Ryan Resigns as Head of Aircraft Service
Secretary Baker accepts the resignation of John D. Ryan as second assistant secretary of war and director of aircraft service but asks him to stay on until demobilization winds down. Potter also resigns. both will help finalize war to peace transition, with Ryan returning to copper industry work as production pivots postarmistice.
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John D. Ryan
United States Army and Navy
Baker
Ryan
William C. Potter
Department
United States
Red Cross
War Council of the Red Cross
H. P. Davison
Davison
Washington
Anaconda
Anaconda Mining Company
Air Service
Sistant
America
Potter
Army
War Department
Congress
Galen in Russia Sees Great Peril and Praise for Czecho-Slovaks
Major Albert J. Galen of Montana, with the American expeditionary forces in Siberia, writes from Vladivostok area praising the Czecho-Slovaks as great fighters respected by Germans, Austrians, and Russians. He notes martial law, diverse troops, and a vast operation with prisoners and claims commissions. Fellow Montanan E G Toomey also sends letters and photos from near Vladivostok.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Galen
Siberia
Montana
N. P. Walters
Good Fellowship Club
Helena
Galen
Vladivostok
International Commission On Prisoners of War
The
Commission On Claims
Toomey
E. G. Toomey
Albert Galen
State Treasurer Reports Emergency Seed Fund Balance
State Treasurer Hart presented a report on the emergency seed and feed fund created by a special legislative session. The fund balance stood at 218,250.19 dollars, while disbursing agent F S P Lindsay reported net loan expenditures of 311,429.17 dollars, with discrepancies due to loan repayments interest on loans and tax receipts from county treasurers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hart
State Council of Defense
F. S. P. Lindsay
Lindsay
Montana Women May Go Abroad For War Service
State chairman Mrs E L Houston invites Montana club women to nominate two young women ages 25 to 30, with no husband son or father in military or Allied services, to join a 100-woman unit sailing to overseas furlough houses. Applicants must be recommended by Montana Federation of Women's clubs executives, undergo medicals, and report to New York by December 1 1918 with training aboard in January 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Victory Commission
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
E. L. Houston
Club Women of
Montana
Women of
War Department Commission
General Pershing
John Mott
Louis Slade
Bozeman
General Federation
Montana Federation of Women’s Clubs
United States
Red Cross
Europe
New York
Gamblers Play the Church Game in This Town
In Sweet Grass Montana Jerry Boyce, longtime hotel proprietor, explains he will not charge ministers for meals. A former High River parson invited poker players to church, and the poker winnings were donated to the collection, totaling over 250 dollars, as the parson claimed the pot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Boyce
Boyce
Sweet Grass
Montana
Canadian Northwest
Great Falls
Jerry
High River
Alberta
Faro
World War I era dispatches from many cities lumped in a single brief
A collage of World War I era brief items reports on diverse events across cities. It notes Greek victims in Saloniki, the death of Joseph Tumulty’s father in Jersey City, Villa followers burning near Juarez, and U.S. war and labor developments. It cites land bank loans, Chile Peru tensions settlement, Ludendorff in Sweden, Dutch transit through Limburg, wage talks, city police policy on red flag meetings, Henry Ford’s resignation, troop withdrawals in France, and various other notes from Cleveland to San Juan, Berne, Liverpool, London, and beyond. It also mentions wage distributions in Puerto Rico, early American Expeditionary forces, U-Boats, and a German revolution in Metz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saloniki
Jersey City
Phillip Tumulty
Joseph Tumulty
Wilson
el Paso
Villa
Villa Ahtumida
Juarez
Washington
New York
Chile
Peru
Copenhagen
Ludendorff
Germany
Sweden
Paris
Holland
Limburg
Belgium
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
France
United States
Cleveland
American Specialties Manufacturers’ Association
San Francisco
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Wyoming
California
Nevada
United War Work Campaign
Portland
Marie Equi
Berne
Switzerland
Rosika Schwemmer
Liverpool
Mauretania
London
San Juan
P. R
American War Department
England
Harwich
Ticonderoga
Metz
Wealthy sheeppman returns from wars in Britain
Major P. S. Dowson arrives in Miles City after three years with the British ambulance corps where he earned a commission at 73. Once a leading rancher in Custer county, he is a Boer War veteran who long sought and finally obtained government acceptance of his services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. S. Dowson
Miles City
British Ambulance Corps
Custer County
Near Death From Cold In Miles City Sheepman Found
Arthur Cunningham a prominent Miles City sheepman was picked up near Terry after a cold exposure. He had visited his ranch near Terry and tried to walk to town without proper clothing and was unconscious when found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Cunningham
Miles City
Terry
Are Yanks Fighters in Argonne Front Fight
Between September 26 and November 6 American divisions drove back sixty German divisions in desperate Argonne fighting. The Americans faced a two to one numerical disadvantage yet held the line in relentless clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argonne Front
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Mortama
F. Boot & Coa
Russia
Knight
Knight Light & Soda Fountain CO
Knight Bidg
Women’s Federation
Preacher
Sweet Grassman
Lucia
Irving Whitehouse & Co
Davenport
Spokane
Gene Yhgnereiair
Rhea
Swift & Company
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