Aviation board under fire over extravagance hearings
WASHINGTON May 3 Investigations into the army aviation situation dominated the senate hearing as critics demanded criminal prosecutions or civil liability for alleged extravagance and mismanagement. Senators accused the aircraft board of a gigantic confidence scheme and pressed for accountability, with calls for criminal inquiries and further investigation into the Liberty motor and related contracts.
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Demise
Hitch Nebraska
Fee
Department of Ju
Hitchcock
Liberty Motor
Conference of Engineers
Washington
Pomerene
American War Losses List Of Casualties And Missing
Washington May 3 The casualty list Thursday shows 96 names with 11 killed in action 2 died of wounds 3 died of accident 7 died of disease 3 died of other causes 7 wounded severely 60 wounded slightly and 3 missing in action Seven officers are named Lieut Clayton C Ingersoll Lieut August Lee Sundvall Lieut John R Feegel Lieut Frederick B Stokes Capt Frank J Abbott Lieut Will F Lovett Lieut Edward C Swensen The list includes ranks from sergeants to privates and spans multiple units with many individual names and service statuses.
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Frank J. Abbott
Will F. Lovett
Edward C. Swensen
Fred Mitchell
Louis Oberman
Elmer Watkins
Stanley Debosso
John S. Cunningham
George A. Fairchild
Frank W. Ferraro
Joseph Francis
Arthur C. Franz
Daniel L. Romeri
Jacob Tompoworowski
Robert M. Wilcox
Manley D. Jackson
Richard W. Judd
Clarence F. Kelley
Louis Page
Harold E. Rowland
Luigi Tallarico
August Lee Sundvall
Roy Dixon
Michael F. St. John
Carl Lygdman
Charles A. Winner
John R. Feegel
Frederick B. Stokes
Thomas F. Byron
Kenneth W. Lovell
Edward D'Olio
Joseph RR. Gemski
Raymond E. Jordan
Frani
J. Abbott
Edward C. Swenson
Willam J. Degrenia
Raymond Idels
Arther U. Havlin
Carleto M. Patriquin
William
William F. McKay
Thomas J. Maher
George Merlow
Ralph D. Phinney
Harold K. Porter
Robert L. Reid
Horace G. Staniland
Elmer N. Tingley
Charles E. Twombley
Arthur W. Wilson
Joseph F. Zielinski
James A. Lee
Henry J. Hauflake
Sidney C. Kinch
Li' Damage Done By Fire In Capitol
Fire damaged the south wing of the capitol building in Ringfield on Thursday. Firemen extinguished the blaze after it drove employees from the highway department quarters. Cause believed to be defective wiring. No injuries reported. Germans Call Reserves. The German field 58 are heavily drawn upon after recent casualties. The 130th reserve division has just drafted a company of 250 boys from the class with eight weeks training. Riot Trials May 13. Trials begin May 13 in Swardsville for 11 indicted in the death of Robert Paul Prager. Judge J. F. Gillham will preside. Uganda census notes Protestant majority.
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Capitol
Highway Department
Fyes
HTISH
Nce
130Th
Swardsville
Ill
Robert Paul Prager
Fourt
Ciryudge J. FE. Gillham
Wooden barges to aid coastwise coal trade approved
Washington May 3 The shipping board authorized construction of fifty wooden barges of 3,500 tons each for coastwise coal transport. Vessels will be built at New England and South Atlantic shipyards to help supply New England with coal.
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Washington
Shipping Board
New England
South Atlantic
Romanian Troops in Italy Form Frontline Force
Paris May 3 eighteen thousand men of Romanian origin captured by Italians while fighting under the Austrian flag asked to join the front against Austria. The request is granted and organization proceeds. With this force three allied armies will fight former central empires. Czech troops are already on the Italian front and there is no Polish army on the French front.
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Paris
Austria
What did you see out there my lad in the service
The reader describes a poem read at Vermont Street Baptist Church ending services, detailing a lad returning from a journey with profound, troubling visions of life, death, and faith as he meets God and confronts sin and mercy.
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John Oxenhaur
Vermont St. Baptist Church
J. M. Rudy
Outwitting the Hun and a Deaf Spy’s Escape
A keen narrator recalls evading German pursuit in occupied Belgium after escaping behind enemy lines. He describes hiding, forged papers, and near encounters with German soldiers, noting better conditions among Allied officers in nearby cities, while enduring hunger and injuries before planning another escape.
Expert Airmen Killed in Ohio Incident
Dayton reports Major Oscar Brindley and Colonel Damm, two expert airmen, were killed in a recent air incident on May 3. The names indicate high-ranking officers lost in a training or mission event, with official details pending.
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Dayton, O
Oscar Brindley
Col. Damm
Aviation death at Moraine City field in March crash
Aviation men from the McCook federal flying field met death at the Moraine City aviation field on Thursday when the machine dropped 400 feet during a turn.
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McCook Federal Flying Field
Moraine City
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