Take All Wheat Disease Report Warns Farmers
The experiment station botany team led by Dr. Mains and Dr. Gardner outlines the take all wheat disease findings in Illinois and Indiana. Field patches show stunted plants with brown rotting sheaths and crown rots. many fields may be wiped out. Recommendations urge plowing infected fields, burning small patches, avoiding straw spread, using grain from infected areas only as cattle feed, and rotating to grasses for four years.
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Botany
FE. B. Mains
M. W. Gardner
Federal Department
Illinois
Indiana
Granite City
Laporte
Porter
Jasper
Tippecanoe
Red Cross Peace Projects Reach Returning American Troops
More than 30,000 Americans who served with the British army are returning home in ships carrying 1 500 to 3 000 each. The British government will pay transport and expenses. Red Cross canteen and home service aid accompany them. The League of Red Cross Societies plans invitations to many nations. The Italian Red Cross emerges as a leading relief body with 300 000 members by 1918.
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Lake
American Red Cross
New York
The
Red Cross
League of Red Cross Societies
Henry P. Davison
Paris
Henry Morganthau
Turkey
Davison
League
Red Cross Societies
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Cuba
Denmark
Greece
Holland
India
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Portugal
Roumania
Serbia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Uruguay
Venezuela
Repeal of ice cream soda tax proposed in Congress
A bill introduced by Representative Longworth Ohio in the house seeks to repeal the ten percent tax on ice cream soda and related sweet preparations. Senator Watson Indiana in the Senate joins the effort arguing the tax is burdensome and costly to collect and could be replaced by other revenue methods. The move has bipartisan support and aims to remove the tax before summer.
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Washington
House
Longworth
Ohio
Ways and Means
Senate
James B. Watson
Indiana
Finance Committee
Congress
British Soldiers Riot in London and Britain Wide Protests
London witnessed thousands of discharged soldiers and sailors marching on the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace after a Hyde Park meeting demanding work and a minimum wage. Across Britain a triple alliance of railway, coal, and transport workers threatens a general strike to press demands including conscription abolition, troop withdrawal from Russia, and higher tax exemptions. Police unions plan a June 2 strike backed by the alliance, while radicals like Tom Mann and Sylvain Parkhurst urged revolution at Trafalgar Square.
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London
House of Commons
Buckingham Palace
Royal Residence
Palace
Hyde Park
Bonar Law
Russia
Germany
Triple Alliance
Robert Horne
Paris
Lloyd George
National Union of Police
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
United Kingdom
Great Triple Alliance
Trafalgar Square
Tom Mann
Sylva Parkhurst
Charles Kramar Leader of Bohemian Liberty
Charles Kramar was a delegate to the peace conference from Czecho Slovakia and prime minister of the Czecho Slovak government. He led the Young Czech party in the Austrian Reichsrat and was arrested early in the war, sentenced to death, but later reprieved and released. His life was devoted to Bohemian liberty.
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Charles Kramar
Czecho-Slovakia
Reichsrat
Uife
Plan to Feed Petrograd Amid Bolshevik Expulsion
London reports that allied powers plan to feed Petrograd and aid the starving population after the Bolsheviks leave. Herbert Hoover, leader of allied relief, has the details in hand and aims to deliver relief within 36 hours of withdrawal.
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London
Petrograd
Herbert C. Hoover
German Peace Terms Seek 100000 Man Army
Berlin reports the German reply to allied peace terms allows an army of 100000 on a peace footing but urges not to enforce the limit until stability is ensured. Kolchak’s Siberian forces report capturing ten thousand Bolshevik prisoners 38 guns and 260 machine guns west of Ufa along with two armored trains 50 locomotives and 200 river craft.
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Berlin
Admiral Kolchak
Ufa
Omsk
Big Four Rebuff British Plan on German Shipping
Washington reports President Wilson says the Paris council of four agreed the United States will keep 700 000 tons of German shipping seized in American ports after entering the war. Britain proposed pooling ships seized elsewhere for allocation by submarine losses but the US refused. Paris notes Austrian delegation credentials approved and notes on Carinthian affairs.
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Washington
Wilson
Council of Four
Paris
United States
Great Britain
St. Germain-en-Laye
Peace Congress
U S C Wins The Ocean Flight Across Atlantic
The NC four seaplane under Lieut Com Albert GO Read completed the first Atlantic crossing by air with crew of five. They left the Azores and arrived in Lisbon in nine hours forty four minutes on May 28. The flight covered about 788 miles and averaged over 80 mph amid cheers from crowds and officials.
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Lisbon
Atlantic Ocean
NO-4
Portugal
Azores
Newfoundland
Albert GO. Read
Ponta Delgads
Atlantic
St Johns
N. F
Admiral Jackson
U. S. S. Rochester
Yanks Leaving Archangel in World War I Withdrawal
Washington reports the withdrawal of American forces from Archangel is underway. The 339th Infantry awaits evacuation, with cables noting that individual casualties cannot speed discharge, as units will reach home before those soldiers.
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Washington
Archangel
War Department
Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry
Department
Prohibition Wins in Texas Election Returns
Texas reports equal suffrage and constitutional prohibition as adopted by partial county returns. Prohibition tally stands at 57,467 for and 52,524 against. suffrage 57,768 for and 37,789 against, with many counties still unreported. Land amendment appears adopted. governor salary increase defeated in early returns.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Engine Explodes Killing One on Pennsylvan ia Line
An explosion on a Pennsylvania railroad engine near Salem leaves J. W. Crawford of Williamsport dead. Engineer Samuel Todd of Conway and the fireman suffer severe burns. The incident occurred May 27 and is being investigated.
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Salem, O
Pennsylvania Railroad
J. W. Crawford
Williamsport
Samuel Todd
Conway
Treasury reports Victory Liberty loan oversubscribed
Washington May 27. Total subscriptions to the Victory Liberty loan were announced at 7 249 908 300 dollars, an oversubscription of 750 million dollars above earlier estimates.
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Treasury
Washington
Victory Liberty Loan
Western troops return home to Maine and New York mobilizations
The Montana docked in Boston with 41 officers and 1,005 men from the 314th engineers. They were met by local officials and welfare groups and sent to Camp Devens for discharge after training at Camp Grant. In New York 3,714 Pennsylvania unit troops from the 79th division arrived aboard the Princess Matoika. The La Touraine carried 465 troops of several motor transport units and discharged or furloughed casualties.
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Boston
Montana
Three Hundred and Fourteenth Engineers
Camp Devens
Camp Grant
New York
Pennsylvania
Seventy-ninth Division
Princess Matoika
la Touraine
Havre
German protest to French over Bavarian Palatinate split
Berlin May 27 Mathias Erzberger head of the German armistice commission sent a note to General Naudant at Spa protesting alleged encouragement by General Gerard of the French army to separatists seeking to detach the Bavarian Palatinate from Bavaria and Germany. The note was transmitted through General von Hammerstein the German military representative at Spa.
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Berlin
Mathias Erzberger
German Armistice Commission
Naudant
Marshal Fochsat
Five Die in Texas Storm Toll and Damage Report
A southeastern Texas storm killed about five people and injured many others across Beaumont Orange and Port Arthur. Oil derricks blew down lightning ignited tanks and the Magnolia Petroleum 55000 barrel tank at Beaumont was destroyed.
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Beaumont
Tex
Texas
Louisiana
Orange
Port ‘Arthur
Magnolia Petroleum Company
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BIG Four
U. S
U.S.C
Yanks
North
Prohibition
Armistice Commission
Bavaria
Southeastern
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