War Expense Nears 15 Billion As Congress Faces Revenue Need
The U.S. government estimates next year’s war costs at about 10.74 billion dollars excluding allied loans and says 7 billion must be raised from taxes or securities. If credit to allies continues, total war outlays could exceed 15 billion, with bond issues likely to offset much of the burden. The War Department plans about 7.864 billion and the Navy about 1.2 billion in expenditures, with remaining appropriations pending.
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Union News Service
Washington
Congress
Capitol
Treasury
National Army
War Department
Navy
Senate Moves on National Prohibition Amendment
Washington reports the Senate will take up Senator Sheppard's resolution for a national prohibition amendment by unanimous consent and dispose of it before the weekend. Opponents agreed to vote to clear the calendar, transmit to the House, and shift further agitation to the states.
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Washington
Senate
Sheppard
House
Congress
Senate Passes Rivers and Harbors Bill With 27 Million Allocation
The Senate approved the rivers and harbors bill carrying 27 954 000 dollars by a 50 to 11 vote. Negative votes came from Republicans Borah Brady Kenyon La Follette Smith and Smoot and Democrats Ashurst Gore King Pomerone and Shafroth amid war time criticism of pork barrel practices.
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Washington
Senate
Borah
Brady
Kenyon
la Follette
Smith
Michigan
Smoot
Ashurst
Gore
King
Pomerone
Shafroth
Race riot in Chester erupts after day of peace
In Chester Pennsylvania mobs armed with weapons attacked areas of the "black belt" seeking the killer of William McKinney. A posse under Mayor McDowell restored order but two white men and one Black man were killed, several wounded, and a house set ablaze.
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Chester
William McKinney
McDowell
Japanese Steamers Sunk in Atlantic July 20
Cable advices received by marine underwriters report the Japanese freighters Kagoshima Maru of 4566 tons gross and Shigosan Maru of 2827 tons gross were sunk by German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean on July 20.
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New York
Atlantic Ocean
Board restricts Canadian wheat exports to United States
The Board of Grain Supervision for Canada issued an order prohibiting exporting Canadian wheat to the United States without board permission. The order covers the remainder of the current crop and remains in effect until further notice.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Supervision For Canada
United States
Five cracksmen blow Wickliffe Postoffice safe
Police report five robbers used nitroglycerin to blast the Wickliffe postoffice safe causing a two story building to be wrecked. They escaped in an automobile and the loot amount remains undetermined.
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Cleveland
Wickliffe
American Generals Arrive in London with Staffs
General R. M. Blatchford and General John Biddle of the American army, along with their staffs, have arrived in England.
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London
R. M. Blatchford
John Biddle
England
Shipping Board Races to Speed Up Shipyard Work
The Shipping Board formalized with Edward N. Hurley as chairman and John A. Donald as vice chair. Labor supply becomes key as skilled workers are sought, with schools planned at major shipyards for riveting and calking. R. B. Stevens named vice chairman. Admiral Capps appointed general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Edward N. Hurley
John A. Donald
Theodore Brent
Wilson
Lester Sisler
Council of National Defense Labor Committee
Samuel Gompers
R. B. Stevens
Admiral Capps
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Collapse of Carranza regime eyed as loan talks fail
Washington reports a virtual collapse of the Carranza government as Luis Cabrera’s efforts to convene investors for a $100,000,000 loan fail. The State Department fears renewed border instability and a possible revolution unless the situation changes immediately.
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Washington
Carranza
Mexico
Luis Cabrera
State Department
Spies Placed in America in Copenhagen Report
Information from Copenhagen states that stricter measures are needed to supervise Scandinavian liners to the United States to curb German agents and couriers. It notes pass forging bureaus provide fraudulent Scandinavian passports to German agents in Scandinavia.
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Copenhagen
United States
America
Scandinavia
Chinese Factions Resume Quarrel in Cheng Tu
North China Daily News reports renewed fighting between Kwei-Chow and Yun Nan troops in Cheng Tu capital of Sze Chuen province. The city is aflame and residents flee in panic as combat intensifies, threatening regional stability and civilian safety.
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Shanghai
China
North China Daily News
Cheng-Tu
Sze-Chuen
Kwei-Chow
Yun-Nan
Germans Lead Villa Forces in Southern Chihuahua Cities
El Paso reports Villa and his men have taken Parral Santa Rosalie and Jiminez after driving Carranza troops to the mountains. Villistas, aided by seasoned German officers, now control much of southern Chihuahua south of the capital with many casualties on the field.
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Villistas
el Paso
Texas
Carranza
Francisco Villa
Parral
Santa Rosalie
Jiminez
Chihuahua
War costs of England soar to astronomical daily totals
The article equates England’s wartime expenses to $405 per second, $245 million per week, and $12.74 billion per year, highlighting the scale with 1918 money supplies. It notes a 1916 spike of over 4 billion in uncovered paper, contrasting gold and silver holdings.
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Chicago
England
Germans torture priest in Belgium as espionage chief slain
Amsterdam reports that a German espionage chief in Belgium was killed at Lommel in Belgian Limburg with no trace of the assassin. A 3000 mark reward was offered. Seven Belgians were shot at Liege on July 12 including the Swiss curate of St Lambert’s parish at Herstal and a parish commissioner Le Jeune. The priest and his assistant were deprived of food for three days to force information.
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Amsterdam
Les Nouvelles
Maastricht
Belgium
Lommel
Limburg
Liege
St. Lambert's
Herstal
Lejeune
Three Guardsmen Killed by Lightning at Camp Maxwell
A lightning strike during a storm at Camp Maxwell in St. Louis county killed three soldiers from the First Regiment Missouri National Guard and injured about a dozen others. The dead are H. S. Davis Dwight L. Trump and Chas B. Carroll. Several seriously hurt, including Sgt Jack Allen and Corporal Clarence Dunsford, were revived by pulmotors and are believed out of danger.
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St. Louis
Missouri National Guard
Camp Maxwell
St. Louis County
H. S. Davis
Dwight L. Trump
Chas. B. Carroll
Jack Allen
Clarence Dunsford
Australia considers retroactive wartime profits tax plan
The Australian Government proposes a 50 percent wartime profits tax for the year ending June 30, 1916, and 75 percent thereafter. The plan was announced during the bill’s second reading, according to a Melbourne dispatch to Reuters.
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Ottawa
Melbourne
Reuter’s Agency, Limited
Raider at Work in Atlantic Port Near Spain Coast
A British freight steamer reports a strange vessel believed to be a German raider sighted due west of the Spanish coast two thirds across the Atlantic from Europe. The freight ship escaped the unidentified craft and reached the port.
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Atlantic
Europe
Explosion destroys factory in Eslington Baden
One hundred twenty people killed in an explosion at a hand-grenade factory in Eslington Baden, according to dispatches reaching here.
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Basel
Eslington
Baden
Long Earthquake Recorded at St Ignatius College
A half hour seismic event was logged on the seismograph at St Ignatius College in Cleveland. Father Odenbach, in charge of observation, could not estimate the epicenter but thinks the disturbance originated thousands of miles away.
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Cleveland
Ohio
St. Ignatius College
Father Odenbach
Rural Colonies Planned for Soldiers Families
Senator Curtis in Washington introduced a bill to establish rural colonies for dependent families of soldiers. The measure aims to provide housing and community support in designated rural areas.
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Washington
Curtis
Lansing Warns Kaiserism Threatens World Peace
Secretary of State Robert Lansing told 1,700 Officers' Reserve Corps members that German autocracy endangers the United States and the world. He urged that lasting peace comes only when democracies destroy German military rulers and prohibit aggression. He said the United States will win because its cause is justice, right, and humanity.
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Madison Barracks
N. Y
Officers
Reserve Corps
Robert Lansing
United States
Germany
Lansing
France
America
Allies Decide To Fight On In Paris Conference
The allied Powers end their conference with a unanimous pledge to continue the war until their goals are achieved. They vow to defend peoples rights and Balkan stability and refuse to lay down arms until central aggression is rendered impossible and responsibility is borne by the Central Empires.
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Paris
Balkan
President Wilson to settle dispute over Hoover and war board
Washington reports President Wilson will decide two contested points in conference on the food control bill. The house conference failed to decide whether the food administrator should be one man or a three member board and whether to include the war expenditures committee. Lever plans to propose Hoover as food controller and a nonpartisan war expenditures panel under Vice President and Speaker control.
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Board of Three Men
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Conference
Food Administration
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Lever
House Committee
Herbert Hoover
Committee of War
Lincoln
War Committee
Train strike kills five in Seymour area picnic party
Five people died and two were seriously injured when a Pennsylvania train struck a taxicab two miles north of Seymour, Ind. Victim Lon Prewitt, former county commissioner and Seymour police chief, led the car. The other victims were members of prominent Seymour families returning from a Rockford picnic. The crossing has a history of fatal accidents.
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Seymour
Ind
Rockford
Here
Lon Prewitt
Americans weigh in on war strategy and the Russian rout
Up to Uncle Sam Washington. This summary notes three Americans closest to the war say the western front remains a nut too tough for present allied tools. The United States must and can break it. The Russian offensive failure is a ruinous rout, yet Russia's disarray discourages any immediate German peace.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Germany
Confessed German Spy Under Guard in Kentucky
Lexington reports George Majors alias Frank Irvine confessed to being used by the German army as a spy. Arrested in Paris Kentucky he wore a U S Army uniform and was held by State Department orders. Authorities say he aided Captain Cutts and traveled twice by ocean supplying German information. He attempted escape and was moved for safekeeping.
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Lexington
George Majors
Frank Irvine
Paris
United States Army
State Department
Captain Cutts
Majors
Cutts
Two Physicians Called Up For War Service
In the United States two of every nine physicians of military age will be required for war service. With about 90,000 physicians in the eligible group some 24,000 will be mobilized, drawn from all communities without depleting local medical needs. A medical detachment will precede troops to oversee health and sanitary work at cantonments.
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Washington
United States
Retreat Across Galician Border to Russian Soil
The Russian army in East Galicia has withdrawn about 100 miles from Kerensky’s early month drive, now on Russian soil on both sides of Husiatyn. Teutonic allies press the center line while northern and southern columns fall back, offering brief resistance only at isolated points.
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London
Kerensky
Russia
Galicia
Husiatyn
German Ship Batavia II Captured by British Submarine
London reports a British submarine intercepted the German steamship Batavia II during a North Sea patrol. After a brief chase the crew abandoned ship due to battle damage and a prize crew took control, but the vessel could not reach port and was sunk by opening sea valves.
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London
North Sea
Clash injures whites as bullet pierces soldier at Waco
Will Jones of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry arrived for guard duty at Camp MacArthur when a clash between negro troops and local citizens escalated. Jones was shot in the head and several white residents were injured in the incident in Waco Texas.
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Waco
Texas
Will Jones
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Camp MacArthur
Forest Fire Tragedy Claims Eight Men Near Fernie B C
Eight men are known to have perished and several are missing after a forest fire swept the Spruce River Valley, 15 miles northeast of Fernie. More than 60 workers from Elk Lumber Company camp in Blind Valley were trapped and faced a difficult escape over the mountains.
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Fernie
B. C
Spruce River Valley
Here
Elk Lumber Company
Blind Valley
Mishaps In and Near Chicago
Five people died and several more were injured in automotive crashes in Chicago and nearby areas as officials investigated the incidents and urged caution on the roads.
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