British transport Dwinsk torpedoed. 67 crew missing at sea
A British transport chartered by the United States was struck by a torpedo 700 miles east of the Delaware capes. Sixty-seven crewmen are missing after the sinking. Four lifeboats carried 81 men to safety. two boats were found, one by a steamer to New York and another to Hampton Roads, and one by a sailing vessel to Bermuda. The ship’s name was withheld by agreement with the British admiralty.
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Washington
Delaware Capes
Navy Department
Admiralty
New York
Hampton Roads
Bermuda
Giant Wooden Ship Project Expands to 5,000-Ton Standard Type
The Washington Shipping Board plans to turn out the largest wooden ship ever built a 5,000-ton standard vessel adapted from a 4,700-ton model. Machinery for 8,500-ton wooden ships will be reused. The design allows towing barges for greater carrying capacity and plans for a fleet of 2,500-ton towing barges are under way.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Projections for Next Year Form Three American Armies
The plan envisions three American armies of 1,375,000 men each. Each army has thirty divisions and five corps, with six divisions per corps. Each army includes 300,000 noncombatants, leaving 1,076,000 fighting men per army. Divisions would total 32,500 soldiers.
Australian Premier to Visit London and US for Pacific Policy
Australian Prime Minister William Hughes plans a trip to London and the United States to present a full statement of Australia's Monroe doctrine policy for the Pacific. He seeks U S support and cooperation to maintain the policy.
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London
William Hughes
United States
Wilson
Australia
Pacific
Monument to first fallen soldier planned with national drive
A monument project to honor the first soldier to fall here is announced. A national executive committee of prominent men from every state is to be named to coordinate fund raising and oversight.
Nebraska Lieutenant Killed in Action at Paris
Lieut Grosvenor P. Cather, cited for heroic action, was killed in battle at Paris. He exposed himself to seven German machine guns while directing a destructive flank, displaying splendid courage.
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Nebraska
Paris
Grosvenor P.cather
Burglary Ends Night Watchman’s Tragedy in Bluffs
Elmer Townsend, a merchants night watchman in Council Bluffs, was shot and killed during a burglary incident. Authorities report the event as a violent crime with ongoing investigation into suspects. Local merchants mourn the loss as police pursue leads.
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Nightwatch _ Council
Bluffs
Eclaine
Elmer Townsend
Million Tons of Shipping Washington Contract
The article notes a target of one million tons of new ships to be built on contract in Washington. It outlines factory output and government support for expanding shipbuilding capacity.
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Washington
Delfy
TO FLY ACROSS SEAS WashingtonEurope air route project outlined
Major General William Brancker, in Washington, describes a British plan to establish an air route from the United States to Europe. An initial Atlantic crossing is targeted this fall with English and American pilots, aiming to project bombing capacity over Germany while avoiding shipping. American government stance is not disclosed.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Germany
British Air Council
William Brancker
Council
Atlantic
Brancker
England
Russell Followers Found Guilty in Espionage Trial
In federal court Judge Howe declared the jury found the followers of the late Pastor Russell in the International Bible Students association guilty on all counts for preaching sedition and advising resistance to the draft related to The Finished Mystery. The maximum penalty is forty years per defendant.
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Russell
New York
God
Judge Howe
Pastor Russell
International Bible Students’ Association
Postal officials seize five train agents in night letter plot
Postal inspectors stopped five Western Union agents carrying night messages on trains between New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington. Investigators had evidence thousands of night lettergrams were delivered as if sent by wire, despite regulations requiring telegraph transmission.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Western Union Company
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Sinn Fein Leader OLeary Pleads Mental Stress
Jeremiah A. OLeary pictured himself on the verge of nervous collapse when he fled west on May 7 to escape trial for alleged espionage act violations. He shielded his brother John J. OLeary from charges of aiding his escape, claiming government agents conspired to imprison him.
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O'Leary
New York
John J. O'Leary
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
Sinn Fein
West
Gompers Leads Labor AFL Session In St Paul
The American Federation of Labor finished its session in St Paul after reelecting most officers. Samuel Gompers and James J. Davis were reelected without opposition as leaders. The group adjourned to meet next year in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Gompers
Labor
St. Paul
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
N. J
Samuel Apolis
Bulgaria and Turkey Fence Over Romania Land Split
Germany's foreign secretary Dr. von Kuehlmann told the Reichstag the dispute between Bulgaria and Turkey concerns lands taken from Romania. The remarks came during the first reading of the Romanian peace treaty.
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Bulgaria
Turkey
Amsterdam
Romania
von Kuehlmann
Reichstag
Berlin
Swift and Co. Discrimination Complaint Spurs Probe
The department of labor ordered federal conciliator Charles T. Connell to investigate alleged union employee discrimination at Swift and Co. packers plant in Los Angeles after a labor complaint.
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Los Angeles
Swift & Co
Department of Labor
Charles T. Connell
Health conditions in army camps report praised
Surgeon General reports health conditions in country army camps and cantonments for the week ending June as very satisfactory.
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Washington
Nebraskas War Era News Highlights From Fort Omaha to Sugar Shortage
Nebraska reports cover Fort Omaha balloon school expansion with three new buildings costing about 50000 dollars. Other items include 33 boys added to Brown county war rolls, Sorghum mills planned in Seward county, beet sugar substitute prospects, and calls for school text book reviews for pro German content.
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Fort Omaha
War Service
Brown County
Fred W. Anheuser
Omaha
Beaver City
Nebraska
Nebraska Supreme Court
Saline County
First Methodist Church
Hastings
William Wasser
Neville
League
Red Cross
Johnson
Department of Agriculture
Washington
C. W. Watson
University Agricultural College
State University
C. B. Persinger
G.W. Luckey
Ervin Hopt
State Council of Defense
F. M. Fling
Minnie T. England
Connec
Defeat of Austrian Invaders Ends Italian Stand
The first phase of the Austrian offensive ends in defeat as Austrians retreat across the Piave under fierce Italian counterattacks. Enemy losses reach 180000 with no compensating gains, bridges swept away, and allied air forces harass on a 33 mile front from Montello to the Adriatic. The drive, planned to crush Italy, collapses.
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Italy
Piave
Montello
Adriatic Sea
Victor Emmanuel
Asiago
Sea
Troops Count in France Surpasses 900,000
General March announces to newsmen that American troop movements to France have exceeded 900,000, placing the United States five months ahead of schedule. He outlines Franco-Italian battle positions and asserts the enemy is being held on all fronts with more large blows anticipated.
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Washington
General March
France
War Department
March
United States
Italy
Sugar Ration Begins July First Under Hoover Plan
The Food Administration announces a new sugar ration starting July 1 to address a prospective shortage. Household per capita sugar is set at three pounds with extra canning allowances. candy and soda fountain manufacturers face 60 percent of last year’s consumption and ice cream makers 76 percent.
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BE. A. Cunne
Sear Mitchell
Fremont
Platte
Leshara
State Railway Commission
Street Railway Company of
Lincoln
Kearney
Nebraska
W. W. Burr
Agronomy
University of Nebraska
State Insurance Board
Union Pacific
Jensen
Hemingford
Gage County
Roe
Ponca
Niobrara
Boyd County
Keya Paha
Scottsbluff
Morrill, Garden
Keith
Dawson
Buffalo
Lancaster County Medical Association
Hopt
Persinger
Luckey
Board of Regents
the State University
State Food Administration
Cube
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Oregon Trail
Oak
Nucholls County
Washington
Hoover
Eighty Five Dead In Circus Wreck Near Gary Indiana
In a wreck six miles west of Gary Indiana sixty two Hag enback-Wallace circus workers lie in temporary morgues in Gary and Hammond. General manager Ward Ballard reported eighty five deaths with sixty missing in addition to twenty four identified. Most bodies are charred and mangled beyond recognition.
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Gary
Ind
Hagenback-Wallace Circus
Hammond
Ward Ballard
Dead Men's Clothes Proposal Sparks German Law Debate
In London, Justiziar Otto Feig a Berlin lawyer proposed a law requiring heirs or estate administrators of deceased persons to surrender all clothing to the state. The plan aims to reveal Germanys clothing plight and compel state control over garments abandoned by the dead.
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London
Germany
Justiziar Otto Feig
Berlin
Husband Confesses to Train Slaying in Missouri
J R Jackson, cashier for a local film company, confessed at a Kansas City police station to murdering his wife whose partly clad body was found near Burlington tracks by Sheibin Missouri. Police from several cities had been seeking the slayer.
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Kansas City
Burlington
Sheibin
J. R. Jackson
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