President Lays Keel of Vessel Gunston Hall
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson presided at the keel laying of the 940-ton Gunston Hall for the Virginia Shipbuilding Co in Alexandria Virginia The ceremony featured a rivet driven by Mr Wilson a film crew in attendance and homage to George Mason with remarks by political figures and the shipyard band playing The Star Spangled Banner Officials note the yard rose from swamp land to a world record pace of building in 85 working days
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Wilson
Gunston Hall
Shipping Board
Mason
District of Columbia
Potomac
Chesapinle Bay
Chas. W. Morse
Newark
Virginia Shipbuilding Company
Washington
Martin of
Mooney
Knockout War Aims Speech by Roosevelt in Detroit
Detroit May 31 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt spoke at a Memorial Day address for the navy declaring America must win the war with a knockout not points. He warned that failure would require fighting later without allies and urged the language of the Declaration of Independence. He reviewed parades and memorial exercises for Detroit’s military dead before departing for New York.
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America
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
New York
Col. Roosevelt
Speeding Up Traffic Under New Penn System Director
Philadelphia May 31 Charles H Markham former president of Illinois Central takes regional director duties for the Pennsylvania system He arrived Thursday and set up in the Pennsylvania railroad offices before beginning work Saturday He intends to speed up traffic without disrupting practical railroad operations under his jurisdiction
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Philadelphia
Charles H. Markham
Ilinois Central Railroad
Pennsylvania
Markham
Pennsylvania Railroad
Americans at Cantigny Hold 242 German Prisoners
Americans at Cantigny repulsed multiple German counter-attacks from 5:10 pm to 5 am, increasing German prisoners to 242 as U.S. field hospitals earned praise for patient care. Funerals honor fallen heroes in a shelled cemetery while French civilians cover graves with garden flowers.
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Cantigny
American Army Bulletin Reports Small Gains in May in Lorraine
May 31 report from Washington states Gen Pershing’s communique notes enemy raids failed to breach American lines in Lorraine. A 50-man raiding party suffered 10 dead and four wounded. Patrols at St Mihiel encountered enemy planes at 4000 meters. one plane fell in flames. Credit for shooting down an aircraft goes to Lieuts Rickenbacher and Hambleton. An English aviator wounded in action was aided by Lt Campbell who drove off the enemy planes.
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Associated Press
France
Cantigny
No Man's Land
Washington
Rickenbacher
Hambleton
Campbell
Lorraine
Fisher
Curtis
Bufford
McLanahan
St. Mihiel
Lieut
Battle Front News Improves For Allies At Aisne
London dispatches report the battle at the Aisne shows allies holding the enemy on both flanks at Soissons and Rheims with slowed German progress. Despite optimism, heavy fighting continues along the front especially to the south as Germans claim progress toward the Marne from Fere En Tardenois.
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Aisne
Soissons
Rheims
Marne
Fere- En-Tardenois
Paris
Paris-Cahlons
Sinking of Furness Line steamer Cheviot Range reported
News from Boston confirms the sinking of the Furness Line steamship Cheviot Range with the loss of 25 crew. The vessel was en route from the Mediterranean to England when attacked by a submarine and went down within minutes.
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Furness Line
Cheviot Range
Mediterranean
England
Americans May Join In Battle In France
May 30 dispatch notes American soldiers weighing their possible roles in the northwest battle. No troop moves are discussed until engagement occurs, as high command deems necessary. The Soissong Rheims front has drained activity from the sector housing the main American expeditionary forces amid quiet fronts aside from aerial combat.
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Associated Press
France
Soissong
Rheims
Graves of American Soldiers Decorated in Britain
On May 31, American Red Cross and YMCA decorated graves of soldiers and sailors across England Scotland Ireland and Wales. Memorial day services were attended by many Americans with Rev Joseph M Gray addressing at a rest camp in England and the Lord Mayor presiding in Liverpool. Princess Patricia Vice Admiral Sims and Maj Gen Biddie attended a charity baseball game in London. Lincoln's Gettysburg address was read at the American Women's club.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
American Red Cross
Patricia
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Biddie
Lincoln
American Women's Club
American Officers’ Club
Federal Agents Find Liquor Hidden In Barn
Federal agents seized 500 gallons of liquor found in the barn of J. J. Mandel in Rock Island Illinois. The liquor location followed the arrest of Robert Rebner of Davenport who had six gallons of whiskey. Mandel denied knowledge of the liquor stating he rented the barn to an unknown renter a week before saloons closed.
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J. J. Mandel
Robert Rebner
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Mandel
Sauer Kraut Diet Is Commended By Hoover
Washington May 31 the food administration explained sauer kraut is dutch not german in origin eating it is patriotic by boosting cabbage use and conserving staple foods sent abroad to aid allies during the war
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Washington
The
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British Raid Near Arras Sector Deep Into German Lines
British forces conducted a raid at Nouvelle Vitasse near Arras penetrating 600 yards into German defenses. They found many dead or wounded from bombardment and reported about 200 German casualties in the fighting.
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France
Ottawa
Nouvelle- Vitasse
Arras
Memorial Day Observances Across Nation Honors Fallen Soldiers
Washington May 31 The American people paid homage to defenders who fell in battle and prayed for those fighting overseas. President Wilson urged fasting and supplication as Allied forces stood with French and British troops. The day featured services at Central Presbyterian Church Arlington National Cemetery and a Grand Army of the Republic Memorial. Secretary Baker attended the review, with Senator Curtis delivering the oration and Rev. Wm Couden reciting Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
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France
Wilson
Congress
Central Presbyterian Church
Arlington National Cemetery
Grand Army of the Republic
Baker
Curtis
Kansas
Wm. Couden
Ind
House of Representatives
Lincoln
Holding Ground At Cantigny Pershing Report
General Pershing reports in France that Allied positions in the Cantigny salient have been consolidated amid heavy artillery and machine gun fire. In Lorraine three enemy raids were repulsed overnight, with several prisoners taken and some enemy killed.
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Associated Press
France
General Pershing
Cantigny
Lorraine
King Alfonso Absent As Epidemic Saps Officials
Madrid May 31 King Alfonso rose from his sick bed but remains unable to attend state duties. More than 600 doctors suffer grippe effects hindering the battle against the epidemic.
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Madrid
Alfonso
French General De Vallieres Killed in Action at 49
Paris May 31 The Havas report confirms General Pierre De Vallieres was killed on Tuesday on the field of honor. He fell after a shell fragment struck him while leading his troops. De Vallieres was 49 years old.
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Paris
Havas
Pierre de Vallieres
de Vallieres
Paris Bombardment Resumes At Sunset After Interruption
Paris reports that the German long range bombardment of the city, paused earlier in the day, resumed at sunset. The action followed a period of heavy shelling with no major announced changes in targets or outcome.
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Paris
German Advance Slows as France Halts German Push
Paris May 31 official French report says enemy progress near Soissons was stopped and the Crise river left bank held to the south. Germans press toward Ville-En-Tardenois and Rheims front with continued fighting and heavy air activity. French air forces destroyed nineteen German planes and bombed bridges and camps, while further raids dropped 23 and 37 tons on bridges, convoys, troops, and railway stations. Push toward the Marne continues as Champagne forces seek a position to turn west with their attacking armies.
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Ville-En-Tardenois
Rheims
Associated Press
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Marne
Teutons
Pinon
Brimont
von Mackensen
Dunajec
Picardy
Vezilly
Braisne
Vauquois
Verdun
Foch
Cantigny
Brazilian steamer sails amid submarine warning near Florida
An Atlantic port reports a Brazilian steamer carried passengers who said a wireless alert to watch for submarines was received while entering the Gulf Stream off the Florida coast. Captain altered course, then resumed toward the port. Passenger Sir Leslie Probyn, ex governor general of Barbados, now bound for Jamaica, cited reports of German U boats sighted May 16 near Bermuda.
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Gulf Stream
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Jamaica
Bermuda
Memorial Exercises In Southern States
Memorial Day was observed across the South with business partly suspended and church services held. In Richmond veterans from Union and Confederate forces decorated graves at Hollywood cemetery, where 18,000 Confederate dead are buried, after a city parade.
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South
Wilson
Confederacy
Hollywood Cemetery
Eighteen Killed In Panic At Mannheim
Geneva May 31 eighteen women and children were trampled to death and several injured in a panic after an aerial raid alarm in Mannheim. Crowds stampeded when the warning signals were seen as German aviators returned to their base near Mannheim.
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Middy
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Manneim
Soldier George Hicks Killed by Train in Palestine
George Hicks of Peoria Illinois, a National Army man from Camp Logan Houston Texas, was killed by a freight train on the International and Great Northern railroad in Palestine Texas on Thursday.
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Palestine
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George Hicks
Peoria
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Camp Logan
Houston
International and Great Northern
Argentine Envoy Sails for New York on Battleship
BUENOS AIRES May 31 The battleship Rivadava with Dr Romula S Noan ambassador to the United States aboard sailed Thursday morning from an Argentine port for New York City amid formal ceremony and diplomatic signal.
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Rivadava
Romula S. Noan
United States
New York
Germans Reach Soissons Front as 35,000 Prisoners Taken
Berlin reports a major advance on the northern front with Crecy Au Mont Javigny and Cuffies seized and Soissons captured by Brandenburg troops. Prisoners surpassed 35,000 as artillery and war materials fell into German hands. South of Vesle the French line collapsed before German divisions. The northwestern front of Rheims fell. rail guns and munition depots captured. Aviators claim 88 enemy planes down and five captive balloons destroyed. A later dispatch notes fighting toward the Marne south of Fere-En-Tardenois.
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Betheny
Braisne
Fismes
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Ypres
Fere-En-Tardenocis
Marne
Cantigny Capture Praised by Press
London May 31 The Evening News lauds the Cantigny victory by American troops calling it a clean cut battle from start to finish and predicting Cantigny will expand into a full length tale of how the Kaiser and Kaiserism will fall. It praises the young Americans as conquerors in the Anglo Saxon Latin compact.
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Cantigny
The
Evening News
United States
Allied Museum
Campaign For Trained War Nurses Opens
Special committees in Atlantic division cities are to recruit 5 000 trained nurses for the army. The drive begins Monday and lasts ten days with a broader goal of 10 000 nurses by January 1 1919 in the Atlantic division.
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New York
Atlantic Division
American Red Cross
Rheims Forts Outflanked By Foe
German crown prince armies slow in surge as French and British defense holds. Outflanked forts near Rheims fall, Danubeward-like wedge forms at Marne valley approach, Americans defend Cantigny and hold lines in Toul and Luneville sectors amid steady air fighting.
Germans Used Many Tanks In Offensive On French Front
London dispatch reports that in their initial onslaught Monday the Germans deployed more tanks than ever before. The 50th British division near Craonne repelled a gas attack and held the line despite German efforts to reach the Aisne. French forces to the right of the 50th also faced heavy fighting and a subsequent retreat followed by a failed recapture attempt under intense gunfire.
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Reuter
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Aisne
Empin
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