Plan to fly Atlantic this fall by British seaplanes
Washington June 22 Major General W Brancker of the British air ministry said big airplanes and seaplanes should cross the Atlantic to reach the front by next summer. He is coordinating with American officials to arrange a pioneer flight this autumn from Newfoundland via the Azores and Portugal to Ireland in about forty hours.
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Washington
Atlantic
W. Brancker
British Air Ministry
Brancker
Drilis Air Council
New Foundland
Azores
Portugal
Ireland
Rolls-Royce
Liberty
Europe
Star American Flyer Beside His Plane in Uncle Sam Hat Ring
Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacher, famed auto racer turned flier, stands by his plane bearing Uncle Sam’s hat in the ring. The caption notes Germans are learning the meaning as he flies for General Pershing in France.
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Star American Flyer
Uncle Sam
Eddie Rickenbacher
General Pershing
France
Bavaria Cannot Give Austrians Potatoes
AMSTERDAM June 22 The Frankfurt Times correspondent in Munich telegraphs that Bavaria is able to supply Austria with potatoes only in small amounts. Frost has retarded the new crop and the old stocks must be used sparingly.
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Amsterdam
Furters Zeitene
Munich
Bavana
Austria
Picture of Prussian life sparks social critique in debate
Amsterdam dispatch notes a Prussian social conditions sketch in a June parliamentary debate. Socialist Braun cites official data showing 487,726 food regulation convictions between October 2016 and November 2016 amid profiteering, usury, bribery, and widespread cheating across classes, fueled by wartime propaganda and calls against universal suffrage.
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Py Fen
Amsterdam
Prussiia
Tas Dierior
House of Deputies
Braun
Nutiberionsses Af Vieffs Om
Radiooends
Aburimitag
Diamler
Bayonet Wound and Death at Camp
At a U.S. camp in Rockport Richard Puffer, a guard, died after a bayonet wound inflicted by Corporal Larkin during an altercation with newly arrived Black soldiers. Reports say Larkin shoved back the crowd as orders barred Negro soldiers from mingling with selectees. Duffey died shortly after from the wound.
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Rockpord
Richard Puffer
Camap Uiront
Qa Bavemet
Phil Kao
Larkin
Duffey
Ife
Increased water rates sought for Urbana and Champaign
Springfield June 22. Champaign and Urbana water company filed with the public utilities commission to raise rates for residential customers. Proposed charges begin at 25 cents per 10 cubic feet for the first 2 000 cubic feet, 20 cents for the next 2 000, and 15 cents for the third 2 000, with lower rates for larger consumers and several special rates fixed.
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Springfield
Champaign
Public Utilities Commission
Champaign and Urbana Water Company
Bread ration crisis sparks potential Prague riot
From Copenhagen June 22 the Neue Freie Presse reports Prague and Bohemian industrial areas face a bread shortage so severe that the Austrian government may be forced to raise rations or risk further worker unrest. It warns that failure could cut railway links and trigger a revolution.
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Copenhagen
Prague
Bohemia
Neue Freie Presse
Vienna
Crowder Fines Details on Work or Fight Order
Washington reports General Crowder issued new draft board regulations clarifying that professional baseball players and many sport related roles are treated as non productive occupations under the work or fight order. Local boards may defer actions while attempting to place men in productive work with aid from the federal employment service.
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Washington
Crowder
Federal Employment Service
Clerks in Mercantile Establishments Excluded From Duties
The policy excludes store executives department heads and heavy work employers. It covers sales clerks and clerical office staff across all departments but not pharmacists, traveling salesmen, drivers or trades. Boards must provide employment service agents with names of registrants summoned for examination under the order.
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United States
St Louis Flier Killed In Training Crash
St Louis lieutenant James R Wheeler was killed when the aircraft he rode with cadet John N Rafter crashed about a mile from Scott Field near Belleville, Illinois.
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ST. Louis, Mo
James R. Wheeler
St. Louis
John N. Rafter
Scott Field
Belleville
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Guy Nations
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