Swedish help to Germany in Mexico shown report cites covert use of diplomats
The state department published a document showing Germany used Sweden as a diplomatic channel to transfer forbidden communications between its agents and Berlin. Folke Cronholm, Swedish chargé in Mexico, acted as messenger for von Eckhardt and delivered dispatches personally, with Eckhardt proposing a decoration for Cronholm. The revelation links Sweden’s diplomacy to German intrigue in Mexico and Argentina, raising questions about Stockholm’s knowledge of the affair.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Sweden
Berlin
Mexico
Argentina
State Department
Herr von Eckhardt
Folke Cronholm
von Eckhardt
Legation
Cronholm
Argéntina
Stockholm Ag
Baron Loewen
Count Luxurge
Ironholm
Stockholm Foreignffice
von Ackhardt
Gronholm
Vlied
U. S
Fletcher
Morris
Stockholm
Watt
Fice
On Eckhardt
Imperial Can Mer
Folke Cronolm
Atexico City
Ronhoim
Je von Eckhardt
Imperial Legation
Strength of United States forces on Sept 6 1917 listed
Washington D C Sept 14 Chairman Dent of the house military committee released a government sourced statement showing total armed strength on Sept 6 1917 at 1 074 146 volunteers. Army 819 881 plus Navy 254 265 with enlistment and reserve figures detailed and noting no drafts before May 18 1917.
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Washington, D. C
Dent
House Military Committee
House
Congressional Record
Committee On Public Information
Regular Army
National Guard
Reserve Corps
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Hospital
Marine Corps
20 Local boys join national army at Camp Dodge
Twenty Waterloo youths, listed by the local exemption board, will start training for the national army at Camp Dodge on Wednesday, September 19. The first 20 named are set to depart, with three alternates ready if sickness or other issues delay any, and several names appear on the accompanying roll of honor. Extra names and notes follow, including Everett Larkin already in service with an ambulance unit.
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Waterloo
Camp Dodge
National Army
District Board
Guy G. Maurer
Glenn F. Smith
Lewis A. Kruse
Everett Larkin
Des Moines
Vico Fenereili
ItsHan
Begin Conferences on War Tax Bill
Washington D C September 14. Beginning conferences after the new war tax bill the committee took a preliminary survey of disputed amendments opened general discussion but postponed definite action. At Representative Kitchin’s request a secrecy rule was adopted and no news would be released until work is complete. Conferees tentatively agreed to drop the retroactive income tax feature aimed at raising 105 million from 1916 incomes.
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Washington, D. C
Kitchin
Unlighted. Machine Hits Aged Driver Near Waterloo
Jerry Peck aged 63 of 272 Hammond avenue was severely bruised when an automobile driven by Lester Day crashed into his horse and buggy on Eagle Center road near Waterloo. Peck says the auto was not sighted until the collision. He was taken home. the horse was later found in a neighbor’s yard.
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Jerry Peck
Hammond Avenue
Waterloo
Eagle Center
Lester Day
Mr. Peck J
Germans Claim Victories Over British and French
Berlin reports German shock troops penetrated to the second French line west of Guignicourt on the Aisne front with heavy losses for defenders. In Flanders artillery battles continued, Langemarck fell to German forces, and prisoners were taken. Paris says a German attack on the Casemates plateau near the Aisne was repulsed after hand to hand fighting with heavy German losses. Meuse front showed artillery activity. other fronts quiet. British naval air forces raided Ghent airfields. Haig’s HQ says no further notable events.
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Berlin
London
Guignicourt
Aisne
War Office
Flanders
Feneral
Langemarck
Paris
Gasemares
French War Office
Meuse
Verdun
Belgium
Admiralty
Revel Naval Air Serven
Ghistelles
Thurout
Field Marshal Haig
France
British War Office
Cheaper Milk Promised After Feed Price Plan
Washington Sept 14 Representatives of 100000 organized milk producers accepted a food administration proposal to sign month to month contracts with distributors as feed prices are expected to drop. Officials anticipate stabilized grain prices and limited miller profits will lower cattle feed costs by Jan 1 and enable a general readjustment of contract prices, potentially reducing milk prices to consumers.
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Washington, D. C
The
Food Administration
Foot Administration
German Ships in Uruguay Seized After Plot Rumor
Montevideo dispatch reports Uruguayan marines boarded all German ships in the harbor after learning of plans to sink the vessels. The action follows rumors of an imminent plot involving the ships and the government moves to neutralize the threat.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
Kellys Talk About Murders Heard On Stand In Trial
Testimony in the Lyn George J. Kelly machete murder case places him at Macedonia with others discussing the Villisca ax killings before discovery. Witnesses recount Kelly’s alleged statements of a family murdered in Willisea with an ax and details of the eight victims, with variations among sources and time estimates.
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Red Oak
Lyn George J. Kelly
Villisca
Kelly
L. Fritch
Macedonia
Barnett
Ross Moore
Joe Moore
Fritch
Marshall Horton
Willisea
Moore
H. Simonds
Carson, In
Hastings
Max Stemple
J.S. Anthour
W. C. Miller
Presbyterians Call to Waive Draft Exemption
The Presbyterian church board of education urges ministerial candidates to waive exemption from military service. It argues it is unwise and unpatriotic to rely on exemption provisions, urging students to seek exemption only if compelled by other act provisions. The board says the stance reflects church loyalty.
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Philadelphia
Board of Education of
The
Presbyterian Church
French cabinet completed by Painleve reshuffles ministry
Paris Sept 44 Prof Paul Painleve forms new French ministry with six former ministers and three ex premiers. Painleve holds two posts amid reshuffle as Ribot veterans Rene Viviani and Albert Thomas exit and Socialists largely excluded from the new line up. The cabinet includes ministers for foreign affairs justice interior and finance among others with seven Ribot holdovers and one undersecretary for aviation. The unified Socialists initially refused to cooperate but Painleve resumes push for Socialist representation.
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Paris
Paul Painteve
Alexander Hinet
Renoul Perec
Interior
Jules Steag
Muarine
Charles Chaumat
Louis Loucheur
Louis Lucien Klotz
Rene Basnard
Albert Clavielle
Danite
Vincent
Indor
Andre Renard
Etienne Clemental
Fernand Davis
Maurice Long
Irranklin Bouillon
War Council
Louis Barthou
Leon Bourgeois
Paul Doumer
Jean Dupuy
Justin Godart
Jacques L'Dumesnit
M. Arourier
Pierre Masse
J. Bi. Ig. Breton
Victor Peytral
Pauil Roverely
Paul Morel
Marin
M. Demonzle
Albert Metin
Albert Dalimier
Painleve
Radical Left
Republican Union of the Senate
Republicans of
Radical Republican Union
Ribot
Rene Viviani
Albert Thomas
Sne Kidok
M. Thomas
M. Viviani
Prof. Painleve
Hecavander Ribot
Paincare
McAdoo Rejects Advertising for Liberty Bonds
Washington DC September 14 Secretary McAdoo tells the Senate finance committee that a broad newspaper advertising plan for Liberty bonds will not be adopted. Only limited ads may occur and at most one bond issue may be planned before December. He notes the $2,600,000 paid publicity program cannot be used and urges Congress members to help via policy and campaigning.
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Washington, D. C
MccAdoo
McAdoo
Congress
Grandstand Collapse Kills Boy at Bloomfeld Fair
At the Davis county fair grounds a platform collapsed while crowds watched horseraces. Leonard Lind, 8, died from injuries. Noel Phillips, internal injuries likely fatal. Ralph Piper 14 Henry Edwards 36 and Porter Baird 12 sustained minor injuries.
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Ottumwale
Davis County Fair Grounds
Bloomfeld
Leonard Lind
Noel Phillips
Ralph Piper
Henry Edwards
Porter Baird
Minneapolis Man Killed at Front
Paris reports R. A. Hall of Minneapolis, a driver in Section 62 of the Harties Norton Red Cross ambulance service, was killed on Tuesday while on duty at an advanced post and was buried near Ayecourt Road. The shell also wounded his companion B. E. Sylvester of Plainview, Minn., who was not seriously injured.
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Paris
R. A. Hall
Minneapolis
Harties-Norton Red Cross
Ayecourt Rood
Herald
Hall
Sylvester
Plainvlew
Minn
Altho
Lowden Calls Conference On Labor Tangle
Springfield, Sept. 14. Lowden called a conference with the general strike committee and Adjt. Gen. Dickson to address an industrial tangle involving about 8,000 workers across many trades. The walkout stems from streetcar strike actions and police responses last week, with unions reporting large and dispersed stoppages. Coal miners lead in numbers with about 6,000 striking, followed by 900 at the Illinois watch factory and 600 at the Sangamo Meter works. Carpenters, meat cutters, barbers, metal workers, brew workers, painters, plasterers, roofers, plumbers, cigar makers, horseshoers, teamsters, and ice wagon drivers also ceased work.
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Springfield
Ill
General Strike Committee
Adjt
Dickson
Chicago
Dia
Illinois Watch
Sangamo Meter Works
San Francisco
Cal
Iron Trades Council of
California Metal Trades Association
Seattle
Wash
Rev Methfessel Resigns East Park Presbyterian Pastorate
Rev Mr Methfessel, pastor at East Park Presbyterian Church in Waterloo, resigned last evening due to ill health. The church board accepted the resignation. He will move to a field with less demanding duties after serving about 18 months since arriving from Springville, NX.
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Newton S. Methfessel
East Park Presbyterian Church
Methfessel
Waterloo
Springville
East Park Church
Surrender Talks Amid Caucasus Cavalry Faceoff Near Popovo
From Popovo near Temskoe a Russian gunfire stalemate evolves as the Caucasian “savage” division, under provisional government terms, keeps to villages south of town. Emissaries and guards negotiate while a hostage Karaidze is held and the front remains tense with no immediate attack planned.
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Popovo
Temskoe- Solo
Rusatn
Petrograd
Korailoff
Revol
Presa
Kerensky
Filopenko
Karaidze
Savage
Perli
Seventy Three W W Men Arrested at Bisbee
Thirty three men from the Columbus New Mexico camp of men were arrested in Douglas Arizona on a trip to Bisbee by a deputy sheriff. The arrests bring the total in the past two days to seventy three with information of more than 190 others along the railway line from Columbus to Bisbee. Train crews report many men being dropped from trains bound toward Bisbee.
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Douglas
Ariz
Columbus
N. M
Bisbee
Wheeler
American airman Meeker killed in French accident
Paris reports Corporal William Henry Meeker, formerly of the Harvard Crimson, died in an airplane accident in Pay Tuesday after his motor stalled. He sailed from New York in May to join the aviation forces in France and reached Bordeaux in May.
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Paris
Meeker
Herald
William Henry Meeker
Harvard Crimson
New York
France
Bordeaux
Lafayette Fzing
Kerensky forms new cabinet amid resignations
In Petrograd on September 18, the Kerensky government moves toward a new cabinet as Constitutional Democrats quit after a stormy session. Ministers Kokoshkine Youreneff Oldenburg resign. Nekrasoff and Terestchenko clash over policy. Terestchenko eyes remaining as finance minister. news notes arrests in Rostov and signs of calm returning to the capital.
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Petrograd
Riga
Moscow
Kornilot
Constitutional Democrats
Kerensky
Korniloff
Nekrasoft
Terestchenko
M.kartasheff
M. Nekrasoft
Mier Kerensky
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Charles H.phillips
Gust Anjelekot
Max C. Zimmerman
Loren A. Bushy Samuel
W. Thompseer
Robert J. Wooner
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Fred Pettit
Archie Hunt
Arthur D. Fisher
Vico Feneretti
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Havana de Cigar
Carson
Rench
Paul Painleve
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Thomas
Ian
Liberty Bonds
Lowden
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San Felice
Kerensky Forming
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