Round-Up of Slackers Here Starts Today
A federal roundup led by Chief Charles F. De Woody targets men aged twenty one to thirty one who failed to register under the selective service act. About 25 000 agents police and military personnel will canvass New York and nearby areas to arrest or induct noncompliant draftees, with detention centers set at armories and Jersey City Newark Hoboken and other locations. All registrants are warned to carry final classification cards and to produce them when asked to avoid detention. blue cards alone are not proof of compliance.
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Charles F. de Woody
Department of Justice
American Protective League
New York
de Woody
Federal District Court
6Th Regiment
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Newark
Jersey City
Regient
Paterson
Ath Regiment
Hoboken
Army
Adhiral Usher
Brooklyn Navy Ward
Westchester
Yonk Porterester
Rye
Mount Vernon
New Rochelle
Jersey
Faterson
Thirteen Percent of German Guns Wrecked by Allied Fire
Allied artillery fire, cited by General Von Ludendorff, destroyed thirteen percent of German guns in action in one month, signaling artilery shortages and prompting counter battery measures. Paris reports the Western front has captured 128,802 prisoners since July 1, along with 069 guns, 1,784 mine throwers and 1,788 machine guns.
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Frince
von Ludendorf
Paris
Western Front
Lenine Out of Danger Is Latest Official Report
ERDAM Sept 2 A dispatch from the official Russian telegraph agency states Premier Lenine is out of danger after being shot by a Russian revolutionary. A London wireless dispatch says Lenine slept well Sunday night with no inflammation, only fever from pleural effusion. Dora Kaplan identified as the would be assassin, according to Petrograd dispatches.
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Erdam
Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
London
Moscow
Lenine
Dora Kaplan
Evening Star
Archie Roosevelt Returns to U S Wounded From Toul Front
Arch ie Roosevelt has arrived at Newport News aboard a hospital ship and telephoned his wife at Sagamore Hill. He is reportedly still suffering from a knee and left arm injury, paralyzed in the arm, after two French hospital operations. He expects to reach New York in ten days. Colonel Roosevelt notes the family strain and mentions the Croix de Guerre awarded aboard the ship, along with other officers and men sent home.
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Oyster Bay
L. 1
Archie Roosevelt
America
Newport News
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Toul Front
France
Torpedo Sinks U. S. Ship Onega Sinks With 26 Missing
The American steamship Onega, 3 636 tons gross built in 1880 Belfast, owned by Barber & Co. of New York, was torpedoed and foundered Friday night. Twenty-nine saved, twenty-six missing, many bodies washed ashore. Captain drowned. body recovered. Former names include S. W. Luckenbach Brooklyn MacPherson Obdam and British Queen.
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Onega
Belfast
Barber & Co
New York
S. W. Luckenbach
Brooklyn
MacPherson
Obdam
Primary Day Voting Hours Announced for Today
Polling places open from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, same as during the last election, guiding voters to cast ballots within the extended window.
Revenue Bill To Go Before House Today
The Ways and Means Committee advanced the eight billion revenue bill taxing luxuries like sodas and sundaes at two cents per ten cents while all soft drinks sold on premises incur the tax. Immediate and future effective dates vary with provisions on alcohol and floor taxes. The bill heads to the House Friday with a ten day aim for passage.
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the Tribune
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Kitchin
House
Senate
Simmons
New Revenue Bill Projects Eight Billion Tax Yield
The final committee estimate for the new bill shows total revenue of 8,012,792,000, up from 2,941,533,000 under current law. Leading source is excess profits taxes including war profits at 2,100,000,000, followed by income taxes totaling 1,482,186,000 from individuals and 8,000,000 from corporations. A table notes increased taxes on married individuals without dependents.
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Washinulua
Sept
Allied Drive Through Drocourt-Quéant Line Gains Ground
British and Canadian forces broke the Drocourt-Quéant line in a dawn attack, driving about five kilometres, capturing Cagni court wood Cagnicourt and Bois de Bouche. Dur and Mount Dury were stormed as heavy fighting continued with thousands of prisoners taken and bridges held against German reserves. Tanks, barrage fire, and machine guns supported rapid advance along the Canal Du Nord and Arras-Cambrai corridor.
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France
Drocourt-Quéant
Dur
Mount Dury
Cagnicourt Wood
Cagnicourt
Bois de Bouche
Buissy
Queant
Queant-Drocourt
Ther
Canal du Nord
Douai
Marquion
Arras-Cambrai
Villers les-Cagnicourt
U S Troops Gain Ground East of Juvigny
General Pershing's communiqué reported American forces advancing north of the Aisne and making further progress east of Juvigny, with the War Department receiving the update tonight.
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U. S
Juvigny
Washington
Pershing
War Department
Aisne
Americans Cut Allied Lines Through Acres of Wire in Night Advance
In France on September 2 the American forces broke through vast barbed wire entanglements along the Bethancourt-Soissons route, clearing open fields as they advanced. British and French units press toward Douai, Cambrai, Laon, while Ford holds most U.S. troops for further action north of Soissons amid a strategic push toward Ludendorff’s defenses.
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Associated Press
France
Bethancourt - Soissons
Acre
Americans Hold In France Advance On Juvigny
A Reuters correspondent reports American forces in France have maintained their ground ethic by reaching Juvigny after three days of intense combat. They faced a skilled German defense, endured heavy shelling and gas, and captured the village with limited direct fighting there as action continued in adjacent valleys.
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London
Reuter’s, Limited
France
Juvigny
Allied wedge menaces Douai and Cambrai in major British push
British and American forces in Flanders and Picardy advance on a broad front. An eight to ten mile gap opens near Douai and Cambrai as the Drocourt-Quéant switch line is breached. Canadians push from the Scarpe toward Bapaume while British patrols extend beyond the switch line five miles. Frontwide gains reach several towns with heavy German losses.
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Drocourt- Quéant
Arras
Douai
Cambrai
Bapaume
British Haig announces vast prisoner haul and advances
Field Marshal Haig reported thousands of prisoners taken as British troops on a 30 mile front drove gains of two miles at points and advanced along seventy miles of front. Berlin acknowledged loss east of Arras while the Franco American forces crushed enemy resistance. since July 15 Allies have seized 128,302 prisoners, 2,069 guns, 1,754 mine throwers, and about 14,000 machine guns with French forces taking thousands more.
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Soissons
Haig
Berlin
Arras
Somme-Scarpe
Dury
Villers-les-Cagnicourt
Cagnicourt
Villers-au-Flos
le Transloy
Allaines
Haut Allaines
Noreuil
St. Pierre Vaast
Manders
Neuve Eglise
Steenwerck
Histaires
Ailette
Mangin
Tenth
Crecy-au-Mont
Juvigny
Terny-Serny
Seuilly
British attack presses toward Hindenburg line in France
British forces launched a morning assault south of the Scarpe River with strong units from Bullecourt and Hendecourt. The advance began at 5 am and aimed to break through the five heavily wired German trench lines, threatening the Hindenburg line from rear and flank. Reports on results were unavailable at press time as fierce fighting continued.
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France
Scarpe River
Erman
Bullecourt
Hendecourt
Oroughtop
Hindenburg Line
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Russia
U.S
Ways and Means
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Peron
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Ates
Bethancourt
By Athur
Ss. Diane
Isix
Quéant-Drocourt
Wotan
Klanders
Foch
Ludendorff
Laon
Ford
Noyon
Rupprecht
von Boehn
Ludendorf
Hapaume- Cambrai Road
Arteus
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Oise
Chemin de Ames
Chemin Des Dames
Soisgons
Anzy-le-Chateau
John Muir & Co
Ding
Flanders
Mack
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