Yanks Press On as German Lines Waver in France
Reuters dispatch reports American forces pressing near Clignon valley northwest of Chateau Thierry with five German divisions failing to halt the advance. In Brouesches a morning attack failed to retake the village as French divisions support the effort. Casualties total 126 in Washington accounts with 15 killed, 45 died of wounds or disease. The German press defends gains by General von Stein claiming the Foch reserve army no longer exists.
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London
Clignon
Chateau Thierry
Reuter
Brouesches
Washington
Amsterdam
von Stein
Reichstag
Berlin
Foch
Chemin Des Dames
War Conference of Manufacturers Convened in Atlantic City
A large gathering of eastern state and New England manufacturers met in Atlantic City on June 12 to discuss mobilizing industrial resources for the war effort. Government officials and allied commissions spoke as discussions covered labor, coal, transportation, return loads, employee protection, postwar adjustments, and uniting industry to maximize productivity.
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Atlantic City
N. J
New England
Pleased to Knit a Quota Sweater
Honolulu women under Red Cross direction labored for a week to knit 1500 sweaters for troops ordered to France. Wool supplied by the Red Cross. The organization pledges to provide each soldier or island volunteer leaving for the front with one sweater and two pairs of knitted socks.
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Honolulu
T.hl
France
Red Cross
Veteran walker Dana O Leary postpones 1100 mile hike
Chicago June 12 Dana O Leary world champion walker will not begin his 1100 mile hike to Mineral Wells Texas until next fall. The 76 year old veteran postponed the trip to escape the souths heat and will start when cooler.
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Chicago
Dana O'Leary
Mineral Wels
Tex
O'Leary
Attendance Records Set At 16th Easern Star Convention
A record crowd attended the sixteenth annual convention of the Grand Chapter of the Order of Easter Star in the Commercial ebb rooms. Delegates were hosted by Llecia Kensington at a Yellowstone grill luncheon and enjoyed a 6 pm dimmer at the Masonic Temple with Ruth Chapter No. 3.
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Grand Chapter
Order of Easern Star
Ebb Rooms
Llecia Kensington
Yellowstone Grill
Masonic Temple
Ruth Chapter
Ruth
Orpheum Theatre
Jefferson estate native sanctuary planned in Iberia parish
New Orleans June 12 Jefferson Island once owned by Joseph Jefferson in Iberia parish Louisiana is to be developed into a wildfowl sanctuary by Lexington Kentucky buyers Lawrence Jones and J Lyle Bayliss. A dam will reestablish a cypress swamp while a large heronry will be created for nesting. They seek to set Lake Peigneu as a wildfowl refuge with an anti shooting measure to be enforced when all adjacent landowners sign a petition.
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New Orleans
Jefferson Island
Joseph Jefferson
Iberia Parish
Louisiana
Pole Acres
Lawrence Jones
J. Lyle Bayliss
Lexington
Louisiana Conservation Commission
Peigneu
Lake Piegneu
Conservation Commission
President Interprets Open Diplomacy Stance
President Wilson in Washington explains that open diplomacy refers to publishing treaties after ratification, not to senate executive treaty discussions. He reiterates his January statement aimed at quieting Senate controversy over Senator Borah’s proposal for public treaty consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Boral
Marriage of Miss Margaret Grant in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Sept 12 The marriage took place today of Miss Margaret Grant daughter of the Hon McCullum Grant lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia and Lieutenant Arthur Le Touche Bisset of the Royal Navy in Edinburgh city church with attendance of officials and family.
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Edinburgh
Margaret Grant
McCullum Grant
Nova Scotia
Arthur le Touche Bisset
Royal Navy
Devil Dogs on Watch Marines defend skies with camouflaged guns
The article recalls how U S Marines earned the nickname Teufel Hunde or Devil Dogs for their precision in shooting down German planes. It describes gunners always on duty, ready to strike, with one Marine behind a bush camouflage gun while another scans the sky for hostile aircraft.
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U. 8. Marine
U. S
Young Officers Leave Famous School Today
Washington dispatch notes the United States Military Academy at West Point prepares to graduate the class of 1918. Cadets will receive diplomas from the secretary of war and are expected to depart into wartime service in France. The piece praises West Point as the world’s leading military academy and cites historical endorsements by figures like Winfield Scott and Elin Root, with a hint that the story continues on page two.
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Washington, D. C
United States Military Academy
West Point
Secretary of War
United States
France
Miitary Academy
West Point Academy
Winfield Scott
Mexico
Elin Root
Seeretas
Sudan
Spain
Servier
papa =i military academy
Westint
Henry Knox
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
Germany to reject new peace offer in forthcoming war aims
Berlin newspapers report that Germany does not plan any new peace offer in its upcoming war aims statement. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam disputes the claim.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Amsterdam
Extension Time Asked Taking Lines
Washington reports Director McAdoo asked Congress to extend the deadline for government takeover of short line railroads to January 1, 1919, instead of July 1. In Denver, 500 shop craftspeople returned to work after a three month strike, with Judge Maeser’s mediation compromise in place and possible wage adjustments if railroad wages rise.
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Washington
McAdoo
Congress
Denver
Colo
Maeser
Railroad
Rail Admin Announces Wartime Budget Shifts for Railways
Washington on June 12 reports the railroad administration sets a $946,293,000 budget for the year. It will expand switch tracks sidings shop buildings and freight stations at terminals while reducing funds for new passenger depots office buildings and other nonessential enterprises not tied to immediate war needs.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Notable New York Wedding Unites Gilroy to Bibby
In New York on June 12 at the Hotel Para Miss Dorothy Ruth Gilroy, daughter of the late Thomas F. Gilroy former mayor, wed Thomas Frederick A. Bibby son of Mr and Mrs Herbert A Bibby of London in a high profile ceremony.
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New York
Para
Dorothy Ruth Gilroy
Thomas F. Gilroy
New York City
Thomas Frederick A. Bibby
Herbert A. Bibby i
London
Huns Blocked On Third Day
German efforts to break French lines between Montdidier and the Oise stalled on the battle’s third day. French counterattacks gained ground. Germans southwest of Soissons seek to outflank and pressure from Compigne forest. Americans near Montdidier prepared to help. two minor raids near Cantigny repulsed. Paris reports nights fighting along Montdidier Oise front with progress for French on left and stiff resistance on right.
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Montdidier
Oise
Soissons
Compigne Forest
Chauteau-Thierry
Picardy
Associated Press
Cantigny
Morel
Paris
War Office
Mery
Genlis Wood
Aronde
St. Waur
Loge Farm
Antheuil
Matz
Chevrincourt
Marest
Aisne
Marne
Villers-Cotert Forest
Dommiers
Cutry
South Amblony
Austrian Battler Sent to Bottom
Venice reports that one Austrian dreadnought was destroyed and a second damaged in a torpedo attack by Italian torpedo boats on the Austrian naval division near Dalmatian Island. The chief of staff of the Italian navy officially stated the action.
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Venice
Dalmatian
Ship Output Beats Divers Off Atlantic Raids
Washington reports German submarine raids along the Atlantic coast since May 25. Shipyards supplying the Shipping Board produced 21 vessels totaling 130,142 tons, outpacing the 26,000 tons of American ships sunk by submarines.
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Wasington
Atlantic
Shipping Board
Paid bonuses to sugar growers
Hawaii sugar planters paid more than 7.0 million dollars in labor bonuses in 1917, representing 78 percent of total wages. Japanese workers received 4.31 million, Portuguese 631 thousand, Filipino 1.086 million, and Americans 344 thousand.
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Honolulu
T. H
English Woman in Serb Service
Sergeant Major Flora Sandes, the only Englishwoman in the Serbian army, is set to rejoin her regiment at Saloniki after a brief sick leave in England. She joined Serbia in 1914, fought near the retreat, served two years as a private, and earned a highest Serbian order after a grenade wound in a vital heights charge.
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London
Flora Sandes
Saloniki
England
Serbia
Wilson vetoes open treaty talk proposal in Senate vote
President Wilson's disapproval today blocked in the Senate an open discussion of treaties. The amendment, tied to Underwood’s war debate curtailment proposal, failed 50 to 23 after Senate wavering over war powers and treaty discussions.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Senate
Berali
Underwood
Alabama
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