Allies Still Quiet On Western Front Amid Lively Skirmishes
Allied forces hold lines along Flanders and Picardy awaiting a major blow as Canadians and French launch local advances. Americans arrive in force, Clemenceau reports, while British losses reach 38,691 for the week. Maurice’s charges spark a British inquiry and Roumania signs peace with the Central Powers.
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Picardy
Arras
Neuville-Vitasse
Amiens
Iine
M. Clemenceau
Paris
Hs Authority
Lany
England
Frederick B. Maurice
Militt
British War Office
Foch
Maurice
London
Andrew Bonar Law
Liloyd George
House of Common
Jagua Ha
Roumania
Bucharest
Russia
Huns Wreck Carrel Hospital Near Front
The hospital near the front by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute has been repeatedly bombed by German aviators and is now almost totally destroyed despite a red cross flag and a large white cross on the lawn. Two doctors were slightly injured. the wounded were evacuated in April. Dr Carrel plans to reestablish the hospital in Paris or its suburbs.
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Carrel Hospital
Paris
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Carre
British Captain Defies U-boat and Sinks Schooner
At an Atlantic port Captain D J McDonald of the three masted schooner John G Walter, sunk after a torpedo strike, fought off a German sub commander who threatened to take him to Germany. A allied destroyer arrived, the schooner went down, and McDonald escaped by diving and is safe on an American ship.
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Atlantic
D. J. McDonald
John G. Walter
Germany
McDonald
Europe
Prince Edward Island
MrDonald
GIVES FOOD WARNING Jersey Bureau Says Farming Must Justify Higher Wage
The New Jersey Bureau of Markets warns food supply could dwindle unless farming proves it can justify higher wages to attract labor. It warns milk production at a loss risks long term dairy health and urges greater dairy consumption to aid Jersey babies.
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Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Bureau of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
Japanese Arrested as Spies in Irkutsk Case
London reports that on May 8 a Reuters dispatch from Tokyo states Russian authorities at Irkutsk have arrested the Japanese vice counsel and the evident of the Japanese association.
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London
Reuter
Vom Tokio
Irkutsk
Senate Probes Aircraft Program After War Plans Inquiry
Senate and Justice Department launch investigations into a 640 million aircraft appropriation. Senator Chamberlain insists on personal accountability while noting no American built battle planes were shipped abroad. About 1,500 cadets were sent to France for training with many not yet trained.
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Chamberlain
France
Senate Military Committee
Department of Justice
Chamberlai
H. Snowden Marshal
Senator Chamberlain
Vardaman
Squier
The
Signal Corps
Walsh
Senator Chamberlain on Chief Signal Office optimism
The exchange centered on the extraordinary optimism of the chief signal officer and associates. Chamberlain said they believed, in good faith, planes would be available there to train personnel, framing the issue as a confession of failure and seeking an explanation.
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Ment
Chamberlain
Arden founder Frank Stephens arrested under espionage act
Frank Stephens founder of the Arden single tax colony in Delaware was arrested in Wilmington under the espionage act and held on $5,000 bail. He allegedly told Mrs. Mabel Vantrump that she and others selling bonds were murderers. His son Donald Stephens was jailed for draft registration refusal.
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Frank Stephens
Selier
Wilmington
Del
Arden
Peoples Council
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
Stephens
Mabel P. Vantrump
Donald Stephens
Local Joke Ends With Narrow Escape In Pridgeport
Teeter Elsinger staged a hanging photo gag in Pridgeport Ohio. A faulty camera left him unconscious before rescuers freed him, and he was resuscitated an hour later. He said the stunt was to fool friends and show him at the point of lynching.
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Pridgeport
Teeter” Elsinger
Elslnger
War Tames July 4 Plans
Bellingham Washington on May 8 1917 trustees of the chamber of commerce announced there would be no Fourth of July celebration. The move aligns with a national trend to curb elaborate festivities due to wartime demands.
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Bellingham
Wash
Chamber of Commerce
Railroaders to Get Wage Boost
Director General McAdoo will announce soon his decision on railroad wage commission recommendations. They propose an average 20 percent pay increase for all railroad employees, potentially adding about 260 million dollars to railroad payrolls nationwide.
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Washington
McAdoo
Railroad
Pierce Named to Command 14th Infantry Brigade
Washington May designation of Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce to command the 14th infantry brigade in the 27th National Guard division was announced here. The 27th comprises New York state troops with General Pierce previously serving on the army general staff as director of purchases.
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Washington
Palmer E. Pierce
27Th National Guard
New York State
Pierce
Army General Staff
Training chaplains for war duties at Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville May 8 Camp Zachary Taylor hosts the nation s only training school for chaplains and approved candidates. Under War Department orders the school moved from Fortress Monroe to Camp Zachary Taylor. The initial five week course began at Fortress Monroe. a second course runs until May 25 with broad denomination representation. Commandant is Chaplain A A Purden with assistants John F Chenoweth Robert R Fleming Jr and Ignatius Fealy. Nearly 100 attendants include two commissioned chaplains from the regular army 15 from the National Guard 13 from the National Army and 67 approved candidates. After completion a board will designate those to receive commissions as vacancies occur.
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Louisville
Prager Lynching Sparks German Outrage
Amsterdam reports May 8 1918 German editors condemn the Collingsville Illinois lynching of Robert P Prager a German born man accused by a mob of disloyalty. Zeitung am Mittag urges Germany to press Washington as reprisals loom over American prisoners to deter lynching of Germans in America.
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Prager
Amsterdam
Collingsville
Robert P Prager
Zeitung Am Mittag
Berlin
Washington
Germany
America
State Guard member wounded in accident at Vails Gate
Stewart Hunter 28 of Company F 10th Infantry State Guard is seriously wounded at St. Luke's Hospital Newburgh after a pistol discharge during guard change at Aqueduct duty in Vails Gate. Hunter, married and from Hudson, sustained chest and lung injuries.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Stewart Hunter
10Th Infantry
State Guard
St. Luke’s Hospital
Aqueduct
Vails Gate
Hunter
Hudson
Stop Russ Export Licenses In National Trade Move
Moscow May 8 The department of commerce was ordered to discontinue issuing export and import licenses at Vladivostok and Petrograd as part of the nationalization of foreign trade. The order is effective from April 22.
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Moscow
Department of Commerce
Vladyeostok
Petrograd
Six Pounds of Flour Monthly for Boston Residents
Boston officials announce a six pound per person monthly flour ration beginning next month. The state census of flour held by households closes May 11 and those who filed reports must stretch their registered supply to six pounds per person per month. Grocers will restrict flour sales until the ration ends. The Food Administrator urges economy to stretch supplies until the September harvest.
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Boston
O'Connell
When Summer Comes Toupee Goes in Senate
In Washington on May 8 Senator Thomas of Colorado shed his winter tepee in the Senate chamber as heat returns and the press corps smiles at the doorway of summer.
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Washington
United States Senate
Mercury
Thomas
Colorado
Senate
U S Officers Relieved For Health In France Return
Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord adjutant general and Brigadier General A E Bradley chief surgeon of the American expeditionary forces are relieved from duty and ship home to America due to ill health. Lieutenant Colonel Robert C Davis becomes adjutant general and Colonel Merritte W Ireland becomes chief surgeon.
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France
Benjamin Alvord
A. E. Bradley
America
Robert C. Davis
Merritte W. Ireland
Fly Swatting Campaign Aims to Trim West Virginia Flies
In Elkins West Virginia on May 8 the second annual fly swatting drive in public schools reports 6332 flies killed. Students are organized with officers and receive thrift stamps for every 100 flies, plus prizes for top girl and boy fly killers.
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West Virginia
Elkins
W. Va
Russian Bank Chief Freed From German Authority
Amsterdam May 8. M Dobry director of the Russian bank at Kiev has been liberated by German authorities and returned to Kiev. He was arrested recently and taken to Kharkov.
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Amsterdam
M. Dobry
Kiev
Kharkov
Advances Oil Leasing Bill Heads to Senate Report
Washington May 8 The senate oil leasing bill amended to authorize leasing or operation of oil lands in California and Wyoming for war needs was ordered favorably reported by the House public lands committee.
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Washington
Senate
California
Wyoming
House Public Lands Committee
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Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
L. H. Dennis
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