War Profits Debate to Begin at Once in Senate
In Washington on August 29 the senate moved toward a long awaited war profits tax debate after disposing of publishers tax provisions. Simmons rejected cloture and introduced compromise amendments raising total war profits levies to about 1.286 billion dollars, while alternative plans bared prospects for higher rates. Tomorrow Senator Underwood plans to push a new substitute aiming to lift the levy further.
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Ey Morning Journal
Washington
Senate
Simmons
Finance Committee
Vane
Underwood
House
Insane Man Claims He Is German Spy
John Shoap, examined by federal authorities at Fort Snelling, declared himself a German spy and was committed for mental treatment in a Washington hospital after surrendering to avoid capture.
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St. Paul, Minn
John Shoap
Fort Snelling
Ington
Washington State
Post Hospital
Shoap
Weather Forecast For New Mexico And Denver
Denver forecast August 29 indicates partly cloudy conditions and warmer temperatures. For New Mexico, Thursday is expected to be fair with increasing warmth.
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Denver
Colo
New Mexico
Local weather summary for twenty four hours ending 6 p.m yesterday
The report shows a maximum temperature of 81? No, wait. Maximum temperature 81? The data lists 61? This weather note records 75 at 6 p.m with a 26 degree range and an east wind under clear skies.
Dissenting Swedish churchman Paul Waldenstrom dies at 74
Stockholm Aug 29 Paul Petter Waldenstrom a noted Swedish churchman and politician died in his 74th year. He founded the Swedish Missionary Association and earned a theology doctorate from Yale. A forceful orator with quick wit, he was known for telling anecdotes about Balaam and questioning human arrogance.
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Journa
Leeseo
Stockholm
Sweden
Paul Petter Waldenstrom
America
Free Churches
Swedish Missionary Association
Yale Tss
Balaam
Ss Waldenstrom
Military Probe Begins After Houston Riots
Houston Aug 29 Inspector General J K Chamberlin arrived to probe causes of the disorder that left seventeen dead last Thursday night in the Twenty fourth infantry riot. Maj K B Snow commander of the negro battalion had departed for Columbus to rejoin his command.
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Morning Journal
Speciaal Leeee
Wiee
Houston
Tex
J. K. Chamberlin
United States Army
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Maj
K. &. Snow
Barnum
Transportation Department
Moody
Snow
Columbus
Major Snow Not Returning to Houston for Riot Testimony
Maj. K Snow will not return to Houston to testify in the riot investigation. He will proceed to Columbus New Mexico tonight, an official announcement from department headquarters stated this afternoon.
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Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Maj
K . Snow
Columbus
N. M
Department
Southern ports export points for foodstuffs
Diversion to gulf and South Atlantic ports of virtually all movements of foodstuffs destined for export to Europe is planned as a government war measure to relieve congestion of railroads and eastern ports. The Shipping Board will appoint a general traffic director, likely Benjamin Winehell, to implement the program before winter weather worsens transit. Five southern ports Galveston Port Arthur New Orleans Savannah Charleston will be primary loading points aiming to boost efficiency by 25 to 30 percent.
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South Atlantic
Europe
Shipping Board
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South
Galveston
Port Arthur
New Orleans
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Charleston
Italians Press Advance as War Fronts Shift Across Europe
Italian air squadrons bomb trains and munition plants around Trieste while heavy fighting continues on the Italian front at Bainsizza and Gorizia. Russian forces retreat in southern Moldavia and Bukovina amid high casualties, prisoners and gun losses as Kerensky warns against counter revolutions. British and Allied vessels suffer mining losses, with eighteen merchant ships sunk in the prior week.
Utah Manufacturers Seek War-Time Labor Relief
The Manufacturers' Association of Utah asks the national industrial conference board to suspend the literacy test and the Japanese exclusion act for the war period to boost unskilled labor. They report an acute Utah labor shortage and propose admitting Mexican workers.
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Morning Journal
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
Manufacturers’ Association of Utah
National Industrial Conference Board
Italians Encounter Stronger Resistance On Fronts
Rome reports continuing fighting on the Bainsizza plateau and gains on the heights beyond Gorizia. Air action involved 247 planes with Caproni crews dropping over 7000 kilograms of ordnance on Panovizza batteries. In the Stelvio area Trenino front, Austrian forces attacked a forward position in the Zebra valley, but Italians held and regained a higher summit.
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Gorizia
Caproni
Gorigia
Panovizza
Stelvic
Trentino
Zebra Valley
Deming Saloons Up To War Department
U S District Attorney Burkhart told Deming officials that only the War Department can fix camp limits for the National Guard training area for the Thirty fourth Division. Seven Deming saloons had been ordered closed for being within a half mile of the camp and remained closed or only sold soft drinks.
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Morning Journal
Deming
N. M
United States
S. Burkhart
Albuquerque
Nordhaus
Department of Justice
National Guard
War Department
Burkhart
Insurance for Soldiers Soon to Become Law
Washington August 29 The administration soldiers and sailors insurance bill moves toward law with a House committee favorable report The main change lowers optional insurance max from 16000 to 5000 and widows cease benefits on remarriage while death benefits for dependents vary with relationship and number of children Disability allowances range from 40 to 200 dollars monthly The bill also funds dependents education and vocational training with expected costs of 176 million and 380 million in the first two war years
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Drning Journal Special
Wirt
Washington
Administration Soldiers and Sailors Insurance
House
Adamson
Court martial of 190 soldiers at Fort El Paso
Army order details trial for 190 colored soldiers charged with mutiny. Soldiers brought from Columbus to El Paso for court martial proceedings under military authority.
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Houston
Columbus
el Paso
Noted Move to Court Martial 34 Indicted Soldiers
One hundred fifty six negro soldiers from the Twenty fourth infantry moved to Fort Bliss El Paso for possible court martial over mutiny charges tied to Houston riot. It remains unsettled if indicted men will be sent back to Houston for civil trial. military insists release for civil trial in war time is not obligatory.
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Tex
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Columbus
N. M
Fort Bliss
Houston
el L’aso
Million Women of New York Vote Enrollment Tops One Million
Nearly a million women in New York signed enrollment blanks signaling their desire to vote, results reported at the state conference of the woman suffrage party in Saratoga Springs. Resolutions on wartime policy and White House picketing will be introduced. Street meetings have been dropped. Miss Mary Starrett Tay notes suffragists avoid methods used by opponents. A message from President Wilson praising suffragists in New York drew applause at a mass meeting.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
New York State
Woman Suffrage Party
White House
Congressional Union
Mary Starrett Tay
New Forkew
Wilson
Twenty Seven Men Jailed by Military Authorities
Spokane reports 27 men seized on arrival from Troy Ment by Maj Clem ent Wilkins and held as military prisoners in the county jail. Many are alleged to be Industrial Workers of the World members after the transfer from the Great Northern train.
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Spokane
Wash
Clement Wilkins
Great Northern
Troy
Ment
English Newspapers Praise Reply of President Wilson to Pope
British papers widely endorse President Wilson's reply to the pope's peace note calling his stance clear and bracing. They view it as a rebuke to pacifist views and a reminder of the brutal warfare waged by a common enemy, aiming to keep world opinion from hardened hearts.
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Pope
Morning Journal
London
United States
President Wilson’s Peace Reply Praised by Russian Embassy
The Russian embassy in Washington welcomed President Wilson’s response to the pope’s peace proposal as an act of high political wisdom. Officials said it aligns with Russian aims and supports democratic revisal for Germany, signaling a worldwide move toward democracy and justice.
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Washington
Wilson
Vatican
United States
Japanese Mission Escorted Through Washington Navy Yard
Vice Admiral Takeshita Major General Sugano and other Imperial Japanese naval members were escorted through the Washington Navy Yard. They viewed guns under construction and relics of past wars. Viscount Ishii to address the Senate and Ambassador Sato to host a reception tomorrow evening.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Takeshita
Sugano
Washington Navy Yard
Viscount Ishii
Senate
Sato
Deserting 19-year-old confesses after Fort Douglas arrest
Raymond Bischoff alias D C Breckenridge, 19, held as a deserter after being blocked from addressing soldiers at Fort Douglas. He claimed to be a survivor of the Princess Pat regiment and had raised 1000 dollars in Denver. He admitted dishonorable discharge from his first US enlistment in 1915 and desertion after six months in a second enlistment, plus a desertion from a Canadian regiment in France.
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RY —Orring
Salt Lake City
Utah
Raymond Bischoff
D. C. Breckenridge
United States Army
Fort Douglas
Bischoff
Princess Pat
Denver
Bisehoff
H. L. Jordan
France
Submarine toll shows sharp weekly rise
London reports a larger toll from mines and submarines last week with eighteen ships over 1,600 tons sunk and five under that size, up from the prior week. No fishing vessels were lost.
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Morning Journal
London
Admiralty
Litigation over adopted child finally settled
Lawrence, Kansas. The custody of 5-year-old Alma Thorington, long debated in Kansas courts, was awarded to Felix Good of Los Angeles, the child's first foster father, after Mrs. A Raphael of Los Angeles abandoned efforts to obtain her. The probate court ordered the child to Good, who adopted Alma in Los Angeles in 1916. The case began when Alma was kidnapped and left in Lawrence.
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DY Morning Journal
Lawrence
Kans
Alma Thorington
Kansas
Felix Good
Los Angeles
A. Raphael
Good
Raphael
California
President Wilson’s note sparks mixed Allied and German reactions
Diplomats in Washington report uneven European reception to Wilson’s peace note. Some entente officials expected more diplomacy, while German and Austrian presses anticipate sharp critique. Observation notes hope for German parliamentary reform and a revolt-tinged shift away from autocratic rule as Moscow’s conference looms.
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Austria
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