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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1916
Page
1
Long service along the Rio Grande is indicated by army orders. Funston is assisted in patrol frontier of 1,800 miles divided into three sections, east, west and central.
Troops of the New Mexico National Guard are ordered to the Elephant Butte Dam 135 miles northeast of Columbus New Mexico. The dam irrigates a 150 mile valley and is a major water project. Washington reports a new border guard plan dividing the frontier between Southern and Western Departments with Funston remaining in charge of the Southern and Bell moving his headquaRters to Douglas Arizona.
Bernard A. Rosenblatt of the Federation of American Zionists argues ultimate Zionist success rests on Jewish leadership in Palestine. The federation reports growing membership and finances and supports international Zionist cooperation, American Jewish congress, and Brandeis endorsement. A $25,000 pledge backs Palestine hospital units and plans for a New York World Jewish Congress.
Hetty Green the world's richest woman died at 80 near New York after a long decline. Her son Edward Green and daughter Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes were at her bedside as her health worsened from a paralytic stroke. Funeral services will be in Bellows Falls Vermont. Wall Street valued her fortune at around 100 million dollars with investments in railroads and land across the south.
Laredo Texas reports through a Saltillo passenger that Coahuila Governor conscripts schoolboys for army service and presses them with threats of execution at home. The boys are told fighting will spill onto American soil where loot would compensate their patriotism.
German press heralds the start of the Anglo French assault as British and French forces push across the Somme sector. British troops seize ground near Fricourt and La Boisselle with over 4 000 prisoners, while French capture Herbecourt and push toward Peronne. Verdun remains contested with German attacks repelled by counter assault.
The bulletin notes partly cloudy and warmer conditions in Ohio Tuesday with possible thunder showers Tuesday night or Wednesday. Indiana remains unsettled with occasional storms Tuesday and Wednesday. Kentucky Tennessee and West Virginia show unsettled warm conditions with possible showers. A low pressure system dominates most of the central U S with a trough along the Rocky Mountains and a Northeast disturbance moving off New England. Temperatures are generally lower east of the Mississippi with light rains in the Northwest. A tropical disturbance lies near the Caribbean south of West Cuba moving northwest with limited force. Unsettled weather is expected east of the Mississippi Tuesday and Wednesday with higher interior temperatures and continued showers in the South and Ohio Valley.
Washington July 8 Conferees on the river and harbor appropriation bill agreed on a measure carrying 42 886 085 dollars. The House had passed 39 600 000 and the Senate 44 000 000. They struck out the Senate limit on water diverted from Lake Michigan for the Illinois River improvement and trimmed several harbor items including Los Angeles and San Diego. Senate amendments retained include funds for New London Duluth Supe rior Weymouth Fore River Willapa and other projects plus War Department vessel investigations. Some Senate amendments for improvements on Lake Champlain Sabine Neches Canal and Arcadia harbor were struck out.
Sanitary measures expand along the border as 200 000 mosquitoes are targeted by traps. all guardsmen to be vaccinated for smallpox and receive typhoid prophylaxis. Lt Col Edward L. Munson and Majors R B Miller and William N Bispham depart to San Antonio to organize border health efforts with National Guard camps. War Department provides sanitary equipment, ambulances, field hospitals. 400 motor ambulances ordered. beds and hospital supplies scaled up. new medical depots in El Paso and San Antonio. existing hospitals enlarged and more accommodations built.
Washington reports the new silver coins including the preparedness quarter will not enter circulation in the first week of July as planned. Unforeseen difficulties in striking the coins cause the delay, pushing appearance to September.
Mayor Thayer of Ripon Wisconsin telegraphed Senator Husting urging action to redirect a $75,000 appropriation for a public building to national defense. Senator Housting has introduced a bill to transfer $76,000 to the army aviation service.
Records at Tuskegee Institute show twenty five lynchings in the United States during the first six months of this year down from thirty four in the same period last year. Two whites and twenty three Black victims. eight killed in Georgia. Five charged with attacks on women.
Washington suffragist Mrs. Frank L. Moran warned President Wilson that failure to back an equal suffrage amendment would mobilize 4,000,000 women voters against him in the next campaign. Moran joined a delegation from the Woman's National Democratic League to pledge support and note a $1,000 campaign contribution.
Columbus Ohio July 3 officials debate how to handle the 960 left to the State by the will of John Crater of Tiffin. Treasurer Archer has deposited the money at 3 percent awaiting Legislature direction on which fund to place it in.
The Senate Military Affairs Committee reached a final agreement on the army appropriation bill setting a total of 328 million dollars an increase of 146 million over the House bill. Senators say the rise funds army and national guard reorganization and Mexican emergency equipment with aviation and ordnance gains near 40 million above House figures.
The census bureau reports about 21 000 000 able bodied men aged 18 to 45 in the United States based on a 10 percent population rise since 1910. Native whites number 14 224 000, foreign born whites 2 857 000, negroes 2 052 000, and Indians 50 000. Northern States total 13 094 615, Southern 6 006 139, Western 1 970 322.
Adjutant General Benson W. Hough issued orders to mobilize the Ohio National Guard cavalry squadron led by Major Dudley J. Hard and Batteries A and B of field artillery from Cleveland and Akron at Camp Willis. The mobilization follows a federal call two weeks ago and will complete the state’s activation for muster in. mustering proceeds despite minor technical disqualifications in some units. Approximately 8,000 troops occupy the camp as Third and Second Regiments arrive. Governor Willis visits, expressing satisfaction with the camp and men.
New York the infantile paralysis epidemic has claimed eighty two lives tonight with twenty three deaths since Saturday noon. Health authorities warn the public and distribute over 500000 pamphlets detailing preventives. Health Commissioner Emerson asks police to revoke licenses for Independence Day celebrations in affected districts.
Promoted officers under the army reorganization act were submitted to the Senate. Brigadier General Albert L. Mills will become a Major General and five Colonels will rise to Brigadier Generals. Colonels Morton Adams Dodd Plummer Townsley named for promotion. Several lieutenant colonels majors captains and lieutenants promoted accordingly. Mills distinguished in Indian wars and Cuba. formerly President of the Army War College.
Marine units advancing on Santiago clash with revolutionists. Private Klomoto Milles dies in battle. Lieutenant D B Roben, Sergeant Birrer, and Trumpeter Goldsmith wounded in a separate engagement near Puerto Plata. Milles from Denver, others with links to Michigan and New York. Casualties among Marines not listed.
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