Campaign to End Monday Reaches 027 Memberships
Committeemen will rest until Monday then open final phase of drive. Finish to be snappy with totals and prospects.
03 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
1
Committeemen will rest until Monday then open final phase of drive. Finish to be snappy with totals and prospects.
Edward F. Trefz told committeemen that Albuquerque’s Forward Albuquerque drive is a model of campaign effectiveness. The meeting highlighted 627 memberships and strong unity, with praise for Col. D. K. B. Sellers and the campaign committees. Trefz plans broad publication to promote chamber of commerce ideas nationwide.
Denver forecast notes partly cloudy conditions in New Mexico for Friday and Saturday with warmer temperatures in the southern portion and a chance of local thunderstorms Friday in the south part.
Local conditions show a maximum of 85 and a minimum of 54 degrees with a 26 degree range. At 6 pm the temperature was 77 degrees with an east wind and cloudy skies.
Dr. C. B. Lukens arrived from Albuquerque to press turning the old state reform school building at Springer into an industrial school for girls.
Senate modifies the surplus tax provisions and retains an exemption for amounts actually used as capital in operating a business.
The Senate finance committee proposed lowering the undivided surplus tax from 15 to 10 percent and imposing floor taxes on large stocks of sugar coffee tea and cocoa. The floor rates match consumption taxes and exempt small dealer holdings. Monthly installment payment for taxes was authorized and new methods for paying excess profits taxes were introduced. Farmers were not exempted from the new tax.
The penitentiary was robbed of a recruit when District Judge R. R. Ryan suspended sentence of one to two years on C. W. Walker of Hachita who had pleaded guilty to larceny.
British forces retake positions from German troops as heavy fighting continues on the front. German counterattacks surge in an attempt to reclaim areas recently lost amid intensified combat.
Rain and mud slow Allied artillery on the western front as German counterattacks surge against British and French positions. Officials note continued heavy losses for German forces while British and French guns limit gains NE of Ypres. Eastern front sees Russians retreating with Teutonic gains in Bukovina and along the Moldavian frontier as Riga threatens and Huskians retreat from Lisа.
The IWW delegation, including attorney Fred H Moore of Los Angeles, arrived in Bisbee and conferred with Governor Campbell. The governor and Moore said the discussion’s nature would be clarified tomorrow morning. A separate IWW group was said to depart Bisbee for Columbus New Mexico, expected to arrive tomorrow.
The Bingham mining city appeals to the federal government for relief from a draft policy seen as discriminatory. Officials led by Q B Kelly urge change or conscription by aliens, noting 62 percent of registrants are aliens and up to 97 percent in Highland Boy area. The Salt Lake City message echoes the plea for relief.
Passengers report a German submarine destroyed by a bomb dropped from a battleplane after the U-boat launched a torpedo at a large passenger ship. Escorts in relays from a mother ship joined the attack as three flyers dropped a bomb, creating a high fountain of water and wreckage.
A French freight steamer reported two torpedo attacks by German submarines during a voyage to an Atlantic port. The vessel's officers said the torpedoes struck but caused no decisive damage and the ship proceeded to port.
East Las Vegas New Mexico August Howard P Scott secretary of the Y M C A has gone to Estes Park for a conference to be held there and will return after meetings conclude.
General Vasilkovski, a Cossack officer, is appointed to command Petrograd troops replacing General Polovtseff who resigns as military governor and moves to a front command.
Announcement reports a transport steamer carrying 546 wounded soldiers stranded at harbor mouth in fog yesterday. Soldiers have been removed and salvage efforts to refloat the vessel are underway.
In Peece Butte Montana county attorney J R Jackson says W C Sullivan lawyer for Metal Mine Workers union confessed he did not possess the names of five party members in the Frank Little lynching. Sullivan hopes to present evidence within forty eight hours. Four guards from the mines protested to the county attorney as Roy Alley and D M Kelly accompanied them. Deputy sheriffs sought Sullivan for further questioning.
British air service meteoric feats amid adverse weather in France and Belgium. Pilots patrolled at 30 feet, bombed German sheds, engaged enemy trains, and fended off rifle and machine gun fire while guiding infantry advances near Ypres.
Washington reports conferees on the first administration food bill reached agreement. The House appropriation was reduced from 14 770 000 to 11 946 000 and several Senate amendments were dropped. Provisions for opening public lands in New Mexico Arizona Colorado Utah and South Dakota to entry without classification were removed. A Colorado River weir for Imperial Valley interests was not authorized. The ban on new forest reserves in New Mexico and Arizona without action was dropped but irrigation rights for private lands remained allowed.
Washington reports that Secretary Baker denied rumors of a disaster being hidden by American forces and reiterated the pledge that any misfortune would be promptly shared with the public.
The Shipping Board plans to commandeer American tonnage as part of a joint Anglo American scheme to control global tonnage. President Wilson may authorize foreign-flag ships to sail between U S ports while Britain recalls ships for allied use to curb ocean freight and speed wartime supply.
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