British and Italian War News Summary and Front Reports
British shipping losses report 20 ships over 1600 tons sunk by mine or submarine in the past week with three under 1600 tons. fishing vessels also sunk and attacks noted. Italian front updates claim renewed battle on the Julian front, capture of Austrian position on the Bainsizza plateau near Acrogale, and 86 officers plus 1,600 men captured from ten regiments.
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London
Julian
Bainsizza
Acrogale
Gerogle
Gorizia
Holland seeks lifting of embargo on Dutch exports
A Dutch special commission arrives in Atlantic port to plead Holland's cause and press negotiations in Washington. The mission reports on the Dutch food situation as cereals spoil and stresses the need to ship grain, amid U S plans to curb exports to the enemy without harming Holland.
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Netherlands
Atlantic
Holland
Washington
van Elde
Dutch Graty Bureau
J. B. van der Tlouwen van Cordt
Council of India
American jurists advocate reforms in war era rules
The American Bar Association at its Saratoga Springs session denounced German war methods as illegal and urged judges to write shorter opinions. It authorized further investigation of a proposal to change the presidential inauguration date, opposed repeal of the national bankruptcy law, and supported the technical error bill before the Senate to allow appellate courts to ignore non substantial errors. Action on a new bar admission standard was deferred. the report disapproved requiring a year in a law office after graduation.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
American Bar Association
Germany
Rey
United States Senate
United States
War Bond Bill Fight in House and Senate Tax Debate
Washington reports a lengthy House clash over the $11.5 billion war bond certificate bill with Republicans opposing centralized treasury control of loans. Senate action endorses a finance committee plan for war profits taxation totaling about $1.286 billion, with possible further tax changes and higher rates.
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Washington
House
Secretary of the Treasury
War Expenditure Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
Bankhead
Borah
Gronna
Johnson
California
la Follette
Underwood
Vardaman
Ashurst
Beckham
Broussard
Chamberlain
Fletcher
Hollis
Hasting
South Dakota
King
Kirby
McKellar
Myers
Overman
Phelan
Shafroth
Sheppard
Thompson
Trammell
Jury selection begins in Villisca axe murder case
Nine jurors were tentatively seated in the Lynn G. J. Kelly murder trial as juror selection continued after adjournment. Judge W. D. Boies ruled on a defense objection while fifteen prospective jurors were examined, six excused for cause, and both sides hold ten peremptory challenges.
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Red Oak
Towa
Lynn G. J. Kelly
Villisca
W. D. Boies
Sheldon
Town
Ase
World Series May Start Saturday October 6
Chicago news reports that the national baseball commission will meet in Cincinnati on September 20 to decide details for the world series. President Johnson says there is a strong chance the series will begin in Chicago on Saturday October 6 if Chicago is the American league contender. The first game location may be decided by coin toss, though the National League could agree to start in the west to allow a Sunday game.
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Chicago
National Baseball Commission
Cincinnati
Johnson
Cain
Peace Meeting in Vienna to discuss internal and foreign policy
A Weser Zeitung dispatch from Budapest says Austrian and Hungarian delegations will meet in Vienna in November to discuss internal and foreign politics and the question of peace. Far reaching decisions will probably be taken, it is rated.
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Vienna
Amsterdam
Weser Zeitung
Budapest
War Moves in Europe
British ship losses for the week reported by the admiralty total 20 vessels over 1600 tons and 3 smaller vessels. Italians resume battle on the Julian front and capture an Austrian position with 86 officers and 1600 men taken prisoner. Austrian and Hungarian delegations will meet in Vienna in November to discuss peace and foreign policy. Holland’s food relief mission to plead for Dutch vessels held in American ports arrives in the United States to appear before the food board in Washington. German airplanes in a second raid over England kill 11 and injure 62. Russians retreat eastward from Riga as Berlin claims the coast siege guns remain intact.
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Admiralty
Julian Front
Holland
United States
Washington
England
Riga
Berlin
No Regulations for Appeals to Wilson
Washington Sept 6 The White House will not issue any special regulations for appeals to the President from district draft exemption board decisions for the present Provost Marshal General Crowder told state governors that appealed cases should go from district boards to state headquarters for transmission to the provost marshal for action The governors were also notified that drafted men at points outside the state may be assigned to the cantonment of their temporary residence when returning to the proper precinct would cause great and unusual hardships
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Washington
White House
Crowder
Frankfort Cartridge Under Fire
Secretary Baker ordered a special two civilian one army officer committee to investigate defective ammunition at the Frankfort arsenal. Civilians Dr. H. T. Talbot MIT and Dr. Parsons, with Major General Scott naming the army member, will report on the completeness of the army inquiry. Baker said only deterioration caused the defect and the powder formula was changed with no further trouble anticipated.
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Kitchin
Nevensky
Moore
Pennsylvania
McAdoo
Fordney
Michigan
Oman
Washington
Frankfort Arsenal
Army
Baker
H. T. Talbot
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parsons
Bureau of Mines
Scott
Senate Military Committee
War taxes on profits outline Senate bill yields
The Washington report lists graduated rates for war profits with revenue estimates: 12 percent up to 15 percent excess profits yielding 100,080,000. 16 percent 16–25 percent 46,080,000. 20 percent 25–50 percent 109,000,000. 25 percent 50–73 percent 101,000,000. 30 percent 75–100 percent 58,200,000. 35 percent 100–150 percent 120,050,000. 40 percent 150–200 percent 102,000,000. 45 percent 200–250 percent 84,150,000. 50 percent 250–300 percent 72,500,000. 60 percent above 300 percent 462,990,000.
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Borah
Brady
Grenna
Johnson
California
Jones
Washington
Kenyon
LaFollette
McNary
Nortis
Sutherland
Simmons
House
Senate
Swiss Trade Accord Allows Steel And Coal Exports
Berne Sept. 6 The Swiss German economic convention ratified by both sides runs to April 1918 with two months notice for withdrawal. Germany will permit monthly exports of 200000 tons coal and 19000 tons iron and steel, while Switzerland will grant Germany a monthly credit of 20000000 francs for coal payments, backed by Swiss banks and three month bills endorsed by a first German bank.
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Berne
Germany
Switzerland
Gerade Gaerman Bank
Take Alien Pastor to Federal Prison
United States Marshal Flynn of Omaha and deputies on September 6 took Rev William WKrauletdix, former pastor of a German Lutheran church at Riverdale, Nebraska, to Fort Riley, Kansas, for internment for the duration of the war. Also moved were Fred Mittendorf of Tiyannis, Ned and Kerre Wilckens of Bisbee, Arizona, to Fort Douglas, Utah, for internment. Wilckens is a member of the WW.
Red Cross boosts near east relief with $300000 grant
Washington September 6 The Red Cross war council announced a second appropriation of 300000 dollars for relief work in the near east through the American commission for Armenian and Syrian relief. Estimates show more than 2000000 persons in western Asia could be saved by direct and continued aid from America. The committee has distributed about 3700000 dollars.
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Washington
Red Cross War Council
Near East
American Commission For
Western Asia
America
Government to fix retail coal prices under wartime plan
Washington outlines coal control policy with early price fixing for communities and local committees to enforce. The fuel administration aims to prod production and fair distribution to producers and consumers while supplying coal to the army, navy, and neighbors abroad.
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Washington
H. A. Garfield
Canada
Cuba
South America
Rocal
Federal Trade Commission
U S Marshals Crackdown on pacifist groups in war effort
In a government action led by Attorney General Gregory, U S marshals raided I W W and Socialist Party headquarters across multiple cities to seize documents and arrest leaders as part of a federal grand jury probe. Chicago raids targeted I W W and Socialist Party offices while eight raids occurred, with William D Haywood detained briefly.
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Washington
Industrial Workers of the World
Socialist Party
United States
Gregory
Chicago
Department of Justice
Grand
Wilson
Covington
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
West
Northwest
Idaho National Guardsmen
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
William D. Haywood
The
TW. Wo
Llaywood
Ins
Ralph L. Chaplain
Solidarity
TL Wlw
Harrison George
Fee Solidarity
W. W
Vincent St. John
John Parley
LWW
American Socialist
Rogers Hall Co
Haywood
Federal Building
J. Louis Enedahl
Socialist
Supreme Court of the Disstrict of Columbia
W. S. Furkeshaw
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
German War Office
Labor Foe Pacifism as War Support by Gompers Keynote
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, urged unwavering government support for the war and attacked pacifist and pro German elements. He spoke at the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy conference where he was named permanent chairman, with leaders like Frank Morrison and J Louis Enedahl noted among attendees. The event aimed to Americanize labor and curb antiwar activities while warnings of disloyalty echoed through the proceedings.
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Minneapolis
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
United Support of
Organized Labor
American Alliance For Labor and Democracy
Gompers
Socialist Party
John Shargo
Socists Party
Mn Gompers
Frank Morrison
T. J. Mead
Maryland
People's Council of America For Democracy
C. F. Kruze
International Brotherhood Welfare Association
Mahler Barnes
D. Shier
Mr. Gompers
People's Council
Frank P. Walsh
Kansas City
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Wisconsin
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Europe
Frankfort
Name Board of
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Fuel Administration
U.S
LABOR
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