Congress Sputters Over Adjournment Plans In July
Washington D C July 6 The House adjourned without setting a date on a Senate adjournment resolution for August 12. Majority Leader Kitchin withdrew a request for immediate action, prompting Senate plans to handle telephone and telegraph resolutions. The president urged quick action on wire systems but both chambers avoided rushing recess.
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U S Agrees to Policy Strike in Russia
Washington reports a White House conference with President Wilton and top officials ending hours of delay on intervention policy in Russia. Officials say a decision of importance was reached though no formal announcement was made. The plan reportedly concentrates Allied forces at Vladivostok and the Arctic railroad to deter German moves.
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Tragic Peoria Steamer Disaster Claims Many Lives
Peoria reports of the excursion steamer Columbia wreck grow grim as authorities confirm 100 to 150 dead with 2 divers locating bodies. Survivors recall the ship struck a sand bank in fog while returning from Alfreco Park to Pekin, with 600 aboard amid cheers and music.
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Vienna Claims Victory Through Naval Clash
An Austrian official statement from Amsterdam reports a July 2 naval clash where Austrian torpedo boats engaged a superior enemy torpedo force. A large enemy destroyer was set afire and another damaged, the enemy retreated. Austrian vessels suffered light damage and a few lightly wounded crew.
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Plow Guards Around Crops Near Rail Line Urged
The vice president and general manager urged farmers along the Union Facing railroad to plow fire guards around crops near the tracks. The protection aims to curb sparks from passing engines and safeguard valuable food crops.
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Italians Win Second Major Piave River Victory
Rome dispatch reports Italian forces drove Austrians onto the left bank of the Piave after five days of inaction. Diaz’s troops crossed the river spreading their advance about five miles, taking hundreds of prisoners and pushing to the western bed near Drisolera. Allied lines elsewhere showed little fighting as American and British troops earned praise for their first joint attack with Australians on the Amiens front.
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Australians Stage Another Small Offensive Near Villers Brettonneux
Australian troops advanced northwest of Villers Brettonneux on a 200 yard front last night, front line report by Field Marshal Huig. General March asserts Germany eyes renewed western front offensive with immense force and that America has deployed over a quarter of a million troops by July 1 as Fo ch pursues flexible, nibbling operations.
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Mitchell Was Lost Because Strap Failed
Major John Purroy Mitchell former mayor of New York, was killed in a plane crash near Lake Charles Louisiana when he fell from his seat as the aircraft skimmed with no pilot aboard for about a half mile. Officials said the safety belt had been unfastened at the moment of the accident.
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Burial plan for Halph R. Hughes body shipped to Neb
The body of Halph R. Hughes, a carpenter rancher who drowned on the Fourth of July at a reservoir in sight of his wife and child, is being prepared for burial at Marly undertaking parlors Saturday. It will be shipped this morning to Wahoo Nebraska, the Hugheses former home.
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Gronna Seeks $150000 for Lignite Test Project
Senator Gronna introduced a bill to appropriate 150000 for the interior secretary to study the practicality of using lignite as fuel and for producing gasoline and by products. Lignite is found mainly in western and southern states.
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Miners Get 50 Cent Wage Increase in Montana
Miners in Butte Anaconda and Great Falls will earn $5.75 a day after the mining companies raised wages by 50 cents. The rise follows copper price boosts by the war industries board to 26 cents a pound. Salaried workers under $3.40 daily gain $15 a month, impacting about three thousand Montana men.
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Weather in Wyoming Partly Cloudy Weekend
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies in Wyoming on Sunday and Monday with little change in temperature. No significant precipitation is expected.
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Hey Yankin War Front Barrage Bonded Push to Somme
A graphic World War I scene follows Australian and American volunteers charging toward German positions in the Somme valley. They endure shellfire and machine gun fire as they advance through barbed wire toward trench defenses. The narrator highlights courage and camaraderie amid the brutal dawn assault.
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