War Taxes Reach Into Every Pocketbook Nationwide
Washington July 11 war taxes in the new revenue bill will touch all citizens. The Treasury list to the House Ways and Means Committee includes levies on hotel bills 10 percent, restaurant bills 10 percent, jewelry 50 percent, car licenses 15 to 50 dollars, gasoline 10 cents a gallon at wholesale, 25 percent wages tax for household servants, chewing gum 1 cent per pack, and various clothing and household items taxed above specified prices.
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Washington
Treasury Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ile
Troubles in Ukraine Slow German Front Drive
United Ukraine is described as in revolution with 35 German divisions totaling about 420,000 men arriving to support counter attacks. Peasant armies of 18,000 to 20,000 defend villages and trench sections amid land surrender to landlords. The upheaval in Ukraine and rising Czechoslovak power may divert German forces, delaying the western front.
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Joseph Shaplen
Stockholm
Ukraine
Posse Pursues Kansas Train Robbers After Mail Hold Up
United Press reports from Paola Kansas that thirteen bandits robbed the Texas Special of the M E and T Ry shot three people including fireman Carter and Train Auditor Witcher a passenger Mrs L B Williams and looted mail and express cars. The bandits fled in autos and another posse began chasing them though they had not overtaken them by evening.
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United Press
Paola
Kan
Texas
Carter
Witcher
L. B. Williams
Koch
Kansas
Ten-Year Hard Labor Sentences for Conscientious Objectors
Camp Zachary Taylor Kentucky July 11 five conscientious objectors from Indiana and Illinois were sentenced by a court martial to 19 to 15 years at hard labor in the United States Disciplinary Barracks Fort Leavenworth Kansas for refusing to cultivate grass plots or plant flowers for the sick at the base hospital. Sentences were announced after review approval.
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Zachary Taylor
Indiana
Illinois
United States
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Draft Classification Begins for June 5 1918 Registrants
Local draft board starts classifying the June 5 1918 registrants. They review questionnaires to place men in Class 1 first and will proceed to later classes. Class 1 calls likely begin next week for physicals. reclassification of 1917 registrants waits until class 1 is finished.
Submarine Hunters Gain Ground in Naval Photo Exhibit
London July 11 Sir Eric Geddes First Lord of the Admiralty announced at the official naval photo exhibition that submarines are now controlled. He said fewer submarines are operating than before and the depth charge has turned the hunter into the hunted.
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United Preas London
Eric Geddes
The
Admiralty
Trawler Georgia Sunk Off Boston After Fog Collision
The steam trawler Georgia from Boston was sunk in a collision with the Bristol bound from Norfolk to Boston. The incident occurred in fog. the Georgia crew were rescued and landed at Boston.
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Boston
Georgia
Bristol
Norfolk
Reports claim murder of Grand Duke Alexis in Moscow
Copenhagen dispatches report renewed claims that Grand Duke Alexis former Russian heir apparent was killed by a bomb thrown by a Bolsheviki soldier.
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United Press
Copenhagen
Grand Duke
Alexis
Czarivitch
Soldier Train Wreck Injures Six in Louisiana
United Press dispatch from Shreveport July 11 reports six soldiers injured when four coaches of a Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific train overturn while carrying troops from Camp Bowie Texas. Cause cited as spread rails. Two relief trains moved doctors and wrecking crews to the scene between Haughton and Doÿena.
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United Panea
Shreveport
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific
Camp Bowie
Texas
Haughton
Doy
Ena
Two OU students enter naval service in Chicago training
Fred Pickett of this city and Art Roberts of Jackson, both Ohio University students, enlisted in the naval reserve weeks ago and were called up recently. They left early yesterday for the Great Lakes Training Station at Chicago where they began training today. Pickett is the son of Mr and Mrs John Pickett and known as a ball player. Roberts played halfback on the football team last fall.
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Ohio University
Fred Pickett
Art Roberts
Jackson
Naval Service
Naval Reserve
Chicago
Pickett
John Pickett
Roberta
Tball
Great Drive by Allies in South Albania
Italian forces aided by French Albanians and British naval units sweep northward across Albania in a wide front. Allies gain on the sixty mile front from the Adriatic to the Devol river and threaten Monastir while aiming to control the Monastir Durazzo road to move men and supplies into southern Serbia.
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ED L*y
London
Albania
Adriatic
Devol River
Monastair
Durazzo
Serbia
British Drive Ahead After Somme Advances
British troops pushed south of the Somme improving positions east of Villers-Bretonneux last night. Haig reported enemy artillery targeted areas on both sides of the Somme. Raid actions near Merris and Festubert yielded prisoners and a machine gun.
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London
Somme
Villers-Bretonneaux
Haig
Villere-Brentonneaux
Merrie
Festubert
Flanders
French enlarge their gains on Aisne and Marne fronts
French troops widened their advance between the Aisne and the Marne capturing Corcy near Rettz Forest and Courcy with the station, castle, and St Paul Farm. Fifty prisoners were taken including one officer and two raids near Maison Champagne and Montsensnon yielded ten more prisoners.
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Paris
Aisne
Marne
Corcy
War Office
Rettz Forest
Courcy
Castle
St. Paul Farm
Maison-Champagne
Montsensnon
Two Auto Crashes Near Nelsonville Leave Two Fatal Injuries
Near Nelsonville Ohio on July 11 two auto crashes left severe injuries and possible fatalities. Mrs Nancy Kinsey aged and her grandson Dale Thomas were struck while a wheel chairing them along Kimberly road by a speeding car driven by Will Dishong and Von Foughty. The victims sustained fractured skulls and other severe injuries. The other crash near Floodwood involved Mr and Mrs Tom Henry and their son being knocked from the road by an unknown driver, sending them into a bank. Authorities plan arrests.
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Nelsonville
Nancy Kinsey
Kimberly
Dale Thomas
Will Dishong
von Foughty
Mrs. Kinsey
Thomas Infant
Dishong
Tom Henry
Little Son
Athens
Driver Hits Pedestrians Then Flees
A driver struck Mr. Henry and Mrs. Henry as they walked, fled the scene, and continued northward. Mrs. Henry suffered severe mouth injuries while Mr. Henry could not identify the motorist.
Victory List Names War Savings Stamp Winners in Athens County
A listed group in Athens County owns the full limit of War Savings Stamps led by C. H. Welch and many others including O. Moore, Mrs. Moore, Darrell Moore, Alma Tompkins, Poston family members, Barstow, Dr. Henry, Everett Russ, Biddle, Fordyce, Sayre, Osborn, Elis, Larrick, Merwin, White, Pierre, Judge Sayre, Swett, May Poston, and more. Readers who purchased $1,000 in stamps are asked to notify the Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
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C. H. Welch
Cc. O. Moore
O. Moore
Darrell Moore
Alma Moore Tompkins
C. L. Poston
Mary Poston
W. L. Barstow
J. L. Henry
Everett Russ
T. R. Biddle
C. P. Biddle
C. Fordyce
Lizzie Sayre
Freeman A. Osborn
John W. Elis
James
Larrick
Addie T. Merwin
White
J. H. Pierre
C. Sayre
E. D. Sayre
Robert Swett
May Poston
Chamber of Commerce
Sailor Is Named in German Foreign Affairs Shuffle
Amsterdam reports Germany will replace Kuehlmann with Admiral von Hintz as foreign minister. The Frankfurter Zeitung says the Admiral has been named to the office in a formal appointment.
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Amsterdam
Germany
von Hints
Kuehlmann
Frankfurter Zeitung
Sunday Creek Coal Company Property to be Sold
Property of the Sunday Creek Coal Company valued at about 2,500,000 dollars will be sold July 27 at 10 A M in public auction. Judge E B Dillon of Franklin County Common Pleas Court authorized the sale to settle claims against the company. The asset list includes all coal leases in the Hocking Valley district and related machinery, to be auctioned at the county courthouse in Columbus.
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United Press
Columbus
Sunday Creek Coal Company
E. B. Dillon
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
John Winder
Hocking Valley
County to Send Three Colored Men to School
Columbus July 11 movement of colored selects to Wilberforce University Xenia for technical training announced by State draft headquarters as follows Athens county three.
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United Press
Columbus
Wilberforce University
Xenia
Athens County
Hun Flyer 13 Beaten By The Age Of Allies
In France July 11 British aviators dominate air warfare. German airmen avoid daylight combat while the British bomb by day and night, attacking from great heights then swooping low to release explosives.
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HUN Flyer
Allies
France
Altho
Women physicians added to Ohio Defense Council
Three women doctors join the medical division of the Ohio Defense Council. The new appointees are Dr. Nora Crotty of Cincinnati Dr. Eleonora Everhard of Dayton and Dr. Fannie C Hutchins of Cleveland.
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United ?Weag
Columbus
Ohio Defense Council
Nora Crotty
Cincinnati
Eleanora Everhard
Dayton
Fannie C. Hutchins
Cleveland
Wets plan last fight to stave off war-time prohibition
Washington July 11 Senate wets planned to call up the wire control resolution to force a summer recess and keep prohibition unsettled. A warning that sudden war-time prohibition would harm banks and war revenues was issued as Senator Simmons prepared to present figures on the cost of releasing 170 million gallons of whiskey. The wets argued prohibition is certain as the Saulsbury ruling barring the amendment was declared out of order.
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Washington
Senate
Simmons
Finance Committee
Drys
Saulsbury
Directs Work of Helping Soldiers
Dr. Frank Billings heads the construction division of the screen general's department. His department is busy erecting and redeling buildings and training workers to care for and aid crippled soldiers.
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Frank Billings
Screen General’s Department
Crippoldiers
Expelled pastor returns home as federal probes enter scene
In Went Hope Rev. Philip Peters sneaks back to his home while federal investigators arrive and charge him as an I W W leader and a director of pro German propaganda. In Ohio forty Amish families near Plain City faced vigilante pressure for unpatriotic stances and are now buying thrift stamps and aiding relief funds amid threats to join the enemy.
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Philip Peters
Peters
Columbus
Plain City
Madison County
Ohio 16 Year Old Soldier Killed in France
Clarence E. B. Harris of Springfield Ohio is listed among casualties as killed in France. He was 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philander Harris, who signed a waiver last November allowing enlistment. They had not seen him in uniform or heard from him since May. Mrs. Harris said I am proud my boy was not a coward and wished other sons to go.
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Ohio
Springfield
Clarence EB. Harris
France
Philander Harris
Rose Arrest Claim Clarified for Lodge Officer
A local Owls lodge officer was not arrested. Inspector of the Liquor License Commission charged Robert Rose, secretary-treasurer, in his official capacity rather than as an individual. The lodge stresses the distinction per Mr Rose's request.
Prof J A Place to Take Army Training
Prof J A Place of Western Normal faculty is appointed by President Waldo to attend Fort Sheridan on July 18 for an intensive military training course. The program supports introducing military training into Western Normal’s fall curriculum. Five students will also join the course as assistants to the US Army officer directing training. Place previously taught at Ohio University.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
J. A. Place
Western Normal
D. B. Waldo
Fort Sheridan
Place
War Department
Waldo
United States Army
Naval Reserve openings seek college men for commissioned officer path
Openings in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps invite men with college courses to enroll for officer commissions. Regular and reserve hospital corps require high school education. Fabric workers and tailors are needed for aviation work. urgent radio operators call. Yeomenettes sought as stenographers in the Fifth Naval District with typing pay around 78 dollars and stenography at 84 dollars.
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Naval Reserve Flying Corps
Naval Service
P.O
Fifth Naval District
Chautauqua Opens With Diverse Programs On Central Hill
The Chautauqua season opened on Wednesday on Central Hill attracting a large crowd for day one. Prof. Bert W. Thompson introduced F M Whitney who outlined seven days of events featuring Liberty Gilb six who delivered a lively varied show with music dance and impersonations. William Bennett followed with a lecture on pathways of power and liberty noting Europe’s wars and urging national strength across physical moral financial and spiritual dimensions.
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Bert W. Thompson
Chautauqua
F. M. Whitney
Chautauqua Athens
Liberty Gilb
William Bennett
Europe
America
World War II Casualties and Missing List Report
Washington reports today a list of servicemen with statuses including killed in action died of wounds and missing in action. Names linked to Ohio cities such as Cleveland Sheviot Gatewood and Spaiter are noted with action outcomes and ranks amid a Marine and allied forces report dated July 11.
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United Preas
Washington
Shing
Oumahak
R. J. Carpenter
Ohio
Idea
W. Way
J. A. Blin
E. Rehberger
Sheviot
C. Summerfield
Gatewood
R. F. Shaufle
Cleveland
Spaiter
Cleve
Judge Seidel Speech at Columbus Rally Urges Destruction of Germany
On Tuesday Judge Seidel addressed about 30 Columbus attendees in uniform, declaring that Germany must be destroyed and its autocracy erased to secure world peace. He warned America is not awake to global politics and urged crushing the nation’s pernicious doctrine.
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Judge Seidel
Columbus
Germany
America
Escapes From Germany by Kilburne Corporal Buckley
Corporal Eve Buckley of Kilburne Tl an avi in the French service escaped German captivity after Verdun and reached Switzerland Tuesday morning according to a Zurich dispatch to Le Journal.
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Germany
Paris
Eve Buckley
Kilburne
Verdun
Zurich
le Journal
Switzerland
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Navy
South
Sailor
Sunday Creek Company
William Phillip Simms
Wets
L. C. Martin
Central Hill
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