Senate approves broad draft bill with work or fight clause
The Senate passed a manpower bill drafting men aged eighteen to forty five with a modified work or fight clause. All efforts to raise the minimum age or to exempt youths under twenty-one failed, sending the measure to conference. Senator Gore was the lone negative vote after withdrawing his roll call.
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Mek Kellar
Tennessee
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Iowa
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Arkaansas
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Fall of
New Mexico
Rear Admiral W. S. Smith Serves on Naval Consulting Board
Rear Admiral William Strother Smith, recently promoted, is on duty at the navy department with the naval consulting board.
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William Strother Smith
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Naval Consulting Board
Germans Flee Somme Front as Allies Reach 39 Villages
Paris reports German retirement in Picardy’s Somme area with stores abandoned. German forces retreat precipitously, losing contact with pursuers as Allied advances widen. French First and Third armies struggle to maintain contact with rear guards.
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Japs Defeat Bolsheviki On Ussuri Front
Japanese forces concentrate on the Ussuri line as Enge Neuka sailors with armored cars attack Bolsheviks amid heavy shelling and rout them. Trans-Baikal fronts shift as Semenoff’s forces withdraw after Japanese arrival in Manchuria. about eight thousand Bolsheviks left in the region.
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Sub chaser sunk after misidentification off Fire Island
American submarine chaser No 209 based in Philadelphia was mistaken for an enemy sub by the Felix Taussig off Fire Island early Tuesday. Seventeen crewmen including the commander and executive officer are missing. eight survivors, some wounded, have reached New York and Lewes Delaware. The incident follows another report of a patrol boat sunk by a merchant steamer 15 miles off Fire Island with eighteen crew lost and eight injured.
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Claude Wild
Clarence Sk. Evans
R. A. Corcoran
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Elmer&. Kirby
Claude Whalney
Charles N. Thomas
George B. Weigand
Felix Taussig
United States
British Troops Capture Trones Woods North of Somme
British forces report further success north of the Somme as they complete the capture of Trones Woods and establish position there.
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Trones Woods
French Troops Capture Chaulnes Amid Offensive
Paris reports Chaulnes has fallen to French forces in a major battle as Allied operations press the German front. The capture marks a significant strategic gain in the ongoing campaign.
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Chaulnes
French advance and railway hub in Picardy sector
Col Arthur Lynch forces seize control of a major railroad center described as a key distributing point. In the south Picardy sector French troops pushed forward more than seven miles as part of ongoing operations.
British Capture Fouchaicour South of Somme
General Haig reports continued British advances in Picardy with the capture of the fortified town Fouchaicour south of the Somme and other positions as attacks press on.
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Clash on the border reports Nogales firefight
El Paso reports that American soldiers and Mexicans fought in Nogales across the border for about two hours. Lieut Harmon among wounded. hundreds took part, sharpshooters fired from rooftops. Mexican side hoisted a truce flag but firing continued. one civilian, Gaston Reddock, wounded. General Cabell to investigate the border clash.
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de Rosey Cabell
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Gaston Reddock
Ford trails in St Clair primary as Newberry leads
Returns from nine precincts in St Clair county show Republican Newberry with 403 votes and Ford 167, Simpson 22, Osborn 92, while Democratic Ford has 83 and Helme 9. Early tallies suggest light voting and Ford trailing, with Osborn challenging for second place. overall turnout likely under 200000. Chicago reports Mrs Allinson questioned by federal agents over her role in the Chicago Woman's Peace party and warned to stay within espionage act bounds or face dissolution.
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Francis Borelli
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Federal highway rules for war period take effect
The United States highways council released regulations to govern highway and street work during the war, effective September 10. Federal approval is required for nearly all highway construction and no material will be supplied until projects receive council approval.
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United States Highway Council
Ambassador Page Resigns Over Ill Health
Walter Hines Page of Garden City New York resigns as United States ambassador to Great Britain due to ill health. President Wilson has accepted the resignation. Page has been in poor health for months from war work strain and will return to America with Mrs Page after a two month vacation earlier this summer.
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Great Britain
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London
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America
Propaganda Drops Reported Over Agram
Austrian advices state Italian airplanes recently dropped propaganda manifestos on Agram the capital of Slavonia and Croatia. the event was reported today from Berne.
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Slavonia
Croatia
Sinking of Four Fishing Schooners Off Miquelon Reported
Reports to the navy department said a German submarine sank four fishing schooners off Point Platts Miquelon named Maurice B Adams M M Walters J J Flaherty and Fr B Walters Most crews except B Walters have landed and are heading to St Pierre Miquelon Gloucester Massachusetts also reported the J J Flaherty sunk by a submarine with 24 men landing safely at St Pierre Miquelon
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J. J. Flaherty
Charles T. Gregory
St. Pierre Miquelon
Baseball results from Tuesday leagues and scores
National League games include Pittsburgh 6 Philadelphia 2 and Boston Cincinnati not played due to wet grounds. American League scores show Boston 1 Detroit 2, Philadelphia 6 Cleveland 8, New York 4-7, St Louis 2-6, with Chicago Washington action noted as played Sunday.
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Yanks Attack at Bazoches Fismes Front in August Skirmish
American forces attacked Bazoches three miles west of Fismes while German units pushed at Fismette northwest of Fismes. Fighting raged on the Bazoches outskirts with Americans holding the upper hand as German bombardment and air raids targeted Fismette roofs.
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Huns py plot revealed in federal indictment
San Francisco reports that Allardt Muench Kurt Brunner and Edward Michael Zacho face federal grand jury charges over a spy conspiracy stretching from Russia to the United States. Investigators say Muench arrived from China in 1917 and carried papers valuable to Germany. Zacho, once with Muench, was not arrested then.
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Bernstorff
Edward Michael Zacho
Department of Justice
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United States
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Zacho
Red Cross bathhouse shelled killing Belgians
Details from Washington report the shelling of an American Red Cross bathhouse serving Belgian soldiers near the front. Twenty three Belgians killed and about sixty injured as large shells struck the laundry and fumigating plant, destroying all three buildings and scattering fragments across the street. A soldier brought in an arm found in a vacant lot.
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Roosevelt wins cross for Mesopotamia services
London reports the award of the Military Cross to temporary and honorary Captain Ken Roosevelt, son of Colonel West, for services in Mesopotamia. He joined American forces in France after serving with the British Army in Mesopotamia on special duty.
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