Proclamation Gives Effect to Alien Control Act
President Wilson signs proclamation and executive order implementing the alien control law passed last May to curb departures by aliens and prevent enemy agents from leaving the United States after September 15. Aliens must obtain permits to depart and face tighter entry restrictions, with aim to deter drafts evasion. The State Department notes aliens now stand on a citizens like basis for trips abroad.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
United States
Department of State
State Department
Robert Fay
Frantz von Rintelen
Fay
Walter R. Scheele
Ways and Means Committee Sets War Profit Tax Plan
The House ways and means committee agreed on an 8 percent exemption plus a $3,000 exemption on excess profits for corporations. It imposes 40 percent tax on excess profits from 8 to 20 percent and 60 percent on profits over 20 percent. The panel also endorsed the treasury plan for a flat 80 percent tax on war profits and approved three business classifications for reductions.
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Washington, D. C
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Half of Woman's Body Found Near Wooster Ohio
James Martin, caretaker at the Point Breeze hhau tauqua grounds in Smithville, found the lower half of a woman's body in a weighted sack in a waterhole near the grounds. The legs had been sawed in two at the knees, per the Wayne County sheriff.
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Wooster
Ohio
James Martin
Point Breeze
Detroit Yard Delivers 3600 Ton Freighter Crawl Keyes
Great Lakes Engineering claims a 3600 ton steel freighter Crawl Keyes was completed in 30 working days after keel laying at Ecorse Michigan. Emergency Fleet Corporation to receive the ship complete in every detail as part of wartime build program.
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Detroit
Mich
Great Lakes Engineering Works
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Crawl Keyes
Ecorse
Rent Profiteers in War Worker Housing Crackdown
Washington D C announces that raising tax valuations on landlords' property suspected of extortionate rents to war workers is a method used by the bureau of industrial housing with local city government cooperation to curb rent profiteering.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Industrial Housing
Fifty Stars On Church Flag at St Marys Church
In Storm Lake Iowa fifty stars were placed on a service flag at St Marys Catholic church. Rev Alfred Dove of Sioux City helped Rev Father Cooke bless the flag as the audience sang The Star Spangled Banner at the service’s end.
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Storm Lake
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Alfred Dove
Sioux City
Father Cooke
U S Teutonic War News Highlights 1918
Navy reports torpedoing of the Henry S Kellogg off New Jersey and the Sommerstad sunk off Fire Island. A British armed merchantman claims sinkage of a U boat after engaging off the north Atlantic coast. Germany accepts talks on prisoner exchange at Berne. American cruiser shells German sub off Virginia. gas attack on Smith Island. sea patrols disrupt coast guard operations. First American field army forms in France under General Pershing with a vast gun plant planned here for expeditionary forces.
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New York
Sommerstad
United States
Fire Island
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Virginia
Nhot
Smith Island
North Carolina
Navy Department
Charleston
S. C
Coast Guard
France
Pershing
Krupps
Essen
Germany
War Department
Senator Lewis in Paris Meets Envoys on Front Tour
Personal Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Trinois arrives in Paris aboard a large American troop ship. He plans talks with Ambassador Sharp and Minister Tardieu, then proceeds to the American front before heading to England.
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James Hamilton Lewis
Trinois
Paris
Lewis
Sharp
Tardieu
England
Women to Fill Railroad Jobs as Men Go to War
Washington announces plans to recruit thousands of women for railroad work to replace men enlisting in the army and other industries. The War Industries Board urges auto plants to switch to 100 percent war production by January 1, and Director General McAdoo bans sale of minor goods in railroad stations and on trains under government control.
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Army
Rail Administration
The
War Industries Board
Mqnor
McAdoon
W. F. Russell
College of Education
State University of Iowa
Russia
Arthur Bullard
James Scothorn
Mr. Scothorn
Iowa
Jefferson Barracks
Calhoun
Lloyd
Keokuk
Linn
Scott
Sioux
Camp Dodge
Iowa City
Edward Paulson
Buck Grove
John Mullen
Ireland
Paulson
Carroll
Des Moines
Cantonment
Raymond E. McAlister
Adolph Kresrne
Camp Funston
Ida May Wilson
Cedar Falls
Union Switch and Signal
Westinghouse Airbrake
Pittsburgh
France
France Seeks Nationwide Celebration of Bastille Day
Ambassador Jusserand expressed gratitude to Congress for promoting Bastille Day celebrations across the United States in a communication to the House and Senate via the State Department. Bulgaria's King Ferdinand reportedly suffers mental strain and requires absolute seclusion and rest, per Amsterdam dispatches citing Cologne advices.
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France
Congress
United States
Jusserand
State Department
House
Senite
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Calogne
Court Affirms Ragan Sentence For Threat Against President
A three year sentence for Walter Ragan Sky on charges of threatening the president is affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago. Separately, Western Union announces a ten percent wage increase for its employees.
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United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Walter Ragansky
United States
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
European War News From Front Also Reports Losses And Political Moves
Berne papers say generals Mudra and Lichbrecht in retirement list. Djemnah torpedoed with 442 missing. Britain recognizes Czecho Slovaks as allies. Massacre of Bolsheviks at Rynaban and Novgorod blamed on counter revolutions. Munich peace offensive noted with Quidde Lamatsch and Bishop Franner linked. Boris Danskio executed by Bolsheviks. German embassy to Moscow moves to Pskov. German destroyer sunk off Zeebrugge by British mine.
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Mudra
Lichbrecht
Berne
Paris
Munich
Tageblatt
Berlin
F. L. Quidde
Vienna
Heinrich Lammasch
Budapest
Frankner
Hungary
Zeebrugge
London
Admiralty
Proclamation by Hubbard Mayor Boosts War Effort
W C Hoelecher the Hubbard mayor issues a language proclamation praising Wilson and Harding and urging obedience, printed on a full page in the Hubbard Review. The move sparks statewide attention amid war effort notes across Iowa counties.
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Hubbard Review
W. C. Hoelecher
Harding
Wilson
Hoelscher
Iowa
War Savings
Benton
Black Hawk
Butler
Chickasaw
Dallas
Davis
Ida
Palo Alto
Sioux
Wright
Polk County
Woodbury County
O’brien
Boone
Thrift Will Help Win War Says Mortimer Schiff
Mortimer L. Schiff urges strict economy to fund Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps. Saving reduces nonessential spending, frees labor and materials for military needs, and strengthens national production for victory.
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Mortimer L. Schiff
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Teutonic War News
Henry S. Kellogg
New Jersey
Switzerland
Massachusetts
Regular Army
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National Army
Reserve Corps
Anna Held
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr
William Pitt Kellogg
Canton
Louisiana
Washington
N. Willow
Mull
Dewey
Okla
James H. Dale
St. Louis
Talaferro Field
Texas
Atlanta
W. J. Harris
Federal Trade Commission
United States Senate
Hardwick
Thomas B. Evans
Santa Cruz
Cal
George D. Sensey
Ridgefield Park
N. J
Colon Bay
A. Mitchell Palmer
Standard Oil Company of
Djemnah
Mediterranean
Bizera
Alexandria
Rynaban
Novgorod
Boris Danskio
Herman von Elchorn
Moscow
Pskov
Copenhagen
Hawkeye
State News
War Savings Associations
United States of America
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