Flag raising planned at Liberty Shipyards
Liberty Shipbuilding yard in the southern city section will host a noon flag raising of the Stars and Stripes and the shipping board emblem tomorrow. Mayor Parker Quince Moore and C. C. Chadbourn will speak. attendance is for yard workers only to avoid crowding and disruption.
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Liberty Shipbuilding Company
Shipping Board
Parker Quince Moore
C. C. Chadbourn
Chamber of Commerce
Victory Home Company
Sheriff to test automobile lights at high school tonight
Sheriff Jackson and deputies will conduct a second night of light tests at the high school on Ann street between Fifth and Sixth. Motorists may bring their cars to have lights checked for compliance. About 70 machines were tested the previous night, and the sheriff extended the program due to requests.
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Jackson
Ann Street
Admiration of France for American Troops Arrival
On the anniversary of the first American troops arriving in France President Poincare telegraphs President Wilson praising America for gallantry and bravery as troops begin to show battlefield valor.
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France
Paris
Poincare
Wilson
America
Flag Day Exercises At Ells Temple Tomorrow Night
Flag day programs are planned at the Ells temple tomorrow evening at 8 30. Hon John D Bellamy will deliver the address and the public is invited. Members should meet at 8 o clock.
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Elks’ Temple
Orient Lodge No.395
A.F
A.M
C. Brown
Ells Temple
John D. Bellamy
War Appropriation Move Expected in Commons
London reports on June 13 state Chancellor Andrew Bonar Law is expected to move a war appropriation of 600 million pounds in the house of commons. This would raise total war appropriations to 7.342 billion pounds since the war began.
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London
House of Commons
Andrew Bonar Law
Woman Fatally Shoots Intruder in St Paul Home
Mrs Ivan Dugan wife of a national army lieutenant fired five rounds from a public safety pistol at an unidentified Black intruder in her home early today. The shots struck the man in the head and heart, fatally hurting him.
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St. Paul
Minn
Ivan Dugan
National Army
Thorough Search Of Passengers On Nieuw Amsterdam
At Atlantic Port on June 13 the 612 Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam passengers face the strictest inbound screening since entry into the war. British and American inspectors with customs health officers and intelligence personnel aboard numbered over 150 conduct a three hour health hold and continued questioning through the night. Early today 50 members of the Women’s Motor Corps of America boarded to assist in inspecting women travelers and their effects. Government interest in passengers and cargo remains unexplained.
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Atlantic
Nieuw Amsterdam
America
Anchorage
Women’s Motor Corps of America
Labor as Factor in Winning War
Washington June 13 efficient employment and distribution of American labor power as a factor in winning the war was the theme of the first national war labor conference opening here today. Secretary Wilson was to address the conference this afternoon. It is expected those attending will include 18 district superintendents and 48 state directors of the federal employment service and the state directors of the public service reserve. The conference will continue Friday and Saturday.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Employment Service
Public Service
Steamer Alcor Ashore off Nova Scotia Coast
A 3600 ton American steamer Alcor Captain Becker formerly Dutch bound from a New England port for a trans Atlantic port ran ashore in fog on the southern coast of Nova Scotia. The crew of 35 were all saved according to a message to the marine and fisheries department from a lighthouse keeper on a nearby island.
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Alcor
Becker
New England
Nova Scotia
Marine and Fisheries Department
Training Camps for Irish American Army in Ireland
London reports steps to create training camps for Irish American troops in Ireland. Local committees will organize centers, with authorities hoping camps will yield a beneficial effect, though one irreconcilable warns Americans would become Sinn Feiners within a month.
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London
Dublin
Ireland
Daily News
Germany at Point of Utter Starvation
Paris notes Germany, despite western front attacks, faces mass hunger. Echo de Paris cites Berlin paper detailing six starving orphans in Zenefort Thuringia. Doctors found emaciated children and a ransacked orphanage as experts warn of worsening wheat shortages.
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Germany
Paris
Echo de Paris
Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung
Zenefort
Thuringia
Kranz BH. Hein
Bayerischer Zeitung
Munich
President enlarges naval proving grounds at Snidan Head
Washington June 13 President Wilson enlarged the naval proving grounds at Snidan Head Maryland and the auxiliary proving grounds across the Potomac in Virginia by commandeering about 2200 acres of land. The land was placed under the control of the secretary of the navy.
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Proving Grounds
Washington
Naval Proving Grounds
Snidan Head
Potomac River
Virginia
Wilson
Secretary of the Navy
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W. M. Cumming
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Hershey’s
Hooten’s
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Greenfield
Welch’s
Bear Produce
Moise Co
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Philadelphia
Queen City Cycle Co
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James O. Reilly
Carolina Beach
Wilmington Grocery Company
H. F. Wilder
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People’s Supply Company
Third St
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THE
DU Pont Company
Hopewell, Virginia
Uncle Sam
Liberty Yards
Piedmont
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Caro
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Bet
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Franklin
San Felice
Cinco
el Rees
Samuel Bear Sr
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Phon
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American Bank & Trust Co
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