Gas Abolition Urged by Advisory Committee to Arms Conference
The Advisory Committee led by General Pershing urged complete abolition of chemical warfare to the American Arms Conference delegation. The report suggests the move may be referred to a continuing commission after the conference adjourns, with opposition among some high army officials.
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Washington
Associated Press
American Arms Conference
General Pershing
Wilson
Weeks
American Advisory Committee
Germany
Hughes
Pacific
Far Eastern Committee Adopts Resolution on Secret Pacts
The Far Eastern Committee at the Washington conference adopted a compromise resolution prohibiting any treaty or understanding between powers that would impair the Root principles. The plan, urged by Britain and opposed by Japan, aims to ensure China is consulted on treaties affecting the region while preserving the sovereign rights of powers.
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Far Eastern Committee
China
Washington
Associated Press
Sir Auckland Geddes
Arthur J. Balfour
Great Britain
Far East
Kianchow
Shantung
Hanihara
Japan
Wellington Koo
Pacific
Koo
United States
Secetary Hughes
Balfour
Hughes
Pan-American Union
War Dept records debunk hangings a War trial claim
Detailed War Department records presented to a Senate committee show eleven American Expeditionary Force members were executed after court martial. Pershing personally approved the sentences. sixty-two were sentenced, eight black, two white, one Indian, with crimes including attacks on a child and murder amid wartime chaos.
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Washington
War Department
Senate
Walter E. Bethel
Pershing
France
Ihdhaiu
Watson
Georgia
Bethel
Ft. Leavenworth
Charus
Senator Watson
Gievres
Brandegee
Rioting at Chicago stockyards as strike spreads
Chicago mob violence erupts after the four day packinghouse strike. One man shot, many injured as police clash with workers near Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy plants. Women pepper sprayed officers. 29,000 Chicago workers on strike with 20,000 at big five firms.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Denis Sullivan
Armour Glué Company
Fitzmorris
Cornelius Hayes
Amalgamated Meat~ Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
Mr. Hayes
Swift
Armour, Morris, Wilson and
Cudahy
Woman robs mother by pretended clairvoyant cure
Mrs Angeline Agruso paid clairvoyant Carrie Karpelles 180 dollars since January to restore her deranged husband and bring him home. Detectives arrested Karpelles for fraud as Agruso, mother of five, struggles to support her children after her husband’s lengthy confinement and illness.
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Angeline Agruso
Baymiller Street
Ellenreider and
Schwaeble
Carrie Karpelles
Gus Agruso
Ellenreider
Mrs. A
Mrs. Karpelles
Agruso
S-48 submarine sinking raises plant blunder charge at Lake Torpedo
Bridgeport reports say a manhole lid oversight at Lake Torpedo Boat Co caused water influx as S-48 sank after nose dive. Fifty-one crew escaped through torpedo tubes. later rescue crews and witnesses noted chlorine gas exposure and repairs. Detectives investigated theft and bribe attempts connected to a hospital bill.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Long Island Sound
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
New London
Mechanica Gerke
H. B. Brill
Lake Company
Lake
Brill
New York
Associated Press
Bridgeport Harbor
New York Navy Yard
Francis Adams Smith
Sinn Fein Grief at Ministers Agree With Him
Dublin dispatch reports Eamon de Valera opposing the peace treaty with Great Britain and stating he cannot recommend it to Dail Eireann or the country. Arthur Griffith, head of the Irish delegation, says he has signed the treaty and will stand by it as a foundation for peace, amid cabinet divisions. A Dail session is set for Wednesday to decide.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Eamon de Valera
Great Britain
Dail Eireann
Defense
Home Affairs
Arthur Griffith
London
Ireland
Japan Rejects Quadruple Entente as Substitute for Alliance
Tokyo reports that the government approves the proposed quadruple entente in principle but rejects it as a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Abrogation awaits naval armament reduction and adherence to China principles. Government reserves approval due to differing views on entente significance and alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Teikoku
Washington
Elihu Root
China
Five thousand police to enforce Chicago prohibition
Chicago news reports Mayor Thompson ordered strict enforcement of prohibition laws after ruling that police must enforce them. Police Chief Fitzmorris said up to five thousand officers could be deployed if needed to curb wet bars bootleggers and moonshiners in the city.
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Chicago
Fitzmorris
William Hale Thompson
Ettelson
Two Missing Lads Found in Ohio Houseboat Near Dayton
Two boys aged 12 and 13 from Walnut street left for school and did not return. A friend in Dayton contacted one father to report the lads found aboard a houseboat on the Ohio River near Dayton, Kentucky. The fathers retrieved them, and authorities were notified.
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Ohio
Dayton
Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Oreste Chinellis
Walnut Street
Charles Clevenger
Angelo Cicinelli
War Department opposes clemency for 63 Houston riot defendants
The War Department voices opposition to clemency for sixty three ex Twenty fourth Infantry members imprisoned for participating in the Houston riots in August 1917. Secretary Weeks told Chairman Kahn of the House Military Committee on December 8.
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Washington
War Department
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Houston
Weeks
Kahn
House Military Committee
Leader plan to run Harmon for governor in Ohio
Dec 8 Cleveland reports a plan for a special meeting of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Executive Committee to endorse Ex-Governor Judson Harmon for governor next year. A local leader returned from Cincinnati saying Harmon would be favorable to a statewide movement, though Harmon himself hoped for no state politics. E. H. Moore of Youngstown said Harmon may visit Cincinnati on Dec 14, and he predicted a united Democratic backing for Harmon over any other candidate.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Democratic Executive Committee
Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
Harmon
E. H. Moore
Youngstown
Mr. Harmon
Ford's Offer Favored Over Muscle Shoals Lease
Lexington announces that Senator A Q Stanley and Representative J C Cantrell replied to requests from the Board of Commerce by stating their support for the government's acceptance of Henry Ford's offer to lease Muscle Shoals.
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Lexington
A. QO. Stanley
J. C. Cdntrill
Lexington Board of Commerce
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Judge Marries Couple in Court in Sidney
Police court business paused as Judge Samuel Bell officiated at the wedding of Royal Eberle 35 of Sidney Ohio and Thelma Sloan 26 of 627 Central Avenue. The couple came into court and asked the judge to marry them.
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Samuel Bell
Royal Eberle
Sidney, O
Thelma Sloan
Central Avenue
R J Blums Son Injured by Wagon on Spring Grove Ave
Richard Blum aged 6 of 3909 Vine Street was struck by a wagon at Fourth and Race streets while crossing with Mrs H W Pohl. He suffered serious injuries after the wagon driver John Cole allegedly failed tostop in time. An X ray at Good Samaritan Hospital confirmed injuries.
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Race Streets
Richard Blum
Vine Street
R. J. Blum
Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company
Spring Grove Avenue
John Coleman
Good Samaritan Hospital
Nan Kile
H. William Pohl
Kilgour
Inemaritan Hospital
Conference Sought Between Industrial Court and Packing House Workers
Kansas City Kansas reports hiring several hundred new workers as officials aim to meet with strike leaders. The Industrial Court will remain in Kansas City Kansas indefinitely to monitor the dispute, cooperate with city officers, and seek industrial peace. No plant picketing is being attempted.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Industrial Court
Man Served With Divorce Suit From Woman He Never Met
Oren L. Johnston of Higby Ohio reports he was named as defendant in an August 24 divorce suit filed by Helen Johnson. He says he never met the woman or attended a Pensboro wedding on November 4 1918 while he was in the army. An records check shows the defendant’s correct name is Orin B. Jombuon.
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Oren L. Johnston
Higby, O
Johnston
Helen Johnson
Orin B. Jombuon
Ireland Should Not Rejoice Over War's End Says O'Brien
Art O'Brien representing Dail Eireann in England issues a warning that Ireland must gain full independence before celebrating. He cites that even with five signatories under threat of renewed war, true rejoicing awaits recognition of complete sovereign statehood for Ireland.
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London
Associated Press
O’brien
Dail Eireann
England
Irish Self-Determination League
Great Britain
Ireland
Armed bandits seize $80,000 whisky from Tyrone distillery
Twenty armed men robbed the T. B. Ripy Distillery near Tyrone Kentucky, forcing the Superintendent and three guards to surrender. They stole ten barrels and 194 cases of bottled in-bond whisky, using three touring cars and two trucks to flee. Police across Central Kentucky were alerted to the theft.
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Tyrone
T. B. Ripy
Kentucky
Marine Sergeant Fires on Express Car Robbers Near Savannah
Sergeant N. S. Bethers of the Marine Corps on a mail car of train No. 80 from Jacksonville to New York fired a sawed-off shotgun five times at three robbers as they fled the express car. Two men were wounded and the third fled. a recovered hat bore buckshot holes and some packages were recovered.
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Charleston
S. C
N. S. Bethers
Marine Corps
Jacksonville
New York
Savannah
CIA
Bootlegger Arrest After School Liquor Incident
Springwells police launched a drive against bootleggers after a grade school teacher reported boys appearing at school under the influence. Two youths implicated a restaurant proprietor who was arrested. liquor was found at his establishment.
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Detroit
Mich
Springwells
Railroad detectives fire on freight train workers. two men die
In Dunkirk New York two men J Tryll 25 and Edward Kliszowski 32 both of Dunkirk were found shot to death after railroad detectives guarding a freight train exchanged shots. Tryll lay beside the tracks of the Dunkirk Allegany Valley and Pittsburgh branch while Kliszowski died in an ambulance. Both men were struck by two bullets and the detectives believed to have headed to Titusville unaware their shots hit.
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Dunkirk
N. Y
J. Tryll
Edward Kliszowski
Tryll
Allegany Valley
Pittsburgh
New York Central
Titusville
Ulster and Dail Eireann Meet as Ireland Moves
Dublin dispatches say the Dail Eireann orders immediate demobilization of the Irish Republican Army. In Belfast Sir James Craig faces criticism for a peace telegram and Ulster considers asserting taxation powers while Northern and Southern Ireland seek a unified government option in the Irish Free State.
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London
Associated Press
Pall Mall Gazette
Dail Eireann
Irish Republican Army
Ulster
Ireland
Belfast
James Craig
James
Sinn Fein
Irish Free State
Dublin
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Schiear Motor Car Co
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Cleveland Democrats
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