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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1918
Page
5
A Treasury committee paused work on wartime revenue estimates to review tables showing potential tax changes. Plans consider raising rates across the board with a likely broad upward revision to income taxes and reductions in other levies to balance anticipated deficits.
The Pei Co banned soldiers at Camp Accotink Va from eating in the village until further notice. Twenty one units of Acerlink were fined and a cleanup effort is planned with H C Robles from the States public health service overseeing similar actions done three weeks earlier in Alexandria.
War Department releases list of addresses for officers reported killed on the Soissons Rheims front. Names include Capt Alfred Haines of Atlantic City and Capt James N C Richard of Sewanee, plus Capt James H Kolmes of Charleston and Capt Julius A Mood Summerton. Second Lt James C Lodar of Wilmington NC listed, with James F E Edgerton of Washington noted as aviator not locally known.
Kernin Hurley of the shipping board ordered steps to train merchant marines on the Great Lakes. He said unions refused to strike after government training stations were set up and vessel owners promised cooperation. A Buffalo delegation with Thomas Connwit and Patrick to meet with leaders from the Seamen's Union and international bodies to ensure no strike.
A vintage home remedy suggests lemon juice and orchard white to make a quart pint lemon lotion. It claims the mixture will whiten and soften skin, reduce freckles and tan, and leave hands smoother and rosier with regular use on face neck arms and hands.
A chaotic wartime dispatch reports thousands killed by avalanches and rough weather near military positions. scattered fragments mention Camp Peahoat, young women clubs, and an inquiry into a fireman death in Chicago with the body found aboard a vessel in July.
Chairman Hurley reports 118 fully equipped shipyards and 44 more partly finished across the United States as America expands its war industry. Eighteen new shipways are ordered, with Hog Island and Sparrows Point among major fabrication yards, as records in tonnage and speed of construction are set.
The Washington Post reports the Ladies Through Relief Club hosted soldiers from Baltimore and nearby civilians for a boat trip to Chesapeake Beach. Several hundred soldiers arrived by auto from Fort McHenry and were welcomed by Evergreen Manor blind residents and Marine Hospital sailors. Lunch aboard the boat preceded seaside sports and bathing, with Mrs William W Stackham praising Baltimore citizens for making the picnic a success.
The Navy Bureau issued rulings raising the age limit for enlisted men from 35 to 40 and allowing Navy recruiting stations to accept unlimited enlistments to sustain the current pace. The measures accompany Friday’s draft board guidance from Provost Marshal General Crowder barring release of men in class one for Navy or Marine Corps service. Separately, a collision between a two horse team owned by Charles Cole and Capt C H Brown caused minor damage on Pennsylvania Avenue near Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
War Department changes halted the eighteen De Havi land airplanes from Hempstead Louisiana to Washington today. The idea of dispatching several squadrons of Liberty powered battleplanes is not dismissed and may occur later.
The adjutant general's order prohibiting issuing rifles to home guard groups until state national guard quotas are filled was altered yesterday. Now rifles may be supplied to home guards where they are not currently required by organized national guard units.
General March receives and forwards a congratulatory message from General Ayehara, chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Army, praising American troops for successes on French fields. He transmits the note to General Pershing for publication to the American Expeditionary Forces, stressing joint efforts toward a common cause.
Russian aid will be sent but no German agents or prisoners may interfere with plans. Allies and American forces need not form an intergeneric army in Russia. Czecho-Slovaks demand security against German or agent seizures of food and aid, with allied forces providing the guarantee.
Berlin claims an Entente plan to compensate Japan with the Dutch colonies for active war participation. Isvestya reprints the allegation as from Berlin but Reuters says no foundation exists for such a proposal and the claim is ridiculous.
Berlin protests after Bolsheviki kill two German airmen captured in Russia. Reports say the men were ill treated and shot. The issue sparks demands for severe punishment of those responsible.
London dispatch says Nicholas Romanoff's family, former Russian emperor, is safe in a Siberian monastery at Abalak on the Kush River a noted pilgrimage site. A separate Amsterdam dispatch reports Dr Helfferich named German ambassador to Russia traveling to Moscow on the same train with a battalion of German soldiers, countering rumors that Grand Duke Alexis died from exposure after the czar's execution.
By the Associated Press American engineers are ordered to leave Nagasaki and proceed to Vladivostok to repair the Chinese Eastern Railway. Gen Semenoff, leader of the anti Bolshevik movement in Siberia, reportedly faces 12 000 enemy near the Manchurian border as forces prepare to advance into Chinese territory where a substantial Czech force is stationed.
London reports friction between American airmen and English girls as gossip spreads about uniform distinctions and rivalries with infantry and artillery. The piece notes tension at a camp where wartime quarantines and outbreaks affect routines while airmen seek activities amid limited leave.
Paris reports summarize the entente allied counter offensive on the front between the Aisne and the Marne. Newspapers state allied advances average about 12 miles with a shortened front between Amiens and Rheims of 7 miles. Germans still hold about nine miles of the Marne north bank.
An elderly American resident of Rome died yesterday at age 6. He formerly lived in New York City and was a close friend of J uierpent Morgan.
France files a writ in admiralty court against the Tel- Blancie steamer Imo for two million four hundred dollars as value of Mont Blanc cargo. Mont Blanc exploded in Halifax harbor on December 1 last year after a collision with the Ling A counter claim has been judged by the Imo's owners.
In Wisconsin a barred paper claims it was unfairly denied state aid for rail communications. The article notes a dispute involving a Milwaukee paper and the federal mail system, with courts expected to decide on administrative versus judicial scope. The piece emphasizes legal action and government roles in press support.
Cleveland July 27 two editors Richard Brenna of the Wwechter and Anathor Cleveland Merman daily were arrested by federal agents charged with violating the espionage act. The arrest stems from a Worcester Worcester story about actions in Amsterdam. The district attorney released Brenne under bond while the other editor faces similar proceedings.
A German specialist newspaper publish ed here was arrested today by federal agents charged with violating section nineteen of the trading with the enemy act. He is held on a 2500 dollar bond.
Geneva July 27 American prisoners faced German officers who pressed for naval and military details. The prisoners answered with guarded responses like Ask Pershing or Wilson and maintained a cool sarcasm as they refused to disclose information. The German interrogators grew furious at the defiant replies.
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