Iowa Adds 1190 Men to July Draft for Camp Gordon
Iowa soldiers to be sent to Camp Gordon Atlanta as national draft rises to 19019. Additional orders exhaust Class One and may dip into Class Two. Gas coal supply assured. Marines enlistment rules tightened. German alien registrations show paradoxes. Convicts escape from Rockwell City reformatory. new selective service permits required from Provost Marshal Crowder.
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Iowa
National Army
Crowder
Logan
Camp Gordon
Atlanta
Adjutant General’s Office
Charles Webster
Fuel Department
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Marine Service
Marine Corps
Otto Ludke
Kaiser
Ludke
G. W. Hughes
Des Moines
Hughes
United States Marshal’s Office
Polk County
Chicago
America
New Women's Reformatory
Rockwell City
Sac County
John Herbst
Coon Valley Township
Harvey Madison
Sac City
Selective Service
Mr. Woodson
Committee On Public Information
Old Dobbyn
Harding
Pat ‘Crowe
Cudahy
State Council of Defense
Secretary Baker Draws No 246 In Second Draft
The June 28 drawing at the Senate office building selects numbers for the 1918 class to determine service order under the Select Service Law. Secretary Baker, General March, Crowder, and committee members oversee the process with a large glass capsule and numbered cards.
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Baker
Washington
Dra Thade
Senate
March
Crowder
Chamberlain
Senate Military Committee
House Military Committee
Only One of Crew Saved In Atlantic Sinkings
An arrival from England reports German submarines sunk the Canadian Pacific steamships Pomeranian and Medora off the British Isles. Both were bound for American ports. Only the second engineer of the Pomeranian’s 60 crew survived.
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Atlantic
Pomeranian
Medora
England
British Isles
General Semenoff Advances Into Siberia From Manchurian Border
General Semenoff, anti Bolshevik leader in eastern Siberia, again advances from the Manchurian border into Siberia, according to reports filed from London. The development signals continued Allied influence and shifting fronts in the civil conflict following the collapse of Imperial Russia.
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Siberia
Manchurian
London
Semenoff
St.perig
War News and Disasters Across Fronts and Homefront
Reports from Paris indicate the Austrian cabinet resigned amid continuing World War I fronts. American troops hold 38 miles of French trenches as Austrian losses in Italy mount toward 180000. The Sant Anna sank after torpedoing with 600 dead. Dry law takes effect in Texas. violent storms and fires destroy homes and blocks, leaving millions in damages.
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Beheeee
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Texas
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Cleelum
Wash
Wilson & Co
Chicago Packers
Eliott
Montana State University
State Board of Education
Vienna
Louis Chevrolet
Federal Trade Commission
F. O. B. Mill
Germany
Berlin
Reichstag
von Kuehlmann
Pnister
Montello
San Dona
United States
Berne
Switzerland
Fhre
Food Administration
Austria
Rome
Jim
Italy
Earl Caddock
Ed "Strangler" Lewis
Wyoming
General March
Fuel Administration
Department of Labor
Greece
South Omaha
Neb
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bureau of Census
The
Food Administration Grain Corporation
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Piave River
Kansas
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Alonzo Sargent
Gary
Ind
Arizona
Ilinois
New York
Wit
Ohio
Nebraska
Hagenbach-Wallace Circus
Michigan
Central Army
Ini
Pragug
Hemlan
Licia
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