Older men in draft plan drawn by House committee
Washington reporting on a House vote to extend the draft ages 18 to 45, with a plan to place 18 and 19 year olds in a separate classification to be called after those 20 to 45. The vote was 9 to 7 with Dent not voting, prompting anticipated floor fights over the amendment and related education provisions for soldiers.
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Washington
House
Representatives
Illinois
Army
War Department
Wire
Ent
Kahn
California
Lunn New York
Tilson
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Greene
Vert
Olney
Massachusetts
Harrior
Virginia
Fields
Kentucky
Gordon
Ohio
Shallenberger
Nebraska
Garlette
Texas
Nicholls
South Carolina
McKenzie
Morin
Hull
Iowa
Anthony
Kansas
Dent
Lunn
Secretary of War
Senate Military Affairs Comittee
Gompers
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Baker
Rep. Kahn
General March
Crowder
Register August 24 Draft Registration Reminder
All men who reached 21 years since June 5, 1918 or on or before August 24 must register on August 24. These men should consult local boards to learn how and where to register.
German Army Order Describes Allied Advance Inaugural July 18
A captured German order of the day dated August 4 portrays the retreat as a strategic necessity and credits Allied surprise from July 18 for gains. It notes American troops fighting vigorously, tanks aiding early successes, and insists obedience and vigilance sustain defense while promising the offensive will erode enemy morale. The document calls for daily reading to all troops.
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Paris
Ludendorff
Harrison leads Vardaman in Mississippi senatorial primary
Meridian Mississippi reports two thirds of the state counted in the Mississippi senatorial primary. Representative Pat Harrison leads James K Vardaman by about 10 000 votes with an anticipated 15 000 majority. Vardaman calls returns very unfavorable while Webb Venable wins Reelection in the fifth congressional district by about 200. The surge follows President Wilsons remark that Vardamans re election would condemn his administration.
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Meridian
Miss
Pat Harrison
James K. Vardaman
Harrison
Vardaman
Fifth Congressional District
Webb Venable
Wilson
Mississippi
America Amazes Allies As War Sacrifice Proclaimed
Lord Reading told the American luncheon club that the United States has assured triumph for democracy. He said the allies never imagined America would take such a splendid part in the war and that the nation is ready to sacrifice everything in the service of humanity for a noble cause.
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London
America
Lord Reading
United States
YALE NOT TO CLOSE
Yale will not close its doors nor seek exemptions as the draft law rolls on. Dean Frederick S. Jones says extensive military training cannot run parallel with academics and expects most students to be drafted unless physically unfit.
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New Haven
Yale University
Frederick S. Jones
Dean Jones
Yale
Great Singer Caruso Weds
Enrico Caruso and Dorothy Park Benjamin wed quietly in New York. The tenor said the couple will stay at the Knickerbocker Hotel for now with a short honeymoon to follow. Caruso plans a new motion picture role and a fall lecture tour. Mrs. Caruso is the daughter of a prominent New York attorney active in society.
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Caruso
New York
Enrico Caruso
Dorothy Park Benjamin
Knickerbocker
Artillery Duels On Vesle Front Lightly Sketched
On the Vesle front near the Aisne Vesle line August 21 night artillery duels roared along the front and patrol clashes occurred frequently. Sniping was reported on both sides. Lieut. Robert Z. Cates of Spartansburg D C was officially credited with destroying a Fokker aircraft.
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Vesle Front
Aisne-Vesle Front
Robert Z. Cates
Spartansburg
D. C
Elevator Drop Fatal at Bethlehem Steel Plant
One man was killed and two others seriously injured as an elevator they rode plunged to the cellar at the Bethlehem Steel Co. East Preston street plant in Baltimore. Police investigate cause. details not yet available.
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Baltimore
East Prestoin Street
Bethlehem Steel Co
No Duty on Red Cross Supplies Bill Passed
The U S House approved a measure allowing American Red Cross supplies to enter the United States duty free. The vote was by voice without a roll call, and the bill now proceeds as part of the legislative agenda.
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Red Cross
Washington
American Red Cross
United States
Sub treasury Report Shows Tuesday Bank Gain
New York Aug 21 the sub treasury gained 229000 from banks on Tuesday, boosting cash net gain since Friday to 3887009.
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Sub-treasury
New York
Surprise British Attack Breaks German Lines Near Arras
By Bert Ford British Fourth army had already inflicted heavy losses to the enemy when the Third army struck at dawn in fog along a five mile front south of Arras. Prisoners say the attack came without warning after German forces expected days earlier action. Tanks aided the advance toward Bapaume while Moyeanville Courcelles and other positions fell in rapid fashion.
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Bert Ford
France
Arras
Boiseux
Puisieux
Moyeanville
Byney
Bapaume
Boston chemist arraigned for trading with enemy act
Rudolph Hutz, Bayer company manager, arraigned in Concord New Hampshire on charges of transmitting information to the German government and violating espionage laws. Police described a dramatic midnight arrest at Pine Island Lake Winnipesaukee, with deputies surrounding Hutz in his cottage and escorting him to the mainland.
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Concord
N. H
Rudolph Hutz
Boston
Bayer Company of
New York
Hutz
Albert
Pine Island
Lake Winnipesaukee
Secret Service
Hutt
Peter Smith
Aviators Battle with Lake Michigan Flight
Lieut Lee Hammond of Great Lakes Naval Training Station and passenger cartoonist John T McCutcheon fought four hours of heavy waves on Lake Michigan after engine trouble forced a descent. Hammond began from Great Lakes toward Grand Haven behind Lieut Duncan Forbes who completed the crossing safely. One pontoon was smashed before the hydroplane restarted and resumed the flight.
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Micago
Lee Hammond
Great Lakes
Naval Training Station
John T. McCutcheon
Lake Michigan
Hammond
Grand Haven
Mich
Duncan Forbes
Forbes
Hindenburg to Replace Ludendorff in German Forces
Rome dispatch reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg ordered to the western front to replace General Ludendorff. The Giornale d Italia notes German discontent with the crown prince following the Marne setback and claims the Kaiser granted him six months leave of absence.
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Hindenburg
Ludendorff
International News Service
Rome
Marshal von Hindenburg
West Front
Kaiser
Stampa
Giornale d'Italia
Germany
Marne
Aircraft Finding Ready to be Turned Over
Findings by former Justice Charles E. Hughes and Attorney General Gregory along with Assistant Attorney General William Frierson, who probed the aircraft situation, will be delivered to President Wilson next week, officials announced today.
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Washington
Charles E. Hughes
Gregory
William Frierson
Wilson
Tremor Felt Across Maine Towns Early Today
An early morning earthquake rattled Mechanics Falls Norway and Rumford with a half minute duration and a loud rumble. The quake was clearly felt in Lewiston as well, alarming residents across central Maine.
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Maine
Lewiston
Mechanics Falls
Norway
Rumford
Bulgaria May Become Republic Amid Proclamation Talk
Madrid reports from August 21 that the Liberal newspaper notes Bulgaria may declare a republic soon, with the anticipated proclamation linked to the influence of Carl Ferdinand. The brief item highlights speculation on a political shift in Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria
Madrid
Carl Ferdinand
Liberal
Reventlow Backs Counter Offensive Against Pamphlets in Germany
Count Ernst von Reventlow writing in the Tages Zeitung Berlin urges an effective counter offensive to curb propaganda. He cites pamphlets distributed across Germany aiming to incite the masses, including The Happiness of the Future and A Peace League of Nations, plus a piece praising Prince Lichnowsky.
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Reventlow
Germany
Count Ernst von Reventlow
Tages Zeitung
Berlin
Amsterdam
League of Nations
Prince Lichnowsky
Farmettes Decorated by Governor For Wartime Service
Hartfeard August 21 Governor Holcomb awarded brassards to twenty four Connecticut farm workers for three months or longer in support of agricultural work during boys absence serving overseas. Recipients include Margaret Bulkeley Dorothy Gillette Elsie Hopkins Margaret Zar now Ruth Personius Antoinette Dorr Lucy MacNicholl and many others from towns across CT and New York states.
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Hartfeard
Connecticut
Holcomb Brassards
Atlantic
Brassards
Margaret Whitmore Bulkeley
Hartford
Lieut
Houghton Bulkeley
101St Machine Gun Battalion
France
Dorothy Pope Gillette
Elsbeth Merck
Wilton
Elsie Hopkins
New Britain
Margaret Zarnow
New Haven
Personius
Ruth Personius
Bridgeport
Antoinette Dorr
New Canaan
Lucy MacNicholl
Greenwich
Margaret Zernow
Cythiazier
Evelyn Lownestein
Sada King
Rosie Arronowitz
Jean Manning
Alice Philips
May Walker
Daisy
Strike at Krupp Works Threatens German Plant
London dispatch from Amsterdam says Krupp workers in Essen threaten to strike within 48 hours. Unrest spreads to Bochum and Darm men as about 80,000 employees at the Essen works, makers of guns, munitions, and other war materials, face possible stoppage.
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London
Krupp
Essen
Amsterdam
Bochum
Barmen
Krupp Works
Uruguayan Mission Arrives for Washington Visit
Washington August 2 Dr Baltrost Brum Uruguay foreign minister and party reached an Atlantic port per State Department. They will travel to Washington Thursday accompanied by Cesaro Miranda vice president and other officials. Met by Uruguay envoy Hugo Depena and US officials including Jordan Stabler Colonel William Kelly and Lt Commander Augustin Beauregard.
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Washington
Baltrost Brum
Republic of
Uruguay
Atlantic
State Department
Cesaro Miranda
Republic
Javier Medivil
Alfrudal del Vido
Justo Jose Mendoza
John Canosa
Hugo V. Depena
Jordan H. Stabler
Department of State
Col
William Kelly
Augustin T.beauregard
U. S.N
War Time Litany Recited in Opening Prayer
Washington August 21 the Rev Dr Condon Blind chaplain of the house offered a wartime litany in prayer at the session opening asking God to deliver us from the hyphenated American and from pro German spy profiteer pacifist slacker and all who would retard the prosecution of the war for human rights happiness and a permanent world peace in Christ name amen
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Washington
Condon
Health centers for mothers urged in U. S. study
Washington report says the department of labor advocates more health centers to teach mothers child care and self care. English centers have grown by one third in the past year, drawing many attendees who move with the centers from town to town.
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Washington
United States
Department of Labor
England
Steamer Protus Sunk After Collision Near Cape Hatteras
Washington August 21 The Navy Department announced all passengers and crew of the Southern Pacific steamer Protus have been landed except one coal passer who was lost. The Protus sank after colliding with another vessel near Cape Hatteras. The other vessel’s name was not released.
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Washington
Southern Pacific
Protus
Cape Hatteras
Navy Department
Pro German Stoned Troop Train
Federal agents hunt for Germany sympathizers after a troop train was stoned near Polk Street station. No serious injuries, several soldiers struck.
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Chicago
Germany
Polk Street Railroad
British airmen drop numerous bombs in August raids
London reports Royal Air Force and navy coordinated strikes from August 15 to 18, dropping about 15 to 16 tons of explosives on 15 targets including Zeebrugge and Ostend docks. Nine enemy aircraft were destroyed and eight forced down out of control while four Allied planes were lost. Home waters saw continued anti submarine patrols and mine destruction with one sub missing.
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London
Royal Air Forces
Navy
Admiralty
Wolway
Zeebrugge
Bruges
Wetend
Ostend
Revenue Bill Nears Passage With War Profits Tax Plan
Washington August 21 The House Ways and Means Committee nearly completes the $8 billion revenue bill adopting a compromise excess profits tax based on McAdoo. An eighty percent tax with ten percent exemption is set plus a single eight percent deduction. Tax rates on profits rise from 35 percent for eight to 15 percent gains to 70 percent above 20 percent. The schedule is tentative but likely to be approved and included in the bill.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Hartford Rent Commission Appointed by Governor
Governor Holcomb announced a rent commission for Hartford to address alleged profiteering in rents by landlords at tenants expense. The panel includes Dr Flavel Souther of Trinity College attorney John F Forward and William H Partridge, joining similar state efforts in other cities to handle housing problems.
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Hartford
Holcomb
Flavel Souther
Trinity College
Torney John F. Forward
Willia H. Partridge
McKellar Opens Cantonment Contract Hearings
Washington aug 21 senator McKellar chairman of the cantonment contract investigating committee opened the hearings declaring we are going through with this thing to the bottom President Horowitz of the Thomson Starrett Co defended the firm against charges of undue profits and favored contracts as a government contractor the hearing began today
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Washington
Senator McKellar
Cantonment Contract Investigating Committee
Horowitz
Thompson-Starrett Co
Secretary of War Baker Opens Frankfort Arsenal Anniversary
Baker makes first government visit to Frankfort arsenal in Philadelphia for its 100th anniversary. He arrives at 4 PM, addressed at 4:38 PM with Mrs. Baker, General C. C. Williams, and Col. Thompson accompanying him.
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Col. Thompson
United States Army
Militants Win Permit for Future Meetings in District
Washington dispatch reports peace between district officials and the National Women’s party. After multiple arrests for park demonstrations without permits, activists are granted a permit to hold future meetings on condition of good order. Demonstrations will resume once suffragists recover from district jail terms.
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Washington
National Women’s Party
Sweden asked to punish editors of Aftonbladet
An American request to prosecute editors of the pro German Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet for anti US and anti Wilson articles has gone to Sweden through the American minister in Stockholm. The Swedish minister approved the move saying the paper aimed to provoke Sweden to sever relations with the United States.
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Sweden
London
America
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
United States
Wilson
Copenhagen
Scheidermann Arrives in Switzerland for Confer with Dutch Socialist
German socialist leader Scheidermann has reached Switzerland, with reports of a possible conference with the Dutch socialist movement. The news dispatch mentions Geneva and sources from Agence Radio.
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Scheiderman
Switzerland
Agence Radio
I. N
Paris
Scheidermann
Geneva
New Patrol Flight Record Set by Ensign Barnes
London August 21 Ensign A Barnes establishes a new American navy patrol flight record by piloting a dirigible for thirty hours, breaking his own recent coastal English record.
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London
Ei A. Barnes
No Change In Sen. James' Condition
No change was noted today in the condition of United States Senator Ollie M. James of Kentucky, who is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland.
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Sen. James
Baltimore
United States
Ollie M. James
Kentucky
John Hopkins’ Hospital
Girl Held Up by U-Boat Bandits
Eastport, Mo. Aug 21 U boat raiders on Campobello Island staged a dramatic encounter forcing Misa Willa Wilson to reveal Eastport post office banks and a schooner while men in white dusters threatened to shoot. A total of vessels including Una P Saunders A Pratt Andrews and Francis J O Hara were sunk off Nova Scotia by the Triumph captured by a U boat yesterday. German crews stated they were among six subs raiding the north Atlantic. S O S calls came from a vessel about 150 miles off Massachusetts as Navy officials reported.
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Eastport
Campobello Island
North Atlantic
Misa Willa Wilson
Wilson's Beach
Campobello
Banks
Una P. Saunders
Lunenburg
N. S
A. Pratt Andrews
Gloucester
Francis J. O'Hara
Boston
Nova Scotia
Triumph
Canadian Atlatic
Wyhre
Massachusetts
Navy Department
Washington
Stock Quotations From Richter and Company Hartford
Richter and Company bankers and brokers of New York Stock Exchange publish stock quotations from their Hartford office Central Row. The notice lists bid and ask prices for primary issues and notable securities.
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Richter & Company
Bankers
New York Stock Exchange
Central Row
Hartford
Con
Charter
Stocks Rally in Steel Shares as Marine Issues Lead
New York August 21 steel stocks led the opening with gains across the group. Steel common rose to 112 1 4 while Baldwin Locomotive edged up to 95 3 8 and Railway Steel Springs to 64 1 2. Marine issues benefited from consolidation rumors with Marine preferred at 103 5 8 and common at 28 3 8, while bonds weakened. General Motors hit a high of 162 7 8 as market turned heavy later. Marine preferred fell over 2 points to 101 1/2.
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New York
Stee Common
Baldwin
Steel Common
Railroad Administration
Ine Corporation
Marine Preferred
Anaconda
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific
American Sumatra Tobacco
Liberty
Marine
General Motors
Railway
New Haven
Steel
Lee Railway
Aviator Leaps to Death at Scott Field
In Belleville Illinois Aug 21 officers believe a gasoline tank leak caused a fire that killed Cadet Allen B Johnson of Port Allegheny Pa last night. He reportedly was performing a loop when gas escaped and was ignited by the exhaust. the plane was destroyed.
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Scott Field
Belleville
Ill
Allen B. Johnson
Port Allegheny
Johnson
French Troops Near Noyon Threaten German Position
London reports French forces within two miles of Noyon, a major German position on the Picardy front. General Mangin is said to have driven his left flank three miles deeper into German lines, with French troops reaching Sempigny just south of Noyon. The front runs from Sempigny toward La Pommeraye and Verponin with several local towns within reach.
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London
Noyon
Mangin
Ats
Sempigny
Sons
Toise
la Pommeray
Cuts
Camelin
Blerancourt
St. Au
Veraponin
Bieuxy
Laval
Courtil
Gasconier Belgian relief ship sunk by U boat
Dutch steamer Gasconier carrying Belgian relief supplies was attacked and sunk by a German submarine off Haugesund while en route from an American port to Rotterdam. Lifeboats were shelled, six crew members died, and several were wounded in the incident reported from Christiania.
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Christiania
Norway
Belgium
Haugesund
Rotterdam
Hyland heirs sell house lot to Criveli couple
Ellen F Hyland, Margaret Hyland Dunn and Katherine R Hyland sold to Francisco and Maria Criveli a parcel with dwelling, bounded northerly 30 feet by Erin Street and southerly 30 feet by Prospect Place. August Leitke sold to William and Olga Buchholz a 40 acre tract with dwelling and buildings, bounded east by the nice way and Chauncey Brooks land, west by the Middlesex Turnpike highway.
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Ellen F. Hyland
Margaret Hyland Dunn
Katherine R. Hyland
Francisco
Maria Criveli
Erin Street
Prospect Place
August Leitke
William Buchholz
Olga Buchholz
Chauncey Brooks
Middlesex Turnpike
Big September Draft Call for 300000 Selections
Washington Aug 21 selective service notices set to issue a September draft call. Provost Marshal General Crowder expects about 300000 men from class one and 21 year olds registered June 5 to be summoned. The call covers nearly all states and aims to begin sending men to cantonments from September 3 to 6.
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Washington
Crowder
Gallinger Buried in Concord After State Guard Escort
United States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger was buried in Concord New Hampshire today after the body lay in state at Barrack Hall guarded by sixteen state guardsmen. The funeral services were conducted by Rev Walter C Myers and the eulogy was delivered by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who led a delegation of senators and women from Washington to attend.
Escaped Prisoners Captured Near Andover
Norwich reports recapture of Samuel A. Salsberry and Albert R. Wells after a jail break. Sheriff Sidney A. Brown with deputies and Jailer Oscar H. Main closed in near Andover around 4 pm Tuesday, following Wells’ capture earlier that day.
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Norwich
Samuel A. Salsberry
Albert R. Wells
Sidney A. Brown
Oscar H. Main
Salsberry
Andover
Wells
Fishing Schooner Sunk By German Submarines
An Atlantic Port reports the sinking by German submarines of two Gloucester fishing schooners, the Francis J. O Hara under Captain Joseph P Mesquita and the A Pratt Andrew under Captain Wallace Bruce. O’Hara is owned by multiple Gloucester interests including Mesquita and Groton Pew Co, with all crew from Gloucester. A marriage license was issued to Michael Weber of Court Street and Dora Talbot of 41 Main Street in the same afternoon.
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Atlantic
Gloucester
Francis J. O'Hara
Joseph P. Mesquita
A. Pratt Andrew
Wallace Bruce
Andrew
John Chisholm Corporation
O’hara
Mesquita
Groton Pew Co
Michael Weber
Court Street
Dora Talbot
Main Street
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