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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
1
The draft process faces a blow as New Jersey boards shuffle district cards separately, assigning numbers within each district. Crowder and Baker rush to assess implications while confirming the planned federal drawing of master numbers and 1,000 key numbers.
War plans shift to drawing 10 500 straight numbers after Baker and Crowder push new approach. The change aims to prevent unfair district starts and to notify states quickly with four day rollout for 1,374,000 men, hoping at least half qualify to form an army of 687,000.
Baseball scores show Boston defeating Pittsburgh in a 6 to 1 game with Cooper and Fischer leading. Other results list Boston at 12 to 4 and 8 to 2 with Barnes Allen Ragan and Tragessor noted.
Detroit New York match lists scores 6 3 1 with Davis and Stanage. Chicago Boston shows 3 10 0 with Ruth Agnew Williams Wolfgang Schalk. St Louis Washington features 2 5 1 with Johnson Ainsmith Sduthron Severeid.
Reports from Petrograd warn of heavy rioting with five hundred killed or wounded over several days. United States Ambassador David R. Francis narrowly escaped an assassination plot as a bridge was blown near a train. Authorities impose martial law while Lenine, accused German agent, spurs anarchist elements and calls for a capital move back to Moscow.
George C. Tompkins of Philadelphia confessed to shooting Edmund I. Humphries a coal operator, his wife Carrie Humphries, and their fifteen year old son Edmund I. Humphries Jr. on a county road near Carrolltown. He described how he obtained the pistol and his motives.
Francis J. Heney, a San Francisco lawyer, may be appointed to probe alleged food trust practices. His possible assignment follows reports of price manipulation and market control by major distributors. If named, he would lead investigations and report findings to authorities.
Blue jacket John F. Daylor of Brockton says a German submarine was destroyed by a water bomb from a United States battleship on its return voyage from France.
Madison Wisconsin reports Wisconsin guard leaves Saturday for Camp Douglas on July 21. Three Michigan regiments also ordered to Camp Douglas as part of the same mobilization.
Market snapshot across Chicago and Kansas City hogs and cattle with receipts and price ranges. Includes East Buffalo data for hogs cattle and sheep, plus cash grain and produce figures for corn oats eggs and vegetables.
Amsterdam reports the majority Reichstag committee unanimously agrees to push a peace resolution. 221 deputies are expected to vote in favor, despite two dissenting Center and one Liberal member. Paris notes Berlin may propose universal disarmament save for compulsory peace forces.
Washington July 20. Secretary Redfield submitted to the Senate a report defending census bureau population estimates used to set army draft quotas. He said estimates relied on actual registration figures by state and subdistricts and noted big figures in industrial centers due to influx of draft age workers in munition plants. Some senators had claimed northern city populations were padded and southern estimates reduced.
Sixteen suffrage crusaders at Occoquan work house refuse President Wilson's pardon. District Corporation Counsel Syme considers ejecting the pickets or keeping them imprisoned for the balance of their sixty day sentences as Ward Whitaker suggested.
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