Des Moines to be well policed as Camp Dodge grows
Iowa dispatch reports Des Moines will field 900 military police for 45 000 troops at Camp Dodge with expanded city duties while guardsmen train. Other items note a new all Iowa eye ear nose and throat role for an Iowa regimental staffer and the arrival of a colored unit trained at Fort Des Moines.
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Loyalty Demands Put Citizens in War Duty in Iowa
Governor Harding told Iowa officials that loyalty is binary in wartime, urging organized groups to foster patriotism and to watch suspected enemies. He warned against neutrality, urged unity, and proposed local organizations to maintain Iowa’s reputation amid the national conflict.
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War News Epitome Updates From Front and Home Front
Four Americans killed and others injured when German bombers hit a French coast hospital. American forces order 1,000,000 francs in wooden huts for troops. A fleet clash off France sinks two ships and a U-boat. Senate bans trade with Germany and enforces English translations of anti war papers. Lieutenant Fitzsimmons of Kansas City killed in France. Major armament drives include mass merchant ships and Liberty motors. German diplomacy shifts with Argentina over U boats and passports. Gold export controls rise amid fears of German seizure. Lincoln Highway to cross Great Salt Lake Desert. Stockholm talks abandoned. Swiss and German efforts noted. South Omaha packing house strike settlement boosts wages for 5,000 workers. Philadelphia Tageblatt raid targetsGerman press. espionage act charges filed.
Washington Notes Recap of 1917 War Time Measures
Congress to adjourn around October 1 as key laws are enacted. Whisky production halted nationwide at 11 PM Saturday when the food control act takes effect. The Insurance bill to equalize dependents’ allowances passes the House 319 to 0. Sugar manufacturers licensing is set by President Wilson as part of staple goods control. Camplerary week scheduled September 24 to raise 1 million dollars. The war tax bill passes Senate 64 to 4, proposing about 2.4 billion dollars. Ellin Flagg Young named editor of the Patriotic Manual. Senate passes alien drafting, excluding Germans and treaty-exempt others, affecting over 4,000,000 aliens.
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Jury Selected in Lynn G. J. Kelly Murd er Case at Red Oak Illinois
A jury is chosen in Red Oak Illinois to hear Rev Lynn G J Kelly charged with killing eight people in Villisca with an axe in June 2012 on a case linked to a mass murder. Five Frankford Arsenal buildings are destroyed in Philadelphia, two workers die and thirty injured in explosions and fire. Frosts devastate midwest crops across several states including corn potatoes and beans with Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas hardest hit. Two killed and one wounded in Glencoe Minnesota as four I W W card carriers attempted to rob two farm workers on a freight train. Rioting in Buenos Aires targets German firms and community properties amid anti German mobs. Queen Eleonora of Bulgaria dies amid uncertain circumstances.
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European War News Highlights From London Dispatches
London reports Sweden’s king and queen may lose throne due to Swedish German diplomacy led by the United States. Italian losses in the eleventh Isonzo battle near a quarter million with 20 000 prisoners. Austrian war office in Vienna. German Reichstag to require chancellor be responsible to the body and declare peace terms and Alsace Lorraine stance. British merchant ship losses decline. week ending Sept 8 ships sunk. Allied Italian English fleet near Pola and potential concerted effort to seize Trieste. Paragraphs touch Witk? and Terma outlines.
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