World War Era Policy Advances Stir Broad Action
Government price fixing for rail supplies is proposed in a resolution by Senator Cummings Iowa. About 400 million dollars will be advanced in June, boosting total aid beyond 1 billion. President Wilson signs bills to raise naval enlistment to 150000 and Marines to 30000. Pershing-led divisions may head to France soon. A national mediation system for labor disputes during the war is outlined by the defense council.
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Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Washington
Senator Cummings
Iowa
National Defense Council
Subcommittee On
Multiple Disasters and Policy Votes Reported
Reports cover Red Cross drive totals in Lincoln, Japan fire deaths in Yonezawa, a Senate bill extending ICC power, winds punishment changes in Winds, a Andale tornado toll and damage, selective service exemptions tied to dependents, Nebraska Conservation Congress mobilization, Omaha army town prospects, Atlanta fire losses, and tobacco in comfort bags controversy sent to President Wilson.
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Wilson
Red Cross
Chicago Methodist Ministers’ Association
Foreign India to have a native representative in cabinet
A British cabinet would include an Indian native representative. Portugal has suffered severe privations due to war conditions in recent months. The Berlin Vorwaerts reports a socialist named Sassenbach, a German union delegate, denied a passport. Washington citizens adopt Noyon to raise 60 000 dollars for its restoration.
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India
Portugal
Berlin
Washington
Noyon
War and mobilization sweep across America in 1917 era notes
Summary of wartime mobilization covering Pershing’s leadership prospects, Nebraska guard strength shifts from 1800 to 2800 3000, the vast 3 3423 million war budget with 750 million for merchant ships, Hoover’s food administration, conscription fears among Mexicans, and naval casualties including two Red Cross nurses Edith Ayres and Helen Burnett Wood aboard a merchant ship bound for Europe.
Storm Toll in Midwest Tornadoes Hits Several States
The storm system spawns tornadoes across Kansas Illinois Indiana Tennessee Arkansas Kentucky and southern Illinois killing nearly 200 people and injuring over a thousand with massive property losses. Mattoon Illinois bears the heaviest toll with fifty four dead and five hundred injured in a two million dollar strike. Charreston Illinois, Andale Kansas Dublin Kentucky South Dyersburg Tennessee and Bisherville Arkansas report multiple fatalities and injuries.
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Union News Service
Owago
Kansas
Ilinois
Indiana
Tennessee
Arkansas
Kentucky
Illinois
Mattoon
Charreston
Andale
Bus
Dublin
Dyersburg
Dyer County
Bisbheville
Atk
Nebraska conservation congress ends three day session
The Nebraska conservation congress concluded a three day meeting outlining strategies to boost food production. It projected a beet sugar crop of 140 million pounds and 17 million bushels of oats, with corn at 400 million bushels, up from 1916. Recommendations will go to the state defense council for use and full support was pledged to the state council of defense.
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Omaha
Nebraska Conservation Congress
Nebraska
National Defense Council
Congress
State Council of Defense
Boy Scouts Plan House to House Liberty Loan Drive
More than 300000 scouts will canvass homes nationwide to promote the Liberty Loan. Colin N Livingstone announced after a Boy Scouts executive board meeting approving a four day campaign from June 11 to 14 with ten million appeal forms and home visit returns to local banks.
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Boy Scouts of America
Liberty Loan
Colin N Livingstone
Boy Scouts
All Boy Scouts
Red Cross Raises Nearly Twenty Five Thousand in Lincoln
Lincoln Red Cross campaign ends with 14 601 members and 24 722 45 dollars in cash and pledges. Saturday alone adds 2 631 members and 4 716 dollars.
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Lincoln
Red Cross
Lincoln to Host 300 Mayors for Nebraska Statehood Celebration
Lincoln will celebrate Nebraska’s fiftieth anniversary June 12 to 14 with a conference of municipalities. Reported attendance includes no fewer than 300 mayors from Nebraska cities. Each city is asked to send at least one delegate for a half day session June 12 addressing city problems and cooperation with the State Council of Defense.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
State Council of Defense
No Exemptions from Registration Under War Orders
Provost Marshal General Crowder stresses no man within the prescribed age limit is excused from registration except those already in the regular army or navy, the national guard, in federal service, or naval service. Convicts and alien enemies must register, but registration does not equal drafting.
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Washington
General Crowder
Army
Navy
National Guard
Naval Service
Nebraska Declares June 5 1917 a Holiday for Registration
Governor Keith Neville issues a Nebraskan proclamation aligning June 5 1917 with President Wilsons registration day for men 21 to 30. The plan calls for schools closed and flag displays, urging GAR Spanish War veterans and local groups to promote patriotic programs and mobilize industries for the draft process.
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Wilson
United States
Nebraska
Neville
Keith Neville
Tven
GAR
Sons of Veterans
Cay
Union
Guard officers to enter Fort Snelling training camp
Ten members of the guard designated by Adjutant General Hall will detach to Fort Snelling for officer training. They bring border and guard experience and join the training camp immediately. The list includes M F Engleman, A N White, R W Phillip, L L Murphy, E E Shelledy, F P C Wood Jr, S Doig, M W Gaghan, P S Walters, and D G Woods.
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Hall
Fort Snelling
M. F. Engleman
A. N White
R. W Phillip
L. L. Murphy
E .E. Shelledy
F P. C. Wood Jr
S. Doig
M W. Gaghan
P. S. Walters
D G Woods
Nebraska Educational Trust Funds Sent for Liberty Loan
State Treasurer George Hall remitted 500000 of Nebraska educational trust funds to the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City as the state's Liberty loan subscription. Drafts issued in Omaha and Lincoln banks ranged from 15000 to 100000, totaling 250000, with half already forwarded earlier that week in 1000 to 3000 drafts from smaller banks with educational funds.
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George Hall
Federal Reserve Bank
Kansas City
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Crops Look Fine in Nebraska Says Officials
Secretary of State Charles W. Pool and Land Commissioner Shumway toured central and northwestern Nebraska to reappraise school lands. Pool said crop conditions are fine everywhere with alfalfa in the northwest in splendid shape. He noted thousands of acres will be planted to sugar beets.
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Nebraska
Charles W. Pool
Shumway
Pool
Want To Farm Indian Lands Open For Farming
Governor Ner ville telegraphed Interior Secretary Franklin D Lane and Indian Affairs Commissioner Cato Sells with Senator Hitchcock asking that several thousand acres of idle farm land on the Omaha and Winnebago reservations in Jercon county be opened for farming. The land is government owned and can be leased only from the Indians.
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Omaha
Winnebago
Jercon
Nerville
Franklin D. Lane
Department of the Interior
Cato
Nebraska Suffrage Referendum Drive Aims At 1918 Ballot
A statewide push to force a referendum on the suffrage bill is under way from Omaha with Frank Helvey of Lincoln directing petition signatures. The plan targets the 1918 general election, requiring 31 000 signatures and half from two fifths of Nebraska counties, before the bill becomes law in July 1918.
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Union News Service
Omaha
Frank Helvey
Lincoln
Ofelvey
Nebraska
Nebraska guardsmen to receive border service bonus voucher
A voucher for 16 450 to pay every member of the Fourth Nebraska regiment who served on the Mexican border 25 has been filed with the state auditor by Adjutant General Phil Hall. The money was granted to recognize guardsmen who left good positions at home for border duty. Some men remain unemployed. Individual war warrants will be issued and delivered to the adjutant general for distribution in a few days.
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Nebraska
Phil Hall
Adjutant General
Names of Pioneers for Nebraska Jubilee
Citizens living in Nebraska on March 1 1867 are asked to send their names and addresses with any early life facts to Guy A Reed at the Commercial Club Lincoln for the semi centennial celebration on June 12 13 and 14.
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Guy A. Reed
Commercial Club
Lincoln
Nebraska
Nebraska Postmasters’ Ass'n
Nebraska State Holiness Association
State Press Association
Omaha
State Pharmaceutical Association
North Platte
International Ass’n. Railway
University to train women and girls as canning demonstrators
The university extension service calls on Nebraska women and girls and their families to join canning programs this summer. Canning schools will be held in twenty seven towns to train recruits to teach others how to can and to conduct canning demonstrations.
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Nebraska
University Extension Service
Agricultural Extension Service
University
Age Requirement Tightened for Enlistment and Aviation Unit
The army recruiting station announces future enlistment restricted to men over eighteen. Aviation division recruits require special authority and exceptional mechanical ability. Government issues call for bakers qualified for service in the quartermaster corps.
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Army
Aviation Division
Signal Corps
Quartermaster
State Dental Society Meeting in Omaha Schedule
State Dental Society holds annual meeting in Omaha from June 4 to 7 with a joint session of Nebraska and Iowa Funeral Directors scheduled June 5 to 7. The events bring together dental professionals and funeral directors for discussions and seminars.
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State Dental Society
Omaha
Nebraska and Iowa Funeral Directors
Potato and Bean Report at Omaha Food Congress
Omaha coverage notes a Western Nebraska report from the Food Conservation congress led by Lloyd Thomas of Alliance. It estimates 177000 acres planted to potatoes this year with over 14 million bushels, up from 75000 acres and 6.5 million last year, plus 17000 acres of beans yielding about 7.14 million pounds. Over 2000 Nebraskans attend as McAdoo and officials discuss war bonds and Liberty Loan plans.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Food Conservation Congress
Lloyd Thomas
Alliance
McAdoo
Secretary of Treasury
W. G. McAdoo
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Sherman Allen
M. B. Clagett
Secret Service
Nebraska towns named on honor roll for fed volunteer quota
The Omaha Honor Roll lists Nebraska towns that exceeded their population based quotas of volunteers for the regular army from April 1 to May 10. Towns include Ashton, Bristow, Cedar Bluffs, Crofton, Coleridge, Clarkson, Dakota City, Dodge, Elmwood, Ewing, Gibbon, Hartington, Homer, Pender, Wynot and others.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Ashton
Alexander
Bristow
Cedar Bluffs
Clarks
Crofton
Coleridge
Clarkson
Dakota City
Dodge
Dickens
Elmwood
Emergon
Ewing
Filley
Gibbon
Hartington
Homer
Hubbard
Imperial
Lyons
Lowell
Nelson
Newnan Grove
Pender
Ntosalle
Salem
Sidney
Shelby
Shelburt
Tryon
Unadilla
Utica
Wauneta
Wilber
Western
Wynot
Destructive Fire Destroys Norfolk Packing Plant
A major blaze at the Norfolk Packing Company plant in Norfolk destroyed the facility. Losses include about 30,000 dollars in canned beans and carloads of coal and machinery. Total damage estimated between 50,000 and 80,000 dollars.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Packing Company
Nebraska Nurse Wounded in War Near Atlantic Coast
Miss Emma Matzen a Red Cross nurse from Columbus becomes the first Nebraska woman injured in the European war she was struck by shell fragment during naval practice off the Atlantic coast the blast killed two other nurses observing the exercise Matzen visited her parents in May and is well known in the state.
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Nebraska
Columbus
Europe
Emma Matzen
Red Cross
Uncle Sam
Atlantic
Miss Matzen
Potash Plant Near Alliance Doubles Capacity
The Potash Products company plant near Alliance is boosting boiler capacity and improvements to reach 150 tons per day. The expansion signals rapid growth in the potash industry and strengthens regional production capacity.
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Alliance
Potash Products Company
Construction Work Halted in Omaha as Strikes Hit City
Building construction is nearly at a standstill in Omaha due to strikes by unions of the building crafts and friction between material suppliers and their teamsters, causing widespread work stoppages and delays.
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Omaha
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