Army and Navy Stop Enlistments Over Draft Age Bill
Voluntary enlistments in the army and navy are suspended pending action on a draft age extension to 45. Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels ordered no new voluntary enlistments after today and civilians barred from officers training camps until further notice. The move aims to prevent industrial disruption and permit selective eligibility under the pending legislation. The War Department statement says the suspension will continue until draft-age legislation passes and regulations for the selective system are drawn up.
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Associated Press
Washington
Army
Navy
Baker and Daniels
Baker
Daniels
Wilson
War Department
Government urged to seize meat trade assets under new plan
The Federal Trade Commission advised President Wilson to commandeer stockyards cold storage plants warehouses and refrigerator cars to run as a public monopoly The report accuses Swift Armour Morris Cudahy and Wilson of monopolizing essential food supplies and notes ties between packers and major banks It also proposes government ownership of rolling stock stockyards and refrigerated cars to ensure open markets and uniform charges with future expansions as needed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
United States
Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson
Commission
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Guaranty Trust Company
Chase National Bank
Congress
White House
Railroad Administration
Weather outlook across states with varied conditions
Ohio sees fair days with Friday thunder showers near Lake Erie. Indiana expected fair days with little temp change. Kentucky partly cloudy and warm. West Virginia thundershowers Friday with eastern showers. Temperature readings list multiple stations, noting highs around 64 to 92 and some precipitation. A Cincinnati weather record for August 8, 1918 is cited with hourly observations and historical comparisons.
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Ohio
Lake Erie
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Montreal
Denver
Jacksonville
Spokane
Pittsburg
Seattle
Chattanooga
Portland
Chicago
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Cincinnati
S.W
Petain Urges Tenacity as Allied Victory Looms
General Petain, commander of French forces, praises four years of allied effort and endurance. He notes 1918 setbacks, arriving American troops, and vows that tenacity and audacity will force victory as banners gleam with new glory.
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Associated Press
Paris
Petain
France
Russians Reach Agreement with Teutons on Front
London reports a tentative accord between Bolsheviks and Germans preventing further German advance into Russia. Bolsheviks may move troops east to bolster defense against Czecho Slovaks in the Volga region. Allies push toward Vologda after Archangel actions.
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Associated Press
London
Russia
Volga
Archangel
Dvina
Vologda
Laos
Gulf of Finland
Murman
Immediate Mobilization Of Slavs Ordered In U S War Effort
The War Department announced the immediate mobilization at Camp Wadsworth of the Slavik Legion, authorized by the army appropriation bill. Voluntary enlistment includes Jugo Slavs Creeko Slovaks and Ruthenians. units will reflect race composition, with officers drawn from the same groups. Enlistees must prove loyalty to the United States. A nationwide Slavic recruitment drive will follow, avoiding mining districts. Estimates suggest up to 5,000 Czecho Slovaks with additional thousands from other nationalities. Formation of the legion aims to ease past suspicions against Slavs born in Austria Hungary. The Czecho Slovak army recruitment in France will continue, though many may choose American service for family support via allotments and insurance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Camp Wadsworth
Spartanburg
S. C
Slavik Legion
Army
War Department
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Central Officers’ Training School
Camp Lee
Virginia
United States
America
France
Suffragist Demonstration Denounced by Senate Leaders
The Senate denounces the Tuesday suffrage demonstration in which 48 National Woman's Party members were arrested. Senators McKellar Thomas and Smoot call the action unfair and harmful, while Reed and Wadsworth debate state versus federal authority. Debate ends after about two hours.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Woman's Party
Senate
McKellar
Tennessee
Thomas
Colorado
Smoot
Utah
Reed
Missouri
Leggders
Wadsworth
National Woman’s Party
National American Woman's’ Suffrage Association
Americans pledge rough warfare on German front
Reuters reports from the American front between Soissons and Rheims that Colonel Roosevelts warning against soft fighting is unnecessary. An American soldier declares that the Germans who fought in the Marne salient will understand they face a rough war as the Americans insist on hard combat.
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Associated Press
London
Roosevelt
Soissons
Rheims
Reuter
Marne Salient
Eight Buildings Destroyed in Cartridge Plant Fire
Fire at the Western Cartridge Company plant in East Alton leveled eight buildings this afternoon. No injuries were reported as the flames swept through the facility near St. Louis. Authorities were gathering details from Alton about the incident.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Alton
Western Cartridge Company
East Alton
Finland Appeals for Food Aid From United States
Norway Sweden and Denmark presented identical notes to the State Department urging American aid for famine in Finland. The pledges ensure no food would reach Germans or aid Germany. Finland’s lack of a responsible government has blocked assistance, and a reply from the U S was expected soon after talks led by Colville Barclay and Acting Secretary Polk.
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Associated Press
Washington
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
United States
Finland
State Department
America
Germany
Colville Barclay
Polk
Merak Sunk by German Submarine Off North Carolina Coast
In less than twenty four hours after the Diamond Shoals Lightship was destroyed by shellfire the unarmed American steamer Merak was shelled torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine near the North Carolina coast on Tuesday afternoon. Forty three crew escaped in small boats and were landed safely at Norfolk and Elizabeth City. Navy officials link the submarine to recent sinkings including the O B Jennings and the Diamond Shoals lightship. Secretary Daniels said raiders operate to hinder commerce without courting danger and that more sinkings are likely.
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Associated Press
Washington
Diamond Shoals
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Merak
Navy Department
Norfolk
Elizabeth City
N. C
O. B. Jennings
Virginia Capes
Daniels
Atlantic
Submarine Sinkings Claim Lake Portage and Berwind
German U boats off the French coast on August 3 sank the American steamship Lake Portage and the British steamer Berwind. An official report confirmed the sinkings though gave few details. The Lake Portage was a 1998 gross ton vessel built last year at Duluth Minnesota. The Berwind is identified as the Bend, an American steamer, not British.
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Associated Press
Washington
Lake Portage
Berwind
Duluth
Minn
New York
Bend
Hale's Romania trip under probe in German propaganda inquiry
New York witnesses testified in the state probe into German propaganda that William Bayard Hale, head of German information in 1915, traveled to Romania in 1916 on a passport listing him as on official business of the German Foreign Office. He allegedly coordinated with Bethmann-Hollweg and used coded messages for U S contact.
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Associated Press
New York
William Bayard Hale
Germany
Romania
Becker
Hale
New York American
Berlin
Zimmerman
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Foreign Office
Mr. Beker
United States
Copenhagen
Bethmann- Hollweg
America
Dr. Hale
Bethmann-Hollweg
O. K
Heinrich Albert
British Airmen Down 22 German Planes in Picardy Fight
In aerial fighting on Wednesday before the Picardy offensive British airmen accounted for twenty two German machines nine destroyed, seven driven down out of control. Two of our planes are missing.
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Associated Press
London
Picardy
Allied Tank Power Drives Deep Into Somme Front
British and French forces swept fifteen miles along the Somme, pushing five to six miles past German lines. Tanks and storm troops pressed ahead as heavy fighting continued near Morlancourt and Dodo wood with prisoners taken and German losses mounting.
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Somme
Associated Press
France
Moreuil
Villers-Aux-Erables
Dodo
Hamel Woods
Marceleave
Morlancourt
Luce
Dodo Wood
Hamel Wood
Tsaan
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Teutons
Stockholm
England
War Office
Murman Coast
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Oboserskaka
Scandinavian
U. S
Rumania
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