Waterlo o draft July calls warn of large mobilization
Waterloo's July draft quotas will test the city of 35 000 as white and colored registrants report for training. About 480 white men and 33 colored are slated for special inductions to camps at Armour Tech Chicago and Camp Dodge. The notice lists rollcall at the local board and warns of widespread impact on stores factories and offices as Uncle Sam speeds up war activity.
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William R. Vogel
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Survivors land after sinking of Llandovery Castle
The British hospital ship Llandovery Castle, sunk by a German submarine 116 miles southwest of Fastmet on June 27, carried 258 aboard including 80 Canadian medical corpsmen and 14 nurses. One boat with 24 survivors reached port. The American steamer Californian crew, sunk by a mine off the French coast, has been landed in a French port. Lieutenant Edouard V. Isaacs, USN, a prisoner of war after the President Lincoln sinking, is located in a German prison camp at Karlsruhe.
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Karlsruhe
Weil
Wilson vetoes fund bill over eight hour clerk provision
President Wilson vetoed the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill citing a clause that would raise government clerks' workday from seven to eight hours. He argued that after urging employers to avoid unfavorable labor conditions, the United States should not approve a measure changing such conditions.
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Wilson
United States
American British Society for Tokio Plans Cooperation
A Times dispatch from Tokio reports a strong movement toward forming an American British society there. The group aims to promote cooperation on mutual interests and develop the true ideals and goals of both nations.
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Tokio
Times
Russia Denies Secret Pact With Germany on Poland
Moscow denies a published report that a secret treaty with Germany ceded Poland to Berlin. An official statement says Russia was forced by violence to cede Poland without a referendum. Hertling plans a Vienna visit July 7 to 9 per Berlin newspaper dispatch.
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Plucker Plucked by Court After Dutch Confession
In Brooklyn a 90 day sentence was imposed on John Plucker after he told a guard at the navy yard gate he was a Hollander. The incident followed a workday at Raymond Street Jail.
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Debs Faces Big Fine and Jail For HS Speech
Eugene V. Debs Socialist nominee for Congress from the Fifth district was arraigned in federal court in Cleveland on espionage act counts after his Canton speech. He pleaded not guilty to all 10 counts, bonds set at 10,000, with trial tentatively scheduled for July 30 as police detained 67 attendees.
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Bolsheviks surrender Black Sea fleet to Germany
A Moscow telegram reports the Bolshevik government surrendered part of the Russian Black Sea fleet to Germany after Sebastopol fell to German forces. The rest of the fleet was allegedly blown up or scuttled by its crews. Germany promised not to use the captured ships and would return them after peace.
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Archangel War State Proclaimed In Russian Arctic
Archangel province declares war, stretching 900 miles west to Finland and 400 miles south to the Arctic, including Archangel and Mourmansk ports the only Russian outlets to the Arctic Ocean. At Kola a rail line guarded by Allied and American forces holds vast supplies sent by Allies during World War I. American marines patrol with French and British forces amid uncertain implications for the region.
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Bombing hits Mannheim and Lowell strike action
A Basel based Havas dispatch reports five killed and 14 injured in Mannheim Germany after Allied bomb attacks while British air ministry notes a factory hit. Separately in Lowell Massachusetts about 75 percent of 15 600 cotton mill operatives return to work despite a strike order, with unskilled workers filling duties.
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Lowell Textiles Council
British Good Fellow, off Says To Yanks
In London July 1 American troops in the London district were entertained at the Palace theatre. Vice Admiral Sims and T. J. Mac Namara spoke, expressing gratitude to the British for their welcome. Sims said the war is fostering better understanding between the two nations and that the Britisher is a pretty good fellow.
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Commercial Bribery Ban Shocks Stain Factory Firm
Washington July 1 The federal trade commission ordered Co. Johnson & Son of Racine manufacturers of stains and fillers to stop practices known as commercial bribery such as giving money valuable presents and amusements to employees of customers or to employees of competitors customers to influence their employers to deal only with the defendant
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Racine
Federal Trade Commission
Turkey Asked to Tell About Tabriz Outrage
Washington July 1 The United States formally presented to Turkey a report that Turkish troops attacked and sacked an American hospital at Tabriz Persia and seized the American consulate there with a request for explanation Corroboration via Spain supports Teheran reports The fate of Turkey’s reply could affect U S attitude toward Ankara It is believed Kurdish or irregular troops may have carried out the raid without Ottoman government orders No American lives were lost as Americans had left Tabriz The Spanish consul directed American interests at the hospital and consulate Spanish authorities forwarded the inquiry to Turkey through their foreign office.
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Presbyterian
Farm leader killed in roadster rollover near Claire
Fort Dodge Iowa July 1 Michael J Collins a prominent farmer living near Claire was instantly killed when the roadster he bought Saturday overturned late yesterday while leaving a neighbor's farm. Collins was 50 years old.
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Michael J. Collins
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Collins
Wilson Backs Federal Control Of Telegraph And Phone Lines
President Wilson urged Congress to authorize government takeover of the nation’s telegraph and telephone systems amid a looming Western Union strike. House action expedited before the recess as Baker Burleson and the attorney general support the plan. Vail of AT&T offered no objection. Deficiency bill for military and wartime housing also reported.
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