War Revenue Bill Advances in House to Pass by Friday
The House approved most principal tax provisions of the new war revenue bill including excess profits taxes, estates, transportation and amusement taxes, excises, beverages and tobacco levies. Debate over luxury taxes continued. cotton tax and child labor levy faced opposition and were deferred for tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
and Means Committee
Platt
New York
Moore
Pennsylvania
Green
Town
Ways and Means Committee of the House
Wood
Indiana
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
British Forces Break Through In St Quentin Front
British and French forces gain ground along a six mile front near St. Quentin as the British advance with raids on Epehy Roussoy and Villeret. Reports say over 3 000 prisoners were taken with Australians and Bavarians engaging in heavy combat amid rain and difficult terrain.
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Associated Press
Paris
St. Quentin
War Office
France
Hindenburg Line
Hindenburg
Holnon
Gauzeaucourt
Peiziere
Templex-le-Guerard
Epehy
Roussoy
Villeret
Map
Alpine Corps
Weather summary across states with temperatures and forecasts
Ohio and Indiana show fair conditions on Thursday with slight warming in the northwest and showers shifting to Friday. Kentucky experiences fair Thursday, followed by showers and cooler temperatures at night or Friday. West Virginia remains fair Thursday with possible Friday showers. A table lists station readings for high and low temperatures and precipitation across Kansas City Omaha Galveston Nashville and more with Cincinnati noting a September 18 1918 record at 7 p.m. local time.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Kansas City
Ieee
Omaha Donce
Galveston
Denver
Lpaniel
Nashville
Gas
San Franciscos
Ss. Ste. Marie
Winnipeg Vous
Cincinnati
S.W
Basis of Eight Hour Day Set by War Labor Board
Frank P. Walsh announced Justice Walter Clark's decision directing molders to work more than eight hours only in emergencies. A permanent four member committee, two employees and two employers, must concur to declare an emergency. The ruling becomes the War Labor Board standard for future disputes.
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Justice Clark
War Labor Board
Walsh
Fourteen Die in Marshfield Rail Wreck in Missouri
Springfield dispatch reports a head-on collision between a freight train and a troop train near Marshfield Missouri. DoJ and Railroad Administration opened a federal inquiry with a coroner's inquest planned for tomorrow. Official counts vary with fourteen dead and forty five injured cited by railroad officials.
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Associated Press
Springfield
St. Louis
San Francisco
Marshfield
Department of Justice
Railroad Administration
War Department
Clemenceau’s Senate Address Demands Just Peace for Future
Paris reports Clemenceau declares we will fight until the enemy admits bargaining crime and right is impossible. He seeks a just strong peace to shield the future from past abominations and praises allied troops. French, British and American leaders are seen as united against conceding to central powers.
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Associated Press
Paris
Premier Clemenceau
Senate
Tribune
M. Clemenceau
Germany
Pacific Fransey
France
Clemenceau
Arthur J. Balfour
Wilson
Balfour
Plane catches fire in flight near Leaside Camp
Cadet Henry C. Saunders of Prin, Ontario, died after his plane caught fire while flying above 10,000 feet near Leaside Camp yesterday. The Toronto dispatch reports Saunders was burned to death in the incident.
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Associated Press
Toronto
Ont
Leaside Camp
Henry C. Saunders
Saunders
Prin, Ont
Refugees From Russia Reach Haparanda
Stockholm Sept 18 Another party of refugees from Russia totaling about 500 people arrived yesterday at Haparanda They included 60 American and British civilians and 400 Italian soldiers and officers arriving with them.
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Stockholm
Russia
Haparada
Army program seeks 4.8 million soldiers with seven billion funding
Washington reports General March outlining an enlarged military plan to reach 4.8 million armed forces by next July after casualties. The proposal calls for 2.7 million new draftees, with total cash appropriations of 7 billion dollars, plus 23.317 million for draft classification and related work.
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March
House Appropriations Committee
General March
Sherley
Congress
Crowder
Disclaimers Amid Austrian Peace Proposal Doubts
Washington reports Germany knew Austria planned nonbinding peace talks and favored the move. Officials see the 1916 effort as a blueprint and note Pope involvement and neutral state notifications. Reactions from other co belligerents remain to be heard.
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Associated Press
Washington
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Bulgaria
Berlin
State Department
Barton Smith Re-Elected Scottish Rite Commander
Barton Smith of Toledo Ohio was re elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction at the annual meeting in Boston. Leon M Abbott of Boston was re elected Grand Lieutenant Commander and Amos Pettibone of Chicago was named Grand Minister of State.
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Associated Press
Boston
Barton Smith
Toledo
Supreme Council of the Scottish Rites
Leon M. Abbott
Amos Pettibone
Chicago
Soukhomlinoff Shot at Petrograd Former War Minister
General Soukhomlinoff, once Russia's War Minister from 1909 to 1915, was shot at Petrograd. He was later sentenced by a military court on Sept 26, 1917, to life hard labor for high treason fraud and abuse of confidence. His wife Mme Soukhomlinoir was acquitted.
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Associated Press
London
Soukhomlinoff
Gopresmert
Can
Viena
Exchange Telegraph Company
Petragram
Mme. Soukhomlinoir
War War Conciliators Named to End Labor Disputes
Labor Department appoints Conciliation Commissioners to settle strikes at Colt Firearms Billings & Spender in Bridgeport Savage Arms in Philadelphia shipyards in Los Angeles leather plants in Soo Kinlock Telephone in St. Louis and disputes at Sandusky Wellington Grand Rapids Salida and with American Metals Company.
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Associated Press
Washington
Commissioners of
Department of Labor
Colt Firearms Company
Billings & Spender
Bridgeport
Conn
Savage Arms Company
Philadelphia
Soo
Mich
Kinlock Telephone Company
St. Louis
Sandusky and
Wellington
Grand Rapids
American Metals Company, Limited
Salida
Col
Funeral of Cardinal Farley to be held at St Patrick's Cathedral
New York reports the funeral of Cardinal John M. Farley will occur next Tuesday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral after a 10 o’clock public ceremony. The body will lie in state in the cathedral crypt with clergy and religious orders present. A requiem mass and devotions follow, including a cortege passing parochial schools to the cathedral.
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Associated Press
New York
John M. Farley
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal McCloskey
Hughes
Corrigan
Mamaroneck
N. Y
John J. O’connor
Newark
N. J
Traitorous Bolshevik Plot Details From Soviet Documents
Washington reports reveal secret Russian documents showing German backed schemes to suppress Rumanians Russians and Poles during Brest Litovsk talks. Bolshevik leaders Lenine Trotzky and associates allegedly sold to Germany for gold to overthrow Russia and disrupt Romania. Notes cover plans to shoot Polish troops and surveil Polish clergy as part of a larger western front offensive.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sept
Rumania
Germany
Russia
Brest- Litovsk
Edgar Sisson
Freight Traffic on Interurban Railways eyed for freight use
C S Lake of the Federal Railroad Administration pressed for a Washington conference with Director General McAdoo as he returned from Ohio after a 1000 mile tour. He urges interurban lines to haul freight in less than car loads to ease steam railroad congestion and yard backlog in Ohio towns.
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Afkibune Bureau
Munsey Building
Washington
Ohio
McAdoo
C. S. Lake
Federal Railroad Administration
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