Prosecutions Slowed as Meat Sent to Camp Travis Destroyed
The Food Administration ordered destruction of more than 10,000 pounds of fresh meat shipped to Camp Travis Texas after charges that Wilson and Morris packed spoiled beef sold to the Army. The federal trade commission cited that indictments failed due to lack of penalties and no criminal power hinders prosecutions. Hoover ordered a Texas review by E A Peden with a report expected.
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Camp Travis
Order of Food Administration
Washington
United States
Texas
Wilson & Co
Morris & Co
Federal Trade Commission
Tex
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
E. A. Peden
Commission
United States District Court
Western District of Texas
Red Cross War Fund Tops Total Subscriptions
Washington May 27 The American people again donate more than asked for the Red Cross war fund The 100 000 000 goal was subscribed Saturday with early totals showing 67 021 208 The drive’s final figures at night include divisions such as Greater New York and New England as the push continues toward a larger donation.
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Washington
Red Cross
Greater
New York
GOO
Fisi Weed Cdaeccees
Zotatis
Campaign Continues After Week Lags Behind Quota
Chicago finished the week two and a half million dollars behind its quota of six million dollars. As a result the campaign will be continued until next Saturday night.
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Chicago
Four U. S. Airmen Missing on British Front
May 27 report states four American aviators are missing in action on the front. Two were downed behind German lines since May 12. Names are not yet released. The American squadron northwest of Toul has downed several enemy planes, while German incursions are now rare. A German officer reports fear of the American aviators among German fliers.
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Toul
Germans Sentenced to Death After Naval Raid
Reports from Bruges say a German court martial condemned thirteen sailors to death and two to twenty years imprisonment for attempted treason linked to British raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge. Katherine Stinson, ill with fever, attempted a Chicago to New York flight but returned after engine failure.
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Ostend
London
Zeebrugge
Bruges
Belgium
Binghampton
N. Y
Katherine Stinson
Aviatrix
Chicago
New York
Moldavia Death List Totals 53 From Company B 58th Infantry
Washington May 27 The war department released the names of 53 members of Company B Fifty-eighth Regular Infantry lost on the transport Moldavia. Victims hailed from Chicago Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota with four Chicagoans and eleven Wisconsinites among the dead. The 52 remaining Company B men are unnamed. Three additional soldiers of the Fifty-eighth Regular Infantry aboard are listed as saved. The cause is believed to be the ship’s explosion trapping the men on the lower deck or sweeping them overboard.
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Washington
Moldavia
Chicago
Hliniis
Wisconsin
Minnesota
War Department
Fifty-eighth Infantry
Fifty-eighth Regular Infantry
Rail workers to receive $300 million wage increase
Director General McAdoo announces general pay raises for nearly 2,000,000 railroad employees effective next Saturday retroactive to January 1. The package, potentially over $300 million annually, includes back pay, an eight hour day concept, minimum shop pay, and equal pay for women and Negro workers. A new wartime wage board will probe inequalities and recommend changes.
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Washington
McAdoo
Wage Commission
Indox
Wage board to correct railroad pay injustices under government control
The new Wage board aims to fix pay disparities across the 104 roads under federal management with no reductions in wages. Monthly daily hourly piecework and train mile workers gain new allowances while four major brotherhoods receive 10 to 40 percent increases. some groups and services excluded or pending government decisions.
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Adamson
Terminal Union Station
Railroand Boat
Nes
Pullama
Pullman
Railroad
British Week Casualties Reported in Officers and Men
The official casualty tally for the past week lists 18 732 British losses with 202 officers killed 605 wounded and 256 missing plus 14 286 non officers. Officers and men were reported across fronts with missing numbers not fully detailed.
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Cove Bbs
Twenty four Austrian planes shot down on Italian front
London May 27 reports that twenty four enemy planes were destroyed by British forces on the Italian front since May 13. No British aircraft were lost in this period.
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London
Italy
Reichstag President Kaempf Dies in Berlin
Berlin May 27 Dr Johannes Kaempf president of the Reichstag since 1912 died Saturday. He belonged to the Progressive Peoples party and was seventy six years old. The report notes his long tenure and party affiliation. The second item reports a damaged U boat seeking haven in Santander Spain on May 27.
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Johannes Kaempf
Berlin
Reichstag
Kaempf
Progressive Peoples’ Party
Madrid
Santander
Spain
U S Captives Reported Amid Frontline Bombardments
Berlin reports Americans captured west of Montdidier amid intense German gas and artillery bombardments around Villers Bretonneux and Hangard Wood. British raids yield prisoners and machine guns as German attacks press along the Amiens front. French patrols take prisoners in various sectors.
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Berlin
Montdidier
London
Villers- Bretonneaux
Haig
Ilinges
Flanders
Bailleul
Amiens
Lyssallent
War Office
Villers-Bretoneaux
Hangard
Hangard Wood
Avre
French War Office
Orvillers-Sorel
Lassigny
Champagne
Vosges
U. S
Amsterdam
Picardy
American patrols advance west of Montdidier report
Berlin telegram details Saturday military actions with American patrols west of Montdidier. One American patrol was completely cut up by German fire, others were repelled by counterattack, and Americans there suffered heavy losses.
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Berlin
Montdidier
British Sink Big U Boat Off Cape St Vincent
British admiralty says a submarine has sunk a German submarine cruiser off Cape St Vincent on May 11 while meeting a convoy. No survivors reported. A second enemy sub was sighted but escaped by diving. This is the first cruiser submarine destroyed.
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London
Cape St. Vincent
Admiralty
Billions for Supply Corps Budget Increase Passed to Congress
Washington May 27 The War Department submitted substitute estimates for the army quartermaster corps raising the next fiscal year budget by 1 385 100 347. The revised total estimate reaches 5 781 910 383 based on reorganized corps activities.
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Washington
Quartermaster’s Corps
Army
Congress
War Department
Quartermaster Corps
Bomb raid on Liege kills 26 at railway station
The Rotterdam Morsebode reports an Allied air raid over Liege. The London railway station was destroyed and 26 people were killed in the attack.
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Belgium
London
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Liege
Londo
Yankee Trench Raid Successful on the Western Front
American patrols mounted a silent raid killing six Germans and capturing one in the No Man's Land near Luneville and Toul. Reports note limited enemy artillery action, a downed German aircraft north of Lahayville, and growing American morale as new troops adapt to frontline conditions.
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France
Toul
Luneville
No Man
Passenger and Freight Rates Rise Across All Roads
Passenger and freight charges increase as Madoo announces higher rates for all routes. The move affects travelers and shippers nationwide, with impact on ticket prices and freight costs.
Railways Boost Freight Rates and Passenger Fares
Secretary McAdoo ordered a twenty five percent increase on freight rates and fixed passenger fares at three cents per mile to cover wage increases across all railway branches. The action accompanies ongoing war related shelling updates from the Reims sector Paris front.
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Washington, D. C
McAdoo
Germans drive heavy assault on forty mile Reims front
Special to Evening Journal reports the German army launched a heavy attack along a forty mile front in the Reims sector and reopened long range shelling of Paris. Latest dispatches indicate small gains by the enemy.
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Evening Journal
Paris
Reims
President Wilson urges rapid action on new tax law
President Wilson unexpectedly addresses a joint session in Washington May 27 urging swift passage of the new tax law. He warns against lobbying and condemns profiteering.
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Evening Journal
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Congress
Mexico Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Cuba
Mexico suspends relations with Cuba after recall of diplomats and official explanation by Foreign Minister Aguilar. Report cites Cuba’s wartime measures and a Cuban customs search of Senor Fabela in Havana as a triggering incident. German propaganda suspected as context for the move.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Cuba
War Office
Havana
Aguilar
Washington
United States
Senor Fabela
Argentina
Buenos Aires
British officer’s aide arrested at Irish stud farm
A man named Bruns, five years secretary to a prominent army officer and sportsman, was arrested at the officer’s stud farm in Tipperary. The incident caused a sensation and may relate to the German Sinn Fein plot. important documents were reportedly found.
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London
Bruns
Tipperary
Paris Worker Killed by Shell Fragment Behind German Lines
Robert Weil wood of New York City was killed on May 10 by a shell fragment while working as Chinese coolie laborers behind German lines.
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Paris
Ttey
Robert Weilwood
New York City
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