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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
1
Washington reports mobilization plans for the national army advancing. Local boards summon men for examination as quotas are assembled to form a force likely ready by September with many awaiting the call to colors before August 1. Crowder describes the selection process and district exemptions as industrial and dependent factors are weighed.
Consul General Skinner in London cables the state department that press reports about a fixed quota of American goods to Great Britain are erroneous. The warning urges exporters not to be misled by these reports.
Washington reports the entire National Guard, except California and southwestern units, placed in federal service under President Wilson. Remaining troops to join on August 5, about 100,000 men, will be drafted into the U S Army and lose militia status. Guard regiments may go to France promptly barring transport limits, after final outfitting, with trench warfare training at the American camp in France under General Pershing.
Lakewood New Jersey July 26 Kingdon Gould may be among the first batch to be examined in Ocean county under the draft. His red serial number 775 appeared in the 194th capsule. George Gould Jr registered in the same district and is listed at 994 on the Washington list. The brothers are currently on their honeymoons.
A large committee in Rio de Janeiro has formed to raise money and collect supplies for Belgians in invaded areas. Shipments will go aboard a Lloyd Brazilian line steamer bound for Rotterdam, with Germany pledging to respect the vessel.
A. D. Selby of the state experiment station at Wooster reports late blight on potato vines sent from Wooster. The disease is deadly and preventable by Bordeaux mixture spray every two weeks. He notes it will mostly affect areas with seed shipped from outside the state.
An explosion aboard submarine A-7 at Cavite in the Philippine Islands killed five men and wounded three officers and crew members. The incident occurred near Cavite and involved U S Navy personnel. Further details were not immediately available.
Washington reports on the Russian breakdown as the war grinds on. American officers fear a larger German push on the western front if Russian strength continues to wane. Strategists view the only hope as crushing the German right flank along the Belgian coast to strike at U boat bases and end Germany’s offensive.
Rev. Henry Hill of Charleston known as the Champion Marrying Parson was jailed after failing to wed Maggie Adkins despite living together. Police say Hill admitted cohabiting with Adkins and plans to marry after divorcing his wife. He has long been known for quick ceremonies and courting couples at the county clerk’s office.
Brig. Gen. W. A. White, overseeing British recruitment in the United States, reported that more than 4 51 British subjects have enlisted, with 3 805 sent to Canada. New York office accepts about 73 daily, and he projected 25 909 recruits in the west plus a similar number going west to the Pacific coast.
Mrs Myrtle Irene Yan Loo was listed as a victim in an explosion that killed 10 people. A jury found Mrs Mooney not guilty after deliberating since Monday, prompting her to kiss the foreman and remark on the jury system. She then visited her husband, Thomas Mooney, who faces death in related cases.
In Yates Center Kansas Margaret Collins of Plain Creek district gains education despite a serious ice accident. Though unable to attend, teacher Fred Bauer boarded at her home and she studied by day and recited at night. She passed exams, earned a county diploma and plans further study.
Cleveland authorities search for four missing girls led by a report that Mary De Ross 17 was abducted by a 30 year old man who sought to marry her. The father said the girl was taken in an automobile by the suspect.
City officials in Chicago report a 20 percent reduction in garbage collections over the past six weeks compared to the same period last year as evidence of residents cutting food waste. The July 12 notice attributes the decline to public advice being followed.
Professor Lomonosoff, a Russian plenipotentiary, warns that Russia faces a critical railway shortage. He cites needs totaling 1,000 locomotives to move idle cars, another 1,000 with cars to clear freight terminals, and 850 more annually to cover renewal and new construction. He says the United States is Russia’s hope for this program and notes the Siberian railroad is ready, coal and sidings available, while the old government’s policies left railways economically mismanaged.
In Wilmington on July 26 four year old Samuel Giblsco of 227 Popular street played in a street trench opened by the gas company and was overcome by poisonous fumes from a leaking pipe. His father carried him to a physician where he was revived after an difficult effort.
Roland S. Morris a Philadelphia attorney and Princeton and University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate is named the United States Ambassador to Japan. He is forty, a reform wing Democrat leader in Pennsylvania under Vance McCormick and A Mitchell Palmer, seen as fitting for a critical time.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania two miners Stanley Zacoski and Alexander Shafer were killed and Charles Zsepski injured when hot air from surface fans caused rock and coal roof expansion. Experts cite expansion as the cause of the fall in No 1 mine of the South Wilkes-Barre colliery. Emma Goldman Released on Bail in Missouri Case. Emma Goldman, jailed in New York over draft interference, was freed on bail in Jefferson City Missouri and departed with deputy US marshal John J. Whalen for New York.
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