Crowder asks Congress lift draft ban on 21 year olds
Provost Marshal General Crowder writes to Senate and House military committee chairs urging removal of the bottom of the eligible list for new registrants and retroactive operation of draft quotas. He argues the current plan delays federal callups, affects married men and workers, and could set a dangerous precedent if aliens are registered under new treaty provisions.
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Congress
Washington
Crowder
Senate
House
Gen. Crowder
Crowder backs retroactive feature for More Men draft
Gen Crowder states that training camps reached capacity as Pershing's forces needed. Small calls authorized by the President filled cantonments and exhausted most of the July 12 1917 quotas. He urges applying the new quota plan to men called in the second draft to ensure fair treatment for all states.
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Crowder
Foch Urges Americans to Boost Liberty Loan Effort
A cablegram from Gen. Foch to Benjamin Strong in New York urges American thrift and money as vital in the war. He praises the soldiers fighting on the front and stresses that funds are essential to victory in the current combat.
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New York
Foch
Benjamin Strong
Liberty Loan Committee
New York Federal Reserve District
America
Austrian Monarchy Is Declining in Rome Report
A Rome dispatch to the Italian embassy notes that Austria's ministerial crisis carries organic significance. It says the dual empire faces personal responsibility and power limits being discussed by German delegates and the Austrian premier, signaling a loss of monarchy authority even among the German group.
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Washington
Rome
Austria
Dual Empire
War Losses List Updates 58 Names Across Actions
May 1 casualty list reports 58 names with 2 killed in action, 2 died of accident, 6 died of disease, 5 severely wounded, 42 slightly wounded, 1 missing. Capt Richard L Jett killed. Capt Charles A Chamberlain died of disease. Lieuts J W Morris and T J Mooney noted. many others listed as wounded or captured with corrections to prior reports.
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Thomas J. Mooney
John W. Morris
Sevely
Richard Laurence Jett
Herbert G. Raymond
Eldridge Cope
Wm. W. Washington
Charles A. Chamberlain
Orris Pearl Mudgett
Preston Noel
Clarence Everett Brown
James Bates
Ray L. Siebert
Thomas J. Curtin
Gerald S. Patton
Michael F. Davis
Leonard F. Sylvia
John Levi Smith
Robert DL. Coye
Rufus B. Crain
Francis W. Hine
Frank M. Gannon
Burpee West, Jr
George Zabrasky
Raymond C. Fisher
Wm. Brown
Thomas E. Parris
Albert O. Abraham
John R. Barrett
Charles W. Bradfield
Charles R. Clinkerboard
Thomas J. Corrigan
George W. Currier
Lloyd E. Devel
Contracts Let for 3.5 Million Army Shoes Overseas
Washington May 1 contracts awarded for 3,500,000 pairs of metallic fastened field shoes for army overseas at about 7.75 per pair and 2,000,000 pairs of field welt shoes at 6.50. Also includes notes from a wartime column about Belgian neighbors and dining terms.
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Washington
Germans Pay Awful Price For Defeat
In France near Flenders the German attack inflicted heavy losses as gray uniforms lay in great numbers before Allied lines. Germans briefly reached Mont Rouge and Scherpenberg wedges were driven back by French counterattacks. Artillery from Vimy northward remained busy and Kemmel hill remained contested under shell fire.
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Associated Press
France
Flanders
Mont Rouge
Scherpenberg
Vimy
Kemmel Hill
Reverend Henry Clay Mabie Dies in Boston at 71
Boston May 1 Rev Henry Clay Mabie longtime Baptist clergyman and associate of the American Baptist Missionary Union died at his home in Boston after a career as pastor in the middle west and missionary envoy to Asia including Japan China and India He was 71 and a native of Belvidere Illinois.
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Henry Clay Mabie
American Baptist Missionary Union
Baptist Theological Seminary At
Chicago
Middle West
The
Missionary Union
Asia
Japan
China
India
Belvidere
Ill
My Theater Visit Under German Occupation
The narrator describes a wartime theater experience with German officers at the table, languages and prices, tipping with 23 centimes, and unease amid soldiers. He notes beer at 86 centimes, a rough menu, and watching a German medical corps officer with Red Cross nurses during the interlude.
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Dubbel
Gersten de Flesch
Michaux
Samie
Gersten
Bock
Schlen
Red Cross
Night at the German Officers' Table Yields Fearful Pride
The narrator recalls a quiet, orderly table scene with German officers as he contemplates the risks of concealing an escaped British officer. He leaves unhurt, feeling proud and more confident, while cherishing programs and "throw away" bills as prized souvenirs of the dangerous night.
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