Work or Fight Debate Dims on Manpower Bill
The Senate and House clashed over the work or fight amendment as Congress moved toward final action on extending the draft age to 18 to 45. Senators Thomas and McCumber denounced the elimination, while Chairman Chamberlain defended enforcement and warned of executive overreach. War Department criticism and claims of Congress being sidelined dominated discussions as the measure awaited President Wilson's signature.
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Thomas
Colorado
McCumber
North Dakota
Chamberlain
Senate Conference Committee
War Department
Secretary of War
Mr. Chamberlain
Nelson
Senate Debates Delay Day Vote on Emergency Agriculture Bill
Debate over amendments and wasteful appropriations delayed passage of the emergency agricultural appropriation bill with a prohibition provision after June 30 1919. Senate leaders plan a final vote today on the prohibition measure while a $2 500 000 seed wheat purchase was approved. Labor groups protest wartime prohibition sending petitions to President Wilson as New York State Federation of Labor telegrams arrive.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Organized Labor
Wilson
Rolla G. Sexton
Henry Ste ‘Rg
J. J. Henley
New York State Federation of Labor
Gun Makers Balk at Labor Ruling
The Smith and Wesson Company of Springfield Mass informed the War Department it would rather have its plant taken over by the government for the war period than abide by a War Labor Board decision. It objected to restoration with back pay for employees discharged for union membership rule violations and to compulsory collective bargaining, saying it has individual contracts with each worker. The firm employs 1,400 people on government contracts, including 250,000 army revolvers. Cumberland, Md. Aug. 30.
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Smith and Wesson Company
Springfield
Mass
War Department
War Labor Board
Empployes
Baker
Wilson
War Department plans sparks political clash over education
Critics say the War Department innovates by rebranding ideas as wartime needs and revives proposals after executive support. Senators condemn plans to make drafted youths educated at public schools and colleges as socialistic, while praising executive-backed shifts in war policy.
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Executive Department
Congress
BB & Great
War Department
French Push at Chavigny After Noyon Advance
French forces seized Noyon and pressed toward Mount Simeon as German gunners entrenched on the hills. Prisoners report they faced French shellfire from behind their own lines, while the town of Noyon was spared for a bayonet rush. American observers report an enemy plane shot down east of St Mihiel and Vosges patrols repulsed with unknown casualties.
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Oise
Thisscourt Forest
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Shelia
France
St. Mihiel
Vosges
Fresh Prussian Divisions Oppose Yanks at Juvigny
British and American forces face fresh German divisions at Juvigny north of Soissons while fighting for position. American troops pressed through heavy machine gun nests amid woods and ravines, aided by French forces and whippet tanks in hard, costly combat.
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Washington Post
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Juvigny
Nesta
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Soissons
George T. Page Elected ABA President At Convention
George T. Page of Peoria Illinois was named president of the American Bar Association for the coming year at the final business meeting. Secretary George Whitelock of Baltimore and Treasurer Frederick B. Wadhams of Albany were reelected. Next year’s convention city will be chosen by the ABA executive committee at the midwinter meeting.
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Ohio
George T. Page
Peoria
American Bar Association
George Whitelock
Baltimore
Frederick B. Wadhams
Albany
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Grain and Live Stock Prices in Baltimore August 30
Baltimore market notes list prices for butter and dairy extras across Western Maryland Pennsylvania and nearby regions, plus poultry values, cotton prices, and grain quotes for corn oats barley rye and wheat. Entry details include ranges for live poultry weights and assorted eggs and fowl prices, with regional rates from Norfolk Savannah Chicago and local Baltimore oats and corn figures.
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Virginia
Ohio
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North Carolina
Livestock Markets Report From Chicago
Chicago livestock market notes hog prices with top at 20.26 for August 2025 and various bid ranges. Cattle receipts reach about 5,000 head with westerns and natives listed. lamb figures show feeder and breeding ewe prices and cull trends.
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Chicago
IWW leaders jailed in Leavenworth sentences total federal case
The IWW leaders including Haywood and 14 chief aides were sentenced to up to twenty years in Leavenworth with ten year and five year terms for others. Fines ranged from twenty thousand to five thousand dollars. Judge Landis called the case America’s biggest criminal action, noting the wartime conspiracy and anti war actions while stressing the limits of free speech during war. The procession to jail followed as 95 directors were led away amid mixed reactions from spectators and relatives.
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Cadet Hille Babcock Killed in Wichita Falls Air Crash
Cadet Hille Bernard Babcock of Ontario Apartments son of Brig Gen Babcock now in France and Lieut F R McGriffin of Freano Cal were killed instantly at Califield Wichita Falls Texas yesterday when their plane fell 2000 feet. Babcock to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. He attended Columbia Preparatory School before enlistment and was 21.
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France
F. R. McGriffin
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Dutch Take Over German Vessels
Amsterdam August 30 A Batavia News Agency dispatch says six German steamers Silesia Uhenfels Gernis Westmark Castell Pelesch and Linden have been transferred to Rotterdam Lloyd Holland America Line and Royal Dutch Lloyd to replace six Dutch ships torpedoed off the Scilly Islands All the steamers are presently in Java ports.
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Ex Mayor Mayer Killed In Streetcar Accident
Henry Mayer fifty eight former mayor of Frostburg Md died after being struck by a street car while backing a motor truck from an alley in Barton County He was a Mayer Bros partner and a prominent Democrat He survived by his wife two sons Lieut George Gilroy Mayer New York News Va and Lieut Carl F Mayer Macon Ga and three daughters
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Frostburg
Henry Mayer
Barton Thia County
Mayer Bros
Liet
George Gilroy Mayer
Newsport News
Carl F. Mayer
Macon
Sentences Given to Philadelphia Man on Trial
The article notes a Philadelphia colored defendant received a 10 year sentence, with Benjamin Fletcher among those given 20 years. The defendant grinned as he was led away and commented that Judge Landis was using poor English and giving too long sentences.
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Philadelphia
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