Shipping leaders urge keeping British mercantile freedom
Sir Owen Phillips of the Holt Line warns that state intervention may be needed in war but British shipping must not lose its premier position to state aided fleets. He calls for government restraint and continued individual enterprise to preserve safety at sea and fair play in global competition.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
Owen Phillips
Royal Mail
Holt Line
British Mercantile Marine
Exiles Going Home on Special Train to Petrograd
A special eastbound train carried more than 100 Russian exiles toward San Francisco for steamer departures to Petrograd. Many had lived in the United States up to fifteen years and said they now dared to return home for the first time.
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Kansas City
San Francisco
Petroad
German promise safe passage home for Swedish Norwegian ships
Stockholm dispatch reported by Reuters that the German government will allow Swedish and Norwegian steamers in British ports to sail home starting July 1, ensuring safe passage.
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London
Stockholm
Reuter's
Postpone Free Time Hearing Moves to December
MOBILE AL May 20 word reaches the chamber of commerce that the export free time hearing in New Orleans has been postponed from June 1 to December 1. Gulf coast ports watch this move as it concerns reducing loading car free time for export freight from ten to five days.
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Mobile
Ala
Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Gore Measure Theory Not Practical Plan Debated in Congress
WASHINGTON May 30 Texas cattlemen and the Cattle Raisers Association blocked the Gore Britten bill to restrict slaughter of calves and cows under six years and male calves under one year. Texas Congressmen vow hearings next session, while officials deny Agriculture Department backing. Marion Lawson of Fort Worth warns the measure would cut production and raise prices.
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Washington, D. C
Texas
Cattle Raisers’ Association
Congress
Gore
Oklahoma
Britten
Illinois
United
Adamson
Georgia
House Interstate Commerce Committe
House
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Department
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
District of Columbia
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Fort Worth
Jones
Amarillo
Marion Lawson
Southwest
Latest French gun concealment method exposed
A field report describes French artillery hid in hillside emplacements with concrete roofs and landscape colored canvases. The deception shields large guns from enemy aircraft until firing, when the shades are raised to allow discharge.
Cattle Ranges Overcrowded as Overstocking Sparks Market Impact
A Texas and New Mexico range crisis prompts fear of starvation as overstocking forces cattle to market. Authority warns against keeping female cattle until six years old due to feed shortages while dairying centers cannot hold calves. Receipts in the market have nearly doubled in four months as cattlemen resist proposed bills.
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United States
Texas
New Mexico
Lawson
Britten
Congress
Memorial Day Observances In Washington D C
Veterans from blue and gray joined in decoration day ceremonies in Washington and Arlington as President Wilson Cardinal Gibbons and Chief Justice White attended. Veterans of two wars led a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue with guardsmen and regulars. Confederate banners flew for the upcoming reunion.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Cardinal Gibbons
White
Pennsylvania Avenue
Potomac
Arlington National Cemetery
France
Memorial Day Parade Expands Across New York City
New York May 30 Memorial Day observance grows with war significance as thousands of soldiers marines and schoolboys march in parades through Manhattan Brooklyn and the Bronx marking the largest display since 1898.
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New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
Memorial Day in Pittsburg Fetes Guthrie in State
Thousands file past the bier of George W. Guthrie United States ambassador to Japan in Memorial Hall Pittsburg honoring his death in March. The body arrived from Tokyo after a long journey yesterday marking Memorial Day observances.
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Pittsburg
George W. Guthrie
United States
Japan
Memorial Hall
Tokio
Guthrie
Veterans Parade Honors Fallen at Memorial Day in Little Rock
Memorial Day observances in Little Rock featured a parade led by 1100 state troops from the First Arkansas Regiment with G. A. R. and Confederate veterans, graves decorated at the National Cemetery, and tribute to Col. Logan H. Roots after whom the local fort named for an officers' training camp is called.
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Little Rock
Ark
National Cemetery
Logan H. Roots
Memphis Honors Day Graves Strewn With Flowers
Memphis Tennessee observes Decoration Day with graves of soldiers strewn with flowers. Crowds attend ceremonies across the city as veterans and families honor fallen servicemen. The day features local speeches and wreath laying at cemeteries.
Memorial Service at National Cemetery Honors Veterans
Members of the G A R post and Spanish American War Veterans led a ceremony at the National Cemetery with the Alabama National Guard present. The program included patriotic addresses and music and concluded with flowers strewn on the graves of 15 000 or more soldiers buried there.
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National Cemetery
G. A. R. Post
Alabama National Guard
Confederates to parade with American flags in Lynchburg
In Lynchburg Virginia on May 30 the Confederate Memorial Parade will feature each Sons of Confederate Veterans member carrying an American flag while they march behind a large Confederate banner.
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Lynchburg
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Elks Plan Monument at City Cemetery No 6
San Antonio Elks propose raising funds to erect a granite monument in Elks Rest at City Cemetery No 6. W. E. Roach notes the plan announced during Decoration Day services attended by about fifty Elks who placed wreaths and flags on graves. Rabbi Samuel delivered a brief address.
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Elks
San Antonio
Galveston Flags Lowered to Half Mast for Memorial Day
Galveston observes Memorial Day with flags at half staff on non governmental buildings for the first time in its history. The G A R post plans local services this afternoon as state departments close for Decoration Day while courts remain in session in Austin.
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Galveston
Tex
G. A. KR
Colonial Association Honors Day in Mobile National Cemetery
Memorial exercises were conducted today at Mobile National Cemetery under the auspices of the Colonial Association honoring veterans.
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Colonial Association
Mobile
Ala
The
National Cemetery
Russians at the Front Urge a Prompt Peace
In Tokio on May 30 professor Boris Bakymetieff, new Russian ambassador to the United States, reported satisfaction with Russia including Siberia and said the regime is organizing well and will soon launch an offensive. He heads a forty member committee en route to the U S and rejected talks of a separate peace.
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Tokio
Russia
Siberia
Boris Bakymetieff
United States
Bakymetieff
Russian stance affirmed by Seattle visitor after Petrograd tour
Thomas Nelson Perkins, chairman of the executive committee of a Boston financial house, arrived in Seattle from Petrograd where he witnessed the Russian revolution and the new government. He says Russia will oppose German militarism to the end as long as Germany clings to military rule, Russia's support of the war remains unquestioned.
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Russia
Germany
Seattle
Wash
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Boston
Petrograd
Allied French officials confer with British war cabinet
French Premier Ribot along with Jules Cambon Paul Cambon and Paul Painleve and General Foch met British war cabinet advisers in London. A complete agreement on all points was announced, and the French representatives returned to France.
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London
Ribot
France
Jules Cambon
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paul Cambon
Great Britain
Paul Painleve
Foch
Carter White Lead Special Sale Advertises 12.00 Per 100 Pounds
Advertisement announces a special sale by ED, STEVES, & SONS offering Carter White Lead at 12.00 dollars per 100 pounds with smaller sizes available at usual advances.
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Carter White
Ed, Steves, & Sons
Fattening Cattle With Less Corn Now
Missouri College of Agriculture reports corn silage based fattening can replace much corn. A 130 day test on two year old steers showed gains up to 3.26 lb daily with silage and protein meals, yielding profits and economical beef production.
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Associated Press
Columbia
Missouri College of Agriculture
University of Misouri
Postage Rates Among War Tax Bill Amendments
Washington May 20 The administration pressed to amend the war tax bill to raise second class postage rates on newspapers magazines and other publications at the cent a pound rate Postmaster General Burleson met with Senate finance committee Chairman Simmons and urged adoption of Senator Hardwick Georgias amendment to boost rates.
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Washington, D. C
Burleson
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Hardwick
Georgia
Germans Still Racing Break All Records at Gruenwald Course
Copenhagen dispatch reports Whit Monday races at Gruenwald near Berlin shattered attendance and betting records. Pari mutuels grossed over two million marks with a single race drawing about half a million in bets.
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Gruenwald Course
Copenhagen
London
Gruenwald
Berlin
Federal grand jury to convene in Dallas over conscription case
The Federal grand jury examining alleged anti conscription activity by the Farmers and Laborers' Protective Association of America in West Texas will convene in Dallas during registration day June 5, Judge George Whitfield announced. About a score of Kaufman County men testified today and reports say all F L P A lodges in Kaufman County have disbanded. W A Bergfeld of Haskell arrested on disorderly conduct in corridor of Federal building after threats. bond set at 10000 by U S Commissioner A W May and he is jailed in default.
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Dallas
Tex
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Protective Association of America
West Texas
United States
George Whitfield
Kaufman County
W. A. Bergfeld
Haskell
Federal Building
A. W. May
Arrest Two More Farmers in Texas Case
United States secret service agents arrested E. W. Escue and T. E. Brinkley near Whitney Hill County as officials of the Association. Brinkley is president of the Prairie Point lodge and Escue an organizer. They face a hearing before U.S. Commissioner McCormick. Both are tenant farmers.
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Waco
Tex
United States Secret Service
E. W. Escue
T. E. Brinkley
Near Whitney
Hill County
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Protective Association
Brinkley
Prairie Point Lodge
Escoe
United States
McCormick
Bread replaces wallpaper cleaning in London drawing rooms
Associated Press correspondence reports food economists noting a surge in using bread to clean wallpaper. Three or four stale bread leaves are said to refresh walls, a cleaner practice now when paperbangers are less common than before the war.
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Associated Press
London
Swiss Reports Hunger Among German Officers on Front
Swiss officers on leave recount German officers in Lorraine and facing hunger after nine months on the frontier. Deserters say their whole company would desert for Switzerland but would be shot if returned to Germany. Swiss neutrality limits contact, but locals share rations.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Lorraine
Germany
Billiard Champion Called to Colors
English billiard champion Inman has been drafted into the British army and given fourteen days to arrange his affairs. The call reached him during a close match with a local expert in London Melbourne.
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Associated Press
London
Melbourne
Inman
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