Aerial Service Plan Provides For 22 000 Planes
Washington July 22 The senate passed a house bill appropriating 640 million dollars for an aviation service amid brief debate. The plan calls for about 22 000 airplanes and nearly 100 000 men with construction focused on student planes. The president is expected to sign Monday as draft opposition and aliens conscription debates continue.
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Prohibition Clauses Stop Whiskey Manufacture Unchanged
Washington July 22 The administration food control bill passed the Senate 81 to 6 after five weeks of bitter contest with major reforms extending federal power over foods feeds and fuels and including a minimum $2 per bushel wheat price. The measure, now a joint house senate effort, seeks broader control of coal pricing and mine operation and calls for a three member food board. Senate provisions limit licensing to certain interstate commerce players and authorize military related requisitioning. A joint congressional committee to oversee war expenditures is added, while defense and procurement provisions evolve through conference.
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Twenty Hurt as Cars Tried in Riots in Seattle
In Seattle on July 22 a riot in the business district left 20 injured from flying stones and bricks as Puget Sound Traction Light and Power attempted to operate streetcars. Sixteen hundred platform men had struck for union recognition. Police charged the mob. 22 arrests were made. Also, sixteen policemen who resisted ride-alongs were arrested on malfeasance charges with bail set at 500 dollars. Locals show unions gaining footholds as firemen organize under a Washington DC based Central Labor Union.
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Chicago hospital unit mustered into federal service
Field hospital unit No. 4 commanded by Major J. J. McKinley was inspected and mustered into federal service in Chicago on Saturday. Captain Edward Hubert of the army medical corps oversaw the muster in the civic ceremony.
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Russian Retreats and German Advances Across Fronts
Russians pull back along a 25 mile front from Zlochoff to Tarnopol as German forces press forward. Berlin reports village burnings during the retreat while Petrograd notes a pause on a definite line. In other sectors Germans recapture positions north of Brzezany and take Babin and Novica heights. LaFayette squadron flies 14 patrols with 67 planes, engaging in 15 air duels. several German aircraft damaged, one believed destroyed.
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Track Star Drawn for First Draft Exam
St Louis Missouri July 22 Grant Wyatt University of Missouri star quarter mile runner drawn for examination for the first section of the general army in the army draft Saturday.
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Correct Tally Sheets Lists Ready Tuesday
Washington July 22 Readers are told that Crowder's office completed the drawing fixing the order of liability for 10,000,000 registrants. The lists were compared and corrected, and copies will reach local exemption boards by Tuesday to begin summoning the first draft of 687,000 men.
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Court Plaster Contamination Probed by Justice Dept
Washington reports the Justice Department will investigate claims that enemy agents distributed poison laced court plasters in a western state. Official samples are being analyzed in Washington and a western city, and the public is urged to use only remedies from approved suppliers until more information is available.
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Churchill urges global peoples to end autocracy
In Dundee on July 22 Winston Churchill now minister of munitions urged his constituents that the commonwealth must drive to end military autocratic tyranny. He warned a failed victory or inconclusive peace would leave Germany strong under autocracy and urged holding on until the United States joins the struggle for a complete victory. England stands at the center of a league of nations and failure would endanger all.
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Miners Warn of Serious Situation in Globe and Bisbee
Miners from Globe and Miami report a growing crisis with bitter feeling between Industrial Workers of the World members and others. They say trouble may erupt around August 1 when federal troops withdraw, and some miners are leaving to escape possible unrest.
Wilson Intervenes in Shipping Row Over Shipbuilding
Washington on July 22 President Wilson decided to intervene in the shipbuilding dispute between Chairman Denman of the Shipping Board and Gen. Goethals manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation The move aims to end a stalemate that halted the government’s ship program after Goethals warned of resignation if action failed The president may ask Goethals for more time to study the situation and provide detailed plans while Denman sought clarity on spending plans for the millions of dollars allocated to the fleet program
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Villa and Troops Move on Torreon
Six thousand men under Francisco Villa and Canuto Reyes advance on Torreon on July 22. Jiminez, 131 miles north of Torreon, was evacuated by rebels as Gen. Francisco Murguia shifts his headquarters from Chihuahua City. capture would isolate northern Mexico from the capital. Reyes, with about a thousand men, linked to the Felix Diaz movement in Oaxaca.
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Lloyd George denounces German chant as sham in Belgium anniversary
London July 22 British prime minister David Lloyd George condemns Dr George Michaelis speech as sham democracy and warns Germany against underestimating Britain and America. He asserts Britain can seek peace only with a free Germany, notes Britain’s sustained war effort, and sees Europe sacrificing millions for genuine liberty, not sham independence.
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