Ships Delivered And Launched For Emergency Fleet
Washington May 21 Ten steel ships totaling 58 830 tonnage were completed and handed to the Emergency Fleet Corporation last week. Four wooden ships, about 43 000 tons, were launched on Saturday marking the month’s third four-vessel day. May wooden launches reach 22 to date. Ships delivery included eight requisitioned and two built on contract with a mix of steel and wood vessels launched across the Pacific coast, Great Lakes, Atlantic and Gulf regions. The Navy and Shipping Board clash over turbine orders limits transport speed. Chicago bridges may delay lake-bound ships. Southern yards report labor and lumber gains with potential night shifts resuming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation
San Francisco
Chester
Seattle
Ecorse
Mich
Camden
N. J
Manitowoc
Wis
Ashtabula
Ohio
Lone Beach Cahf
Cleveland
Pacific Coast
Lakes
Athaetic and Gulf
Shipping Board
Navy Department
Turley Monday
Thompson
Chicago
South
Toba Fr. Kirby
New Attitude In Court Decision On Shoe Machinery Trust
Washington May 2. Supreme Court, in a 4 to 3 decision, declined to dissolve United Shoe Machinery Co and its subsidiaries. The court said growth stemmed from efficient management not oppression, and a dissolution would be nearly impossible. The 1911 government suit under the Sherman act marks a rare complete victory for a large combination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
United Shoe Machinery Company of
Massachusetts
Shoe Machinery Trust
French Hydroplane Cripples German U-39
A French hydro airplane reportedly damaged the German submarine U-39 off Gibraltar after sighting it on patrol near the Moroccan coast. The sub submerged and later surfaced with difficulty, then was escorted to Cartagena by a second U-boat. Charles W. Fairbanks critically ill in Indianapolis from Bright's disease. Supreme Court rules that only profits accrued after the 1909 excise tax act is effective are taxable under its provisions.
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Paris
Havas
Cartagena
Gibraltar
Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Charles W., Fairbanks
United States
Bright
Washington
Supreme Court
Famous American Ace Killed in Toul Battle
Major Raoul Lufberry the famed American ace was shot down near Toul France while engaging a German triplane. He had seventeen victories and earned fame with the Lafayette Escadrille before joining the American aviation corps. He died in flames after his Nieuport caught fire following a mid air attack.
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Toul
France
Raul — Lafberry
Latberry
Lufberry
Pnlot
Luff
Lufherry
Brest
Nieuport
Raoul Lufberry
LaFayette Escadrille
Amenean
Names of ten Americans held in German prison camps
Washington May 21 ten Americans held in German prison camps listed by the war department via the Spanish embassy in Berlin and the American legation at Berne. Camps Aachen Landshut Karlsruhe include Seaman Jay De La Haron Sergeant Herschel Mackee later at Giessen. Capt Antone Olsen and First Officer Lennardsen Richardsen from the ship Encore. Colstad Buckhard Blom Moore Trudgett etc. Full mail procedures from the adjutant general of the army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Berlin
Berne
Camp Aachen
Jay de la Haron
Camp Landshut
Herschel Mackee
Chateau Salin
Indianapolis
Ind
Stovall
Switzerland
Mackee
Giessen
Camp Karlsruhe
Antone Olsen
Oakland
Cal
Lennardsen Richardsen
Wilapa
Wash
Encore
South Pacific
Colstad
New York
Edward Moore
Searsport
John Arnold Blom
John H. Kirby
Indian Ocean
Adjutant General
Army
Eight Jurors Accepted in Collinsville Murder Trial
Edwardsville IH May 21 Four more jurors bringing the panel to eight were accepted Monday in the murder trial of two men charged with killing Robert Paul Prager, alleged enemy alien, at Collinsville April 5. Two more jurors were tentatively accepted. The panel should be completed today with testimony to begin Wednesday. Four hundred twenty talesmen examined and 100 summoned. Counsel sparred prompting Judge Bernreuter to admonish them.
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Edwardsville IH
Robert Paul Prager
Collinsville
Bernreuter
Brent Appointed Chaplain for American Expeditionary Forces
New York May 21 Episcopal Bishop Charles H Brent of Western New York has been named chaplain of the American expeditionary forces. He will coordinate with Catholic priest Rev I L Doherty and Paul Moody, son of the late Dwight Moody, to direct American chaplains in France.
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New York
Charles H. Brent
Episcopal Diocese
Western
I. L. Doherty
Paul Moody
Dwight L. Moody
France
American Aviator Charles J. Biddle Reported Missing Found
Captain Charles J. Biddle of Andalusia Pennsylvania chief of a Lafayette squadron was found today by French scouts in No Man's Land with a bullet through his leg His plane was wrecked and he was brought to a rear hospital for treatment
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Paris
Charles J. Biddle
Andalusia
LaFayette
No Man’s Land
Mass Men in Rear of Arras Line
Associated Press reports on May 21 from the French front noting no clear signal of where the enemy attack will come. German staff spreads first line troops unevenly while assembling a larger maneuvering army behind Arras under Gen Otto von Beeren.
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Arras
Associated Press
France
Otto von Berew
Valor of American blood in France noted by Pershing
Pershing’s May bulletin praises bravery on the French front. Major Raoul Lufberry, premier American ace, is honored for gallantry. Two African American soldiers, Private Henry Johnson and Private Roberts, fight off a 20-man German raid saving comrades, with both wounded but resilient.
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Washington
Pershing
France
Raoul Lufberry
Flying Corps
Globe Trotter
LaFayette Escadrille
Henry Johnson
Roberts
Vigorous German Raid Defeated Near Bremardeed
On May 21 German forces made a determined silent raid against an American combat group in a strong point in the Luneville sector in France. The attack failed within ten minutes, leaving one German dead and causing heavy German losses while American troops sustained no casualties. The fighting was hand to hand with grenades rifles and revolvers, ending with the German retreat bearing most of their dead and wounded.
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Associated Press
France
Luneville
Brem
Americans In Toul Salient Rule the Air
American air superiority grows over Toul as control shifts from Germans. Daily aerial activity increases with Americans engaging in decisive combats. Early today German formations at 6 000 meters faced rapid American pursuit and retreated promptly after warning alarms.
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Toul Salient
Associated Press
France
Toul
Abo Finland Captured By Teuton Army
Associated Press reports the city of Abo in Finland was captured by German forces. Russians found there were taken prisoner. Abo, a seaport and former Finnish capital until 1918, lies near the Aurajoki river and is noted as a manufacturing and shipbuilding center.
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Abo
Finland
Teuton Army
Associated Press
Moscow
Tresinglers
Aurajoki
Gulf of Bothnia
War Losses List Reveals Broad Casualties Nationally
The May 21 casualty roll reports 45 names across actions including seven killed in action and seven died of disease. Officers Captain H W Brewalter and Sergeant Tom W Brown are listed among the wounded, with numerous privates and corporals from many states named by town and state. The tally spans hospitals, accidents, and various combat outcomes.
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G. G. Burgess
York
Manford L. Milchi
Lee
Ind
James A. Blake
New York City
Peter Kursko
Dickinson
N. D
Fredr. W. Lampman
Red Oak
Iowa
A. R. Moore
Fitzdale
G. S. Patton
Seattle
Wasi
Zobito Discarto
Mount Carmel
Walter Eginton
Lockport
Eugene Franceschetti
Santa Flora
Italy
Lester L. Glor
Varyshoro
N. Y
Robert Jackson
Rawlinson
Ark
Mario Maschio
Oakland
Cal
J. D. Humphrey
Prattsville
J. P. Sullivan
Lone Rock
Wis
Tom W. Brown
New Britain
Conn
I.E. Will
Glenora
Clifford D. Williams
Portland
Glidden
George Burns
Cheshire
Glen W. Cabbage
Hazelton
Porter E. Compton
Murfreesboro
Tenn
David 7
Stephen T- Houmann
Hudson, Wis
Montiebellie
St. Cloud
Minn
Kirby
Texarkana
Tex
Nicholas Palerno
New Haven
Frank Poorman
Bixby
Okla
Michael J. Proverzano
Brooklyn
TE. O. Ray
Moody, Mo
G. A. Redpath
Wavzata
Frank J. Schwetz
St. Louis
Frank PF. Swanson
New London
Russell M Timmons
Smithboro
Clarence R Wetherell
South Manchester
Walter Stottman
Buffalo
James L. Magee
Beal
Will Nominate March Staff Chief General Will Nominate
President Wilson plans to nominate Major General Peyton C. March acting chief of staff of the army as chief of staff with general rank. Gen Tasker H. Bliss, previously chief of staff, will be nominated for the rank of general in a separate designation.
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Washington
Wilson
Peyton C. March
Army
Tasker H. Bliss
Supreme War Council
Trevet
Advance Line Holds Two Mile Front at Kemmel
Allied forces press along a two mile front near Kemmel and Locre with French troops advancing into the third trench line. Australians before Amiens strengthen positions as heavy artillery rocks Hangard and the Avre. Raoul Lufbery dies in aerial combat over Toul amid reports of German losses. Soviet reports of Prague unrest and German unrestricted submarine warfare against Norwegian ships add to a wide war picture.
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Associated Press
Allied Armes
Locre
Lys Salient
France
Kemme
Amiens
Hangard
Avre
Kemmel
U. S
Raoul Lufberry
Wallingford
Conn
Prague
Austria
Wilson
Clemenceau
Lloyd-George
Arctic
London
Paris
War Office
Castel
Rheims
Bermercourt
Vanelere Chevalier Wood
Vigorous Protest Sent to Germany
London May 21 The Russian commissioner for foreign affairs sent a wireless message to the German foreign office April 12 protesting Turkish military actions in the Caucasus He accuses Turkey of mass killings of civilians in Ardahan Kars and Batum and holds Germany responsible due to its aid The message urges swift decisive German intervention to halt what it calls massacre and extermination of the Armenian population in occupied regions
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London
Foreign Office
Caucasus
Brest- Litovsk
Ardahan Kars
Batum
Turkey
Germany
Caucasusa
Ardahan
Four Counties Pass Quota On Red Cross
Chicago May 21 Indications show the central division of the Red Cross will exceed its 15 000 000 quota of the second 100 000 000 war fund Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa and Nebraska lead the pace Four Illinois counties Jersey Kane Mercer Macoupin surpassed their targets Grimdy county reached 75 percent Waterloo Iowa first to fill its 36 500 quota Iowa aims for 2 000 000 Nebraska has 19 towns already subscribed their quotas
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Chicago
Red Cross
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Jersey
Kane
Mercer
Macoupin
Grimdy
Waterloo
Iowa City
French gains on front near Lacre plus British action report
Field Marshal Haig reports French troops advanced on a 4000 yard front near Lacre and captured over 400 prisoners. British losses include missing men north of Albert and a German post captured east of Hebuterne with two machine guns. Berlin notes intensified Kemmel fighting and future bombardment threats.
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London
Lucre
Haig
France
Lacre
Albert
Hebuterne
Bethune
Great Lakes firms to build 130 ships
An agreement, effectively a contract, frames 130 vessels at about 800000 dollars each totaling around 100000000. Firms from Duluth to Cleveland are assigned shares: American Shipbuilding 60, Great Lakes Engineering 24, Manitowoc 12, with the rest split among Toledo Shipbuilding, McDougall Duluth, and Glove Duluth. Ships are 4200 gross tons, 1300 hp, Welland canal size over 23 feet, deliveries by end of lake shipping season. Contracts to be signed later.
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Cleveland, O
Charles M. Schwarb
Great Lakes Shipbuilding Companies
Great Lakes
Duluth
Cleveland
Mr. Schwab
Charles Piez
Fteel Corporation
American Shipbuilding Company
Great Lakes Engineering Company of
Detroit
Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company
Toledo Shipbuilding Company
McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company
Glove Shipbuilding Company
Welland Canal
Rivers And Harbors Bill Passes With Senate Increase
The Rivers and Harbors bill, carrying 2,144,000, passed the Senate Monday, boosting the House total by 2,000,000. It advances to conference with new projects including 704,000 for dredging at Los Angeles Harbor contingent on a dry dock, and 100 for mobility improvements.
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Washington
Senate
House
Angeles Harbor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fleet Corporation
Shoeachinery
Major Raoul Lufberry
Charles Brent
U. S. Army Bulletin
Lunneville
March
Ancre
ViNe-Sur-Ancre
Morlancourt
St. Mihiel
Dover
England
Mont Kemmel
Schwab
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