Idlers And Non Useful Job Holders Before Local Boards
Washington May 23 A dramatic new rule requires all draft registrants not in useful work to seek employment or face induction. Idlers gamblers waiters bartenders and club attendants named as nonuseful occupations must appear before local boards and may be drafted if they refuse suitable employment. The policy targets labor shortages in farms shipyards and munitions and may extend to additional occupations as needed.
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Delivery reminder note from carrier
If the paper is not delivered by 6 o'clock due to carrier error or other cause, phone B30 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m Eastern Time.
Mannheim Fires Caused by Bombs of British Fliers
London reports British aviators bombed railway stations in German Lorraine and near Liege Belgium and a chloride factory at Mannheim on the Rhine Tuesday night and Wednesday. Three fires started at Mannheim with large Blazes near Liege. British flyers destroyed 16 German planes and two observation balloons and drove two more from the air.
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Belgium
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Hoover warns food stocks key to Allied war effort
New York May 23 The greatest death toll in Europe comes not from German guns but from famine and related diseases, says Food Administrator Hoover in a National Dairy League address. He urges dairymen to sustain herds and build warehouse stocks, noting even a truce could double or triple civilian hunger without adequate food for Allies. He argues Britain and France need continued U S dairy support and warns against harming civilian morale through food shortages.
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Europe
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National Dairy ‘League
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France
United States
Bombing of British Hospitals Kills Several Nurses in France
Allied dispatch reports heavy German air raids behind the lines in France striking hospital tents and buildings. Several sisters and medical staff were killed or wounded while tending patients as four squadrons bombed the area near railways. a captured German pilot admitted ignoring Red Cross signs.
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British IWW Expels Members For Enlisting In War
Chicago May 23. Evidence in the espionage case reveals the IWW expels members who enlist rather than add a star to a service flag. Frank K. Nebeker read Bourg’s letter detailing an expulsion for enlisting with the British army. Nine IWW members are shown to have been expelled for joining American or allied service.
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Evidence on German plot to Ireland to be submitted
London May 23 reports Edward Shortt chief secretary for Ireland will present evidence on a German plot in Ireland to the British cabinet today. If any portion can be published without harming public interest, it will be released. Dublin May 22 at an anti conscription conference a letter from A J Balfour to the lord mayor stated passports would be granted only if he submits all documents for his American trip. The lord mayor said he would carry only a direct message to President Wilson and would not submit it. The conference adjourned and the lord mayor's departure is delayed beyond next week.
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Witness Graney Lusk Testifies In Roberts Murder Trial
Waukesha Wis May 13 Graney Lusk resumes testimony detailing her career and meeting Dr David Roberts amid allegations of an affair and coercive pressure. She describes gifts payments and a January 1914 meeting in Milwaukee and Chicago redacted to explain motives for the killing of Mrs Mary Newman Roberts. The defense frames her as the central witness in a case unfolding with personal and legal tension.
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Russians to be Exchanged Prisoners Reported Arrive
Washington May 23. Arrival in Petrograd of the first contingent of 1500 Russian prisoners to be exchanged under the German agreement was reported to the state department. The men were described as "tyeii table walking dead men" and the plan to return only nonworking Russians while sending only able bodied Germans stirred indignation.
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Aviatrix Starts at Chicago with Mail for New York
Chicago May 23 Miss Katherine Stinson the aviatrix started a flight from Chicago to New York with mail at TST o'clock this morning. She had not announced her intention to start. The flight was delayed a week awaiting war department permission after she was sworn in as a postal clerk. Passing Shawville Ohio she had logged 5 hours 28 minutes at about 61 miles an hour.
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New York
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Italian sinking of Austrian ship at Pola prisoners taken
Washington reports definite notice that Commander Pellegrini and his men who torpedoed an Austrian battleship in Pola harbor on May 14 have been captured. Earlier dispatches had not confirmed their fate, noting they entered the harbor in a small craft which they sank after the attack.
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Washington, D. C
Pellegrini
Pola
U S Pilot Killed Within American Lines in Accident
Washington May 23 A U S pilot Lieut Kurtz was killed accidentally within American lines according to a war department communique. The report notes the death occurred this morning and appears to have been caused by an accident.
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Pershing
War Department
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Lieut. Kurtz
American Artillery Destroys Eight German Batteries
In France on May 22, American artillery reports eight of ten German batteries active against American positions destroyed. Aerial photos show direct hits. American guns are also attacking rear areas, burning ammunition dumps and billets as patrols harass German lines nightly.
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France
Picardy Front
Amer_ican
German Bomb Raid Hits Paris Killing a Woman
Paris reports a new German air raid with about 20 planes attempting to reach the city. One civilian death and twelve injuries are listed, and a 75 mm shell fell through a roof beside a cradle but did not explode and the infant slept through it.
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Rose Stokes Trial Defense Argues War Protest Patriotism
In Kansas City Minnesota May 223 the defense for Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes argues in her espionage act trial that her alleged crime was challenging profiteers and demanding fair compensation for labor. Lawyer Seymour Stedman contends liberty of speech does not permit obstructing wartime efforts and that war profits imagery is not illegal.
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Kansas City
Rose Pastor Stokes
Seymour Stedman
United States
Fights with Allies Press On as British, Italian Offensives Continue
British and Italian forces push on in northern Italy while raids and aerial combat intensify on the western fronts. German attacks near Mesnil are repulsed as British planes harass German airfields behind lines in Flanders and Picardy. Bombing raids strike Mannheim, Liege, Metz, and Thionville, with fires and railway damage reported. Northern Italy sees lively fighting as German hospital bombing claims rise amid continued Allied advances.
Red Cross War Fund Drive totals released
Reports from Washington plaza Red Cross headquaters show contributions reaching 52,150,396 dollars toward a second 1 060 000 090 goal. Central division totals run 5,900,006 dollars as the drive continues across war aid efforts.
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Red Cross
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