Shipping Board forms Great Lakes seamen training plan
The Shipping Board orders a Great Lakes training system for merchant seamen and requires Lake Carriers' Association members to hire and train recruits. Union leaders call it a sham and warn of a coming strike while final talks with officials proceed. The move aims to keep military shipments flowing as wheat and iron ore move to support allies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Great Lakes
Lake Carriers’ Association
Shipping Board
Seamen’s
Firemen’s
Victor A. Olander
Seamen's Union
Olander
Andrew Furuseth
Victor Olander
Patrick O’brien
Tom Conway
Hurley
R.P. Bass
Navy
Ill
Furuseth
Bass
United States
Withdrawal and Battle Fire at Dutchy-le-Chateau
Allied long range guns nonstop peppered the enemy as they fought hard at Dutchy-le-Chateau. Forces pressed the front with heavy fighting as troops strained under constant hail of fire.
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Dutchy-Le-Chateau
Kahn Forecasts Hunger Pinch And Sacrifices
Representative Kahn of California forecast an eighteen billion dollar army bill for 1919-20 to expand the War Department. He warned of higher Liberty Bonds and taxes and urged national readiness to sacrifice personal goods for government needs. He said Americans have not yet felt hunger or given up essentials, but self denial now would prepare the country for possible future needs.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
War Department
Representative Kahn
California
House Military Committee
League of Republican Clubs
Kahne
United States
Weather Summary For Ohio Indiana and Kentucky
Sunday and Monday will be fair with slight cooling in the north. Indiana and Kentucky remain warm with Sunday readings and Monday fair. West Virginia shows little temperature change. detailed station data list highs, lows and precipitation including New Orleans Denver and Cincinnati figures.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Boston
S. Ste. Marie
Jacksonville
Omaha
New Orleans
Denver
Nashville
S. Francisco
Cincinnati
Harding to Deliver Keynote at Republican State Convention
Columbus Ohio July 27 United States Senator Warren G Harding selected Temporary Chairman of the Republican State Platform Convention to meet August 27 and 28 at Memorial Hall Harding will deliver the keynote address Other speakers mentioned include Senators Weeks Johnson and Wadsworth National Chairman Hays will attend and speak A mass meeting of candidates and party officials will precede formal sessions A statement by former Governor Frank B Willis cites opposition within the party to a dry platform stance and Willis vows not to support a term for governor if it requires dropping the dry issue
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Associated Press
Columbus
United States
Warren G. Harding
Memorial Hall
Harding
Delver
Weeks
Massachusetts
Johnson
California
Wadsworth
New York
Hays
Indiana
Frank B. Willis
Viereck funded by pro-Germans faces probe over $100000
New York July 27 evidence shows George Sylvester Viereck received about $100000 from pro-Germans to finance his Fatherland and Viereck’s Weekly activities before and after the U S entry into the war. He allegedly paid himself a $700 monthly salary and funded ads valued at $400 to $500 weekly while agents collected funds across the country.
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Associated Press
New York
George Sylvester Viereck
Merton E. Lewis
Lice
Alfred L Becker
Agricultural and Industrial Labor Relief Bureau
Becker
Viereck
Hugo Schmidt
Berlin
Schmidt
Bernstorff
Bolo Pasha
Count von Bernstorff
America
Viere
Ship manufactories nearing completion in United States
Washington July 27 America's great chain of ship manufactories is approaching completion with 118 yards fully equipped and 44 partly complete. Thirty-seven steel yards existed at war start rising to seventy-two, and eighty wooden yards are operating or nearing completion. Hog Island yard is 80 percent complete and to launch next month with Mrs Woodrow Wilson as sponsor.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
United States
Hog Island
Woodrow Wison
Bristol
Newark
Wilmington
N. C
Shipping Board
Hurley
América
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Gulf Coast
New Austrian Premier Outlines War End Policy
Baron von Hussarek, the new Austro-Hungarian Premier, told the Vienna lower house that unity with Germany and internal reform are essential to end the war. He urged constitutional cooperation with Parliament and immediate Hungarian budget passage, while promising social welfare development and trust across all races and classes. The house approved a six month provisional budget and a 6 billion kroner war credit by 215 to 196 with a broad cross-party majority.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Baron von Hussarek
Vienna
Germany
Hussarek
American Prisoners Refuse to Divulge Naval Details
In Geneva on July 27 American prisoners respond to German officers with refusal to reveal naval or military information. The German guards express fury at the prisoners’ steadfast privacy and their coldly sarcastic replies.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Pershing
Cable Wilson
Mob lynches Black man in Ben Hur incident near Groesbeck
Jim Brown a Black man was killed by a mob before lawmen arrived after an assault on a young woman. Brown allegedly attempted to stupefy the woman with acid mistaken for a drug, then fled as a crowd sprang up and he died at a tree near Groesbeck Texas.
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Associated Press
Groesbeck
Tex
Jim Brown
Ben Hur
Here
Brown
Honor for Hoover to be hosted by Feris on Aug 2
Paris July 27 The municipality of Feris will officially receive Herbert C Hoover the American Food Administrator on August 2.
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Associated Press
Paris
Feris
Herbert C. Hoover
Editor Brenne Arrested Over Espionage Act Case
Cleveland July 27 Richard Brenne editor of The Waechter und Anzeiger was arrested by federal officers on espionage act charges tied to a News story about an Amsterdam dated report. Brenne posted a $10,000 bond and another editor Fritz Frebe of The Echo faced $2,500 bail on trading with the enemy act charges.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Richard Brenne
Waechter Und Anzeiger
Waechter
Amsterdam
F. B. Kavanagh
Brenne
Fritz Frebe
The
Echo
Asiatic Cholera Spread Reported in Petrograd
In the last day 111 cases and 33 suspected cases of Asiatic cholera were officially reported in Petrograd by a Russian Government wireless dispatch. The update comes amid ongoing concerns about the epidemic's reach and impact on the city.
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Associated Press
London
Petrograd
Serb minister calls for dismemberment of Austria Hungary
Serbian Minister to the United States L Michailovitch argued that world peace hinges on creating free states for Czecho Slovakia, and Jugoslav lands. He warned that Austria Hungary sustains German plans for eastern expansion and access to routes via Baghdad and Vladivostok.
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Associated Press
Washington
Austria- Hungary
Free States
Toles
L. Michailovitch
United States
Persia
Russia
Bagdad
Vladivostok
Mr. Michailovitch
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Balkans
Allied Drive Advances On Marne Front In July 27 Report
German retreat along the Marne front is reported as French and Allied forces push to the Bruyeres Villeneuve Sur Fere Courmont Passy Grigny Cuisles La Neuville Chaumuzy line. Allies claim about ten miles gained northeast of Chateau Thierry. American and French forces also advance on the Aisne Marne front while German withdrawal continues.
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Associated Press
Paris
Marne
War Office
Bruyeres-Villeneuve-Sur-Fere
Courmont
Passy-Grigny
Cuisles
la Neuville
Chaumuzy
Chateau Thierry
Aisne-Marne
Fere
Washinton
Soissons- Rheims Salient
General March
War Department
Soissons
Rheims
Germany
Austria
Baker
von Boehn
von Eben Hav
Ardre
Fere-en-Tardenois
Ville-en-Tardenois
Vesle
Altho
Althody
Landwehr
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