Submarine ordeal ends as crew reaches third schooner
Captain James A. Nickerson and five crewmen from the Reliance survived two submarine attacks by a German raider off George's banks. After the Reliance sank, they escaped in a dory, were picked up by the Kate Palmer, which was sunk, and finally rescued by a third schooner Monday morning. The navy reported the Sommerstadt’s destruction near Fire Island, while cabinet members discussed U boat threats.
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Gloucester
Mass
James A. Nickerson
Reliance
George's Banks
Kate Palmer
Nickerson
Fire Island
New York
Hanse
Gold Industry Declared Essential War Sector
Reno report says the priorities board defines gold mining as an essential war industry. Commissioner Parker in Washington states that gold mining will receive preferential treatment in tools, machinery, transport, fuel, and labor supply. The resolution advocating a government bonus will be discussed next day at the conference.
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Reno
Priorities Board
Committee of Gold Producers
Parker
Washington Today
Whs
Frankfort Faces Heavy Losses in British Raid
A dispatch from Amsterdam dated Aug 12 says Frankfort suffered deaths and material damage despite timely warnings after a British air raid on Monday.
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Amsterdam
Frankfort
Administrators of Fuel for 12 States Meet in Denver
Denver August 18 fuel administration officials from 12 states including Missouri Arkansas Iowa Nebraska Oklahoma Texas Wyoming Colorado will meet August 26 regarding possible winter rationing after a July coal output decline in Colorado mines.
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States
Denver
Colorado
New
Missouri
Arkansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Arkona
Texas
Wyoming
Worded military notice from Camp Lewis movement
Sergeants Kord and Browlaky lead a 28 member company of the hospital corps at Runsell. The unit departed Tuesday for Camp Lewis in Washington. It is expected the mother group will proceed soon.
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Kord
Browlaky
Orpa
Atre Runsell
Camp Lewis
Amey
Washington
German Paper Sees Russia innew War Threat for Germany
Amsterdam dispatch quotes the Vossische Zeitung warning Russia heads toward renewed war with Germany unless a last moment remedy is found. The piece notes Ruhr anxieties and German press fretting over the strategic risk as tensions rise in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Freeman
Russia
Germany
Knitters for Red Wool Supply Rationed
Four industries board halted yarn production to conserve wool for army and navy uses. Red Cross will receive an allotment after military needs are met, officials say. Atlantic division notes no total stoppage of Red Cross work rooms.
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New York
Four Industries Board
Red Cross
Atlantic
Army
Navy
Gregory and Wromlmai Serving in France to Receive Commissions
B F Gregory and Wromlmai are serving in France. They went there before being notified of the examination for a commission. It appears Gregory passed the exam and will receive his officer’s commission in the trenches.
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B. F. Gregory
Wromlmai
France
Federal revenue draft taxes professionals and wholesale heads
The draft bill announced in Washington on August 13 imposes a federal license of 10 dollars on most businesses and professionals. Heads of wholesale concerns with annual business of 200000 dollars or more face an additional 25 dollar fee. Exemptions apply to physicians ministers teachers and small wholesalers. Secretary McAdoo will urge stronger excess profits taxes. The Ways and Means Committee aims to raise 8 billion dollars by taxation.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
McAdoo
Kitchin
Czecho Slovaks Formally Recognized by Great Britain
The British government formally recognizes Czecho Slovakia as a distinct entity. London officials confirmed the act on August 13, noting diplomatic acknowledgment and the new status amid ongoing European affairs.
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Britain
Davis Reclassified Draft Case On Crowder Order
Wallace Davis, Arkansas member of the Democratic National Committee and son of former U S Senator Jeff Davis, was placed in Class One by a local draft board after General Crowder ordered a reopen. Governor Brough had supported deferred status prior to the hearing. The case drew wide attention as petitions influenced the board. The same report notes Czecho Slovak armies being formally recognized as allied forces.
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Litle Rook
Arkansas
Wallace Davis
Democratic National Committee
General Crowder
Davis
District Appeal Board
Brough
United States
Jeff Davis
Betsy Ross Flag Gift to Italian Officer in Fort Madison
Lieutenant Roberto de Violini of the Sixth Alpini regiment, Italian consulate military attache in Chicago, received a miniature Betsy Ross flag from Mrs. Mary C Albright Robinson, great granddaughter of Betsy Ross, as a token of gratitude from Fort Madison Iowa after his public address. He praised Franco American unity and pledged blood for liberty, waving the flag in a call to defend it alongside Italy.
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Leutenant Roberto de Violin
Alpini
Chicago
Betsy Ross
Mary C. Albright Robinson
Hetsy Ross
Fort Madison
Iowa
Lieutenant de Violini
Italy
Americans to Start Baseball in Far Palestine
Americans serving with the British army in Palestine will introduce baseball there with games planned in Jerusalem between rival troops. Outfits were shipped from Washington to play by Manager Clark Griffith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far
Palestine
Associated Press
Washington
Bri'sh
Jerusalem
Clark Griffith
Colorado Republicans push liberal road program
Colorado leaders unveil a plan to boost road funding with higher auto taxes, transfer of the state inheritance tax from the highway fund, and a four year highway bond vote. The program, framed to ease highway department finances and expand roadway policy after the war, was presented by the state good roads executive committee in Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Highway Department
Colorado
Colorado State Good Roads Organization
Cheyenne Police Reports Lighter Tuesday Night
Police records in Cheyenne show a lighter shift with six arrests by 11:30 p m three for drunkenness and three for disturbance. The two disturbance cases involve street cat fights. Judge Swainson will hear them in police court today.
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Cheyenne
Swainson
Election Procedures Update From County Clerk
County Clerk Mrs Graham handles election duties this week. Changes in election judge personnel and distribution of ballot boxes and supplies for the upcoming primary election are arranged. When staffing cannot be secured, polling places will receive necessary equipment and police assistance for election day.
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Graham
Shwe
Strikers Clash With Cavalry in Montevideo Riot
In Montevideo on August 13, about 14,000 strikers gathered at the Piaga Independence plaza. Fiery speeches named the republic’s president as cavalry attempted dispersion and opened fire, returning fire. The clashes produced heavy losses.
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Associated Press
Montevidio
Republic
Missing as Result of French Transport Sinking
Paris reports 442 men missing after the torpedoing of the French steamer Jinich in the Mediterranean during the night of July 15 16. The vessel carried troops from Bizerta to Alexandria. Four days later the French steamer Australian was also torpedoed with heavy loss of life.
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Associated Press
Paris
Jinich
Mediterranean
Bizerta
Alexandria
Italian Dirigibles Make Ten Ascensions in July
The Nineteenth Century notes Italian dirigibles completed ten ascensions in July with seven army and eight navy devices. They logged 114 hours of serial navigation covering 7200 kilometers and dropped 8.5 tons of explosives on military targets. Additional raids carried pro-recruitment pamphlets and political broadcasts into Austro-Hungarian regions.
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Rome
Austra
Regons
Austria
WORM GNAWS AT VITALS OF THE AUSTRIAN AIM
An Austrian prisoner testified on Czech propaganda effecting the Austrian army. He said morale has fallen due to internal Czech influence at the front. Czech platoons near Austrians trigger propaganda, with penalties for contact with Italians and strict surveillance of Czecho-Slovaks. They were held in reserve and are now being moved to distant duties.
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Rome
Prosperous Sheep Man Tom Wilkinson Visits Cheyenne
Tom Wilkinson of Kimball Nebraska a veteran sheep rancher and noted early 20th century figure visited Cheyenne on Tuesday. He recently bought a large automobile truck to service sheep ranches near Kimball and plans to use it on his operations. His flocks number many sheep and his ranches show signals of improved conditions this year.
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Tom Wilkinson
Kimball
Nob
Gheyenne
Stack
Glothiers Told Still Enough to Guarantee Year’s Clothing
New York April 13 The government has seized the wool stock for war use yet robbers hold enough material to meet civilian clothing needs for a year Herbert Peabody chief of the war industries board woolen division told clothiers urging customers to wear apparel longer to economize.
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Associated Press
New York
Herbert Peabody
War Industries Board
Peabody
Little News Notes From Fighting Men
Charles Thompson of the Union Pacific reports his Pittsburg cousin who served as a Red Cross nurse near a munition plant survived the second explosion and left the hospital. Monta Kay, brother of Mr. Kay, wounded in France but expected back soon on the firing line. Elmer Sandberg, stationed at Tolous, France, with a remount detachment, notes Wyoming and other western troops staged a Frontier Wild West exhibition on July 4.
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Charles Thompson
Union Pacific
Pittsburg
Red Cross
Monta Kay
Elmer Sandberg
Tolous
France
Wyoming
Western States
War Chronicle Mentions Soldiers Far Off and Local Activities
Craig Lewis, a former Cheyenne newspaper employee, trained at Camp Hancock and now at Fort Sill Oklahoma. John F. Dulebahn, enlisted September 4 in Mobile Alabama, serves in France in the ordnance department and writes from the battlefields. Three more colored soldiers left Bbstewpa Tonaday for Camp Lew's and were en route from other regions via Leramle county. James During, Wyoming soldier in France, reports the death of a five year old French mascot girl. Sergeant Peter, Fort Russell hospital corps, spends ten days in Ohio. Y M C A Educational Director McCloud begins a geometry class. Troop 1 212th cavalry at Fort Russell wins first grenade throwing trophy. another offered and sought. State draft board adjourns with few changes to local classifications. Ernest Marihardt, discharged due to heart ailment, expected home soon from Cu per training camp.
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James During
Wyoming
France
Fittie
Universal Brief
Joss
Cheyenne Del ivery Team Hosts Hereford at Pioneer Park
Haneball fans in Cheyenne may attend Sunday’s game pitting the Merchants Delivery team against Hereford’s squad from Wereford Colorado at Pioneer Park. Delivery men have shown solid early form beating smaller local towns while Hereford brings Grover and Carpenter players to the clash.
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Haneball
Cheyenne
Merchants
Poneer Park
Wereford
Colo
Hereford
Grover
Carpenter
Allied Pressure Shifts as French Advance Near Noyon
Aug 13 report says German opposition north of the Somme slows the eastward Allied push while French forces seize key points in the Oise Noyon sector. Chaulnes Roye and surrounding towns face evacuation as French American forces push toward Lassigny and Noyon amid heavy artillery and counterattacks.
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Associated Press
Assocated Press
Somme River
Roye
Ine
O'se
Matz
Lasalgny
Noyon
Noyon- Roye-Chaumesine
Battlene
Solasons
Vesle
Addi Onal
Braye
Chaulges
Somme
Chaulnes
Sbelle
Lassigny
French Capture Key Positions on Chacourt Plateau
With the French Army Aug. 13 reporting violent assaults on the Chacourt plateau they seized two important positions the Keavitlon and St. Cloud farms. German defense intensifies with mustard gas and heavy machine gun fire as they cling to held positions.
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Chacourt
Keyn
Chapagon
Keavitlon
St. Cloud
Cheyenne Lions to Consolidate with National Rotary
The Cheyenne Lions Club plans to consolidate with the National Rotary Club of the Cheyenne branch Thursday evening. HM D Parker and another national representative from Greeley, Colorado, are expected to attend tomorrow afternoon to conduct the official amalgamation, but their arrival may be delayed causing a postponement.
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Cheyenne Lions Club
Natonal
Cheyenne
HM D Parker
National Orgental Op
Growley
Colo
Land Club
Rotary Organ
Greeley Representatoas
Witteh Oa Hd
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Preas
IK Matish AR AL
GAUSS
Lonuvon
Crowder
Ture
Clark Busy
Meditteranean
Aimy
Craig Lewis
Camp Hancock
Fort Sill
John F. Dulebahn
Mobile
Alabama
Ordnance Department
Camp Lew's
Leramle County
Peter
Hospital Corps
Fort Russell
Ohio
Y. M. C. A. McCloud
212Th Cavalry
Ise
Cuper
Ernest Marihardt
Loukage
Rheims
Ypre
Ypres
Plametle
Amercans
Alles
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