Early progress reported on treaty talks and Ohio income tax plan
An unofficial Senate conciliation group nears a holiday meeting to discuss ratification concessions. In Ohio, the joint taxation committees prepare a new income tax bill of 0.5 percent on income above 1000 for singles and 2000 for married couples, with 60 percent to districts and 40 percent to the state, and allow city referendums to raise to four percent. The bill faces stiff opposition and potential nullification of the Smith law.
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Columbus
Senate
Ohio
House
Senate conciliation aims to resolve treaty ratification
An unofficial bipartisan conciliation committee works in the Senate to craft compromise reservations on the treaty. Democrats push to secure a compromise with President Wilson's acceptance, while Republicans urge orderly machinery and caution against premature proposals. Agents discuss Article Ten as the main obstacle.
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Washington
Senate
Lodge
Hitchcock
Wilson
Hitchock
Underwood
White House
Knox
Foreign Relations Committee
British Force in Phssia Nih Reported Dead
London telegram reports the War Office has no confirmation of a Moscow wireless claim that 1300 British soldiers at Meshked d garrison were annihilated. The War Office says a Bolsheviki attack on the British garrison had been recently reported.
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Phssia Nih
London
War Office
Moscow
Meshked
Howev
Mexico says Jenkins release ends ill will between nations
Mexico approves Jenkins bail as sign of reduced U S Mexican tension. The foreign ministry asserts a full legal explanation of the case is needed and that the supreme court will decide which court handles the matter.
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Ralph H. Turner
United Press
Mexico City
Mex
William O. Jenkins
Jenkins
Mexico
J. Salter Hansen
Pubela
Hilario Medina
United States
Supreme Court
Crooked Deal Alleged In The Coal Situation
Indianapolis December 17 a federal grand jury began an inquiry into charges of collusion between miners and operators to violate the Lever act and anti trust laws. The jurors will also probe alleged anti‑strike injunction violations and a check out system used by operators to fund miners unions.
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Indianapolis
A. B. Anderson
Anderson
United States
Publishers urged to cut newspaper size by ten percent
The House Post Office Committee called for an immediate ten percent reduction in newspaper size for six months to curb a paper shortage. The appeal aims to prevent destruction of smaller city papers and irreparable community impact, amid industry talks but not a bill to exempt bulky publications.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Anthony
Kansas
Allies Prepare to Send Big Stores of Food to the Needy
Britain considers famine in Austria as the cabinet and foreign secretary Cecil Harmsworth in Parliament discuss relief. The Paris supreme council agrees to ship a large quantity of wheat to Austria and warns that without American aid a major catastrophe may occur. A United Press description of conditions follows.
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Austria
Cecil Harmsworth
Preme Council
Paris
Renner
America
United Press
Ohio Auto Club to test constitutionality of tax law
Directors of the Ohio State Automobile Association met in Columbus and adopted a resolution to pursue legal action to test the constitutionality of the graduated automobile tax law recently passed by the legislature.
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Columbus, O
Ohio State Automobile Association
Ohio to start recount of wet and dry votes in prohibition
Recount of Ohio's national prohibition vote will begin December 29 after a preliminary hearing in common pleas court. Eugene Heim of Cincinnati and C. J. Randell will serve as commissioners to check ballots and report within three days. Deputy election supervisors will preserve all ballots across about 24 counties and nearly three thousand precincts. If irregularities appear, a statewide recount is possible.
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Columbus
Ohio
Common Pleas
Clevenger
Common Pleas Court
Eugene Heim
Cincinnati
C. J. Randell
High Price War Opens as Women Lead Midwest Campaign
Chicago officials and Palmer join a nationwide effort to curb rising costs. Mayors, prosecutors and women’s groups pledge cooperation to tag goods with original costs, prosecute gougers under the Lever Act, and organize campaigns to press for price reductions. Palmer urges all districts to pursue profiteers and cut prices.
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Chicago
Illinois
A. Mitchell Palmer
Congress
Fair Price Commission
Palmer
Denver
Athens Grange to Convene December Meeting at Jackville
Athens Grange will meet Friday December 19 at 7 PM in the Jackville schoolhouse. It is the last regular meeting of the year and organizers expect a large attendance.
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Athens Grange
Jackville
Yea
Witness Testifies on Beatings in France Trial
Victor Sheppard of New Haven testifies at Captain Karl Detzer's court martial that American officers sometimes beat privates in France. He says he assumed beatings were allowed until summoned as a witness, noting Detzer posted orders against it shortly before his departure from Le Mans. He recalls Detzer challenging Fred Yates to a private fight and Yates emerging bruised.
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New York
Victor Sheppard
New Haven
Conn
Karl W. Detzer
France
Sheppard
Detzer
LeMans
Fred Yates
Newport
Yates
Ohio inventor patents simultaneous belt shifting device
An Ohio inventor develops a mechanism to move belts on overhead power shaft pulleys and machine driving pulleys at the same time, potentially simplifying drive coupling and maintenance.
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Ohio
Fatal Day Postponed Forecast By Porta
In San Francisco on December 17 Professor Albert F Porta denied predicting the world’s end and clarified his forecast of two weeks of meteorological turmoil. He warned of storms earthquakes and volcanic eruptions affecting the Pacific coast first then moving eastward with December 22 in the Central States and December 24 on the eastern coast.
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San Francisco
Cal
Albert F. Porta
Porta
Pacific Coast
Central States
Sugar control extended through 1920 by Congress
Relief of the sugar famine is before the government as Congress approves extending the sugar equalization board powers through 1920. The measure preserves wartime authority including licensing of sugar dealers and power to buy crops or commandeer stocks. In New Jersey, Atlantic City may host a county grand jury hearing next week in the Billy Dansey murder case involving Charles White and Edith L Jones.
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Washington
Congress
House
Sugar Equalization Board
Senate
Hammonton
N. J
County Grand Jury
Atlantic City
Billy Dansey
Charles 8. White
Edith L. Jones
Gaskill
Mine operators meet in Cleveland on Wilson plan
Coal mine operators discuss behind closed doors the Wilson proposal to settle the strike. They expect a board of arbiters to name the final settlement and consider a potential coal price rise amid the broader situation.
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Cleveland, CO
President Wilson
Board
Ohio Police Lobby For Fees Measure
Ohio police chiefs led by Chief F. Smith of Cleveland press Bliss bill in Columbus to let chiefs and subordinates keep certain fees in criminal cases after a Supreme Court ruling barred collection by police departments.
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Columbus
Ohio
F. Smith
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Ohio auditor blasts auto tax bill as crooked
State Auditor Donahey writes to general assembly members criticizing the graduated auto tax as a hybrid iniquitous law. He objects to provisions that require auto license money to be banked by the secretary of state and then distributed to counties and municipalities. Governor Cox holds the bill for signature.
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Columbus
Donahey
General Assembly
Donhey
Cox
Colen Baby Recovered In New York Hospital Ward
Seven month old Arthur Philip Wentz, kidnapped from a department store baby parking place last July, is believed found in Bellevue Hospital wards. His mother identifies him. father plans to adopt. A note to Nellie Bly referenced milk costs and ongoing care.
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New York
Arthur Philip Wentz
August Wentz
Bellvue Hospital
Foundlings
Harding A Candidate for Republican Nomination
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio announced today his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. The message, in a letter to the Miami County Republican Committee, asks assent to use his name for delegates and notes endorsement from his home county. Harding declined to outline a platform now and said congressional records voice the positions of men in Congress.
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Washington
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Republlican
Republican Committee
Miami County
Miami
Harding
Congress
Two Men Drown As Truck Plunges Into Canal
In Newark on December 17 a truck plunged through a wooded railing into the Morris Canal. Two men were drowned and a third was seriously injured as the vehicle broke through the ice and sank, pinning the victims beneath it.
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Canal Newark
N. Ae
Morris Canal
Palmerisms on the High Cost of Living Campaign
A quoted political broadside mocks consumer spending and inflation rhetoric. It urges postponing purchases, argues prices will fall, and calls for workers to boost output to slash costs. The speaker ridicules extravagant consumption and hats and clothes as part of the cost crisis.
Ohio House Approves Griswold Health Bill Change
The Ohio House passed the Griswold bill by 85 to 6, cutting ties between the state board of health and local districts, abolishing civil service qualifications for local officers, and allowing part time health service. It rejects township boards and costs are cited at 132000 dollars annually, raising concern about chaos in public health administration.
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Columbus
House
Senate
State Board of Health
State Board
Ohio
Hughes
Lorain County
Mulberry Leaves for Silk Worms Kept Indefinitely in Cold Storage
Italian agriculturists report a method to preserve mulberry leaves for feeding silk worms by storing them in cold conditions without time limit. The finding could extend supply reliability for sericulture and impact silk production practices.
Cardinal Piffl Urges Economic Union For Austria
In a Vienna address Cardinal Piffl warns Austria faces starvation and Winter hardship under postwar terms. He condemns territorial losses to Czecho Slovakia Serbia and Hungary and calls for an economic union with Germany aided by American aid and delegations to the United States to raise funds. He says only America can save Austria.
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Austria
Vienna
Cardinal Piffl
Czecho-Slovakia
Serbia
Hungary
Germany
United States
Cardinal Gibbons
Wilson
America
Electric camera drone idea balloons in early design draft
A prototype drone features an integrated camera and electric propulsion. Designers describe a compact device capable of autonomous flight and real time image capture for potential field use.
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