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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
10
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The Kaiser departed Berlin on August 16 for the front, prompting a retreat of officials and a shift to front life. Diplomatic meetings moved through Zimmermann as Von Jagow was away. Rumors abroad of socialist executions were denied after I spoke with Liebknecht who affirmed socialist opposition to czarism and support for the German army.
A detailed portrait of Karl Liebknecht and reflections on Socialist leadership, autocracy, and wartime politics. The piece recounts Liebknecht’s defiance, possible future roles for Scheidemann and Liebknecht, and the shifting German-American diplomatic exchanges around 1915 1916 including negotiations with Von Tirpitz Langhorne Kuhn and House as observers and attendees.
A horoscope warns of a very unlucky day with Uranus adverse to most planets and Jupiter drawing risky money making pursuits. It advises avoiding contracts and weddings, cautions bankers on a serious occurrence, and notes potential mood swings, temptations, and heightened public concern about war and crime.
A 1917 forecast notes murders more common, state influence on sensations, possible disasters to vessels indicated by the stars, and a serious mutiny. It warns that births today will face financial troubles, while children born now may prefer travel and change. Copyright McClure Syndicate.
Washington reports Intimations from diplomatic quarters indicate allied naval experts may urge the U S Navy to expand submarine chaser production. While hundreds of chasers have been contracted, officials say such boats suit rivers harbors and inshore patrols, with destroyers preferred for ocean tasks.
The California field artillery, forming units in San Francisco, requests a grizzly bear to serve as a mascot for troops bound for France. A bear scout reports California has only the state seal’s grizzly, prompting officers to ask anyone with an extra bear to contact them. The search extends to the Northwest, but officials prefer a native grizzly if available.
Cleveland Aug 7 Judge John F McGee member of the Minnesota state council of defense left for Washington to present the Northwest coal shortage to the interstate commerce commission the federal trade commission and the council of national defense He conferred with coal operators railroad men and Lake Erie Bituminous Coal Exchange about the shortage and said shipments are about 3 000 600 tons behind. Lake transport and mine operators blamed railroads for the car shortage hampering shipments.
Clifton Arizona August 7 A telegram to President Wilson from the Arizona State Federation of Labor requests his intended action regarding the July 12 deportation of 1200 alleged IWW members and sympathizers from Bisbee. John L Donnelly, federation president, calls the Bisbee affair a beckoning finger to revolution and says radical action may soon be needed to preserve liberty.
Petrograd reports M. Kerensky's cabinet is nearly finished with the constitutional democrats agreeing to take part. The full list of ministers for the new government has been agreed upon.
Washington reports American citizen soldiers in national army camps mobilization centers or in France may vote in state and national elections if their states set up voting machinery at camps. The Provost Marshal General said absence of state legislation blocks voting. Many states already allow troops to vote away from home and ballots will be mailed from camps if arrangements exist.
Frank H. La Monte Socialist mayoral candidate in Evansville cancels a Val entine speech citing a sore throat. DOJ agents probe his anti draft remarks as six men in an auto pursue his car after an anti draft rally. La Monte and family escaped into a field. pursuers left.
A special committee of officials from the war navy and labor departments will realign wage schedules in navy yards arsenals and other government plants. plant officials will report on local conditions and workers will have a hearing opportunity. The committee includes Assistant Secretary Roosevelt Navy Walter Lippman War Department and William Blackman Labor Department.
San Francisco August 7 The state attorney general U S Webb consented to a new trial for Thomas J Mooney, yet the state supreme court held this consent does not show grounds for reversal in Mooney's appeal. The consent followed a trial judge's request after an expose of an alleged attempt to suborn perjury by a key witness Frank Co Oxman.
A violent earthquake struck the southern North Island of New Zealand, with the Wairarapa district near Wellington suffering the worst damage. Residents call it the worst since the upheaval sixty years ago. North Island includes volcanic peaks Ruapehu and Tongariro.
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