Marines Awarded Croix de Guerre Honor Lauded
Graphic account from the Marine Corps and French authorities details the decoration of thirty Marines and five officers for bravery near Verdun and the Marne amid heavy German fire. The release notes uniform physical standards for the Army, chaplain recruitment, and industrial priorities affecting hollow tile, fuel, and motor truck production for the war effort.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Marine Corps
Verdun
Marne
Aisne
Somme
America
Marine
Noilus
France
Agriculture Suggests Gas Attack on Bean Weevils
The Agriculture Department advises farmers to use carbon disulphide to control bean and pea weevils that yearly ruin food and feed worth millions. The weevil has not adopted gas mask protection yet.
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Department of Agriculture
Committee of Experts to Study Women in War Industry
Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director of the women in industry service of the department of labor, announces a committee of experts. The panel will visit centers where women work on war contracts to investigate hazards including the use of industrial poisons and their effects.
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Mary van Kleeck
Women In Industry Service
Department of Labor
Government Takes Charge Of Unskilled War Labor Recruiting
Washington reports a 500000 to 1000000 worker shortage in war industries as the federal employment service assumes recruiting through state boards. The system aims to reduce labor movement, stabilize wages, and extend to skilled labor. private agencies are barred. telephone and telegraph operations also move under government control with existing staff kept on.
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Segular Army
National Army
National Guard
War Department
Army Medical Department
Dhaft Board
Army
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville
Army Draft Board
Priorities Division
War Industries Board
Edwin B. Parker
Priorities Board
War Industries
Washington
Department of Labor
Federal Employment Service
Employment Service
John B. Densmore
Wilson
Burleson
Czecho Slovaks Take Ekaterinburg in Perm Province
Amsterdam reports Ekaterinburg near the Siberian border has fallen to Czecho Slovaks per Isyestia of Moscow. Bolshevik propaganda warns the danger is growing and the counter revolutionary movement is spreading.
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Amsterdam
Ekaterinburg
Perm
Isyestia
Moscow
Pravda
Tobacco tax measure doubles rates and broadens levies
Washington on August 3 reports the house ways and means committee agreed to double the current special taxes on tobacco manufacturers and cigarett es and upen theaters and other amusements. The plan also increases taxation of brokers and capitalization of corporations as part of an eight billion revenue program.
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Washington
Vienna Confesses Disaster as Albania Fallout Prompts Changes
Washington reports that Austria has dismissed the generals responsible for the disaster in Albania and appointed General Weiss Baltin to command forces opposing the Franco Italian advance, per a cable from Rome to the Italian embassy.
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Washington
Albania
Weiss Baltin
Rome
American Flier Sets New Blimp Flight Record
Ensign P. J. Barnes of the American naval air forces in European waters remained aloft for 30 hours and 30 minutes, setting a new world record for sustained flights in a blimp. He achieved this milestone in Washington on August 5.
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Washington
P. J. Barnes
Poincare Hosts Hoover at Paris Luncheon
Paris August 5 President Poincare hosted a luncheon in honor of Herbert Hoover late American food administrator. The event underscored wartime relief ties between France and the United States as Hoover received congratulations from government officials and foreign dignitaries.
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Poincare
Hoover
Paris
Herbert Co. Hoover
Gaining on U Boats in Naval Shipbuilding Efforts
London reports Sir Isaac Gertides, first lord of the British admiralty, detailing naval tonnage changes and shipbuilding policy. He notes a prior monthly loss of 550,000 gross tons and a 400,000-ton deficit, then cites a recent quarter showing a gain of about 1,100,000 tons monthly. He credits reduced sinkings and increased construction and predicts US shipbuilding will unleash a strong destroyer and antisubmarine craft flow once started.
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London
Isaac Gertides
Admiralty
House of Commons
Sir Srie
Shipbuilding Advisory Committee
America
Roosevelt
United States
Balfour Says No Enemy Peace Talks Asked
In the house of commons Arthur J. Balfour the British foreign secretary stated that no enemy government had approached the entente allies about negotiations for peace.
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London
House of Commons
Arthur J. Balfour
Treasury announces $112 million in loans to allies
The treasury department reports loans to the allies totaling 112 million dollars. France receives 100 million, Belgium 9 million, and Serbia 3 million. This increases the total allied loans to 6.49204 billion dollars.
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Treasury
Washington
Treasury Department
France
Belgium
Serbia
Five Die as Powder Tank Bursts at Wisconsin Plant
Five men were killed and another fatally injured when a steel powder tank exploded at the Barksdale plant in Bayfield County Wisconsin. Several workers were left with minor injuries.
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Superior
Wis
Barksdale
Bayfield County
Wisconsin
Population at Camp Custer Near 50,000 Mark
Camp Custer near Battle Creek Michigan sees its population approaching fifty thousand with about eight thousand in housing and servicesPreparations for the August 5 report indicate rapid growth and ongoing facility expansion to accommodate soldiers and workers.
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Custer
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
Mich
Pershing to Reveal Complete War Casualty Data Soon
Washington reports that General Pershing is assembling full casualty figures and will cable them to the United States within days. Secretary Baker notes reporting delays due to dispersed troops and mixed hospital care, promising prompt transmission to families of the fallen and injured.
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Gen. Pershing
United States
Washington
Pershing
Baker
Post Office Department
Committee On Public Information
War Department
March
Raincoat Scandal Leads to Federal Indictments in New York
Aubrey W. Vaughan a captain in the U S army Felix Gouled a manufacturer and D L Podell a lawyer were indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiring to defraud the government in relation to raincoat contracts in New York.
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New York
Aubrey W. Vaughan
Quartermaster’s Corps
United States Army
Felix Gouled
D. L. Podell
Boycott on Hun Trade Wins
Amsterdam reports the Telegraaf says the American ban on trade with Dutch East Indian firms employing Germans is forcing plan tation enterprises to discharge Germans.
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Amsterdam
The
Telegraaf
Oriental Students in U S to Tail
Japanese and Chinese students in the United States may take manual work during school vacation periods for the duration of the war, the department of labor announced.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Duchess to Run for Council Seat
London August 5 The duchess of Marlborough formerly Consuelo Van of New York has been accepted for a council division race.
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London
Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo van of
New York
Warns Railroad Men on Duty After Wage Increase
Director General McAdoo announces a wage raise for more than 500000 railway shop workers and urges extra energy and loyalty. He links output to wartime success, calls for discipline, and asks workers to crown the raise with higher efficiency and no strikes.
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Washington
McAdoo
France
Translation of German order aims at breaking American troops
General Pershing's communique releases a translation from German high command dated June 1 1918. The message directs the Schemettow corps to strike American troops along the front to hinder forming an American army in France. Signed Ludendorff.
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Washington
Pershing
First Army
France
Ludendorft
Ambassador Francis Reaches Murmansk With Allies
A July 31 message from Ambassador Francis says he arrived in Murmansk with the Italian ambassador the British representative and the French chargé d affaires. Other heads of mission await instructions from their governments at Kandalaska. London reports praise for American troops in battle.
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Washington
Francis
Murmansk
Kandalaska
Locomotive Purchase Order to Rush 510 Engines
Washington reports the War Department has ordered 510 locomotives for military railroads as part of rapid freight and troop movements. The procurement aims to bolster logistical capacity amid wartime needs while the exact delivery timeline remains undisclosed.
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Washington
The
War Department
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