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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
1
Government warns firms on priority steel orders not to resell to non war contracts. Private manufacturers may face sworn stock inventories to curb hoarding. War Industries Board aims to tighten steel flow as shipbuilding accelerates, with expected five ships per year in some yards.
In cooperation with the Department of Justice the War Department announces a control system for war material purchases. It provides board reviews of contracts centralized purchasing daily fiscal surveys standard contract clauses and public release of needs. The general staff bans most sales-agent contracts pending necessity and directs direct purchases from manufacturers or jobbers. Joint steps with the War Industries Board mobilize industry behind war aims.
The federal council of the Church of Christ in America sent greetings to Gen. Pershing and the American army in France through Rev. Dr. Charles S. MacFarland. He received a cable noting Pershing asked churches to send their best ministers or chaplains to support troops. Pershing says ministers are crucial to army efficiency and morale at critical times.
National Coal association warns Congress and President Wilson that an immediate nationwide prohibition is essential to mine 100 million extra tons of coal annually for the war effort against Germany. Fuel Controller Garfield has been briefed on the communication from bituminous operators producing 400 million tons yearly.
C E Hill vice president of the Commercial Telegraphers union said in Toronto the reinstatement dispute over two Great Northwestern Telegraph operators was amicably settled and the Tuesday strike was called off.
Travellers arriving in Stockholm report several hundred Petrograd residents dying daily from cholera. The disease has spread to many areas of Russia, according to a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
The fate of major league baseball during the war rests with President Wilson. Officials differ on whether games should continue as recreation or training, while Provost Marshal Crowder calls it a sport not education. The decision follows Eadie Ainsworth’s draft appeal from Washington club to avoid deferment.
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt youngest son of former President Roosevelt died after his aircraft fell behind German lines near Chateau Thierry during a patrol. Witnesses over the Maine region and Chateau Thierry report he was attacked by a German squadron and lost control, with his plane spiraling to the ground.
The grand jury indicted ten waiters and union officials in Chicago after an investigation found patrons who failed to tip were drugged with colorless tasteless powders known as tartar emetic. The charges include conspiracy to do bodily harm and to injure public health.
Francis T. Bowles announces rapid progress at Hog Island shipyards with 35 keels laid and 28,500 workers employed. He says only 1,500 more workers needed to reach full capacity and expects all docks and ways finished by early August.
A wartime agreement between shoe manufacturers and the War Industries Board and Fuel Administration ties firms observing conservation rules to a fuel priority list. Details were not announced but the plan likely eliminates many fancy styles. No price fixing was reported.
The striking blacksmiths and helpers at the Schenectady ALCO plant voted to return to work after being out since last Monday. Thirty nine American aviators petitioned Major O K Rhinehardt at Mineola asking to be prioritized in initial trans Atlantic flight selections. The volunteers are stationed at Hazelhurst field.
The Shipping Board let 30 additional steel cargo ship contracts to Japanese yards and 20 transports to Bethlehem Shipbuilding at Alameda. Fifteen firms share the Japanese orders, with Kawasaki and Kobe getting five. New deals add to prior talks between Japan and the United States, while Brazil seeks wooden ship plans to start its merchant fleet, with the board offering support to Latin nations.
Liberty loan managers nationwide meet in Washington to shape the fourth loan plan. A possible September 28 opening date is cited and debate continues on a three week campaign versus the usual four weeks. The loan target is six billion dollars or more with an interest rate around four and a quarter percent.
Maurice Barres wrote to the French minister of instruction per the Paris Echo, urging recovery of fragments from the Rheims cathedral after eight large shells struck the entrance on July 5. He asks the minister to gather damaged stones for later replacement.
Less than 3,000 of General Electric’s 13,000 Lynn plant workers reported for work as committees of strikers met to demand higher wages. More than 8,000 had applied for a new union, while federal conciliator P. J. Skeffing ton prepared to arrive. General Manager Walter C. Fish called the stoppage a serious wartime disruption and said workers must present reasons before halting production.
The foreign press cable service bureau of the Committee on Public Information under Walter S. Rogers perfects a system to distribute neighborhood news to American troops abroad. Herman Suter will head the service which uses German wireless plant facilities to deliver letters and updates as mail reliability permits.
General draft call targets 12 143 grammar school qualified men across 24 states and D C. Among them 154 are black. Entrainment between August 1 and 28 will send volunteers to schools for specialized occupational training to prepare for army service. Boards may authorize induction up to about a week before entrainment.
Provost Marshal General Crowder calls 15 states to provide 7000 registrants for general military training between August 1 and 15. Inductions may occur until July 22. A special call seeks 399 cooks to move August 1 and volunteer until July 23. California 128 cooks, Louisiana 36, New York 235.
In Washington Mme Botchkarova ex leader of the Russian Woman's Battalion of Death urged immediate allied military action in Siberia Speaking through an interpreter in the senate marble room she asked for an American army of 100 000 men or a combined allied force Botchkarova had earlier appealed to President Wilson for intervention through Siberia.
President Wilson will not vacation this year. Due to matters of tremendous importance demanding daily attention, he will remain at the White House in Washington throughout the summer.
John W. Stirling a leading American lawyer died July 5 at Lord St. Stephen's lodge in Canada and left Yale University 15 million in his will. He also made several bequests to relatives. Stirling, a New York bachelor, was prominent in legal circles.
Three hundred enlisted marines were commissioned as second lieutenants after a three month course at Quantico Virginia. Most are college graduates or have college experience. An additional class of 126 will complete the course next month.
Cardinal Gibbons Farley and O Connell urge three daily prayers for victory in World War I. Stephen Binder Brooklyn butcher convicted under espionage law gets 10 years in New York. Ukrainian cabinet crisis follows resignation. Markievitch charged with forming new government. Nassau hotel in Long Beach leased by the government after a decade of summer social life. Third Liberty Loan total reaches 4176516860 dollars, up 6497200. Wilson cites advertising role in wartime prosecution during telegraphic message to San Francisco.
Pro War measures limit voluntary navy enlistment by class 1 men while action to curb selection of service branch is not yet taken. Wilson signs 12 billion army bill. Billy Sunday operable for hernia. operation successful. Penalties proposed for unauthorized wearing of foreign uniforms. Fourteen House Naval Affairs members to inspect American fleet in European waters. Secretary Daniels approves. British forces in France total 2,000,000, unchanged from 1917. Bishop Cusack of Albany presides at service. Bethlehem Steel and War Finance Corp reach note underwrite. Wheat protection measures announced by Food Administration. Rochester optics training center opened for precision optics. August Beneke arrested for mail fraud. Otto Breitkrentz linked to horse meat fraud scheme. Captain Archie Roosevelt suffers serious arm injuries. eight months expected. Louis Weyand of Cleveland orders boilermakers back to work in Oakland. Labor adjustment board to investigate shipyard dispute.
The German offensive east and west of Reims faced strong resistance from American French and Italian forces. Allied counterattacks halted many advances while the Germans claimed only local southern successes. Allies recaptured key heights and towns as they pushed the Germans back across the Marne region. The German report cites 13 000 prisoners, with French and American forces also taking thousands.
Arthur Guy Empey author of Over the Top and participant in early World War battles has been commissioned a captain in the national army. He will serve in the adjutant general's department.
A war control resolution empowers the government to take over and operate telegraph, telephone, cable and radio lines for the war period. Preparations by the post office department are complete and President Wilson is expected to entrust control to Postmaster General Burleson. Officials anticipate action soon.
Superior Judge Franklin A Griffin ordered Thomas J Mooney to be imprisoned at San Quentin to await execution on Friday Aug 23. Mooney, convicted of murder connected to a preparedness day bombing in San Francisco, was granted time to arrange his affairs.
United States Shipbuilding Board housing commission arrives in New York to pick a site on Staten Island for homes and facilities for over 30,000 shipworkers and their families before winter.
Orders from Provost General Crowder direct San Juan and local Porto Rico boards to mobilize 5,000 men in addition to the 13,000 already reported at Las Casas, accelerating selection and preparation for war service.
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