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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
1
Rome reports a major Italian offensive on the Asiago basin front with 1500 prisoners taken including 62 officers. Allied artillery aided by dispersing reinforcements in the Nos and Campo Mullo valleys as the front extended at least six miles.
Fourteen men, seventeen women and sixteen children died in two air raids over London and the coast last night. The official report by Lord French states almost all fatalities occurred in London.
Londoners watched a major air battle as a German raider clashed with British planes high above London. Fifteen German machines participated across two raids, with several bomb drops and one raider reported down in flames after engagement with the Royal Flying Corps. The all clear came five hours later.
Columbus January 25 Every farmer with a woodlot should sell waste wood not fit for lumber. J J Crumley secretary of the Ohio State Forestry Society says this can ease the fuel problem. Farmers can now market waste wood at a profit, earning from 6 to 15 dollars per cord of 12 cubic feet.
London report notes Italy has launched a strong offensive against German forces with Berlin admitting some ground was relinquished. The war office in Berlin confirms German lines yielded in the initial phase of the drive.
In Columbus on January 29 Ohio farmers heard speakers urge that America stay an armed camp until Germany is defeated. They warned there can be no peace while the Hun military autocracy exists and urged sacrifice to free America from German oppression.
Berlin Tageblatt reports Count Czernin refused to send a recent peace outline to President Wilson before his speech. Several Berlin papers had claimed Czernin acted under pressure from Austro Hungarian Socialists urging disclosure. The Minister argued the American president would learn of it from newspapers.
A ship bound from an American port to an allied port narrowly escaped foundering after saboteurs opened sea cocks during a storm. Officials suspect an enemy spy was aboard, but details are withheld. The attempt occurred several hundred miles at sea and was revealed on the ship’s arrival.
Raoul Lufberry, then a French field officer now in the American army, predicts that aviation will play a major role in the next twelve months. He foresees faster aero planes, larger air raids on German munition centers, and pitched battles between many machines, with speeds rising toward 145 to 155 miles per hour by spring and year end. He cautions aircraft will not end the war, heavy guns and trained men will.
President Hoover warned Congress he needs power to enforce national food conservation. He cited voluntary efforts as effective but said a minority undermines them and legislation is required to implement wheatless days, bans on nonfood use, rationing in public eateries, equitable distribution, limits on food used in manufacturing, and protection of essential commodities.
Pittsburgh, January 2. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad calls for a drastic 50 percent curtailment of passenger service to free coal, war supplies, and munitions for the war effort. He warns fuel shortages will persist with cold weather and pledges fuel trains and side track passenger runs as needed. He cites his son in France and urges Americans to sacrifice for the return of all soldiers.
Attendance dips at the opening of the thirteenth annual hobo convention in Indianapolis as Frosty brake beams and ice clad rods hinder participation. Boston Jones leads a Bolsheviki push to unseat Czar Charlie Kruse of St Louis as president. Cora D Hervey arrives from Somewhere in Oklahoma atop a Big Four train to back the revolt. A Hooverized feed featuring Jungle Rook Kelley and Mulligan substitute foods is planned for tonight.
Captain A Radclyffe Dugmore of the British army returned from a three weeks inspection of the American lines in France and called the American forces the finest army in the world excepting none.
Secretary of War Baker’s frank statement on U.S. preparedness renews debate on a full war department reorganization. A resumption of the Senate inquiry targets aviation but faces personal animosity and a stalled proposal for a war cabinet and a minister of munitions.
Chillicothe January 29 military and local police investigated a suspected plot to blow up Camp Sherman. A coal car in the Baltimore and Ohio rail yard near town carried 18 sticks of dynamite bound for the camp. Officials questioned the coal company to determine if miners placed the explosives accidentally during loading.
Washington officials said coal rationing and coal cards appear unavoidable as heavy snows and fuel shortages strain eastern rail lines. Officials warned that by spring many states will implement card restrictions to curb consumption and prevent a chaotic scramble when imports arrive around April 1.
Camp Sherman Ohio reports two Rainbow Division deserters from Marietta held on suspicion of swapping identities with two men believed to be German spies. Privates William A. Cowley and Fred H. Hufford were arrested in Marietta after desertion in France. General Pershing notified. camp officials drafting a full report.
A World War II era report notes efforts by the United States urging allied powers to pledge similar actions. The piece highlights coordinated campaigns to offset German propaganda and counter Latin American influence deemed hostile to U.S. interests.
The United States will not attack the political independence or territorial integrity of any nation. Thoughtful western hemisphere leaders see the goal as establishing international justice and safeguarding universal interests. The President aims to unite world opinion against rights violations and insists no special U S benefits are sought. The war has strengthened democratic bonds and the U S pledges peace with worldwide partners.
President Wilson declares the United States will in no case aggress against the political independence or territorial integrity of any state. He adds that America seeks pledges from all nations for peace and binds itself to utmost good faith and disinterested cooperation.
Francis J. Heney, FTC chief investigator, produced evidence of coordinated price cutting by the Big Five meat packers to crush independent competitors. Charles H. Mays testified that Armour and Cudahy alternated price cuts on beef and pork weekly, followed by Swift and Morris, with the group selling at a loss to force rivals out of business.
Amsterdam reports a strike by German workers at a torpedo factory near Kiel, the information arriving today. The incident underscores worker unrest in Germany amid wartime conditions.
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