Peace Fighting 18 Resumed Everywhere
Heavy fighting continues on eastern and western fronts with slow gains by allies. In France and Belgium Allied offensives gain ground at scattered points while some German positions hold fast. Russians push on in the east as Germans retire north of the Vistula. fighting also rages in Galicia and the Dardanelles.
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London
France
Belgium
Ole
Meuse
Vistula
East Prussian
Brura
Rawka
Warsaw
Galicia
Van
Kild Bahr
Dardanelles
Fanedos
Lost-Half Peak Top Disappears Near Redding California
A mountain summit between Mount Latten and Mount Kanaka near Redding has lost half its top. The cause is unclear with theories ranging from a granite eruption to a volcanic disturbance. The area is remote and forest rangers will report after several days.
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Redding
Cal
Mount Latten
Mount Kanaka
Wilson resists senate fights on appointments
President Wilson shows reluctance to escalate patronage clashes with the senate. He says the administration will focus on larger questions and pursue limited moves in the near term while officials insist he will back his appointees.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Louisville Bars Bloomers for Girls Basketball
Louisville city council adopts a dress rule banning bloomers for girls basketball players and prohibits boys from exposing bare necks and arms, as part of a new student appearance regulation.
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Louisville
Sulla
Santa Claus Visits Ap makers Children in Ohio Strike Zone
In Wheeling West Virginia on December 22 1948 volunteers organized by Reverend Father R A Meachen of Barton Ohio sent holiday packages to striking workers families. The distribution included 34000 oranges 17000 bags of peanuts and 17000 candy packages prepared by young women volunteers to various points in the eastern Ohio strike area.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
R. A. Mefachen
Barton
Liners Tied Up in Ports of the U S
More than 50 giant ocean liners valued at about 1 billion dollars sit idle in American ports due to wartime disruption. German lines North German Lloyd and Hamburg American own most idle vessels, with White Star halting several sailings as Britain blocks trans Atlantic travel. Boston and New York harbor many of the ships while crews are disbanded or kept idle.
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New York
Boston
North German
Lloyd
Hamburg-American
White Star Line
White Star Dominion Line
Brave daughter kills burglar shoots father in home
In Los Angeles on December 22, retired millionaire attorney William Montrope Alexander was shot and killed by a burglar in his Washington DC area home. His son William M. Alexander Jr was wounded in the breast and lost the index finger. daughter Penelope Alexander struck the burglar with a hairbrush and aided her brother before he escaped.
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Los Angeles
William Montrope Alexander
Dallas
Tex
W. M. Alexander
Alexanders
Washington, D. C
Penelope Alexander
Alexander
Chicago rich man's suicide in Oakland at Broadway
Richard J. Davis aged 80 a wealthy retired Chicago merchant shot himself at Twelfth and Broadway in Oakland after heavy drinking. He had been living with his uncle OC W Kinsey and was described as a long time Chicago resident.
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Oakland
Richard J. Davis
RU Davie
Chicago
Twelfth and Broadway
Dave
W. Kinsey
Protestants Protest Appointment To Vatican
London dispatch notes Protestant Alliance protests Birbeary Howard's appointment as special minister to the Vatican as illegal. The Northern Church Council of the Church Association denounces the move and recalls that England’s diplomatic ties with the Vatican have been severed for 400 years, urging withdrawal of the mission.
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London
Birbeary Howard
Vatican
Protestant Alliance
Ilegal
Church Association
Ramec
England
Weather Forecast for Wyoming and Washington State
Wyoming fair Wednesday and Thursday with continued pleasant conditions. Washington state shows similar fair weather with mild temperatures expected through midweek.
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Washington, Lee
Wyoming
Moral suasion only forge of United States
Washington reports the United States cannot prevent solitary executions of political enemies by Mexican factional leaders. Americans can be protected, but only moral suasion may be used for Mexicans in danger. Gutierrez denies orders to halt summary executions, though reports say such orders may not be followed. Prison unrest grows as political prosecutions fill jails and a December convention postponement signals renewed fighting among Carranza factions.
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State Department
Suason
Carranga
Gutierrex
Gutierrez
Mexico
War talk delayed for Christmas week in Congress
Washington Dec 22 Agita over war preparedness in Congress will be delayed until after the holidays. The House military affairs committee postponed testimony on Representative Gardner’s bill for an investigation until January 2. Debate on the immigration bill continued in the Senate with no quick action expected.
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Congress
House
Gardner
Massachusetts
Newlands
Altho
White House
Wilton
Senate
Lewis of
Micols
Mierney
Hie
Wikron
le Opy
Linsey
Kaiserin at front with allied ministers
London December 22 The German emperors accompanied by the imperial chancellor Dr Bethmann Hollweg the minister of war and the minister of marine and a large suite have gone to the western front according to advices to the Daily Mail from Copenhagen
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London
von Bethmann- Hollwee
War and Marine
Western Front
Mall
Copenhsgeo
Alfred Lewis in Poor Health at Home
Alfred Lewis, the writer, is seriously ill at his home. He has suffered for a month with poor health and intestinal trouble, with his condition described as serious according to reports from Dec. 1.
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Alfred Lewis
Aviator’s Heroic Sacrifice in Early Air Scramble
In Oceanside California Lieutenant Gersner died while saving Captain Muller after a scout plane crash north of town. Captain Patterson, whose plane had wrecked, rescued Muller as Gersner sank while trying to reach shore. the other four planes reached the ground safely amid stormy weather and strong currents.
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Oceanside
Cal
Dee
Muller
Patterson
Gerstner
Minht
Los Angeles
Congress Defeats Hobson Prohibition Amendment in House
The Hobson resolution to submit a national prohibition constitutional amendment to state legislatures was defeated in the House 197 to 189. The day featured a lengthy rule debate and impassioned speeches as lawmakers argued over the amendment’s reach and implications.
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Washington
Hobson
House
Milo
Engineer Hagen Killed in Double-Track Union Pacific Wreck
A Pacific Limited engineer Eugene Hagen died after a head-on collision on a double track near Rock Springs at 2:10 AM. Fireman A Poolle and the westbound freight crew faced derailed cars and delayed service. Hagen's final act may have saved passengers on No 19. His body was taken to Rawlins. six children survive.
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Union Pacific
Rock Springs
Eugene Hagen
Pacific Limited
A. Poolle
J. al. Stevens
P. Mathisen
Wight Freight Corse
Ecnra
I. Doyle
Cheyenne
Eucene Hagen
Rawlins
Hagen
Till
Hagen Tne
Jeffers
Bivaneton
Green River
No 10
No. 19
Hie Crown
Tie
Rawligs
Yesterany
War Moves Tuesday Across Fronts Worldwide
Tuesday reports describe French gains along the entire front with new bayonet actions and progress between the A rgone and the Meuse. Russian counterattacks near Warsaw press the Germans, while German forces slow progress along the Rhine. Severe shelling continues in Galicia as Glasgow and Milivet arrive near Montt in Britain.
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Warsaw
Rowe
Pinca
Sierniewice
Londes
Rawa
Poland
Nova Georgievsk
Vistula
Byura
von Hindenberg
Sochaczew
Itfa
Beura
France
Argonne
Meuse
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