New Russian Commander Appointed Amid Archangel Turmoil
Col Ivanoff succeeds Col Ianaolf as commander after Col Tchaplin's resignation following an attempt to overturn the provisional government of M Tschaikovsky in northwestern Russia. Allied committees assume temporary control to stabilize political disputes and protect rights while labor disputes in Archangel are rapidly settled. Allied and American troops patrol the city to assure tranquillity and fair settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archangel
Col
Tchaplin
M. Tachaikovsky
Russia
Ivanoff
Tchaikovsky
M. Tschaikovsky
Col. Tchaplin
Solovetsk Monastery
Pople
American party arrives in Berne to negotiate prisoner exchange
A U S delegation arrives in Berne to discuss military and civil prisoner exchanges with Germany. John W. Garrett, John W. Davis, Gen Francis Kernan, and Capt. Henry H. Hough lead the talks, with German delegates expected soon. Swiss officials will host sessions lasting several weeks as they begin. The American Red Cross has received two more lists of imprisoned officers and men, most captured on the western front in June and July.
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Geneva
Germany
Berne
John W. Garrett
Netherlands
John W. Davis
Great Britain
War Department
Francis Kernan
Army
Henry H. Hough
Navy
Pour
American Red Cross
Western Front
Great Lakes Naval Station Reports Influenza Cases
Capt. W. A. Moffitt states about 4,500 influenza cases among 45,000 sailors at the Great Lakes naval training station. He says the overall situation is much improved since influenza first appeared on September 8. Death rate has been about 13 percent, below the eastern death rate about double that.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
W. A. Moffitt
Finns to Elect a King in delayed throne proposal
A social ist Volks Timme report from Frankfurt claims Prince Frederick Charles of Hease is urged to delay any claim to the Vin niah throne and accept a five year administrator role instead. the prince has not yet agreed. Scores killed in Amsterdam ammunition factory explosion near Vienna. 382 dead, many injured as powder room fire trap workers, mostly Biris. An Austrian regiment at Revio in Volhynia reportedly refuses to join front battle in France, with two other regiments absent.
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Frederick Charles
Hease
William
Volks Timme
Frankfort
Amsterdam
Woollersdorf
Vienna
Biris
Baste
Revio
Volhynia
Kiev
France
Resignation of Japanese Cabinet Opens New Era
The Japanese cabinet led by Field Marshal Count Terauchi, in office since October 1916, has resigned. This follows ongoing political shifts in Tokyo and may affect Japan's wartime governance and alliance posture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Coulnt Terauchi
WI6
World News Highlights From Abroad And War Plans
The report notes James IRquilton Lewis of Chico praising France and England for harmony toward America. Congress considers a seven billion dollar military expansion urging 2.7 million new draftees by July. Aviator Putnam, with nine victories, has died in action. Petrograd reports British and French detachments clashing with Bolsheviks on the Archangel front, repulsing them with reinforcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Irquilton Lewis
Chico
New York
France
Ameren
Petrograd
Hulshevik
Archangel
Kalshevik
International unrest and wartime dispatches headline varied reports
Reports from Amsterdam and Vladivostok describe Soviet arrests of entente ministers and Czech Slovak forces capturing Perm. Inter allied labor conference backs Wilson's 14 points. Other items note ship rates, suffrage plans, and wartime trials amid a flood of scattered war news.
Washington Passes Historic 8 Billion Revenue Bill In U S House
The U S House approved a record 8 billion dollar revenue bill by a unanimous roll call of 850 to 0. The measure now goes to the Senate as Treasury confirms funding needs for the war effort without new taxes, while President Wilson names John W. Davis as ambassador to Great Britain.
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Albert Strauss
New York
Wilson
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
House
Senate
John W. Davis
West Virginia
United States
Walter Hines Page
Great Britain
Treasury
McAdoo
War Department
France
British Offense in Palestine and Balkans Reported
British forces press Turkish lines in Palestine under General Allenby fronting 16 miles. They breach defenses at Keran, seize 3,000 prisoners, and join the allied Balkan drive near Lake Dojran with 700 prisoners. Italian troop losses total 1,850,000 as Nitti reports. Serbian advances reach 25 miles west to the Cernu river with 17 miles depth and 10,000+ prisoners. Lieutenant Boyd, famed French ace, is missing after air battles. Serbs cross Ore Grae desnitan river near Mongro and capture towns and fortifications, with 4,000+ prisoners and 30 guns taken.
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Palestine
Alenby
London
Keran
Lake Dojran
Macedonia
Cernu
Iowa State News Roundup of War Agencies and Cemeteries
The state board of control bought over 20 000 bushels of potatoes grown in Colorado at 3 per bushel for state institutions. Meriden mourns the death of Mrs Henry Lamoreaux mother of Mrs W L Harding wife of Governor, at her home. Sioux City barbers set 50 cent haircuts and 25 cent shaves after a joint union meeting. State fair attendance figures reach 324 377, with 67 072 on one peak day in 1918. Army training corps enrollment opens to men over 18 with high school education at state colleges, induction on October 1. Iowa selects 3 305 servicemen to report at Camp Dodge starting October 7, with Class 1 registrants called. Iowa mourns fallen soldiers: Campbell of Osage, Johannsen of Davenport, Domnare of Des Moines, Sparr of Cromwell, Schupp of Council Bluffs, Stack of Aredale, Larson of Detroit, Young of Oelwein. Cedar Rapids Police organize War Savings Stamp Society. Chief Morrison presides. Health warning: high heeled shoes deemed health menace by Dr Boody of Independence Hospital. Colleges predict enrollment surges due to students army training corps. ISU Ames anticipates 25 percent rise, University of Iowa plans 4000 enrollees. Statehouse fuel funds nearly exhausted. officials fear heating costs through 1919. Nine-month high school course to shorten to aid farm labor. Des Moines meeting of school officials plans six-day weeks with holidays cut, no final plan yet. Town registrants total 280 808 on Sept 12. war department estimate 238 764. locals expect 282 000 after outside cards counted. Indians and Orientals not yet reported.
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State Board of Control
Colorado
Henry Lamoreaux
Meriden
W. L. Harding
Harding
Union
Sioux City
Army Training Corps
Army
State University of Iown
War Department
John A. Bordery
Kelly Field
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Lasher
Cedar Rapids
L. S. Morrison
H. M. Gaines
Gaines
George Bondy
Independence State Hospital
Board of Control
State House
Boody
Des Mathen College
Iowa State College
Ames
State University
37Th General Assembly
Iowa Andoola
Sam
Des Moines
Ffty
Adj
J. G. Lasher
Iown
Oulside
Eassupate
Blown in by the draft leads to wartime romance
Private Vance Donnette, a switchboard operator in a Riverside camp, falls for Emila Dell, the local operator. A note blown in by the draft sparks a romance, they marry before his ten day furlough and depart together for a southern train ride, ending with a cheeky line about love blown by the draft.
Sea Scout Leader James Wilders Promotes National Program
Chief Sea Scout James Wilders of the Tuy Scouts of Anerica advocates a new sea scouting movement aligned with a growing American maritime role. He cites training needs, the value of ashore instruction, and rapid donations of gear as the program expands toward a fully developed sea scouting course for a rising merchant marine and naval workforce.
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James Austin Wilders
Sea Keant
Tuy Scouts
Anerica
Byng
Cambrai
Baden-Powell
Sea Scouts
Mr. Wilder
Sam
Uncle Sam
Japan names Baron Goto as foreign minister successor
The resignation of Viscount Motone clears the way for Baron Shimpei Goto to take Japan's foreign affairs portfolio. A physician by training, Goto rose from sanitation director to Formosa administrator, then South Manchuria Railway president, later serving as minister of communications in 1908.
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Ichiro Motone
Downing Street of
Japan
Port- Fallo
Baron Shimpei Goto
Foreign Office
Baron Goto
Department of Home Affairs
Germany
University of Berlin
Sanitation Bureau
Formosa
House of Peers
South
Enemy Alien Registrar Sprague Led Massive Registration
Tutus W Sprague Jr heads the New York port enemy alien bureau and organized the registration of over 800,000 German males and as many German females. Born in Boston in 1875, he studied at Harvard before practicing law and forming the firm Russel Cos Sprague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tutus W. Sprague, Jr
Mr. Sprague
New York Port
Thi
Boston
Boston Latin School
Harvard
Harvard Law School
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Walter H. Joe
Russel, Cos & Sprague
Champion Navy Recruiter Wheelock Named First Female Lieutenant
George Alexander Wheelock, chief yeoman and top Navy recruiter, becomes the service’s first pictured junior lieutenant. She claims credit for about 17,000 recruits in 18 months, traveling to New York City and cities like Buffalo Syracuse and Cleveland, often leaving home for days to advocate for Navy service.
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United States Navy
Ite Orst Petliconted
George Alexander Wheelock
Wheelock
New York City
Bufalo
Syracuse
Binghattton
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Columbus
Allentown
Howe
Navy
Thera
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American Party
Great Lakes
Vologda
Hamburg Nachrichten
ABC
U.S
Next Uly
March
House Appropriations Committee
Pla
aAvbitor Putnam
America
Kite
Prunes
Beste Luthery
Blaze
Thaw
Congress
Wit de- Partment
Tom Merons
Cologne
Uis
Essen
Saxony
Vopiela
Jassy
Roumania
Amstersland
Itussia
Interallied Labor Conference
U. MO
Bishop Guerry
South Carolina
Framce
Veronic
Onn
Henry C. Saunders
Petit Durisien
Soukhomlinoff
Paris
Vladivostok
Perm
S. O
MeaAitoatis
American Railway Express Company
Jones
Moffett
Mainl
Atta Relehelt
Frenton
N.J
Red Cross
John Buchsinger
Monroe
Philipp
Wisconsin
Green County
John Lecker
Liberty Loan
Liberty Loan Publici Tty Dureau
Marshfield
Lee
Franklin T. Roosevelt
England
James BR. Mann
Con- Stessman Mann
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Rerchet
R. W. Schroeder
Canton
Leavenworth
Kun
A. L. Sanborn
Madison
Francis Xavier Schilling
Eau Claire
Wis
Washington
Liberaty
Othier Pencil
Scitoukite
Fraur Cotten
Gunter
Italy
Francesco Nitti
Rome
Boyd
I Paria Dispatch
Ore Graedesnitan River
Mongthro
Cihteni
Qotebile
Koxiak
Zhorski
Iowa State
Ee Paright
Ubint
Priynie Vance Donnette
Deatt
Southey
Ats
Vunce
Ris
Riverside
Vance
Vance Donnette
Emila Dell
Emila
Emma
Emma Dell
Emla
Emita
Emia
Dan Cupid
Dmite
Lassie
Mita
Don Cupid
Vance Tonnette
Kielta
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