War Department Bought Clothing Ahead of War
Senate testimony shows the War Department ordered clothing and equipment for up to 1.5 million troops before U S entry, with supplies advancing ahead of funding. General Sharpe blamed bureaucratic delays and red tape for late deliveries and noted shoe and coat size problems at Camp Custer.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Sharpe
Senate Military Committee
Baker
Frelinghuysen
Chamberlain
Council
Senator McKellar
General Sharpe
Senator Wadsworth
Camp
Custer
Senator Weeks
Hitchcock
Adjutant General's Office
Adjutant General
Senator Chamberlain
U S Position Clear on Peace Terms Amid German Proposals
Washington officials say no information on Germany's Christmas peace terms has reached the state department and the United States will not discuss abstract peace suggestions. The stance aligns with allies on restoration and reparations, and any bona fide offer would be studied, but nonofficial feelers are dismissed.
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Washington
Lansing
Germany
State Department
United States
Russia
U. S. Officer Wounded in British Action
General Pershing cabled that Lieut. Samuel Miller of the medical officers reserve corps was slightly wounded. Miller, attached to British forces, was wounded in action. His mother, Mrs. Ida Miller, resides at Lakeville, Pa.
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Washington
General Pershing
War Department
Samuel Miller
Medical Officers’ Reserve Corps
Miller
Ida Miller
Lakeville
British Casualties for Week End December 18 Total 17 976
British losses in the week ending December 18 amount to 17 976 officers and men. Officers killed or died of wounds 831, men 881. Officers wounded or missing 1 089, men 10 61.
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London
Krupp Plant Ablaze As German Starvation Reported
Maastricht reports that Essen workers say the Krupp munitions plant has burned for a day. The strike over food rations follows claims that forty million Germans are starving.
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KRUPP
Teutons
Maastricht
Essen
Germany
Russia Demands Evacuation in Bid for Armistice
Petrograd dispatch reports Bolshevik delegates demand Germany evacuate all Russian territory. The demand sheds light on stalled talks and hindered agreement prospects.
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Petrograd
Bosheviki
Germany
Trains Crash Kills 46 near Shepherdsville Kentucky
A Louisville & Nashville express from Cincinnati to New Orleans rear ended the Bardstown local near Shepherdsville killing 46 and injuring about 40. An official investigation will begin immediately as authorities identify the deceased and secure wreck details.
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Louisville
Shepherdsville
Here
W. F. Sheridan
Louisville & Nashville Road
Louisville & Nashville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Bardstown
Nat Muir
Wilson- Muir Banking Company
George L. Duke
James Stansbury
R. H. Miller
Arch Pulliam
James Morrison
Nack Miller
H. H. Washburn
Antisaloon League
James Thompson
United States Revenue Service
Thomas Moore
Joseph Hurst
Joseph Marks
John Phillips
Ben Talbot
R. ©. Cherry
Carrie May Simpsons
Thomas Or
George Spalding
Elizabeth MecHiroy
Springfield
David Phillips
Clay Greenwall
New Haven
Emory Samuels
Deatsville
N. H. Thompson
Thomas Miller
New Hope
David Merrillan
Shelbyville
Eugene Bertelli
Chapeze
Kate Ice
Belmont
Forest Overall
High Grove
Stella Nutt
Leacee
Emily Sturgeon
Zanesville
Campbell
Shipping board chief admits delays in ship output
Washington reports Chairman Hurley testified that he bore responsibility for ship construction and blamed slow progress on Navy control of yards and the need to build new facilities. He described continual fleet corporation reorganizations to meet wartime demands and noted labor expansion would raise output gradually.
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Washington
Goethals Row
Shipping Board
Hurley
Fleet Corporation
Navy
Senate
Love Named Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Thomas B. Love former Texas state commissioner of insurance and banking is appointed assistant secretary of the treasury. He will likely oversee the war risk insurance bureau and the Internal Revenue Bureau after serving recently as volunteer assistant to the commissioner of internal revenue.
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Thomas B. Love
Insurance and Banking
Texas
the Treasury
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Internal Revenue Bureau
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Allies Certify Pershing Ready For Western Front
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott confirms British and French commanders' confidence in General Pershing's preparations. No frontline pessimism, troops in France show growing victory belief. American artillery trains on 400 millimeter guns as observers join French crews.
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Washington
Pershing
Europe
Hugh L. Scott
Baker
War Department
Scott
London
France
Man Dies as Son Is Injured in Rail Wreck
Fay RB Letts aged 46 a Letts resident was killed and his 16 year old son Lloyd was severely injured in a railroad wreck near Camden Missouri on December 21.
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Muscatine
Fay
Letts
Lloyd
Camden
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Chinese Ordnance Department
U. S
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Kentucky
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Harris & Ewing
U.S
Ltd
Rusia
Brest- Litovsk
Trotzky
M. Newlens
Londom Dee
Rada
Ukraine
Kaledines
Odessa
Rostov-on-Don
Red Guards
Kolkvida
Bolgard
Bessarabia
Hqnor
Marie Pavlovna
Vladimir
Copenhagen
Denmark
Vossiche-Zeitung
Berlin
Iowa
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