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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1917
Page
5
Nineteen men perished in a Paterson New Jersey blaze at the Salvation Army Rescue Mission with eighty five asleep inside. Eighteen burned before rescuers reached them while others died in a stairway stampede or leaping from windows. Fire officials delayed due to locating the building and a rear fire escape proved useless during the panic.
French forces push toward the Germans beyond the Chemin des Dames and reach the southern Ailette bank. About eighteen square miles of territory fall to the French since Saturday amid cautious advances and discovered German trenches and empty fronts after routine patrols.
The British admiralty states in London that in the Cattegat area ten armed patrol craft and a German auxiliary cruiser armed with six inch guns were destroyed. Sixty four prisoners were saved and no British losses recorded. Separate reports confirm the German raider Crocodile and five armed trawlers sinking near Danish steamers sighting flames.
Kenneth Proctor Littauer, an American newspaper man turned aviator, flies with the Franco-Belgian escadrille and has been decorated by King Albert of Belgium with the order of Leopold II and the rank of chevalier. He formerly wrote for metropolitan dailies in London and Paris and won the French war cross for flying and distinguished battery spotting.
The fuel administration reports a brighter coal outlook with 10 percent more anthracite production than 1916 and cites redistribution steps if shortages arise from hoarding. Eight months into the year show sizable excess shipments to New York Philadelphia New England and Washington, while Northwest supply improves as Lake Erie shipments continue. Shipments to hoarding plants will be halted.
Chicago officials report thousands of tons of vegetables dumped near West Chicago yards after being bought and resold, with cars emptied and decayed produce discarded. Illinois food administrator Wheeler says grand jury and federal prosecutions will follow proof of wanton destruction. State's Attorney Hadley and police investigated 18 carloads of potatoes and other produce dumped or condemned along Northwestern tracks.
The war office says Teutonic attempts at fraternization met mixed reactions on the Russian front. There was fraternizing in the Dvinsk region, while patrols near Buzeo fired on approaching proclamations and drove them away. No major operations occurred.
Chicago, Nov 5 Twenty five of thirty four indictments by the federal grand jury charge men with refusing to report for duty in the new National army or with failure to register.
A wide set of football scores from colleges and military camps across the region. Notable results include Michigan defeating Kalamazoo 62 to 0 and Northwestern beating Purdue 12 to 6, with Army edging Notre Dame 7 to 2 in the East. Also reported are suspensions within Hoboken Elks of Walter F. Ahrling and William D. Bindewald for canceling and failing to participate in the Liberty Day parade.
Italian war office reports strong enemy assaults in the Giudicaria zone targeting Daone and Giumell valleys near the Trentino front. After long artillery prep the attacks were repulsed with few prisoners taken. Allied artillery duel along the Tagliamento continues with Italian counter measures. Two German aircraft were downed at Oderzo and Codroppo.
Corporal Everett Buckley of the Lafayette flying corps is alive and a prisoner in Germany, not dead as previously believed. Reports had Buckley shot down near the German lines, with Kilbourne Illinois Corporal Buckley misidentified. Sergeant Ray Bridgman of Chicago and Sergeant Henry S. Jones of New York engaged two German biplanes, their dogfight lasting 15 minutes, both exhausting ammunition and driving the foes back.
Washington reports the second Liberty loan attracted more than ten million subscribers. The figure comes from an official source and follows the first loan which had just over four million subscribers.
In the Skagerrak strait the British destroyers carried out another cleanup of German naval forces in Scandinavian waters. Wounded German crewmen were landed at Isinore Denmark from a German auxiliary cruiser sunk in the North Sea.
Washington November 2 the war industries board priority committee ordered seven western railroads serving coal mines in tah and Wyoming to supply daily all or as many empty box and single deck stock cars moving west or northwest as needed to transport coal ready for shipment west and northest according to the direction in which such cars are being moved
Roland B Molineaux once tied to the Molineaux murder case died in a Long Island hospital. He faced arrest after Mrs Kate Adams died from poison in a headache powder said to be sent as a Christmas gift to H Cornish. He was convicted at Sing Sing, later acquitted on retrial, and his wife Blanche Chesebrough divorced him.
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