Haig Line Holds On Ypres Front
British forces report German assaults near Zillebeke lake and Bailleul failed to break through the Ypres sector on April 29. Von Arnim massed troops against allied lines while Belgians faced a separate push near the Yser. Despite heavy fighting, German gains were not achieved and casualties mounted on the German side.
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France
Flanders
von Amim
Zillebeke Lake
Bailleul
Mont Kemmel
Yser
Ypres
Liberty Loan drive nears target with five day push
Seventy six percent of the three billion dollar Liberty Loan minimum has been subscribed as of Monday night with five days remaining. Canvassing committees will solicit individuals and firms who have delayed subscribing. District tallies show varied progress with Missouri and New York among notable standings. a Richmond dispatch notes a North Carolina farmer sold for fifty thousand dollars to invest in bonds. The navy pledges full support and Cuba reports strong enthusiasm ahead of bellwether totals.
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Washington
Treasury
St. Louis
Indiana
Mianois
Mississippi
Kentucky
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
New Hampshire
New England
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
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Ohio
Penna
West Virginia
Richmond
North Carolina
Navy
Cowie
Liberty Loan
Mayo
Atlantic
Europe
Cuba
Havana
Graves Declines U.S. Senate Appointment in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY Mo April 30 Judge W W Graves has declined the appointment as United States senator offered last Friday by Governor Gardner. Graves is currently chief justice of the Missouri supreme court.
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Graves
Jefferson City
W. W. Graves
United States
Gardner
Missouri Supreme Court
Loss of Ypres Village Will Not Mean 'Serious Defeat
Washington officials say the loss of Ypres would not signal a strategic disaster. They expect intensified fighting behind the village and a possible wide retreat only if the gains reach the front. Officials note American troops are in the Amiens sector and anticipate adding up to 1.0 million more men to the army this year, totaling over 3.0 million, with funding needs accordingly.
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Ypres
Washington
France
Flanders
Channel
Amiens
Allies to fund upkeep of enemy aliens by legations
The United States announced that Swiss and Swedish legations will bear the cost of maintaining interned enemy aliens and their families. A national committee of American citizens will supervise relief, with local committees, under the jurisdiction of Swiss and Swedish consuls, handling funds and distributing aid.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Department
Lansing
Legation
Switzerland
Sweden
Germany
Austria
Red Cross
Navy reports Marine casualties from action and disease
A navy department casualty list dated April 30 lists thirty Marines and details three killed in action one died of wounds three died of disease ten severely wounded and 13 slightly wounded. Names include Gunners Sergeant William C. Tarr and Privates Osco Robbins and John L. Shade among the killed and wounded.
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Washington
Navy Department
Din
William C. Tarr
Osco Robbins
John L. Shade
Benjamin J. Lueken
Vernon N. Sosthein
Myrtis B. Cargill
Edward H. Wells
Damon S. Peterson
John Mulchy
Clarence C. McTaggart
Walter W. Pierce
Stanley S. Fairchild
Harvey G. Adkins
Aard Bailey
Frank Egges
Thomas M. Underwood
Chas
W. Milburn
George W. Ruth
Finn. Brown
Hubert Falkenstein
Hugh E.bolender
Henry H. Cameron
Chicago District Nears Liberty Loan Quota
Chicago area progress on the spring Liberty loan drive shows 1,919 bonds sold from 10 percent of Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin Boy Scout troops, totaling 303,900. Continental and Commercial National Bank added 5,000,000 to Chicago subscriptions reaching 89,040,150 or 69.47 percent of the city quota. International Harvester employees subscribed 1,323,850 with 20,853 of 21,400 workers participating, lifting company and employer totals to 4,056,950.
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Chicago
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Liberty Loan
Continental and Commercial National Bank
International Harvester Company
Crippled Man Shoots Man Who Maimed Him
In Callao station on a Burlington line a farmer Tall Davis aged 30 from east of Ethel shot George Smith of Callao and wounded his brother Sherman. Davis, who lost an arm last August in a prior fight, was en route to Macon to testify against Smith in a state case accusing Smith of shooting Davis. The confrontation followed an argument aboard the train and Davis likely fatally wounded George.
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Davis
Ethel
George Smith
Callao
Burlington
Sherman Smith
George
Smith
Trial Of Newspaper Traitors In Paris
Paris April 30 The trial opened here Monday of persons involved in the affair of the Bonnet Rouge a newspaper said to have German financial backing and to have been engaged in propaganda for the enemy Col Voyer who presided at the Boloyasha trial and Lieut Mornet who represented the government filled the same offices Monday
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Paris
Bonnet Rouge
Col. Voyer
Lieut
Mornet
Senate passes Overman bill giving executive power to coordinate agencies
Washington April 30 The Senate approved the Overman bill 63 to 13 after rejecting amendments that would curb presidential authority to coordinate government departments during the war. An Iowa Republican amendment to bar presidential interference with Interstate Commerce Commission rail rate and vacation jurisdiction failed 43 to 31. Only Democrat Reed of Missouri voted against the bill. several Republicans also opposed the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Overman
Cumming
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
Reed
Missouri
Brandegee
Cummins
Dillingham
France
Gallinger
Harding
Johnson
California
Knox
Poindexter
Sherman
Sterling
Sutherland
Lawmakers Named In Roll Call Totals 63 Votes Reported
Smith of Arizona Georgia Maryland South Carolina Swanson Thomp son Tillman Trammell Underwood Vardaman Walsh Williams Wolcott 41 Republicans Baird Borah Colt Curtis Fall Frelinghuysen Hale Jones Washington Kellogg Lemoot McCumber McLean Meanry Nelson New Norris Page Smoot Townsend Warren Watson Weeks 22 Total 63.
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Smith
Arizona
Georgia
Maryland
South Carolina
Swanson
Thomas
Thompson
Tillman
Trammell
Underwood
Vardaman
Walsh
Williams
Wolcott
Baird
Borah
Colt
Curtis
Fall
Frelinghuysen
Hale
Jones
Washington
Kelloogg
Lemoot
McCumber
McLean
MeaNry
Nelson
New
Norris
Page
Smoot
Townsend
Warren
Watson
Weeks
Shipbuilders making good time in wartime output
Washington April 30 Ameri can shipbuilders answered the Shipping Board urgent demand for speed launching 41 105 tons in the week ending Monday and delivering nearly 50 000 tons of completed ships. Total launches 1 405 000 tons since program began including four wooden hulls and steel tankers and freighters from multiple yards.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Great Smith Porter Company
Portland
Oregon
Accoma
Newark
N. J
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Astoria
Flagler
Newport News
Westbridge
Piqua
Wilmington
Dela
Lake Chelan
Toledo
Ohio
Overbrook
Chester
Lake Charles
Lake Como
Lorain
San Francisco
West Gate
Seattle
Bremerton
Germans Demand Release of Prisoners in Exchange Plan
Washington April 30 German government seeks an immediate exchange of prisoners with Russia and warns it may attack Petrograd if terms are not met a 115 member German commission is being sent to present demands. The proposal calls for freeing all healthy German prisoners and placing ill prisoners under neutral care while Germany would release only Russian ill or incapacitated prisoners.
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Washington
Germany
Russia
Petrograd
State Department
Somme
Allies Hold Ypres Front Amid Heavy Battle
Reports describe fresh bombardments along a 12 mile front from Materen to Voormezeele as Haig notes no gains for Germany. French personnel repelled German advances near Kemmel hill while British and Belgian lines brace for further assaults. Somme quiet with limited patrols as Germany demands Russian prisoners, threatening Petrograd if unmet.
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Mes
Iilacy
Assas
Ypres
Channel
Haig
Materen
Voormezeele
Teutons
Kemmel Hill
British Line Holds London as German Attacks Fail
British and French lines repulsed large German assaults between Meteren and Zillebeke Lake and north of Ypres. Haig reports heavy German losses as the 25th 49th and 21st divisions and Belgian forces maintain positions. French hills near Scherpenberg and Mont Roque were also attacked but held.
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London
Meteren
Zillebeke
Field Marshal Haig
Zillebeke Lake
Ypres
Scherpenberg
Mont Roque
Beyond the Usual Artillery 2vented Air Operations
A fragment notes air operations conducted Sunday, with reference to artillery activity and suppression efforts. The readable portion emphasizes ongoing military activity and operational tempo without detailed specifics or outcomes.
Germans Pay Full Price For Battle
London dispatch reports a large Franco-British front in France on April 29 as German infantry attacked from Voormezele toward Mont Chats and Scherpenberg. Despite heavy artillery and air observation, the crab-claw tactic failed to advance, with French and British forces holding the Gaks and hills, and the day ending with large German losses expected.
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London
Reuter
Ottawa
Voormezele
Meteren
France
Mont Chats
Gentar
Gaks
Locre
Scherpenberg
Voormezeele
Ypres
Mont Rewige
Missouri to Use War Stamps for Premiums
SEDALIA Mo April 30 President George W Arnold of the Missouri State fair says the board of directors is weighing a plan endorsed by Governor Gardner to replace cash with war savings stamps for small premiums at the Sedalia fair August 10 17. If adopted it will cover premiums in textile art agriculture and other departments with small sums to ease winner expenses.
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Sedalia
George W. Arnold
Frederick D. Gardner
Arnold
American Troops Fighting at Amiens
Washington reports that American units have joined allied forces in action east of Amiens. The war department says they have acquitted themselves well as it stresses the urgent need for fresh manpower to reinforce the French front and to fill gaps as the enemy seeks a war-ending decision. It notes the Seicheprey attack northwest of Toul.
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Washington
War Department
Amiens
America
Seicheprey
Toul
Wilfley Offered U S Senate Seat by Missouri Governor
Xenophon P. Wilfley, St Louis election commissioner and Democrat, was offered the U S Senate seat after Senator W J Stone's death and said he would accept. At 47, Wilfley is a lawyer who taught school in Sedalia before qualifying for the bar in 1896 and practicing in St Louis.
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ST. Louis
Xenophon P. Wilfley
St Louis i Or
Missouri
Gardner
United States Senate
W. J. Stone
Wilfley
Jefferson City
Russia
Francis
Lansing
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
W. W. Graves
Missouri Supreme Court
Sedalia
Spy Leaps From Chiff. Detention at San Francisco Station
A Syrian Turk named P A Caran, described by federal authorities as a German agent, died after leaping from a detention station cliff in San Francisco on April 30 while en route to spread rumor in Reese. The incident occurred at the immigration detention station and is under federal inquiry.
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P. A. Caran
Resee
Immigration
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