08 Mar 1918
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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
1
Residents along the Union Pacific route anticipate the total solar eclipse with the path crossing Colorado Wyoming Utah and Oregon. Observers from Denver to small towns prepare viewing events with telescopes and public notices detailing times and best sites for seeing the darkening sky.
The text notes a widow and her two daughters, ages 11 and 14, live in Uke Righashimura, Oregon, and receive 424 monthly from the Oregon accident commission under federal protection of the condensed milk industry in the Willamette valley. Milk condensers warn of plant closures without relief as federal output controls hurt exports and storage.
Washington reports the third Liberty loan to open on April 6, the war’s first anniversary. A three to four week campaign will push the issue, with bond terms and amounts to be set by new legislation. Officials expect over 9.6 billion dollars total, contingent on the war finance bill and railroad bill.
London reports the Russian government evacuated Petrograd and three ministries moved from the capital while Moscow could be named the new capital Petrograd to become a free port. Narva near Petrograd has fallen to German forces as they advance toward the city.
Official dispatches to the Swedish legation report Germany announced to Stockholm an intention to occupy Finland temporarily to restore order, prompting Sweden's protest. Germany also claimed Aland Islands would be placed in the war zone, while denying permanent possession of Finland.
A Berlin dispatch quotes a telegram from The Kaleer Gloates Amsterdam congratulating Field Marshal von Hindenburg on the war's eastern front end. It lauds the costly price of victory and Baltic brethren gaining freedom from Russia, claiming Germans will remain united with them.
Portland authorities disclose two secret federal indictments charging former bootlegging operators in Oregon. The cases involve coordinated illegal liquor networks with arrests and ongoing investigations by federal agents.
In San Francisco and Portland lawmen detain Yee Men and others tied to a liquor import plot. The conspiracy allegedly shipped large quantities of alcohol from San Francisco into the state, with multiple defendants facing charges as investigators pursue the network.
John E Redmond, veteran Nationalist leader, died Wednesday morning in London due to heart trouble after recent intestinal obstruction surgery. Reports from the European fronts describe Turkish forces in the Caucasus facing resistance and Armenian casualties, German peace treaty critiques, and shifting fronts in Russia and the Great War.
Meyer London, a pacifist emboldened by wartime sentiment, rallied crowds with a call to war as the only path to lasting peace. He denounced Bolshevik leaders Trotzky and Lenine and urged strong action against Germany.
In France the American forces met a staged assault by German troops in the Toul sector and along the Chenin la Dames. Despite heavy snow and gas masks, Americans held dugouts and repelled the raid, killing German attackers and taking few prisoners. A captured map reveals detailed German preparations for the attack.
Washington reports five Americans killed and nine wounded in the Toul area clash on March 1. Among the dead are Second Lieutenant Harold F. Eadie of Tilton New Hampshire and Sergeant Anthony Amadel of Baltimore Maryland with several others named. Also noted are overseas deaths from disease and other causes including Walter Helna of Crane Oregon. The wartime note includes a separate item about an eighth interest in Adolphus Busch estate placed under U.S. custodian A Mitchell Palmer’s control.
A climate committee of the military reports a bill favoring commandeering lumber. Washington action moves forward with support from panel.
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