the first camp may reapply.
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Mansuer
Trathaian
Third
Ohio Infantry
Piqua
Ohio
Freshour
Versailles
Webster
Bradford
Here
Ile
Troy
Walter Lawrence
Benjiamin Harrison
Ind
Washington
Indiana
Kentucky
West
Clark's Time Draws Near for Ohio Execution
Albert Clark, condemned for the murder of Covington marshal Harvey Hake, nears the death cell at the Ohio Penitentiary. Despite appeals for life, judges and jury affirmed the death sentence. Gov. Cox is unlikely to intervene. Clark has received support from his mother amid community sympathy.
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Albert Clark
Harvey Hake
Covington
Ohio
Columbus
Clark
Gov. Cox
King Constantine Abdicates Greek Throne For Alexander
London dispatch reports King Constantine abdicated in favor of his son Prince Alexander while Crown Prince George prepares to depart Greece for Switzerland via Italy on a British warship. Entente powers demanded the move amid Greece’s wartime tensions.
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Constantine
Alexander
George
Greece
Switzerland
Italy
Athens
Entente
Jsonnart
Janina
Flassona
Mount Olympus
Gulf
Saloniki
Constantine I
George I
Leipsic
Germany
Turkey
Venizelos
Sophia
Ohio Defense Council Backs Wilson Food Control Plan
The Ohio branch of the national council for defense met with Governor Cox to address the food crisis. Key figures like B. H. Kroger urged immediate government control and a statewide canning campaign, with resolutions sent to Congress supporting Wilson's war policies. committee chairs were named for finance, food supply, labor, legal, mining, publicity, and transportation.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Council For Defense
Cox
B. H. Kroger
Cincinnati
Kroger
Congress
Wilson
Joseph R. Nuit
Cleveland
W. C. Thompson
Fred C. Croxton
Campbell
A. A. Augustue
James W. Faulkner
M. ¥. Caples
Foreign population in United States surpasses four million
Washington June 13 The census director reports about 4,662,000 foreigners born in Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria Turkey living in the United Statesbased on 1919 census data and 1929 to present immigration figures with estimated mortality. The nationality distribution shows 2,549,000 Germans 1,876,000 Austrians 738,000 Hungarians 188,000 Turks and 41,000 Bulgarians.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Austria- Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
United States
Sam L. Rogers
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Immigration
Austria
Hungary
Serteevh
Peeves Ves
Ausetia
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