Germans Fail to Break Entente Lines in Lys Battle
British Field Marshal Haig reported no change on the Allied front from Givenchy to St Vincent as German offensives were contained. The battle narrowed to a fierce artillery duel after heavy German losses, with estimates the German drive failed to achieve major gains and may renew hard assaults.
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London
Givenchy
Ypres
France
Haig
British War Office
Lys
St. Vincent
Bethune
Vimy Ridge
Arras
Gunffre
Railroads to buy coal at full market price and equal car supply
Washington reports a new arrangement by the Railroad and Fuel Administrations after President Wilson intervened. Railroads must purchase coal at full market price and receive a 100 percent car allotment from all mines, ending preferential allocations. The objective is to share coal distribution equally among all consumers and prevent shortages at non railroad mines.
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Washington
Railroad and Fuel Administrations
Wilson
Garfield
John Skelton Williams
Railroad Administration
Fuel Administration
U S Seizes Bosch Magneto Plants in Springfield and Plainfield
The Government has taken over the Bosch Magneto Company plants at Springfield Massachusetts and Plainfield New Jersey. Alien Property Custodian Palmer will appoint directors to run operations after investigations found the firm entirely enemy owned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bosch Magneto Company
Springfield
Mass
Plainfield
N. J
Palmer
Italians Join West Front As Allied Right Wing
The Italian regiments are already in France forming the allied right wing. An Italian Embassy radio dispatch from Rome quoted Premier Orlando saying Italians will soon be in the thick of the battle.
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Washington
France
Rome
Orlando
German Torpedo Boats Bombard Dunkirk to Nieuwport Coast
Berlin reports German torpedo craft fired 600 shells on enemy camps and storage places between Dunkirk and Nieuwport, a bombardment along the coast behind Allied lines in Flanders.
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Amsterdam
Dunkirk
Nieuport
Flanders
Berlin
French Youths Off To War In 1919 Contingent
Paris reports the 1919 French army contingent of 19 year old youths is heading to barracks for training. They are said to be in superior physical condition compared with previous batches.
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Paris
Great Lakes Steamship Line to Relieve Rail Traffic
Director General McAdoo orders a seven ship steamship line between Buffalo and Chicago and Milwaukee to shift heavy freight to water. Additional vessels may be added later as rail traffic eases for speedy freight routes.
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Washington
McAdoo
Great Lakes
Railroad Administration
Buffalo
Chicago
Milwaukee
Earthquake Wrecks Hemet and San Jacinto Towns
The Southern California quake left Hemet and San Jacinto nearly destroyed with $250,000 losses each. At least two lives were lost and many injured as brick buildings toppled, gas mains broke, and water lines disrupted. Rescue and policing were organized by home guards and citizens.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Los Angeles
Cal
California
Mt. Lowe Observatory
Kingman
Aris
Hemet
San Jacinto
Santa Fe
Strawberry Peak
Water Company
San Jasinto
Opposition 10 The Chamberlain Bill
Senate hearing on Senator Chamberlain's bill to court-martial spies and propagandists drew sharp lines. Idaho Senator Borah labeled it unconstitutional while witnesses urged strong action. A witness claimed German sympathizers sell heroin to American soldiers and cited a direct link from Count von Bernstorff to a private in the U S army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamberlain
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Charles Warren
W. P. Bloodgood
Milwaukee
Warren
Department of Justice
Senate Military Affairs Committee
New York City
Norman H. White
New York
Secret Service
Count von Bernstorff
United States Army
John 8. McGee
Minnesota Public Safety Commission
van de Man
Army Intelligence Service
E H. McCauley
Navy Intelligence Service
White
Hungarian Ministry Resigns Over Suffrage Reform Rift
Budapest dispatch reports the Hungarian ministry resigning as Premier Wekerle steps down amid ministry dissension over the suffrage reform bill. The king is expected to ask him to form a new cabinet excluding ministers who oppose a compromise on the reform.
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Amsterdam
Budapest
Copenhagen
Wekerle
Charles
Car Ferries Imprisoned in Ice Floes
In Rochester New York the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Ontario No 1 bound for Rochester trapped in tea floe with Ontario No 2. Both ships have only two days of provisions and face crush from the ice as danger grows.
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Rochester
N. Y
Buffalo, Rochester
Pittsburg
Ontario
Secretary Daniels Seen Flying Over Washington in Hydro Plane
Secretary Daniels traveled as a passenger with Lieutenant Doherty, a naval aviator, during a twenty minute flight over the capital. A service hydro-airplane was employed for the excursion.
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Washington
Daniels
Doherty
Capital
Germany to Demand Indemnities for War Losses
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia says in Breslau that Germany will seek economic and financial indemnities from enemies after rejecting peace offers. The Cologne Volks Zeitung reports the speech highlights compensation as essential for economic development.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm
Prussia
Albrecht
Brunswick
Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Breslau
Erie Canal to be Taken Over by Railroad Admin.
Director General Mc Adoo ordered the Erie and New York State barge canal system to be taken over by the Railroad Administration and a fleet of barges built and run there under G. A. Tomlinson of Duluth. The move aims to relieve freight traffic and marks the first inland waterway under the Rail Administration. Within weeks more canal systems and navigable rivers may be brought under administration with barges built in two to three months. Concrete barges are being studied for quick, cheap construction.
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Washington
McAdoo
Erie and
New York State
Railroad Administration
G. A. Tomlinson
Duluth
Minn
Committee On Inland Waterways of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Black Warrior River
Alabama
Atlantic Coast
Prices of coke soar as Fuel Administration sets caps
The Fuel Administration announced maximum prices for coke at ovens in Colorado and sections of Alabama and West Virginia. Colorado foundry and smelting coke tops are set at 3.50 and 9.50, West Virginia blast furnace coke at 6.25, seventy two hour foundry at 7.25, Empire Coal’s coke at Empire Alabama at 8.75. County chairmen receive pricing procedures for quoting coal to buyers.
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Washington
Colorado
Alabama
West Virginia
The
Fuel Administration
Monongalia County
Empire Coal Company
Empire
Ala
City of Rheims In Ruins After Shelling
Paris reports Rheims is a smoking ruin after a week of German shelling. More than 100000 shells struck the city, and flames rise high, visible to aviators sixty to seventy miles away.
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of Rheims
Paris
Rheims
le Matin
Oklahoma mob hangs suspect then halts execution
In Collinsville Henry Rheimer was hanged by about 50 men who paused when he swung unconscious. Police persuaded them to cut him down and promised a trial by the County Council of Defense.
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Collinsville
Okla
Henry Rheimer
County Council of Defense
Army Officer Tarred and Feathered in New Mexico
Major John M. Birkner of Camp Cody in Deming New Mexico, a 30 year U S Army veteran born in Nuremberg Germany, is held in the state penitentiary as a federal prisoner. He faces charges under the espionage act after being tarred and feathered and led about with a rope around his neck by 400 convicts in the penitentiary.
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Santa Fe
N. M
John M. Birkner
Camp Cody
Deming
Birkner
Nuremberg
Germany
127Th Meld Artillery
Austria Hungary in critical plight demands reorganization
A Swiss dispatch based on Budapest and Austrian German papers says Austria and Hungary face extreme difficulties with security gone and the situation open to any outcome. Vienna shows marked discontent while Czech, Jugo Slav, and Polish voices in Parliament push for German hatred and reorganization of the empire. The Social Democrats reportedly state the monarchy is not directly engaged in the war against Britain, France, and the United States.
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Washington
Austria-Hungary
Switzerland
Budapest
Austria
Vienna
Germany
Austro-Hungary
Social Democrats
Chamber of Deputies
Great Britain
France
America
Americans Help In Raid With the American Army in France
Thirty American infantrymen and an equal number of French troops raided the German line on the Meuse right bank. They found trenches empty but saw German bodies in the wire, likely from a working party caught in the barrage. The enemy launched a counter barrage, but all Americans returned to their trenches safely.
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France
Meuse
Washington-Ground Powder Plant Construction Progress
The United States Government builds the largest smokeless powder plant in the world. It spans nine sections, is 3.5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide, covering 5.25 square miles. A workforce over 25,000 will produce 900,000 to 1,000,000 pounds daily, with each section capable of over 100,000 pounds per day.
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Washington
United States
Mob Hangs Black Man After Jail Take in Mississippi
In Poplarville Mississippi Claude Single ton a Black man convicted of a serious case in March was taken from the county jail by a mob and hanged from a tree on the town outskirts. J Bounds a railroad worker was killed in the related incident.
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Poplarville
Miss
Claude Singleton
France to World War Toll Through Four Years of Conflict
Andre Tardieu, French High Commissioner to the United States, announced that France has lost 1,300,000 men killed and nearly as many wounded or prisoners in four years of war. He spoke at a Fatherless Children of France Association meeting. The group has raised over $2,000,000 for about 60,000 French war orphans.
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New York
France
Andre Tardieu
United States
Fatherless Children of France Association
Soldiers Rush to France in New American Deployment
Washington reports American troops abroad at 6000 plus per day with 150000 men monthly added to French reserves. Provost Marshal calls for 304000 men in 40 hours, aiming to have all men in camp within 60 days and the final increment in camp by May 10.
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Washington
War Department
France
British Forces Engage Near Helgoland Bight
British light forces clashed with German light ships east of Helgoland. After brief exchanges at long range the Germans sheltered behind their mine field. One enemy destroyer was seen hit as British ships withdrew with no casualties.
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London
Helgoland
Helgoland Bight
Convert School Houses Into Hospitals Amsterdam
Streams of wounded Germans from France and Flanders fill hospitals monasteries convents and schools in Brussels and towns south of the capital with private houses also used as hospitals. Forty ambulance trains entered Brussels north station daily last week many in cattle cars with straw litters for the wounded.
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Amsterdam
France
Flanders
Telegraf
Brussels
Japan Turns Over 66 Ships to United States War Effort
Negotiations led by Roland Morris American Ambassador in Japan with the Japanese Government and shipbuilders conclude. Sixty six steamers totaling 514000 tons dead weight to be turned over to the United States for use in the war. Deliveries begin in April.
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Japan
America
Tokyo
Roland
Morris
United States
Pourparlers
Nephew Bumps Eye Sparks Polite Quip
A writer recalls an accidental elbow nudge to a nephew during a turn causing an eye bump. The child’s polite reply, You're welcome, is noted amid tears and a humorous reflection on manners.
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Chicago Tribune
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Claims Relief
Itching burning skins for eczemas rashes itchings irritations pimples dandruff sore hands and baby humors. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are supremely effective or free samples address Cuticura Dept. X Boston. At druggists and by mail Soap 25 Ointment 25 and 50.
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Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
Willing Worker and Plodding Pete in a Droll Exchange
A humorous exchange features Meandering Mike warning against work in the state and Plodding Pete insisting he works his way out. An advertisement promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for relief from stomach issues with a trial box offer from 872 Pearl Street, New York.
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Dis
Mike
Pete
Wright
Pearl St
New York
Try This on Your Sofa Dialogue Remark
A playful exchange unfolds as a mock invitation to try something on a sofa. The dialogue moves from flirtatious greeting to consent as one person offers a handshake and the other agrees with a simple yes to proceed.
Neighbor’s Wife More Frugal Than His Own, Man Reflects
A man muses that it offers little consolation to him that his neighbor’s wife is less extravagant than his own, highlighting quiet neighborhood comparisons and personal envy.
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Ohio
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