Dirigibles Readied for Newfoundland Flight Delays
May 12 reports from Trepassey and surrounding bases say Martinsyde and Sopwith planes await favorable weather before attempting the Atlantic hop. The American NC-1 and NC-3 airboats face possible false starts and fuel load adjustments, with C5 blimp poised at Montauk Point to launch if ordered.
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JST. Johns
N. F
Atlantic
Harbor
Here
Trepassey
Chicago
Quidi Vidi
Montauk Point
L. L
Commander Towers
Azores
Chatham
Mass
All American Division Arrives in Hoboken and Brooklyn
Transport Alaskan docks in Hoboken with 2,129 officers and men of the All American Division S204 and 1,024 more fighters arrive in Brooklyn at the same time. The units are formed from replacements from across the United States. Casualty list duties noted among the New York area forces.
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Alaskan
New York
Hoboken
Arcadia
Yed Sq
Union
Mihiel
Eines
Whitman
Balloons Drift After Coast Race In Frosty Weather
Seven balloons started from a coastal station near Lake and drifted northeast into cold fog. One balloon capsized while others reported seas running high and winds near 29 miles per hour.
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Hio
Gort
Lake
Atlantic Coast
Congress Faces Push to Pass Key Appropriations and Pact
Washington May 12. As the 66th congress convenes under President Wilson, Republicans and Democrats confront swift action on four plus billion dollars in annual appropriations and the peace treaty with the League covenant, while reconciling reconstruction goals, suffrage debates, and looming 1920 electoral considerations.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Wilson
Capitol
White House
Penrose
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Navy
Reclamation Service
Total‘co
Utah
Redfield Or Glass Could Leave Cabinet
Washington May 12 The resignation of either Secretary of Commerce Redfield or Secretary of the Treasury Glass was seen as possible amid a split over the industrial board crisis. Redfield accused the board of an unsound policy while Glass defended rail interests. President Wilson’s handling was suggested as a possible fix, with resignations deemed plausible unless he intervenes.
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Washington
Commerce Redfield
Redfield
Glass
Peek
Wilson
Assignment to convoy announced by War Department
Washington May 12 the War Department announced assignments to an early convoy including 804th Pioneer Infantry 24th Engineers 317th Field Battalion Signal Corps Signal Corps Casual Company Five Military Police Companies 221 275 Evacuation Ambulance Corps 12 69 71 Provisional Evacuation Ambulance Company No 1 Advanced Veterinary Hospitals Three and Five Fourth and Fifth Battalions 229 Engineers Base Veterinary Hospital No 1 Mobile Veterinary Section Six Veterinary Hospital 11 Clothing and Band Units 334 335 Sales Commissary Units 315 51 Headquarters and Headquarters Troop Ninth Corps Bakery Company 355 Company A 501st Engineer Company B 364th Supply Train 15th Company 20th Engineers Company D 511th Engineers Battalion Headquarters and Company A 616th Engineers Service Battalion Camp Hospital 21 including Hospital L
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Washington
War Department
804Th Pioneer Infantry
24Th Engineers
Signal Corps
Ninth Corps
20Th Engineers
X Ray Expert Dr LaField Speaks at Central Medical Luncheon
Bridgeport physician Dr W A LaField, a leading X ray authority in New England, will address the Central Medical association at a Chafee House luncheon tonight. He will discuss his X-ray work and will stay as a guest at Dr S B Campbell’s home, noting their shared Vermont college education.
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W. A. LaField
Bridgeport
New England States
Chafee House
Central Medical Association
LaField
Association
Dr. LaField
S. 8. Campbell
Campbell
Vermont College
French Interpellation on Peace Terms in Parliament
Paris May 12 The French government will be interpellated on the peace terms in the chamber of deputies by M Renaudet socialist leader tomorrow Premier Clemenceau cannot attend due to engagements leaving the session possibly unanswered The socialist federation of the Seine declared the terms a compromise between President Wilsons idealism and Great Britains imperialism The organization was said to需 undertake action against masked imperialism
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Renaudet
Central News
Clemenceau
Socialist Federation of the
Ilson
Great Britain
Aod
Action Peat
Missing girl identified in Waterbury case
Waterbury May 13 police identified a young girl missing from her New York home. The text notes she had been away from her family and was connected to the estate of the late Benjamin Stern, but further details are garbled.
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Waterbury
Pitt
Enjamin Stern
New York
Major Buckley Discharged In Hartford May 12
Ma. John Buckley, executive secretary to Gover, has been discharged. The action follows health or administrative reasons cited by Hartford officials. Buckley served in the office for several years and his departure prompts a review of internal staff arrangements.
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Major Buckley
Hartford
John Buckley
Gover
Middletown Passes Victory Liberty Loan Quota
Middletown, Connecticut population 21,000, has already surpassed its quota of 1,017,000 dollars in Victory Liberty bonds. The news reached soldiers in Coblenz, Germany, via The Amaroc News dated April 23, highlighting the town’s rapid success and pride in its fundraising effort.
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Middletown
Amaroc News
England
Coblenz
Germany
Conn
Victory Loan Subscriptions Reach Over One Billion
Washington May 12 Treasury officials predicted Victory loan subscriptions would total at least 1,000,000,000 dollars with no district yet submitting complete figures. Official totals likely not known before May 26 as banks report by May 20 and the Fed banks by May 24. Officials estimated about 15 million Americans bought Victory notes, compared with 21 million in the fourth loan, 17 million in the third, 9.4 million in the second, and 4 million in the first.
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Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve
War Loan Organization
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury Department
Conrad G. Bacon Overcome by Gas
Attorney Conrad G. Bacon narrowly escaped asphyxiation from escaping gas Sunday afternoon. A gas radiator heated the bathroom and released significant fumes after being turned off. A sound of a fall led Frederick S. Bacon to break the door. Bacon lay unconscious on the floor but soon regained consciousness with no ill effects by morning.
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Conrad G. Bacon
Mr. Bacon
Frederick S. Bacon
Thomas P. Walsh
Bacon
Youthful Patriot Gives Earnings to Red Cross
Master Thomas Frissell seven son of Mr and Mrs Frank sel of Silver street South Farms earned five dollars last month and donated it to the Red Cross. He organized a juvenile circus net two dollars and fifty cents and a magic lantern show raising two dollars and fifty cents, all given to the Red Cross.
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America
American Red Cross
Thomas Frissell
Frank Sel
Silver Street
South Farms
Red Cross
Tommy
Boat Fire Sighted Man Sought After Fiorita Fire
Three boys saw a man Friday night leaving the power boat Fiorita which belonged to Arthur N Prout. The craft was destroyed by fire and the man cannot be found. Authorities intensify the search amid mounting suspicion.
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Arthur N. Prout
Wisconsin Troops Leave Camp Devens for Demobilization
A troop train carrying Wisconsin soldiers from the 120th field artillery and 150th machine gun battalion departed Camp Devens this afternoon bound for Camp Grant in Rockford Illinois. The men will be demobilized there as part of postwar discharge efforts.
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Wisconsin
Camp Devens
120Th Field Artillery
150Th Machine Gun Battalion
Rainbow Vision
Amp Grant
Rockford
Ill
American Soldier Bathes in Ex-Kaiser’s Tub in Neuenahr Palace
In Coblenz Germany May 1942 Leo Patterson a black lightweight champion of the American Expeditionary Force is credited as the first American soldier to bathe in the ex-Kaiser’s bathtub at Neuenahr palace amid celebratory remarks and wartime morale.
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Coblenz
Germany
Leo Patterson
Neuenahr
Patterson
German Assembly Divided Over Peace Terms
May 12 Berlin reports a full session of the national assembly to discuss the peace terms. Independent factions push for continued negotiations while protests arise against delivering ex‑Kaiser or officials to the Entente. Mass meetings in Silesia and Poland arming voices echo the resistance as German press condemns terms.
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Berlin
National Assembly
Versailles
German Peoples’ Party
Entente
Prince Lichnowsky
Berliner Tageblatt
Germany
England
Silesia
Wilson
Oppeln
Saxony
Posen
Cologne
London
Scheidemann
German National Assembly
Daily News Today
House Honors Chaplain Hildreth With Gold Watch
Lawmakers extend thanks to Chaplain Homer Hildreth of Cromwell for services. Rev. Watson Phillips presented a gold watch. Phillips praised Hildreth as sky pilot who has not used office to influence legislation. Hildreth pledged to cherish lawmakers’ regard and spoke of his chaplaincy with the Sixth Connecticut State Guard.
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Homer Wesley
Hildreth
Cromwell
Watson
Phillips
Huntington
Hildreath
House
Sixth
Connecticut State Guard
Midwest Soldiers Return From Front to Boston
About 1100 field artillerymen who fought from Chateau Thierry to armistice day arrive in Boston aboard the USS Georgia and debark at Commonwealth Pier. They served in midwestern units and are greeted on U.S. soil after months in the fighting.
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Boston
Chateau Thierry
America
Georgia
Four Powers Seek New Frontiers and Baltic Peace
London reports Marshal Foch may retire with Petain to succeed him while Clemenceau and Petain confer in Paris. A commission approves new Hungarian frontiers, Austrian terms face many details, and Adriatic rivalries show little headway. Baltic issues prompt a new commission and potential Balkan parleys with Turkey. Lithuanian independence may trigger a Poland alliance against Bolsheviks as German envoys worry over treaty terms.
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London
Marshal Foch
John Fraser
Evening Standard
Marshal Petain
Paris
Hungary
Adriatic Littoral
Thomas Nelson Page
Italy
Col. E. M. House
Wilson
Balkans
Turkey
Poland
Versailles
Packing house surplus to feed famine nations abroad
Washington May 12 Millions of pounds of war department packing house products will be exported to feed famine stricken nations overseas. Most are large cans and not easily marketed in the United States. Negotiations will open with the American relief administration the allied liquidation commission and other relief bodies. Surplus stocks include 105000000 pounds of roast beef in cans 12 to 6 pounds 65000000 pounds of corned beef 4721920 pounds of bacon and 20820000 one and two pound cans of corned beef hash.
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Washington
War Department
Department
United States
American Relief Administration
Allied Liquidation Commission
Europe
German protest over transport of war materials to Poland
London May 12 German government hands protest to allied armistice envoys at Spa against transport of war materials to Poland. Further representations to be made by German parliamentarians.
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London
Spa
Poland
Imperator carries 12000 troops to Hoboken after Brest
New York report states the 52,000 ton German liner Imperator, recently turned over to the allies, sailed from Brest on Friday and is due to arrive in Hoboken next Saturday with 12,000 troops aboard. Debarkation officials received the word today.
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New York
Imperator
Brest
Hoboken
Victory loan results delayed by bank review
Middletown banks are reviewing outcomes of the Victory loan campaign. Arthur L. Allin, chairman of the general committee, said the final result would probably not be reached until late this afternoon.
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Middletown
Arthur L. Allin
Victory loan over subscription in New York district
New York district of the federal reserve over subscribed its Victory loan quota by 52 764 950 dollars. Total subscriptions across the district reached 1 402 764 950 dollars as announced today on May 12.
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New York
New York Federal Reserve District
Theodore Roosevelt Post Formed by New York Delegates
New York delegates will establish Theodore Roosevelt Post No 1 of the American Legion during a meeting today in St Louis. The event marks the formation of a new post aimed at organizing veterans and activities within the legion.
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Theodore Roosevelt
New York
American Legion
St. Louis
Hartford Governor Signs Multiple Laws Including School Buildings Aid
Hartford May 12 Holcomb signed numerous measures passed by the legislature. Included are a small loan law a general militia bill appropriation for new buildings for the Lan School for the Deaf and acts affecting public amusements and wage advances to workers within 24 hours of employment The act also provides for highway discon of highways in towns of and Southbury.
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Hartford
Holcomb
Lan School For
Anl
Southbury
New Haven Ice Sale Planned This Summer
New Haven officials announce Berkshire J Co controls all ice in New England and may supply the city at 80 cents per 100 pounds in summer. Mayor Fitzgerald says June 1 sales will start at 45 cents per 100 pounds with delivery required. City finds no other feasible source and cannot deliver ice itself.
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New Haven
Berkshire J Co
Transpo
New England
da Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Connecticut
Hampshire
Vermont
Naples Cut Off After Italian Disorder Report
Paris May 12 A report said Naples was cut off from Rome as troubles developed in Italy. Italian headquarters denied disturbances. Later dispatches said soldiers clashed with police and seized public buildings, with several persons wounded before order was restored.
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Naples
Paris
Rome
Italy
Kolchak forces report gains in Siberia and civilian seizures
Success for Kolchak as Ufa and Omsk governments announce latest fighting. Ten thousand prisoners, 38 guns, and armored locomotives with 200 river craft captured. Bolsheviks pushed along the Veine as Allied ships surround Helsi. Foreigners ordered to leave Helsingfors amid revolt near Petrograd.
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Kolchak
Omsk
Siberia
Admiral Kolchak
Siberian
Ufa
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Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
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Petain
Big Four
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