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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
2
A broad push in Congress targets profiteers food fuel and munition extortion with investigations and new legislation. Hoover backs the food control bill while army air plans aim to rapidly expand training camps and aircraft production.
United States contemplates repatriation of 50,000 Americans fighting abroad under Entente banners by end of the current congress. An American destroyer rammed and sank a German submarine after a German-born sailor spotted it. Draft operations begin after July 1 with July and August drawings and September reporting. Two American destroyers meet Irish port with 80 survivors from torpedoed ships. Wilson proclaims June 23–30 as Army Recruiting Week for unmarried men. An ambulance detachment arrives in France. Sims to oversee allied naval operations in Irish waters. Belgium restoration remains U.S. aim. Haiti cuts diplomatic ties with Germany. The National Army designation appears in draft law orders. Ludicek family found dead near Toledo. Rockefeller Foundation donates 5 million to Red Cross. Three jailed for draft violations. Liberty bonds trade in San Francisco at a premium. Michigan coal mines idle amid strike. Nashville officers killed at station. suspect wounded. Goldman and Berkman indicted for conspiring against draft registration. Kirkpatrick, Ind. nearly wiped out by oil train explosion.
Special Ambassador Boris A. Bakhmetieff vowed Russia’s war resolve to end German autocracy for world peace and revolution gains. British ships suffer heavy losses. French troops take trench gains in Champagne. Japan reports a submarine engagement. Goethals announces new ship contracts. the Cameronian is sunk with 63 dead.
Washington reported 9 649 938 men enrolled for the army draft as returns from Wyoming and Kentucky arrived. Francis S. Peabody led the council of national defense coal committee in rejecting pooling coal production and government operation. The defense council aircraft bill, backed by President Wilson, seeks 600 million dollars to build 25 000 to 30 000 planes in a year. Senate finance committee prepared final action on publishers taxes plus a 0.25 cent levy on second class postage and a 5 percent tax on publishers profits over 4 000 dollars. Ordinary internal revenue receipts reached 424 327 463 dollars versus 365 126 544 last year. Food speculators are estimated at 50 million dollars monthly for five months. Public statements urged informed status for draftees. Hoover cited wartime food control aims. Daniels instructed coal and oil producers to supply navy needs at prices set after fair rate determinations. Navy steel purchases proceed under Secretary Daniels, despite prior high proposals.
A list of persons to be expelled from Greece has been sent to the Greek interior minister in Athens after King Constantine's abdication. The Petrograd provisional government is punishing top officials for breaches of imperial law. A Vienna dispatch reports the Austrian cabinet resigning. London MPs pass final reading on the Woman suffrage clause in the electoral reform bill.
The text explains money moves from the treasury to sales treasuries and then to banks. It is withdrawn from banks to pay wages and salaries or for exchange, entering general circulation.
On rising and retiring gently smear the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash off the Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water, using plenty of Soap. Keep your skin clear by making Cuticura your everyday toilet preparations. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
Governor Whitman spoke at a Albany banquet critiquing Germany for challenging universal verities. He compared a pay envelope ruse to Germany’s claims, recounting a story of a man and a misused ready reckoner to illustrate distrust and irony.
A column notes many men seek guarding work as unemployment rises in Columbus and California supplies a quarter of the nation’s fruit consumption. The piece comments on labor demand and agricultural output impacting employment.
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