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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1918
Page
3
Wilson issues proclamation seizing control of national telegraph and telephone systems. Burleson named head of wire systems to oversee the seizure and operation under government authority.
President Wilson issues a proclamation placing telegraph telephone and cable radio systems under federal control during the war effective Wednesday. The Postmaster General may administer operations with owner managers or receivers while maintaining current dividends and obligations unless directed otherwise. Burleson will lead the administration with a three member committee including Koons Lewis and Lawmar assisting on organization finance and operations.
Allied forces push five days of victory along the Marne front. American and French troops crossed the Marne between Jaulgon and Reuil, capturing key German positions and railways. They advanced on Oulehy le Chateau and Buzancy, while losses mount for Germany. Also: Major Martin advances in political race. German losses near 1,000,000 since March 21 reported by L Homme Libre.
Herbert Hoover told allied food controllers in London that food production and supply have turned a corner. He said there is no longer fear from German U boats. He cited U.S. exports of 10,000,000 tons in the past year and projected 21,000,000 tons for the coming year, including 3,000,000 tons from Canada.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announced the first August call for 46,000 white registrants from all states and the District of Columbia. Entrainment to camps, including Camp Fremont in California, is planned between August 3 and August 31 as part of a 300,000 man monthly military program. Special calls account for 1,441 of this total.
Washington Navy Department dispatches Sunday state United States cruiser San Diego has three known dead and fifty eight unaccounted for. Roosevelt Will Not Run for Governor Oyster Bay declares he will not accept the Republican nomination for New York governor under any circumstance.
American troops will go to the Italian front soon, according to American delegates, via a Central News dispatch from Rome dated Monday.
London reports weekly British casualties totaling 16,971 the lightest in months. Breakdown shows 1,411 officers killed, 1,411 other soldiers killed, 230 wounded, 9,962 missing, and 8,216 missing or captured in action.
Washington announces a call for 10,000 registrants for limited service to entrain between July 35 and August 2 under Provost Marshal General Crowder. The notice emphasizes rapid mobilization and assigns roles for selected volunteers. Further instructions will follow from military authorities.
The Democratic State Convention awarded incumbent 722 votes to 158 for challenger Tynan amid party proceedings. Gunter remains a named figure as supporters push for governor race alignment.
In Denver the Democratic state convention designates John F. Shafroth for the U S Senate and Julius C. Gunter for governor on the primary ballot. Thomas J. Tynan wins secondary designation, with strong votes for justice and attorney general candidates as party unity backs national leadership. Dr. RE Jones and Clement Yore win designation for Colorado Second District Congress.
Helena brief reports Mrs H C MacDonald of Butte files with Secretary of State Stewart as a Democratic candidate for Congress in the Western district. Her platform calls for victory in the war and female appointment to half of government offices of responsibility. Washington notes the Agriculture Department asks farmers to sow 47 500 000 acres in winter wheat for a record 667 000 000 bushels. London lists Lord Robert Cecil as foreign secretary assistant and Worthington Evans succeeding him as blockade minister. St Louis reports over 500 000 Austrian soldiers ready to desert to aid the United States, per Lieut Anthony Holy who helped organize a Czecho Slovak recruiting mission.
Cholera spreads with 224 known cases and 78 suspected cases in Moscow within a day while 26 stomach disease cases are noted. Austrian ministry announces resignation following Vienna advices.
Navy officials say two steamships carry 1,166 officers and men from the San Diego, adding to the 32 previously landed. Survivors say engine room crew suffered heavy losses after the explosion. fate of the vessel unknown. Reports also mention another attacked ship and the Cunard liner Carpathia sunk off the Irish coast with no confirmed fatalities.
Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr is lightly wounded and hospitalized in Paris after an aerial incident. His condition is not serious, and a cable from Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr reports there is no danger. The note follows reports of Lieut Quentin Roosevelt's death fears after a German air engagement. Roosevelt had been gassed three weeks earlier.
Franco-Americans cross the Marne advancing four miles to seize three towns. Allied forces push forward with rapid progress amid heavy fighting, seeking to outflank German positions and shorten the line before a larger push.
Allied forces report rapid advances from Soissons to Rheims with German retreats by the Marne. American and French troops Press north and east of Chateau Thierry while capturing prisoners and guns. German counterattacks fail to slow the advance as Haig strengthens lines with British divisions.
Six month old Gordon Bob Inger fell from a third story window onto a concrete sidewalk in Pittsburgh. The incident occurred when the father, playing with the infant near the open pane, accidentally dropped him. Minor bruises noted, mother and father present.
Miss Edith Virola, an eighteen year old Porto Rican passenger en route to marry in the United States, survived ten hours afloat after a German submarine sank a ship off the Atlantic coast. She clung to the body of her drowned fiancé as others drifted nearby until rescue vessels arrived.
A dense listing of per ton prices for upland hay and prairie hay from Colorado and Nebraska, plus timothy and alfalfa. Also includes sacks and bulk goods like oats, corn, gluten feed, buckwheat, and Hungarian patent flour. Metal prices from New York and London, grain quotes from Minneapolis and Chicago, and cattle, sheep, and hog figures.
Edgar Stokes, injured when a wheel flew off a car and the vehicle hit a fence, escaped from a hospital ward at Shamokin Pennsylvania. He wrapped a sheet around himself and walked barefoot toward town, spreading ghost rumors along the Pennsylvania railroad before borrowing a trainman’s coat and reporting to work the next morning.
Rancher George Carpenter of Yakima County sent his once fine auto to the hospital after an enraged bull charged the vehicle while it stood in a pasture with a pedigreed Holstein. Neighbors aided in driving the bull away and rescuing the wrecked car.
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