Army Expansion Plans and Congress War Efforts
President Wilson authorizes full army expansion with regiments to be formed in the Southern Department at Chickamauga Park and Fort Sill. Congress faces a busy week with war measures, including funding, tax, shipping, censorship, and food control, as officials push for speed in supplying Allies and stabilizing the home front.
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Chickamauga Park
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Fort Sill
Okla
18Th Field Artillery
64Th Infantry
21St Field Artillery
Senators Denounce Food Gamblers in War Time
Washington May 14 The Senate attacked food gamblers and speculators calling them robbers pirates and threats to hunger. Senator Thomas proposed an espionage bill amendment to suspend futures trading in food while others urged legal seizures and tighter controls. The House adjourned debate as leaders pushed for drastic action to curb inflation and artificial prices.
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Bank Robbery Ends With Three Dead in Shannon Castle
Three bandits robbed the First National Bank of Shannon Castle in a Pittsburgh suburb. Assistant cashier Frank Erbe, street railway dispatcher Nick Yost, and Magistrate George Beltz Hoover were killed. Cashier D L McLean and two bandits were wounded as a posse gave chase and captured the thieves.
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First National Bank
Shannon Castle
Frank Erbe
Nick Yost
George Beltzhoover
D. L. McLean
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McLean
Yost
Beltzhoover
No More Barbecue in North Carolina Planned
Raleigh reports county and municipal officials weigh bans on barbecues to conserve pork and boost hog production. Barbecued pork is a favored food at picnics restaurants and cafes. Officials hope prohibiting pig slaughter for barbecue will raise future yields. The navy launched the first 110-foot submarine chaser at New York and the second at New Orleans, with others nearing completion. Keels were laid April 1.
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New York Navy Yard
New Orleans Navy Yard
Delayed orders hindered camp reporting for reserve officers
Special to The Dispatch. Chattanooga Tenn May 14 The failure of applicants from North and South Carolina for the Reserve Officers Camp at Fort Oglethorpe to receive orders to report on Sunday and Monday was blamed on mail delays. Of 752 North Carolina selections fewer than 300 reported this morning while South Carolina had even fewer. The reporting delay will not affect eligibility.
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Fire destroys Wilhelmshaven Imperial wharves
A seven hour blaze raged on the Imperial wharves at Wilhelmshaven injuring the submarine building department and prompting a closure of the entire district. Wilhelmshaven, a major German naval base on Jahde Bay, houses docks, slips and multiple floating docks for war vessels.
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Amsterdam
London
North Sea
Empire
Hanover
Jahde Bay
Great Damage to U-Boat Base Zeebrugge Bombarded
British Admiralty says Zeebrugge was heavily bombarded Saturday morning by Dover commanded forces with Royal Naval Air Service support. Over 15 aerial combats produced four enemy planes destroyed and five driven down out of control, two of our aircraft missing. German account reports distant shelling with slight damage and two enemy planes shot down.
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London
Zeebrugge
Dover
Royal Naval Air Service
Berlin
War tax bill under debate in the House
Washington May 14 debate on the war tax bill continued in the House with a possible move to amendments before adjournment and a vote by Friday or Saturday. Support from both sides showed the chamber’s determination to uphold the Ways and Means bill to ensure government revenue.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomas Amendment to suspend stock exchanges rejected
Washington May 14 The amendment proposed by Senator Thomas to suspend stock exchanges and boards of trade dealing in futures in foodstuffs during the war was rejected by the Senate by a 49 to 24 vote.
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Washington
Thomas
Senate
Trade halted in Chicago grain markets for two days
Chicago May 14. All wheat trading stopped except for closing contracts as directed by the Board of Trade directors. Saturday's closing figures set the maximum settlements. Corn and oats trading for May delivery also discontinued. May wheat was eliminated last Saturday.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Submarine Victims in American Port News
Officers and crew of vessels sunk by German submarines rode an American steamship into New York from England. Seventeen passengers aboard the Vacuum and Rockingham totals, including three U S naval gunners, plus twenty four from the Uruguayan steamer Gorizia, were listed as victims.
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England
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Rockingham
Gorizia
Two Steamships Sunk by U-Boat Off Plymouth
American passengers arriving from England report the British steamships Medina and Omrah torpedoed and sunk off Plymouth on April 28. No lives were lost on either vessel.
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New York
Medina
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Plymouth
England
Omrah
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Sentry Fired On From Ambush Near Railroad Bridge
Washington New Jersey May 14 Twenty or more shots were fired from an ambush Saturday night at a sentry guarding a railroad bridge at Buttzville by three men who fled. The sentry returned fire and said he saw one assailant fall but the others carried the wounded man away in a wagon and escaped.
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Associated Press
Washington, N. J
Buttzville
General Korniloff resigns as Petrograd garrison commander
General Korniloff, head of the Petrograd garrison, announced yesterday his resignation citing an impossible position created by competing organizations trying to control the garrison. He added that others should bear the responsibility.
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Newspaper Men Protest Postal Increase Before Senate Finance Panel
Washington observers report publishers marching to oppose higher second class mail rates under the parcel post zone plan in the $1.8 billion war tax bill. The group warned the move would curb newspaper circulation, especially to rural areas, hurting postal revenue and the rural carrier system. Theatre owners also voiced objections to the 10 percent gross receipts tax and insisted on preserving operating profits while meeting tax obligations.
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Don C Seitz
New York World
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Robert Ewing
New Orleans Daily States
C. P. J. Mooney
Memphis Commercial Appeal
James R. Gray
Atlanta Journal
Frederick I. Thompson
Mobile Register
Harry B. Warner
Exhibitors’ League of North Carolina
A. F. Sams
Freight Embargo Hits Baltimore Grocery Traffic
Baltimore May 14 An embargo on shipments in less than carload quantities goes into effect by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to relieve congestion. The action blocks incoming freight across the city, shutting off a large share of staple groceries millinery and general merchandise. Other railroads have taken similar measures.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
United States
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fourth Attempt of Zeppelins Ends in Disaster
London reports that Zeppelin L-22 was destroyed in the North Sea this morning by British naval forces. The admiralty said this raid marks the fourth failed Zeppelin operation in the past year, with two airships shot down over London last September and two more off the English coast, and a Zeppelin downed by French artillery near Paris on March 17.
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North Sea
Admiralty
Paris
British Drive Toward Drocourt Queant Line in France
British general Haig pressures along the French front with major advances near Queant and the Drocourt Queant line as German positions weaken. Zeebrugge and Wilhelmshaven bases are attacked from sea and air, with some success reported. Austria seeks peace amid Russian upheaval. Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg visits Vienna amid German Junker pressure. Guchkoff resigns as Russian War Minister amid army interference.
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