Post Office Ruling Tightens Draft Exemptions
The Post Office Department announces few exemptions for postal workers from military service. Carriers, laborers, and clerks under certain grades are deemed indispensable and mostly ineligible, with physical reasons or dependent families as exceptions. Provost Marshal Crowder directs states to weigh dependents while noting soldiers must serve on a $30 monthly minimum.
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Postoffice Department
Wilson
Crowder
State Militia to Mobilize Here Tonight for Camp Near City
The Third Wyoming regiment will be mobilized at a new camp northwest of the city under Col. Cavender. Three special trains will bring the men as the guard prepares for an expected five to six weeks here. Red Cross groups along the route provided comfort kits, meals, and supplies for troops from Kemmerer Rock Springs Rawlins Cody and Powell as enlistments surged in Park County.
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War Department
Wyoming
Wyoming National Guards
Cavender
Palo Alto
Cal
France
G. E. Parisoe
Red Cross
Kemmerer
Rock Spring
Rawling
Cody
Powell
Park County
Big Horn
Kendrick Wins Fight to Protect Pioneers Rights
Washington D C Aug 3 Senator Kendrick succeeds in securing an amendment to the Walsh leasing bill. The senate public lands committee adopts Kendrick anonulment ensuring protection of bona fide locators on open and withdrawn land. The measure aims to prevent injustice to pioneers by preserving their established rights under existing laws.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Kendrick
Senate
Public Lands Committee
Kitchin Attacks Senate War Tax Draft as Inequitable
House Ways and Means Chairman Kitchin warned the Senate Finance Committee has rewritten the war tax bill to shift heavy burdens to farmers small business owners and modest income groups. The final draft, totaling about 2 billion dollars in taxes for war expenses, will go to the Senate for bipartisan consideration with separate reports from LaFollette Gore and Thomas advocating higher rates.
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Washington, D. C
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
LaFollette
Gore
Thomas
Governor Orders Probe Into Bisbee Deportations
Arizona Governor Thomas Campbell directed Attorney General Jones to travel to Bisbee and investigate the deportation of 200 IWW and Western Federation miners allied with exiles from Columbus New Mexico. The pair allege mistreatment, including deprivation of food and water, beatings, and noncitizen deputies involved.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Aug
Thomas Ek. Campbell
Jones
Bisbee
I. Ww. W
Richard Deming
FE. A. Weston
Columbus
N. M
LW. W
Western Federation of Miners
United States
Relative of Haywood deported from Nevada
In Reno on August 3 a 200 member Yerington committee escorted C. W. McKennon to the county boundary and ordered him to leave. McKennon, brother-in-law of W. D. Haywood, joins twelve other IWW members who faced expulsion after complaints from miners. Governor Boyle sent state police, but they arrived too late.
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Reno
Nev
Yerington
C. W. McKennon
McKennon
W. D. Haywood
Industrial Workers of the World
MccKennon
Boyle
Red Cross Provides For Soldiers With Plentiful Gifts
Enthusiastic committees of Red Cross workers deliver meals and comforts for soldiers. Heavy with food and articles aimed at improving welfare, the shipment supports morale and aid on the front.
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Red Cross
German Subducks Leave Prisoners on Deck to Drown
Survivors recount the sinking of the Belgian Prince by a German submarine. Thirty eight crewmen drowned in a deliberate act after lifebelts and outer clothing were removed, boats smashed, and hatches closed. The chief engineer described the sinking off a British port two hundred miles from land. An apprentice boy died from exposure after being aided until midnight. The ship floated at daylight and was rescued after eleven hours.
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Associated Press
Anga
No Nervous Men to Get into New Army
Washington dispatch reports Surgeon General Gorgas has formed a 160 member nerve specialty corps to screen all trainees in national army cantonments. The aim is to exclude men with organic nervous disease mental defects insanity or chronic drug or alcohol use from service to ensure fit soldiers under present warfare methods.
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Washington, PD
Gorgas
National Army
Price River Dam Wrecked by SPI
Price River Irrigation Company reports its Mammoth dam was destroyed June 24 by outside agents. Attorney Matho nibah Thomas says he cannot confirm rumors of German spies but notes evidence given by Leon Rowe, a DOJ special investigator, has been provided to federal officials. The company investigating committee cites the upstream failure as supporting Thomas.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Aus
Price River Irrigation Company
Mathonibah Thomas
Thomas
Leon Rowe
United States Department of Jus
Coast Rail Strike Postponed by Federal Mediation
A planned strike of Southern Pacific employees in San Francisco has been deferred to tonight after mediation by federal mediators. Representatives from the four railroad brotherhoods involved announced the delay.
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San Francisco
SIO
Southern Pacifice Company
Cabinet Resignations Stir Russian Kerensky Era
The Russian cabinet members resign en bloc and then largely withdraw their resignations, while Premier Kerensky faces pressure from socialist and radical members. Me Teherneff, minister of vericulture, seeks freedom of action to oppose cabinet policy.
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Prtcad
Kenomsky
View Tremion Phe
Keresolt
Mo Pereschenko
Thes
M. Teherneff
Ties
Tno
Kerensky
M. Tehernoeff
Officers Seek Place to Train Negro Troops
War department officials discuss location for training drafted African American troops as tension rises over race integration. Separate cantonments and limited facilities are considered, with plans to station Black soldiers in distinct camps to avoid mixing with White troops.
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War Department
Carit Outoente
Hayes
Dee Moines
United States Won't Attend Paris Conference
A government official states the United States will not participate in the forthcoming Paris conference. He says the U S will not be represented and that information on the subject will be gathered independently.
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Vobted
Parope
Todas Pei
United States
Poem Minister Slain By His Wife in Calmer City
In a striking incident in New York tonight, a former United States minister to a country was reportedly killed by his wife, with authorities described as investigating the disordered scene. The wife, identified by investigators, is said to be Blanguitte Mryagiet of Santhane, Chile, with details still emerging as the case unfolds.
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Rt Desaulles
United States
Caty
Mink
Santhane
Chile
Will Seize Ships Now Building for Use of Country
The United States Shipping Board approves commandeering all tonnage under construction for national use. Ships under contract or charter may be taken as needed to speed completion. Foreign or domestic vessels then under construction would be reassigned, with current charters kept until necessary to seize shipyard output.
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Washington, DC
Wasted States Shipping Board
United States
Emergencyleet Corporation
Foreien Saverionnte
Shipping Howard
Congressional ranking privilege inquiry revealed during probe
A congressional ranking privilege dispute surfaced as part of a House committee investigation into charges of tampering with letters by speakers. The report notes the existence of three purge discoveries and seven related notes, with statements pointing to tampered communications during proceedings.
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Washington
Riots and arrests amid draft unrest near Ada Oklahoma
About eighty people gathered as armed citizens patrolled streets. Sheriff Duncan reported eleven prisoners released as clashes with officers continued five miles north of Ada. President Brown’s draft policy faced violent resistance across several counties with renewed calls for federal action.
Captured German Officers Reported in French Front Battle
An Associated Press dispatch describes German officers captured near France, with Allied forces claiming victory and advancing positions. Reports mention shifts in lines, interrogations, and German troops withdrawing, while Allied units mobilize in nearby sectors.
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