Heavy fighting on the Western Front and Allied readiness
Reports from London say German assaults waned with only local actions overnight. French and Allied forces reported successful incursions north of Grivesnes and around Courcelets, with prisoners taken near Loge farm and in Bussaines. Despite large German reserves, Field Marshal Haig and General Foch’s armies remain vigilant as speculation grows about a renewed main German offensive.
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London
French War Office
Villers-Cotterets
Chateau Thierry
Antheuil
Oise
Grivesnes
Courcelets
Loge
Bussaines
Rheims
Champagne
France
Paris
Channel
Foch
Haig
Arras
Scarpe
Germany Near Famine Tells of Starving Orphans
The Echo de Paris reports Germany is starving on the western front. An Arbeiter Zeitung item details six malnourished children dying at an orphanage in Zenefort Thuringia after it was ransacked by starving inmates. Professor Franz E Hein warns of harsher weeks ahead and potential wheat shortages.
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Paris
Germany
Echo de Paris
Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung
Zenefort
Thuringia
Franz E. Hein
Bayerischer Zeitung
Munich
Zeebrugge Mole Bombed as British Planes Strike
British air forces claim success with twelve German machines and one balloon shot down while five British aircraft are missing. The raid dropped nine tons of bombs on the Zeebrugge Mole and the Armentieres and Comines stations and other French battle zone targets despite poor daylight visibility.
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Zeebrugge Mole
London
Armentieres
Comines
American cadet faces court martial over uncensored photos
An American aviation cadet is arrested and will be tried by general court martial for attempting to send uncensored photographs to the United States via a civilian attache of the expeditionary forces. The attache has been brought back from a base port under arrest, and some photos reportedly showed indiscreet material. This marks a first case since the general prohibition was issued.
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France
America
New Tax Measure Urged to Boost Revenue
At a House Ways and Means hearing, E L Howe urged exemption of pre war profits from special tax and an installment plan for war taxes. Frederick C Durant proposed a 1 percent consumption tax on gross sales to raise about 2 billion. Rep Crisp signaled fights to broaden tax provisions to all officials. Frat Eder urged exempting foreign invested profits from excess profits tax to keep U S corporations chartered domestically.
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Washington
E. L. Howe
New York
National Retail Dry Goods Association
House
Ways and Means Committee
Frederick C. Durant
Philadelphia
Crisp
Georgia
Supreme Court
Fr. A Eder
Mercantile Bank
Eder
America
Japan to Build Ships for United States Under Steel Pact
The War Industries Board allocates 150000 tons of steel to Japan to expedite shipbuilding for the U S. The steel is rushed to seaboard for rapid use in ships. Delivery began promptly after signing, but a cabling error slowed steel shipments. negotiations to fix the error have continued for weeks.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Japan
United States
Prisoner Pat O'Brien Survives Flight Battle and Escape
Lieut. Pat O'Brien of Memence Illinois and the British Naval Flying Corps survived a battle with four German aircraft. He was taken prisoner and escaped by leaping from a moving train, wandering over two months in enemy territory before reaching Holland. He reportedly suffered a broken nose from his second fall, attributed to a 2000 foot drop at Kelly Field.
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San Antonio
Texas
Pat O'Brien
Memence
Ill
Naval Flying Corps
Holland
Kelly Field
Meatless weeks proposed in Bavaria amid food shortage
The Home Secretary announced the need for meatless weeks in Bavaria due to a serious food shortage. A Copenhagen dispatch to Exchange Telegraph cites Augsburg reports of depleted cattle stocks and lack of other major provisions.
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Bavaria
London
Home Secretary
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Augsburg
Recruiting of Labor Washington War Time Measure
The United States Employment Service will assume control of all recruitment for war industries on July 15. Initial recruiting covers unskilled labor only with private skilled worker recruiting governed by War Labor Policies Board rules. Government departments and private war employers file unskilled labor needs and the service sets priorities.
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Washington
United States Employment Service
War Labor Policies Board
Employment Service
Prisoners Captured After Belleau Wood Action
American marines took about 400 prisoners in the Belleau Wood engagement near Chateau-Thierry. Six officers were among the captives as Germans fled from an artillery barrage that blocked escape. The prisoners, poorly clad, expressed relief at capture and some wished to emigrate to the United States.
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France
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
United States
Marriage Exemption Rules Narrowing Under Draft Law
Washington announces drastic draft regulation amendments by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Marriages since enactment of the selective draft law no longer exempt except for men who came of age after June 5 1917 and married before January 15 1918. Local boards must reclassify such cases. Dependency claims for children of these marriages allowed if born or unborn before June 9 1918.
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Washington
Congress
Crowder
Eight American Soldiers Buried With Honors at Suresnes
Eight American soldiers who died from wounds in last week’s fighting at Bouresches near Chateau-Thierry were buried with military honors. A guard of honor of Marines and Republican Guards accompanied the funeral at Suresnes Cemetery, now dedicated to the American expeditionary forces.
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Paris
Bouresches
Chateau-Thierry
Guard of Honor
Suresnes
Service Insignia Adopted for Short Overseas Service
Washington reports the War Department has adopted a sky blue cloth chevron to designate army service abroad under six months. Officers field clerks and enlisted men recalled from France before half a year may wear the insignia in place of the gold chevron.
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Washington
War Department
France
Mines Destroyed Off New Zealand Coast By Allies
Wellington report says two enemy mines were destroyed off North Cape the western tip of New Zealand. It is believed the mines were laid by a German raider likely the Seeadler formerly the Pass of Balhama.
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Wellington
N.Z
North Cape
New Zealand
Seeadler
Balhama
Paris Court Martial Condemns Spy Madame M to Death
A Paris court-martial condemned Madame M., 37, to death for espionage. Her son Noel, 16, accused as accomplice, is to be sent to a prison colony until he reaches legal age.
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Paris
Madame M
Noel
Convicts Escape From Tennessee Prison
Three convicts escaped from Tennessee State Prison by jumping onto a train beside the prison, forcing the engineer to start the locomotive. They rode a mile outside the city, robbed occupants of $70, then fled in an automobile before abandoning it and fleeing across a field. They shot a farmer before taking a buggy and continuing the escape.
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Nashville
Tenn
President Wilson backs world wide suffrage pledge
President Wilson endorses world wide suffrage in response to a memorial from the French Union of Women Suffrage and allied groups in Britain Belgium Italy and Portugal He states that equal voting rights for women should be a global aim tied to permanent peace urging the U S Senate to pass the suffrage amendment this session The memorial cites self determination and durable peace as guiding aims
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Washington
Wilson
French Union of Women Suffrage
Great Britain
Belgium
Italy
Portugal
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
America
Senate of the
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Hitchcock Sentenced to Ten Years in Atlanta Prison
Amos L. Hitchcock socialist member of the Cleveland School Board was taken to the Federal prison at Atlanta to serve ten years. He was convicted on two of three counts in an indictment charging unpatriotic utterances and opposition to the third liberty loan during a Sandusky speech.
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Toledo
Amos L. Hitchcock
Cleveland School Board
Atlanta
Liberty Loan
Sandusky
German spy band member held by naval authorities in Philadelphia
A bartender employed at Atlantic City is held by naval authorities in Philadelphia on suspicion of belonging to a German spy ring believed to have signaled U-boats at sea.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Power Conservation Stressed at Atlantic City Convention
In Atlantic City New Jersey Charles E Stuart of the United States Fuel Administration urged members of the National Light Association to impose the most drastic economy in coal use to conserve power supply.
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Atlantic City
N. J
National Light Association
Charles E. Stuart
United States Fuel Administration
Roman Legion of America Formally Organized in New York
The Roman Legion of America was officially formed in New York to counter German propaganda opposing Italy and to combat enemy lies.
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New York
Roman Legion of America
Italy
McAdoo Sets Rail Policy to Speed Troop Moves
Director General McAdoo outlines United States Railroad Administration goals to win the war through rapid troop and material movement, reliable public service, humane management, and frugal, efficient operation. He stresses worker and patron relations, standardized equipment, fair wages, and data driven efficiency.
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Western
Union News Service
Washington
McAdoo
United States Railroad Administration
Gas Masks To Guard Food For Army In France
Washington reports that American troops in France will wear gas masks including food carriers and animals. The Quartermaster Department says food containers are paraffin sealed to endure gas zones. Tests show the process meets all conditions.
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Washington
France
Quartermaster Department
Farm Labor Bureau seeks 955 workers in Ohio farms
Columbus Ohio The Farm Labor Bureau of the Ohio Defense Council announced that 955 men and boys are wanted to work on farms in Ohio at once. These positions are highly essential and men entering farm service will be serving their country by helping to produce more food for our soldiers and allies say T D Phillips head of the Farm Labor Service.
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Columbus
Farm Labor Bureau
Ohio Defense Council
Ohio
T. D. Phillips
Farm Labor Service
The
Defense Council
One Killed When Auto Overturns Near Toledo
Richard Quick aged 23 of Highland Park Detroit was instantly killed in a west Toledo crash. Miss Belle Griffith aged 22 was seriously wounded and four girl companions sustained lesser injuries when the automobile overturned west of the city.
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Toledo
Ohio
Richard Quick
Highland Park
Detroit
Belle Griffith
Revenue Bureau Compiles List of Highly Profitable Firms
Washington reports hundreds of clerks in the internal revenue bureau are assembling a list of 100,000 corporations that earned more than 16 percent profit last year to furnish the Senate with evidence of corporate gains.
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Washington
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
New York raids net 250 draft suspects in early morning sweep
Police raided all night eateries poolrooms and rooming houses across the city and pressed 250 men as possible draft evaders. For the first time tearooms in Greenwich Village were targeted with more than twenty summonses served and 150 men found without draft credentials.
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New York
Tea Rooms
Greenwich Village
Eliphalet Marston and the Honest Shovel Tale
In Miss Rosalind Richards' A Northern Countryside villagers are sketched with warmth. Old Eliphalet Marston, shovel factory owner, embodies business prudence and quality. His visit to a Chicago dealer showcases pride in a single trusted shovel.
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Rosalind Richards
Eliphalet Marston
Eliphalet
Chicago
Marston
Marston Plains
Custom of Good Friday Coin Distribution at St Bartholomew’s
The London Morning Post reports that six penny pieces are dropped on a flat tomb in St Bartholomew the Great churchyard for 21 widows aged eighty-five to sixty. Corporal W H Trons set the coins, Butterworth funded the ritual thirty years ago, and Mr Deputy Turner had run the ceremony for eight decades.
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St. Bartholomew-the-Great
West Smithfield
St. Bartholomew
W. H. Trons
A. BE
Butterworth
Deputy Turner
London Morning Post
New Chapter in Anthropology from the Talgai Skull
Prof Wood-Jones of the University of London analyzes the Talgai skull found in New South Wales in 1889. The find suggests ancient humans highly developed, predating apes, with domesticated dogs and boars in a mineralized skull context and bones of extinct pouched animals around them. The article argues Talgai man arrived by boat with family and dogs to Australia, an island since pouched animal evolution.
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Wood-Jones
University of London
New South Wales
Australia
Captain Cook
Cincinnati Markets Flour Hay and Grain Prices
Market prices listed for flour hay and grain including flour varieties prices for patent and blended flour, timothy and clover hay, oats corn and mixed grades, butter eggs poultry live stock hogs sheep and calves with ranges for each category based on grade and weight in Cincinnati markets.
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Northwestern
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Lansing
Lockeren
East Flanders
Alost
U. S
French Union
Deglares McAdoo
Farm Bureau
Cincinnati
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