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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1917
Page
2
Dispatches from Rome and Berlin report Austro German forces advancing in Northern Italy and forcing Italian retreats near the coast. Berlin claims large Italian captures and 100000 prisoners with 700 guns, while French troops take Fort Maision and 7500 prisoners in a broader breakthrough.
Secretary Baker reports most men in the new National Army eager to go to France and fight. General Sarrail says American landing boosts Allied morale. Sugarman jailed for draft evasion influence. Hurley pledges rapid shipbuilding. Wilson denounces forged exemptions. Pershing under fire while directing actions. Roosevelt seeks to raise a volunteer division with New England governors’ backing.
The delay in announcing exemptions from the draft for federal and domestic shipyard workers is blamed for labor shortages hindering a major shipbuilding program. President Wilson urges support for the food administration economy drive and a $5.5 billion Liberty loan target.
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that general oral betting on horse races is not a violation of laws, reversing a lower court decision. The ruling carries implications for gambling practices and state regulations.
Former Texas governor James B. Ferguson announced plans to edit a weekly journal in Temple Texas. The report cites his move as a shift to literary and public affairs work after a long political career.
Charles H. Ebbets urges a wartime 140 game season with smaller rosters and salary controls. The National Squash Tennis association will hold its tournaments for Red Cross. Pittsburgh defeats Pennsylvania 14 to 6 in a late-score game. Intercollegiate Swimming Association keeps its championships. Thomas Hickey says a new major league circuit is forming with Louisville Indianapolis Toledo and Columbus possibly joining. Miller Huggins signs a two year Yankee manager deal replacing Bill Donovan in New York.
Foreign USA PPOers have destroyed nearly all of the corn crop on the central plateau of Mexico. The German charge d affaires left Costa Rica for New York after Costa Rica severed diplomatic relations in September and the German consul was recalled. Meld Marshal Haig congratulated the Canadians for their good work in France. Births in Germany dropped by 700000 in a year. Under British naval protection 13 million men crossed the seas. Maximilian Harden was forbidden to deliver lectures as his Berlin paper was suppressed for radical utterances. The gunboat Eber in Bahia was set on fire and destroyed by Germans. Tom Longboat, once reported killed, wrote to Marathon manager that he is alive.
Italian forces east of the Isonzo resist Mackensen's advance as the front buckles from Udine to Cormons. German and Austro-Hungarian troops press toward the Adriatic, while Cadorna claims checks on the east and northeast. Britain and France plan swift aid via northern Italy to bolster the eastern front as cabinet crisis narrows.
Kidnapping in Newport and White Caps attack on Dr. Herbert S. Bigeon is reported. Thomas Fortune Ryan marries Cornelia Cuyler in Charlottesville after his first wife’s death. U.S. food control acts curb excessive pricing. Treasury notes second Liberty loan speculation suggests over five billion. American troops in France engage in No Man’s Land with American shells and a direct hit in early action.
Rio de Janeiro reports President Braz proclaims Brazil at war with Germany after chamber vote 149 to 1 and senate approval. Dispatch notes German gunboat Eber to be seized at Bahia. Washington notes lack of formal notice though sentiment shifts regional allies toward action.
Officials estimate leftover funds from the second Liberty loan could finance a third issue. The amount is projected between 500 million and 1.5 billion dollars, with exact figures pending official announcement.
The Clara Mennig, a 3000 ton steel vessel seized by the United States and chartered to Italy, was sunk in the Mediterranean. No lives were lost. The ship was originally German and was homeward from Italy.
Dispatches from Italy suggest telegrams between Count Karl von Luxburg and Berlin show German plans of aggression toward Argentina and Brazil. Rumors circulate though the Argentine government has not confirmed the existence of such dispatches.
At Camp Dix New Jersey election board members from Hudson and Mercer counties supervise a soldier voting booth. About 10,000 Jerseymen are there but likely only 3,000 will vote as ballots require affidavits and authorization papers before mailed home for counting. The army trains with The Star Spangled Banner and a singing plan headed by W Stanley Hawkins to foster morale and national pride.
I A Finkeldey of Girard College urged the South Jersey Schoolmasters Association to support the new physical training statute. He traced Greek rise and fall by body culture while county and regional superintendents extolled training benefits for schools.
Jersey items report Burlington County Firemen's association receiving complaints that drivers hinder fire crews en route to emergencies. Additional notes cover cabbage croat demos, bank deposits after Liberty bonds, cold storage food stocks, missing man homecoming, uniform jitney rates, kerosene use at water works, wage vacancies, a large pear exhibit, evangelist converts, road pledges, nurses' home funding, timber sales, rolling mill plans, Red Cross fundraiser, transit labor shortages, teaching staff shortages, hunting fine, Jersey City recount fund donation.
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