Trade Control Decrees Create Global Censorship Board
President Wilson issues sweeping Trading with the Enemy Act regulations creating the widest wartime control. The plan empowers Hurley and McCormick to cut trade with Germany and its allies, supervise foreign exchange, license all enemy dealings, censor mail and foreign publications, and extend powers to seize enemy property and regulate imports and exports. The censorship board includes top war and information officials to oversee communications.
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Washington
Wilbon
United States
Germany
H. W. Hurley
Chicago
Vance McCormick
Harrisburg
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretaries of War and the
Navy
War Trade Board
Committee On Public Information
Federal Trade Commission
West
Postmaster General
Secretary of State
Secretary of Commerce
Attorney General
Parson Shoots In Hammond Courtroom Killing Rival
In Hammond Indiana Oct 11 an itinerant preacher Oscar Landmeisser shot and killed Fred Baynes and wounded a policewoman and a bystander Miss Adeline Hartman in a crowded city courtroom. Landmeisser was shot twice by court officers and jailed after the attack following a prior warning from Judge Fred Barnett.
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Hammond
Ind
Fred Baynes
Indiana Harbor
Adeline Hartman
Fred Barnett
Clyde Cleveland
Oscar Landmeisser
Landmeisser
Calnmet
Mascntine
Miss Hartman
Land Meisser
Barnett
US Indicts 18 for Plots In 1915 Bombings
New York October 12 U S prosecutors indict Franz von Papen former German embassy attache and 17 others in a grand jury action for plots including placing bombs on the Lusitania and other ships in 1915 Assistant U S Attorney James W Osborne presented the evidence after arrests of three conspirators Nine bombs labeled T N Ti and called Olgora were set aboard the Lusitania before its final voyage in March 1915.
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New York
Franz von Papen
Washington
Io Europe
United States
James W. Osborne
Olgora
Liberty Day Proclaimed for October 24 by Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson designates October 24 as Liberty Day urging nationwide unity in the second Liberty loan drive. All federal employees receive a half holiday as communities gather to pledge support and bolster war finance through patriotic meetings under treasury and reserve bank guidance.
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Washington
United States
Woodrow Wilsen
United States of America
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
East St. Louis Rioters Found Guilty in First Trials
Belleville Illinois October 18 the first white men to go to trial on charges from the East St Louis riots last July were convicted by a circuit court jury after a two hour deliberation. Herbert Wood and Leo Keane received indefinite sentences with a maximum of fourteen years for the murder of Scott Clark a negro. Ten negro defendants were sentenced last week under similar terms.
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Belleville
East St. Louis
Herbert Wood
Leo Keane
Scott Clark
Wallace Given Long Term Prison Sentence
Davenport Oct 12 Daniel G Wallace organizer and president of the League of Humanity pacifist society was sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage act violations by Federal Judge M J Wade after his conviction by a jury. The jury verdict came within half an hour.
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Davenport, In
Daniel G. Wallace
League of Humanity
Pacifist Society
M. J. Wade
Wallace
Kaiser’s Minister of Marine resigns amid plot claims
Amsterdam reports Vice Admiral von Capelle, long-time minister of the navy, resigned after declaring a navy plot to paralyze fleet efficiency and force peace. He described attempts to desert to the Russians and cited insubordination across six grand fleet units, raising questions about discipline and loyalty amidst stalled Baltic operations.
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Amsterdam
von Capelle
Ing
Reichstag
Germany
Baltic
Russia
Germans Force Russians Back On Oesel Island Action
Russian and German forces clash on Oesel Island in the Gulf of Riga with Germans advancing toward Avensburg. Russians still hold Serel point and Svord peninsula as four German destroyers are lost to shore batteries and a cruiser runs aground.
Clerical: Clark fatally injures wife officer in Danville
Danville Virginia October 13 Welter Clark a Black man fatally harmed his wife at their home and barricaded himself inside. He fatally wounded Policeman McRae who tried to arrest him and likely fatally injured Deputy Sheriff Bolsseau before being shot as he tried to escape. Andrew K Perkinogon and William Wells were wounded in the fusillade and taken to a hospital as was Bolsseau.
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Danville
Porter Kills Brother in Sorghum Mill Dispute
Oct 18. Emmett Porter shot and killed his brother Hamlet Porter during a dispute over a sorghum mill in Ackerman. The slayer is under arrest.
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Ackerman
Misa
Emmett Porter
Hanbert Porter
All Staple Food Under U S Rule After Nov 1
Washington reports a presidential proclamation extending government food control to license after November 1 the manufacture storage importation and distribution of about twenty staple commodities. Exemptions apply to many small dealers and farmers. The order targets preventing profiteering hoarding and speculation and lists key items from wheat to sugar and dairy products with licenses required for operators importers manufacturers and certain retailers and carriers.
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Washington
Wilson
Food Administration
Food Control Aw
Seven Die When Auto Is Struck by Train Near Detroit
Detroit authorities report seven people killed when an automobile driven by Joseph J. Pohl was struck by a Michigan Central passenger train at Bartsly crossing twelve miles north of Detroit. The victims include Mrs. Joseph J. Pohl, Mrs. George Harvey, Mary Pohl, Thomas Pohl, Ralph Tharvey, and Helen Harvey, all residents of Detroit, who were returning from a country drive.
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Detroit
Mich
Joseph J. Pohl
Michigan Central
Bartsly Crossing
George Harvey
Pohl
Mary Pohl
Thomas Pohl
U of M Fires German-Listed Professor Karl Eggert
University of Michigan regents dismiss Karl Eggert from the German department amid a long inquiry charging unpatriotic and seditious classroom conduct. In Battle Creek, Michigan Soldiers Aid Loan reports $206,050 subscribed to the Liberty Loan by Camp Custer soldiers.
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Regents
University of Michigan
Karl Eggert
Ann Arbor
Mich
Michigan
Battle Creek
Custer
Have
Liberty
White Sox Hammer Giants In Fifth Game Thriller
Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Giants 8 to 5 at Comiskey Park in the fifth game of the World Series, taking a 3-2 lead. A wild nine-hit rally in the final three innings, aided by Slim Sallee’s mound fade, turned a Giants victory bid into a Sox triumph as 27,000 fans roared their relief and disbelief.
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Chicago
Chicago White Sox
Giants
Comiskey Park
Sox
White Sox
New York
Lefty Russell
Cicotte
Slim Sallee
Perritt
Giants Blank White Sox in Game Four at Polo Grounds
Giants pitcher dominance limited White Sox to three runs in two pitchers limited effort. Benny Kauff delivered two homers driving a 5 to 0 win before 27,746 at the Polo Grounds.
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Kauff
Welsch
Fletcher
Gandil
Cleotte
Burns
Holke
Sallea
Wil Yems
Sallae
Salles
J. Collings
Lynn
Naber
Herzog
Russell
Cicotte
Williams
OM Russell
Balles
McMullin
B. Collins
Giants
Umphea—O'loughlin
Kiem
Biglar
Hyate
Polo Grounds
Rowland
White Sox
Eddie Cleotta
Urban Faber
Benny Kauff
Taber
Navy chief Mayo returns from naval conference in England
Admiral Mayo commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet and his staff return from England where they attended a naval conference with the allies. Navy department authorized the announcement.
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Mayo
Alfied Parley
Washington
Admiral Mayo
England
Navy Department
Luck and superstition in a candid mood
A brief exchange questions luck and superstition. One speaker notes belief in luck varies among men, but none will admit to being lucky, ending with pondering the difference between luck and skill.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Then Air Defense Details
An old advert promises $1000 for incurable catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine sold by B J Chenny & Co. Toledo Ohio. The piece then shifts to a wartime note on air defense with anti aircraft guns on fast cars tracking enemy planes and zeppelins, citing historical uses and a Scribner's Magazine excerpt by Carrold Dana Winslow.
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Hall
B. J. Chenny & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Compeigne
Revigny
Carrold Dana Winslow
Scribner's Magazine
Notable Heiress Praises Soldiers as Creditors Dwindle
An American heiress remarks that some foreign nobles behaved gallantly in the trenches and that after proving himself a hero a man may find public opinion forgiving. She notes the fewer creditors a man has, the easier it is for him to face the world.
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Rest of World
Her Alles
U. S
Capt. von Papen
Lusitania
Admiral von Capelle
Wilhelmshaven
E. ST. Louis
Davenport, Ia
Kaiser’s. Minister OF Marine
Admiral Capelle
Petrograd
Teutons
Gulf of Riga
Sir Stanley Maude
Mesopotamia
U.S
U. OF M
QOX
Comiskey
Firth
R. Flp.o.a
Collins
E. Collins
Coed Jackson
Felsch
Fello Gandit
Weaver
S Schall
Rishery Cicotte
xLyi Williams
Tattepe “ Faber
Dulchey Ve Penrcensae Tote
Willams
Glante
R. Hpo
Burny
Ayer Herzog
Zimmerman
Bandsss Kaulf
Thorpe
Robertson
Rariden
Babe
Perrit
Innimus
Doan
Harry A. Lyon
St William St. S
Boston
Mass
Serame
U. 8
Kleonse
Cutter Laboratory
Berkétey
Cal. Chicago
Parker
Dr. Nardino
Famvane Medicacco,, Inc
Mmlnsuy City
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