Bernstorff Plots and Pro German News Efforts Revealed
Senate records reveal German agents led by Count Von Bernstorff plotted to sway American opinion and curb war supplies. Documents describe plans to acquire the Wright Airplane factory, buy the American Press Association, and disseminate pro German news while suppressing anti German reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
America
Germany
Senate
A. Bruce Bielaski
Department of Justice
Bernard Dernburg
Kaiser
United States
Lusitania
von Bernstorff
Berlin
P. Reiswitz
Chicago
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Buchanan
Ilinois
Labor
National Peace Council
William Bayard Hale
Aked
San Francisco
G. M. Jacobs
Works
California
Smith
Georgia
Bielaski
Omaha World-Herald
Reiswitz
Wright Airplane
Dayton
Ohio
American Press Association
Albert
State Department
Bernstorff
Department
New York
Wolff Bureau
Cologne
German German-American Cable Plan and Food Fund Probe
A U S government witness described a scheme linking a Dutch cable news venture with a U S American newspaper or news association. He alleged a citizens committee for German aid spent over the value of condensed milk shipments, with about thirty thousand dollars diverted to other uses. The committee formed at Samuel Untermyer's New York home, and the German Publication Society reportedly received twenty five thousand dollars for distributing German classics. Viereck was noted in the testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Central
South America
America
Germany
Citizens Committee
Bielaski
Samuel Untermeyer
New York
German Publication Society
Albert
George Sylvester Viereck
Permanent wage rates for railway workers aim at long term
W S Carter of the United States railroad administration stated in New York that permanent wage scales for about 2,000,000 railway workers are sought to outlast cost of living declines. He spoke on The Effect of Federal Control on Railway Labor and noted progress under Director General McAdoo.
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New York
United States
United States Railroad Administration
W. S. Carter
Division of Labor
Academy of ‘Political Science
Carter
McAdoo
Asquith Links Punishment For War Atrocities To Global Peace
London, Dec. 7. Herbert H H Asquith urged that those responsible for the war and its brutalities must face adequate punishment. He warned that a global tribunal may be sought for Allied wrongs while stressing that justice must be applied in form and spirit. He praised Wilson’s European visit and urged a league of nations before his return to translate into action to secure allied unity with the United States.
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London
British Wireless Service
Herbert HH. Asquith
Rochdale
Lancashire
Mr. Asquith
Wilson
Europe
Birth rate in Austria Hungary fell fifty percent during war
Dr Clemens Von Pirquet reports wartime hunger slashed birth rates by half and reduced average weight from 170 to 120 pounds. He notes food quality hurt all classes, with malnutrition most severe among young mothers and children, while disease, especially lung infections, rose sharply.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria‘Hungary
Clemens von Pirquet
von Pirquet
Johns Hopkins University
United States
Government Institute For Children
Germany
Burleson denounces Lipsner charges as misstatements
Postmaster General Burleson wrote Captain Lipsner denying his resignation claims. He said Lipsner's charges about novice appointments and special mail airplanes are unfounded. Burleson clarified no new air fleet was authorized and noted two new air mail departments will be created under Aviators Edgarton and another appointed official.
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Washington
Purleson
Benjamin Lipsner
Lipsner
Post Office Department
War Department
Burleson
Praeger
Air Mail Service
Lieut. J. Clarke Edgarton
Untitled personnel shift in maintenance and equipment duties
The text notes Dr. L. T. Bussler as chief of maintenance and equipment and references others from the army and postal service replacing duties formerly done by Captain Lipsner who was instructed to send his records to the postmaster at Elizabeth New Jersey.
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L. T. Bussler
Eoth
Army
Postal Service
Lipsner
Elizabeth
N. J
Morgantown Area Tops Farm Bureau Membership Drive
Tyler county led West Virginia’s farm bureau drive begun December 2 by surpassing its 300 member quota early Saturday. With RE. A. Smith as chairman and no county agent, the effort reached at least 400 members by Saturday noon, and extension reports at Morgantown indicate the state quota of 20 000 members will be exceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Dee
Tyler County
West Virginia
Bhureau
RE. A. Smith
Temporary Hospital Opens as City Fights Influenza
The city extends a general closure order and prepares a temporary hospital in the Elks rooms after 62 new influenza cases, 8 pneumonia cases, and 3 deaths. Families crowd the afflicted, theaters close, soda fountains use sanitary cups, and officials urge calm while the board of health enforces measures.
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City Board of Health
Elks Rooms
J. BE. Martin
Board of Health
Captain Frazee
Community Emergency Home
Dr. Martin
Names of West Virginia and Virginia soldiers listed in German camps
The War Department released a list of American enlisted men in German prison camps. At Camp Raetall are W. KE. Harsh berger Milton West Virginia Gapland Workman Huntington West Virginia Asa Whitlock Olaf Virginia. At Camp Darmstadt are Join F. Snyder Roanoke Virginia. Hospital at Metz lists wounded Henry Jernigan Buckhorn Virginia Earl H. Thomas Cowen West Virginia.
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Washington
West Virginia
Virginia
War Department
Camp Raetall
Wm. KE. Harshberger
Milton
W. Va
Gapland
Workman
Huntington
Asa Whitlock
Olaf
Darmstadt
F. Snyder
Roanoke
Metz
Henry Jernigan
Buckhorn
Earl H. Thomas
Cowen
Germany at Brink of Catastrophe After Berlin Riots
Riots and clashes in Berlin Tuesday night left sixteen killed and fifteen wounded as soldiers and sailors demonstrated before the chancellor's palace over representation on the executive council. Ebert named as first president faces pressure for a national assembly. Government troops seized the university. arrests of the Berlin soldiers and workmen's council leaders followed.
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Copenhagen
German Republic
Ebert
Berlin
Wolff ‘Bureau
Germany
Kiel
Evert
London
Spartacus
Workmen's Council
Politiken
Reichstag
Mediation Offer From Wilson on Tacna Arica Dispute
President Wilson proposes U S mediation on the Tacna Arica question. Argentina accepts the invitation and will work with the United States and other South American states to seek a settlement between Chile and Peru. The State Department says no territorial suggestions were made and calls for peaceful relations.
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Bernos Ayres
Argentina
United States
Chile
Peru
Tacna
Arica
Frederick J. Stimson
Honorio Pueyrredon
Wilson
Tacna-Arica
Irigoyen
Santiago
Bolivia
Tacona
Russian minister files with Senate chairman in Washington
Col. V. L. Ledveff once minister of marine for Kerensky Russia arrives in Washington and submits documents to Senate Chairman Hitchcock after coming to America with Prince Looff.
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Washington
Col
V. L. Ledveff
Kerensky
Russia
America
Prince Looff
Hitchcock
Senate
Protest over Allied aid to Russians amid Bolshevik fight
The Foreign Relations Committee public statement condemns Allied governments and especially the United States for failing to deliver munitions, food, and clothing to Russian forces opposing the Bolsheviks. Senator Hitchcock has forwarded the matter to the State Department.
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Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Hitchcock
State Department
Toledo Scott High Defeats Marblehead In Snowy Clash
In Marblehead Massachusetts on December 7, Scott High School of Toledo Ohio beat Marblehead High 19 to 0 in an intersectional football game played on a field cleared of five inches of snow. Marblehead showed nerves early while the heavier visitors dominated throughout.
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Marblehead
Mass
Scott High School
Toledo
Ohio
Marblehead High School
Wilson Cabinet plan to raise legation at Lima to embassy
Secretary Lansing, with President Wilson approval, asks Congress to elevate the American legation in Lima Peru to ambassadorial rank. Peru has signaled it wishes to appoint an ambassador to the United States, and the administration intends to accept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Lansing
Congress
Lima
Peru
United States
Poincare Likely to Visit United States Within a Year
Paris Matin editor Stephene E Lauzanne said in New York that President Poincare of France is certain to come to the United States within the next year as his term expires in 1920. He noted U S hosts may include King George VI, King Albert, and King Victor Emmanuel III and stressed U S officials must refresh state occasion etiquette.
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New York
United States
Poincare
France
George
England
Albert
Belgium
Victor Emmanuel
Maly
Wilson
Europe
Stephene E. Lauzanne
Paris Matin
M. Lauzanne
Lauzanne
Kalakua
Sandwich Islands
McNamara and Magin Win the Six Day Race
Reggie McNamara and Jake Magin of Newark New Jersey won the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden. Madden and Corry finished second with Grenda and Hill third as nine teams started and several dropped out. Debaete defeated Lang in a mile sprint for eighth and ninth prizes. The winning team earned seventy two points with subsequent places adding from five to one point.
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New York
Dee
Reggie McNamara
Jake Magin
Newark
Madison Square Garden
Madden
Corry
Grenda
Hill
Dupuy
Bello
Bowker Brothers
Debaete
Lang
McNamara
Magin
Granda
Lawrence
Hanley
Coburn and Kopsky
Chapman and Halstead
Grimm and
Thomas
McAdoo to Work for Nothing as Treasury Post Ends
Secretary McAdoo, who resigned over salary concerns, will finish as treasury secretary December 16 and then not be paid from December 16 to January 1 while he serves as director general of railroads without a cut. He will return to no payroll during that period before January 1.
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McAdoo
Washington
Demobilization gains pace as 200000 men discharged
General March reports demobilization moving rapidly with 200000 plus officers and men discharged last week. National guard and national army divisions return from France toward mid summer, with Pershing listing 125515 men ready for early home and 5025 officers.
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Washington
Kiebt
American Third Army
Rhine
National Guard
National Army
Reaon
General March
Wilson
Congress
March
Gevara
Eighty Ninth
Ninetieth
Dickman
Army of Occupation
Pershing
Twenty-Eighth
Thirty-Third National Guard
Luxemburg
France
Montmedy
Longuyon
Etain
St. Mihiel
Boaroepe
Peimg
8 46Th Infantry
United States
Robbery In Side Job Tied to Pittsburgh Theft Case
Pittsburg detectives report the First National Bank of Bridgeville robbery as an inside job. About $12,000 of the $20,000 stolen was recovered from the home of Frank Petrone’s aunt in Pittsburgh. Petrone, assistant cashier, was brought to police headquarters and is held though not under arrest.
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Pittsburg
Dee
First National Bank of
Bridgeville
Frank Petrone
Robert Braun
Petrone
Braun
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