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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1917
Page
8
The Associated Press reports Paris dispatch on Sept 11 describing changes in the Provost Marshal department. The focus remains traffic control, discipline, and prisoner care with a system modeled on Britain's to speed troop and supplies movements in war zones. Military police fall under Provost Marshal, allied collaboration aids rule formulation.
The revelation that Heinrich von Eckhardt, the German minister to Mexico, employed Folk Kronholm to relay information to Berlin has stirred great interest. Officials offered no comment and will not reveal the government’s stance until a copy of Eckhardt’s letter is formally received.
Representatives of neutral nations joined the final sessions of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia to discuss next year’s production and market plans. Foreign speakers outlined neutrals' food needs as Allied demands and global food issues were slated for a later evening session with Japan Russia France and England represented.
Washington September 15 The Bureau of Export Licenses announced new rules for rosin and turpentine licenses. Applicants may omit stated rosin use for current licenses. Shipments to certain countries use form A-2 and others use form A-1 as specified by the August 27 proclamation.
In the past 24 hours six inches of rain have fallen at Goldsboro New Bern Hatteras and Greenville and other places in Eastern North Carolina. Local streams are flooded though upper reaches remain mostly unaffected. The heavy rainfall continues and raises danger slightly, Weather Bureau officials say.
London Sept 15 The control board has submitted a plan to the British Board of Trade for approval to reopen the cotton futures market with trading to begin October 1. If approved the scheme allows futures in all months from January to August with a uniform price alignment and no tenders. The report notes the proposal is contingent on approval and outlines pit operations and price rules.
The remark notes Cobb likely would not hit the target season totals and hints at his return next spring, implying ongoing debate about his performance and future in baseball.
Special correspondent reports a Broadway blast near 38th Street caused a farcical scene. A pedestrian woman with a baby carriage delayed by warnings. a worker quipped about a man named Cannon, prompting a secretary to shout you are fired. The jewelry store doorway crowd reacted with laughter.
A small man claiming exemption due to wife and two children faces the board. The chairman tells him to place the affidavit on the desk and notes, Washington may respond. The man asks if his service is finished, to which the exemption officer replies you are through for now, but Washington may still decide. The man jokes about Pershing.
Numerous rental listings with room counts from five to twelve across streets such as Dock Chestnut Market and Orange. Apartments include various seven to ten room configurations and prices ranging from 12.50 to 85.00 plus October 1st possession with several units labeled apt.
Real estate and fire insurance firm Wilder Real Estate and Fire Insurance located at 207 Princess Sweet offers services by phone 631 for property protection and policy inquiries.
Vignettes show a German organ grinder playing the Marseillaise to East Side Italians. A man in a light green silk shirt and rink tie, yellow swats. A cigar store window full of timbre pipes for women. The editor of a weekly magazine hesitates before a dentist’s office. An actor with sunburn blisters wrapped in cloth at the sea shore. Girls toss boxes for departing soldiers from Vanderbilt’s Fifth Avenue home. A tired cab horse naps before the Waldorf. A street orator taunts police and slips away.
Fifth Avenue women, ahead of fashion, display revived bustle silhouettes with gathered hems and puff sleeves. Modistes forecast velvet gowns for fall, with small tight hats and tan shoes trending, while wartime conditions show no drop in tailoring business.
Paris Sept. 15 French forces after a night battle ejected Germans from most trenches they had occupied earlier north of Courieres wood in the Verdun sector. Two German surprise attacks north of Presnes in Champagne were repulsed by the French, the war office said.
The Galesburg Evening Mail argues against the belief that military service guarantees death. Using Equitable Life figures it cites allied casualty rates of about 4 percent for Canadians and 1.28 percent in six months for France, applying to Knox county’s 400 men to estimate 21 killed or captured if two years in France. It urges families not to obsess over risk, noting most will return safely.
Petrograd reports Russian forces defeated German troops on the road to Pskoff on the Riga front and occupied Kronberg. They also seized Keitzen and Sisseral from the Germans.
About 150 Belgians crossed into the Netherlands from Belgium while Havre serves as temporary government location. German guards ordered trees cut to improve sight lines along barbed wire and the electrified cable, enabling a makeshift gap as locals aided escape efforts.
The Motte Business College announces night courses on Monday Wednesday and Friday covering shorthand bookkeeping touch typewriting and commercial studies. Classes run 9 to 1 with practical instruction and are available at 706 Front and Chestnut.
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