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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
8
United Press reports a mass national mobilization as ten million men register to vote and offer service for democracy. From cities to farms, homes to farms, the populace lines up at seven to obtain registration certificates and join a vast registration machinery.
Across the nation on June 5 registrants queued for the draft with orderly lines and patriotic displays. Norfolk and Portsmouth reported no disorder while crowds in Atlanta Minneapolis St Louis Washington Newport News Jacksonville Birmingham Mobile Roanoke and Virginia counties showed orderly participation and festive observances.
Federal Shipping Board and Department of Commerce announce a campaign to recruit and train 10,000 men as ship officers. Henry Howard of Boston is named director with offices in the Boston customs house. A training school opens near Boston and fourteen more are planned along the Atlantic coast with later expansion.
Maxton North Carolina June 5 special to The Dispatch registration proceeds fast with three registrars aiding crowds of young colored men. About 175 have registered for the military company and drum corps. they marched from the school to registration singing patriotic tunes and receiving khaki badges. Registrars Capt. J. C. Everett W. O. Bennett and S. H. McKinnon assisted by Mayor J. M. Armstrong.
At the request of the State Department the Federal Reserve Board warned member banks that German interests in Latin America seek to secure American funds to foment trouble in this hemisphere. It urged strict scrutiny of transfers to neutral countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rome June 5 Italian war office reports repulsion of massed Austrian attacks south of Gorizia from Dosso Daili to the sea. Italians halted the Austrian rush between Castagnavizza and Samano and counter attacked, taking advance positions in the sector.
The French chamber of deputies endorses the Alsace Lorraine restoration to France and calls for peace guarantees after Prussian militarism is crushed. It backs allied efforts and rejects amendments, urging coordinated military and diplomatic action for just reparations and liberation.
Clifford Thorne for the National Shippers Conference told the Interstate Commerce Commission that if railroad statistics for 1917 remain constant, roads could be entitled to a freight revenue increase not exceeding 3.8 percent, though current ratio fluctuations may not justify such an increase now.
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