Prohibition Vote Cast In House As Cavalcade Of Bills Moves
Washington dispatch reports a pre holiday House session delivering major actions. Congress has limited adjournment to January 3 and will focus on domestic legislation before a war oriented agenda. Key items include a national prohibition amendment vote and early probes into navy work and sugar and fuel shortages.
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Washington
Congress
Austro-Hungary
Post Office
House
Army and Navy
Senate
Navy
House Naval
Senate Manufacturers
Pershing reports seventeen missing engineers at Cambrai
General Pershing reported seventeen enlisted men of the U S engineer corps missing in action from the November 30 Cambrai turning movement. The missing include Sergt Paul M Sweenson and Corporal Frank Upton both of New York and fifteen privates from New York New Jersey and New England.
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Washington
United States Engineering Corps
Pershing
War Department
Cambrai
Paul M. Sweenson
Frank Upton
New York
New Jersey
New Bagiead States
Four die in France from natural causes Pershing reports
General Pershing informed the War Department that four soldiers died in France due to natural causes. The Fuel Administration ordered higher coal prices for ship bunkers and for export to meet wartime needs.
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War Department
France
The
Fuel Administration
Armistice Talks and Allied Supply Shifts in War News
Reports describe neutrals trading surplus U.S. war materiel with Allies, while American forces aid convoy coal and timber needs. Frank Gotch, famed wrestler, has died. Liquor permits rise with 1900s enforcement. Armistice talks open with Bolshevik Russia and the Teutonic powers at Brest-Litovsk, effective noon December 17, lasting to January 14 1918 with peace talks to begin immediately.
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Allies
General Purchasing Board
Atlantic
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Congress of Fern
France
Berlin
London
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litosk
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Coal Crisis and Rate Hikes Loom in War Food Strain
The Fuel Administrators urge strict conservation as coal shortages bite nationwide. The Clyde Line proposes cancelling second class and storage passenger rates from New York to southern and western ports, risking higher fares. In North Dakota editor Mrs. Kate Ricards O'Hara gets five years for urging draft disobedience. NYC garment workers seek government work, and coal cars idle in Birmingham while West Virginia loads stall. Anderson to endure two lightless nights amid coal shortage.
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New York
Southern
Kate Ricards O'Hara
North Dakota
Jefferson City
Bowman, N. D
Ford backs unified railroad system proposal
Henry Ford argues for a unified railroad network noting that 80 percent of road hauling uses 20 percent of highways. He says rebuilding this 20 percent of roads in concrete would shift much of the shorthaul business to trucks and cars, drawing land and city nearer. Claude S Spreckles, head of Federal Sugar Refining, testifies raw Cuban sugar moves through New York to Canada for higher refiner prices. He cites a Hoover reply blocking higher raw sugar payments, claiming speculators hold Cuban sugar for price hikes and that the U S standard price would be kept.
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Claude S. Spreckles
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Cuba
New York
Canada
Hoover
Red Cross Campaign Seeks 10 Million New Members Countywide
The Red Cross launches a nationwide Christmas Campaign to recruit ten million members, beginning at ten in every Abbeville county school district. Committees target white and colored communities with house to house canvassing, aiming to print member names in papers by district. Membership is $1, and districts with the most joins win the Banner School District honor.
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United States
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Abbeville
Honor Pupils of City Schools Honor Pupils of City Schools
The piece lists the city’s graded and high school honor roll with names for Grades I through XI, noting teachers for each grade. It interleaves a wartime update on Italian and French fronts, mentioning Austro-Hungarian and German actions in Northern Italy and Champagne, with brief outpost engagements and prisoner captures by British forces.
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Italy
France
Belgium
Champagne
Chemin-Des-Dames
Bessie Epting
Mary Chalmers
Emily Morse
Charlotte Reese
Anne Smith
Sarah P. Smith
Sarah Thomson
Edna White
Jack Sutherland
Mike McDowell
Oscar Clark
Baskin Gibert
John Graves
Leon McCord
Margaret Maxwell
Janie Bell McIlwain
Virginia Starnes
Laura May Welsh
Celine Phillips
William Goode
Ralph Link
William McComb
Adair Aiken
Martha Calvert
Fannie Greene
Estelle Lyon
Jean Milford
Olive Brock
Leon Ellis
John McMurray
Ruby Brown
Agnes Eakin
Nell C. Flynn
Elizabeth Martin
Julia Owen
Mary Norwood Perrin
Ethel Whaley
Minnie Ella Swetenburg
Flora M. Timmons
Sara Cowan
Margaret Flynn
Pat Howie
L. Allen
Foster Barnwell
Ellis Poliakoff
Bessie Cothran
Anthony Tennant
Mary Carter
Blanche ‘Tarrant
Ralph Bauknight
Bob Link
Janie White
Mary Sweten
Kathleen Schroeder
Frances
Gilliam
Mary Fant
Miss Kennedy
Caroline Chalmers
Helen Cramer
Mary Shaw Gilliam
Mary Jones
Elizabeth Lyon
Annie Mabry
Debbie Owen
Willie Bowit
Bernard Roche
Miss Tennant
Elizabeth Thomson
Emmie Haigler
Maria Neuffer
Gertrude McMahan
Ada Faulkner
Thelma Seal
Willie Eakin
Lillian Swetenburg
Protection for Holy Places Shoes Height Rule in England
A war order in England limits ladies shoe tops to leather height measured in inches and allows other materials up to 8 inches. Gen A R Brooks, a Confederate veteran and longtime clerk of the South Carolina Supreme Court, died at his Columbia home Sunday morning at 71.
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England
A. R. Brooks
Columbia
Supreme Court
Jerusalem Surrenders After British Siege
London reports in the House of Commons that Jerusalem has surrendered after being surrounded by British and allied forces. General Allenby said attacks south and west of the city, plus operations from Bethlehem and north of Jerusalem, isolated the holy city. The surrender followed careful plans to avoid damage to sacred sites.
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Caprillo Hill
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Jerusalem
Jerome Jem
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