Western line shows offensive trench warfare enters a new phase
The front has shifted from raids to sustained fighting on the Western Front. German forces attacked the British lines in Belgium twice within 24 hours, suffering heavy losses. A first assault south of Houtholst Wood failed after a British counterattack recaptured ground. The second attack stretched nearly a mile, with German advances near Poeldehoek Chateau repulsed by night counteractions.
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Belgium
Houtholst Wood
Ypres-Menin Road
Poeldehoek Chateau
London
Minin Road
Pielderhoek
War Office
Poelderhoek
Ypres
Menin Road
Poelderhoek Chateau
Neuve Chappelle
West Kent
Fleurbaix
Idaho Adopts Fifty Fifty Flour Conservation Plan
Idaho will enforce a fifty fifty wheat rule starting March 11 under U S Food Administrator Hoover. Idaho food officials urge use of substitutes and increased potatoes to ease shortages, urging compliance by consumers and dealers to conserve wheat and related products.
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Idaho
United States
Hoover
Bicknell Friday
Bicknell
Food Administration
Cknell
Italian General Gonzaga Wounded in Teuton Drive
General Prince Fercante Gonzaga, severely wounded during the Teuton advance into Italy last year, is convalescing in a Genoa hospital and expected to return to fighting soon. He previously earned the Italian gold medal for leadership in the capture of Gorica.
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Fercante Gonzaga
Italy
Genoa
General Gonzaga
Goritza
Russian Patriot Leader Resigns In Petrograd Meeting
Leon Trotzky announced his resignation as commissary for foreign affairs at a maximalist party meeting in Petrograd on March 9, citing discontent with traitors and resistance to Bolshevik forces.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Maximalist
Cossacks Plan National Guard to Top Bolshevik Regime
London reports social revolutionists plan a national guard to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in Russia. Dr Eloff of Moscow University says a Moscow conference decided the move. A large Don district Cossack army aims to form a republic with a coalition government rejecting the German Bolshevik peace deal.
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London
Russia
Eloff
Moscow University
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
Moscow
Don
Peace accord ends Russian Romanian conflict outlined
A Russian wireless dispatch reports the conclusion of peace between Russia and Romania and Romania pledges evacuation of Bessarabia.
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London
Russia
Rumania
Bessarabia
Appeals to conserve wheat flour during shortages
A public appeal urges citizens to reduce white wheat flour use to the minimum necessary and to avoid purchases beyond what is absolutely required. The message warns against efforts to procure flour and calls for disciplined consumption.
Senate probes price fixing and food admin powers
Washington March 9. Senators from both parties attack price fixing claims tied to farm products and use of licensing powers by the food administration. Reed Borah lead four hour speech amid criticism while Saulsbury asks for an official bulletin on fixed price bids for army and navy tomatoes.
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Washington
Food Administration
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Borah
Saulsbury
Delaware
The
Army
Navy
Walcott
Hoover
the Food Administration
Henry Can't Take Record Of Packers
In Chicago on March 9 the U S circuit court of appeals quashed a search warrant aimed at examining Henry Veeder's letter files for Swift & Company. The warrant, sworn by Francis Heney for the federal trade commission packing inquiry, was reversed on a technical error in Heney's affidavits.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Landis
Henry Veeder
Swift &Company
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Heney
Farm Regiment Plan Aims to Mobilize School Children
Washington dispatch quotes President Wilson urging every school to form a volunteer war garden army. The program would mobilize schoolchildren to raise produce valued at about five hundred million dollars this year.
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Washington
Wilson
Lane
Volunteer War Garden Army
Bill Introduced for Heavy Guns Urgent Army Request
Washington reports the army ordnance bureau asked Congress for an urgent deficiency appropriation of 400 million dollars to fund the manufacture of ordnance, with emphasis on heavy guns.
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Washington
Congress
Army Ordnance Bureau
Tech Tractor Exhibit slated at Idaho Technical College
The Tech Engineering and Mechanic Arts department will host a week long tractor course starting Monday at Idaho Technical College with assistance from local and out of town agricultural firms. Professor A C Gough and assistants Prather and Ferguson will lead demonstrations on construction operation care and repair of tractors. attendees are asked to bring pliers a monkey wrench and a screwdriver. Local sponsors include Bistline Lumber Case tractor and plows Bannock Motor Parrett Gem State Oil Parrett Happy Farmer Oliver Plow Co and other firms displaying tractors.
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Tech Engineering and Mechanic Arts Department
Idaho Technical College
A. C. Gough
Messrs. Prather and Ferguson
Department of Agriculture of the Tech
Gough
Pocatello
Bistline Lumber Co
Case Tractor
Bannock Motor Co
Parrett Tractor
Gem State Oil Products Co
Happy Farmer
Oliver Plow Co
State College study cites bean losses from dirty pinto beans
New Mexico's agricultural college reports losses from selling unclean pinto beans. Beans last year entered general competition but were disfavored due to broken beans rocks and clods not being sorted out as done with other states' beans. A state wide campaign will urge growers to re-clean beans.
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State College
N. M
New Mexico
State Agricultural College
Lone American Sentry Repels German Patrol at Trenches
A lone American sentry repulsed a forty man German patrol that entered the forward trench. He killed the patrol leader as he closed to within a few feet, and wounded others. Germans retreated as an American patrol aided by hurling hand grenades across No Man's Land.
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France
Associated Press
No Man’s Land
American Artillery Impacts Lorraine Front
American forces on the Lorraine sector near Toul display effective artillery fire with shells hitting targets behind enemy lines. The report notes accuracy on cross road batteries and working parties, and mentions a new temporary rule barring discussion of American casualties.
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France
Associated Press
Lorraine
Toul
Paris Bomb Raid Report With Casualties
German aviators raided Paris last night dropping bombs with loss of life and property damage. Signals that all was clear were given at 12 30 a m.
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Paris
Kaiser’s Head Exhibit at Club Night Practice
The Red Cross Canteen unit hosts a feature at the Commercial Club for Loyalists of Poca tello to try pitching rubber balls at Kaiser Bill’s head. With eggs expensive, the organizers will use baila in the contest hoping for a large turnout tonight.
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Red Cross
Pocatello
Kaiser Bill
Kaiser
France
Used Shovel On Periscope Of A Diver
London reports a British trawler captain used a coal shovel to ward off a German U boat in the North Sea. With no gun aboard the skipper swung the shovel at the periscope after the crew lashed him to safety, shattering the scope and enabling the vessel to escape.
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London
North Sea
Wisconsin Ex-Congressman Berger Indicted for Disloyalty
Chicago report states ex-Congressman Berger of Wisconsin was indicted by a federal grand jury for interfering with United States war prosecutions.
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Chicago
Berger
Wisconsin
United States
Transports Fought But Were Sunk
London reports two Russian transports attacked by German destroyers south of the Aland Islands. The action occurred Thursday and ended with the vessels sunk. The Exchange Telegraph notes the engagement as part of naval hostilities in the Baltic Sea theater.
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London
Aland Islands
Exchange
Gambling trio found guilty in justice court
Joe Bessie and John Apa were found guilty in justice court of gambling in a morning trial before Justice of the Peace Felix Van Reuth. Each faced a 200 fine with appeals discussed. Carmen Cozette testified he lost 27.25 after joining a supposed game of Twenty-one at a rooming house with the trio and another man.
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Joe Bessie
John Apa
Justice Court
Justice of the Peace
Felix van Reuth
Carmen Cozette
South Third
Cozette
Bessie
Apa
Edens
Lockhart
Peters
Mrs Ira Nelson Morris Visits Sweden While Husband Aids U S
Mrs Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago wife of the United States minister to Sweden travels home for a visit. Her husband has become a valuable foreign minister, supplying the government with data on internal conditions in Germany. London reports say German bombardment and frontline assaults occurred near Menin Ypres Neuve Chappelle and Poelde rhoek with several raids and prisoner captures by Portuguese and West Kent troops.
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Ira Nelson Morris
Chicago
United States
Sweden
Sam
Germany
Morris
Red Cross
Memorial to Lieutenant Hoover Draws Idaho Delegation
A large contingent from Pocatello and surrounding towns will travel by special trains to Blackfoot for a memorial service honoring Lieutenant Stewart W. Hoover, who fell in France. The event, Sunday at 4 p.m. in Blackfoot High School, includes a choir, speeches by Prof. Vincent, Chas. F.E. Harris, and W. Harry Holden, with veterans groups and the Third Idaho National Guard participating and a special 81 cent round trip created by Short Line. A 2:25 p.m. train from Pocatello and a return service from Grove City are planned for the ceremony entourage and attendees from nearby settlements.
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Pocatello
Blackfoot
Blackfoot High School
Grove City
D Company
Third Idaho National Guard
Ladies Auxiliary
Stewart W. Hoover
France
Officer Killed in Plane Crash in San Antonio
San Antonio March 9 Lieut. Leslie G Chandler of Hinsdale Illinois was killed in an airplane accident last night Cadet Henry Huber in the same plane escaped with slight injury.
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San Antonio
Leslie G. Chandler
Hinsdale
Illinois
Henry Huber
Draft men must stay on jobs
Santa Fe March 9 Men exempted from the first draft call due to agricultural work must continue in those occupations diligently, a ruling of the district draft board announced here.
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Santa Fe
Steel orders dip in February monthly report
New York March 9 orders of United States Steel Corporation for February 28 totaled 9 288 453 tons, down 189 000 tons from the end of January.
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New York
United States Steel Coreporation
Large public memorial service announced for Lt. Hoover
In Idaho Falls Rev Chaney will pronounce the invocation Senator I R Thomas delivers the benediction Roy Clayton organizes music Hugh MaccCosham chairs the County Council of Defense and services are under its auspices inviting county state citizens and others from outside to attend The gathering honors Lieutenant Hoover and notes his family’s Blackfoot residence for ten years
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Idaho Falls
Chaney
I. R. Thomas
Roy Clayton
Hugh MaccCosham
Council of Defense
County Council of Defense
Hoover
Dr. Hoover
Blackfoot
New War Department casualty lists with withheld addresses
Washington reports expurgated casualty lists showing Lieutenant Louis Jordan killed in action and Lieutenant John H Green wounded. The new order withholds next of kin and emergency addresses for soldiers listed in France to prevent aiding the enemy. Public information distributes dead and wounded lists without addresses. critics doubt usefulness.
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Washington
War Department
Louis Jordan
John H. Green
France
Pershing
Department
Committee On Public Information
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General Gonzaua
National Guard
Garfield
Henry
Circuit Court
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Vincent
Chas. FE. Harris
W. Harry Holden
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