Air Government Construction Halt in San Francisco Shipyards
Large scale strike actions halt production at San Francisco shipyards amid union demands and potential 160000 workers involved. Wood workers resume in Seattle as craft unions seek wage increases around 50 percent for machinists, patternmakers, shipwrights and related trades across multiple plants including Atlas Standard Gas Engine and Hall Scott engines.
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Washington
German Peace Feelers and Russian Crisis Entangle Europe
Baron Von Kuhlmann, Germany’s foreign secretary, is linked as the writer of a recent peace feeler circulated in Washington, amid German-Mexican exchanges and recall rumors. Stockholm organizers push forward on a conference on Russia’s crisis, urging unity against imperialism and praised Russian democracy while warning against German plots.
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Stockholm
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Strigste
San Francisco Labor Walkout Ties Up Shipyards
About 25,900 iron workers and metal tradesmen walked out in San Francisco and bay cities at 9 o clock, halting government shipbuilding contracts worth over 150 million. No violence occurred. Settlement is seen as a federal matter with talks planned among California employers and unions.
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Moore Fents Irom
Pacific Foundry
California. Trades Association
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Swedes Demand Neutrality After Telegram Revelation
A great liberal meeting in Stockholm with 15,000 attendees adopted a resolution denouncing the Swedish foreign office for allegedly forwarding cipher telegrams. The crowd urged urgent measures to prove Sweden’s commitment to absolute neutrality toward all belligerents during the war. Folke Cronholm, former Swedish envoy to Mozambique City, is noted missing as of December 17.
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Eerond
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Germany
Sweden
Folke Cronholm
Mozi¢o City
American consular agency destroyed by German bombs
Washington reports the American consular agency at Dunkirk France was destroyed by a German bomb on September 7. Consular agent Benjamin Morrel was unharmed and archives were saved. The dispatch offered no further details and suggested the strike likely came from an aircraft. Dunkirk had faced prior bombardments including a long range German gun.
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State Department
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Wreck kills seven stockmen near Earlville Iowa
At least seven Iowa stockmen died in a Burlington Railroad rear end collision near Earlville Iowa. More than ten were injured as a merchandise train plowed through two sleeping cars and a way car. Names of the identified dead include W D Dixo n Hamilton Iowa Kalts No Cauley Ketlerton Iowa Thomas Bender Fairfield Iowa William Rocheka Chariton Iowa John Walker Milo Iowa. Injured include Harvey Vaughan Osceola Floyd Twombley Osceola Noy Hopper Chariton Fred Camaday Ford John Rogers Knoxville. Bodies still being recovered and one unidentified likely Fred Manley Osceola. Cause given as a block signal misalignment with cars catching fire after crash.
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Chariton
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Milo
Fred Manley
Osceola
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Floyd
Fred Camaday
Ford
John Rogers
Knoxville
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W. W. Hardin
War ends with call for pacifist world and democracy
An international assembly theme proclaims the working class seeks this war to democratize nations, prevent future conflicts, and establish rights guarantees for a pacifist, disarmed world on land and sea. The conference is delayed, with repeated proletarian slogans echoing in Stockholm.
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Clergyman Kelly trial testimony in Villisca axe murders
Three witnesses testified in the Kelly case in Red Oak saying Rev. Lyn George J. Kelly admitted guilt in the Villisca axe murders. W. O. McQueen, Sulkus Ward, and James Murdock described conversations and statements attributed to Kelly about killing the Williesea Moore and Stillinger girls. A defense objection blocked Beulah Callaway's grand jury testimony about a nude portrait request.
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Forming Many Farm Loan Associations
Washington reports rapid expansion under the federal farm loan act with over 4,000 associations forming nationwide. Officials anticipate farmers borrowing up to 169 million dollars from twelve federal land banks within a year as August applications from associations already chartered near 24 million dollars.
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United States
General Alexieff Restoring Russian Army Discipline
Washington dispatch reports General Alexieff is reorganizing the Russian army to replace old generals with new leaders. Kornilov uprising claimed quelled without bloodshed as government brands itself stronger. Officials say discipline was restored and plans to keep German forces on Russian soil continue, while Petrograd conditions are cited as misread.
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Petr Tograd
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Mallee
First Field Day of U. S. Troops in France
Former French premier Clemenceau attended the American field day in France with General Sibert and French officers. American infantry demonstrated machine gun and rifle arms, boxing and tug of war, and Clemenceau praised the allied effort defending liberty. He urged soldiers to be steadfast as France opens its doors to them.
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Rusing
Germany and Sweden exchange notes over telegram wording
London September 17 Germany sent a note to Sweden regretting the phrasing used by Swedish telegraph messengers. Germany thanked Sweden for sending messages but condemned the tone of code telegrams from representatives in Argentina. The note instructs diplomats to refuse access to code contents and avoid coercion by external powers. Indiana ruling declares women's suffrage unconstitutional in Marion County court with appeal planned to the Indiana Supreme Court.
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Desperate Austro Hungarian Attempts To Recapture Ground Fail
British make raids report on September 17 with Austro Hungarian counterattacks failing to retake ground lost to Italian forces on the Balasitza Chateau and Damamsza plateau. German and French fronts show limited actions with raiding, arrests, and prisoner captures noted along Arras Somme sectors.
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Drudah
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Somme
Arras
France
Bombing Raid on German Ships Reported by Admiralty
London dispatch reports an official statement describing a bombing raid on enemy shipping between Dunkerque and Ostend. British naval aircraft dropped bombs on drifters and trawlers, hitting a large enemy ship and likely destroying one or two others. Seaplane loss occurred in a later engagement with enemy fighters.
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