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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
1
July 23 report describes American officers sent to trench and British schools in France for modern warfare training. Chaplains spoke to troops urging manly conduct and harmony with locals. A rest day featured a baseball game while war reporters prepare a vaccination and arrival at a château near headquarters.
Prris reports a general French hold on the Aisne front Craonne to Vauclerc as German troops assault. The war office notes heavy German casualties. Flanders artillery activity rises. some Winterburg trenches captured and later abandoned. London reports raids opposite Gavrelle and north of Ypres with increased enemy artillery northwest of St Quentin and southwest of Lens.
In Columbus New Mexico 1168 men deported from Bisbee Arizona have been detained in a military camp and voted unanimously to remain there while awaiting further federal government action.
Russia imported 545.853 million dollars worth of goods in 1916 according to U S government statistics. The United Kingdom and United States were major suppliers with Japan showing a 4735 percent rise since 1913. War related materials dominated the import list and freight congestion grew at Archangel port.
Baseball scores from Detroit St Louis Cleveland and Chicago games show multiple matchups. Detroits 7 runs beat New Yorks 2 in a high scoring affair with Boland Stanage and Caldwell Walters contributing. St Louis edged Washington 7 to 4 in a pitchers duel. In a second Washington routed St Louis 5 to 4. Cleveland defeated Philadelphia 7 to 6 in a tight game while Philadelphia dropped to 6 to 4 in another. Chicago beat Boston 4 to 1 behind strong pitching and timely hitting with Mays Bader Agnew and Thomas in the lineup.
German air fleet raided the English coast with anti aircraft guns forcing part of the formation to retreat and the rest to move south along the Essex coast. Bombs fell on Felixstowe and Harwich causing eight deaths and twenty five injuries. Royal air patrols chased the attackers into the sea amid low visibility.
In Limerick on July 20 the Sinn Fein Organ factionist publication was suppressed after police seized the printing plant and equipment. The action targets months of publication attributed to the group in Ireland.
A sanitary organization under the Illinois department of health will cooperate with federal health authorities to maintain camp sanitation at Camp Grant Rockford. The plan follows a conference with Dr Julius Ola Cobb of Chicago and Professor Earle B Phelps of Washington representing the U S Public Health Service.
Indianapolis July 21. The highest conscription number in the state is 6 558 assigned to Roda Saula an Austrian of East Chicago Saula however will not be called upon to serve in any of the armies of this country He has a wife and four children.
Champaign Illinois July 23 John Scandon seventy one years old arrested in Urbana while distributing courtplaster placed in county jail suspected of being a tool of the German government in a plot to spread disease He is held by order of a Department of Justice agent pending analysis of the plasters and papers found on his person written in German
Billy Williamson 20 year old Purdue basketball star drowned while swimming at a Purdue hosted beach in Lafayette Indiana. Williamson and other athletes were at the Wabash river site with Theodore Paulson Purdue swimming and wrestling coach. The body was not recovered.
Governor M H Holcomb orders reprieve for Mrs Gilligan in Connecticut while awaiting further clemency review. The action pauses any immediate execution or further judicial steps, signaling official consideration of the case.
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes rises to first lord of the British admiralty aided by training in the engineering and construction department of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. His discovery by Lord Kitchener helped his career.
Petrograd reports a dire proclamation from the provisional government about treason at home and crushing losses in Galicia. The Austro German advance breaches the Galician line eight miles wide and ten miles deep, Tarnopol burns, and prisoners flood the ranks while Premier Kerensky hurriedly takes the field. The Kaiser moves toward Galicia as the government pledges an August Allied conference to coordinate foreign policy.
War office reports a British advance northwest of St Quentin and south of Lens with patrols favorable. The move pushes the line slightly southeast of Monchy le Preux as hostile artillery activity continues near Lens and Armentieres.
The draft is now in the hands of the states with 50,127 master sheets mailed to 4,557 local boards. Exemptions will be supervised by federal authorities while states report quotas first. General Crowder predicts honor to the state quickest to report ready as civilian boards form soldiers and appellate boards handle appeals.
Samuel Sanjines of New Orleans, number 258 in a draft lottery, telegraphed Secretary Baker that being the first drawn is an honor. Though not an American citizen and not naturalized, he offers to fight for freedom and democracy in the war effort.
Indiana state entomologist and chief bee inspector Frank N. Wallace was stung on the ankle while inspecting bees on his brother’s Morgan county farm. He had argued against unnecessary precautions before a bee swarm overwhelmed his low shoe, giving him a ringworm like appearance.
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