Peace talks closed as US rejects Austro-Hungarian offer
Secretary Lansing sent President Wilsons note to the Swedish minister rejecting the Austrian proposal for secret nonbinding peace talks. Senators Lodge McCumber and Thomas praise the move as a rebuke to German duplicity. House figures voice approval as Allied powers align on defeat of central peaceoffensive aims. Germanys next move remains watched.
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Wilson
Vienna
Foreign Office
Stockholm
Washington
Capitol
Germany
Lodge
Senate
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
United States
McCumber
North Dakota
Thomas
Colorado
House
Fess
Ohio
Republican Congressional Committee
America
Balfour
Great Britain
Austria
British advance near Holnon and Neuve Chapelle gains
British forces reported progress around Holnon Village northwest of St Quentin with a German post west of La Bassee captured. New outposts established northeast of Neuve Chapelle and near Ploegsteert as fighting of a minor character continued northwest of St Quentin. A German raiding party east of Vierstraat was repulsed.
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Associated Press
London
Holnon Village
St. Quentin
Field Marshal Haig
la Bassee
Neuve Chapelle
Ploegsteert
Vierstraat
Weather Fronts and Temperatures Across States
The forecast calls for fair weather in Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia with possible showers in extreme north portions and warmer conditions by Thursday. Temperatures across major stations show highs around the 80s with varying wind and precipitation readings, including notable rain at several locales and a Cincinnati September record comparison from 1918.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
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Winnipeg
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Spokane
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Pomerene Pushes Senate Inquiry Into Campaign Spending
Senator Pomerene introduces a resolution authorizing the Senate Elections Committee to probe campaign expenditures in recent primaries and other states. The move follows Department of Justice investigations into sums spent in New York Illinois Michigan Ohio and West Virginia.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Justice
Senate Elections Committee
Senate
Michigan
Truman H. Newberry
Pomerene
Ohio
Elections Committee
Townsend
White House
Wilson
Henry Ford
New York
Illinois
West Virginia
Lodge
Newberry
Kenyon
Iowa
Congress
Tragedy at Newark Button Plant Fire Kills Ten
A Newark factory fire at the American Button Company killed ten workers, eight girls one boy and a man, as flames trapped them in a top-floor cloakroom. Many others injured. escape routes cut off by burning stairs and a fire escaped blocked by flames.
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Button Plant
Newark
Associated Press
N. J
Button
Frederick W. Goerdes
Election Came High in Newberry Case
Detroit September 17. Truman H. Newberry commander of the Third Army is central to the election case discussed amid wartime politics.
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Newberry
Associated Press
Detroit, Mich
Truman H. Newberry
French Girl Brings Key German Information To Allies
A French woman, under twenty, crossed shell fire and gas to reach American lines in Lorraine and relay critical German positions. She traveled from Soulevre Farm with her mother and brother, who were later rescued unharmed. The family had lived at the farm since it fell to the Germans four years earlier. The Germans tried to hold Soulevre Farm, but American forces drove them back in fierce fighting. The mother and brother were reunited with the girl at headquarters.
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Associated Press
Lorraine
Soulevre Farm
Cardinal Farley Dies in New York Country Home
Cardinal John M. Farley Archbishop of New York died at his country home in Mamaronacke after a relapse of pneumonia. He had been sinking for days with doctors and bishops by his side as prayers were said and the sacrament administered.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
John M. Farley
New York
Bishop Hayes
Monsignor Carroll
Lavelle
Monsignor Mooney
Twenty-Five Soldiers Die In Troop Train Smash
Springfield Mo Sept 17 Twenty five soldiers killed and fifty to sixty wounded when a freight train and a troop train collide head on one mile east of Marshfield Mo on the St Louis and San Francisco line. Wrecking crews and guards worked through the night with censored details and no information on crew fate.
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Springfield
Marshfield
St. Louis
San Francisco
Reign of Terror Reported in Central Russia
State Department dispatches from a neutral country depict Bolshevik rule in central Russia as a brutal campaign of wholesale murder since May. Thousands executed without trial, including officials like Moses Uritzky, with heavy prisons, mass arrests, and suppression of all non Bolshevik press in Moscow.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Cental
Russia
Moses Uritzky
Lenine
Uritzky
Moscow
Bolsheviki
New York Editor Chapin Confesses to Murder of Wife
Charles E Chapin longtime New York Evening World city editor smokes at police HQ and admits shooting his wife after planning death by own action in Washington and Maine He says surrendering now is the honorable act and requests to attend the funeral Chapin is held without bail at Tombs Prison awaiting grand jury action
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Associated Press
New York
Charles E. Chapin
New York Evening World
Chapin
Tombs
McGee
Washington
Maine
Milwaukee
Russel Sage
New York Daily
Gompers Heads American Delegation at Interallied Labor Conference
London hosts representatives from Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Belgium and Greece for the fourth Interallied Labor and Socialist Conference. Samuel Gompers leads American delegates as debate centers on voting rules and American war aims proposals. Ex-Premier Kerensky attends afternoon session amid Russian delegate tensions.
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Associated Press
London
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
Belgium
Greece
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John P. Frey
William Bowen
Gompers
A. F. Kerensky
Kerensky
Arthur Henderson
Labor Party
House of Commons
Bergen
Norway
Henderson
Russia
Altho
American Socialist Party
American Labor Movement
Longuet
Questionnaires Mailed to Draft Registrants in 19 to 36 Group
Washington sept 17 local draft boards ordered by Provost Marshal General Crowder to mail questionaires to all men aged 19 to 36 who registered last Thursday excluding British and Canadian subjects. Ten percent mailed daily. seven days to return with aim three weeks total. About 6 million in 19 to 20 and 32 to 36 groups plus 40,000 new registrants added to rolls.
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Associated Press
Washington
General Crowder
Crowder
Admiral Mayo in England visit marks naval activity tour
Admiral Henry T. Mayo of the American navy arrived in London with his staff for a tour of American activities in European waters, signaling continued naval engagement abroad.
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Associated Press
London
Henry T. Mayo
England
European
Soldier Dies as Camp Sherman Car Crash Kills Indiana Man
Theron Legman of Indiana was killed and Joseph Fields of Ohio injured when the car carrying eight soldiers from Camp Sherman overturned on the Chillicothe pike seven miles south of Circleville Ohio. The other seven occupants were unhurt.
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Associated Press
Circleville, O
Theron Legman
Indiana
Joseph Fields
Ohio
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe Pike
Here
Fay Brought Back for Prison Team
Lieutenant Robert Fay, a convicted German agent who escaped Atlanta federal prison over two years ago and was captured in Spain, has been brought back to the United States and is in Department of Justice custody. He arrived today under guard from New London Connecticut aboard a U S naval vessel. Washington will issue disposition instructions as authorities review the case. Fay claimed Prussian army rank and faced a three year sentence for conspiring to blow up ships leaving New York harbor with a powerful bomb intended to strike a ship’s stern.
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Associated Press
New York
Robert Fay
Atlanta
Spain
Department of Justice
New London
Cenn
Washington
Fay
New York Harbor
Raid in Champagne Forces Prisons Capture West of Maison de Champagne
Paris war office report details artillery activity north of the Aisne and multiple enemy raids repulsed. French troops conducted a raid west of Maison de Champagne and took prisoners, with actions also reported between St Hilaire le Grand Mont Sans Nom and north of Rheims.
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Associated Press
Paris
War Office
Aisne
Champagne
Maison de Champagne
St. Hilaire le Grand
Mont Sans Nom
Rheims
Americans Strike Deep in St Mihiel Victory Air Offensive
American aviators under difficult weather harassed German withdrawal from the deepest part of the salient. Despite ceilings near 1000 feet and dense rain, airmen found and attacked key transport routes between Vigneul les Thiaucourt and St Benoit, wrecking lorries and wagon teams with low passes and bombs.
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France
St. Mihiel
Vigneulles
Thiaucourt
St. Benoit
Allied Air Activity Slows on Lorraine Front as Bombardment Rises
On the Lorraine front Sept 17 the enemy air effort slowed after heavy bombardment of German airfields. Allied pilots dominated eight combats with American and French units sharing missions. Bombers dropped over thirteen tons on Longuyen Dommery Barrencourt and nearby targets as observers noted heavy damage at Conflays.
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Associated Press
Lorraine
Longuyen
Dommery
Barrencourt
Confans
Audun
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Admiral Mayo
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