Cotton Crop A Disaster Due to Drought Across Belt
The September government cotton report says the U S crop is a disaster with 11 137 000 bales forecast 4 098 000 below early estimates. July drought and August dryness cut output 2 482 000 bales. drought hit Texas Oklahoma and western areas hardest. States listed with crop conditions range from Virginia 84 to Oklahoma 33.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Virginia
North Carolina
Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
California
Arizona
Terrorism at Moscow Amsterdam Report on Lenine Plot
Pravda reports many Social Revolutionary officers arrested in Moscow over the Lenine assassination attempt. The Petrograd attack on Moses Uritzky involved the British Embassy shooting. Dora Kaplan, attacker, withholds accomplice names. a 15 year old boy delivered a note, two women approached, Kaplan later captured. poisoned cigarettes found.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Pravda
Social Revolutionary Party
Moscow
Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Moses Uritzky
Dora Kaplan
Lenine
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Crimea
Ministry of War
Executions Ordered After Bolshevik Premier Attack
Report from Helsingfors cites Moscow authorities ordering drastic actions after the attempted assassination of Nikolai Lenine. Thousands moved from Moscow to Petrograd as part of a broad crackdown.
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Lenine
Associated Press
London
Nikolai Lenine
Moscow
Helsingfors
Hamburg Fremdenblatt
Petrograd
Senate delays final vote on emergency agricultural bill
In Washington on September 3 the Senate blocked final action on the emergency agricultural appropriation bill amid debate over provisions to boost farm production. Senator Kenyon sought to strike $600,000 for beef, pork, poultry, and sheep programs and cottage cheese on the farm, but the cottage cheese clause was later dropped. The delay persists as wartime prohibition measures loom.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
Thomas
Colorado
Pease
British drive shatters Drocourt-Queant line in Somme advance
Allied forces push east of the Canal du Nord as German defenses collapse along the Drocourt-Queant and Hindenburg lines. British troops seize Neuve Chapelle and Richebourg St. Vaast, cross toward the Somme, and press along the Hindenburg front amid large German prisoner captures and reports of disarray behind the front.
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London
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Neuve Chapelle
Richebourg St. Vaast
Haig
Somime
le Mesnil
le Transloy
Paris
Somme
Epenancourt
War Office
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Drocourt- Queant
Wotan
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Hindenburg
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Hirondelle River
Bapaume-Cambrai
Peru's Ancon Revolt Suppressed as Insurgents Surrender
In Lima, Sept 3, the Ancon revolt near Lima was quelled with insurgents surrendering. Two hundred troops mutinied on Aug 24 under Major Armando Patino who issued a manifesto denouncing the government and calling for war on Germany. Loyal forces moved to capture the insurgents.
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Associated Press
Lima
Peru
Ancon
Armando Patino
Germany
United States
France
Weather Notes For Ohio Kentucky Indiana And West Virginia
Partly cloudy and cooler in Ohio on Wednesday with fair conditions likely Thursday. Kentucky expected showers Wednesday and Thursday. Indiana variously partly cloudy in the north and showers in the south Wednesday, cooler in the east and south, Thursday probably fair. West Virginia fair Wednesday and Thursday. Temperatures at stations show ranges from 52 to 80 degrees with several locations recording measurable precipitation.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Christmas Red Cross Roll Call Seeks Nationwide Enrollment
Washington Sept 3 A Christmas roll call to enlist the whole American people for Red Cross membership will begin December 16 announced by Henry P Davison chairman of the war council. Lists will be open for every American worldwide. Davison said the Red Cross again aims to show America can fight and stand for mercy honor and good faith among nations. Twenty two million members were enrolled last year.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Red Cross
Henry P. Davison
War Council
The
Red Cross
Davison
America
Great New York Roundup Nets Over Forty Thousand Draft Evaders
Federal officers announced a vast roundup across New York and nearby cities arresting more than 40,000 suspected slackers. Estimates show 50 to 5 percent willful slackers in districts, with 10k–12k moved to Sixty-ninth Armory and large counts in Manhattan Brooklyn Queens and New Jersey precincts. About 600 handed to military for induction.
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Associated Press
New York
Bronx
Charles F. Dewoody
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Sixty-ninth Regiment
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens County
Jersey City
Hoboken
Passaic
German Language Remains in Chicago School Curriculum
Chicago officials clarified that German will not be dropped from the school program. A School Board meeting approved modification of the course and referred abolition resolutions to a committee. Principals were instructed that no new German classes should be formed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
UME CHANGES IN DRAFT RULES
Washington Sept 3. Crowder says no major changes to the draft rules for men 21 to 31 under the Manning power measure. Details may adjust in specific industries and older registrants, with guidance rules to draft boards soon. March and Crowder briefed President Wilson for an hour on the new manpower plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
General Crowder
White House
General March
Wilson
Rupprecht Disagrees With Ludendorff on Western Front
Swiss dispatches report Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria openly opposes General Ludendorff’s plan. He argued Germany lacked the means and positions for success and favored retiring, but Bavarian discontent was feared. The episode may explain his return home on vacation.
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Rupprecht
Ludendorff
Associated Press
Washington
Switzerland
Bavaria
Merchant Marine Training Draws Large Volunteer Enrollment
Washington reports volunteer enlistment in the merchant marine training service has risen to 185 daily, or 5,550 a month, outpacing training capacity of 4,600. Officers' schools hit peak attendance with 76 navigation and 613 engineering students. Massachusetts led with 1,103 volunteers, followed by New York and Pennsylvania. A navigation school for New England fishermen opens at Portland Maine, with graduates receiving licenses as second or third officers and classes arranged around fishing trips.
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Associated Press
Washington
Merchant Marine Training Service
Massachusetts
Shipping Board
New York
Pennsylvania
School of Navigation
New England
Portland
German Vessel Crew Tries to Sink Ship in Chilean Port
In Corral Valdivia Chile the crews of the German steamships attempted to sink their own ships to render the port useless. The government and people are greatly exercised over the incident.
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Chilean
Associated Press
Santiago
Chile
Corral
Valdivia
More Firemen Exempt Under The Coming Draft
Federal draft rules expand exemptions for firemen and policemen. Deferred classification becomes unconditional if the department certifies high training and irreplaceable service, with the registrant confirming the claim on his questionnaire.
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Associated P
Washington
Crowder
Utah mining camp hit by flames destroys several buildings
Salt Lake City dispatch reports a fire at Bing ham mining camp twenty miles west of Salt Lake City left about 150 people temporarily homeless. Sixteen business structures and twenty five dwellings were destroyed with damage around 100000 dollars. Fire origin unknown. A peaceeates from the city was sent to the flames before. further details unavailable.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake
Bingham
Here
Americans May Fight on Washington Front
Reports from the British front indicate German retirement is destabilizing under pressure from British and French armies from Ypres to Soissons. Observers expect Pershing's first field army to join the battle as Haig moves toward Cambrai amid a widening push against the Hindenburg line.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ypres
Soissons
Marshal Haig
London
Pershing
Foch
Cambrai
Douai
St. Quentin
Hindenburg
Rheims
Haig
Revenue Bill Set for House Sessions and Senate Hearings
Washington report outlines the eight billion dollar war revenue measure. The House will begin consideration next Friday with a goal of final passage within ten days and a Senate Finance Committee review to follow. Debates may prompt amendments including a proposed tax on products from factories or mines employing child labor below the standard.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Kitchin
Senate
Ways and Means
Us React to Czech Nation Recognition Shaping War Aid
The United States recognizes the Czecho-Slovak nation as a belligerent entity, promising faster direct aid and material support to Czech forces in Siberia and southern Russia. Officials anticipate new demands on Germany and Austria-Hungary and a potential redraw of eastern frontlines.
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Siberia
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Austria
League of Nations
Great Britain
France
Italy
Europe
Germany
Austria-Hungary
State Department
Russia
Wilson
National Council
Congress
Bohemia
Moravia
Galicia
Ihia
Federal intervention looms in Cleveland street car dispute
In Cleveland Ohio the Cleveland Railway Company faces a work stoppage as motormen and conductors threaten to quit at midnight over the hiring of women conductors. Federal Conciliation Commissioner Faulkner reports to Secretary Wilson as Carmen's International Union directs Welch to Lima to mediate. The company warns of the wartime consequences if action escalates.
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Associated Press
Cleveland, O
Cleveland Railway Company
Carmen
A. L. Faulkner
United States
Wilson
John J. Stanley
W. D. Mahon
Detroit
Carmen’s International Union
W. L.welch
International Union
Lima
Welch
Red Cross Prepares Prisoner Aid Warehouses
The American Red Cross Bureau of Prisoners Relief says warehouses have been secured in Copenhagen and two Swiss cities to store food clothing comforts and tobacco for five thousand American prisoners for six months if captured by Germany.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Copenhagen
Denmark
Reneas
Switzerland
American Red Cross Bureau of Prisoners’ Relief
Red Cross
Used Lace Curtains To Bind Wounds In Franco-American Advance
Allied troops near Juvigny captured a German dressing station and rescued two wounded Americans. Amid retreat chaos both sides offered scant care. French lace curtains and crepe paper served as makeshift bandages as wounded were tended.
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Associated Press
France
Juvigny
Sterill Et Sa Mar
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