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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
14
Special staff reports that sending a U.S. army division to France involves more than troops. It requires duplicating a sizable office, complete with auto officers, clerks, typewriters, mimeographs, stationery, orders, and a full set of modern warfare publications aboard each transport.
A promotional piece extols Gauss self home treatment for catarrh claiming it relieves facial distortion and other symptoms. It urges readers to mail name and address to C. B. Gauss in Marshall Michigan for a free trial, promising a penny none to try and a coupon to return.
The Cheyenne State Leader stresses the March 1 deadline for unmarried filers and the $20 minimum plus 50 percent of tax due penalties for married filers with $2000+ income. It urges self filing with Form 1040A, notes employer reporting, and warns against evasion as wartime duty.
The unit ships with full autos, motorcycles, trains, and spare parts. On landing in France an advance party moves to billeting areas three to four days before troops. Training occurs in camps near farms with French officers attached. Lessons focus on artillery effects, discipline, and adapting problems under local command.
A for mal demand to remove Lucas Eugene Decker from the New York assembly is filed by seven Queens citizens who charge he dodged the draft. Decker, a former member of the Seventh Regiment machine gun company and later in reserves, allegedly failed to register and married after election, then claimed exemption as a state official. Decker explains the charges were reviewed by Washington officials. The article also notes Chris Rowmeliote, a Greek restaurateur, defending his German craft window with flags after questions about patriotism.
Federal agents monitor New York police to prevent political meddling as wartime rule remains strict. Women mobilize for the vote while drivers of public life push for labor support for war families and coal rationing fears. War weddings surge with thousands of marriages amid khaki hastiness.
W. J. Bingham a Chicago historian and Montana newspaper man is expected to die within a week from poison taken yesterday afternoon in Missoula. He said he took the poison by mistake and urged help be skipped as he planned to cross the great divide. He had come to Missoula to gather material for a history of the state and had worked in Montana in the 1890s. The report notes his intent and his background in Montana journalism.
Major Frederick Palmer, attached to General Pershing, urged speed in ship transport and expansion of the American army. He warned against Washington lobbies and defended War Secretary Baker. Palmer said the U S can handle up to 2 000 000 men and that Pershing has full authority while advocating decisive action to defeat Germany and secure safety for America. Samuel Gompers warned that peace proposals depend on driving Germany from Belgium and France.
A Steamboat Springs man defied draft registration in a barber shop riot as deputies rounded up several young men for anti draft statements. He shouted against compulsory service and was beaten before age 33, while others looked on. Oxen prices from a Swiss sale show pairs at 440 to 480 dollars and cows at 240 to 280 each.
H Donzelmann and Arthur Pigott announce the formation of a legal partnership named Donzelmann and Pigott for general practice. Offices are at State 9 to 12 Carey block corner 17th and Carey Ave Cheyenne Wyoming. Date February 6 1918.
Washington Feb 6. Complete cooperation between the United States and Canada in the effective distribution of labor for war purposes was announced by mutual agreement. Canada will not import labor from the United States without U S consent and American employers will not import Canadian labor without Canada consent.
Burlington converts Ford automobiles into motor trucks for division superintendents. To adapt the vehicles for rails, standard wheels are replaced with pressed steel wheels on a rigid axle.
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