War department urges draft boards to act for nation not individuals
A War Department broadcast to local draft exemption boards warns they are not courts but government agents. Provost Marshal General Crowder says boards must decide impartially in the nation’s interest, with minimal praise and potential blame, while President Wilson calls for careful exemption affidavits to keep essential workers in national defense.
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Washington
War Department
General Crowder
Wilson
Wife and daughter held in death of man found in Kahoka Creek
Mrs Ida Snow and her daughter Hester Snow were jailed in Edwardsville Illinois after identifying a ax and shoe last used to weight down the body of Ja cob Snow. The missing husband was found dead July 1 near Kahoka Creek five miles west of Edwardsville. They accuse Frank Snow, 31, nephew of the deceased, who is being sought. The family was en route to Arkansas. a two year old son remains with Mrs Snow in jail.
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ST. Louis
Ida Snow
Hester Snow
Edwardsville
Conscription Call For Fit Horses From City Stables
W Horace Hoskins dean of the New York state veterinary college urged army conscription of all usable horses in major cities. He told Major Gerald Griffin head of the army veterinary service that ownership or prize ribbons should not matter for service.
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New York
W. Horace Hoskins
New York State Veterinary College
New York University
Gerald E. Griffin
Army Veterinary Service
Washington
Deserter Daniel Wallace Arrested for Traitorous Utterances
Daniel H. Wallace was bound over to the federal grand jury in Ottumwa for traitorous utterances at a Davenport lecture. He is jailed in Davenport on $8,000 bonds as witnesses testified and the case may lead to his return to England to face desertion charges and possible execution in the Tower of London.
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Davenport
Iowa
Daniel H. Wallace
Federal Grand Jury
Ottumwa
Wallace
J. W. Cooper
C. W. Jones
R. W. Cram
The
Democrat
Robert Klauer
Times
England
Tower of London
Springfield sheriff orders cars stored at barns at night
Sheriff J A Wheeler ordered all street cars stored at 6 30 each night in Springfield to curb street unrest during a strike. A D Mackie, general manager, was told cars would be kept in barns until conditions improve. Union operatives plan a move Monday but offers to recognize a local unit were rejected. 100 deputies on duty and precautions taken downtown.
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Sprincefield
Wil
Springfield
J. A. Wheeler
A. D. Mackie
Mackie
Amalgamated Association of Electric Trainmen
T. J. Condon
Moday
New York
Hadenpy-Hardy Corporation
Springfield Company
Wheeler
Few Government Men Exempt From Draft
Washington July 20 Very few employed in civil government branches will be exempt from the draft under a ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder The White House secretary TuMulty is the only exempted official though he was over registration age Most executive department workers including clerks and stenographers will be liable for service The ruling draws the line tightly across all departments with only executive heads exempted
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Washington
Crowder
White House
Walk Thirty Miles in Heat Lands Slackers in Jail
Antonio and Gustavo Barro, both under 31, walked 80 miles in 90 degree heat from Farmington to Peoria to ask U S authorities about selective service registration. Officials ruled they should have papers and jailed them.
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Peoria
Antonio
Gustavo Barro
Farmington
United States
Selective Service Army
Hoover cites resources and will to win war
In a Saturday Night statement in Washington Herbert Hoover argues America will win the war through superior resources and mass voluntary effort. He cites 2,000,000 women enrolled in the food administration, plans for more, and a large rise in canning and home conservation while warning against waste and delay.
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Washington
America
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Germany
Mr. Hoover
The
Food Administration
Europe
United States
Efforts to Solve Mysterious Farm Murder Stall
Police report progress in the Hal St. Clair farm murder near Marlin Texas with three suspects under surveillance and one arrested Black man in custody. Authorities say he confessed and implicated two white men, but no identities or details have been released.
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Marlin
Texas
Hal St. Clair
Here
Platt
Fails County
Tia
Amexes Named for American Expeditionary Force in France
Paris reports American troops in France have adopted the sobriquet Amexes. The term is formed from the first two syllables of American Expedition and was coined by Pershing's men. The French troops working with them also use the name and are expected to keep it.
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Paris
France
Pershing
Senate Finance Panel Seeks War Tax Increase Toward Two Billion
The Senate finance committee tentatively agreed to raise the war tax bill from 1.67 billion to about 1.94 billion dollars with income taxes bearing most of the rise. The plan envisions individual rates from 2 to 5 percent and corporate from 4 to 6 percent, plus possible excess profits and excise taxes. The committee will leave further funding to the House to reach roughly seven billion in wartime revenue, with action expected by Tuesday and debate by week’s end.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Kitchin
Senate Committee
Treasury
Simmons
Two Others Killed in Chester Rioting
In Chester Pennsylvania on Saturday night a deputy sheriff named David Schwartz and an unidentified Black man were shot and killed during a clash in the Negro section. The violence followed days of disturbances as police and guards remained on duty to prevent further disorder.
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Chester
David Schwartz
McKinney
McDowell
Schwarts
Schwartz
Paris Paris raid tests German attack in force over city
German planes raided Paris at 11 PM, dropping two bombs as observers heard a motor and an explosion. Firemen sounded alarms while residents watched planes overhead. By 1:10 AM the danger was over and Parisians returned to bed amid alerts and dead street lamps.
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Paris
London
War Industries Board Created to Oversee War Purchases
Washington announces reorganization of the U S war purchase system through a new War Industries Board. The board will supervise buying and set production priorities, determine industry expansion, and fix prices for government payment. Members include Frank Scott Bernard Baruch Hugh Frayne Robert S Brookings Lovett E Pierce and Rear Admiral Fletcher. Herbert Hoover part of the government purchasing commission under the board.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Council of National Defense
Frank Scott
Cleveland
Bernard M. Baruch
New York
Council
Hugh Frayne
Labor
Robert S. Brookings
St. Louis
Robert S. Lovett
Union Pacific System
E. Pierce
Army
Frank F. Fletcher
Navy
Herbert Hoover
Government Purchasing Commission
Aged Minister of Methodism Dead in Pasadena
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Bayless Hughes died in Pasadena at age 81. A longtime Methodist Episcopal minister, he served 60 years and helped found two sons who became bishops Edwin Holt Hughes of Boston and Matthew Simpson Hughes of Portland. He entered ministry in 1858 with the West Virginia conference, moved to Iowa in 1884, and retired in 1907. His widow survives him.
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Pasadena
Cal
Thomas Bayless Hughes
Edwin Holt Hughes
Boston
Matthew Simpson Hughes
Portland
Ore
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hughes
West Virginia
Iowa
Thirty Thousand Women Register for Hoover Food Pledge
In St Louis on July 29 thirty thousand women registered for national service and signed the Hoover food pledge. They listed training and the work they could perform if called upon in an emergency.
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ST. Louis
War Front Shifts as Russian Retreat and Allied Advances Reported
The report covers Russian retreat across Volhynia toward Galicia while Russian and Romanian forces push along the western Moldavian frontier. German and Austro-Hungarian troops advance toward Czernowitz near Kolomea, with Romanian troops occupying Beresizi and Russians pressing near the Putna river. Generals Ruzsky and Gurko are summoned to Petrograd as signs of reorganization appear. In Flanders the British front endures a massive artillery barrage with German counter fire suspected to be occurring.
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Volhynia
Beng
New Fokshani
Rumania
Galicia
Petrograd
Carpathians
Berlin
Prith Plateau
Kolomea
Czernowitz
Mester
Kezedi Vasarhely
Transylvania
Beresizi
Kalzkul
Putna
Doduple
Ruzsky
Gurko
Flanders
Founder of Navy Training System Dies at 90
Newport R I July 20 Rear Admiral Stephen B Luce founder of the naval war college and a chief advocate for the naval training system died at his home here Saturday aged 90. Admiral Luce retired from active service on March 25 1889.
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Newport
R. I
Stephen B. Luce
Naval War College
Naval Training System
Admiral Luce
Baby Bollinger's Death Linked to Mother's Passing
Chicago report ties the death of Anna Bollinger to the prior death of Baby Bollinger, the infant whom Dr. Haiselden did not save at the German American Hospital in 1915. The mother allegedly sank into melancholy after her child's death, said husband A Bottinger, a repair foreman on Lincoln Avenue cars.
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Chicago
Baby Bollinger
H. J. Haiselden
Anna Bolli
Bottinger
Linecoln
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