Liberty Loan Campaign Gains Momentum With Friday Subscriptions
Washington April 27 strong reinforcements arrived for the Liberty Loan drive as parades and demonstrations mark Liberty Day. Treasury reports total subscriptions at 2 035 990 200 from banks and trust companies, with Friday’s figures awaiting final tabulation. Delaware over the top, several states reach quota, and the St Louis district reports record subscriber numbers as women in Atlanta district push past 1 000 000 in weekly subscriptions.
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Champ Clark Declines Senate To Remain Speaker
Washington April 27 Speaker Champ Clark declines Governor Gardner's offer of a Missouri United States Senate seat after the death of Senator Stone. Clark says he can render more service as speaker. Jefferson City April 27 Judge Walter Graves of the Missouri supreme court has been offered the U S Senate appointment to succeed the late W J Stone and will decide today.
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Missouri Supreme Court
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Sketches of Harbor Fortifications Ties Schmidt to German Agent
Detroit April 27 A claim by Adele Ulrich Braun formerly Emil Braun that Ifelmuth Schmidt was a German agent emerged as officials probed the murder case tied to a missing woman who answered a matrimonial ad in a New York paper. Braun said Schmidt swindled her of 3500 and jewelry, then vanished, while detectives dug at Schmidt’s house and found the inscription wife and child innocent in a basement wall.
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Ifelmuth Schmidt
New York Harbor
New York
Adele Ulrich Braun
Schmidt
Lakewood
N. J
Emil Braun
Augusta Steinbach
Irma Pallatinus
Friday Beenan
Lord Northcliffe Resigns Yet Continues Duties
The Standard reports Lord Northcliffe chairman of the London HQ for the British mission to the United States and propaganda director in enemy lands resigned due to ill health. At the prime minister and cabinet request he will remain in place until a successor is found.
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Standard
Lord Northcliffe
United States
Warrants Issued For 11 In Prayer Case
Edwardsville Illinois April 37 Bench warrants for the arrest of eleven persons were issued by Circuit Judge Gilham after indictments returned by the grand jury which considered the lynching of Robert P Prager a German enemy alien at Collinsville on April 5. The jury charges 12 civilians with Prager murder. Five are jailed. seven alleged mob members’ identities are kept secret. Four policemen are charged with malfeasance for failing to protect Prager.
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New Japanese Envoy Arrives in Washington
Viscount Kikujiso Ishii the new Japanese ambassador to the United States arrived in Washington on Friday. He was accompanied by the Countess Ishii and a staff of officials as part of the formal welcome sequence at the capital.
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Guard Bayonets Man Who Resents Draft
Rockford Indiana April 27 Brent Dow Allinson the conscientious director was bayonetted but not serious wounded by his military guard Friday when he declined to perform duties of cleaning up the grounds He did not object to picking up waste paper but balked at picking up cigar and cigarette butts His wound was dressed at the hospital and later he was removed to the guard house.
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Florence H. disaster leaves 29 dead crew of 56
Captain F. J. Butterfield of Haverhill Mass and all deck officers believed dead after explosion on the Florence H off the French coast April 17. Survivors list from Brest shows 29 dead or missing, 12 badly burned, 2 slightly hurt, 13 uninjured. Navy guards included. bomb suspected as cause.
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Weir Named Minister of the Air Forces in Britain
London April 27 Sir William Weir appointed minister of the air forces succeeding Lord Rothermere who resigned due to ill health. Weir, born 1877, has been director general of aircraft production and previously Scottish director of munitions, with service in the aeronautical field since last year.
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United States
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David Henderson
William Weir
Eastman Jury Still Deadlocked On Case
In New York on April 27 the jury in the Max Eastman and three associates sedition case against The Masses socialist magazine failed to reach a verdict after more than 30 hours of deliberation.
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Italian pilot sets 145 mile per hour world record flight
Sergeant Gianfelice Gino of the Italian flying corps on Friday established a world record for speed by flying a Spa fighter from Langleveld Hampton Roads Virginia to Washington in one hour. The 145 mile distance was covered with a takeoff at 12 30 and landing at 1 30.
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Germans Lament War Losses Two Million Men
Amsterdam April 27 Germany reports 2,000,000 military losses according to a Frankfurter Zeitung attributed statement by General Schulze to the Reichstag main committee. Sick and wounded returned total 750,000. 629,000 discharged as unfit, including 70,000 cripples. Up to date about 90,000 cripples to reckon with.
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Peasants in Ukrainia Revolt Over Austro German Requisitions
A diplomatic dispatch from Washington reports Ukrainia peasants rising against Austro German requisitions. Clashes with soldiers occur daily and many fatalities are noted. Vienna notes admit grave Austrian food shortages and foresee cereal seizures from peasants for wartime needs.
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Vienna
Contracts for 30000 more cars awarded to ACF
Washington April 27 Contracts for 30000 steel underframe box and coal cars cost between 8000 and 9000 dollars each with about five percent profit were let Friday to the American Car and Foundry company by Director General McAdoo. Negotiations for 70000 additional cars are still pending.
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American Car and Foundry Company
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German Prisoners Given Army Ration
Washington April 27 German internees in the United States are not fed extravagantly. Americans must observe ration limits with wheat restricted to one and a half pounds per person weekly. German military prisoners receive U S army rations while American prisoners in Germany are to get German garrison rations.
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Food Administration
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Germany
Promise Publishers Ship for Wood Pulp
A delegation of newspaper publishers urged the Shipping Board to allow 63 000 cards of wood pulp from Canada to be brought into the United States. The effort hinges on 130 Great Lakes ships being redirected to the Atlantic this summer if it does not disrupt coal movement from Nova Scotia to New England. The publishers include Martin H. Glynn Joseph Pulitzer Henry M. Pindell and John H. Fahey.
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Worcester
Mass
Slight Earthquakes Felt In California
Two light quakes were felt in San Jacinto and Hemet California on Friday causing no alarm or damage. The earlier series of three quakes last Saturday damaged many buildings and harmed homes in both towns.
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French Troops Counterattack Across Villers Bretonneux Front
War bulletin from Paris reports Friday counter-attacks from Villers-Brettoneux to south of the Luce. Allied forces retook the monument south of Villers Bretonneux, entered Hangard En San terre wood, and gained western Hangard as heavy fighting continued with German counterassaults and notable actions north of Mangard En San terre wood. Intermittent bombardments occurred along the Luce right bank and Hartmansweiler Kopf.
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German gains at Kemmel and Dranoutre amid Lys front fighting
Field Marshal Haig reports Kemmel Mountain and village taken along with Dranoutre as German forces press north of the Lys from Dranoutre to the Ypres Comines canal. Berlin claims counterattacks failed with heavy losses and that Mont Kemmel and nearby positions are now in German hands.
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Allied forces press in Kemmel and Hangard sectors
A Reuters dispatch reports fierce fighting on Kemmel Hill and between La Clytte and the Ypres Comines canal as Franco British forces attack from Villers Bretonneux toward Hangard. Allied troops, taking the initiative, launch counter operations in the north and south with some progress amid heavy opposition.
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Kemmel Hill Falls to Germans in Ypres Salient
German forces captured Kemmel Hill, a key southern spur in the Ypres salient, after a fierce defense by French troops and surrounding actions. The loss exposes allied lines, with German attacks expanding from Wytschaete toward Laclytte and the Ypres canal as French and British countermeasures press to recapture.
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Small British Tanks Slaughter Enemies Near Cachy
British tanks in France on Wednesday near Cachy inflicted heavy losses on German infantry concentrations. The fast little tanks swept two to three German battalions, causing many to be buried beneath tracks. A German prisoner recounted a tank charging over his shell hole, leaving him shaken but alive as the combat continued.
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