Bandits Kill Two Get 8108 Loot at Chicago Plant
Four armed robbers ambushed two Winslow Bros. payroll messengers outside the 4600 West Harrison plant, killing one worker and fatally wounding another. The bandits fled in a maroon touring car after seizing two money satchels worth about 8100. A survivor amid the express crew provided details as police hunted the attackers.
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Chicago
Winslow Bros., Ornamental Iron and Brass Manufacturers
West
Harrison Street
Corn Exchange National Bank
Winslow
Express Company
Winslow Company
Mereon
May Hurry Peace Queen Wilhelmina Seen as Factor at Hearing
Reports from Holland say Dutch reserve persists over the pope peace note. Some believe both sides may seek Queen Wilhelmina to mediate, a move that could keep the Netherlands aloof for now. The royal family shown includes Queen Wilhelmina Prince Henry and Princess Juliana.
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Holland
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Prince Henry
Juliana
U S Destroyer Sinks German Sub After Boarding Incident
Gulf Port reports Captain Brown says an American destroyer intercepted a German submarine that had surfaced beside a British steamer. The destroyer then destroyed the U boat and four crew members who had boarded the steamer were killed. Germans aboard the steamer were captured and turned over to the destroyer.
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Gulf
William Raymond Brown
Brown
Wilson seeks AG interpretation of wartime price powers
President Wilson asks Attorney General Gregory to define government powers to keep war prices down under existing laws. He focuses on how far the food control and national defense acts can be used.
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Washington
Gregory
Wilson
Anarchy Rampant in Russian Army, Korniloff Says
Moscow August 29 General Korniloff declares anarchy rife within the Russian army describing cold blooded murders of high officials and mass desertion fears. He spoke as the national conference in session here confronted the urgent task ahead.
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Moscow
Korniloff
Red Cross Sends Commission to Serbia for Relief Aid
The American Red Cross war council launches a commission to Serbia to aid refugees on the Macedonian front and relieve privation and disease. Two hundred thousand dollars is allotted to buy medical supplies and other relief items. Commissioner is Cordenie Arnold Severance of St. Paul Minnesota. The task faces widespread displacement and loss across Serbian families.
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Washington
War Council of the American Red Cross
Serbia
War Council
Cordenie Arnold Severance
St. Paul
West Point to graduate 1918 class this week
West Point will graduate 152 cadets from the class of 1918 on Thursday in a second early officer commissioning within five months. The 1917 class had graduated in April, and the 1918 date was advanced from June to August by orders issued last May.
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West Point
N. Y
Military Academy
Army
British Gain on Flanders Front and Italian Advances
British forces push beyond 2000 yards along the St Julien Poelcapelle road in Flanders as German counterattacks near Inverness copse fail. In Italy, Italians push on the Bainsizza plateau and Gorizia front, repelling Austrian counterattacks. Trieste is evacuated by order of the Austrian high command. Russian troops retreat eastward as Germans and Austrians advance in Bukowina. Paris notes French gains at Butte de Souain Arracourt and defense near Vaux Lepalameux.
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Washington
Trieste
Zurich
Corriere d'Italia
Austria
London
Flanders
St. Julien-Poelcapelle
Inverness
Ypres-Menin
Paris
Californie Plateau
Butte de Souain
Arracourt
Szernowitz
Bukowina
Rome
Bainsizza
Gorttz
America Explains War Aims to British Troops in France
London reports that American war aims are being explained to British troops in France by speakers sent by the British government.
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America
London
France
Three Yeggs Fail to Open Strong Box
Three young cracksmen believed to be the Beckner, Ryan culprits visited the Chicago Veterinary College. They bound a on duty veterinarian, tried to open a safe at 2537 State Street, left after failing. They took $16.65 from Dr. H. E. Heron and waved farewell.
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Chicago
Becker, Ryan & Co
S. Halsted Street
Chicago Veterinary College
S. State Street
H. E. Heron
War Certificate Plan Nears Final Approval
Details of the war savings certificate plan are ready for Secretary McAdoo and likely to be announced soon. American certificates may start at $5, with a British style option allowing stamp purchases under $1 at post offices. buyers would paste stamps in a book that is redeemed later for a war savings certificate.
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Washington
McAdoo
Senator Owen Warns Autocracy Is Returning
Senator Owen of Oklahoma in the senate warned that Austria and possibly Germany were moving toward armament cuts. He urged increasing war effort and coordinating nations to oppose Teutonic world domination, claiming autocracy was coming to its senses.
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Subjeet
Senate
Benedict
Owen
Oklahoma
Austria
Germany
Purchasing Board for Army in France Organized
Major General Pershing announces a general purchasing board in Paris with a general purchasing agent at the head. The agent coordinates allied and American agencies and oversees all purchasing agents. Chiefs of each supply department Red Cross and YMCA appoint purchasing and disbursing officers reporting to the agent. Senior service officers form a board under the agent to decide proposed purchases.
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Paris
Pershing
Red Cross
Young Men's Christian Association
General
Aid to rebuild France arrives from Philadelphia
Fourteen members of the American Friends Reconstruction unit, trained at Haverford College, have sailed for France to assist in village rebuilding. A larger group of fifty, including four women, will follow later to work as social workers and help rehabilitate homes and communities.
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Philadelphia
American Friends’ Reconstruction Unit
Haverford College
France
U S Dictator in Food Supplies Echoes in War Policy
Washington reports a broad export embargo tightening controls on meats sugar oils and other commodities to Germany and neutrals. The policy assigns export licenses to the export administration board and aims to prevent gold leakage while ensuring neutral needs without aiding the enemy.
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Washington
lLrita
Germany
Export Administrava Board
Beet sugar producers agree to price limit cutting sugar cost
Washington August 28 the food administration announced an agreement by the country's beet sugar producers to limit the price of their product by about one percent per pound. The notice to the public said the policy should yield a saving of 29 million dollars between now and the first of next year.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Canal Traffic Through Panama Canal Rises in Fiscal Year
Washington reports growth in Panama Canal traffic for the fiscal year. A total of 1,876 vessels passed the canal, compared with 787 previously and 4,088 in 1916. The United States ranked next after Britain in terms of tonnage through the waterway.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Chester Verdin
Caval
Ted States
Explorer Wise Not Starving Returns From Amazon Peril
Daniel M. Wise, explorer reported near starvation near the Amazon headwaters, is alive and en route home. His wife in Williamsport, Pa., has received a letter stating he would leave Peru around August 12.
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Explorer Wise
Williamsport
Daniel M. Wise
Amazon
Peru
VETS PLAN FOR LARGER BODY AT NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT
Veterans of the foreign wars in the United States attend the seventeenth national encampment in New York plan to form a new organization to receive war veterans eligible for membership from the European war. Delegates pass time boating on rivers and harbors near New York.
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United States Veterans of Foreign Wars
New York
Charles Phanzya
Lindenwold
N. J
Ile
England
Winfield Scott
Mexico Seeks US Refund for Veracruz Occupation Duties
Mexico requests the United States refund customs duties collected during the Veracruz occupation. The government estimates the amount at over 1,000,000 in U.S. currency.
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Mexico
Mexico City
United States
Vera Cruz
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Lepalameux
Berlin
Frezenberg
Flanders Front
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