15 Jul 1918
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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1918
Page
1
A 28 year old man, Mangiovi, was found near the Eleventh Street bridge with more than 25 stab wounds and a severed throat. Police, led by Captain Patterson and Officer Polen, say the Black Hand gang is suspected as the investigation continues with no solid leads.
Eight Youngstown residents were injured when their car was struck by a speeding foreign driver on Tuscarawas Street near Broadway. A passing motorist rushed the injured to Aultman Hospital. three remained hospitalized Monday, including Mr and Mrs Schlatter and Mrs Cregan. The group was en route to New Philadelphia for a picnic.
Stark County workhouse faces no immediate action amid claims of unusual privileges for three Socialist prisoners. Board member Leonard Miller says only official sources will trigger scrutiny and Superintendent John M. Boyer is trusted to maintain discipline. District Attorney Wertz has awareness but no charges filed.
Moscow dispatch reports General Alexieff, former Russian chief of staff, named commander in chief of anti Bolshevik forces and arriving at Omsk with a large army. Czecho-Slovak troops seize Kazan, a key manufacturing city with arsenals. British troops occupy Kem on the Murman coast, a strategic White Sea port.
Paris reports a morning German attack on a 50 mile front from Chateau Thierry to Main de Massiges aided by violent artillery. French defenses hold as the drive links Champagne to Flanders. American forces are involved near Chateau Thierry with a 250 mile battle line extending to Ypres.
Notification of an impending merger between the Union Company and Ohio Company signals a probable consolidation of operations. Officials suggest linking main exchanges with trunk lines to cut duplicate phones and reduce maintenance, though formal action awaits government approval and a presidential backdrop.
Fragmented forecast notes cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday with showers and rising temperatures. Mentions locations and times in a jumbled city page. details about a 6:30 p.m. event and a free team gathering are unclear.
Six aviators from Fritchs lake landed on John Fasnacht's Stark county farm after an overnight navigation error in the early morning. They asked for a Ford to reach Canton and Fasnacht provided transport and a Stark county style breakfast of fresh butter milk and eggs. He expressed pride in helping the soldiers representing Uncle Sam.
The census bureau reports cotton consumption in June at 517,144 running bales excluding linters, down from 574,110 in the same period last year. About 296,980 bales were consumed in cotton growing states in June 1918 versus 327,962 in 1917.
British airmen claimed 16 German planes shot down on Saturday while losing three of their own aircraft. The air ministry also reported over 23 tons of bombs dropped on enemy targets during the day and night.
A German aviator riding in a British plane camouflaged to resemble a French machine and with a pilot in American uniform was downed over French lines and captured by American flyers. The capture, reported via a Salvation Army letter from Violet McAllister of Portland, Maine, is dated July 15.
Washington July 15 The Curtiss Aero plane Co is developing an airplane engine of their own that is said to be more powerful than the Liberty motor. The government supports the Curtiss effort and regards it as likely to succeed.
Aviator F. M Hale of Quincy Illinois and student Homer B Sharpe of Washington DC fell about 100 feet at Curtis field. Hale died on impact and Sharpe was taken to a hospital with a fractured skull.
The legation announced today that Hayti declared war on Germany on July 12. An unrelated advertisement for Federal Motor Trucks Canton Motor Car Co. appears in the same text.
Allied dispatches say Italian and French forces push in southern Albania forcing further Austrian retreat northward. Austrians burn depots and villages, Bulchar aflame, while Glunaka Pass is reached and Devol Tomorica heights cleared. British raids in Macedonia target Bulgarians west of Lake Donan. British advance on mile front in Flanders with 296 prisoners taken and key objectives met.
Walter H. Double, jeweler and optician at The Hallmark Store on 123 125 Tuscarawas st E offers samples of premium society stationery for customers seeking quality writing materials.
An employment notice invites two neat appearing women aged 18 to 24 to travel with a female manager for a large corporation. Salary listed as 18 dollars per week. Contact Mr. Voelker at McKinley.
New York July 15. Von Hindenburg launches a fifth offensive along the least important western front sector to draw Gen. Foch’s reserves away from the Aisne Marne area. If successful, the main attack would shift westward toward Paris and the channel ports, while Allied positions at Vaux test the new push. The situation appears to favor the Allies as German manpower suffers and Foch’s reserves stay concentrated east of the wedge.
Forest Platt, 20, captured by deputy Sheriff Abbott after a fire at the Clover Leaf creamery in Zanesville Indiana last week. Platt allegedly confessed to starting the blaze to collect $300 in insurance for his sun repair shop. A $200 reward remains for his capture.
The Five Phases of Offensive moves outline early 1918 campaigns. PICARDY began March 21 on a fifty mile front north of Amiens, halted after German advances. FLANDERS opened April 9 on a 25 mile front, stopped as Germans neared Hazebrouck. MARNE started May 27 across forty miles, paused with German gains near Chateau-Thierry. OISE began June 9 on twenty five miles, ended after six mile German advance. CHAMPAGNE drove July 15 across a 560 mile front from Chateau-Thierry to Main de Massiges, still ongoing with initial German progress reported.
London reports the German breakthrough along the Marne with several crossings and penetrations up to nearly three miles. French positions reportedly penetrated and some villages captured as American forces hold lines west of critical routes.
Paris dispatches report the French army of Champagne resisting a new German push between Dormans and Rheims on a 25 mile front. German crossings of the Marne noted at several points as the battle rages this afternoon.
The Stark co Food Administration backs a Canton war gardener in danger as four houses threaten to be built on his spring plot. The garden, now ripening with corn and vegetables, must not be dug up before harvest, officials insist, calling the action a Hun act.
A Special Communication of Canton Lodge No 60 will be held this Monday evening at 6 30 o clock. The M M Degree will be conferred. A A Welsbacher W M C E Norris Scc v Adv
Zurich Daily News correspondent reports 40000 Austrian deserters fled inland after Piave disaster. Some armed hiding in mountains. 3000 deserters arrested in Budapest. Relations between Austro-German powers strained. Austrian losses exceed 200000 with about 10000 drowned.
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