Big German air raid harrows English southeast coast
British and German forces clash as a major German air raid targets towns along the southeast coast of England. Field Marshal French reports about 16 enemy aircraft attacked between 5:15 and 6:30 PM, killing 76 and injuring 174, with destruction concentrated in shopping and residential districts. Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service counterattacks claim several enemy planes shot down.
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Field Marshal
Viscount French
England
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Naval Air Service
Dunkirk
Admiralty
English Channel
St. Denis Westres
Bruges
Channel
Western War Theatre Update and Raid Casualties
General Haig reports slight improvement on the Western Front while London recounts a German air raid over Southeastern England killing 76 and injuring 174 as 16 planes attacked a town. British and Belgian coastal action shot down three raiders. most casualties were civilians. French and British fronts show stubborn defense with French gains at Mont Camillet and prisoners taken. English actions along the Scarpe reflect continued pressure.
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Associated Press
England
London
Great Britain
France
Chemin-des-Dames
Craonne
Cerny
Champagne
Mont Camillet
Haig
Croisilles
Secarpe
Senate Committee Mulls Auto Tax Reforms in War Bill
Washington May 26 The Senate finance committee backed elimination of the 5 percent manufacturers tax on automobiles in the war tax bill and proposed a license tax on motor vehicles. The income tax section was kept, with normal 2 percent rate and certain surtaxes, while higher household incomes faced reductions. The panel projects the package would raise about 533 million dollars annually and plans a later enactment date than the House.
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Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
House Committee
Senate
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Senate Committee
Govt rents hotel in this state to house internees
The Department of Labor announced it has rented the Mountain Park Hotel at Hot Springs North Carolina to house about 2000 German civilian internees from various parts of the country. Remaining detainees will be housed on government land in western North Carolina as facilities near readiness.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Labor
Mountain Park
Hot Springs
N. C
North Carolina
Wilson
Tar Heel Veterans Move On Washington Reunion Preparations
About 5 000 North Carolina Confederate veterans will be cared for the week of the reunion with Major General James I. Metts of Wilmington in command of a three brigade division. Metts will be at the Hotel Harrington arriving days before the reunion opens. Chas S Stone of Charlotte announced availability of copies of Anson Guards and The Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Veteran.
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Washington
North Carolina
James I. Metts
Wilmington
Charles M. Stedman
Metts
Hotel Harrington
Chas. S. Stone
Charlotte
Woodward and
Anson Guards
W. A. Smith
Ansonville
Bethel
Appomattox
L. Leon
Installment Liberty Bonds Considered by Federal Banks
Washington reports a plan to issue memorandum certificates of ten dollars for small buyers of Liberty loan bonds. Banks, mainly in New York and the East, would hold deposits for up to ten days with 2 percent interest, returning funds to war needs when required.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Reserve
New York
East
Department
Seasonal Weather Outlook for Southeastern States
Seasonal temperatures are forecast for the Southeastern States for the coming week starting tomorrow. Occasional showers and thunderstorms are probable across the region as warmer and cooler spells mix.
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Associated Press
Washu
Ford Company Under Charges in Trade Restraint Case
Attorney General James leads a day of testimony on whether the Henry Ford Motor Company forms an illegal restraint of trade. Evidence shows dealers claim agency requirements force purchases through Ford, with 125 agencies across the state. The hearing continues, while new charters and draft registrations also appear in the day’s notices.
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PE Thorney
James
Manning
Henry Ford Motor Company
Ford
Charlotte
Atlantic Humus Company
New Bern
C. M. Kehoe
T. H. Bennett
H. K. Land
Rocky Mount Wood Working Company
J. W
Estelle Matthis
G. W
May Fountain
Harnett
Yadkin
G Yadkin
Rural Kansas Swept by Storm Kills 30 and Injures Many
A violent tornado tore through two Kansas counties near Andale and Sedgwick, killing 30 people including 16 in Andale and injuring more than fifty. The funnel cut a path a quarter to half a mile wide, leveling farms and businesses in a rich farming district northeast toward Newton.
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Wichita
Kas
Kansas
Andale
Sedgwick
Newton
Exciting Fight With Submarine Near Sardinia
An Italian steamship arriving from a Mediterranean port reports a tense encounter with a submarine on May 3 near Sardinia. The U boat fired one torpedo and over a dozen shells, some hitting the vessel, but no significant damage occurred as the steamship returned fire and pursued for more than an hour.
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Associated Press
New York
Mediterranean
Sardinia
Our Army Camps Must Be Moral Morality Call From Secretary Baker
Secretary Baker issued a public letter to state governors urging cooperation to keep Army mobilization camps free from improper surroundings and immoral influence. He cites protecting drafted men and maintaining health and vitality as military necessity and suggests enforcing laws and moving camps if clean conditions cannot be secured.
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Baker
Congress
National Guard
Textile workers in Saxony vote wage strike
Copenhagen report says 3000 workers in Cumnitz schau Saxony voted for a 75 percent wage increase to meet higher living costs. The strike could spread to other Saxony textile districts as complaints have been rising for months.
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Saxony
Copenhagen
London
Cumnitzschau
Hamlet Hotel swindler nabbed in Morristown scam
Hamlet's Terminal Hotel manager J C Leigh lost sixty one dollars after cashing a check for L C Scarboro who claimed ties to Banner Franklin and Co of Morristown Tennessee. A Morristown bank says Scarboro has swindled many hotels. Warrants issued. rewards offered for Scarboro.
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Hamlet
J. C. Leigh
Terminal Hotel
L. C. Scarboro
Banner Franklin and Co
Morristown
Tenn
City National Bank of
Scarboro
Corpening
Rockingham Hotel
Messrs
Leigh
German spies eyed destroyer voyage leak probe
Washington officials opened an inquiry into whether the sailing of American destroyers to the war zone was leaked from this side of the Atlantic or by German spies in England. Admiral Sims reported the German admiralty knew the ships' departure and arrival port days ahead. Officials note only a few Benson aides knew the destination and the destroyers carried sealed orders.
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Associated Press
Washington
Atlantic
England
Admiral Sims
Navy
Daniels
United States
Admiral Benson
Sims
Berlin
Army Call for Bakers and Apprentices During War
The army issued a call for several thousand bakers assistant bakers and apprentices to serve in the war. Most will be rated as noncommissioned officers with pay from 33 to 51 dollars monthly plus foreign service and standard allowances for quarters rations clothing and medical care. Enlistment will place them in the quartermaster enlisted reserve corps.
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Associated P. Washington
Army
Quartermaster
Treasury Begins Redeploying Funds to Banks
The U S Treasury started redepositing part of the proceeds from the latest short term certificates of indebtedness. It placed 128,598,000 dollars among banks and trust companies that subscribed to the 200,000,000-dollar offering in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Treasury Today
New Compromise for National Censorship Reached
Washington on May 26 reports a fresh compromise in the Espionage Act censorship debate. Conferees agree Congress will bar publishing military information while excluding weaponry details, and the President will be granted only the power to permit publication of material the section would forbid.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Training Camps Located for Selective Service Draftees
Major General Wood announced camps will be set for draftees in Macon Georgia Aiken South Carolina and Chattanooga Tennessee with Savannah and Charleston also involved in prep work Two to three divisions may train at Chattanooga for the effort to ready troops for deployment
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Amocetet Meee
Charleston
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