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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
2
Reports from Taovd's mark a miscellany of wartime notes. It covers marine insurance rules, the Latine wreck, cantonment costs and capacities, Philippine oil sources from wild vine, California prune tree shipments to France, draft costs, a peanut butter vending car, frugality dance fines, and assorted curiosities from 1918 era public life.
Conferences in line with a new policy of sharing war conduct with Congress continued today. Acting Secretary Crowell arranged for Senate and House military committees to meet the war council weekly starting next week to review war preparations and front developments.
The Monkemeier estate dispute in Rock Rapids Iowa centers on a 350000 will from Henry Monkemeier of Dale township. Daughters allege unsound mind and paranoiac beliefs taint the will, while sons receive the bulk of the property. Trial began with witnesses for both sides and is expected to continue through the week.
Chicago March 15 Attorney Francis J Heney resumes the packing house inquiry seeking confidential files from Henry Veeder counsel for Swift & Co. The federal trade commission probe probes meat industry costs from feed to porterhouse price. Hearing in Boston earlier yielded testimony on wool and livestock aspects. Joseph F E Davies once chaired the commission. Basil Manly now presides as Davies resigns to run for Wisconsin senate. M W Horders for Morrin & Co and Wilson & Co testifies and asserts immunity from future prosecution.
Washington March 15 probabilities are the war department order withholding addresses in casualty lists will be modified. The president has been flooded with protests. The recent lists of flown men killed and injured in the March 6 fight shown in home towns and states through the war department would not wipe them out. It is said there is no reason to believe publication of the addresses has given the enemy any vital information.
London report states liquor consumption now equals one third of four years ago due to government cuts. Premier Lloyd George told Free Churchmen at the city temple that no spirits were manufactured, and challenged critics on the drink traffic. He warned the government would choose bread over beer if needed.
Washington D C March. B Harthold a Modesto baker ordered by the food administration to suspend business for 30 days on a charge of hoarding flour. It was found he had enough flour to meet his needs for three months. The C A Motion flour company How Vinnelece har feck novoreby magi manided for allowing it to accumulate an vorcomonable supply.
Amsterdam reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg told Berlin interview that Entente balked at peace terms and the great German offensive must continue. Informants said Germany would risk 300000 casualties in the western push. Ludendorff told the Cologne Gazette the enemy must fight the war’s greatest battle if peace is to be avoided.
Washington dispatch notes Liberty loan campaigners aim for 15 million subscribers in the third loan. Current second loan subscriptions are about 11 million and first loan about 4 million with 16 million buttons ordered. Honor rolls and honor flags to boost participation are planned to reveal who subscribes or refuses. Meanwhile in Copenhagen Austrian rail workers have begun a strike and defy military orders to return to work, with reports of spreading to other factories.
Geneva and Herne dispatches report Serbia remains steadfast with its allies. Diplomatic representative M Grubech in Switzerland says despite losses of about one million inhabitants and occupation, Serbia will persevere in its former course. Vienna confirms Austro Hungarian and Bulgarian pressure for a separate peace fails to sway loyal Serbs and their king.
Wichita Kansas March 16 federal grand jury returned indictments against 35 alleged members of the SWW with one exception all indicted men are under arrest and some already interned for the duration of the war.
An Austrian Hungarian war office statement arriving in London on March 15 reports that Rumanians have evacuated occupied Hungarian territory. Details are garbled but convey withdrawal actions and ongoing military movements in the region.
Washington March 16 The mission of Secretary of War Baker to France is described as military not diplomatic and is said to focus on war preparations. Officials expect his recommendations to push for larger scale preparations upon his return.
Moscow becomes official capital again as Lenine and most government commissioners arrive and open ministries in the Kremlin today. Trotsky absent. Buildings requisitioned for officials as Russia marks the first anniversary of the revolution with transfer of power back to Moscow.
Kansas City Missouri delegates from more than half of the unions vote to call a general labor strike. In July, Monday, March 25, sympathy actions linked to union laundry workers have been in effect.
New York reports that 132 American Jews in Jerusalem were carried into captivity by Ottoman Turks after the city fell to General Allenby. An arrest order had been issued, forcing hiding families to disclose locations. Women and children were beaten and men sought safety, while reports say Turks fled with the captives.
Washington reports from Ambassador Francis in Vologda indicate Leon Trotzky will oppose ratification of Germany's peace terms by the Soviet congress and push army reorganization to defend Russia. A March 11 conversation described war as unavoidable and called for iron discipline, with unclear significance. Siberia’s possible invasion by Japan was noted with Trotzky’s guarded reaction.
Joseph L. Bristow former Kansas senator announced in Washington he would run in August primaries for the nomination to succeed Democrat Thompson whose term ends March 4. Bristow chairs Kansas public utilities panel and will retire April 1.
Paris on March 12 reports the court of revision rejected Bolo Pasha's appeal from a death sentence by court martial for treason, confirming the original judgment. The court also affirmed Darius Porchere's three year imprisonment in the same case.
Mise ttle MacPherson, 19, is described as a new kind of British recruiting officer stationed in Chicago. She travels with crowds, mingling with locals to guide interested youths to recruitment headquarters, as part of the United and Canadian recruiting machine.
Reports from Amsterdam and Boston note German unease about Russia's breakup and Anglo Japanese strategies. Critics argue Germany gains little from Russia's collapse and warn Britain and the United States may shape Asia Pacific outcomes. A US general says anti Japanese sentiments in the US reflect pro German and anti British stances on other issues.
The March 6 French official statement describes a German raid on American trenches in Lorraine as repulsed. An Associated Press dispatch from the American front says the raid occurred Monday night with the German force repelled, noting the involvement of a recently arrived unit and strong American fighting energy.
London report says British forces on a one mile front along the coast in Palestine, including Angilan units and Indian troops, advanced to an average depth of three miles, an official War Office statement issued last night confirms.
Buffalo N Y March 16 The Brist Coltins biplane fitted with a Liberty engine was successfully tested at Curtiss field yesterday evening The company plans a change in construction and starts quantity production this month
A sergeant in the quartermaster's department of the expeditionary force was wounded in a raid in Paris last night. Details remain sparse as reports filter from the scene.
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