Aviation Field Training Planned in France for 500 Pilots
American contracts fund a two squadron aviation field in France where 500 student aviators will complete final training by July 20 under French instructors and in French aircraft. Training fields at Dayton Ohio Detroit Michigan and Champagne Illinois will support near term deployment and site selection for six additional two squadron fields.
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Union News Service
Washington, D. C
France
United States
Committee On Public Information
Howard E. Coffin
Aircraft Production Board
National Defense Council
Atlantic
America
Dayton
Ohio
Detroit
Mich
Champagne
Wrights
Eleven Provinces Revolt Against Peking Government
Eleven Chinese provinces reject the authority of the Peking government with Kwang-Tung Kwang-Si and Yuan Nan backing President Li Yuan Hung. The provisional assembly of Kwang-Tung calls for dismissal and punishment of military governors. Sun Yat Sen and other leaders head toward Canton as tensions rise and the south may back the president.
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Peking
China
Chi-Li
Kwang-Tung
Kwang-Si
Yuan Nan
Li Yuan Hung
Sun Yat Sen
Tang Shou- Yi
Canton
South China
Yuan- Nan
American Mission to Russia Reaches Port Safely
Washington announces that Elihu Root headed the American commission arrived at a Russian port. The mission, started around May 15, aims to greet the new democratic government and offer full US aid in war effort and Russia's rehabilitation. A preceding railroad experts’ mission had already reached its destination.
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Washington, D. C
American Commission
Russia
Elihu Root
Navy Department
Washington
United States
Wilson
Root
Pacific Coast
Last tribute at Denver for Buffalo Bill Cody
Vast assemblage gathers on Lookout Mountain near Denver to lay to rest the famed scout William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill in a grave blasted from rock beneath a thin earth layer.
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Deaver
Cole
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Lookout Mountain
Denver
Enlistment Records Shatter in World War I Drive
Washington reports 2,367 army enlistments in a day, boosting total since April 1 to 92,686. Dirigo sunk by a German submarine with one drowned, Margaret B Rouss also sunk and crew robbed. Wilson vows decisive action, Arlington memorial address pledges American wartime resolve.
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Washington
London
John Ray
Margaret B. Rouss
Fred L. Foot
France
Carry On by Strickland Gillilan and war bonds appeal
The piece urges readers to fund the war effort through liberty bonds. It argues that every person must contribute, compares bond purchases to fighting in trenches, and cautions that failed support would erode national value and civilization. The author vows to invest as much as possible.
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Strickland Gillilan
America
Washington War Revenue Tax Affects Most Auto Owners
Washington lawmakers fix a graduated war revenue tax in the pending bill. Cars 500 or less taxed 7.50 while cars over 3000 face 25. Also the bill adds taxes on coffee tea sugar and cocoa and ends the old 12 1 2 percent war munitions tax. Aerial bomb invention and tornado reports also appear.
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Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Executions and War Tax Moves Highlight Report
Maj Elaterio Soto of the Carranza army was executed by a firing squad after being paraded in Juarez for allegedly arming Villa forces. Carranza troops prepare to strike at the Villista force that seized Ojinaga opposite Presidio Texas. The house in Washington approved a motion to recommit the espionage bill to strike press censorship by 184 to 144. A senate committee proposed replacing a 200 million tariff increase with direct excise taxes on sugar tea coffee and cocoa. All federal agencies were ordered to report on anti registration meetings. Attorney General Gregory vows vigorous prosecutions for disloyal speech or action. The Lever bill passed without a roll call authorizing a 14.522 million food survey and production stimulus.
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Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Juarez
Mex
Elaterio Soto
Carranza
Villa
Senate
Gregory
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Emperor Charles Opens Reichstag in Vienna Address
Emperor Charles addressed the Vienna reichstag opening and recalled late Emperor Francis Joseph. A Budapest telegram said Charles named Count Julius Andrassy premier of Hungary. Brazil’s chamber passed the first reading of a government bill revoking neutrality in the Germany United States war, 136 to 3. Petrograd factories plan strikes to paralyze production, affecting war work.
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Charles
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Zurich
Switzerland
Budapest
Julius Andrassy
Hungary
Brazil
Germany
United States
Petrograd
European War News Factions Seize Kronstadt Fortress
Delegates of workers and soldiers vote 210 to 40 to take control of Kronstadt guarding Petrograd and serving as capital access point from the Baltic. Italy reports Austrian losses near 300000. Guynemer adds five more German planes, totaling 43. London says British raid east of Richembourg L Avoue downs two Germans and drives six others out of control.
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Kronstadt
Petrograd
Baltic Sea
London War Office
Richebourg-L’avoue
Liberty loan subscriptions reach 1.45 billion in U S
A Wall Street report unofficially cites Liberty Loan subscriptions totaling 1 45 billion dollars. A devastating tornado hits Mineral Point Missouri killing seven and injuring 22 or more villagers as the town is nearly demolished.
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Wall Street
Liberty Loan
Mineral Point
Cedar Falls to mark Danish day and war effort on June 5
Cedar Falls sets a big June 5 with Danish independence anniversary and Registration Day. Governor Harding will speak at the Iowa State Teachers College as Danes veteran in U S service are honored. The region reports 75 local Danes in service and many more volunteers countywide.
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Cedar Falls
Harding
Iowa State Teachers’ College
United States
Clarkville
U. S
Glenn Ramsey
Quincey Rains
Herbert Heap
John Weller
Chas. Reitz
U. S. Marines
Chas. Cheever
Lawrence Mott
Fay Duane
U. S. Cavalry
Howard King
4Th
U.S. Infantry
Davenport
Clement Merritt
Waterloo
Fort Snelling
James Brearton
Winneshiek County
Army
Navy
Stewart
Stuart
Sheldon
Christian Reformed Dutch Church
Ninth Street
Clinton
France
D. C
Boone
Kenerson McNeil
Red Cross
William Eberhardt
Ames
Alden
Elizabeth Eberhardt
James Jasperson
McGregor
Missouri Valley
Clarinda
William ‘Boeck
Tennant
Webster County
Harlan
Clarke County War Emergency Committee
Osceola
K. W. Stouder
Agricultural Extension Department
Rock Island
Columbus Junction
Grinnell
Theodore Marburg
Belgium
Black Hawk County
A. A. Burger
Mahaska County
Oskaloosa
Toledo
Frank
James Hala
Bedford
N. Joyce Place
Maine
Frank B. Joyce
Charles Brooks
J. E. Wooters
Extension Division
State Agricultural College
Iowa
National Association of Deaf Mutes
E. S. Waring
David Olsen
Iowa National Guard
Magnolia
C. E. McNeil
Henry Autjens
United States Veterinary
Sac
Cherokee
Ida
Buena Vista
John Squires
Osage
Farmers State Bank of Logan
State Banking Department
B. F. Freeman
Progressive Women of Audubon
Allamakee County
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Teutonic War News
Francis
Arlington Cemetery
Cleveland
Marble Hill
Zalina
Bollinger County
Lester P. Barlow
John Clarke Black
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Chicago
Black
Middleburg
Villista
Ojinaga
Presidio
Tex
Italy
Paris
George Guynemer
Iowa News
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