Government Plans to Build Small Wooden Ships to Break Submarine Blockade
The Wilson administration unveils a fall start for a vast merchant fleet built with pine and fir, using 2000 to 3500 ton ships engineered for oil power and wireless, to overwhelm U boats and feed Allied forces with food clothing and munitions. Maj Gen George Goethals leads the project with labor and shipyard mobilization officials eyeing 150000 workers and an output of three ships daily.
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Washington, D. C
Entente
Wilson
America
United States
Germany
Shipping Board
The
Goethals
George W. Goethns
Panama Canal
Government Shipping Board
Railroads To Combine For War Time Coordination
National transportation facilities of major railroads will be merged voluntarily and run under a seven member central executive committee. The group will work with the government on troops, supplies, and commodities and will operate through the American Railway Association. The defense committee will grow to 28 members and form six subcommittees aligned with the six military departments.
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Washington, D. C
United States
American Railway Association
National Defense
Weather forecast for multiple cities with varied conditions
The entry lists temperatures and conditions for San Antonio St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington. It notes fair and warmer weather tonight and Friday for San Antonio and vicinity while other cities show rain or clear skies with northeast winds and temperature ranges from the high 30s to mid 60s.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Investigators Probe Eddystone Shells After Deadly Plant Blast
Powder experts study shrapnel shells at Eddystone Ammunition Corp to prove the cause of the blast that killed 122 workers. Officials consider the possibility of a plot but have found no definite evidence. An anonymous warning beforehand has been reported to authorities.
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Chester
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation
Eddystone
Powder Explosion Kills Two at Frankfort Arsenal
An accidental blast in the detonating department of the government arsenal at Frankfort Philadelphia suburb killed Phillip McNally and mortally injured Joseph Miller. The pair were the only occupants of the small building. Nearby, 1500 women and girls worked on ammunition and soldiers’ clothing.
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Arsenal
Philadelphia
Government Arsenal
Frankfort
Phillip McNally
Joseph Miller
Cooling Sky Follows Wet North and East Texas Rain
After heavy rain across North and East Texas and light showers near San Antonio, the forecast predicts fair, cooler conditions. A low pressure system over the Rocky Mountains will shift the weather pattern, with temperatures dipping Thursday night then rising Friday. Rain totals included Palestine 1.04 inches and Houston 1.12 inches, with others reporting modest amounts.
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Texas
San Antonio
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Horn
Palestine
Houston
Amarillo
Abilene
Fort Worth
Galveston
McLemore Opposes Conscription in Texas Statement
Representative McLemore voices early opposition to a proposed conscription plan in Texas. He says he will vote against it and urges alternatives, arguing conscription should be a last resort and that opponents deserve a chance to serve voluntarily. He blames war-munitions manufacturers for push and calls the plan un-American.
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Washington, D. C
McLemore
Texas
Futhermore
Re Take Train Robber Webb Captured Near Salisbury
H Grady Webb the train robber escaped from officers on a transit train in Charlotte last week was captured today at Badin near Salisbury. He will be taken to Atlanta to begin his sentence.
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Charlotte
N. C
H. Grady Webb
Atlanta
Federal Prison
West Virginia
Badin
Salisbury
Auto kills woman in front of University of Texas home
Miss Katherine E. White assistant dean of women at the University of Texas on a visit here was struck by an automobile and killed instantly Wednesday evening as she stepped from another car in front of her home.
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Tyler
Tex
Katherine E. White
University of Texas
Carranza Assures Fuel Oil Supply to U S and Allies
Washington April 12 General Carranza gives positive assurances that Tampico and other Mexican oil sources will not be denied to the United States or England. Mexican oil is the principal fuel for British and French war vessels.
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Washington, D. C
General Carranza
United States
Tampico
England
France
State Department
Balfour
Admiral de Chair
General Bridges
Bank of England
Allies to Recruit Nationals in America Bill Intro
With Attorney General approval Gregory and Senate Chair Culberson prepare identical bills to let allied governments recruit their citizens in the United States. Webb to introduce in the House and Culberson in the Senate tomorrow.
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Washington, D. C
Gregory
Webb
House Judiciary Committee
United States
Culberson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Police orders 1910 German residents to register and surrender arms
Richmond Virginia April 12 Chief of Police Werner acting on instructions from Attorney General Gregory directed all enemy aliens to report at his office for registration and to surrender any arms or prohibited articles under the president proclamation. Census 1910 listed 892 German natives resident in the city many of whom were naturalized.
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Richmond
Werner
Gregory
Germany
Bulgaria Reported To Seek Separate Peace Talks
Rome reports from a Swiss source say the Bulgarian minister in Berne has approached entente ministers to negotiate a separate peace. Lausanne sources corroborate semi official Bulgarian delegates in Switzerland aiming to form a peace basis with the entente. Observers note the move followed the fall of the Russian government and expectant diplomats cite kindness from the new Russian foreign minister toward Bulgaria.
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Rome
Berne
Exchange Telegraph Company
Bulgaria
Exchange Telegraph
Lausanne
Switzerland
Bulgariia
Washington, D. C
Grain Advances Ripple Through Chicago Markets
Chicago grain prices surged at the close with wheat leading the gains. September option jumped 63 8 to 11 cents, May up 11 cents, while corn May rose from 1.27 to 1.35 and July from 1.25 to 1.33. July oats gained from 61 to 64 cents as provisions also advanced modestly.
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Chicago
Kolb Sentenced in Jersey City Bomb Possession Case
Fritz Kolb a German was convicted of possessing bombs and sentenced in Jersey City to a term of not less than three years and four months nor more than five years in state prison.
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Jersey City
N. J
Fritz Kolb
Penfield to Paris Leaves for Paris and Geneva
Frederick C. Penfield, former U S ambassador to Austria, and Allen W. Dulles, former third secretary at the embassy, have departed for Paris from Geneva.
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Geneva
Paris
Frederick C. Penfield
United States
Austria
Allen W. Dulles
Lloyd George touts US entry as mark of liberty war
Premier Lloyd George at the American Luncheon Club hailed the United States as comrades in arms and urged a real peace. He asserted Kaiser Wilhelm’s claims and Prussia are not democracy and highlighted ships as the key to victory. Lord Bryce outlined a tentative league plan for enforcing peace with collective action against aggressors.
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London
Lloyd George
United States
America
Europe
Prussia
William
Kaiser
Bonar Law
Winston Spencer Churchill
Lord Reading
General Smuts
Lord Derby
Lord Bryce
Walter Hume Long
Marquis Imperial di Francavilla
Garcia Y Velez
Herbert C. Hoover
American Commission For Relef of
Belgum
Atlantic
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
England
von Hindenburg
Bryce
International Tribunal
Sniper Fire Near Fabens Wounds U S Patrols
Mexican snipers fired on United States army patrols near Fabens Texas thirty two miles below El Paso. American patrols returned fire and hit one Mexican soldier. Sniping has persisted on the island near Fabens for three days. One Mexican laborer on the American side was killed.
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EL Paso
Tex
Fabens
Texas
War Department calls for 800000 volunteers issued
The War Department announced plans to issue recruiting instructions to raise 500000 volunteers to reinforce the regular army and National Guard units. Recruits since war declaration and future enlistments will be discharged at war end as war-time volunteers. Coast artillery units from seven states were called into federal service for police duties.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
National Guard
Brazil Severs Ties With Germany Over Parana Sinking
Rio de Janeiro reports the Brazilian government formally breaks diplomatic relations with Germany following the torpedoing of the Parana. Brazil cites intensified submarine attacks, lack of warning, and no lifesaving efforts as grounds for severing relations.
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Germany
Parana
Laura Muller
Muller
Legation
Paris
Brazil
Berlin
Potato conservation urged to fuel war effort
Eugene H. Grubb told Hamilton Club members in Chicago that conserving and increasing the nation s potato supply is the greatest patriotic task for average citizens. He claimed Germany s wartime endurance rests on potato output and cited German per capita production of 40 bushels versus the U S 3 1/2 bushels.
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Chicago
Eugene H. Grubb
Hamilton Club
Germany
United States
Grubb
United States to Weigh In On Allied War Plans
The United States prepares for incoming British and French delegations to discuss armament food loans naval cooperation and possible military participation within the entente framework. Officials emphasize no shift in policy toward entering European alliances despite talks on large loans and naval actions.
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United States
Lansing
America
Balfour
Wilson
Viviani
France
No Use for Slacker Sexes Text From Chicago Letter
An eighteen year old girl in Chicago writes to Captain Kennedy of the recruiting service expressing contempt for slackers. She notes six men proposed since war was declared, accusing them of evading service, and says she would enlist as a nurse but must remain home to care for her invalid sister.
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Chicago
Kennedy
Baroness de Coninck jailed for Cavell remark at court
At a German court martial in Belgium M Terlinden was sentenced to twelve months for shielding a Frenchman. His daughter Baroness de Coninck, present with her husband at the front, retorted to a German officer that he might mean Miss Cavell. She was sentenced to one month in prison.
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Associated Press
Havre
Belgium
M. Paul Terlinden
Rixensart
Baroness de Coninck
Miss Cavell
Food crisis dominates Germany as April 15 ration cuts loom
Berlin Vorwaerts, cited by Amsterdam dispatch, reports Germany faces a critical food shortage with April 15 new regulations causing rising tension. A bread ration cut by a quarter, continued five-pound weekly potato allotment, and a 250 gramme meat increase were announced, deepening public concern.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Vorwaerts
Amsterdam
Central News
War Nears End Prompts Insurance Market Bets
London reports a sense the war may end before year end with underwriting to pay total loss if peace not declared by December 31 at 45 guineas per cent. Earlier rates priced peace within eighteen months at 15 per cent. Lloyds bets on peace within ninety days appear jocular. Cargo insurance England to America holds 8-10 guineas per cent. securities insurance 20-30 shillings per cent.
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London
Lloyds
England
America
Plan American U boats Washington PD C
Plans call for 28 eight hundred ton sea going submarines with construction contracts to be awarded by Secretary Daniels by week end. Bids opened totaled 34 ships though Congress authorized 28 and Portsmouth yard has already been assigned ten. Some bids exceed the 1 300 000 dollar limit but may be accepted for earlier construction times.
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Washington PD. C
Daniels
Navy Department
Congress
Navy Yard
Portsmouth N
British Capture Key Positions North of Vimy Ridge
British forces seized two important positions north of the Vimy ridge and gained control astride the Sous le Ches River, taking prisoners amid wet stormy weather. Two German counterattacks on Vimy ridge were repelled with heavy losses, and about a thousand yards of trenches south of Farbus wood southeast of Vimy were captured. A hill southeast of Wancourt also fell, and eleven more guns were seized between Croisilles and Scarpe.
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London
Vimy Ridge
Souschez
War Office
Farbus Wood
Vimy
Reuter
Wancourt
Croisilles
Scarpe
Battle at Arras Presses On Despite Extreme Weather
British forces in France report continued advances near Arras under severe weather. Cavalry actions helped seize Monchy le Preux and other positions while Canadians push along Vimy Ridge despite German shelling efforts.
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France
London
Arras
Monchy-lee Preux
Vimy
French drive back Germans near St. Quentin and Sapigneul
Paris reports that in an attack last night along the front below St. Quentin from Coucy to Quincy Passe the French forced the Germans to retreat to the southwestern edge of the upper Coucy forest and captured several positions. German trenches east of Sapigneul in Champagne were also cleared.
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Paris
St. Quentin
Coucy
Quincy Passe
War Office
Champagne
Sapigneul
Minimized Arras Battle Seen by German Press
The German press deems the Arras battle of local import failed to alter the strategic situation. It attributes the Anglo-French plan to break the Somme front and roll up the Hindenburg line to failures at Soissons and Arras. British reports are given scant notice, with censorship assuming public acceptance of von Hindenburg’s credibility.
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Copenhagen
London
Arras
Somme
Hindenburg
Soissons
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
British and French Attacks Fail Near Monchy
German official report says British cavalry and armored cars attacked north of Monchy but broke down with heavy losses. Communicated that Vimy Fampoux assaults were repulsed, Monchy fell after repeated assaults, and northern attacks continued as artillery fire intensified from Soissons to Rheims. Two planes were lost by French and British forces.
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London
Monchy
Scarpe
Vimy
Fampoux
Soissons
Rheims
New York Plans War Census for 16 to 64 Year Olds
New York announces a statewide census to count all men and women aged sixteen to sixty four to determine availability for war service. A call was issued for 50,000 volunteers of both sexes to perform clerical enrollment work.
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New York
New State
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