Senate Revises War Revenue Bill Prunes Tax Burden
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports the Senate Finance Committee began revising the 1.2 billion war revenue bill. The panel favors cutting the gross levy about one third to 1.25 million while keeping total tax burden from rising. They oppose added Treasury estimates and discuss funding short-term bonds to cover year’s declines.
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Union News Service
Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury Department
Simmons
Smeeting
U-Boats Not As Effective In Weekal Shipping Losses
London reports a shipping statement showing 18 merchantmen over 1,600 tons sunk, plus nine smaller ships and three fishing vessels. Losses for the third week running stay well below earlier alarm, with last week’s totals far under the prior week. The April 26 report noted 40 vessels over 1,600 tons sunk.
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London
Ninth and Eighth Training Divisions Test Rifle Range
Ft. Benjamin Harrison Ind Ninth Training Division of Indiana and Kentucky boys completed its first rifle range work. Ohio and West Virginia candidates formed the Eighth Division and tested at 200 yards. Both groups fired ten shots per man with five standing and five prone. Range officers expect further skill with more rifle experience. Drills focused on handling on the skirmish line.
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Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
West Virginia
Warren County Court Closes Early For Harvest Auto
Warren circuit court halts four weeks to allow jurors to return home for the strawberry harvest. Warren County leads the nation in strawberry production with the crop value projected at over six hundred thousand dollars this year. Columbus recruit weighs in after dramatic weight gain narrative.
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Bowling Green
Warren
Warren County
America
Government guide on avoiding selective service deployment
The Provost Marshal General Crowder issues guidance for registrants about not using dependents to dodge the new national army. It states the government does not want to draft sole providers unless the person is the sole support of dependents, and such exemptions depend on the individual's circumstances.
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Washington
New National Army
Crowder
Relentless relief under way after massive Atlanta fire
Relief work continues as $50,000 in aid is subscribed for victims of a $3.5 million blaze that destroyed 1,563 buildings in Northeastern Atlanta. The Red Cross runs a clearing house for returning household goods and reuniting families while utilities and street services are restored. A guard maintains order as residents seek missing relatives and navigate the displacement.
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Atlanta
Red Cross
Brazil May Enter Conflict Likely Soon, War Seen Inevitable
Washington reports Brazil's entry into the war as a matter of days. Observers tied the Tijuca sinking to shifting Brazilian Congress toward authorizing active hostilities against Germany. President Braz urged Congress to revoke neutrality, signaling a probable formal declaration of war.
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Washington
Brazil
Tijuca
Congress
Germany
Braz
Wreck on B and O Train Near Mineral injures Cincinnatians
A B and O passenger train No 3 bound west derailed on a seventy five foot bridge at Mineral west of Athens. Four coaches plunged into a creek while the engine left the track at fifty miles an hour. Two sleeping cars stayed on the rails and the steel coaches saved possibly many lives. Trainmen cannot yet determine the wreck cause.
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Athens
Ohio hospitalian urges care for well and sick in state
Dr. J. T. Henderson, secretary of Grace Hospital in Cleveland, urged at the Ohio Hospital Association convention that the state should provide a hospital for mothers to give birth to their children, stressing care for both the well and the sick.
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Columbus
J. T. Henderson
Board of Trustees
Grace Hospital
Cleveland
Ohio Hospital Association
War Department forms two new cavalry regiments
Washington. War Department orders organize the Eighteenth and Nineteenth regiments of cavalry at Ft. Ethan Allen Vermont. Battalions of the Second Cavalry at the post will form the nucleus of the new regiments.
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Washington
War Department
Ft. Ethan Allen
Second Cavalry
French Liner Sontay Torpedoed with Passengers
Paris reports the French liner Sontay, en route from Saloniki to Marseilles with 344 passengers, was torpedoed April 16. Forty five lives are listed as lost with all hands feared.
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Paris
Ner Sontay
Marseilles
Saloniki
Hoover approves revised food bill granting wartime powers
Hoover endorses Lever’s revised food administration bill enabling the President to requisition supplies fix prices and curb hoarding and speculation. The bill aims to empower a national food program with embargo powers and coordination with trades to avoid burdening legitimate commerce. Senate meanwhile revises the Gore food bill already backed by the administration.
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Washington
House
Lever
Committee On Agriculture
Herbert C. Hoover
Hoover
Food Administration
U. K
Houston
Senate
Gore
Red Cross to Launch $100 Million Campaign
A national Red Cross drive to raise 100 million dollars to aid American soldiers abroad and assist war-devastated districts was announced at a meeting of representatives from over 40 cities. More than 100 attendees signaled strong public willingness to contribute.
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Washington
Red Cross
Norwegian Ship Madura Sunk by German Submarine
Thirteen survivors from the Norwegian steamship Madura reached land after the vessel was shelled and sunk by a German submarine. Two men were killed and seven wounded as the submarine fired on men lowering boats. Twenty three survivors from the Russian ship Lynton also reached land, including the captain's wife.
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London
Lynton
Smoke Bombs Deployed To Shield Vessels In War Zone
Reports from an American port aboard a French ship describe smoke bombs used on merchant vessels to deter submarine attacks. Crewmembers throw them by hand. upon contact with water they ignite a dense black cloud that persists for over an hour, concealing ship movements in danger from attacks.
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New York
Premier Tuan Chi Jiu Dismissed in China
President Li Yuan Hung dismisses Premier Tuan Chi Jiu and names Wu Ting-Fang acting premier to form a new cabinet. The move could break parliamentary deadlock and pave the way for a war declaration against Germany.
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Peking
Li Yuan Hung
Tuan Chi Jiu
Wu Ting-Fang
United States
China
Germany
Two American Nurses Killed in Naval Gun Practice
An explosion during gun practice on an American armed merchantman killed Edith Ayers of Attica Ohio and Helen Burnett Wood of Chicago and injured Emma Matzen of Columbus Nebraska. The ship, one day out of New York, returned as a naval inquiry begins to determine the accident cause.
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New York
Edith Ayers
Attica
Helen Burnett Wood
Chicago
Fed Cross
France
Emma Matzen
Columbus
Neb
New Army Medical Schools Planned at Four Forts
Washington announces establishment of army medical schools at Fort Riley Kansas Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana Fort Oglethorpe Georgia and possibly Leon Springs Texas to train 5 000 now with 10 000 more needed by year end Three new divisions of the army medical corps are created to oversee sanitary inspection hospital and construction and medical military instruction under senior officers These camps will each train 600 doctors and in Kansas Georgia Indiana will be ready June 1
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Army Medical Corps
Frederick P. Reynolds
James B. Glennan
Edward L. Munson
Henry R. Birmingham
Kansas
Georgia
Indiana
Lansing Rejects American Delegates to Stockholm Peace Conference
Washington denounces the Stockholm peace talks by European Socialists and withholds passports from American delegates. Officials say participation could incur heavy legal penalties under the Logan Act of 1790, aimed at discrediting unauthorized peace moves and condemning Socialist agitation viewed as German-inspired.
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Washington
Germany
Stockholm
Lansing
Transport Transylvania Torpedoed Off Mediterranean
British transport Transylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4 with the loss of 413 persons. The ship carried troops and officers 29 commanders and 373 other ranks, the ship's captain Lieut. 8 Brewell and one officer with nine crew members were among the dead.
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Transylvania
London
Mediterranean
Brewell
Dry for the First Time at Ft. Sam Houston Clubs
San Antonio reports that for the first time since Ft. Sam Houston was established officers observed no intoxicating spirits at the two clubs run for soldiers. The historic move marks a new policy result in military life with tight control over alcohol service on base.
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San Antonio
Ft. Sam Houston
Deposed Malagasy Queen Ranavalena Dies in Exile
Former Queen Ranavalena of Madagascar dies at her Algiers home after living in exile since 1896 when she was deposed by the French amid anti Christian unrest.
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Algiers
Ranavalena
Madagascar
Leniency Sought for Aliens by Employers
Washington readers learn that the Committee on Public Information urges employers to avoid dismissing alien workers who have not completed naturalization. The message emphasizes fair treatment during the naturalization process and workforce continuity.
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Washington
Committee On Public Information
Lloyd George Lauds Submarine War Progress and U S Aid
London premier Lloyd George declared in the House of Commons that the last three weeks showed sharper submarine blows than any war period before. He credited American aid and ships, saying the United States now in the war eases protecting mercantile routes. He cautioned details remain sensitive but promised progress and a reduction in shipping losses.
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Union News Service
London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
England
Tornado Destruction Strikes Kansas Towns and Farms
A sequence of tornadoes hit Harvey and Sedgwick counties causing at least 30 deaths and extensive property loss. Andale suffered near total destruction reducing its population. a half mile swath between Andale and Newton cleared homes and barns in a rich farming area. Nine fatalities occurred near Sedgwick and three southeast of Newton. Hail damaged crops as the storm tracked from the southwest, leveling houses, trees and fields.
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Wichita
Kan
Harvey
Sedgewick
Andale
Newton
Paris Plans Meat Cards To Curb Hoarding And Prices
A conference with Premier Ribot and ministers Malvy and Violletté agreed to introduce meat cards soon. The system fixes maximum prices, imposes penalties for unfair distribution, and allows buyers to purchase at a set sum via a special scale. Wholesale butchers have set temporary price caps, lowering from 10 to 16 cents per pound.
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Paris
Ribot
Louis J. Malvy
Interior
Maurice Violletté
German Spy System Acknowledged By Navy Department
Washington confirms the German spy system operates in the United States army and fleet. Spies gather information for Berlin and send it in time to threaten American ships and troops. Secretary Daniels says word of an American destroyer flotilla heading to Europe was relayed to Germany and German submarines scattered mines at the harbor entrance.
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Washington
United States Army
Berlin
Navy Department
Daniels
Europe
Germany
Brazil to revoke neutrality and police South Atlantic
Rio Janeiro reports that a meeting of parliamentary and diplomatic committees called by the Foreign Minister decided to revoke Brazil's neutrality in the war between the United States and Germany. The plan includes patrolling the South Atlantic with the Brazilian fleet.
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Rio Janeiro
Jornal Do Commercio
Brazil
United States
Germany
South Atlantic
Washington cabinet officials outline war aims to editors
Members of the cabinet and other leaders outlined war aims and needs to editors of technical and trade publications. They stressed the scale of the national task and urged publishers to support the shift from peacetime to wartime industry. Cabinet officers and Council of National Defense representatives detailed war preparation efforts.
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Washington
Council of National Defense
Council
Nervousness and Blues in Washington Park Woman
Mrs Rost of Stopies Sage Avenue Washington Park Illinois says four children and female trouble plus backache and nervous spells left her irritable. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with restoring health and youthfulness and thanks the company for free advice offered by letter from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Washington Park
Lydia E. Pinkham
Has Your Husband Got Good Sound Teeth
A chatty exchange teases a wife about her husband's teeth and a surprising claim. The wife replies he has sound teeth, though she has not seen them all, noting that the other night he got frightened and she heard them.
Freezone promises painless corn and callus removal
A Cincinnati man reportedly discovered a compound named freezone that removes corns and calluses without pain. A tiny bottle is sold by druggists. apply drops on the affected area, and the corn or callus supposedly loosens and lifts without irritation.
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Cincinnati
Adv
Australia Holds Largest Share of World Sheep
Australia is estimated to contain two elevenths of the global sheep population, indicating it has the most sheep among nations.
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Australia
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Promises Quick Relief
A promotional ad claims Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment cures fiery red pimples and skin irritations. It touts daily use as ideal for toilet needs and offers free samples by mail with a postcard to Cuticura Dept. Boston.
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Cutleura
Dept
Boston
Careful driving jokes and old adv notes on remedies
The fragment mentions a joke about a careful driver who slows for police. It then notes medicines to aid system recovery and references Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a combined tonic. An old adv claims paper shirts help Japanese soldiers against cold.
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Wright
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