U. S. Plans 2200 Frontline Planes by July
Gen Dixon asked the House military committee for 220,000 machine guns for aircraft and Secretary Baker stated the goal to have 2,200 airplanes in service on the French front by July 1. Reports from the American front detail heavy attrition among German forces, shelling Montdidier Cantigny Mesnil St Georgies and nearby roads, with aerial activity and downed or captured enemy planes.
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Washington
Gen
Dixon
House Military Committee
Baker
England
Freds Ferguson
Preas
Amu Trench Bee
France
Camouflage Wail Raised By Coal Men
Milton Bronner reports that coal operators urge alarm to push prices and secure more rail cars, claiming shortages while March 1918 shows a record tonnage for coal and a first quarter surpassing 1917 by about 7 000 carloads despite severe winter blizzards.
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Washington
Supreme Court Upholds Draft Authority for Global Deployment
The Supreme Court ruled that men drafted under the program can be sent anywhere in the world to fight for the United States. The decision sustains the select draft law and its broad deployments.
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Washington
United States
W Supreme Court
American Artillery Halts German Trench Attempt In France
U S artillery stopped a German move to occupy a trench in Bela Brule west of Apremont in the Toul sector. American patrols directed a barrage after spotting machine gun armed attackers, and by patrol return the enemy had withdrawn leaving scattered materials and wreckage from shell fire.
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France
Bela Brule
Apremont
Toul
United States
Huns Captured by U S Patrol in Lorraine
An American patrol penetrated German lines at Ancreviller in Lorraine, advancing 12300 yards and overrunning an observation post. Four German bodies were taken and three were killed as the area remains quiet. Ancreviller lies about three and a half miles NW of Padonviller and six and a half miles S of the German border in the Lunéville sector.
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Lorraine
Anccreviller
Ancreviller
Padonviller
Luneville Sector
Sammies Smash Hun Trenches in Heavy Assault
Paris May 6 The American artillery fired sixty thousand nine hundred shells into German trenches in a recent attack completely blotting them out. The report was announced today.
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Paris
Portland Major Killed by Shell in WWI Action
A Portland, Oregon officer, May 6, 1918, Major A Rasmussen, was killed by a German shell while leading his men in a reconnaissance mission west of Montdidier amid American Army operations.
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Portland
Montdidier
A. Rasmussen
Ore
Seattle Subscriptions Surpass Goal In Liberty Loan Drive
Liberty Loan committeemen and assistants worked Monday to tally subscriptions from the final hours of the campaign. Seattle reports more than $15.5 million, oversubscribed by 36 percent, with 73,850 subscribers and one in five residents buying a bond. The state subscribed about $40 million, well above its $29 million quota, while Seattle’s quota stood at $11.4 million.
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Liberty Loan
Seattle
State of Washington
Twenty Million Buy Third Liberty Bonds in U S
Washington May 6 Twenty million patriotic Americans likely bought Third Liberty bonds as treasury reports show 18 million subscribers with more territory to report. The loan total reached 7.4 billion dollars by 4 p.m. Saturday, with at least 500 million expected from the last minute rush.
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Washington
Treasury
Rainier School Pupils Break Record for Books
The Eighth B class at Rainier School set a new record by collecting a large number of books for the boys overseas.
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Rainier
City weighs power site as May filing looms
Mayor Hanson outlines options for Seattle’s power future. Cedar river dam is temporary and California oil light costs loom large. Skagit water power offers 250000 horsepower with federal support, while Stillaguamish promises 40000 horsepower at $800000. City must choose quickly to avoid losing light and power business.
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Hanson
Cedar River
California
Skagit
United States
Seattle
Stillaguamish
Light and Power
Skagit River
Irish Hold Meeting to Oppose Draft Plan
The joint nationalist and Sinn Fein anti conscription meeting at Ballaghadoreen drew about 12 000 attendees in Dublin on May 6 with Dillon and De Valera as principal speakers. The event urged support for thrift stamps.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Ballaghadoreen
Dillon and
Devalera
City approves Skagit river power site and rereads bids
The Public Works Board endorsed the Skagit river power project as the preferred site, rejected all bids for proposed plants, and decided to readvertise if the city council approves the site. Mayor Hanson urged swift action and self-reliant judgment amid calls for competition and rapid development.
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Skagit River
Chéelipeat
Ross
Dimock
Streets Cer
Case
L. B. Youngs
Water Department
Josenhans
Capital Issues Committee
Hanson
Foes
Skagit
United States
Seattle
Callaghan Removed as Welfare Chief. Mrs Brady Named
James J Callaghan was discharged as King County welfare commissioner by the board of county commissioners. Adelaide Brady, chief deputy, was placed in charge pending a permanent appointee as applications flood in. In London May 6 Field Marshal Viscount French was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland succeeding Baron Wimborne.
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James J. Callaghan
King County Welfare
Board of County Commissioners
Callaghan
Adelaide Brady
Grand Jury
Board of Commissioners
Claude CC. Ramsay
London
Viscount French
Ireland
Lord French
Baron Wimborne
British gains on Somme front and allied advances amid heavy fighting
British forces pressed a substantial advance along the Somme front in Picardy with strong opposition, capturing lines between Somme and Albert and extending positions near Locon Lawe and Estaires. Haig reported heavy enemy casualties and light British losses while other fronts showed limited fighting in Flanders. An Istanbul report claimed Sebastopol harbor foundations of the Russian Black Sea fleet. A new Irish appointment, Field Marshal, was announced for leadership roles in Ireland.
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Cantigny
Montdidier
Mesnil St. Georges
Can- Ugny
Picardy
Somme
Albert
Haig
Flanders
Ireland
England
London
Haigre
Ere
Lancourt
Morlancourt
Lawere
Drive Foe Back at the Somme
British troops advance 1200 yards along a front of over a mile between the Ancre and the Somme. Australian forces push 700 yards on a 1500 yard front north of the Somme, then 500 more on a 7000 yard front. Prisoners taken, German dead, Australian casualties light, and local advances continuing despite opposition.
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Jess
France
Ancre
Somme
Germans Shell Amiens in Systematic Bombardment
German forces began a planned siege of Amiens on Saturday and Sunday, firing over 150 shells and 60 aerial torpedoes, causing heavy property damage and civilian deaths. The city’s palace of justice and museum were destroyed, with most residents evacuated earlier. Reports also claim Rheims is nearly razed and the cathedral is at collapse risk.
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United Press
Amiens
Rheims
Russian Fleet Taken by Hans in Black Sea Harbor
Constantinople May 6 dispatch reports German troops in Sebastopol captured most of the Russian Black Sea fleet including seven battleships three cruisers nine destroyers and twenty one destroyers and five submarines along with merchant ships. The report notes the Sultan Selim and Hamidieh arrived, with unclear details on the status of battleships.
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Don
Sebastopol
Crimean Peninsula
Sultan Selim
Hamidieh
Odessa
Black Sea
Constantin
Goeben
Abdul
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U. S. Patrol
Kaiser
Edmund Vance Cooke
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Public Works Board
O. K
Board of Public Works
GD. Rees
City Light Department
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Lawe
Bethune
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Estaires
Tinople
William Philip Simms
Palace of Justice
Constantinople
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