Government to replace lost craft with deep sea trawlers
The United States Fleet Corporation will replace fishing craft destroyed by German submarines off the Ne will be replaced with 75 deep sea trawlers. Construction starts immediately for operation on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico early in 1919. The plan aims to boost haddock cod and flat fish output and deliver carloads to interior markets year round, stabilizing prices.
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Washington
Aus
Fleet Corporation
Food Administration
Atlntic
Pacific Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Open to Officers and Men for Overseas Combat Roles
Camp Lewis Washington August 26 A war department inquiry seeks names of quartermaster corps officers physically fit for active service who may want to lead troops. The move aims to supply non combatant branches with men for battle duty, while drafted westerners arrive rapidly. A long line from Washington and Oregon forms as 21 year olds who turned 21 on June 5 are processed.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
Quartermaster Corps
Iine
United Service
Washington and
Oregon
Special Weather Buildings Erected for Training at Camp Yothers
The War Department announced special buildings will be erected at Camp Yethers Kansas for training despite bad weather. Similar facilities will be provided at other camps later to aid weather disrupted field work.
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Washington
War Department
Yothers
Kansas
Italian Editor Delegation Tours West Coast Shipyards
Aug 26 in San Francisco a commission of Italian editors and local leaders toured shipyards around the bay. A public reception at City Hall rotunda and a banquet for the Italian colony followed before the party departs for Portland to inspect spruce production areas. Tacoma and Seattle to be visited, then on to Minneap olis en route.
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Neisee
Cal
San Francisco Bay
Rolph
Sanancisco
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Min- Paul
Treasury House Rift Over 3 Percent Unearned Income Tax
Differences between the treasury and the house ways and means committee delay finalizing a 3 percent differential on unearned incomes. The dispute threatens to hold up completion of a draft designed to shape fiscal policy.
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Washington
Treasury
House Pass and Means
Miner DAN G. RUDDY Seeks Silver Bow County Office
DAN G. RUDDY declares long Montana residency since 1878 and 82 years in Silver Bow County. A miner in Butte vicinity for 30 years, he explains losing his right foot and part of his leg, as a widower with dependents, pledging honest and economical service if nominated and elected.
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Silver Bow County
Montana
Tam
Taxation bill risk delays after talks between Kitchin and McAdoo
A conference between Chairman Kitchin and Secretary McAdoo considered steps to achieve agreement on taxation in the current fiscal year. Another meeting is planned for tomorrow. Kitchin said the committee may not report the bill to the house by Friday as originally planned.
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Committee
The
Treasury
Kitchin
McAdoo
House
Train Wreck Work of Mexican Bandits
Two Americans arriving from Mexico confirm reports of a passenger train wreck near Canadan Durango caused by bandits. Ninety? passengers and soldiers were fatally hurt or injured. a train car of ammunition was seized. Bandits led by Alamos and Galaviz attacked the halted train striking couches and bayoneting passengers.
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el Paso
Texas
Interior of
Mexico
Gandite
Canadan
Durango
Tepehual
Durango City
Tepehuanes
Alamos
Galaviz
Ae As
Must Serve Uncle Sam and No One Else
Chicago August 2. Louis I. Post assistant secretary of labor outlined the government stance on labor conscription before the Chicago Association of Commerce. He said a future need may force conscription of workers in mines forests and factories but citizens must first be conscripted where they will work to prevent the draft serving only private profit. The drafted worker must serve Uncle Sam and no one else.
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Chicago
Chicago Association of Commerce
Louis I. Post
Uncle Sam
Aged Priest Is Lost Near Mount Angel Searchers Active
Aged priest Father Othmayer from Mount Angel College is missing after leaving for Grassy Flat several miles away. Searchers have moved to a point near Mount Angel to trail him through the mountains where exhaustion is feared.
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Oregon” Penitentiary
Mount Angel
Ore
Othmayer
Mount Angel College
Grassy Flat
Semenoff Attacks Defeats Bolshevik at Motsi Evskaiia
Semenoff, commanding several thousand Czecho Slovaks, attacked and defeated a Magyar Bolshevik force at Motsi Evskaiia in Siberia. The town was captured, with many prisoners and a large number of wounded taken. Japanese efforts to fortify the Chinese frontier aided the offensive.
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Semenoff
Motsievskaia
Siberia
J. ©. Leary
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Birt Gosselin
A. C
Birt) Gosselin
A. C. Gosselin
Oface
Birt
Gosselin
Butte
Silver Bow
Birt] Gosselin
Julius Fried
Connell Store
Atlantic
Pacific
Tim J. Hanley
West Center Street
Centerville
Justice OF the Peace
Democratic
Shipbuilding Progress
Wasniille
Hage
Lrzstal
Manine
Trade and
Joe Duffy
Paia
Nomi
Dan G. Ruddy
Bolshevik
Sam L
Anderson
Ation
Ies
Sam L. Anderson
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