Lloyd George cites race between Hindenburg and Wilson in war effort
Edinburgh May 24 British Prime Minister David Lloyd George declared the next weeks would be a race between Hindenburg and President Wilson as the Allies await American help. He praised shipping gains in April, warned of Russia’s collapse aiding Germany, and noted unrestricted submarine warfare as a new threat. The speech accompanied his reception for freedom of the city.
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Edinburgh
Hindenburg
Wilson
Mr. Lloyd George
Lloyd
George
United States
America
Russia
Wroyd George
Great Britain
Germany
Lloyd George
Admiralty
Belgium
Minotto Alien Foe Internment Begun by Court Rule
May 24 internment of Count James Minotto began at Fort Sheridan after Judge Baker refused to continue the $50,000 bond and ordered detention until the June 12 hearing. The case cites his German birth and German ties while labeling him an alien enemy under a presidential warrant. Minotto, claiming Italian citizenship, faces further internment at Port Oglethorpe and awaits a habeas corpus ruling.
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Chicago
James Minotto
Fort Sheridan
Baker
Federal Court of Appeals
James Minarte
Louis F. Swift
Packer
Port Oglethorpe
Federal District Court
Carpenter
Germany
Austr
England
Congress
Minotto
Italy
U. S
Pullmans Taken by Government on Rental Plan
Chicago May 24 The carrier business of the Pullman company has been taken over by the government and will become part of the railway system. Chartes Runnels vice president says the government will pay rental based on the three year average earnings prior to June 30 1917. Manufacturing remains with Pullman.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Chartes Runnels
Runnels
Pullman
Grace Lusk Testimony Highlights Jealousy and Fare Payments
Grace Lusk testified at her trial for the killing of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts. She denied intent to kill and said Dr. Roberts paid her rail fare from Milwaukee to Chicago on several occasions. She described threats and arguments, including a hospitalization and a confrontation over her life and finances, as the courtroom heard her account.
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Waukesha
Wis
Grace Lusk
Mary Newman Roberts
Miss Lusk
Dr. Roberts
Milwaukee
Chicago
Mrs. Roberts
Wife Slayer Executed by Firing Squad in Salt Lake City
Howard H. de Weese, convicted of murdering his wife Fanny Fisher, was executed in the state prison yard at 6:55 this morning. He walked to the chair, asked deputies to ensure the aim of the firing squad, and submitted to being strapped in as the sentence was carried out. Death was almost instantaneous.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Howard H. de Weese
Fanny Fisher
de Weese
Millions of WWI prisoners and refugees face repatriation
Moscow reports 1.5 million invalid prisoners in Germany and Austria Hungary with a plan to repatriate 5.06 million refugees to Russian provinces under German occupation. Many invalids suffer tuberculosis and contagious diseases amid food and medical shortages. In New York, Reichstag figures cite 2.7 million wounded or sick soldiers returned to front and 92,000 discharged as unfit.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Russia
Siberia
New York
Reichstag
Schulze
Germans cut piers to breach Bruges canal entrance
London May 24 reports say failed attempts to blow up ships blocked the Bruges canal entrance at Zeebrugge led Germans to cut away piers on the west side. Photographs by British naval airmen show the blocked passage and a larger channel for torpedo craft to reach the sea.
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London
Havying
Bruges Canal
Zeebrugse
Yearly loans by U S land banks tally 91 million
Washington May 2 The twelve federal land banks report loans to farmers totaling 91,868,886.20 as of April 30 marking near end of first year. Capital stock rose to 13,594,895 with farm loan bonds at 82,756,000 issued. Excess of expenses over earnings stood at 411,954.24 about three percent of capital.
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Washington, D. C
Farm Loan Board
Work or Fight rules aim to place draft age men in jobs or army
Washington May 24 The government plans to assign every able draft age man to military service or a useful occupation with cases decided on merit. The approach may tighten as the war continues and could raise the draft age past 31. Early effects push idle men toward work or the army, with July 1 as a milestone for defining usefulness of employment.
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Washington, D. C
Crowder
Mussulmans to Use Crimea in German Plans
Moscow May 17 official German wireless telegram says the central powers support the Turkish view that Mussulmans should head the government in the Crimea. Latest stats report Russians as the region’s majority with a notable number of Tartars who are Mohammedans.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Mussulmans
Pawnbrokers Exempted as Essential Trade in Britain
London May 4 The midset sought aid from pawnbroker Mr Attenborough as a tribunal upheld exemption for pawnbrokers in the trade. Many pledges, especially clothes, came from middle class holders who felt the pinch and fetched goods from home. The tribunal ruled pawnbrokers essential, reversing views that they were non essential.
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London
Attenborough
Shoreditch Tribumal
Long
Yankees to Defend Paris Against Raiders In Sky
An American escadrille of top pilots will aid France to defend Paris from German air raids. The offer came from the American aviation service and was accepted by the French government. Final arrangements were concluded today for an officially organized unit.
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Yankees
Paris
Raiders
Sky
Flyers
Darla
Era M. Tinmensall
Aviathon
Irench
German Division Refuses Order in Russia Executions Reported
Russian wireless dispatch cites a German division at Dvinsk that refused east to west orders. Fifty men executed and 1,060 imprisoned while other German units displayed protests. Additional complaints allege Russian fishing boats sunk, a passenger steamer torpedoed, a hospital ship attacked, and Russian property seized in Finland.
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Washington
D. C
Dvinsk
Russia
State Department
Moscow
Berlin
Waida Bay
Black Sea
Germany
Finland
German view on Aqummantan pact equals pay
London May 24 German experts led by Dr von Ruehlmann argued the Aqummantan pact yields economic gains equivalent to indemnity from Romania. He told a Chamber of Commerce Germany seeks trade privileges and a nine year lease on the Bucharest Czernova railway to access oil and grain, stressing geographic factors limit territorial aims.
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London
Germany
Roumania
van Kuehlmaan
Teld
A Chamber of Commerce
Lfss
von Ruehlmann
Bucharest
Czernava
Onstanza
von Kurhlmann
Red Cross war fund near three quarters of goal
Washington May 24 three quarters of the hundred million second war fund of the Red Cross was subscribed this morning at national headquarters with an early total of 74269625. Officials expected large oversubscription due to unreported pledges and final efforts. The Atlantic division outside Greater New York led in percentage raised with 1550900 still needed to reach its 10000000 target.
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Washington, D. C
The
Red Cross
National Headquarters
Central Division
Chicago
Greater
New York
Prince Arthur of Connaught Heads British Mission to United States
Prince Arthur of Connaught arrives at an Atlantic port as head of a British mission to the United States. He is met by Assistant Secretary of State Lange and other officials. The mission, aboard a British cruiser, will travel to Japan and stop in Washington to call on President Wilson.
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Atlantic
Prince Arthur of
Japan
St. Clair
Sinclair
Equery
William Pultenii
the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
M. V.O
Pultenii
F. Batt
Royal Berk
State Department
Washington
Wilson
German gains, air raids and Italian front reports from WWI
Wartime dispatches describe heavy Allied air bombing in German lines back of the Western Front with tonnage dropped on targets including Mannheim and Saarbrucken. Berlin claims US planes downed while Italian and French fronts see renewed raids and a shifting German-ally frontline along the Lys.
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Ypres
Reims
Germany
Mannheim
Rhine
Saarbrucken
Metz
FOE
U. S
Berlin
Lys
Switzerland
North Sea
Italy
France
Piave
Cape Sile
Associated Press
Toul
Japan
London
Tokio
G. O. Wallenberg
Daily Express
Imade
Evan H Williams Tenor Dies in Akron
Evan H. Williams noted tenor died this morning at Akron city hospital after a weeklong illness. Death due to blood poisoning occurred as he lay surrounded by his wife and children. If this paper is late, call 3320 before 6 30 p m for a copy.
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Evan, Williams
Akron
Evan H.williams
City Hospital
Williams
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