Railroads refuse livestock embargo as strike looms
Chicago July 28. Nineteen Chicago railroads threaten disruption as 2,500 switchmen of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen prepare to strike at six a m Saturday. Embargo on livestock and perishable fruit to and through Chicago to protect railroads' property.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
Frank Haster
Committee of
Railroad General Managers
Haster
Thompson
Trager
Schuettler
George F. Hanover
Conference Committee
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Switchmen's Union
Marrick
James Murdock
The
Brotherhood
Mr. Murdock
Armed Guards Fail to Halt Chester Race Riot
In Chester Pennsylvania on Friday night a mob of several thousand beat a Black man nearly to death before police rescued him. Two other Black men were seriously wounded as guards patrolled the business district. Sheriff Heyburg ordered indoors after 9 pm and all saloons closed as violence flared for a fourth time that week.
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Chester
Frank Meadows
Heyburg
First flour cargo arrives at Atlantic port
The first cargo of flour from Australia to reach this port arrived Friday aboard a Swedish steamer. The shipment totaled 7,500 tons and was promptly signed to a British agency.
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Atlantic Port
Atlantic
Australia
Evacuation Rumors as Russians Withdraw From Czernowitz
Reports from Vienna claim Austrian capital newspapers say Russian forces are evacuating Czernowitz, Bukowina’s capital, prompting city residents to welcome women. A Petrograd dispatch notes Vera Butchkareff and Sarydlova from the Russian women battalion were injured and evacuated to Mintsk, then Poltava, greeted by 100,000 locals. accounts say women attacked Germans after male soldiers deserted, with captors surprised by their gender.
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Copenhagen
Vienna
Czernowitz
Bukowina
London
Petrograd
Vera Butchkareff
Sarydlova
Mintsk
Poltava
Eastern Galicia Front in World War I Developments
The Russian retirement in eastern Galicia continues as Austro German forces gain in the south near the Carpathians while Russians resist near Tarnopol and the Sereth. Bavarian and Austro Hungarians seize Kolome and push toward Czernowitz as Rumanian actions in Suchitza valley advance. Western front sees limited infantry fighting, Romanians capture 400 prisoners, and French repulse crown prince attacks in Champagne. Entente decides to press war until goals are met and to withdraw forces from Greece, Thessaly and Epirus, reshaping Balkans frontiers while Macedonia and Albania remain active.
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Galicia
Dniester
Carpathaing
Tarnopol
Leopold
Sereth
Trembowla
Skoromocze
Pruth
Czernawita
Suchitza
Foc- Sanit
Putna
Flanders
Champagne
la Basseeville
Moronvilliers
Auberive
Conference of Powers
Paris
Greece
Thessaly
Epirus
Macedonia
Albania
Balkans
Deluge of Personal Pleas Flood Office of General Crowder
Washington July 28 a flood of personal inquiries and pleas from industrial concerns for exemption of their expert workers led the provost marshal's office to state that questions must go to local boards and that industrial exemption claims go to district boards The announcement stressed no general exemption and outlined the jurisdiction and timing for discharge or exemption claims Workers are advised to apply to their local exemption board and specify the correct district board before seeking examination or exemption directions in writing.
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Washington
Wilson
Upper
New York City
Captain thanks Americans for rescue of torpedoed liner
The liner’s captain asked the Associated Press to relay a letter of thanks to the American people. He and 60 passengers and 90 crew were rescued by an American destroyer in British waters. The destroyer officers refused a purse, saying they were only doing their duty, a record recovery for one ship by an American destroyer since the fleet arrived.
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Associated Press
Mail Master Lists From Springfield
Springfield Illinois July 28 Mast er lists of men registered under the selective draft law were sent to all exemption boards by Adjutant General Dickson. Exemption board members aged 21 to 31 will be excused from duty on exemption boards. War Department informed Gen. Dickson.
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Springfield
Illinois
Dickson
Washington
War Department
Poles Will Resist German Bank Plan
Zurich July 28 The Zeit of Vienna reports four large Berlin banks have set up branches in Russian Poland and are concentrating capital to loan on a large scale with aims to monopolize trade and industry there. The Poles are organizing to resist the German plan.
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Zurich
Zeit
Vienna
Berlin
Russian Poland
Poland
Indict Ferguson On Nine Counts In Texas Indictment
Governor Ferguson was indicted by a Travis county grand jury on nine counts seven for misapplication of public funds one for diversion and one for embezzlement. He announced his candidacy for a third term. Also indicted were C. J. Bartlett six counts C. J. Stowe one count and C. O. Austin four counts. Total sums cited include 101,336 from Colquitt and 42,981 in other misapplications. Bonds set at 5,000 for Ferguson and 1,000 for each co defendants.
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Austin
Texas
Ferguson
Travis County Grand Jury
C. J. Bartlett
C. J. Stowe
Temple
Tex
State Bank
O. B. Colquitt
Fergnson
West Texas Normal School
Canyon City
Colquitt
Temple State Bank
Fergusott
Austin and
Bartlett
Store
Strike Tensions Close Springfield Street Car Service
Springfield IL July 28 police and guards clash with street car workers as 107 men join a new Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. Cars stopped, guards ride trains, a conductor is assaulted, a woman passenger injured. Union vows rapid membership growth while management declines talks.
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Springfield
Court House
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
A. D. Mackie
Springfield Consolidated Railway Company
Another Increase in War Risk Insurance Rates
Washington July 28 The War Risk Bureau announced an increase of one and a half percent in government insurance rates for vessels and cargoes sailing from American ports to Europe and African ports on the Mediterranean. The rate rises to six and a half percent, effective August 15, the first raise since U.S. entry into the war, due to heavier losses in the war zone.
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Washington
Europe
Mediterranean
War Risk Bureau
United States
Five Leadville Mines to Close Shafts Over Labor Strike
Leadville Colo July 28 three major mining firms in the Leadville district said Friday night they will close the shafts of five of the field’s largest metal mines pending a settlement of labor difficulties.
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Eadville
Colo
Leadville
Jewish regiment formed with officers in high command
London reports a war officer announces a special Jewish infantry regiment with experienced officers in higher command. The regimental badge will imitate King David's shield and symbolize its heritage.
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London
Major Tries to Get Reduced to Join Expedition
SAN FRANCISCO July 28 An Army officer seeks demotion to join an expedition. Dr P S Chancellor Chicago a major in the medical reserve corps previously ranked officer at the University of Illinois base hospital in France for eight months. Returning home he seeks a captaincy due to no room on the San Francisco city and county hospital unit staff under Dr Joseph Cotton.
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San Francisco
P. S
Chicago
Medical Reserve Corps
University of Mllinois
France
San Francisco City and County
Joseph Cotton
Government trains will be hastened in wartime effort
Washington July 28 Plans by which railroads will give the government ample freight car service for moving war supplies were announced Friday by the railroads war board. When orders require more than ten cars for movement, advance notice goes to the railroads' car service commission which will arrange cars at the proper time. More than 100,000 cars may be needed in the coming months to ship lumber and other army and shipyard supplies. Railroads are to forbid shippers from using government ordered cars for nonorder supplies. To speed shipments, cars will be marked United States freight expedite or similar notice.
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Washington
Railroads’ War Board
Commission On Car Service
Car Board
United States
Airplanes Blown to Sea Rescue Efforts Across Storm
Boston July 28 Aviators from the government training station at Squantum faced an electrical storm that struck Friday over the city and harbor two planes were blown seaward in heavy rain squall naval patrol boats searched nearby waters the missing men reportedly returned with identity and damage details withheld one boat rescued an aviator from Quincy Bay three persons killed and wide property damage from the storm spanning from this city to Portland Maine
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Boston
Squantum
Quincy Bay
Portland
May Invite Probe in Goal Situation
May invite federal help as soft coal operators travel to Washington to press for intervention in Illinois coal pricing. They plan meetings with C. M. Moderwell and Secretary Lane to seek support for Peabody committee price reductions and possibly request a Federal Trade Commission inquiry. They argue state council of defense pricing stays within state borders while claiming actions elsewhere could mirror Illinois trends.
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Chicago
Soft Coal Operators’ Association
Washington
Illinois
State Council of Defense
C. M. Moderwell
National Committee On Coal Production
Lane
Peabody
Federal Trade Commission
State Council
Vlinois
Youth On The Farm Training Conference In New York
Federal and state cooperation in training the nation's youth for farm labor was discussed at a conference led by W. E. Hall of the United States Boys' Working Reserve. A resolution urged Hall to appoint a committee to extend the campaign nationwide. Speakers called for camps in modern farming methods, supply camps, cooperation camps, and day work camps.
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New York
W. E. Hall
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
Department of Labor
Hall
New War Revenues Sought to Meet Rising Costs
The administration told Congress in July that war costs for the coming year could reach 15.0 billion dollars with $7.0 billion in new revenues needed. Bond issues and treasury certificates are expected to offset most expenditures, while taxation may provide about 2.0 billion. The War Department requests 8.67 billion, Navy 1.32 billion, and the Shipping Board 0.98 billion in appropriations, with total requests at 11.65 billion, and potential loans pushing total funding above 16 billion if allies’ loans continue.
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Washington
Congress
Treasury
National Army
War Department
Navy
Shipping Board
McAdoo
House Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committees
Navy Department
Progress in conference on food control bill
Washington July 28 Senate and house conferees on the food control bill made substantial progress and appeared near complete agreement. They virtually agreed to drop the joint committee on war expenditures and to allow the president to fix coal and coke prices and take over the mines. They also neared consent on contracts for government work by the defense council’s advisers amid liquor amendment talks and possible whiskey ban.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congressional Joint Committee On
Wilson
Defense Council
Congress
Houses
List of Commissions Sent to Washington Fort Sheridan
The list of those who will receive commissions at the reserve officers training camp here has been completed and forwarded to Washington. Final approval will be given there by the War Department, which will notify the successful candidates.
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Fort Sheridan
Til
Washington
War Department
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General Crowder
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