Railroad Wage Commission Hints at Big Pay Rise
Washington May 8 Director General McAdoo to announce decisions on railroad wage commission recommendations. Averages suggest a twenty percent pay rise for all railroad workers, potentially adding about 260 million dollars to rail payrolls. The commission favored higher raises for lower paid unions and faced pushback from major brotherhoods. The eight hour day was debated, with a view to universal adoption after the war.
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Washington
McAdoo
Railroad Wage Commission
Lusitania mass meeting denounces German brutality in Carnegie Hall
New York May 8 Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Robert L Owen spoke at a Lusitania memorial organized by American Defense Society and American Rights League. Owen urged ostracism of Germany until it accepts international law and joins the family of nations, a penalty he said should be applied to German Austrian Bulgarian and Turkish powers.
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New York
America
Lusitania Memorial
Carnegie Hall
American Defense Society
American Rights League
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Charles S. Fairchild
Owens
Believe Miss Bacon Heads Federation
HOT SPRINGS Ark May 8 Leaders of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at the fourteenth biennial convention here say Miss Georgie Bacon of Massachusetts has been reelected first vice president despite opposition from suffrage advocates. No formal candidate was fielded but opponents ballots were declared to have gone to scattered candidates.
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Hot Springs
Ark
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Georgie Bacon
Massachusetts
Senator Lewis Sees Day of Retribution
Senator James Hamilton Lewis told a New Jersey war council audience that President Wilson will demand proof of criticism that there is something rotten in the government. He warned that if treachery is proven the conspirators will meet the fate of Bolo Pasha.
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Trenton
N. J
Wilson
James Hamilton Lewis
New Jersey State Council of Defense
Bolo Pasha
Additional Loan To Britain Authorized
Washington reports an extra credit of 75 million dollars to Great Britain, raising American loans to that nation to 2.795 billion and total credits to all co belligerents to 5.36385 billion.
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Britain
Washington, May
Great Britain
Wilson Urges Red Cross Support for War Fund
President Wilson designates May 20 to May 26 as Red Cross Week and asks Americans to donate to the Second 100,000,000 Red Cross War Fund. The proclamation cites exhaustion of 1917 funds, war relief needs in Europe and at home, and the Red Cross as the public instrumentality for aiding troops and allied populations.
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Ashington
Wilson
Red Cross
American Red Cross
France
War Fund
Europe
People’s Trust
United States
Woodrow Wilson
District of Columbia
United States of America
Colby urges total effort to speed shipbuilding for war
In New York Bainbridge Colby of the United States shipping board tells a luncheon crowd that every activity and resource must serve the shipbuilding program. He urges volunteers to leave jobs and housing if needed to boost output, saying the world needs ships and America must build them faster to defeat submarines.
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New York
Bainbridge Colby
United States Shipping Board
A. E. Filene
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Merchants’ Association
Shipbuilders of
Messrs. Colby and Filene
Chicago
National Chamber of Commerce
Colby
America
Abolish Names For Passenger Trains Nationwide
Omaha report states that after June 1 all names for crack passenger trains will be eliminated and trains will be numbered only. Washington orders aim to curb advertising, railroads say, due to lack of competition.
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Omaha
Union Pacific
Washington
Constantine the Exiled Greek King Stricken in Zurich
Paris May 8 reports former Greek king Constantine is seriously ill in Zurich Switzerland. A Temps dispatch says those at his bedside fear a fatal termination of the illness may be near. The correspondent notes the serious condition is not improbable.
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Paris
Constantine
Greece
Zurich
Switzerland
Temps
Omaha Retires Dahlman in mayoral election
OMATIA May 8 reports Omaha voters defeat longtime mayor Jim Dahlman known as the cowboy mayor. In the city election one hundred pre empts out of 154 indicate Dahlman’s defeat and end his long tenure.
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Omaha
Dahlman
Omatia
Jim Dahlman
Dons' Ship Torpedoed by U-Boat
Washington May 8 The torpedoing of the Spanish steamer Luisa by a German submarine was reported Tuesday in a Barcelona dispatch. The captain said the ship was sunk in broad daylight with the Spanish flag flying where the submarine commander could not fail to see it.
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Washington
Luisa
Barcelona
New Ship Budget Near Twoand a Half Billion
Washington May A huge appropriation for merchant ship construction will be presented to the House Appropriations Committee by Shipping Board Chairman Hurley. The plan calls for a year beginning July 1 with more than 10 million tons of shipping possible and a budget near 2.5 billion dollars for new yards and expanded plant capacity. Steel delays and shortages threaten progress as Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding seeks steel to start a new yard.
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Washington
House
Hurley
Shipping Board
Congress
Sturley
Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Two Marines Die In Plane Crash At Curtis Flying School
Miami Florida May 8 Lieutenant Melvin I Sullivan and Sergeant Calvin Sk Crank of the marine corps were killed Tuesday when their airplane used for gunnery practice fell about 700 feet at Curtis Marine Flying School near Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Melvin I. Sullivan
Calvin Sk. Crank
Marine Corps
Curtis Marine Flying School
Here
Enlistment Urgency Mirrors Nation's Call for Men
A long wartime dispatch discusses the need for trained tradesmen and skilled workers to bolster Uncle Sam and the war effort. It lists numerous trades from instrument repair to machinists and linemen, highlighting a broad mobilization of labor for military needs.
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Sam
James Ad Goulsting
War Department
English Girls Look 6000 10 Quincy Boy
Mrs. J H Andrews of 1314 North Sixth Street receives a letter from her son Clyde a private in the 2nd Provisional Ordnance Department with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He writes from somewhere in England describing a voyage across the ocean and a journey that was exciting yet went smoothly despite the anticipation.
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Quincy Boy
J. H. Andrews
North Sixth Street
Clyde
2Nd Provisional Ordnance Department
Europe
England
Alt
Miss McMein to address Keokuk High School pupils
Miss Neysa Moran McMein visiting Keokuk with her parents will speak to the high school assembly about her artwork and forthcoming trip to France as an artist correspondent for Saturday Evening Post and McClure's. Debaters and class activities follow, with seniors presenting part of their class play and a baccalaureate service planned at Congregational church with Rev. George Arthur Buttrick officiating. The article also notes Allied and British wartime actions, including Canadian and French maneuvers near Neuville-Vitasse and Amiens, and political fallout in England surrounding General Maurice’s charges against government officials.
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Maurice
Lloyd George
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Palestine
Bonar Law
House of Commons
Neysa Moran McMein
H. M. McMein
France
England
Flanders
Picardy
Arras
Neuville-Vitasse
Amiens
M. Clemenceau
Paris
Western Front
Frederick B. Maurice
British War Office
Foch
London
Andrew Bonar Law
Nicaruaga
Germany
Romania
Bucharest
Russia
O'Brien Reaches Frontier Of Holland Sees Dreaded Barrier
O'Brien nears the Holland border and views the electrified fence that guards the Belgium Netherlands line. He describes the three-wire, barbed barrier, sentry patrols, and his failed ladder plan as he contemplates freedom and survival during a perilous night crawl. He finds the barrier’s height and width insurmountable and abandons attempts for the moment.
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O’brien
Frontier
Holland
Belgium
Netherlands
Pat
Committee Works On Budget As City Delays Session
The city council finance committee meets this afternoon to review the appropriation budget. A full council meeting to adopt the budget and discuss department increases is not expected until next week. Workers including laborers and teamsters may receive pay on schedule, while board of public works staff wait two weeks for the next pay, with possible interim payments due to urgent needs.
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Trades and Labor Assembly
Board of Public Works
Inquiry Board Reports Tug Chero kee Overloaded
A naval board of inquiry found the tug Chero kee overloading partly caused its loss off Cape Henlopen on February 26. It faulted the commanding officer for not reporting the overload and for not heeding a stern warning. The vessel was deemed unsuitable for general navy service due to its condition and thirty men, including the commanding officer, were reported lost.
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Washington
Naval Board of
Cape Henlopen
Delaware
Navy Department
Front War News Reports Italian and Allied Artillery Actions
Paris and Rome dispatches describe continued front line activity. German air forces suffered losses with four planes shot down and ten damaged. Allied bombardment targeted multiple French stations. Italian headquarters report patrols dispersed and artillery harassing enemy positions while British aircraft claimed three enemy planes and bombed targets between the Astico and Brenta.
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Paris
Hailles- Villers-Bretonneux
Amiens
Hartmans-Weilerkopf
Alsace
Fluville
Martel
Ham
Guiscard
Noyon
Vermond
Rome
Brenta
Sisbon
Astico
Blood on revolver in Strause Mead murder trial
Dr Albert Weil testified there was no blood on the revolver beside Berne M Mead's body despite a blood pool, as defense argues Mead fired at Strause and moved the gun. The state showed bullets found in bank and walls, with police and detective testimony on bullets and prints.
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Peoria
Mil
Albert Weil
State Savings and Trust Bank
BE. A. Strause
Berne M. Mead
Strause
Mead
Dr. Weil
E. J. Gustine
Weil
Ing
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Sten
House of Switchboard
Versailles
Tyrone
Hare
Clyde Andrews
M’mein
Quincy Artist
Monet
Amd Aarnesienes
EvCeisilip
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Jericho
Jordan (Palestine Front
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Illinois
Pat A. O’brien
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