Suffragettes Burn Wilsons Speeches Before Lafayette
Nearly 300 members of the National Woman's Party marched by the White House and gathered around the LaFayette statue to burn Wilson speeches. The protest denounced the Senate's failure to pass the federal suffrage amendment while police guarded the demonstrators from interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
National Woman's Party
White House
LaFayette
Wilson
Senate
Mr O H Arnold Seeks Senate Seat In New District
Mr O H Arnold Jr announces candidacy for the senate from the new district slated for January seventh. He is well known in Oglethorpe and Clarke counties with many relatives and friends in Wilkes supportive of his bid. His popular standing among supporters boosts outlook for success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. Arnold, Jr
Senate
Anold
Oglethorpe County
Clarke
Wilkes
Woods Returns From Vancouver Athens Soldier Arrives Home
Mr. W. E. Woods, recently in the Aviation section of the Signal Corps, has returned to Athens after several months stationed in Vancouver Washington. He reports that other Athens boys are stationed there and all are in good health but eager to return to Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Woods
Signal Corps
United States Army
Athens
Woods
Vancouver
Washington
Georgia
Rain Stops Golf For President Wilson
President and Mrs. Wilson rode in an automobile near Paris as rain cleared by noon. The morning rain forced the president to remain in his study and cancel a planned trip to the Versailles golf links. In the afternoon he met the Italian ambassador and other officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paria
Wilson
Paris
Versailles Golf Links
Washington
Boston Remains in Wet Column in License Fight
In Iowa on December 17 Associated Press reports the city of Boston faces a protracted license struggle as wets outnumber the drys and the vote distribution leans toward retention of the permissive policy amid a long, uncertain battle.
Poincare and Wilson Honor Guests at Dinner
Paris delegates and guests filled the American Embassy as Ambassador Sharp hosted a formal dinner honoring Presidents Poincare and Wilson and their spouses. Attendees included French ministers, Marshals Joffre and Foch, and Generals Pershing and other U.S. officers, with a large crowd gathered outside the embassy.
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Poincare
Wilson
Associated Press
Paris
Sharp
Madame Poincare
Mre
Wilon
France
Joffre
Foch
Pershing Tse
Arts
Coblenz Hotel Becomes Army Officers Quarters
Coblenz December 15 American troops have arrived in large numbers and many pass through. The largest hotel overlooking the Rhine has been taken over as quarters for Third Army officers with bridges nearby as troop crossings continue.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Thieaty
Rhine
Third Army
Americans Returned from German Prison Camp in Starvation Report
Berne Pec 17 The Americans at Rastatt in Germany report from the Red Cross that prisoners there are starving, with estimates of six to eight men daily dying or becoming severely malnourished as they await release by aviation service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berne
Pec
Mrs Ada Stephenson Dies in Athens Monday
Ada G. Stephenson wife of G F Stephenson died Monday at her home 776 Franklin Street. A prominent figure in patriotic and charitable work, she is survived by husband, daughter Mary twelve, mother Mrs W H Gunter Social Circle, four sisters, two brothers and other relatives.
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Athens
Ada G. Stephenson
G. F. Stephenson
W. H. Gunter
Social Circle
P. A. Stanton
W. D. Spearman
Jessie Gunter
J. M. Stephenson
Commerce
J. W
W. B. Gunter
Elberton
Commemorates Dr Longs Work with Gifted Pen
Mr. W. H. Smith of Jefferson has crafted a gold pen made from wood of the tree marking where Dr Crawford W Long first used ether as an anesthetic. The University of Georgia infirmary bears his name. After completion the pen will go to President Wilson to sign legislation and then to the American Red Cross for auction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Smith
Jefferson
Atlanta
Crawford W. Long
Long
University of Georgia
Wilson
American Red Cross
CAPT ALEX FAWCETT WINS SERVICE CROSS
Captain Alex Fawcett, a Georgia graduate and Fort McPherson alum, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Raised in Savannah, he rose from second lieutenant to captain in the 325th Infantry of the 3rd Division after training at Camp Gordon. Details of the award are not yet known to his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Fawcett
Fawcett
Sgvennah
Univrsity of Georgia
Fort McPherson
Rane
Ortistay
Camp Gordon
Reias
Quinty Melton
Sergeant Julian Peek First Georgian Injured at War
Special to Banner Hartwell Georgia Dec. 16 Sergeant Julian Me Peek who went overseas with General Prrahing is the first Georgian injured in overseas combat He is at home visiting his father Judge Z B Peek Peek lost a leg in the Toulo fighting on November 20 last year and walks with difficulty
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Hartwell
Julian Me. Peek
Prrahing
Z. B. Peek
Peek
Toulo
Bolsheviki Evacuate Russian Capital
Stockholm dispatch reports that travelers from Petrograd say Bolsheviki begin evacuation of the Russian capital in preparation to move to Nivini Novgorod. The scene reflects a major shift as the capital prepares to relocate amid advancing turmoil.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Petrograd
Nivini-Novgorod
Economic Conditions of Negro Discussed Study
Washington December 17 The department of labor has begun state and local organization efforts to improve the economic conditions of the negro wage earner. An extract from Secretary Wilsons annual report notes that lynchings and race friction drove many negro workers to flee areas with higher tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Department of Labor
Wilson
Plant Pathology Department to Be Enlarged
Mr J A McClintock resigns as Extension Specialist in cotton truck and forage crop diseases to join Experiment station. Plans call for expansion next year with two or three additional specialists and new full time corn diseases and small grains disease experts. Plant Disease Survey results guide state program with expanded labs and field work under Plant Pathology division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. McClintock
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Experiment
McCiintock
Dr W H Reynolds Announces Senate Bid From New District
Dr W H Reynolds of Lexington, a well known physician, announces his candidacy for the senate from the newly created district. He has many supporters across the district who will back his bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Reynolds
Lexington
Senate
Mrs. Ella Taylor Dies in Comer Georgia
Mrs. Ella Taylor died at her Comer Georgia home Tuesday morning at 8 30. She was forty seven and sudden death shocked many friends. Survived by husband W J Taylor two sisters Cora Webb of Comer and Clade Thompson of California. Funeral at Comer Presbyterian church at 3 this afternoon conducted by Rev John A Simpson of Commerce. Known as a prominent Comer woman with ties to Athens friends grieve her untimely death.
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Ella Taylor
Comer
W. J. Taylor
Cora Webb
Clade Thompson
California
Presbyterian Church
John A. Simpson
Commerce
Taylor
Athens
Hartwell Womens Club Meets in Hartwell Georgia
Hartwell Georgia December 17 The Hartwell Woman's Club held a Monday afternoon meeting at Mrs Thomas Lawson Matheson's home with Mrs Gus Skelton and Mrs John H Cheat ham assisting. President Mrs Julian B Mccurry led a lively program and readings by Mrs Matheson Mrs Skelton and Mrs Myer Saul. A luncheon with Yuletide greens and a Christmas tree followed. Rest of article notes local moves and health news including Marion Skelton improving after pneumonia and Emmett A Skelton ill with influenza.
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Hartwell
Hartwell Woman's Club
Thomas Lawson Matheson
New York
Jewish Reef Drive
Messrs
Myer Saul
J. D. Math
Saul
Julian B. McCurry
Marion Skelton
Von
Jas. H. Skelton
Emmett A. Skelton
Navy
Parks Skelton
Government Must Own Telegraph and Telephone Lines Says Baker
Postmaster General Burleson said government ownership of telegraph and telephone systems is imperative in a letter to Representative Moon. He argued systems can be acquired without public treasury appropriation, via an amortization fund from 25 years of savings under government ownership.
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Baker
Associated Press
Washington
Geral Burleson
Representative Moon
House Post Office Committee
Burleson
President Wilson Attends to Business at White House
Paris reports President Wilson between official calls as he handles state affairs. He telephones as if at home and pushes for public awareness of American peace efforts. Joseph Grow, former Vienna embassy counsellor, will lead official announcements to the United States.
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Wilson
White House
Associated Press
Paris
United States
Joseph Grow
Vienna
War Revenue Bill Up For Debate In Senate
Senate debate opens after Smoot of Utah voices criticism of the war revenue bill. The finance committee amendment passes 36 to 16 on the first roll call. Penrose slated to speak on the income tax section. Chairman Simmons expects quick action and passage by Christmas.
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Washington
Smoot
Utah
Senate
Penrose
Simmons
Ordnance Dept Reached 500 Guns Monthly At Armistice
Washington reports the War Department ordnance bureau was producing about five hundred guns per month when the armistice ended hostilities. By June next year production would be in full swing after a tour of Aberdeen proving grounds, where guns tanks and tractors were demonstrated to Assistant Secretary Crowell and munitions officials.
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Associated Press
Washington
Faceq
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Armis
Crowell
Direcor of
Aberdeen
Dignitaries of Principal Nations Assemble Paris for Conference
Paris dispatch reports officials arriving to meet President Wilson. Italian Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino will reach Kent. Lloyd George and Balfour likely arrive in Paris by weekend. With Clemenceau present, the four great powers Britain France the United States and Italy prepare to discuss the interallied conference. The session is expected to open Monday and last no more than two days.
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Paris
Wilson
Orlando
Sonnino
Kent
Lloyd George
Balfour
Clemenceau
Great Britain
France
United States
Italy
Winter Wheat Crop Sets Historic U.S. Record
Washington reports the huge winter wheat crop will exceed all prior U.S. yields by eighty million bushels. An agricultural department forecast cites a 49 million bushel plant total and price guarantees that spurred farmer planting. If spring wheat is normal, the combined yield could pass one billion bushels, topping the 1915 record.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Farmera
President Wilson to dine with American troops on Christmas
Paris dispatch reports President Wilson will leave Paris on Christmas Eve for the American general headquarters and then go to the front to have Christmas dinner with American troops. The plan aims for a meal with soldiers in Germany area, not with senior officers, amid Allied occupation zones near Koblenz.
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Wilson
Soldier Boys
Associated Press
Paris
Amer
Ican
Germany
Coblens
Occupaion
Untermyer Faces Senate Panel On Propaganda Links
Samuel Untermyer of New York testifies before the Senate committee probing beer and German propaganda. He seeks to refute insinuations of pro German sympathy, says he spoke with Bernstorff little and declined to be the embassy’s legal adviser. He details nineteen sixteenths talks with Dr Albert on buying the New York Sun, noting Albert’s ties to the German embassy.
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Washington
Samuel Untermyer
New York
Senate
United States
Bernstorff
Untermyer
Sixtis
Albert
German Propagandat
New York Sun
Governors Discuss National Guard After Demobilization
Annapolis delegates at a state governors’ convention inspect the Naval Academy then visit Baltimore as guests of the Baltimore Press Club. They discuss state labor educational and public land policies. Tomorrow the conference will consider the fate of the state national guards after demobilization.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Baltimore
Baltimore Press Club
Marconi Company Opposes Navy Control of Radio Stations
Officials of the Marconi wireless telegraph company of America testified before the House Merchant Marine committee to oppose a bill for navy purchase and control of all radio stations. Vice President Edward Nalty cited evidence of twenty five Mexican stations being German controlled during World War I and German apparatus used with German operators found at those sites.
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Associated Press
Washington
Marcon! Wireless Tel Graph Company of America
House Merchant Marine Committee
Navy Department
Ward Nalty
Mexico
Berlin Dances Through Night as Edict Loosens
Berlin is dancing mad with about fifty cabarets in the city and dancing lasting from afternoon until nine at night. Cabaret halls brim with women in expensive attire, soldiers, and civilians dancing and drinking wine, priced at ten dollars a bottle. In a week the closing edict will be lifted and dancing will resume all night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Wireless
Daily Express
Berlin
Clarence Doster Killed by Cars
Clarence Doster a Seaboard Air Line Railway Company switchman was killed early Tuesday morning in the Sea board freight yards on Foundry street. He was twenty three and survived by a widow a child his parents three brothers and five sisters all of this city.
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Clarence Doster
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Frank Doster
Grady Doster
Garnett Doster
Howard Doster
Irene Doster
Alle Doster
Viola Doster
Daisy Doster
Henry Daniel
City
Fleet to reach New York for review by Secretary Dante
The Twenty fourth Return Fleet, coming from Europe, is due off Ambrose light at daylight Tuesday December 24. The fleet will pass the Statue of Liberty around nine in the morning and anchor in the North River at Fifty Fifth Street near Ft. Washington for a review by Secretary Dante in New York.
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Associated Press
Washington
Europe
New York
Dante
Ambrose
Navy Department
North River
Fifty Fifth Street
Ft. Washington
Germans Clocks Set to Correspond With the French
By decree of the American military authorities, Coblenz Treves and other occupied areas did not set clocks back an hour on Sunday. The clocks now correspond with French time used by American Expeditionary Forces.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Treves
Clarke and Oglethorpe in Senate Rotation Debate
A Clarke County reader urges Oglethorpe to support Clarke for the next Georgia senator, arguing rotation favors Clarke after Stevens’ term, noting Wilkes addition, Clarke’s debt claims, and asking Clarke’s fair play from Oglethorpe voters and Wilkes. The letter ends urging Clarke support in Goth district.
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Athens
Ahis
Banner
Clarke County
Stevens
Oglethorpe
Adams
Danielsville
Madison
Clarke
Steven
Ogethorpe
Oglethorpe County
Senate
Wilkes
Goth
Dr J C Holliday Visits Athens For Week Or Ten Days
Dr J Carl Holliday formerly stationed at Camp Greenleaf arrived in Athens on Tuesday afternoon and will stay a week or ten days with relatives. After the holidays he will proceed to Camp Meade Maryland where he has been assigned.
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J. Carl Holliday
Camp Greenleaf
Athens
Wilson Takes Up Russian Problem With Allies
Washington reports President Wilson has raised the Russian problem with French leaders to shape a definite policy. Allies and the United States plan to decide a path at the peace conference naval meetings. The issue is highly sensitive as no qualified representative speaks for Russia yet.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Keystone Chapter Elects Officers for Coming Year
The Keystone Chapter of Royal Arch Masons elected officers for the coming year last night. Hirsch served as Priest, Georgesmeen as King, H. R. Palmer as Scribe, W. G. Cornett as Chaplain of the Host, and Ges per Palmisano as Principal Sojourner. The chapter reported a successful year and expressed confidence in another prosperous year under the new leadership.
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Cchapter
Royal Arch Masons
Hirsch
Tls
Georges Meen
H. R. Palmer
W. G. Cornett
Gesper Palmisano
Keystone
Five Thousand Overseas Troops Reach New York
The White Star Liner Celtic anchored off the Statue of Liberty tonight with about 2300 American soldiers, including 1250 wounded and a large contingent of black troops. It was the fourth ship to reach the port today, bringing arrivals close to five thousand.
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Associated Press
New York
Celtic
Statue of’ Liberty
Senate Pushes War Revenue Bill to Completion
Washington reports rapid progress on the war revenue bill as the Senate, with few members present, adopts major amendments and minor provisions. Consideration of the 1920 rates is postponed. taxes on war excess profits distilled spirits freight passenger express pullman and oil pipe transport are revised to raise over three billion. The improved water provision involves a revenue cut of about fifty million. Hedrick Hoerwick participates in debate on provisions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rapi Prosreus
Senate
Mnanct Committee
Hoerwick
Caren
Red Cross Essential Says Pershing Credits Relief Efforts
General Pershing commends the Red Cross for soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He states that the relief and comfort provided by Americans through the Red Cross is essential to those in service during the Christmas campaign.
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Red Cross
General Pershing
Associated Press
Washington
Core Pershing
France
Mae
Congress Declares For Jewish Commonwealth
The American Jewish Congress tonight declared for a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine under British trusteeship, backed by a League of Nations. The resolution, adopted by four hundred delegates, represented over three million Jews in the United States amid wild enthusiasm.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Penn
American Jewish Congress
Jewish Commonwealth In
Palestine
Great Britain
League of Nations
Asl
Lieut. Kingerly Dies In German Prison Camp
The War Department released names of officers and enlisted men who died in Germany after captivity in German prison camps. Among the dead is Lieut. James R. Kingery of Summit, Georgia, with other officers and men listed and tied to the Paris return from France.
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Lieut
Kingerly
Associated Press
Washington
War Department
George P. Glence
Punta Gorda
Fla
George P. Glenn
France
Germany
James R. Kingery
Summit
Milton A. Candler Receives Commission Amid War Service
Milton A. Candler, third son of C. Murphey Candler, chairman of the state railroad commission, was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery after training at Camp Meade. All three Candler brothers have notable military records, with Scott as captain of Company 5, 328th Infantry, and C. Murphey Jr. as a second lieutenant and tractor at Davidson Construction.
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Imilton A. Candler
Milton A. Candler
C. Murphey Candler
State Railroad
Camp Meade
Baltimore
Canlers
Scott Candier Ia
328Th Infantry
Frapes
C. Murphey, T, Jr
Davidson Comsiltation
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President Wilson
Oston
Iowa
Mass
Boston
Oblenz
DR. Long
Service
Bolsheviki
Comer, Ga
Ordnance Department
Marconi Company
Sena
J. C. Holliday
Keystone Chapter
F. K. Hrsch
Congress
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