Formal Motion For Mooney Hearing In San Francisco
Maxwell McNutt, Mooney's chief counsel, filed a formal motion on May 3 in San Francisco asking for a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney. He seeks to set aside the first degree murder conviction tied to the 1916 Preparedness Parade bombing, citing fraud and malfeasance and noting President Wilson's call for a new trial amid alleged irregularities.
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San Francisco
Thomas J. Mooney
Fickert
Maxwell McNutt
Mooney
Bom
Wilson
Allied Council in Full Accord on War Affairs
Paris May 3 The supreme inter allied war council met at Abeville with Clemenceau presiding. Present were Lloyd George Orlando Milner Foch Sackville-West Bliss Belin Wilson Haig Pershing Petain Wemyss Debon and other senior officers. Over two days they examined and settled all major military questions in full agreement.
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Paris
Pershing
Petain
Wemyss
Debon
Germans repeat false charge of aviators aboard hospital ships
London reports German wireless claims that American aviators are crossing to Europe on hospital ships. The piece notes the motive to justify future torpedoing of hospital ships if they enter trans Atlantic service. It recalls prior German claims about British hospital ships and cites British admiralty and American naval denials.
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London
Europe
France
United States
Atlantic
British carry out sortie along the Ancre line
British forces reported a morning bombardment with gas shells and high explosives west of Morris and near Villers-Bretonneux with no infantry fighting. The lull allowed Allied preparations for renewed German pressure while a Wednesday operation south of the Ancre widened the front by about half a mile and 400 yards deep. Aircraft intensified attacks on enemy positions.
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France
Ottawa
Morris
Villers- Bretonneux
Ancre
Charge Sea Murders German Pirates
London May 2. Havelock Wilson, head of the Seamans and Firemens union, says 15,000 British seamen have been murdered by German pirates during the war. He warns sea murders rise as the enemy aims to silence sunken ships and calls for a punitive boycott of Germany after the war.
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Ottawa
Havelock Wilson
Seamans and Firemens’ Union
Mercantile Marine
Germany
Dress Goods One Lot All-Wool Novelties Special
Dress goods sale presents one lot of high-grade all wool novelties in pencil stripes and serges. 42 to 45 inches wide for skirts and dresses with nearly half regular value savings. Friday only one dollar and fifty cents per yard. Skirtings and fancy white dress goods offered at 39 cents per yard. Co
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