10 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1918
Page
1
Military experts say French and British successes in Flanders and along the Somme will stand as decisive, with the latest drive sweeping German forces eastward across the Picardy plains over a two mile front.
British forces pressed the Lys sector north of Kemmel and near Ypres while German positions along Lys and in the Kemmel region were evacuated. Tanks and planes support operations as Montdidier faces heavy bombardment and possible abandonment under allied pressure.
Washington reports the ways and means committee adopted a luxury tax schedule and created a treasury advisory board. The plan doubles the corporate tax to raise eight billion plus, includes a 10 percent luxury levy on jewelry, and lists art works pianos organs furs typewriters cash registers and tapestries as taxable items. Liberty bonds would become security for all government contracts under the bill.
Washington reports the food administration removed beef consumption limits in public eateries and voluntary household limits today. The rescinded rules previously barred beef in restaurants from more than one serving daily and capped home beef to one and a half pounds per person per week. The administration moves ahead a month early while urging continued reduced beef use for a time.
A British armed yacht in the English Channel located a German submarine after sunset. It drove over the periscope, depth bombs followed, and a diver reported hits. One survivor, coated in oil, was rescued aboard the yacht as the submarine reportedly sank.
The forecast calls for cloudy skies on Saturday with a likely light warming trend. Light winds and minimal precipitation are expected as temperatures rise modestly across the day.
A letter dated August from Private Frank C Schmidt Troop K 315th Cavalry Fert Russell requests a suitable wife in Cheyenne. He describes himself as 5 feet 4.5 inches tall with blond hair and brown eyes, born in New York City, wealthy, and seeking a sincere partner rather than a run around. He asks the Leader to find a girl about five feet to five feet four inches tall and to send her photo.
Aug 9 report says a squadron commanded by Captain Annunzio flew over Vienna and released manifestos without being challenged. Rome confirms air action and a separate attack near Del Ronso salient with bombing of a military establishment at Polo. Two hostile aircraft were brought down.
Roanoke sentence nets 90 days in jail for pacifist Charles W. Morris who claimed he would not fight and alleged Turks took American women. In San Francisco Charles M. Gibson a Southern Pacific conductor on the Tucson to Lordsburg line is arrested for stealing 15 000 dollars worth of quicksilver aboard a train and shipping 125 flasks to himself under the alias J R Porter.
Lieutenant Colonel Clarence Le Roy Cole medical corps and former head of the Fort Sam Houston base hospital laboratory was found dead in his quarters in San Antonio with a bullet wound to the head. He left a widow and three children.
Ex officers of the ship Yadkin, formerly a North German Lloyd liner now under the U S Shipping Board, are arrested after a sensational voyage. The crew allegedly ran a "toy ride" through the Mediterranean while transporting allied supplies and later conducted a covert return trip selling cargo in several ports.
A Canadian Atlantic port reported the schooner Gladya Mr. Hollett attacked by a German submarine and thought sunk by bombs off the coast. The vessel was towed into port and may be repaired. In Newport News, the Stanley L. Seaman was sunk north of Cape Hatteras last Monday. Captain William C. McAloney and eight crew members were rescued by a British vessel.
In Chicago on August 9 the Willard Dempsey boxing match for the Salvation Army overseas war fund was cancelled by the carnival committee. The acting police chief warned of enforcing the anti boxing law if needed. A Fort Sheridan move failed after the committee did not confer with army officials.
New York Aug 9 The resignation of John K Tener as president of the National League is accepted tonight by a specially authorized committee of club presidents.
Aug 9 First Lt Thomas R Evans of Santa Cruz California and Cpl George D Senney of Ridgefield Park New Jersey were killed in an airplane accident. Their plane dropped into Colonel Bay 40 feet deep and they were trapped by machinery and drowned with wine and spare cash. Their alibi on arrival claimed they were driven from their course by warm weather.
The British French push in Picardy and Flanders rapid gains threaten German reserves and possible final battle. Reports note American units on the Vesle repelling attacks near Rheding and aiding in the sububan seizure of Plames with 100 prisoners captured after a heavy bombardment and river crossing.
Narrative notes German forces in a village who could not retreat due to heavy shelling. Piers and timbers collapsed making ruins serve as shelter while the local defense offered only weak resistance and many Germans were wounded or hungry.
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