Iowa War News Highlights From Corydon to Des Moines
War measures, medical alerts, and local incidents across Iowa are summarized. Includes a centralized wartime organization planned in Corydon, infantile paralysis updates in Dubuque, cattle testing for tuberculosis entering Minnesota, a major Sioux City fire loss, and Iowa soldiers receiving honors. Also notes on naturalization, draft classifications, navy enlistment, and war savings efforts.
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Corydon
Dubuque
Minnesota
J. J Gideon
Sioux City
W. H. Low
Clear Lake
Peter Fasting
Norway
United States
Muscatine
L. Harding
Guthrie
Dee Maines
Lafayette Young
M. Foote
Guizen
Lowans
C. McGlothlen
Sheldon
W.B. Ackles
Red Oak
L. D. Purcell
A. L
Iowa
Navy
George Ketterer
Des Moines
Vinton Town Gaming Company
Mason City
Alilelaly
Army
GH Sumner
State Noura of Health
Pup
Washington
Etate Board of Health
War talk and Siberia expedition plans surface in Washington
Official dispatches from Washington reveal Ambassador Francis and other diplomatic staff were forced to leave Russia for the Murman coast after Bolshevik orders cut telegram links with allied governments. General Graves is named to command American troops sent to Siberia, with a nucleus from the Philippines and units from the United States, while a joint allied command awaits formal arrangement.
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Washington
William & Graves
Camp Fremont
Cal
Siberia
March
Ste
Philippings
United States
Siberian
Wison
State Department
Geneery
Graves
McAdoo backs tax on war profits to curb profiteering
Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo advocates a tax on war profits as a core element of the revenue bill. He plans to press the provision when returning to Washington and has sent a telegram to House leaders urging the strongest possible tax.
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McAdoo
William G. McAdoo
Washington
Kitchin
Houge Aways
Menay Committee
Gifeier Park
Pickets at White House Protest Arrests Feed Suffrage Tension
Washington August police halted a suffrage rally in Lafayette Park opposite the White House. Officers moved onto the Lafayette monument as speaker began, arresting more than 50 including Miss Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party. Governor Burnquist’s war over saloon closures in Minnesota upheld by supreme court.
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Mise Alice Paul
Washington
Lafayette Park
White House
Marquis Lafayette
Mise Alles Paul
The
National Woman's Party
Uphete
St Paul
Minn
Minnesota Supreme Court
Burnquist
W.F. Rninow
Blooming Pratrie
Vienna Bread Ration Price Rise Planned Next Week
Vienna will impose bread rations after next Sunday with a 10 percent price increase, according to the Weser Zeitung Bremen correspondent.
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Vienna
Weser Zoltung
Bremen
Army plans 5 million man draft force expansion
General March urged the Senate military committee to enact the administration draft bill extending age to forty five years and to raise about five million troops from 18 to 40 as soon as possible. He did not press to reconvene before recess. Senator Chamberlain said Diales or Admiral Benson would be invited to speak on extending the draft to the navy.
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Washington
Administration
General March
Senate Military Committee
War Department
March
Congress
Wadsworth
Chamberlain
Dialels
Benson
National League Head Resigns After Years of Service
New York Aug. The resignation of John Tener president of the National League was received at the league office in New York. Tener led the parent organization for several years after serving as Pennsylvania governor. He later associated with a large contracting firm in New York and Philadelphia with business pressure cited as pulling him away from baseball. Roosevelt Leaves for New York from Dark Harbor
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New York
John Kener
the Nations Baseball Teague
Toague
Tener
Pennsylvania
New York City
Phiadelphia
Tower Collapse Kills Three at Detroit Grain Elevator
Three men were killed and two injured when a marine tower at a Detroit grain elevator on the riverfront toppled during work. Officials say the men were inside the tower when it fell without warning.
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Falla
Detroit
Mich
Marine’ Tower
Me Tower
Government urged to seize rail cars yards and storage
The federal trade commission urges President Wilson to create a government monopoly over meat transport rolling stock rail yards and refrigeration cars and to operate key storage and market facilities as public markets to ensure open competitive pricing. The report cites packers Swift Armour Morris Canady and Wilson and advocates government ownership of distribution assets.
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Washington
Swift, Armour, Morris
Canady
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Railroad Administration
Railroad Commission
Bumper Grain Crop For U S
The monthly government crop report estimates the U S wheat at 78 000 000 bushels and corn at 2 989 000 000 bushels based on August 1 conditions. If realized the harvest would bring a 170 000 000 bushel drop in corn from last year but a 228 000 000 bushel rise in wheat. Other forecasts include oats 1 428 000 000, barley 252 000 000, rye 76 700 000 bushels.
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Washington
United States
Harley
U.S. Volunteer Enlistment Halted to Aid Industry
Washington August 10 Voluntary enlistment in the army and navy was suspended to avoid disrupting industry while a bill to extend draft ages to 18 to 40 is considered. Secretaries Baker and Daniels issued orders postponing all new enlistments after talks with President Wilson.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Baker
Daniels
Se i
Dimblé Art
Pub
Vic
Wilson
Tax Evasion Crackdown Moves to Canada Posts
Washington August reports a unit of trained revenue agents to be stationed near the U.S. Canadian border to locate American citizens living in Canada who evade taxes. The initiative targets cross border accounts and unfiled returns.
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Canada
Washington
Bolshevik Leader Announces State of War With Allies
Lenine declared a state of defense amid Bolshevik actions against Entente forces in Russia. Tchitcherin clarified it is not a formal war, but a defense status. Archangel reports note allied troop landings and Bolshevik evacuation. Japan selects Gen Ozawa to command the Siberian expedition forces.
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Washington
Poule
Moscow
State Department
Lenine
Germany
Murman
Tehitcherin
Poole
Russia
Archangel
Gnega
United States
Kikuzo Ozawa
Japan
Siberia
Auto Industry Told to Convert to 100 Percent War Work
Washington reports the war industries board urged passenger automobile makers to switch to full war production by January 1, 1919. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce received word that voluntary 60 percent curtailment would not be promised for steel, rubber, or other materials.
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Washington
War Industries Board
National Automobile Chaber of Commerce
Wir Industries Board
New draft rules eyed by War Department
Washington August 12. Secretary Baker told the Senate Military Committee that draft regulations the government would use to select registrants are under consideration. He noted the present system forces deferments on those claiming dependents and indicated marriage could merit deferred status with a new set of questions for registrants. He urged quick passage of the age limit extension. In Newark on August 10 Bethlehem Steel voted to mortgage its entire property as security for a 500 million dollar bonus issue to finance extensions and discharge obligations.
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Frank M. Porterfield
Co. M
16Sth
Atlantic
Sergy
Iowa State College
France
Wight
Ames
War Department
University of Iowa
Henry Osterfoss
Ottumwa
Alice
Washington
Iowa
Louis G. Kashér
Joe Oliver
Recorde
Polk County
M. H. Cohen
Red Cross
W. J. Harding
Cot. B
Bennett
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Infantry
Waterloo
Inter
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Crowder
Speessénilal.ee
Keokuk
Uknols
F. T. Hughes
Keokuk& Western Railroad
A. W. Day
Edwin Fr. Kay
Marine, Corps
Dalbyte Elbtor
Lost F Burlingnon
Kraus
Utfe
G. H. Sthwvopne
Chicag
Federal Reserve District
Stredsky De‘partment
United States
Schweppe
Bus
Wesley Greene
State ‘Horticultural” Society
Tates
Greene
Baker
Senate Military Committee
Rues
Newark
Wed
Bethlehem’ Steel Corporation
Two Ships Sunk by U Boats Off French Coast
German submarines operating off the French coast sank the American steamship Lake Portage and the British steamer Berwind. Lake Portage, with 1,098 gross tons, was built last year.
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Washington
Lake Portage
Berwind
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Tokyo
Francis
al- Med Aplomantic Corps
Murman Coast
Bolsheviik
Leon Tratzky
Vindivostok
Considenacela
U.S. Army
General March Makeg
Senate Committee
John K. Tener
Roosevelt
Dark Harbor
Maine
Tor
Richard Derby
U. S
Baker and Daniele
Fresno
Kuttner-Goldstenn Int’ Pany
U. 5
Foreign Secretary
Manufaccturers
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