War Savings Shortfall and War Funds Totals Feared
Des Moines reports show 300 War Savings Stamp workers fell short of the city quota by 192,989 dollars. Y MCA War Fund in Iowa totals 1,280,000 with 220,000 still to be collected. High school boys raised 650,600 for War Prisoner's Relief while alien enemy women at Ft. Madison regret loss of citizenship prospects.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Grant McPherrin
Ft. Madison
America
General Board of Education
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Jewell
Yowa
State Historical Society of
George EB. Ketterer
Woodbury County
Charles Brown, Jr
Woodburry
Association
Storm Lake
Harding
Rock Rapids
Decker
Camp Dodge
Union
H. B. Boyd
A. R. Corey
State Fair Board
Mr. Corey
Mra
Goddard
Ames
College
Lincoln Highway
State Highway Commission
Kdwards
Car Commission
Albert Hallquist
Kerrihar
Red Oak
State Food Administration
Waterloo
State Board of Health
Federal Health Department
Della Westlake
Sac City
Westlake
Sac County
Fight Law
Ottumwe
Iowa City
Europe
Berlin
Kaizer
Jane Dutcher
Rockwell City
Leove
T Hey
Hardings
HAPPENINGS OF THE CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS
Domestic and foreign items summarize Mer ment events across the world, with notes of interest to readers. The column offers brief highlights on various happenings.
War News Flows From Front and Sea
Navy reports the transport Covington torpedoed and sunk in a war zone with six missing crewmen. Aviator Lieut. Brotherton and Ensign Roe are noted as missing and captured respectively. Defense updates include Hospital ship Comfort delays and Archangel war-state risk. General Pershing praised after Alsace visit to American troops.
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Navy Department
France
William H. Brotherton
Guthrie
Alsace
Paris
Alsatian
Per-shing
Personal Viscount Rhondda Dies in London
David Alfred Thomas known as Personal Viscount Rhondda and former British food controller died in London.
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Viscount
Rhondda
David Alfred Thomas
London
Wilson Increases War Powers as Congress Acts
The House adopted a resolution authorizing President Wilson to take possession of telegraph and telephone systems for the war and the Senate passed naval and sundry civil appropriation bills. The president signed a massive liberty bonds bill and urged a noon war prayer while other actions included veto discussions, nominations, and international dispatches from the war front.
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Western Union
Telegraphers’ Union
House of Representatives
Wilson
Senate
House
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Aswell
Address on independence day and universal freedom
A president speaks from a quiet hillside of old counsel about the meaning of independence and the plan for universal freedom. He cites Washington and his associates, calls for a world governed by law, and asserts that free nations must check aggression to secure peace and justice.
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Chicago
America
Washington
Runnymede
Virginia
Bers
Prussia
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Teutonic War News
George Roe
Scituate, Mass
Camp Landschut, Germay
Navy
Sims
United States
Berne
Comfort
Llandovery Castle
Archangel
Kola
Edouard V. Isaacs
U. S. Nii
Gerad
President Lincoln
Germany
Red Cross
Kathryn Sellers
Department of State Law
King
Utah
National German Alliance
Ekaterinoslav
Great Britain
Mormon Coast
White Coast
Otto
voin.Beon
Lenton
Vienna
Irish
Fee
Russia
Kuentache Zeitung
Alexander , Wekerle
Banilament
Budapest
Canton
Ekim
Minnesota Supreme Court
St. Paul
Minn
A. G. Townley
Nonpartisan League
Joseph Gilbert
Jeanette Rankin
Montana
Senator Walsh
Independence Uy
Reuben Kuethe
Minneapolis
Mint
Mississippi
t.Pollee
Newton D. Baker
Elks
Fifteenth and
Harney Streets
Omaha
Neb
The
North Dakota
Minnesota
Aetna Chemical Company
Mount Union
Patous
Fifth Avenue
New York
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