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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1918
Page
1
Repatriated Americans are greeted by Swiss officials with cheers and bands as they arrive. The scene honors soldiers welcomed by Minister Sto Vall and his wife. Delicacies offered to the troops while celebrations begin.
American warships plan to escort President Wilson to Brest as preparations for the peace trip unfold. The George Washington, chosen to carry Wilson and delegates, lies at Hoboken awaiting departure with Admiral Gleaves coordinating escorts and crew drawn from the Navy. Captain Edward McCauley commands the transport. Captain Lewis Nurton leads the escorting battleship.
One hundred fifty six American noncommissioned officers and aviators, first released from Germany, arrived by special train in Berne via Switzerland. They were greeted by Minister Stovall and a cheering crowd, with Swiss and American flags and band music, as they crossed Lake Constance and shared impromptu receptions.
The page reports fair conditions for Indiana and West Virginia with Sunday warmth, then unsettled Monday bringing possible rain or snow in some areas. Kentucky shows fair, slightly warmer across Sunday and Monday with unsettled weather later. Temperature readings from multiple stations are listed alongside past year comparisons and wind directions.
New York reports a social work conference voting to push government action on pension reform to avoid poverty among veterans and wage earners. It urged expanded social insurance, influenza safeguards, public employment protection, child labor act renewal, and nationalization of Americanization efforts.
Reports from Vienna and Budapest describe a deteriorating grip of scarcity and unrest. Lights go out to save coal, curfews set early, and cafes close as fear of revolution grows. Food shortages hit the poor hardest while farmers withhold supplies.
Charles E. Hughes, addressing the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, denounces governmental overreach as eroding liberty. He urges wartime powers not to govern peace, warning such control risks deep inefficiency, insisting postwar readjustment proceed promptly.
Washington observers await President Wilson's annual address opening the winter session. The message may outline plans for the Peace Conference and wartime to peacetime government. Delegation details and ranks remain unsettled as officials prepare for departure aboard the George Washington.
A call goes out for neutral individuals to establish a commission to oversee and take charge of secret documents of concern. The move signals efforts to ensure proper handling and oversight.
Federal order ends brewing of beer and malt beverages at midnight nationwide. The Presidential Committee chose not to advise rescinding the proclamation despite Armistice expectations. Customs will refuse entry to malt liquors after midnight and seize arrivals, affecting small English imports.
General Pershing and General March announced that four full divisions the Thirty-ninth Seventy-sixth eighty-seventh and Ninety-second will return home at an early date with other units. total personnel 3 451 officers and 79 663 men.
New York Health Commissioner Copeland says ships returning American soldiers must be thoroughly deloused before meeting relatives. He warns typhus and trench fever are carried by cooties and notes port authorities ordered transports held in quarantine for complete aboard examinations.
Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board, has sent his resignation to President Wilson effective January 1. No acceptance announced. The move aligns with Baruch’s belief that the board’s affairs can be closed by year’s end as wartime restrictions ease.
Washington nov 30 customs authorities moved to lift the last wartime harbor controls The censorship of ship and consignee mail and most inbound outbound vessel searches end dec 9 with exceptions for European neutral ports to curb improper documents Export film censorship and phonograph record censorship also end dec 9 Camera bans near harbors are lifted Some harbor navy and coastwise steamer reporting rules remain in force
In Columbus, the Ohio Milk Producers Association refused a rehearing before the Federal Milk Commission and appealed to Food Administrator Croxton to hear the case. Croxton agreed to hear them next Wednesday at 9 a.m. while producers continue delivering milk at the current rate and seek a 3.5 percent fat standard for pricing.
London dispatch reports Royal Palace servants in Berlin expressing fury after Dr Liebknecht Radical Socialist leader slept two nights in the former Emperor’s bed. The Daily Mail correspondent at The Hague quotes the servants calling him a curse for occupying the imperial resting place.
A Reuters report from Copenhagen states Hungary will intern Field Marshal von Mackensen's 170000-strong army in response to French demands. The instruction arrives via Berlin and follows tensions in the region.
Mme Prieur widow of a Sussex torpedoing victim lodges murder complaint in Paris courts against the former German Emperor after Germany’s submarine attack in World War I context.
Berlin reports say the German government proposes a neutral commission to examine who is responsible for the war. The note asks belligerents to submit secret documents to the commission and be transmitted to France Great Britain Italy and the United States. The Tageblatt notes Workmen and Soldiers Council seeks Dr Solfs retirement and seizure of foreign affairs files. The People’s Commissariat sets February 16 for elections to a Constituent Assembly with regional districts. Dr Alfred Zimmerman defends Berlin actions in response to Sarajevo and the Austrian ultimatum.
The Soldiers' Council of Greater Berlin meets in stormy plenary session and votes to appoint a representative from each of seven regiments to weigh charges against the twenty eight member Executive Council. The Third Army Corps soldiers' council had drafted the charges accusing the Executive Council of inaction and failure to act.
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