Call for Allied Army as Allies Seek Russian Plan
London reports the British government will present President Wilson with all data on the Russian situation. Archangel dispatches indicate Bolshevik forces are well supplied and capable, risking a Bolshevik advance that could overrun ally fronts and trigger a massacre of Russians friendly to the Allies. Public opinion splits on expanding intervention.
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Associated Press
London
Wilson
Archangel
Russia
Rus
Basis of Cooperation Sought in Conference
Paris dispatches report important conferences at the Russian Embassy as allies and the United States seek ground for cooperation with patrioticRussian elements. Entente governments and press accounts agree on avoiding a vast military expedition into Russia and favor uniting orderly factions with allied and American support.
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Associated Press
Paris
United States
Russia
Junysia
Intervention Demanded Declares Kokovsoff
V N Kokovsoff former Russian Premier declares Allied intervention in Russia essential. He calls for a military dictatorship to end the anarchic regime and prevent German influence, while noting a pessimistic view of Allies becoming involved.
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Associated Press
FAMIL
Russia
V. N. Kokovsoff
London
Bolsheviks Make Progress in Esthonian Front
The Esthonian republic reports Bolsheviks have taken Dorpat and pushed Mithonians back on the Wesenberg front northwest of Lake Peipus. German forces retreat toward Riga as the situation develops.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Dorpat
Lake Peipus
Wesenberg
Riga
Weather notes and temperature records across states
Ohio and Indiana expect snow flurries and colder conditions Wednesday with fair and warmer Thursday. Kentucky and West Virginia predict variation from rain to snow and warmer days later. Current readings show mixed temperatures and measurable precipitation at several stations, alongside December 24 1918 historical comparisons.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
General Bundy Leads Camp Pike After Noted Letter
Major General Omar Bundy, former head of the Fifth American Army Corps in France, is in command at Camp Pike Arkansas. He is believed to be the American officer who wrote the famous note to the French army commander refusing a retreat and insisting on counterattack to regain a lost position.
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Omar Bundy
Fifth
France
Camp Pike
Ark
Bundy
Red Cross reaches 16 million in Christmas roll call
Reports from Red Cross headquarters show about 16 000 000 enrolled in the Christmas roll call with more chapters yet to report. Final totals expected to top 16 000 000 as bad weather and influenza slow canvassing across divisions in the United States.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Atlantic
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Central
Michigan
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Southwestern
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Lake
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania - Delaware
Northern
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Northwestern
Oregon
Idaho
Pacific
California
Nevada
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Potomac
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Gulf
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States
Mountain
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Navy Line of Battle Board Named by Secretary Daniels
Secretary Daniels announced the Board of Selection for the line of the navy to meet in Washington on December 31. Members include Admiral Henry T. Mayo Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves and Rear Admirals Fletcher Winterhalder Rogers Rodman Snotden Hoogewerff and Anderson. The delay allowed officers returning from abroad with the Atlantic fleet to be included.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniels
Board of Selection
Henry T. Mayo
Albert Gleaves
Frank F. Fletcher
Albert G. Winterhalder
Thomas S. Rogers
Hugh Rodman
Thomas Snotden
John A. Hoogewerff
Edwin A. Anderson
Aviator Killed In 200-Foot Plunge At Hazelhurst Field
Second Lieutenant E S Munford of Washington an army aviator with the first provisional wing was instantly killed when his scout monoplane dived 200 feet at Hazelhurst Field witnesses say the plane fell during a nose dive.
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Mineola
N. Y
E. S. Munford
Washington
Hazelhurst Field
Cardinal Gibbons Sees Peace, Fears No Socialist Threat
Cardinal Gibbons announces at Christmas in Baltimore that Socialism will not be a threat during reconstruction and praises wartime effort. He expresses hope that peace will endure, disputes will be settled peacefully, and no further war will arise for future generations.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
America
Americans
Billposter Trust Charged in Antitrust Suit in Chicago
In New York on December 24 two suits file against the Associated Bill Posters of the United States and Canada and Associated Companies. W. H. Rankin Company seeks 750000 treble damages and Charles A. Ramsay Company seeks 360000. Plaintiffs allege acts from 1910 to 1918 made business with independent bill posters nationwide unprofitable. A 1916 Illinois federal decree dissolving the monopoly allegedly failed to curb the group’s power, which has since grown and reduced independent posters.
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Associated Press
New York
Federal District Court
Associated Bill
United States
Canada
Associated Companies
W. H. Rankin Company
Charles A. Ramsay Company
Illinois
Influenza Reaches Boston for the Second Time
The State Board of Health reported 1 794 new flu and pneumonia cases in 84 cities outside Boston and 29 deaths. Boston logged 296 new cases and 36 deaths in the 24 hours ending at noon, the city's highest daily total since the outbreak began.
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Boston
State Board of Health
Britain limits American influence on transatlantic cables
The British Government tells the Commercial Cable Company it may aid Western Union in handling cable traffic from Great Britain only if no control is exercised from America. William J. Deegan of the Mackay companies says the move prevents Burleson and his representatives from directing operations at Britain.
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Associated Press
New York
Commercial Cable Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Great Britain
America
William J. Deegan
Mackay Companies
Labor blackmailer pardoned by Governor Cox in Ohio
Charles Smith, Cleveland labor leader, won a Christmas pardon from Governor Cox and will be released tonight. He was convicted last spring of blackmail tied to Cleveland building trades activities. The executive statement cited justice and wartime industrial quiet as clemency factors.
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Columbus
Charles Smith
Cleveland
Cox
Smith
Ohio
Big sum drawn by Kentucky state from Bingham estate
Louisville December 24 on an estimated 7 500 000 value the administrators paid the Kentucky inheritance taxes totaling 345 403 01 on Standard Oil Co of New Jersey stock and jewels from the estate of Mrs Robert Worth Bingham formerly Mrs Henry M Flagler Judge Bingham who received 1 000 000 under his wife's will recently paid an inheritance tax of 146 000
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Associated Press
Louisville
Kentucky
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Robert Worth Bingham
Henry M. Flagler
New York
Bingham
Christmas Celebration At Camp Sherman Brings Cheer
At Camp Sherman Ohio a Christmas program fills the big base hospital wards with a tree in each of forty two wards. Red Cross and Army Nurses Corps volunteers organized gifts meals and entertainment for wounded overseas veterans many of whom have not seen family since last summer. Community house festivities draw almost all cantonment men not in hospital with songs selections and camp talent performances.
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Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Red Cross
Army Nurses’ Corps
Clark Seeks 1920 Democratic Nomination With Bryan Backing
Washington December 24 Friends of Speaker Clark in Congress say he will seek the 1920 Democratic presidential nomination though no formal announcement is ready. Clark states he has no announcement to make. Reports say Clark will gain support from William Jennings Bryan after earlier disagreements at the 1912 Baltimore convention.
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Washington
Clark
Congress
Capitol
William Jennings Bryan
Baltimore
Bryan
Wilson
No Amnesty Planned for Objectors in Draft War
Secretary Baker refused to grant general amnesty to 300 or more conscientious objectors held for refusing army work under the selective draft law. A group calling itself Friends of Conscientious Objectors pressed for blanket pardons, but Baker said cases vary greatly and require individual review as a War Department commission studies the issue.
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Associated Press
GTON
Baker
Friends of Conscientious Objectors
War Department
Roosevelt Released From Hospital After Long Stay
Theodore Roosevelt, after nearly two months at Roosevelt Hospital with inflammatory rheumatism, will spend Christmas at Oyster Bay. Dr. J H Richards reports the colonel has recovered enough to go home and expects full recovery in six weeks to two months, enabling him to resume ordinary duties.
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Associated Press
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hospital
Oyster Bay
J. H. Richards
Roosevelt
Old National Guard Out of Service When Mustered Into Federal Army
Washington reports that if Congress keeps the National Guard as the army reserve, the guard must be rebuilt from the ground up. Federalization of guard units for war would wipe out federally recognized regiments, sending discharged soldiers back to civilian life with no ongoing obligation.
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OLD National Guard
Washington
Congress
National Guard
Army Reserve
Baker
Guard
War Service
War Department
Samuel T. Ancell
France
New York
Correcting a Thrift Stamp Misconception
Washington declares War Savings and Thrift Stamps remain valid and can be used even if certificates or thrift cards are not fully filled. Director Lewis B. Franklin states there is no need to cash unfilled certificates before January 1 and that the government will continue selling Thrift Stamps to exchange for the 1915 War Savings stamps.
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Washington
Lewis B. Franklin
War Loan Organization
Influenza Ravages Tahiti Island Papeete Decked by Pyres
An AP report from Papeete notes influenza sweeping Tahiti, with one seventh of the population believed dead. Bodies lie awaiting cremation as European and American volunteers rush food and medicine. burials become impossible amid rising fatalities traced to a November 17 steamer arrival.
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Associated Press
Papeete
Tahiti
Heron
Christmas Mail Burned on Pennsylvania Train
Fire aboard a Pennsylvania mail car in Trenton New Jersey destroyed 400 of 1000 sacks of Christmas mail from New York. Parcel post packages aimed at Atlantic City Philadelphia and other Eastern points were affected.
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Trenton
New York
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Congress suspends all work for holiday season
Washington December 24 Congress began its Christmas recess as committees suspend almost all work. The Senate, after passing the war revenue bill, started three day recesses to January 2. The House planned a holiday program after failing to complete general rivers and harbors debate before the holidays. Conferences on the war revenue bill to begin about January 2 were agreed between Chairmen Simmons and Kitchin. Debate on peace conference may occur Thursday but no business can be done under the recess.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Senate
House Today
Stheidanes
Celebration of Christmas With the Army in Chaumont Region
Christmas celebrations with the army take place in the Chaumont region, highlighting holiday cheer among personnel and families stationed overseas. The event showcases community spirit and military support during the season.
Wilson Leaves Paris For Chaumont And England
President Wilson departs Paris for Chaumont to review 10,000 American troops and dine with officers before heading to Calais and then England. He plans to return to Paris for New Year and says preliminary peace work may begin if delegates are named. Russian and German delegations are unsettled, with talks ongoing among American commissioners.
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Associated Press
Paris
Chaumont
General Pershing
Calais
England
Manchester
American Commission
Altho
Dorbis
United States
Europe
Wilson
London Ceremonial for President's Visit
The printed program confirms details of President Wilson's ceremonial visit. The route uses the steamer Brighton, French destroyers, and British flotilla. Keyes and Sir Charles Cust meet at Calais, Dover reception includes Duke of Connaught, Davis staff, and other dignitaries. Procession to Buckingham Palace lists five carriages with Wilson, King George, Mary and others.
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Associated Press
London
Chamber
Channel
Brighton
Dover
Keyes
Charles Cust
Wilson
Calais
Biddle
Harts
Admiral Grayson
Herbert C. Hoover
King George
Duke J of
Connaught
Queen Mary
Princess Mary
John W. Davis
Grayson
Earl Reading
Lord Herschell
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