Newsdealers War on Hearst Papers Expands to Tribune
Yesterday morning we announced a campaign by New York area newsdealers to oppose Hearst papers with three aims including breaking Hearst influence and pressuring publishers for higher profits. The American News Company will now deliver Tribunes only to dealers who also take Hearst papers, cutting off others. The fight begins in Brooklyn Monday and moves to Manhattan.
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Tribune Distribution Offer to Hearst Resisters
Newsdealers cut off from other newspapers for refusing Hearst papers may obtain Tribunes from the Main Office or later announced distribution points, per the Tribune Association.
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Brooklyn Dealers to Decide Hearst Issue
A. Sultan president of the Newsdealers Association states there will be a meeting at Way Waverly Avenue and Myrtle tonight at 8 30 to discuss the continuance of selling papers in Brooklyn and to decide the association’s position.
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Newsdealers’ Association
Way Waverly Avenue
Myrtle
Darmstadt Bombed By Allied Planes
London and Berlin reports say the city of Darmstadt in Hesse was bombed by Allied air forces in the morning. Four people were killed and many injured amid property damage, with Allied squadrons claiming to have down four large British planes.
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Asiredale
Foe Blows By French. Americans Take Lorraine Town
In Lorraine area fighting shifts as French forces press hard and seize a town. In Chicago news, Industrial Workers of the World trial ends with 100 traders convicted on conspiracy counts, Haywood among those facing long terms. new-trial motions planned.
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Industrial Workers of the World
William D
Big Bill) Haywood
K. M. Landis
Haywood Called Swivel Chair King of I W W Movement
The government argued the fate of the syndicalist movement in America rested on the Chicago trial of 101 I W W leaders for conspiracy to disrupt the war program. The case began in Federal court on April 1 before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Van Devanter. Continued on last page.
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Allied War Bread To Be Universal Declares Hoover
London August 17 Allied war bread will be universal and of better quality with little rationing for all nations fighting Germany. Herbert C Hoover American Food Administrator told The Associated Press that fats and meat will be ample if populations avoid waste. He said the danger of privation is past and North America can send overseas the bulk of food supplies, shortening voyage lengths and saving tonnage.
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Germany
Herbert C. Hoover
Associated Press
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Austria Calls Czechs Traitors After British Recognition
Vienna denounces British recognition of Czecho Slovaks as a nation and says Czecho-Slovak army members will be treated as traitors by Austria-Hungary. The statement lambasts the private National Council and rejects its status as a future government. It notes only a small portion of the Czech Slovak army are Austro Hungarian citizens and threatens reprisals.
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Austria-hungary
Kk Tong
Kronstadt Seized As Liberty Loans Planned For War
Reports from Finland and Moscow describe Kronstadt, near Petrograd, as seized and Kazan bombarded by Soviet troops. Berlin reports 236 of 1,000 arrested officers shot. Treasury outlines three Liberty Loan campaigns next year to raise about 18 billion dollars, with plans for September, January or February, and May or June.
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Americans seize Frapelle in Lorraine raid
U S forces attacked in Lorraine at dawn capturing the village of Frapelle and driving a German salient from Allied lines. Prisoners taken as heavy German casualties reported, while artillery and a box barrage pinned foe and cleared resistance.
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Associated Press
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Frapelle
Frome
American Airmen Hunted All-Day Battle Over Zeebruggs
American Lt Regen Harris and Sgt James Muir fought Friday near Zeebruggs as Allied and German planes clashed along the West Flanders coast. Their French type aircraft was damaged by a German bullet in the petrol tank, forcing a descent at Koudekerk Sealand. Both Americans escaped injury and were interned by Dutch authorities along with a British crew.
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Ford Plans Tractor Plants in Mexico
Detroit August 17 Henry Ford announced plans to build several large tractor plants in Mexico. He said he is prepared to spend 1,000,000 on the first plants and will cooperate with the Mexican government. He pledged to sell at cost with profits reinvested in the business and Carlos control by the government if profits overwhelm absorption.
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Paris Forms Economic Police To Enforce Food Prices
Paris authorities organize an economic police under Victor Boret to aid the Food Ministry. The force will monitor food prices, curb speculation, track market fluctuations, and supervise wholesale and retail prices throughout France.
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Victor Boret
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France
Town of Canny Is Taken With 1 000 Prisoners
A July 6 order attributed to Ludendorff, captured on the French battlefront, reveals German worry over heavy losses in late June and early July. It notes that failures in recent assaults led to more prisoners and argues for a deeper advanced zone when artillery and position depth are weak. It also defends the German manpower for planned operations against possible Entente advances.
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Ludendorff
Allies Close on Roye After Fierce Two Day Battle
Allied forces push toward Roye with lines within a mile on two fronts as French troops seize Autreches and take 240 prisoners near Soissons. American raid in Lorraine captures Frapelle and eliminates a German salient, signaling heavy losses on both sides.
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America Now Has 3,000,000 Men in Army
Washington reports General March reveals total U S army under arms exceeds 8.0 million with 1.45 million overseas to France Italy Siberia and Russia and 1.55 million in training here. He notes shipping gains allow faster transport and cites planned eighty divisions overseas by mid 1919 amid limited front changes as Germans withdraw locally along the Vesle and Roye lines.
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Germans Dig New Hindenburg Line With Peasant Labor
Allied progress near Roye continues as French forces seize the Autreches plateau northwest of Soissons and push within a mile of Rove on two fronts. German artillery slows the advance while defending positions like Monolithe farm suffer heavy losses amid counterattacks. Reports indicate possible preparations for another Hindenburg line as German forces consolidate in Picardy.
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