Seattle Mayors Bid For Large Loan To Take Over Traction
Mayor Hanson urges city to own street rail system and seeks a $300000 loan from the Federal Shipping Board to buy street cars. He cites government bids to fund improvements and elevating the system, with repayment after the war. An ordinance proposes $100000 for Skagit power site development and rapid project advance.
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Seattle
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company
Traction Company
Hanson
A. M. Taylor
Division of Transportation
Federal Shipping Board
Philadelphia
Altho
C. J. Shepherd
Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco
Skagit
C. B. Fitzgerald
Board of Public Works
City General Fund
Yanks Fight On Veule Front In France
American forces north of the Veule engage German positions with heavy artillery and rapid thrusts. Infighting occurs on the right wing while a German feint fails. doughboys storm heights, seize machine guns, then withdraw under counterattack as they push north of Fismette.
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France
Veale
Fismette
City Lags Behind in War Savings Quota
Seattle faces a $3,000,000 shortfall in War Savings Stamp pledges. C H Clarke, county chairman, urges volunteers to classify pledge cards by June 2 at the Lyon building. Frederick & Nelson leads with $13,790 and 571 members. Ames Shipyards shows $11,980 with 88 members.
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Seattle
C. H. Clarke
Treasury Department
War Stamp
Lyon Building
Frederick & Nelson
Ames Shipyards
Allies Use Squeeze Plays to Slow German Advances
New York dispatch reports Marshal Foch pursuing cautious, selective operations to avoid heavy losses. Allied strategy centers on pressure points and deliberate retirements toward the Chemin des Dames and beyond.
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New York
Marshall Foch
Marshal Foch
Foch
Hiddenburg
Chemin Des Dames
Marne
Picardy
von Hindenburg
Thia
Russia and East Flanders land dispute reported
Ambiguous report claims movements of troops and frontier measures between Russia and East Flanders have been received from the frontier. The wording is unclear and lacks verifiable details.
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Amsterdam
Flanders
Russia
War Causes Loss 7 000 Births Daily
The registrar general of England states that 7,000 potential lives are daily being lost in the countries at war. The figure highlights the human cost of ongoing conflict as reported by The Star via NEA.
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Star
NEA
London
Register- General of
England
Gas masks to aid coast defense against U boats
The Navy reports German submarines operating along the Atlantic coast from New England to the Carolinas. The Sonerstad was torpedoed off Fire Island and sunk 25 miles off Fire Island. Secretary Daniels confirms gas masks are being issued and coast stations protected. No subs sunk yet, but measures escalate.
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Washington
Erman
Atlantic
New England
Carolinas
Navy Department
Sonerstad
Fire Island
Navy
Daniels
U-boata
Fire
Schooner Crews Arrive in Port After Sub Loss
ANAIC PORT Aug. 13. The schooner Acushla arrived with 14 men from fishing vessels Progress Star Buck and Helena May sunk by a submarine off Georges Banks. They were picked up 80 miles southeast of Cape Cod. The Mary A Sennett told of the sinking of Old Timer and Cruiser. Crews of these vessels were shelled as they left their ships, likely killed. The sunk vessels include Progress Helena May Far Nettle Neliance Mary A Sennett Stuar Buck Kate Palmer Cruiser Old Timer.
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Anaic
Acushla
Progress
Star Buck
Helena May
Georges Banks
Cape Cod
Neliance
Mary A. Sennett
Stuar Buck
Kate Palmer
Cruiser
Six Men Struck by Hun Sub Gas Wave
Six coast guard personnel on Smith Island North Carolina were gassed Saturday by a chemical wave from a German submarine. They recovered after about thirty minutes. A flock of chickens died and other coastal animals showed distress. Vegetation impact to be studied. First shore attack by submarines.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Smith Island
North Carolina
Naval Department
Patrol Boat Chases Submarine Reported Off Atlantic
Passengers arriving aboard a British steamer said a U S patrol boat wirelessed that a U boat was sighted off Fire Island New York. Other wireless from a Danish steamer claimed a U boat attacked it off Nantucket light and was sinking.
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Atlantic
U. S
Fire Island
New York
Norwegian Steamer Sonor Atad Sunk by German Submarine
The navy department said the Norwegian steamer Sonor Atad was sunk off Fire Island yesterday morning by a German submarine. Crew members have been landed at an Atlantic port.
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Washington
Navy Department
Sonoratad
Fire Island
Atlantic
British Destroyer Sunk by Pirate in Mediterranean
British admiralty reports a British destroyer damaged in a collision was sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean on August 6. Seven lives were lost.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
City Bread Size Rents Provoked by War Profiteering
The Star urges Seattle to regulate rent and bread loaf size as a war profiteering measure. It questions federal action, suggests injunctions against rental agencies, and calls for public pressure on lawyers and candidates while linking landlords to German profiteering and Liberty Bonds.
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the Star
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
The
Star
Seattle
Belgium
Germany
Shipyard workers plan Seattle rent protest parade
Anticipated demonstration by thousands of shipyard and metal workers was forecast by L. Boddy, Seattle metal trades council leader. He warned rents have risen for months, urging swift action and promising further protest details after tonight’s council meeting. He cited landlords and firms as pushing rents ahead of September 1 and recounted his own attempt to pay a year in advance being refused.
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L. Boddy
Seattle Union Engineers
Boddy
The
Metal Trades Council
Seattle
Roddy
Labor plea asks Wilson to free Mooney for new trial
Representatives of labor nationwide deliver a memorial to the White House requesting the president use his powers as commander in chief to remove Thomas J. Mooney from California state court control and grant a new trial. The president was expected to reply within days.
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Dent Wilson
Army
Thomas J. Mooney
California
White House
Kaufman Gets O Year Team
W H Kaufman former county assessor of Bellingham and once a gubernatorial candidate was sentenced in Tacoma to five years in the penitentiary. He had been convicted of making seditious remarks in Olympia asserting the war was started by profiteers and that Liberty bonds were not a safe investment.
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W. H. Kaufman
Bellingham
Washington
Tacoma
Kaufman
Olympia
Austrian Victory Medals Sell for $1.25 in Vienna
Special report from Berne notes medals struck in Austria to celebrate the conquest of northern Italy are being sold for $1.25 each in Vienna. The issue is dated August 13 and credited to N. BE, A.
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N. BE
Berne
Austria
Italy
Vienna
Huns Marching on Petrograd Sparks Eastern Front Return
German troops mass near Petrograd aiming to occupy the city as Russia reenters the war. From Moscow reports the Brest Litovsk abrogation may come any moment and Russia seeks a united independent republic in renewed battle against Germany.
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Copenhagen
Petrograd
Helsingfors
The
Volitiken
New York
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Count Mirbach
Moscow
Skoropadsky
Ukraine
Germany
Want Kerensky for Russ Chief
Kerensky, once a hero of the Russian revolution, is groomed as a possible leader to oust the Bolsheviks and restore Russia. He is poised to travel to Archangel to align with the northern government, with observers speculating he could extend his leadership nationwide. Allies vary in response while some favor him.
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Washington
Kerensky
Archangel
Russia
Althe
France
Great Britain
America
Huns Report More Bolshevik Trouble
Amsterdam dispatches via Germany say anti Bolshevik actions spread across Russia. The Vialka Soviet is overthrown by social revolutionaries. Ural district abolishes Bolshevik rule. Kazan erupts with revolution. Bolshevik leader Olshinsky is shot in the street. 32 townships in Saratoff vote against Bolsheviks. revolutionary elements reportedly slaughter Bolsheviks in Rusan and Novgorod.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Vialka Soviet
Ural
Kazan
M. Olshinsky
Saratoff
Rusan
Novogorod
Ukrainiansbury Invaders Alive Turmoil in Ukraine Report
The State Department informant says Ukrainian peasants grow bitter toward Germans. German troops operate in large squads. armed villagers capture, torture, and bury some invaders alive. The informant says Germans cannot reliably obtain food or rally Ukraine for the army. Troop totals rise to about 450,000 to 500,000.
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Washington
State Department
Ukraine
German leaders join central command move in war
Amsterdam reports Chancellor Von Hertling and Foreign Minister Von Hintze have traveled to German high command. The move signals high level consultations as the war escalates.
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Amsterdam
von Hertling
von Hintse
Allies Seize Millions of Hun Shells
Paris reports German forces are retreating from Peronne with large shipments of war materiel and crossing the Somme. French troops capture vast dumps at Kesson Sur Matz and Orvillers with millions of shells intact, while a lull on the Oise-Somme front hints at forthcoming Allied action and potential French capture of Lassigny.
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Paris
Peronne
Somme
Kesson-Sur- Matz
Orvillers
Altho
Oise
la Preuse
Lassigny
War front advances and raids reported across multiple theaters
United Press summarizes gains on the Picardy front with encirclement near Ribecourt and advances north of the Somme. American and British forces win ground. British prisoners taken near Vieux Berquin. raids and movements noted across Vesle, Merris, Adige valley, and Petrograd regions.
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Vesse-Aisne
Fismette
Vesle
Flanders
Merris
Vieux Berquin
Vosges
Upper Alsace
Adige Valley
Karl
Germany
German withdrawal from Ribecourt line under French pressure
German forces evacuated southern Ribecourt defenses after French pressure. They retired from trenches along a front of about three miles from the Oise to west of Railly. French troops moved into the deserted positions securing the area near Ribe court.
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London
Ribecourt
Oise
Railly
Allies Capture 2300 Officers in War Prisoner Report
Paris reports that Allied forces have captured over 37,000 German prisoners from Thursday to Sunday, including 2,300 officers. Military writer Marcel Hutin notes vast quantities of matériel, with more than 1,000 cannon and over 10,000 machine guns seized. Since July 18, enemy prisoners exceed 70,000.
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Paris
Marcel Hutin
The
Echo de Paris
Hutin
Planders
Arras
Merris
Vieux-Barquin
Scarpe River
Evacuation Rove Advances Amid Allied Front Gains
The Allied drive in Picardy pushes toward Rove and Ribecourt with gains along a three mile front. American and British troops advance north of the Somme as Germans retreat toward the Somme canal line amid shelling and counterattacks near Fauquescourt Chaulnes Roye Merris and Arras region. Reports note thousands of German weapons captured and ongoing encirclement efforts.
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Picardy
Roye, Lassigny
Ribecourt
Somme
London
Somme Canal
Ronne
The
Rove
Duke Kahanamoku to enlist as naval aviator
Duke Kahanamoku the Hawaiian swimmer and holder of world records said today he would enlist as a naval aviator within a few weeks.
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Kahanamoku
New York
Duke Kahanamoku
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U. S. Body
Home Service
Ted
Northwest
W.s.quota
Clarke
J. W. T. Mason
United Press
CAS
U.S
Say
Wivuins I Illa
Wilson
Josef Shaplen
Dispatch
John
Theaier
Ribecourt Line
Battle Front
Reve
Lansigny
Ger
Fauquescourt
Chaulnes
Roye
Madrid
Spain
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