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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
6
A wide review describes stalled Allied and German offensives on the Western Front, renewed Austrian pressure on Italy, and raids on American positions. It notes Allied gains in machinery and artillery, plus arrests linked to war profiteering and security concerns abroad.
Dr. F B Mumford, state food administrator, warns grocers not to sell more than two pounds of sugar to any family at one time with up to twenty pounds allowed for canning and preserving upon signed certificates. Manufacturing buyers are banned and special permits required for extra canning quantities. A postable circular instructs clerks to enforce limits and verify permits. In Cape Girardeau, Rev Father Charles E Hinig was arrested on a federal warrant for disloyal remarks about Liberty bonds and the Red Cross, bond set at $2000 and he posted for a July 9 hearing.
The Missouri tax commission fixes 191% valuations for railroads telegraphs telephones bridges and street railways at 475 202 603 with voluntary returns totaling 397 703 955. Major properties include Missouri Pacific at 55 802 996 Western Union 2 700 000 Postal Telegraph 175 000 and telephone properties 25 025 697. The board of equalization plans to adjust estimates to align with lower values set by state officials with totals certified to counties for autumn taxes.
Gov. Gardner visiting Chillicothe spoke to the Industrial Home for Girls urging subscriptions to the Red Cross war fund. He pledged to cover donations for any girl lacking funds and later received 78 letters asking to take him up on the offer. He then wrote a $78 check to the Red Cross.
Missouri Attorney General Frank W. McAllister says the state board of equalization will strike down the railroad and utility tax assessment proposed by the tax commission, returning toward last year's level. He argues full face value would be unfair to public service corporations. Columbia scouts to enforce new third law and draft officials meet to discuss Crowder orders and draft regulations.
A peremptory writ of mandamus requires State Auditor Hackmann to audit two Lamkin traveling expense accounts. The Missouri Supreme Court, in Faris's opinion, allows payment from the $14 000 education department appropriation for 1916–18, noting the trips aided state interests. Dissent by Walker.
Thomas K. Skinker of St. Louis County asks State Fuel Administrator Crossley to lobby to lift the federal order that bars anthracite coal shipments into Missouri. He notes residents of Skinker Heights Tesson and Hillcrest are constrained by building restrictions against bituminous coal smoke. Crossley protested the ban but failed to change it.
The Missouri supreme court denied five insurance firms the right to appeal a state official’s ruling that blocked a 10 percent rate increase. Judge Henry W. Bond wrote that the case belongs in an appellate court, and the application was dismissed without prejudice likely to be filed in an appellate court. Kirksville miner Joshua Evans injured at Big Creek Mine No 2 when a rock fall trapped him.
Sedalia firemen returned to duty after officials announced a salary increase to 90 dollars per month, confirming higher pay for their firefighting service.
An order by J. F. Wircher of Harrisonville, head of Cass county council of defense, bans German in telephone conversations. The Missouri council of defense issued the announcement in its official bulletin. Poplar Bluff resident Mrs. E. Whitaker says she read the Bible through in three months.
The Food Administration reduced the minimum carcass weight for allied governments to 500 pounds and for the army 435 pounds. Officials said abundant light cattle from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas would meet Allied and U S needs, stabilizing the Kansas City market amid usual light-season shortages. Representatives from the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange forecast immediate market stabilization.
Paris reports from L Homme Libre say Washington has received word of a plan to train troops from South American republics in the United States. In Washington the War Department considers training Western nations at war with Germany on U.S. soil and will ask Congress for funds, though no nation has been approached yet.
Dispatch from Teheran reports Turkish troops sacked the American hospital at Tabriz and seized the American and British consulates. The act, if confirmed, could be declared an act of war and affect the status of the Ottoman allies of Germany as enemies of the United States. The hospital was sacked over the protest of the Spanish consul supervising American interests.
Grace Lusk was moved from Waukesha to begin a nineteen year sentence at Waupon Prison for the murder of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts.
Washington reports new export and import rates averaging over 25 percent higher than existing levels, though in most cases not as high as earlier rates, to take effect Tuesday June 25.
Beatrice Nebraska June 20 J RK C Field aged 71 long time city commissioner of Beatrice dies this morning He was the third of three commissioners to die in office and had served three terms in the role.
The piece argues the war will continue until one side collapses, citing Russia's collapse as treason and the Entente as weak. It contends Germany dominates Europe, aims to annex Belgium and French holdings, and envisions a world ruled by Germany like Rome at its height.
A safety device for engines uses crated pipes run to the engineer’s window, one inside and one outside. The compressed air from these pipes prevents frost and mist buildup on the equipment.
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