Airships Attack Southeast England In Destructive Raid
German air raid against southeast England involved about 16 airships and airplanes. Field Marshal Viscount French reports 76 killed and 174 injured with extensive civilian casualties in one town as Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service engage and three enemy aircraft are shot down.
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Associated Press
London
England
Viscount French
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Naval Air Service
Dunkirk
Admiralty
Seven 30 Inclusive Must Register in June 1917
War Department memorandum calls for all males aged twenty one to thirty who have not yet reached thirty one to register on June 5 1917 with a single registration day set for June 6 1917. Exceptions apply to those in military or naval service and related reserve forces.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Naval Service
Regular Army
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Isted
National and National Guard Reserve
Militia Bureau
The
Navy
Epois
German air squadrons bomb Dover and Folkestone report
Berlin reports air squadrons yesterday dropped bombs on Dover and Folkestone in England. The German statement was issued today through London, detailing the attack and asserting the targets were struck.
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Berlin
Londom
Dover
Folkestone
German air raid devastates town on southeast England coast
Friday May 25 a large German air raid struck a coastal town during busy shopping and work hours. Aerial bombs damaged homes and shops, killing 76 people mostly women and children and injuring about 175 as five bombers swept in at high altitude.
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England
London
Great Britain
Airships Shot Down in English Channel
Airships returning from a mission were shot down over the English Channel, with reports indicating three hostile craft were brought down near London on May 26.
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English Channel
Associated Press
London
Mobile's Pressing Need for Unity and Business Support
Mobile's greatest need is less selfishness and more unity in politics, press, and people. Encourage business enterprises and capital, acknowledge good in opponents, publish our advantages, and foster fair liberal ideas to attract business for docks, schools, parks, library, and improvements.
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Mobile
Broad Use of Warrior River Urged By Mobile Mission
Capt Frank S White former Alabama senator and J B Babb Birmingham Civic Association secretary travel to Mobile to back a Birmingham Civic Association plan for expanded Warrior River use. They aim to revive steamboat and barge traffic Birmingham to Mobile to ship Birmingham iron clay flour grain and other goods to Mobile and return supplies to Birmingham. The visit seeks to engage business leaders and officials including P Gaillard Alabama Public Service Commission and Chamber of Commerce members.
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Frank S. White
United States
Alabama
J. B. Babb
Birmingham Civic Association
Mobile
Birmingham Civil Association
Birmingham
White
Babb
Alabama Public Service Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Bernhardt to Leave Hospital Bed Today
New York May 26 The condition of Madame Sarah Bernhardt the noted French actress who underwent a serious operation at Mount Sinai hospital in this city some weeks ago has improved so much that she is expected to leave the hospital today it is announced
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Associated Press
New York
Sarah Bernhardt
Mount Sinai Hospital
Teenage Girls to Reorganize at June Conference
The Older Girls' Conference meeting will be held at the First Baptist Church in this city on June 3 at 2:30 p.m. All teenage girls are urged to attend. A special program is planned and a reorganization to a standard basis will be carried out during the meeting.
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First Baptist Church
Unmarried Engineers Sought for Seventh Railway Regiment
Unmarried men with no dependents are invited to enlist in the Seventh Railway Regiment or the engineer enlisted reserve corps. Major W. L. Guthrie of the local engineer corps announces the opportunity and invites interested men to confer at the department office 352 Government Street.
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Seventh Railway Regiment
Engineer
W. L. Guthrie
Engineer Corps
Department
Government Street
Weather forecast for Washington and nearby regions
The forecast reports generally fair weather for Sunday with cooler conditions in the northern portions. Expect mild to warm temperatures with no significant precipitation indicated for the Madama and Mississippi areas.
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Associated Pass
Washington
Madama
Mississippi
Registration Duty Emphasized Despite Plea
The text stresses that registration remains mandatory and distinct from the draft. It notes penalties of imprisonment for noncompliance and outlines steps for the sick to appoint a representative, obtain a registration card, and mail or deliver it to the registrar with a self addressed stamped envelope for returning the certificate.
Registration Card for Absentees on Registration Day
Voters unable to attend registration day should apply at once for a registration card via the county clerk or city clerk in cities over 30 000. Clerks record details on the card and forward it to the absentee who must mail it to the home district registrar by registration day. Enclose a self addressed stamped envelope for return of the certificate. Registration booths open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 5, 1917.
Feast of Pentecost Observed by Jewish Residents
Services will be held this evening at the Government Street temple and the Afrivas Chesed temple by Jewish residents in celebration of Pentecost. The feast continues tomorrow morning with a class of Jewish boys and girls to be confirmed. Pentecost is described as the day after Passover and a spring festival.
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Government Street
Afrivas
Interest of People Renewed in Stocks
The New York market May 26 showed renewed demand for United States Steel with a new maximum of 134. The gain prompted widespread profit taking, slightly dampening the advance. Rails largely failed to participate and the rally may reflect disappointment over Interstate Commerce Commission action.
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Associated Press
United States Steel
Interstate Commerce Commission
April exports show February and March comparison in 1917
The report records April exports totaling 3,131,523 with March exports higher by 124,823, and February showing a substantial gain. The figures present a contrasting month by month export performance for 1917.
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Isport
Steel Food Carrying Ships Promised By U S Builders
Major General George Goethals urged iron and steel manufacturers at the American Iron and Steel Institute dinner to back the plan to build one thousand three thousand steel food carrying ships in eighteen months, calling the wooden ship program hopeless.
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Associated Press
New York
George Wethals
Goethals
Erican Iron and Steel Institute
Haig reports slight British gain on Scarpe right bank
In the Northern France front between the Scarpe and Croiselles German artillery activity increased. British forces improved their position on the right bank of the Scarpe and repulsed hostile raiding parties north of Guzeau court and east of Armentieres.
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Associated Press
London
Scarpe
Croiselles
France
Guzeaucourt
Armentieres
Dr L S Rowe Offered Treasury Post In Charge Of Customs
Washington May 26 Dr L S Rowe secretary of the International High Commission and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania has been offered the assistant secretaryship of the treasury in charge of customs.
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Washington
International Igh Commission
University of Pennsylvania
The
Treasury
Fair Weather Forecast Tonight and Sunday
Forecast predicts fair weather tonight and Sunday with cooler conditions inland. Winds will be moderate from the southwest. Yesterday's high ranged from 75 to 82 degrees.
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Weather Bureau
Camps Planned for Chattanooga Macon and Aiken
Major General Leonard A Wood announced that selective draft training camps are practically assured for Macon Georgia Aiken South Carolina and Chattanooga Tennessee Savannah and Charleston will also participate in important work Two or perhaps two divisions will train at Chattanooga as part of the effort
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Charleston
Leonard A. Wood
Macom
Aiken
8. C
Chattanooga
Savannah
1000 Women Jewelry Workers Quit After Successful Strikes
Embouraged by women in other trades, Bay 20 jewelry workers walked out yesterday. About 1,000 laborers quit, then waterproof workers paused their strike and returned to work after gains.
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Paric
Bay 20
Italians Capture 3500 More Prisoners on Carso Front
Rome reports 3,500 additional prisoners taken on the Carso as heavy fighting continues. Italian gains stretch along the Gulf of Triest from Timavo to east of Jamiano and across the Flondar Medegazza line, with total Julian front prisoners reaching 22,419 from May 14 to yesterday.
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Associated Press
Rome
London
War Office
Triest
Timavo
Gulf of Triest
Jamiano
Flondar
Medegazza
Boscomalo
Castagnavizza
Tivoli
Plava
Julian Front
Conferees Agree New Compromise On Espionage Censorship
Washington May 26. Conferees on the espionage bill reached a new compromise provision on censorship. The draft limits publication controls and grants authority to restrict disclosures, altering yesterday's proposed restrictions and adjusting how the government may regulate sensitive material.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ton Ron Emery
E. Anton
Sec
Recruiting of Guard Work To Stop June Fifth
Montgomery Alabama May 26 Special Officers of the Alabama brigade report disappointment over slow recruiting as the national guard moves to full war strength They urge Alabama youths to enlist before June 5 when all men 21 to 31 register For service with a home company before outsiders may be assigned to units and officers not known to them.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Brigade of the National Guard
National Guard
Alabama
Russia to Tax Profits for War Financing
In Petrograd on May 26 a conference with Foreign Minister Tereschtenko Minister Konovaloff and Labor Minister Skobeleff proposed a heavy tax on extraordinary profits from the war. The plan aims to divert most funds into state hands to ease worker employer tensions and fund wartime needs.
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Petrograd
London
Tereschtenko
M. Konovaloff
Commerce and Trade
M. Skobeleff
Assembly at Dallas adjourns Presbyterian general assembly
After a nine day session the 129th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America dissolved noting pledge to President Wilson support for the war, endorsement of prohibition and woman suffrage, favoring reunion with the southern Presbyterian Church. It plans to meet in Columbus Ohio in May 1918.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Wilson
Presbyterian Church
129Th General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church In
United States of America
Columbus
Ohio
Cato D. Glover Named Land Office Register
Washington May 26 Cato D. Glover of Alabama nominated by President Wilson to be register of the land office at Montgomery.
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Cato D. Glover
Land Office Register
Associated Press
Washington
Alabama
Wilson
Montgomery
Sunday School Closing Exercises Planned Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 9 30 am closing exercises of Christ Church Sunday School will be held in the Sunday school room. The public guidance and relatives of the children are invited to attend. An interesting program has been arranged.
Inquest into Mrs Hess death opens amid blood evidence
The coroner's inquest into the death of Mrs Julia Hess began in Fulton Alabama with her husband identifying the body. Witnesses described blood stains on a three blade knife and on a car seat while investigators traced the car and tracks to the crime scene near the Chickasabogee bridge.
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Madler
Thames
Brooks
Julia May FE
R. ©. Hess
Fulton
Ala
Recorder’s Court
Jack Courtney
Mr. Hess
Hess
Starke, Fla
Louisville and Nashville
Sol . Gainey
Roche
van Liew
Eugene Thames
C. Hess
Cotner
Chickasa Bogue Creek
Testimony on Hess Body Found Near Chickasabogue Bridge
Bertram Vogel of Company M testified that a body identified as Mrs. Hess was found on Chickasabogue bogue near the railroad bridge after two screams were heard. Private Gainey and Gilley reported hearing screams and seeing an automobile on the county bridge. Gainey, on duty on the railroad bridge, said an automobile approached from the city and sped toward the bridge before turning north.
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Privat Gilley
Bertram Vogel
Company M
Chickasabogueé Creek
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