World War Era Highlights From the South and Beyond
A digest of wartime news including Dixie Highway plans to link Chicago and Detroit to Miami with U S government aid as a war measure, Rotary convention in Kansas City, cotton price concerns, coal and rail logistics warnings, and remarks by Colonel Roosevelt on Allied forces. Reports cover Russian mission reception in Washington, Hoover food controls, munitions tax evasion probes, draft registration and volunteer enlistment, and shipping board power struggles.
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Dixie Highway Executive Council
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit
Miami
Fla
United States
War Department
Kansas City
Heart of America
International Rotary
New York Cotton Exchange
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Roosevelt
Red Cross
Oyster Bay
L. L
England
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Europe
Washington
Russia
Belgium
Italy
Hoover
Denman
The
Shipping Board
Goethals
Emergency Fleet Corporation
White House
Lucy Burns
New York
Catherine Morey
Boston
Atlantic
Treasury Department
New York Federal Reserve District
New York Federal Reserve
Secreary
Lansing
Polk
Phillips
Canada
Belgium King’s letter praises American people amid war push
Baron Moncheur delivers a cordial note from King Albert of Belgium to the United States, lauding Americans as war efforts accelerate. A 625,000 man draft plan, Wilson proclamations, and a July lottery for selective conscription are outlined, with sixteens cantonments to be built under fixed-profit contracts and recruiting week set for June 23 to 30.
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Wilson
Albert
Belgium
Baron Moncheur
France
War Report Highlights Food Profiteers and Air Power Push
Edward W. Pickard surveys a week of wartime action. Government probes and proposed legislation target food, fuel, and munition profiteers while a large airpower buildup gains momentum with plans for 600 million dollars in aeronautic funding and 24 training camps. Submarine warfare, Allied naval actions, and political upheavals in Russia Austria Hungary and Spain frame a broad war outlook.
Export of Food Under Control Sets Policy Under Wilson
President Wilson directs control of American exports via a new export council with the secretaries of state, agriculture and commerce and the food administrator. Aimed at orderly trade, licensing will begin with coal and fuel shipments and extend to all exports to European neutrals. The Commerce Department will license and staff the program, with $900,000 sought for operation and enforcement by customs collectors to prevent unlicensed shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniels
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Justice
Washington
Wilson
Secretaries of State, Agriculture and Commerce
Department of Commerce
Germany
Exports Council
E. B. Pratt
Lester H. Woolsey
State Department
Customs
Treasury Department
Red Cross Campaign Over Subscriptions Enormous
Washington reports indicate pledges totaling 100 313 000 with New York City supplying 35 993 00 and the rest of the country 64 320 000. Final figures expected to rise toward 5 000 000 to 10 000 000 as campaigns continue and funds are allocated for relief in Europe and America. Katherine Stinson deliver money and pledges to Secretary McAdoo from Buffalo and Albany on her two day flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Red Cross
New York City
Milli
America
Closi
Katherine Stinson
Buffalo
Albany
McAdoo
The
Interstate Commerce approves coal freight increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a fifteen cent per ton rise in bituminous coal rates from Pennsylvania Maryland West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and Ohio to points east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio river. The change, effective July 1 1917, differs from carriers' requested flat fifteen percent hike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pensylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Ohio River
Ates
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the News OF the South
Southland
Ular Army
Navy
Marine* Corps
National Guard
Naval Militia
London
Constantine
Greece
Lugano
Switzerland
Robert Grimm
Grimm
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Denmark
German Empire
Weather Bureau
House of Commons
George
Kerensky
Buiguima
St. Chamond
Geoffrey Harper Bonnell
Royal British Flying Corps
Boelke
Alfonso
Spain
Edward W. Pickard
Sam
Administration
Herbert C. Hoover
Vardaman
Gore
Reed
Madden
Cannon
Illinois
Haugen
Iowa
House
Senate
Sherman
Air Army
Peary
Squier
National Army
Council of National Defense
Council
Navy Department
Sims
Monchy-le-Prieux
Vauxaillon
Lens
Messines
Lys
Warneton and
Armentieres
Arthur Hoff
Federal Council
Geneva
Elihu Root
Brussiloff
General Roberts
Boris Bakhmetieff
Petrograd
Congress of Workmen
Military Union of Woman Volunteers
Protopopoff
Rennenkampf
Austria-Hungary
Clam- Martinie
China
Pacific
Milwaukee
Commerce Department
Ls Sues
RED Cross Fund
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