War Department drafts 900000 to 1500000 men to begin by September
Provost Marshal General Crowder told the Senate Military Affairs committee that plans call for drafting 900000 to 1500000 of the 10000000 registering tomorrow for the new army. Exemptions could reduce immediate service to about 625000. All draftees will be in training camps by September 1.
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Associated—Press
Washington
War Department
Crowder
Senate Military Affairs Committee
New York Plans Mass Meetings For Conscription Day
New York and Washington dispatches report mass meetings and rallies across the city tonight to explain the draft law. Ten thousand police and volunteers will guide registrations at voting sites used in the last election. Prominent women and German-descent speakers join patriotic efforts to enforce the act.
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Associated Press
New York
Patriotic Societies
Home Defese League
National League For Woman's Service
Senate Finance panel backs 2 percent ad tax on papers
The Senate Finance Committee favors a flat 2 percent levy on advertising receipts for newspapers magazines and publications to fund war costs. The plan aims to block higher second loss postage rates and could raise about 15 million dollars, with debate over exempting smaller papers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Ian Simmons
Blow Post Law of Georgia Falls
Reported as annulled by the Supreme Court in a dispute over a Georgia law requiring locomotives to blow whistles and check speed near public crossings. The Seaboard Air Line argued the rule burdened interstate commerce while the state defended it as police power. Justice White and Justices Pitney Brandeis dissented.
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Asa
Washington
Georgia
Supreme Court
Seaboard Air Line
White
Pitney
Brandeis
Plan to Ease Rail Freight Congestion Across Coast
Article discusses potential government action to relieve freight delays by allowing American coastwise ships to engage in trans Atlantic trade. Secretary Redfield to present the proposal to President Wilson amid expectations that Britain and Canada will support the arrangement.
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Washington
Atlantic
Gulf
Redfield
Wilson
Governor calls saloons to close on draft day
Governor McCall urged all liquor dealers in Massachusetts to close their saloons tomorrow, draft day, as on election days. The statement was released from Boston on June 4.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
McCall
Supreme Court rules in war economy train reduction
Washington June 4 The Supreme Court approved reducing train service as a war economy. It annulled the Mississippi Railroad Commission orders forcing Mobile & Ohio to restore six passenger trains. The railroad argued some trains were interstate commerce and the state commission lacked power.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
State Commission
American commissions reach Russia headed by Root and Stevens
The American commission to Russia led by Elihu Root arrived safely at a Russian port and departed by special train for Petrograd. The accompanying Railroad Commission under John F. Stevens completed port inspections and also left for Petrograd, with an arrival expected around June 17.
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Associated Press
Tokio
American Commission
Russia
Elihu Root
Petrograd
U boats attack American liner Kroonland
Two German submarines fired four torpedoes at the American Line steamer Kroonland on its last voyage from New York. Two torpedoes missed by under 20 feet as the ship zigzagged away toward the British coast. Torpedoes touched the hull on two later shots but failed to explode. naval gunfire did not score any hits.
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Associated Press
New York
Kroonland
Counterfeit Ten Dollar Note Reported by Secret Service
Washington June 4 discovery of a new counterfeit ten dollar gold certificate from the 1907 series announced by the secret service. It is not as finely executed as the genuine note but could prove deceptive.
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Associated Press
Washington
Secret Service
Norway Ships Sunk in May Amid War Losses
Special report from London says 49 Norwegian steamers with a gross tonnage of 175 397 were sunk in May, costing 25 lives. The Norwegian legation in London released the figures.
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London
Mysterious attack reported near Asheville bridge
Twenty four men attempted to rush a railway bridge near Asheville North Carolina and severely cut one sentinel before the main guard repelled them. The main offenders were jailed. Telegram from Captain Boesch of Company B North Carolina Engineers relayed the incident to Southeastern Department command.
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Associated Press
Charleston
S. C
Asheville
N C
Boesch
Company B
North Carolina Engineers
Southeastern Department
Indictment for anti conscription action in New York
Six men and a woman, including Columbia students Owen Cattell Charles F Phillips and Barnard student Eleanor Wilson Parker, were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to obstruct the selective draft law by distributing anti conscription literature at a Madison Square Garden peace meeting and promoting a No Conscription League event.
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Associated Press
New York
Federal Grand Jury
Owen Cattell
Charles F. Phillips
Columbia
Eleanor Wilson Parker
Barnard
Madison Square Garden
Board of Trade Considers Corn Price Max
Chicago directors met to consider establishing maximum prices for corn futures as was done with wheat earlier. With little corn in town and prices up 12 to 15 cents since Thursday they adjourned at 4 PM without action.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
American schooner Arcas looted by Mexican gunboat off Tehuantepec
Galveston Texas June 4 The American fishing schooner Arcas was boarded by a Mexican gunboat crew off Tehuantepec on May 31 and looted of clothing fishing gear and a medicine chest according to information brought here today by Captain S A McDonald of the Arcas.
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Associated Press
Galveston
Texas
Arcas
Tehaantepec
Mexico
S. A. McDonald
Kronstadt Sailors Claim Independence Sparks Petrograd Alarm
Kronstadt garrison sailors announced independence from the central government and said they would land troops in Petrograd to stage demonstrations. Reports later said the landing and attack did not occur, but the alert caused intense citywide excitement and a military dispatch.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
London
Kronstadt
Gutuyeff
Gutayeff
Kronstadt Revolt Threatens Petrograd and Uprising in Washington
Kronstadt leaders vow to boycott and isolate Kronstadt unless the Petrograd provisional government withdraws its defiance. Anatole Lamanoff, a Petrograd Tech College chemistry student, has risen as de facto Kronstadt dictator. In Washington, Confederate veterans arrive for their reunion, with memorials at Arlington and calls to raise the draft age to 70 if needed.
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Kronstadt
London
Petrograd
Petrograd Technological College
Anatole Lamanoff
Associated Press
Washington
South
United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
Arlington National Cemetery
Wilson
Bennett H. Young
Four Arrests In German Spy Mail Conspiracy
Four men are in custody as minor figures in a conspiracy to send military information to Germany via neutral mail. Authorities anticipate more arrests as they probe how Germany learned about destroyer movements off the British coast. Arrested defendants include Harry Perissi, George Melcher, and Irving Bonaparte. a fourth man, son of a German army captain, was detained.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Germany
John C. Knox
Sweden
Harry Perissi
George Melcher
Harlem
Irving Bonaparte
Bronx
Interned German Officers Arrive as Prisoners in New York
Three officers from the German prize steamship Farn, interned at San Juan Porto Rico and taken over by the United States in April, arrived in New York today aboard a Porto Rico steamship. They commanded a detail of men from a Porto Rico regiment.
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Associated Press
New York
Farn
San Juan
Porto Rico
United States
Persuading Men Not to Register Charged in Boston
John Scherenski was arrested by Federal authorities on June 4 for advising two young men of draft age not to register. Witnesses Charles Barkus and Stanley Collins were summoned for the government at a preliminary hearing.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
John Scherenski
Charles Barkus
Stanley Collins
Mexicans Depart Texas as Consulate Opens
More than 300 Mexicans waited at Laredo as the Mexican consulate opened to issue passports. They had traveled from south and west Texas and believed they would be subject to the draft, aiming to return home.
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Associated Press
Laredo
Texas
United States
Canadians Hold and Lose At Loos Electric Works
British forces report fierce fighting near the Loos electric power station as Canadian troops seize the ruins in a bold dawn dash but are driven back by heavy German counter attacks. The action yields 112 prisoners and multiple German regiments identified amid intense artillery and trench work.
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France
London
Associated Press
Loos
Arras
Changing Names of Interned Ships
Secretary Daniels announced that seized German ships have had their names changed in the navy. The vessels Geir, E, Kiel, fels, Saxonia, Vogensen, Nicaria, Odenwald, and Hohenfelde were renamed to Schurz Bridgeport Camden Houston Savannah Quincy Pensacola Newport News Long Beach.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniels
Navy
Geir
Schurz
Bridgeport
Kiel
Camden
Fels
Houston
Saxonia
Savannah
Vogensen
Quincy
Nicaria
Pensacola
Odenwald
Newport News
Hohenfelde
Long Beach
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