Famous French flier Heurtaux visits Kelly Field and Camp Travis
Captain Alfred Heurtaux, famed French aviator with 21 German planes, visits Kelly Field and Camp Travis with Lieutenant Benois. The Stork squadron No. 3, known for single combat, has downed hundreds of German aircraft. Heurtaux, wounded by a phosphorus bullet, aims to fly again.
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Alfred Heurtaux
Max Beavis
Yeurtaux
Kelly Field
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Washington
France
Meurtaux
French Air Service
Benois
Henriaux
Lietenant Bennis
Ieuriaux
The
Marne
Eurtat
Wenos
Cnaln
Legion of Itonor
Heurtaux
Desperate journeys to Paris amid war’s ironies
The piece recalls soldiers marching through great battles on the Western Front including Verdun and the Somme. It quotes Captain Heurtaux and Lieutenant Benois reflecting on peril, loss, and the seeming banality of danger as they face uncertain futures. Benois also quips about German pilots, noting Germans as liars.
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Paris
Heurtaux
Benois
Verdun
Somme
Landers
France
Benwis
Lieuttenant Benois
Government takes over Bosch plant assets in two states
The government has seized the Bosch Magneto Company plants at Springfield Massachusetts and Plainfield New Jersey as enemy owned property. Alien Property Custodian Palmer will name directors to run operations. The firm, capitalized at 75 000 dollars, is valued at about 7 million dollars and its output will be diverted largely to government service.
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Washington, D. C
Bosch Magneto Company
Springfield
Mass
Plainfield
N. J
Alien Property
Palmer
Sirplaine Service
Government
Rain Storm Across Texas Then German Rites Dropped
A Texas section reports a late season storm with rainfall from Corpus Christi to Dallas and frost risk minimal near San Antonio. Galveston tallied 1.6 inches, San Antonio 0.69, with hail and lightning but no damage. In New Jersey, the Grand Lodge of Masons will discontinue the German ritual in favor of the English.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Dallas
Galveston
Taylor
Palestine
Aunt Dallas
San Antonis
Trenton
N. 2
New Jersey Grand Lodge of Masons
Nothing Left of Rheims but Ruins After Weeklong Fire
Rheims Paris April 19. Rheims is a great smoking ruin after a week of German shelling. More than 100000 shells have fallen into the heart of the city. The cathedral vault is collapsing and only the west front and pillars may remain. Firefighters endure peril to save inhabitants belongings as the city grows virtually dead.
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Paris
Rheims
Ia Matin
Place Royale
Moi
Hias
the Marne
Duscuts
The Kaiser Lied Again And Weather Forecasts
An item notes Emperor William granting repairs to cathedrals to safeguard religious monuments from war damage and discusses German bombardment claims. The rest provides tourists weather forecasts for San Antonio and major cities with temperatures, winds, and Saturday outlooks.
Louisville Auto Agent Arrested as Dangerous Enemy Alien
Walter Schade, a Prussian and automobile agent well known in Louisville and Kentucky, was arrested by U S Marshal K F James on a presidential warrant charging him as a dangerous enemy alien. He has lived in the United States 15 years without naturalization. His wife, killed four years ago in an auto accident, was the sister of Walker JD. Lines, chief assistant to Secretary McAdoo. James noted he was not acquainted with the charges’ basis.
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Louisville
Walter Schade
Kentucky
United States
K. Fl. James
Schade
Walker JD. Lines
the Treasury
McAdoo
James
Deaf People Hold Mass Meeting in Duluth
Deaf residents of Duluth gathered at the Commercial Club for a mass meeting. Dr. Hardy Ingham spoke about the Liberty Loan campaign and the community discussed bond purchases.
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Duluto
Minn
Duluth
Hardy Ingham
Senator Smith Denies War Board Plans on Cotton Prices
Senator Smith of South Carolina issued a statement denying that the War Industries Board plans to fix cotton prices. He says the cotton market is demoralized by rumors and notes there is no power or discussion of price fixing by the board. He adds no bill fixing cotton prices will pass unless all commerce prices are fixed, urging caution during the Liberty Loan drive.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Smith
South Carolina
Congress
America
Plan to raise Marines to 75 000 and send general to front
Washington April 15 The House naval affairs committee approved increasing the Marine Corps to 75,000 and provided for a major general of marines to accompany troops overseas, with the existing major general administering at home. The panel also proposed $877,000 for buying land at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago, to expand it into the world’s largest facility.
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Washington, D.C
Marine Corps
Europe
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Britten
Illinois
Great Lakes
Chicago
Storm damages Hewitt area near Waco in 1920s report
Twenty houses in Hewitt eight miles west of Waco were damaged by a storm. A warehouse was blown from its foundation along with the Baptist Church and Ber Smith's residence. Several barns and small outbuildings were demolished. No lives were lost but several people were slightly injured.
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Waco
Yex
Hewitt
Ber Smith
Officer to Get Cross Manpower Bill Passed in Ireland
AP dispatch from France notes Lieut Theodore W Sweetser US Army Medical Reserve is recommended for the British Military Cross for aiding over forty men gas victims near Passchendaele on March 13. London reports Sinn Fein, O Brienites and Laborites in Dublin approve resisting conscription as Parliament passes the manpower bill with royal assent.
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Associated Press
France
tLieut
Theodore Wiggins Sweetser
United States Army
Passchandaele
Sweetser
London
Dublin
Maynooth Earter
Ireland
Annex Polish coal fields realigned after Prussian move
The Public Ledger reports Prussian annexations in Poland will take about a quarter of Polish coal fields. The frontier area to be rectified lies in the northern Suwalki region and the Damerow mining district, with St Barbara in upper Silesia also ceded to Prussia.
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London
Times Service
San Antonio Dight
Pihadelphia Public Ledger
The
Public Ledger Co
MHS Haguis
Kreuz
Polhind
Wil
Su- Walki
Damerow
St. Barbara Hil
Upper Silesian
Soldier Carlston Drowned in Medina River Near Camp
Corp Lewis A. Carlston head quarters detachment of the First Training Battalion at Welly Field drowned Thursday afternoon in the Medina River six miles from the reservation. His body was recovered about 6 p.m. after he and five companions swam. Carlston, 31, was last seen swimming. clothing found on the riverbank led to a search ending with his body at the river bottom. His mother, Mrs Emma Carlston of Randolph Kansas, is named as next of kin.
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Lewis A. Cariston
Welly Field
Medina River
Carlston
Ape
Emma Carlston
Randolph
Kansas
Texans End Training at Fort Worth Officers School
Three hundred former Texas and Oklahoma National Guardsmen, in training since January 6, received their certificates at the officers school in Fort Worth. The program started with 500 and another officers training school will open May 4 at Camp Stowie. Graduates will be commissioned only as needed and then return to their old organizations.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas and
Oklahoma National Guards
Camp Stowie
Todass
Wilson Cancels Cabinet Meeting Talks With Baker
President Wilson cancelled the regular cabinet meeting and met with Secretary Baker who outlined the front situation and discussed the aircraft issue. In San Francisco, Ralph P. Merritt, federal food commissioner for California, received absolute authority to seize Wheat from Hoover.
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Washington, D.C
Wilson
Baker
Jets
San Francisco
Cal
Ralph P. Merritt
Federal
California
Herbert C. Hoover
Mutiny Reported at Brevelow Camp in Limburg
Dispatch from Heindhoven says a serious mutiny broke out among German troops ordered to the front at Brevelow Camp in Limburg Beltslum. Several mutineers were shot, and resistance continues. Six inches of rain fell in Morris County causing road bridge washouts and land damage near Duingerfield. Germany and allies press cotton production in Bulgaria with land allotments to growers.
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Amsterdam
Heindhoven
Brevelow
Limbourg
Beltslum
Amon
Mint
Daingirileld
Tex
Morris County
Duingerfield
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Bulgaria
Wastington
D. C
Germany
Pkriters
Inventor Claims Airship Holds Fifty People and Guns
Alfred Tierbert of Montclair presented a 16 foot Zeppelin style dirigible model to the Senate Military Committee. He described a full size craft 600 feet long capable of carrying fifty persons, machine guns and bombs, with water landings and a top speed around seventy five miles per hour.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Military Committee
Alefred Tierbert
Mont Clair
British Stand Firm as German Offense Stalls Near Givenchy
British lines from Givenchy to Ypres resist a major German thrust as Haig’s forces halt a powerful push toward Bethune and Arras. French gains hold on the Somme, Italy pledges troops, and German efforts near Kemmel and Lens fail amid heavy losses. Front remains precarious with no decisive breakthrough.
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Givenchy
Ypres
Field Marshal Haig
Lys
St Venant
Bethune
Vint Ridge
Arras
Kemmel
Mount Kemmel
Somme
Castel
Parise Amiens
Orlando
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Washington
France
British Line More Secure As Germans Held In Position
Ottawa dispatch reports the British line more secure with no new weak spots after a German shift between Givenchy and east of Rebecq. Germans crossed only as prisoners opposite Hinges Hill while aiming to guard lines toward Bethune and the coal fields near Amiens. French support described as superb boosts morale and signals a potential counterstroke south of Amiens.
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Messines-Wytschaete
Field Marshall
Ypres
Kemme Hill
Givenchy
la Basse Canal
Bethune
Leng
Arras
Lens-Arras
Picardy
Lens
Berlin
Steuter
London
Lar Basse Canal
Baillon
Amiens
Long Tieing
Aru
Umay
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BOSCH
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2Uisville Automobile
Duringjand
Tantsurous
WAR Board
Lik
Aitenant Sweetser
Corporal Cariston
Texans
F Guard
Western Front
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