President to apply acid test to business interests
President Wilson in a Washington address urged unity and voluntary military service, defending a potential allied peace framework. He warned against dual loyalties among Americans of foreign birth, urged business leaders to allow workers to volunteer, and framed preparedness as a test for industry and national spirit.
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Wilson
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Arlingtonational Cemetery
Amerans
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United States Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce of the
Italy's Men Holding in Tyrol Zone
The Aus trians renewed activity in the Posina zone and upper Astico in southern Tyrol, attacking Italian positions but failing to dislodge defenders, according to a wartime office statement from Rome. Berlin reports German gains near Verdun as French lines weaken, with 1,313 prisoners taken and trench losses near Cumieres. Further fighting spans the Russian, Galician, and Turkish fronts, with Austro-Hungarian loan totals cited at six billion crowns and a potential 12 billion mark German war credit.
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Paris
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Astico
Tyrol
War Office
London
le Mort Homme
Cumieres
Verdun
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Meuse
Augustinhof
Galicia
Gliadki
Boutchache
Asiatic
Turkey
Constantinople
Felahe
Kut El-Amara
Greek Macedonia
France Honors American Dead at Paris Ceremony
In Paris on May 31 a ceremony at Place Des Etats Unis honored American war dead. Washington and Lafayette statues were flowers buried as President Poincare and French officials sent wreaths. Speakers included Abbe Klein and Rev. Waton. Alan Seeger read a poem. aviator Lieut William Thaw and Prof A Platt Andrew represented Americans. Names of dead listed include Weeks, Framsworth, Hall, Thelisot, Fiske, Kelly, Surrey, Janz, Walker, and Duval.
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Place Des Etats Ois
France
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Chamber of Deputies
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Abbe Felix Klein
Kenneth Weeks
Cambridge
Mass
Henry Framsworth
Boston
Harman Edwin Hall
Rene Thelisot
Chicago
John Erle Fiske
Wooster
C. Russell Kelly
Fred Stone
Frank Surrey
New York
Jack Janz
Kentucky
Henry Walker
New Orleans
Sergeant Duval
Calvin New Head of Union Pacific
E. E. Calvin, then with the Oregon Short Line, is named by Union Pacific directors to become president, succeeding Mohler. Calvin will take office July 1 with full presidential authority, not merely as a senior officer, per notes from T. M. Orr. Mohler plans retirement on July 1.
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Omahia
Neb
Union Pacific
E. E. Calvin
Oregon Short Line
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha Evening Bee
Calvin
Mohler
T. M. Orr
Business Men Pledged to Support Roosevelt at Convention
Chicago reports a nationwide volunteer movement of business men pledged to influence delegates to back Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican nominee. The effort spans Illinois Indiana Ohio Iowa and Wisconsin with leaders naming J Ogden Armour and Herbert L Satterlee. A Fairbanks club train from Indianapolis is to support Fairbanks at the Chicago gathering while Mrs Frank S1 Lusk of Missoula Montana arrives as a Cummins delegate.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert L. Satterlee
Chicago Roosevelt
J. Ogden Armour
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Clingis
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Satterlee
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Indiana
Ohio
Iowa
Wisconsin
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Hughes
Fairbanks
Weeks
Root
Republican National Committee
William F. Stonz
Baltimore
Fairbanks Club
Marion Club
Indianapolis
Ralph A. Lemcke
Charles W. Jewett
Benjamin Harrison
Frank S$. Lusk
Missoula
Mont
Cummins
Sinn Fein Volunteers Leader Sentenced to Life
Dublin report says Professor John MacNeill, president of the Sinn Fein volunteers, was found guilty of complicity in the Irish revolt and sentenced to life imprisonment. the sentence has been confirmed.
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Dublin
London
John MacNeill
Sinn Fein Volunteers
Progressives Finalize Arrangements for National Convention
Chicago May 31 Final preparations for the Progressive national convention to be held June 4 were completed. George F Porter chairman of arrangements said more than 750 alternates will attend and delegates will fill the main floor with overflow in balconies. Temporary balconies will be erected and 300 press seats provided. Seventeen boxes have been sold to Progressives with others reserved for guests.
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George F. Porter
Progressive National Committee
Report of 600 armed Mexicans camped near Santa Elena
Marathon, Texas reports from resident F E White that about 600 armed Mexicans are encamped across the Rio Grande from Santa Elena, 80 miles south. White cannot confirm faction or marauder status, but locals say fires on the Mexican bank have burned for a week. Military authorities cannot confirm due to no U S patrol at the point.
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Tex
Rio Grande
Santa Elena
F. FE. White
White
Roosevelt Warns Four Kansas City Audiences To Prepare
Col Roosevelt urges preparedness amid war peril claims in a Kansas City tour. He addresses children, hotel lobby crowds, a Commercial Club luncheon, and a Convention Hall speech, warning of invasion risk and criticizing pacifist rhetoric in a forceful, period-tinged address. A knife incident involving his secretary is ruled trivial by the aide.
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Spain
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Dardanelles
America
City
Col. Roosevelt
Sons of America
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Ernest Shell
American Legion
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Muehlbach
Edward McDaniel
Tulsa
Oklo
St. Louis
Chicago
John McGrath
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Newark
N. J
Southern Tyrol mobile campaign turns into flanking war
Berlin May 31 A front correspondent reports that the fighting in southern Tyrol has become a mobile campaign. Austro-Hungarian offensives show stronger gains than Italian frontal attacks. Folgaria plateau shifts from pivot to base for southward advances aided by victories in Armentara ridge Lugna Torta and Sugana valley.
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Tyrol
Sirs
Folgaria Plateau
Trent
Folgaria
Sugana
Armentara Ridge
Adige Valley
Lugna Torta
Four Die as Wooden Awning Collapses in Dallas Parade
In Dallas on May 31 a wooden awning collapsed during a large parade in the business district killing four people, including a 10 year old, a 12 year old, and a 60 year old, with many injured. The demonstration drew over 25,000 marchers bearing flags and banners urging a larger army and navy, lasting over two hours as the crowd watched.
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Dallas
Tex
Albert Cannon
Ple Allen
Ale. Lott
Mildred Butler
Southwest
Noske Answers Urges Peace in Reichstag Debate
In Berlin on May 31 Gustav Noske Socialist condemned Herr Uirseh Liberal of Essen for a speech he said aimed to block neutral powers from aiding peace. Noske argued Germans refuse further bloodshed and demand a permanent understanding to end the war.
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Reichstag
Gustav Noske
Herr Uirseh
Essen
City Pauses for Five Minutes in Honor of James J. Hall
St Paul will suspend all business for five minutes at 2 PM in tribute to the late James J. Hall funeral to begin then. Similar silence will sweep northwest towns as railroads halt all activity for the moment, honoring a promoter of regional growth.
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Minn
James J. Hall
Northwest
Great Northern
Burfington
Hill
Orlock
Thomas B. Rodgers Dead in St Louis
Thomas B. Rodgers, 27 years as assistant adjutant general of the Missouri Grand Army of the Republic died Tuesday in St Louis. A Civil War lieutenant colonel commanded a Pennsylvania regiment and in 1886 served as department commander of the G A R.
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ST. Louts
Department of the Missouri
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania
Memorial Day Tribute Draws Fifteen Thousand Marchers
Thousands of Civil War veterans led a Memorial Day parade in New York in front of Gov. Whitman, with 13 to 15 thousand marchers including coast artillery, sailors, Marines, Spanish-American War veterans, boy scouts, and other groups. The procession reflected mixed wartime sentiment as guards wore service uniforms and bayonets appeared, followed by memorial services at Grants Tomb with Senator Lawrence Sherman as speaker.
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Whitman
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
United States Coast Artillery
New York Navy Yard
National
Binanbinas
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Camp Fire Girls
Apevsse
Grants Tomb
Michigan
Hudson
Lawrences Yo Sherman
Milnois
British steamer Southgarth sunk off London coast
London reports the British steamer Southgarth, 24 tons, has sunk and twenty two crew members were rescued. The incident occurred near London on May 31.
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Lioyds
Southgarth
Steamer Dalegarth Sunk in Battle at Sea
London May 31 Lloyds reports the British steamer Dalegarth of 2265 tons has been sunk. The loss was confirmed by Lloyds and adds to ongoing maritime wartime casualties.
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London
Dalegarth
Lloyds
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