Huge planned 25 percent rail rate increase across U.S.During 1917
Washington May 14 Estimates by Railroad Administration officials show a plan to raise freight and passenger rates by at least 25 percent this year to cover high fuel costs and rising operating expenses. Directors McAdoo will decide within weeks with final action to President Wilson. Rates would affect all classes and regions, with passenger fares near three cents a mile and freight revenues dominating.
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Washington, D. C
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilson
Railroad Wage Commission
Great Britain
Red Cross campaign rally stars veterans and notables
Washington May 14 led by General Pershing's 60 veterans and 200 privates, about 7500 speakers will urge support for a second 100 million war fund drive. Decorated soldiers from Verdun to the Somme will explain Red Cross aid to hospitals, nursing, ambulances, and canteens. Civilian leaders, clergy, and artists join Taft, Hughes, Fairbanks, Tarkington, and others in the nationwide effort.
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Washington, D. c
General Pershing
American Red Cross
Ypres
Vimy Ridge
Sanctuary Wood
Gallipoli
Satoniki
Verdun
Marne
Somme
Mme
Schumann Heinek
Alma Gluck
Taft
Charles FE
Hughes
Alton B. Parker
Charles W. Fairbanks
William Allen White
Booth Tarkington
Hughes Leroux
le Matin
Paris
Mandeline
Hanna
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Gaylor
August Belmont
J. Borden Harriman
Kathleen Hurke
Order of the British Empire
Belgium
Austria Bidding For Support From Her Subject Races
A May 12 dispatch notes the Idea Nationale article by Armando Hednig discussing a Hapsburg bid to win Jugo Slavs and Poles by granting large autonomous powers within a Poland Austria Croatia Dalmatia Bosnia Herzegovina region under a united autonomous province. The piece argues this is an effort to divide subject races that have shown solidarity and calls for strong Entente response.
Weather forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Tonight and Wednesday fair and warmer. The forecast covers multiple cities with entries on St. Louis Chicago Kansas City New York Washington and San Antonio area. Reports include temperatures winds conditions and recent low highs. The overall outlook is warm and fair with some rain likely for New York.
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San Antonio
ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Neville Island Wins Army Ordnance Plant Spotlight
May 14. Neville Island in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh was chosen by the War Department as the site for a major interior ordnance plant. Work will be rushed. The Neville Island facility will be the largest in the world, even surpassing Krupp’s plant in Germany. It will be built and operated by the United States Steel Corporation at government request. Heavy artillery and projectiles will be produced in large quantities under Steel Corporation supervision, with experts from its ranks assigned to the project.
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Washington, D. C
Neville Island
Ohio River
Pittsburg
War Department
Great Government Ordnance
Krupps
Germany
United States Steel Corporation
The
Steel Corporation
72 on casualty list from today’s totals
The casualty list today records 72 names with categories: killed in action fourteen, died of wounds seven, died of disease three, wounded slightly twenty one, missing in action twenty seven.
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Washington, D. C
Rumors of German gun haul probed by U S inquiry
New York May 14 reports claim thousands of rifles were secretly imported from the Krupp Works Essen to arm the United States. Edgiar Holmes testified he was told by Jamies H Crossley that 1,000,000 rifles and 1,000,000 cartridges had been shipped via Hoboken docks to be used if German forces reached English Channel ports.
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New York
Krupp
Essen
Hoboken
United States
Holmes
Thomas Darlington
Frances L. Judd
Gustiver Lussing
Nan
Judd
East Side
Broadway
Charley, Jr. Murray
Washington, D. C
Khusslin
Ivan Norodny
Norsday
Alurray
Lussing
Robert LT. Tucker
Charleston
S. C
Tucker
Brooklyn
Jluwyer
T Au
Army Inteligence Bureau
Becker
Attorney General's Office
Army
Germany
Toucher
Mmedski
Reed Urges Inland Waterways To Relieve Coal Shortage
Senator Reed of Missouri warned at a Mississippi Valley Water Ways convention that a winter coal shortage will recur unless coal production and transport are boosted. He urged full use of inland waterways to aid railroads, arguing water transport is essential to ease eastern congestion and free coal cars. total cost for boats and barges estimated at 8.2 million.
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ST. Louis
Reed
Missouri
Mississippi River
Atlantic Seaboard
New Orleans
New York
Senator Reed
Mississippi
Government uses cotton linters for explosives work
New Orleans May 14 The War Industries Board official George St James of Memphis told the twenty second annual session of the Interstate Cotton Ginners Association that every pound of cotton linters in the United States is needed by the government for explosives. He warned that hull fiber might be taken over if necessary as powder plants near completion increase demand.
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New Orleans
United States
George St. James
Memphis
War Industries Board
Interstate Cotton Teea Crushers' Association
James
Hull
Rain Lashes France as War Critic Reports
Lieut. Col. Perry Robinson of the London Times notes persistent rain across French fronts from overnight into the day, dampening operations and weathering the battlefield. The report comes via The San Antonio Light and Philadelphia Public Ledger in a 1918 dispatch.
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London Times
San Antonio Light
Philadelphia Public Ledger
She Public Ledger Co
France
Perry Robinson
Cadet Hurt In Fall At Fort Sam Houston
Cadet James F. Atkins of Hubbard City Texas, a flying cadet in training at Welly Field, is in the base hospital at Fort Sam Houston with injuries from an airplane accident on the Pleasanton road Monday afternoon. The report cites a tail spin from 500 feet. Atkins was in the reserve military aviator stage. his plane wrecked after leaving the field. His mother Mrs. O C Atkins lives in Hubbard City Texas.
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James F. Atkins
Hubbard City
Tex
Welly Field
Fort Sam Houston
Pleasanton Road
Kelly Field
Atkins
O. C. Atkins
Cadet Atkins
Hyves
Tox
Archer Landon Named Washington Director of Aircraft Board
Archer A. Landon of Buffalo was appointed director of the division of production of the Aircraft Board in Washington D C today. The move places Landon in a key role overseeing manufacturing and supply initiatives relevant to national aviation efforts.
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Buffalo Man
Washington, D. C
Americans Hit Cantigny Ammunition Dump In France
AP dispatch from France dated May 13 reports American artillery destroying a large German ammunition dump at Cantigny, with fires in Montdidier and multiple explosions. No infantry actions, but heavy artillery duels continue as weather worsens. air activity increases over Toul and No Man's Land stories recount sniper actions, outpost engagements, and a clever alarm clock ruse that misled German troops.
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Iry
Associated Press
France
Cantigny
Montdidier
Toul
Luneville
No Man's Land
Shaspetwater
Ried de
Americas
Fritz
No Man’s Land
British casualties surge in week ending today
The London report shows 1,612 British casualties for the week ending today with 401 officers and 5,065 men killed or died of wounds and 2,123 officers and 33,923 men wounded or missing. The figures, likely reflecting heavy fighting in Flanders and Picardy, suggest the poorest week in the war so far.
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London
Flanders
Picardy
Bennett dies at 77. NY Herald founder of modern papers
James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald died in Beauligu France at 5:80 this morning after two days unconscious. He was 77. His last words concerned newspaper interests as Mrs Bennett stood by. Bennett built the Herald into a world influential property and pioneered long distance telegraph reporting and wireless news. He inherited the paper in 1872 at age 51 and expanded with the Paris Herald and London paper. He owned residences in New York Newport and Paris and captained the Lysistrata yacht.
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Beauligu
France
James Gordon Bennett
The
New York Merald
Bennett
Stanley
Africa
Livingston
de Long
North Pole
Mississippia River
New York Herald
Herald
Chambers Street
New York City
Park Iow
Hunt
Henry M. Stanley
Madrid
Robert. Livingston
Central
Mr. Bennett
New York Evening Telegram
Paris Herald
London
Postil Telegraph Company
Commercial
Lysistrata
Ile
Hie
Paris
Hite
Ila
Trolly
Washington Heights
Newport
Avenue v Lera
New German Demands on Russia Reported by Sweden
Washington reports Swedish sources detail German demands on Russia including financial concessions, ceding Moscow and other elites to Germany, stopping transfer of troops, and dissolving recently formed military units.
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Russia
Germany
U. S
Washington
D. U
State Department
Moscow
First Million Tons Of Ships Delivered To Government
Washington May 14. The Shipping Board reports the first million tons of ships completed and delivered to the U S government to aid the war effort. By May 12, 159 vessels totaling 1,108,621 tons were finished, with 667,896 tons delivered since January 1 and monthly totals rising. Most were requisitioned or contracted. virtually all are steel, while the wood program lags with 46 launched but boilers unavailable. Eight steel ships totaling 48,159 tons were completed through May 11, and 14 ships totaling 57,100 tons, including seven steel vessels of 32,100 tons, were launched.
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Washington, D. A
United States
Shipping Board
High Seas
Germany
Aerial Postal Route Opens Between Vienna and Lemberg
An aerial postal service connecting Vienna and Lemberg began March 31, run by military authorities. It carries official dispatches and private letters with a special stamp priced about four times normal mail. Flight time Vienna to Lemberg is about seven hours, versus 17 by express train. A pilot left Vienna March 23 at 6:45 am and reached Cracow at 10:04 am. Also, a New York Central train derailed near Schodack Landing, killing two passengers and two trainmen and injuring eight to ten others.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Apiail
Vienna
Lemberg
Vienne
Cracow
Wre
New York
New York Central
Schodack Landing
Alebany
Hera Today
Mountain clash near Monte Corno halts enemy assault
Italian troops repulsed a desperate night attack aimed at regaining lost ground on the Monte Corno front. The hand to hand fight on the rocky slopes occurred in darkness, but Italian positions held firm. Outposts show rising activity along the mountain front as not yet a general offensive.
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Italy
Monte Corne
Trent
Rovereto
Monti Corno
HM Artillery in Action Across Fronts Report
Paris and London report heavy artillery fighting in the Champagne with Haig’s field statement noting violent German fire in the Somme and Ancre sectors. A successful raid northeast of Robecq captured a few prisoners without Allied casualties, and a hostile attack west of Merville was repulsed.
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London
Somme
Ancre
Field Marshal
Haig
Robecq
Flanders
Merville
Infantry Remains Idle on Western Front
The German army shows little infantry action for two weeks despite heavy fighting on other fronts. Allied forces shell German rail hubs in Flanders and Picardy while air forces bomb Bruges Zeebrugge Ostend and rail centers. American gunners harass fronts near Montdidier and Toul as Italy reports continued artillery duels on Monte Coro south of Asiago.
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Saissons
Ypres
Kemmel
Serra
Albert
Arras
Somme
Flanders
Picardy
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Bruges
Montdidier
Toul
America
Monte Coro
Asiago
Three Soldiers Arrested Over Temple Killing
Three soldiers said by officers to have killed Paul, a service car driver from Waco, near Temple May 11 were arrested and jailed at Beeville Texas Monday after his body was found Sunday morning with severe blunt force injuries.
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Temple
Tes
Paul
Waco
Beeville
Tex
Truck Drivers Strike in Chicago as 15,000 Men Idle
On May 14 about five thousand harvesters and truck chauffeurs walked off the job in Chicago prompting Patrick Barrel business agent of the Truck Drivers Union to warn that as many as 15,000 men would be out by night. The workers demand roughly a three dollar weekly wage increase.
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Chicago
Patrick Barrel
Busines
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London Timex
the Public Ledger Co
the Times
Pola
Cattaro
Comptroller of the Currency Today
Weather Forecast
Wittess
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Ilo
Captain Funcher
Bridgeport
Philand¢elphia
Daames
James F. Atkins of
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City 'N Hase Hospital
Archer Landon
iEnemy
Akationn eExvict
James Gondon Bennett
Taliang
HM Artillery
Champagne
Big State
Wilfine
White
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