Marines decorated by French Croix de Guerre and new Army physical standards
The article recounts Marines receiving the Croix de Guerre for valor in a Verdun era sector with French veterans and officers present. It also covers uniform physical examination standards for the Army National Guard and Regular Army, a push for more army chaplains, and details on Camp Zachary Taylor training, with broad notes on hollow tile priorities and farm labor coordination during the war.
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Army
War Department
Regular Army
National Army
National Guard
Army Medical Department
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville
Army Draft Board
War board urges repair and use of existing motor trucks
The War Industries Board says motor trucks are war essentials and civilian use should be facilitated. But the priorities division did not promise manufacturers access to all needed steel. Judge Parker notes manufacturers pledging to extend life of trucks, repair old ones, and keep them in operation to save steel for war.
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Priorities Division
War Industries Heard
Edwin B. Parker
Priorities Board
War Industries
War Industries Board
Judge Parker
Agriculture hints gas use against bean weevils
The department of agriculture urges farmers to use carbon disulphide to combat bean and pea weevils that annually destroy millions of dollars worth of food and feed. The weevil has not developed a gas mask.
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Department of Agriculture
Labor Department forms expert committee on women in industry
Miss Mary Van Kleeck announces a committee of experts to visit centers where women work on war contracts. The inquiry will examine hazards including industrial poisons and their health effects on women employed in these industries.
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Mary van Kleeck
Women In Industry Service
Department of Labor
Government takes control of unskilled labor recruiting for war
Washington reports a 500000 to 1000000 worker shortage in unskilled war industry labor. The federal employment service replaces private recruiters, plans through state and community boards, aims to prevent labor movement, stabilize wages, and extends to skilled labor later. Railroads and farms use other means. coal mining classified as war work. Telephone and telegraph systems also come under government control.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Federal Employment Service
Employment Service
John B. Densmore
Wilson
Burleson
Czecho-Slovaks Seize Ekaterinburg in Perm Province
Moscow paper Investia reports Ekaterinburg near the Siberian border has fallen to Czecho-Slovaks. Bolshevik outlets warn the danger spreads as the counterrevolution grows, with Pravda declaring alarm over the new development.
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Amsterdam
Ekaterinburg
Perm
Investia
Moscow
Pravda
Tobacco tax doubled in plan for $8 billion revenue
Washington on August 3 reports the house ways and means committee approved a measure doubling the existing special taxes on tobacco manufacturers cigars and cigarettes plus higher levies on theaters and other amusements and increased taxation of brokers and capitalization of corporations to frame an $8 billion revenue plan.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Vienna Confesses Disaster in Albania Amid Army Shakeup
Washington reports the Austrian government dismissed the generals responsible for the disaster in Albania and appointed Gen Weiss Baltin to command the armies facing 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 30 hour blimp endurance record
Washington Aug. 5 Ensign P J Barnes of the American naval air forces in European waters flew continuously for 30 hours and 30 minutes, establishing a new world record for sustained flight in a blimp.
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Washington
P. J. Barnes
Poincare Hosts Hoover At Paris Luncheon
Paris on August 5 reports President Poincare hosted a luncheon in honor of Herbert Hoover the American food administrator. The event underscored Allied wartime food relief coordination and diplomatic goodwill between France and the United States.
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Poincare
Hoover
Paris
Herbert GC Hoover
Geddes defends UK shipbuilding push amid tonnage gains
London reports Sir Isaac Geddes, first lord of the British admiralty, describing naval progress to the House of Commons. He notes a shift from monthly tonnage losses to a net gain, crediting increased shipyard activity, antisubmarine craft, and higher production, with allied output stabilizing since early 1918. He also cites a standard ship model and anticipates a strong U.S. destroyer and antisubmarine effort following talks with Roosevelt.
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London
Isaac Geddes
Admiralty
House of Commons
Sir “Ric
Shipbuilding Advisory Committee
America
Roosevelt
United States
Balfour Says No Enemy Government Sought Peace Talks
In the House of Commons Arthur J. Balfour the British foreign secretary declared that no enemy government has approached the entente allies about negotiations for peace.
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Arthur J. Balfour
London
House of Commons
Treasury loans to Allies total 112 million
The treasury department announced loans to the Allies totaling 112 million dollars. France received 100 million, Belgium 9 million, and Serbia 3 million. This raised 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 one fatally injured when a steel tank exploded at a powder plant in Barksdale, Bayfield County Wisconsin. Several others sustained minor injuries as the blast occurred on August 5.
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Superior
Wis
Barksdale
Bayfield County
Wisconsin
Camp Custer Population Near Fifty Thousand Mark
Camp Custer at Battle Creek Michigan is nearing a population milestone, with estimates showing about 50 000 residents and around 8 000 troops or workers connected to the base.
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Custer
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
Mich
Custer’s
Pershing to Report US War Losses Soon
Washington reports that General Pershing is assembling complete casualty data from the current offensive and will cable the figures to the United States in the coming days. Secretary Baker notes reporting delays due to dispersed troops and hospital transfers across French and British facilities.
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Gen. Pershing
United States
Washington
Pershing
Baker
Post Office Department
Committee On Public Information
War Department
Nist
General Pershing
General March
Raincoat Scandal Hits United States Officials
New York report states Aubrey W. Vaughan captain in the quartermaster corps Felix Gouled a manufacturer and D L Podell a lawyer were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to defraud the government in raincoat contract schemes.
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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 that the American ban on trade with Dutch East Indian firms employing Germans is causing plantation enterprises to gradually discharge German workers. The Telegraaf notes the move in the colonial economy amid the wartime trade restrictions.
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Amsterdam
Telegraaf
Foreign students to work during U S vacation periods
Japanese and Chinese students in the United States will be permitted to accept manual employment 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
The duchess of Marlborough formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York has accepted a public service bid in London. She aims to enter local governance and joins a growing list of socialites pursuing political roles this season.
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London
the Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
New York
McAdoo Urges Rail Workers to Boost War Output
Director General McAdoo announces a wage rise for more than 500000 railway shopmen and calls for increased output and discipline to support U S war efforts. He warns against strikes and urges patriotism and efficient service to justify the pay and condition improvements.
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Washington
McAdoo
France
General Ludendorff Says German Plan Aimed at Stopping American Army
Washington reports a translation of a German high command order dated June 1 1918 stating the aim to hinder the formation of an American army in France by striking American troops hard to use them as a nucleus for new formations. The message is transmitted via General Pershing's communique.
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Washington
Ambassador Francis Safe Arrives in Murmansk with Allies
A July 31 message reports Ambassador Francis arrived in Murmansk with the Italian ambassador and other Allied diplomats. Other chief envoys wait at Kandalaska for directions from their governments.
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Murmansk
Washington
Francis
Kandalaska
Briton Lands U S Troops
London dispatch reports a Daily Mail correspondent praising American troops for vigor and heroism shown in every stage of the battle.
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U. S
London
Daily Mail
Locomotives Ordered for French Railways by War Department
The War Department has ordered 16 locomotives from Baldwin Locomotive Works for military railroads in France at a total cost of about 25.9 million dollars.
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Washington
War Department
France
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Ata Tota
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Birkbeck
William Henry Birkbeck
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C. H. Muir
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