Body of Aubrey Williams Found Along Alazan Creek
Aubrey T Williams a 38 year old machinist and government employee was found dead with a fractured skull along Alazan Creek near South San Marcos and Kerr Streets in San Antonio. Police say robbery motive and two men overheard plotting to murder him were arrested near Leon Springs after he had drawn pay. Williams resided at 609 Soledad Street and had worked on plumbing at Camp Funston Leon Springs.
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Aubrey Williams
Leon Springs
Aubrey T. Williams
Louisville
Alazan Creek
San Marcos
Kerr Streets
San Antonio
Leo Burns
Sarah Frances Herdman
Williams
Central Police
J. Macias
Kerr Street
Brown
Harvey and
Lowell
N. J. Baudgett
Soledad Street
Camp Funston
James Caruthers
City Detective Bureau
Riebe Undertaking Company
Justice of the Peace
R. Neill Campbell
Texas
Louisille
Congress Debates War Tax Proposals For Cotton and Automobiles
In Washington on May 21 the Moore amendment to tax raw cotton at 2.50 a bale was ruled out after a long debate. Kelley’s bid to strike the 5 percent factory tax on automobiles was defeated 85 to 48. The Doremus plan to tax manufacturers earning over 8 percent on their capital stock passed 96 to 92.
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Washington, D. C
Moore
Pennsylvania
Kelley
Michigan
Doremus
Convicted German Captain Rintelen and associates face verdicts
Federal jurors found Captain Franz Rintelen of the German navy, David Lamar, and Henry B. Martin guilty of conspiring to disrupt U S munitions traffic through strikes and German propaganda via Labor's National Peace Council. Judge Cushman slated to pronounce sentence.
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New York
Cushman
Franz Rintelen
David Lamar
Henry B. Martin
National Peace Council
Frank Buchanan
Chicago
H. Robert Fowler
Elizabethtown
Lik
Jacob L. Taylor
Herman Schulties
Rintelen
Lamar
Martin
Labor
Storm Area Unsettled Weather Across Southwest
The storm area centered over Kansas Monday morning keeps the Southwest unsettled. Major Buell reports continued rain over Texas with 1.17 inches in San Antonio after Sunday. rains extended to Del Rio, Adeline, Amarillo, Houston, and Palestine. Sunday was clear and pleasant after the early morning rain, drawing many to Leon Springs and the training camp.
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Texas
Kansas
Alien Buell
Weather Bureau
San Antonio
del Rio
Adeline
Amarillo
Houston
Palestine
Leon Springs
Baptist Minister Killed in Wreck in Dallas
Rev. W. W. Scates aged 46 secretary of the Baptist Missionary Association was instantly killed when the automobile carrying him his wife and four children was struck by a Missouri Kansas & Texas passenger train near Dallas Texas late yesterday afternoon. The car and its occupants were thrown clear of the track and all five sustained injuries to varying degrees.
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Dallas
Tex
W. W. Scates
The
Baptist Missionary Association
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
For San Antonio and vicinity: Tonight and Tuesday fair
A brief weather note states fair conditions for San Antonio and surrounding areas tonight and Tuesday with light to moderate winds and no precipitation expected.
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San Antonio and Vicinity
Weather forecast for major cities and tourism
The Light reports urban forecasts showing St Louis 64 clear with southeast wind and rain, Chicago 48 cloudy with east wind and rain, Milwaukee 44 cloudy with northeast wind and rain, Kansas City 62 clear with southeast wind and rain, New York 54 cloudy with west wind and likely rain, Washington 62 clear with northeast wind and possible rain.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Mrs Faurote Seriously Burned Saving Garage Fire
Mrs F M Faurote of 126 Grove land Place was seriously burned while extinguishing flames on her car engine in the garage. A glove saturated with gasoline or kerosene ignited, she rushed to a hydrant and used a hose to stop the fire, saving the car and possibly the house. Paramedics treated her until a doctor arrived. her husband and son were away.
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F. M. Faurote
Groveland Place
Irish Convention to be summoned for Ireland constitution
London May 21 Premier Lloyd George announced in House of Commons that a convention of Irish representatives will be summoned to draft a constitution for Ireland and present it to Parliament. Delegates will be drawn from local bodies churches unions and Sinn Fein. John Redmond said Ireland is being asked to settle its own problem and urged broad participation.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Ireland
Sinn Fenners
John Redmond
Redmond
Great Britain
John Lonsdale
Empire
Aviators From Memphis Arrive to Report at Chicago School
One hundred thirty members of the Memphis aviation school now abandoned reached Chicago under Capt. A. M. Christin. They will report at Ashburn in the morning where the US Army signal corps aviation school is now permanently established.
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Chicago
Memphis
Tenn
A. M. Christin
Ashburn
Signal Corps Aviation School
United States Army
Spanish merchant fleet hit by submarines, Case reports
James F. Case, an American businessman arriving from Spain, said one sixth of Spain's merchant marine had been destroyed by submarines and that shipyards could not replace the losses.
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New York
James F. Case
Spain
World’s record bungalow rises in eight hours at San Fernando
A 58 member union crew built a five room bungalow at Kirk and Dakota Streets in San Fernando addition, finishing two feet per hour and nearing a noon completion. Jack Sanders led 35 carpenters, 12 painters, four electricians, four brick layers and three plumbers with six foremen and four sub foremen. No overtime. painting to continue Tuesday and the winner of the Own Your Own Home contest to be announced Saturday afternoon.
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Kirk and
Dakota Streets
San Fernando
Jack Sanders
Wright & Sanders
Sanders
John Cotter
Cotter
Jack
Mr. Sanders
San Antonio
Army raises enlistment age to 18 to 40
New York on May 21 an army recruiting office order raises the regular enlistment age from 17 to 35 to 18 to 40. The change expands eligibility.
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New York
Regular Army
Senator Lane Dies After Illness
Doctors say United States Senator Lane of Portland Oregon cannot recover after a nervous breakdown in Washington. The senator had been hospitalized in San Francisco and his condition worsened with time.
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Senator Lane
San Francisco
Tal
United States
Portland
Ore
Washington
Conspiracy Charge Before Grand Jury in Dallas
A U S grand jury in Dallas was ordered by Judge George Whitfield Jack to thoroughly investigate an alleged conspiracy to resist conscription. The case centers on the Farmers and Laborers' Protective Association of America and treason like charges, with six arrests in Dallas and several Western Texas towns. The government believes the plot may have been nipped in the bud.
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Dallas
Tex
United States Grand Jury
George Whitfield Jack
Department of Justice
Texas
Jack
Farmers and Laborers’ Protective Association of America
San Angelo
Heinze Loses Suit Over Copper Monopoly Attempt
The Supreme Court today upheld the dismissal of Arthur P. Heinze and his Heinze copper interests in a $15 million treble damages anti trust case. He alleged an attempted monopoly by Amalgamated Copper Company the Lewisohn interests William Rockefeller and others in the Montana copper industry.
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Washington, D. C
Arthur P. Heinze
Heinze Copper
Supreme Court
Amalgamated Copper Company
Lewisohn
William Rockefeller
Montana
Heinze
Torpedo Boats Clash Off Flanders Coast
An official admiralty note reports a morning engagement off the coast of Flanders between German and French torpedo boats. French accounts say a flotilla of German destroyers was driven back to base by four French torpedo boats, with one French vessel damaged.
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Berlin
London
Flanders
Admiralty
Riotings in Lisbon Over Bread Shortage
Rioting broke out in Lisbon on May 21 as bread and potatoes ran scarce. Mobs attacked several stores before police restored order.
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Lisbon
Paris
Mob frees socialist councillor in Chaux de Fonds
Paul Grabe a Socialist national councillor was freed from jail by a mob of sympathizers after an eight day sentence from a court martial for libel related to an article in La Sentinelle. Chaux de Fonds near Neuchatel is a major watchmaking center with a 1901 population of 36 388.
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Chaux Defonds
Switzerland
Paris
Paul Grabe
Grabe
la Sentinelle
Chaux de Fonds
Neuchatel
Daylight Saving urged for wartime efficiency by Manhattan leader
Marcus M. Marks president of Manhattan borough and head of the National Daylight Saving Association went to Washington to press President Wilson to include daylight saving in the wartime program. He said enactment would save at least one million tons of coal this summer and help conserve resources in many ways.
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New York
Marcus M. Marks
Borough of
Manhattan
National Daylight Saving Association
Washington
Wilson
Marks
Sailors to Buy Liberty Bonds at Great Lakes
Sailors at the United States Naval Training Station at Great Lakes will likely purchase about 14 million dollars in Liberty Bonds, announced by commandant Captain W. A. Moffett. Recruits may buy a $100 bond for a family member with installments of 2.85 dollars monthly.
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Great Lakes
United States Naval Training Station
W. A. Moffett
Naval Recruiting Train Runs Through Chicago Streets
A special naval recruiting train toured the elevated lines in Chicago today May 21. One car pictured the battleship Pennsylvania while two others carried submarine and submarine chaser models. A fourth car served as a recruiting office and a one pound gun fired at intervals as the train stopped at each station.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New Training Camps Designated by War Department
The War Department designated a second training camp site in Atlanta, expanding to two in that city. Columbus Ohio, Greenville South Carolina, and Amityville New York were chosen as cantonments for divisional training camps, with正式 confirmation issued from Washington.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Atlanta
Columbus
LL. C
Greenville
S. C
Amityville
L. I
British Newspapers Welcome Pershing Dispatch
London editors greet General Pershing’s approaching arrival with a U S division for France. The Daily Telegraph lauds Washington’s broad view and the American people rallying to the President, while condemning German piracy as criminal and civic.
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London
Pershing
France
Daily Telegraph
Washington
America
Flee to Avoid Draft Draws Americans to Canada
Spokane report says many American men of draft age cross into Canada with an equal movement of young Canadians entering the United States. Inspector Alfred H. Richardson notes the border has seen widespread cross border migration.
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Canada
United States
Spokane
Wash
Alfred H. Richardson
Tragedy in Shelby County leaves farmer dead and another jailed
Word from Teneha Texas reports Jack Wilbern a longtime local farmer was killed in a Saturday night incident. Carpenter, also a local farmer, is jailed in Center awaiting murder charges.
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Shelby County
Teneha Tex
Jack Wilbern
Carpenter
Haig and Petain Drive in Northern France Front
British General Haig presses the offensive in Northern France driving into the Hindenburg line near Bullecourt and capturing a support trench. Petain counters on the Aisne and Moronvillers heights taking several German trenches and about 800 prisoners as French observation posts enable a wider advance toward Rheims.
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Associated Press
Haig
Petain
France
Hindenburg Line
Bullecourt
Tacks
Crown Prince
Chemin-Des-Dames
Aisne
Champagne
Moronvillers
Rheims
French Take 800 Germans in Champagne Actions
French forces captured several German trench lines north of Carnillet near Moronvilliers in the Champagne. About 800 German prisoners were taken and enemy shelters found wrecked with dead. Artillery fought through the night on the Chemin des Dames with German counter attacks repelled.
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Paris
Champagne
Moronvilliers
War Office
Chemin-Des-Dames
Froidmont Farm
Moronvillers
Carnillet
Teutons Admit Defeats On Arras Front
German positions held on the Arras front yesterday except one trench evacuated as planned amid a British attack along an eight and a half mile front. French forces reportedly gained footing on Mont Camillet and Mont Keil as Germany claimed to have shot down fourteen Entente planes on the western front.
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Berlin
London
Arras
Mont Camillet
Mont Keil
British Take Trench and Repel Counterattacks Near Bulrecourt
British troops seized a support trench behind the Hindenburg line and beat off hostile counterattacks near Bulrecourt with heavy enemy losses. Massed artillery cut into the attackers and about 150 prisoners were taken as two divisions fought in open combat.
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London
Hindenburg
War Office
Bulrecourt
Eenmy
Germans Yield Bullecourt Foothold Marking British Front Phase
The Associated Press reports surrender at Bullecourt and the capture of nearby positions signaling the first phase of the British offensive in France is concluded. After several days of heavy artillery and fighting, the front has shown a marked decrease in activity as operations wind down.
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Associated Press
France
London
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