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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1917
Page
5
The War Department imposes a gray blue home guard uniform with district shield buttons. A New England plant reports a $109,000 loss due to indecision and red tape slowing war contracts, while calls grow to streamline the executive war machine.
The exports council filed a plan with President Wilson to ration northern European neutrals. The policy prioritizes American needs, then allies, then neutrals, as export control starts. No licenses now permit shipments to northern neutrals, while reshipment to enemy territory will be halted. Italia will stop supplying goods that would replace items sent to Germany, including cattle feeds.
John F. Murphy of Knoxville Tenn postmaster of the Senate post office since 1413 has resigned He will return home after August 1 and resume law practice During his term the post office’s huginess grew nearly 1600 percent It is believed his successor will come from the same region of the country.
The Senate military committee unanimously endorsed drafting aliens of military age currently in the United States, with over a million alleged slackers cited. The plan excludes those unable to naturalize by treaty or law and enemy nationals. Aimed to pass Monday, it faces possible McCumber counterproposal seeking allied consent to draft their nationals.
War board announces plans to provide more than 100600 freight cars in coming months to move supplies for the army cantonments ships and yards. Railroads ordered to bar shippers from using government ordered cars except for specified supplies. Cars will be marked United States Freight Expedite to speed government shipments.
Swedens special envoy de Lagercrantz will return home soon and plan a fall visit to the United States to resume talks on US Sweden commerce. Negotiations reportedly improved understanding, with US aims to prevent American supplies reaching central powers and to shield neutral nations from disruption, accepting some hardship to protect American interests.
Department of Commerce figures show American gold imports totaled 977,176,026 in the year ended June 30. The excess of imports over exports stood at 3,885,254,251, compared with a net deficit of 403,759,733 last year and 25,344,1307 the year before that.
The army plans a future reorganization toward smaller divisions but no immediate changes are planned. Officials indicate current forces, including regulars, National Guard, and National Army, will move to their camps as law shaped divisions of about 28,000 could be adjusted to European style, with corps as the main unit in trench fighting.
Postmaster General Burleson urges a rider to the revenue bill to let American soldiers in France mail letters and postcards to the United States without postage. France already grants free use of its mails for soldiers, but US access requires congressional authority. Currently soldiers can mail with recipient paid postage or collect on delivery.
Julian Pieres, secretary of the Washington Socialist party, said the food bill reflects Socialist views. He spoke at Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, noting the wartime scope may outlast the war. He also advocated allowing soldiers to sit as judges on military courts.
Edward N Hurley was elected chairman of the Shipping Board to succeed William Denman. Rear Admiral Capps became general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Joseph Tumulty was among candidates to replace Thomas Brent after his resignation. R B Stevens expected as vice president. Hurley cited steel, wood, and labor as the three main problems facing the board with labor in sight and wood awaiting solution.
The proposed 100 million dollar loan to Mexico faces a setback as the Treasury Department signals no favorable view at present. Guatemala may oppose extending credits to Carranza and lifting the arms embargo, while reports of German activity near the border push the United States to slow any credit extensions.
Special to The Washington Post reports Capt Franz von Rintelen, linked to the Kaiser, is in frail health while imprisoned in the Tombs. He was sentenced to a year in a Mercer NJ penitentiary for conspiracy to foment strikes at munitions plants, and awaits trial on a passport law violation. George Gordon Battle seeks to move him to Westchester County Penitentiary in White Plains.
Senate and House conferees on the food control bill made substantial progress toward a complete agreement. They nearly struck out the plan for a congressional joint committee on war expenditures and favored the Senate amendment authorizing the President to fix coal prices and take over mines. A compromise on government contracting regulation by defense council advisers also nears. The liquor amendments favor a whisky ban and possible prohibition of beer and light wines. Uncertainty remains on whether a three member food board or a single food administrator will be chosen. The War emergency council of the baking industry said the $2 wheat minimum prevents bread price reductions, urging wheat pricing be left to the food administration. only a small portion of Americans benefit from high wheat prices while most want reasonable bread costs.
Reports from Petrograd and Washington describe improved morale in Russia after Galicia set back. A general council to include popular elements is planned, Bolshevik arrests rise, and discipline tightens to restore order. U S military prep advances pace with engine building and skilled labor shortages highlighted by Secretary Daniels.
The War Risk Insurance Bureau announced a 1 percent increase in government rates for insuring vessels and cargoes sailing from American ports to Europe and Africa. Effective August 15, the 5 percent rate becomes 6 percent, with new policy options for monthly installments or lump sums for officers and seamen. The rise reflects heavy losses since the U.S. entered the war.
Philadelphia July 27 The Fidelity Trust Company owner of the Cameron mansion in Washington, the national women s party headquarters, served a notice to vacate within three months. Mrs Abbey Scott Baker said the action followed an alleged remark by president William P Gest about the party s White House demonstrations. Gest declined to discuss the trusts by telephone. Baker came from Washington to confront him, who cited unpatriotic behavior as the reason. Leaving the Cameron House saddens but does not derail plans.
Fifty one noncommissioned officers of the marine corps have passed examinations for temporary appointment as second lieutenants in the corps.
The War Department proposes 70,000 dollars for 84 civilian guards to protect the Washington aqueduct replacing national guards, and 17,256 dollars to hire and arm civilian watchmen for bridges in the District. General Black warns that protecting the city water supply from disaffected elements is essential but cannot be funded from ordinary appropriations.
A government training station in Squantum faced an electrical storm that blew two planes far from shore and triggered a two hour patrol search. A missing aviator reportedly returned, while a patrol boat rescued a sailor near Quincy Bay and another boat carried part of a wrecked aircraft. Three people were killed and extensive property damage occurred as the storm swept from Boston to Portland.
The captain of a liner torpedoed in British waters thanks the American public through the Associated Press for rescue by an American destroyer. He reports that without the destroyer, he and the passengers and crew would have been prisoners aboard a German submarine. The rescue set a record for the largest number saved by an American destroyer from one ship.
President Wilson may unveil a reorganized defense council plan establishing a war industries board led by Frank Scott to approve all contracts and a priority board to order government purchases. The scheme envisions delegating buying powers to war and Navy reps, with Bernard Baruch directing allied purchases and Hoover possibly joining on the priority board.
Deserters from the German army living abroad are invited to return without punishment with fair hope of pardon. If they remain faithful to the Kaiser during the war no ties to this effect have appeared in the newspapers in Holland.
The board of grain supervisors for Canada issued an order prohibiting export of Canadian wheat to the United States without board permission. The directive covers the remainder of the current crop until further notice.
Friedlander Bros at 428 Ninth Street Northwest offer Palm Beach and Kool Kloth suits at the astonishing price of 5.00 each. The ad touts lightweight summer comfort, numerous patterns, and a wide range from pinch-back to plain-back styles, urging customers to buy early before stock runs out.
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