Army Motor Transport Plans and Health Measures
Chicago bids opened for 75000 motor trucks and 6000 motorcycles with France to supply numbers. Col Chauncey B Baker accompanies Pershing to study transport needs while Col Stephen M Foote outlines artillery roles and mobility for coast artillery. Health and morals program under Col L Maus aims to curb dissipation near cantonments.
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Chicago
France
Army
General Pershing
Col
Chauncey B. Baker
Quartermaster General's Office
War Department
Europe
Col. Baker
Navy to Convene Board for Promotion to Rear Admiral
The Navy Department will hold a board tomorrow to select captains for promotion to rear admiral and 26 commanders for captain, plus 61 lieutenant commanders for commander, under the May 22 1917 act increasing the navy enlistment to 160000. The semiannual officer-count as of July 1 and January 1 guides vacancies and promotions, with senior Lieut Conant Taylor leading the lieutenant commanders and Lieut Matthias B E Manly listed among juniors.
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H Beard
Navy Department
Jieut
Conant Taylor
Matthias BE. Manly
Navy Reapportionment Promotes Officers in 1916 Plan
The Secretary of the Navy ordered a May 23 reapportionment to advance most officers picked for promotion last December. By July 2, those still awaiting advancement were promoted, with seniority guiding moves to rear admiral in several corps including medical and pay. Promotions affect medical directors, surgeons, civil and naval engineers, construction corps, and pay staff, amid stationing and training adjustments at Norfolk Quantico and other sites. The Navy also details hospital construction plans at Charleston, Port Royal, Pensacola, Gulfport, and New Orleans, and notes a shift of the marine officers’ school from Norfolk to Quantico along with numerous duty reassignments.
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Rious Cantonments
Secretary of the Navy
Beneft
Sary
Staff Corps
Navy
W. R. DuBose
J. D. Gatewood
W. M. Garton
FE McCullough
F. M. Furlong
R. T. Orvin
G. Ll. Angeny
W. H. Ball
H. C. Curl
R. C. Holcomb
BE. G. Parker
BL le Wright
H. &. Odell
Z. S Taylor
J. A. Murphy
C. J. Holeman
C. D. Hale
A.B. Haywood
M. E. Higgins
G. W. Sheard
E. W. Brown
D. G. Sutton
M. Schmidt
C. L. Moran
William Chambers
Sankey Bacon
F. P W. Hough
K. GC. Melhorn
J. W. McGuire
J. A Bello
G. ©. Rhoades
A. T. Touloh
M. H. Lane
John R. Martin
J. J. Cheatham
T. Z. DuBois
G. G. Reibéis
T. B. Richey
H. T. Roswell
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Corps of Civil Engineers
C. W. Parks
A. J. Ménoea
R. BE. Bakenhus
G. A. McKay
H. Brownell
J. Rf, Gaylor
P L. Reed
A. Jn Parsons
Charleston
Port Royal
Mariné Corps
Key Weat
Jia
Pensacola
Fla
Gulfport
Miss
New Orleans
T. P. Magruder
H. J. Zietgemeiner
FL. N. Freeman
H. ¥. Christy
T. R. Kurtz
W. V. Tomb
R. R. Emnitt
Hhraign H.R. Litite
C. EB. Ryder
Agalxtant
B. C. J. Eytings
M. C. Baker
Sure
L. A. Willata
F. L. R. Batley
G. WT. Stevenson
T. Macklin
J. Sperlé
D. H. Morrison
C. Greenwell
H. C. Dinger
H. P LeClair
Ensign
A. McGowan
W.D
Demar
J. Bell
J. O. Weed
W. H. Bell
Saras. Fal. Ziegler
G. B. Whitmore
Paymi
H. H. Christy
Waldo Vivane
GC. F. Preston
R. R. Belknap
Smith
H. J. Yarnell
J. J. Hyland
W. Bryant
W. Bryant, @. 8. Jackson, J. D. Wainwright, G. W. Steele, S H. R. Doyle
J. R. Defreés
Marine Officers’ School
Norfolk
Marine Officers’ Training School
Maine
San Diego
Marelaland
Cal
Emergency Ration for Navy Seeks New Navy Subsistence
Naval authorities consider a new emergency ration for the Navy and Marine Corps for shipboard use in emergencies. The Army had tentatively adopted a ration not finally approved by the Navy. Negotiations with Agriculture Department food experts lead to a recommended ration of 1% ounces of a specially prepared bis-
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Department of Agriculture
Victory at Saloniki would collapse Turkey and Austria
An eyewitness argues the Saloniki front is pivotal to winning the war. He describes how cutting the Berlin Constantinople railway would force Turkey’s collapse, reopen the Dardanelles, rearm Russia, and unlock Allied advances from the Danube to Hungary, with Greece as a base for a Balkans offensive. The article defends reinforcing the Army of the Orient and counters claims about logistical limits.
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Saloniki
Turkey
Austria
Asia Minor
Balkans
Army of the Orient
Ely
Ame
Serrall
Iiasion
Monastir
Aegean
Neit
Berlin-Constantinople
Germany
Bulgaria
Serbia
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Russia
Russi
Straits
Mayor
Mesopotamia
Caucasus
Danube
Budapest
Bukovina
Hungary
Trieste
Constantine
Menizelos
Greece
Italy
Patras
Volo
Piraeus
Embryo officers used dice at Fort Sheridan raid
July 14 Fort Sheridan Illinois reports 22 men seeking commissions in the new army were arrested for gambling while playing dice for money near the lake front jungle. Fourteen from the Illine Regiment and eight from the Michigan Wisconsin regiment. Captain Treyan led military police to detain suspects. Commander Cal Nicholson will decide on dismissal or restraints. One man allegedly won 700 at a single session.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
iNness Regiment
Michigan Wisconsin Regiment
Treyan
Ohio Engineers
Cal. W. J. Nicholson
Ringe
Appam damages set at 447000 for captured liner
Special Commissioner Thomas H. Willenxae filed with Judge Waddill in Norfolk a report fixing damages at 447000 to the British liner owners for capture by a German raider and detention in a neutral port. An additional 7039.17 from cargo sales would go to Henry G. Harrigan, master of the liner, with court costs covered as justice.
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Norfolk
Thomas H. Willenx
Waddill
Fede
Appam
Henry G. Harrigan
Vincent Astor Ensign Serves With Naval Patrol In Europe
Vincent Astor now serves as an ensign in the naval reserve with the American naval patrol in British and French waters. He has donated his steam yacht Noma to the government for war service. Mrs Astor and Miss Ethel Harriman arrived in Paris to join war relief work.
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New York
Vincent Astor
Naval Reserve
Astor
Ethel Harriman
Paris
Record Wheat Yield Reaches 50 Bushels Per Acre in Kansas
Valley Center Kansas July 14 Two hundred acres on the Oren Smith farm are threshing wheat averaging 50 bushels to the acre. Local Warmers claim a Kansas record with seven measured acres producing 68 bushels per acre.
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Valley Canter
Kans
Oren Smith
Kansas
Edison Pledge Sees Man In Jersey Rising In Nation's Eye
New York July 14 William Maxwell general manager of Thomas Al Edison Incorporated spoke at the Edison phonograph dealer convention at the Waldorf Astoria. He said there is an old man in Jersey working hard for Uncle Sam and that at the moment he is the most important man in the country next to President Wilson, and may soon become the most important figure in a nation.
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New York
William Maxwell
Thomas AL Isdison, Incorporated
Edison Phonograph
Waldorf-Astoria
Jersey
Bam
Wilson
Tardieu Urges Equality in War Price Controls
In New York, Andre Tardieu French high commissioner told the France American Society at the Bankers Club that equitable fixation of food and war supply prices and equal treatment of Entente armies and the American army are the great duties of the United States. He proposed creating an interallied committee in Europe near the front to centralize demands and control them, submitting them by urgency to support military operations.
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Foote Xlao
United States Coast Artillery Corps
War Department
British Coast Artillery
Gattigson Artillery
England
Fort Monroe
Europe
United States Coast Artillery
New York
United States
Andre Tardieu
Bankers Club
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W. G. Fleischieimer
J. R. Emory, Jr
William H. Mulford
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Gordon Gordon-Smith
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R. T. Oliver
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H. Channing
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Kenneth ©. Grant
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Judge Waddill
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