Gompers asserts US workers will press war to victory
Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor tells French labor leaders that American workers will see the war through with no peace terms until victory. He says the inter allied conference in London and Wilson support firm determination and unity among allied workers.
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Paris
Samuel Gom Eee
Fed
France
America
Gompers
Workers of America
Cenfer
London
Ex-Banker Held Charged in Bank Defalcation Case
Former First National Bank of Bremerton president Thomas Held was arrested in Bellingham on U S charges of embezzling bank funds. Deputy U S Marshal Stewart says he sought to use bank funds for his own purposes. Indictment cites defalcations totaling dollars. Held free on $10,000 bond awaiting trial.
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Charles E. Thomas
Presimg
First National Bank of
Bremerton Commercial Club
Bellingham
United States
Stewart
U. S. Thomas
Liberty
Archbishop Ireland Dies at 80 in St Paul
John Ireland archbishop of the St Paul diocese for 80 years died at 3 55 this morning due to heart decline linked to age. Born in Ireland in 1838 he was ordained in 1861 and later helped found the Catholic University in Washington and served as a friend to Hill McKinley and Roosevelt. He rode street cars and worked with parishioners in later years.
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Seraphine
St. Joseph's Academy
St. Paul
Thomas O'Gorman
Sioux Falls
S. D
James Trobee
P. BR. Heffron
James O'Reilly
T. A. Welch
O'Gorman
John Ireland
Kilkenny
Ireland
Boston
Mass
Burlington
John
S. C
Cretin
France
Cheverus
America
James J. Hill
McKinley
Roosevelt
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Yale
Vienna Awake Italians in Air Shower Pleas
Special to The Sar from N E A Rome Sept 25 a squadron of eight Italian planes led by Captain Gabriele DAnnunzio flew across the Alps to Vienna 621 miles from base and dropped a manifesto on the Austrian capital urging liberty and denouncing the government. The text salutes liberty and warns Vienna to awaken while pledging support to the Entente. C E Jackson of Dallas Wyoming fences his ranch with a rabbit proof wall and raises rabbits on goat milk.
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Rome
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Alps
Vienna
Ukraine
Italy
C. E. Jackson
Dallas
Wyo
Yanks in France Are Husky Eaters
Washington reports that each American soldier in France consumes about 4.3 pounds of food daily, with an average weight around 160 pounds. The calculation, drawn from Food Administration and Quartermaster records, suggests a soldier would eat his own weight in food every 37 days.
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Washington
France
United Press
The
Food Administration
Quartermaster General's Department
Steel adopts eight hour day for all subsidiaries
New York September 25 The United States Steel Corporation and all its subsidiary companies will adopt the basic eight hour day effective in October announced by Judge E. H. Gary.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
FE. H. Gary
Huns Plan New Propaganda Campaign Tactics
Washington reports German leaders are organizing large groups of propagandists under skilled Teutonic diplomats. Local and major peace offensives are expected, with Austrians and Germans trained in Berlin and Vienna to wage secret warfare against Entente morale. The aim is to prevent Entente victory.
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Berlin
Vienna
United States
Austrians Report Allied Setbacks on Italian Front
The Austrian war office reported repulse of allied attacks in several sectors of the Italian front and ongoing artillery and patrol actions. French and Italian troops briefly penetrated near Mont Seismol but were repelled by a counter thrust, with especially lively artillery fighting in the southern Tyrol.
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Vienna
London
Austrian War Office
Mont Seismol
Tyrol
Six Americans named in Canada casualty list
Ottawa reports the latest Canadian casualty list names six Americans. Killed in action J M Lear of Gladstone Oregon. Missing P B Law Barstow California and M Seymour Fresno California. Wounded C T Busby San Francisco and G Finkley Tacoma. Gassed J F Webb Tacoma. Also Tokyo reports the Star of Poland grounded near Tokyo bay with twenty men, including the captain, escaping. The ship belonged to the Alaska Packers association of Alameda California and had just arrived from Manila.
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Ottawa
J. M. Lear
Gladstone
Ore
Law
Barstow
Cal
Ill
M. Seymour
Fresno
C. T. Busby
San Francisco
G. Finkley
Tacoma
J. F. Webb
Tokyo
Star of Poland
Alaska Packers’ Association of
Alameda
Tokyo Bay
Manila
Experts praise air mastery in Mihiel battle
Paris reports Liberty motors in American planes have vindicated themselves clearing doubts voiced in the United States. In the St Mihiel battle large air fleets proved a huge success. John D Ryan heads the aircraft board, praises engines planes and pilots. Col Arthur Woods leads the Ryan party inspecting camps and plants.
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United States
St. Mihiel
John D. Ryan
American Aircraft Board
Paris
Ryan
Col
Arthur Woods
New York
Kaufmann Former German Official Near Death in Jail
Henry Kaufmann former chancellor of the German consulate in San Francisco was reported near death by federal officials and moved from county jail to a hospital after a six month jail sentence his lawyers warned could be fatal.
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San Francisco
Henry Kaufmann
Kaufmann
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