War Secretary Proposes Set of Questions for Deferred Classification
War Secretary Baker disclosed draft regulations to replace registrant claimed deferment with a question based system. He urged extending selective service to ages 18 to 45 and hinted marriage could itself create a deferment. He noted no plan to expand work or fight orders to professional classes.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Baker
Senate Military Committee
Senate Committee
General March
Crowder
AUTO MAKERS ON WAR BASIS
Washington report states the War Industries Board urges passenger automobile manufacturers to convert plants to 100 percent war work by January 1 1919 to safeguard their industry and the organizations. The directive follows Hugh Chalmers proposal to cut output 50 percent due to material shortages. Pending sworn inventories requested July 16 no materials will be allocated to passenger car makers.
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Washington, D. C
War Industries Board
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Hugh Chalmers
To Save Baggage Space
Washington advises manufacturers to limit trunks to 40 inches in height or length and to restrict traveling bags and suitcases to 14 to 28 inches, removing partitions false bottoms and extra compartments to free space in baggage cars for the army.
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Washington, D. C
Army
Conservation Division of the
War Industries Board
Record of July air losses and downed planes
Paris reports an official tally for July showing 338 enemy aircraft destroyed. It notes 154 planes observed falling inside enemy lines and 15 damaged by aircraft gunfire, indicating substantial air gains.
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Paris
Global and Domestic Crises Highlight Turbulent Era News
A roundup of incidents and statements from Joliet to Argo Indiana and New York covers a deadly freight collision near Springfield, a trolley crash near Chicago, naval and aviation milestones, indictments of German government officials, shipyard fires, a record de Havilland flight, labor disputes, bread shortages in Moscow and Petrograd, and executions by Bolsheviks, reflecting widespread upheaval.
National War Labor Board Rules on Bethlehem Steel Case
The board grants Bethlehem Steel workers the right to organize and sets an eight hour day with time and a half for overtime and double time on Sundays. Street car workers in 19 cities receive substantial pay raises, with increases between 30 and 40 percent for most routes.
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National War Labor Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
Washington
Church Devotional Teachings On Pentecost Growth And Deacons
A church lesson outlines the Pentecost conversion of about three thousand and the growth of the early church. It highlights steadfast doctrine fellowship breaking of bread prayer growth signs unity charity and daily addition to the church, then details the selecting of deacons to handle church matters with integrity and Spirit-filled leadership.
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Peter
Pentecost
Christ
Fellowship of the Apostles
Plans for U S Japan aid to Russia in Siberia announced
Washington issued official statements that the United States and Japan will extend military aid to Russia in Siberia with allied assent in principle. Secretary Baker announced plans for a larger war program and draft age expansion while Pershing prepares casualty data. King Victor Emmanuel reviewed American troops in the northern Italian war zone.
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Washington
Russia
Siberia
United States
Japan
American
War Department
Baker
Department
Pershing
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
War office reports brisk fighting on Italian front
European War News notes ongoing clashes in multiple Italian front sectors. Sub-Lieutenant Boyar adds five aerial victories, three in ten minutes, bringing his total to 29. Lieutenant Maden’s victory tally stands at 338.
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War Office
Rome
Boyar
Paris
Maden
Iowa Faces Deadly Auto Crash Toll and State Updates
A day in Iowa leaves eight killed and four injured in crashes near Waterloo and Garden Grove. Victims include Milton T. Brown and J S Beckman and family members from Brainard and Garden Grove. The report also covers ice cream container sanitation prosecutions, historical fire losses, freight office unification debates in Sioux City, and notes on local figures and upcoming events in Waterloo Camp Gordon and Drake University planning.
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Iowa
Brainard
Garden Grove
Milton T. Brown
Waterloo
Burlington
J. S. Beckman
Irene Brown
Clifford Bartlett
Edith Bartlett
Virgil Beckman
Roy Burnell
Osceola
Frank Bartlett
W. J. Burnell
State Dairy and Food Department
W. B. Barney
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Ole 0. Roe
Sioux City
Martin Dolan
Shorty
Camp Grant
Rockford
Dolan
Gordon N. Kimball
Southern District Exemption Board
Willam Cochran
Red Oak
N. D. Ely
Judge Advocate General’s Department
Washington
Emmett Tinley
Council Bluffs
E. H. Kamer
Clinton
Harry Hopley
Lewis
C. D. Grant
Iowa City
Arthur Holmes
Drake University
Hil M. Bell
Drake
Alta
Buena Vista County
Camp Gordon
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War Secretary
Auto Makers
F. W. Bly
Joliet, Ill
American Express Company
Chicago and Alton
Springfield
Belt Line
Argo
Sixty-third Street
Archer Avenue
Charles M. Schwab
Edward N. Hurley
Atlantic City
N. J
Hurley
Navy Department
Charles E. Kruger
Kruger
Newport News
New York
Edward A. Rumely
New York Mail and Express Company
Walter Kaufmann
Evening Mail
N. Willis Rodgers
New York City
Chanute Field
Rodgers
York Split
Cape Charles
P. J. Barnes
Washington Navy Department
Eeee
Atlantic
Republic of Finland
South America
Monard Ship Yards Company
Paducah
J. B. Finley
Dayton-Wright Airplane Company
Dayton, O
de Haviland
Porter
Gary
Ind
International Harvester Company
Department of Justice
McAdoo
Secretary of Labor
General Electric Company
Lynn
Mass
Moscow
Petrograd
Nicholas I Romanoff
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Nicholas
Amsterdam
P. B. Pitzwater
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
THE
Primitive Church
U.S
Teutonic War News
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
France
Seal Island
Yarmouth County
Nova Scotia
Halifax
N. S
Treasury Department
Hawkeye
State News
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