Opened School for Blinded Fighters Aids Veterans
Returning federal soldiers sailors and marines are being enrolled in vocational instruction and rehabilitation at Hospital Training School General Hospital No 7 Baltimore Maryland. O H Burritt named educational director and Miss Jenny Turner reconstruction aide coordinate training to teach trades raise reading in raised type and place blinded men in suitable communities. Red Cross and Army Medical Department oversee the program with a national survey of open industries and a plan for supervision of wounded soldiers.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Hospital Training School
General Hospital No. 7
T. Harrison Garrett
Baltimore
James Bordley
Surgeon General
O. H. Burritt
Pennsylvania Institute For the Instruction of the Blind
Army Hospital
Jenny A. Turner
Massachusetts Commission For the Blind
Miss Turner
Walter Reed Hospital
Red Cross
Army Medical Department
Red Cross Institute For the Blind
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Start Drive of Their Own Line North of Chateau Thierry
The article details the Allied counteroffensive from Belleau Wood to the Aisne and the Marne battles. American, French, and Italian forces face Ludendorff’s 65-mile front push east of Reims. Despite German gains early, Allied lines hold with significant American gains around Chateau Thierry Jaulgonne and Dormans, while French commanders Gouraud and strong morale push back German assaults. Reports praise American troops, resolve, and growing allied coordination amid shifting fronts and broader wartime developments.
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Edward W. Pickard
Germany
Foch
Belleau Wood
Aisne
Soissons
Neuilly St. Front
Culchy
Chateau Thierry
Ludendorff
Reims
Marne
Main de Massiges
Espernay
Chalons
von Bernhardt
Vaux
Jaulgonne
Pompelle Fort
Main de Maseiges
Gouraud
Dardanelles
Retreat Holds Against German Push Near Marne
Franco American troops press the German withdrawal from the Marne area crossing the Ourcq river and advancing into Fere-en-Tardenois as Allied forces push toward the Dormans to Rheims high road. French gains widen the pocket near Soissons and Rheims with heavy enemy losses and continued air and artillery pressure.
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Marne
Qureg
Fere-Rp
Tardenois
Soissons-Rheimsstalie
Rheims
Dormans
Rhein
Sorgeons
Ourcq
Soissons
Five American Army Corps Are Organized in France
Washington reports no new American forces yet in the Aisne-Marne battle as General March says two more corps the fourth and fifth are formed. He notes the 40 divisions now in five corps are not yet drawn for operations. Senate panel learned the July movement may total 300000, a new record. Last week’s movement estimated at 50000, about half the usual. Total troops embarked for France reaches 1250000.
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War Service Committee
American Library Association
France
General Pershing
Red Cross
England
United States
America
Bowie
Bocie
Vladivostok
China
Japan
Siberia
Harbin
Horvath
Irkutsk
Kransnoyarsk
Murmansk
Lenine
Russia
Paul Milukoff
Constitutional Democrats
Ukraine
Rada
Washington
Aisne-Marne
March
Senate Military Committee
Committee Adopts Graduated Excess Profits Tax Scale
Washington report states the committee adopted a graduated excess profits tax from 30 to 80 percent on net income beyond exemptions. Treasury experts say doubling current levies on liquors tobacco soft drinks admissions to amusements transportation clubs and excise on autos and perfumes could double revenue to about 961 million dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Titanic Task to Feed Cantonments Worldwide
Reported food demands for military cantonments and overseas stations show August requirements specify 25,150,000 pounds of potatoes and 1,733,000 pounds of onions. Canned tomatoes, canned peaches, corn, string beans and dried peaches together form a major share of output.
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Washington
Army
Department of St Culture
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Flanders
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Macedonia
Austria-Hungary
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