Yanks Beat Hun Division at Cantigny in Major Advance
June reports from France describe American troops breaking German lines at Cantigny with heavy losses to the enemy. An entire German division was driven from action, two regiments nearly annihilated, and the remainder routed by American assault and artillery. A captured carrier pigeon and downed aircraft yielded intelligence. Washington notes a quiet front after repulses, with further destruction of dugouts and a bridge by American volunteers and detachments.
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Pershing
Cantigny
France
Picardy
Cunligny
Dvision
Champagne
Soissons
Montdidier
Washington
War Department
Flyer Plunge Kills Captain Webb in Aviation Demonstration
Indianapolis June 3 Captain Edwin P. Webb was killed and Major Guy L. Gearhart injured when an exhibition flight failed over a crowd of 4000 at a flight school ball game. The plane dived nose first after control issues with banners dropped like bombs. Webb, from Bison Oklahoma, was crushed by the motor. Gearhart survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Edwin P. Webb
Guy L. Gearhart
Major Gearhart
Aviation Repair Depot
Aviation Training School
Second Base
Eleven acquitted in Prager lynching case
Eleven men charged with murder in the Robert Paul Prager lynching were acquitted by a jury after about 45 minutes of deliberation. A marching band from Lakes Naval Training Station played nearby during the verdict. Prager, an enemy alien, was taken from Collinsville city jail on April 6 and lynched at the village outskirts.
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Edwardsville
Ill
Robert Paul Prager
That Lakes
O Cess
Prager
Collinsville
Pril 6
Village
Prussia Proposes Indefinite Convict Enlistment Plan
June 3 report from Copenhagen says the Prussian proposal to the German Reichstag would force imprisoned individuals to join the army for several years in special regiments.
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Openhagen
Posal
President Lincoln Sunk by U Boat While Returning to U S
Washington reports the 18072 ton U S S President Lincoln was torpedoed at 10 40 am Friday by a German submarine and sank an hour later. The ship, seized at start of war, was returning to the United States with few or no troops aboard and initial casualty reports are unavailable. The loss follows other U S transports attacked earlier in the war including the Antilles and the Tuscania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
President Lincoln
United States
Daniels
Navy Department
Sims
U.S.S
Lincoln
Europe
Hamburg-American Line
Antilles
Tuscania
France
Army Bill Passed To Authorize 3 Million Men In Service
The House approved the largest annual army appropriation of 12.0417 billion dollars and sent it to the Senate. The measure allows the president to call into service all men who can be trained and equipped for a massive force in the coming year to rush soldiers to France. Final action on the urgent deficiency bill was taken with Senate amendments agreed to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
France
Two Flying Cadets Die In Air Training Crashes
Cadet Charles B. Passwater of Noblesville Indiana died at Hempstead New York after attempting a tail spin from 2000 feet. Cadet Paul M Currie of Minneapolis killed in a fall near San Antonio Texas. In Lorraine American aviators beat four German airmen destroying one plane and forcing others back.
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New York
Charles B. Passwater
Noblesville
Ind
Hempstead
San Antonio
Tex
Paul M. Currie
Minneapolis
William A. Currie
Lorraine
Draft Call Set for June For 280000 Men
Washington reports 280000 men will be drafted and called to report June 24. Assignment to camps is not yet decided and the list of apportions is being withheld for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ferry James Beard Sinks After Dock Collision
Passenger ferry James Beard, running between Port Huron Michigan and Sarnia Ontario, crashed into the dock at Sarnia and sank in 20 feet of water. All passengers were saved.
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Port Huron
Mich
James Beard
This City
Sarnia
Ont
Soldiers Die as Auto Skids in Alabama Crash
Lieutenant Arthur Pickens and Corporal Arthur B. Willard of the Thirty seventh division were killed when an army truck skidded off an embankment near La Pine Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Lieut
Arthur Pickens
Arthur B. Willard
Thirty-seventh Division
la. Pine
Italians Score Victory on Northern Front At Monte Zigolon
Rome reports an important Italian victory northwest of Trent after four hours of entrenched fighting. Italian forces captured Monte Zigolon, Prezna, Monticello pass and eastern spur, taking 870 German prisoners including 14 officers. They seized 12 heavy guns 14 trench mortars 25 machine guns and numerous rifles. King Victor Emmanuel sent a message of encouragement.
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London
Trent
Rome War Office
Monte Zigolon
Prezna
Monticello Pass
Victor Emmanuel
Red Cross War Fund Reaches 144 Million
The American people donated more than 32 million dollars pushing the Red Cross second war fund to 144 million. The drive ended Monday with final totals still rolling in from districts. Illinois fell short its 8 million goal by 2.8 million as Greater New York posted 38.48 million in subscriptions. Milwaukee oversubscribed its 750 thousand quota by 359 thousand, Wisconsin leading central division with a 33 1 38 percent oversubscription.
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Washington
Germany
Western Front
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Central
Union
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ilinois
Greater New York
Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Mountain
Milwaukee
Greeks Win Big Victory on Macedonian Front
London reports Greek troops with French artillery captured the strong Sika Di Legen positions on the Struma front. The operation over 12 kilometers wide and two kilometers deep yielded more than 1,500 German and Bulgarian prisoners, including 33 officers, along with a large quantity of war material.
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London
Macedonian
Saloniki
Sika di Legen
Struma
Bulgaria
Senate OKs 123 Million Urgent Deficiency Bill
The senate passed the urgent deficiency bill totaling 123 million dollars including 60 million for housing government war workers. The bill previously cleared the house. General Crozier, chief of ordnance and Baker war council member, returned to the United States after Europe briefings on ordnance handling.
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Senate
Washington
House
Crozier
U. S
Baker
War Council
Europe
Deserter Sentenced to Ten Years at Fort Jay
Deserter Private David B. Flory of the Fourteenth company, 154th depot brigade, was sentenced to ten years at hard labor for desertion. The conviction was announced from Fort Meade Maryland and the sentence will be carried out at Fort Jay New York.
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Camp Meade
David B. Flory
Fourteenth Company
154Th Depot Brigade
Fort Jay
New York
One Express Firm Formed By McAdoo and Major Rail Lines
A new private Federal Express company is created by agreement among McAdoo, Adams, American, Wells Fargo and Southern, with capital over 30 million dollars. George S. Taylor will head the firm, which will operate as the express carrier for railroads under contract to pay 5 to 14 percent of gross revenues to the roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Union Express Company
United States
McAdoo
Adams, American
Wells-Fargo and Southern
Fedeal Express Company
George S. Taylor
American
Western
Great Northern
Northern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taylor
American Flyer Rickenbacher Fights Far Frontline Hero
On the Toul front northwest, Lieut Edward Rickenbacher shot down one Albatross, destroyed another, and attacked three monoplanes. He rescued Lieut James A Fleissner after his plane was damaged, then engaged multiple German craft, firing a hundred rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Toul
Edward Rickenbacher
James A. Fleissner
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rickenbacher
Draft To Induct 200000 In June Across 22 Camps
The War Department announced that 200000 men will be inducted into military service through the draft and sent to 22 camps nationwide during a five day period starting June 24. No details were provided on which states will supply troops to the cantonment in Louisville or how many from each state.
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Louisville
War Department
Australian Premier Hughes Hosts by Wilson in Washington
William Morris Hughes prime minister of Australia and a party of officials visit Washington on their way to a war conference in London. President Wilson receives the Australian delegation in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Washington
William Morris Hughes
Australia
London
New Treaty With Sweden Seals Trade and Shipping Accord
London report states Sweden and Great Britain plus allies signed a commercial and navigation agreement. The treaty will increase allied shipping by 500000 tons as a result of the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sweden
Great Britain
Ex-Czar’s Family Reunited in Ekaterinburg
Alexis Romanoff formerly the Russian heir apparent and the daughters of the former emperor arrived at Ekaterinburg in Perm government on the Asiatic side of the Ural mountains.
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Moscow
Alexis Romanoff
Ekaterinburg
Perm
Ural
McAdoo Warns Rail Shop Workers Against Government Strike
The director general warns union leaders that shop employee walkouts are strikes against the U S government during the war. He notes wage-commission decisions, urges submitting grievances to a six member wage board for impartial review, and cites nationwide fare increases funding higher railroad wages exceeding 300 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McAdoo
Alexandria
United States
Britons in Huns' Vice Book Trial Opens in Bow Street
Noel Pemberton Billings MP for East Hertfordshire defends himself in Bow Street on libel charges over a book he says lists 47 000 Britons allegedly in bondage to Germany via vice. Mrs Villiers Stewart testified she had seen the document, naming Asquith and Mrs Asquith Viscount Haldane and Justice Darling among the figures connected to the case.
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London
Noel Pemberton Billings
East Fertfordshire
Vigilante
Bow Street
Maude Allan
J. T. Grein
Independent Theater
Villiers Stewart
Pemberton-Billing
Germany
Stewart
Pemberton-Billings
Asquith
Congress Plans June Fifteenth Recess To August Return
Washington leaders announced a plan to recess around June 15 after appropriation bills pass, resume August 1, with House Ways and Means drafting a new revenue bill. The revenue measure may pass between August 1 and 10, then a 30 day recess before Senate action.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Boston Bay Cable News Honor for Red Cross Officer
Cable messages from Boston report Lieut. Edmund O. Bigelow of this city, serving with the Red Cross in France, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Bay
Boston
Edmund O. Bigelow
Red Cross
France
Interurban Collision Injures Dozens Near Flint
In Flint Michigan on June 3 a collision of two interurban cars injures more than twenty passengers on a Detroit bound special car. Authorities report the injured are being treated at local facilities.
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Flint
Mich
Detroit
Record seeding push promises Western Canada bumper crop
Farmers in Western Canada report ideal April conditions for seeding with daily work from dawn to dusk. By May 1 oats and barley followed wheat, moisture aided by light rains, and germination underway. Optimism grows for a record harvest with J D McGregor of the Federal Food Board estimating exceptional conditions and a large crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
J. D. McGregor
Federal Food Board
Calgary
Prairie Provinces
Food Control Board
McGregor
Medicine for the Boche in Woolwich Arsenal Film
A Woolwich arsenal film reveals a planned, well organized effort under war conditions. It provides a detailed view of processes such as forging and polishing a 15 pounder cartridge and highlights women of all ages making medicine for the Boche.
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Boche
Woolwich Arsenal
London Globe
Peterson's Ointment Heals Sore and Piles
A letter from A C Gilbrath of Erie Pa thanks Peterson's Ointment for healing a running sore after three weeks. The ad notes rapid relief for eczema old sores and piles and promotes 30 cent boxes with prepaid mail orders from Peterson Bros Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterson
A. C. Gilbrath
Reed St
Erie
John D. Rockefeller
Peterson Bros
Buffalo
N. Y
Adv
Artificial Gems and Their Makers
Nearly all artificial gems are alum crystals formed under special conditions. The metallic salts added during fusion decide if the stones become sapphires rubies topazes amethysts or emeralds.
Cure dandruff with Cuticura regimen
Remove dandruff and restore hair by rubbing Cuticura Ointment into the scalp then shampooing with Cuticura Soap. Free samples offered from Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25 Cents Ointment 25 50 Cents available at druggists or by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
iDept. X
Boston
Train Line Confusion Sparks New York Ride Debate
A witty exchange questions which train truly carries a passenger to New York. One speaker jokes the opposite train is the real conveyance, highlighting travel confusion in a humorous moment.
Allen's Foot-Ease Relieves Tired Feet for Troops
Shake into shoes or bath to relieve painful swollen feet and bunions. Used by American British and French troops. Allen's Foot Ease provides relief for tired aching feet and is sold everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Knowledge Not Everything in Mrs Gabson Speech
A fragment quotes Mrs Gabson on knowledge and control, noting she knows enough to keep silent yet lacks full command. The line contrasts restraint with broader insight within a dialogic exchange. No further context or attribution provided.
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HMS
Flyer
Sawin Webb
G. .— Gearhart
Sult
Indiana
L. I
Minneapolis Bay
Montezigolon
Central West
ONE Express Firm
Vice Book
Allan Gase
Asquiths
Congress
York
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