Draft numbers set for 687000 national army call within ten days
Brig Gen Enoch Crowder says about 687000 men will be selected for the new national army within ten days after a final count. Exemption boards will apply aroused allowances, with one in five disqualified by physical defects and two-thirds of the rest likely to be drafted, subject to dependents and exemptions. A misprint blank number in the capsule caused no draft change, and the process continues toward final certification and calls by local boards.
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Post Office
National Army
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War Department
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Baker
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White House
Wuitson
Washington
United States
District of Columbia
Board of Commissioners
Tuvision
Joseph A Murphy
Charles Waters
Karl C Corley
Joseph S Wall
Daniel J Donovan
Charlies Chester
Woodward
Five Exemption Appeal Judges For District Chosen by Wilson
President Wilson named five exempt appeal judges to form the District of Columbia tribunal for the new national army. The group includes John Joy Edson Flournoy Roberts W C Woodward J S Easby-Smith and Julius Garfinkle, all prominent local figures. They will handle occupational exemption cases and removal falls under the president’s authority.
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Wilson
John Joy Edson
Flournoy Roberts
W. C. Woodward
J. S. Easby-Smith
Julius Garfinkle
District of
Draft hits five brothers in Durham family call
Five of the six sons of C C White, superintendent of the Durham tobacco branch, were drafted on the first call. The family faces possible broader service as the remaining son, a farmer, may yet join, amid reports from Durham NC dated July 21.
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Durham
N.C
Washington Post
Wakhimneton
Durham NC
C C White
American Dies in Battle Near Ottawa Reported Casualties
Ottawa Ontario July 21 the militia department lists casualties in action including M Moser Duluth Minnesota killed. Wounded H J Paystey St Paul Minnesota FP J fles Whittier California Gassed W E Sherman Marton.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Militia Department
M Moser
Duluth
Minn
J Paystey
St Paul
Fles
Whittier
Cal
Sherman Marton
Kaiser Answers American Draft By Calling 2,200,000 Men to Colors
Washington dispatch reports Germany replies to the U S draft by mobilizing 22 million reservists and 6 to 20 thousand front troops for March 1. Officials note worsening German conditions, wheat shortages, and internal tensions with Austria Hungary. Reports mention improvised internment camps and limited signs of unrest under strict military discipline.
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Kaiser
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York World
Germany
Hindenburg Line
Austria-Hungary
Holland
Navy secret locker club ends for sailors at Brooklyn yard
Secretary Daniels said a locker club outside the Brooklyn navy yard has been suppressed. A merchant sold civilian suits to sailors who changed from uniform to mufti and returned in mufti after leave, a practice condemned as a violation of regulations. The merchant has gone out of business and the program was halted as part of enforcing laws against service member liquor access.
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U.S. Sailors
Jack
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Daniels
Navy Yard
Navy Department
Fight U Boats and Submarine War as Peace Talks Loom
The article reports on strategic proposals to curb submarines through airship bombardment and North Sea patrols, with U.S. and British plans to control shipping, plus a new treaty drive for closer trade with America after the war. It cites comments by Singaryoff on Russia’s economy, and notes British Prime Minister Lloyd George denouncing German aims and warning against overestimating American weakness.
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Holland
Denmark
Norway
Atlantic
United States
France
England
Saloniki
America
Hindenburg
Germany
Lendon
David Lloyd George
Queens Hall
George Michaelis
Great Britain
Pope to outline steps to end war
The Pope is expected to issue a peace appeal next month marking the war’s third anniversary. He may urge mediation aimed at direct negotiations between belligerents and possibly suggest resuming diplomatic relations between two nations at war to enable talks, possibly referencing the United States and Austria. In Valencia, strikers and gendarmes clashed. several wounded, trains disrupted, and arrests made amid reports of unrest in Barcelona and Madrid tensions.
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Washington Post
Rome
United States
Austria
Madrid
Valencia
the Interior
Barcelona
Dato
Wilson visits Fort Monroe for Hampton Roads tour
President Wilson arrived at Fort Monroe aboard the Mayflower for a weekend rest in Hampton Roads. Accompanied by Mrs Wilson, the pair anchored offshore after a quiet voyage up the Potomac and Chesapeake, planning to come ashore Sunday before returning to Washington.
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Wilson
Hampton Roads
United States
Germany
Potomac
Chesapeake
Washington
Kkapt
Affalra
Radia
Korniloff Named Commander-in-Chief on Southern Front
Petrograd reports Gen Korniloff, who led the Eighth Russian Army to success on the Halicz Stanislau line in Galicia, will command all Russian forces on the southwestern front. He succeeds Gen Gouter, appointed earlier in June.
Party Heads See Kaiser at Berlin Conference
Leaders of the Reichstag met Emperor William in the garden of the Ministry of the Interior. Vice Chancellor Helfferich presided as host for the conference on July 20 in Berlin, according to the Berlin National Zeitung.
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Coperhagen
Berlin National Zeitung
Helfferich
William
Reichstag
Ministry of the Interior
DRIVE ON TO TARNOPOL TEUTON ATTACKS REPULSED IN ROUMANIA
July 21 dispatches report Russian retreat in eastern Galicia due to command failure as German forces advance toward Tarnopol burning villages in their path. Novica village repelled Russian counterattacks restore front. Roumanian front sees infantry assaults repulsed after artillery preparations. German air crew captured in Carpathians.
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Petrograd
Galicia
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Blochoff
Tarnopol
Remiev-Hlatski Pokropuvna
Lomnica
Rimnik
Sereth
Carpathians
Berlin
London
Acaya
Ziecheff-Tarnapol
Turkey aims pacifist cabinet as premier may resign
Rome reports Turkish premier Ta ait Bex may resign to form a cabinet dominated by liberal parties favoring peace. Enver Pasha could stay as war minister while retaining supreme command. The envisioned change seeks to enable overtures for peace without destabilizing the empire.
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Washington Post
Rome
Turkey
Vatican
Ta Ait Bex
Enver Pasha
Food bill passes as Congress rewrites wartime controls
After five weeks of bitter debate the administration food control measure clears the Senate by a substantial vote. Conferees from the House and Senate begin work again with hopes the bill reaches President Wilson within ten days. The measure broadens government power over foods, feeds and fuels, fixes coal pricing, and permits mine operation under federal supervision while maintaining a minimum wheat price of 2 dollars per bushel.
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Jand
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Food Board
Herbert Hoover
Pomerene
Norris
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Pomerene Coal
Directa
Federal Trade Commission
Chamberlain
Democrat
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