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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1917
Page
7
Workers at Camp McClellan near Anniston face rapid expansion with 1,860 employed, 134 new carpenters Friday, 75 more yesterday, and 1,000 more expected to arrive within 72 hours. Major Dulin reports miles of water mains laid, roadway and spur track progress, and rapid cantonment construction despite heavy rain.
Allied hopes rise as reports say peace may be possible. The Austrian emperor expresses cautious optimism about a settlement, while Allied leaders weigh terms and demand concessions. The war’s toll continues to mount across Europe.
London reports momentum toward peace as leaders like Lloyd George and Michaelis discuss early victory and possible peace cabinets. Vatican diplomacy concerns Belgium deportations. Austria-Hungary strains, Russia reeling, and Hungary raises conscription age amid near-end resources. In Anniston, transportation talks for camp access continue with Power Company hesitating on line extension pending assured camp duration.
Reports from London describe the Vlanders battle bogged by five days of rain flooding trenches and bogs. Despite harsh weather, French and British forces push at Koorpekeer and Monchy le Preux, while Haig mounts vast munitions mobilization and looks for a decisive breakthrough akin to Marne.
Reports to the Federal Reserve Board indicate widespread business improvement with increases in the Cleveland Boston and New York districts and signs of overall growth in commerce.
Two men were killed and five injured when a boiler exploded at the Ash Lumber company plant in McLain Mississippi last night, according to advices received in Mobile.
Washington August 4 The state department denied reports that the Carranza government agreed to declare war on Germany in exchange for a U S loan dropping from 190 million to 150 million dollars from the United States.
Washington reports France now has three million troops in battle zones, one million more than early mobilization. Despite unpreparedness, France coordinates industry to sustain vast munition production and has rearmed Belgian, Serbian, and Greek forces, as explained by Briand Pardieu, French high commissioner.
The Anniston Steel Company, now the world’s largest electric steel plant, pays out about 8500 to 600 workers on a payday. A 21 inch blooming mill will add 5000 tons monthly capacity to convert ingots into billets, powered by 1000 horsepower. The plant, started March 18, 1916, already operates six electric furnaces and includes a major foundry machine shop blacksmith shop and laboratory. It produces low phosphorus wire rod and markets its phosphorus-minimized iron against blast furnaces.
Heavy rains continue to hamper American forces at their France training grounds. Trenches cannot be prepared as the wet weather makes grounds unusable for trench work.
The sheriff issued the first call for ninety drafted men to report at the courthouse on August 9 for examination. After medical checks, they may file exemption proofs within seven days. A second call for ninety-one men was mailed for July 10, with a third group of ninety-three to notify attending on July 11.
Washington on August 4 reports that the house will stop all business until the senate sends the war revenue bill to the lower chamber, a delay expected until late in the month. The house will meet every three days but will not transact any business.
Amsterdam reports Russia struggles to form a new cabinet as defeats mount on the front. Troops fall back, Galicia is abandoned, and loyalty in the army wavers, threatening further crisis for the autocratic regime.
Washington reports slashing reductions in coal prices may appear within the coming week. The move aims to ease fear in President Wilson and his cabinet as high coal costs drive up living expenses and fuel labor unrest, per federal trade commission findings.
London report says the Holland America liner Noordam was struck yesterday off Texel by a mine or a torpedo. No further details on casualties or damage were provided.
A soldier named Rhodes and an unknown black man were shot by farmer J. M. King near a watermelon patch at night. King, who detained after the event, said he fired when intruders entered his patch and expressed regret if a soldier was present.
The text notes Russia's military collapse shadows cabinet reforms as the Pan Russian Congress gathers in Moscow. It cites hopes that Kerensky can unite parties and form a broad ministry while frontline fighting continues along the Galician frontier and at Scala where Russians reclaim two villages.
Reports from Ada and Rock Springs detail a mass mob of 300 in Pon totoc hills marching toward Konawa with intent to burn the town. A special train posse aims to intercept. In Holdenville a member of the anti draft registers was killed and twenty rebels captured after a clash with a Seminole county sheriff’s posse.
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