Trotsky Rejects German Peace Terms Amid War Turmoil
Associated Press reports Trotsky, 25, declares Russian work will not accept a German peace offer as hypocritical. Central Committee endorses the stance, shocking Berlin and Vienna. Fronts see little infantry action while bombardments intensify in Belgium France and Italy. Austro German air raids hit Castelfranco Veneto hospital killing 18 patients. Britain imposes compulsory rations.
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Senate panel to push munitions cabinet bill
Washington January 3 members of the senate military committee prepared to launch legislation The chairman Chamberlain plans to introduce tomorrow a bill to create a secretary of munitions to oversee all war material purchases A McKellar bill would amend the defense act abolish civilian advisory committees and bar members or agents from direct contracts London January 3 Lord Rhondda said shortages will persist but improvements expected Premier Lloyd George urged agricultural laborers to boost food production to feed the army navy and nation with home grown supplies
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Senate Military Committee
Chamberlain
Council
Benn
London
Lloyd George
General Announces NE Rules for the Selective Draft
Associated Press reports Provost Marshal General Crowder detailing the new selective service policy. All men for future U S war armies will come from class one, prioritizing single men without dependents and unskilled workers, with calls for a registration expansion to include those turning twenty one since June 5 1917, adding about 700 000 effective men yearly.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Crowder
Baker
Congress
Coal Riots Prompt Fuel Aid Movement Souring East
Washington reports fuel administration action to speed coal to New England with 700 cars of bituminous ordered from West Virginia for Ohio Michigan and Kentucky distress. Philadelphia riots flare as several hundred raided trains and stole anthracite amid ongoing hardship.
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Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Hundreds of eastern passenger trains to be withdrawn
Washington January 3 Hundreds of passenger trains east of the Mississippi will be withdrawn from service under orders seen by Director McAdoo on the committee of eastern passenger traffic officers recommendation. Daily travel trains, commuter, interurban lines remain. Many directors urge removing parlor and sleeping cars and forcing daytime travel in ordinary coaches. It is probable McAdoo will approve the drastic plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
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Muter
Germans claim exemption as enemy aliens in draft
Omaha reports Nebraskas draft boards found thousands of Germans with first papers in the draft age claiming exemption as enemy aliens. One small county noted 736 such answers, showing long voting histories but now seeking exemption from service.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Nebrasks Exemption Boards
Athens City Reports Final 1917 Council Meeting
City engineers note increased spending and broader duties including streets sidewalks sewerage street lighting and building inspections. Paving totals by material are listed along with 28.53 miles of sewerage and 150,441 feet of sewer line. Sanitary inspectors logged over 42 000 inspections and hundreds of sanitation tasks while disease counts show measles diphtheria scarlet fever typhoid and tuberculosis totals. Health department expenses totaled 9938 46 with street cleaning comprising the majority. Dr Brown conducted extensive water and dairy analyses and numerous cultures. Russia declines German peace offers.
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Washington Street
First Ward
Health Department
Board of Health
Brown
Hoover urges sugar control powers via new wartime law
Government to consumers under normal wartime conditions as Food Administrator Hoover testifies before a senate committee investigating sugar. He says Congress should enact additional legislation granting the administrator expanded powers.
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Senate
Hoe
Congress
Biggest Spot Cotton Deal Sets New Athens Market Record
Miller & Co. handles a record spots cotton deal in Athens valued around 35000 dollars for about thousand bales. B Porter brokers the sale with T Kilpatrick Brothers reporting the market price at about 82 cents per pound, higher than any Athens quotation since the Civil War.
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Miller & Co
B. Porter
Supplies Committee Orders Vast Army Goods Purchases
Washington January 3 Army supply questions dominate Senate Military Committee hearings. Charles Biseau defends the committee’s role in approving contracts for the Quartermaster General’s office while Elseman accuses routing errors of causing clothing shortages. Elseman cites substitutions of wool substitutes and shoddy garments as necessary, claiming quality remained adequate.
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Washington,d. C
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Elseman
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Georgia Fuel Administrator States Coal Shortage Reality
Dr. Hardman, Georgia fuel administrator, explains a nationwide coal shortage estimated at 69 million tons for the season. He says the administration cannot create coal or fully supply all consumers, urging conservation, fair distribution, and acceptance of reduced supply while avoiding emergency aid for ordinary inconveniences.
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Georgia
State Division
Washington Department
Garfield
State Department
McAdoo
Athens Urged to Conserve Fuel Amid Coal Shortage
Athens calls for strict fuel conservation as officials and citizens scramble to secure coal and wood. Local Fuel Auditor warns of a critical supply while Dorsey chairs efforts to distribute limited coal and extend wood stocks to the sick and vulnerable. News wires report multiple shipments and state help to meet the winter emergency.
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Athens
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Georgia Road
Hoover Quizzed as Sugar and Coal Shortage Probe Continues
Washington January 3 Examinations of Food Administrator Hoover were completed by the senate committee probing sugar and coal shortages. Chairman Reed clashed with Hoover, accusing him of overstepping powers in the wheat crisis. Hoover retorted sharply denying the charges and defended his policy.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
Senate
Reed
Food Administration
Higeobaleman
Ranch Raid Near Marfa Leaves Unconfirmed Details
Reports from Big Bend military quarters say Mexican bandits raided Erie Ranch thirty five miles southwest of Marfa, Texas, again today after a Christmas morning attack in which one American and two Mexicans were killed. No further details were provided.
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Marfa
Texas
Erie Ranch
Here
Big Bend
Prominent Madison Co Farmer Henry Pittman Dies at 36
Henry Carlton Pittman a leading Madison county farmer near Neese died early yesterday from pneumonia. Funeral from his home with interment in the family cemetery. Survived by his mother Mrs. E. E. L. Pittman a brother Fain Pittman of Atlanta and sisters Hattie Lillie Pittman of Madison county and Mrs. F. B. Adams of Atlanta.
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Madison County
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Mra
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Atlanta
Hattie and
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F. B. Adams
Mrs Cornelia Washburn Rites Today At Noon
Funeral services for Mrs Cornelia Washburn will be conducted by Rev Belk from the residence 290 Hull Street today at noon. Interment in Oconee cemetery. Pallbearers include I. Smith Sr W. W. Scott Milton Thomas Fred Orr M. G. Nicholson and T. P. Stanley.
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Cornelia Wasburn
Government Asked to Buy and Sell Seeds to Farmers
Washington on January 3 Secretary Houston urged Congress to grant six million urgent deficiency funds for government purchase and sale of seed to farmers. He warned that to assure normal production of food and feed crops this year prompt action to secure seed supplies is necessary. The weather outlook was listed as fair, though a man burned his bedstead for fuel in a separate note.
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Associated Press
Washington
Houston
Congress
Trust acts of Packers turned up in FTC hearing
Philadelphia January 3 Associated Press testimony showed that the American Agricultural Chemical Company an alleged rendering trust tried to push its dependent company here out of business as the Federal Trade Commission investigates meat packers methods in the country.
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Philadelphia
American Agricultural Chemical Company
Federal Trade Commission
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