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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
2
Special envoys from Russia in Washington report Lenine denounces the cabinet and its war policy while Kerensky defends his own acts and appeals for an offensive. Kerensky's reply defends Marxism misinterpreted and praises his front visit, drawing sustained applause from the congress except for the Marxists.
Albert Thomas French minister of munitions, after a Petrograd mission with entente labor delegates, reports Russia's situation improved in two months. He believes a military offensive could resume unless unforeseen events occur, but cites German propaganda as the chief risk to the government.
The Army issues orders to relieve Captain Fidelio G. Chamberlain at Leon Springs and transfer Major Louis C. Duncan from Fort Bliss to Fort McPherson. It also details numerous reserve and regular cavalry promotions and officer transfers across departments and regiments.
In Montgomery on June 19 the first postwar middling cotton sold at 25 cents a pound. Only forty one bales were offered at this price.
French forces under General Petain attacked the German line in Champagne and gained a trench system nearly a third of a mile long between Mont Camillet and Mont Blond. German attempts to retake the position failed as French gunners inflicted heavy losses. Haig reports successful raids on the southern British front.
Paris report says German forces attacked positions between Mont Blond and Mont Camillet in Champagne last night. They were repulsed with heavy losses amid a violent artillery duel.
British road crews under Brigadier General H. P. Maybury and Sir Eric Geddes directed a large force of civilian builders transformed into military road squads. They operated five figure strong units, trained in army style, using modern plants and top materials to rapidly complete numerous roads along the Somme and Arras fronts.
New York market opens with renewed activity and excitement. March and May futures rise to 27 cents a pound, October near 26.60, about five dollars higher per bale than last night. Gains driven by Liverpool market showing prices up over 3 cents a pound at times.
June will close the most successful sugar season Porto Rico has known. Total output will exceed half a million short tons, with a possible 25,000 to 20,000 tons more than last year’s 483,000. The crop sold so far may average over $100 per ton.
Premier Eduardo Dato told press that calm prevailed in Spain yet grave governmental issues remain. He doubted dissolution of the Cortes, though not impossible, noting urgent questions would require parliamentary discussion.
Two thousand machinists at the General Electric plant in Schenectady struck on Monday in protest of vacation employment given to Robert Dixon a colored student at Union College. The walkout reflects labor tension tied to racial job assignments at the facility.
Brownsville observed its first Emancipation Day with about 200 African American workers from the army quartermaster's department taking part. The city had no negro population before the arrival of the army employees.
Captain Bonnell, an American with the British flying corps, is credited with bringing down the German ace Captain Bolke. He arrived in New York to conduct recruiting for the British air forces and set up headquarters at the recently opened British recruiting station run by General W. A. White.
Sheriff Will Wright filed complaints before U S commissioner R L Edwards charging five men with failing to register for military service on June 5. Two of the defendants are Mexican, one is a German farmer from Gonzales, and a negro was also charged. All were jailed or released on bond or own recognizance and ordered to appear in San Antonio for the December federal term.
A large car carrying two men and a screaming woman fled pursuers Monday night. A policeman and volunteers chased for two blocks along Soledad Street Commerce and Dwyer Avenue before the vehicle turned east on Nueva and Garden Streets. The car evaded capture and the woman’s condition during the incident is described as being held against her will in the front seat.
Police announce the arrest of Dick Carter of Springfield Missouri on a first degree murder warrant tied to the disappearance and death of Baby Lloyd Keet. Springfield authorities say Carter was arrested at Hutchinson Kansas and is the first person named in warrants. Claude Pierson and Cletus Adams were detained and named in similar warrants.
Frank McCool, accomplice of Joseph Redenbaugh, confessed killer of Mrs. Alice Dunn of St Paul and Patrolman Connery of Minneapolis, has been sentenced to thirty years in prison in Minneapolis.
Reports from June 19 show broad Red Cross support as southern cities launch the $100 million drive. Richmond leads with about $300,000 while Dallas reports $32,389.75 toward its $156,000 share. New York’s totals awaited.
In debate on a wartime bill Hoover explains powers to regulate food and fuel only as needed. He suggests farmers could determine production if a minimum price is guaranteed, and notes government would limit imports and hotel rationing rather than consumer consumption.
In Chicago on June 19 Jerome Fisher is robbed of a watch money and bank book by a thief who demands Fisher’s registration card. The robber mocks Fisher and hints the police would arrest him for not having a registration receipt, forcing Fisher to seek a duplicate.
H. W. Newman resigns as New Orleans public safety commissioner after a dispute with Mayor Behrman over enforcing the Sunday closing law. The city commission accepted the resignation. Newman said the mayor countermanded orders to use plain clothes officers against saloons.
I Ringer chief engineer M K T system says work on the new San Antonio freight depot yards and passenger station is progressing favorably after an inspection. He is accompanied by E L Martin chief engineer of the Katy lines in Texas.
Abdurrashed Ibrahim, Russian Moslem representative at Stockholm, declares 25,000,000 Moslems hope for self government and urge peace while aiming to influence Muslims in English and French colonies amid the war.
A Stockholm Times dispatch says American delegates to the Socialist Conference Messrs Goldfarb and Reéfstein have not been officially recognized by the United States minister.
Bay City Texas officials search Bets Lake for the body of an unidentified man seen floating yesterday by two women in a fishing party. No trace recovered.
Coy Henderson a Coke county farmer is held without bond in Robert Lee jail on an indictment for conspiracy against the government tied to alleged anti conscription activities before registration day. He was arrested by the sheriff at Fort Chadbourne following the Dallas federal grand jury indictment. Henderson reportedly was a delegate to the Farmers and Laborers Protective Association convention at Cisco last spring.
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