Battle Line Forming on Piave River
Allied fronts stiffen as Italian rear guard forms along the Piave river line and Austro-Hungarian pressure grows in the Sugana valley. Italy joins a central western front council with France and Britain as Venice hangs in the balance. British gains at Passchendaele widen a salient on a 2600 yard front west of the river.
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Italy
Piave
Ventian
Isonzo
Asiago
Adriatic
Berlin
Sugana
Trentino
Lugana
Teutonic
Venice
Flanders
Tel
Plot to Rescue W. W. Prisoners Frustrated by Marshal
Chicago reports a failed escape plot during inmate transfers at Cook County Jail. A man identified as J D Russell and a 16 year old girl were arrested after a note to guards hinted at outside action. William D Haywood, I W W secretary treasurer, was later linked to the note. Tulsa reports ash response as Knights of Liberty form in northeastern Oklahoma to counter I W W agitation. A masked group flogged and dispersed seventeen I W W members into Osage hills, with similar actions planned elsewhere.
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Associated Real
Chicago
W. W
Cook County
Marshal Hart
J. D. Russell
William D. Haywood
Tulsa
Okla
Knights of Liberty
Oklahoma
Osage Hills
Ship Builders Escape Draft
Washington November 10 plans to retain ship workers for ship building were announced after a Crowder navy conference. A special qualified list will exempt ship workers from military service while employed on government projects and the war department will return drafted workers to ship plants.
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Washington, D. C
General Crowder
Navy Department
National Army
Meyer Bloomfield
Industrial Service
The
Shipping Board
War Department
Allies Food Needs Delay U.S. Troops to Front
Washington reports that allied demands for food coal and iron may push shipments to Europe ahead of soldiers. Hoover reports on grain and fiber food stocks while shipping plans hinge on American mission data and war department guidance. Draft timing may shift but troop removal from camps need not wait for full camp capacity.
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U.S
Washington, D. C
France
Hoover
United States
Food Administration
England
Italy
Alonzo K. Taylor
War and Mavy
Shipping Board
National Army
Labor union bans foreign parentage workers in AFL plan
Buffalo November convention of the building trades department of the AFL adopted a resolution barring from genuine labor ranks workers of foreign parentage who are not American or Canadian citizens or who have not declared intent to become such. The measure, proposed by James Duncan of the Granite Cutters union, was adopted unanimously to prevent labor agitators and groups like the I W W from gaining strength.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
James Duncan
Granite Cutters’ Union
St Louis Women Plan Legion of Death Unit
In Powis Missouri on November 10 the Woman's National Aviation Home guard prepares a Legion of Death for St Louis women aiming for a future strength of one million. The group is named the Woman's National Aviation Home guard and seeks aims beyond aviation.
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ST. Louis
Powis
Legion of Death
Woman's National Aviation Home Guard
U S Agents Raid Teuton Ship Offices in Hoboken
U S Department of Justice officials raided the North German Lloyd Steamship Company quarters in Hoboken New Jersey seizing trunks bags and stored effects of officers and men. Agents smashed the main door and began a thorough search for suspected documents rumored to be hidden among the stored property. Several raiders took part in a prior raid on Hamburg American Line offices in New York.
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Berlin
Parroy
Rhine-Marne Canal
Verdun
Hoboken
N. J
Lloyd Steamship Company
Washington
Lloyd Steamship Line
Ellis Island
Department of Justice
Hamburg-American Line
New York
Laramie Outscores Cheyenne 28 to 0 in Local Showdown
Laramie defeated Cheyenne 28 to 0 on the local football field. McKay Hegewald and Lovejoy starred for Laramie with Campbell handling kicking. Cheyenne fought back briefly in the third, but injuries and stalled drives kept them scoreless as Laramie dominated with strong line work and timely plays.
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Cheyenne
Laramie
McKay
Hegewald
Lovejoy
Campbell
Cameron
Wegewald
Weltx
Heyenne
Leslie
Clemenne
Cheyenone
Hospital Hit as German Bombers Attack Zuydcoote
Officials report German aviators dropped bombs on a French hospital at Zuydcoote in the Nord department, killing seven staff members and wounding nine. Dunkirk also faced bombardment with six casualties. An official notice says fifty bombs fell in the Dunkirk region, killing three and wounding three.
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Patus
Zuydecote
Department of the Nord
Dunkirk
Uié
Zuydcoote
41 Pickets Held in Capital
Militants of the Woman's party resumed picketing the White House in force. Forty one banner bearers were arrested as they took their posts, including Mrs. Harvey Wiley wife of the pure food expert Mrs. William Kent wife of former Representative Kent of California now a member of the tariff commission, and Miss Jucy Burts view chairman of the Woman's party.
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Washington, RD. C
Woman's Party
White House
Harvey Wiley
William Kent
Kent
California
Tariff Commision
Jucy Burts
Deserter Fight Ends in Death Near Huntington
Nashville era dispatch reports a posse pursuing Charles Whitaker's son on desertion charges. In an exchange at the Whitaker home Ceave Whitaker was killed while two Whitaker brothers were wounded and a sheriff sustained a hand wound.
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Nashville
Venn
Huntington
Charles Whitaker
Whitaker
Ceave Whitaker
Woman Held as Opium Peddler in Border Smuggling Case
Army officers report the arrest of Eva Refaelovich, a Serbian woman, in TLCSON Arizona as part of a sweeping opium smuggling ring alleged to supply soldiers along the border with narcotics. The case centers on a vast conspiracy involving import and distribution of opium.
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Tlcson
Ariz
Eva Refaelovich
Wom
Cossacks March To Join Forces Of Deposed Premier
London dispatch reports Kerensky arrives at Luga and Gatchina as loyal troops solidify support. A division of Cossacks marches from Finland toward Petrograd, with garrison allegiance wavering amid Bolshevik takeovers. Helsingfors reports German landings and Finland’s unrest. Baltic fleet delegates vow to join Lenine forces amid naval committee ties. Denial of Kerensky arrests circulated by Narodnista.
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Associated Preas
London
Kerensky
Luga
Petrograd
Gachina
Finland
Smolny Institute
Congress
Helsingfors
Germany
Aland Islands
Gulf of Bothnia
Sweden
Stockholm
Russia
Copenhagen
Reval
Gulf of Finland
Convicted Bomber Billings Surrenders to Cham Prison
Warren K. Billings, the first to be convicted in the preparedness day parade bombing case, gave up his fight today and entered Cham prison under a life sentence. The case has drawn international attention.
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San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
Cham
Second Draft Call to Come by Feb 15 Predicted
President Wilson launches the draft reform with a foreword to new regulations for the selective draft. The second call is expected by mid February after questionnaires and partitions are distributed to local boards for over 9 to 10 million registrants. Officials forecast a sixty day process to classify men into five service classes based on qualifications and community support for elder doctors and lawyers.
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Washington
Wilson
War Department
U S To Hold Up Russian Supplies Amid Belief in Civil Strife
Reported dispatches from Washington detail U S concerns over Russian aid and material shipments. Ambassadors discuss risks if supplies reach anti war factions as Russia faces revolt against the national government. The Moscow embassy will not recognize the Maximalist regime and urges a national government to unite conservative elements.
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Neved
Russia
Bakhametieff
Washington
Arp Bgrsaitsy Bakhmetieff
Nussiain
Tech Petrograd
Wandlegton
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