Local Draft Board Reports Rejections For Physical Defects
Up to noon today 252 men faced physical examinations by the Brazos County exemption board with about thirty rejected for uncorrectable defects. Eight enlisted in war service bands, leaving roughly forty four yet to be examined. Some who failed to appear may be declared traitors with death as the penalty. The board has begun posting accepted names and will judge exemption claims within three days of filing. Most exemptions cite dependent wives or parents. penalties for false claims include prison and fines.
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Brazos County
A. and
M. College
French AURL Back Attacks Germans East of Vauxaillon
Associated Press reports that German crown prince troops attacked French positions east of Vauxaillon and west of California plateau in the Aisne region. All assaults were repelled as French forces also checked raids in Verdun and upper Alsace amid heavy mutual artillery fire on the Aisne front.
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Associated Press
Paris
Vauxaillon
California Plateau
Aisne
Verdun
Upper
Alsace
Russians Evacuate Proskurov and Kamenetz-Podolski
The Novoe Vremya reports Russian forces have evacuated Proskurov in Podolia on the Bug River and Kamenetz-Podolski, about 35 miles to the south, as of August 8.
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Associated Press
London
Novoe Vremya of
Petrograd
Proskurov
Pondolia
Bug
Kamenetz-Poddolsk
British Advance Fails After Night Dagger Assault at Nieuport
Berlin reports British forces pushed from Nieuport on the Belgian front following a drumfire bombardment but were repelled after close combat. Artillery activity in Flanders intensified through the night.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Nieuport
Flanders
German repulse of entente attacks near Ypres
Berlin reports repeated strong en tente attacks between Draibank and Frezerberg northeast of Ypres were repulsed by the Germans in official statements.
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Berlin
Draibank
Frezerberg
Ypres
German democracy slipping backward in Reichstag crisis
Copenhagen reports that the German democratic movement, once seen as starting strong in recent Reichstag crises, appears to be slipping backward as liberal and radical papers interpret Dr. Michaelis choosing colleagues as a rejection of parliamentary principle and influence on the administration.
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Germany
Michaelis
State profits from Goose Neck oil lease in Texas bay
The Texas oil lease Gulf Production No. 4 on Goose Neck Bay shows over 18 000 dollars in royalty in ten days with 2000 barrels daily initial output rising to 9 000 10 000 barrels a day. Texas earns an one eighth royalty, and at 135 cents per barrel the state gains substantial revenue as bay development accelerates.
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Houston
Texas
Gulf Production Company
Bay
Goose Neck
Goose Creek
Gulf
Preparations For Second Liberty Loan Under Way
New York August 8 preparations for the floating of the second liberty loan to be offered to the public early in the fall were begun today by the general loan committee of the second federal reserve district. This action was asked by Secretary McAdoo.
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Associated Press
New York
General Loan Committee
Second Federal Reserve District
McAdoo
Minitra named president of Baptist Academy
Prof Odie Minitra chosen for Bryan Baptist Academy presidency and to assume duties within two weeks. He holds BA from Baylor and MA from Chicago University. W C Turner elected mathematics chair and athletics head, with Baylor BA and football experience. Rev Dr Weaver says further teachers are being selected promptly.
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Daily Eagle
Odie Minitra
Bryan Baptist Academy
Minitra
Baylor University
Chicago University
W. C. Turner
M. E. Weaver
Germans Bombard British Front in Belgium
German artillery opened an active bombardment of the British front in Belgium east and north of Ypres. British troops conducted a raid on Teutons trenches near Lombaertryde and brought back prisoners and a machine gun.
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Associated Press
London
Belgium
Ypres
Teuton
Lombaertryde
Interstate freight rates proposed based on mileage scale
The Interstate Commerce Commission tentatively finds a general adjustment of class rates between Texas and Oklahoma and between Kansas and northwest Texas and Oklahoma as an outgrowth of the Shreveport rate case. The proposed revised schedule uses a mileage scale from 23 cents per hundred pounds for the first five miles to 1.75 dollars for a nine hundred mile haul.
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Associated Press
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Oklhoma
Interstate Commerce Commission
Shreveport
Burleson County Man Arrests After Fatal Attack
Burleson County officers were notified of a fatal assault on a Black woman. Deputies searched near Chance plantations and Benchley for Clarence Blake, 27, believed to be the husband attacker. Blake was captured later the same day after an overnight brush search by Deputies Morehead and Lee Josey.
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Burleson County
Nunn
Chance Plantations
Benchley
Morehead
Lee Josey
Clarence Blake
Burleign
Wilson assigns Covington to probe I W W agitation
President Wilson appoints Chief Justice Covington of the District of Columbia Supreme Court to personally investigate I W W agitation and labor troubles in the West. The move signals a high level federal inquiry into the issuing unrest and related disputes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Covington
District of Columbia
West
Brazos County Navy Coast Guard Recruits Cheerful
Henry Locke Roscoe Cole J D Martin and son left Houston at 9 30 after greeting Brazos county boys in the navy and coast guard The Brazos county contingent includes Ed Martin Noah Cole Claude Lawson Will Lyons Smith and Deason with four or five others in the coast guard R L Benning Alfred Goodman Tony Hajek and E J Hunt They are shown as true American spirit and cheerful as a groom
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Coast Guard
R. L. Benning
Alfred Goodman
Tony Hajek
E. J. Hunt
College men write home from France
A letter dated July 18 1917 from five Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas graduates now serving in the U S Marine Corps reaches President W B Bizzell in College Station. The senders include J F Blanton D S Buchanan F W Wilson J T Walker and W T Galliford.
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France
W. B. Bizzell
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
United States Marine Corps
J. F. Blanton
Waco
D. S. Buchanan
Bryan
F. W. Wilson
Port Lavaca
J. T. Walker
Fort Worth
W. T. Galliford
Galveston
College Station
Texas
Wilson
Walker
Galliford
Buchanan
Bizzell
New York
Governor Ferguson Hearing Opens With Stand Issue
General M. M. Crane asked Governor Ferguson to testify first, invoking a constitutional right to hear the evidence. Ferguson refused and the hearing was postponed to 3 pm. Representative E. R. Bryan supported the governor, as Crane reintroduced testimony from the earlier March house investigation.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
M. M. Crane
House
Ferguson
Crane
E. R. Bryan
Fuller
W. A. Hanger
House Investigation Committee
H. C. Poe
Temple State Bank
Treason Charge Placed Against Oklahoma Draft Resisters
U S District Attorney McMinnis announced that men arrested for resisting the draft in the Oklahoma uprising will be tried for treason with the death penalty to be asked. He detailed two deputy attorneys to gather evidence against the alleged traitors.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Okla
United States
McMinnis
Oklahoma
Four Americans Die in Sinking of British Steamer
London reports four American lives lost when the British steamer Bel gian Prince was sunk July 31 by a German submarine. One American survivor is aboard.
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Associated Press
London
Submarine Losses Under Three Monthly on Record
Berlin report states monthly submarine losses averaged little more than three from February 11 to August 1, while the monthly increase in submarine tonnage or numbers shows many times larger figures, detailing official wartime casualty trends.
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Associated Press Berlin
Davis Has Charge Agriculture Exhibit
The Texas department of agriculture will manage the entire agricultural exhibit at the Texas Cotton Palace in Waco from November 3 to 12. Commissioner Fred W. Davis reached the agreement with the Cotton Palace directors. The hall will feature county and community farm displays, regional crop production and value, an individual farmer display, and a culinary exhibit.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Agriculture
Texas Cotton Palace
Waco
Fred W. Davis
Cotton Palace
Germans Pushing Anti American Plots in Mexico
Circulars from German propagandists claim US is in revolution and will be ineffective in war. Pamphlets in Spanish circulated in Zacatecas San Luis Potosi and Mexico City recount German war successes. Juarez hosts five German capitalists and Consul Geltner with General Murgia as border watchers anticipate their return inland.
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Mexico
el Paso
Texas
United States
Germany
Zacatecas
San Luis Potosi
Mexico City
Juarez
Geltner
Chihuahua
Francisco Murgia
Murgia
Fairman Tearing Down Airdome For New Apartment Site
W. R. Fairman is tearing down the old airdome at Twenty-seventh street near the Houston and Texas Central station and selling the lumber. He plans to build an apartment house on the site but has not decided due to unsettled conditions.
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W. R. Fairman
Airdome
Twenty-seventh Street
Houston and
Texas Central
Tobacco for Boyd lost in transit
The Young Men's Christian Association shipment of tobacco for American troops in France was lost. The Red Cross commission in Paris reports no suitable replacement tobacco is available and urges sending ten tons immediately.
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Associated Press
Washington
Young Men's Christian Association
France
Red Cross Commission
Paris
Cotton crop value climbs to 1.41 billion at year end
New Orleans August 7 The total value of the United States cotton crop including seed for the trade year ending July 1 was 1 412 860 035 dollars up from 938 200 000 a year earlier according to the New Orleans Cotton Exchange detailed annual report.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
The
New Orleans Exchange
War demands united strength as Russia prolongs conflict
General Maurice, chief director of military operations, says Russian actions indicate the war will continue. He urges the United States to enter the field quickly with maximum force to support allied efforts.
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Associated Press
London
Maurice
United States
Authority of 1835 Is Still in Effect
An opinion to Texas state treasurer J M Edwards says the 1835 plans powers authorize the governor and council of government to contract loans as a pre existing law. The legislature may now appropriate funds to pay loans contracted under that provision. Several such loans exist and a special session may consider appropriations to meet them.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
J. M. Edwards
Attorney General’s Department
Council of Government of Texas
Homer Spence Arrested in Oklahoma Uprising
Muskogee Oklahoma, Aug 8 The 41 year old Homer Spence one of three men federal authorities believe led the anti draft uprising in Oklahoma was arrested last night and placed in the McAlester penitentiary for safe keeping He was recently indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to obstruct the conscription act and was released on five thousand dollars bail.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Okla
Homer Spence
Oklahoma
McAlester
Spence
Federal agents arrest six men for draft law resistance
In Tyler on Friday six men including Tom Sanders H. H. Smith Pick Smith Cortez Nation Lath and Joe Lee were detained by federal secret service officers. They were found with arms and ammunition and waived examining trial after posting bond for court appearance.
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Tyler
Texas
Tom Sanders
H. H. Smith
Pick Smith
Cortez Nation
Lath
Joe Lee
Federal
Secret Service
First 1917 Cotton Bale Reaches MuLdoon Texas
MuLdoon Texas reports the first bale of the 1917 crop weighing 594 pounds sold at 26.25 cents per pound for a net of 159.05 dollars excluding seed. The delivery occurred on Monday with the grower receiving payment for the bale.
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MuLdoon
Texas
Money in Circulation Reaches New U.S. High
Washington reports the treasury’s circulation shows August 1 total at 4.852 billion dollars, up nearly 23 percent in a year. Including treasury money, total rises to about 5.518 billion with per capita at 46.53 dollars, and gold in treasury and circulation up 586 million in a year.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Treasury
China declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary
Acting President Fenk Kwo Chang approves cabinet decision to declare war on Germany and Austria Hungary. The move comes as China joins Allied powers in World War II.
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Rn Associated Press
Peking
Fenk Kwo Chang
Germany
Austria-Hungary
British recruiting mission to establish Texan aviation camp
The British recruiting mission announced that Lt. H. B. Denton will travel to Texas to lay out an aviation camp for Canadians. The camp aims to knit closer American British aviation ties and standardize training like Camp Borden Mohawk Rathbun Seaside and Armour Heights. Cadets recruited in New York will be sent to Texas to complete training.
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New York
H. B. Denton
Royal Flying Corps
Texas
Merit
Camp Borden
Camp Mohawk
Camp Rathbun
Camp Seaside
Camp Armour Heights
Denton
Impeachment Hearing Highlights Ferguson Banking Ties
President Vinson testified about a governor governor Ferguson conversation and notes that Houston National Exchange Bank aided Ferguson accounts. Henry Fox of the Houston bank described loans and collateral tied to A F Ferguson and J H Davis. The Davis house inquiry and Davis notes link to March 1917 actions and a $15 000 endorsed note with Bas trop Lignite Coal bonds.
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Austin
Texas
University
R. E. Vinson
Ferguson
Cer
Henry Blum
Temple State Bank
Temple
Blum
Henry Fox
Houston National Exchange Bank
M. M. Crane
House
Davis House Committee
Fox
A. F. Ferguson
J. H. Davis
Houston
C. H. Heard
Crane
Davis
Bastrop Lignite Coal Company
New York
Galveston
L. A. Adone
Galveston Brewing Company
Trus
Wheat and corn crop estimates released
Washington on August 8 reports spring wheat condition at 68.7 while winter wheat stands at 78.8. The total wheat crop is forecast at 653 million bushels and corn at 3,191 million bushels with the notes reflecting the year’s harvest outlook.
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Washington
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