Allies Seek to Stem German Tide in World War I
Allied leaders anticipate halting the German offensive as American troops reach battle lines near Montdidier. French and British reserves remain largely intact while Italy reports sharper action along the Asiago front. Emperor Charles travels to the Italian front. Austria-Hungary faces food shortages and internal strains.
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Washington
Ottawa
Miens
Paris
Channel
Foch
Mont- Kemmel
Flanders
Picardy
Lowever
Kemmel
Ypres
Arras
Somme
Monte Corno
D’ Asiago
Col del Orso
Brenta
Piave
Lake Garda
Ine
Tarles
Baron Burian
Larters
Ttmany
Austria-Hungary
Austria
Bohemia
Galicia
Girls Victims of German Hoax Report
A German village hoax lured girls to a Sunday dance at a town hall. Maiden guests dressed in finery waited for partners while the burgomaster closed the hall and had each girl listed. Police later confiscated the girls garments.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kiefer
Rls
Federal Banks Report Boosts Treasury Subscriptions
Federal reserve banks reported liberal loan subscriptions to the Treasury and the national will be on Meeq tomorrow or Wednesday.
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Federal Banks
Washington
Federal Reserve Banks
National
Barkocsy Resigns as Hungarian Upper House Leader
Budapest dispatch reports Count An En Barkocsy president of the Hungarian upper house has resigned. The move follows a shakeup that also affects two vice presidents of the chamber.
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Count Barkocsy
Sterdam
Budapest
Count An"en Barkocsy
Bare Gue
Official War Report from May 13 on Somme and Mont Corno Actions
The official statement notes hostile artillery in the Somme valley and Albert sectors, and between Lo Cont and the Nieppe forest. Austro Hungarian troops attacked Mont Corno but were repulsed with heavy losses after bombardment and counter fire. In the Avre area artillery fighting occurred and a French detachment took 20 prisoners north of Nomeny.
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London
Somme Valley
Albert
Locon
Forest of Nieppe
Flanders Front
Rome
Mont Corno
Paris
Picari
Lorraine
Nomeny
St. Die
Former Emperor Nicholas Romanoff Removed to Ekaterinburg
London May 13 The Soviet government confirms a report that Nicholas Romanoff the former emperor and the former empress and one daughter have been moved from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg after a peasant conspiracy to aid recapture. Alexis Romanoff remains at Tobolsk ill. The ex emperor is confined to a small house with few attendants and guards are said to be rude. A Bolshevik official says he must accept imprisonment and the fate will be decided soon.
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London
Times
Petrograd
Nicholas Romanoff
Ekaterinburg
Tobolsk
Lexis Romanoff
M. Sverdloff
Nicholas
Balloon drifting toward town sparks police alert
Government officials asked the police department to watch for a stray observation balloon that broke from its moorings at Old Point Comfort and was believed to be drifting in this direction. Police were urged to publicize the matter and relay any information to authorities. The balloon reportedly broke free this morning.
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Police Department
Old Point Comfort
Deserter Claims American Identity From Camp Wadsworth
A man calling himself George Jenkins was jailed in Kinston North Carolina on a vagran cy charge. He said in a letter to the Kinston police chief that he is an American and a deserter from a New York division at Camp Wadsworth. Authorities hold him awaiting military verification.
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Kinston
N. C
George Jenkins
New York
Camp Wadsworth
Jenkins
Chamber committee reports ten new members at 11 oclock meeting
The chamber of commerce membership committee announced ten additional members after a well attended committees meeting at the chamber. A. J. Moore chaired the committee and the group decided to continue the campaign to reach all non members and offer joining opportunity.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
A. J. Moore
U-Boat Campaign Losing Its Power
A brief wartime update reports the German U boat campaign is weakening as Allied anti submarine efforts intensify. The monthly toll for attacks and maritime losses is notably reduced, signaling strategic shifts in naval warfare.
Submarine War Decline Portends Allied Victory
Paris reports German U boat sinkings dropping as Allied forces intensify anti submarine actions. Leygues asserts foreign totals misstate losses, noting French ships pass danger zone without sinking and allied destruction of subs rises since January. Washington notes U.S. production and deployment accelerate, with plans to rush up to two million more men this summer.
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Germany
Oaanger Zone
Washington
Paris
United States
Germans Seize Former Russ Rulers
Odessa reports from the Ukrainian press bureau that the former dowager empress Marie Feodoroyna and Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholaievitch and Alexander Nicholaievitch are in German hands.
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Amsterdam
Ukrainian Press Bureau
Odessa
Marie Feodoroyona
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Alexander Nicholaievitch
Michaelovitch
Dulibar
Altodor
Crimea
Three Southern Men Included in Casualty List
Washington reports a casualty list of 96 names with 12 severely wounded and 38 missing in action. The roster names Lieutenants Forbes O Dononue Burke and Captain Deming among others, with several deaths by disease and wounds and one prisoner.
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Washington
Guy Raymond Forbes
Minneapolis
Walter T. O’dononue
Hartford
Mountain City
Tenn
Green Dukes
Campton
Grady W. Knight
Oglethorpe
Nellie Russell Paroled After Clean Up Campaign
Nellie Russell, white, was paroled for one year after being charged with vagrancy. The city’s recent clean up drive led to 35 or more white and colored women being haled into court. Several others, including Frank Whitford and David McNeal, faced gambling charges with prayer for judgment continued on costs.
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Santasaity
Écér der Harriss
Frank Whitford
David McNeal
Lisbon Melton
Louis Johnson
Willie Smith
Alex Berry
Noted Negro Pulpit Orator to Lead 10 Day Revival
Rev. Charles S. Morris of Norfolk will conduct revival services at the Central Baptist church colored starting this evening for a 10 day period. He is a leading African American missionary who has preached in Europe Africa Egypt and the West Indies under the National Baptist Convention.
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Charles S. Morris
Norfolk
Central Baptist Church
Colored
Europe
Africa
Egypt
West Indian Islands
National Baptist, Convention
May Reopen Question of Four Year Limit
Atlanta May 13 The Southern Methodist church general conference enters its tenth day and may reopen the four year limit for pastors by a resolution to refer action to annual conferences. Rev R W Hood will introduce the measure. Bishop H B Monson presided as delegates heard F S Brockman of the National Wire Work Council address. The revisals committee favors adding a conflict board to resolve disputes among church authorities both domestic and foreign. A missions report proposes using Wesley Memorial Church as a training site, while a rider on laity rights may strip women of mission board representation.
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Atlanta
Southern Methodist Church General Conference
General Conference
R. W. Hood
Memphis
BH. D. Monson
Dallas
F.S. Brockman
National Wire Work Council
Committee On Revisals
Committee On Missions
Wesley Memorial Church
Board of Missions
Woman's Missionary Council
Weatherly Named to Lead Wilmington War Camp Service
The Wilmington war camp community service, under the War Manpower Commission, appoints Arthur L. Weatherly of Southport to exercise authority here as in Southport. The committee, including Moore Hungton Williams Noe Hutaff Haughton Branch, met at the chamber of commerce to approve the resolution.
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Chamber of Commerce
Wilmington War Camp
Fatality in Dublin after whiskey dispute turns deadly
May 13 in Dublin Georgia, Arthur Kitchin, a well known white man, was struck and fatally injured by Bubber Fuller, a Black man. A son of Kitchin then struck the Black man. The confrontation began over a whiskey transaction.
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Dublin
Arthur Kitchin
Bubber Fuller
Kitchin
Campaign to speed up southern shipbuilding launched
General Julian S. Carr and Dr. Clarence J. Owens will tour Wilmington Charleston Jacksonville Mobile and across Louisiana and Texas to push the southern shipbuilding program They plan mass meetings school contests Medal awards yard celebrations labor mobilization and logistics improvements to meet scheduled completions.
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Julian S. Carr
Durham
Clarence J. Owens
Southern Commercial Congress
Wilmington
South
Charleston
Jacksonville
Mobile
Louisiana
Texas
Shipping Board
General Carr
Owens
Southern
Funeral for Hazel Jenny Turner Scheduled Today
Mrs Hazel Jenny Turner aged 18 wife of E L Turner of 1414 South Fourth street dies last night at James Walker Memorial hospital Funeral services will be held at 4 PM from the residence with interment in Bellevue cemetery Survived by husband mother Mrs W J Bradshaw a brother Laurence Sharpe and sister Mrs E F Badshaw Member of Immanuel Presbyterian church noted for sunny disposition and fine character
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Hazel Jenny Turner
E. L. Turner
South Fourth Street
James Walker
Kinston Hosts State Christian Endeavor Convention
Wilmington Endeavorers will travel to Kinston for the State Christian Endeavor convention June 14 to 16. Speakers include Dr. A. W. Harper president of Eton College Dr. Charles F. Myers of Greensboro Homer W. Carpenter of Lexington Dr. Newlin pastor of Friends church and George Mitchell former state president with Karl Lehman southern secretary also in attendance.
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Wilmington Endeavorers
Kinston
Christian Endeavor
A. W. Harper
Eton College
Charles F. Myers
Greensboro
Homer W. Carpenter
Lexington
Newlin
High Point
Friends Church
George Mitchell
This City
Karl Lehman
Remains Interred in Family Burying Ground Near Elizabethtown
The remains of D. M. Currie, 56, who died suddenly in Elizabeth town Bladen County, were buried in the family burying grounds at Sand Bluff near Elizabeth town on Tuesday after funeral services at the home led by Rev. Mr. Humble Bladenboro Methodist pastor. He is survived by his wife his daughter Miss Annie Currie and three sisters Mrs J A Sutton of this city Mrs F T McDougall of Portsmouth Va and Mrs W J McDuffy of Yorick Bladen County.
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D. M. Currie
Elizabethtown
Bladen County
Sand Bluff
Elisabethtown
Mr. Humble
Bladenboro Methodist Church
Annie Currie
J. A. Sutton
F. T. McDougall
Portsmouth
W. J. McDuffy
Yorick
German Prisoners Claim Hindenburg Is Dead
British letters from the western front report that all German prisoners in France claim Field Marshal von Hindenburg is dead. The Daily Express notes the name of General von Mackensen rising as the figure to bring victory, while suggesting the Hindenburg tale may explain the failure of a great offensive.
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Washington
Lord Reading
Ottawa
Versailles
Foch
Risis
Maurice
Lloyd-George
Europe
France
Lonon
Field Marshall von Hindenburg
Western Front
Daily Express
von Mackensen
Express
Hixa
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Wadsworth
Leagues
Minister of Marine
Rush
Georges Leygues
Marine
Naval Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Leygues
Reichstag
von Capelle
Baker
Pershing
Clarence J. Wens
U.o
Nellie Russell
C. Barlow
Weatherly
J. S. Carr
Clarence Owens
Hindenburg
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