Registration tally shows 10.5 million counted for draft
Across states and cities officials report registration totals surpassing 10.5 million with about 5 million listed as probable exemptions or disabilities. Crowder promises a liberal grace period for late registrants while nationwide returns vary from near estimates to significant excesses in places like Pennsylvania and Missouri as storms slow some counts.
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Texas
Joliet Prison Mutiny Ends in Fire and Casualties
In Joliet penitentiary a mutiny involving nearly 1,000 convicts led to a four hour battle with guards and militia. One prisoner died, eight injured including two guards and a chaplain, and substantial fire damage estimated at $50,000. Warden Bowen cited a ban on visits and draft registration as triggers for the riot.
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Joliet
Plaherty
Cook County
Bowen
Eybbene
Royce
Fire Department
Lowden
British Offense Advances on Arras Front
On the Arras front the British press an offensive move south of the Souchez river reports good progress. Paris later cites five German heavy attacks on the Californie and Vauclere plateaus repelled with heavy losses. Addressing the salient near Froidsmont the German night assault penetrations are claimed.
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Paris
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Vauclere
War Office
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Salient
Froidmont
Break Up Parade in Houghton Area Arrests Reported
Disorder marked registration day in Break Up Parade, Houghton, with five men arrested locally and two at Calumet. Hancock saw an antidraft parade dispersed by Sheriff Trader and deputies. About 250 attendees were mainly foreigners and Socialist members. Antiregistration literature led to arrests of Emil Hanninen and John Rimpila in Calumet Keweenaw County.
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Elk County
Wallace County
Wichita County
Maryland
Baltimore
Houghton, Mich
Calumet
Hancock
Emil Hanninen
John Rimpila
Keweenaw County
Senate Body Votes Heavy Whisky Tax As War Measure
Washington June 5 Prohibition legislation won approval from the senate finance committee as a new feature of the war tax bill. A prohibitive tax on distillation of whisky and other spirits for beverage use with a ban on imports was endorsed by a large majority. Beer and wine taxes remain unchanged though not yet finally approved. The move aims to curtail liquor consumption and conserve foodstuffs, while manufacturing alcohol for industrial medicinal or mechanical uses remains exempt. The proposed levy adds 20 dollars per bushel to the existing 2.20 per gallon tax and includes a repeal clause for beverage distillation during the war. Senator Gore led the liquor amendments and Levi Cooke warned the tax will nearly halt beverage distillation.
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Senate Finance Committee
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Simmons
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Levi Cooke
Austria loses 300000 in great Austrian offensive
Rome reports conservative estimates place Austrian casualties at 300000 killed wounded or missing as Italy presses a consolidating advance. Italians reinforce lines and repulse counter attacks while Austria suffers further losses through late May. Also noted is a potential move toward Trieste autonomy with amnesties, per Giornale d Italia.
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Trieste
Hamburg
Bremen
Riot Against Draft Law Sparks New York Demonstration
Greater New York saw a wild Monday night protest against the selective draft act with mass meetings and street demonstrations. Police and soldiers were deployed to quell rioters. many injured and several arrested as radicals led the agitation.
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New York
Greater
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
Troops Clear Streets After Federal Building Disturbance
In Butte Montana on June 6 troops were ordered out after a large crowd gathered near the federal building. Several shots were fired and a number of arrests made, leading to a streets clearance to quell the threat.
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Mont
Federal Building
United States Peace Aims Outlined For Russia Delegation
The American mission to Russia led by Elihu Root reaches a Russian port as Washington releases a war aims statement drafted by President Wilson. Goals include crushing militarism, freedom of the seas, restraints on land weapons, protection for small nations, Belgium and Serbia restitution, and support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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German destroyer sunk in running fight with Tyrwhitt squadron
London reports a German destroyer sunk and another damaged after six German destroyers engaged Admiral Tyrwhitt’s squadron in a long range fight. The S-20 was sunk with seven survivors taken prisoner and no Allied casualties. An Ostend bombardment was also reported with good results and no damage to Allied forces. An Austrian torpedo boat was sunk by a hostile submarine in the northern Adriatic Sunday night.
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Dover
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Vienna
Adriatic
Man killed while resisting draft in Texas woods
Fort Worth June 6. R H Fulcher a member of the Farmers and Laborers Protective association of America hid in the woods heavily armed to resist conscription. He was shot and killed near Midway by a posse of Hood and Palo Pinto county officers pursuing him.
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Tex
R. H. Fulcher
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Protective Association of America
Midway
Hood
Palo Pinto
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Endorsed By Druggist
A letter from L. A. Richardson, a Marine Illinois druggist, extols Swamp Root for kidney and liver relief. It notes a dramatic recovery of a patient once treated unsuccessfully by two doctors and a St Louis specialist. The ad urges sending ten cents for a sample and mentions available bottle sizes at drug stores.
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St. Louis
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Europe For Clean Movies Boosts American Film Trade
Europe buys more American motion pictures than ever, supporting employment and trade. Yet a Birmingham England report criticizes American films for excessive sexual content, urging “less of the sexual problem.” The note from Financial America approves Europe’s demand for cleaner cinema as a moral and wartime relief measure.
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America
David Dc. Kerr
Birmingham
England
Secretary of Commerce
Freezone Claim Lets Corns Lift Without Pain
Cincinnati authority promotes freezone a drug that, when applied to corns, relieves soreness and causes the corn to lift out with root. The product supposedly dries and shrivels the corn, removing hard or soft calluses with little cost.
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Cincinnati
Ady
Far-Sighted Response From a Job Candidate
A ambitious colored man quits his job and is offered a new position. Asked to start in two weeks he says he could be ready in one week. He explains that in one week he can finish garden work, but at home the wife would rush him into house cleaning.
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Chrtian Herald
Heals Itching Skins Ad Aims at Daily Use
An advertisement touts a super creamy emollient for skin troubles with a free sample offer by mail from Cuticura Dept. L Boston. It claims daily use prevents minor skin issues from becoming serious and urges readers to send a card for a sample. A Norfolk County farmer later went bankrupt with liabilities of 38,618 and assets of zero.
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Dept. L
Boston
Norfolk County
Virginia
Unitea Mine Workers Affiliation in Canada Nears 5000
Canadian labor group Unitea Mine Workers nears five thousand affiliated members across provinces. The organization advocates for mining sector jobs safety and fair pay while coordinating with regional unions and national labor bodies.
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