Draft Resistance Crackdown Sweeps Oklahoma and Nation
Oklahoma City reports a large manhunt for draft resisters in southeastern Oklahoma with estimates of 500 to 600 Working Class Union members in custody. Trials will begin in McAlester, with conspiracy and treason charges and possible death penalty. Dozens more arrested. DOJ agents operate in Seminole, Hughes, Pontotoc counties as federal cases loom.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
McAlester
United States
Robert N. McMillen
Holdensville
State Penitentiary
Pittsburg
Department of Justice
Seminole
Hughes
Pontotoc
McGinnis
Liberty
Holdenville
Wewoka
Ada
William McKarn
Frisco
Wetumka
John Harjo
Seminole County
Mate Harris
Frisco Bridge
Che Parney Kixieo
Snake
Bud Manealey
Sasakwa
Ing. I. A. Express
Rankin pushes protest for miners in copper belt
Washington scene recounts Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin pressing a resolution to grant the President power to intervene between miners and copper mine owners. She cites low July production and lawlessness in Bisbee and Butte while defending the need to control costs for war materials.
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Washington, D. C
Jeanette Rankin
Montana
Georgette Crepe
Miss Rankin
Welles
Arizona
Wis
Workers of the World
Congress
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Industrial Workers of the World
Johnson
International Workers of the World
Utah
Presit
Taft Stricken In Kansas Improves. Speaking Schedule Uncertain
Former President William H. Taft fell ill in Clay Center Kansas after a speaking engagement last night and doctors say his condition has improved though it remains unclear if he can resume his itinerary in Lincoln Nebraska tomorrow. The illness is stomach trouble and his physicians announced the update today.
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Clay Center
Kan
William H. Taft
Taft
Lincoln
Neb
Loyalty League of America Formed in Arizona
In Phoenix on August 7 the Loyalty League of America was organized to exterminate the I. W. W. The group aims to consolidate loyalty leagues in mining camps of Arizona and later expand nationwide with headquarters planned for Bisbee Arizona.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Loyalty League of America
Bisbee
House Committee Holds up Report on University Bill
Austin Aug 1 House Appropriation Committee voted 12 to 4 to not report the university appropriation bill until impeachment proceedings conclude. Members favoring immediate favorable report were Eugene Nordhaus Tom Martin James T Denton and W E Thomason Denton said he would file a resolution in the House demanding that the committee report the bill.
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Austin
Tex
House
Uniersity
Eugene Nordhaus
Tom Martin
James T. Denton
W. E. Thomason
Denton
Immunity for Hospital Ships Sought by Allies
London August 7 The Evening Standard reports high authority that negotiations with Germany are progressing toward immunity for hospital ships from submarine attacks. A Madrid dispatch says four Spanish naval officers will board each hospital ship to ensure the vessel is used only for transporting the sick and wounded.
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London
The
Evening Standard
Madrid
Standard
Out of Business Notice to Customers and Friends
I am out of business now. All my customers and friends please take notice. Many thanks to all who favored me with their patronage in former times. Respectfully,
Honolulu to Work Germans in Sugar Plantations
German alien enemies interned in Honolulu are to be forced to work on sugar plantations under wartime law. United States Marshal Jerome Smiddy announced the policy allowing prisoners of war and interned civilians from enemy nations to be compelled to labor under specified conditions. A car load of the celebrated Belle of Wichita Flour just arrived. try it and be convinced it is a little better than any flour you ever used before.
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Washington, D. C
Crowder
War Department
National Guard
Navy
Marine Corps
National Army
Guard
Ian
Army of the United States
France
General Crowder
A. Express
London
Kerensky
Bukowina
Czernowitz
Pruth
Sereth
Radautz
Chotin
von Mackensen
Fosani
Moldavia
Berlin
Roumanian Bystritsa
Austin Ameriegn
Honolulu
United States
Jerome Smiddy
Wichita
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Iran
Toves
Sasing, & Ods
Bank OF Fredericksburg
American Bankers’ Ass'n
Texas Bankers’ Ass'n
Tempee D. Smith
Apotpen Gop
Rupert Koennecki
Mra. Prep
Walter
Exsap
Temple D. Smith
Ad. Gold
L’res
Alb. Koennecke
E. O. Bierschwale
U. S. Army
Kolmeier & Klier Co
Iss Rankin
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Kansas
Y League
I. Ww. W
Guarantee Motor Co
Nagel Bros. Schleyer & Schaefer
Kimbrough & Knebel
Albert, Texas
WM. C. Henke
Prop'r
Fredericksburg
Richard Henke
Veal
Fredericksburg Standard
Standard Woman’s World
Farm and Home
McCall’s Magazine
McCall’s Pattern
Club
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
Fredericksburg, Texas
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