Americans Check U-Boat Last of Troop Parades in Ogden Smokers
Ogden holds a final parade tonight to recruit troops B and K to 107 men each. A big smoker at the armory follows at 8:15 with bands, the home guard and junior guard participating. Captain Koeass urged friends to enlist, noting volunteers serve for the war period, while drafted men face federal service.
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Ogden
Mansie
Scowcroft
Home Guard
Elks
City Hall Square
J. Hay Ward
Williams
Fred L. Packard
Presidio
Ss Francisco
Packard
City Water Department
Fort Douglas
Earl Chadwick
John Bowman
James Burton
Lee D. Turner
William BE. Koeass
B Troop
National Guard
Tresillo
San Francisco
San Diego
Armory
Ogden High School
Stmumpeters
Workmen Demand Prohibition of Food Exports
London May 25. Christiania workmen halted work and marched to Parliament to demand a law banning export of provisions and the capture of ships needed to supply food and raw materials. They also urged that no German seafarers be allowed into Norwegian ports, alleging they carry away food.
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London
Conenhaven
Christiania
Parliament Building
Chey
Grr- Santhins
Norrrian
Italians Gain More Ground In Italian Offensive
Reporting from Rome and London on May 25, British and Italian forces push south along the Inmano-Creatoritea road as fighting rages from Playa northward. Italy reports 10,265 prisoners and captured war materiel, with Italian positions extending toward strategic heights near Jamlang and Corina and gains along the Sestre movement. In Chicago, over 300 registered voters respond to draft requirements as clerks prepare for increased applications. Washington notes a British delegation leaving for Canada, with plans to clear the Tartain tenter early.
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Rome
London
Jamlang
Acathetallsas
Inmano-Creatoritea
An Playa
Beform
Corina
Jamlanta
War Office
Survivors Tell Disaster Story of Transylvania Torpedo Sinking
London May 25 survivors of the transport Transylvania report a torpedo strike at 10 a m damaging engines and forcing beaching attempts. A second torpedo hit the engine room sinking the ship minutes later with heavy casualties among crew and soldiers. rescue efforts saved most aboard though some 150 soldiers could not be reached. Nurses reportedly not lost.
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London
Transylvania
England
Tipperary
Deatroyere
Sinking of relief ship denied by commission report
London May 25 The commission said no dispatch from Viangesund Norway reached an officer aboard the Norwegian steamer Vibran and that no board at ship had been chartered or any relief ship sunk recently. The Swedish ship engaged in the Debeian pellet commission work was not involved.
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London
Viangesund
Norway
Stramer
Vibran
Ht War
Effective blows against submarines boost war effort
London reports Premier Lloyd George announcing gains against submarines in the last three weeks improving the food situation. He credits American aid and emphasizes no starvation danger, urging continued rationing as German submarine warfare is deemed a miscalculation.
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Lloyd George
London
House of Commons
Cushman Enters Army as Major in Reserve Corps
Washington May 25. Dr. Aller ton Cushman president of the Institute of Industrial Research has been commissioned major in the officers reserve corps. He will conduct special ordnance research on high explosives chemistry. Cushman aged 60 years has long studied corrosion prevention in iron and steel and the properties of rock for road building and soil fertilization.
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Cushman
ARMY
Washington
Allerton
Matltity of Industrial Research
Rarps
Ordnance
Germans Meet Heavy Losses Near Chevreux Wood
Paris reports French forces captured Chevreux wood along the Aisne front last night. German shelters were found demolished by French artillery and filled with German dead. A local hostile attack southwest of Fontanay Lez Croixellen was driven off with no French casualties. A German raiding party northeast of Arteux was repulsed with heavy losses.
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London
Hindenburg
Fontanne Lez Croissellen
War Office
Arteux
Paris
Chevreux Wood
Aisne
Belgians Are Put in Prison for Refusal of Supplies
The Telegraaf reports Boltafort’s burgomaster and Brussels deputy La Mourelt have been condemned to prison in a fortress for four months and Ceelie months respectively for refusing to deliver iron wire supplies to German authorities.
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Amesterdan
London
Poon
Telegraaf
Burgomatter
Boltafort
Belgium
la Mourelt
Brussels
Ceelie
Vital calls to bolster Atlantic pacific air stations urged
Washington May 28 Secretary Tancrel urged immediate ratification of airfield stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and at Pearl Harbor Hawaii in a letter to Booker Clark today, stressing their vital importance for national defense.
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Washington
Atlentic and
Paelte Coania
Prat Harper
Hawaii
Boraker Clark
Tanrele
Red Cross Week Proclaimed By Wilson 1937
President Wilson proclaims the week ending June 25 1937 as Red Cross Week urging nationwide donations to support armed forces and relief efforts. He notes patriotic sacrifice by all citizens since few serve in battle while many can aid through voluntary giving to sustain Red Cross work at home and abroad.
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Washington
Wilson
Red Cross
Aasia
United States
Justice
Areaa
American Red Cross
Woodrow Witeen
Gil Catibestes
Woodrow Wilson
Red Cross fund drive outlined. Japan gold movement noted
May 25 report describes plans for a $100,000,000 Red Cross drive to aid battlefront and civilian victims. Separate dispatch notes Japan withdrawing gold from the United States, with about $35,000,000 moved since January 1 and more withdrawals anticipated. Discussions suggest credit extensions and strategic exports influence, while government actions on gold redemption may tighten as shipments continue.
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Washington
United States
Red Cross
Battlefelds
Amoor
Japan
Omidlala Tere
Strome
RUSSIANS WARNED AS FRONT TOUR BEGINS
Minister of War Kerensky warns at Ibelampfors before touring the front about a military calamity and the danger not only to Insing rmenia but to the Caucasus despite reports from the official news agency. Berlin Vorwaerts says German Rocheleter convenes on August 12 in an undecided location.
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Potrogmad
London
Kerensky
Ibelampfors
Starteng
Newa
Aiman Eaglexs
Battle Raging East of Gorizia With Fierce Assaults
An Austrian war office statement reports Italian gains on the Carso plateau but says Austrian troops inflicted severe repulses. It describes two major assaults east of Gorizia failing under heavy artillery and hand-to-hand fighting, with continued bombardments and reinforcements on Monte Banto and Monte Cucen as dawn attacks persisted.
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Nomi
Julian Alps
Carso
Grea
Caterna
Tricat
Volcante
Uestu
Hungary
Count Tleza
Burral Crat
Charles
London
Austrian War Office
Battin
Monte Cucen
Vodice
Monte Bsnto
Monte Cacta
Monte Banto
Urwen
Gorizia
Carao
Cestagnieries
Americans on Aisne Front Move to War Zone
A staff correspondent reports American volunteers departing for the Aisne battlefield under Captain E J Tinkham and Lieutenant Beully. Detachments from Cornell, Andover, Dartmouth, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and Williams join Princeton scholars en route to combat training and ambulance service amid a French forest setting with the Stars and Stripes flying beside the tricolor.
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Preas
France
E. J. Tinkham
Lieutesant Beully
Princeton
Tinkham
Verdun
Cornell
Aisna
Clarence Mackay
Caup
Associated Presa
Acle
Andover
Dartmouth
Hervant
Johna Hopkinr
Yale
Chicago
Willams Colleges
Princrton
Daly
William Taylor
New York
Kennedy
J. W. Ostheimer
Philadelphia
Central Training School
Safect
United States
Ube
Wer
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