World War News Totals and Tragedies Reported
The British admiralty says the transport ship Leasowe Castle was sunk in the Mediterranean with 101 deaths including 13 officers and 79 soldiers. A Belgian fortress holdout at Vieux Dieu saw 78 Belgians shot, while Kronstadt forts were reported seized and fortified by Germans. The Furness line ship Cheviot Range was sunk off Fastnet with 25 missing. Gas sweeps in Ukraine killed whole villages. Capo Sile front advances by Italians yielded 438 prisoners. Corpus Christi bombardment of Paris caused 18 deaths and injuries. An American airman died near Fort Worth, a Cincinnati club founder was arrested for blackmail, and US hydroairplanes arrived in Cuba. Draft calls were issued for 200,000 men to 22 camps starting June 24. two officers died in air crashes during training.
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Leasowe Castle
British Admiralty
London
Mediterranean
Furness Line
Boston
England
Fastnet
War draft and labor orders sweep Chicago and Illinois
Chicago and Illinois enforce work or fight orders with ages 21 to 60. men 31 to 60 must secure at least 36 hours of weekly labor by next Monday or face vagrancy arrests. News also covers De Palma’s 30,000 dollar 100 mile win, Schwab predicting 38 million tons of shipbuilding annually, and various wartime incidents and honors.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Wilson creates war industries board to aid war effort
President Wilson, by executive order, forms the War Industries Board as a separate agency under his direction. Bernard Baruch chairs the board, with related duties outlined in a March letter. House leaders push revenue plans, while labor mediation at Western Union fails. The military committee reports on aircraft spending and production to France. Ten million American women knit for soldiers as the Red Cross seeks practical items.
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Wilson
The
War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
Advances and Setbacks in World War I Fronts Across Europe
The week saw renewed German pressure on Champagne with initial gains near the Marne halted by French and British countermeasures. American forces at Cantigny broke German lines, while in Picardy they crossed toward a ridge beyond Cantigny. Foch effectively shifted reserves. Italians captured Alpine positions on the Piave and opened a breach in Austrian lines. The U S continues to bolster Paris defenses as Wilson urges rapid war finance legislation. Sweden signs a trade pact with Britain. Denmark faces German pressure over a similar accord.
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Flanders
Amiens
Champagne
Paris
Vezilly
Marne
Chemin Des Dames
Craonne
Vailly
Fismes
Soissons
Foche
Reims
Thrift pledge urged for all to aid war effort
President Wilson urged Americans to cut nonessential purchases and to pledge thrift and production for victory. He called for buying government securities, including Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps, to shift purchasing power to the government and end the program by June 28 as National Thrift Day.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
Arly
Treasury Department
United States
Syontrin
Volunteer Army
Railroad wage increase and rate hikes announced by McAdoo
Director General McAdoo announced pay raises for almost two million railway workers, aligning with wage commission recommendations. He also said freight and passenger rates would rise, passenger rate to 3 cents per mile, and farmers to pay over 25 percent more. The plan aims to raise about 500 million dollars annually to cover wage and supply costs. Hoover refuted wheat restriction relief, urging sharp reductions in U S wheat consumption to prevent shortages for allies, recommending home intake fall to one third of normal levels.
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McAdoo
Railroad Wage Commission
Hoover
America
Potash Vein Discovered Near Lonrmont Colorado
A trapper reports the richest potash vein in U S history found in the foothills near Lonrmont Colorado. The four foot thick strata crops out along a rocky fault and can be traced for about a half mile. Depth unknown. An assay shows 90 to 100 percent potash.
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Lonrmont
Colo
United States
Sweetheart Monument Grows At Devens Cantonment
The camp at Devens Mass sees a new fad as girls with soldiers build a “Rock of Love” monument. Each girlfriend adds a stone to the pile along the cantonment road, aiming for a sizable tribute before the war ends.
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Camp Devens
Habit and the Surly Barber
A humorous exchange notes a barber who rarely speaks, blamed on habit. The line asks if the silence is deliberate, while the other suggests the barber is used to cutting old acquaintances.
The Universal Excuse
A terse dialogue questions how a compromising line appeared in writing. One character reveals the line was forged by the mother-in-law in a letter while the author was unaware.
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Vieux Dieu
London Daily Mail
Copenhagen
Petrograd
Pravo
Kronstadt
Ukraine
London Daily Express
Rome
Capo Sile
Pinve
Corpus Christi
Felix A. Roerig
Elizabeth
N. J
Forth Worth
Texas
Joseph N. Drake
Duckworth Club
Cincinnati
Charles P. Taft
W. B. Taft
Sieut. G. B. Evans
Philadelphia
Miami
Fla.) Naval Air Station
Monaghan
George la Saslie
Saginaw, Mich
Taylor Field
Atlanta
Louisville
War Department
P. G. Mihleder
Taliferro Field
Tex
Buckus
Ralph de Palma
Sheepshead Bay
Charles M. Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
New York
Silvia
Rock Island
Moline
Ill
Grace Lusk
Waukesha
Wis
Mary Roberts
David Roberts
George W. Stevens
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Edwin P. Webb
Guy L. Gearhart
Indianapolis
Major Gearhart
Aviation Repair Depot
Robert Paul Prager
Edwardsville
Red Cross
Henry P. Davison
Red Cross War Council
George H. Lacoske
Alabama
Crowder
Office of the
Home Boards
U.S
Teutonic War News
Americin
Toul
Albert Gleaves
Navy Department
President Lincoln
Edmund C. Bigelow
France
Germany
Reichstag Naval Committee
Munich
Geneva
Sweden
Great Britain
Claude Kitchin
Kitchin
House Ways and Means
National War Labor Board
Western Union Telegraph Company
House
Oltney
Massachusetts
George
Rosyal
Puecs Singioon Pole
Boondon
Gabriel Pares
Ao Lad
Fooh
Edward W. Pickard
von Boehm
Von
Coucy
Aisne
Vesle
Fistmnes
Fere-en-Tardenois
Foch
Arras
Picardy
Montdidier
Cantigny
Pershing
Duconts
Ftthey
eMeer
Tluneville
Voormezeele
Loeere
Catoelus
Newark
Agawam
Admiralty
Deasewe Castle
Mediterranejan
Fins
White Guard
Andibe
Grone
Charles
Congress
Meridex
Supreme Court
Fneland
Tanale
Piave
Cape Sile
Denmark
U. S. Securities
Colorado
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