Work or Fight Order Defined for Local Boards
Crowder issues rules to guide work or fight classifications with focus on non productive occupations. It allows exemptions for certain store clerks sales staff and department store executives while classifying automobile salesmen as nonproductive in cities. Local boards urged to aid placement via the federal employment service and to defer action during job placement efforts.
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Washington
General Crowder
Crowder
Federal Employment Service
Austrian cabinet resigns as Vienna faces bread riots
Dr. von Seydler leaves Vienna for the Austrian army HQ to submit his cabinet's resignation to Emperor Charles amid bitter clashes over hunger policies. New bread riots erupt in Favoriten and Brigittenau as 150000 munition workers strike in Vienna.
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London
von Seydler
Vienna
Charles
Zurich
Offee
Italy
Germany
Austria
Favoriten
Brigittenau
Senate panel backs Latin Army training amendment
The war department would be authorized to train in the United States and furnish equipment to troops of other nations allied against Germany and Austria under an amendment to a 12 billion dollar army bill. The eight Central and South American nations with broken relations to Germany could supply about 2.75 million men.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Admiral Sir Alfred Paget Dead at 65
London reports Admiral Sir Alfred Paget died at Brompton on Tuesday afternoon. Paget, a former British naval attaché in Washington, was sixty five.
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London
Sir Alfred Paget
Brompton
Washington
Wisconsin and Michigan Troops Fight in Alsace
The Thirty second division National Guard from Michigan and Wisconsin is now fighting in Alsace on German soil under Maj Gen William G Haan. Private J W Guyton, the first American killed on German soil, served in this division which held a sector north of the Swiss border. Some unit members were aboard the British torpedoed ship Noer Tuscanin and among victims of the disaster.
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Washington
War Department
Thirty-second
National Guard
Alsace
Michigan
Wisconsin
William G. Haan
Camp MacArthur
Tex
J. W. Guyton
British Casualties Week Ending Friday Report
London reports British casualties for the week ending Friday totaling 6620 pounds in losses.
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London
Telegraphic Notes from Paris to Washington June 22
Reports from Paris say French prisoners in Germany since August 1914 will be exchanged on June 24 per the Petit Journal. Other items include a giant Liberty Bell photo session of 25 000 soldiers at Camp Dix for the Fourth Liberty loan, and remarks on US war readiness for September. Also noted are grain exchange managers’ meeting on potential food administration controls and the 20 year sentences for six members of the International Bible Students association for espionage law conspiracy.
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Paris
Germany
Petit Journal
Camp Dix
N. J
Washington
Caldwell
New York
House Military Committee
Baker
March
United States
East
Middle West
United States Grain Corporation
National Food Administration
Joseph F. Rutherford
Russell
International Bible Students’ Association
Kansas City on Ice Rations Amid Shortage
Kansas City Missouri faced ice rationing as officials warned the shortage could worsen with continued intense heat. The move reflects industry strain in the wake of record warm weather and rising demand for cold storage and beverages.
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Kansas City
Kansas, City
Ice Company
Wilson Third Term Push Opens Indiana Democratic Meet
Samuel M. Ralston, former Indiana governor and permanent Democratic convention chairman, urged renominating and reelecting Woodrow Wilson in 1920 as the Indiana party opened its state convention. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall followed as temporary chairman delivering the keynote.
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Ralston
Indiana
Indianapolis
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel M. Ralston
Mr. Ralston
Thomas R. Marshall
Great Kiev Revolt Sparks Wide Uprising
A major revolt has begun in Kiev with intercepted Moscow wireless reports to the Exchange Telegraph. Artillery stores exploded and street fighting continues as the revolt spreads to Poltava and Tchernigoy districts, involving about forty thousand organized peasants.
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London
Kiev
Moscow
Exchange Telegraph Company
Poltava
Tchernigoy
German Paper on the Rocke Faces Sale or Suspension
After a Staats Zeitung directors meeting Judge Stelk president of the paper’s company announced that the publication will be sold today or suspended.
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Rocké
Chicago
Staats- Zeitung
Stelk
Busch II Draft Reclassified To Class 1A In St Louis
Adolphus Busch II son of August A. Busch, famed brewer, is moved from 2A to 1A by the local draft board in St Louis on June 24. He is married with children.
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A. Busch II
St. Louis
Adolphus Busch II
August A. Busch
Riots and Bread Protests Hit Vienna and Berlin Areas
Dispatches from Zurich, Amsterdam and Stockholm report serious rioting in Vienna and protests in Berlin Hamburg and Cologne. Crowds attacked bakeries and the Hofburg while cavalry mobilized. martial law may follow amid bread ration cuts and price hikes impacting workers and landowners.
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London
Volcan
Warschalowski
Vienna
Zurich
Exchange
Favoriten
Margerethen
Ottakring
Brigittenay
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Imperial Palace
Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
Morning Post
Neustadt
Socialist Party
Copenhagen
Calls for war on Turkey and Bulgaria in Congress
A joint resolution to declare a state of war with Bulgaria and Turkey was introduced in the house by Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania. It accuses the two governments of acts of war against the United States, as Secretary Lansing testifies on the Tabriz incident before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Washington
Bulgaria
Turkey
House
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lansing
Tabriz
Santa Anna Torpedoed and Sunk With 2150 Onboard
The transport Santa Anna sailing from Bizarra to Matta was torpedoed and sunk in the night of May 10 11. The vessel carried 2150 soldiers and native workmen, with 1512 saved.
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Paris
Santa Anna
Bizarra
Matta
Havas
Re-elect Samuel Gompers President of AFL
Samuel Gompers was re elected president of the American Federation of Labor by acclamation at the AFL annual convention in St Paul Minnesota on Thursday June 22 with the vote unanimously confirming another term.
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American Federation of Labor
St. Paul
St. Paul, Minn
Samuel Gompers
General Crowder Calls 8976 Registrants for Training
Washington June 24 General Crowder the provost marshal general called 8976 draft registrants qualified for general military service to be sent July 15 to various schools for special training.
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Washington
General Crowder
Overseas Cap Spurs Comfort and Army Store Prices
War department notes show overseas cap issued to expeditionary forces to reduce visibility in trenches and enable hatless movement. Price lists from quartermaster stores in France reveal cheap goods from chocolate to olives, while construction costs for camps and supplies run into hundreds of millions. The article also covers officer insignia rules, shoe sizes, and welfare guidance urging soldiers to write home.
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Quartermaster Corps
France
Iilet
General Pershing
War Department
Government plants create smokeless powder capacity nationwide
A $120 million program built three new smokeless powder plants requiring a new town at each site. About 9,000 buildings were erected with streets, sewers, power plants, stores and hospitals. Roughly 35,000 workers built the facilities and about 30,000 will be employed in production.
Thousands of Women Employed in U S Gas Mask Plant
The gas defense service reports thousands of women are employed in the United States gas-mask plant as inspectors through all stages of manufacture. Hundreds of girls have trained in the specialized skill of sewing the face portion of masks.
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United States
Gas Defense Service
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Hofburg Palace
Kaiser Charles
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Committee On Public Information
The
Food Administration
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Army
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Army Medical Department
Engineer Corps
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