Government Needs 13 Billion To Run United States In 1918
Washington reports 1918 legislative year needs total 13 018 725 594 64 dollars with 6 615 986 553 92 for military. Notes prior sessions provided 18 396 361 267 59 and excludes foreign obligations. Plans emphasize economy but expect 1919 costs to remain high. Navy seeks 1 104 077 502 84, aviation 1 138 240 814 77, and army pay rises about 159 204 655 74 over 1918.
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Washington
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoose
Congress
Army
Navy
Quartermaster’s Corps
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Coal price rise adds over thirty million to yearly bill
President Wilson ordered a 35 cent per ton increase in anthracite coal prices at the mines on Saturday to fund a proposed wage boost for miners. The change, effective last Saturday, shifts more than 30 million dollars annually to consumers while operators and miners had agreed to higher pay with prices rising to absorb the wage hike. Fuel Administrator Garfield weighed the impact on buyers versus potential output loss from mining workers seeking higher pay elsewhere.
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Washington
Wilson
Garfield
British Reinforcements Hold Gonnelieu Front In Heavy Fight
Berlin reports 6,000 British prisoners taken in Cambrai sector over three days as German forces launch second assault near La Vacquerie and Masnieres. British counterattacks recapture Gonnelieu while American railroad workers turn rifles to fight, with heavy artillery and catacombs complicating the battle.
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Gonnelieu
Berlin
France
la Vacquerie
Vendhuile
Masnieres
Cambrai
Les Rues Vertes
Gillett to act as House Republican leader in Mann's absence
Representative Gillett of Massachusetts will serve as Republican leader of the house while Mann is at Johns Hopkins hospital being treated for neuritis. Mann's diagnosis finds no other trouble and he is expected to resume duties after Christmas holidays.
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Representative Gillett
Massachusetts
House
Illinofson
Washington
Gillett
Mann
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Provisional Government Rises in Petrograd Amid Bolshivik Challenge
Reports from Petrograd say guard regiments and machine gun detachments move to oppose the bolsheviks. The defeated provisional government revives, issuing a manifesto claiming legal authority and urging obedience to its call for a constituent assembly. Newspapers printing the manifesto are suspended and their presses handed to maximatist and peasant factions.
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London
General Staff
Reuter
Petrograd
Council of Commissaries
State Bank
Russia
Nine Die in Fire at Butler Farmhouse Tragedy
Fire at a Butler New Jersey farmhouse claimed nine lives, including Moses Miller and his wife who reportedly perished while trying to rescue their seven children. Firemen recovered several bodies from the burned ruin as they investigated the blaze.
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Butler, N. J
Moses Miller
Wealthy Ad Mogul Edward Elsworth Falls to Death
In New York on a crowded afternoon promenade hour Edward Elsworth famed for the Sunny Jim advertisements and president of the Dr C cereal company valued at 2 5 million dollars died after tumbling from the eighth floor of the Charles building.
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New York
Edward Elsworth
Sunny Jim
Dr. & C. Cereal Company
Charles Building
Mild Weather Predicted by Trap Expert in Frazee
Frazee Minnesota December 8 Muskrat houses are small and scarcely visible indicating a mild winter according to trapper Albert Sten who is quoted as the authority for the statement.
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Frazee, Minn
Albert Sten
Trapper
Trial postponed in Dallas murder case of Mrs Ahlers
Dallas on December 4 reports the trial of Mrs Kate Ahlers alias Mrs Katherine Travers for the alleged murder of Phil FE Tucker, a Dallas broker, was postponed until December 14 due to the absence of material witnesses.
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Dallas
Tex
Kate Ahlers
Katherine Travers
Phil FE. Tucker
Requests Cut in Electric Railways to Conserve Coal
Washington reports the fuel administration urges electric railways to cut schedules and heatings to save coal. Garfield writes to state fuel administrators asking cooperation from electric public concerns and noting potential large coal savings from schedule reductions and lower car heating.
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Garfield
Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Electric Railways
Armistice Deployed On Russo-German Front Amid Talks
Berlin reports an armistice in operation in sections of the Russo German front as peace talks with Bolshevik leaders unfolded. A mission led by Ensign Koylenko within the Russian lines proposed a general truce to German forces near Brest Litovsk.
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Berlin
Prince Leopold of
Bavaria
Bolshe Wkkl
Brest-Litovsk
Koylenko
London
Petrograd
William V. Judson
Russia
Smolny Institute
Leon Trotzky
Judson
Kerth
Dukhonin
Germany
Trotzky
Francis
All Must Make Sacrifices In Draft Reclassification Scheme
Washington reports that no man will receive an exemption from the draft due to dependency. Provost Marshal General Crowder states the law requires sacrifices from all, with reclassification delaying induction only until those with dependents are called. The War Department opposes extending the draft age and will build the army from the existing 9,000,000 registered men, relying on war duration to time married men’s orders.
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Washington
Crowder
Ile
War Department
Italians hold key fortress line in northern Italy
Heavy fighting along the northern front around Monte Pertica, between the Brenta and Piave rivers, and on Meletta range. Both sides hold portions of the trenches as conditions along the front improve and defenses in the north are deemed secure.
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Italy
Monte Pertica
Brenta
Piave River
Meletta Range
Piave
St Paul Street Cars Resume After Riot
Street car service in St Paul Minnesota resumed after a crowd damaged a score of cars during a union sympathy protest. The first cars and autos with Home Guard members left the barns and no interference was reported as service returned to near normal.
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St. Paul, Minn
Home Guard
War Council at Versailles to Coordinate War Effort
Paris December 4 The interallied war council and conference have proven a complete success with decisions kept secret. Delegates from the United States England France Italy and other Entente nations are pleased with the relations achieved. The war council will sit permanently at Versailles and future sessions on economic political and financial questions will be in London. Col E M House and the American mission members have made a favorable impression.
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Paris
United States
England
France
Italy
War Council
Versailles
London
Col. E. M. House
Bar Unpatriotic Singers Denounced in Denver
Denver union locals denounce concert singers who include German songs and urge nationwide posters to refuse advertising lithographs and paper notices for those with pro German sympathies or suspected ties to Germany.
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Denver
Colo
Bill Posters’ Union
National Endquarers
Bill
Government to Buy Entire Silver Output
The treasury department announced that the government will purchase the nation’s entire silver output. Prices will be fixed at a fair profit to producers, per Director of the Mint Ray Baker.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Ray Baker
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