Liberty loan halfway mark reached as receipts grow
April 20 Washington reports the third Liberty loan campaign is half over with about 1.2045 billion pledged toward a 3 billion minimum and hopes to reach 5 billion with 20 million subscribers. Banks note many pledges paid but not counted. officials fear market optimism could derail progress. President Wilson rode a tank at the White House grounds, burning his hand but smiling. Regions including Northwest and Kentucky-AArkansas federal zones report quotas exceeded, while Chicago New York San Francisco tally flags and subscriptions from German Americans are noted.
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Wilson
White House
Montana
North Dakota
Federal Reserve
Kentucky
Indiana
Arkansas
Iown
Oregon
Chicago
San Francisco
New York
War Loan Organization
German Beneficial Union of
Pittsburch
Pittsburch Patriotte League
Schwab Clears Steel Deliveries Agreement At War Board
Washington April 20. A three week dispute between the Shipping Board and the Railroad Administration over steel deliveries was settled at a War Industries Board conference called by Charles M. Schwab. The Shipping Board retains priority for steel except for warship construction while the Railroad Administration gets all steel needed for locomotives. Railroads will cut new car construction to lower total steel plates required, with officials estimating a 20 000 ton weekly increase in overall steel plate output for all war needs by July 1 due to mill additions at the steel corporation. Schwab said he can use all the plates produced and aims to speed up shipbuilding.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Railroad Administration
War Industries Board
Charles M. Schwab
War Industries
Steel Corporation
Adda
Liberty loan subscriptions surpass 40 percent mark
Shington April 20 Forty percent of the three billion dollar minimum for the third Liberty loan is now subscribed in eleven working days with thirteen days left in the drive. The treasury totals reported Friday night show 1 204 714 250 dollars, up 114 979 000 from Thursday. Subscriptions and district standings reflect funds received by banks through Thursday night.
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Washington
Treasury
Military urged power to deal with spies in war act
Washington April 20 Immedi ate enactment of legislation to permit military authorities to deal directly with spies and German propagandists was urged before the senate military committee as the only way to curb lynch law against disloyalty and enemy agitation The Chamberlain bill would transfer from civil courts to military courts martial trials of all persons charged with violating the espionage act Opponents argued unconstitutionality While the bill was under consideration several witnesses urged stronger measures including summary justice and firing squads
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Wastieington
Senate Military Committee
Army
Naval Intelligence
Chamberlain
Senate
Borah
Norman P. White
Brookline
Mass
Col
R. P. Vandeman
Germany
New York
White
McCauley
Navy
United
Department of Justice
John F. McGee
Minneapolis
Judge McGee
American War Losses List Names 42 Casualties
Washington April 20 The casualty list Friday contained 42 names with categories Killed in action died of wounds died of disease wounded severely wounded slightly and missing in action The missing include Lieuts Robert B Rhett Moses Taylor Jr The list details names of NCOs and privates across the services including Corporals John L Hendrickson Earl Snow Privates Carl H Alson Lewis Emperate and many others
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John L. Hendrickson
Earl Snow
Carl H. Alson
Lewis Emperate
Geo. C. Seeley
Stanislaw Stefanski
Girolamo Viscusi
Roy L. Boye
Leon Ware
Joseph Rizzo
Petrie Santorne
James J. Norci
Frederick Young
Joseph W. Swings
Safey L. Rood
Edwin A. Dehaven
Edward J. Flannery
John A. Dickerman
James D. Flynn
Theodore G. Hoag
Horace G. McDermont
Walter S. Preddy
James St. John
lLieuts
Robert B. Rhett
Moses Taylor, Jr
Harold T. Lowe
Leon M. Morey
Geo. E. Belhumeur
Edward Breeze
August R. Burton
Edward J. Cook
Newell G. Flood
William J. Follen
Walter L. Howland
Leo E Jolliker
Arthur J. Kennedy
Adam Mickiewicz
George Phillips
Bertram
Raynor
John I. Tower
Roy L. White
Carl Zompetti
Pershing to get a full Marine division for expeditionary force
In Washington on April 20 the House voted to raise the Marine Corps strength to 75,700 men, enabling the navy to field an entire division of Marines with Pershing's expeditionary forces. The naval appropriation bill carries the increase, based on Pershing's recommendation to expand his Marines from a brigade to a full division. The move allows a 27,000 man division in France and supports planned advance base forces, with Pershing recently releasing Marines from guard and transport duties to front-line service.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Navy
Pershing
Naval Committee
Naval
Navy Department
France
Move Shipbuilding Offices Shift to Philadelphia
Washington April 20 The offices of the emergency fleet corporation will be moved immediately to Philadelphia by Director General Schwab. About half of the shipbuilding now underway lies within a short radius of Philadelphia, prompting the transfer to consolidate operations and logistics.
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Move
Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Philadelphia
Schwab
Ulster Leader Warns Against Home Rule Split
Sir Edward Carson, Ulster leader, warns in a message to Belfast newspapers that Ulster must support soldiers at the front and resist any home rule bill that disregards Ulster’s position within the United Kingdom and the empire.
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London
Edward Carson
Belfast
Ulster
United Kingdom
Empire
American engineers praised for gallant conduct with British army
General Pershing's report detailing American engineers attached to the British fifth army describes their steady defense of a sub sector from March 21 to April 3. It notes 2 officers killed, 3 wounded, 20 men killed, 52 wounded, and 45 missing, with British authorities believing some missing were separated from their units.
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Washington
Pershing
Fifth Army
War Department
Baker
United States Engineers
Engineers Corps
Chaulnes
Moreuil
Demain
Warfusee- Abancourt
Bois de Toillain
Abbeville
H. L. Mullers
Rawlinson
France
Germans Demand War Indemnities Asserted by Prince Wilhelm
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia told Breslau that Germany will seek indemnities from its enemies. Quoted by the Cologne Volks Zeitung, he argued that enemy rejection of peace justifies demanding economic and financial reparations to support Germany’s economic development.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm
Prussia
Albrecht
Brunswick
Cologne Volks Zeitung
Breslau
Soares
War Bulletins from Fronts in France and Meuse
London reports no infantry action on the British front in France with heavy dawn shelling near Caudeseure north of Merville. Paris notes no infantry fighting but lively artillery in Castel Kivesnes and right bank of the Meuse. Berlin says no new reports as French attacks northwest of Moreuil failed.
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London
France
Haig
British War Office
Caudeseure
Merville
Lys
Paris
War Office
Castel
Kivesnes
Meuse
Berlin
Battlefront
Moreuil
Bismark Defended Seizure of Neutral Vessels
Vice Admiral Von Capelle's attack on the United States and allies drew attention to Bismarck's 1871 note defending Prussian seizure and sinking of six neutral British ships on the Seine near Rouen in a “case of necessity” even in peacetime, with indemnification reserved.
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Washington
von Capelle
United States
Reichstag
State Department
Prince Bismark
Seine
Rolein
Bismark
Count Berstorff
London
Assistant Attorney General Quits Office
Charles Warren of Boston resigns as assistant attorney general amid controversy over the Chamberlain bill. Warren aided in drafting the measure and criticized civil processes of justice in wartime. The Attorney General summoned him to his office before the resignation was announced. Warren had served four years in the department.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Charles Warren
Boston
Department of Justice
Warren
Department
Wife Abandonment Not An Offense, Court Rules
SPRINGFIELD ILL April 20 The third district appellate court reversed a Morgan county judgment finding Max Berdst guilty of wife abandonment and sentencing alimony The court ruled that 1915 statute does not make wife abandonment or desertion an offense but designates neglect or refusal to provide support for a destitute wife as a misdemeanor
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Spring
Pield
Illinois
Appellate Court
Third District
Circuit Court
Morgan County
Max Berdst
Bar Enemy Aliens Excluded From Illinois Jobs
SPRINGFIELD April 20. Enemy aliens will be excluded from employment in Illinois institutions as ruled by the state civil service commission. All such persons now employed will be discharged at once. The commission also authorized the agriculture department to hire men to destroy tarberry bushes believed to cause rust in wheat. Workers will be paid one dollar a day by the state plus a federal allowance.
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Springfield
Illinois
State Civil Service Commission
State Department of Agriculture
Fire in Mexico destroys historic hotel and district property
Fire in Mexico Missouri early Friday burned property valued at $250,000 in the business district. The historic Ringo Hotel was consumed. Guests awakened and escaped after Charles Jenkins alerted them. Fire believed incendiary.
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Mexico
Ringo Hotel
Charles Jenkins
Battle Front Quiet First Lull Since Big Drive Began March 21
On the French and Belgian fronts a lull appears after days of near-continuous fighting since March 21. Weather worsened by cold, rain, and sleet hinders movement in marshy ground. German thrusts south of Bethune paused after heavy losses. La Bassee canal front remains British. French offensive toward Amiens stalled, with potential shift to another sector. Italian troops are moving to France, possibly a small force or strategic redeployment by General Foch in anticipation of future operations.
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France
Flanders
Bethune
la Bassee Canal
Teutons
Picardy
Amiens
Foch
French Aggressive on Hangard Front
Associated Press reports fierce street fighting around Hangard En Santerre as French forces repel German efforts to divert reinforcements. The village changed hands several times but is now firmly held by the French who inflicted heavy German losses and forced many surrenders.
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Associated Press
France
Hangard-En-Santerre
Hangard
Germans Hit by American French Raiding Party
In France on April 19 the American army with French troops attacked the German line on the right bank of the Meuse. They found trenches empty but saw German bodies in the wire from a prior barrage. A counter barrage arose but American troops returned to their trenches unharmed.
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Associated Fress
France
Meuse
Wabash Shopmen In Decatur Celebrate Liberty Bond Parade
In Decatur Illinois April 20 Wabash railroad shops workers with sixteen hundred employees celebrated a 100 percent Liberty bond subscription. A parade filled the yards with whistles as a regiment of soldiers cheered aboard a Seep train passing by.
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Decatur, Ill
Wabash
Archbishop Mundelein Backs Liberty Loan With 50000 Bond Subscription
Archbishop George W Mundelein subscribed 50000 to the third liberty loan and joined a Washington meeting of archbishops backing the drive. In Chicago and surrounding counties over 200 liberty loan booths operate in churches as officials urge oversubscription beyond quotas. Secretary McAdoo urges districts to push for maximum oversubscription despite concerns from reserve bank leaders about fundraising limits.
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Chicago
George W. Mundelein
Washington
Cook County
McAdoo
Seventh Reserve District
J. B. NecDougal
Chicago Reserve Bank
Liberty Loan
Liberty Scan
Letter Urging Opposition to Draft Echoes in Trial
A letter by Max Eastman written in early April last year, during the U.S. entry into the war, saying the Masses would fight conscription and its evils, was read in Eastman’s draft law obstruction trial. Defense sought to strike it as antedating the act, noting it was a form missive sent to those interested in the magazine’s “telling the truth.”
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New York
Max Eastman
United States
Eastman
Eastman Testix Free
Wage Scale Extended Across Shipyards
Washington reports the war time wage scale now in effect at Atlantic coast shipyards is extended retroactively to Great Lakes yards, extending the pay structure to this region and affirming standards for wartime production. The ruling solidifies pay levels amid broad labor adjustments during the war.
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Washington
Alantic Coast
Great Lakes
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