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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
5
Reports from Paris and Amsterdam indicate a general strike halting work in Budapest with thousands out and a socialist council demanding more food immediate peace police reform and parliament dissolution. Mutinies in Gyor and Pecs led to 2000 condemned to death amid wider Austrian Hungarian unrest.
The libel suit of German Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann against the Deutsche Zeitung in Berlin over Bucharest conduct in April will be heard next week. Witnesses, including chauffeurs, have been summoned as the case centers on claims of misconduct during talks with Count Czernin. Paris reports say von Kuehlmann offered his resignation on Wednesday and the emperor is believed to be expected to accept.
Washington reports heard arguments from commercial travelers representing 600000 salesmen. Gerrit Fort, passenger traffic director of the railroad administration, will consider proposals for a universal mileage book at 2 cents per mile covering 5008 sales.
Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, is named the newest assistant secretary of war in charge of industrial relations. He previously worked seven years in major industry on organization and administration and last year led the department of industrial relations under the quartermaster general.
Seven people are killed and 11 seriously hurt when a Chicago Aurora and Elgin limited train crashes into a concrete loaded motor truck near Elmhurst. The dead include the truck driver Jones of Chicago and Major Robert D. Brooks US Army. Among the injured is Dr. E. S. Higley of Glen Ellyn. The crash followed a stalled truck motor, the train striking the vehicle about a mile south of Elmhurst station. Most victims were residents of Glen Ellyn and Elgin returning from Chicago.
German airmen raided Paris in a Thursday night assault killing eleven people and wounding fourteen as multiple enemy formations sought to breach the city’s defenses. Bombing caused considerable damage before the raid subsided.
Washington reports Germany will send representatives to Berne Switzerland for talks with an American delegation on August 5. The conference will cover exchange and treatment of prisoners of war.
Secretary Baker ordered Major General Hatchford, head of the Panama Department, to assume police control of Panama and Colon to maintain public order.
Washington announces the arrival of the first U S troops in Italy. They are from the Seventy seventh National Army Division raised in New York and were shipped directly from the United States. They have taken a sector on the front.
Senator Warren warns that troop shipments to France will fall as allied contracts expire. The Senate rejected the Fall amendment raising the draft age to twenty to forty, keeping it twenty one to thirty one, paving the way for a 12 billion army bill. Support grows for lower ages and broader army goals. Shipping shortages loom as allied renewals delay transport and supply lines.
Mount Clemens Michigan June 29 Lieut Raymond Templeton Pendleton Oregon and Private Edgar Sawyer Hartford Connecticut of the 130th aero squadron were killed when their aircraft spiraled and crashed 150 feet to the ground. The machine burned and both men were badly burned. Rantoul Illinois June 20 Harold Carothers Noble York Pennsylvania cadet Chanute flying field was killed when he fell near Ludlow five miles north of Rantoul Noble reportedly lost control during a sudden rainstorm.
Announcement states the Evening Telegraph, a long standing Philadelphia afternoon paper, has been purchased by Cyrus H. K. Curtis and will cease publication today. Curtis owns the Evening Public Ledger and other papers.
Chicago dispatches report Anton Zalataris is under arrest in Glendive Montana as a draft slacker and admits being sought in Chicago for a $40,000 theft from the State Bank of Red. Chief Detective Mooney confirms the arrest and ongoing investigation.
Wireless dispatches from Stockholm claim Bolshevik rule in Russia is overthrown with Nicolas Nicholatevitch elected emperor. Lenin and Trotsky reportedly fled. troops and German forces occupy Moscow under Generals worniloff and kvaledines.
London June 29 The premier of Australia at a London chamber luncheon warned the world faces a supreme crisis in the coming weeks with tremendous possibilities ahead. He cited German foreign secretary von Kuhlmann’s speech as admitting the enemy offensive gains were barren and military victory distant, unless victory is achieved politically.
London reports surprise Allied advances at two key German penetration points. British forces push about a mile deep along a 3.5 mile front between Bailleul and Bethune near Nieppe forest. French troops seize heights near St. Pierre Aigle and two long-held positions south of Ameillény and Montgobert while Australian units take posts near Merris with prisoners and machine guns captured.
A boatload of 24 sailors from the Dwinsk, sunk by a submarine, were landed by a fishing vessel at Shelburne Nova Scotia. They had drifted eight days about 60 miles south of Sea Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, surviving on a small amount of food and water.
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