United States Officials Gauge WWI Battle Conditions
War department officials in Washington report Americans may join the major assault at the front. They acknowledge no official word yet but expect U S troops to participate. French British plans and a Versailles council reserve include American units for a joint Franco British left flank blow and a right flank Canadian British effort. Reports on German progress cite prisoner captures and slowed momentum as Haig’s forces retreat under heavy German strength. Technical doubts about a Paris gun 76 miles away are noted, with officials awaiting confirmation.
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Supreme War Council
Versailles
Haig
London
Paris
Chary
Crowder Calls 4509 Men to Technical School Training
Provost Marshal General Crowder issued orders directing 4,509 selectives from Illinois Indiana Iowa and Minnesota to enroll in fourteen technical schools. Training runs April 5 to 28 with housing and all costs covered. Graduates join the signal corps as aero plane mechanics and receive military instruction during study. The plan aims to train about 200,000 men in coming months for specialized units.
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Crowder
Washington
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Signal Corps
Crow-ler
Americans Win French War Cross for Capturing German Crew
Captain Herbert Hartwell of Springfield Massachusetts and Sub Lieutenant Walter France of Oakland City Indiana received the French War Cross for individually capturing the three members of a German air crew during an air raid on Paris. They chased the German captain and lieutenant into a trench, set the aircraft on fire, and provided first aid to the injured. French troops later took charge of the prisoners near Clamecy north of the Aisne river between Soissons and Les Trois Sources.
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Wales
France
Herbert Hartwell
Springfield
Mass
Walter France
Oakland City
Ind
Chemin Des Dames
Paris
Wolf
Kammerer
Ergeant Fisher
Hartwell
Clamecy
Arters
German Sympathizers Killed in Oklahoma
Tulsa report notes two killings tied to pro German remarks. Joe Ling, a German waiter, allegedly wished death on American soldiers in France and was shot by Si Miller, a county defense officer. In a separate incident, Bulgarian miner Steven Ivenoff was shot by Patrolman Mains for sedition.
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Tulsa
Okla
Joe Ling
France
Si Miller
County Council of Defense
Sing
Steven Ivenoff
Hickory
Charleston Lieutenant Catches German Listener
A lone Charleston, South Carolina lieutenant earned ten days leave after stealthily crossing No Man's Land to seize a German listening post. With an automatic pistol, he captured a lone listener under machine gun fire and returned the prisoner to American lines.
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H G Wales
France
Charleston
S. C
No Man’s Land
Death of Killingworth Resident in Conn
Killingworth Conn March 25 J Irving Stevens a Middletown Civil War veteran died at his sister Mrs Edgar Harris home Sunday afternoon at age 75 years 6 months 24 days He was unmarried He leaves one brother Hosmer Stevens of Madison a sister Mrs Edgar Harris and several nieces and nephews The funeral will be from his late home Wednesday at one p m Rev Andrew Leitch of Killingworth Congregational church will officiate Interment in Evergreen cemetery
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Killingworth
Conn
J. Irving Stevens
Middletown
Edgar Harris
Hosmer Stevens
Madison
Andrew Leitch
Killingworth Congregational Church
Evergreen Cemetery
Knitting Claim as State's Oldest Knitter Challenged
In Unionville Connecticut on March 23 Mrs J Antoinette Hamilton aged eighty three claimed to be the oldest knitter in the state. Her assertion is challenged by local residents Mary Griggs eighty five John C Tracey who will be eighty eight next birthday and E V Sage who recently had her ninetieth birthday.
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Unionville
Conn
J. Antoinette Hamilton
Mary Griggs
John C. Tracey
E. V. Sage
Chicago doctors establish free human repair factory
In Chicago on March 25 a group of patriotic physicians opened a so called factory where people with poor teeth clogged nostrils or wheezing throats receive free medical repair. Local surgeons donate time and several men have been repaired and deemed fit by exemption boards.
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Chicago
Stovill Manufacturing Names Exempted Workers for Reclassification
Action against a group of former Stovill Manufacturing employees who had deferred classification for munition work shows the company securing reclassification for ten workers. After exemption, they left the firm and their names were turned over to draft officials today.
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Waterbury
Stovill Manufacturing Company
Industrial Service Department
Senate panel expands enemy alien law to women
The senate judiciary committee voted to report favorably an amendment extending the enemy alien law to women. Alien women must register as alien enemies, but American women who have married aliens are excluded from registration.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
British Relieved by French Troops on Noyon Front
Paris dispatch says French forces relieved British amid the Noyon sector fighting as the German offensive intensifies. French troops are contesting heights on the right bank of the Oise while German assaults east of Suippes and near Badonvillers were repulsed with heavy losses. Official war office note cites violent artillery fire in the Courcy Loivre area and ongoing hard fighting along multiple sectors.
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Paris
Noyon
War Office
Oise
Chauny
Suippes
Champagne
Courcy-Loivre
Avocourt
Vosges Mountains
Badonvillers
Blimevey
Happenings in This Vicinity 25 Years Ago
A schooner loaded brownstone arrived at the quarries. Reform Club speakers Charles W. Cramer and Fred Porteous lectured. A locomotive crane was added to Shailer and Hall quarry. Middletown National Bank opened new quarters. Rev. Harrison Closson preached as he recovers. Tom O Connell returns from Florida health trip. Charles Camp sold his Durham Avenue home to George H Nichols. Charles Reynolds returns after illness. Dr B P Raymond preached at North church. A red pig drowned after falling from the dock. George Norton visits town from former branch railroad work.
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B. F. Brainerd
Bushnell
Charles W. Cramer
Fred Porteous
Portland
Reform Club
Shailer & Hall
Middletown National Bank
Harrison Closson
Universalist Church
George H. Hurlburt
Tom O'Connell
Florida
Charles C. Camp
Durham Avenue
George H. Nichols
Charles Reynolds
B. P. Raymond
Wesleyan
North Church
George Norton
Branch
Druggists Market New Cold Treatment VapoRub
Local druggists offer Vicks VapoRub in 25c 50c and $1.00 sizes on a 30 day trial. The remedy, praised for external relief of croup coughs chest colds sore throats and bronchitis, is applied to the throat and chest or inhaled via the nostrils for head colds catarrh hay fever and asthma. Mothers with small children are especially interested in its nonotropic use.
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Vick
Numebers
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Slave Dies At 118 In Laurel Maryland
Laurel March 25 Bayard Jones Gray a slave for over a century who cultivated four masters during slavery days died here at age 118. He kept perfect eyesight and worked actively until nearly 100 years old. Try a Press Want Adv.
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Laurel
Del
Bayard Jones Gray
Gray
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