Wilson Food Bills Survive Senate Clash For White House Review
The administration food bill and the food survey measure won Senate approval by 66 to 7 after bitter opposition. The bills, including broad controls on food fuel fertilizer and farm equipment with strict prohibition features, head to President Wilson for signing. Chamberlain led the bill in the Senate amid praise for steering it past foes.
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Mystery Homicide In Annapolis Wife Found Slain
Annapolis police seek help from Baltimore detectives after Mrs Lillie May Haislop Brandon is found murdered in her bed. No clear motive or signs of a struggle, but a blunt instrument likely caused instantaneous death. Her husband Val N Brandon, a naval station stenographer, is being questioned as investigators trace family links and reports of a phone call to his mother in Washington.
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200000 in first call means 1000000 in army
Brig. Gen. Crowder warns governors to have one third of their quota ready by September 1 as the first increment is mobilized. New rules tighten exemptions for dependents and require local boards to certify called men daily. Physicians urged to screen for trachoma to prevent eye disease in recruits.
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Features of Drastic Food Measure as It Goes to President
The proposed food control bill would place government in charge of foods feeds and fuels under a one man administration with strong penalties for hoarding and speculation. It would empower the President to license dealers close exchanges and boards of trade and buy sell or control wheat flour meal beans and potatoes. It also sets a $2 a bushel minimum price for wheat and prohibits foodstuffs from whisky beer and wine. The President could commandeer spirits and supply fertilizer to farmers with a large funding of 152 billion dollars to enforce the law.
Pacifists Repudiated In Commons Peace Vote In UK
The Times reports that of nineteen pacifists who backed the July 26 peace resolution in the House of Commons, fifteen Liberals and four Labourites face repudiation by local Liberal associations. Two are not expected to run again. others may be swept away by new election laws, leaving only seven with a future electoral chance.
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Germany Opens Psychological Bureau To Test Foes Morale
Paris reports Germany has formed a psychological bureau with Ber lin as headquarters and agencies in neutral countries to monitor and relay the morale of Entente foes. Agents in neutral border states will forward data on morale fluctuations, reflecting a focus on morale collapse over submarine warfare.
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Twenty-three British ships sunk in week report
London reports a weekly Royal Navy summary showing 23 British merchant ships over 1,600 tons were sunk last week by submarines or mines, with 13 additional ships attacked unsuccessfully. No fishing boats lost. Compared with prior weeks, overall losses rise slightly.
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AEROS DESTROY TWO U-BOATS IN POLA DRYDOCK
During a recent Italian air raid on Pola the Austrian naval base on the Adriatic two airplanes dropped bombs destroying two submarines being repaired in the Austrian drydock in Pola.
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Harold MacGrath and Brand Whitlock Feature in This Week’s Reading
Harold MacGrath presents a romance in one installment titled A Night's Enchantment about a successful playwright kidnapped by a pretty girl. Brand Whitlock contributes a short story A State Secret a vivid political crime tale. Max Rittenberg offers A Man's Honor at Stake a detective romance set around love identity and a leper colony in the South Pacific.
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Italy poised for major strike with allies amid munitions push
A confidential briefing outlines Italy's 4,000,000 strong army and allied support as London talks, Paris and Washington discuss operations to defeat Austria. It predicts Italy could seize Trieste in ten days, force Austria-Hungary toward peace, and reshape Adriatic front with Croats Serbs and Slovenes gaining coastlines and new states.
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Russian Offensive Wins Back Two Towns in Roumania Fight
Petrograd reports Russian troops advanced in the Chotin region near Galicia, driving Austro German forces from two villages, seizing a height, and taking over 300 prisoners and four machine guns. In Brody the Russians stalled a Teuton attack. counterattacks restored lines. Romanian front saw varied actions with repulsed assaults as regiments fought with bayonets and stones.
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Tragic Fort McPherson artillery accident kills three
Marietta Ga Aug 8 three people died and two were injured when shrapnel from field pieces at Fort McPherson artillery practice sprayed a spectator area near Kennesaw Mountain. Victims include Mrs Seth Harris 55 and two colored men. two injured were Jim Coleman and another unnamed colored man. Witnesses offered two theories on how the shell hit the crowd.
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U boats will war on England only
London Aug 8 A dispatch from Amsterdam reported by Reuters Limited says Germany plans to concentrate submarine activity exclusively against England. Clay Center Kans Aug 3 Former President Taft ill in the city improved but to remain in his room today. he likely will depart for Lincoln Neb tomorrow. President Wilson sent a telegram of sympathy to Taft yesterday.
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Striking Apaches Quelled at Glebe Arizona Mines
In Glebe Arizona on August 8 1900 an uprising by striking Indians and Mexicans at United States Asbestos Company mines in the Sierra Anchas Mountains was quelled by forest rangers and armed ranchers. All Indigenous workers were driven from company property and two leaders named Montana and Johnny Cook were arrested.
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Man Struck by Baltimore and Ohio Train at Ridgeley Street
Ollie Hood aged 22 of Ogden Maryland was hit by a B and O locomotive on Ridgeley Street in Baltimore. He was carried to Hyattsville on the cowcatcher, then taken to Washington and Providence Hospital with a broken left arm. Hood worked for R H Maynard of Gamberg Maryland.
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Restoration First Peace Condition
Premier Lloyd George declared at a Serbian Society lunch that the first condition of peace is restoration complete and without reservation. He praised Serbia and Belgium as guardians of the gates, pledged Britain’s honor in seeing Serbia free, and noted Europe owes much to Premier Pachitch for civilization meeting Prussia’s barbarium challenge.
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Senate Passes Food Bill In Major Senate Action
National and international items fill this issue page. The senate approves a food bill as war news and domestic items share space with reports of Europe and Russia.
Russian mission urges US aid to seed democracy in Russia
ENhu Root and fellow members of a US mission to Russia urged President Wilson and Secretary Lansing for unqualified US moral and financial support to sustain the Kerensky government. They warned a separate peace with Germany is the gravest fear and endorsed vigorous American publicity and even troop deployment to the eastern front to bolster Russian morale. The report notes progress and optimism despite German intrigues and caution that Russia will become a strong republic with time.
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