City Boards Begin Test of Drafted Men
New York City moves forward with physical examinations in two districts as 89,000 men are selected for National Army service amid a revised city quota. Exemption boards gain authority as state officials push to curb slackers and speed up registering and mobilization efforts across districts.
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New York City
National Army
Inez
Teiers
Warvhal
Crowder
Marious
Charles H. Tuttle
College of the City of New York
Brooklyn
Mad Street
Bushwick Avenue
Joan K. Lindsay
Lindsay
Tuttle
General Crowder
Roscoe
Conkling
Caffey
Gregory & Telet
Bexin & Cup
Concling
United States MA
New York
United Marshal Power
City of
New
Teracuer
Washington
Albany
Aliens bribe board surgeons to dodge draft in many districts
A draft abduction inquiry notes that foreign districts report a surge of bribe offers to draft examiners. Physicians, faced with bribe attempts, remain resolute while some would-be payers are swindled by conmen claiming to fix exemptions. A table with names, calls, and draft data appears on Page 5.
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Men Sewgan
Anid
Rts
It In Aid
Transport Beached After Coaster Collision at Atlantic Harbor
An Army transport at anchor was rammed by an inbound coaster. All aboard were saved with only minor injuries. The transport listed heavily, then beached on mud flats. The coaster struck the port quarter aft, both vessels suffered limited damage. Official inquiry to determine exact cause.
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Atlantic
United States Army
Oway
Het Pier
Engin
British Cruiser Ariadne Sunk by U-Boat
The British cruiser Ariadne of 11 000 tons was torpedoed and sunk in a U-boat attack. Thirty eight crew members were killed. all others were saved. Built in 1898, she measured 450 feet in length, 75 feet beam, and 27 ½ feet draft, with a complement of 77 officers and men. Armament included sixteen six inch guns, twelve twelve pounders, and smaller guns. she had two submerged eighteen inch torpedo tubes.
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London
Admiralty
Shealan
Student Officers Drill With Mercury at 105
Candidates in training for officer positions drawn in the draft may be examined here. Adjutant Generals of the News States approve the plan, enabling possible commissions or entry as drafted privates. Bayonet drills in 105-degree heat. parade canceled. Gen Cl commander inspects the New England contingent. Post hospital patient William Jo dies in New York from paratyphoid with Bright's disease amid dispute over vaccinations.
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Son Tibane
Plattsburg
War Department
Adjutant Generals
News
Stotesbury
New York
Adjutant General
Wolf
New England
William Jo
198Th Street
Bright
Camp Hospital
Deny
Poisoned plaster scare hits Illinois town of Freeport
July 30 report says germs found in courtroom plaster sold locally by a crippled itinerant pedlar. Chemical analysis completed today and the announcement issued.
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Freeport, Is
Pedler
Senate Opens Door to German Insured Plants Debate
The Senate Commerce Committee backs an amendment allowing German owned fire insurance firms access to U S war plants including munitions yards and shipyards. Frelinghuysen argues it protects American insurers, while critics warn it risks intelligence leaks to incendiary German agents and vow a floor fight.
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Tribune Bursa
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Senate
Warren
Department of Justice
Insurance Com
Mr. Warren
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice Secret Service
Frelinghuysen Linked To German Insurance Interests
Senator J. S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, pushing to amend the trading with the enemy act to let German insurers operate in the U S, is a stockholder and director of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. The firm is heavily tied to German firms via reinsurance contracts and helped arrange Carl Schreiner’s visit to New York to advance the campaign, with officials citing property protection as a reason for permitting enemy companies to conduct business.
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the Tribune
Germi Marine Insurance Companies
Germany
J. S. Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Carl Schreiner
New York
Schreiner
United States
Wilson Wins Fight for Single Food Dictator
President Wilson intervened to push for one man food control and removal of the three member food board. Senate and House conferees reached a deal by majority to appoint a single administrator by the President, with dispute over a war expenditures committee largely resolved. Gore and Smith of Georgia charged the conference was not fully open.
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Washington
Wilson
Senats
House Conferrees
Congress
Senate
White House
Representative Lever
House
Senator Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Smith
South Carolina
Warren
Kenyon
Gore
Georgia
Page
Congressional
Wast
Food Administration
Balfour Declares This Is No Time to State Peace Terms
Berlin reports a European pause as British Foreign Secretary Balfour refuses to define peace terms in the Commons. He warns that a German peace could spark a new European war while stressing Britain’s stance on Alsace Lorraine and the need for nations to shape liberty within their own history. The discourse touches on Yugoslav and Austrian questions and cautions against imperialist models.
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Balfour
London
Arthur James Balfour
House of Commons
Britain
Asquith
John Annan Bryce
Noel Buxton
Snd
Great Britain
Commons
Mr. Balfour
Belgium
Edward Grey
Europe
France
Bismarck
Germany
England
America
Goemangl
United States
Interna
Austria Backing for Erzberger's Peace Statement
The clerical Reichstag leader Erzberger and several Catholic colleagues reportedly sought Austrian backing for a peace essay and possible early talks with Lloyd George. The report recalls Erzberger's July trip to Vienna that preceded Bethmann Hollweg's fall, with Austrian leaders understood to be consulted amid German political strife and food administration debates in Washington.
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London
Sanshias Erzberger
Reichstag
Germany
Austria
Zurich
Lloyd George
Balfour
Austre
Exzberger
Bethmann Hollweg
Heard
Congressional Committee
Chamberlain
Senate
Herbert Hoover
War Expenditures Committee
House
Food Administration
Senate Conferrees
Agricultural College
Congress
Conferrees
Pogroms Sweep Russian Cities and Graves Desecrated
Petrograd cable reports pogroms against Jews across several southern Russian cities. In Alexandrovsk Ekaterinoslav province the Council of Workmen's Delegates appealed for Cossack aid to quell the unrest. Moscow saw proclamations inciting pogroms seized along with a printing press publishing a Black Hundred newspaper.
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Petrograd
Forward
Russia
Alexandrovek
Ekata Zhuslavs
Moscow
Aniilielt
Black Hundred
Pope Spurned Austrian Plea Berne Hears Emperor
A Berne cable states the Austrian Chancellor under Emperor Charles sought Vatican intervention for general peace based on preserving the monarchy. The Pope refused to intervene, the dispatch reports, signaling Vatican noninvolvement in mediation.
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Berne
Vatican
Tribune Burven
Washington
Switzerland
Charles
Sues for 47356 Glass Loss From Black Tom Blast
In Trenton on July 30 a year after the Black Tom munitions fire Fidelity Plate Glass Insurance sues Lehigh Valley to recover 47356.74 for glass damaged by the explosion and related losses.
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Trenton
Black Tom
Fidelity
Plate Glass Insurance Tt
Lehigh Valley
Alkold
French Firm as Ever Lloyd George Says
London July 30 Premier Lloyd George told press in the House of Commons that the French show buoyancy after three years of war and that the outcome depends largely on French resolve. He cited Russian unpredictability but predicted Russia would recover and become formidable again.
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Berlin
London
Mathias Ereberger
Zurich
Michaelis
Associated Press
Herr Erzberger
Switzerland
Lloyd George
Foreign Office
Erzberger
Reichstag
Messrs. Lloyd George
Bonar Law
Sir Edward Carson
Cologne
Tageszeitung
Herr “ Ertberger
Germania
Vatican
House of Commons
Paris
Teast
Russia
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Vonxing
Guesser
Uncle Sam
Tribune
Shington
Illinois
Palle
Danger
Astaace
U. S
Vienna
Pope
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