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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1917
Page
1
Paris June 4 Santos Dumont the Brazilian aviator has invented a powerful seaplane for fighting submarines. The Turin dispatch says the machine will be manufactured in the United States.
Paris reports the food question growing worse as cabinet orders sacrifices. No pastry or crackers except for the army, no refined flour, and bran to be left in mills. Wheat price controls backfire, butter prices rise, and farmers shift to oats and barley. Experts say decrees cannot reliably fix prices or supply.
Paris reports the German army pushed into French advanced positions near Froidmont after violent fighting to the northwest. An attack around 10 p m enabled a breach in our lines, signaling a tactical shift amid ongoing production and supply concerns.
In New York on June 4 the sixty eighth annual meeting of the American Medical Association began with about seven thousand physicians and surgeons in attendance. The event features twenty six programs, extensive clinics, and demonstrations by leading specialists. Major exhibits include Columbia University war hospital and federal immigration and quarantine stations, with focus on infant care, food safety, occupational diseases, and medical advances in wartime readiness.
Professor Jensen of Elko High School will assist at the University of California for seven weeks in a summer officers training camp. He will command a company during the period but remains to return after the camp ends. The high school board granted leave for Thursday, acknowledging absence from commencements.
The American Medical Association, formed here in May 1846 with permanent organization adopted in Philadelphia the following year, now counts about 70 000 members. Regular meetings with discussions and addresses are planned for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
A Syrian refugee family arrives in Cairo after fleeing Turkish territory aboard a home built boat. They describe a perilous journey with constant baling as the vessel stayed afloat. The report notes population declines in Jerusalem and northern Lebanon villages, Syria’s 26 percent crop yield, and bread prices in Beirut. Miss Vivian Rickey, visiting from San Francisco, stays with Miss Collie Russell after childhood ties in the area.
Washington reports the War Department plans to draft from nine hundred thousand to a million and a half of the ten million men registering tomorrow for the new army. Exemptions may cut enlistment needs to six hundred twenty five thousand for immediate service. Crowder told the Senate committee that no class exemptions are planned, though farmers and factory workers may be exempted at officials' discretion. All draftees would enter training camps by September, with selection beginning within two weeks after registration.
The Gaiety theater announces new lower prices starting tonight with five cents for children and 15 cents for adults on weekdays and five cents for children 25 cents for adults on Sundays. The program lineup features exclusive Triangle Fine Arts plays and Keystone comedies nightly, with Dorothy Gish in The Little Yank and Love Under Cover as a starter. The full orchestra continues as a feature and the schedule rotates on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and Sundays.
Off Tehaantepec on May 31 a Mexican gunboat crew boarded the American schooner Arcas at sea. The Americans were looted of clothing fishing gear and a medicine chest. Captain McDonald of the Arcas reported the incident at Galveston.
Denver reports the body of Colonel William F Cody known as Buffalo Bill was moved to a rock vault at Wildcat Point Lookout Mountain. The funeral was simple with Masonic rites by Golden City Lodge and a Knights Templar escort. The vault sits in a memorial building dedicated to America’s pioneers with a granite terrace and a bronze equestrian statue planned.
Kronstadt garrison sailors, declaring independence from the central government, arrive in Petrograd promising warship landings and a demonstration. Rumors of a Gutuyoff island attack prove false as Petrograd residents await action. Sailors later demand the former czar be delivered into their custody.
Attorney General Gregory warned against evading the draft registration set for tomorrow and against inducing others to evade it. He expected a few refusals in each district but anticipated no force would be used to block the registration, adding that the department will prosecute all evaders.
President Wilson's war arms message to the new Russian government has been delivered at Petrograd and will not be published in this country for a day or two.
In Savannah Georgia on June 4 a shark attack near shore injures Wallace J. Pierpont Jr, son of the city mayor, as residents fear a repeat of last summer's shark activity in nearby waters.
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