San Antonio tops Texas in Third Liberty Loan drive
San Antonio raised its Third Liberty Loan quota to exceed the minimum, earning the city a flag from the U S Treasury and boasting a total subscriptions figure of 4 022 400 against the 3 935 000 minimum. The luncheon at the Gunter celebrated women workers who contributed more than half the amount, with plans for a May 7 luncheon in their honor and a push to surpass the loan target before the May 4 close.
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San Antonio
United States Treasury Department
City Hall
Exas
Liberty Loan Organization
Mys
Boy Scouts
J. K. Beretta
Texas
Dillas
Wnitl
Scolc
A. P. Barrett
Beretta
Warretta
Holmgreen
Frant C. Groos
Dozen Officers on New Casualty List with 11 Killed
Washington April 27 casualty list shows 103 names with 11 killed in action 4 died of accident 2 died of disease 47 wounded severely 7 wounded slightly 2 missing in action twelve officers named including Lieutenants Arnett Long Mooney Williams and Capt Tynglish Farrell. British losses total 18,360 this week with 408 officers killed or died of wounds
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Washington, D. C
John D. Arnett
Charles R. Long
Thomas J. Mooney
Charles
Williams
John Tynglish
Clement A. Fogerty
Richard R. Kurlong
Harvey C. Updegrove
Andrew S. Robinson
Chapin William J. Farrell
London
Fate of Ypres Hangs On Fresh British Manpower
London editors debate the Flanders battle with grave tone urging Britain to mobilize more troops to replace losses. They warn a German advance toward the channel would complicate land and sea operations and stress the need for united Allied reserves under Foch.
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London
Flanders
Great Britain
Daily Telegraph
Daily News
Anterivan
Mont Kemmel
Ypres
Daily Chronicle
Villers-Bretonneux
the Chronicle
Daily Mail
Dalma Hadcliffe
France
Foch
Thingard
Villers Bretonneux
Kemmer
Maurice
Amiens
Victors Over Paris Tally Show Mixed American Scores
April 27 report lists American airmen with varied tally counts from combat over Paris. High scorer Major Readwell Dushbery at 18 confirmed victories, followed by Majors Whin and Baer with six and five. Others, including Lieutenants and sergeants, show lower totals, reflecting a broad but uneven tally.
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Paris
Reawdl Dushbery
William Whin
Frank Baer
Rawles
Charles Iiddle
Vernon Tooth
August Grehoro
Henry Grenchalass
Thomas Nitehcock
Priest Larner
David Putnam
W. A. Wellman
Allen Winston
Douglas Campbell
Slacker tarred and feathered in Electra parade
In Electra, Texas, George Geapulos, candy kit proprietor, was tarred and feathered by about 200 business men for refusing to aid the government. He was paraded through Main Street, then released and left town on foot.
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Wichita Falls
Red Cross
George Gea Pulos
Electra
Paraphrased Liberty Loan totals rise to over two million
Partial reports from Washington show the Third Liberty Loan progress climbing to a subscription total of 2,118,998,350 dollars as of today. The figure reflects ongoing efforts to mobilize public support for the war loan drive.
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Washington
Parsees Das
Liberty
Weather Update for San Antonio and Vicinity
Tonight and Sunday expect mainly cloudy skies across San Antonio and surrounding areas. Temperatures will remain mild with light winds and no significant precipitation anticipated.
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San Antonio
Weather Digest From Major Cities Forecasts
Forecasts by The Light report temperatures across U S cities with cloudy Sundays and chances of rain. St Louis 62, Chicago 44, Kansas City 18, New York 40, Washington 46 with varying winds from east northeast and northeast and highs 68 in the capital region.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas
Rannings
New York
Washington, D
Det
Jast
Aighert
Allied Heads Warn Germans Aim to Wrench British French Apart
In a wartime briefing the speaker notes a German aim to wear down the British army and drive a separating wedge between British and French forces. He cites expected large scale offensives near Arras and Amiens, while Allied command counteracts by deploying French troops to the northern front to disrupt German coordination.
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Maurice
Arr
Amiens
Anti Hun Sentiment Growing In Austria And Among Russians
London reports rising anti German feeling as Arbeiter-Aktion Vienna condemns shedding Austrian blood and resisting German conquests. Trotsky travels to Harmansk to unite Russian forces against a push northward, amid shifting public mood toward the Allies. In Budapest, April 22, over 250000 workers protest, denouncing conditions and seeking electoral reforms, threatening illegal action to overturn the government.
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Austria
London
Capuiin
Arbeiter Acitung
Vienna
Oan
Hague
Germany
Ligoun
Msathonia
Weks
Lussia
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Leon Trotsky
Harmansk
Finland
Petrograd
Moscow
United States
Washington, D. C
Hungary
Aodigpateh
Switzerlind
Budapest
Cty
Death of American Lt John J Miller in British air force
Second Lieutenant John Jewett Miller, an American in the British air force, died Thursday in a 400 foot fall near Chester. An inquest was held Friday to determine the cause of the fatal accident and Miller's fame was noted in earlier reports.
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Vlyer Miller
London
John Jewett Miller
Miller
Chester
No Cares for Germans French Guns Tear Big Hole in Hun
Germans in the United States are not fed luxuriously, the Food Administration states, while Americans curb consumption. German military prisoners receive standard U.S. army rations as required by law. American POWs in Germany are to receive equivalent. Paris dispatch describes French artillery destroying one of Germany’s long range Bertha guns as reporters note the massive shelling and the momentary cessation for air recon.
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Washington, D. C
Food Administration
United States Army
Germany
Paris
Peru
Bertha
Bertha Krupp
Gertha
J' Atler
Ron H
Preach
Alont
Officers Lost Mayors. Florence Hye Explodes Off French Coast
A maritime disaster report state that Captain TF Butterfield and all deck officers of the American steamship Florence Hye are believed dead after an explosion off the French coast on April 17. A Brest cable lists no these officers among survivors. Of 60 civilian crew, 29 dead or missing, 12 in hospitals burned, two slightly burned, 28 escaped uninjured. some may yet be accounted for.
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TF. J. Butterfield
Florence Hy
Brest
United States Shipping Commissioner
Florence IH
United States Shipping Board
We Cannot Fail Ottawa Speech by April Gompers
April Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor spoke at a joint session of the Senate and House of Commons. Doherty called the address a new inspiration to revive determination. We cannot fail we must not fail we shall not fail. Gompers said it is better to fail fighting than submit to tyranny and stifle liberty.
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Ottawa
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate
House of Commons
Doherty
Gompery
Grain prices drop as anti hoarding law tightens
Chicago April 27 warning messages from the food administration that the anti hoarding law applies more strictly to speculative grain trading spurred a sharp drop in prices. The July corn delivery led with a fall of about 8 to 8.4 cents a bushel, trading around 1.48 8-8 to 1.59 1-8.
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Chicago
Food Administration
Russia Defection Pushes Greater Air Output Urged
The Daily Mail urges Britain to boost airplane production. It argues Russia's defection weakens German aviation supremacy by letting Germany repurpose Russian factories and airfields for its own use, noting Soviet planes once influenced German designs.
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London
Daily Mail
Germany
Russia
Alr
Geerboot
Ani
Committee report on trade and reconstruction after the war
The Balfour committee, appointed by Prime Minister Asquith in 1916, presents its final report opposing broad boycotts. It calls for limited temporary exclusions of foreign shipping and enemy trading institutions from UK operations, arguing against broad wartime prohibitions.
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London
Lord Balfour of
Burleigh
Sherbert HH. Asquith
United Kingdom
Eastman jury fails to reach verdict in sedition case
The Eastman and associates jury could not agree after 40 plus hours work, Judge Hand discharged them. Indicted under the espionage act, they faced charges of conspiring to defeat the draft act in relation to The Masses publications.
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New York
Max Eastman
The
Masses
United States
Hand
Desperate Fighting Continues In Flanders Front
Desperate fighting persists as French and British counter attacks halt German advances after Mount Kemmel’s capture. British and French forces retake positions west of the mount and inflict heavy losses, with hundreds of prisoners taken, while discussions of abandoning the Ypres salient surface amid shifting frontline gains on the Somme.
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Flanders
Mount Kemmel
Petain
Picardy
Ypres
British War Office
Mount Nenmael
Allies Score East of Amvens Front in Hengard Sector
Allied forces push gains east of Amvens in Hengard Villers Bretonneux area while French retake Locre to Laclytte. Flahnders front north Lys sees severe combating with heavy German losses. Germans launch a strong push south of Ypres, and a long battle at Voor mexeele two miles from Ypres ends with British counterattack.
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Somme
Villers-Bretonnesus
Hangard
Germain
Ypres
Bailleul
Loere
la Clyte
Ypres-Comines
Field Marshal Haig Admi
Berlin
St. Joi
Flanders
Yser
London
Amvens
Hengard-Villers-Bretonneux
Locre
Laclytte
Vhaulders
Mont Kemmel
Flinders
Lys
Voormexeele
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Florence
British Commission
Eastman
Vail
Germat
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Columbia
Funday
Pring Eitel Friedrich
Puerto Colombi
Hamburg-American Ling
Belgium
Dixmude
Associated Press
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Ench
Voormezeele
Poday
Kemmel Hill
East OS Amtens
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