30 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
1
London reports from British headquarters in France say stormy weather continues with nothing of special interest to report. In Berlin the latest general headquarters statement notes no large scale fighting operations. No further combat details available.
Topeka August 30 John Mohler secretary of agriculture announces Kansas will harvest about 110 million bushels of corn this year from 9,207,000 acres. The forecast exceeds the 1916 crop by 48 million bushels.
Washington reports that Argentina abandons hope for Allied support after Germany agrees to indemnities for a sunk Argentine boat and pledges not to target Argentines. Berlin’s influence grows through agents in Buenos Aires while Brazil renews alliance actions. Argentina's stance risks upsetting regional dynamics as pro allied sentiment spreads among its people.
Washington Aug 30 The administration soldiers and sailors insurance bill, a war time substitute for pensions, was favorably reported by a House committee. It cuts optional insurance to 5000 and ends widow allowances on remarriage. It covers dependents, death and disability compensation, and training costs, with estimated administration costs of 176 million and 380 million for the first two years.
Washington reports the 11.5 billion dollar war bond and certificate bill faces delay as the Ways and Means Committee makes little progress. Secretary McAdoo is pressed for hours on fiscal relations with allies while Republicans push to curb foreign bond sales. Debate resumes with demand for dollar-for-dollar loan security.
Washington Aug 30 The wheat price committee again failed to agree on a 1917 crop price after an all day session. Chairman Dr H A Garfield said the committee weighed every consideration and would reconvene. Reports say a three quarters vote is needed and producers push for a higher figure. If no agreement, two figures may be sent to President Wilson for decision. The 15 members include Charles Barrett Eugene Funk Edward Land JF Shorthill L J Tabor Henry Waters W N Doak R G Rhett James Sullivan F W Taussig and Theodore ail.
Open air meeting at 35th and Broadway by Friends of Irish Freedom triggers the city’s most serious street uproar since free speech clashes began. About 5 000 in crowd, police fight through to take prisoners to night court as reserves are called. Stephen Johnson and John D Moore among those arrested.
London reports a weekly admiralty statement showing eighteen British ships over 1,600 tons sunk last week by mines or submarines, up from fifteen the prior week, with five sub-1,600 ton ships down from three and no fishing vessels lost. Italian losses for the week ending Aug 26 include one large steamer, two small steamers, and two small sailing vessels, with one steamer unsuccessfully attacked.
The disloyalty within the Russian forces in Galicia Bukowina and Moldavia persists as regiments abandon trenches and retreat southward. Berlin reports heavy Russian losses including over 1000 prisoners and multiple guns. Kerensky pledges revolution protections amid ongoing Franco Belgian weather and Italian Austrian clashes with more than 1000 prisoners captured.
Washington reports a government plan to divert nearly all export foodstuffs to Europe through gulf and south Atlantic ports. The Shipping Board will cooperate with shippers, owners and port authorities and name a general traffic director likely Benjamin L. Winchell. Plan aims for winter implementation to ease eastern rail and port congestion and increase railway efficiency by 25 to 30 percent.
Ottawa report lists W R H Gregory of Jonesboro among the wounded in the Canadian overseas forces casualty list dated August 30. The item identifies Gregory as wounded and provides his hometown, highlighting the local impact of the war.
In Moscow, Premier Kerensky closes the national conference declaring the provisional government will guard the revolution and oppose any counter revolutionary attempts. He praises the revolutionary democracy for seizing power at a critical moment and asserts the people now hold the conquests as public property.
President Wilson approves estimates from the Navy Department to spend 350 million dollars on new destroyers to combat German submarines. Congress will be asked to authorize 220 million for building plants and expansion. The plan aims to place a major engine plant inland to speed production and reach new labor centers. The program promises a stronger destroyer force with standard designs reflecting Admiral Sims’s recommendations.
One hundred fifty six African American soldiers of the 24th U. S. infantry, brought from Columbus New Mexico, were placed in the Fort Bliss stockade and likely to face court martial for mutiny in time of war related to last week’s riot in Houston. Civil trial fate of indicted prisoners remains uncertain.
New York reports the British steamship Assyra of 6,370 tons gross has been sunk by a German submarine. Agents say no details on the crew’s fate. The vessel sailed from an American port for England in late July.
Berlin and Vienna have finished talks on Pope Benedict XV peace note and wait on Turkey via Tekey as central powers prepare to respond. In Washington, Wilson’s rejection of the pope’s proposals draws mixed reactions from ententes, with speculation on motives and potential shifts in German politics.
A New York World editorial lauds Wilson as the great interpreter of democracy and praises his Vatican note as an emancipation for German and other peoples. It argues peace must rest on peoples’ rights and equality, not governments, and warns that without this, all is lost to humanity. Other papers echo that there can be no peace with Prussian autocracy and endorse Wilson’s stance against the Vatican proposal.
Testimony will be presented Thursday before a federal grand jury in Danville IL charging several East St. Louis businessmen with receiving stolen property. More than 12 men are alleged gang members in a box car theft ring. About $30,000 of goods including tobacco cigars coal and feed were stolen from Fast St. Louis yards during a month long federal probe.
In Greensboro North Carolina on August 30, cotton mill interests opened an injunction case in federal court challenging the federal child labor law. Attorneys argued the statute violates the constitution and intrudes on states’ rights in a suit brought by a father against the district attorney to prevent his local mill from discharging two minor sons whose wages he claimed.
United States production of gold and silver valued at 141,543,200 dollars for the calendar year 19R. Reported production in 21 states totaled 92,500,300 dollars. The figures, released in Washington, indicate regional distribution and value.
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