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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
2
American forces north of Chateau Thierry attack the German line in Belleau Wood and take a pocket with no resistance as Germans retreat. Cantigny gains and high casualties reported for German forces. prisoners taken and Donohue recounts prisoners in the Marne sector.
Louis J Livingston author of Wail the Kaiser and other anti war writings was judged misguided not traitorous by U S Commissioner Mark A Foote upon arraignment for violating the espionage act and was released. He offered a 20 page life history interspersed with views on war democracy autocracy concluding with Oh Democracy Oh Wilson reflections. The arresting police cite a landlady's remark that Livingston boasted of Kaiser friendship and would continue writing if the United States became a republic after the war.
An American soldier captured by Germans near Xivray escapes after forcing a German guard to retreat with him across No Man's Land. He returns the prisoner to his unit before collapsing from blood loss as American troops push forward in Europe. Morning Post notes record arrivals and dramatic port scenes.
Reports from Zurich and Amsterdam describe widespread unrest in Vienna with riots in Favoriten Margarethen Ottakring and Brigittenau. Civilians storm bakeries and the Hofburg Wing. cavalry arrives, martial law possible as bread rations shrink. Separate dispatch notes Berlin Hamburg and Cologne saw deadly injuries from peace protests with arrests.
A House joint resolution declares a state of war with Bulgaria and Turkey, citing acts of war against the United States by their military forces. Secretary Lansing, before the Senate committee, discussed the Tabriz incident and said an organized Turkish military attack on the American consulate could justify war.
Paris reports the transport Santa Anna, sailing from Bizarra to Malta, torpedoed and sunk in the night of May 10 11. Of 2150 soldiers and native workmen aboard, 1512 were saved.
Samuel Gompers was re elected president of the American Federation of Labor by acclamation at the organization s annual convention in St Paul Minnesota on June 22.
Bishop John N. McCormick of the Western Michigan Episcopal diocese was gassed while aiding American troops in France, news reaching his wife in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 21.
London dispatch reports the Austrian battleships Wien and Braherzog Ferdinand sunk. Italian minister Delbomne is quoted via the newspaper Spedha in a Central News dispatch from Rome.
Washington reports new export and import freight rates, about 25 percent higher than existing, set to take effect July 25. The railroad administration issued the decision on June 20 and applies to both exports and imports.
Lieutenant Joseph Rose an instructor at Barrow field was killed in an airplane crash in Fort Worth Texas. Lieutenant Floyd E Davies of Galesburg Illinois was injured but will recover.
Department of Justice announces indictment in Philadelphia of John Fleming John T Cavanaugh Eugene Sullivan and Joseph Kohn for offering to obtain a 100000 army raincoat contract for the Quaker City Raincoat company in exchange for a profit share A $500 payment to influence a quartermaster officer is cited and all four are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States Kohne was arrested in Boston and others are being sought in Washington New York and other cities
President Wilson urged all employers in war work to stop recruiting unskilled labor directly after August 1 and to use the United States employment service for all such recruitment. He called on labor to respond loyally to agency calls for voluntary enlistment in essential industry.
Chicago June 21. Directors of the Staats Zeitung announce by Judge Stelk that the paper will be sold today or suspend operations. Lack of popularity of the German language is noted as the reason for the failed prospects.
The Telegraaf frontier correspondent reports sixteen Belgians including several women were executed by German forces in East Flanders on suspicion of espionage. The incident occurred near Amsterdam on June 22.
Failure of prisoner exchange talks with Germany announced in Washington. Inability to contact German officials is cited as the main obstacle to reaching an agreement.
Camp Dix New Jersey June 21 Private Rdy B Jackson colored found guilty by court martial of sleeping while on sentry duty and sentenced to five years at hard labor at Fort Jay.
Petrograd dispatch reports Czecho-Slovak forces seize Samaranosto and Nikolaevsk in the Omsk government and establish a provisional government in Siberia. The report comes from London dated June 21.
The Thirty second division National Guard from Wisconsin and Michigan is now fighting in Alsace on German soil under Maj Gen William G Haan. The unit trained at Camp MacArthur Texas and took over a sector north of the Swiss border. Private J W Guyton of this division was the first American killed on German soil. Some members were aboard the Titanic disaster victim list aboard the British liner Tuscania when torpedoed last February.
Washington reports unanimous house approval to authorize the president to call all draft age men who can be trained and equipped. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon supports extending the draft to ages eighteen to forty five, saying many older men are idle and should be reached.
Secretary Baker approved court martial findings imposing 18 months to 20 years in prison on conscientious objectors at Camp Up ton and Camp Gordon. Many objected to fighting Germany or Austria due to relatives there. Baker favored returning the men to their countries of preference after the war.
About 1000 machinists in Saginaw Michigan have agreed to return to work and submit wage demands of 72 percent of an hour to the war labor board.
The government will urge the public to broaden war sacrifice efforts to include electric lights and gas to conserve fuel for war industries.
Cape May New Jersey June 20 report says the crew of the dirigible balloon that sailed from the naval station is safe. The pilot said an engine failure disabled the craft and caused it to drop into the sea.
Mrs Ida Cavell, 81, mother of Edith Cavell the nurse executed in Belgium, died at her home in Henley on Thames. The death was reported from London via Ottawa on June 20.
American officials report Turkish troops sacked the Presbyterian Colton Memorial hospital at Tabriz Persia and seized American and British consulates in a possible act of war. The incident elevates calls in Congress for a formal declaration against Turkey as ties to Germany deepen.
Samuel M. Ralston former Indiana governor and permanent state Democratic chairman opened the convention urging the renomination and election of Woodrow Wilson in 1920. The demonstration followed Vice President Thomas R. Marshall who gave the keynote address as temporary chairman.
An intercepted wireless message from Moscow to the Exchange Telegraph reports a major revolt starting in Kiev. Artillery stores exploded and street fighting continues as the uprising spreads to Poltava and Tchernigov districts with about forty thousand peasants participating.
Washington June 22. The Interstate Commerce Commission announced it would continue to hear complaints and order changes in railroad rates as in the past, removing doubt over its powers.
Washington reports about 500 million dollars received by the treasury in payment of income and excess profits taxes. This pushes total receipts to 1.5 billion, leaving approximately 1.225 billion to be collected.
President Wilson, by executive order, delegated to the Emergency Fleet Corporation the powers given to him by Congress to take over shipping, shipping lines, and shipping plants.
Washington reports the wartime government sanctioned express monopoly must be dissolved after the war emergency ends under terms of the contract signed Wednesday. The move aims to unwind the government created system once peace returns.
New Crowder regulations classify store clerks and auto salesmen as nonproductive under the work or fight policy. They exempt department store executives and skilled shop workers, permit productive status for traveling salesmen, and require local boards to assist placement through federal employment services while postponing action during job placement efforts.
Dr. von Seydler sent his cabinet’s resignation to Emperor Charles after leaving Vienna for the army headquarters. The tenure faced bitter conflict over hunger policies and Germany’s food promises. New bread riots and mass strikes involve 150,000 munition workers in Vienna.
The war department would be authorized to train in the United States and supply equipment to troops of any nation fighting Germany and Austria under an amendment to the army appropriation bill. Eight Central and South American nations with broken relations to Germany could muster about 2,750,000 men.
In St Louis on June 24 Adolphus Busch Til son of August A Busch poillion aire brewer has been moved from class 2 A to class 1A by his draft board He is married with children.
The strike by machinists at Curtiss Airplane and Motor plants in Buffalo ended. Andrew T. McNamara of the International Machinists' Union announced the settlement.
Kansas City Missouri faced ice rationing due to a predicted shortage caused by continued intense warm weather. Ice company officials warned the scarcity could worsen if temperatures stay high.
Lieut. James R. Wheeler aged twenty four of St. Louis was an aviator instructor who died instantly when his plane plunged 500 feet at Scott Field Belleville Illinois near St. Louis.
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