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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
8
Paris reports that on August 3 American airmen shot down four German planes. The French war office released the tally today as Allied air operations continued over occupied Europe.
Paris reported that Lewis Malloy former minister of the interior was acquitted today on charges of intrigue tied to the Bola-Pasha affair. The ruling clears the prominent political figure of efforts to influence the scandal in connection with the case.
Washington August 6 The post office department is seriously considering extending the air mail route from New York to Chicago. The decision hinges on logistical and funding factors as officials review feasibility and potential benefits to cross country mail service.
Washington reports negotiations under way to employ Dutch ships to transport sugar from Java. About forty Dutch vessels roam East Indies waters amid fears of seizure or submarines, while others lie idle at home. Allies assure no requisitioning. with careful conservation the two pounds monthly limit for Americans can be met.
W G McAdoo, returning from Washington duties, greeted railroad workers who nicknamed him Mac. He told reporters he aimed to keep Kaiser on schedule and discussed plans with reserve bank officials to handle the coming crop. He urged the men to remember they are public servants and promised support.
East Chicago reports multiple deaths and widespread prostrations as a brutal heat wave grips the corn belt. Chicago records a 102 degree high with Milwaukee at 97 and Nebraska corn suffering under 109. A tropical hurricane threat looms for Galveston or New Orleans this afternoon.
American patrols crossed the Vesle after advancing from Fismes as U S troops moved north in the Mareuil en Dol e region. In heavy rain they probed Boche positions to link with the enemy. German shelling intensified this afternoon while American guns were quieter and casualties remained light. Bodies lay in valleys, woods, and towns, the result of German machine gun nests hidden in hollows near the plateau tops.
Washington reports 13 million men aged 18 to 21 and 32 to 45 will register from September 5 pending passage of the manpower bill. Provost Marshal Crowder urges immediate action to sustain September calls and a weekly register after September 1. Senator Chamberlain notes the bill will be moved promptly, with Baker and Gen March among early witnesses.
In a New England cabin Philip, a college student, longs to help his bird study obsessed uncle James Derridge. He photographs thrushes for monogamy data, meets Alice Gerry who aids the project, and the pair reveal Philip’s dedication. The uncle praises the work as surprising and moving.
The Allgemeine Fischerei Zeitung reports careful counts from Bavarian trout hatcheries. In common and rainbow trout 58 and 54 specimens were counted, showing the oldest fish carried up to about 3,000 eggs, while smaller fish produced more eggs per weight. Perch eggs ranged from 3,710 in a four inch female to 30,480 in a ten inch fish, with smaller fish yielding more eggs per unit weight.
Lawerence La Tourette notes in Century Magazine that wartime aviation is dominated by youths. Only Italian Lt Col Piccio, age forty, has reached ace status with seventeen confirmed kills. Most celebrated aces are under twenty, proving war aviation relies on youthful energy and rapid invention.
Gen. Berthelot toured battlefield remnants after the Marne victory, noting unburied dead and vast artillery, shells, and machine guns captured from German forces. He commanded the lower Rhine-Marne sector, counterattacked on July 16, aided by Mangin, and aided delaying the German advance as the counteroffensive unfolded.
London reports Lloyd George in the House of Commons lauds Fochs counter stroke as brilliant though war not over. He notes Allied seas power, British navy tonnage rise, and American reinforcements flooding Europe with hundreds of thousands of men arriving in ports and on ships.
Paris reports heavy activity on both wings of the Aisne Vesle battle front with German flanking movements and heavy artillery. Allied troops filtered into the Skry Sassagne region near the rail line east of Soissons, while the Allies recaptured Moreuil on the Avre near Montdidier.
General Mangin in a special order to the Third U S army corps commends their “magnificent clan” for surprising the enemy and halting a fresh division’s return offensive, noting their indomitable tenacity and proven worth to the country.
Private Benjamin Fleming of Lisbon North Dakota, a member of the 313th ammunition transfer unit, died today in a base hospital at Camp Dodge Iowa with the cause not disclosed in the brief dispatch.
Fred Fulton, who was knocked out by Jack Dempsey days ago, announces he has quit boxing until after the war and has begun work as a guard at the Washburn-Crosby mills in Minneapolis.
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