Government plans to enlarge camps and call more draftees
Secretary Baker announced a broad expansion of the U S Army with about 233000 men from 45 states slated for May, part of a request to Congress for roughly 15 billion dollars for the next fiscal year. Cantonments will be enlarged and existing national guard camps fully utilized to support rapid training and deployment.
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Washington, D. C. Mayo
Baker
Congress
California
Oreyton
Nevada
District of Columbia
War Department
House Mill Committee
National Guard
New Divisions Planned for U S Army Expansion
The article outlines plans to form many new divisions under an expanded army program. It discusses mobilization at cantonments, redistribution of soldiers by qualifications, and adjustments to divisions created earlier. It notes potential unlimited power to determine army size and debates in Congress on funding and scope.
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House Military Committee
Baker
March
House
War Department
Potter
Sherman
Senate
Congress
Dent
Alabama
House Committee
Kahn
Caifornia
General March
Army
Obituary notices from a Texas city page roundup
Austiy Maherty age 69 farmer died at local hospital on Friday at noon. Survived by daughter Mrs Willis Howell son Leo Paherty brother Jim Paherty sisters Lucy Fox Lizzie Faherty four grandchildren. Funeral Monday from Mrs Howell’s home 144 North Palmetto Ave burial Hoselawn Cemetery. Also notices for Harry L. Mann 39, Von Ormy. Mrs Koma Scherrer. Mrs Juanita Navarro. Noma Grell. Mrs J J Dean. Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co. ads. Also Associated Press note on a welcome bureau for American officers and soldiers.
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Austiy Maherty
Austin Paherty
Willis Howell
San Antonio
Leo Paherty
Heavner
Okla
Jim Paherty
Tipton
Ill
Lucy Fox
Lizzie Faherty
St. Louis
Harry Ll. Mann
Harry L. Mann
von Ormy
Laura Bywaters
D. Mann
J. B. Mann
Bywaters
Pearsall
Alec Bagsley
Las Vegas
Nev
W. OW
Mann’s Crossings
Xoma Grell
Noma Grell
Hondo
Tex
Jt. Greli
Iondo
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Hoarded Wheat Found In Midwest Market Drive
Chicago dispatch reports more than a half million bushels of hoarded wheat discovered and released for sale after a 48 hour drive by 400 township and 102 county food administrations.
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Chicago
Is Korniloff Dead General Newsflash
AP reports from Karbin papers claim General Korniloff, former Russia commander, is dead amid Bolshevik advances. Bolsheviki recapture Novo Teherkask, Don Cossack capital, while Kiev sources claim Korniloff marches on Orenburg in the Urals as Novo Teherkask changes hands repeatedly.
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Associated Press
Karbin
Worniloff
Novo Teherkask
Amsterdam
Kiev
Korniloft
Ore
Will Consecrate Flag at San Fernando Cathedral
A large Cathedral service Sunday evening will bless the flag and include a patriotic address by Archbishop-elect John W. Shaw. Sister Florence leads the girls in sacred and patriotic hymns with Mrs. Edward Weyer at the organ. Memorial services for Private Francisco Guerrero proceed Tuesday at 7:80 o'clock with Rev. A. Rosa presiding.
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San Fernando Cathedral
John W. Shaw
D. D
New Orleans
Florence
Order of the Incarnate Word
Edward Weyer
Francisco Guerrero
A. Rosa
Prussian Diet approves obligatory vote clause
AMSTERDAM May 4 A clause making it obligatory for every elector to use his vote has been passed by the Lower House of the Prussian Diet which is considering the suffrage reform bill The principle of the secret ballot also was approved
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Wang
Amsterdam
Government Seizes War Steel for War Needs
Government absorbs virtually all steel and pig iron for war, pledging surplus to non war industries under supervision. Rep slo gle outlines a policy to guarantee steel for war, with auto makers facing a 70 percent curtailment or more, while a 30 percent voluntary cut already exists.
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Washington, D. C
New York
J. Leonard Repslogle
War Industries Board
Replogle
United States
P. B. Neves
The
Fuel Administration
George N. Peek
Steplogte
War “Industries Board
Intel Administration
County Commissioners Court to Meet as Board of Equalization
Notice from Bexar County Texas that the County Commissioners Court will convene as a Board of Equalization on the second Monday in May 1978. The Assessor of Taxes will present assessment books for inspection correction and approval. Witnessed in San Antonio by County Clerk Frank Nuwton with official seal.
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County Commisssioners' Court
Bexar County
Texas
Bosar County
San Antonio
A. D
Army Says Washington Waste Yields Big By-Products
May 4 report to General Goethals by Col Lt BL Beauchamp of the British army commissary outlines potential value from army waste. Bones at $20 per ton fats $170 grease $310 dried blood $60 refined glycerine $1260 unrefined glycerine $149. A camp garbage recovery plant for 20 000 men could cost about 15000 and require one NCO and five privates.
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Washington
D. C
BL Beauchamp
Goethals
Vaump
Beauchamp
Red Cross Mission Escapes to Roumania
The American Red Cross mission to Roumania, which left Jassy March 9, has arrived at New Castle on Tyne. To avoid Germans they traveled via Russia and exited by a northern port. All members are well. The Tuckerton wireless station has recently picked up messages sent from New Zealand.
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Red Cross
New Castle
Tyne
Roumania
Jassy
Rusia
Russia
Tuckerton
N. J
New Zealand
Evolution Lecture At Scientific Society Meeting
Dr Theodore Y Lull spoke on evolution at the Scientific Society meeting with Dr Jlul describing new aspects. The group plans a field meet in early June likely at Medina dam with a weekend setup.
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Theodore Y. Lull
Jlul
Medina Dam
Raid by Vice Squad Draws Multiple Arrests on Diaz Street
Police report Friday raids by vice squad resulted in three arrests on Diaz Street including a 21 year old woman charged with conducting a disorderly house and a 22 year old fined for city ordinance violations. An army captain and a chauffeur were held for federal authorities on related charges, along with a 24 year old woman residing on South Presa Street. Additional arrests included a chauffeur, a Chinese laundryman, and two women for vagrancy, with three young men accused of maintaining illegal pool rooms.
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Diaz Street
Presa
Department of Justice
Clinics Showcase Osteopathy At Texas Osteopathic Meet
Clinics demonstrate efficacy in clubfoot fractures and infantile paralysis at the eighteenth annual Texas Osteopathic meeting held at the St. Anthony Hotel. Dr. Paul Peck treated clubfoot, Dr. D B Harris discussed a fractured elbow, and Dr. George M Laughlin presented infantile paralysis recovery. A notable case followed a five and a half year old abandoned in a San Antonio hospital who, after four months of care, can walk and move toe muscles.
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St. Anthony Hotel
Paul Peck
Dallas
George M. Laughlin
Kirksville
American School of Osteopathy
Osteopathic Hospital
San Antonio
I. L. Holoway
Laughlin
J. L. Holloway
S. Ll. Seothorn
D. D. Crawford
J. L. Henry
Denison
J. L. Crawford
Denton
B. P. Lowry
Ennis
T. J. Ray
H. M. Walker
Mort Worth
Waco
A. O. Scharff
Wichita Falls
Paul and
Mary BE. Peck
Rose
Alliance Planned for Pan American Education Exchange
New York May 4. Mayor John J Hylan and Cuba President Mario G Menocal back a plan for an international education alliance. It would teach Spanish in New York schools and English in Cuba and Latin American nations, with a Pan American educational convention in Havana next fall and university heads from the Americas invited. Student exchange and postgraduate study would help Americans learn Spanish and Latin customs, aided by potential State Department cooperation.
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New York
United States
South End
Central America
John J. Hylan
Mario G. Menocal
Cuba
Hylan
Havana
Menocal
North
South
North America
Latin America
State Department
Exchange of captives between Moscow and Germany outlined
A Russian German prisoner exchange is to begin soon with Count von Mirbach arriving as the new German ambassador. About 8 million Russians are held by Germany and 1 million Germans are in Russia. Initial exchanges will favor women and boys under 16 and men over 50 and invalids, then military prisoners. Planned rate is 40,000 weekly at ten points.
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Moscow
Germany
Count von Mirbach
Russia
Relief from eczema with Zemo antiseptic liquid
An advertisement proclaims relief from eczema and skin troubles using Zemo zero sold at drug stores for 35 cents or a dollar for the extra large bottle. It claims Zemo clears pimples blackheads blotches eczema and ringworm, is clean penetrating non greasy and easy to apply from The L. W. Rose Co Cleveland Ohio.
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W. Rose Co
Cleveland, O
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